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Quantum technologies are the way of the future, but will that future ever arrive?
Maybe so. Physicists have cleared a bit more of the path to a plausible quantum future by constructing an elementary network for exchanging and storing quantum information. The network features two all-purpose nodes that can send, receive and store quantum information, linked by a fiber-optic cable that carries it from one node to another on a single photon.
The network is only a prototype, but if it can be refined and scaled up, it could form the basis of communication channels for relaying quantum information. A group from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (M.P.Q.) in Garching, Germany, described the advance in the April 12 issue of Nature. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.)
Quantum bits, or qubits, are at the heart of quantum information technologies. An ordinary, classical bit in everyday electronics can store one of two values: a 0 or a 1. But thanks to the indeterminacy inherent to quantum mechanics, a qubit can be in a so-called superposition, hovering undecided between 0 and 1, which adds a layer of complexity to the information it carries. Quantum computers would boast capabilities beyond the reach of even the most powerful classical supercomputers, and cryptography protocols based on the exchange of qubits would be more secure than traditional encryption methods.
Physicists have used all manner of quantum objects to store qubits—electrons, atomic nuclei, photons and so on. In the new demonstration, the qubit at each node of the network is stored in the internal quantum state of a single rubidium atom trapped in a reflective optical cavity. The atom can then transmit its stored information via an optical fiber by emitting a single photon, whose polarization state carries the mark of its parent atom's quantum state; conversely, the atom can absorb a photon from the fiber and take on the quantum state imprinted on that photon's polarization.
Because each node can perform a variety of functions—sending, receiving or storing quantum information—a network based on atoms in optical cavities could be scaled up simply by connecting more all-purpose nodes. "We try to build a system where the network node is universal," says M.P.Q. physicist Stephan Ritter, one of the study's authors. "It's not only capable of sending or receiving—ideally, it would do all of the things you could imagine." The individual pieces of such a system had been demonstrated—atoms sending quantum information on single emitted photons, say—but now the technologies are sufficiently advanced that they can work as an ensemble. "This has now all come together and enabled us to realize this elementary version of a quantum network," Ritter says.
Physicists proposed using optical cavities for quantum networks 15 years ago, because they marry the best features of atomic qubits and photonic qubits—namely that atoms stay put, making them an ideal storage medium, whereas photons are speedy, making them an ideal message carrier between stationary nodes. But getting the photons and atoms to communicate with one another has been a challenge. "If you want to use single atoms and single photons, as we do, they hardly interact," Ritter adds.
That is where the optical cavity comes in. The mirrors of the cavity reflect a photon past the rubidium atom tens of thousands of times, boosting the chances of an interaction. "During this time, there's enough time to really do this information exchange in a reliable way," Ritter says. "The cavity enhances the coupling between the light field and the atom."


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A very practical reason for studying risk management is to attempt to understand why radiologists get sued. The risk of being sued is quite high in all areas of medicine, not just radiology. This risk cannot be eliminated. However, there are some positive risk-management steps that radiologists can take to reduce their chance of being sued and losing. The more you understand the risk-management process, the better you will be able to minimize or manage your risk. Risk management involves the identification, analysis, and evaluation of risk and selection of the most advantageous method to address it. From a practical standpoint, this means identifying situations in which you are at the greatest risk of being sued and then doing something to minimize that risk.
The first step of the risk-management process involves identification of the risk. This may vary depending upon the practice. Certain areas of radiology practice are associated with a significantly higher incidence of lawsuits in which risk management techniques can be effective in reducing the risk of being sued and losing. The most commonly missed diagnoses are breast cancer, lung cancer, and fracture of the spine, in that order. Clearly, risks are greatest in these areas.
Once the risk is identified, it must be analyzed. Do the lawsuits occur with certain radiologists, during the evening, or during teleradiology reads? Is there a trend? Once the risk is analyzed, implementation of risk-management techniques should be instituted. Some techniques that have been shown to be effective are: (1) paying attention to clinical information or obtaining it when not given; (2) being qualified to interpret or perform a procedure and maintaining your competence; (3) suggesting the next appropriate study or procedure, recognizing that a follow-up study may be the next appropriate procedure; (4) using the American College of Radiology (ACR) Appropriateness Criteria; (5) directly communicating, in person or by telephone, the findings when immediate patient treatment is indicated and documenting the communication; and (6) reading, understanding, and implementing the ACR Practice Guidelines and Technical Standards into your practice.
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The silver and blue Dallas Cowboys helmet has been decorated with images that represent key moments in the franchise's history. The piece depicts the three homes of the Dallas Cowboys, the Cotton Bowl, Texas Stadium and Cowboys Stadium and also celebrates members of the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor, the players, coaches and front office staff inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and various other benchmarks from the Dallas Cowboys first 50 years. The artwork also includes the Salvation Army shield. Over the last 13 seasons, the Jones Family, the owners of the Cowboys, has dedicated the Cowboys annual Thanksgiving Day halftime show as a national showcase to kickoff The Salvation Army's annual Red Kettle fundraising campaign. The team's association with network television has spawned a donation of $20 million worth of airtime to present nationally televised entertainment extravaganzas that have created a new holiday tradition. Since 1997, the efforts have helped raise more than $1.3 billion for The Salvation Army, while reaching 30 million people annually. This unique charitable relationship is highlighted during the holiday season, but is sustained throughout the year.
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Man, I'm sick again. The weather is cold as hell down in ATL, which is crazy. I woke up this morning with a soar dry throat. It's kind of itchy, not soar, but hurts when I try to talk loud. My eyes are hurting, and I probably should be sleeping. Last week, I stayed almost everyday at school to do my projects because my computer is still BROKEN! I had it fixed last week, but when I tried to turn it on this weekend, guess what, it didn't work! I was so pissed off, I think I just need a new desktop. Now I'm on my Macbook, which I love it, but most of the program that I need are not universal yet, and some they just don't make for Mac. I hope at least by tomorrow, they can get it fixed so I can get life back on track.


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Veteran astronaut Benjamin "Tuck" Tucker is slated to pilot the first commercial space flight. But ruthless enemies are about to jeopardize the enterprise. With a recent tragedy still haunting his memory, Tuck must turn to a God he no longer trusts as he fights for his life and the lives of all aboard.
Poised to make history, SpaceVentures, Inc., hovers on the brink of launching the first commercial space flight. And Benjamin "Tuck" Tucker's skill and reputation have thrust the new company into the forefront in this powerful new space race.
A veteran astronaut and national hero, Tuck accepts the coveted honor---and the risk---of piloting the Legacy on her maiden space voyage.
The danger is far greater than just the perceived risks.
The real threat, a plot far deadlier than anyone could have imagined, is exposed as Legacy reaches the suborbital regions of space. Suspended seventy miles above Earth, Tuck must use his skill and his faith---faith in a God he has found it hard to trust since a deadly tragedy in space over a year before---as he fights an unknown enemy who will not hesitate to kill again.


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Awk book review: Awk One-Liners Explained by Peteris Krumins
In addition to being a thorough, fair review, it's a great explanation of why and how Awk is so helpful.
A history lesson
As a target for writing code, the UNIX software ecosystem is strangely fascinating. Among its features, one standout is its reliance on text as a basic information storage unit. This sentence looks dumb out of context, because of course. But in the age of rich media and omnipresent design, the simplicity of carrying information on text alone is refreshing, comforting in its minimalism (doh! I've managed to bring up design; must resist). UNIX was also designed on the principle that software designed for it should be made to manipulate text streams in such a way that programs could be connected like stations on a train track. The text train would go out from the first station, stop at each station for some processing and arrive at the last station rich with the solution to some problem. It will brand me as stuck in the past, but I am utterly seduced by this paradigm of powerfully plain, point-free, simple-step-by-simple-step data processing.
This is why I jumped on the occasion to learn about the awk utility, when I heard of Peteris Krumins' e-book Awk One-Liners Explained As curious as I am with text processing, I mostly do it with small Ruby programs and some simple uses of Sed. I know that Ruby, a language that I both love and hate (but mostly love) borrows from Perl, which borrows frow Awk, so I took it as a history lesson, at least.
A surprisingly useful tool
The book is essentially a cookbook, as the author teaches Awk by example. He starts on simple examples that show the basics and progressively ramps up the complexity of examples, showing clever use of various Awk tools. The onus of the cookbook is on one-liners, Awk programs that can easily and readably hold on a single line of code. This is highly relevant as I've never seen or heard about a very complex Awk program: the few invocations of Awk I've seen in shell scripts indeed carried all the editing code inline. What the author suggests is that more complex tasks are rather accomplished by stringing Awk one-liners in a stream processing sequence, an idiom of UNIX programming that can integrate other tools (e.g.
, ") to properly and elegantly solve the problem.It is an excellent Awk tutorial. The author pushes no introductory theory or generality and dives right into the first example. As he carries into the text, the reader the general principles behind Awk programs are spelled out. This teaching approach works wonders and is well suited to showing Awk idiosyncrasies, when compared to a classical exposition. The style and structure of the book encourages the reader to try the examples as he reads, which facilitates the assimilation of the material (in my opinion, as far as coding goes, practical knowledge is competence and theoretical knowledge is warm wind) and allows the reader to better feel when he grows tired and stops learning effectively.
The book argues strongly in favor of the usefulness of the Awk text processor, as well as in the simplicity and the readability of Awk programs. While corresponding Sed one-liners would likely be more terse and compact, the C-like syntax has a flow and visual structure that makes Awk one-liners easy to understand, however concise they remain. Given that Awk is a standard POSIX utility, it is deployed in all UNIX systems that I care about (Ruby is not installed by default in even the most recent Ubuntu releases, which frustrated a few times), and so is a very welcome addition to my common scripting tools.
But the
page says there's more!The main criticism I address to Krumins' otherwise excellent book concern aspects that I would have liked covered in the book, or at least completely covered. One of the staples of modern programming languages is iteration through lists or arrays using specific statements (e.g.
for elem in array...
). Awk has such an iterative form, which is relevant for one-liner programs and as to position Awk among the inspirations for modern languages. Other features of Awk that could have made for interesting one-liners are thenext
statements, as well as thegetline
statement. The latter is one that deserves treatment, given that it looks useful for combining two text streams in one and it is as confusing as Canadian tax law.In addition, while the book makes for an excellent Awk tutorial, it is difficult to use as a reference for the Awk language. Maybe it would be better for this purpose if the author would add more page links in the index of the book. In his defense, though, Krumins publishes a free Awk cheat sheet, which does make for a good quick reference. And that's not counting the multiple other references that can be found on the web with just a bit of searching —- many of which are of much poorer quality than the author's material, might I add.
However, Peteris Krumins set out to explain a bunch of one-liners, and he did so superbly. I have had the history lesson I had settled for, and came away with an exciting new tool as a bonus. Moreover, the book is quite short, so it may be read to satisfaction in one little afternoon. I recommend it.
Update #1
Peteris Krumins responded to my criticisms through Twitter, and I must retract on one of my points. In my defense, it has been two or three weeks that I've read the book, so hey. But the author does cover the
statements. As for the latter, though, the alternative forms of the statement by which other files than the current input file, or even pipes, were not covered. These alternate forms are confusing: some change the$N
fields, others don't; some forms advanceNR
, others don't. The documentation of GNU Awk, for instance, goes to great length to delineate the cases, and putting up a cheat sheet would come in handy. And it is these forms that could allow the combination of two data streams in Awk. Here's a one-liner that alternates the lines from files namedfile1
:awk '{ print; if(getline < "file2") print; } END { while(getline < "file2") print; }' file1
The first block prints all lines from
; then, callinggetline < "file2"
with the next line fromfile2
, which then gets printed. As a function,getline
returns 1 on successful reading of a record, 0 when reaching the end of the file and -1 on error (meaning my one-liner does not handle errors correctly, but it's not the point of one-liners, is it?). Thus, one the one hand, iffile2
has less lines thanfile1
, only the lines of the latter keep being printed. On the other hand, iffile2
is longer, the printing of its remainder is handled by the END block.Long digression, but in the end, I mean to insist on one thing: this Awk book is authoritative, concise and highly readable. I enjoyed it to the end.
Update #2
In yet another conversation with Mr. Krumins, he reminded me that the premise of his book was to paraphrase the bunch of one-liners originally published by Eric Pement. Thus, it is clear that from the beginning, he had no intention of covering the full extent of Awk features, which puts my no. 1 criticism somewhat beside the point. Indeed. But if this misguided comment put one more nice one-liner about
out there (see update #1), I guess we'll all see some good came out of it.


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Gaming is a great way to spend the holiday season. It might even be one of the few times a year anyone has to finish playing all those games that were bought on impulse during the Steam Sale. Whether you are shopping for yourself or buying a present for someone this very short list should give you some ideas about where to start.
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During the recent Typhoon Haiyan tragedy in Philippines, Viber announced Viber Out, a call service for the Philippines that allows Viber users worldwide to call landlines and mobile numbers in Philippines. Back then, the company partnered with several telcos across the world and even Globe Telecom to allow users to call Philippines for free. Today, Viber is announcing Viber Out for global users, allowing users from all around the world to call to any landline and mobile numbers using their Viber account. It's not free for the rest of us of course, but Viber brags a "competitive" call rate with significantly lower price-per-call than other competing services.
Viber out is currently available for desktop, iOS and Android platform, with Windows Phone support to come soon. All you need to do is update to the latest version to get Viber Out. We can't seem to get Viber Out for Viber's iOS app at the time of writing, but it's already available for Android and desktop. Viber Out will connect to your phone number, allowing recipients to easily identify your call. Credits can be bought via the conventional method using a credit card, and even via in-app purchases through Viber's mobile apps.
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It follows the Lumia design language and features a single button like an Asha device but apparently, the Nokia device shown above – codenamed "Normandy" – is running on Android. Not only that, the device might be heading to market in 2014. Yup, the biggest Windows Phone advocate in the market are actively crafting an Android device for consumers according to The Verge.
The Verge's vast insider sources also stated that the Nokia Normandy is designed to for low-end segment of the market just like the existing Asha series. Normandy apparently will be using a highly customized version of Android, similar to what Amazon have done for their Kindle devices. It will also support popular Android apps such as Skype and many more.
Nokia Normandy is scheduled to hit the market in 2014 according to Nokia's staff that are working on it but since Microsoft acquisition of Nokia's devices division have been green lit by almost everyone, it is hard to say if the device will see the light of the day or else. Nevertheless, we are pretty sure that many consumers out there are very curious and are eager to see Nokia's take on Android operating system.
[Source: The Verge, evleaks @ Twitter]
The year is coming to an end, we only about 20 more days to go before we say goodbye to 2013, what have you done in the past 365 days that is more memorable than the rest? What is your biggest moment of the year? Facebook has launched its "Year in Review" version 2013 that shows you your 20 biggest moments on Facebook.
If you log on to Facebook profile, the Year in Review link would be located on the left side. Clicking on it will bring you to a personalized page that highlights your biggest moment on the social network like your photos, friends added throughout the year, achievements, life event and such.
Check out your Facebook Year in Review now in your profile. So, how has your year been on Facebook? Mine is definitely a work trip to Monte Carlo.
It looks like two new devices have recently been given a vanilla treat by Google, the Mountain View company just took the curtains off the Google Play editions of the Sony Xperia Z Ultra and LG G Pad 8.3. They are available in Google Play Store immediately for the folks in the US.
As with existing Google Play Edition devices – the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One, both these devices feature the exact same hardware as the original version, except for it runs on stock Android 4.4 KitKat out of the box. This means that the Sony Xperia Z Ultra features the same 6.4" 1080p display, is powered by 2.2GHz Snapdragon 800, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, 8MP rear camera with Exmor RS sensor, 2MP front camera and 3,000mAh battery. One thing to note though is that the Z Ultra listing in Google Play Store lacks the Xperia branding so maybe Sony has got something interesting to announce at a later date.
The LG G Pad 8.3 on the other hand also features the same 8.3" 1080p display as the original G Pad. Powered by a Snapdragon 600 processor, it has 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, 5MP rear camera and a 1.3MP front shooter. It will also run on the latest Android version – 4.4 KitKat, out of the box.
The Google Play edition Z Ultra and G Pad 8.3 retails at USD$650 and USD$350 respectively and will not be available outside of the United States.
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This is something for Battlefield and Dota soldiers out there: Invasion together with AMD Malaysia are cooking up a tournament specially for you guys. Dubbed as the Invasion – AMD Gaming League, the tournament will be held from 14 to 15 December at Invasion Cyber Zone in Taman Bukit Maluri, Kepong.
There will be a total of RM 5000 cash prizes have been reserved for the winners of this tournament, with majority of the prizes will be going to the Dota 2 winners (yeah, we know). Nevertheless, it is an event that Battlefield 4 players out there might want to consider since we haven't heard of a Battlefield tournament in Malaysia for quite some time.
To all Battlefield 4 and Dota 2 teams that are interested to participate in the Invasion – AMD Gaming League, you are welcome to register your team and members right over here for free. For more info, do get in touch directly with Invasion e-Sports through their Facebook page.
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Back in May, Intel Malaysia launched a half-year long Generation Today's campaign which also included a trade-in programs for old PCs. Right after the campaign concluded last month, the company now have announced yet another trade-in program called "Trade Up My PC" which will last until 31 January 2014.
However, the new Trade Up My PC program is relatively different from the trade-in promo that took place during Generation Today's campaign. Instead of giving away cash rebates for users to purchase new PCs in exchange with their old PCs, the new program offers cash refund instead. What this means is that users will receive the cash refund (of up to RM 650) directly in their bank account.
Hence, the mechanics for this program is slightly different too as consumers must first purchase one of three HP Pavilion 14 notebooks that Intel Malaysia have shortlisted for the program. After that, they then need to submit a claim through the program's website and hand over their old notebooks once the claim is approved. Only then they will receive the cash refund from Intel Malaysia.
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Like last year's "12 Days of Christmas" app, it's available for download for free and from 26 December 2013 to 6 January 2014, it will feature one gift a day – songs, apps, books, films and more. Each day's gift will last for only 24 hours and thanks to a new "pay now and download later" option, hopefully you'll still be able get the app even though you're away from any W-Fi and it's too huge to download over cellular data.
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My roommate and I are both in long distance relationships with men who don't particularly believe in Valentine's day.
So, we're taking each other out on a date tomorrow! Milkshakes and then sneaking Hershey's kisses into the movie theater to see Coraline. I was thinking about getting her a Val-Day gift; we already have plenty of chocolate, and flowers cost monies I don't have. WHAT DO I DO??
I've only twice before ever had a boy when vday rolled around and on both occasions, they were out of town. (One visiting family friends, the other…who knows where, but he broke up with me the following Monday.) And considering I have work 10-5 tomorrow and my current boy is m.i.a. (and that's making me unhappy and paranoid), looks like we're going three for three. Feh.
Rachel: I need you to be my J orge!
Me: Are you asking me to be your Invisible Robot?
Rachel: Katy, will you be my Invisible Robot?
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For valentine's day, my main group of friends (there are about 14 of us) each wrote little notes about what we liked about each other, and put them in little red envelopes. So we each received a red envelope full of sweet little comments from everyone else in the group!!! It was so lovely
A couple of my faves:
"The groupie-esque love of all things OK Go is oddly endearing. Oh and a fantastically funny cox"
"Never a dull moment with you! Many a time I had to resist kissing your cute pout"
"Alice IS the party! Always really fun to be with"
"HOT. (but not as hot as me)" <——-- from hot welsh Johnny Depp lookalike
This one scares me a little"
"I like it when you put me in a gimp mask and whip me until I bleed."
For the record, this has never happened. With him or anyone else!
Three for three.
Rachel: I need you to be my J orge!
Me: Are you asking me to be your Invisible Robot?
Rachel: Katy, will you be my Invisible Robot?
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8:50 pm
sorry lover
Mine was pretty great, actually. Minus the fact that I'm really sick and I had to work 5-10 BUT! I had my BEST friend Andy over, with two of his friends, over to the girls' upstairs for pizza and Guitar Hero World Tour total success. I had to sing, which, was AWFUL because I can't sing AND I was sick… so my rendition of R.E.M's "The One I Love" (5 times) was pretty nasty.
And I may or may not have developed a TINY crush on one of my bosses…
That's what we did in my house! we each got a list w/ everyone's name, and wrote something nice next to it. And it was house-wide, so I got about 50 little notes about me
And also, I somehow got stuck cutting up and organizing all of them, so I spent about 6 1/2 hours friday night doing that…. but that's ok, lol.
aside from that, I mostly slept yesterday.
3:55 pm
I don't have anyone for Vday and the one year I did have a valentine it turned out horribly wrong. I plan on going to church tomorrow and then spending the rest of the day in bed wishing I didn't exist and that the boy i like would come over and cuddle.
I'm gonna come at you like a spider monkey!
And if I had one wish it would to be a thousand more wishes and with those wishes make my wildest dreams come true.
7:41 pm
Here's how I spent my Valentine's Day, a geeky guy who looked like the lead singer of Fall Out Boy attempted to flirt with me at the grocery store. Is the lead singer of FOB cute? Not at all, but it must be fun to resemble a famous person.
The dude in the hat is who I'm referring to:
But seriously Tempe? Patrick Stump has one of the best voices in rock n roll today. I would give my left arm to sing a duet with him. And I state from experience that geeks make the best boyfriends. You know like that old Avis commercial, "We're #2, we try harder"? Geeks definitely try harder.
10:33 am
I spent the day writing valentine limericks (which is weird and not possible and still fun) and a poem. Yay for taking a 2-week course on pop and poetry. (right now pretty much everything in my head is either rhyme or in some weird metre)
Surfer Rosa- You're my hero ^^ (even more even more!!!)
Bored? Go see what I made: Mayo Makes Shirts !!!!
6:55 pm
OooOooo! I wanna be able to do that! Awesome!
Lol@Rachel. If he were Jewish, I would've given it a chance.
BTW, did I tell you all that I met a child named Bris?! Seriously, do those parents have any idea what that word means?
Sorry! Too random
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Weeping Thursday beside his casket, his widow, Besma Belaid, was among those pointing the finger at the climate fostered by the governing Ennahda party, which is led by moderate Islamists.
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Chokri Belaid had warned early this week that the government had given a green light to political violence.
A general strike called by trades unions for Friday, the first such action in Tunisia in three decades, closed many shops, cafes and other businesses. The national airline, Tunisair, warned of possible flight disruptions.
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Support for Belaid went beyond his party, the secular-leftist Democratic Patriots. He was also the voice of a coalition of secular opposition parties known as the Popular Front and decried violence.
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Takashi Amano Aquascaping can be described as gardening underwater –as it involves the arrangement of a variety of aquatic plants, rocks, stones, driftwoods and marine life within an enclosed space. One of the earliest recorded examples of the practice of aquascaping comes from the introduction of parlor aquariums in Victorian-age museums, in the latter half of the 18th century. Aquascapes were created by Dutch colonists who had collected various aquatic plant and marine life samples. Ultimately, it was decided upon to showcase the taxonomy of species by placing them into glass cases for the public to enjoy. What contemporary practitioners of aquascaping work to achieve is a careful balance found between the initial artful designing of the underwater landscape, and the technical maintenance of what the type of environment and its inhabitant's demand (cleaning, filtration, feeding and redesign). What this means is that there is not only a science involved in the conservation and preservation of the environment within the aquarium, but the birth of an aesthetic philosophy that historically unfolds as aquascaping moves from being the project of zoologists, botanists and marine biologists (beyond the spectacle of the museum walls) to the hobbyists and collectors. From the traditional Dutch style (varieties of plants based on color, size, texture), to Jungle style (untamed), Biotopes (reconstructing a particular geographic regions habitat), Paludariums (half water/land) and saltwater tanks (usually housing reefs) aquascaping is not without its main proponents, movements and styles. One of these styles namely, the Japanese Nature style, was first introduced by Takashi Amano. Amano introduced the Japanese Nature Style onto the scene of aquascaping in the late 1980's. The underlying philosophy behind his style was that the aquarium environment would aim to mimic a natural, organically unfolding environment—it is here the aesthetic and philosophical concepts of Wabi Sabi played an essential role. Wabi Sabi is a Japanese aesthetic philosophy that comprises a world view stressing minimalism, the suggestion of natural processes and an earthiness. The metaphysical basis of such a system is one centered on twin pillars of evolution and de-evolution—both born out of nothingness. In addition, Amano designed aqauscapes according to the laws of the Iwagumi system. This means that the focal point of the main stone or rock is placed slightly off-center in the tank. The location of the focal point in the aquarium, the Iwagumi, is usually determined by the asymmetrical but balanced placement of other stones around it. The nature style is easily discernable from other aquascapes as it exhibits not only an ethereal quality, but a very "Zen like" feel. Going beyond philosophy and aesthetics, an important precept of the nature style is the focus on the cohabitation of organisms within the closed ecological system which in turn, creates sustainability and a flourishing environment. So there you have it, for Amano, it perhaps not only starts with a vision and an empty glass case but a subtle intuition, maybe even an empty mind. However, as much as one adheres to such an aesthetic philosophy as Wabi Sabi and the aim of mimicking natural processes, we (humans) still have a hand in the process of creation and destruction. This is perhaps what strikes to the heart of the nature of aquascaping-both playing god and being scientists and artists (designing, engineering, collecting, classifying) in other words, being human. What future practitioners of aquascaping can look forward to is something that can not only educate on the reality of being in nature, but bring nature into our own daily experience, where subtle appreciation can grow from care and responsibility to that which we often forget. Here is a video that gives you an idea of the work involved in constructing high level fish tanks and aquascapes. A slideshow of other award-winning designs. - Lee-Michael Pronko 6 Photos / Aquascaping Design. Iwagumi Marine Life Nature Aquariums Sciecne Takashi Amano Wabi Sabi Lee-Michael Pronko


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Seeing as reading is mostly done silently to oneself, NO pronunciation takes place. In fact reading isn't even done character by character, its done by recognizing a group of characters (BTW: also called words) and having that group tied to a specific meaning in your head.
I also believe saying that learning Thai via a phonetics based system will foster "bad pronunciation habits" is more exaggeration than truth too.
Go to any Thai bookstore, look at the PILES of "learn engrish" books; they all have phonetics for teaching Thais english; it's just written in Thai like this;
Nice to meet you = ไนซ์ ทู มีท ยู Now if that was read aloud by a Thai it'd sure sound close to engrish.
I believe a good phonetics based system gets a foreigner speaking something resembling Thai pretty fast . The most prolific author out there in the "teach Thai to foreigner" market; Benjawan Becker wouldn't have come up with a phonetics based system and used it in EVERY one of her many books if it didn't work. Heck, there are more than a few private Thai language schools here in Bangkok using ONLY Becker's material.
Learning to speak Thai from a phonetics based system is way faster than front loading the time it takes to learn 44 consonants (21 actual sounds), 32 vowel sounds, 5 tone sounds, 4 tone marks and the plethora of rules which govern the pronunciation of Thai words. It can certainly get a foreigner close enough in the pronunciation that ANY thai who wants to can understand what is being said.
I honestly believe phonetics should be used in conjunction with both the English translation and the Thai script of what is being said, so people can start to see how Thai words "look", how they "go together", and that students should start learning to read Thai at the same time, but that's just me .
I know a LOT of foreigners who learned to speak Thai from a phonetics based system and then transitioned into reading Thai script. I haven't see all that errant of pronunciation in their spoken Thai. Other than the fact that all foreigners here speak Thai with a 'foreign accent', it sound pretty darned Thai-like to me . Then again speaking a foreign language with a foreign accent isn't all that much different than most every Thai here speaking English with a Thai accent is it ?
I've been to more private Thai language schools in Bangkok, than I care to count, sat lessons, perused materials, questioned staff, teachers and students. Most every one of the schools I've toured uses some phonetics based methodology early on, before transitioning to Thai script.
I honestly I dunno know what "angle" the poster known as "Rapid" is working, but I personally believe it is the wrong angle to present to foreigners wanting to start speaking Thai.
Sorry for the long overly verbose first post, but the Thai language is a "hobby" of mine I take pretty seriously.
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