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Thunderbolt on Windows: ASUS P8Z77-V Premium, Pegasus R4 and an Apple Thunderbolt Display
An overview of Thunderbolt Technology
The promise of Thunderbolt connectivity has been around for a couple of years now. Today, Thunderbolt is finally finding its way to the PC platform in the form of motherboards from ASUS and MSI. First unveiled as "Light Peak" at the Intel Developer Forum in 2009, the technology started out as a way to connect multiple devices to a system over a fiber optic cable (hence the 'light' in the name), though the final products have changed the implementation slightly.
The first prototype implementations actually used a USB-style connection and interface. It further required fiber optic cables. When it was renamed to Thunderbolt and then released in conjunction with a new lineup of Apple MacBook laptops, not only did the physical interface move to a mini-DisplayPort connection but the cable was made to use copper rather than fiber. Without diving too far into the reasons and benefits of either direction, the fact is that the copper cables allow for modest power transfer and are much cheaper than fiber optic variants would be.
Thunderbolt's base technology remains the same, however. It is a transfer standard that allows for 10 Gbps of bandwidth for each channel (bi-directional) and concurrently supports both data and display connections. The actual interface for the data path is based on PCI Express and connected devices actually appear to Windows as if they are internally connected to the system which can offer some interesting benefits – and headaches – for hardware developers. The display connection uses the DisplayPort standard and can be used along with the data connection without affecting bandwidth levels or performance.
For current Intel processor implementations, the Thunderbolt connection is supported by a separate controller chip on the motherboard (or a riser card) – and some routing is required for correct usage. The Thunderbolt controller does not actually include a graphics controller, so it must be fed an output from another graphics processor, obviously in this case directly from the Ivy Bridge / Sandy Bridge processors. In theory, these could be from other controllers, but with the ubiquitous nature of integrated processor graphics on IVB and SNB processors, this is going to be the implementation going forward according to motherboard and system designers.
Continue reading our review of Thunderbolt on Windows and the ASUS P8Z77-V Premium!!
The x4 PCIe connection is required for peak performance on the Thunderbolt connection. Therefore, you will see all motherboard vendors implementing it in this way.
We actually started hearing about Thunderbolt / Light Peak before we saw the first USB 3.0 implementations so there was some worry about a battle between the two connection interfaces. Luckily for USB 3.0 it has a significant lead in terms of install base – and user mind share – with nearly all motherboards and notebooks integrating a USB 3.0 controller of some kind. Even Intel's latest 7-series chipset embeds a USB 3.0 controller.
In truth, the connections are different enough that I think both can co-exist without much tension. While Thunderbolt does offer twice the total amount of bandwidth compared to USB 3.0, it is currently targeting solely high-end users that need that much bandwidth. Attaching a single SSD to a USB 3.0 connection can come close to reaching peak utilization but it takes two or more to do so on the Thunderbolt implementations I have tested thus far. For video editors and professional users that want some form of external drive connection without sacrificing speed, Thunderbolt will offer the best option.
Another great advantage of Thunderbolt is its ability to daisy chain across multiple devices on a single connection. You can string several Thunderbolt devices together including external storage, connection hubs and displays as long as the devices correctly implement daisy chain capability – which some of them are confusingly NOT doing. This provides more use for the 10 Gbps of bandwidth provided by Thunderbolt as you could string two RAID arrays that can hit ~ 400 MB/s each and still see the ideal performance from them on your system.
And while there has been a lot of talk about the Apple Thunderbolt display, you can absolutely use any monitor with a DisplayPort connection (or with an active adapter). Keep in mind that it must be the last (or only) devices on the Thunderbolt port.
If you have priced out a Thunderbolt cable at all (currently only available from Apple...) you'll find a $49 price tag in your face. While troubling, there is a reason for this kind of price. Each cable actually has active processing at each end that is able to amplify the channels and information. For these copper-based cables, power transmission is also there for as much as 10 watts so that otherwise passive devices like hard drive docks can operate as expected.
During Computex this year, Intel claimed that other Thunderbolt cable manufacturers were going to be making their way into the market to help drive down these prices sometime in the second half of 2012.
In the near future, purely optical cables will be available and will still use the same mini-DP style connector. It will be backwards compatible with current Thunderbolt implementations.
Even in a daisy chained environment, power can be passed down the chain as long as the devices in between are physically plugged into an outlet. The final, terminating, device cannot pass power.
Because the Thunderbolt data connections are actually just PCI Express interfaces, the Windows device manager will show you some interesting trees of connections when organized by connection rather than type. You can see that as you chain devices together. They will be found further and further down the tree as each Thunderbolt controller (on each device) will become a switch for transferring the signal down and upstream.
Editor's Note: In a completely different vein, we talked with ASUS' JJ Guerrero last month about their Thunderbolt integration on the P8Z77-V Premium. If you want a brief overview of the technology and some quick performance numbers from ASUS before diving into our full experience review here, check out the video below!
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Actually its not entirely accurate to say "any monitor with a DisplayPort connection" will work with Intel Thunderbolt since I believe you need to have at least a DisplayPort v1.1 or higher compatible monitor. Version 1.0 presumably wont work.
Hmm, I hadn't heard that. I'll check!
I'll stick with (e)SATA and USB 3.0. Too many issues with TB performance and cost for it to be considered a true SATA and USB 3.0 replacement for the average joe.
I read the page on that story about the problems, and I didn't see ANY of them. I think the initial push MSI made with their GD80 board was causing much of that. I know that ASUS went through certification with their Premium board and MSI's GD80 has gotten significant updates.
Yea its faster then USB3 but USB is on every machine for last 15 years and its cheap. TB on other hand it on a hand full of machines and cable ALONE costs a lot so i don't see TB doing much less intel dumps a ton of cast in to get every computer to have it and gets those prices WAY down.
You realize USB was only on a handfull of machines when it first started too, right?The cables back then were costly as well.
Not exactly a good argument.
I believe there is already at least one Thunderbolt cable not manufactured by Apple already but it is the same ~$50 price. Instead of they typical Apple white color its black.
I agree that Thunderbolt is more expensive then the ubiquitous USB but its not exactly the same thing. For example, in theory you could run high-end graphics subsystems off of Thunderbolt such as something akin to an HD 7970 or GTX680, on a laptop or tablet (with Thunderbolt support). You just cant do that with USB. So the potential is there.
Very good point.
Yes indeed. Sony's latest Z series of laptops features external DVD/AMD graphics card combo.
The Asus "P8Z77-V Pro / Thunderbolt" edition motherboard is available now for ~$259.99. It doesn't have all the features of the P8Z77-V Premium but its cheaper and has built in Thunderbolt.
With DisplayPort connectivity built in, is it possible we will see this replacing DVI & HDMI?
Though I love my HP z30w, I want to see 120hz 30 inch monitors. I know there is a new cable standard based on CAT5e/6 networking cables but I've not heard anything since it was announced like 2 years ago. With 4k TVs supposedly on the way we need to see some progress on this front.
This is fantastic. I'm guessing this will open notebooks and limited desktops alike to portable GPUs. Finally a way to update that notebook video adapter!
I've seen the sony in action, and it's like a bad joke. Good luck getting the external gpu to work on the integrated monitor. i couldn't play any games at all on it, and even aero was performing... poorly. Lots of tearing. Not to mention that the external video card requires a discrete power supply, which kills portability, and presumably is a risk to the system if it should ever come unplugged while in use, and this is looking like a design decision that puts hp's dv6000s to shame. Oh, and the laptop sitting next to it was the same size, cost $100 less, and had a faster gpu built in. It's a nice thought, but really guys? this is the future? If this is what I have to look forward to, half assed implementations...
Not that it's a bad idea in and of itself. I would kill for a displaylink adapter that could output dual link dvi and sport its own small gpu inside for hardware accelerated video that can run on only the 10w available through thunderbolt. That should be more than doable, and a killer product. But as it stands, we're no less than three generations from true external video cards.
I agree with the side paragraph on "more than storage" although I don't think people really get this.
This is the way forward with thunderbolt and is highly underrated.
When we start seeing graphics, displays, cpus, SSD banks, in the forms of thunderbolt docs (sure cpu and memory will have to wait for v2 but so did hdd with usb 1 v 2.0)
This is where thunderbolt real benefits will be seen.
Just imaging the ability to dock your phone into your pad which can doc into a workstation or gaming rig.
Each time you get more memory, cpu and gpu power or what ever it is you docked too.
Each time getting an auto backup of your primary medium.
It gives the end consumer similar advantages to blade disk and cloud (think azure cpu scaling) hardware scaleability benefits directly.
Windows OS already allows hot swapping and adding cpus, memory, gpus, hdd (old news) and what not. Now its time for the hardware to catch up to the software.
Asking questions are in fact fastidious thing if you are not understanding something totally,
however this post provides good understanding even.
So, what happens if you plug each end of a TB cable into separate PC's?
USB has A and B plugs to prevent this due to the risk of power related damage and competing hosts. How has TB solved this issue?
It sure would make for a killer "Laplink" cable tho.
I hope that as soon as the bios and driver issues are well settled, we will see TB ports replacing display ports on high-end video cards, a nice way to upgrade a system I think.
TB has a solid future, of that I'm pretty sure but USB will remain a more appropriate bus for cheap and low bandwidth devices for some years yet.
Thanks for the great article, now I wish my new PC had TB in place, guess I'll have to hold out for the GFX card option.
I bought the asus p8z77 pro/thunderbolt and apple thunderbolt display but while i get an image from the iGPU HD 3000 (i7 2600K) on my thunderbolt display, it seems that the discrete card (GTX 560 ti) does not kick in in 3d games although the option is enabled in Lucid virtu MVP. Am I missing something? Can someone help, pls ? The article above seems to tell a different story than mine.....
Some games don't even start although they appear as supported in lucid mvp, so I must be doing someting wrong
Thank you in advance !
Have you figured out how to get your discrete card to run through your thunderbolt yet? I wanted to make sure this could be done on the pro before I buy one.
I have bought the P8Z77-V PRO/THUNDERBOLT too now and an apple thunderbolt display.. i have made the installation so far as described:
- installed all latest drivers (chipset, lan, usb, whatever)
- made bios-update to 1805
- installed latest intel graphics hd driver
- installed latest nvidia driver for my Asus GTX-560 Ti
- installed lucid virtu mvp
- reboot - go to bios and activate iGPU
- connect thunderbolt display and got image..
but i have only a resolution of 640x480 - the device manager is telling me, that the hd graphics card has not enough resources (error 12) and lucid virtu drops an error "wrong gpu configuration"..
all i can find in the manual is, that i have to make sure, that the integrated gpu is not deactivated when a deticated graphics card is installed.. but in the bios, i can't find a point under "Integrated peripherals" or any other point to control that...
the other thing.. my windows is not on the latest state, cause my install cd is a little bit out-dated and currently i didn't finish running the updates of windows.. could that cause a problem?
what have configured in this review in the bios? iGPU? Auto? or something else? what whit any other settings like wakeup over tb oder tb settings itself?
exist laptop pc whit thunderbolt port?


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The awkwardly over-the top, eclectic and later-regrettable phase of fashion is inevitable for any teen idol.
It appears now that Justin Bieber's in the thick of his "look back later and cringe" era. The 18-year-old pop star stepped out Wednesday in London wearing an oversize, studded, neon-yellow hat (!) and purple leopard-print pants.
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"I understand that," said Selig. "John did a lot of wonderful things for baseball. Very helpful for me, during a time when things weren't frankly as great as they are right now. I know it's the right thing for him to do. Believe me, I like John Moores a lot. He did a lot for this sport. A lot."
Moores called walking away from the meetings: "An out of body experience."
"It was more emotional than I thought," he told mlb.com. "It's been 18 years."
But Selig quickly embraced the new owners.
"The San Diego group is terrific, Ron Fowler has a wonderful reputation. Of course, the Seidlers, O'Malleys, many of them have known the family, I have, for 45 years. It was good. They were very cooperative. They came in and had all of their work done. It was just easy. There was no other way to say it -- it was just easy.
"They look to be a wonderful ownership group. They're going to devote a lot of time, a lot of energy. I think Padres fans have a right to be very happy today, very happy.
"This group knows what it takes to compete. They're very optimistic there. I'm optimistic. I've gone over their projections, gone over everything. I think their projections are optimistic, but realistic. This is a good day for baseball."
"We're looking for a long, consistent ownership group here," said Fowler. "As a San Diegan, I think it's great for baseball in San Diego, that the O'Malley family and the Seidler family are going to be the owners. I'm looking forward to having some fun over the next five to 10 years.
"We have work to do. This was the second step. We now have to close with John."
Concluded Peter Seidler: "We're a combination thrilled to be in this position, but also feel a great sense of responsibility to the game and community of San Diego.
"We really look forward to going to work and doing everything we can to make the city of San Diego happy with our leadership, particularly the fans. Bottom line, we're just happy to get going, work hard and take a bunch of good steps in the right direction."


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by Len Lear
Move over, Spike Lee. Rel Dowdell, 39-year-old a native of Germantown and graduate of Central High School (248th graduating class in 1989), may just be the next great black filmmaker. His second feature film, "Changing the Game," opened last Friday at selected AMC theaters in Philadelphia, New York City, Washington, D.C., Atlanta and Chicago, with a nationwide release to follow. AMC Theatres is the second-largest motion picture exhibitor in North America.
"He is an outstanding filmmaker," said Bob Demers, the director of photography on Rel's breakthrough feature. "I shot his first thesis for him at Boston University (where Dowdell earned a master's degree in the film school), a short named 'Train Ride.' I have known Rel for 15 or 20 years. On the set he has a real vision."
"It took me seven years to raise the money we needed," explained the filmmaker, "and to hire all the people and make the film and then get distribution. It really does 'take a village' to raise the money for an independent film."
According to Dennis White, one of the actors in "Changing," "Rel is a hands-on director. He knows exactly what he wants. In this industry it does not always work that way. Some directors go by the seat of their pants."
"Changing the Game," which was shot entirely in Philadelphia, is the story of child prodigy Darrell Barnes, who grew up at 8th and Butler Streets in North Philadelphia in the 1980s. ("It was the most dangerous neighborhood in the city at that time," said Dowdell.) Barnes winds up working in the skyscrapers of New York's financial district, where the stakes are high with global impact. Darrell is played by Sean Riggs, whom Dowdell calls "the next Denzel Washington."
Is the key to survival an almost-mystical gift from a slain childhood friend? Dowdell's screenplay, which he wrote with collaborator Aaron Astillero, his direction and a plot that includes a few Hitchcockian twists and turns give the film a chance to strike it rich at the box office. Dowdell said he admired Alfred Hitchcock greatly as well as the movie "The Sixth Sense" and that "Changing" also has a big surprise ending that will provide lots of water cooler conversation.
"I always wanted to do a film showing somebody coming out of the worst environment but who does not let that environment take over his life and who succeeds in spite of it," explained Dowdell. "I grew up in Germantown and knew many young men who had a lot of potential but who never got out of the neighborhood. So I thought that one day I would make a film where somebody like that does beat the odds and does not just become a statistic.
"This is a story with complex characters in a changing world reaching an audience with diverse backgrounds. We show that surviving North Philly is a tough physical game, but surviving Wall Street is an equally tough mental game. The cast is about half-white and half-black and will appeal to more than just one demographic because we believe the story will resonate with all viewers.
"My hope is for 'Changing the Game' to embody its title by transforming the way African-American films and filmmakers are perceived. With Nikkole Denson-Randolph of AMC Independent and Anthony King of Barnholtz Entertainment on our team, we have a tremendous chance to exceed our expectations."
After graduation from Central High, Rel received his B.A. in English with Magna Cum Laude honors from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1993 and a Master's Degree in Film Production with highest distinction from Boston University's film school in 1995. "I didn't know I wanted to be a filmmaker," he told the Local, "until I got to college and read some articles about Spike Lee and John Singleton and how they took the educational route to filmmaking."
Rel grew up in the same Germantown block at the legendary boxer, Bernard Hopkins. His parents, both teachers, took out a second mortgage on their home so they could pay Rel's tuition at Boston University's film school. His first film after graduation, "Train Ride," was filmed entirely at Cheyney University in Chester County. It took seven years after it was made in order to get it released.
Dowdell is truly a down-to-earth, handsome, very unpretentious guy who told me, "I grew up reading the Chestnut Hill Local, and it has always been one of my favorite publications." (His affection for the Local has absolutely nothing to do with my purely objective evaluation of his many talents.)
Dowdell's first feature film, "Train Ride," an extension of his Master's Degree thesis ("It was always conceptualized as a feature when it was just a short," said Rel), received substantial critical acclaim. Produced with independent financing, the film was acquired and distributed by Sony Pictures in 2005 and was a major financial success. "Train Ride" was ranked as one of the best American films that year as cited by veteran film critic Gerald Peary of The Boston Phoenix.
The film also garnered high praise in film historian and writer Irv Slifkin's best-selling book, "Filmadelphia: A Celebration of a City's Movies." "Train Ride" also won the honor of "Best Feature" at the American Theatre of Harlem Film Festival in 2005. And it was the number one grossing urban film for Sony Pictures in 2005 with over $20 million in revenue. Both "Train Ride" and "Changing the Game" were made for under $500,000.
Rel Dowdell has been compared by several critics to John Singleton and Spike Lee in the way that his filmmaking blends urban storytelling and suspense to tackle relevant and universal social issues that are intimately intertwined with a powerful moral message. One message in "Changing" is that "sometimes you have to stop playing the game and start changing the game."
One interesting fact about "Changing the Game" is that while most independent, small-budget movies take place in just one city and during one time period in order to save money, "Changing" covers a period of more than 30 years and presumably in various locations such as New York, London and Thailand, even though every scene was actually shot in Philadelphia. "This movie is an epic," insisted R. Brian Chacon, production designer, "since it covers the time from 1974, when the main character is in elementary school, until 2006, when he is an adult."
"The biggest challenge for us," insisted Dowdell, "was covering these different time periods with their different costuming, makeup, hairstyles and wardrobe, and keeping it all under budget. Doing all of that definitely makes you a better filmmaker."
Dowdell believes that if "Changing" is a box office success, it will not only advance his career but may open doors for other African American filmmakers. In the past two decades the number of black films has declined precipitously. The only black director really making successful films these days is Tyler Perry, and the number of black independent filmmakers is almost infinitesimal.
The first major national review for "Changing the Game" last week was a rave. Reviewer Avi Offer, a member of New York Film Critics online (website is nycmovieguru.com), gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars.
Dowdell currently lives in West Philadelphia, but that may not be his residence for long. "I love Philly," he told us, "but if the right opportunity calls … maybe there will be a move to the West Coast!"
By the way, Rel has probably been asked many, many times about the origin of his unique name. "It was a nickname," he explained. "My full
first name is Brarailty. My father came up with that name."
For more information about "Changing," visit the official website, www.ChangingtheGametheMovie.com. To watch the trailer, visit http://vimeo.com/38696937


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Estimates of New HIV Infections in the United States, 2006-2009
August 2011
In August 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new estimates of the annual number of new HIV infections (HIV incidence) in the United States. The estimates, for 2006 through 2009, are the first multi-year estimates using CDC's national HIV incidence surveillance methodology, which is based on direct measurement of new HIV infections using a laboratory test (the BED HIV-1 Capture Enzyme Immunoassay) that can classify new diagnoses as either recent or long-standing HIV infections. The estimates were published online in the scientific journal PLoS ONE (http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017502).
The new estimates suggest that overall HIV incidence in the United States has been relatively stable at approximately 50,000 annual infections between 2006 and 2009. Each year, the largest number of new HIV infections was among white men who have sex with men (MSM)* followed closely by black MSM. Hispanic MSM and black women were also heavily affected. Over the four year period, new HIV infections appear to be relatively stable among all populations except young MSM. The overall increase among young MSM was driven by a 48 percent increase in HIV infections among young black MSM during the four-year time period.
In addition to providing the first estimates for 2007, 2008 and 2009, CDC has updated its earlier estimate of HIV incidence for 2006 (previously 56,300). The new, lower estimate reflects refined research methods and more data available due to reporting delays. While these HIV incidence estimates are based on the best data currently available, CDC will continue to refine estimates over time as improvements in methods or additional data are available.
Announced in July 2010, the National HIV/AIDS Strategy calls for prioritizing prevention efforts in the populations where HIV is most heavily concentrated -- gay and bisexual men of all races and ethnicities, African Americans and Hispanics/Latinos -- and for alleviating racial and ethnic disparities. To achieve the strategy's goals, CDC is implementing "High-Impact Prevention," a new approach designed to maximize available HIV prevention resources and have the greatest impact on the U.S. HIV epidemic.
Implications of New Estimates
CDC's new estimates underscore two key HIV prevention challenges that require urgent action:
Key Findings: A Closer Look
Data Suggest Overall HIV Incidence Relatively Stable
CDC estimates that there were 48,600 (Confidence Interval [CI]: 42,400-54,700) new HIV infections in the United States in 2006, 56,000 (CI: 49,100-62,900) in 2007, 47,800 (CI: 41,800-53,800) in 2008 and 48,100 (CI: 42,200-54,000) in 2009.
The new estimates update CDC's original HIV incidence estimate for 2006 (previously 56,300 [CI: 48,200-64,500]). The new lower estimate reflects refined statistical modeling and the addition of data now available due to reporting delays (see Methods box below for additional information). CDC will continue to add new data and improve its research methods over time. As a result, HIV incidence estimates may continue to be refined in the future.
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1. A little board diversity, anyone?
"White men make up 30% of America but they hold 70% of the board seats." -Mellody Hobson at #TED #TED2014
— Bill Gross (@Bill_Gross) March 21, 2014
"White men make up 30% of America but they hold 70% of the board seats." -Mellody Hobson at #TED #TED2014
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Just discovered a great Tesla ad made by 2 recent college grads. I love it! http://t.co/20dPRD9yrJ
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4. It's too bad Ed McMahon is no longer with us. It would've been great to see Mr. Sweepstakes deliver the great news to this groundbreaking physicist.
Awesome. Capturing the precise moment in time when a physicist learns his lifetime of research has been validated http://t.co/e2R7IbDHyP
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No. 0 Memory Lane, Bob Ross
One likes to contribute to a wine community in some way, but if you've stopped writing tasting notes, that's not always so easy. Thor Iverson suggested awhile back that it might be interesting to trace the evolution of a wine lover through his wine diary. Since I've always loved reading my own stuff, I thought I'd try the experiment.
A few notes:
1. I got a new admin job in May 1995, and our legal division almost immediately converted from Word Perfect to Word. The Wine Diary was my practice ground for learning Word for many months until writing wine notes became a habit.
2. The company doctor recommended trying red wine at meals in order to reduce high cholestrol counts -- over 800 one time. Genetic, but troubling. Doctor's view have informed much of my wine experiences.
3. My decision to stop writing tasting notes was greatly informed by a plucky poster in the second most popular thread on WLDG when it was located solely on Netscape; see http://community.netscape.com/n/pfx/for ... winelovers
Librar1000 wrote:
"You guys, serious? You sit around and talk about wine?
"I just drink the stuff -- red, white, some bubbles. Mostly with dinner.
"What's to talk about?"
Turns out to be a classic hedonist question to a scientist. One plucky lady. And she didn't write exactly what she meant. But more about all that later. For now, let's tune in on Bob Ross ten and more years ago on the start of an interesting Wine Safari:
[b]Wine Diary starting in May 1995. [/b]
[i]Data was lost in a Labor Day computer crash in 1996; most of the diary is complete from May 1995 through March 5, 1996, and then again after September 3, 1996. Some data exists from the Dark Ages during 1996. Wine acquisitions are sometimes noted in general terms, but are stored specifically in a separate file to simplify counting types of wines, etc. using the replace feature of Word. Notes are quite erratic after January 2002, when I learned about high cholesterol and the possible adverse effect of alcohol on Lipitor.
This file contains all of my existing tasting notes; some TNs are copied to files on regions or wineries or on various topics. This file does not contain all acquisition notes or events; they are generally in the separate Wine Acquisition file. Usually a description of the wine originally contained in the acquisition entry is moved to the first occasion on which I drank the wine.
Notes about wines are collected at the first entry for that wine, either in the Purchased or Gift note, or when first consumed; the Purchased/Gift entry is then usually moved to the first TN for the wine. Acquisition notes are maintained in the Wine Purchases file and in the Consolidated Wine Inventory Excel file.
3/1/95 Event: Sometime around this date, I decided to try to reduce my high cholesterol count by drinking red wine on a regular basis. At first, I drank almost a bottle each day I had wine, which turned out to be too much. My notes until the end of May, 1995 are very sporadic.[/i][/i]


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Defending the Pope
By Selwyn Duke
web posted February 16, 2009
Pope Benedict XVI has found himself in a maelstrom of controversy over his lifting of the excommunication of Richard Williamson, an illegally-consecrated prelate who has downplayed the magnitude of the Holocaust. The Pope has been scored by the media, certain Jewish groups and even some fellow Catholics, yet few truly understand what they're criticizing. Let's examine the matter.
There is no question that Williamson has made some outrageous statements. For instance, first we have the Holocaust comment that put him on the radar screen:
"I think the most serious conclude that between 200,000 to 300,000 perished in Nazi concentration camps, but not one of them by gassing in a gas chamber. I believe that the historical evidence is strongly against, 6 million Jews having been gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler."
And this is not the only time Williamson raised eyebrows. He also believes the U.S. government perpetrated 9/11 to provide a pretext for invading Afghanistan and Iraq and once said that "the Vatican has sold its soul to liberalism." Thus, it's understandable that he would grab headlines. Yet, in the media's rush to disseminate what they fancy to be the Vatican's sins, they render themselves guilty of a mortal one of journalistic omission.
First, while the reportage can leave one with the impression that Williamson is a Catholic bishop, this is not the case. Rather, he is a bishop in the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), a schismatic organization that is not in union with the Church. But to understand the situation adequately, some background is necessary.
The SSPX is a group of ultra-traditionalist Catholics created by the late French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1970. The organization objected to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), some of which it perceived to be heretical in nature. As time wore on, Lefebvre's bucking of the establishment caused increasing friction between the society, and its philosophical opponents and the Vatican.
As Lefebvre aged, he became concerned that his society might not be under the stewardship of like-minded traditionalists upon his death; thus, he consecrated four SSPX priests – one of whom was Richard Williamson – as bishops, in defiance of Pope John Paul II. The Pope then enforced Church law and announced that Lefebvre and the four priests had incurred excommunication.
In other words, Williamson was never actually a bishop because he was invalidly consecrated by a renegade archbishop.
This is important to understand when reading articles in which ignorant if not anti-Catholic reporters write about the "rehabilitation" of the four "bishops." At this juncture, the rehabilitation of the men doesn't involve making them officers of the Church with official functions; it simply refers to the lifting of their excommunications. Moreover, the Vatican has made clear that Williamson will never be able to assume ecclesiastical duties unless he completely renounces his claims regarding the Holocaust.
Yet critics are still incensed. "Why would the Pope lift the excommunication of a man holding such outrageous views?" they ask. And others, such as Einar Koch writing at Bild.com, are befuddled. He wonders, ". . . does the Vatican really know the extent of Williamson's outrageous beliefs (note: It has now been revealed that the Pope did not know)?" While that is a fair question, this is nevertheless where I lose a bit of patience. I would have to ask Koch and the rest of the media, "Do you really know to any extent what you're caterwauling about?" For while the secular world talks sanctimoniously about how the Church has to work toward "understanding," it seems to forget that understanding must go both ways.
I can sum up the Church's critics' position very simply: A bad man said some bad things, and lifting an excommunication is a good thing to do for someone. And only a bad man would do a good thing for a bad man. This little Dick-and-Jane explanation seems simplistic, but it's accurate, as most of the critics are long on didacticism but short on depth.
In reality, they're acting like a lynch mob angry that the authorities aren't meting out its version of justice. This isn't surprising coming from people who seem to believe that, oh, for instance, a legislative body can ignore constitutional dictates and do whatever its majority decides, but the Church is governed by laws, not whims. I'll illustrate the point with an analogy.
Imagine that the death penalty is administered for the murder of a child. Now let's say a man commits this crime and is thus sentenced. Subsequently, however, exculpatory evidence is presented and the man is pardoned. All right, now imagine it comes to light that the man made some vile anti-Catholic statements, and outraged Catholics demand that the sentence be carried out anyway. Would this be reasonable? Besides the fact that such a punishment would be disproportionate, I think the secular world's reply would be that its law isn't there to do the Church's bidding.
While this analogy isn't perfect, it does roughly illustrate the situation. And if this seems a stretch, consider that excommunication has been called a spiritual death sentence. It is the harshest penalty the Church imposes and, like capital punishment, is only applied for specific transgressions. It is not imposed simply for making outrageous or offensive comments; if it were, it's staggering to think how many Catholics might suffer this fate. Thus, excommunication exists for a particular reason, one that has nothing to do with augmenting the wider society's scorn and ostracism. And besides the fact that it would be disproportionate to that purpose, Church law isn't there to do the secular world's bidding.
It might also be pointed out that the secular world could lead by example. If it really believes that something beyond scorn is warranted as a consequence for Williamson, it could advocate criminal penalties. This is what they do in Germany, after all, where historian David Irving did a stretch in prison for Holocaust revisionism. Oh, but we don't want to stifle freedom of speech by imposing our harsher punishments on those with errant tongues? Well, perhaps it's now easier to understand why the Church may not impose its harshest penalty for such a thing.
At the end of the day, however, this issue boils down to one simple fact: Williamson's excommunication had nothing to do with his views on the Holocaust, and the remission of it had nothing to do with them. It is ridiculous to conflate the two.
It's also important to understand that the rehabilitation of the four bishops is part of a much larger process, an attempt to heal divisions in the Church and bring the SSPX back into the fold. Insofar as this goes, it's much like when a government offers to pardon a rebel group if its members will lay down their arms. Under such an agreement, it certainly isn't customary to say that you will exclude this or that member because he made a highly outrageous statement. No, he comes with the organization – it's a package deal.
Really, though, one has to wonder why this story still has legs. The Vatican has repudiated Williamson's comments, and the Pope has stated on numerous occasions that denial of the Holocaust's horrors is gravely wrong. Moreover, as Rabbi David Dalin has said and contrary to leftist spin, the Church has long been a friend of the Jews – since at least the 13th century. So what is really going on? Why would a left-wing and somewhat anti-Semitic media suddenly have such concern for a Jewish cause? Well, there is of course the media's infamous, ideologically-driven anti-Catholic bias. Yet, to fully understand the current attack, one must understand that this Pope is the embodiment of everything the left despises.
Although the terminology doesn't really apply in Catholic circles, Pope Benedict XVI is seen as being a rightist (the relevant terms in Catholicism are not right and left but orthodox and heterodox). He has done much to restore tradition to the Church, and this has won him many enemies within her and without. Why do you think the one man who has called for the Pope's resignation is an obscure liberal German "theologian" named Hermann Haring? Despite liberals' talk of tolerance and inclusiveness, they aren't exactly big-tent people (except when election time comes; then their tent expands to include even cemeteries and mausoleums). For instance, consider how the Democrats once refused to let fellow party member and then Pennsylvania governor Robert Casey speak at the Democrat National Convention because he was pro-life or how conservative professors and actors may be denied, respectively, tenure or roles. In this case, these scheming leftists simply don't want an orthodox Pope at the helm of the Church, especially one who might invite traditionalists like the SSPX into their midst. Thus, they would like to be rid of him just as they would like to eliminate talk radio and the Boy Scouts.
At the end of the day, the media don't understand the Williamson issue, and they don't really care. This is because this prolonged attack on the Pope has about as much to do with Holocaust denial as the Fairness Doctrine has to do with fairness.


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Happy Birthday Google!
Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded the search engine giant 15 years ago in a Silicon Valley garage.
And what better way to celebrate than with one of the company's popular Google Doodles?
This doodle features a game where the user controls the second letter "g" in Google's name to hit a piñata and get points.
Google has been featuring doodles on its site since 1998 to mark the Burning Man festival, according to Mail Online. It unveiled its first interactive doodle in May 2012 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the arcade game, Pac-Man, according to The Daily Mail.
The anniversary also heralded another improvement from Google: The search engine giant has updated the algorithm it uses for searches, calling it "Hummingbird." The new algorithm allows Google to quickly analyze full questions and to identify and rank the answers to those questions with search results.
Google is now the world's number-one search engine with its own name eponymous with searching something on the Internet. Originally dubbed BackRub, the company changed its name to Google, derived from a misspelling of the word googol, which refers to the number one followed by one hundred zeroes.
The company now boasts more than 70 offices in 40 global locales, with their headquarters – known as the Googleplex – in Mountain View, Calif.
But the company is known for much more than its search engine.
It's creativity and innovation have sparked a suite of tools – Google Drive, Google Maps, GMail – and several more that many have come to depend on in everyday life.
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I've got the MessageDlg function properly showing strings for different languages defined, but the OK/Cancel/Yes/No buttons never have any text--they are just blank.
I've got a Dialogs section in my .sil file, but perhaps it's not the right class name or something. Is there some detailed documentation about how to use this? How do I trouble-shoot my settings?
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The most possible reason for this could be either:
1. TsiLang components has no Dialogs section and you don't load it from the SIL/SIB file.
2. You've used same TsiLang component names for different forms and use something like this, for example in the Unit of Form1:
with Form2 do
This will use siLang1 from FORM2 but you intended to use the siLang1 from FORM1.
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Thanks for your quick reply. I haven't made any progress yet. Here's what I've got--perhaps explaining my situation further will reveal something I've done wrong.
My project has several forms and one unit without a form. I added a data module to hold the main TsiLang and TsiLangDispatcher components. All other forms have TsiLinkedLang components pointing to the TsiLang component on the data module.
One of the forms, whose labels and other controls can show various translations correctly, needs to display a message in certain circumstances. It calls the local component to do that:
siLangLinked.MessageDlg(siLangLinked.GetTextOrDefault('ID_CustomMsg'), mtInformation, [mbOK, mbCancel], 0);
The text from the GetTextOrDefault call shows correctly, but the OK/Cancel buttons are blank.
The .sil file, which is loaded through the data module's TsiLang component, has entries in the Dialogs section. The wizard automatically created a bunch with the class name of the data module as a prefix (i.e. TMyDataModule.All, TMyDataModule.Cancel, etc.). I have manually added entries for the form from which I am calling MessageDlg (i.e. TMyForm.All, TMyForm.Cancel, etc.) hoping that would fix the problem.
But the buttons are still blank.
Do I need to add entries to the CharSets or Fonts section? Or should I not be using a data module to hold the main TsiLang component?
One other question: I will also need to display messages from the one unit that does not have a form. How do I do that if the MessageDlg function uses the local form's font and CharSet settings? Will I have to find a way to refactor the code in order to display the messages from forms instead? Or will I have to call CreateMessageDlg and set the fonts and CharSets manually?
(Sorry for the long post...!)
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It looks like CommonContainer property of TsiLangLinked is not set to TsiLang component. This is the reason for empty buttons.
When you translate unit without form usign TsiLang Expert (menu File | Source | Without Form) it will automatically insert the code that will use the existing TsiLang on some form (that will hole translations for this string). So you don't need to create anything special.
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I'm pretty sure all that was set. I tried several things that seemed to make sense and match what you're telling me, but there must still be something amiss in my .SIL file or in my configuration.
I will mention that this project is a Delphi 5 plug-in that works inside a large application and the main part of the code does not have a form at all. Many of the messages need to display when there was no form already showing.
What I've done is create a form just for messages. I'm passing the ID of the string into an Execute method and the message is displayed dynamically. This is working (and I'm getting text on the buttons!) but the CharSet is not set correctly. In other words, English and Spanish work fine, but my tests with Russian and Chinese just show up as garbage.
I'll hit it again tomorrow--I know I'm close now.
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Incorrect chars displayed on dialog buttons under Russian or Chinese language caused by use of ANSI IDE and VCL. So when your OS Default Locale doesn't support these languages the regional chars could be displayed incorrectly. You may consider to use Unicode IDE or VCL for message dialogs. Please check
Hope this helps.
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I can't use anything but Delphi 5 for this particular project because it is a plug-in (.BPL). All the other forms are displaying other character sets correctly. My new one is not--I know it's something different and haven't figured it out yet. However, I used the wizard with the others and this one I added manually because I've added lots of entries the .SIL file. I may have to create a separate one for this form and merge the .SIL entries.
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I finally got this all working. I created a custom form and was still having problems with that, but I carefully compared the new form with a different form that was working and discovered there was a form-level setting on either the Fonts or the Charset section (I don't recall now). Basically, I needed to add an entry for TMyForm.TMyForm. (At least, I pretty sure that's what fixed it.)
In any case, it wasn't the components or the form itself, but the entries in my .SIL file that I needed to get straightened out.
Thanks for the help!
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Long story short, I've owned this game from square one (for iOS), and I was disappointed with the lack of feedback/development over time and dropped it. I understand that you guys are a small company, but after a year: I downloaded it again and I've found that little to nothing had been added - at least as far as I could tell. This so called "Coming Soon" tag on the contraband and the dog & armour/pirate screen has been there for ages! Then I see a section labelled SC: Galaxies in the forums.iOS EXAMPLE wrote:Released:
v1.00 Released to iOS
v1.01 Added pause feature when characters selected
v1.01 Added new planet & mission "PLUTO - the search for your dog"
v1.01 Optimized splines so they would reticulate better
v1.02 Compatibility for iOS 8
Future Plans:
v1.10 Pets (development started - ETA: Q2 2015)
Contraband (delayed until further notice - system in place is buggy and doesn't work)
Skills above level 30
SC: Galaxies Expansion (abandon Original SC?)
- Are you guys moving on?
- Is there a plan to finish the original?
- For purchasers of the original, can this be an update?
- For original purchasers, can there be an in-app purchase to update the current game to Galaxies (at discounted price)?
- Plans on allowing people to purchase additional platform version at discounted price?
Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy this game and it has a ton of potential! I just want to know that these "coming soon" features are actually coming, and not being tossed to the wayside to make room for SC: Galaxies.


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OAKLAND — Thirteen brothels masquerading as massage parlors in Oakland, San Leandro, Hayward and San Lorenzo were raided and shut down Friday as part of a multiagency prostitution sweep six months in the making.
More than 400 local, state and federal law enforcement officers executed 32 search warrants in Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Solano and Sonoma counties, yielding the arrests of 18 individuals from five organized crime organizations. A 19th person is at large.
Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley said officers are currently interviewing at least 50 women, all Asian, to determine what level of sex trafficking, labor trafficking and exploitation occurred.
Three of the 13 parlors shut down have been determined to have also been involved in drug trafficking, including large-scale marijuana grows, O'Malley said.
The investigation, coordinated by the DA's Office and the Alameda County Sheriff's Office, was launched in response to complaints from residents of unincorporated Alameda County and San Leandro about businesses that were fronts for prostitution.
The DA's Office on Friday issued five criminal complaints against the 19 suspects, charging a total of 107 felonies and four misdemeanors. Sixty counts relate to pimping and pandering, and 51 relate to tax evasion and labor code violations.
"The growth of these types of establishments that claim to be massage parlors or nail spas … has become an ever-increasing problem in Alameda County as well as surrounding counties," O'Malley said. "What we've been able to accomplish today is to attack these businesses in an innovative and comprehensive manner."
The defendants are scheduled to be arraigned in Oakland on Tuesday. Their properties and assets have been seized, and O'Malley said her office will be serving them motions that requires them to prove that any money they try to use for bail is not from illegal gains.
"With today's operation we are sending a strong message that this type of illicit behavior is not acceptable in our communities and that we will investigate, arrest and prosecute offenders who engage in not only this type of activity, but in activity that involves human trafficking, sex trafficking, labor trafficking and other forms of exploitative behavior.
The businesses shut down as part of Friday's operation are: May's Body and Skin Care at 333 13th St. and at 320 10th St., Qi Massage at 3623 Macarthur Blvd., and Crystal Spa at 15998 E. 14th St. in Oakland; Wei Massage at 20955 Foothill Blvd., Massage Cafe at 571 Jackson St., and Chi Thi Massage at 21003 Mission Blvd. in Hayward; Family Foot Spa at 367 Bancroft Ave. in San Leandro; Ming's Spa at 676 Brockman Road, Natina's Spa at 17685 Hesperian Blvd., Mini Spa at 15600 Washington Ave., May's Spa at 17940 Hesperian Blvd., and Oriental Healing Center at 15919 Hesperian Blvd. in San Lorenzo.
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What's wrong with Rand Paul's filibuster of Brennan? The filibuster appears to be something of a pretxt for Senator Paul to raise the national security issue that troubles him. As I understand it (and I may be mistaken), the pretextual nature of the filibuster isn't in dispute. The filibuster seems to me to distract from understanding the trouble with Brennan. The trouble with Brennan is his willful blindness to the security threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups operating in Africa and the Middle East. Brennan is unfit for the job to which he has been nominated.
This was one of the implicit points of Andrew McCarthy's recent NRO column "Twenty years after the WTC," all of which warrants a close reading. When he gets to Brennan, Andy writes:
We did not want to acknowledge the sharia logic of the terrorists 20 years ago. We were told then that Islam had nothing to do with attacks on the West incited by Muslim jurists citing Muslim scripture.
There is no selling that fairy tale today, not after thousands of Americans have lost their lives. So the lie has become more aggressive, like Islam itself. While poseurs such as John Brennan — President Obama's counterterrorism czar and nominee for CIA director — distort the meaning of jihad, Islamists and their fellow travelers seek not merely to suppress by intimidation but to criminalize by law the objective examination of Islamic supremacism.
Brennan gave a mind–boggling speech before a Muslim audience at NYU in 2010 as part of "A Dialogue on Our Nation's Security." The video of Brennan speaking is still available on the White House Web site. The speech was part of a public forum co-hosted by the White House Office of Public Engagement and the Islamic Center at New York University. As Brennan moves to head the CIA, the video is once again must viewing.
Brennan testifies to the beauty and goodness of Islam in a speech full of the apologetics, false equivalences and straw men that we have come to expect from the Obama administration in addressing these matters. As he instructs the faithful in the meaning of Islam, he doesn't quite get around to the subject of jihad.
Brennan decries "violations" of the PATRIOT Act (?!), surveillance that has been viewed as excessive, policies that have been perceived as profiling, and the creation of an "unhelpful atmosphere" around Muslim charities. Brennan doesn't mention the Holy Land Foundation, a Muslim charity surrounded by a particularly unhelpful atmosphere when it was shuttered by the government as a terrorist front (and later convicted on the same ground). The pandering and evasions that permeate Brennan's speech have to be seen to be believed.
Brennan sought to address the subject of jihad elsewhere. As Kerry Picket recalls, Brennan followed up on his NYU remarks in an aborted meeting with the editors of the Washington Times. Unable to avail himself of his usual evasions, Brennan walked out of the meeting with the editors for which he himself had asked.
Late last month Frank Gaffney convened a virtual press conference featuring McCarthy and others. The video (below) was posted online on February 27. Andy appears in the video at 20:00. With Brennan on the verge of confirmation, has any Senator made the relevant points?


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By Brett Arends
Is the 60/40 portfolio dead? Is it dying?
Or does it just have a really bad cold?
For as long as anyone can remember, the standard portfolio has been considered 60% stocks, 40% bonds. That's what you'll get in a typical balanced fund, and it's where most money managers start when they think about constructing a portfolio.
Recently I wrote about emerging research which is starting to call that into question (See Why a 'Balanced' Portfolio May Not Work. In particular, I pointed out that there have been significant periods of time, even in the last eighty years, when a rebalanced 60/40 portfolio didn't work. It didn't help you in the Great Depression, and it didn't help you in the 1970s. There are no guarantees it will help you today.
Now a new survey says a surprising number of financial advisers are starting to think the same thing. (I take no credit for this).
Forty percent of those polled say they no longer believe 60/40 offers the best way to pursue return and manage risk. Just 22% remain big fans of the traditional portfolio. Fewer than one in four. The survey of 163 advisers at 150 firms, managing a total of $670 billion, was undertaken by fund management company Natixis, which has been embracing alternative strategy funds.
David Guinta, head of Natixis Global Associates, says the turmoil of the past twelve years has shaken people's faith. He says advisers are asking, "How do I keep clients invested for the long term, and how do I keep them through the ups and downs?"
No kidding. Just look at the latest data. According to the Investment Company Institute, the mutual fund trade organization, investors are bailing out of the market again — now that it's falling. They were selling aggressively last fall, when share prices were down. Then when markets rallied in the New Year they eased up, and even, briefly, started buying. As ever, retail investors want to buy when the market is up and sell when it's down.
It's another good argument for throwing some funds into the mix that zig when the market zags, so long as they do what you expect and you don't pay much in fees. That may include precious metals, commodities, hedged strategies and long-term Treasury bonds.


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Recon_Hawk wrote:If you're hopes are to follow a team that puts out the most NFL caliber players likely to be drafted by the Seahawks, i would say your best bet is a team in the SEC or Pac 12 conference because of Pete Carroll ties.
EmbattleTheeHawks wrote:Wow cheers for all that info cover-2, & thanks to all for the other responses. Teams that I seem to follow are always inconsistant, middle of the pack giant killers but also lose to bottom of the table teams. LSU or FSU I think I'll choose between. Cheers for the help.
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Exploring Emergent change
When we look at change, we can easily distinguish between planned and unplanned change. In simple terms, planned change is a change that we seek. Conversely, unplanned change is the type of change we are forced to accept and integrate. This latter type of change may have been planned by others and we are just the unsuspecting recipients of it; or the unplanned change may be totally unexpected by everyone, as in the visit of a tornado and its resulting devastation.
There is also a third type of change: emergent change.
This type of change is not in anyone's agenda or on any weather radar. It simply manifests in our biological and social systems when the underlying components have achieved a new order that gives way to new behaviors.
If we look back to how social media, like Facebook and Twitter, emerged as a global means of communication, we can see that no one forced us to use them. There was no email or memo that mandated compliance. We simply discovered a new way to meet with old friends, make new ones, and share any information we want from any of our devices and at any time.
Facebook and Twitter are modern examples of emergent change; however, the history of emergence started with the creation of our universe. Looking at the four-and-a-half billion years of evolution on our planet, emergent change has been responsible for moving us from hydrogen atoms to iPhones. Emergence is the phenomenon of a system achieving new order in a totally self-organized manner giving course to new forms and dynamics. Molecular combinations, DNA, the myriad of physical forms in the history of Earth, our manifestation as human beings, and the evolution of our societies are all part of a succession of emergent changes.
We do not typically pay attention to emergent change because it is long term. It may take years and even millennia to manifest. We are currently engaged in a debate of whether global warming is real or not. Scientists who advocate for the effects of global warming forecast a change of large proportions that would dramatically impact life on the planet. Assuming this is true, we do not know the effects of "real" emergent change from global warming. We have individuals on the "doom and gloom" part of the spectrum who predict that our way of life would collapse not only because of global warming but because of our unsustainable use of natural resources. On the other side of the spectrum, there are those who believe that emergent change will align all humans on a common purpose and that great advances will ensue to accommodate new forms of living along a sustainable path.
Let's take a brief look at how emergent change takes place summarizing concepts from the article "An Information-Theoretic Primer on Complexity, Self-Organization and Emergence" by Mikhail Prokopenko, Fabio Boschetti, and Alex Ryan, as well as the book "Engaging Emergence" by Peggy Holman.
Emergent change takes place in an "open" complex system. In this context, "open" means that the system receives a regular supply of energy, information, or matter from its environment. The system is complex because of its number of components and their nontrivial and purposeful interaction, which results in a coordinated behavior.
The nontrivial interaction in this system is challenged by internal constraints leading to the breakdown of current behavior between the individual components. This creates a disruption in the system.
The system then goes through a process of differentiation in which innovation and distinction among its parts takes place. Higher complexity can be achieved through this differentiation.
When the system achieves a new state of coherence, it is more organized than before. This new order is achieved without a director or any explicit mandates. The parts in the system are self-organized.
The changed system then expresses new patterns of interaction, which emerge as new behaviors. The changed system also exhibits radical novelty (such as new properties or coherence); stable system interactions; dynamic wholeness that is always changing; and downward causation as the system shapes the behavior of its parts.
Once coherence is reached at the higher level of complexity, adaptation is set into motion. When adaptation occurs across generations in the system, the system evolves. The evolution of the entire system gives rise to large-scale effects. Once evolution is achieved, the change is irreversible.
To follow the Facebook and Twitter example, our communication systems evolved from Gutenberg's printing press to electronic communication, personal computers, and mobile devices. The effects of those changes brought the computerization of our communications and the resulting social transformation of having part of our presence in electronic form.
Once we became ever-present via email and used the web to conduct part of our daily lives, social media was a natural extension. Each stage in our communication transformation underwent the dynamics of emergent change: from cave paintings to the first printed bible circa 1455, the first telegram, the first phone call, the first email by Ray Tomlinson in 1971, the first Facebook posting, and the first Twitter message ever sent.
It is important to differentiate the planned change of designing a product with emergent change. Products such as the iPod and iTunes were designed to transform how we buy and listen to music. Their manifestation was planned change by Apple. The advent resulted in unplanned change for Tower Records and other providers of physical media. Their market gradually disappeared. The emergent change is how accessible our music and other forms of media are to us. We can summon the perfect song at any time from any of our devices. Apple did not make this happen. We did. We could have resisted the planned change from Apple and killed the iPod in 2003, but we did not. Again, there was no memo, no mandate; we simply coordinated with each other to evolve on how we listen to music. We achieved a new coherence.
From the above, we can ascertain that any state of complexity is temporary. Apple and other designers are busy at work to entice us to create another emergent change. However, no company can create emergent change, only us—the members of the social system. This is a profound message as we look at our future as a species. We have the power to create the right interactions as we differentiate in an emergent change cycle.
Disruptions of our current coherence will always take place. We have no choice in that matter. Our choice lies in how we differentiate. The new state of coherence is based entirely on how we interact with each other and our environments. Our future—our new coherence—rest in our hands. This has been true since the Big Bang and has not changed. As satirist Steve Bhaerman through his alter ego Swami Beyondananda said, "The bad news: there is no key to the universe. The good news: it was never locked."
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