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These principles are the basis of 'modern policing' as understood in the UK and many other Commonwealth nations. They are all remarkably applicable to the ideal of online moderation, in part because they are uniquely focused on the needs of the community.
The last conventional war the US fought was the opening round of Operation Iraqi Freedom (the "shock-and-awe" phase of the current Iraq war). But that almost doesn't count, because it was the US fighting at the near peak of its power against an Iraqi army that had never fully recovered from the massive defeat inflicted upon it by the Gulf War.
The last war the US fought against a functional military was the Gulf War, in 1993. While today, we look upon the US victory in the Gulf War as an inevitability, we must remember that it was a huge surprise when Saddam's army and air force crumpled after just over two weeks of sustained combat operations. Saddam's military, at the time, was the fourth largest in the world, and was combat hardened after the almost decade-long Iran/Iraq war of the '80s. It was also far better equipped, relative to the US, than the North Vietnamese military had been in the '60s. As a result, there were many who feared that the US was getting into another quagmire by attempting to liberate Kuwait in 1993. Instead, the world was treated to the largest military surprise since the German invasion of France in 1941. Never before had a military that large been destroyed so thoroughly in so short a time.
However, 1993, at this point, is 15 years in the past. While the US military has been distracted by the twin insurgencies of Iraq and Afghanistan, other militaries (notably China and Russia) have been studying the conditions behind US military's victory in the Gulf War and have been coming up with ways to counter the advantages that the US displayed in that conflict. A distributed system like passive radar is one such way. Other ways include the usage of so-called "hybrid war" tactics displayed by the Russian military in Crimea, Donbass, and, lately Syria. China has been developing a system of tactics and technologies that fall under the umbrella of "anti-access/area-denial" (A2AD), which focus on keeping the US Navy at a distance, in order to secure Chinese control over the South China Sea and potentially keep the US from coming to Taiwan's aid if China should choose to invade Taiwan.
The US military, in my estimation, is much like the British army prior to World War 1. The British military, riding high after its victories in the Napoleonic wars and the Crimean War, was confident in its own abilities and sanguine about the perceived weakness of its adversaries (rising Germany and the fading empires of Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans). As a result, the British military focused on fighting "brushfire wars" against native rebellions in Africa, India and Afghanistan (lol). Because of this, the British army found itself ill-prepared and under-equipped to fight a "high-intensity conflict against near-peer adversaries" (to use the words of modern military analysts).
There is a school of thought that says that conventional war against near-peer adversaries is impossible, because any such war would inevitably escalate to nuclear weapons. I actually wish this argument was true. It would simplify our threat assessments greatly. However, whenever I hear this argument, I am reminded of all the arguments prior to World War 1 or World War 2 that suggested that a major war was impossible because of the unprecedented destructive capabilities of modern weapons.
Do I think a war is likely? At this moment, I do not. Can I tell when the next war is going to occur? If I could, I would be working for the CIA, NSA or DoD, with a top-secret clearance. What I do have is a vague sense of unease. This sense of unease comes from the fact that the world today is multi-polar and unstable. The US military no longer enjoys the unchallenged hyperpower hegemony that it had at the end of the cold war. Yet, it still acts and fights as if it does. I also remember that wars, when they do occur, can stem from causes that are extremely surprising at the time. Who would have thought that the assassination of the crown prince of Austria-Hungary by a Serbian nationalist would lead to a war that resulted in the deaths of millions?
… the next time the US has to fight a conventional war
Is that considered likely anytime soon? When was the last conventional war? What will the next one be?
I haven't always agreed with Lanier, but he's spot-on in pretty much everything he says in this piece.
Bret Victor here discusses his notion that the primary challenge in building modern 'Maker' projects usually has less to do with putting the thing together and more to do with understanding behavior. For example, a robot that avoids light might not be technically complex to build so much as technically complex to design and optimize its behavior. As such he recommends makerspaces move away from a 'machine tool club' model and more towards a workshop for providing tools to analyze and predict behavior in the physical world.
I don't know how much I agree with him on that particular point, but I did find the design ideas interesting.
I found this document interesting for its captivating description of the mystic vein of Hinduism. More relevant perhaps to us, this take has a transcendent quality that borders on being kin to the implicit doctrines taught by singularitans:
"Is man a tiny boat in a tempest, raised one moment on the foamy crest of a billow and dashed down into a yawning chasm the next, rolling to and fro at the mercy of good and bad actions–a powerless, helpless wreck in an ever-raging, ever-rushing, uncompromising current of cause and effect; a little moth placed under the wheel of causation which rolls on crushing everything in its way and waits not for the widow's tears or the orphan's cry? The heart sinks at the idea, yet this is the law of Nature. Is there no hope? Is there no escape?–was the cry that went up from the bottom of the heart of despair. It reached the throne of mercy, and words of hope and consolation came down and inspired a Vedic sage, and he stood up before the world and in trumpet voice proclaimed the glad tidings: "Hear, ye children of immortal bliss! even ye that reside in higher spheres! I have found the Ancient One who is beyond all darkness, all delusion: knowing Him alone you shall be saved from death over again." "Children of immortal bliss" –what a sweet, what a hopeful name! Allow me to call you, brethren, by that sweet name–heirs of immortal bliss–yea, the Hindu refuses to call you sinners. Ye are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. Ye divinities on earth–sinners! It is a sin to call a man so; it is a standing libel on human nature. Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; ye are not matter, ye are not bodies; matter is your servant, not you the servant of matter. Thus it is that the Vedas proclaim not a dreadful combination of unforgiving laws, not an endless prison of cause and effect, but that at the head of all these laws, in and through every particle of matter and force, stands One "by whose command the wind blows, the fire burns, the clouds rain, and death stalks upon the earth.""
I really wanted to like this. But unfortunately, it appears to be written in Elvish. Why does Gil-Galad need to know algebraic topology?
From that post:
Some Righties talk about the idea of a post-political world — the idea that a system with less citizen input, on the continuum from Singapore to monarchy or neocameralism — would be more stable. But in a world without elections, there would still be shifts in power. It's just that the mechanisms by which power shifts wouldn't have occasional moments of relative transparency.
So, reflecting on that, I agree with his premises – that mechanisms by which power shifts happen would have less transparency. But I disagree with his conclusion. It's not clear to me that autocratic states are inherently less stable than democracies. Yes, autocratic states crumble (as we saw in the Arab Spring revolutions). But democracies crumble and collapse as well. Russia was fairly democratic in the '90s before collapsing into Putinist autocracy. Thailand had a fairly robust democracy before it was locked down by a military junta. Turkey and Pakistan have flipped between military rule and democratic governance multiple times.
And on the flip side, dictatorial China, despite all its internal problems, actually appears to be a more responsive state to its citizens than democratic India. While Delhi still has the worst air pollution in the world, the Communist Party has quietly cleaned up Beijing, in response to citizen unrest.
I think, up until a certain point, competence matters more than representation. As it turns out, people don't really care by what mechanism the government listens to their needs, as long as it implements policies that improve their daily lives. The hypothesis is that once an economy has fully industrialized, it's impossible for government to be appropriately responsive to all the diverse interests of the country without democratizing. But the continued existence of autocratic China makes me doubt that theory more and more with each passing day.
So, the most relevant bit is this and I think it's key that the average LWer comes to understand it:
"The first thing I noticed was that every once in a while the classifier would spit something out as 'I don't know what category this is' and you'd look at it and it would be what we're calling this fringe stuff. That quite surprised me. How can this classifier that was tuned to figure out category be seemingly detecting quality? "[Outliers] also show up in the stop word distribution, even if the stop words are just catching the style and not the content! They're writing in a style which is deviating, in a way. […] "What it's saying is that people who go through a certain training and who read these articles and who write these articles learn to write in a very specific language. This language, this mode of writing and the frequency with which they use terms and in conjunctions and all of the rest is very characteristic to people who have a certain training. The people from outside that community are just not emulating that. They don't come from the same training and so this thing shows up in ways you wouldn't necessarily guess. They're combining two willy-nilly subjects from different fields and so that gets spit out."
"During the winter of 1901, the brothers began to question the aerodynamic data on which they were basing their designs. They decided to start over and develop their own data base with which they would design their aircraft. They built a wind tunnel and began to test their own models. They developed an ingenious balance system to compare the performance of different models. They tested over two hundred different wings and airfoil sections in different combinations to improve the performance of their gliders The data they obtained more correctly described the flight characteristics which they observed with their gliders. By early 1902 the Wrights had developed the most accurate and complete set of aerodynamic data in the world. "
Oh, is that why high-level life players tend to keep diaries?


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sandiego brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
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AroundandAboutSanDiego.com offers virtual tours of attractions in San Diego. We are working on a new site design and would like a new logo that is representative of San Diego's fun in the sun attitude.
We want the logo to be casual and to include an illustration with the items listed below. Because the domain name is so long it might be more suitable to have the illustration be above the text but we are open to seeing an illustration to the left or worked into the text.
File Format
We want the logo to be in a vector format like that produced by Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator.
Type / Font
We like sans fonts and casual fonts. Please make the brand name AroundandAboutSanDiego.com a major component of the design that is it should be at least as wide as the illustration. We want repeat customers to remember our site both for the illustration /favicon and the brand name.
Two colors maybe best. Orange for the sun, maybe a blue but we are ok with one or two colors.
The illustration should look good in black and white and not rely on gradients that will not convert well. Here are some designs I saw with comments about what we like/dislike.
I like the font on this one and that the .com is tucked away under the letter o. The illustration is too casual for my tastes.
- http://99designs.com/contests/2173/entries/124848I like the font colors and the laid back feel of this logo, and the .com flows nicely off of the illustration
- http://99designs.com/contests/2173/…es/123826I like that this included an illustration with multiple elements,but I want an illustration that includes the items listed below.
- http://99designs.com/contests/2173/…ies/123935
- Laist.com has a simple yet effective illustrationFavicon
It would be nice if the illustration could double as a favicon
Please read the feedback I leave on your designs and others to get more insight into the vision as may or may not apply to your design.
- downtown city skyline or outline of buildings can resemble San Diego's skyline but it does not have to be a picture representation. You can see the bayfront skyline here:
- http://media.prleap.com/image/212/f…kyline.jpg
- sun
- water lines or wave ripples from a bay
- bridge representing the Coronado bridge in San Diego
- possibly a whale somewhere in the bay referenced above if you think it makes the illustration stronger otherwise not necessary
- not so casual that it looks like a cartoon graphic
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Johnny Marr in "The Story of the Guitar"
Alan Yentob's 3 hour series
The Story of The Guitar
has been simultaneously fascinating and irritating. Fascinating because there are plenty of great stories and interviews along the way, and irritating because it's the same old Great Men of Rock as ever: music history as written by Q Magazine.
Posted by Tom Whitwell.
Bo Diddley is everywhere!
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Spinal Tap moment - "It's sort of like turning your daydreams into sound."
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I would say Joy Division has had much more influence on contemporary guitar music than any other 80s band. I'm telling you this as an American. Also the MC5 of course. I'm saying in terms of paradigm sifts.
I realize the influence of American roots/spiritual/blues on it all.
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Well, there are certain key players in the history of the guitar who you can't avoid.
Not all those featured were such obvious choices. Episode 1 even featured comedian/musician Bill Bailey.
I thought that overall it was a nice little series.
But yeah, they could have mentioned the MC5.
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: 5:15 pm
"music history as written by Q Magazine"
...you forgot to add "And presented by an insufferably smug and self-promoting bell-end who has a history of getting his underlings to do interviews and then edits in shots of himself to make it look like he was actually working rather than pissing away our License fees down The Ivy"
(I think.)
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great show... joy division are definitely one of the most influential bands (let alone guitar bands) ever in my opinion.
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Thought it was a great show too...though maybe the presenter was a less than obvious choice.
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well, i was at the Portmouth Polythechic Smiths gig in 1984; I was right at the front and Johnny Marr stood on my hand! It realy hurt-I forgive him...
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This video seems no longer available due to copyright issues. Come on, was it that important?
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Feb 1, 2013
Same as it ever was:
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists by Anthony C. Sutton
Via: Bloomberg:
Since taking office in 1999, Hugo Chavez has spread his socialist revolution in Venezuela by seizing more than 1,000 companies. For bondholders that stuck by him, he's also delivered returns that are double the emerging- market average.
The 681 percent advance, equal to 14.7 percent annually, has enriched investors from OppenheimerFunds Inc. to Goldman Sachs Asset Management LP that counted on Chavez's willingness to siphon the country's oil wealth to pay its creditors in the face of start-stop growth and falling reserves. While his policies drove away enough investors to keep Venezuela's borrowing costs over 12 percent on average during his tenure, or 4 percentage points higher than those of developing nations, he's never missed a bond payment.
"This is a really great high-income and high-total-return investment for your portfolio," said Sara Zervos, an emerging- market debt manager at New York-based OppenheimerFunds, which oversees $176 billion in assets and has invested in Venezuelan notes for more than a decade. "Chavez hasn't done a lot of good for his country, but he has the objective to service the bonds. Our interests are aligned."
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How do I locate the physical address (i.e., MAC address) for my device?
A MAC (Media Access Control) address is a number that identifies the network adapter(s) installed on your computer. The address is composed of up to 6 pairs of characters, separated by colons. To find your MAC address on any system with a network connection, use one of the following methods.
1. Hit your Windows Key and then press R. In the box, type cmd.exe.
2. Type ipconfig /all and hit ENTER.
3. Your MAC Address will be listed next to Physical Address under the Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection or Wireless LAN Adapter Wi-Fi depending on if your are connecting with an ethernet cable or wirelessly.
1. Click on the Apple logo on the top left of your computer screen. Select System Preferences... from the drop down menu.
2. Select Network and choose either AirPort or Built-in Ethernet, depending on how you access your network. The connections are listed in the left frame.
3. For Ethernet, click Advanced and navigate to the Hardware tab. At the top you will see the MAC address. For AirPort, click Advanced and navigate to the AirPort tab. There you will see the AirPort ID, which is your MAC address.
iOS (iPhone/iPad)
1. Open your Settings. You can find the Settings app on your Home Screen. Tap the General category.
2. Tap About. This will list information about your specific device. Scroll down until you see Wi-Fi Address. This is the MAC address for your iDevice.
1. Open your Settings. When looking at the Home screen, push your Menu button and select Settings. You can also open Settings by tapping the app in the App Drawer.
2. Scroll down to About Device. This is typically located at the bottom of the Settings menu. In the About Device menu, tap Status.
3. Find your MAC address. Scroll down until you find the Wi-Fi MAC address entry. This is your device's MAC address.
Windows Phone 7 or newer
1. Click on the Network icon. This is located in the lower-right corner of the desktop, and looks like 4 radiating bars.
2. Open the Network Status. In this menu, click on the "i" icon, located in the lower-right corner. A message will appear listing your device's MAC address.
Video Game Consoles
1. Find the MAC address of a PlayStation 3. In the PlayStation's main menu system, scroll left until you reach the Settings menu. Scroll down until you locate System Settings. Scroll down and select System Information. The MAC address will be listed beneath the IP address.
2. Find the MAC address of an Xbox 360. Open the System Settings from the Dashboard. Open the Network Settings and then select Configure Network. Select the Additional Settings tab and then select Advanced Settings. Choose the Alternate MAC Address option. The MAC address will be listed in this screen. It may not be separated by colons.
3. Find the MAC address of a Wii. Click the Wii button in the bottom-left corner of the main Channel menu. Scroll to page 2 of the Settings menu and select Internet. Click Console Information and the MAC address will be displayed.


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ANNAPOLIS Md. (Reuters) - The starting cornerback for the Baltimore Ravens was arrested over the weekend, authorities said, giving the professional football franchise the highest arrest record in the National Football League since last season.
Jimmy Smith, 25, was arrested for disorderly conduct on Saturday night after he refused to follow orders during an incident at a Baltimore nightclub, police said.Police say Smith was helping a sick and inebriated woman in a bathroom when he became belligerent.
Cocaine was found in a purse belonging to the woman, who was taken to a hospital. Smith was arrested and charged with failing to obey police orders.
According to police reports, Smith identified himself as a Ravens player and said, "The only reason you arrested me is so you can get on the news."
Smith was a first-round pick in 2011 who helped lead the team to a Super Bowl victory last year.
Police reports show his arrest was the fifth for the Ravens since last season. According to records compiled by the San Diego Union-Tribune and by USA Today, that gives the team the highest arrest record among the 31 NFL teams.
A Ravens spokesman did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
"These matters are reviewed under the NFL's personal conduct policy. We do not have further comment," NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said in a statement.
In May, running back Lorenzo Taliaferro was arrested on charges of misdemeanor destruction of property and public drunkenness, and offensive lineman Jah Reid was arrested in March on charges of misdemeanor battery after a fight at a strip club in Key West, Florida.
Wide receiver Deonte Thompson was arrested in February on a felony count of marijuana possession, and running back Ray Rice was arrested the same month on felony assault charges.
The Ravens' record number is followed by the Chicago Bears, Cleveland Browns, Buffalo Bills and San Francisco 49ers, each of which have had two arrests since last season.
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This blog discusses current weather, weather prediction, climate issues, and other topics
Monday, March 8, 2010
SNOW!! And the Faucet is about to turn on....
Several people asked how it can snow when temperatures were about freezing--in some cases with temperatures this morning in the upper 30s and lower 40s. Although today was somewhat on the extreme end of warmth for snow, there are few things to keep in mind:
(1) It takes about 1000 ft of above-freezing temperatures to melt snowflakes and today there was a large change in temperature in that thousand feet!
(2) The melting and evaporation of snowflakes in convective showers can cause the freezing and snow levels to drop rapidly.
A weak convergence zone kept the snow showers going for much of the morning and early afternoon, but now it is over. For awhile.
With clear skies and cold air over us, it is going to be REALLY COLD tonight, with temperatures falling into the 20s away from the water. Protect your delicate plants.
But the next round of fun is approaching. As shown in the latest infrared satellite photo a Pacific front is heading eastward towards us.
Rain from this system should reach the lowlands around dinnertime tomorrow and move through over night. This will be followed by a break into Thursday when a much more potent and far wetter system will reach us. Take a look at the predicted 24-h rainfall ending Friday at 4 AM (black is 2.5-5 inches!):
and 24-h later:
This is serious rain for the Olympics and north Cascades. Seattle City Light should be getting substantial precipitation behind their Ross Lake dam...perhaps they will be able secure lots of $ from California after all! The mountains will be getting substantial snow later this week, and there are more wet weather systems after that.
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- Jim said...
The roads are icing and fog is forming on some of the hills. Temp @ sea level on Vaughn Bay is 33 deg. F. The decks and roofs and sidewalks still have unmelted snow, so tomorrow morning looks to be a slick one.
The autobody shops and the hydro utilities will be happy with this forecast!
- March 8, 2010 at 10:46 PM
I'm not terribly surprised by the cool weather with a snowflake or two--March and April here in the Pacific NW have been known to host a very occasional snow shower.
But, I will be bummed if a cold snap does in the early tulips.So many this year!
- March 8, 2010 at 11:55 PM
- epjmcginley said...
not sure how i lived without you cliff.
- March 9, 2010 at 5:45 PM
- Daniel Kirkdorffer said...
Hmmmm... this is one forecast that doesn't seemed to have panned out. It has been pretty dry in Seattle the past couple of days? Olympic rain shadow effect at play here?
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Karmeli alphabet
The Karmeli alphabet is an alternative way to write modern and
classical Hebrew based on the Latin alphabet and developed by Michael
Avinor of Haifa, Israel. The Karmeli alphabet can also be used to write
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Karmeli alphabet
Sample text in Karmeli
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea,
There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me;
For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the templebells they say
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The great forum upgrade is about to begin! We will be attempting to upgrade this forum to the new software version which will hopefully not only improve security, but hopefully improve your experience here as well.
However, in order to not lose any data (or users) during the great upgrade, the old forum must be shut down so the database can be properly copied and migrated.
So this Friday, March 6th, sometime after 12 pm Central Standard Time, this forum with be shut down.
The process could take hours. It could take days. If it takes longer than a week we will abort the process entirely.
We hope when the dust settles there will be nothing lost and everything will be fine.
However there is a chance something will go wrong. The documentation assures us that this forum will remain unchanged by the new forum software, so in a worst case scenario we'll do what FBTB has done - turn this forum into a museum and start over from scratch with the new forum. Second to worst case scenario is to continue to use this forum.
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Characterized by big fights, brimming potential, lost opportunity, controversial decision losses and highlight-reel finishes, the roller coaster ride that has been Brandon "The Truth" Vera's Ultimate Fighting Championship career has been one that's seen myriad "trials and tribulations, the ups and downs, peaks and valleys," by his own accord.
But on Tuesday, the UFC light-heavyweight was smack-dab in the middle of the whirlwind that will lead him into what he calls the biggest fight of his career, when Vera faces off with Mauricio "Shogun" Rua in the main event of UFC on FOX 4 at the Staples Center on Aug. 4.
"I think this fight with Shogun is probably the ... single most important fight in my career," said Vera, whose career includes bouts against current and former UFC champions Jon Jones, Randy Couture, Tim Sylvia and Frank Mir. "I call it my Golden Ticket.
"This one fight can fix all my past indiscretions."
On Tuesday, Vera sat down at Morton's The Steakhouse in Burbank for a media luncheon, accompanied by his wife, Kerry, who is also a professional mixed-martial-arts fighter, and UFC Director of Communications Dave Sholler. Right after that, he was next door for a FOX Sports Radio interview on the Loose Cannons Radio Show.
Originally scheduled to fight James Te Huna on a UFC on Fuel TV card, Vera (12-5) was the right fighter in the right place to fill in for an injured Thiago Silva in a main event slot against Rua (20-6), a former UFC light-heavyweight champion.
"It's like karma," Vera, 34, said. "Everything happens for a reason."
With the ascent to main-event status comes days like Tuesday, in which Vera had plenty of media appearances and was off to Anaheim for the San Francisco Giants-Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim game to make an appearance in the evening. But for Vera, who has headlined cards against Couture, a UFC Hall of Famer, and Jones, the current UFC light-heavyweight titlist, it's nothing he can't handle.
"It's kind of a necessary evil," said Vera of all the added media and appearances. "I get to fight Shogun, that's my highlight. It's like a dream come true."
Having defeated the likes of Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and Alistair Overeem in Japan's PRIDE organization between 2003-2007, Rua was regarded as the No. 1-ranked fighter in his weight class by many at the time. Since joining the UFC, he's beaten the likes of Chuck Liddell and Lyoto Machida, who he beat for the UFC title. Known for his lethal and aggressive stand-up style, Rua has developed a reputation for exciting fights and built up quite a fan base, which includes Vera.
"He's one of my heroes," Vera said.
Vera, who trains and lives in San Diego, comes from a muay Thai background and has been a contender in both the UFC heavyweight and light-heavyweight ranks. He rose to prominence as a UFC heavyweight with an 8-0 record to start his career, marked by a 4-0 run in the UFC in which he finished all of his opponents. Thereafter, a contract holdout of sorts slowed his rise before two straight losses.
He then moved down to light-heavyweight and, aside from a close split-decision loss to Keith Jardine, was on a roll until losing to Couture via unanimous decision in a highly controversial bout that many thought Vera had won. Since then, he's lost to Jones and Silva, though the latter was overturned due to Silva testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs. After a win in October of 2011 against Eliot Marshall, he now finds himself ready for another chance at the top of the UFC.
"This is the Brandon Vera that should've always been," he said. "Not too many people get a second chance to redeem themselves and make it happen."
Tickets for the Staples Center event go on sale Friday, with the card also including Machida (17-3) taking on Ryan Bader (14-2) and Vera's training partner Phil Davis (9-1) facing Wagner Prado (8-0). Also scheduled, Manny Gamburyan (11-7), who trains at the Glendale Fighting Club and Main Event Gym in Glendale, takiing on Michihiro Omigawa (13-11-1) and Nam Phan (17-10), who has recently trained at times at Gracie Barra Burbank, taking on Cole Miller (18-10).


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Honestly I'm just getting rid of the >month old journal entry, but seriously.
It looks pretty freaking gorgeous. And to think they actually went and made it. After seeing 3D's ending I was half expecting a 3D Vol II (speaking of which, whatever happened to that BBS Vol II thing at the end of BBS final mix?)
also lol at Final Fantasy "XV"
I wonder if they're gonna remove any allusion it had to the XIII franchise. Then again, Type-0 barely had anything to do with XIII as well. And given the trilogy of games for that series, I guess the Fabula Nova Crystallis multiverse is a thing of myth.


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When Belgian commentators start discussing the nagging question of who the best/greatest cyclocross rider of all time was, they think of Sven Nys, Erik De Vlaeminck or Roland Liboton. All of them are definitely worthy champions who dominated their era for a shorter or longer period. It all stops there. Obviously all three are Belgians. They forgot about the Swiss mudman who dominated the field in the late seventies on sometimes insanely hard routes: Albert Zweifel. Perhaps De Vlaeminck has one more World title but he had a hard time, competing against the Swiss, to his own admission (a forum poster argues on Wielerarchieven). Perhaps Liboton dominated Zweifel more often than not when they were competing together but the Swiss was already 30 when the Brabander came up. So this is a reminder of the Zweifel fabulous career in cyclocross and to some extent on the road too.
Early Years & Training Methods
Albert Zweifel was born in Rüti, close to Zurich on June 7 1949. According to an interview that he gave to laliberte.ch (visited on February 26 2006) His father, Albert sr, owned a small farm but also worked in a factory for 50 years. The poverty which he's grown up in affected his character, as he explained. Television only came up when he was 18. Sport was their only leisure. "Now youngsters have many opportunities." Such environment enhanced his mental toughness, which forced the respect of his fellow colleagues and observers. He could endure pain more than the average riders of his time. He even added to it that "cyclocross is 80% of willpower and 20% of talent." His own son Roger was an amateur cyclist in the nineties and Albert claimed he had as much talent as him but did not have his willpower. Jérôme Gachet – the interviewer – thinks it's a bit over the top, though.
His father was not interested in sport and Albert jr was initiated to cycling by his own brother and started racing in 1965 at age 15. He is trained as a coachbuilder.
Zweifel remained an amateur rider until the age of 23. In his early days as a racer the Swiss cyclocross was very amateurish, he says. "When I started racing with [Hermann] Gretener and [Peter] Frischknecht […] we were playing cards and having a drink after training. Along came the Belgians, in particular the De Vlaeminck brothers. They beat us because they were better prepared than us. I then set out to professionalise and to care for every detail."
We know from Michel Wuyts in the book "De Flandriens van het veld" (Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, 2012) that already when they were amateurs, the De Vlaeminck trained with a physician Georges Debbauts who was well aware of the most advanced training methods of the time; "an intensive and diversified programme" with interval, fitness, endurance, etc. which thus influenced other riders like Zweifel, as he says himself.
The journalist from "La Liberté" further claims that Zweifel was always one step ahead in terms of training methods. For example, he was one of the first to specifically train for running which was then unthinkable. However, Michel Wuyts (in the above mentioned book) reports a comment by Erik De Vlaeminck that the latter also specifically trained "uphill running" … in Switzerland (because Swiss and Germans did that very well, so in the Sixties) under advice by Firmin Van Kerrebroeck who was the best Belgian cyclocrosser in the 1950's. This being said, Zweifel made the most of this specific training as his running skills in particular made him the champion that is now.
Besides that aspect, he also changed diet "Before the race, it was rice and steak but since meat was of no use, I stopped eating it. Since I won, the others copied me. You sometimes have that kind of fashion. Then we took omelette up until the moment somebody told us it was wrong. Hence everybody started eating pastas."
His first pro season, 1973/74 was quite disappointing, not a single win. To La Liberté, he humbly acknowledged that he had made a lot of mistakes back then but that his performances were also impaired by the fact that he wore glasses. "After a moment I no longer saw anything and I systematically crashed on roots. Along came lenses. That saved me."
Liboton: "He Could Dig Incredibly Deep"
Roland Liboton often said the Swiss was not his best friend. He however admired the rider Albert Zweifel for his competitiveness, fighting spirit and mental fortitude. His biographer Noël Truyers (in "Roland Liboton: ik ben de grootste", BMP 2004) [Truyers is now a PR for the Telenet-Fidea Team] described Albert as a calm, taciturn and introvert person who "perhaps missed the true, raw talent but he was an unbelievable power man." Liboton added: "There was pure power in his long legs. He could dig incredibly deep ["in het rood gaan", "get into the red" in Eng.]. Albert could blow up but wouldn't give up. Never! He could push insanely high gears. Thanks to him I earned a lot of money because they constantly played us against each other. With Stamsnijder as the third man in the mix! I think that Hennie [Stamsnijder] and I were the only ones could keep up with this Zweifel."
Liboton's and Truyers' seem to confirm the conclusions from the article on La Liberté.
"On the Road I would Have Been a Good Domestique"
Gachet says in his article that the idea of a focus on the road crossed Albert's mind at some point but he quickly realised it would have been a bad idea. "On the road I was everywhere average. I would have been a good domestique. While in cyclocross, I was the boss. I was watched out for."
This being said Zweifel raced a lot of high profile road races, mainly stage races, which fits with the characteristics of a crosser who is usually more lightweight than a classics rider. He started the Tour of Switzerland 16 times (from 1973 to 1988) and finished it 14 times, which is still … a record! Four times, he entered the top10. His best result was a 6th place in 1977 only 3'34" behind winner Michel Pollentier, while he left Dietrich Thurau (7th), Johan De Muynck (8th), Eddy Merckx (12th), Paco Galdos (13th) and Hennie Kuiper (14th) behind him. He also finished 10th in 1978, 7th in 1980 and 8th in 1981. A 3rd place in the now defunct Subita a Arrate – Spanish climb race – in 1978 to Faustino Fernandez and Vicente Belda are among his most notable places on the road, along with a very good 9th place at the 1977 Championship of Zurich won by Francesco Moser.
1974/1975: "Erik De Vlaeminck Was Still Chasing With Zweifel"
During the 1975 Cyclocross World Championship in Melchnau, Switzerland, before 20,000 spectators, Roger De Vlaeminck was a solid leader when his brother Erik, broke away, from the chase group that he formed with Zweifel and Peter Frischknecht and was about to join him. We are in the 3rd round. The initial plan for Roger was to take an early and pave the way for his brother's win as Erik was his come-back after two very hard years with a lot of personal problems and during which he sunk into recreative drug problems. According to Dirk Van de Gejuchte and Pascal Sergent (in "La gloire dans les labours, grandes & petites histories du championnat du monde de cyclocross", De Eecloonaar 1996), the brothers' physical trainer Georges Debbaut encouraged Roger to keep a solid pace because Erik was still in the chase group with Zweifel and Frischknecht. The authors of the book claimed tha he broke away (which is right) but that the gap was still not big enough with the two Swiss. In 2012, for the TV-Show "De Flandriens van het veld" (on Canvas, Dutch-speaking Belgian broadcaster) Erik De Vlaeminck claimed that Debbaut would rather Roger won because it made him more publicity.
Zweifel made a very good race right from the first lap. André Blancke said in the Belgian newspaper Het Volk on January 27 1975: "The Swiss (plural) rode with more determination than ever before" and he talked about an "admirable" Zweifel (source: "Roger De Vlaeminck : Top60: Mens & Renner" – Dries Vanysacker & Roger De Maertelaere, De Eecloonaar, 2007), which shows how the new training methods that he's adopted paid off. He was in the lead group with Berten Van Damme and Erik De Vlaeminck who set the pace while Roger had a crash earlier on on the road section with the French road climber Mariano Martinez but the Gipsy quickly got back to the lead by the end of lap 1, with his brother, Albert 'Berten' Van Damme and Zweifel, while Frischknecht was just hanging 10" behind.
Roger got clear in lap 2 by the end of which Zweifel and Erik De Vlaeminck were alone in the chase 16" behind, with Frischknecht hanging 4" behind the duo. It's only in the 3rd and the 4th lap that Erik got clear to chase his brother alone and so under his coach's advice, the younger brother did not wait and anyway E. De Vlaeminck crashed and lost a dental implant. Zweifel caught him and the two ended the lap 38" behind Roger. Zweifel then got clear and ended 2nd, 31" behind Roger De Vlaeminck.
Highlights of the race can be found on this link (in German) with also some footage of the Swiss riders in training.


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UConn women's team: The anti-Cinderella
Storrs - If nothing else, March Madness trumpets the great unwritten script. One night, one game, one moment, when all the Davids believe in the precision of the slingshot.
And then there are the UConn women, relentless as time's passage, now 20 for their last 20 in their attempts to make the Sweet 16. No madness. No letdowns. No bad nights.
No mercy, either.
For the last 20 years.
The Huskies scored the first 17 points of the second half Monday night and dispatched No. 8 Vanderbilt 77-44 at Gampel Pavilion, before an assemblage of 4,483 friends and relatives. UConn (31-4) advanced to the weekend's Bridgeport Regional and will play fourth-seeded Maryland on Saturday at Webster Bank Arena at noon or 2:30 p.m.
"It's incredible," Vanderbilt coach Melanie Balcomb said of UConn's 20-for-20.
Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis set the program record for most 3-pointers made in a season (108 and counting), leading Connecticut with 22 points. Freshman Breanna Stewart, absorbing hosannas from Balcomb and her players after the game, had 14 points while Stefanie Dolson had 12 with nine rebounds.
They all contributed to UConn coach Geno Auriemma's reflective, if not upbeat, mood after the game.
"When you have the expectation level we have here, you do get to a point where (making the Sweet 16) is expected," he said. "It's what is expected of the program and of the players. But still, my parents had high expectations for me and I didn't live up to them.
"I don't know that we're doing anything that hasn't been done before," he said. "But to be able to do it, when you look back, it's pretty amazing."
Auriemma found himself awash in the old days recently, thumbing through old statistics.
"I don't know why," he said, "but I wanted to go back and see when we started, when getting a bid was so huge. Then, man, if we win a game that would be unbelievable. Then if we can win a game and go to the regionals, imagine what this will do to our program?
"It shows you how much things have changed," he said. "I think we played 75 games my first four years here that were decided by under 10 points. During the 90-game win streak, I think one game was. I hope I don't ever forget what it felt like back then to hope we even got in, that now I take it for granted we're going to the regionals. I hope I can convey that same level of excitement to my players we used to have 20-something years ago. It's pretty remarkable if you think about it."
Auriemma spent nearly an hour after the game conducting interviews, not far from his locker room. He could see his players re-enter Gampel Pavilion and celebrate the night's accomplishment with friends and family. The games get bigger from here. But there was at least one night of happiness.
"To me going to the Sweet 16 is a big deal, it really is. I was just as tired after this game as any game," he said. "I want it to mean a lot to the players. You can't recreate what we used to have. But I still want it to be enjoyable for them.
"This isn't about me and my staff," he said. "My life is going to change if we go to 22 in a row or if we miss one next year? But for (freshmen) Morgan Tuck, Moriah (Jefferson) and Stewie (Breanna Stewart), this is their first one. That's what gets you energized. You helped them do it the first time."
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CycloteuthidaeRichard E. Young
This tree diagram shows the relationships between several groups of organisms.
The root of the current tree connects the organisms featured in this tree to their containing group and the rest of the Tree of Life. The basal branching point in the tree represents the ancestor of the other groups in the tree. This ancestor diversified over time into several descendent subgroups, which are represented as internal nodes and terminal taxa to the right.
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Cycloteuthids are mesopelagic squids of moderate size, the largest reaches about 60 cm ML, with a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical and subtropical waters (Nesis, 1982). In Cycloteuthis the mantle and fins are drawn-out into a slender tail. A tail is lacking in Discoteuthis and the large, oval (disc-like) combined fins extend virtually the full length of the mantle. Very little is known about the biology of any species in the family.
Brief diagnosis:
An oegopsid ...
- with triangular funnel locking-apparatus.
- with mantle component of funnel locking-apparatus not reaching anterior margin of mantle.
- Arms
- Arm suckers biserial.
- Buccal-crown connectives attach to ventral borders of Arms IV.
- Tentacles
- Tentacular club with quadraserial suckers.
- Tentacular club with quadraserial suckers.
- Funnel/mantle locking apparatus
- Funnel component with sub-triangular groove.
- Mantle component does not reach anterior mantle margin.
The genera are easily separated by body and fin shape (see title illustrations). In addition the presence of a large visceral photophore only in Cycloteuthis allows genera to be separated when badly damaged.
A list of all nominal genera and species in the Cycloteuthidae can be found here. The list includes the current status and type species of all genera, and the current status, type repository and type locality of all species and all pertinent references.
Discussion of Phylogenetic Relationships
The features that unites these two genera is the similar triangular shape of the funnel locking-apparatus and the position of the mantle component. Other than these unusual features, there is little morphological evidence for their close relationship. Molecular evidence (Carlini, 1998), however, supports their close relationship.
Carlini, D. B. 1998. The phylogeny of coleoid cephalopods inferred from molecular evolutionary analyses of the cytochrome oxidase I, muscle actin, and cytoplasmic actin genes. Ph.D. diss. Coll. William and Mary, 273 pp.
Nesis, K. N. 1982. Abridged key to the cephalopod mollusks of the world's ocean. 385+ii pp. Light and Food Industry Publishing House, Moscow. (In Russian.). Translated into English by B. S. Levitov, ed. by L. A. Burgess (1987), Cephalopods of the world. T. F. H. Publications, Neptune City, NJ, 351pp.
Young, R. E. and C. F. E. Roper. 1969. A monograph of the Cephalopoda of the North Atlantic: The family Cycloteuthidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 5:1-24.
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With the world wide deployment of IPv6 in parallel with IPv4, it has become apparent that a traditional connection loop is no longer good enough.
In fact, this is a large part of the reason why Google is white listing resolvers and Yahoo only wants to return to AAAA records to DNS queries made over IPv6. The traditional connection loop does not behave well in the presence of some network errors. It introduces excessive delays when there are good alternate addresses to use.
This has not been a big problem in the past, as most sites have been single homed, so there were no alternate addresses to try. But with the deployment of IPv6 along side IPv4, almost all sites will become multi-homed, with a minimum of two addresses, so now is the time to fix this problem.
With a traditional connection loop, each address returned from gethostbyname() or getaddrinfo() is tried in turn and the application then stalls until the connection attempt succeeds or fails. Then the next address is tried, etc. While most successful connections take less than 500 milliseconds, a failed connection attempt can take up to half a minute before we move onto the next address, adding a lot of unnecessary latency.
The connect call can take 30 seconds to fail and if the first address you try is broken you can end up waiting a long time until you try the next address.
fd = -1; for (ai = ai0; ai; ai = ai->ai_next) { fd = socket(ai->ai_family, ai->ai_socktype, ai->ai_protocol); if (fd < 0) continue; if (connect(fd, ai->ai_addr, ai->ai_addrlen) < 0) { close(fd); fd = -1; continue; } /* success */ break; }
You see this sort of connection loop in most text books on socket programming and in the man page for getaddrinfo().
The first observation to be made is that we can make these connection attempts in parallel, which works but leads to lots of unnecessary connections being made if we start them all at once. Most of the time, the first connection attempt will succeed, so we should give it an opportunity to do so before making a second attempt.
The sample code attached takes the output of getaddrinfo() and tries each address in turn, waiting a decreasing amount of time between subsequent connection attempts. When one of the connection attempts completes, it will abort the others. The initial timeout is 500 milliseconds which is enough time to connect to a European server from Sydney, Australia using terrestrial paths.
Code samples for poll(), select() and pthread based C are found here: http://users.isc.org/~marka/index.html
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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — After George Lucas abandoned plans to build a movie studio along a woodsy road in Marin County, he complained about the permitting process in a place so environmentally friendly that hybrid-car ownership is four times the state average.
His next move, some here say, was payback for what Lucas described in a written statement as the "bitterness and anger" expressed by his neighbors.
The creator of "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" is working with a local foundation that hopes to build hundreds of units of affordable housing on a former dairy farm called Grady Ranch, where his studio would have risen.
Now Marin County is squirming at that prospect — and it is not a pretty sight.
An earlier version of this story included a photo caption that incorrectly identified protestors as being part of Citizen Marin, a group advocating local rather than state control over new housing construction. The protestors shown in the photo support the construction of more affordable housing in Marin County.
The issue of affordable housing in California's wealthiest county has always brought its "green" lifestyle and liberal social leanings into conflict. No Bay Area county has more protected open space — or fewer workers who can afford to live anywhere near their jobs.


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I have many fond memories about eating mussels—big pots or buckets of mussels, over a glass of wine, or better still, Belgian beer. Such memories take me back to my fun travels to London, south of FranceSydney, Monaco, and the times I lived in San Francisco (Plouf, a small French bistro at Belden Place was my favorite place for mussels) when I savored this shellfish goodness.
As much as I love mussels, I seldom make it at home. I usually get my mussels from Costco but the 5-lb bag of mussels is basically too much for the two of us to consume.
So when my sister and her family came to visit recently, I took the opportunity and had a mussel feast. It was great because fresh mussels are not available in Malaysia.
There are many ways to make mussels pot, my ultimate favorite is Moules à la Marinière, the popular French/Belgian version cooked with white wine and parsley.
I also like the idea of an Asian-style mussel pot so I made mussels in red curry sauce and it was an instant hit with my family.
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The website, which is a compilation of NSFW photo after photo of cleavage from the popular Instagram site, or a straight man's dream way to kill time, is large, in-charge, and everyone everywhere is buzzing about it.
Wowza! Looks like everyone's really milkin' Instagram for all it's worth, eh?
I'm sorry, but I just have to ask the initial WTF question: WHY? Please someone ... anyone ... tell me why you would just post up a photo of your cleavage for everyone to see? Are you that deathly hungry for attention that you need to get other people to praise you for your bosoms?
Also, I can't help but wonder if these women are styling their girls up for the photo shoot. Hell, a lot of these photos look pretty staged -- wouldn't you say?
I guess to each her own. I sorta get it. I post pictures on the Instagram of things I'm doing, what I'm eating, and every so often, of myself and friends because they're things I want to share with my friends and family. I suppose the women who Boobstagram (yes, I just made that a verb) are just REALLY into sharing their lady parts with the world rather than, say, the sushi roll I ate last night.
The big question here, though, is what will happen now that Facebook's taken over. Will branch-out sites like Boobstagram get shut down? Facebook is pretty sensitive about what content they let their users post on their site. We'll just have to wait and see. For now, it's boobs, boobs, and MORE boobs.
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Seattle-based nonprofit plants seeds of hope in India
Seattle-based nonprofit Landesa teaches girls in impoverished villages of India how to garden small plots of land, in hopes they can help their families and, for some, forestall early marriage.
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Mamata Barui hopes her garden can save her.
When the 16-year-old is not cleaning, cooking or otherwise caring for her four younger siblings, she waters and weeds patches of garlic, radishes and green chilies. She harvests bay leaves and tends pumpkins, beans and bottle gourds that grow near her family's cow shed.
Mamata's garden produces all the vegetables her family eats. She hopes the surplus will generate enough cash to stop her parents from marrying her off.
"I feel afraid," she said. "They say, 'You're not doing anything tangible.' If I can sell whatever I grow, they might think of delaying my marriage."
Mamata got that idea — and her gardening skills — from a weekly girls group she helps lead.
The group is part of a pilot project of the Seattle-based nonprofit Landesa, a new twist on that organization's decades-long effort to use access to land as a way of pulling people out of poverty in India, China, Africa and elsewhere.
The project, underwritten by the Nike Foundation and a private donor, is part of a new girls' empowerment program run by the Indian government. In 299 villages in far northeast India, Landesa's program has taught roughly 7,800 girls how to garden in hopes of increasing their economic value to their families.
The idea is that if they are considered assets rather than extra mouths to feed, the girls might complete their educations and break out of the poverty cycle. Even if they do not, they will know how to grow food on even small plots of land, improving their nutrition and that of their future children.
The gardening skills also come with extensive lessons in women's rights, which Landesa hopes will encourage girls to fight back against child marriage, as well as rape, prostitution and other forms of abuse.
If India decides to go ahead with Landesa's gardening project, it is expected to roll out nationally with the rest of the girls' empowerment program next year.
Girls are "the next generation, in terms of land rights," said Gregory Rake, who directs Landesa's work in India. "Mamata knows somebody else will ultimately make a decision over her life, but at least now she knows there is a different way."
Although child marriage is illegal in India, almost half of girls under age 18 are married. They typically stop going to school and often have children at young ages, which compromises the health of the girls and their babies.
The U.S. State Department says India is a destination for child-sex tourism, and UNICEF estimates 1.2 million Indian children are prostitutes or enslaved.
Landesa faced opposition to the girls project in one predominantly Muslim community, just as it faced resistance in some parts of India to educational programs that discuss women's legal right to inherit land. The nonprofit does not force communities to accept its programs.
In general, Landesa wins the ear of officials in India and elsewhere who want to give land to destitute families to help alleviate poverty. Governments often ask Landesa for help in identifying landless families, which can be difficult because many are not registered.
Landesa also helps to change land laws and to match families with land. In some cases, the land is government-controlled — for example, old colonial land in India. In others, it belongs to landowners who agree to sell it at market rates.
And Landesa helps poor people register the land, so it cannot be stolen by companies or developers.
Although the nonprofit has a low profile in its hometown of Seattle, many consider Landesa the world's premier nonprofit group advocating for land rights. The group estimates its efforts have led to more than 100 million families having secure rights to land.
Roy Prosterman, a University of Washington law professor, started Landesa's work in the '60s. Originally called the Rural Development Institute, it sprang from Prosterman's belief that stealing land from the rich to give to the poor was a recipe for violence.
He made a case for buying land at market rates and giving it to poor people. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) hired him to try it out in South Vietnam, where his program distributed land to a million families during the Vietnam War. Prosterman expanded his efforts in different forms to other areas, including China, Africa and India.
That kind of high-level policy work is unusual among anti-poverty nonprofits, said Scott Jackson, CEO of Global Impact, a grant-making nonprofit in Washington, D.C.
Most groups start with specific programs, then add policy work. Landesa is the opposite, giving it a much longer-term horizon before change is accomplished, he said.
"It might take 10 years to change policy in a state in India on land reform, but when they do, millions of families benefit," Jackson said. Global Impact recently added Landesa to the roster of nonprofits to which it contributes.
Landesa's largest funders last year were the Omidyar Network; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and the Skoll Foundation. (Among Landesa's other funders is the Seattle International Foundation. That foundation also provides a grant to The Seattle Times to support coverage of international stories, including this one.)
Bulbuli Barman notices major changes in her daughters, Chandana and Santana, since they began attending girls group meetings in 2011.
"Earlier, they were very shy," she said, sitting on her dirt porch wearing lavender flip-flops and wrapped in a large red shawl with gold-threaded embroidery.
Now, the girls "communicate with others and have become very free," their mother said.
Chandana, who is 14, does most of the gardening and, like Mamata, produces most of the family's vegetables — peas and bottle gourds and leafy vegetables.
The girls' father, Kashinath, figures the produce saves the family about $109 a year, or 7 percent of their annual income, because they rarely have to buy vegetables. The savings covers school fees and tutoring for the girls and their younger brother, Koushik.
Their father never gardened on the land before because, as a field worker, he did not realize such a small plot could make such a big difference.
None of it would have been possible without the tennis-court-sized plot of land the Barmans were given by the West Bengal government through a Landesa-designed program four years ago.
Until then, they lived on a small plot that flooded during monsoons, forcing Bulbuli and her children to sleep on a neighbor's porch.
Their earth-dug oven filled with water, which meant they went hungry for about two months every year.
Although their old home was only a 15-minute walk from where they live now, neighbors rarely dropped by to tell Bulbuli when there was field work. And she worried about leaving the children alone that deep in the woods, anyway.
Their new, less-isolated land allows Bulbuli to work regularly, sometimes threshing rice across a wooden stump for eight hours a day before coming home to milk cows, cook and clean.
The land does not flood, and the Barmans keep their cows in the bamboo and jute-stick hut in which they lived on the old, flooding property. They built a new room to sleep in and a separate room for cooking.
Santana, who is 12, sometimes visits the old plot. "I don't like it at all," she said, but she likes to touch the trees they planted around it.
The Barman children and their neighbors talk and play in the field outside their house, the youngest girls turning cartwheels while the boys wheel old bicycle tires with sticks.
Bulbuli is surprised to hear people still let their daughters marry young.
"The day has changed," she said.
But her modern thinking may not be as widespread as she believes.
Child marriage remains prevalent among India's poor. Giving a girl away young can lower the dowry payment her parents are forced to give the husband and his family.
Just seven years ago, Bulbuli's next-door neighbors — who did not receive their land through a Landesa program — married off their 13-year-old daughter, also named Chandana Barman. (Barman is a common last name in this village.)
"I could have gone to school and gotten a better life," said Chandana, now 20 with two daughters of her own.
She rarely makes it to girls group meetings. But her brother, Prasenjit, frequently attends and brought home the knowledge that child marriage is illegal and avoidable.
When his sister married, Prasenjit "had a bad feeling, but didn't know how to stop it."
At the meetings, he learned that a girl can complain, if necessary, to the police. Now 16, he has made a pact with his friends to help any young girls they know who are unwillingly led into marriage.
His family is proud.
"We made a mistake," admits his mother, Phanibala. "We're poor, and we married her early because there was not much demand for dowry."
Chandana wishes her family had discussed child marriage openly before.
"I wouldn't have gotten married," Chandana said while nursing her youngest, Rakhi. "I will never allow my daughters to be married young, and my parents and my brother would oppose it."
About an hour away, near the border of the tea-growing state of Assam, Mamata Barui waits to learn whether her father will change his mind about marrying her off early.
At one point this winter, she thought he had stopped inviting potential husbands, then another one appeared. They come about once a month.
Meanwhile, she helps lead the weekly girls group, one of hundreds of girls trained by Landesa to show their peers how to grow everything from eggplants to mushrooms.
On a tour of her garden just before preparing the family's lunch, Mamata points out a mahogany sapling that was a gift from Landesa.
Someday, it will be worth a lot of money as lumber.
The tree cannot grow fast enough to forestall her own marriage.
Mamata lives on land that has been in her family for generations, but it has not saved them from poverty or hunger or the fear that drives parents to send away their young daughters.
When Mamata was 12, her parents pulled her out of school and sent her to Assam to be another family's maid. She returned home after complaining the woman threatened to beat her. She has not returned to school.
"She does nothing," explained her father, Sambhu, a carpenter who built the two-room house where the family of seven sleeps. "It's a daughter, so what can she do? Nothing much. I have to marry her."
Working the land is Mamata's only hope — but she is far from certain.
Although she despairs about her situation, Mamata said, "I can't blame my parents. I'm blaming my fate only."
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Rights, Families, Clans, and the Origins of Human Community
Thanks very much to Jeanne ("(W)oman does not exist") and Mark ("An American Historian Hesitatingly Queries an Irish Philosopher") for their responses to my post ("Subjectivity, Rights, Families, and Clans"). Mark, you summarize part of my position as being "that jural relations of abstract right necessarily originate at the same time as family relations—at the same moment a community comes into being—and that the constitutive family unit of this community is the nuclear rather than the extended family". I'm pretty happy with that (as a very shorthand description) except for two things: first, I'm not entirely comfortable with the expression, "abstract right", and secondly, there seems to be some ambiguity about the term, "nuclear family".
Jeanne has said that Hegel's Philosophy of Right rejects Kant's notion of the absolutely free individual, having no affirmative characteristics, because the freedom of such an individual, being completely negative, is only abstract and potential. To be actual, it must become positive and concrete, and this can only happen through interpersonal relations: for Hegel, Jeanne notes, "the most logically 'primitive' form of intersubjectivity is the jural relations of what he calls 'abstract right' which is roughly equivalent to what Americans call private law. By submitting to private law we give up some of our radically negative freedom to achieve a more meaningful positive freedom through our relationships with others." So the Hegelian view, on the face of it, seems to be grounded in the idea of atomistic individuals developing interpersonal, jural relations giving rise to private law rights. However, as an empirical matter, Hegelianism holds that family and clan relations precede abstract rights, which appear to be associated with the modern state only; in Jeanne's words, "The person starts in the bosom of the family and law allows the person to become separate and individuated. That is, in order to be a subject, and eventually a citizen, one cannot merely be a member of a clan with collective rights. Or more importantly, one must recognize others not as member of clan, but separate, individuals."
I disagree with the Hegelian account in part because of its association of "law" with the modern state, and because I think private law entitlements – which I prefer to "abstract right" or even "private law rights" – must exist for human community to exist. While Hegelianism rejects the Kantian abstraction of the "absolutely free individual" it doesn't seem to throw off fully the shackles of contractarianism and acknowledge the practical requirements of any form of interpersonal relations. It's worth remarking that Kant considered it impossible for the original, "natural" condition of atomized individuals to have been a fact and, persuaded of the need for the notion to make sense of society, referred to it as "merely an idea of reason". With this, it is reasonable to suppose, many social contract theorists agree yet the domination of the modern imagination by the contract approach has had profound consequences for modern social and political theory generally. It has led to an emphasis on the idea of human society as an organization, and this has led in turn to a focus on how society should be organized and what means should be used to organize it.
I think the idea that contract is in any way whatsoever the origin of human society is in fact inaccurate and misleading. Kant, in other words, was wrong to think social contract theory is needed, even only as an idea, to make sense of society. And as regards Hegel, when people live in community, as they must, instead of the person starting "in the bosom of the family" and being allowed by "law" to become separate and individuated, familial-communal life itself requires law in the form of a network of entitlements, including individual entitlements. James Carter wrote, "Law, Custom, Conduct, Life – different names for almost the same thing – are so inseparably blended together that one cannot even be thought of without the other" – this to my mind brings out well the fact of some individuation "in the bosom of the family" because families themselves (their conduct, their customary ways of doing things) involve networks of entitlements.
I would therefore rephrase your summary of my position, Mark, to say that "jural relations of entitlement necessarily originate at the same time as family relations—at the same moment a community comes into being". I would add that these relations include also entitlements concerning legislation and, by extension, some form of "state", which brings public law into the picture. In a very small primitive society legislation may be limited to war: the war-leader commands only in that sphere; he controls the time and activities of his temporary subjects only for the duration of the war; and he organizes them during the war so that the goal of defeating the enemy may be achieved. In such a society, the actual presence of the state is, so to speak, intermittent and its scope extremely restricted. It is, however, potentially present and there seems to be no evidence of its total absence from any social order. I take references to "stateless" societies as contrasts with societies in which the state is a constant and actual, rather than an intermittent and potential, presence, and in which the scope of its power is relatively much greater.
The second issue I raise regarding your summary of my position, Mark, concerns the idea of the "nuclear family". I used the terms "nuclear" and "patchwork" to describe possible early family forms – I don't mean exclusively the way "nuclear family" is used typically in modern speech. But what word(s) can we use for types of families that came before "extended" families? Whatever the answer to that is, surely it was some smaller family unit that was constitutive of pre-clan communities, that came before extended families? Something, after all, must have been "extended". In my view there is a huge (chrono)logical problem with any account of the origins of community that begins the idea of extended families or kinship groups, or with notions such as "collective ownership of tribal land". This seems to by-pass even the atomism of social contract theory. How, as an empirical matter, did such collective ownership come about? How, as an empirical matter, did the joint or extended families referred to by Maine come about? How, as an empirical matter, did clans emerge?
Regarding the Irish-language term for family, you are correct in saying that teaghlach, which is connected to the root of "house" (teach), is a term to denote the family, traditionally the extended family; clann, from which "clan" derives, is more commonly used to denote the modern nuclear family – but can also have the broader meaning. (There is some debate about these issues around the Irish Constitution of 1937, which expresses in part Roman Catholic views of family rights and in which the Irish-language version takes precedence over the English). The Irish word for children is leanaí.
Finally, Mark, one query regarding the modern context: in this symposium I've cited twice the book's reference to the "revolutionary, individuating power of the nuclear family" (p.160) – I'm fascinated by that remark and I'd be interested in hearing more from you on how that works.


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Bike Girl loves to ride her bicycle in a skirt or dress. Not only for the thrill when a strong wind blows, but also because she loves to wear skirts and dresses. Bike Girl is one super hero who rarely feels it necessary to don a special costume for everyday riding.
Astute readers will point out that Bike Girl occasionally wears her spandex bodysuit to ride fast in circles at Criterium races. But those who know Bike Girl, know that she wears that spandex bodysuit regularly. The fact that race days and bodysuit days coincide is purely by chance.
While Bike Girl is not opposed to occasionally delighting passing motorists while riding in a skirt in a headwind, she firmly believes these treats should be limited and accidental.
In order to ensure her ladylike reputation remains intact, Bike Girl has learned a few tricks to keep misbehaving skirts in line.
1. Learn to ride one-handed - In especially gusty wind situations, Bike Girl often rides with one hand resting on her lap. This gives her an extremely relaxed appearance as she cruises along, and also prevents her skirt from revealing more than she intends.
2. Occasionally stand - Even when biking on a calm day, a skirt can ruffle and shift while riding. Bike Girl occasionally stands while pedaling to allow her clothing to drape more naturally.
3. Choose fabrics and cuts carefullly - A tight woolen pencil skirt is much more difficult to ride in than a skirt that allows a bit more movement. When Bike Girl goes for the sexy secretary look, she takes the bus.
4. Get a big basket - The basket acts as a visual shield from the angle most likely to provide a peek.
5. Knees together - Any woman wearing a skirt who sits with her knees apart, really should have her lady card revoked. Sitting on a bike seat is no exception. The knees don't have to be touching, but go ahead and point them inward.
For visual representations of some of these practices, as well as other tips, encouragement, and photos of attractive ladies riding in skirts, click here
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Thanks for the advice, but where is the bit about dismounting? I ride my bike to work - almost always in a skirt. I'm not a bike-stud - so I'm not that great a cyclist. I still haven't figured out how to get off my bike without flashing everyone. Also, how long does a skirt have to be before you should worry about it getting ensnared in your spokes? What about tucking long skirts under your seat, either for or aft?
- June 23, 2010 at 11:01 AM
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Stay tuned Anonymous. Bike Girl will explain her patented mounting/dismounting system on Friday
- June 23, 2010 at 11:26 AM
I just wear bike shorts under my skirt and not worry.
- June 25, 2010 at 8:49 AM
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Clay's Canucks Composition: Jimmy B – Parody of The Beatles' "Let it Be"
Last week, Canucks' President Trevor Linden named Jim Benning (affectionately referred to as "Jimmy B" for the purposes of our video) as the 11th General Manager in franchise history.
As soon as the hire was officially announced, a few of my Twitter friends had song suggestions for me. But Steve May went one step further: he wrote an entire song and sent the lyrics to me.
Thus, I proudly present to you my latest Clay's Canucks Composition: "Jimmy B" an ode to new General Manager Jim Benning to the tune of The Beatles' classic "Let it Be".
As always, I'm joined by the amazing Marie Hui; there is absolutely nothing that this girl can't sing!


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My youngest, Sienna, turned 5 yesterday!
For her birthday cake, we made this double rainbow.
It's really easy. You just need to split up the frosting and mix up the colors and bake your cake in a bunt cake pan.
You bake the cake and cut it in half...
Then, frost it like a rainbow and
add cotton candy to the bottoms for clouds!
Here is the banner I made for her cake,
the back said Sienna 2011.
Here is the 5 candle holder I made,
I plan on selling these in my shop soon...
along with some similar initial ones for wedding cakes.
We used a funfetti cake mix, so it was colorful inside too!
Because it ends up being a double rainbow, it reminded me of that YouTube video where the guy is so excited to see the double rainbow!
"full on double rainbow all the way";)