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Today I leave to go home for a few days, for what I like to call "my teeny tiny summer vacation". Got to the barn early so I could ride her and then leave straight from there, and it was already 97 degrees out. So just a light hack. We've been using a 3-ring elevator on her recently, and I like it a lot with her, gives us just enough lifting power without too much woahing power.
I got on and started with some sitting trot and serpentines, just trying to engage her hind end. Lots of circles, turns, you know the deal. In the beginning she was a little frazzled and didn't want to listen but after a couple of minutes of working her butt, she came around. She was listening great, which I was so proud of, because not only were the horses out cross the street (shes obsessed with them) but my friends horse was romping in the field right near us. Good girl Libby :-). And the stablehand drove the big huge tractor right near us, which she could have cared less about. I was so happy with her that I cantered her two laps both ways, and was done. I love days like this where she feels so good, so responsive, but not overly sensitive. Yay Libbers!


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Thursday, 8 November 2012
Breakfast in Babbage: Literary Edition!
Songs based on or inspired by the written word. From Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights to Leonard Nimoy's Ballad of Bilbo Baggins. More often than not song get based on the movie adaptation of a book, rather than the book itself. This month we take you through some songs where the authors were so inspired they wrote music about it. Rachel Bloom even wanted to do things to Ray Bradbury that would probably have given him a heart attack.
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Vøring Transform Margin Sampling
Edited by Sverre Planke, Ellen Eckhoff, and Reidun Myklebust.
VBPR and TGS-NOPEC completed a successful seafloor sampling project on the Vøring Transform Margin in 2000. The first in situ samples of pre-breakup-age sedimentary rocks from this basin province were recovered and the samples were extensively studied and analyzed. The samples have been tied to reprocessed seismic data and provide important information about the paleoenvironment, basin development and petroleum systems of the outer Vøring and Møre basins.
VTMS00 and other VBPR/TGS sampling sites on reconstructed map at breakup time 55 Ma
(map after Trulsvik et al. 2012).
Executive Summary
Explanatory Notes
Discussion and Conclusions
The VTMS00 report is integrated in the "North Atlantic Margin Sampling 2018" project (NAMS18) currently in progress.
- Tertiary and Mesozoic sedimentary rocks recovered in 11 cores and 2 dredges
- Heat flow measured at 14 stations
Analysis Program
- Sedimentology
- Biostratigraphy
- Inorganic geochemistry and petrology
- Organic geochemistry.
- Seismic processing


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Happy President's Day everyone! Today, we in America celebrate the birthdays of our 1st and 16th presidents: George Washington (February 22) and Abraham Lincoln (February 12). Furthermore, I celebrate the actual birthday of an individual more close to myself in every aspect: me! That's right, today is my birthday! Thank you, thank you, you're too kind. Oh no, you shouldn't have, really, well… thank you. As much as I love to arrange admiration for myself, there are a few others I wish to pass on some birthday buzz for, including but not limited to the following people and animals who also grow a year older on February 16th:
- My friend and coworker Chris who was the first person to officially subscribe to this blog!
- Levar Burton – I've never met him, but no one else has ever encouraged me to take a look inside a book like he has. Also, he made that visor look really cool on Next Gen (his character from that show, Geordi La Forge, will be born on this day in 2335 according to Star Trek lore)
- Ice-T, the rapper/actor, not the drink
- Strannik, the male Amur tiger at my local zoo
- Wayne Gretsky…'s brother
- Mr. Jefferson, the first cloned calf, not the guy who moved on up to the East Side
- Soon-to-be NFL Hall of Famer Jerome Bettis
- Jeremy Bulloch – the English actor who played the coolest bounty hunter in any galaxy, Boba Fett. If the producers of the new Star Wars movies are looking for someone who fits the same birthday criteria to portray Boba Fett in his imminent solo movie in the near future, I'll be waiting for your call.
- Pretty much everyone my friend and former roommate Joe knows – seriously, there are so many people in his life that share this birthday that if he can't remember someone's birthday he just assumes it's February 16. He has a friend from high school who was not only born on February 16, but so were his father and son. Three generations born on the same day!
There are some other people born this day that I'm not as glad to share it with, such as the now (thankfully) deceased North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, as well as Sonny Bono, Cher's partner. I mean, forcing your people to scrape by in ruin while revering you as a god is terrible, but there's a reason that Bill Murray was in hell waking up to that same song every day in Groundhog Day.
Speaking of movies, the 87th annual Oscars presentation is this Sunday February 22 at 7pm EST on ABC. I'll be watching and scowling occasionally for reasons that I've already discussed in a not too far back post. There will be plenty of reasons to cheer as there are plenty of good and even great films up for Academy Awards this year. From the beginning the Oscars have recognized the merits of many a great film while leaving out others whose genius was overlooked or wasn't appreciated at the time. Today, with hindsight as my witness, I aim to sing praises for the Academy as well as condemn neglect on their part. I will focus on the most coveted award in film, the Best Picture Oscar, while I offer my opinion on films that won it (Best Picture Winners, or BPWs), others that were nominated for it that did not win (Best Picture Nominees, or BPNs), and others that got the cold shoulder from the golden god of Hollywood.
To date there are 530 films that have been nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award and I have seen 426, meaning that I've scored just over 80% on my Oscar sight test. I've done even better with Best Picture Winners of which I've seen 77 out of 86 (until Sunday), nearly 90%. Suffice it to say, between many, many wasted hours staring at a screen of varying sizes; my current celebration of my body's aging and decay; and my general belief that I just know these things, I feel qualified to assess the quality of films that Oscar has shown love too, as well as the ones he took steaming crap on that truly deserved his love. What follows are three lists of 10 movies each. The first is a celebration of times that the Academy got it right by listing the Best Best Picture Winners. Second is a list of the best of the rest; films that were nominated for Best Picture that should have won the award but didn't. Finally, I conclude with movies that received no nomination for Best Picture but were deserving of the award. In each list the films are listed in order of chronological release; not necessarily in the order that I like them best. Look for your favorites, and remember that you can't disagree with me on my birthday.
Best Best Picture Winners
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) – Based on the Erich Maria Remarque novel of the same name that you may have had to read for school, this was the third film to win the Oscar for what we now call Best Picture. It tells the tale of a young man named Paul swept up by propaganda to join the German army to fight in World War I. When he and his friends get there they discover that the reality of the situation is a much different one than what was painted for them back in school. As he observes the brutality of war through the loss of friends and the slaying of enemies he realizes that the patriotic ideals he thought he was fighting for are merely rousing words that quickly lose their luster amidst the mud, blood, and bodies. One of my favorite scenes is when Paul goes on leave and returns to his high school where his teacher's enthusiasm for "the Fatherland" and protecting its glory that convinced him to enlist is on full display for a new class. The teacher proudly introduces him to the current students as a veteran solider to idolize and follow in the footsteps of. To the surprise of everyone, Paul denounces the war and begs for his hometown to wake up and realize the true horror of it all. The very best scene sums up the whole film when Paul goes back to the front and finds a small window of peace in a butterfly that lands just outside his trench. His admiration for it doesn't last long though.
Gone with the Wind (1939) – This was the last film that I added to this list, but it's place here is earned by its sheer scope. I decided on the other nine BPWs quickly, but was mulling between a few options before deciding on this classic. Gone with the Wind is an epic film taken from an epic novel by Margaret Mitchell that provides a very long look (the longest cut with an overture, intermission, entr'acte, and exit music is 238 minutes, making it is the longest BPW) of life in the American South during the Civil War. The first color film to win Best Picture, it specifically focuses on the fancies of Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh, who's performance is the longest to ever win an acting Oscar) as her high social status becomes useless to her and her family that she is forced to become the primary caretaker of as war rages. Her rough romance with suave Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) serves well to ascend her back to a more comfortable status, but her conniving ways prove to be too much for any man to stand, especially Rhett, prompting him to walk out on her and deliver one of the most famous lines in film history.
Gone with the Wind is on this list for its epic production that including recreating the burning of Atlanta by burning a collection of actual film sets, from pieces from The Garden of Allah and the wall from King Kong. It also gets credit for winning the top prize in 1939, considered by many film buffs to be Hollywood's Golden Year due to the quality of the films released during it. Gone with the Wind beat out such classics as The Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and Stagecoach. In its place, I was also considering All About Eve (the winner in 1950, which is also a major contender for the title of Hollywood's Golden Year) and The Bridge on the River Kwai, two films that I admit I like a lot more, but the impact of Gone with the Wind is too much to ignore. Perhaps the Academy felt the same way.
Casablanca (1942) – Too many films that are considered classics leave you feeling a little disappointed in their distinction as such sometimes. They're good, maybe even really good, but are they truly in league with the all time greats? Casablanca is one of those movies that fully deserves all of its praise. If you haven't seen any of these BPWs on my list (wtf man?) then watch Casablanca first. Set in the titular town in French Morocco during World War II, we see a unique mixture of people from different countries and cultures converging in the same place with the same desire: to get the hell out of there and into America. There are ways to do it, but they're not easy and many will kill to secure safe passage. One thing that is assured is that everyone makes their way to Rick's Cafe, whose American proprietor, Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart in his, dare I say, signature role) is truly the most powerful man in town. He becomes even more impactful when he acquires two letters of transit that serve as incontestable Get Out of Jail Free cards for the holder. Rick has no reason to leave the land he prospers in… until his old flame shows up. The only problem is she brought her husband with her and he's a rebel leader who's very wanted by the Nazis. The excellent writing, intrigue, and acting are enough to make this movie beyond great, but the love triangle and reactions of each character involved in it as the plot thickens is what raises this movie to the echelon of the best films ever made. Casablanca will have you saying "play it again" in reference to the immortal theme song "As Time Goes By" and the movie itself.
Ben-Hur (1953) – This film is the epitome of epic. Excellently crafted in every way, William Wyler's magnificent direction makes everything in this movie bigger than anything previously made, and compared to most films since too. The sets are huge, the action scenes are wildly intense, and the story is so grand that Jesus Christ is a supporting character. Ben-Hur is about Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston), a Jewish prince living in Jerusalem in the same time as the aforementioned Messiah. He is pleased to see his childhood friend Messala has become the commander of the local Roman Legion. That is until a simple misunderstanding turns into an issue of Romans versus Jews that is easier for Messala – who has become further disillusioned by Roman ideals in the years he was away – to wrap up by imprisoning Judah and his family to show his strength as a commander and the strength of the Rome. Judah bides his time and builds his strength, swearing revenge. Yet as he comes closer to fulfilling this goal he realizes that another figure of strength of a different sort is arising, and that this man may truly topple Rome's tyranny and leave a legacy that will be everlasting.
Ben-Hur is subtitled A Tale of the Christ, and based off the 1880 novel by Lew Wallace and some earlier stage and film versions, it is certainly a Christian-influenced movie. Charlton Heston was a very devoutly religious man, and I'm guessing that many others involved in making the film were too. Nevertheless, even if you're not into the whole Jesus thing, you can enjoy this film for its thrilling scenes and powerful score, especially the chariot race, one of the most exciting scenes ever filmed. This movie did win 11 Oscars (a record for most won by a single film it shares with Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) for a reason.
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) – Another one of the best and most influential films ever made, this marvelous sand-filled spectacle is the best film from one of the best directors in movie history. If you don't know who David Lean is you are missing out on greatness. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences certainly knew who he was, as do countless directors since his time who do their best to emulate him. He and many of his films were nominated for Oscars over the decades he was actively making films the likes of which are definitive epic works. Some won the big prize, like The Bridge on the River Kwai, others probably should have, like Doctor Zhivago, but his masterpiece is his nearly four hour biography based on the memoirs of Colonel T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), a British soldier who set off into the desert and united the Bedouin tribes of Arabia to fight against the Turks in WWI. Lawrence was a fascinating man to say the least, yet this does not mean that everything in his movie is historical fact. Most of the officers and leaders were real people, and the war certainly happened, but it is a matter of debate as to how much Lawrence actually did and how much he claimed to do. Lawrence was a well-educated man with talent for embellishment, and according to some (including our filmmakers) he also had quite the ego. Whether real-life Lawrence did everything he wrote he did or not is moot though because the film turned out to be incredible in every aspect. Countless fans and filmmakers love this film for its story, acting, influence, etc., and Maurice Jarre's sweeping score is one of the greatest ever composed.
The Godfather (1972) – With the help of Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James, Caan, and many other great actors, Francis Ford Coppola established himself as a great director. Factor in an excellent screenplay he co-wrote with Mario Puzo, and you've got another one of the best movies ever; one that definitely surpasses Puzo's novel it's based on. This is the movie that I'm guessing is the most popular and frequently seen on my list, and for good reason. It lives up to all of its hype and delivers on every level. There are so many memorable scenes and lines that ingrained it in popular culture. The pacing is so good that even after nearly three hours it leaves you wanting more (of course Lawrence of Arabia had the same effect for me). Fortunately there
are two more is one more great film that follows it and it might be even better than this first in the franchise. Speaking of which…
The Godfather Part II (1974) – Continuing the story of the Corleones, this second installment in the mafia film franchise was the first sequel to ever win Best Picture. It manages to both wrap up material from the book that the first film did not show and to carry on the story crafted specifically for the film. Robert De Niro, who obviously was not chosen to play Sonny in the prior film, gets into the Godfather franchise as a younger Vito in flashbacks woven between the modern day material that show the Don's rise to power. De Niro became the first actor to win an Oscar for playing the same character previously played by another actor who also won an Oscar for the role. But before you hurry out to make your own version of the Godfather and portray Don Vito in the hopes of obtaining some acting hardware remember that the two winning actors we're talking about are Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro. In other words, fahgettaboudit! At least you can watch the first two Godfather movies to cheer yourself up. Just avoid Part III at all costs.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) – Did you know that Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) only appears on screen for 16 minutes in this movie? To put that in perspective, that's as many minutes as Godzilla was on screen in Godzilla (2014). Wait, that's my primary argument why Godzilla was underwhelming, but still, Godzilla didn't win Best Actor for his 16 minutes. Hopkins is so dominating for the short time we do see him that he is ever present in our minds. Not to mention the fantastic directing and editing, and don't even get me started on Jodie Foster. Okay, I'll get started; it's the best performance of her career. Thank goodness she and Hopkins got into this movie because it could have been very different. Originally Gene Hackman bought the rights to Thomas Harris' novel, but his daughter was disturbed by the graphic subject matter and urged him to reconsider. This was good news for Foster who ran out to buy the rights right after she read the book only to find that Hackman had already got them. Still, she almost didn't get the part of Clarice because director Jonathan Demme wanted Michelle Pheiffer who had worked with him previously. The producers wanted Foster, but they also wanted an actor like Robert De Niro to portray Dr. Lector. They tried to get a few other A-listers for the role, but Demme insisted on Hopkins after having seen him in David Lynch's The Elephant Man. The director and producers compromised and each got one of their choices, and it worked out far better than anyone could have possibly imagined.
The Silence of the Lambs is a terrific thriller that showcases spectacular acting alongside some truly horrific sights and sequences. An FBI trainee is enlisted as bait in a last ditch effort to coerce pertinent information about an active serial killer who skins his victims from the once esteemed Dr. Hannibal Lector. He is a refined and cultured man who is well spoken and educated. Also he kills and eats people. This movie is the most recent of the three winners of the Oscar Big Five Awards for Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor, and Actress. It's been followed (and even preceded) by other adaptations of Harris novels featuring the demented doctor, but this one is still easily the best.
Schindler's List (1993) – Every once in a great while a film is made that really matters. It displays important subject matter in a beautiful work of art. Schindler's List is such a film. This movie shows humanity at its very worst and its very best. It tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a real-life German industrialist whose interest in utilizing the cheap labor of Polish Jews detained by the Nazis gradually turned to an effort to save as many of them as possible from certain death.
Steven Spielberg was the man in 1993, first churning out Jurassic Park before filming this masterpiece. As a matter of fact, he was contractually obligated to make the films in that order because Universal Studios feared he would be too emotionally consumed after Schindler's List to effectively deliver dino goodness. He later acknowledged this was a good move. Now Jurassic Park is one of my favorite movies and one that I seriously think was worthy of a nomination for Best Picture in 1993, but Schindler's List is one of those aforementioned once-in-a-while films that earned its award not because it shows someone doing very nice things for a suffering ethnic group but because it really is that good and the fact that it's taken from real history makes it all the more resonant.
Spielberg often says Schindler's List is the most important film of his career and he actually refused to be paid for it as he felt it would have been "blood money" and considered it more of a documentary. There are intense scenes of the horrors of the Holocaust and lots of deaths both on and off-screen, but ultimately this film is uplifting. The scene at the end where Schindler says, "I could have got more out. I could have got more." is truly, truly heartbreaking.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) – The culmination of Peter Jackson's epic trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien's immortal masterpiece is the best yet. The only fantasy film to ever win the big award, it managed to also be the only movie to date that won all of its awards when it was nominated for at least 10 (it got 11 total, the biggest clean sweep in Oscar history, and tied for the most all time, but you knew that already because I said it earlier). Few films have capture the great character embodiment, pacing, and rousing action needed to make an epic film work, and this one has got all that, terrific technical effects, makeup, and costumes, and scenes that keep amping up the excitement and topping what you just saw. Howard Shore's Oscar-winning score is grandiose at the best moments like the lighting of the beacons, and the actual moment of the return of the king, and not to mention this happens. But the best part of the whole series is right here. You want to make the next time you help your drunken friend stumble on home fun? Say that.
Best Best Picture Nominees That Didn't Win That Should Have
Citizen Kane (1941) – Regarded by many critics and classic film fans to be the best movie ever made, it is a stunning wonder this movie did not win Best Picture. What did win that year was John Ford's How Green Was My Valley, about Welsh coal miners and their troubles. It's not bad, but it sure ain't no Citizen Kane. Citizen Kane was Orson Welles announcement to the world that he had arrived and Hollywood better look out! (You know, because he got really fat and took up a lot of space.) Loosely based on the life of news tycoon William Randolph Hearst, this movie is the best you'll ever have spoiled for you by Peter Griffin. Its style has influenced so many filmmakers since its release and it has truly stood the test of time. Also great that year and much better than the actual BPW, Humphrey Bogart's other best movie, The Maltese Falcon, is a close second best behind Citizen Kane, and is one of the greatest films ever made as well.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) – Let me just say right now, I love My Fair Lady. But just how long I could have danced (all night!) is irrelevant to the discussion of which movie was best in 1964. That honor should have gone to Stanley Kubrick's black comedy that is as ridiculous as its long-winded title. What began as a serious adaptation of Peter George's novel Red Alert, which depicts a nuclear war started on accident, quickly turned into a satire when Kubrick realized just how hilarious some of the scenes he had written were. Add in incredible performances from Peter Sellers (in three roles), George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden and many others, as well as hysterical lines ("Gentlemen you can't fight in here; this is the War Room!"; "You'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company.") and you've got yourself a winning combination. Plus any movie that gives Slim Pickens the chance to be Slim Pickens is great (see Blazing Saddles), especially when he gets to ride a nuclear bomb through the sky.
Jaws (1975) – My favorite movie that I think is as close to a perfect film as has ever been made. Steven Spielberg's major directorial debut was the first summer blockbuster and started a trend that continues today and looks to forever. It lost to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest which was the second film to win the Big Five, but I don't care. It's a good movie that deserves to be in the mix, but Jaws has everything: suspense, horror, action, adventure, drama, romance, and a 25 foot great white shark. In fact, the mechanical shark is the biggest problem for the film. It is not an accurate depiction of any shark in behavior or ability, but it doesn't look exactly like one either. Still, it's scary and clearly a shark, and Spielberg did a fantastic job of hiding its flaws. His excellent direction (which I know the Academy hates themselves now for not recognizing with a nomination then) and John Williams iconic score (which did win) make it so that the shark is scariest when we don't see it. Factor in perfect casting and acting and you've got the best movie ever made. A must see for everyone, just maybe wait until after you've learned how to swim.
Star Wars (1977) – Another of my top five favorite films, Star Wars is the most important cultural phenomenon in film history. This is one of a very select few science fiction films to have been nominated for Best Picture, but it lost to one of Oscar's favorite people: Woody Allen. Now I've got nothing against Woody Allen (as a filmmaker that is), and Annie Hall, the BPW for 1977, is really good and quite hilarious, but the Academy loves the hell out of him to a fault. Know what they don't love? Sci-fi. At least John Williams was again recognized for composing the greatest cinematic musical score of all time.
George Lucas does a wonderful job of presenting his most brilliant universe in the galaxy far, far away. The greatest modern take on the mythological hero quest, Star Wars is a fantastic story that happens to be complemented by then-groundbreaking special effects that still stand up today (and often actually look better than the CGI used in the inferior prequels). Lucas does a marvelous job of incorporating influences from almost every great science-fiction and fantasy story ever told – everything from Homer's Iliad to Herbert's Dune – and still presents an incredibly original story.
But the crowning achievement is the motley crew of characters that carry this story up into the stars throughout the saga. The film can seem a little slow at first with so much time spent on the desert world of Tattooine to establish the story, but every minute is filled with wonder. The whipped cream and cherry on top of this glorious sci-fi fantastic sundae is the explosive finale, the assault on the polar trench of the Death Star, which is nothing short of the greatest climax in cinema history.
Star Wars clearly has had the bigger impact in every possible way, but back in 1977 it was only able to get into the mix while Annie Hall was given the gold. That's like flying down the polar trench of the Death Star and trusting your targeting computer to make the shot.
Apocalypse Now (1979) – After he made the Godfather movies ,Francis Ford Coppola set out to make a Vietnam film. Based on his recent successes he was basically granted carte blanche to do whatever the hell he wanted, but studio producers soon regretted this. Coppola's record of coming in ahead of time and under budget exploded into the sky as he poured in millions upon millions to achieve his perfect vision. The result was a very expensive project that didn't get made on schedule (kind of like this post, but hey, one does not simply spend his birthday writing over celebrating), and it was one of the best war movies ever made. Was it the end for Coppola? You bet, in this sense. More great direction, writing, performances, and even better scenery than any previous Coppola project. Certainly it excelled beyond the divorce court drama Kramer vs. Kramer.
If you were to ask people what they feel is the most enduring film of 1979 the answer would most likely begin with an "A", involve a small crew in mortal danger thanks in part to the people they're working for, and owe a debt of gratitude to Joseph Conrad. Surprisingly, two films fit this oddly specific criteria. First is Apocalypse Now, the superior film from that year that brilliantly translates Conrad's Heart of Darkness to the context of the Vietnam War. This is no easy task considering Heart of Darkness is Conrad's best known work that evokes the horrors of venturing into the unknown, losing yourself in the wild, and 6th period English. You said it, Marlon Brando.
Speaking of which, the next best film of 1979 is my vote for scariest ever. Naturally it's another terrific science fiction film done by a promising young director.
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) – Back to Spielberg and George Lucas (and back when Lucas was on top of his game), this collaborative effort was made as an homage to the great adventure films of their youth and early film, yet it soars to a level above all others before and after thanks to their direction and writing, and the writing of Lawrence Kasdan and Philip Kaufman (both will be mentioned again), as well as a man named Harrison Ford who looks better in a fedora than anyone else. This film introduced the world to Indiana Jones who gives us all the running we need in a movie in the opening sequence. (Alfred Molina was thinner back then.) This is historical fiction at its finest, intelligent and action-packed with plenty of good humor and old-fashioned ass-kicking at the expense of the Nazis. What more could you ask for? (Don't say aliens.) Thankfully Harrison Ford's exhausted logic took away a probably too ridiculous whip versus sword fight and gave us this best part of the movie instead. We still get to hear that whip crack plenty of times anyway. Did you know that the crack of a whip is from the tip breaking the sound barrier? This achievement of creating a sonicboom is integral to the next movie on our list as well.
The Right Stuff (1983) – Based on Tom Wolfe's book of the same name (a great read btw; my favorite nonfiction work), this is the real-life story (with some dramatic liberties, of course) of the beginnings of the American space program. Opening in the post-war experimental aviation boom that was kept mainly top secret during its time, the film starts by introducing us to Chuck Yeager, the greatest pilot to ever grace the skies, as he is selected to attempt to fly faster than the speed of sound. The story gradually progresses over the next 16 years (and by gradually, I mean it's over three hours long – but totally worth it), showing Yeager's rise as the most respected pilot and the training of the Mercury 7, the first American astronauts who became more well-known and loved than Yeager and the fellow test pilots they beat out for the space job.
Per the favoring of director Philip Kaufman (told you he'd pop up again), the film glorifies Yeager above all else, which was more than an annoyance to Tom Wolfe and screenwriter William Goldman. In fact, Wolfe ends the book pointing out how Yeager was still one of the best, but wasn't regarded as the best anymore. He was an older man and had been knocked off the top of the pyramid of men with "the right stuff" by younger pilots and astronauts. Maybe true, but I can't say I blame Kaufman for getting caught up in the heroics of Yeager as each plane disaster we see him avert on film actually happened in real life. For more on this consult my love letter to Yeager from a few months back.
Pulp Fiction (1994) – 1994 was one of the more recent years that many film buffs consider to be one of the greatest ever in film history and the Oscar noms from that year show why. Classics like BPW Forrest Gump, and The Shawshank Redemption have gone down as some of the most revered films of more than just the 1990s. Even the oft overlooked Quiz Show is a solid film (Robert Redford knows how to make a movie). Shawshank is a close second for me for 1994, but number one is undisputed, and it's not Forrest Gump (which I do really enjoy). Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino's and 1994's best film, is a vivid collage of crime that throws linear timelines out the window and mashes together an interesting interwoven set of stories that are filled with great characters and some of the best dialogue you'll ever hear in a film. Oh, and while we're on the subject of best you'll hear in a film, get a load of that score! It's all great underground rock, soul, R&B, and whatever the hell theme songs and sound effects Tarantino liked hearing on TV as a kid. It's almost the best collection of non-original music (as in not written for the movie; I don't mean that it's plagiarized or anything) in a movie, but we'll get to that later.
Saving Private Ryan (1998) – It still stuns me that this excellent film lost to Shakespeare in Love. Again, a cute movie that I enjoyed more than I anticipated, but goddamn it, Saving Private Ryan earned the Best Picture Oscar just with the D-Day sequence that opens the movie. This is my favorite war film, and it just may be the best one ever made. It doesn't glorify the war, but it does glorify the men who fought in it while highlighting their humanity, especially as they ask the question, "What is the life of one man worth?" Things are further complicated when they finally do find that man and he refuses to leave his band of brothers. Filled with all of what you would expect in a Spielberg movie (except plucky children), this is one of the few films that is spilling over with celebrities in major, minor, and bit roles and no one is out of place or steals the show but only adds to it.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) – No other film introduced us to a cinematic version of a literary world like Fellowship did when it took us to Middle Earth. Brilliantly adapting the best book I (and many others) have ever read and loved, fans of Tolkien and people who had never heard of him alike loved this movie when it came out. I actually hated it when I first saw it, but that was because I was kid who didn't know how long of a movie he was in for at the time and I didn't understand what all the fuss over a piece of simple jewelry was. I do now, much more than I probably should… but the long and short of it is that this film altered the cinematic landscape and brought fantasy to the Oscar party for the first time in a long time. It was actually nominated for more Oscars than the third film in the series that swept the ceremony away two years later, but though it got four, the big one it should have gotten went to A Beautiful Mind instead.
Best Pictures That Weren't Even Nominated for Best Picture That Should Have Won Best Picture
Duck Soup (1933) – It was a tough call to decide between this and King Kong, but much as I love that giant gorilla, he's just not as funny as the Marx Brothers. Not to mention, this finest film of theirs is positively snapping with biting satire. Actually banned by Mussolini who felt it was a comical critique of him specifically, this laugh a second affair details the rise to power of an inept and corrupt politician (Groucho Marx) who is backed by a wealthy woman who is so absolutely baffled by him that she fails to see how hilariously harmful he is in a position of power. The conniving nation next door sends equally bumbling spies (Harpo and Chico Marx) over to create havoc, and in this they actually succeed, but only in ruining the dastardly plans of their superiors and the days of many a comely young woman. On the surface this seems like a typical Marx Brothers romp, but hidden among the chuckle-worthy chaos is a damnation of corrupt politics and dirty dictators. Mussolini might have actually been onto something there.
The Third Man (1949) – As good as Citizen Kane is, it is far from Orson Welles' best movie. Carol Reed directs this caper like Hitchcock at his best (which we'll talk about in a moment), tilting the camera to provide askew glances at a similarly off-kilter society. Set in post-war Vienna, this adaptation of Graham Greene's novel is regarded by many film lovers as the best movie ever made (I feel like I've said that a lot). It's quite a shock that it didn't even get nominated. Much like the surprise that American Western writer Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) gets when he travels to Vienna to work with his old friend Harry Lime only to find that Harry is dead. Apparently Harry was killed by being struck by a car, but Holly feels like there are holes in the story and investigates further. What he discovers is that everything is not as it seems, but is in fact, much more surprising than he could have imagined. Orson Welles is only in the movie for a limited amount of time, yet his performance is widely considered one of the best of his career, and his entrance is one of the best by any character in any film.
Vertigo (1958) – One of Hitchcock's best films, which is saying something. He works again with James Stewart who plays a former police detective turned private eye who is afraid of heights after a traumatic experience that ended his police career. He is hired by a friend to follow his friend's wife (Kim Novak) who has been acting strangely. He follows her around for a while, and even ends up saving her life when she jumps in San Francisco Bay. They fall in love with each other but such happiness is not meant to last as tragedy ends the romance. That's when things get really strange.
1958's BPW, Gigi, is generally considered the worst movie to have won Best Picture. It managed to beat out good movies like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Auntie Mame, and The Defiant Ones, but the biggest crime is the lack of nomination and win for Vertigo, which is better than all of these combined. Actually, all of those movies combined would be weird and really long, so we'll just say Vertigo is better than each of them and every other film in 1958.
Psycho (1960) – Hitchcock's defining work, which is really saying something considering how much he made before and after this film and the quality of each of those films. Defying and defining horror film conventions, this classic was shocking then and still is now. The instantly recognizable score is chilling and matches the frenetic acts of murder that occur on camera, but those violins are hard at work discomforting us before we even get to the Bates Motel.
I really like The Apartment, the Jack Lemmon movie that won Best Picture in 1960, but Psycho is just so good and should have been a contender and champion that year.
Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo [The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly] (1966) – Speaking of signature scores everyone knows before they see the movie it was written for, Ennio Morricone's classic and quirky western "wah-wah-wah"s are perfect blended with Sergio Leone's masterful direction for his third and final installment in the Man with No Name series (although Clint Eastwood's character is addressed as both Monco and Blondie in the films, so while neither is probably his proper name, he is christened). Taking place in the western United States (despite the fact that it was filmed in Spain and Italy) during the Civil War, it tells the tale of three men – all of whom are more bad than good – searching for a gold-filled grave and racing the other two to find it. Blondie and Tuco (the Good and Ugly) team up here and there, but the end finds each one staring down the others in a climactic and suspenseful standoff. Leone succeeds in bringing the best Western the screen had ever seen, which happened to be the best movie of 1966, and he may have done it again with C'era una volta il West [Once Upon a Time in the West] in 1968 were it not for another film…
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – Once again I'll say it: this is considered by many to be the greatest film ever made. Extraordinary in every aspect, this is a hallmark film on innovation, style, and substance. Technically impressive and philosophically incredible, 2001 asks the biggest question we possible can: "Why are we here and where do we go from here?" I guess it's a two-part question.
More people need to see this movie if for no other reason than to get the joke I always make whenever someone is experiencing computer difficulty: "What's the matter? HAL won't open the pod bay doors?" There is a reason the background on my computer is the smiling face of the most famous AI ever conceived in fiction. Also, it's also one of the greatest films ever made. Not just one of the best science fiction films, one of the best films. It certainly has the best unoriginal musical score of any movie with a perfect selection of classical music for each scene. It fits so well that one can clearly see that some scenes are built around the musical composition that plays throughout them.
2001 has a lot going on in it even when it doesn't have a lot happening. It's definitely worth watching more than once, but I will admit that first viewing can be tedious. In a word, 2001 is hypnotic; it's incredible captivating throughout the entire film, but you still might be asleep at the end of it.
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) – My favorite movie that takes place in space is no contest. Many do also call this the greatest film of all time, but I will admit they are mostly nerds. Nevertheless, they're nerds with a great taste in favorite films because this is the greatest sequel of all time; besting its predecessor in every conceivable way – and its predecessor was pretty damn good. Not to mention, 1980 was a weak year for BPNs, so Empire should have been a shoo-in. What gives, Academy? No love for the Lucas? Did you get a glimpse in the future and see what he would do with this franchise and preemptively punish him for it? It's still not deserved. Besides, Empire was directed by Irvin Kershner and written by Lawrence Kasdan (told you he'd be mentioned again!) and Leigh Brackett from George Lucas' story. The characters we love show more depth and pain, we meet new characters and see new worlds, and we get a great lightsaber duel which culminates in the greatest twist that everybody already knows now. This is the best movie of the 1980s and it wasn't even nominated for Best Picture in its own year.
The Dark Knight (2008) – I explained in my previous Oscar gripe post that 2008 was a key year in the expansion to the current up-to-10 film format for the Best Picture award. A major reason why was this excellent film that is the best from Christopher Nolan. Had it been nominated for Best Picture as it should have been, The Dark Knight would have flown back to the Batcave with some shiny new hardware. For what it's worth, at least Heath Ledger was awarded his much deserved Supporting Actor Oscar posthumously for the incredible performance he gave to the Joker that blew the previous portrayal by perennial Oscar winner Jack Nicholson out of the water.
Drive (2011) – Bloody and brilliant, the former probably scared off the Academy from nominating this dynamic film adaptation of James Sallis' novel. Like some of the other minimalist movies I've mentioned here, Drive does so much by doing so little. For example, the use of the quadrant system, as explained here, is a simple yet effective technique that subconsciously drives (no pun intended) the film along. The acting is soooo good all around too. Seriously, look at the people in this movie and observe how none of them steal more scenes than their characters are supposed to (Albert Brooks is supposed to steal a lot of scenes). Ryan Gosling showed he can be a badass and a reserved dramatic actor in this. Carrie Mulligan excels again as a woman in a complicated romantic situation. Bryan Cranston, well, c'mon. Albert Brooks, God Damn, Man. I was not expecting that dark side from Marlin the clownfish. This film also has a great collection of music that adds to its signature style. Then there's the driving. Oh yeah, even though he didn't have a driver's license at the time, director Nicolas Winding Refn showed he knows how to film people in cars (probably why he got the job directing those Lincoln commercials with Matthew McConaughey). The car chases are heart-pounding and rank as some of the best ever filmed. But if blood makes you squeamish then you might want to look away during some scenes because there are some showers of scarlet.
Interstellar (2014) – I've kind of belabored my point on this one enough, so read my past posts if you want to hear more.
Whew! That was a long one, I know, but now you've got 30 great movies to think on and assess the value of just as I did. Whether or not you agree with me or the Academy or neither doesn't matter because ultimately it's whatever you want to watch that will rate as your favorite film of each year. Our favorite movies may have a few flaws, or a lot, or be what we refer to as a "guilty pleasure", but they're our favorites for a reason, just as the Academy's favorites are theirs. But what fun would it be if we just shrugged our shoulders and said, "Okay, whatever," to their selections every year? Everybody makes mistakes, and filmmakers and raters are no different; look at how many more shitty movies than good movies get made each year.
Thanks for reading! I apologize for the tardiness, but you try writing this much and enjoying your birthday at the same time: something's gotta give, and I hope it's the writing part. So live a little and send me questions, comments, requests, and all that jazz to firstname.lastname@example.com. As movies are a favorite subject of mine to ramble on about I may start a specifically movie oriented blog in the near future with more posts complaining about Oscar selections of past and present, so keep your eyes open for that. That'll probably be a once-in-a-while posting venue if I make it, and I'll let you all know if and when I do on this site. Fear not, I will stop writing here. You can still expect whatever random topic pops into my head to find its way somewhat poetically onto this page every Monday/very early Tuesday.
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Those of us who have studied abroad know how endless the opportunities are to learn and grow as not only individuals, but valued members of our generation. International Education Week is a chance to share the benefits of worldwide exchange with others around us! Schools, colleges and universities are a great way to dive into IEW activities to promote international education and attract future study abroad students. Through our experiences we should be involved, share and promote international education and advocate a future more globally aware and educated!
Earlier this week, we posted International Education Week: 10 Things You Can Do. There are so many great ideas here! As the current intern here at the Australian Embassy, here are a few ideas I have done in the past with various organizations to celebrate International Education Week.
1. Ask a local café (in or around campus) if they wouldn't mind featuring a delicious international dish for one (or all) the days during International Education Week. Examples of Australian delicacies are an "Aussie Burger" (recipes may differ,) Fairy Bread (not too fancy, but could be made to look cafe-worthy,) and Lamingtons! This is a win-win situation. You get to talk about this cool idea you planned for International Education week, and drive more customers to the cafe!
2. You and others in your organization (or really nice friends you have) could hand out carnations or suckers (or anything-think outside the box!) with short phrases attached to them in colorful paper. Try including as many different languages as you can (and the English translation.) Some examples are "Go Global," "Have a wonderful day," "Smile," "Wander the World," "Explore and Grow," "Carpe Diem," and more! You can be as creative as you like with this idea!
3. Utilize online social media! If you have a group Facebook or Twitter page, post interesting articles about different countries, attach blogs by students studying abroad or just ask a thought provoking question like "What would most benefit you personally by studying abroad in a country that wouldn't necessarily be your first choice?" It invites readers to think beyond beaches and develop an interest in the educational aspect of study abroad. We use YouTube to showcase our 2011 Future Unlimited Video Contest winner.
4. If you know of a study abroad fair your International Office is holding, ask to be a part of it! Share your experiences from down under with others who are interested in studying abroad, not only in Australia, but anywhere. Students want to hear from other students! Your photos, videos, stories and pure excitement and passion could be just the nudge they need to look at a map and discover their next destination for growth and learning!
For more information on International Education Week, promotional materials, photos and videos check out their website!


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Linux is frying my laptop!
Update: Just to show my desire to actually be a help not a hindrance to the future of Linux I think it is only fair that I update what the issue may be with the temperature crashes. I believe there must be a setting in the system somewhere that crashes the kernel or system when the CPU reaches a certain threshold because Windows 7 seems content to run at even higher temperatures without crashing then my Linux partition has been crashing at (94 cel.). Apparently some laptops run hotter then others because I have found varying opinions and runtime temperatures after googling for anyone experiencing the same issues. 6/2/2010
I picked the title of this post because I have a sneaky suspicion that whatever is going on is kernel related as were other issues in the past that were fairly major like wireless driver breakage and such.
I was running Fedora 12 last night after some rather unpleasant bugs in the new Ubuntu 10.04 release. After about 12 updates a package conflict a reboot , repair of dependencies then a 400 some odd updates to Fedora 12 my processor temperature immediately started cooking like a stove then crashed. I received a black command prompt reporting that my cpu was 90 or so degrees celsius and a shutdown (not graceful by any means). I didn't have any CPU temperature sensor software installed on Ubuntu or Fedora so I booted in to Windows 7 and watched my CPU temp slowly go down, while I was using several programs and such so I was happy to see my laptop was not toast. I just bought it less than a year ago for $1500, so I would have been up the creek.
So I proceeded to reformat my Fedora partition not wanting to take a chance again with overheating. I reinstalled Ubuntu to see if that may have been the case with Ubuntu as well and after a fresh install of Ubuntu and about an hour of usage my CPU was back up to 90 some degrees celsius again. I shutdown Ubuntu and booted back to Windows 7 to witness the same cooling process I witnessed last evening with Fedora 12.
I noticed something strange in the gnome system monitor applet though. My dual cores kept trading 100% CPU utilization every few seconds. I was only running one instance of Firefox and the system monitor applet. I have also noticed the system monitor applet using upwards of 40% CPU to run by itself.
I have had Windows spyware and annoyances in the past but I can safely and confidently say I never witnessed such shoddy software in my life. I am very irritated after two years of trying to make excuses and listen to why Linux is superior quality and blows Windows performance away etc. Why is this tolerated in the open-source world. I am a pragmatist, something has to prove to be more stable and superior not just be said to be such, as it seems the whole Linux thing has turned out to be.
Just so I do not leave this to just Linux let's talk about Chrome's blazing speed that eats up 100% CPU regularly as well.
Awesome engineering guys!
Open-source needs to be more than a hobbyist's dream if they are to prove their model of developing quality software superior to proprietary software.
Then you get answers like, "stop whining !", "what do you expect , it is free!", "blah,blah,blah".
You can not have it both ways guys it is either superior or it is not, will someone answer that for me!


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Walker Grooms's Feb. 22 letter, "Colombia's exploited flower workers," showed little knowledge about the cut flower industry in Colombia.
Colombian labor legislation is strict and enforced. All workers have benefits that many U.S. companies don't offer, including paid medical leave, 18 weeks of maternity leave, paternity leave and universal health coverage. And minimum-wage laws are strictly enforced, including wage increases for overtime.
The United States is the largest buyer of flowers grown in Colombia, but our country also supplies products to 97 countries throughout Europe, Japan and Australia where strict phytosanitary, social and environmental standards must be met. Most of our farms are recognized by international environmental and social labels. Major U.S. retailers continuously inspect and audit their cut flower suppliers in Colombia to ensure that they meet their high social and environmental standards.
Contrary to many reports by nongovernmental organizations, the Colombian government prohibits the use and application of any chemicals and pesticides banned by the World Health Organization as well as the Environmental Protection Agency, allowing only those that meet all international norms and regulations.
There are many things we in the industry must continue to improve. However, we are proud of the social and environmental standards we've developed and implemented, and the tremendous progress made in support of our workers and the environment.
Augusto Solano, Bogota, Colombia
The writer is president of the
Association of Colombian Flower Exporters.


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realization itself is a context-sensitive notion. More poignantly, the claim
at the core of the standard view of realization – that realizers are meta-
physically sufficient for the properties or states that they realize – drives
one to this view. This presents those adopting the standard notion of re-
alization with a dilemma: Either give up or soften this claim of sufficiency
(but at the expense of a range of further physicalist claims), or admit that
realization, and so the metaphysics of the mental, is ineliminably context
sensitive. Either way, some widely held physicalist views need to be revised
or rejected.
In the next section, I offer a more rounded characterization of the
standard view of realization that brings out more explicitly two theses at
the heart of that view. This will make my chief objection to the standard
view easy to state and set the scene for an exploration of some context-
sensitive alternatives to it.
4 the standard view (i): realizers as
metaphysically sufficient
A widespread view amongst physicalists in the philosophy of mind, what-
ever their other differences, is that realizers satisfy what I shall call the
metaphysical sufficiency thesis:
Metaphysical Sufficiency Thesis: Realizers are metaphysically sufficient for the
properties or states they realize.
I want to say something about why this thesis is implicit in standard
conceptions of realization, particularly those used in the philosophy of
One reason is historical. As materialists came to be influenced by the
way in which the computer metaphor suggested that mental states were
multiply realized in physical states, rather than strictly identical to those
states, the claim that physical states were metaphysically necessary and
sufficient for particular mental states, appropriate when considering an
identity theory, was weakened to one of sufficiency only.
A second reason is that many statements of what it means for mental
states to be realized by physical states presuppose or imply this claim. For
example, it is common to think of realization as a relation of determina-
tion (of mental states by physical states), and the sufficiency thesis is at
least a necessary condition for such determination. Also, in explaining
the one-many relationship between mental and physical states allowed
by the notion of multiple realization, it is common to point out not only
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that this is not to be confused with the claim that there is a many-one re-
lationship between mental and physical states, but that such a possibility
would call physicalism itself into question. This possibility, that of emer-
gent realization, that is, of a physical realizer for a given mental property
that could realize some other mental property were the world different
in various ways, is precisely what is ruled out by the sufficiency thesis,
because such realizations would not in and of themselves determine the
properties they realize.
A third reason is that the sufficiency thesis is needed to make sense of
many of the positions that physicalists have adopted and the arguments
they have offered in support of them. An intuition at the core of physi-
calism is that all the relevant physical facts п¬Ѓx all the nonphysical facts,
and the notions of supervenience and realization have both been used
to articulate this intuition further. Supervenience, in all its varieties, is
itself a relation of determination, and if one thinks of realization as a
correlative notion, then it too must be determinative. (Alternatively, if
one holds that the physical realization of a given property is typically a
subset of the subvenient base properties, realizations are, at most, partial
determinants of the properties they realize, a view I return to discuss in
Chapter 6.) And as already bruited above, the sufficiency thesis not only
seems necessary for reductively identifying mental and physical states in
views such as Kim's, but it also generates the recent wave of what Jerry
Fodor calls epiphobia among nonreductionists – epiphobia being the
fear that one is becoming an epiphenomenalist.
5 the standard view (ii): realizers as
physically constitutive
Kim's own reductionism about the mind is also guided by a second thesis,
one at least implicitly shared by many others, including Richard Boyd,
David Lewis, and Sydney Shoemaker. I shall call this thesis the physical
constitutivity thesis:
Physical Constitutivity Thesis: Realizers of states and properties are exhaustively
physically constituted by the intrinsic, physical states of the individual whose states
or properties they are.
I understand this thesis broadly such that stronger and weaker versions
of it could be articulated in terms of the notions of supervenience, type-
identity, or token-identity. In the philosophy of psychology, this thesis
might be thought to have its methodological counterpart in the popular
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endorsement of the idea that homuncular functionalism and functional
analysis involve the decomposition of psychological capacities into their
constituent capacities, a claim we will have reason to consider more care-
fully later.5
Since physical realizations have been claimed to provide a metaphys-
ical and explanatory basis for the higher-level properties they realize,
it is not surprising that these links between functionalism, realization,
and constitution structure (or perhaps derive from) a broader physical-
ist metaphysics, one that accords microstructure a central role. As Kim
says, speaking in the п¬Ѓrst instance of our common sense conception of
chemical kinds, but clearly with a more general view in mind:
. . . many important properties of minerals, we think, are supervenient on, and
explainable in terms of, their microstructure, and chemical kinds constitute a mi-
crostructural taxonomy that is explanatorily rich and powerful. Microstructure
is important, in short, because macrophysical properties of substances are deter-
mined by microstructure. These ideas make up our вЂ˜metaphysics' of microdeter-
mination for properties of minerals and other substances, a background of partly
empirical and partly metaphysical assumptions that regulate our inductive and
explanatory practices.
As Kim says a little later, "[t]o have a physical realization is to be physically
grounded and explainable in terms of the processes at an underlying
level." Such a view is also manifest in Kim's one-time enthusiasm for the
prospects of understanding "mind-body supervenience as an instance of
mereological supervenience," that is, the supervenience of wholes on
their parts.6
6 smallism, the standard view,
and the fragile sciences
In Chapter 1, I claimed that smallism, discrimination in favor of the small,
lurked in the background of contemporary individualism and nativism.
The constitutivity thesis is certainly smallist, but it might well be thought
that its influence is quite limited. After all, recall that "realization" is a
term of art with its contemporary origin in a specific literature – that
of Turing machine functionalism in the philosophy of mind. However,
I want to suggest that an explicit appeal to or an implicit reliance on
that concept and thus on the sufficiency and constitutivity theses can
also be found in a range of positions in the fragile sciences, and thus
the reach of the standard view of realization is significantly broader than
one might think. Consider two such positions that are related to issues
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п¬Ѓrst discussed in Chapter 1 in exploring the relationship between various
forms of individualism and nativism.
One such position concerns the status of collectives in the social sci-
ences. It is common to hold that social-level entities, such as electorates,
institutions, practices and rituals, and their properties are, in some sense,
nothing over and above the individuals who are involved in them and
their properties. Although this relationship has seldom been expressed
in terms of the standard notion of realization, that concept would seem
ideal to capture the "nothing over and above" aspect to that relationship:
Individuals physically constitute social-level entities, and having the in-
dividuals and their particular properties is metaphysically sufficient to
have social-level entities and their corresponding properties. Consider
an electorate that is in the process of voting in a new government. That
electorate is physically realized at that time by a given number of individu-
als, and by a certain majority of those individuals voting for the opposition
party the electorate is thereby in the process of voting in a new govern-
ment. Nothing more than these mundane individual-level facts is needed
for this to be true. Nonreductionists and reductionists about collectives
disagree about what this realization relation implies about social ontol-
ogy. As we saw in Chapter 1, methodological individualists in the social
sciences hold that the relevant properties of individuals are psycholog-
ical and that this has methodological implications for how to do social
A quite distinct arena in which there is likewise an implicit reliance
on the conjunction of the constitutivity and sufficiency thesis is develop-
mental biology in which genes are held to be both physically constituted
and metaphysically determined by particular DNA sequences. The claim
about the physical constitution of genes in general – they are strings of
DNA – is one of the triumphs of twentieth-century biology. That partic-
ular sequences of DNA are held to be metaphysically sufficient for the
presence of a given gene underlies not only comparative molecular phy-
logenetic inferences that identify the same (or, as it is typically put, a
homologous) gene across organisms belonging to two different species
or other cladistic groups, but also the robustness of the appeal to DNA
sequences in talking of the "gene for" a given phenotypic trait. Thus, it
would make sense of key aspects of how genes are conceptualized in ge-
netics and developmental biology to say that they are realized in sequences
of DNA, even if that is not how biologists have in fact put the matter. In
fact, I shall argue later in this chapter that talk of realization has quite
general application within the biological sciences.
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While I think that it is the constitutivity thesis that is problematic in
talk of the realization of mental states, my general challenge is to the con-
junction of the sufficiency and constitutivity theses for at least a variety of
properties and states, including not only mental properties and states but
those from across the fragile sciences. Context can feature in an account
of realization in a number of ways, but feature it must, and I see no way of
adequately representing the role of context in such an account that does
not undermine either the sufficiency thesis or the constitutivity thesis. A
bald statement of my chief objection to the standard view of realization
is that the sufficiency and constitutivity theses are typically not true of
the same putative realizers. Often the realizations that are metaphysically
sufficient for the properties they realize are not exclusively physical con-
stituents of individuals with those properties. Conversely, sometimes the
physical constitution of an individual with a given property is not meta-
physically sufficient for that property to be present. Mental properties
are no exception here.
Physicalists who understand realization as a relation of metaphysical
determination, as most do, should embrace the idea that at least some
states and properties, including mental states and properties, have re-
alizers that extend beyond the individual instantiating them. States and
properties that have what I shall call a wide realization are prevalent in
both common-sense thinking and in the biological and social sciences.
Perhaps because there has been no general framework for such a view of
realization, this view has not been explicitly endorsed in the literature on
mental properties, although it is the view of realization that makes most
direct metaphysical sense of the widespread recognition that a range
of mental properties are not individualistic, and a view that externalists
should readily agree with. This advocacy of wide realizations represents
one way of developing a context-sensitive notion of realization.
There are initially less striking ways in which realization is context
sensitive, however, and I shall discuss two of them next.
7 context-sensitive realization
and metaphysical sufficiency
As a way of introducing the idea that realization is context sensitive, con-
sider the mental state of pain and the Ur-example of its realizer, C-п¬Ѓber
stimulation. As Sydney Shoemaker has pointed out, C-п¬Ѓber stimulation
is, at best, a partial realization of pain. What Shoemaker calls a core realiza-
tion of that mental state is the specific part of the central nervous system
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most readily identified as playing a crucial, causal role in producing or
sustaining the experience of pain. But when an individual is in pain other
parts of her central nervous system are also activated, and the activity of
these parts is crucial for C-п¬Ѓber stimulation to play the causal role that is,
according to functionalists, definitive of pain.7
In general, the physical states that are partial realizations of a prop-
erty or state will be metaphysically context sensitive in that they will realize
that property or state only given their location in some broader physical
system. Considered just in themselves, they do not satisfy the sufficiency
thesis. Additionally, in the special case of the core realization of a prop-
erty, conceived of as the most salient part of some larger system in which
that property is instantiated, we have an epistemic dimension to the con-
text sensitivity of the realization. What we п¬Ѓnd of greatest causal salience
depends on our conceptual and perceptual abilities. It also depends on
the questions we ask, the background information we have, and, more
generally, our epistemic orientation.
The context sensitivity of partial and core realizations should be un-
controversial, but might be thought of as having little relevance here
because such realizations do not and have never been claimed to satisfy
the sufficiency thesis. Even if core realizations of a property are what
we most readily call to mind in thinking of the realization of that prop-
erty, there are more complete physical states of which core realizations
are a part that do satisfy the sufficiency thesis. Any interesting context-
sensitivity thesis about realization should apply to them, not simply to
core or other partial realizations. Following Shoemaker, we might define
a total realization of a property as just such a state of a system.
By talking of a given higher-level property, P, and the system, S, in
which P is realized, we can characterize the general distinction between
core and total realizations as follows:
(a) core realization of P: a state of the specific part of S that is most
readily identifiable as playing a crucial causal role in producing or
sustaining P
(b) total realization of P: a state of S, containing any given core real-
ization as a proper part, that is metaphysically sufficient for P
In particular cases, "S" is to be replaced by the appropriate system,
whether it be psychological, biological, economic, computational, chem-
ical, and so on, and their more determinate forms. In the case of pain,
the appropriate system is the nociceptive system, containing mechanical
and polymodal nociceptors in the skin (muscles and viscera), myelinated
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and unmyelinated axons (the latter being the famed C-п¬Ѓbers), spinal
neurons, parts of the brainstem and thalamus, and the somatosensory
area of the cerebral cortex. More generally, while P is a property of some
individual entity, such as an organism, S need not be identical to that
entity but, as in the example of pain, may form a part of it. Paradigms
of such systems are those in which bodily functions and their associated
properties are realized – for example, the respiratory system, the digestive
system, the circulatory system – that are a part of each creature with the
respective properties. Total realizations of P are exhaustively constituted
by a core realization of P plus what I will refer to as the noncore part of the
total realization.
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Playing with Barbies was one of my favorite things to do when I was younger. Not only did I have dozens of normal dolls, but I also collected special-edition Barbies and had all sorts of books and other items about her. I just thought she was so awesome! Created by Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler in 1959, 2009 marked the 50th anniversary of the debut of Barbie on television. Over the past decades, she has had over 100 jobs and reflected the popular trends in society. Not only has the marketing and advertising behind Barbie made her a success in America, but Barbie is a household name in almost every country in the world. She has had her ups and downs, but has been able to maintain a great tan, shiny hair, and perfect figures all these years. She sure doesn't look 50 to me! This video discusses the public relations campaign that was created to celebrate the famous doll by Ogilvy PR. From events, store openings, and viral videos, the strategies used to promote Barbie's 50th birthday have been used globally to reach the many audiences that are interested in the landmark event. I think Barbie deserves a huge piece of plastic cake and a date with Ken for all her achievements!
Happy 50th Birthday, Barbie!
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Ha! Lauren, this post was too funny. I loved how honest and forthcoming you are about your "Barbie obsession". I actually was reminded about an episode of the show "Project Runway" from Bravo while reading this post. On this episode, the designers were to create an outfit for Barbie. I think that this was a great marketing strategy for Mattel to reintroduce Barbie to adults by way of a fashion TV. show. I love the marketing campaign that Ogilvy PR has created and think that it is neat the way that they are revealing different aspects as it launches around the globe. I love the real life Barbie models! Where do I sign up for that job?
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It is crazy how Barbie's birthday can be such a big news story! I loved to play with Barbies when I was younger and they are most likely a part of every young girls life. PR is a major part of any product, company, or business. Barbie probably has a very good public relations representative! This post is interesting and got my attention as soon as I saw it. I think it is fun and many people will be surprised by the impact Barbie has had on so many people's lives. I love your last line to about the plastic cake and Ken, too funny!
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I highly enjoyed this post. It took me back to many childhood memories of playing in my room with multiple barbies fantasicing about the perfect life with Ken. Haha, sometimes I wish I could go back to that carefree, and imaginary world. But, as far as campaigns goes, this was so interesting. I loved it! How fun would this have been to be able to be on a campaign team to help the legendary "Barbie" celebrate her Birthday, with style and elegance, for Barbie fans around the world. What girl wouldn't love a job like this? Thanks for the entertaining post, it cracked me up.
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Coaches get some hands-on training of proper technique for using kettlebell weights Saturday [March 18, 2017]. About 100 coaches from eight states attended the clinic at NBC.
Coaches flock to NBC to stregthen their programs
by Nathan Arneal
NBC strength and conditioning teacher Rob Brokaw has spent many, many hours on the road travelling to hear the best in his business speak.
Those road trips included jaunts to destinations like Michigan, Minnesota and Atlanta for a chance to hear about the latest philosophies and techniques in training athletes for peak performance.
Boy, Brokaw thought, this sure would be easier without traveling across the country.
"I've been kind of all over the place, and I thought there's nothing like that here," Brokaw said. "We're Nebraska, Boyd Epley, right here, this is where it all began. So it seems kind of fitting that we bring it back to Nebraska."
So he did.
Two years ago Brokaw inaugurated the Nebraska High School Strength Clinic in Fremont. Brokaw, 30, is now in his first year at North Bend Central, and when he made the move to NBC, he brought the clinic with him.
About 100 coaches representing 60 high schools from eight states met in North Bend to see and hear nationally known speakers as well as local experts discuss strength training and conditioning. The roster of speakers included the basketball strength coach for Clemson University and Dan John, who is well known on the strength circuit in both the U.S. and Europe. The clinic also featured presentations from top high school strength coaches from Minnesota, Indiana, Georgia and Nebraska.
Some of the proceeds of the clinic were donated to the NBC strength program.
"As a coach you really need to ask yourself what your athletes need to be good at, and then work towards things that allow those athletes to be good in their respective sports," Baehr said. "I think after hearing (Dan John) speak, it will lead me to try and marry activities we are doing in practice to what they are doing in weights by picking coach Brokaw's brain a bit more."
Baehr gave the example of improving his players' defensive stance and lateral quickness on defensive slides with training techniques he can take from the weight room into basketball practice.
Ron Mimick is the athletic director, football coach and boys track and field coach for David City Aquinas and has been involved in training athletes for 37 years. He attended the clinic as he tries to reshape the strength and conditioning program at Aquinas. Instead of individual coaches coming up with programs for their athletes, he wants to have a program all Monarch athletes, male and female of all ages, can follow.
"I'm learning a lot," he said. "We're trying to get to where we say, 'This is the Aquinas program.' It's kind of like a basketball coach: this is what we do, and we pick up a little bit here and a little bit there, and it works for us. That's what we want to get to."
Mimick has seen strength training philosophies change a lot in his decades as a coach. What once involved a lot of machines is now shifting more towards free weights, exercises done with the athlete's feet on the ground and a focus on core strength.
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Don't 4get #TheHelp is fiction, not fact. Written in 2009 not 1960's. Puts $206mil in a white woman's pocket
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Well the title gives this article away and in this how to guide we will cover the ways and whys an Eyelet Punch is and the best way to make the most easy and best round holes for your eyelets.
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Well this is quite straight forward if you are fastening an 4mm eyelet then you will need a 4mm punch , this only really comes up when using a setting tool as most pliers have a built in hole puncher, and as you will know a 7mm eyelet will need a the same sized punch tool for cutting the hole, just remember that eyelets are sized by the hole size they fit into.
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