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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdelightde‧light1 /dɪˈlaɪt/ ●●○ noun 1 [uncountable]ENJOY/LIKE DOING something a feeling of great pleasure and satisfactionwith/in delight The kids were screaming with delight.to somebody's delight/to the delight of somebody To the delight of his proud parents, he has made a full recovery.squeal/gasp/cry etc of delight She gave a little gasp of delight.► see thesaurus at pleasure2 [countable]HAPPY something that makes you feel very happy or satisfiedthe delights of something a chance to sample the delights of nearby Viennait is a delight to do something It was a delight to see him so fit and healthy.3 → take delight in (doing) somethingCOLLOCATIONSadjectivesgreat delightIt gave her great delight to tease him about his various girlfriends.sheer/pure delight (=very great)She opened the present and laughed with sheer delight.obvious/evident (=easy to see)Spencer was staring at the girl with obvious delight.verbstake/find delight in something (=enjoy something a lot)He took delight in entertaining guests in his apartment.squeal/scream with delightLucy suddenly saw the sea and screamed with delight.laugh with delight'That's a brilliant idea'! she said, laughing with delight.greet something with delightHis suggestion was greeted with delight.phrasesa squeal/gasp/cry etc of delightThe child gave a squeal of delight.a source of delight (=something that gives great pleasure)It's a beautiful park and a source of delight to most visitors.much to somebody's delight (also to somebody's great delight) (=used to say that something gave someone a lot of pleasure)The princess stopped to talk to people, much to the delight of the crowd.
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delight• He is also a great friend of the Festival, and it will be a delight to have him with us again.• Like most other volumes in the Compass Guide series, the book is a delight to look at and read.• Horton takes great delight in learning.• All the build up of delight shrivelled and stripped Jay to lonely self-scourging.• Imagine our delight when we saw your article in the New Yorker.• Is it not a form of self desecration not to cultivate this primeval delight in flowers?• With stylish roman numerals, gold-plated case and soft leather strap, these elegant watches are a pure delight to wear.• To the audience's delight, she agreed to do another number.• Mrs Foster encouraged the staff to avail themselves of the lodge's delights.• The study of Scripture, he suggested, did nothing to hinder an inquisitive man's delight in the study of nature.• Paul's delight at being asked to play the piano for us was clear.• Robin laughed with delight as the birthday cake was carried in.with/in delight• A small cheer emerged from behind and I punched the air with delight.• The wetness of his tongue as it slipped over them made Kate arch her back with delight.• Charlton Heston plays Perry, complete with devilish beard, and he does everything but cackle with delight over his evilness.• The hens clambered in, cackling with delight and greed.• Ragged children run up to approaching cars with delight because motorized vehicles are a rare sight.• The ref was full of Christmas spirit and United's top scorer was dancing with delight.• He emptied it with delight and demanded more, and Odysseus poured for him until finally a drunken sleep overcame him.• And when Cosby finally opens wide and swallows, you watch him light up with delight.the delights of something• By experimenting one will only discover the delights of this neglected, but most versatile medium.• In 1878 he tramped through the Cevennes with a donkey named Modestine and discovered the delights of Travels with a Donkey.• We visited our farming cousins and enjoyed the delights of a life so different from our own.• She was too much on edge to plunge whole-heartedly into the delights of Périgordian cuisine, she'd decided ruefully.• Ordinary mortals walking hereabouts will never know the delights of the fairyland below them.• One of the delights of traveling is gathering such mental snapshot images of places as you journey around.• If only the delights of San José had held Lori for one more week!• It is time to introduce the Treasury to the delights of off-balance-sheet financing.delightdelight2 ●○○ verb [transitive] ENJOY/LIKE DOING somethingto give someone great satisfaction and enjoyment Her fabulous recipes will delight anyone who loves chocolate.delight somebody with something He is delighting audiences with his wit and humour. → delight in something→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
delight• Their decision to end cooperation will delight Belgrade.• But nothing delights him more than his futures markets, which are something of a hangover from his trading days.• This movie classic will delight the whole family.delight somebody with something• Jordan delighted the crowd with his spectacular talent.
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- take delight in (doing) something
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UN rights chief urges Russia to step up efforts to ensure rule of law, accountability
Publisher | UN News Service |
Publication Date | 17 February 2011 |
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The United Nations human rights chief today urged Russian authorities to act without delay on reforms to key institutions relating to the rule of law and the fight against corruption and discrimination.
"I would stress that institutional reform is a matter of great urgency, and appeal to the President and all those in a position to increase the pace of change to do so," High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay told reporters in Moscow, four days after starting her first visit to Russia.
"Rule of law, including accountability and protection of rights for all citizens and non-citizens on Russian territory, is an essential prerequisite for true democracy, peace and development."
Ms. Pillay said her discussions with President Dmitry Medvedev earlier this week, and with various top officials, have included some "very frank" analyses of the reforms that are being undertaken, are under consideration, or are still needed, to key institutions relating to the rule of law and the fight against corruption and discrimination. These include the police, judiciary, General Prosecutor's office, penitentiary system and military.
"I appreciate that in my discussions with the President, and most of the ministries and state officials, there was no attempt to downplay the challenges facing the Government in its efforts to revamp a system in which human rights are still a long way from being consistently respected in accordance with international standards, and with Russia's own laws and Constitution," she stated.
"There is some recognition at the top that, across Russia today, there is a serious deficit in public trust in key institutions which should be upholding the rule of law, and instead are all too often disregarding it.
"There has undoubtedly been some progress, but also some serious setbacks - including murders, intimidation and harassment of human rights defenders and investigative journalists and independent media, and apparent serious miscarriages of justice," she noted.
Ms. Pillay added that the extent and speed with which the new Law on Police, which will enter into force on 1 March, results in genuine change in the conduct of the police will be a "litmus test" for the potential for meaningful reform in other areas.
She stressed that accountability for those in power is essential if abuse of power is to be diminished and public trust established. "I urge the Government to take all the actions necessary to ensure that the institutions act to protect the people, rather than to protect the authorities, and to ensure that civil society and media are given the necessary space and encouragement to carry out their important monitoring role."
She said the lack of accountability and respect for the rule of law has been particularly acute in relation to the North Caucasus, where despite some progress and stabilisation, there are continued reports of arbitrary detentions, extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances.
While condemning terrorist acts, such as the recent bombing that killed 36 people at Domodedovo Airport, she also stressed that it is essential to ensure that counter-terrorism measures are carried out in line with human rights principles.
"I fear that the often brutal and illegal methods used by federal and local security and law enforcement agencies in the North Caucasus in the past have aggravated the situation, by alienating many people," she said.
"Impunity for serious crimes allegedly committed by the military and security has accentuated the cycle of anger and violence, and undermined the entire notion of rule of law."
The High Commissioner also touched on issues related to the country's legal system, the treatment of civil society, the situation of human rights defenders, and the treatment of women.
Ms. Pillay will also travel to St. Petersburg for further meetings before concluding her current visit.


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Common to all of the remaining visual abilities is that they are completely subconscious. When asked what they see or what is in front of them, the blind person will respond that he or she can't see anything, or that there's nothing there to be seen. It is when they are asked to somehow use their visual input for something, to answer a specific question or reach out and grasp an object, that the extent of their remaining vision can be seen. For instance, a blindsighted person can trace parallel lines on a piece of paper when asked to imagine a line and trace it with their hand. They can identify colors and simple shapes presented on a monitor, when told there's something there and asked to guess what it is. They can even put their hand into the appropriate shape to pick up, say, an eggshell or a kilogram weight, if asked to take what is in front of their hand.
Thus, the primary confusion surrounding blindsight is the disparity between what the mind is conscious of and what it is actually processing, between what is thought about and what is known. Even in primate experiments where the primary visual cortex -- and thus one-hundred percent of the thalamus-mediated optic nervous input -- has been removed, the primates exhibit the same spectrum of abilities, while exhibiting all the symptoms of perfect blindness. The very existence of blindsight is proof that a person's mind can conduct very complex active processing of information, completely without the person's awareness of it.
A now-classic discovery in neuroscience is that visual processing seems to travel in two functionally and physiologically separate paths through the brain. One path, called the What stream, is responsible for object recognition and recall, for identifying what an object is. Physiologically, this is the more direct neural pathway, going from the retina, through the lateral geniculate nucleus in the thalamus, and terminating in area V1 of the primary visual cortex. The other path, called the Where stream, is used for spatial orientation and relationships between visible objects and the viewer; it calculates where an object is, and where a moving object is going. This path is phylogenetically older (i.e. it evolved first) than the other, and projects input from the post-thalamic optic nerves through the superior colliculus, and out to motor and pre-motor areas of the brainstem, and also to the parietal cortex, which helps control movement. Notably, this visual information has no terminus in the temporal lobe, which is the brain area most associated with consciousness.
Hopefully, after reading that paragraph the most widely accepted explanation of blindsight is beginning to become clear. It claims that when the primary visual cortex is disrupted, no visual information makes it to the temporal lobe, so there can be no consciousness of it. However, since the visual pathway to the motor system (via the Where stream) is left intact, motor processes and some vague mental access are unaffected. This would explain perfectly the abilities of grasping and tracing with blindsight, though it leaves questions regarding the identification of colors and shapes.
Blindsight was discovered Larry Weiskrantz and Alan Cowey at Oxford while examining a patient suffering from cortical blindness in the left visual field.
For details on blindsight please read the other writeups in this node.
The explanation for blindsight remains controversial. The main reason is that one of the popular explanations for blindsight, involving connections to the superior colliculus (as explained in the above writeup), leads to the reasonable conclusion that most people with visual cortex damage will exhibit blindsight -- it so happens that many patients do not show any signs of blindsight, and many of those who do have blindsight only have it for part of their visual field. (Scharli, Harman, & Hogben, 1999; Wessinger, Fendrich, & Gazzaniga, 1997).
One of the other explanations is that within the damaged area of the visual cortex there may be small areas of undamaged tissue, not large enough for a conscious experience but nevertheless enough for blindsight (Fendrich, Wessinger, & Gazzaniga, 1992).
A further explanation is that after damage to the primary visual cortex, other cortical areas get enough visual stimulus from the thalamus to produce blindsight (Moore, Rodman, & Gross, 1998).
As we can see from this confusion, the inference is that unfortunately researchers do not yet know much about visual consciousness. The dominant hypothesis is that consciousness is distributed over several cortical areas (Zeki, 1998).
If we move back to the leading argument -- which says that alternate pathways in the brain supply visual information to the superior colliculus, but we are not conscious of this -- then one can pose the question of why is it that we are only concious of the visual information reaching the primary visual cortex?
Vilayanur Ramachandran gives the example of driving a car whilst having a deep conversation with a passenger in the car -- providing nothing out of the ordinary happens on the roads your driving experience becomes completely subconscious and, in a way, is similar to blindsight. You can perform the highly sophisticated task of traffic negotiation subconscously; but amusingly, you cannot devote your full conscous attention to driving and leave your conversation on "autopilot".
References: Biological Psychology, James Kalat, pp. 178 Vilayanur Ramachandran's second lecture for the BBC Radio 4 "Reith 2003" lecture series: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/lecture2.shtml
Visual Pathways:
Blindsight is associated with damage or destruction of the striate cortex, the cortex which contains the primary visual cortex (V1). However, blindsight is generally attributed to input to higher visual areas that bypass V1. There are many pathways leading from the retina. The main path is the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) and this leads to V1 and through the main striate cortex. Another pathway is the superior colliculus (SC), which is likely to be the main pathway associated with blindsight. It is the second largest sub-component of the optic nerve, consisting of around 150,000 fibres, or 10% of the total retinal output.
Other pathways conducting visual information are the ventral lateral geniculate nucleus (vLGN), which appears to be used in reflexive, non-cognitive responses, such as detecting light levels and pupil dilation. There is also the Nucleus Optic Tract, which contains the Dorsal, Medial, and Lateral Terminal Accessory Optic Nucleus. These seem to be involved with self-motion, posture adjustments, and flow fields (it would be interesting to see if blindsight patients are affected by David Lee's Swinging Room). There is also the retinocellular projection which reaches extrastriate cortical visual areas.
All these pathways can be identified in monkeys with traceable chemicals, like HRP (horseradish peroxidase).
Monkey Studies:
Much of the information about blindsight has been obtained from monkey studies. Mohler and Wurtz have found that monkeys with a small part of striate cortex removed could direct their eyes to a spot of light presented in their visual defect. This ability was lost when the corresponding part of the superior colliculus was removed - they were rendered totally insensitive in that part of the visual field. The SC was directly implicated in the recovery of monkeys with practice.
In many studies, Pasiks and collaborators found that monkeys' ability to detect which of two targets was illuminated survived total bilateral removal of striate cortex. This ability, however, was impaired by disruption of the accessory optic system and was further impaired by the removal of extrastriate visual cortical areas, which suggests that non-striate input from the SC and LGN to these areas is important.
There are many visual areas that have been found not to function after the removal of striate cortex. Girard and Butler (1989) found that area V2 has no functioning when the striate cortex in monkeys is cooled, and Rocha-Mirande et al. (1975) found that striate cortex ablations caused the inferotemporal cortex to be visually unresponsive. They also found no function in area MT (an area of the brain that responds to moving stimuli).
However, more recent work by Redman, Gross, and Albright (1989) say that 50% of cells in MT retain their function after the removal of striate cortex. Upon the removal of the superior colliculus, MT is no longer activated by visual stimuli. Other areas, such as V4 (dealing with colour information), have not been studied in this way.
Problems with Monkey Studies:
The main problem with monkey studies is that although the monkey brain is physiologically similar to the human brain, there are some differences. For instance, the location of the striate cortex is buried in the calcarine fissure in humans, but is on the occipital surface in monkeys. Experimenters have to assume that the functional similarities overcome the anatomical differences.
Striate cortex damage in humans is always clinical and damages surrounding tissue. Surgical lesions in monkeys are far more precise. Monkeys need to undergo lengthy training to describe what, if anything, they see. They cannot give the same responses to complex stimuli like a human could. Most significantly, there has been uncertainty as to whether monkeys experience the same dissociation between awareness and residual visual function that is seen in human patients.
A study by Cowey and Stoerig (1995) has shed some light on this issue. They showed that monkeys with unilateral striate cortical ablations classify stimuli briefly flashed in their hemiantopic field (i.e., the "blind" half-field) as blank trials when given this option, even though they can detect and localise these same or even briefer and dimmer stimuli in experiments lacking this option. This shows a direct similarity to human blindsight patients, so striate cortical lesions are likely to be the same in both species.
Role of Superior Colliculus:
Bruce Bridgeman has written that the SC fields have five characteristics which correspond to the properties of blindsight:
Weiskrantz has shown that in GY, a blindsight patient, there is increased activity during the presentation of stimuli he is "unaware" of.
It is possible that, due to plasticity, the SC takes on other functions due the absence of striate cortex. One primary function the SC is known to perform is controlling eye movements. It mediates inhibition of return, that is the action of continuing to make saccadic eye movements over an object else the pigment in the visual receptors in the retina will become bleached and they will eventually lose all sensitivity. This ability is lost following SC damage and leads to the condition known as Supra-Nuclear Palsy.
Residual Striate Cortex:
Campion et al. (1983) suggest that blindsight is best explained by residual striate cortex mediating degraded vision. Alan Cowey, however, disagrees. Cowey (1967) has found in monkeys that within a field defect produced by complete removal of striate cortex, there is residual visual sensitivity. Therefore, blindsight is not explained by light scatter, as stimuli are not detected when they fall on a retinal lesion or the optic disc (blind spot). The light scatter idea is that light stimuli that would fall on the area of the retina that sends signals to the lesioned part of striate cortex is still detected because the light scatters in the eye and falls on a good part of the retina. Campion et al. argue that in normal vision we sometimes see things we are not consciously aware of. Cowey agrees, but points out that this is over a very small range of intensities and blindsight patients are unaware of visual stimuli even when the stimuli are at very high superthreshold intensities.
Campion et al. place too much emphasis on light scatter. Patient DB, for instance, can discern between striped and plain targets of matched luminance. This cannot be explained by scattered light. Appeals to residual striate cortex in hemispherectomised patients is incorrect.
Is Awareness Completely Gone?
In strict blindsight, awareness is completely gone, however, in Blindsight Type 2 there is awareness of some stimuli. Such patients report "awareness", "feeling", or a "knowing". One patient has said; "I know it's an 'X' because it's 'rougher'". This Blindsight Type 2 is evident in patient DB, but only sometimes in GY. Awareness of this sort may be reported, but subjects never report that they actually "see" anything. GY can mimic the movement of a laser beam with his arm - he "knew" something was moving, but he did not "see" anything.
Crick and Koch (1995) say that visual awareness is unlikely to arise directly within the striate cortex. It happens in higher areas, but striate cortex is needed for awareness in any significant sense. To be aware of an event, the brain constructs a multilevel, symbolic interpretation of the event. Only higher visual areas and prefrontal cortex, to which they have direct projections, have the required inputs for this. Physiological experiments in monkeys show a better correlation for higher visual areas than for striate cortex between neuronal response properties and what the trained monkey reports seeing. Some striate cortex neurons respond to things we are not aware of but can still influence other aspects of visual perception, finely spaced lines for instance. Many striate cortex cells respond only to visual stimulation of one eye, yet we are unaware of which eye is being stimulated when both are open and a stimulus only reaches one. No such cells are present beyond striate cortex. When all cortex besides visual cortex is removed, a monkey behaves as if blind.
Colour Awareness:
Spectral sensitivity profiles of blindsight patients show the same peaks and troughs associated with colour opponency. Stoerig and Cowey (1992) found that wavelength discrimination was possible, even for some closely spaced wavelengths, in some subjects using forced-choice guessing methods (subjects have to be made to choose, since they do not believe that they can see the stimuli). Patients can sometimes tell colour from matched luminance grey stimuli, but they never report seeing colour, just as they never report seeing anything else. This is similar to some cases of achromatopsia, where patients can discern some colour but do not experience any colour sensation (such patients see only a monochrome world in drab shades of grey).
Colour is dealt with by the parvocellular system, but the magnocellular levels of the dLGN contain cells that have a weak, "hidden", chromatic opponency. So if the parvocellular system is destroyed, but the magnocellular system is spared it could explain this aspect of blindsight.
Pöppel et al. (1973) found that eye saccades to the supposed locus of a stimulus, a briefly flashed spot for example, could be made by blindsight patients. They could also sometimes point to, or touch, a stimulus on a screen. However, none of these localisation abilities are as accurate in their anopic fields as they are in their sighted visual fields.
Visual acuity in a scotoma is always less than in the corresponding part of an intact field.
DB can discriminate a difference in orientation of 10° between two diffraction gratings, even at 45° eccentricity. However, DB is better than average. But sensitivity to orientation is always better in an intact field.
Form Perception:
DB can discriminate an "X" from an "O", however Warrington and Weiskrantz have reassessed the evidence and concluded that DB was using his considerable orientation skills to distinguish forms. They found that forms with roughly equivalent orientational components were poorly discriminated. Marcel (1998) and Perenin and Rossetti (1996) have found that when reaching for 3D objects, blindsight sufferers appropriately adjust their hand grasp before they grasp an object. Marcel (1998) has also found that words flashed into the blind field can influence the interpretation of the meanings of words subsequently shown in the intact field. For instance, the word "money" presented in the blind field biases the interpretation of the ambiguous word "bank". Maybe form perceptions are more advanced than were previously thought.
Emotional Content:
If a fear-evoking stimulus, like a strange doll, is placed into the blind hemifield of a monkey, the animal ignores it, even though it makes loud shrieks of fear when the doll is in its normal hemifield. GY could discriminate between different facial expressions presented in his blind field, but he failed to "see" the faces. He was at chance in his discrimination of inverted faces.
Indirect Testing Methods:
Pupillometry, that is, measuring the responses of the pupil to various stimuli, is a good testing method as it does not rely subject responses. This is particularly useful when testing blindsight patients, since it can be most frustrating being made to answer questions and give responses on things that they are totally unaware of.
The pupil automatically responds differently depending on the stimulus, so, changing the stimulus while monitoring pupil response can provide useful information. To test acuity, one can measure the sensitivity to gratings in the blind field. One can also measure in response to colour and movement. Pupillometry can be used to measure the extent of the blind field - this is the best way to do it for children and animals, as no response is needed.
GY reported being "aware" of a stimulus when a pupillometric response was elicited. It has been found that pupillometric acuity changes upon V1 removal, so there must be a direct pathway reaching the midbrain that controls pupil response. Similar results have been found in both humans and monkeys and it has shown that human blindsight functions do not depend on residual cortex.
Interactions between Intact and Blind Hemifields:
Torjussen (1976, 1978) has demonstrated the completion of shapes shown to both the blind and intact hemifields of blindsight sufferers. So a square presented half in the blind field, and half in the intact field would be seen by a blindsight patient as a complete square, and not as a rectangle (with one half of the square missing). It has also been noticed that there is the latency of saccades to stimuli in the intact field is increased if an "unseen" stimulus is presented just before in the blind field. Marzi et al. (1986) have found that subjects respond faster to two simultaneously presented stimuli. They found that the reaction time was faster when two stimuli are presented, one in the intact field, one in the blind field.
Blindsight is not just a quantitatively different thing - it is qualitatively different.
It probably is residual function that normally works in conjunction with normal vision, but we never notice it as it is not part of conscious awareness.
The superior colliculus appears to the crucial conduit in blindsight, and the condition provides us a window onto what the functions of the other visual pathways are actually doing. It seems reasonable to say that the responses we see in blindsight are what we use when fast responses are required, such as alerting us to immediate danger. For avoidance and "fight or flight" actions, we want instant responses. We do not want to wait the 300 milliseconds it takes to respond to these things consciously. Another possible function of these "hidden" visual abilities is to direct attention to alerted stimuli.
Cowey A, Stoerig P (1991) The neurobiology of blindsight. TINS 14(4): 140-145
Campion et al (1983) Open Peer Commentary on Blindsight. Behavioural and Brain Sciences 1983 pps. 448-483
Cowey A & Stoerig P (1995) Blindsight in monkeys. Nature 373: 247-249
Gazzaniga et al (1994) Blindsight reconsidered. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 3(3): 93-6
Meeres, Graves (1990) Localization of unseen visual stimuli by humans with normal vision. Neuropsychologia 28: 1231-1237
Blindsight is a novel by sci-fi author and cynical marine biologist Peter Watts. It mixes neuro-punk with first contact by sending a crew of transhumans past Pluto to investigate an alien race in the Oort Cloud. While the crew pushes the limits of what is human physically and mentally the creatures they meet seem to defy any earthly conception of lifeforms or minds.
Imagine that you had grand mal seizures that threaten to kill you at a young age. Imagine that to save your life they had to cut out half of your brain and most of your soul to save you. Imagine you grew up as the permanently depersonalized remains of the person you use to be. You are Siri Keeton, the protagonist of the story. You're a synthesist by trade. On paper you translate technical information into something that CEOs and laymen can understand, in reality you translate whole system; theory and theorist. Six years ago your sky caught fire as sixty-two thousand alien probes self destructed on the edge of space. The world just got its picture taken and it wants to send you and eight others to find out who took it. You wake up five years later from a nap decided for you by the ships captain, its computer. Your crew mates are all freaks like yourself, products of science with parts hacked out of them to make room for enhancements, more and less than human. Your commanding officer is the genetic ancestor of psychopathy and savantism. All of this is nothing compared to what you find. A torus twenty kilometers across orbiting a brown dwarf, growing from branches that resemble thorns, feeding on magnetism and breathing hard radiation. It speaks to you plain English but you can't make sense of its answers. Discovering the truth will require a descent into the behemoth; but between the hard radiation slicing up your cells and the magnetic fields activating parts of your brain you didn't know you had you'll be lucky to make it out alive... and what you find may make you wish you hadn't.
So how does this book stack up. It is definitely hard sci-fi and while the story is well written and very engaging the level of technical detail will probably turn away most casual readers. It follows Asimov's one impossibility per book rule with the vampires which both serve a purpose with regards to the book's point and are freaking awesome besides. The number of concepts touched on is staggering, starting in neurology and moving to evolutionary psychology, strategy, (exo)biology, and most importantly cognitive science. Most of the major technologies include a section in a bibliography which provides more than a few disturbing insights into our future. If it had a flaw it would be that it ends on a very sad note. We don't exactly lose, but it's a Pyrrhic victory.
If you are a fan of hard science fiction or just want a story that will make you think then you will probably like Blindsight. Because of issues with his publisher Watts decided to make his work available under a creative commons license. It can be found for free here. If you're not sure if you would like it this twenty minute presentation on vampire domestication will give you a sense of Watts's style and the content of the book.
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While Florence was a bit of a let down Rome easily exceeded even my lofty expectations. Rome is, quite simply, awesome... Yes it is grotty, falling apart and fucking insane but it is also vibrant, exciting and so full of history that you are literally tripping over it in the streets. So many people had warned us about Rome and nearly convinced me that the place had been ruined by tourists and hawkers. Blatently not the case... I don't know what it is like in the height of summer but, with the notable exception of the over hyped and dissapointing Sistine Chapel, the crowds were small and the hawkers few.
The first morning in Rome we did the "best of" tour of ancient Rome. After an early start, we headed straight to the collosseum. Even after seeing so many pictures and movies of the thing nothing compared with seeing it for the first time in person... The size and presence that it still exerts is overwhelming, what it must have been like to visit it 2000 years ago one can only imagine. As we arrived right at opening time there was no queue and for an hour or so we had the place to ourselves, which was really special. Next we went to Palatine hill and wandered among the ruins, marvelling at the scale and complexity of the buildings and enjoying the views over the city. We then walked down the forum, very impressive also, exiting just as the tour groups descended in their thousands... The Pantheon was next, via the Trevi fountain. Nothing can describe the feeling of steping over the threshold of the Pantheon... Definitely the highlight of Rome for me, It really knocked my socks off. Again I had seen pictures but, again, I was totally unprepared for the aweinspiring dome, the marble and the incredible shaft of light piercing the domes roof. Brilliant! Even more satisfying to know that the christian's couldn't do any better with their domes a thousand years later... Instead having to claim the Roman Pantheon for themselves... After a late lunch, I was still too excited so we needed a change of pace so we went to the Campo de Flori for a look at the markets, visited the Spanish Steps and, the highlight for Gaynor, went to the Cappuchin Monks crypt, which contained thousands of bones and mummified monks, still in cassocks, propped into cautionary poses. Kinda weird, spooky and moving at the same time.
The next morning we headed to the Vatican, which in the end was a big dissapointment... After paying 30 euro to get into the museum we were both very underwhelmed by the Sistine chapel. I have seen so many better Frescoes during our travels (including Raphaels in the preceeding rooms) and to have to view it crammed in with thousands of other sweaty and obnoxous tourists was more then I could stand. The Basillica and main square on the other hand were brilliant (and free). After the vatican we headed down to some fort (you have to forgive me... I don't have guide book on me currently so names are excaping me) on the river that used to be Hadrians tomb. It was impressive and provided great views over the city... At this point Gaynor started getting another migraine so after rushing back to the hostel, settling her into bed and enuring she was alright I ventured out on my own for the afternoon.
I headed on the metro down to the SE of the city and went to see a section of the old town wall, a tomb in the shape of an egyptian pyrimid, the protesant cemetary and a large unnatural hill made entirely out of broken amphora's on the banks of the river. I then walked back towards our hostel via the Aventine hill (I love the TV show 'Rome' and so wanted to go there...) and circus Maximus. Chilled out in a park with the best view of the city yet, looked through a keyhole, went to the oldest christian church in Rome (designed on the plans for a Roman adminsitrative building (called a basilica BTW) so gave a good indication of what the buildings in the forum would have been like) and marvelled at the chariot raceway...
Yesterday we headed to the jewish quarter and Tiber island in the morning and then we headed down towards the Appian way. The jewish quarter and Tiber island were cool, but the Appian way was by far the highlight. We went to the Catacombs of San Sebastian, which were interesting and incuded some perfectly preserved roman tombs from the first century AD that were buried when the valley was filled in to build the San Sebastian church so are now accessed from underground... The Appian way itself was brilliant and really gave you an indication of what it was like to travel it iin Roman times. The basalt flagstones still bear wheel ruts from carts travelling towards and away from Rome, the sides are lined by private villa's, ruins and tombs (unfortunately, due to the grubby hands of the popes the marble has almost all been stolen, leaving only piles of bricks... After wandering the road south for a fe kilometres we headed back to the hostel, packed and got ready for our early train this morning.
Today we are currently sitting on a 6:45am train to Pompeii from where we will work our way back towrds Ischia for a week of sun, water and fun. I have done an internet search and there dosen't appear to be any wireless hotspots on the island so I am unsure of when I will get a chance to upload this blog, or whether there will be any photos to go with it.


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I just watched the first episode of Zetman, and i must say i was impressed. The characters, story, science, action, animation, drama and many other things drew me in fast. Two super hero friends fighting each other and mutants is pretty interesting. I sort of got the Karas vibe off of it. What did you all think of its presentation and will you be sticking with it?
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I enjoyed the first episode and love to see how this one will go . I have high hopes for this anime and as you already stated the characters story and action are real nice
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I liked it a lot. A little slow but I'm sure it'll be awesome when he's a teenager. The only thing that I didn't like was the main character's naivety. Lugging around a dead body across town lol what... It seems like Viets had something to do with it to, so thats cool.
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I liked it alot. Probably the most impressive series i've seen this season. Definetely a notch above the others, to say the least. I am however, mostly looking forwards to the time skip, which I am guessing will happen sometime within the next 2 episodes. Good potential.
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Epic ep! Loved the animation and how badass zet was. I cant wait until theyre both grown up when im presuming kouga will create his suit-Alphas and they will feud against each other and the corporation. Im hoping they'll explain how zet and the players were created soon and that there will be a purpose behind them besides the games as well as who the main villain shown in beginning is. I also hope theyll be developing side characters soon. It does seem a bit rushed, but i dont mind since the story and characters seem solid and im connecting very well to the series.
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im sticking to it, i love the whole super man vs bat man type thing between them (one with powers, one with money) im really looking forward to the next episode, i love the animation :D
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Finished! This is my contribution to the paintings on display at O'Connor's during January.
oil on 30 x 40 Gallery wrapped canvas
Monday, December 29, 2008
O'Connor's staff member
This painting is about 3/4's done. It is of someone whose name I don't know...but I see her quite often. She works at O'Connor's and she is an outrageously pretty woman. Her hair is really unusual..it is white in the front and black in the back. I am hoping to get this painting done so that it can be installed for our new group show on January 1.
wait staff,
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Merry Christmas Eve!
I hope that everyone has a perfect holiday..the snow has made it an unusual one, to say the least. Christmas is a perfect time to say that I am grateful for my wonderful friends! Thanks for all your encouragement throughout the year... and may we all have great health and prosperity in 2009!
oil on 8 x 8 canvas panel
oil on 8 x 8 canvas panel
christmas eve,
daily painting
Renegade bureaucrat
This is the first Santa/Mailman I have ever seen. His truck was stuck in a driveway a few houses away...but, as you can see, he remained rather unconcerned. Later a batch of neighbors got him unstuck and he went on his "merry" way.
christmas eve,
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Revisiting the summer
In the midst of a big winter storm, I thought it might be fun to think about the summer during the winter. I revisited some scrap from the summer to paint this. I hope the sun comes out for real soon....because I am nearly out of white paint! This is why one should have extra white...for days like this. Tomorrow's painting might have to be of something monochromatic blue!
daily painting,
Glad to be inside...instead of outside!
Upon uploading I see I had better put more emphasis on the ears and tail of my cat..lest she look like a lump in the window....The couch, on the other hand, seems reasonably recognizable.
Oil on 9 x 12 canvas panel
Oil on 9 x 12 canvas panel
daily painting
Thursday, December 18, 2008
writings cards... painting the snow
I've been talking to my friends regularly through this cold snap and several have told me about their "cabin fever". I haven't felt that at all so far. I have enjoyed not going anywhere..maybe that is because it seems like I am required to go somewhere practically every day. It's pleasant to be "snowbound". I wrote out Christmas cards today and painted this scene from the kitchen window. oil on 8 x 8 canvas panel.
christmas cards,
daily painting,
New date for Kingstad Reception..changed due to weather
(click to enlarge)
Not surprisingly, the Kingstad Reception for the Peace show has to be put off due to the snow and ice. The new date is January 15, 2009..6-8:30pm. I hope you will put the new date on your calendar and that I will see you there then!
Not surprisingly, the Kingstad Reception for the Peace show has to be put off due to the snow and ice. The new date is January 15, 2009..6-8:30pm. I hope you will put the new date on your calendar and that I will see you there then!
artist reception,
awards reception,
kingstad gallery,
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Broderick Gallery, Winter Salon
I made it to Broderick Gallery's Winter Salon Reception tonight...despite the icy roads... "Winter Salon", indeed! It was fun to begin this Holiday season at Broderick's Holiday party..and to see so much great art on the walls. I met an artist there named Becca Bernstein and we had an engaging talk about Galleries in Portland. "The Winter Salon is comprised of 22 artists who have responded to and captured the shared experience of modern life". The show will be up until January 15.
Broderick Gallery,
george broderick,
winter salon
Monday, December 15, 2008
One of the staff at O'Connor's
There are Eight of us who get to show our work on occasion at O'Connor's in Multnomah Village (we are an offshoot of our Plein air group). O'Connor's is where PPASP has our breakfast/discussion meetings..The ceiling is very high and the walls are spacious..so it is nice to put up work there because we can put up large pieces if we want. Beginning in January we get to show our work there for 90 days. Traditionally, we show "Artist Choice" work (anything that we want to contribute), but for the upcoming month we wanted the theme to have to do with O'Connor's itself. I am hoping to do a figurative painting of one of the women who works at O'Connor's. This is just a preliminary study. If it turns out I can't capture her likeness I will select another subject. I hope I can do it, however, because she is a very COOL looking person. I think I have a chance..this looks quite a bit like her.
eight+wait staff,
oil sketch,
Figure in the mirror
I was going to submit this to Au Natural but I've missed the deadline. The snow storm just didn't help. Entries had to postmarked today. Well, I like the direction I took with the painting. I went to the Au Natural show last year and it was nice to see so much figurative work under one roof.
18 x 24 oil on canvas panel. I may do another version of this with a skirt..simply because I think it might be more interesting.
18 x 24 oil on canvas panel. I may do another version of this with a skirt..simply because I think it might be more interesting.
missed deadline,
Snow day(s)---plans dashed!
Well......the snow is pretty, but it is screwing up my plans! We had two artist receptions scheduled for this week plus I was trying to get a package off to my friend in Germany and also wanting to get something postmarked today for an art deadline. Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Well, at least I can spend time in the studio and organize and paint. This weather IS ideal for painting in the studio.
bad weather,
plans dashed,
snow day,
snowed in
Friday, December 12, 2008
This is a portrait I am doing for a friend. It is a posthumous portrait...so it is really paramount that it look like the person! (Oh, okay it is paramount in most cases..but it does seem like more responsibility than usual). I just have some small adjustments to make and I think this will be finished. I am pleased with how it came together. I bet she was around 12 or 13 when the photo was taken. I especially liked her sideways look...it is a photo that looks "warm". It is 11 x 14 oil on canvas panel.
posthumous portrait
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Sunday, December 7, 2008
This is my big sketchbook. Have you joined the sketchbook revolution? Having a sketchbook is a way to feel like you are still doodling in class. In about 8th grade I was doodling in a class that was taking place in an auditorium. Social Science, I think. I felt I was safe in doing so as it was a somewhat darkened room. Unfortunately, however, I was in the front row (my last name generally put me there). The teacher came over and hit my paper and notebook (that was in my lap) with his giant microphone! Thwack---reverb----reverb-----reverb. er. okay. no. doodling. got that.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
My teacher, Robert Selby
Today I went to Robert and Miriam Selby's art reception in Keizer at the Art Association. Robert was my graphic design teacher a long time ago. I also worked for Robert during the 80's at his design company, Selby/Martin. He was a fabulous mentor and I still remember the important design concepts he taught me. Now Robert is fusing glass and his wife Miriam does collage. I had a great time at their reception and I bought a beautiful little glass treasure with a bright transparent red stripe through it's center. I think it is meant to hold something ..but I sure love how it looks in the upright position. I think I will find a way to display it in the same way.
Daily painting..from memory...mackerel sky
If you were in Portland tonight at sunset you certainly had a visual extravaganza the likes of which we have seldom if ever seen! What a sky! I painted it from memory. It was what is called a "mackerel sky"
daily painting,
mackerel sky,
painting from memory,
Friday, December 5, 2008
daily painting ...Horse
Next week I hope to set up a still life station like I had a year ago in my (bunker) studio. That way I can paint some "from life" things. Meanwhile, I have been painting from photo references. Tonight I painted this horse, that reminded me, stylistically, of a chess piece.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
daily painting ...romance
I painted something earlier that was very disappointing. I felt a little like abandoning painting and doing something else. Instead I found a very beat up painted over canvas and I used the leftover paint on my palette to paint this. I was just trying to get something down so that I could say I painted today.
oil on 8 x 10 beat up canvas
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Daily Painting ...dancer
My art group has devoted a lot of talk lately to the importance of draftsmanship. I was stuck in a waiting room today so I got to spend a long stretch with a book about drawing. The author explained in the first chapter that variety of line is necessary for an interesting drawing. I thought about all that as I painted this and attempted to give the skirt many different types of strokes.
oil on 12 x 12 stretched canvas
Available email for further information
oil on 12 x 12 stretched canvas
Available email for further information
Monday, December 1, 2008
Columbia Arts Gallery Small Works show begins this Friday
The Columbia Arts Gallery used my snow painting on their promotional card for the "Small Works" show that begins this Friday (December 5, 2008). The Columbia Arts Gallery is located in Hood River, only a one hour drive from Portland and what a breathtaking drive it is..practically every inch of it is filled by the gorgeous gorge! Nothing in the show is permitted to be over 14". It is a great opportunity to peruse (and possible purchase!) a small treasure! The show is juried/curated by Catherine Kiewit.
First Friday Reception 6-8 on December 5, 2008
Winter Morning oil on 8 x8 canvas panel
First Friday Reception 6-8 on December 5, 2008
Winter Morning oil on 8 x8 canvas panel
Catherine Kiewit,
columbia art gallery,
small works
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