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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1875. [Letter on animal tails.] in R. L. Tait, The uses of tails in animals. Hardwicke's Science Gossip 11, no. 126 (1 June): 126-127, p. 127.
REVISION HISTORY: Scanned by Angus Carroll, transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2011. RN1
NOTE: Darwin's letter is here rendered in bold to make it more distinct from the surrounding article. The copy scanned is from the collection of Angus Carroll.
MR. LAWSON TAIT recently delivered a lecture on this important subject, before the Birmingham Natural History Society. We give a summary of the Lecturer's remarks: — It is not difficult to imagine how the prehensile tails of monkeys, opossums, and other animals, or the fly-switches of the horse or cow, have been useful in the struggles of these animals to master their surroundings; but there are some forms of the appendage which puzzle us to see how they can ever have been available as assistants in survival, and still more how they are still perpetuated in their apparently purposeless forms. Amongst them the bushy tail seen in the fox, dog, cat, &c, has long attracted my attention, and no intelligible meaning of it suggested itself to me till I came into possession of a cat which is perfectly deaf, and on whom I can, therefore, perform many experiments which would be impossible in an animal possessed of hearing. Like all cats, he is very fond of a warm place, and when he is asleep nothing but a touch or a very strong vibration communicated through what he is lying upon will wake him. If he goes to sleep before a big fire, he sleeps lying on his side, at full length, with head, tail, and limbs all stretched out. But if I place screens between him and the heat, he gradually coils himself up, apparently without waking, covering his limbs with his tail and head, so that as little surface is exposed as possible for loss of heat. If, in addition to screening off the heat, I directed a gentle current of cold air on him by means of a bellows, he soon buries his nose in the fur of his tail, or between his tail and thigh, so that almost his whole face is protected. On re-admitting the heat, the whole movements are reversed, and he resumes his extended position. The use of the tail is clearly, therefore, completely analogous to that of the respirator worn by people with delicate chests, the object being to abstract from the expired air, by means of fur in the one case and wire-gauze in the other, the heat which is being taken out with it; so that the cold inspired air shall be raised in temperature before it reaches the lungs, and thereby conduce to a conservation of the bodily heat. Some interesting considerations bear on this. Animals provided with bushy tails seem to be so as a matter of correlation of growth, their bodies being always provided with thickly-set and more or less soft fur. I cannot find an animal with a bushy tail which cannot, and does not, lie curled up when asleep. I went round the Zoological Gardens at Dublin on a very cold morning in February, and found the civet cat, and some other bushy-tailed animals, coiled up with their noses buried in the fur of their tails. In the squirrel this use of the tail is very marked and in birds the same object is accomplished by their burying their heads in the down, of the
shoulders. Animals provided with bushy tails are all solitary in their method of living, so far as I can find; and, therefore, an essential for their survival is some method by which variations of temperature shall be resisted. The use of the tail for this purpose is, I think, best of all illustrated in the great ant-eater (Myrmecophaga jubata), in which the hairs of the tail reach a very great size, and cover up the animal when reposing, so that he looks like a bundle of dried grass. It may also serve as a protection by mimicry in this case. Mr. Wallace states,1 also, that he uses his tail as an umbrella in a shower, and that the Indians divert his attention from themselves by rustling the leaves in imitation of a falling shower, and whilst he is putting up his umbrella they kill him. Some of the Myrmecophaga have the lower end of the tail naked, and use it as a prehensile organ, whilst the upper part remains covered with long hair, and is used as a respirator. In other edentulous animals, living in tropical countries, where they are not subjected to extremes of temperature, the long hair is replaced by scales, as in the pangolins, or the tail is absent, as in the sloths. Amongst the rodents two very curious contrasts in the matter of tail are presented by the guinea-pig and the squirrel. The former is gregarious, and any one who has kept a hutch of guinea-pigs must have seen how they protect themselves from loss of heat by packing themselves in rows arranged heads and tails; whilst the squirrel is solitary, and in his nest, during his winter sleep, coils himself up and covers his face with his tail. The same is seen in the jerboa, and in the dormouse during hibernation. Of the Carnivora, those which have bushy tails are all solitary in their method of living, though the wolf and jackal hunt in packs, and those with the bushiest tails are most exposed to low temperatures, as the Arctic fox and sable. Of the Quadrumana the marmosets afford a striking instance of a bushy tail as a probable provision for protecting these delicate creatures from depressions of their temperature. I have received an interesting letter2 from Mr. Darwin on this point, in which he says:— "Your view is new to me, and has only to be suggested for its probability to be recognized. I presume that of course you would thus account only in part for the retention of a tail, and for its modification. Your view does not preclude the conjoint use of the tail for other service, as for gliding through the air when flattened, as in the squirrel, or as a signal to beasts of prey, in accordance with Mr. Belt's ingenious suggestion in his 'Nicaraguan Travels,'3 with respect to the great bushy and conspicuously-coloured tail of the skunks. I wish we knew the use of the extraordinary hairy tail of the yak, which inhabits such cold regions, whether it serves solely as a fly-flapper. If poor Dr. Falconer4 had been alive, he could have told us." In reply I said that I had missed the yak in my search for animals with bushy tails. But I find that he also has a long additional fringe of hair nearly touching the ground. When he lies down with his limbs drawn up to, or under him, as all ruminants do, his tail and fringe would act as a rug, preventing loss of heat from the limbs and damage to them from frost-bite — as the tissues outside the bone are thin, and there is nothing but a rather weak circulation to resist loss of heat. The yak lives close to the line of perpetual snow, which is the condition in which such epithelial appendages as he has would most conduce to survival, and, therefore, that in which they would be most easily evolved by natural selection. This seems to open out a curious study of the mechanical arrangements which exist in animals for the conservation of heat — a very important feature in the struggle of life. Some forms of tails are yet a puzzle, notably the tails of rats and mice, for which I have as yet found no reasonable explanation.
1 Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace 1853, p. 452: "During rain it turns its long bushy tail up over its back and stands still; the Indians, when they meet with one, rustle the leaves, and it thinks rain is falling, and turning up its tail, they take the opportunity of killing it by a blow on the head with a stick."
2 Darwin wrote this letter c. 14-15 March 1875 in response to a letter of 12 March [1875] (Calendar 9885) by Lawson Tait [born Robert Lawson Tait] (1845-1899) Birmingham surgeon, gynaecologist and anti-vivisectionist. On 16 March [1875] (Calendar 9889) Tait wrote to thank Darwin for his reply. This printing is the only known fragment of Darwin's reply to survive. Much further information on the connections between Lawson Tait and Darwin can be found by searching the texts on Darwin Online, here. See also the printed items in Darwin's papers by Tait here.
3 Belt 1874. In CUL-DAR88.94 Darwin noted "Belt p 250 Skunk signal of Danger — Tail". In the second edition of Descent of man (1874), p. 543, Darwin wrote:
Colour seems to be advantageous to another animal, the skunk, in a manner of which we have had many instances in other classes. No animal will voluntarily attack one of these creatures on account of the dreadful odour which it emits when irritated; but during the dusk it would not easily be recognised and might be attacked by a beast of prey. Hence it is, as Mr. Belt believes, that the skunk is provided with a great white bushy tail, which serves as a conspicuous warning.
Darwin seems never to have written on the evolutionary origins of yak tails, though he did remark, in Variation (1868) vol. 2, p. 206 "According to Pallas the Mongolians endeavour to breed the Yaks or horse-tailed buffaloes with white tails, for these are sold to the Chinese mandarins as fly-flappers".
4 Hugh Falconer (1808-1865), physician and palaeontologist.
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I wonder if you've noticed, too, that regardless of where you are these days the topic of conversation eventually turns to 1) the weather, 2) whether all the crops will ever get into the ground, and/or 3) that mowing a lawn is pretty much a full-time job. Number 3 is where I am right now.
I am thankful that my livelihood doesn't depend on the weather, as is the case for all the farmers fretting over late planting, so (2) is not a worry for me. Neither is trying to get a new house built this summer, as friends of mine are attempting. Right now, progress is halting at best.
All the rain we've had is really merely an annoyance for me and many others. It's just that at approximately the same time I am congratulating myself on how nice the lawn looks now that it is freshly mowed, it rains once again. And that means that in just a few days the lawn won't look so good again.
Oh, the lawn will be lush and green, which is pretty much guaranteed this summer. It's just that neat and tidy and trimmed doesn't last.
With this kind of cool, wet summer, I'm just glad I no longer have teenagers in the house who are summer lifeguards. We did that for numerous summers. Several times when it was too cool and/or rainy to really get the pool season started, unhappy young lifeguards were stuck at home not making any money, not seeing their pool friends, and not getting any time in the sun.
I also remember the times I was on a camp staff when cool, rainy weather arrived at about the same time the campers came in to stay for a month. Because of the weather, some of the programming had to be adjusted, and sometimes clothes and gear got damp, and that generally made the girls unhappy. That easily makes the transition to homesickness, which isn't a good time for anyone involved. If the staff wasn't very careful, rainy, gloomy days at the start of a camp session could become a death knell for the session. Yet It always amazed me how some sunny weather dried up not only the sky but also the tears, and camp was up and going again, full force.
Interesting, isn't it, what an effect the weather has on all of us? I appreciate that it is not something we mere mortals can control, even with all of the technical information and scientific instruments we have available in this 21st century.
And you know, when it gets right down to it, I think that's just fine.

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Bill Plotkin, Ph.D. Nature-based Soul Encounter: A Day with Bill Plotkin
|Sunday Feb 12, 2012, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
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What do we mean by "soul" and "underworld," by "nature," by "Spirit" or "Mystery" (or even "God")? What's the relationship between all of these? What does it mean to be an initiated human adult, how do we become one, why are there so few in the Western world, and what does this have to do with our current urgent need for cultural transformation? What's the difference between psychological healing, psychological wholing, and the initiatory journey to soul? We'll explore these realms and others through discussion, poetry, and experiential practices on the land.
Bill Plotkin, Ph.D., is a depth psychologist, wilderness guide, and agent of cultural transformation. As founder of western Colorado's Animas Valley Institute in 1981, he has guided thousands of women and men through nature-based initiatory passages, including a contemporary, Western adaptation of the pan-cultural vision quest. Previously, he has been a research psychologist (studying non-ordinary states of consciousness), professor of psychology, psychotherapist, rock musician, and whitewater river guide. In 1979, on a solo winter ascent of an Adirondack peak, Bill experienced a "call to adventure," leading him to abandon academia in search of his true calling. Bill is the author of Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche (an experiential guidebook) and Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World (a nature-based stage model of human development through the entire lifespan)
Kate Donohue, PhD, REAT, Death Dances Around My Bed: Frida Kahlo and the Archetype of Death
|Saturday March 17, 2012, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Stevenson 1002, Sonoma State University
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"Death dances around my bed."
Frida Kahlo's words about her death dance became a vivid portrait of how our unwanted agonies can be our greatest teachers. This presentation uses a Jungian expressive arts therapy lens to explore the intimate relationship between Frida Kahlo's art and the Archetypal Death, as Kahlo's paintings illuminate her life story and illustrate how her artistic images were her psyche's voice.
Frida Kahlo suffered from childhood polio and was gravely injured at the age of 18 in a bus accident which confined her to her bed for a year. Kahlo's life was marked by numerous surgeries, infertility, partner infidelity, and she turned from a medical career to art. For Kahlo, life and death existed simultaneously from her birth till her death, a paradox that compelled her to create images of her bloody and golden body. She boldly painted her reality with its pain, losses, and betrayals: the shadow usually hidden was revealed; and in her later years a metamorphosis took place on her canvas.
Frida imagined herself wearing a Mexican death mask, a symbol of being born of a dead (depressed) mother. Her death mask became a symbol of all her family complexes. Through a deep appreciation of her Mexican and Aztec motherculture, Frida felt connected to Coatlique, the Aztec goddess of death, destruction, dismemberment and life. Her intense relationship with her husband Diego Rivera, the Mexican muralist, intensified her bond with her motherculture, which opened her to more archetypal images in her art. Kahlo's later paintings and self-portraits changed dramatically as life started to leave her body. In her later art we may see the ego and archetype and manifestations of the self and Self.
Participants will be invited to express their experience through inner-directed somatic, visual and poetic active imagination processes. We will close with a group discussion.
Kate Donohue, Ph.D., R.E.A.T. is a founding faculty member of the Expressive Arts Therapy program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, coordinates the expressive Arts Therapy group supervision there, and is a founding member of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association board and a Professional Standards Board Member. Kate conducts supervision workshops and Jungian oriented expressive arts consultation groups. Dance and painting inform all her expressive arts therapy and supervision.
Tina Stromsted, PhD, MFT, BC-DTR,. Awakening Soul's Body: The Dance of Three
|Saturday April 14, 2012, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
PE 1, Sonoma State University
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This workshop invites participants to explore the nonverbal underpinnings of psychotherapy through direct experience of bodily-felt sensations, imagination, emotions, and physical action. Authentic movement, an embodied form of C.G. Jung's active imagination method, provides a simple, yet powerful, vehicle for self-knowing, bridging body and psyche through expressive movement.
"The Dance of Three" is a further application of Authentic Movement developed by Marion Woodman in her BodySoul Rhythms approach. It involves a primary mover, an engaged responder, and a reflective witness, each exploring the dynamics of their relationship. This approach can enhance the ability to be present, with oneself and with another, in a more vital, increasingly conscious relationship, inviting a level of perception of self and other that evokes deep respect and empathy.
Recent advances in developmental neuroscience point to the right brain's receptivity to nonverbal elements such as facial expression, voice tone, movement, affect, music, imagery and the play of symbols in dreams and poetry. From our earliest beginnings, empathic relating by the other is an essential component in the formation of the self. Affective mirroring and embodied presence provide a foundation for the development of consciousness in the cells, and a sense of well being and belonging in the world. Sensitivity to the body can allow therapists to attend to this language as it arises in our clients, and in ourselves, hearing the soul's call and working with the obstacles to its fulfillment.
This didactic and experiential workshop will provide a temenos for attending to gestures that arise from the depths of the body, expressing the soul. Through respectful inner listening, moving, witnessing, drawing and writing we will support the unfolding of a source that informs the self, relationship, and the natural world. No experience in dance is necessary, only curiosity and a bit of courage to open to the unknown.
The day's schedule is as follows:
10 am - 1 pm: Brief lecture followed by a warmup and introduction to the experiential work.
1 - 2 pm: Brown bag lunch, beautiful outdoor spaces on campus for relaxation.
2 - 5 pm: Movement exploration.
While we do not charge for our Public Programs, donations (checks made out to Sonoma State University) enable us to continue to offer inspiring programs such as these.
Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., M.F.T., BC-DTR, is a Jungian analyst, somatic psychotherapist, and Board-certified dance therapist with a private practice in San Francisco. Past co-founder and faculty of the Authentic Movement Institute in Berkeley and a founding member of the Women's Spirituality program at CIIS, she teaches at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, in the Depth Psychology/Somatics Doctoral program at Pacifica Graduate Institute, with Marion Woodman and her team in BodySoul Rhythms Leadership Intensives, and at other universities and healing centers internationally. With roots in theater and dance, and thirty-five years of clinical experience, her publications explore the integration of body, mind, psyche and soul in healing and transformation. www.AuthenticMovement-BodySoul.com .
Richard Stein, MD, The Works of Henri Corbin: Jung's Psychology and Persian Sufism
|Saturday Sept 29, 2012, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Art 108, Sonoma State University
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Some thirty-five years ago, I dreamed that my analyst, Dr. Joseph Henderson, was entirely green – skin, hair, eyes. He suggested that I read something Jung had written about "the green man," but he could not remember where it was. Back at my office, I found it on the next page of Symbols of Transformation, which I was reading at the time. Over the decades since, other synchronicities have kept me intrigued with the curious figure of Khidr in Sufi mysticism.
More recently, I have begun to study the work of Henry Corbin (1903-1978), a French scholar at the Sorbonne, who delved deeply into the roots of Persian Sufism of the 12th to 13th centuries. Corbin was a regular speaker at the Eranos Lectures and thus knew Jung. He introduced the idea of the mundus imaginalis into Jungian psychology and showed us that active imagination is many centuries old in Persia. Corbin's critique of Jung is both respectful and insightful, and adds a spiritual dimension to depth psychology from an unexpected source. The talk will include tentative questions about Corbin's views on Christianity, Islam, and Jung's theory of the shadow, with time for discussion.
Richard Stein, M.D., is a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst who has been in private practice in San Francisco for 35 years. His experience in India in the early 1970's led him to a lifelong exploration of the spiritual as well as clinical dimensions of Jungian depth psychology. He has taught for years in the analytic training as well as the public programs at the Jung Institute in San Francisco, as well as other training centers. His study of the parallels and differences between Jung and Sri Aurobindo has been expanded by explorations in shamanism, Sufism, and the kabbalah.
Exploring Archetypal Psychology and the Work of James Hillman with the Films of Mark Kidel, Saturday Oct 20
|Saturday Oct 20, 2012, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Art 108, Sonoma State University
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The renowned English filmmaker Mark Kidel started working with archetypal psychologist James Hillman after a weekend seminar on "Animals in Myth, Dreams and Fairy Tales." We'll view several of Kidel's award-winning films. "Kind of Blue" is a lyrical film essay on melancholia and the necessity of going inward. "The Architecture of the Imagination" is a series of films exploring the links between architectural images such as the door, window, bridge, and tower, and their psychological meanings. Interviews with Hillman are contained in the films, as well as the gorgeous images and haunting resonant music that are Kidel's signatures.
Richard Katz, PhD, Synergy, Healing and Empowerment: Insights from Indigenous Wisdom
|Saturday Nov 10, 2012, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Stevenson 1002, Sonoma State University
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Too often in Western-oriented health care, the valuable resource of healing is in scarce supply, with access favoring those with prestige and power. The hunting-gathering Ju/'hoansi of the Kalahari Desert provide a perspective of special evolutionary significance, as they offer an alternative healing model based on synergy.
With their spiritually infused healing dance occupying the central ritual of community life, the Ju/'hoansi demonstrate how synergy can be released to make healing resources expanding, renewable and increasingly available. When synergy prevails in a community, the whole available healing network is greater than the sum of the parts, as what is good for one is good for all. With the release of synergy, those previously denied access to healing are empowered, and they become active participants in the generation and utilization of valuable healing resources.
After telling the story of this Ju/'hoan healing dance and delineating the model of synergy it expresses, we will ask how we can apply Ju/'hoan teachings about synergy and healing to our contemporary Western-oriented approach to health so that we can create a more effective and socially just way of caring and healing.
Dick Katz, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus, First Nations University of Canada, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan. He has dedicated over 40 years to the respectful exchange of knowledge between Indigenous and Western approaches to healing and spiritual growth. After receiving his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Harvard he worked with Indigenous healers and elders around the world, including the hunting-gathering Ju/'hoansi of the Kalahari Desert, the Fijians of the South Pacific, and the Cree and Saulteaux First Nations of Saskatchewan. His efforts to develop therapeutic services sensitive to the needs of Aboriginal people has helped generate models of best practice for Western clinicians. He is the author of six books on culture and healing, including the classic Boiling Energy: Community Healing Among the Kalahari Kung; Nobody's Child; and most recently, Synergy, Healing and Empowerment: Insights from Cultural Diversity.
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A statement from the international alliance on Tuesday says that all five soldiers died on Monday.
It did not give further details on where the attack happened nor the nationality of the soldiers killed in the attack. Coalition policy is for home countries to identify their military dead.
The deaths bring to 36 the number of NATO soldiers killed so far this year in Afghanistan, with eight service members killed in June.
Casualties have been falling in the U.S.-led military coalition as its forces pull back to allow the Afghan army and police to fight the Taliban insurgency. All combat troops are scheduled to be withdrawn from the country by the end of this year.


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Avocado Seafood Salad
A succulent combination of seafood is presented in avocado cups. Orange segments and pomegranate seeds add beautiful color, and a creamy vinaigrette tops it all.
1⁄2 cup mayonnaise
1⁄4 cup lemon juice
1 1⁄2 tbsp. Dijon mustard
2 tsp. garlic, minced
1 tbsp. capers
1⁄2 lb. squid, cooked, cut into 1⁄4-in. rings
4 oz. bay scallops, cooked
12 oz. rock shrimp, cooked
1 red bell pepper, finely diced
1 yellow bell pepper, finely diced
1 green bell pepper, finely diced
Salt and pepper, as needed
4 avocados
8 cups mixed greens, dressed in creamy vinaigrette
2 oranges, cut into segments
1⁄2 cup pomegranate seeds
1. In a large bowl, stir together mayonnaise, 1⁄8 cup lemon juice, mustard, garlic, and capers. Add squid, scallops, rock shrimp, and bell peppers; season with salt and pepper.
2. Chill the avocados, then cut lengthwise in half. Twist in half and sprinkle with remaining lemon juice to prevent discoloration.
3. Place 1⁄4 cup seafood salad in each avocado cup. Toss dressed greens with oranges and pomegranates and serve.


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CHESTERTOWN, Md. – Jimmy Langton tallied five goals and Tyler Powell recorded 15 saves as the York College men's lacrosse team posted an 11-6 win over Washington College Wednesday afternoon in Chestertown, Md. With the non-conference triumph, the Spartans begin the year at 4-0, their best start in program history, while the Shoremen drop to 1-2 on the season.
Langton came up huge for the Green and White on the offensive end as he netted a season-high five tallies. All five of Langton's goals came during the first three quarters and proved significant as there were at most two goals separating the squads on the scoreboard prior to each of his tallies. Transferring into the Spartan program this season, Langton has provided an immediate spark for York having already registered 12 goals and three assists on the season.
Defensively, Powell had yet another fantastic performance in just his first year in the Spartan net. Another transfer to York, Powell turned away 15 shots over his 60 minutes of play, while not allowing a single Shoremen goal in either the second or fourth quarters.
After a 2-2 first quarter, the Spartans turned in a great second frame as they outscored Washington 4-0. B.J. Blaker got the Green and White rolling in that second quarter scoring his first of the day, courtesy of a Seth Krolus assist, with 11:43 left on the clock. Langton later followed that tally with his third goal of the afternoon with 7:23 showing and just 14 seconds later James Lowe notched another tally to bring York's lead to 5-2. Lowe then assisted on the Spartans' final goal of the half as Josh Gamble scored with 59 seconds to go, giving the Green and White a 6-2 advantage heading into the break.
The third quarter was packed with goals as York notched three goals while the Shoremen found the back of the net four times. Washington came to within two goals on three separate occasions but that would be as close as the Spartans would allow. With the score at 8-6, Jason Underwood finished an Adam Cooper assist with just 2:02 to play in the third, stretching York's lead to three.
Carrying that 9-6 lead into the fourth, York proved the only squad to score in the final quarter – with goals courtesy of Blaker and Gamble – but needed a strong defensive effort to keep Washington off the board.
In the fourth, Powell came up with eight saves as he was peppered with 13 shots in the quarter. The Spartans also caused three turnovers, including one by Powell, while collecting nine ground balls over the final 15 minutes.
On the day, York outshot their hosts 38-33, including 12-4 in the second quarter, while the squads split the face-offs at ten each. Corey Cooke provided most of York's face-off triumphs as he went 9-for-16 against the Shoremen. Notably, the Green and White had seven players record assists on the afternoon including Gamble, Lowe, and Underwood who scored and dished out a helper.
The Spartans will look to continue their current streak on Saturday, March 12, as they host visiting Messiah. The opening face-off is slated for 1:00 pm from York's Kinsley Field.
PHOTO: Corey Cooke, who went 9-for-16 in face-offs against the Shoremen, cradles the ball during a Spartan game last season. Courtesy of Zach Clabaugh - www.sharpedgefoto.com


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(Photo source) Sorin Antohi is a name that chimes controversy. And a lot more besides. He had what should have been an illustrious career ahead of him, but screwed up bigtime. Born in 1957, Antohi is described by Wikipedia as a 'Romanian historian, essayist and journalist'. He held the position of head of history at the Central European University in Budapest and was an active member of GDS (Grupului pentru Dialog Social). He was also a Securitate snitch and should be shoved in the same bag as the likes of Cornel Todea and Balaceanu-Stolnici....
There's no scoop in this post. It's an 'old' story, but one I had not heard up until now. The case of Antohi and his sordid past didn't make much noise in the Romanian press - or at least, not as much as you'd think it would, but Truth v Ambition is a regular game in Romanian politics which these days leaves most people relatively unfazed. It is a tragedy that someone with so much promise ended up conducting both audacious fraud and profound deception that were both so supremely shameful...
So, what happened? In a 2006 open letter published in Revista 22, Antohi admitted to Cotidianul that he had collaborated with the Securitate during the 1970s and '80s under the codename "Valentin". That isn't particularly shocking really, since it happened all the time. What is shocking is that this snitch went on to become a leading authority on the issue of how Romania and countries like it should deal with their turbulent histories. Antohi was also a participant in the official process by which the Romanian government declassified Securitate files and passed judgment on those who secretly served the security services. As part of a campaign called "Clean Voices" – aimed initially at identifying former Securitate agents among the country's leading journalists – Antohi's files came under scrutiny. He was forced to confess his secret past, and made to step down from the commission set up by President Traian Băsescu to study such cases that had happened under communism.
He also claimed that he had been persecuted, and physically abused by the same Securitate as a member of the Iasi Group of anti-communist intellectuals, which included Dan Petrescu, Liviu Antonesei, Luca Piţu and others. As an informant, he claimed that he offered non-detrimental information on the political views of many of his close friends. I wonder if these 'close' friends saw it in the same light.
Worse still, THIS site says, 'Antohi actively sought to make sure his own past would never become public knowledge. According to reports in the Romanian media, the government of Adrian Năstase – who, before serving as PM in 2000-2004 was a communist apparatchik, and once published an article entitled "Human Rights: A Retrograde Concept" – intervened to re-classify or destroy the Securitate files of numerous leading public figures, including Antohi. But even if these charges are not proven true, the body then in charge of vetting Securitate files, the CNSAS (National Council for Studying the Securitate's Archives), apparently broke the law by not disclosing Antohi's collaboration. (Legislation passed the year before Năstase's election mandated disclosure for executives and founders of public institutions, such as the Group for Social Dialogue, which counts Antohi among its founder members.) "The CNSAS itself has been in violation of Law 187/1999 due to the non-disclosure of Antohi's previous collaboration with the Securitate," said Dan Visoiu, a Romanian-American lawyer who helped found the Romania Think Tank, a leading research and advocacy group based in Bucharest.'
Apparently, his files disappeared for years. We are talking about someone who participated in a very high-level cover-up
But that's not all. Wikipedia says: 'On October 20, 2006, the Romanian press reported that representatives of the Romanian Ministry of Education discovered that Antohi never defended his doctoral thesis in the country. It appears that he failed to write his PhD thesis, and was expelled from the doctoral program of the University of Iaşi in 2000. His CV at the Central European University also listed several books that Antohi claimed were published by Polirom press, but which journalists from the Ziua de Iaşi daily were unable to locate; Antohi was unavailable for comment.'
Pants on fire... For more on that, see HERE. As for why Antohi thought he could get away with it, one answer would be his reputation as a networking genius and self-promoter, and another - his supreme arrogance.
As a consequence of these scandals, he resigned from his position in Budapest and also from the Pasts, Inc. Institute for Historical Studies. He remains an editor of the academic journal East European Politics and Societies to this day, where Vladimir Tismăneanu is chair of the editorial committee.
More scandal saw the light of day in July-August 2008 in Germany and Romania, after Antohi co-directed a Conference with the financial help of the Institute for Cultural Studies. Newspapers in both countries alleged that he had represented himself as the director of two research institutes (one in Germany and one in Romania) which did not exist. At this time the scandal was, in part, revived by Herta Müller who, in a letter to the Frankfurter Rundschau, asked how Antohi, an informer from the age of 19, and someone who had falsified his PhD., could possibly have been invited to an event at a Romanian cultural institute in Berlin. An excellent question indeed.
The Pestiside.hu editor sums Antohi's fall up perfectly: 'What drove him to live a life of monstrous lies – first betraying his friends as the informant "Valentin," and then his students and colleagues as the fraudulent "Dr." Antohi – was nothing more or less than simple ambition; the willingness to disregard inconvenient boundaries to his own advancement. (This is assuming he didn't volunteer for Securitate snitch duty out of a sense of duty to a regime he supported.) What makes him more noteworthy than the average liar and betrayer is that he did this while allegedly dedicating his life to the search for truth.'
One of Antohi's 'subjects of interest', shall we say, was Chris Lawson, a British writer/editor, TESOL teacher and published journalist who was living and working in Iasi in the '70s. This post is principally to share his article (2006) with you, for it makes fascinating reading.
Over to Chris (and thank you for allowing me to copy/paste!):
By Vivid writer: Christopher Lawson
Posted: 30/12/2006
Vivid's man in Iasi relates how he was implicated in the investigations that revealed Sorin Antohi's Securitate past
Guildenstern: Our names shouted out in a certain dawn … a message ... a summons ... There must have been a moment, at the beginning, when we could have said no. But somehow we missed it. Well, we'll know better next time.
Rosencrantz: We've done nothing wrong. We didn't harm anyone. Did we?
Guildenstern: I can't remember.
Guildenstern: All your life you live so close to truth it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into line it's like being ambushed by a grotesque.
(Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, 1967)
(Photo source: Sorin Antohi, Securitate collaborator) Since his resignation on 23 October, his name and title at his workplace have disappeared into cyberspace, although he has hardly been absent from the Romanian press over the past several weeks. I am belatedly adding to the column inches for an English-speaking audience, confident that Sorin Antohi's cunning, calculating face will soon return to our television screens.
The former professor of history at the Soros-funded Central European University, Budapest, and founding director and principal fundraiser of Pasts Inc., the Institute of Historical Studies, resigned all his positions on 23 October when Ziarul de Iasi revealed that he had lied about a non-existent doctorate from the University of Iasi. A month before, he had published a lengthy confession in Cotidianul admitting that he had been an informer for the Securitate in his late teens and early twenties. Like more notorious figures such as Dan Voiculescu, he claimed that nobody had suffered as a result of his activities. Most shockingly, Antohi had also been a member of the CNSAS, the Council for the study of the Securitate archives (www.cnsas.ro), an independent body accountable to Parliament, until he resigned for "health reasons".
As in all scandals from Profumo to Watergate, the cover-up rather than the case itself constitutes the real offence. The CNSAS, a commission appointed by Parliament six years ago to declassify and pass judgment on servants of the security forces, did not disclose Antohi's collaborationist past. His records "disappeared". An ambitious academic who became an authority on the oppressive past of his country, supposedly dedicated to the search for truth, is revealed as an opportunistic liar.
After all, he had had 16 years to come clean about his past as an informer for the communist secret police. In 1990, as a servant of the new Iliescu government, he had even presented himself as a long-time opponent of communism. The Romanian word for copper's nark is turnator. Somehow the Zulu and Xhosa word impimpi (BrE: collaborator, scab, spy) from the apartheid era, is more expressive.
Impimpi probably lied about his doctorate when the CEU hired him simply because he thought he could get away with it. Antohi, whose learning and intelligence blazes as brightly as his less admirable qualities, had completed nearly all of the formalities required for a doctorate except the defence itself. Universal acclaim greeted his books, although checks are being made on some of the publications he listed.
I write as someone named in his confession. But in the comparatively benign 1970s, as a British lecturer, I was a mere foreigner. My name has been plastered across the Romanian press linked to bird-brained allegations. But that's the worst that's happened to me.
Many Romanians suffered unspeakable horrors in the years between 1948 and 1964. As far as I am concerned, it is a badge of honour to be considered "hostile" to a system which had been responsible for the deaths of at least one million people in the whole country, intellectuals, believers of various faiths, village and factory leaders, and old-established families who had created modernity in a previous era.
A further quarter of a million had perished in state institutions, thousands on grandiose construction projects. Countless family members were traumatised. Individuals were kept in a state of permanent terror or forced into exile. Hundreds of thousands of womens' lives were ruined by Elena Ceausescu's lunatic ban on contraception and abortion. Even if this semi-literate, vindictive woman may not specifically have forbidden sex education, her actions created several generations of young women deprived of the most basic family planning procedures, many of whom died after botched abortions.
I came to Romania to further my career as a TESOL teacher. I wanted to work at university level, and, newly qualified, knew I would make myself interesting to future employers if I survived a two-year contract in a "difficult" communist country. I chose Romania because I felt that Romanian would be easier to learn than a Slav language.
Although British Council presence in Romania dates from 1938, when Bucharest was one of the first five cities where it set up an overseas office, government-inspired xenophobia reigned in the mid-Seventies. Many Romanians simply could not understand why foreigners came to live in the Socialist Republic. In what passed for humour at that time, British lecturers were told that they had had a reputation for being homosexuals, Jews or spies, or sometimes all three. This so-called joke neatly summed up the homophobia, anti-Semitism and paranoia prevalent in that decade.
Antohi, who was then a teenager still at high school, visited my apartment one Friday evening, and then came regularly. I had a large collection of LPs, which included the complete works of Bob Dylan, kept open house at weekends, and welcomed all and sundry. Most were university students. Antohi had no business coming. I did not know him at all. One of my students introduced him as a rock music fan.
After a number of further visits, when I assumed he was practising his (very good) school English, he started provocative, rather aggressive discussions, and assumed an air of over-familiarity. His behaviour became so strange that I soon smelt a rat. This pipsqueak was too transparent in his dedublarea (BrE: duplicity) to be a good spy.
All the foreign lecturers were spied on, their telephones tapped, their letters opened, their conversations reported, their movements noted.
In this atmosphere I decided that my only recourse was to be myself. Antohi's controller, a Securitate colonel, lived near the Zona Industriala, the location of my casa de oaspeti (BrE: guest house.) It was very convenient for Antohi to visit both places. My file says I was "unduly sympathetic" to the "co-inhabiting nationalities", especially the Transylavanian Saxons. Well, I spoke German and found the Saxons far more westernized than the average Romanian intellectual. One young Saxon in particular, an architecture student, visited frequently.
Most entertainingly, I "reported to the Cultural Attache at the British Embassy" and "recruited Romanians" for the service of Her Majesty.
Impimpi is the only possible source for this nonsense. As the heroic veteran dissident Doina Cornea points out, informers typically exaggerate so they appear invaluable to their bosses. In fact, I wrote one annual report each year of my stay about my working conditions at the university, and what it was like to live in Iasi. These reports, entirely concerned with educational matters, did not even name names. I delivered each of the two reports by hand to the British Embassy.
My teaching scrupulously avoided politics. Female students in my classes told me within the first two weeks which students in my classes were informers. My lessons contained only non-political themes, either literary or based on humanistic psychology, an intellectually shaky approach which nevertheless encouraged students to talk about their personal lives, their hopes and dreams. With the American lecturer, I projected documentary films from our embassies on an ancient Russian projector. We ran a borrowing library for students and started an English club for secondary school teachers and pupils.
With a group of dedicated first-year students, I put on three dramatic evenings at the Casa Tineretului, as it was then called. I scoured the work of modern British dramatists to find non-political material, and lighted on Tom Stoppard. A short play A Separate Peace, which concerned a mysteriously healthy man who checked into a hospital formed the centrepiece. The would-be patient just wanted to be looked after by pretty, sympathetic nurses. A brief biography and short extracts from other Stoppard plays made up the rest of the evening.
I was just in time. That summer in London saw a performance of Every Good Boy Deserves a Favour. Andre Previn had challenged Stoppard to put on a play containing a symphony orchestra. The Czech-born playwright chose a Russian prison camp as his setting.
Antohi went on to study English at Cuza University, when he wihdrew from his work for the Securitate. Subsequently he was resident at the Universities of Michigan and Bielefeld and one of the universities in Montpelier. He wrote and published voluminously.
Central and East European, as well as Russian poets have always had a special relationship with Shakespeare's Hamlet, the almost-definitive version of which was first performed in 1601 in the dying years of the Elizabethan police state. Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth's spymaster, had set up and run a tentacular network of secret agents from Rheims to Constantinople to prevent Catholic assassination plots against the Virgin Queen. Modern writers from the then-communist states instantly recognised and identified with Elsinore, a walled city seething with spies, and reserved especial scorn for Rosencrantz, Guildenstern and Polonius.
Antohi, described by his erstwhile colleagues as a shining light of Romanian intellectual life, may have fallen like Lucifer, although his demise hardly ranks as Shakespearean tragedy. When the Treens invade Romania from the planet Venus as the first step to world domination, he will certainly re-emerge as National Security Adviser to the Mekon. Even as a scared 19-year-old, he could have said No. Am I sympathetic to his self-induced plight? I quote the Danish prince on the fate of the attendant lords: "Why, man, they did make love to this employment. They are not near my conscience."


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The popular herb ginkgo biloba does not reduce the risk of dementia or Alzheimer's disease, according to a study of more than 1,500 elderly patients who took the supplement. Often touted as a way to preserve aging memories, no large-scale, randomized clinical trial -- until now -- has thoroughly evaluated the safety and effectiveness of ginkgo biloba extract as a way to prevent dementia.
Ginkgo extract sales reached $107 million in 2007, according to the Nutrition Business Journal.
In the new government-funded study, volunteers ages 75 and older with either normal mental function or mild cognitive impairment took a twice-daily placebo or ginkgo biloba extract (for a total of 240 milligrams per day).
The researchers tested the volunteers' memory and other mental abilities every six months for about six years. Ginkgo supplements were no better than a placebo for preventing dementia, according to the study, which was sponsored by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. It appears in the November 19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"I'm disappointed," says lead study author Steven DeKosky, M.D., vice president and dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. "It would've been wonderful to find something relatively well known and inexpensive that might have been helpful and protective." DeKosky was chair of the department of neurology at the University of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, at the time of the study. Why these energy boosters are poor substitutes for sleep
More than 5 million people in the United States have Alzheimer's disease, according to the Alzheimer's Association. It's the most common form of dementia and affects somewhere between 60 to 80 percent of patients with memory loss and other mental ability problems. DeKosky says the number of people who will be affected by dementia may triple in the next 20 to 30 years as the baby boom generation ages.
Ginkgo extracts are derived from the leaves of the Ginkgo biloba tree; they contain substances called flavonoids and terpene lactones, which have appeared promising in laboratory studies for the prevention of Alzheimer's disease. However, results in humans have been mixed, at best. Despite that mixed record, ginkgo extract sales reached $107 million in 2007, according to the Nutrition Business Journal. Eight natural remedies that may help you sleep
DeKosky says that there were two important conclusions to take away from the study: Ginkgo biloba is ineffective in battling dementia, but also that the herb is relatively safe. Still, some research has suggested that it may cause excessive bleeding.
In the new study, people taking ginkgo were more likely than placebo users to have a bleeding-related stroke (16 events with ginkgo versus eight with placebo). However, the results were not statistically significant and may have been due to chance.
Because of the potential for unknown side effects, "it is untenable to recommend a drug or nutraceutical in the absence of efficacy evidence simply because it could possibly help and initially appears harmless," Lon S. Schneider, M.D., of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, said in an editorial accompanying the study.
Others in the medical community agree that the supplement doesn't seem to be worthwhile.
"I don't think there is a role for ginkgo biloba in human health at this point," says Gary J. Kennedy, M.D., director of geriatric psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. "This study was long enough that if ginkgo had any protective capacity to prevent Alzheimer's or slow cognitive decline, it would have shown it."
The best way to prevent dementia is to keep the mind active, whether it's by reading books, doing crossword puzzles, playing sudoku, or participating in other creative endeavors, says Kennedy. All antidepressants work the same, but some pricier than others
DeKosky also says that what's good for the heart is good for the head; thus, diet and exercise are also important in keeping the brain sharp.
"I would have loved to have [ginkgo extracts] work. Even if it slowed things down by 20 percent, that's a huge number, when you multiply it by the millions of people who have [Alzheimer's] disease or are at risk for it," says DeKosky. "We didn't do this study just to prove that something didn't work."
The Natural Products Association (NPA), which represents ginkgo manufacturers, released a statement that said the new research can't be used to make broad conclusions because the average age of the participants was nearly 80, and the findings may not apply to the general population.
"I still think there is great promise for ginkgo biloba," says Daniel Fabricant, Ph.D., the vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs at the NPA.
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Fedora Events: Fedora Day in Menoufiya
It's a Local Event for Fedora organized by MUFIX-Community at Faculty of Computers and Information in University of Menoufyia, Egypt. The main objectives of this Event is to give Students more Information about Fedora and Power of OpenSource Products. Also Spread out Fedora in Egypt and all should know that Fedora always leed ,never follow Students have to know that Fedora is so easy Operating System like (e.g Windows) so I hope this Event encourage Students to use Fedora and know it's power
- 1- Session[1]: "Welcome to Fedora".
- 2- Session[2]: "Power of OpenSource".
- 3- Giveaways distribution for students like ( T-shirts + stickers + Fedora CD/DVD).
I'm planning to make two sessions in this event one to talk about Fedora and how it's related to Red Hat. So that students have a good idea about Fedora and know that it's a friend of Red Hat. The second session, we will talk about Open Source Technologies and it's effect in industry and software development . Finally , We will distribute on the attendees some Fedora Giveaways like T-shirts ,Stickers and Fedora DVD and Live media.
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- Date :Tuesday ,16 December 2008 and 23 December 2008.
- Time :11:00 am-12:30 pm
- Where:Faculty of Computers and Information - Menoufyia University - Egypt
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Get Ready for a Bumpy Ride
Man, here we go again. Not even two days before the beginning of the Tampa Bay Rays 14th thrill seeking journey through the 2011 season and I am already extremely tired from the massive jump and down stomach wrenching trip we took since the being shown the dirty end of the Game 5 finale of the 2010 ALDS in Tropicana Field.
Believe me, I do not mind the twisty gut checks, the sudden drops of talent or even the unsuspecting high steeping emotional road this team is going to have to endure to again be considered anything better than the "Show" (Third place) category. But I am still a bit wary of increasing stomach shifts upwards towards the Adam's Apple with the vulnerability of this team set dead center for everyone to poke a stick at right now.
Sure I am expecting more than a single intense emotional drop in 2011 that not only takes your breathe away, but does something to overall mode of team confidence and inner soul that can not be repaired by just a few spotty wins. That is where the images and actions of guys like Manny Ramirez and Johnny Damon will make their first precision-point impact on this young squad. Anything else would be a step in the wrong direction and could send mix signals to the young team in Carolina Blue. Already there are plenty of those brooding dark D-Rays souls who are beginning to hark the warnings towards people like me about the possible enduring 2011 side effects of believing in the whole hype and propaganda machine's message before there is a formidable concrete foundation under this team to amply support it through thick and thin. Believe me when I tell you here, there is no "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey anywhere hidden upon and around the clutches of my I-Pod music mix.
I am reminded again and again in the recesses of my optimistic mind that these same dark dwelling remnants of D-Rays carnage of losing possibly have not even attended a single Rays Spring Training game since the Rays took their gloves and bats from downtown St. Petersburg to the woodsy fauna of Port Charlotte, Florida back in March 2008. Could this disheartening band doom and gloom still be stuck emotionally and visually in the muck and mire of their season-ending Rays emotions pertaining to a pre-2008 celebratory season.
I would be setting myself up for a serious case of heartbreak if I had not seen this club on their first day with my own eyes. Seen the desire and the passion set deep within their eyes and know the character of these Rays souls. Sure there was a mass exodus that rivals rats from a sinking ship, but still the Rays schooner is afloat and steaming for another MLB season. But still those with dark clouds just seem to haunt my existence right now. Or could they be the eventual realists and I am the dream with my head in the clouds?
Not sure anymore. Not sure of much expect this team has heart, soul and maybe a little extra that people are discounting right now. Possibly this team has that scent of fate and destiny within their DNA, or could it be another spiraling season like 2009 where you are not sure where the Rays would land, or if they would again set themselves on a solid surface. My emotions are not generally shipwrecked on an isolated island, but the image keep popping into my mind that I might be the optimistic one. I am might be the one to call this team to arms, I might be just a little too pumped up for the ride.
But that is the fun about a season you can not script. A team that has unlimited potential and possibilities that could explode or implode within a matter of minutes or games. Sure there will more than a few heart-wrenching losses or close defeats, but will that define this team as "lonesome losers" or possibly hexed? Or will the stark reality hit me around mid-season that this team is reloading, not competitive enough to thrash their way to the top. I am not betting again this crew, not for a second.
Even though youth will command the stage from the rotation to the bench, this team has the tools to fight the good fight and come out on top. The Bullpen might be a huge question mark, but it was also at the end of the Spring of 2010…and they only became the best Bullpen in the American League. I am a total optimist. Always have been, always will be. My soul tells me this team has the vinegar and bravado to stand up to an opponent on paper who could crush their dreams.
But people forget this Rays squad has tasted the sweetness of the postseason, and are hungry again to take the next step. Collectively this is a redesigned and re-focused team that is eager to again to take that next step to reclaiming their spot in this league. On the horizon will be teams that on paper might have the firepower or pitching finesse to handcuff their pursuits, but if it was so easy, then the Yankees or Red Sox would be handed a playoff berth in April.
I do not predict seasons. There are too many variables that can go wrong with a single throw. But, I will enlighten you to one thing that constantly swirls around in my head about this 2011 Rays squad. They are going to take their lumps, dish out their own brand of punishment and eventually gain the respect they lost when their 2010 season came to a premature close. Statistically this Rays squad might not be pretty, might not have the multi-faceted weapons of their past, but they can take this ride with glee, glory and finish it with a unexpected rise to the top.
Remember, in 2010 the Rays were considered the third best team by most prognosticators from sea-to-shining sea. They might have cut their case a bit close by winning on the last day of the season, but that struggle made a lot of these young Rays hungry to take the ride again and again. People discount the last game heroics of the Rays. It not only handed them their second American League East title in three seasons, it gave them the best record in Major League Baseball.
Not bad for a team most people in baseball destined for a supporting role with no much chance of receiving the end prize. But there will be those unexpected twists, turns and gut-check moments that will define this Rays team. Set them either on a course for glory or early gold tee times. This rollercoaster ride is officially about to begin. Please store your keepsakes, sunglasses and valuables in a place that will not lose them to the carnage that will ensue. So buckle yourself in tight because this one is going to be a rough and tumble trip, but I truly feel deep in my gut it is going to be a ride to remember……trust me.
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I will never count the Rays out of anything. This is the one club that will always be a favorite in any division they play in. Not because they have the biggest payroll, not because they have the best prospects coming up, (they have some pretty good ones, though) but they will find ways to win because of the raw team spirit. It sounds corny, but no matter how many key players they lose the team will always keep working at it. I wish the Cubs had that kind of energy.
There's Always Next Year
That was the roster mentality this team has had since Stuart Sternberg took the team over….eliminate the high dollar guys with youthwith unlimited potential and let them grow into their MLB shoes.
Who would of thought Ben Zobrist, Sean Rodriguez or even John Jaso would mature to be solid MLB guys….And there is Chris Archer, Matt Mooore and Alex Cobb sitting their waiting for a roster spot.
Plus all 5 Rays starters are homnegrown guys that were matured through the Rays system….That is rare.
Rays Renegade
Hey, this is baseball. I've had some rides with my White Sox the past couple of years, and though they didn't end the way I wanted them to, it was fun while it lasted. It's part of being a fan. Sure, it'd be easier to root for the powerhouses, but there would be no suspense until October. And what fun would that be??
What you said is soooo true.
People forget that the games lost in April count as much as in September or the last days of the season. Lost sometimes is the simplicity that losing is losing no matter what time of the year.
Been a rough week for me. Maybe it was just my moment to not be optimisitc for a change…..maybe.
Rays Renegade
Totally right … you can't script a season, you've got to actually play the games. One thing the Rays didn't lose this offseason was the Joe Maddon mentality and philosophy that has made this team so special to watch since 2008. That plus our starting pitching makes me excited about this season.
Now if we can just get Maddon to stop tinkering with the line-up possibly 162 times in 2011….It could be a fun year.
But he has that "Mad Scientist" mentality that seems to work for him, and the Rays in the long run.
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There seems to be no sound at all on my version of Oni. I recently bought the game on eBay for 10 dollars and the sound of it doesn't seem to work, I've installed the Anniversary Editiion and also the patched EXE and binkw32.dll file, as well as me checking to see if the volume is on mute. Which it is not.
I hope the issue can be resolved for me, otherwise my 10 dollars has pretty much gone down the drain .
How can I know which sound card I have?
Guide for Windows XP and Vista
Windows 7 is pretty much the same thing.
Just keep in mind that your sound card is usually the only item you will find under "sound, video and game controllers".
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Link seems to be broken.
Try removing the "%" that seems to be in the link.
Fixed, sorry.
It says my sound card drivers are up to date.
Well what would you know, I uninstalled and re-installed with the CD and I used this:
http://oni.bungie.org/community/forum/v … php?id=718
Put all of the files in the vanilla directory and the sound is back. Heh.
Well I'm gonna install Anniversary Edition now and see if that causes the problem; don't think it will, though.
Edit: Nope, a clean re-install seemed to do the trick. Thanks for the help! (Anniversary Edition works fine, too!).
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Can anyone help me? I'm pretty sure this question has already been answered but I've been playing Oni for sometime, however the audio no longer works. =/ Does anyone know how to fix this? You'll have to be very specific because I'm not very good with this sort of thing. If you could let me know it'd be much appreciated! Thank you!
Did you try reinstalling Oni like D.E.L.B. did? And I assume you've checked the volume setting in Oni? If so, maybe you can post your startup.txt here. And are you using the AE?
byproducts are fine, but where's the beef?
I did check the volume, as well as my computer's volume mixer. Also I have no idea what AE is lol. Or how to get to my startup.txt xD I'm very clueless.
Actually, I found my startup.txt
This is it:
daodan attached
begin initializing oni
looking for the game data folder
initializing the template manager
DataFolder = GameDataFolder
Created a file iterator for the data folder.
Got Level Info for level0_Final.dat.
Valid Level level0_Final.dat
Got Level Info for level10_Final.dat.
Valid Level level10_Final.dat
Got Level Info for level11_Final.dat.
Valid Level level11_Final.dat
Got Level Info for level12_Final.dat.
Valid Level level12_Final.dat
Got Level Info for level13_Final.dat.
Valid Level level13_Final.dat
Got Level Info for level14_Final.dat.
Valid Level level14_Final.dat
Got Level Info for level18_Final.dat.
Valid Level level18_Final.dat
Got Level Info for level19_Final.dat.
Valid Level level19_Final.dat
Got Level Info for level1_Final.dat.
Valid Level level1_Final.dat
Got Level Info for level2_Final.dat.
Valid Level level2_Final.dat
Got Level Info for level3_Final.dat.
Valid Level level3_Final.dat
Got Level Info for level4_Final.dat.
Valid Level level4_Final.dat
Got Level Info for level6_Final.dat.
Valid Level level6_Final.dat
Got Level Info for level8_Final.dat.
Valid Level level8_Final.dat
Got Level Info for level9_Final.dat.
Valid Level level9_Final.dat
calling TMrRegisterTemplates
calling ONrRegisterTemplates
initializing oni platform specific code
initializing sound system 2, basic level
initializing basic sound system 2 layer...
direct sound dwFlags = f1f
direct sound dwFreeHw3DAllBuffers = 0
direct sound dwFreeHw3DStaticBuffers = 0
direct sound dwFreeHw3DStreamingBuffers = 0
direct sound dwFreeHwMemBytes = 0
direct sound dwFreeHwMixingAllBuffers = 0
direct sound dwFreeHwMixingStaticBuffers = 0
direct sound dwMaxContigFreeHwMemBytes = 0
direct sound dwMaxHw3DAllBuffers = 0
direct sound dwFreeHwMixingStaticBuffers = 0
direct sound dwFreeHwMixingStreamingBuffers = 0
direct sound dwMaxContigFreeHwMemBytes = 0
direct sound dwMaxHw3DAllBuffers = 0
direct sound dwMaxHw3DStaticBuffers = 0
direct sound dwMaxHw3DStreamingBuffers = 0
direct sound dwMaxHwMixingAllBuffers = 1
direct sound dwMaxHwMixingStaticBuffers = 1
direct sound dwMaxHwMixingStreamingBuffers = 1
direct sound dwMaxSecondarySampleRate = 200000
direct sound dwMinSecondarySampleRate = 100
direct sound dwPlayCpuOverheadSwBuffers = 0
direct sound dwPrimaryBuffers = 1
direct sound dwSize = 96
direct sound dwTotalHwMemBytes = 0
direct sound dwUnlockTransferRateHwBuffers = 0
setting the direct sound cooperative level
initializing oni persistance
initializing scripting
initializing binary data system
initializing imaging
initializing image system...
initializing motoko
initializing 3D display system..
initializing geometry engines...
initializing draw engines...
res.txt not found, loading default resoultions in 32-bit mode...
19 modes available
initializing physics
initializing oni motoko
initializing local input
initializing input system...
initializing animation system
initializing animation system...
initializing environment
initializing text system
initializing the console
initializing the materials
initializing the full sound system 2
initializing full sound system 2...
initializing particle 3
initializing oni particle 3
initializing env particle system
initializing physics
initializing game state
initializing AI 2
initializing window manager
initializing film system
initializing level
initializing oni scripting
initializing OBDr
initializing OBJr
initializing oni cinematics
initializing oni sound
initializing oni movie
initializing the pause screen
finished oni initializing
loading level 0...
setting up 3d engine...
creating new OpenGL context
OpenGL platform initialization
Playing intro movie...
Using standard Windows gamma adjustment
opengl color bits = 24
opengl depth bits = 32
OpenGL vendor = Intel
OpenGL renderer = Intel(R) HD Graphics Family
OpenGL version = 3.0.0 - Build 18.104.22.1683
OpenGL extensions = GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_texture3D GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_EXT_draw_range_elements GL_SGIS_texture_lod GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_packed_pixels GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_ARB_multitexture GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_EXT_fog_coord GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_ARB_texture_cube_map GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_ARB_texture_env_add GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays GL_NV_blend_square GL_ARB_texture_compression GL_3DFX_texture_compression_FXT1 GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp GL_ARB_point_parameters GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc GL_ARB_shadow GL_ARB_window_pos GL_EXT_shadow_funcs GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_ARB_vertex_program GL_EXT_texture_rectangle GL_ARB_fragment_program GL_EXT_stencil_two_side GL_ATI_separate_stencil GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_ARB_occlusion_query GL_ARB_fragment_shader GL_ARB_shader_objects GL_ARB_shading_language_100 GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two GL_ARB_vertex_shader GL_NV_texgen_reflection GL_ARB_point_sprite GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate GL_ARB_depth_texture GL_ARB_texture_rectangle GL_ARB_draw_buffers GL_ARB_color_buffer_float GL_ARB_half_float_pixel GL_ARB_texture_float GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object GL_EXT_framebuffer_object GL_ARB_draw_instanced GL_ARB_half_float_vertex GL_EXT_draw_buffers2 GL_WIN_swap_hint GL_EXT_texture_sRGB GL_ARB_multisample GL_EXT_packed_float GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent GL_ARB_texture_rg GL_ARB_texture_compression_rgtc GL_NV_conditional_render GL_EXT_texture_swizzle GL_ARB_framebuffer_sRGB GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float GL_EXT_transform_feedback GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample GL_ARB_framebuffer_object GL_EXT_texture_array GL_EXT_texture_integer GL_ARB_map_buffer_range GL_EXT_texture_snorm GL_INTEL_performance_queries GL_ARB_vertex_array_object
multitexturing is available ...
multipass being used
OpenGL supports 8 texturing units
glBlendColor() available
OpenGL texture compression available
wglSwapIntervalEXT supported; vsync= 1
Initializing the Oni Window...
displaying splash screen...
configuring console...
engine startup complete, launch the out-of-game UI...
out-of-game UI exited...
running game...
game over, unloading level...
beginning exit process...
OpenGL disposed properly
oni exit complete, shutting down...
Hmm, that seems normal. And have you tried reinstalling Oni?
byproducts are fine, but where's the beef?
I have not actually. Would I need the disc to re-install it? I've got the disc, it's just currently in a other state. If that is so I do not mind waiting. Would I just un-install the game like any other program? Also, if I were to un-install and re-install would my progress be saved?
Yes, you should start over from the disc to make sure you have clean data. I guess you can uninstall it using the typical Windows Add/Remove Programs thing, though it's not necessary because the whole installation is just the Oni/ folder, so you can just delete that.
Your progress is saved in the persist.dat file, so you should first copy that file somewhere else, then reinstall Oni and make sure it has sound, and then copy your old persist.dat file over the new one that the reinstalled Oni will create when it first launches. That way you are making sure that the current persist.dat file is not the problem.
byproducts are fine, but where's the beef?
Alright. I think I should be able to figure this out. I've actually got a walkthrough of the game, well playthrough, it's pretty bad. But if I have any other questions I guess I'll ask around, thank you!
So if I save the files called level9_Final.dat, etc from the Oni folder which was in Program Files (x86) and then uninstall and re-install it I should have sound and be able to keep my saves?
I deleted the folder 'Oni' in the Program Files (x86) and saved persist.dat but now when I try to install it with the disc it keeps popping up with an error saying it can't find 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Oni\.exe'. What should I do?
Wait, I'm figuring this out! Sort of. xD
Okay I think I just need the binkw32.dll file. Do you know where I can find that? Sorry for the spam.
You can get the Daodan DLL (binkw32.dll) from here: http://mods.oni2.net/node/233. Just go into the ZIP and pull out the files in win_only/. realbink.dll allows the Daodan to still play the intro/outro movies.
byproducts are fine, but where's the beef?
I swapped the old binkw32.dll with the one from the download link. However, it now says "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0150002). Click OK to close the application". Do you know what I did wrong? I'm rather confused.
Do you have Microsoft EMET installed, by any chance?
byproducts are fine, but where's the beef?
I swapped the old binkw32.dll with the one from the download link. However, it now says "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0150002). Click OK to close the application". Do you know what I did wrong? I'm rather confused.
Not sure if that might be related but you might try to add the following lines to the daodan.ini under the "[Patch]" section:
[== Undefined ==]
ONI2.net, link to just any important resource-pages about ONI.


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In the three-month period, India's largest private petroleum refiner earned $11.5 from every barrel of crude oil it processed. The so-called gross refining margin (GRM) was about $2 more than what analysts estimated and $6.5 higher than a Singapore refining benchmark. The firm claims this is its highest premium against the Singapore benchmark in eight years.
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It has been 21 years since Japanese upstream firm Inpex signed on to explore the Masela block in Indonesia in 1998 and 19 years since the discovery of the giant Abadi natural gas field in 2000. In that time, Inpex's Ichthys field in Australia was discovered, exploited and started LNG production last year, delivering its first commercial cargo just a few months ago. Meanwhile, the abundant gas in the Abadi field close to the Australia-Indonesia border has remained under the waves. Until recently, that is, when Inpex had finally reached a new deal with the Indonesian government to revive the stalled project and move ahead with a development plan.
This could have come much earlier. Much, much earlier. Inpex had submitted its first development plan for Abadi in 2010, encompassing a Floating LNG project with an initial capacity of 2.5 million tons per annum. As the size of recoverable reserves at Abadi increased, the development plan was revised upwards – tripling the planned capacity of the FLNG project to be located in the Arafura Sea to 7.5 million tons per annum. But at that point, Indonesia had just undergone a crucial election and moods had changed. In April 2016, the Indonesian government essentially told Inpex to go back to the drawing board to develop Abadi, directing them to shift from a floating processing solution to an onshore one, which would provide more employment opportunities. The onshore option had been rejected initially by Inpex in 2010, given that the nearest Indonesian land is almost 100km north of the field. But with Indonesia keen to boost activity in its upstream sector, the onshore mandate arrived firmly. And now, after 3 years of extended evaluation, Inpex has delivered its new development plan.
The new plan encompasses an onshore LNG plant with a total production capacity of 9.5 million tons per annum. With an estimated cost of US$18-20 billion, it will be the single largest investment in Indonesia and one of the largest LNG plants operated by a Japanese firm. FID is expected within 3 years, with a tentative target operational timeline of the late 2020s. LNG output will be targeted at Japan's massive market, but also growing demand centres such as China. But Abadi will be entering into a far more crowded field that it would have if initial plans had gone ahead in 2010; with US Gulf Coast LNG producers furiously constructing at the moment and mega-LNG projects in Australia, Canada and Russia beating Abadi's current timeline, Abadi will have a tougher fight for market share when it starts operations. The demand will be there, but the huge rise in the level of supplies will dilute potential profits.
It is a risk worth taking, at least according to Inpex and its partner Shell, which owns the remaining 35% of the Abadi gas field. But development of Abadi will be more important to Indonesia. Faced with a challenging natural gas environment – output from the Bontang, Tangguh and Badak LNG plants will soon begin their decline phase, while the huge potential of the East Natuna gas field is complicated by its composition of sour gas – Indonesia sees Abadi as a way of getting its gas ship back on track. Abadi is one of Indonesia's few remaining large natural gas discoveries with a high potential commercialisation opportunities. The new agreement with Inpex extends the firm's licence to operate the Masela field by 27 years to 2055 with the 150 mscf pipeline and the onshore plant expected to be completed by 2027. It might be too late by then to reverse Indonesia's chronic natural gas and LNG production decline, but to Indonesia, at least some progress is better than none.
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That narrative has now changed. With Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov suggesting that there was a risk that oil prices could fall as low as US$30/b and the Saudi Arabia-Russia alliance preparing for a US$40/b oil scenario, it looks more and more likely that the production deal will be extended to the end of 2019. This was already discussed in a pre-conference meeting in April where Saudi Arabia appeared to have swayed a recalcitrant Russia into provisionally extending the deal, even if Russia itself wasn't in adherence.
That the suggestion that oil prices were heading for a drastic drop was coming from Russia is an eye-opener. The major oil producer has been dragging its feet over meeting its commitments on the current supply deal; it was seen as capitalising on Saudi Arabia and its close allies' pullback over February and March. That Russia eventually reached adherence in May was not through intention but accident – contamination of crude at the major Druzhba pipeline which caused a high ripple effect across European refineries surrounding the Baltic. Russia also is shielded from low crude prices due its diversified economy – the Russian budget uses US$40/b oil prices as a baseline, while Saudi Arabia needs a far higher US$85/b to balance its books. It is quite evident why Saudi Arabia has already seemingly whipped OPEC into extending the production deal beyond June. Russia has been far more reserved – perhaps worried about US crude encroaching on its market share – but Energy Minister Alexander Novak and the government is now seemingly onboard.
Part of this has to do with the macroeconomic environment. With the US extending its trade fracas with China and opening up several new fronts (with Mexico, India and Turkey, even if the Mexican tariff standoff blew over), the global economy is jittery. A recession or at least, a slowdown seems likely. And when the world economy slows down, the demand for oil slows down too. With the US pumping as much oil as it can, a return to wanton production risks oil prices crashing once again as they have done twice in the last decade. All the bluster Russia can muster fades if demand collapses – which is a zero sum game that benefits no one.
Also on the menu in Vienna is the thorny issue of Iran. Besieged by American sanctions and at odds with fellow OPEC members, Iran is crucial to any decision that will be made at the bi-annual meeting. Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh, has stated that Iran has no intention of departing the group despite 'being treated like an enemy (by some members)'. No names were mentioned, but the targets were evident – Iran's bitter rival Saudi Arabia, and its sidekicks the UAE and Kuwait. Saudi King Salman bin Abulaziz has recently accused Iran of being the 'greatest threat' to global oil supplies after suspected Iranian-backed attacks in infrastructure in the Persian Gulf. With such tensions in the air, the Iranian issue is one that cannot be avoided in Vienna and could scupper any potential deal if politics trumps economics within the group. In the meantime, global crude prices continue to fall; OPEC and OPEC+ have to capability to change this trend, but the question is: will it happen on June 25?
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