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27-12-2012, 02:30 AM (This post was last modified: 27-12-2012 02:36 AM by DLJ.)
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Thanks Lumi,
Good stuff.
My own minor social experiment in this area is wonderfully revealing.
Watching the shift in people's attitudes from possession-orientated 'me first' to one of sharing and giving, is heart-warming as scarcity is replaced by abundance.
Privacy is an aspect to which I had not given much thought but I observe that there is room for personal privacy ... but less need / desire for it.
In my courses, I cover all the processes required to enable this environment.
These processes need to be managed so there is still a need for governance but this reduces with automation and cultural acceptance.
Generally speaking, I see the likelihood of this succeeding as being linked to the age old challenge of:
symbiosis vs. predator/prey.
merger vs. acquisition.
game theory: split vs steal.
I think the answer lies in implementation at lower levels i.e. families, communities before cities, states.
Our behaviour changes depending on which group we perceive ourselves belonging to.
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(26-12-2012 04:10 PM)houseofcantor Wrote: Cool story, bro. Needs more dragon.
Good work grasshopper.
The progress is strong in you.
27-12-2012, 06:19 AM (This post was last modified: 27-12-2012 06:32 AM by Luminon.)
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(26-12-2012 06:28 PM)Dom Wrote: You know what it boils down to, what bothers me about that whole idea?Good. Now I'd like you to look at yourself and the world. What is it that makes you individual, that you don't want to lose? Where's the people's individuality today?
They seem very much the same to me, they grow up, work all their life at something that mostly helps only themselves and only a little, then they retire and get senile. Look at the "individuals" in blue and white collars, getting up in the morning, going to work, going home, watching TV, sleeping...
I think I understand you. We spend at least 8 hours a day working at some uniformly boring job, so we want to hold fast at the little illusory consumer individuality we have. If you realize that, you'll realize how little individuality we have anyway.
All these products have a dozen "alternatives" that serve equivalent purpose and they only differ in how cheapened and fake they are. All these different brands are branded into our psychology, they have a profound marketing effect, but this effect is to pull money out of us, not to give us any additional value. Everything is a dozen times the same thing in a different package. Maybe it's less boring that way for someone, but it's an illusion of choice, it's annoying and wasteful. It wastes the simplicity, our time, attention and world resources for a mere illusion of diverse products. Some things are not worthy of being individual with. Why be an individual, if you can have top quality products possible within available resources, no price tag and maintain the simplicity? If we have simplicity, we can be truly individuals in what really matters, our personality, our life style, our hobbies and work. Simplicity allows us to create a purpose for ourselves, a purpose that is our individuality. When we have a purpose, it does not matter what we eat or wear, but what are we here for. And discovering that is an adventure, discovering yourself if the simplicity allows you to get rid of the meaningless consumer crap that bogs down people today.
You think you are an individual? "That's all bullshit. When you're young, they pump crap in your head... Cinderella, Christianity... "
(26-12-2012 07:51 PM)Vosur Wrote: As far as I see, it's not going to happen anytime soon. In order to function properly, this system would have to be implemented globally. History has shown us over and over again that the different governments as a whole are neither willing, nor able to cooperate even when it comes to comparatively trivial matters such as setting unitary standards for slowing down climate change (United Nations Climate Change Conference). Considering the variety of different views we have among different nations today and the unwillingness to change said views (ex. China, Russia, USA, etc.), I'd say that the probability of a successful global implementation of RBE currently tends towards zero.If we're fighting to win, it is absolutely necessary to know what are we going to do when we win. Those who don't know it, will only repeat the old order, for having no better ideas, a top-heavy system. We see today cultural changes that have no precedent in history. People are more empowered today than they ever were. In the old order the power was concentrated at the top, within a few hands.This is why there are literally billions of people who will realize that they have a voice and that they can use it. They also have nothing to lose, yet they all need the same thing, food, water, housing, healthcare, education and peace. These are the only things we really need the government for. Within the people is a great potential for change that only makes this possible, realistic and necessary. If they see a solution, they'll demand it.
I suspect a country like Brazil will be among the first in which the informed public opinion awakens. Anyway, it has to happen soon, our ecosystem is very fragile and won't last centuries. We don't have time for a slow change like medieval ages. Screw history, consider how fast things work out today. Fresco and others say, it would take 10 years to rebuild the world.
As for the means, Fresco speaks about the war economy of United States, who simply used the resources to send out 90.000 airplanes per year where they had only 600 in the beginning of WW2. They did some ritual dances of government bonds switcharoo, to appease the gods of money, but it would work just as well without them. Beating the Japanese, I mean. Or beating the poverty. If we have the resources, we can do it. It's merely a question of resources and informed public and political will. The public might be greatly influenced by Fresco's showcase plus if possible some newly built projects under the U.N. These are very powerful and captivating ideas and the mainstream media are right to be afraid to let them through.
DLJ: I totally agree. The old order vs. the new one. Cooperation on all levels vs. competition on all levels. Dammit, I must translate that work of mine, I use ideas from it all the time, ideas stolen from reality of how people and societies work. We have two ways of generating pleasure, gratification and social bonding. The society of RBE is designed to generate the pleasure of social bonding as much as possible. Starting at the deepest level of global cooperation, pooling and sharing/barter of raw resources. What you saw a few paragraphs above, the consumer product labels, that's an orgy of selfish gratification. Scarcity prevents us from sharing and cooperation and it directs our effort towards gratification. When there is no scarcity, the need of gratification loses much of its power. Much like a lion or tiger is happy to play with a human he knows when he's not hungry.
What kind of social experiment do you perform? What courses?
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(27-12-2012 06:19 AM)Luminon Wrote:(26-12-2012 06:28 PM)Dom Wrote: You know what it boils down to, what bothers me about that whole idea?Good. Now I'd like you to look at yourself and the world. What is it that makes you individual, that you don't want to lose? Where's the people's individuality today?
Well, I just watched a couple of his clips.
Putting everything physical aside, I do not believe that all people will ever think the same way and fit in the same mold without the serious conditioning of children he casually refers to. I am not a friend of child conditioning to that extent.
I also do not consider social bonding such an important thing, and I would not want it to be the center of my life. If that was the case, I would be out socializing instead of sitting in front of the computer. Not that I have an issue socializing, but I get bored by it quickly.
The pictures of the single homes in the middle of nature are interesting, but with overpopulation the way it is today, how do you figure that is sustainable in the long run? It's not, unless the majority of people opts to live in huge cities and only a few want to live in nature. How are you going to regulate that?
I have never been a 9 to 5 person, so I can't identify with the desire to stop leading such a life style. I find risk taking stimulating, nothing like taking a risk and waiting for the outcome of what you have done. Beats any computer game any day for me. So I lose my ass sometimes, other times I succeed. It adds spice to life, and I would be bored to death in an existance that offers no motive to take risks.
The proposed society seems to me to be structured so that there are no risks, nothing to lose and nothing to gain. It's more like communism than like the Nazi regime you refer to.
So, I would likely enjoy the creativity of creating an unusual home (I live in an octagon I built now) but what about the huge majority living in massive cities? Again, if you are talking about sustainability, you need to take an exploding population into account.
Science is the process we've designed to be responsible for generating our best guess as to what the fuck is going on. Girly Man
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(27-12-2012 08:50 AM)Dom Wrote: Well, I just watched a couple of his clips.What serious conditioning of children? I'd say he rather refers to a lack of conditioning or different than we do today. We condition children into gender roles and into a presumed intelligence level by what toys we buy them, what do we read them and what programs do we let them watch. It would be interesting to try something different, to try just how smart and versatile children can get when properly taught through their curiosity.
I can't find that particular video, but it was something in that sense... Someone asked Fresco, "will all people be the same?" He said something like, "yes, they will all be the same in a sense that they will all share resources, they will all tolerate diversity, they will all examine new claims through critical thinking..."
(27-12-2012 08:50 AM)Dom Wrote: I also do not consider social bonding such an important thing, and I would not want it to be the center of my life. If that was the case, I would be out socializing instead of sitting in front of the computer. Not that I have an issue socializing, but I get bored by it quickly.As I said, this is a grassroots development, from bottom upwards. RBE does not impose anything on anyone, it rather creates conditions that allow people to thrive and does not inherently cause the pathologic behavior. This is how Fresco understands the concept of social engineering. For example, without money there is no lack or excession of money and so there is no money-related crime. Such crime is a problem and such a problem would be solved by RBE. Someone's preference for a company or lack of thereof is just that, a preference, not a problem. There's nothing to solve. It's good you know what you want.
I personally believe we've got a limited capacity for bonding, a tribe-sized capacity, only today we are friends with people over the net instead of those living around. A global human brotherhood would be rather a higher standard of treating all strangers, closer to how we treat co-workers in the same organization or fellow visitors of a like-minded conference.
(27-12-2012 08:50 AM)Dom Wrote: The pictures of the single homes in the middle of nature are interesting, but with overpopulation the way it is today, how do you figure that is sustainable in the long run? It's not, unless the majority of people opts to live in huge cities and only a few want to live in nature. How are you going to regulate that?Population is rising, because poor people have many children. Sex is a fun of the poor, plus poor people need many children like a labor force and it's like a woman has 20 children, counting with 14 of them dying. But when a society gets modernized, it changes. People get entirely different ways of spending their time and women get their share of empowerment, instead of hard work of childbearing they start earning money, pursuing hobbies and going to the university. Suddenly people have one, two children, sometimes three, or even no children at all. Despite of a preliminary flare up of population at the beginning (caused by a sudden decline of child mortality) in the long run, the population goes down. This is what's happening in Europe, the population slowly dies out.
This phenomenon is called demographic revolution and it's the only humane and sure way of decreasing the population. No war, no disease, no political imposed rule can decrease population like demographic revolution. And it's all a result of taking care of the people and providing them with self-realization, especially the women. This is something that our western civilization does to a large degree, but RBE is much better at it. It's an ideal environment for demographic revolution.
(27-12-2012 08:50 AM)Dom Wrote: I have never been a 9 to 5 person, so I can't identify with the desire to stop leading such a life style. I find risk taking stimulating, nothing like taking a risk and waiting for the outcome of what you have done. Beats any computer game any day for me. So I lose my ass sometimes, other times I succeed. It adds spice to life, and I would be bored to death in an existance that offers no motive to take risks.What kind of risks do you enjoy? You don't seem to me like an extreme sports person or a lottery or hazard games player. Maybe you play on a stock market for a living.
I'd like to know about that, but frankly, that doesn't strike me as a problem. Problem is, when people live from day to day, trying to survive and resist diseases from malnutrition. I'm sure the stock market gamblers can get their thrills elsewhere and find other kind of games than gambling with vital resources that people need to live. Generally, all those who find themselves out of a job, (yet secured), should go study and study themselves, to find out about anything they might be interested in and find a new hobby. It will be obviously much more common process than it is today, freedom of expression will be greater and not limited by short-term financial viability.
As for the massive cities, they don't seem that massive to me. The basic rule is, not to build the houses too inefficiently spread around the landscape so they're diffcult to reach to services like schools and workplaces, but neither build mega-cities with millions of people that absolutely can't sustain themselves with local food, water and energy. The city models of TVP seem to me having about 30,000 - 100,000 people, in my opinion. These cities will be then connected by maglevs and other transportation.
People move into the cities, because they want the services, culture and goods. Half of the world population already lives in cities. If someone doesn't want to, they're welcome to stay in the country, that's not a problem.
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(27-12-2012 01:31 PM)Luminon Wrote: What kind of risks do you enjoy?
I enjoy turning crazy ideas into viable businesses, staying way clear of investors because I don't like the interference.
I hardly think any society can make "no strings attached" resources available to anyone who wants to turn crazy ideas into a business, it's just not practical. You need your own resources, and resourcefulness, and that is where the challenge lies.
Besides it sounds like there wouldn't be any business anyway, and no point in creating one, since there is no money.
Then you have the fact that whatever situation people live under, they want to do forbidden things. No matter what the culture, there always have been black markets for this, that and the other. Wanna bet there will be a black market thriving, if not for money then for trades of whatever? What about drugs? Guns? Do you really think people will all of a sudden trust each other and be happy? I don't think so.
Science is the process we've designed to be responsible for generating our best guess as to what the fuck is going on. Girly Man
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(27-12-2012 01:57 PM)Dom Wrote: I enjoy turning crazy ideas into viable businesses, staying way clear of investors because I don't like the interference.Quite opposite. Today all business and projects must pass through the draconic law of short-term financial return. Long-term investments or non-profit projects are not taken nearly as seriously. Yet as the old wisdom says, the best things in life are not for money. So how do we provide them to people, if money are suddenly not a problem?
I think your occupation would be very useful in the future like RBE. It is a form of creativity, a practical one. I think you could re-orient and re-educate yourself to function within a new system, to work with other methods and goals than money and profit. I'm sure you'd find a way how to be realistic about the resources. One thing a business(wo)man should be good at is customer solution of some "problem". One thing that is going to be a widespread problem/opportunity in RBE is people having too much free time, they'll have to be educated on how to spend it healthily and constructively. They'll likely need to be organized into some projects. Obviously, you don't do all the work yourself. If you can see an opportunity, this time not for profit but let's say an increase in quality of life in a given area, if you're not afraid of crazy ideas, if you can make a project, if you can get people interested in it, I think you'd be happy.
(27-12-2012 01:57 PM)Dom Wrote: Then you have the fact that whatever situation people live under, they want to do forbidden things. No matter what the culture, there always have been black markets for this, that and the other. Wanna bet there will be a black market thriving, if not for money then for trades of whatever? What about drugs? Guns? Do you really think people will all of a sudden trust each other and be happy? I don't think so.No, this is another point I always try to drive home. You can't say that, because you don't know that. You have a reference sample of one, one top-down society with money and all problems coming from them. We always had a society where people did not know who they are, where are they coming from and where is the society going. A society built on blind principles by ignorant men, featuring fundamental flaws causing inevitable waste of people. A society driven by an ideology and opinions, not by scientific method and facts. It was always the case, so people lost hope in any meaningful, intelligent arrangement of human society. Despite of the fact, that they expect, demand and pay for the meaningful and intelligent arrangement of things in any and all other areas of their daily life. Everywhere, we want to use things intelligently designed through objective science and not through electrician's opinion and ideology. We have electric and mechanic engineers. Why don't we have social engineers? I mean, why is Jacque Fresco one of a few true, beneficial social engineers in the world? Why aren't there schools of social engineering? Why can not the scientific method be used on a society, on people? Why do you believe people are an exception from the universal law of cause and effect?
You shouldn't assume things or have an opinion. If you don't know, admit it, ask a question and study the answers. If possible, test them. Why do people want drugs? Because their daily life is so painful, dull, empty and meaningless, that they want to escape from it at least for a while. Typically, in the ghettos. Drugs are tickets for a ride out of daily hell into a magical happy land. Give people a fulfilling life and they won't feel the need to dull, sharpen or twist their mind. The worst enemy of joy and human potential is a boring work and education. People commonly drink alcohol after work and kids get Ritalin to stay sedated during education. Of course, they soon get to enjoy the alcohol as well. We can only enjoy our consciousness as much as the society allows us, in the short intervals of brief attention between commercials in TV. The freedom to explore the awareness is provided through simplicity. Drugs are merely artificial, erratic means to do what people should be allowed to do naturally.
As for guns, there are countless responsible gun owners and the reasons of gun abuse are well-known and better addressed by other means than making guns unavailable.
Of course, people are curious. Curiosity is natural and when we're careful, also very beneficial. Never make obstacles to the curiosity, help it forward while getting a control over it. Forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest, so we'd best taste it in a safe, supervised way. The society must provide healthy and legal outlets for curiosity. Let's say there's an Anachronist Society, a group of enthusiasts who like to provide the RBE citizens an authentic experience of historical joys and sorrows. Let's say they have several doctors, psychologists and chemists who educate tourists about the historical eras of drug usage and provide free samples to try any time, under best supervision. Those who really like the stuff, should be offered a special course in bio-chemistry and advanced Society membership.
Another section of the Society might be the gun experts. Obviously, hitting things at a distance is fun! Why should it be forbidden? Curiosity must be supported and wisely channeled. Yes, let people handle the guns, see how heavy, smelly and loud they are, show them photos of gunshot wounds, let them get kickback bruises and let them come to a center any time they want and shoot all they want, till they're bored. But don't glorify the guns, don't advertise them, don't show them off in contemporary TV programs, don't present them as any guarantee of safety, don't glorify character traits of their owners, don't under-represent the pain, injury and death they cause and don't make any guns without firmly embedded RFID chips. If necessary, make guns with electronic locks, so they won't trigger outside of designated areas.
RE: Nazi alert and other people's reactions
Opinions and ideology - people will always have them. I think you would have a very hard time convincing people to give them up.
I don't think people function the way you think. People like to rebel, be individualistic, do the forbidden (they'll find something, I am convinced of that). People like to form groups that differ from the mainstream. And people have anger issues regardless of financial status.
You're basing all of this on the assumption that solving financial issues will solve all problems.
It won't. People are hormone driven and hardwired to react in certain ways. That isn't going to go away because they don't have to work to live. Crime will not go away, if they don't need to steal your TV it'll be your wife, or they take objection to something you said and kill you - there will always be people like that.
The majority of women will have that ticking biological clock. Most women find enormous satisfaction in having babies.
People also have kids because they think they will live on in their children. It's a reaction to the fear of death.
I don't think that doing away with work and money will make people be happy little troopers who all get along and don't procreate. They'll be bored little troopers getting into trouble.
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RE: Nazi alert and other people's reactions
Hey, Luminon.
Initially I wanted to write an in-depth response to you, but you look like you're already in it with others, so I'll just fire out some peanut gallery action.
Just to be clear, I'm not an RBE booster by any means. I just support alternatives and I'm well versed in the impediments to them... like this man's ideological position.
I'm with you. The idea that humanity is flawed and irredeemably greedy and blah blah blah, is a salvationist notion that was unfortunately taken up by Les Philosophes of the Enlightenment. It's crap.
Humanity is NOT clockwork. Psychology, anthropology, politics: these are all arts for a reason. The saying I run with is, mechanistic, not deterministic. Meaning there are mechanisms at work inside the human being and behind society, but condition A does not necessarily result in outcome B. In short, we ain't robots. That being said, yeah, if you make conditions better for people, they're likely to respond positively.
Humans don't need to be economically extorted to work, they need to be extorted to produce at surplus levels; ie, make way more than they could ever need and all of it is owned by someone else (what Marx calls expropriating). Humans in egalitarian societies happily work.
Studying people scientifically shouldn't bother him. We've been doing it for decades. They're called the SOCIAL SCIENCES for a reason. Granted, they fall within the realm of the arts (mechanistic, not deterministic), but the social sciences utilise the scientific method as their approach to understanding. It ain't physics, but is certainly is scientific. As a man who probably did a degree in a social science field before hitting law school, he should be reminded of what he already knows.
Again, Marx tells us something important. The kind of wealth that we know is only possible through the exploitation of the worker. Bill Gates didn't make billions of dollars of anything. His millions of employees did. He, through a legal mechanism, simply gets to keep all the gravy for himself. What if someone wants a house made of gold? What is someone wants to be a rapist? There are limits. It's simply that what constitutes a limit is something that shifts. Today, exploitation of workers is fine. Slaves? Most places it's viewed as disgusting. Rape? Near universally it's disgusting. One day, accruing massive wealth through exploitation will live firmly alongside slavery and rape on the verboten list. So too bad, so sad, no gold houses in a non-exploitative alternative.
Preach on, brother Anderson. Preach on.
Daniel Quinn said many profound things. One is that Our culture is great for products, bad for people. Egalitarian societies are great for people, bad for products. If one remains in the mindset that the metric for anything good is the accumulation of products, then egalitarian alternatives remain perpetually unattractive. But the moment that one accepts the reality that the cost for making life good for people is our ability to wantonly produce, as Tyler Durden calls it, shit we don't need (at least not in the volume we're used to right now), is the moment the fear factor lessens.
Scarcity is a reality of existence that Our culture's system obfuscates and shelters us from. Scarcity is normal. Unlimited supply is a total aberration, and not one that can be sustained.
As for totalitarianism, I don't know that much about RBE, but bitch be trippin.
Perfect freedom does not exist. Societal living is only possible through compromise, norms and limitations. This guy just doesn't like a particular set of limitations, the ones that prevent him from having diamond plated yachts and large breasted hookers to sniff coke off of. Thus it's totalitarian, maaaaaaaaan. Foolishness.
As for his problem, I could get real in depth, but I'll fire out this nugget. Our culture sucks for people. Not just poor people. Everyone. We're a bunch of miserable SOBs because that's what our system does to us. Shinny things and heroin let us pretend we've escaped it momentarily. This guy has a whole lot of shinny things. So why would he want to give them up? Kind of a simplistic thing to say on my part, but for some people, stuff is the only life preserver they know exists. So they're leery of giving it up, especially when the ship is sinking.
Peace and Love and Empathy,
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Hey Matt, I'll get to you soon. Anyway, I agree with pretty much everything that you say. And they didn't teach me the all ten fingers typing for nothing
(27-12-2012 06:03 PM)Dom Wrote: Opinions and ideology - people will always have them. I think you would have a very hard time convincing people to give them up.It seems to me you have a very specific kind of people in mind. Perhaps your life experience is predominantly with them. I distinguish about four basic "levels" of people, together with their preferred values. The lowest layer of people listens most to their biology. More than money they appreciate a full stomach and all things biologic - fight, sex, children, drunkenness... But they're also more than willing to do harder or boring jobs, provided they're paid immediately after. Their entertainment is simple and straightforward fun, nothing expensive or elaborate. Just put together food, alcohol, good music and they'll happy to throw in the women.
The important thing about this type of people, the biologic level is, that they're not the most numerous, they're actually the second. They "evolve" in their consciousness by separation from their tribal-like society and integration into some less personal social order. Typically, a Gypsy de facto renounces his family and their ways, moves away and becomes a Jehovah's Witness and grows to appreciate the strict discipline of the sect. These people integrate into the second type of society, which is not called biologic, but "socially cultural". It has a new set of skills, challenges to be mastered and a new system of values, threats and rewards. This is the standard of humanity today. There are two higher levels, but they're proportionally much fewer in numbers. And every person since birth goes through the four stages of the society and it remains to be seen where he ends up and how fast.
I'd say this is a subject of social sciences. RBE is a method of solving the economic and financial problems through removal of scarcity and bringing abundance. Abundance does not mean infinite goods to infinite needs, but providing as much as we really need, not less, not more. This brings both security and the need to shift away from material values into cultural, intellectual and spiritual values. In these we can do business and be truly rich without wrecking our Earth in the process. There are even associated phenomena of global culture of good will, general atmosphere of sharing and brotherhood. This will make sure that people will not turn into angry, stealing transgression-junkies pathologically afraid of death. This behavior is a feature of the current system, the system of RBE is a different system, so we can and should expect some changes in that.
The problem of drugs, guns and all things forbidden and exciting as you described is called "glamour" (esoteric technical term) and what I described is essentially a de-glamorization, showing things as they are, so people don't glorify them any more than a thing deserves. (typically, a glamour of war heroism and guns) Glamour is an emotional illusion and it's a global problem, as most people are by far emotional. I recognize this problem and I have literature to deal with it, when the need arises. Taking away illusions is of course painful and should not be done for it's own sake, lest the personality is wrecked. Careful work with people's illusions is necessary, to dispel the wrong ones, maintain the ones that lead them in a momentarily good direction and even enchanting people with new, beneficial ones. After all, a culture is a large collective dream.
RBE is not a solution to what you described, which is essentially a cultural problem, a problem of consciousness. But I argue, RBE is by far an ideal environment for cultural progress. It removes the obstacle of poverty and money and leaves people free to manifest their potential - and free for activists like you and me to grasp, support and channel that potential into beneficial forms of the social structure. I argue that this environment makes it possible, unlike our current system. If you recognize the danger of unchanneled human potential that you describe, you can also undertake a responsibility to do something about it. Educate yourself about the social/psychologic causes and be creative within the values of the people you work with, and as a businesswoman you'll be able to get them busy in a right way. You'll be able to create an enterprise for them that will keep them entertained, improve them in terms of discipline/education/awareness, do something useful for the society/environment and introduce them in a positive way to the broader community of people.
Teachers in a kindergarten, company managers and elected Gypsy dukes work pretty much in the same way.
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|Hammond, P.S. & Perrin, W.F. (Cetacean Red List Authority)
There is no information on global abundance or trends in abundance for this species. It is not believed to be uncommon but it is potentially vulnerable to low-level threats and a 30% global reduction over three generations cannot be ruled out (criterion A).
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|Range Description:
|Sowerby's beaked whales are known almost exclusively from the colder waters of the North Atlantic, from at least Massachusetts, USA to Labrador, Canada in the west, and from Iceland to Norway in the east (Mead 1989; MacLeod et al. 2006). This is the most northerly distributed of the Atlantic species of Mesoplodon, with most records north of 30°N. There are a number of strandings or sightings considered to be extralimital in the Mediterranean Sea, and from the Gulf of Mexico side of Florida.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Belgium; Canada; Denmark; France; Germany; Gibraltar; Iceland; Ireland; Netherlands; Norway; Portugal; Spain; Sweden; United Kingdom; United States
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Atlantic – northeast; Atlantic – northwest; Atlantic – eastern central
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|Very little is known of the population biology of this species. It is one of the most commonly seen mesoplodonts in some parts of its range.
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|As with other members of the genus, these whales occur almost exclusively in deep waters past the continental shelf edge. Although it is one of the most commonly stranded Mesoplodon species, there have been few sightings at sea, and it is poorly known. De Buffrénil (1995) mentioned that two sightings were north of Scotland and west of the Orkney Islands, in waters several 100 m deep. Hooker and Baird (1999) observed groups of Sowerby's Beaked Whales in the Gully, a submarine canyon off eastern Canada, on four occasions. Sightings were in water depths of between 550 m and 1,500 m.
Ostrom et al. (1993) evaluated the diet of Sowerby's beaked whales, based on isotopic comparisons among northwestern Atlantic cetaceans. They feed on squid and fish, including Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua).
|Major Threat(s):
There is little specific information on the status or threats to whales of this species (Reeves et al. 2003). However, some are known to have been incidentally killed by whalers in Newfoundland, Iceland, and in the Barents Sea. A few entanglements in fishing gear (e.g., driftnets) have been documented. Waring et al. (2001) reported that for 1989-1998 observed bycatch in pelagic drift gillnets along the US East Coast amounted to 24 Sowerby's beaked whales. These were caught exclusively in the area from Georges Canyon to Hydrographers Canyon, along the continental shelf break and continental slope during July-October. This fishery has now been closed.
This species, like other beaked whales, is likely to be vulnerable to loud anthropogenic sounds, such as those generated by navy sonar and seismic exploration (Cox et al. 2006).
Evidence from stranded individuals of several similar species indicates that they have swallowed discarded plastic items, which may eventually lead to death (e.g. Scott et al. 2001); this species may also be at risk.
Predicted impacts of global climate change on the marine environment may affect this species of whale, although the nature of impacts is unclear (Learmonth et al. 2006).
|Conservation Actions:
|The species is listed in Appendix II of CITES. Research is needed to determine the impacts of potential threatening processes on this species.
|Taylor, B.L., Baird, R., Barlow, J., Dawson, S.M., Ford, J., Mead, J.G., Notarbartolo di Sciara, G., Wade, P. & Pitman, R.L. 2008. Mesoplodon bidens. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T13241A3424903. . Downloaded on 23 September 2018.
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This year, DC celebrates 75 years of the Dark Knight. (DC Entertainment)Link
The one that started it all. "Detective Comics" No. 27 saw Batman trying to solve "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate." (DC Entertainment)Link
Bob Kane, alongside writer Bill Finger, created Batman. (Ellen Jaskol)Link
"Dectective Comics" No. 31, featuring one of the all-time classic covers of the Kane years. (Bob Kane/DC Entertainment)Link
Heeeeere's Robin! "Detective Comics" No. 38 saw the introduction of the Boy Wonder. Kane and Finger (with Jerry Robinson) agreed that it would help to have a Watson-like character for Batman to bounce ideas off of and that having a young ward would offer readers an entry point of identification for Bruce Wayne. (DC Entertainment)Link
Talk about a landmark issue: In 1940, Batman received his own title with this No. 1, which saw the debut of the Joker and Catwoman. (Bob Kane / DC Entertainment)Link
One of the most celebrated covers in the comic's history, "Batman" No. 9, drawn by by Jack Burnley. (Jack Burnley/DC Entertainment)Link
1941 saw the first of many shared panels with the Caped Crusader, the Boy Wonder and the Man of Steel. (DC Entertainment)Link
Another classic character of the Batman universe made his debut in this 1943 issue: Alfred. (Jerry Robinson/DC Entertainment)Link
Batman made his silver-screen debut in 1943, played by Lewis Wilson. Highly influenced by World War II fervor, the serial had its issues – the most offensive bits were deleted for the home video release in the 1980s – but it did introduce the Batcave and Alfred's traditional appearance in the Batman universe. (Columbia Pictures/Getty Images)Link
One of the founding fathers of the Gotham universe, Jerry Robinson is widely accepted among comic historians as co-creator of the Joker, though Kane always disputed his contribution. He was also a co-creator of Robin, alongside Kane and Finger. As one of the main early artists of the comic, his stamp on Batman is indelible. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
The famous "double guns Joker" cover for "Detective Comics" No. 69, considered one of the finest covers of the Golden Age. Robinson auctioned the original art for the cover in 2010 for $400,000. (Jerry Robinson / DC Entertainment)Link
Dick Sprang, who drew this 1943 cover, was reportedly Bob Kane's favorite "ghost" artist. (Dick Sprang/DC Entertainment)Link
While the character of Catwoman debuted in Batman No. 1 as the Cat, her character became more developed throughout the '40s. (Bob Kane/DC Entertainment)Link
While Two-Face, created by Kane and Finger, debuted in 1942, he "returned" in this 1948 issue, one of only a handful of appearances in the '40s. (Bob Kane/DC Entertainment)Link
Introducing: the Riddler. A co-creation of Bill Finger and Dick Sprang, Edward Nigma (occasionally "Nashton") made his debut in 1948. (J. Winslow Mortimer/DC Entertainment)Link
The Batmobile got a redesign thanks to Dick Sprang in this issue, which hit newsstands in December of 1949. (Dick Sprang/DC Entertainment)Link
Catwoman's ambiguous relationship with the Caped Crusader continued to evolve in the early '50s, including this stint where she helped the Dynamic Duo fight crime. She disappeared from the series from 1954 to 1966 due to the introduction of the Comics Code Authority's standards for female characters. (J. Winslow Mortimer/DC Entertainment)Link
Enter....Ace the Bat-Hound? Influenced by the Comics Code, the mid-1950s saw the introduction of a lighter tone and sillier characters like in this 1955 issue. (Win Mortimer/DC Entertainment)Link
Originally going by the moniker Mr. Zero, the villain better known as Mr. Freeze made his debut in this 1959 issue. (DC Entertainment)Link
After helping usher in the Silver Age of comics with his design of the Flash remake, Carmine Infantino presided over the new-look Batman, who debuted in this 1964 issue and jettisoned many of the sillier Comics Code-influenced aspects that had crept into the series. (Carmine Infantino / DC Entertainment)Link
Holy Televison Series, Bat ... you get the idea. From 1966 to 1968, Adam West and Burt Ward starred as Batman and Robin, respectively, in the high camp classic, which also spurred the equally campy 1966 film "Batman." (ABC)Link
Television's original Catwoman, Julie Newmar. She was replaced by Lee Meriwether for the feature film and Eartha Kitt in the series' final season, but for many Newmar remains the signature Catwoman. (Museum of Radio and Television)Link
Yvonne Craig as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, who was introduced during the third and final season of the show. (ABC)Link
Frank Gorshin as the Riddler in the role that earned him an Emmy nomination. (AP Photo/ABC)Link
This 1966 issue introduced the modern era Batgirl, a.k.a. Barbara Gordon, created by DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz and the producers of the 1960s "Batman" television series as a way to introduce a new female character for the third season of the show. Writer Gardner Fox and artist Carmine Infantino handled her "million dollar debut." (DC Entertainment)Link
This issue marked the debut of Poison Ivy, created by Robert Kanigher and Sheldon Moldoff, as both a nod to the growing feminist sentiment at the time and as a character counterpoint to the decreasingly villainous Catwoman. (DC Entertainment)Link
A classic Carmine Infantino cover featuring the Penguin from 1967. (DC Entertainment)Link
Created by Frank Robbins and Neal Adams, Man-Bat debuted in 1970 in "Detective Comics" No. 400. (Neal Adams/DC Entertainment)Link
The early '70s saw a new dynamic duo come to Gotham: writer Denny O'Neil and artist Neal Adams, who presided over a beloved period for the Dark Knight, erasing much of the camp of the television series from memory. In this issue, one of their creations, Ra's al Ghul, makes his debut. (Neal Adams/DC Entertainment)Link
A legendary Joker tale from the O'Neil/Adams era. (Neal Adams and Dick Giordano / DC Entertainment)Link
A classic cover from Jim Aparo, one of the signature Batman artists, who worked on some the classic '80s tales in the series. (Aparo/DC Entertainment)Link
Gerry Conway penned the story for this issue, which featured the return of Poison Ivy. In the early '80s, Conway would write the issues introducing Killer Croc and the second Robin, Jason Todd. (Dick Giordano / DC Entertainment)Link
Consistently ranked at or among the top of all graphic novels, 1986's "The Dark Knight Returns," by Frank Miller with Klaus Janson and Lynn Varley, remains one of the definitive takes on the Batman, influencing both "The Dark Knight Rises" and Zack Snyder's upcoming "Man of Steel" sequel. (Frank Miller/Lynn Varley / DC Entertainment)Link
Talk about a hot streak. For a follow-up to "The Dark Knight Returns," Miller penned 1987's "Year One" story line, which revisited Bruce Wayne's chilling origin story. It features cameos from Selina Kyle, Harvey Dent and also plumbs the arc of Jim Gordon's history with the city. Much of Christopher Nolan's "Batman Begins" was taken from Miller's landmark work. (David Mazzucchelli / DC Entertainment)Link
In keeping with the '80s renaissance of serious Batman storytelling came Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's 1988 take on the Joker, "Batman: The Killing Joke," which launched a thousand debates over violence in comics and still stands as a signature moment in Batman's history. (Brian Bolland / DC Entertainment)Link
A scene from "The Killing Joke," which altered the Batman universe. (Brian Bolland / DC Entertainment)Link
And the hits kept coming as the decade continued. The "A Death in the Family" story arc saw the death of Jason Todd, the second Robin. The death sentence was handed down by readers, who were given the option to call a 1-900 number and vote on Todd's fate. Turns out the fans made pretty efficient executioners, as Batman was too late to save the second Robin from the Joker's blast. (DC Entertainment)Link
In 1989, Batman returned to the silver screen in the Tim Burton-directed "Batman." Fans were initially worried when Michael Keaton was cast as the Batman, as the actor had primarily been known for his comedic roles. But Burton wanted Keaton after working with him on "Beetlejuice." Jack Nicholson starred as the Joker. The film's success was a watershed moment for the character.(Warner Bros.)Link
After the chilling new standard set by Moore's "The Killing Joke," "Batman Annual" No. 14 in 1990 featured an intense look at Harvey Dent's origins, in a classic tale penned by Andrew Helfer. (Neal Adams / DC Entertainment)Link
Following the success of "Batman," Burton returned to the director's chair for the 1992 sequel. It was to be his and Keaton's last dance in the pale moonlight with the franchise. (Warner Bros.)Link
"Batman Returns" didn't earn as much at the box office as its predecessor, and in his review Times film critic Kenneth Turan wrote that it was "a cheerless, brooding but always visually inventive film," adding that Michael Keaton looked unhappy. The critic did find a bright spot, though, citing Michelle Pfeiffer's "stylish and funny performance as the frumpy Selina Kyle and her alter ego, the whip-cracking gender-bending Catwoman." (Warner Bros.)Link
Michelle Pfeiffer won the role of Catwoman, after Annette Bening bowed out due to pregnancy and several other actresses turned it down. (Warner Bros.)Link
Spurred by the success of the feature films, the beloved and Emmy-winning "Batman: The Animated Series" ran from 1992 to 1995 and led to multiple subsequent shows for the hero. (Warner Bros. Animation)Link
Here comes Bane. In the 1993-94 "Knightfall" story line, Batman faced his greatest setback, having his back broken by the Venom-enhanced villain. As a result, Bruce Wayne allowed Azrael to step in and briefly take over the cowl, with disastrous results. (DC Entertainment)Link
Enter Val Kilmer as Batman, Chris O'Donnell as Robin and Joel Schumacher as the director. "Batman Forever," the 1995 follow-up to "Batman Returns," also offered a shift in tone to a more cartoon-ish version of the Dark Knight. While the immediate response to the film was positive, its stock has gone down in recent years, as hindsight revealed that it was the forerunner to the much-derided film that would follow just a few years later. (Warner Bros.)Link
Tommy Lee Jones as Two Face and Jim Carrey as the Riddler in Joel Schumacher's "Batman Forever." (Warner Bros.)Link
Penned by Bane co-creator Doug Moench, "Sleeper, Part 1: Nightmares," featured this haunting cover image by Moench's "Knightfall" collaborator Kelley Jones. (Kelley Jones/DC Entertainment)Link
George Clooney in 1997's "Batman and Robin," one of the most reviled films of all time. "I think we might have killed the franchise," Clooney has said about the film. (Warner Bros.)Link
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze and Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy in "Batman and Robin." Critics responded icily to Schwarzenegger's performance. (Warner Bros.)Link
Set a few months after the events of "Year One," Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's 1996-1997 limited series "The Long Halloween" continues the Two-Face origin story from "Batman Annual" No. 14 and influenced Nolan's "Batman Begins" and, especially, the plot of "The Dark Knight." (Tim Sale/DC Entertainment)Link
After her debut in the animated series, Harley Quinn was quickly adopted into the comics world. In 1999, the fan-favorite character was properly integrated into the Batman universe continuity with an origin story in "Batman: Harley Quinn." (Alex Ross / DC Entertainment)Link
The year? 2039. The Batman? Terry McGinnis, a rebellious teenager who gets his start fighting the Jokerz gang alongside an ailing Bruce Wayne in "Batman Beyond." The 1999-2001 series won a couple of Daytime Emmys. (Warner Bros.)Link
Written by Jeph Loeb and penciled by Jim Lee, the 2002-'03 "Hush" story line featured Batman taking on a new enemy, alongside the familiar rogue's gallery, and hinted at the possibility that Jason Todd might still be alive. Plus it continued the 60-plus-year romantic tension between the Dark Knight and Catwoman. The entire collection of the "Hush" story line was released as one volume in 2009. (Jim Lee / DC Entertainment)Link
The animated series "The Batman" ran on the WB and then the CW from 2004 to 2008 and won several Daytime Emmys. (Warner Bros. Animation)Link
After the hints in "Hush" that Jason Todd might still be alive, the "Under the Hood" story line resurrected the former Robin as an antihero version of the Red Hood. The Hood was one of the oldest foes in the Batman universe, who made his debut in 1951 as a way to explain the Joker's origins. This origin story was then altered slightly in Moore's "The Killing Joke." (Mark Simpson / DC Entertainment)Link
Written by Frank Miller and penciled by Jim Lee, the "All-Star Batman and Robin The Boy Wonder" series ran from 2005 to 2008. Miller's writing in the series was heavily criticized and the story line's greatest legacy may be the infamous, profane "I'm the ... Batman" line in Issue 2. (Jim Lee / DC Entertainment)Link
With Christian Bale taking on the mantle of the Bat in 2005's "Batman Begins," directed by Christopher Nolan, movie fans quickly shrugged off bad memories of "Batman and Robin." (David James / Warner Bros.)Link
Cillian Murphy as Scarecrow in "Batman Begins," the only villain to appear in all three installments of Nolan's trilogy. (Warner Bros.)Link
A four-issue miniseries, "Batman: Year 100," written and illustrated by Paul Pope, featured yet another take on the Dark Knight, presiding over a dystopian Gotham City in 2039. The series won the 2007 Eisner Awards for limited series and writer/artist. (Paul Pope / DC Entertainment)Link
Christopher Nolan's follow-up to the well-received "Batman Begins" was 2008's masterpiece, "The Dark Knight," currently the 18th highest grossing film of all time. (Warner Bros.)Link
Heath Ledger as the Joker. Much like with Michael Keaton before him, fans were worried about Ledger's ability to capture the Clown Prince of Crime. The result, of course, was a defining take on the character and a posthumous Oscar for supporting actor. (Warner Bros.)Link
A promotional poster for D.A. Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), whose political career was derailed during the action of "The Dark Knight." (Warner Bros.)Link
Written by Grant Morrison, "Batman: R.I.P." saw the Caped Crusader battling the Black Glove organization and suffering a fate, well, worse than death. It was later revealed that the "R.I.P." stood for "Rest In Purgatory." (Alex Ross / DC Entertainment)Link
Spearheaded by Grant Morrison, "Batman and Robin" launched in 2009 and followed the events of "Batman: R.I.P." and the "Battle for the Cowl" story arcs and saw former Robin Dick Grayson taking up the mantle of the Bat, with Bruce's son Damian Wayne as Robin. (Purists' concerns were allayed when Bruce returned in the "Batman Incorporated" series). (Frank Quitely / DC Entertainment)Link
Written by Neil Gaiman, 2009's "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?" was published in "Batman" No. 686 and "Detective Comics" No. 853, Meant to be the "final" issues of the series, it was an homage to Alan Moore's "last" Superman story, "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" It is considered by many to be one of the best Batman stories ever written. (Andy Kubert/DC Entertainment)Link
In the fall of 2011, DC relaunched its superhero universe with the New 52. This "soft reboot" of familiar continuities precipitated a revamped origin story for the Dark Knight. The 2013-2014 "Zero Year" story line in writer Scott Snyder and artist Greg Capullo's "Batman" offers a fresh take on Bruce Wayne's early days in the cape and cowl. (Greg Capullo / DC Entertainment)Link
Given short shrift in 1997's "Batman and Robin," Bane took center stage in Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012), played by Tom Hardy, who said his peculiar voice was an homage to Bartley Gorman, a bare-knuckle boxer known as the King of the Gypsies. (Warner Bros.)Link
"The Dark Knight Rises," currently the 12th highest grossing film of all time, was to be Nolan's last directorial performance and Christian Bale's last appearance as Bruce Wayne with the franchise. (Ron Phillips / Warner Bros.)Link
Anne Hathaway starred as Selina Kyle in "The Dark Knight Rises." (Warner Bros.)Link
From the mind of Paul Dini came 2009's "Batman: Arkham Asylum" from Rocksteady Games. It garnered the Guinness World Record for most critically acclaimed superhero game ever, and has bred sequels and a prequel. (Rocksteady Games)Link
In November 2013, Miles Scott, a.k.a. Bat-Kid, stole the hearts of the nation with his Make-A-Wish-sponsored adventures through Gotham (San Francisco), which included foiling plots of the Riddler and the Penguin and words of encouragement from President Obama. (Jeff Chiu / Associated Press)Link
Will Arnett voiced this humorously imperfect take on Batman for 2014's hit "The Lego Movie." (Warner Bros. Pictures)Link
The future: Ben Affleck in the first photograph of the new cape and cowl from 2016's "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice." (Warner Bros.)Link
Here's to many happy Dark Knight returns. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)Link
Has it really been 75 years since Gotham first saw the Bat? Seventy-five years of vengeance, brooding detective work and campy shark fights? Three-quarters of a century of iconic introductions, gritty reboots and the ongoing vigil that Bob Kane and Bill Finger's most iconic creation keeps over his city.
It's hard to believe, but it's true. (We're still wrapping our minds around the fact that it's been 25 years since Michael Keaton put on the cape and cowl.) Ever since Gotham's winged creature of the night swooped down and cracked "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate," the world — from the DC Universe to our own — has never been the same.
Although Superman made his debut a year earlier, Batman represented something truly new for comic readers. A tortured soul, a man driven by revenge yet committed to principles. And because, let's face it, there's something downright strange about Batman. Or as Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne put it, "Well, a guy who dresses up like a bat clearly has issues." He came to represent a hero for the truly dispossessed. The scion of Thomas and Martha Wayne not only avenged their deaths many times over, he gave life to a new kind of hero. His obsession made him human, and that made him instantly ours.
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So, when we celebrate the classic story lines, understandable missteps and heartbreaking losses, it's also worth remembering just how prescient a character like Batman was for 1939. It's why he's arguably been the easiest character to get right in this modern age of blockbuster-bait arms racing. Batman never had to be re-appropriated to be made more "edgy" or "darker." He came out of the gates edgy. And his darkness has always been timeless.
So, here's to the Dark Knight. To celebrate, we've compiled a list of 75 images that tell the story of the Bat, from his auspicious debut to the camp detours of the '60s and the many returns to form.
That's not to say that we've covered everything that Batman means to everyone. How could we? So, let us know what we missed.
What are some of your favorite moments in Batman history? What image most defines Batman to you? Tell us in the comments below.
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Mon, 11 Aug 2014 10:41:00 -0700
The Pittsburgh Steelers have waived RB Jawan Jamison.
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|Steelers | Jawan Jamison signed
Fri, 01 Aug 2014 20:46:41 -0700
The Pittsburgh Steelers have signed free-agent RB Jawan Jamison (Redskins). Terms of the contract were not disclosed. The team also waived RB Alvester Alexander.
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|Redskins | Three cut
Tue, 04 Mar 2014 13:13:19 -0800
The Washington Redskins released TE Richard Quinn and RBs Jawan Jamison and Davin Meggett Tuesday, March 4.
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|Redskins | Jawan Jamison showed up out of shape
Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:11:40 -0800
Washington Redskins RB Jawan Jamison showed up to camp out of shape as a rookie, which got him off on the wrong foot with the team. According to beat writer John Keim, unless he shows something during the offseason, he might be destined for a spot on the practice squad due to depth at the position. He is signed through the 2017 season.
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|Redskins | Promote Jawan Jamison to the active roster
Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:19:37 -0800
The Washington Redskins promoted RB Jawan Jamison from the practice squad to the active roster Tuesday, Dec. 10.
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|Redskins | Seven re-signed
Tue, 03 Sep 2013 07:11:47 -0700
The Washington Redskins re-signed CB Chase Minnifield, RB Jawan Jamison, DE Dominique Hamilton, OG Tevita Stevens, LB Will Compton, OT Xavier Nixon and WR Lance Lewis to the practice squad.
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|Redskins | 15 players released
Sat, 31 Aug 2013 09:14:57 -0700
The Washington Redskins have released RB Keiland Williams, RB Jawan Jamison, WR Skye Dawson, WR Nick X. Williams, WR Lance Lewis, TE Emmanuel Ogbuehi, OT Tony Pashos, OT Xavier Nixon, OL Tevita Stevens, DL Chigbo Anunoby, DL Dominique Hamilton, DT Ron Brace, LB Vic So'oto, CB Chase Minnifield and SS DeJon Gomes.
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|Redskins | Chris Thompson, Jawan Jamison to see preseason action
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Washington Redskins RBs Chris Thompson and Jawan Jamison have a good shot to see action with the second-team offense in the team's second preseason game. They had both previously been limited to work with the third-string offense.
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Washington Redskins RBs Chris Thompson and Jawan Jamison could be candidates for the third down running back role during training camp.
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The Washington Redskins are sorting out their RB depth chart. Roy Helu seems like the best fit for changeup work, and he has improved in his pass protection. Evan Royster will have to be beaten out for his roster spot. Rookie Chris Thompson (knee) would be a solid fit for triple-option reads and third-down plays, as well, but he needs to heal following a torn anterior cruciate ligament. Plus, he needs to gain experience in picking up blitzes. Jawan Jamison, another first-year player, looks to be more in the mold of Royster.
Fantasy Tip: Royster seems like he'd be the best fill-in for Alfred Morris as the main back, but Helu will be the likeliest to have an every-week role if everyone is healthy. But with Mike Shanahan running things, you can't cement a hierarchy.
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ODIN Supervisor: A Scilab driven platform for online advanced supervision of bioprocesses
Mélaine Gautier, Inria
The ODIN supervision platform has been developed to run advanced control algorithm developed in Scilab in order to optimize and make more reliable industrial biotechnological processes.
The advanced algorithms, can be of two types:
- The observer processes use the available information from sensors and off line measurements and provide information to the user on the state of the process (metabolic variables, process efficiency, risk of destabilization, failure, advice for the management).
- The controllers compute the input to be set to the actuators in order to optimize a criterion, stabilize the system or keep the process in a predefined working mode.
These algorithms are specifically developed for non- linear dynamical systems characterized by time scales from seconds to weeks, with only partial and noisy information on their internal states. These real-time algorithms use the efficient mathematical libraries proposed by Scilab.
A norm has been developed to set up these algorithms, with a systematic description of the different steps common to any observer or controller, based on differential or recurrent equations. ODIN includes a tailored editor of the Scilab algorithms, on the basis of their specific structure.
The Scilab engine is embedded in a C++ framework guarantying robustness and rapidity, the various modules are connected via CORBA. A device layer module ODIN manages the various A/D digital boards. The data together with some computational output are saved and exported into a data base. The sensor measurements together with the observers and controllers are displayed by a GUI module where the key information are presented to the user either through a synoptic of the process or time chronicles.
The ODIN supervision platform has been used in particular to implement the algorithms developed by the BIOCORE Inria research team on a 60m2 microalgal pilot plant coupled with a 1m3 anaerobic digester. ODIN supervises lab scale bioreactors in various laboratories from INRA, CNRS and UPMC.
Paper signed by Melaine Gautier and Olivier Bernard, Inria
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Letter XXIIOn Mr. Pope and Some Other Famous Poets
to treat of Mr. Prior, one of the most amiable English poets, whom you saw Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at Paris in 1712. I also designed to have given you some idea of the Lord Roscommons and the Lord Dorsets muse; but I find that to do this I should be obliged to write a large volume, and that, after much pains and trouble, you would have but an imperfect idea of all those works. Poetry is a kind of music in which a man should have some knowledge before he pretends to judge of it. When I give you a translation of some passages from those foreign poets, I only prick down, and that imperfectly, their music; but then I cannot express the taste of their harmony.
There is one English poem especially which I should despair of ever making you understand, the title whereof is Hudibras. The subject of it is the Civil War in the time of the grand rebellion, and the principles and practice of the Puritans are therein ridiculed. It is Don Quixote, it is our Satire Menippée blended together. I never found so much wit in one single book as in that, which at the same time is the most difficult to be translated. Who would believe that a work which paints in such lively and natural colours the several foibles and follies of mankind, and where we meet with more sentiments than words, should baffle the endeavours of the ablest translator? But the reason of this is, almost every part of it alludes to particular incidents. The clergy are there made the principal object of ridicule, which is understood but by few among the laity. To explain this a commentary would be requisite, and humour when explained is no longer humour. Whoever sets up for a commentator of smart sayings and repartees is himself a blockhead. This is the reason why the works of the ingenious Dean Swift, who has been called the English Rabelais, will never be well understood in France. This gentleman has the honour (in common with Rabelais) of being a priest, and, like him, laughs at everything; but, in my humble opinion, the title of the English æbelais which is given the dean is highly derogatory to his genius. The former has interspersed his unaccountably fantastic and unitelligible book with the most gay strokes of humour; but which at the same time, has a greater proportion of impertinence. He has been vastly lavish of erudition, of smut, and insipid raillery. An agreeable tale of two pages is purchased at the expense of whole volumes of nonsense. There are but few persons, and those of a grotesque taste, who pretend to understand and to esteem this work; for, as to the rest of the nation, they laugh at the pleasant and diverting touches which are found in Rabelais and despise his book. He is looked upon as the prince of buffoons. The readers are vexed to think that a man who was master of so much wit should have made so wretched a use of it; he is an intoxicated philosopher who never wrote but when he was in liquor.
Dean Swift is Rabelais in his senses, and frequently the politest company. The former, indeed, is not so gay as the latter, but then he possesses all the delicacy, the justness, the choice, the good taste, in all which particulars our giggling rural Vicar Rabelais is wanting. The poetical numbers of Dean Swift are of a singular and almost inimitable taste; true humour, whether in prose or verse, seems to be his peculiar talent; but whoever is desirous of understanding him perfectly must visit the island in which he was born.
It will be much easier for you to form an idea of Mr. Popes works. He is, in my opinion, the most elegant, the most correct poet; and, at the same time, the most harmonious (a circumstance which redounds very much to the honour of this muse) that England ever gave birth to. He has mellowed the harsh sounds of the English trumpet to the soft accents of the flute. His compositions may be easily translated, because they are vastly clear and perspicuous; besides, most of his subjects are general, and relative to all nations.
His Essay on Criticism will soon be known in France by the translation which lAbbé de Renel has made of it.
Here is an extract from his poem entitled the Rape of the Lock, which I just now translated with the latitude I usually take on these occasions; for, once again, nothing can be more ridiculous than to translate a poet literally:
Umbriel, à linstant, vieil gnome rechigné,
Va dune aîle pesante et dun air renfrogné
Chercher en murmurant la caverne profonde,
Où loin des doux raïons que répand lil du monde
La Déesse aux Vapeurs a choisi son séjour,
Les Tristes Aquilons y sifflent à lentour,
Et le souffle mal sain de leur aride haleine
Y porte aux environs la fievre et la migraine.
Sur un riche sofa derrière un paravent
Loin des flambeaux, du bruit, des parleurs et du vent
La quinteuse déesse incessamment repose,
Le cur gros de chagrin, sans en savoir la cause.
Naiant pensé jamais, lesprit toujours troublé,
Lil chargé, le teint pâle, et lhypocondre enflé.
La médisante Envie, est assise auprès delle,
Vieil spectre féminin, décrépite pucelle,
Avec un air devot déchirant son prochain,
Et chansonnant les Gens lEvangile à la main.
Sur un lit plein de fleurs negligemment panchée
Une jeune beauté non loin delle est couchée,
Cest lAfectation qui grassaîe en parlant,
Ecoute sans entendre, et lorgne en regardant.
Qui rougit sans pudeur, et rit de tout sans joie,
De cent maux differens pretend quelle est la proïe;
Et pleine de sante sous le rouge et le fard,
Se plaint avec molesse, et se pame avec art.
Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite
As ever sullied the fair face of light,
Down to the central earth, his proper scene,
Repairs to search the gloomy cave of Spleen,
Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome,
And in a vapour reached the dismal dome.
No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows,
The dreaded east is all the wind that blows.
Here, in a grotto, sheltered close from air,
And screened in shades from days detested glare,
She sighs for ever on her pensive bed,
Pain at her side, and Megrim at her head,
Two handmaids wait the throne. Alike in place,
But differing far in figure and in face,
Here stood Ill-nature, like an ancient maid,
Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed;
With store of prayers for mornings, nights, and noons
Her hand is filled; her bosom with lampoons.
There Affectation, with a sickly mien,
Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen,
Practised to lisp, and hang the head aside,
Faints into airs, and languishes with pride;
On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe,
Wrapt in a gown, for sickness and for show.
This extract, in the original (not in the faint translation I have given you of it), may be compared to the description of
La Molesse
(softness or effeminacy), in Boileaus Lutrin.
Methinks I now have given you specimens enough from the English poets. I have made some transient mention of their philosophers, but as for good historians among them, I dont know of any; and, indeed, a Frenchman was forced to write their history. Possibly the English genius, which is either languid or impetuous, has not yet acquired that unaffected eloquence, that plain but majestic air which history requires. Possibly too, the spirit of party which exhibits objects in a dim and confused light may have sunk the credit of their historians. One half of the nation is always at variance with the other half. I have met with people who assured me that the Duke of Marlborough was a coward, and that Mr. Pope was a fool; just as some Jesuits in France declare Pascal to have been a man of little or no genius, and some Jansenists affirm Father Bourdaloüe to have been a mere babbler. The Jacobites consider Mary Queen of Scots as a pious heroine, but those of an opposite party look upon her as a prostitute, an adulteress, a murderer. Thus the English have memorials of the several reigns, but no such thing as a history. There is, indeed, now living, one Mr. Gordon (the public are obliged to him for a translation of Tacitus), who is very capable of writing the history of his own country, but Rapin de Thoyras got the start of him. To conclude, in my opinion the English have not such good historians as the French, have no such thing as a real tragedy, have several delightful comedies, some wonderful passages in certain of their poems, and boast of philosophers that are worthy writers of our nation, and therefore we ought (since they have not scrupled to be in our debt) to borrow from them. Both the English and we came after the Italians, who have been our instructors in all the arts, and whom we have surpassed in some. I cannot determine which of the three nations ought to be honoured with the palm; but happy the writer who could display their various merits.
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Formica to run for re-election as East Lyme first selectman
East Lyme — Paul Formica said Thursday he intends to seek a fourth term as the town's first selectman.
"It's been an incredible honor and privilege to serve in this capacity, and I'd like to continue to move the town forward in a bipartisan manner without focus on party, but with focus on process and people," he announced at a news conference.
Formica ran unsuccessfully as the Republican candidate for the congressional 2nd District against incumbent Joe Courtney in 2012.
If re-elected, Formica, first elected in 2007, said he would continue to work on the interconnection project to carry water between the town and New London, finish repairing the Niantic Bay Boardwalk and further revitalize downtown, among other endeavors.
The town is using a Small Town Economic Assistance Program grant awarded last year to improve lighting and sidewalks on parts of Route 161 for better access to downtown and is anticipating another STEAP grant for the boardwalk, he said.
He is encouraging continued work on the town's 20/20 Facilities Committee, which studies improvements for future town buildings. He said he would work to ensure a decision on elementary school facilities that is mindful of the tax base and best for the community.
Formica said he is proud to be first selectman of the town where he raised his family and where this year he commemorated the 30th anniversary of Flanders Fish Market, the restaurant and retail store he owns.
Reflecting on recent accomplishments, including finding a permanent location for the Care & Share food pantry and acquiring the Samuel Smith House and Darrow Pond property, he praised East Lyme residents for a town where "everyone is pulling in the same direction."
He said that with Board of Finance leadership, the town has had about a 1.2 percent annual tax increase over the last five years.
Formica, the chairman of the Southeastern Connecticut Council of Governments, supported continuing to work with the council to improve regional transportation and cooperation among towns and cities, especially in light of the proposed Coast Guard Museum in New London.
The town's Democratic caucus will take place 7:30 p.m. July 18 at Town Hall, and the Republican caucus will meet at 7:30 p.m. July 22 at the senior center.


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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts teacher who was told she could lose her job for failing to report that a student threw a chair at her won't be punished, school administrators said.
"Based upon the review of the facts, except for the fact that the incident should have been reported in a more timely manner, the matter was handled reasonably under the circumstances and no disciplinary action was applied to the teacher," New Bedford Superintendent Pia Durkin said in a statement released after a hearing held Thursday for high school teacher Joanne Maura.
The school will review its communications policies and procedures in light of the incident, Durkin added.
An 18-year-old student threw a chair at Maura last month after she confiscated his cellphone. The chair didn't strike her.
A letter informing Maura of the investigation said she could be subject to disciplinary action, including possible termination, because she had failed to properly report the incident. Administrators said they only found out about it because another student posted a video of it on YouTube.
Maura said she reported it immediately to the school resource officer and a housemaster. She did not comment after Thursday's hearing.
Louis St. John, president of the city teachers' union, told The Standard-Times (http://bit.ly/1hTuEpK ) that Maura was relieved.
"She feels that this has been like a dark cloud over her," he said.
The student who threw the chair was expelled and charged by police.
Information from: The (New Bedford, Mass.) Standard-Times, http://www.southcoasttoday.com


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Margaret Donnelly ('88), former director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, joined the School of Law as a Health Law Practitioner-in-Residence for the Spring 2013 semester and has committed to teach in the 2013-2014 academic year.
Describe your role as Practitioner-in-Residence.
As Practitioner in Residence I'm striving to help students make connections between course materials and lectures and health law in the public sector. In addition to the seminar which I am co-teaching with Professor Sidney Watson, I have been a guest in several other health law classes and have assisted students with seminar papers. Several brown bag lunches discussing my experiences in government, as well as regular office hours, have provided less formal settings to talk with students about career choices and possibilities.
What do you hope your students take away from your class?
The seminar which I co-teach with Professor Watson, Health Policy and Grassroots Advocacy, seeks to provide students with real world experiences in policy analysis and issue advocacy. The focus is on the Affordable Care Act and how it might be implemented in Missouri. The students are gaining an understanding of how health policy is shaped by political forces and how all of the moving parts must come together for legislation to pass. Most importantly, they are developing their skills as lawyers to advocate for policy and legislative changes.
What do you think sets the SLU LAW Health Law program apart as one of the best in the country?
The Center for Health Law Studies is very fortunate to have so many faculty members devote some part of their time to the health law program. Over the years this faculty has developed expertise in a number of areas. This creates not only an incredibly rich curriculum, but also has resulted in significant relationships flourishing with the broader legal and health care community. Students emerge with a strong knowledge base and enhanced career opportunities.
What have you enjoyed about being back in an academic environment?
Having the chance to interact with students and generate enthusiasm for making a contribution in the public sector has been wonderful. I am impressed with the interest and commitment shown by the students. In the seminar, the students have been so conscientious and eager to work with various community groups and individuals in order to make a difference in health policy and legislation. Playing a role in engaging future lawyers in government and public service is very rewarding.
I am also enjoying being back in St. Louis full time and having the opportunity to consult and work with other areas of the law school and University, as well as with community groups.
How is law school different from when you were a student?
Of course, the campus looks very different than 25 years ago. The most important change has been the use of technology, which allows research to be so much more efficient and effective. And we wrote our exams in long hand! And I think the access to all sorts of free food is different- I don't remember that sort of generosity when I was a student! But as we approach exam time, the crowded library, the intensity in mood among both students and faculty makes me realize that many things are very much the same.
What do you remember most about your time at Morrissey Hall?
The friendships that I formed have been enduring and very important in my life. I just had my 25th reunion and really enjoyed catching up with many of my classmates. I feel I had an excellent legal education and have stayed connected to many of the faculty over the years. It has been great to spend more time with them this semester.
What are your thoughts on the downtown move and new building?
I think the location of the new building offers all sorts of opportunities for creating connections with not only the courts and law firms, but also the larger community: business, government and service organizations. Also, any change in physical space requires a reevaluation of how work and human interactions occur, which can be a good thing periodically.
What are you most proud of from your time with the Department of Health and Senior Services?
The Department has done a wonderful job in supporting the efforts of local health departments and their communities in creating healthier populations. The efforts to create smoke-free environments, to have access to healthier foods and to build space that promotes activity and exercise are all part of the work to advance healthy living. The health research tells us that environmental factors and social conditions are the most important predictors of health, so I am very happy with the Department's leadership in encouraging communities to consider "health in all matters."
In addition, I was pleased with the progress we made in improving the Department's effectiveness in our regulatory functions, such as long term care and child care regulation, and food safety surveillance and regulation.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Center Joakim Noah is in Chicago's lineup for Game 2 against the Brooklyn Nets.
Coach Tom Thibodeau says Noah, who has been battling right foot pain, can play about 20 to 25 minutes on Monday night.
Noah started Game 1 but was ineffective, scoring four points in 13 minutes of Brooklyn's 106-89 victory.


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Best wishes to the new commission, supporters… Democrats wouldn't budge to fix Obamacare… Would health exchanges be better if state-run?
Best wishes to the new commission, supporters
To the editor,
I would like to thank my family, friends and many supporters during my recent campaign for mayor. Although the outcome wasn't what I had hoped for, I had an opportunity to meet and get to know many wonderful people in our community. All of your support is greatly appreciated.
I wish the new city commission the best for the future during these continuing challenging times for the city of Adrian.
Greg DuMars
Democrats wouldn't budge to fix Obamacare
To the editor,
I have read several letters to the editor from Democratic supporters telling us what a good job Obama is doing and his professed championship of the middle class. The TV news programs have inundated us with views of the president telling us lie after lie about the Obamacare Health Plan. Apparently his supporters don't want to believe what they can see with their own eyes and hear with their own ears.
Well, I am a member of the middle class and I want to tell you how I am being treated by the illusory Obamacare program. Last week we received a letter from Blue Cross/Blue Shield informing us that our health insurance would be cancelled. Our premium is $750 per month and we were satisfied with the coverage we had. To obtain a policy that would meet the requirements of the Obama plan, the premium would be increased to $1,150 month and we have until Dec. 31 to decide what to do.
What do they think that this does to the middle class? Think of all the money that is being channeled to the insurance companies and the effect that it will have on all our middle-class merchants and employers.
Remember that the Congressional Budget Office informed the Obama administration of the pitfalls that they envisioned in the plan, but Obama's ego prevailed and there was no attempt to correct the plan and avoid the disaster that we now face.
Where is the transparency that we were promised? The president is so busy constantly campaigning that his answer to many of the problems that have risen recently is that, "I was not aware of that."
Remember that the Democrats have had more than three years to make the Obamacare plan effective and problem-free but they have chosen to ignore all the warnings and proclaim that their "spread the wealth" theory is working.
We deserve better!
Dianne Ball
Would health exchanges be better if state-run?
To the editor,
I have been going through the healthcare.gov site and trying to use the healthcare exchanges under the Affordable Care Act. I would say I am an Affordable Care Act supporter overall. I, unlike the Republicans, am willing to give it a chance to see if it can really work before saying "Obamacare" is a total failure before it even really gets started. I'm willing to give it a fair shake first.
Currently I've been stuck for the past couple of weeks at their ID verification step which has stopped me from progressing any further really. I kept being told that, well, it's being "processed" and all I can do is just keep waiting and waiting.
Frustrating? Yes. However, you know, I hear like the Kentucky governor talking about their exchanges for example or like talk in some other states about their cost plans and I find my frustration, daresay anger, growing more. Why would that be?
Well, I get to wondering if my experience would be going smoother if Michigan had taken the intended state lead of setting up the health care exchanges itself (which it didn't, in my understanding), ala say Kentucky? Had Michigan followed Kentucky's example would this ID verification still be taking this long?
I can't say 100 percent yes or no, of course. However, I would point to, despite even their admitted glitches at times, states that set up their own health-care exchanges themselves from the start. They're having greater and more consistent success to my understanding. During the congressional website hearings I recall officials testifying when asked such, as well as verifying I believe the implementation principle of the states setting up their respective health exchanges under the Affordable Care Act law, not the federal government having to do it for them.
So am I frustrated with some of the rollout? Frustrated with being stuck at a step? Yes, I admit so.
Yet I feel my frustration is just as much, if not more, at my own state-elected officials and Legislature who I feel failed to really act in good-faith accordance with Affordable Care Act law. Rather then work with "Obamacare" and try to make the best of it, they pretty much chose to follow the Republican path of obstruction and tried sabotage of the Affordable Care Act law, I feel. They're still busy fighting Obama at others' expense.
Rick Martinus


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hiii everyone
please I need a help
this latin sentence i need to translate it
in the same time i want to be aware of the latin grammar or parsing and in the same time i want it to make a sense in english
summa ducum, Atrides, visa Priameide fertur
Maenadis effusis obstipuisse comis
O Agamemnon (son of Atreus ),the top of the leaders ( the highest leader), with the daughter of Priam (Cassandra) having been seen, is said to have been struck dumb at the flowing hair of the Maenad.
visa : i think that it's p.p.p from v. video , videre , vidi , visum
so i don't know how to put this participle in a good english sentence meaning (the seen cansandra ) can i say the seen casandra ? is it right in english ?
and is it right to say : having been seen ???
but he put with the daughter before having been seen , but is it correst ???? :S:S please help :S
here's also another translation :
O Agamemnon (son of Atreus ),the top of the leaders ( the highest leader),is said ( i think it's said is better ) when he saw casandra to be astounded by the Bacchante hair which had been poured
but this one is also wrong as i can't say when he saw casandra to be astounded
but ?? hmmm.., don't know :S please help
thanks in advance