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The simplest, oldest system of multiplication of identical images is the tracing left by the dyed hand on cave walls. This technique can be seen as an early form of imprint, which linked image production and reproduction and the idea of mark or index of the body. Actually, the various systems that enable the production of several identical images or copies come from this basic notion of tracing, as with any stamp, where a matrix is in direct contact with a surface to be imprinted, transferring a «carved» image to it.
The development of photographic processes paved the way to a more incorporeal, automatic image tracing or transfer through the photochemical action of light on a sensible emulsion. Digital processes have made replication even more intangible, with no differences between the original and the copy, whose appropriation and circulation have become easier and faster, as they are based on the properties of the electronic circuits that make images become virtual, available on several types of screens and able to be transmitted through wire and wireless technology, like any other kind of information, further accelerating the «age of technical reproducibility» that is a staple of contemporary culture.
Due to its continuous spatial nature, image multiplication has always been more complex than the reproduction of writing: even in the case of ideographic writing, it shows simpler and more concise graphisms and develops in a more linear, discrete way. Although several rudimentary systems had been invented to reproduce simple writings and drawings, mostly emblems, since the Sumerian, who used « negative» argyle plates (circa 3500 B.C.), it was with the adaptation of Chinese xylography technique that images began to multiply effectively. Woodcut was created: it became dominant and autonomous in Europe from the 15th century (Picture 1).
Following Gutenberg's improvements, with the creation of the lead movable type printing press in the mid-15th century, books – which hitherto had been hand-copied, as were the engravings they included – were finally able to multiply. The same thing happened to images. Woodcut uses a special press, made of overhangs or carvings on wood: in the first case, only the parts in relief are soaked in ink, which can be of several colours, whereas in the second case only the recesses are dyed. As an alternative to wood, metal engraving, mostly carved, was also used at the time.
According to Marshal McLuhan's famous analysis in The Gutenberg Galaxy, the «typographical man» was born along with the printing press: he can be characterised by the primacy of sight over the other senses. Reading benefits his analytic rationality, which privileges the linearity, spatiality, distance and self-control demanded by concentration, as well as individuality. These factors affected all European visual culture, which has been associated to information circulation ever since.
The biggest innovation in this field came only with lithography, invented circa 1796 by the German Alois Senefelder, based on the principle according to which water and oil do not mix. The name comes from the use of limestone as the matrix (litos means stone in Greek) on which drawing and/or text is inscribed using a grease pencil; the grease is then chemically stabilised so that the ink may only adhere to these parts and thus leave the «negative» zones white and wet. The use of chemical reagents was the biggest innovation of the process which is at the basis of the industrialisation of the printing press. As with other engraving processes, lithography has been widely used by artists (Picture 2).
The invention of photography, whose history is frequently associated to that of painting, may (should) also be seen in the light of the history of engraving and the issue of the technical reproducibility of image. Actually, many of its inventors ([1]), as the French Nicèphore Nièpce, who owned a lithography shop, or the British Thomas Wedgwood, the proprietor of a hand-painted china factory, sought a process similar to lithography that might facilitate image reproduction. One of the «early photographs» («heliographs», as Nièpce named them) was a reproduction of an engraving (Picture 3).
In fact, a lot of the technical vocabulary of photography is close to that of engraving, although one of the most important photographic genres in the early decades, daguerreotype, is made of a single image. The calotype, and later glass-negative processes, paved the way for the production of countless photographic copies from a new concept of «matrix» - the negative. Yet even in its greyish look (which was also sepia or bluish) as well as in the early contact proofs it was close to engraving: it reminded us of tracing techniques, as the tracings that made Talbot's «photogenic drawings».
Only as late as in 1873, with the invention of the «half-tone» process, which transform an image into ink dots, was it possible to reproduce photographs to be published on printed material, namely newspapers, which paved the way for a radical transformation in graphic arts and an increasingly massified visual culture. The «off-set» photomechanical printing process, a cross between photographic and lithographic processes developed during the 20th century. This meant a quantum leap in reproduction: the same subtractive process used in photography was applied to colour. Worth noting are, for less industrial purposes, photocopiers and mainly in art serigraphy or silk-screen printing, which are frequently used by artists as a technique of appropriation/ transformation of images from popular culture rather than merely as reproduction (Pictures 4 and 5).
Electronic digital images are associated to the need to transmit photographic and videographic images taken by robots on the missions to the Moon and to Mars from the 1960s, which led to the enhancement of scanners, the first model of which appeared in 1950. Scanners project light on an image transforming each image tone and colour variation, line for line, into sequential electrical impulses of corresponding variable intensity, which can be transmitted through wires or wavelength and reconstituted in the receptor from the code that establishes the equivalence between each light dot, called Picture Element or pixel, and an image dot. This meant a further look into the same idea as that of the chemical «grain» in photography, as well as the «half-tone» dot network, according to which an element seen as essentially continuous, such as image, can be interpreted as discreet, i.e., as a set of dots that can be codified into electrical information and therefore converted in the computer 0s and 1s system. These principles were used in film and photographic camera production.
In electronic image, if the information processing capacity of transmission/reception media allows it, there is no information loss in the image multiplication process and its manipulation is facilitated and undetectable, thus allowing for the simulation of the «photographic» (Picture 6). The chemical element is entirely replaced by electrical impulses which can be stored in microchips and made easily accessible and visible on camera or computer screens. Their application on increasingly smaller and portable cameras like those fitted in mobile phones, providing immediate access to the transmission network, making the image a quick, cheap vehicle to exchange individual experiences and a sociability factor, thus contributing to the transformation of images into interfaces and access portals to other information or images.
One of the decisive reflections on the implications of reproducibility of images was proposed by Walter Benjamin in his essay «The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility», which was first published in 1936. Benjamin reflects on the social changes in the forms of reception and relation to the works of art, especially painting and sculpture, which were introduced by the possibility to photograph and widely disseminate these works. According to his analysis, this meant the end of the aura of the works, whose staple was their unique character, here and now, hic et nunc, accessible only where they are, forcing us to go there, as in a religious pilgrimage. The work's exhibition value due to its photographic multiplication would provide the chance to end its cult value, thus contributing to put an end to the theological concept of art he sees as bourgeois. However, he also complexifies this relation, suggesting another reading, as, regarding the aesthecisation of politics by fascism, the cult value of the chief increases according to his exhibition value, demanding, as Benjamin proposed, a «politicisation» of art, close to the avant-garde projects of his time.
There have been many diagnoses on image digitalisation. Among them is Lev Manovich's essay «The paradoxes of digital photography» (in Photography after photography: Memory and representation in digital culture, G + B Arts, 1996) in which he contests the idea that direct or «straight photography», seen as «normal» and a paradigm of photography, will be replaced simply because such photography never existed: it has always been a matter of procedures of choice and technical transformation. Besides, actually, its culture has always been one of manipulation. The most important paradox mentioned by the author is perhaps that the technical possibility of non-degradation and the noise and degradation actually became a staple of digital culture, which is also able to provide more visual information than we need, producing hyper-real images.
Another reflection was made by Vilém Flusser in Towards a Philosophy of Photography (European Photography Edition, 1983). In it he interpreted the history of the medium itself as an example of post-industrial culture characterised by reproducibility, as the aim of his complex and programmed machines is to accomplish their programmes, which transforms the photographic index we hold as the most authentic into a set of programmed, reproducible symbols (even still in the «chemical» age). If we do not wish to be mere «servants» of photographic cameras we must play against them, i.e., invent other unexpected programmes for them (rather than merely transform the indicial information of the world into a previously programmed type of information, in this case, a certain kind of images, say «a beautiful landscape», «a fine portrait»).
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[1] Geoffrey Batchen listed at least nineteen «inventors» he called «proto-photographers», as they somehow «wished» to use the principle of the photo-sensibility of silver salts for image reproduction or production. Schulze, the chemist who discovered the chemical process in 1727, was excluded from the list, as were others that confirmed and developed, as they failed to associate it with the question of image in the early-18th century (see Batchen, Burning with desire: the conception of photography, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 1997).


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With the modifications in my sig I am obviously fighting pretty high EGT's. I was curious to know how much the BDP D66 lowers EGT's? Anyone with a similar setup? Also keep throwing code that my HPOP is out of range when I really mat it. It's a new 17* pump and I rebuilt the IPR. Any help there?
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put back on your stock housing and you will get more air..cheap. Even with a 17* pump its possible to run out of HPO.
D66 will flow more air than a H2e so you should't have egts problems if you keep it under boost. How high are your temps? Whats your boost at those temps? Cary |
Thanks for the info. Here's the story. I was pulling my gooseneck horse trailer empty the other day when my buddy who happened to be driving an 06 Dodge empty with no trailer got a little lippy on the phone. Something about me keeping up. At the next light the race was on - funny thing he couldn't leave the OBS pulling the trailer. I was so busy driving that I didn't notice the Gauge. My co-pilot suggested I let out as my gauge was buried at 1500* for at least 10-15 seconds. I won the bragging rights but lost some boost after the little racing incident. Before it was 30# and would spike to 33# when it shifted. Now I max out at 25#. Not sure what I hurt?
To answer the how high question - Empty WOT it will get to 1400 - 1500 fairly quickly. Towing the horses in the hills it will easily get to 1400. Do you lose much going back to the stock housing performance wise? |
Bean can tell you how much more air you will get buy going back to the stock 1.1. It may spool a little slower but it will have more top end cfm.
I'd talk to Bean about fuel..you could be losing pressure. Check your Boots and ckeck the turbo shaft play. Cary |
I would go back to the 1.15 housing. My EGT's are pretty manageable with it and stage 1's.
No trying to hijack this thread but......
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If I'm not mistaken the donut gasket you're talkin' about that's blown is the only gasket from the heads up to the turbo. everything else is flush mounted....Correct me if I'm wrong. I've drank beer lately
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on 24-06-2012 04:12 PM
supersmith2500 wrote:A new DLC track pack would be nice especially ''Midfield Raceway'' which is not in GT5 which kinda disapoints me.
When I asked Kazunori about the missing older tracks, he suggested that PD simply ran out of time, and it seems they gave them a low priority, overall. Whether we get it in GT5 as DLC or whether we have to wait for GT6 to get it, remains to be seen, but my guess is that PD is saving it for GT6.
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on 24-06-2012 11:45 PM
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on 25-06-2012 09:41 PM
My suggestion is that when you enter the 'garage' it tells you somewhere on the screen the total value of your garage (the total sum of all the values of every car in the garage) it would just be cool to know.
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Simms96 wrote:My suggestion is that when you enter the 'garage' it tells you somewhere on the screen the total value of your garage (the total sum of all the values of every car in the garage) it would just be cool to know.
You can sign up for a mygranturismo page and enter the cars as you get them.
on 29-06-2012 03:48 PM
i know this is a suggestion box for gt6 but can we post ideas for the current gt5? because i would love a Vauxhall VXR car pack:
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on 02-07-2012 11:26 PM
One thing i'd like to see. Instead of having every crummy little Mazda mx-5 released in different specs and sold to different parts of the world, why not make up the 1047 cars with interesting makes like,
. . . . . . . I could go on.
But about 60% of the cars on the game are Japanese. I don't mind that in it's self but we really don't need 22 models of the Mazda MX-5. When we could have a 1000hp Koenigsegg CCX.
on 05-07-2012 01:55 AM
This is my first post here and I don't know if I'm actually bringing up thing's that have been mentioned before.
1. I would love to see PD bring out the Bathurst race track (Bathurst 1000) in a DLC or added as a track in the game. I know I'm biased being from Oz but it is one of the worlds great race tracks and televised all over the world when the race is on.
2. There has been a lot of comment about saving an endurance race over a long period of time. Thankfully PD did bring in this feature so everyone other than the diehards, (I mean that with no disrespect) can complete these lengthy events. I'll give you my current status below but, will PD bring in the option of continuing with the current saved game, or give you the option to go into the normal game. By that I mean when you start GT5, you have the option to continue your endurance race now or the next time you start GT5 or the time after or the time after that. Essentially the option to restart your saved endurance race when you want to.
Personally, I love GT5. Options for everyone. I'm no slouch as a driver but I don't compete online because I'm beneath all the young guys out there and don't want to annoy anyone. It doesn't mean I'm not competetive, I love to win, but I'm 54 yrs old but my reflexes can't match that of even someone 20 yrs younger than myself.
I've completed the B-spec events - level40 , (before the save feature was introduced and luckily my PS3 came through unscathed without grinding online I might add) and I'm just shy of level 38 in A-spec. I've completed 4 of the endurance races, (by the way I've acheived gold in everything before) and I'm currently doing the Suzuka endurance race which I started 4 days ago with 69 laps to go ( from 172 laps). Currently, I'm lucky to squeeze in an hour a day to play GT5. For me to do one of the 24hr races it will possibly take me up to a month( 30-31 days) to complete. For me that's fine, but then I have to catch up on the Seasonal Events. Again that's fine. But what about the people that have kids that like to have a go at GT5 while their Dad is in the middle of a 24hr race?
Now the diehards might say that if you can't do the race, don't do it. But anyone with a competetive bone in their body is going to give it a go. And if you have kids, do you need a second PS3. That's daft.
Anyway, is there any chance that PD will alter the save function on Endurance Races so that it can be accessed at any time other than start-up of GT5.
05-07-2012 03:39 PM - edited 05-07-2012 03:41 PM
Welcome to the GT forum, dash-riprock57!
Why are you worrying about your age? I've heard of drivers in their nineties playing GT, and you are also years younger than myself and a whole bunch of other drivers I play with on-line. There is also a lot of GT players who are handicapped, one way or another, but who always do the best they possibly can. If they can do it, so can you. No excuses. Get playing on-line and don't ignore racing with the younger ones. Use them to keep sharp!
All you have to do is build up your friends list and then you will always be able to easily find people that you found to be good drivers around you. Meet the forum members during the weekly races run here, such as Sucker Free Sunday events. SFS was designed to help drivers just like you get comfortable on-line. Yes, the drivers are good, but it won't take you long to get up to speed with them, too. They will help you, but they won't run you off the road, in the meantime, either. Build up your confidence and it will forever change your life, and the more drivers who accept the challenges of racing on-line, the better off we all will be.
So, you see it isn't your age that is holding you back, it's how you play the game.
Although it is not impossible that PD won't change how GT restarts from a saved race, they have left it this way over a few versions, so don't get your hopes up.
Bathurst is a great track to race on. I spent many hours on it in ToCA 3, including racing with a few wicked fast aliens, I mean Aussies. We will most likely get it in a future edition of GT, because PD know we want it, so hang around until we do get it.
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I mean really…
What did we expect when we started mass producing students and people using mass-produced standard tests and exams that do not help us develop as human beings but instead make us [in most cases] masters of trivia and mini-masters of other people's ideas and dogmas without the critical ability, the real critical ability to think for ourselves? Did we expect intelligent discourse? Genius? Logic? Thoughtful respect for other perspectives, the ability to play devil's advocate in order to probe? Well, we got what we set into motion and absorbed. We got a nation, from K-12 up to the professors working in colleges and the people throwing themselves willy-nilly into the political fray, of narrow-minded thoughtless morons.
You're welcome [or in some places, Your welcome, UR welcum…]!
For love of ease, for love of numbers and stats, we sold our youth, we sold our nation to the lowest bidder [in education]. I've said it before, but Challenger didn't explode because we put the best machinery and parts up there. It exploded because we cut corners, and sooner or later it explodes and goes sour. Witness, my friends, the so-called United States of America in the year 2012… Exploding all over and wondering why [blaming all sorts of people, parties, systems, races, creeds, regions…].
Every blog comment, every media blurb, every personal statement frothing forth from the mass-minds, well these bear witness to the lack of understanding and critical thought - few, if any, think in the terms of media and information, education and knowledge, as the causes of our present insanity. Again love of ease [and the ability to promote self, promote image, and deflate others without a care or thought] causes us to ignore the deeper causes, not ask these questions, the real questions or to deny the complexity of the problem… In the meantime - BOOM!
Things like this take time. Here we are!
— Northrop Frye [1961 and DEAD-ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
Anti-Intellectual America…
Often, in the past, America was accused of being anti-intellectual. This was arguable at some points in our history, but not so much since WWII, and less since the 1990s. We have grown into a nation of dogmatic, misinformed, narrow-minded automatons. This is who we are…
Hear me out… Please.
There was a time when could read Karl Marx, Mao, Engels, Lenin or some similar character/persona without thinking we would be transformed into Marxists. When we believed we could read opposing views without having to attack them or be absorbed into them. We used to be able to read about atheism and agnosticism and not fear that we might fall into it and be forever atheists or agnostics. We have become a people of little faith and little belief in our own concepts of reality, so much do we fear the shallowness or superficiality of our beliefs and personal understanding today that we cannot accept even a glance at an opposing view, even a sliver of questioning or thinking. We have become a people, apparently, so weak we fall for whatever is shown to us, whatever we read, and whatever someone tells us. If this is us, then I suppose we have a need to fear, to shun, and to retard our perspectives [we are simply too weak and stupid to venture outside our small little bubble of mass-minded and microscopic existence].
We are limiting our futures in this, narrowing our perspectives, and expanding our stupidity factor exponentially.
One of my favorite thinkers, writers and theologians is Thomas Aquinas. He was a gifted thinker, and one who permeates many aspects of modern Christian ideals and focal points, but one who was NEVER afraid to look closely at opposing views, to analyze others arguments, and to think for himself. These other views strengthened and expanded his faith, helped him formulate more ideas and proofs, generated more ideas and arguments, but never ended or came to vitriol and idiocy, defensive rhetoric and lunacy [like today].
Today's obvious lack of real religious faith, intolerant of questions, intolerant of other ideas, attacking in many cases, others who are different, is problematic. Today's attacks on thought, on critical thinking, on questioning and posing theories to be analyzed and explored is anti-intellectual and, I believe, anti-God [who gifted us with thought, with the ability to use our mind and spirit to discern things]. Oh, we of little faith who will not even peer slightly at something that might seem initially counter to our dogma but might in fact grow our understanding, strengthen our faith, and build our character… yeah, us… The US of A…
We are bullies who attack intellectuals, attack critical thought, and fall back into shells of narrowed thought for protection from those evil ideas… God Himself is offended by us when we do this, because we limit Him and the gifts He gave us. If you don't necessarily believe in God, that's okay… Then you know you are limiting yourself when you do not even explore possibilities of things outside our basic understanding, and we promote this thinking in our political idiocy, our negating education system, and our nationalism that borders on vacancy.
One final thought… "Oh ye of little faith…"
Okay, I have a few problems here…
1. NCLB exacerbated the problem of the cookie-cutter approach to education and created many of the problems this "new" platform says it will solve. So, the last GOP President fanned the flames and poured gas to the problem, and the "new" solution will regionalize and tribalize the nation into local pockets of ideology and dogma. Okay..
2. I am all for parental involvement, but to dictate so much of what is taught, how it is taught, and to create a potential paradigm shift in marketing of education [which it will generate - marketing to the masses, sub-groups, and test scores - false measures of anything, particularly intelligence] well, sorry, but that was not what Washington, Jefferson, and Adams stated, not what Rush and even Franklin [with his own experiments in schools] wanted. It does not promote growth and good citizenship. It fans more regionalism…
3. Merit pay is likely one of the DUMBEST ideas in education because the methods used to gauge so-called merit are not clearly defined [by anyone], and when there is some definition, it moves into a cookie-cutter approach to evaluating progress, good teaching, and more.
4. Look, I know a lot of folks out there are anti-tenure, and there are some exceptional cases to support it, but overall it protects teachers from vitriolic attacks, localized idiocy, and fear-mongering and hateful administrators and deceptive practices and techniques. It simply means that no one in education will stand up and say, in protection of our children and our country, "NO, this is a bad idea, a bad way to do things…" and protest or say something counter to the flow of the masses or those in control for fear of losing his or her job. Often some "study" or trend, a special interest group, or whatever, will pop up with an approach or idea, a concept that is foolhardy and potentially dangerous in practice, or at least purely idiotic, and if the people who are in the trenches fear that if they speak up and speak the truth, state the nature of the problem, or at least question it, they might lose their jobs, their ability to pay bills, and see all the years of education, sacrifice and more go down the drain, well, that's a no-brainer, and tenure protects them from this problem. Sorry to burst the bubble, but it's needed and although I know some problems exist, the disasters averted outweigh the potentially lively media-promoted exceptions.
All these ideas sound good on the surface to someone who is already focused on some narrowed aspect of education or simply doesn't want to pay for education [like our Founding Fathers said, EVERYWHERE they could, we have to if we expect a free and honest, honest and functional society], but they do NOT make our nation stronger, they do not build better citizens or a generation prepared to adapt and grow into the every-changing future… We cannot even see where the future is going, so we have to prepare them to think for themselves, problem solve, and sift critically through the mounds of information available to them to discover some aspect of truth and wisdom. Oh, and mandated tests do NOT test any of these. We test for fatcuals, other peoples ideas, and rearview mirror concepts…
The IDIOTIC Commonplace: The People Have Come of Age…
Jacques Ellul, one of a handful of commonsensical people [his politics would likely put him a little right of center, but he was a firm believer in common sense, knowing why you believe what you believe, and seeing past propaganda and the technique as he called it - this requires tons of explanation, but you can look it up in his bio], stated the following regarding this commonplace:
"The government is trying to get something and the people refuse; the government is trying to convince the people of something and the people do not believe it; the government is trying an experiment and the people are not cooperating, etc. The people have grown up: that is they are no longer in tutelage, they are thinking for themselves, they are capable of making informed decisions, you can't deceive them politically any more or pass them a constitution as if it were a football. [here he goes into the reality and attacks this commonplace] It is true that this assurance is contradicted by the very writers who proclaim it. And the writer who makes the strongest case for the people's wisdom, majority, and independence will explain a few months later that we are facing a possible fascist dictatorship that would inevitably be followed by a communist dictatorship."
Assuming you can read for yourself, and think without the aid of a dogmatic leader or system [party, agenda…], you would easily be able to infuse the words 'media icon' in place of writer [and you would fall easily upon Bill O'Reilly, Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, Howard Stern, and John Stewart to name but a few, but the former are the more relevant to this case I suspect, because they cry the loudest, the most aggressively, and have large audiences of idol worshippers behind them]. Then our modern era, its insanity, lack of vision, lack of common sense and so many other things, makes perfect sense. We wallow in a delusion of this commonplace, and several others, and follow the leader [media icon]. Case closed.
— Jacques Ellul [He asks what is a people and what is self-determination, and in the end there is not a good, right, true answer. Each potential answer fogs truth, builds something that we would potentially term evil or bad, and this is where we are - there is no real self-determination. It is a ghost in our machine of life. It is the few that have grabbed hold of something they want who carefully, and in some cases violently and aggressively, steer the people along the lines they desire, and declare victory for the people] Originally published in 1966 and translated in 1968, he knew well how the world works…
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Vision of the Past, pp. 59-60 - Perhaps the most pivotal quote that connect the ideas and research of Pere Teilhard with those of Marshall McLuhan. McLuhan was one of the people who "tries to put together the general design of human movements" and was extraordinarily adept at seeing them. This is likely why he spoke and thought the way he did and why so many people had difficulty comprehending him: his probes, his comments, his perspective was wayyyyyyyyyyyy outside their ability to separate themselves from the "absolute division" of what Teilhard speaks of and what has become more entrenched since then.
— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just [and our native land of the good ol' US of A could not be more an illusion wrapped neatly in the idea of freedom that we really don't have but love to think we have, and honestly, thank God we don't have]
Dark Ages Part 2
The GOP is the prime example, but not the only example, or rearview mirror thinking and looking backwards for the good old days that never were or trying to bring back a day in the past to the present and for the future. These are idiotic in the extreme. The recent Texas Republican Party committee findings and report is a microcosm of this national "circle the wagons" mentality than beckons the past come forth to the future and save us from ourselves. Not going to happen [it will simply lay waste to what's left of our culture and continue our national suicide].
Consider education with a return to the ideas of reading, writing, and arithmetic. These sound great and hearken upon the days gone by when they never really worked back when. Here's the problem facing modern educators and education: the amount of information [views, perspectives, challenges or supports for personal or regional world visions, whatever you might call knowledge…] available OUTSIDE the classroom far outweighs the information available INSIDE the classroom. With this simple fact, and it's been a fact for over 30 years but more so in the last 15, the old testing, the old methods, the old ways of approaching education [like the standardized tests, the short reading passages, and the old styles] simply cannot reach the population. Students may pass tests, but not out of interest or enthusiasm, but because it is a hoop to jump through on the way to some ethereal target out on the distant and fuzzy horizon. The failure of our schools is a failure of understanding at the highest level all the way down to the parents in the home and the teachers in the classroom.
Politicians do not want to rock the boat and do not know the slightest thing about education unless it comes from their personal experience [which, given the progress of technology and the shifts in culture is prehistoric] or because of some study conducted a year or two ago which does not deal with this vital issue or does so in a cursory fashion [and the study, as soon as it is printed and studied becomes obsolete in today's lightspeed media and pseudo-culture].
If this is the quandary, what are we to do? Do we regionalize? Turn education over to the parents and regional chieftains? Do we turn it over to political parties to throw in their rearview mirror thoughts, their prehistoric thinking and backwards looking methods and styles? Do we replace questioning and informed knowledge with patriotism and simplicity because we lack the vision and are afraid of what is happening?
Modern education has to be dynamic, consider a world vision, look closely at the questions of who and what we are so we can figure out how we will be and what we can do to be here and build the country we want [actually so the children can build the country they want, not one we force upon them – our codes]. We need to show them the past, but allow them to question, to probe, to solidify their understanding and be as close to 100% certain of their vision as they can. We need to open minds and perspectives and show children how to discern information, how to separate fact from fiction, to explore the imagination, the see through the gloss and glitter of the modern advertising and political spectrum and see a deeper meaning and truth, one that God himself teaches us He wants from us through his own book of questions, the Bible [a great book of questions and ideas, but not a rulebook or series of laws and steadfast principles].
We are, in my estimation, in the New Dark Age in America. We are heading backwards in our thinking [or at the very least floundering desperately to maintain a form of status quo while we plod around trying to find our bearings in an ever-changing world], preventing and restricting thought and questioning, picking sides in a battle of idiots [fact-knowers and pushers vs. critical thinkers] one of which screams louder than the other and both of whom tend to claim the other is not patriotic [when neither really is because waving a flag and supporting troops, valuable though those might be, are not deepened and powerful signs of any ism other than politicism].
— From the 2012 Republican Party of Texas Report of the Platform Committee and Rules Committee [So education of citizens is not a national interest or concern? Each state or region to its own, and whatever happens, happens?]
Roger Kimball and Julien Benda…
So here I sit reading Julien Benda's now obscure piece, The Treason of the Intellectuals [which could easily be translated The Treason of the Influential or Seemingly Intellectual - those with degrees on the walls, positions of power and authority, and positions wherein they might instruct or teach others], and the introduction to the most recent translation and publication is by this fellow named Roger Kimball. Okay, maybe I am stuck in the 1920s thru 1980s in my present reading binge, but I did not know Mr. Kimball from a hole in the wall.
My first impression was that he wrote a fairly instructive introduction, highlighting aspects I hoped to read and a few that seemed a tad puzzling, given what I had experienced of Benda from three other contemporaries of his. However, I did not give it much thought, but I did note a distinct and somewhat lengthy blurb in Kimball's intro about multiculturalism and its deadening divisiveness and form of nihilism. Okay, I don't disagree with a lot of that idea, and I have some views on the separate issues created by it, but in Benda, at least for the first two-thirds of the book, I have seen little of this and little to support what Kimball thrusts as almost one-fifth of the Introduction.
After reading about 120 pages, I got to wondering about Kimball, so I searched him out, and then it hit me… This guy is cherry-picking tidbits and morsels from Benda and throwing them out there as it they were the gospel according to Benda and his wondrous critique of the intellectuals. The more I absorb of Benda, the more I look at what Kimball has mass-produced in various media, the more I realize that if Benda were alive today, he would probably attack Kimball as exactly the type of person he was talking about in The Treason of the Intellectuals. At best, Kimball has simply misread or read with a serious bias Julien Benda's work and life, but I suspect it is much deeper because Kimball attacks modern education and the university system, but promotes aspects of somewhat questionable media conglomerates, so at worst I think he is bending Benda to fit his own ideals and forms of nationalism and patriotism [things Benda would find offensive in this method and spectrum]. Perhaps Kimball is just oversimplifying Benda for his own designs or maybe he just takes what he wants. I'd like to give the man the benefit of the doubt, but there are some problems with what I see on the surface [I guess I'd have to read actual books by Kimball and not the briefs and tidbits available here and there, but there's a drift to them that says I am not spending my hard-earned money to support him, so me reading his work anytime soon is unlikely].
For years and years now, dating back to the first television shows and the most interesting and benign offender, Sesame Street, people have been learning from television. TV shows, news or things passed off as news, so-called investigative shows, and simple talk shows have been "teaching" the general public, the masses, for over 60 years. Recently, this has taken some interesting and twisted turns, with the likes of Glen Becks [he appears in many forms, all of them passing themselves off as authorities helping America by teaching citizens things they need to know, things from their "educated" perspective, yet in the end it is politics, and nothing but politics, an agenda that is Germanic in its origins] dragging out a chalkboard and going crazy in front of it trying to teach Americans the evils of various things. Nightly, various television folks, in the guises of benign news folks, working for the good of the people, commit the very treasons Benda spoke of in his work [and he's 100% correct by the way, and his work is from 1928]. Walter Lippmann, writing in almost the same time, would look upon these so-called purveyors of news and information as the farthest thing from journalism, true journalism, as is possible. He would be aghast, as would Benda. They would see a propaganda machine based upon the late 19th century Germanic or pangermanic model, and they would see national particularisms all over the place, news people [hard to call some of these people news folks - they are entertainers really, circus clowns and diviners of sorts, snake oil salesmen and saleswomen] and see they were trying to shape the world, for what they deem the better, through their efforts.
Maybe I am missing something, and if someone has read Kimball's works and can tell me he sees this, he assaults modern media moguls and the modern press, all sides of the political spectrum, with probing non-partisanship and reasoned disinterest, then I would admit my error and move along in my studies. However, if Kimball does not, then I suspect Benda is rolling in his grave that this man wrote the Introduction to the latest version of his wonderful critique.
H. Ickes [The New Republic, 1950], and not much has changed because, "Militarism becomes a necessity for the continued export of goods and for continued employment." - Harold Innis, 1952, and we are experts at militarism for those very reasons [the screams you hear whenever we talk cutbacks, base closures, program reductions, or that we are not going to purchase the latest military toy or gizmo]…
H. Ickes [The New Republic, 1950], and today we have been subjugated by terrorism because of our fear of terrorism [in the guise of certain countries, perceived enemies, people, and states] - "What? Frightened with false fire?" to quote Shakespeare, we created the Red Scare, Lenin should have been afraid of us [from his first seeming success, we kept supporting various and failed attempts to usurp the new government in Russia, and we had two bases with US troops on the ground in their country… Have we had occupying force troops from Russia within our national borders? Who should distrust who and who started all this?]
— Julien Benda [he understood that our intellectuals, slyly and adroitly donning political clothing, were shifting away from culture and into new arenas of pseudo-cultures, multicultures (that demand obedience and service to the group) and more divisionist thinking and manifested behaviors - forms of isms]. Oh, and this was 1928…


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It's one of the memorable moments of the London Olympic Games. Chinese weightlifter Wu Jingbiao has just won the silver medal in his class, and a journalist wants to interview him. But without giving the interviewer a chance to pose a question, Wu begins howling that he has let down his fatherland by only managing to come second.
It's not the kind of reaction a Dutch audience would expect of its athletes, but Wu's emotional outburst is revealing of how top Chinese athletes experience the Olympics. They're there for one thing and one thing only: to win a gold medal for China. Anything less than gold is seen as failure. And not just by the athletes themselves.
Winner takes all
The Chinese media is also totally focussed on success. China's television networks happily broadcast hours of panegyric programming celebrating the Fatherland's winners. But woe betides those who fall short: 'fail' and you will be totally ignored.
Take Yu Dan for instance. The 24-year old sports shooter won bronze in the 10 metre air rifle. Her countrywoman Yi Siling triumphantly secured gold – and all the attention. Yu Dan slipped unnoticed from the podium, and her name wasn't even mentioned in the official message of congratulations from China's State Council.
Valiant losers
This sort of treatment would be unthinkable in the Netherlands. Dutch athletes will be honoured, even when they lose. Judoka Henk Grol was widely tipped for gold in the men's 100kg but suffered a shock defeat in the semi-finals and had to settle for bronze. The Dutch media were full of praise for his achievement, and Grol was greeted with jubilant cheers at Heineken House – the meeting place in London for Dutch Olympians. The judoka himself did express some disappointment at missing out on the gold, but was able to live with his third place.
And then there's Rick van der Ven. The 21-year-old archer was practically unknown in the Netherlands before the Games. But he became a national hero when he eliminated the Korean champion Im Dong-hyun in the early stages of the competition. Van der Ven went on to finish in that most thankless Olympic spot - fourth place. His reaction: "I'm more than happy with fourth". The Dutch media too were more than happy, falling over themselves to praise the young athlete
Light ahead
So will the Chinese 'failures' ever be celebrated in similar fashion in their homeland? Yu Dan and Wu Jingbiao might not be exactly encouraging examples, but there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon for Chinese athletes. There was plenty of internet attention for Yu Dan, and criticism of the government's only-gold-counts mentality. In the opinion of most bloggers, silver and bronze medal winners deserve just as much attention as those blessed ones who take their place on the highest podium.
The New York-based Chinese news programme New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) also sounded a critical note. In an interview with the broadcaster, former pro-basketballer Ju Bin said: "Athletes need to wake up and make sport in China the property of the people again and not of the government". Chinese athletes will be hoping his words are prophetic. Lovers of sensational television may not agree.


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Let's get straight to the point – What's the cost?
Just $25 to be a Player or $10 to be a Sideliner. Go here for more information and to sign-up, http://www.njyp.org/events/the-better-body-challenge-initial-weigh-in
What is a "Player"?
A "player" wants access to the support and to compete for prizes.
For $25, you get:
What exactly is a "Sideliner"?
Becoming a "Sideliner" is perfect for anyone who is looking for weight-loss support without the competition, but they cannot win prizes.
For only $10 - that's less than two value meals at McDonald's, and a lot better for you too - you get:
Who will I be competing against? Who can participate?
This challenge is open to ANYONE 21 to 39 years old, but only NJYP Members will have access to the resources on NJYP.org so you may want to join NJYP before participating. You will only be competing against people of the same gender who are registered as Players in the same county you are registered.
Which county should I sign up for?
You may sign up for any ONE county you want. Keep in mind that prizes given in the county will be centered in that county. So, if you sign up in Middlesex County and your prize package contains a "Day at the Spa", the spa will be in Middlesex. That being said, if you live in Mercer but your friends and job are in Middlesex County you may want to sign up to compete in Middlesex. It is up to you! You may not switch counties after the initial weigh-in.
Why should I join this contest?
Not only is the contest good for staying healthy, you'll also be able to find everything from support to gym buddies in the special county based groups we're going to create, http://www.njyp.org/groups. This contest is all about building you up, helping you out, and motivating you in the New Year.
But, if that's not enough for you, we have a few other incentives. You'll have the chance to win big prizes and door prizes, you can take part in possible special events for the participants (think gym visits, walk and talk events, group nutritional consultations), and there'll even be an End of the Better Body Challenge Bash which will be free to all participants.
So…what are the prizes?
We will be putting the prize packages together during the competition. Know that prize package values will be based on this formula: "$25 x # of same gender participants within the county" so if 50 men sign up in Essex County the prize package will be valued at $1,250. At that rate, a Sample Package could look like this:
$50 gift card to a Local Restaurant
$100 in Yoga Classes
$50 in Confidence Boosting Kick-boxing Classes
$100 in Personal Training
$100 in Movie Theatre Gift Cards
$250 in Day at the Spa for you and a guest
$75 in Fancy Sneakers
$150 in Premium Professional Sporting Event Tickets
$125 in Theater Tickets to popular shows
$100 in Posh Hair Salon Services
$100 in Beer Making Lessons
$50 in Belaying Lessons
What if I just want the motivation without the competition?
If you'd like to participate in the Better Body Challenge but do not want to go for the prizes then you are more than welcome to join as a 'Sideliner". This option is perfect for anyone who is looking for weight-loss support. The cost to become a Sideliner is $10.
How will the winners be determined?
Winners will be based on % of weight loss for your gender, within your county.
When are the weigh-ins?
There will be three in total:
But…What if I can't attend a weigh-in?
The first and last weigh-ins are required for Players and optional for Sideliners. If you cannot attend both, then consider participating as a "sideliner". However, you can go to ANY weigh-in location on weigh-in days! It does not need to be in your county.
Where and at what time will the weigh-ins occur?
Locations and Times are currently TBD, but weigh-ins will occur in the each of the participating counties.
What should I wear to a Weigh-in?
You must wear the SAME clothing to all three weigh-ins! You'll be able to take your shoes off so they can vary but wear the same socks. Workout clothes, in general will be best. We'll snap a picture of everyone for our records, and your pockets will be emptied too.
What are the participating counties?
This contest is open to the following counties: Morris, Middlesex, Essex, Somerset, Mercer, Hudson, Bergen, Passaic, Union, and Monmouth.
But – there is a minimum number of sign-ups. If a county does not acquire 10 men and/or women, the county will be dropped for one /both genders. Luckily, there are no maximums.
So, what happens if my county gets dropped?
If you registered and your county doesn't reach the minimum sign-up, you will get a refund or you can switch to a county that did reach the minimum, whichever you'd like.
What if I just don't want to participate anymore - can I get a refund?
If you decide this just is not your cup of tea (even though we'll miss you) you can request a refund by mailing firstname.lastname@example.com PRIOR to 1.22.12 (exact deadline is midnight on 1.21.12. No questions asked, no refund fees.
The Most Important Question on this whole FAQ - Where will the end of the contest party be?
Consider this the ultimate prize – the party will be held in whichever county loses the highest % of weight overall.
Good Luck Everyone!!
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Basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal on Monday credited the "geeks" who introduced him to computers during his troubled teenage years for making him the tech tycoon that he is today.
Shaquille O'Neal is pictured at the Staples Center on February 19, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. O'Neal on Monday credited the "geeks" who introduced him to computers during his troubled teenage years for making him the tech tycoon that he is today.
The retired National Basketball Association star with a Ph.D. in human resources who invested in Google before it went public held court at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival where he found two new startups to support.
In an hour-long talk that repeatedly had an adoring SXSW audience bent over in laughter, the man they call "Shaq" recalled how he had been a "medium-level juvenile delinquent" as a teenager in Texas when technology changed his life.
"My humor was not always appreciated in the school district," he quipped. "I was always in trouble. I didn't have a lot of self-confidence. I was always told by peers that I wouldn't amount to anything, and I started to believe it."
When his future in high school basketball hinged on getting better grades, his family -- living on an army base -- got him a computer, and he turned to the class nerds to show him how it could help him. He was instantly hooked.
"It was the geeks that made me realize that I wasn't as dumb as people thought I was," he said. "When I brought a report card home that was full of Cs, it was a great day at my house."
He said it also taught him the value of collaborating with people who know more about something than he does, offering a key piece of career advice to aspiring tech entrepreneurs in the auditorium.
Just turned 41, O'Neal -- not satisfied with his stakes in Google, the Five Guys burger chain, Muscle Milk sports beverages and the video microblogging app Tout, on which in 2011 he announced his retirement from pro sports -- said he spent Sunday prowling SXSW's trade floor looking for new places "to park my money."
"I felt I was at Toys 'R' Us," he joked.
On Monday, he announced the two startups he found at SXSW to mentor: Speakerfy, a "social sound" app to play the same song on different devices at the same time, and Beam, a video conferencing service that uses TV screens mounted on robot pedestals.
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Due diligence is also a core fundamental for O'Neal, whose master's degree -- earned online -- is in business administration.
On his prolific use of Twitter and other social media, O'Neal said: "The way I use it is 60 percent to make you laugh, 30 percent to inspire you, and 10 percent to sell product and promote myself."
"I'm on my iPad, I'm on my computer every day," said the seven-foot-one (2.1 meter) Renaissance man. "I'm one of the world's tallest geeks."
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Dietary acrylamide and risk of renal cell cancer. | |
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The detection of acrylamide, classified as a probable human carcinogen, in commonly consumed foods created public health alarm. Thus far, only 2 epidemiologic studies have examined the effect of dietary acrylamide on cancer risk. Presently, we reanalyzed data from a large population-based Swedish case-control study of renal cell cancer. Food frequency data were linked with national food databases on acrylamide content, and daily acrylamide intake was estimated for participants. The risk of renal cell cancer was evaluated for intake of food items with elevated acrylamide levels and for total daily acrylamide dose. Adjusting for potential confounders, there was no evidence that food items with elevated acrylamide, including coffee (OR(highest vs. lowest quartile) = 0.7; 95% CI = 0.4-1.1), crisp breads (OR(highest vs. lowest quartile) = 1.0; 95% CI = 0.6-1.6) and fried potatoes (OR(highest vs. lowest quartile) = 1.1; 95% CI = 0.7-1.7), were associated with a higher risk of renal cell cancer risk. Furthermore, there was no association between estimated daily acrylamide intake through diet and cancer risk (OR(highest vs. lowest quartile) = 1.1; 95% CI = 0.7-1.8; p for trend = 0.8). The results of this study are in line with the 2 previous studies examining dietary acrylamide and suggest there is no association between dietary acrylamide and risk of renal cell cancer. |
Lorelei A Mucci; Per Lindblad; Gunnar Steineck; Hans-Olov Adami |
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and equally strong words for the perpetrators of rocket attacks on Israel from Lebanese territory. Though such attacks may be against Lebanese "popular and official will" as Suleiman said, in reality there is little the state can do in its present state.
The Lebanese military is lauded as the golden child of the Lebanese nation. For all the praise that has been heaped on it, from its performance during the Nahr al-Bared fighting in 2007 to its non-sectarian stance during the civil strife of this past summer, the actual capabilities of the Lebanese armed forces are not in any way sufficient to assert state authority over Lebanese territory.
A case in point is the fighting in the Palestinian refugee camp at Nahr al-Bared in 2007. While undoubtedly a victory for the Army, a closer look will show that this victory has little in it to brag about. It took three and a half months for the tens of thousands of Lebanese troops deployed to subdue the probably less than 500 man force of Jund al-Sham and Fatah al-Islam fighters. The Army suffered over 150 dead and 400 wounded in the battle. This was partly due to the lack of effective air support; the best that could be mustered were UH-1 Huey helicopters converted into bombers using spare parts from the Air Force. The lack of precision munitions, such as American Hellfire missiles, and valuable air cover took its toll in the number of lives lost by the Army.
So the first lesson is that the Lebanese defense forces need to procure precision weapons; aging Soviet weaponry such as the BM-21 just will not do. Also, the reconstruction of the Air Force is becoming increasingly more prudent. The gift of MiG-29s from Russia is a good sign, but it will be years before a well-trained corps of fighter pilots can take to the skies of Lebanon. A more short term option is the acquisition of attack helicopters, such as the American AH-1 Cobra, newer versions of the French Gazelle, or even Russian KA-52 Black Sharks. These will show themselves to be more effective in the type of fighting Lebanon's armed forces have seen lately. The armored forces of the Army should also be overhauled; archaic Soviet T-55's and American M-48's serve little purpose on the modern battlefield, and are especially susceptible to RPG's, a weapon of choice for the modern militant.
The place to go for most of the required arms would be the West. As appreciated Russia's contributions are, Russian arms have shown themselves to be no match for quality Western equipment. The Leopard tanks from Belgium and M-60 tanks from the United States, though older models, are still superior in quality to the newest Russian armored vehicles. In addition, Western anti-tank munitions, such as the American Javelin, and anti-aircraft equipment, as in the French Mistral, are far superior to similar Russian and Chinese models. It would be in the Army's best interest to press the West to deliver such equipment.
Most important of all though, the Army needs to completely overhaul its training regime. Focus needs to be taken away from larger scale conflicts and towards smaller scale, counterinsurgency operations. The Army was woefully unprepared for the urban combat it faced at Nahr al-Bared, and as such demands increased focus on such operations. The Special Forces of Lebanon have shown themselves to be exceptional; however, they are too small in number to be used as large units in urban combat. The switch of military recruitment of the armed forces to an all volunteer force lends itself to creating a small, well trained and equipped military. A well trained volunteer force has shown itself to be of much higher quality than a large conscript force. One need only look at the United States.
Where can the Lebanese Armed Forces receive aid for such a training overhaul? Jordan, a fellow Arab nation with a top-grade military, is one source. The need for such change is clear, and would serve to greatly improve the quality of Lebanon's forces.
The laws of the Lebanese republic are only good if they are backed up by a quality military that is ready to implement those laws. With militias running rampant in the camps, with groups such as the PFLP-GC and Hezbollah operating outside of the rule of the government and carving out their own armed camps on Lebanese territory, the need for an overhaul of the military in all areas is most definitely called for.