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Thursday, August 06, 2009
Harry's Birthday
. Yeah. An older guy with white hair. And a reputation with the ladies. Hell, he's just 63. No, I'm not talking Clinton, I'm talking Harry. It's his birthday today. And yours too.
Chapter 48
When all had come on board the Learjet, Harry gave his followers great things to eat and drink and inhale,
2 And other things besides,
3 And when they had been satisfied of all their wants, he spoke to them, saying,
Do not question your good fortune,
Or think any more about it.
We will travel together for a while,
Then go our separate ways,
And all will be as it should be. Okay?
9 Thereupon, all agreed speedily that it would all be okay,
10 Just as Harry said.
11 But later that night, the Learjet encountered bad weather over the Rocky Mountains,
12 And the followers became afraid that the plane would crash,
13 And awakened Harry to tell him of their fear, and ask what they should do.
14 But he replied to them calmly, saying,
Do what you will. It does not matter to me.
Each of your should act in accordance with his nature.
If you are a coward, then cry and moan and run around in a great panic until the plane crashes or it doesn't.
If it is your nature to be calm in times of great emergency, be calm.
If it is your first instinct to have sexual relations with a beautiful young woman, or each other, do so.
Do not add to your stress by trying to be different than you are,
Or stronger than you are,
But be yourself,
Exactly the way you are,
And act in accordance with your desire.
For myself, I prefer not to think about it at all.
25 Whereupon Harry went back to sleep, and each of the followers reacted as he was inclined to do, and all went as Harry said,
26 And the plane landed safely the next morning in Southern California.
And the Learjet Twins were sooooo happy.
And so it goes. Happy Birthday, Harry.
: Well. Commenter "Bill" got all bent out of shape about this entry. We suggested he was overreacting. Perhaps we made the wrong assumption about who "Bill" was. Get a load of
Bill Clinton Celebrates His 63rd in Las Vegas
By Adam Nagourney
LAS VEGAS ¢ No one can say former President Bill Clinton doesnÆt know how to throw a birthday party for former President Bill Clinton.
Mr. Clinton is in Las Vegas on Monday as one of the marquee speakers at the National Clean Energy Summit, put together by Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate majority leader. The event has drawn a pretty impressive turn-out, from former Vice President Al Gore to the wealthy oilman T. Boone Pickens.
But it became clear that something else was afoot in this sweltering desert city when some of Mr. ClintonÆs friends ¢ the kind who would appear not to have a particular interest or expertise in the kind of summit Mr. Reid has arranged ¢ were spotted on the Vegas strip.
Turns out Mr. Clinton decided to celebrate his 63rd birthday with a dinner at one of this cityÆs hottest ¢ and most pricey ¢ restaurants: Craftsteak at the MGM Grand hotel. How pricey? The 8-ounce wagyu New York strip steak goes for $240. (Potatoes and other sides are extra.)
Among those who are on the list:
* Terry McAuliffe, the former leader of the Democratic National Committee who is Mr. ClintonÆs long-time friend and golfing buddy
* Paul Begala, a senior adviser from his 1992 presidential campaign
* John D. Podesta, a former White House chief of staff under Mr. Clinton
* Haim Saban, a friend, Hollywood executive and significant financial contributor to Mr. Clinton and his efforts
Steve Bing, the Hollywood media mogul who has become one of Mr. ClintonÆs best friends and regularly lends him his private jet.
(Most recently, Mr. Clinton used the jet for his trip to North Korea, where he helped negotiate the release of two American journalists who worked for Mr. Gore.)
* Jay Carson, a former communications director for Mr. Clinton.
As of Monday afternoon, it is not clear that Mr. Gore ¢ who appears to have had something of a rapprochement with Mr. Clinton after the North Korea rescue mission ¢ was going to be on hand.
Gore isn't on the list. He was always, and nothing more than, a gofer. But we are sorry that this particular white-haired, 63-year-old "First Child of the Boom" still has to
his luxurious
jets. Our guy has no such problem. In the long run, class will tell. BTW, the weather in Rio today is
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
The car Obama was born in.
[Boss asked me to post this one. He chucked his computer through a window, after a heated screaming match with it. He wrote this as me. In my style, he tells me. I haven't had a chance to read it. Sure it's awesome.
[You say I don't sound all that enthusiastic? Your ears (or eyes?) are playing tricks on you. Couldn't be more stoked to be the butt of one of the Old Man's "homages." I'm fit to burst.]
. Rumors are, it was driving in Kenya at the time when Obama popped out of it. How un-American can you get? Except that a car isn't a vagina, even if it provides a lot of the same comedic opportunities. Which is why I'm now going to proceed to do a totally AllahPundit trashing of Birthers catalyxed by a bunch of killer vaginal jokes. Cool, huh?. I mean,
. I have it all set up. The foreign car, the yaaaaawning SOMETHING, and hey, the punchline writes itself, right? Doesn't Michelle have a yaaaaawning SOMETHING herself in herWookie-sized Princetonian carcass, and then I close on just how stupid and
the people are who believe Obama has anything to hide about his past. GIT IT
Uh, Boss. You asked (ordered) me to post this as if I wrote it, and (given the fact you set fire to your computer in yet another drunken rage). I was willing. I mean, you're the Boss and all. Except that in this instance you're totally, completely full of shit.
I have to admit I love the idea of an Isetta as a metaphor for the First Lady's vagina. I even love the slick word tricks (don't know their names) you use to blur reality into Obama somehow being born out of his own wife's Isetta door. But there comes a point where even I draw the line. And it's here.
Like, I got some problems with this whole Birthers are idiots position. Number One: Allahpundit thinks they're idiots. Allahpundit. Wake up, Boss! Are you listening AllahPundit!
I don't like to tell stories out of school, but there was this time that the Boss and I were hanging out on Twitter (we're really tight that way), and I said I saw something clever on HotAir and the Boss, he says, across however many miles and gigabytes of difference, he says, "That AllahPundit. The only writer he ever met bit him in the leg. And the writer died a day later."
After that I went to Borneo for a month or so, okay, seven, and Suli Li and I were just about to become a lifetime item when the Boss showed up again in his indefatigable and most remarkably sudden way. How he knew I don't know. But there he was, damn him, with his tradmark hundred-proof Stolichnaya bottle welded to his hand. "Meeee," he said -- and this mind you, was at the exact moment when the presiding shaman asked if anyone had any reason to keep Suli's and my eternal union from reuniting the shattered fronds of the [entire fucking, just so you know] universe -- "Heeeeeey, that's Brizoni. He owes me money, amd not only that, but his cat bit my dog and cost me thousands of dollars in cosmetic surgery. An Akita with a cat-jaw sized hole in his ear almost never wins the annual Animal X Games -- you know, the 'Kill or Be Killed English Sweepstakes' Michael Vick blesses every year in Druidic robes at Stonehenge."
Well, I'm just saying. I haven't seen Suli since (I sleep with a loaded revolver instead.) I've been reading all the adulation in the sci-fi comments the Boss arranged for himself. Okay. I admit the guy has a certain facility with words and arguments and like that. And some of his early poetry-like writing is something
poetry (if you like poetry that's isn't like poetry). But the guy behind it all is an absolute animal. I'm not going to make a big deal of it. I'm Brizoni, and I've spent so much time in foreign climes that I'm used to animals. Hell, I've been to Rio de Janeiro. Even the Boss seems civilized compared to what I do on a Saturday night in Rio. Where was I?
Oh. Dudgeon. Are we all going to sit still for these outrageous vagina jokes just because he's a fucking genius? I think not. It's unconscioniousable. Or whatever the word is. You'd have to be one of those perverts like the Boss even to pronounce it.
You see what I mean. If you know what I mean.
That didn't work out how I intended. Where the hell was I? Oh yeah. Birthers. Does any one of you Boss-worshipping tools know that a first-rate attorney named Andrew McCarthy (from the National Review) actually
the Birthers, sort of? Sure you don't. You love the Boss. Who's really, really, incredibly, oh-so-unbelievably smart.
Like I always say. Right, Boss?
Monday, August 03, 2009
Are U Ready?
Through the wire, up the steps, and into the open air is The Blade.
Sorry about the computer glitches. They happen from time to time. But the lengthy discussion in the comments section was good. As a result, we have two new websites for you. Bad news: the Sci Fi website will probably have to be restarted, although we will capture all your comments as part of the 'Mission' and "Rules of Engagement' discussion. We're not very expert at the starting new blogs business, so please forgive us. As a consolation prize, we're soliciting better names for it than the one we thought of off the top of our pointy heads. There's already a big blog site with approximately the same name. Give us a better name, and we'll grant the winning entry full honors.
Good News: A new site we should have started a long time ago from the sound of your posts. A place to talk about
without the heavy hand of InstaPunk and his minions in the way.
get to make to make up the rules about what goes there and what doesn't, except for the rules we've laid down limiting the influence of InstaPunk, LocoPunk, TruePunk, and CountryPunk. They're still allowed to visit and post, but only as equal participants, not as scolds or authoritarians. It's all explained at the new site, which is called:
Into the Metalkort
Go take a look. Of course we'll still be doing our thing at InstaPunk, but our hope is that some of the topics you debate and discuss THERE will inspire us to do a better job HERE. All the instructions you need about how to become a poster at 'In the Metalkort' are contained in the first entry, which we delegated to the last real survivor of South Street. He dates back to the time of Zack, before there were punk demortals who thought they were so smart, and he never bought into the reign of Cadillac Mope, the fourth king of Punk City, whose hubris has so obviously set the tone here for so many years.
And, yes, we're dead serious. We want to hear your thoughts. About everything that interests you, no matter how slight or seditious. It's never been our intention to become our own echo chamber.We confidently expect you to spur us to better writing and more insightful thoughts.And we're always here, always awaiting your best ideas, always ready to engage when you are.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
So you wanna talk Sci-Fi?
And she's only the
hottest female in sci-fi history.
. All right. You all like Sci-fi. Got it. Just wondering if it's possible to get past the favorite shows, favorite episodes discussion to something deeper. Let me try. I admit I'm at a disadvantage here, even though a lot of the punk writing oeuvre could be considered science fiction, too. Irony? I'll leave you all to wrestle with that if you want to. Feel free.
I think the thing for me to do here, though, is explain why a lot of science fiction icons leave me cold, and what I did like about the few works I've enjoyed. Then you can fiill me in on where I've missed the boat or why my own experience and criteria are deficient. Sound fair?
First, a sort of honest inventory of my likes and dislikes. I loved the original
Star Trek
, despite the cheesy sets and effects, because of Shatner. Period. He filled that captain's chair. He had a real taste for combat. When he went to work against the Romulans or Klingons with photon torpedoes, etc, I believed it. The worse the odds, the more he seemed to be alive and in command. None of the endless other
Star Trek
spin-offs ever convinced me, and perversely, the more they tried to upgrade their makeup and special effects, the more bored I got. Turns out, one of my biggest hangups about all science fiction is plastic faces and bizarrely eccentric body forms, which from the very beginning seemed to me to be a kind of cartoon multi-culti statement intended as propaganda for dumbasses. I also think the few plots I saw of the
Star Trek Next Generation
seriesĀ reinforced all that in a big way. The last thing in the world Piccard ever wanted to do was use the awesome firepower of the Enterprise. And since these shows really are space operas (i.e., high tech horse operas featuring the U.S. Cavalry against the Indians IN SPACE), what on earth (pun intended) is the point if nothing ever really happens?
I have truly loathed every single episode of the endless
Star Wars
saga. Too cute by half, fake mythological, and increasingly self-important. I remember Bill Moyers conducting an interminable series of interviews with
Joseph Campbell
, whom I actually liked when he lectured us at my school. But his repeated references to
Star Wars
in the Moyers series set my teeth on edge. The beginning of pop intellectualism, which is no doubt responsible for the fact that it's now possible to take courses in comic books at major universities. Suck.
[My only other personal brush with icons in this realm -- the day a publisher bought
The Boomer Bible
I saw Isaac Asimov hailing a cab in New York. I thought his muttonchop sideburns looked ridiculous, and he looked sour. But no one's at his best hailing a cab in the Big Apple.]
I didn't read the science fiction classics as a boy. No Heinlein. No Arthur Clarke. Like everybody else in the known universe I was required to read Ray Bradbury's
Illustrated Man
. A Hitchcock/O'Henry trick ending sort of piece. Yawn. I once saw Harlan Ellison interviewed on the old Tom Snyder Show, the one with the blacked out set and lots of cigarette smoking going on. Ellison explained -- this was way back in the days when people were wondering if
Star Trek
would ever rise from the dead -- that he had submitted a movie script in which the entire universe is destroyed and the Enterprise has to bring it back, but the producers told him his story "wasn't big enough." He was clever, but he was also fondest of one of the -- to my mind worst and shallowest --
Star Trek
scripts ever, the gruelingly obvious allegory about a half-black-half-white man chasing a half-white-half-black manĀthrough the universe in perpetual hatred. He was proud of that effort. Phooey.
Which is a big big part of my whole problem with science fiction. I actually began my professional writing career at a company called Datapro that did technical reviews of every kind of computer product. Everyone who interviewed there was told of the constant dilemma of the hiring bosses: hire a technical whiz who could learn to write or a writer who could learn about digital technology. (The best of us all was a Wesleyan music major who learned datacom by "hearing" the bit stream in her mind. Genius.) Science fiction writers always struck me as scientific types who fancied themselves as writers. Their technical inventions were formidable, but their characterizations, their themes, their philosophical musings were, well, superficial. And in the rare cases when they weren't superficial, they were decidedly lacking in passion.Ā
I saw
2001: A Space Odyssey
the year it came out, in Cinerama, which was stupendous. But in human terms, it was as dry as one of those ancient inert craters on the moon. A function of admittedly admirable intellect entirely divorced from human experience. How much wisdom could it possibly contain? One could admire it as some sort of intricate puzzle, but one could not feel anything for anyone in it. Is that even a movie?
What else? I liked the first
, but it wasn't really a science fiction movie. It was a horror movie set in space. Every sequel has gotten worse. I liked the first two
movies, but chiefly because they were action movies, science fiction as prop warehouse rather than perspective-changing premise. The more they grapple with time travel, the more incoherent they get. (
hated the TV series about Sarah Connor; I'm as fond of gratuitous nudity as the next guy but the female terminator was creepy, the putative savior of mankind was a hopelessly immature chump, and mom was borderline incestuous in the way that only network television can intimate without ever committing to.)
I liked the
movie, which is to me one of the few science fiction movies that resonates past the end credits. Why? Because it did not amputate itself from human history, the ultimately fascinating mystery of human origins, that to me is the only real topic of art and literature. An absurd take on it, perhaps, but still one that allows us to consider and reconsider our own unexamined assumptions about where we come from and what that means.
Does it seem like I'm not getting anywhere? That's where you're wrong. I have a litmus test for science fiction that is closely analogous to my litmus test for religions. The latter is a simple one: if your religion discourages you from asking questions and seeking illumination from the possibly surprising answers to those questions, your religion is a death cult, not a path to salvation or spiritual enlightenment. Sci-Fi? If your premise separates itself entirely from earthly human experience, any allegory it attempts is cheap, and there's absolutely nothing remotely worthwhile about it. No exceptions. No human imagination can make up an entire civilization from scratch. Every such attempt is chock full of cheating, hidden assumptions, and most often, downright propaganda. (There goes
, including all past imperfect and future perfect versions of the same failed vision.)
That's why I got taken in, as I admit I did, by
Battlestar Galactica
a year ago. I thought they were converging on a human experience. Table lamps. Whiskey. Anglo-European military ranks. Pet dogs. In the end it was the most fraudulent piece of sci-fi crap I have ever endured. Corrupt and empty from start to finish. A talky, muddled, self-indulgent soap opera that resembled
Twin Peaks
more than it did
Star Wars
, of which the original series was a blatant ripoff.
To my mind, sci-fi is mostly junk. The few examples I like are movies that succeed on traditional virtues like character, clever plot, and action fun. I like
. It's exciting. I like the first
movie -- simple and exciting.. I like -- and I'm surprised no one mentioned --
, which I like because of Claudia Black, Claudia Black, and, of course, Claudia Black. I like
starring Kurt Russell. I liked the oldĀ
Doctor Who
starring Tom Baker, not because it was sci-fi or moving in any way, but because it was classically mordant British comedy, which they no longer do now that they're a dying nation. And I liked the cheesy sets and the music one of the commenters finds unsettling. Loved it, in fact.
As a kid I read an Edgar Rice Burroughs book, one, about some hero on the moon. Enjoyed it a lot without understanding a word of it; I think it was part of some saga I never found the beginning or end of. Only science fiction I actually remember. Well, I remember reading Fahrenheit 451, but nothing in it. No Claudia Black.
Now. Do your worst. You started it. I invited you to continue. Have fun.
Did I say fun? I'm sure I did. Which is spelled C-L-A-U-D-I-AĀ B-L-A-C-K.
Who the hell else is actually having fun these days? You see what I do for you, my children?
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How can we profit from the world's forests without destroying them? This beautiful Caribbean island may hold answers.
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Hike through beautiful tropical forests, follow clear rivers, and look for native birds, lizards, and frogs - all to support quality science.
Welcome to the rainforest of Puerto Rico, where each night the coquí frogs chirp and the smooth, pale bark of the tabonucu trees glows in the moonlight. This rich land needs your protection, as do forests across the world.
Humans have extensively used most of Puerto Rico's forests over the past few centuries, clearing them for agriculture, coffee plantations, and pastures and harvesting wood for fuel. Now, as more people move to cities, urban sprawl threatens the forests. Much of the already harvested lands have reverted to secondary forest - that is, they have grown over with a second generation of trees—and are ignored until it's profitable to exploit them again.
You'll help learn how we can benefit from the rainforest without diminishing its resources and diversity. Because we're looking at the health of the whole rainforest, you'll try your hand at a wide array of activities: monitoring areas where different forest management techniques are being tested to see how healthy the trees are, planting native tree species, counting and observing birds, and—depending on what season you join the project - scouring the forest vegetation for the tiny coquís and anole lizards.
With your help, these researchers - and ultimately all of us - can become better stewards of our forests.
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Each year people cut down between three and six billion trees in the world's forests, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
Trees alone can't show a forest's health - we need to know how what we do to the trees shapes the animal populations that call the forest home.
If we want to keep profiting from forests, we must understand their ecology - in other words, how all of the organisms in them coexist. Ecological research can lead to smart management plans that will help us conserve the forests for the future as we continue to use the trees and the cleared land. In the case of Puerto Rico, ecologically sound management plans can also bolster the island's economy - the forests' diverse species are a big draw for tourists.
As an Earthwatcher, you'll join forces with Las Casas de la Selva, which manages and researches a beautiful section of secondary-growth rainforest. The area around Las Casas' base is particularly well suited for studying forest management because humans have dramatically shaped it. They've cleared much of it for agriculture and grazing, and because a lot of the land slopes steeply, it erodes severely once the plants are gone. Unless farmers heavily apply chemical fertilizers to this nutrient-depleted land, they get poor crops.
Earthwatch volunteers will be trained in a variety of tasks, which may include counting lizards or frogs.
Already, the data collected with the help of Earthwatchers have led us to implement new land-management plans and figure out how to direct our future research studies. The Las Casas project, with the contribution volunteers like you have made, has become a living demonstration of new models for forest management in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
You'll visit the stunning rainforest on the southeastern side of Puerto Rico, near the wilds of El Yunque National Forest and beautiful beaches. El Yunque, the most visited rainforest in the Caribbean, also happens to be the only tropical U.S. National Forest. The island also has outstanding examples of karst (otherworldly limestone formations) and one of the largest river cave systems in the Western Hemisphere.
As a U.S. territory, Puerto Rico has a culture that blends typical American food and stores with Hispanic and Caribbean tradition. The island is famed for its music, including salsa, bachata, and reggaeton (a Puerto Rican original). During your visit, you'll likely visit a popular fixture of the mountainous part of the island where you'll be staying: the lechonera, a small restaurant open only on the weekends that serves spit-roasted pig along with various other Puerto Rican dishes.
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Live the life of a field researcher. Spend your days - or nights, if you work on the coquí study - trekking through the rainforest mist, sharpening your powers of observation by spotting birds or (depending on the season) coquís and anoles. In the late afternoon, your team will return to the homestead, where you'll help with a critical part of quality scientific research - entering the data collected that day. Then enjoy dinner and maybe attend a lecture on ecology, walk to the river, or simply relax.
On at least one afternoon, the team will take a break to visit the local town, Guavate, for barbecue and music or head to Patillas for a few hours at the beach. You'll also take a full-day trip to somewhere interesting on the island - to Old San Juan, perhaps, the district of the capital city that boasts many old colonial buildings and forts, museums, shopping, and restaurants. When it comes to fieldwork, the researchers will prepare you well before you set foot in the forest.
When you first arrive, you'll hear all about rainforest ecology and how humans impact it. And throughout your stay, you'll meet the most common plant, lizard, amphibian, and bird species in the forest. In short: get ready for an unparalleled learning experience in one of the most beautiful tropical settings.
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Investigate ways to protect rainforests from climate change and human use.
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Why forest management? We need new ways to keep forests strong and diverse, and Dr. Nelson is on the front lines of discovery. In Puerto Rico, he and his team have been using a technique called line planting - planting different tree species among the trees in an already growing forest. "Line planting within secondary forests such as those at Las Casas can increase the value of secondary forests, providing both sustainable timber production for profit and preservation of biodiversity and the other environmental advantages of maintenance of forests," Dr. Nelson writes in a recent paper. "Enrichment and management of secondary forests should be explored as a promising approach to sustainable forestry."
Stay in a bunkhouse or in a platform tent protected by a roof among the majestic tabonuco and blue mahoe trees of Puerto Rico's rainforest. You'll be near Casa de la Selva's headquarters, which has an open-air dining and lounging area. There, after a hot shower, you can relax in a hammock once you've finished fieldwork for the day. At night you'll fall asleep to the sound of coquí frogs singing from the trees.
The project has many great chefs on staff, so you'll get a chance to sample Caribbean cooking and other cuisines. You can expect lots of rice and beans, fresh salads, and sandwiches to take into the field for lunch. Local fruits, vegetables, and seasonal greens from the garden make an appearance in meals as often as possible.
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Steve Leader and I took the time on Thursday to make a rare escape from news and go see the new Batman movie "The Dark Knight." First of all, let me say, I'm a huge fan of Director Christopher Nolan, the lead actor Christian Bale, and the supporting cast including Michael Caine (great actor), Anne Hathaway (scene stealer) and Gary Oldman (consistently good). Having said that, I thought the movie was almost too much. It was fatiguing. It was incredibly dark and intense. I admit, I may be a little sensitive since the Colorado shootings but I certainly wasn't nervous in THIS theater because Steve and I were the only ones in there. I was fatigued solely by the plot. I thought I'd attach this article by Peggy Noonan if nothing else to spark some discussion. I'd love to hear what you think about movies these days and how they impact us all.
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I might, depends if I can get a ride.
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I'm going for sure ! :D Art & Gaslamp; sounds like a great time!
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It's a dream of mine to go up in a hot air balloon someday, but something tells me my first trip will probably not be via the "Krug is in the Air" program. Krug has come up with a new way to attract luxury consumers by offering the world's most expensive balloon rides, available in locations all over the world for a price tag of €50,000 for a group of up to 8 people. Besides the obvious trip up in a luxury balloon (gleaming hardware, basket lined with premium white leather) you also get gourmet dining complete with champagne and butler service while you're in the air.
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Humans are not the only ones mourning Baby Scotty [Family and parenting]
When my grandfather passed away from cancer, my Jewish grandmother covered all her mirrors and sat Shivah with my family while mourners came to extend their sympathies, and to bring us cheese and vegetable trays. Shivah lasts a week, and overall mourning lasts 30 days. This whole process starts with the tearing of a clothing item and wearing it pinned, but my grandmother opted for the black ribbon that the Rabbi gave her. The dead are buried almost immediately, only a day or two after the death, and the family comes to the cemetery for many years to perform solemn remembrances. This regimen exists, among many reasons, in order to prevent over grieving, to provide closure, and to complete the mourning process.
Patrons and staff of the Louisville Zoo are mourning the death of baby elephant Scotty who died of colic on May 12th. The zoo invites people to mourn and memorialize Scotty by sharing memories, photographs, drawings, etc. on the zoo's facebook page, leaving items at a designated area in front of the zoo, or donating money to the zoo that will help support elephant conservation. This is the allotted mourning method and, unlike in Judaism, closure - in a way - will be delayed due to necropsy reports that will take several weeks to return.
However, while the humans come to terms with this loss, there are others that are likewise mourning, or would, given the chance. Elephants are one of the few animals, humans aside, that display grieving behavior. A University of Sussex study, led by Dr. Karen McComb in 2005, was the first study to concretely establish that elephants grieve. Elephants congregate at "cemeteries" to pay homage to their fallen kin, and McComb's study showed that elephants can recognize the bones of dead elephants when also presented with objects made of other materials and the bones of other animals, even when the presented elephant skulls lacked tusks (although, without tusks present in the skulls, elephants cannot recognize the dead of their herd versus those of another).
Elephants honor their dead by nuzzling the bones with their trunks and lightly stepping on the remains when they come across them, and sometimes they purposefuly revisit places that they know contain their herd members' remains. Noted elephant researcher Joyce Poole observed a mother elephant grieving over her stillborn, and in "Coming of Age with Elephants" she recounted that the mother appeared to be crying with a look of disbelief on her face, and she was attempting to revive her calf. This interpretation could be chalked up as an assumption, but scientific evidence that clearly marks elephant grief does exist.
Elephants return to the dead body several times in the days following the death, and tend to stay close by for a while afterward. The International Fund for Animal Welfare Canada has publicly stated that elephants should not be kept in captivity because the surviving herd members are not able to mourn properly.
When 3-year-old Scotty died, his mother, an African elephant named Mikki, was with him until the very end, but his body was then removed and will be buried in an undeveloped part of the zoo. Scotty's grave will not be marked, and Mikki will not be able to visit him. However, she does have the company of Punch, the only other elephant at the zoo. The Louisville Zoo would not provide detailed answers about the state of the animals, saying that it's "impossible to know what an elephant is thinking," but they did report that Mikki is eating regularly and moving about the allotment.
It may be too soon to tell how well Mikki and Punch will cope in the long run because elephants have been known to become depressed just as humans do, but for now we can send warm thoughts their way... and drape our mirrors.
Below are two videos of elephant mourning
Photograph of Scotty with his mother, Mikki, courtesy of the Louisville Zoo


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The theme of this volume is chronic care, health care systems and services integration. The volume is divided into three sections. The first section focuses on issues that relate to health care providers. The second section contains papers that deal with home and community based services for the elderly and those who need chronic care. The third section provides lessons from countries outside the United States related to the overall themes of chronic care, systems integration and services integration. These are themes of growing importance in the US health care system as well as in health care systems in most other developed nations. The aging of populations, already underway, and expected to increase in the coming decades will bring changes and challenges to the health care system. Many of these challenges relate to chronic care needs, since chronic care needs are more important in the elderly than in other population groups, although chronic care problems are not limited to the elderly. Once people reach their 40s and 50s, they begin to develop chronic problems.Chronic problems often require both more health care services and more complicated health care services, and thus place an emphasis on services integration.
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House armed services committee.
Voted to bar gay couples from getting married on military bases and Peter -- -- on that story -- He joins us from Washington as usual also Peter had that come about.
Martha some members think that it would level the playing field the Republican member of the house armed services committee tied -- -- -- homosexuals are now more protected.
Then other members of the military so he proposed an amendment to ban.
Same sex marriage ceremonies on military installations and it -- 37 to 2.4.
The president has repealed Don't Ask Don't Tell.
He's now using the military.
As campaign props to advance the gay agenda.
By ignoring dorm -- He now is promoting the same sex marriages with federal employees on federal property.
The committee also passed an AK an amendment to protect the conscience of any military clergy that it's morally opposed to same sex marriages and -- said.
2000 chaplains endorsed the measure but democratic members thank.
This is just unfairly singling out gay servicemen and women.
By singling out simply matters of religious conscience concerning the appropriate and inappropriate expression whatever that means.
Of human sexuality.
I think that this does much more mischief than it that it prevents.
And despite that back and forth nobody at last night's hearing ever specifically mentioned president Obama's new position on same sex marriage that in of itself as interesting so what was -- reaction of the president's comments elsewhere on the help leader.
In the senate the majority leader Harry Reid said the president is right but that he doesn't.
Fully agree with the new stance he said my personal belief is that marriage is between a man and a woman but in a civil society I believe that people should be able to marry whomever they want.
And it's no business of mind if two men or two women want to get there right now across the aisle Republican senator Marco Rubio said about the president.
I disagree with him on that position I agree.
With the old Barack Obama and he is of course referring to the president's passwords like 2004 when he said he believed that marriage was between a man and a woman and -- he didn't think marriage with the civil rights.
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It was a great animation and I enjoyed it tremendously. Probably not for Xbox or Sony fans since they obviously won't like it.
I love you, I hate you. Will you marry me? I just want to kill you.
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I made myself out to be strong
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I was stupid, a fool... wrong.
Open your eyes
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I want to blend in with the stars, tonight
Land upon the moon
Feel my own weight lifted under me
From an unnatural force
Please take me away"
As an american gamer, i'm stereotyped as a bloodthirsty want-to-be killing machine who falls for cheap production values and run of the mill GTA clones. I'm exactly the opposite. I think that the American Market is flooded with crap games that are designed to sap gamers for a quick buck. You don't see a whole lot out of the American Market that can be considered quality. The past 3 Grand Theft Auto games have basically been the same game, repackaged and retooled. Don't call me a fanboy, i'm stating truth. Look at the actual gameplay: shooting, stealing cars, picking up hookers, running from the cops. WOW, you can ride a BICYCLE in GTA San An, BIG FREAKIN WHOOP DEE DO.
Different story, different models. woo-hoo.
Quality is a thing of the past with American Games, and it's unfortunate. Japanese games deliver the real quality, and people overlook them because they're "kiddy" and you cant shoot a hooker.
I'd rather jump on a goomba than shoot a hooker anyday.
"No amount of money can stop a revolution." -Love it.
...Wow that got offtopic. sorry. Everytime I see something like that it gets the rant glands going :\
Good story.
That Revolution video thing was great! I loved the bit when Luigi killed Bill Gates.
"It is better to burn out than to fade away." - Kurt Cobain
Just the fact its Gates getting nuked made it worth it.
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Length: 5.6 km
Height start: 435 m
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Elevation: 473 m
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December 3 on the calendar now America 29 days left into the nation's economy goes over that so called fiscal cliff.
In the White House and congressional Republicans said to be deadlocked.
President Obama release his plan last week it includes one point six trillion dollars in new tax increases.
Fifty billion -- new stimulus spending stimulus rather and new power to raise the debt ceiling without congressional approval.
House speaker John Boehner Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner both appearing with Chris Wallace on FOX News Sunday.
Well right now I would say were nowhere.
Period we're nowhere.
Other we've put a serious offer on the table by putting revenues up there to try to get this question resolved.
-- the White House has responded to virtually nothing they've actually asked for more revenue than they've been asked him for the whole entire time there and it.
Come a tough position now and it's going to be the -- -- a little hard for them now and they're trying to figure out where they go next.
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And tax changes that helped put us back on -- path of fiscal responsibility.
-- where are we now.
Senior White House foreign affairs correspondent Wendell Goler on the north on Wendell -- either side suggests it would -- compromise.
Might possibly look like.
Not really bill in their -- accusing the other.
-- pushing the nation toward -- fiscal different fact Republicans say Democrats are driving us at high speed toward that cliff like Thelma and Louise.
-- actually we know it's likely Democrats will agree to more spending cuts and they want.
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There's no path to an agreement.
-- does not involve Republicans acknowledging.
That rates have to go up.
For the wealthiest -- -- sit there is no way to reason meaningful manner revenue relative to size or fiscal challenges.
But just limiting the value deductions for the wealthiest Americans.
There's just not -- room there.
Geithner says he believes there will be an agreement because the alternative is unthinkable but time is running out as you went out built this -- -- tenuous economy to what are Republicans saying Wendell.
House speaker John Boehner says they don't really have a a starting point would Democrats refusing to say what spending cuts they're willing to -- the -- to accept.
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Boehner says he's now asking for much more than that.
The president to ask you for one point six trillion dollars worth of -- new revenue over ten years twice as much.
As he's been asking for a public.
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In here that exceeded by the amount of new cuts that he was willing to consider.
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SAUGERTIES, N.Y. -- Music could return to the Winston Farm next year as a lead-in to a Woodstock anniversary festival in 2019, but some town residents are more troubled about the prospect of having casino gambling at the site.
Concerns over the future of Winston Farm have led a group called No Saugerties Casino to schedule a public meeting for next month to head off any state efforts that could lead to a casino on the 850-acre property, located where state Routes 32 and 212 meet.
The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Aug. 2 in the Inquiring Minds bookstore at Main and Partition streets in the village of Saugerties.
No Saugerties Casino member Arnie Lieber said there is no "hard information" that the farm is being eyed as the possible site of a gaming hall. Rather, he said, "this is based on a chain of reasoning."
"The logistics of Winston Farm are pretty attractive for a casino for the obvious reasons," he said. "It's right off Exit 20 of the Thruway, and it's a big, huge piece of land. ... So it would seem if they're going to site seven casinos around the state that there would be interest in Saugerties. So we're trying to be proactive and get out in front on the issue."
New York voters are expected to consider a proposition in 2013 that, if approved, would pave the way for as many as seven non-Indian casinos in the state.
The Winston Farm is owned by Winston Farm Ltd., consisting of members of the Schaller family. It was the site of the three-day Woodstock '94 music festival, which marked the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock festival and drew an estimated 350,000 people.
One of the promises that festival promoter Woodstock Ventures made to secure the site was that a permanent performance center would be built there after the August 1994 concert, but that plan was dropped in 2004.
Town of Saugerties Supervisor Kelly Myers said this week that Winston Farm Ltd. member Jeremy Schaller has approached the Town Board about scheduling a series of concerts at the farm beginning next year but has not provided details.
"They are looking at starting small -- for them, small is about 20,000 people -- with a concert venue and then building up to a 50th anniversary of Woodstock (in 2019)," Myers said.
The supervisor said concerts at the site would help Saugerties continue to develop a tourism-based economy.
"It would be a nice tourist draw for us," she said. "People come for concerts, have dinner, stay over. That could really be a lot of fun."
Schaller was not immediately available for comment on Thursday.
No Saugerties Casino was formed in response to a 2005 proposal by shopping mall developer Wilmorite to pay Ulster County $600 million to allow construction at the Winston Farm of an Indian casino run by the Seneca-Cayuga tribe. Carol Specht, a spokeswoman for the farm's owners, later said the plan came as a surprise to the Schaller family because signed options for use of the site did not mention a casino.
In 2009, the farm's owners and county officials outlined plans to use the farm for two manufacturing buildings totaling 1 million square feet; three flexible-use buildings totalling 103,000 square feet; research, development and office space in 14 buildings totaling 760,000 square feet; a hotel and conference center spread across 24 buildings totalling 73,200 square feet; three commercial buildings totaling 28,800 square feet; and housing for corporate employees totaling 108,000 square feet. But officials said no progress was made on those plans because of economic concerns by the potential developers.


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(7) Anonymous, August 21, 2007 8:15 AM
(6) yonah, August 14, 2007 12:30 PM
terrific series
(5) Chavah, July 24, 2007 11:43 PM
self esteem
Thanks for emphasizing this lesson that one's choices in life matter tremendously. I would add that the problem w. today's generation is the negative influence of secular society, which is pervasive, even for the Orthodox community (more so the Modern Orthodox, obviously). We need to teach our children how to distinguish the benefits of secular society and how to properly engage in it without it taking away from our Jewish values and way of life. I'm thankful to Aish for providing a haven for those who may not have necessarily been fortunate to have a strong Jewish upbringing growing up who know all too well the emptiness and shallowness of modern society, who want to steer towards the true meaning that Judaism provides. This is helping the younger generation to build true self-esteem and a path to lead a better, healthier life
(4) Hardy Jonck, July 23, 2007 3:54 PM
Self esteem series best I have ever heard on topic in least amount of words
I want to complement David on his most excellent series on the topic of self esteem. Keep it up, I will look out for the next in the series.
The self esteem <-> ego see-saw is an amazing principle/type. I agree with David that most people today suffer from chronic low self esteem because we are at a historical low of doing mitzvot.


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