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Why the USA can't leave Iraq

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By Christopher King

Christopher King argues that, with its economy in rapid decline and with oil increasingly in short supply, the US will not only endeavour to remain in control of Iraqi oil, but will also attempt to seize Iran’s oilfields and that, moreover, the US people will support this in order to preserve their living standard.

Have you noticed that the US anti-war debate has begun to resemble Congress’s attitude to Iraq and Iran? There’s mild criticism of the Bush administration’s devastation of Iraq but the president does whatever he wants in Iraq and makes absurd accusations against Iran unchallenged. Debate concentrates on mistakes made rather than asking why such immense costs are being expended in the first instance. More than most Americans, the anti-war movement examines the Iraq war in detail and it is realizing consciously what the US political class already know. There are no mistakes. The US is staring over a cliff and is going to go over. It cannot leave Iraq. If he can find a plausible reason, President Bush will be allowed to invade Iran as well. Everyone will then pretend that it’s all another tragic mistake.

Two factors make up the cliff that America nears:

* Simple supply and demand: the depletion of oil reserves, the necessity for the oil producers to conserve supplies and the inevitable effects of oil price rises on the world’s most intensive oil user (see What the US Congress knows about Iraq and Iran).
* The US dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency. This requires some explanation.

A reserve currency is one that all countries will accept for trade purposes. It is really a substitute for gold because there is not enough gold to underpin the world’s currencies. It is particularly useful for trading oil, which is normally priced in dollars. Most countries also hold much of their foreign currency reserves in dollars both for this purpose and because the US has been regarded as a politically and financially stable country.

Unhappily, the US is running a trade and current account deficit, that is, it pays other countries more dollars in trade and services than it receives. The US is essentially a business running at a loss. You might wonder where it gets the dollars to pay for the difference between cash received and cash paid. Firstly, it uses the capital inflows from foreign investors. This is like spending borrowed money because investors are entitled to take their money back. Secondly, it can print money. That’s right. To get a billion dollars cash, the government simply prints the banknotes or interest bearing treasury notes for any amount it needs. These are purchased both within the US and by foreign investors and governments who can use them for trade generally, not necessarily with the US.

Now, it is not always a bad thing to print money; indeed, in an expanding economy it is essential to increase the “money supply”. Unfortunately, the US economy is not expanding. The money supply increase is to support increased borrowing, both domestic and foreign. It is of concern to many that in March 2006 the US Federal Reserve Bank ceased publishing M3 data, which is the broad measure of money supply. The fear is that this was to hide an inflationary borrowing.

Inflation in a reserve currency is a bad thing. Other governments’ reserves are devalued – they need more dollars to buy the same amount of oil and anything else priced in dollars. They might think it better to keep their foreign exchange reserves in euros, yen or a basket that corresponds more to their trade pattern. Investors don’t like inflation because both their capital investment and earnings are worth less. They will look for a more stable home for their investments.

There are particular concerns in the case of the USA:

* The level of government debt is now 9.5 trillion dollars with interest payable of about 450 billion dollars per year. This can only come from taxation (depressing the economy) or printing more money (fuelling inflation).
* The US economy is arguably contracting. Figures for jobs and GNP do not necessarily provide an accurate picture. The types of jobs and distribution of income, for example, need to be taken into account.
* Much US manufacturing has shifted off-shore or closed down. The industrial base is weak; industry is increasingly uncompetitive against China, India and other Asian countries. US financial and other services are highly vulnerable to European and Asian competition.
* The recent sub-prime mortgage problems, crash in house prices and massive increase in liquidity in response from the Federal Reserve bring into question the Federal Reserve’s monetary competence (money supply and interest rate policy).
* Government borrowing against present and future expenditure commitments is unsustainable. The USA is living beyond its means, according to David Walker, recently retired US Comptroller-General who is the government’s top accountant (see video at the end of this article). This calls into question the US government’s fiscal competence (taxation and government spending policy).
* Due to increasing competition for a diminishing supply, oil is being bartered or direct access agreements are being made between states. This undermines the petrodollar (dollars reserved for or involved in oil transactions).
* Oil is being priced in currencies other than the US dollar and large-scale oil barter schemes are being established between Venezuela-South America and Iran-China/Japan, also undermining the petrodollar.

There is plenty here to worry international investors and holders of dollar reserves – and they are worried. The change in the dollar’s value demonstrates this:

1 April 2002: = 1.14 euro
1 April 2008: = 0.64 euro

Over this period, foreign governments and international investors have seen their dollar reserves, US investments and earnings lose 43 per cent against the euro, 33 per cent against the yen and 18 per cent against the rupee. This means that a manufacturer holding euros at present has an oil-buying advantage of 43 per cent over an American manufacturer, compared with their positions in 2002. The same is true of other commodities priced in dollars. This is why some governments are selling their dollar reserves.

If oil ceases to be traded in dollars, an important reason for the dollar’s reserve currency status will have disappeared and if it should lose reserve status, the US will find few foreign buyers for its paper debt. If foreign investors disinvest in the US as well, its economy could well collapse.

It does not increase international confidence in the US government’s financial policies and regulatory systems that the US has in the last few years exported to other countries many billions of dollars in worthless sub-prime mortgage “securities”. Nor does it help that debt supports its high profile wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the threatened war against Iran.

Here we come to the imperative for the US to seize the Iraqi and Iranian oilfields. With its own oil nearing exhaustion, it cannot in future afford to purchase the enormous proportion of the world’s oil production on which its living standards are based. Its industrial production is uncompetitive, currency depreciating, finances supported by debt and, recently, its banks and investment houses have been supported by printed money in defiance of its much vaunted free market principles. The US needs an alternative philosophy and finds that it does not have one. It needs to change but cannot bring itself to change.

If the US fails to put its economy and finances into a fit state for world competition it could be paying 500 dollars per barrel, perhaps 1,000 dollars per barrel for oil in five or 10 years time. This is why it cannot leave Iraq and why direct control of the Iranian oilfields are also desirable. Of course its actions in Iraq are themselves creating instability.

I have previously suggested from circumstantial evidence that the US is stealing Iraqi oil and falsifying the statistics. In fact, no statistics for the past five years of US occupation exist. The Iraqi oil fields and export terminals have been unmetered for this period. (See the 2007 report of the International and Advisory Monitoring Board (IAMB) on Iraq, operating under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1483. The published production and export statistics have no validity whatever. One may reasonably conjecture that the trading records are of similar quality. The IAMB also reports that barter agreements for oil are not accounted for by the Development Fund for Iraq as required by UN Security Council Resolution 1483. In terms of even the most basic standards of accounting and accountability this can only be called scandalous and criminal. It makes a mockery of the US government’s claims to be developing Iraq and reveals the simple truth behind the invasion of Iraq. The invasion was a strategic plan to seize oil supplies that the US government will soon be in no position to purchase.

We have tended to think that the American people have been deceived by the Bush administration’s lies. It appears that, although initially this was the case, America has realized the truth but cannot admit its complicity. It cares about its high living standards and American deaths, not Iraqi or Afghan poverty and deaths. The American people do not recognize themselves in the mirror. They evidently see only fantasy images, unrelated to reality, derived from films. The reality that others see is horrific. If President Bush can engineer an excuse and a plan involving low American casualties, America will permit him to invade Iran as well – and pretend that it did not know the truth.

Christopher King is a retired consultant and lecturer in management and marketing. He lives in London, UK.

At 9:05 PM, April 08, 2008, Anonymous Anonymous said...

So now we are going to take control of their oil fields. Whatever!

At 7:46 AM, April 09, 2008, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Perhaps true. However, you left out the fact that for over 70 years, we have allowed the vested business interests to place an OBSCENELY high tax followed by an outright ban on Cannabis. Henry Ford and Rudolph Diesel endorsed this and other plant oils. As a matter of fact, the original auto engines were not designed to guzzle up fossil fuels but were steam engine followed by plant oils until Big Oil, Coal, Auto, Chemical (hint: DuPont cooperating with Randolph Hearst), etc ... stepped in to rig the market. This doom and gloom bullshit has no meaning whatsoever. Instead of crying doom and gloom, why don't you direct your energy towards putting solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, legalizing hemp for fuel, etc ... to action? Besides, you'll stop sounding like another paid BIG OIL spokeman !

At 8:14 AM, April 09, 2008, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't worry people. It's not the end of the world. There are other countries moving towards going 100% renewable. It's only a matter of time before the US is forced to follow suit.

We now return you to your "End of the World Show" !

At 8:53 AM, April 09, 2008, Blogger Chad said...

Exxon would LOVE to produce hemp seed oil for $10 a barrel and sell it for the current $100. The fact that they are not doing this says something. Does Exxon hate money? If so, then what about Shell? BP? Farmers? If hemp could be produced in the quantities needed for this type of production, don't you think that would be happening somewhere in the world? If the plant is banned in the US, then Canada, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, or some other country would allow the producers in, grow the hemp, produce it cheap, tax the hell out of the Oil companies, and get rich in the process.
The FACT that this is NOT happening says something.

At 11:07 AM, April 09, 2008, Anonymous Anonymous said...

The market is RIGGED for fossil fuels and nuclear. Science has been FUDGED to hype up lies that solar, wind, hemp, etc ... can't meet the world's energy needs. First off, the world didn't use as much energy even a few years ago. The sudden spike is more likely due to incentive to waste. As a matter of fact, it was Big Oil who cooperated with DuPont, Hearst, etc ... to RIG the market so that they wouldn't have to face any continuing competition from the hemp growers. Even in countries where it isn't banned, Big Oil, Coal, Chemical, Nuclear bribe those governments to stifle growth and development in solar, wind, hemp, etc ... It's only in the recent times where it has been more difficult to do so. In fact, it's already coming to the point that the only country that keeps investing in the oil market is America. Even China and India won't stay in the oil market for long.

At 5:00 PM, July 05, 2008, Anonymous Anonymous said...

World Bank/IMF controls price of oil.

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I'm wondering if I could get some help with the following. I'm trying to highlight a word within an HTML page. The word can be any string or char. How would I go about it so I only highlight the content and not an HTML tag. I'm using the span style tag for highlight.

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Regular expressions are almost certainly the wrong tool for this job. Regex-based parsing of hierarchically structured text will always break at some point.

A better idea would be to use HTML::Parser or one of its subclasses. HTML::TreeBuilder might be a good idea.

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 This is to help someone who has been having trouble understanding how to split your search results into pages, 10 by 10. So if your searching a database of page titles, and in the database is only the title|description|url|, using the pipe as a delimiter, post and explain your code to split your search results into pages of 10 results per page. Make sure you don't have a next button when your on the last page too.

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Assuming your database only gets information appended to it (not changed in the middle or beginning), here is a simple solution for flat file databases:

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my $q = CGI->new;
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my ($pos, @matches, $last_loc, $more);

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 Yes I aggree, it is. It also proves to be faster than using line counts to position your self. Well Done Japhy. I tested this on my pc (win 98 w/ Active perl 5.6 PWS)

I did make a few changes, one small one to be presice, when you go to the next results, the number of bytes is 1 too many and gulps up the first letter when only printing the titles and shifting to the next results. So I just substracted one byte from $last_loc and it was fine. It's very fast too, but when you go to add how many search results it found and what it's displaying, (Found 34 Results: Showing 20-30 kinda thing), it may slow down, and that's when using a line count makes things easier. Then you don't have to worry about going back and trying to find line numbers. You Could find what line numbers your displaying with the code, but not the total found, sorry if I'm wrong Japhy.

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(From the Perl FAQ)

Does Perl have a year 2000 problem? Is Perl Y2K compliant?

Short answer: No, Perl does not have a Year 2000 problem. Yes, Perl is Y2K compliant. The programmers you're hired to use it, however, probably are not.

Long answer: Perl is just as Y2K compliant as your pencil--no more, and no less. The date and time functions supplied with perl (gmtime and localtime) supply adequate information to determine the year well beyond 2000 (2038 is when trouble strikes for 32-bit machines). The year returned by these functions when used in an array context is the year minus 1900. For years between 1910 and 1999 this happens to be a 2-digit decimal number. To avoid the year 2000 problem simply do not treat the year as a 2-digit number. It isn't.

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Gosh...time flies! I've been terribly busy of late that I really didn't have time to even do anything apart from work, the needed household chores, & tending my little garden :'( Since getting back from my trip to Japan (mid May) 'til now, I was flying here there, working from morning 'til past midnight every weekday & I'm just catching a few minutes to type out this blog post before I jump into another conference call & fly off to Bangalore this weekend!

This was my last product review in June & I didn't have time to attend any events nor write on my recent trips to Japan & Houston (biz trip). How I look forward to the day where I can sit back, relax, unwind & blog once again!

As most of you would have known, Shihlin Taiwanese Street Snacks has recently launched a new series of freshly-made Taiwanese drinks i.e. Smoked Plum juice, Winter Melon Tea, & Honey Lemon Cooler. I didn't get to try the popular Honey Lemon Cooler as it was unavailable at the time I visited one of their outlets in Shah Alam.

I must say that I liked their packaging as it is reusable! It's slightly 'flimsy', but I guess it's definitely more space-saving when stored in the refrigerator. I felt that the drinks are best consumed cold/chilled :) The drinks were generally too sweet for me as I don't really fancy drinking sweet drinks, but it's quite a good drink on-the-go. I'll pick the familiar winter melon tea over the smoked plum juice as I felt the latter was too sour + too sweet for my tastebuds. Get a packet or two on-the-go to try out for yourselves at RM3.80/packet :)

The drinks are great with some of Shihlin's deep-fried Sweet Plum Potato Fries too!

Time to head over for the next conference call! I promise I will blog again, hopefully while I'm in India?

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more drawings!

this is a charcoal version of a recent one, i am not happy with the hand, i think i need to work on hands again…

more drawings of late

after work

eating bbq at Rudalph’s, was not nearly as good as i had hoped. Main complaint was that the ribs were not falling off the bone

Just seemed right to do…

This last one is also a figuratve drawing, just heavily cropped, I am feeling i should play around more with cropping.


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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Spring Break

Sorry I haven't updated but I don't have any pictures right now and I wanted to wait.
I finished a scarf, it's the blue and orange striped one for Ben. I saw Candice yesterday and we went to Sushiland, Powell's, and a yarn store on NE Broadway called "Twisted" and I got a yarn needle and she showed me how to tuck in the little tails on the scarf.
My mom got a puppy. We haven't named her yet, but she is very wee, a mix of Pomeranian, Pug, and some sort of Terrier. She is gorgeous and adorable. I didn't bring my USB cord, but I'll take pictures and upload them when I get home.
Also, my room is pretty much set up back in Olympia. I'll take pictures of that soon too.
I'll be back in Oly on Saturday, my mom is driving me up. I think that's when Ben should be home too. So...that's my story.
Oh! And my Aunt Lannie gave me five Persian rugs that she's gotten from auctions and such for cheap and no longer needs AND a bunch of big jars to keep my dry goods in(flour, sugar, etc). Yay!

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10 Dec 2010

Teoh's inquest to wrap up next Friday

After nearly one and a half years, the inquest into Teoh Beng Hock's death is expected to come to a close next Friday when three parties involved would make their final submissions. The three parties are the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), Teoh's family and the Selangor government.
In a text message reply to Malaysiakini, MACC prosecution chief Abdul Razak Musa said that all three parties will make their submissions before Coroner Azmil Muntapha Abas at the Shah Alam High Court.

But Teoh's family lawyer Gobind Singh Deo said that written submissions must be made by today before the submissions proper next Friday.

Following this, the coroner is expected to take some time to study the submissions before making a final decision.

The inquest began on July 29 last year after outcry over the suspicious manner of Teoh's death following his visit to the Selangor MACC headquarters at Plaza Masalam, Shah Alam on July 18.

His body was found sprawled on the fifth floor landing of the building a day later. He was believed to have plunged from the MACC's 14th floor office window.

Teoh was called in for investigations to assist investigations against his boss Ean Yong Hian Wah who was accused of misappropriation of funds.

During the inquest, government pathologists claim that there was no foul play but Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand, engaged by the Selangor government, reported the contrary.

After personally observing the second autopsy, Pornthip opined that there were evidence of pre-fall injuries and was certain that Teoh did not commit suicide.

Following this, the MACC's lawyers attempted to discredit Pornthip's testimony, to much comic effect. The video recording of this is heavily circulated on the internet.
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6 Jul 2015

‘Only students of Du Zhong allowed to sit for UEC’

KUCHING: Former magistrate and veteran counsel Chong Siew Chiang believes that Kuantan Chong Hwa High School (Guan Zhong) is not a Chinese independent school (Du Zhong) based on the letter of approval; hence, its students are not eligible to sit for the internal examination to acquire Unified Examination Certificate (UEC).

He pointed out that having a non-Du Zhong students sitting for UEC would be an infringement of Section 69 of Education Act 1996.

“Any individual who contravenes the Section should be guilty of an offence and upon conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year,” he said, adding that such offence would even result in UEC being declared invalid and the school concerned slapped with a closure order.

Chong made these remarks during a seminar on the recent leadership crisis of United Chinese School Committees Association of Malaysia (Dong Zong), organised by Kuching Si Ho Lim Clan Association, at Crown Square here on Friday night.

The letter of approval for Guan Zhong that decides its status has been cited as the initial incident that leads to a spate of unpleasant internal conflicts within the Dong Zong.

Chong asserted this was the reason why Dong Zong chairman Dr Yap Sin Tian and its deputy chairman Chow Siew Hon insisted on adhering to the law and the association’s constitution, rather than risking any Du Zhong being transformed.

“The letter of approval clearly states that the teaching medium for Guan Zhong is Bahasa Melayu (BM). This is totally different from Du Zhong whereby BM is just a subject.

“As stipulated under the Education Act 1996, the government defines UEC as an internal examination. Besides, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, who is a former education minister, in a Parliament reply dated Dec 18, 1995, said the current 60 Du Zhong in the country should remain status quo under the Education Act 1961, and that only students of Du Zhong are allowed to take UEC examination.”

On another camp challenging and aiming to topple Yap and Chow, Chong said this group failed to observe and abide by the association’s constitution 5(2)(3), 5(3)(1) and 5(a)(9).

According to the said constitution, he said the Central Committee (CC) line-up would have to be agreed on and formed before the election of members for the Central Executive Committee (CEC).

“On Dec 7, 2014, this camp refused to attend a meeting aimed at discussing matters on Guan Zhong. Later, they called for a meeting in the absence of Yap to come up with a new CEC leadership – with the aim of toppling Yap.

“This is the ‘law of jungle’ which we shall no longer use. Moreover, toppling is not gentlemanly. Yap was elected chairman according to the rules of the association, but the so-called new chairman of the new CEC was not elected according to the rules.”

Chong stressed that the association’s constitution ‘is the contract binding all members of the association’.

“In the recent case of Dong Zong, it has become crystal clear which camp was challenging and going against the rules.”

On the arguments by some quarters that the current 60 Du Zhong that were without letters of approval – making them no different from Guan Zhong – Chong dismissed such statement as ‘ignorant’.

“The said letter of approval comes into effect following the enactment of Education Act 1996. Prior to that, the requirement of such letter of approval did not exist. However, the 60 Du Zhong do hold a permit.

“What I have laid out is based on facts and the perspective of the law. As a lawyer who has been in practice for 49 years, not even the judge in court could dismiss my statements – yet there are quarters out there judging me left and right.”

Chong said although the Malaysian government did not recognise UEC, some 600 universities worldwide would accept UEC holders into their institutions.

“UEC is widely recognised by many renowned universities including those in Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, China, the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.”

Meanwhile, Yap hit out at Dong Zong secretary-general Poh Chin Chuan, who was responsible for submitting another CEC line-up to the Registrar of Societies (ROS) – a move, if not withdrawn in due time, might lead to the de-registration of Dong Zong.

He said it was evident that Poh and his camp would stop at nothing to achieve their agenda. He thus announced some measures to ‘save Dong Zong’.

“Firstly, Poh and his camp must withdraw and cancel the illegitimate CEC line-up so that ROS would not have two lists of leaderships. Secondly, they must not abuse the power and submit an illegitimate list to ROS since they have access to the passcode.

“Thirdly, their act of producing illegitimate CEC line-up has been branded as contempt of law. They have already been dragged to court and a verdict can soon be expected. Once convicted, there will be consequences.

“And lastly, Poh and his camp have been infringing the rules to induce a series of crises in order to wrest power – people could not help but ask whether such a secretary-general should be retained in Dong Zong.”

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Tuesday, 23 November 2010

contrastive customers

Transport for London is the body responsible for running London’s public transport services. Like the railway companies, to general derision, it now calls those who travel on its trains and buses not “passengers” but “customers”. (You can even argue that a child or a pensioner, who in London can travel free of charge, is not actually a customer at all. A customer is “someone who buys goods or services from a shop or company”. But that is by the way.)

Here is a recorded announcement I heard at a tube station recently.
\/Customers are re°quested | to ˈtake their ˈlitter \home with them.

As you can tell if you say this aloud, the lady making the recording spoke the right words but used the wrong intonation for them. The intonation pattern that she used bears an implication that the request is aimed at customers, but not at others. It implies a contrast between customers and some other possible subject. We might gloss this implied meaning as ‘although those who are not customers can leave their litter behind’.

What she ought to have said was
ˈCustomers are re\/quested | to ˈtake their ˈlitter \home with them.
or just
ˈCustomers are reˈquested to ˈtake their ˈlitter \home with them.
If she had placed the intonation break differently and said
\/Customers | are reˈquested to ˈtake their ˈlitter \home with them.
then the fall-rise could have been interpreted as signalling merely non-finality, rather than the inappropriate contrastivity.

Dwight Bolinger has a number of further examples of people using the wrong accentuation (wrong tonicity) when reading scripted material aloud. Taken from broadcasts over San Francisco radio stations, they are to be found in Chapter 16 of his Intonation and its Uses (Edward Arnold, 1989). Here is one.
Some restrictions apply.
Bolinger comments “There is nothing that a restriction can do but apply.” It ought to be
Some restrictions apply.

Bolinger concludes
Maybe all this should be excused simply as the ingredients of a professional style. But for the constant listener it would be restful if occasionally the newscasters and their associates would just COOL IT. A daily exercise in taming the wild accents and toning down the ends of sentences might help.

Nannying station announcements are different from the compelling urgency of newscasters. But their use of inappropriate intonation can be just as annoying.

  1. I have the impression that (commercial, news, sports, weather etc) announcers speak to us as if we were small children in desperate need of great surprises, hence their absurd melodies. Some correspondents of the BBC World Service, for example, are a bit irritating because of this. Newsreaders here in Spain are equally insufferable.

  2. Can we be sure that the actor read that text as any sort of intonation group?

    As a visitor to London this weekend, I noticed that many Transport for London announcements seemed to be cut and pasted from short clips — like the Speaking Clock, but less plausible.

  3. Actually this is a very mild example of inappropriate intonation used in public transport announcements. I've often noticed that announcers tend to emphasise prepositions, conjunctions and auxiliary verbs rather than nouns and main verbs.

    "First Capital Connect WOULD like to apologise FOR this delay, and for ANY inconvenience it may cause. Compensation forms CAN be found at www-dot, firstcapitalconnect, DOT co, DOT uk" (with emphasis on the last two DOTs)

    "Please do not leave unattended luggage IN the train, or ON the station" (strangeness compounded by the fact that we usually say ON the train and IN the station)

  4. It seems, indeed, that our normal explanations of what particular intonation patterns mean may not hold for these announcements. Is it time to acknowledge the existence of a specific script-reading intonation, I wonder? It seems to me that the way they're produced is not necessarily "wrong" or "inappropriate"; in fact, seeing as new announcers seem to pick up on it quickly and people seem to understand what is meant, I'd argue it's both right and appropriate for the context in which it is uttered.

    What I find surprising is something like an announcer at my station last night who had quite wide pitch movements especially on stressed syllables, giving (to me) the effect of being read a list of station names as if I was a small child (or perhaps listening to Flanders & Swann's "The Slow Train"). It was a strange but not unenjoyable experience and I wished I had a recorder handy.

  5. Misplaced emphasis is a plague in recorded announcements Across the Water too. But what left me at a loss was the lexis. Trash is not called litter in AmE until it has been inappropriately discarded (on the ground, say), and the use of the word here left me fumbling for a different interpretation: 'brood of children', perhaps? A similar announcement here would use trash or perhaps belongings.

  6. Virgin Active's customer services number has a recorded message that plays while you're on hold:

    "And remember, Virgin Active health clubs are not just here to make YOU look good...they make you FEEL good too."

    Clearly the writer intended the emphasis to be put on LOOK and FEEL, rather than YOU and FEEL, and it's amazing that this wasn't spotted.

    I always expect him to finish with "...they make US feel good too". He never does though.

  7. "Some restrictions apply" is a phrase which I would only hear (and do hear frequently) as part of a commercial/advertisement announcing a promotion/special offer.

    The stress pattern which I associate with it has primary stress on "some" and secondary stress on "apPLY". "Restrictions" I would expect to be entirely de-emphasized. This is presumably not an error but a conscious strategy to avoid focusing attention on the negative connotations of the word "restrictions". Indeed the "natural" intonation advocated by JW sounds quite marked to me.

  8. B 'Nary' Narayanaswamy / New Delhi23 November 2010 at 14:37

    Hi. There is a riddle / joke that asks " why does the Statue of Liberty stand in New York? ( emphasis on New York)

    The Ans.: Because she can't sit down

  9. One can distinguish
    (a) a voice actor being paid specifically to read a set of notices, once each, in a studio;
    (b) a PA announcer who spends much or all of their workday reading announcements, sometimes bespoke but mostly boilerplate;
    (c) a flight attendant for whom reading a list of safety instructions is one chore among many;

    One might expect greatest competence from (a) and least from (c); but also, as Paul suggests, it's not clear what the target prosody is, or that it's the same in each of (a), (b), and (c).

  10. Pete, that use of "in the train and on the station" has often bugged me. Given that most stations are open to the elements and trains aren't, it seems logical. But when have prepositions ever been under the thumb of that kind of logic?

  11. @ VP: Yes I agree. The stress pattern you describe for that phrase is the way I would expect to hear it here in the U.S. and probably the way I would say it.

  12. VP and Phil: that comment was of course Bolinger's, not mine. He was American.

  13. Michael, I wasn't suggesting that "in the train" and "on the station" are more logical or sensible than the other way around - just that that's what people always say. Everyone says "I'll ring you when I'm on the train" or "meet me in the station".

    Everyone except station announcers and train drivers, that is. I'm not saying they're "wrong" or that their versions don't make sense, just that they're different from laypersons' versions.

    It's a bit like when tailors refer to a pair of trousers as "a trouser". The professionals in the field use terminology differently from their customers.

    Sorry, we're a bit off topic here. Let's hope no-one takes us any further off by embarking on a debate about whether London Underground can be called "professionals"...


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Saturday, November 20, 2010

Overview & Footage from the Focus35 Skater Dolly

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cameratown - If you're getting into cinematography you most likely have already seen footage from portable sliders like the Glidetrack. In this video I demonstrate another style of dolly, called the Skater Dolly. What makes this dolly so unique is that it sells for only $119 yet offers very very smooth dolly shots - and can do it in a straight line or in an arc. Very innovative and affordable.

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According to this post on the PHP-GTK Community site, the latest version of the software, PHP-GTK 2.0.1, has been released.

This release, named you knew this was coming, adds full support for GtkBuilder and tooltips; in addition to a slew of bug fixes and overrides. [...] Coming up next: Akshat Gupta, our student for the Google Summer of Code program this year, will be working on cairo support for PHP-GTK.

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Today I am sharing one of the problems or you can say a learning curve through which I went a few days ago. I was asked to “fetch all the latest blog from one of my client’s blog which was in Wordpress to his Corporate website Developed in Core PHP. Since the database for both were different and even on the different server”.

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Physics of Channelization

The Nonlinear Physics Laboratory, Clark University

Project in collaboration with Professor Dan Rothman's group at MIT

Channels observed due to water sweepage
This image appeared on the APS Home Page and Images in Physics

We study the physical processes that create eroded channels and drainage networks by doing laboratory experiments. The experimental apparatus is shown on the right. Water is fed from a reservoir in the back and the pressure is mantained at a constant level. The water seeps through the porous medium (the "sand" consisting of monodisperse glass beads) and creates channels on the slope. We obtain the depth of channels as a function of time using a laser-aided topography technique which we developed for our system. An example of channels measured in our experiment is shown above. This project is funded by the Department of Energy.

Click to see the movie of channel formation

Movie of the height evolution obtain using a laser sheet

Related Publications

  1. "Channel erosion due to subsurface flow," Braunen Smith, Arshad Kudrolli, Daniel Rothman, Gallery of Nonlinear Images at New Orleans APS meeting (2008).
  2. "Erosion of a granular bed driven by laminar fluid flow," A. Lobkovsky, A. Orpe, R. Molloy, A. Kudrolli, and D. Rothman, submitted to J. Fluid Mech.
  3. "Dynamics of channel incision in a granular bed driven by subsurface water flow," A. E. Lobkovsky, B. Smith, A. Kudrolli, D. C. Mohrig, and D. H. Rothman, J. Geophys. Res., 112, F03S12 (2007). doi:10.1029/2006JF000517.
  4. "Threshold phenomena in erosion driven by subsurface flow,'' A. E. Lobkovsky, B. Jensen, A. Kudrolli, and D. H. Rothman, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 109, F04010 (2004).
  5. "Spontaneous channelization in permeable ground: Theory, experiment, and observation," N. Schorghofer, B. Jensen, A. Kudrolli, and D.H. Rothman, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 503, 357-374 (2004).

Ryan Molloy, Braunen Smith, Alex Lobkovsky, Norbert Schorghofer, Bill Jensen, Arshad Kudrolli, and Dan Rothman have contributed to the work discussed on this page.

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Here is today's list of freebies for your kindle! They were all free at the time of this post, but as always, be sure they are free before you check out. The books vary from topics and subjects, and I hope you can find a few that catch your attention.

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October 01, 2007

hahaha, that's so great! KP and i used to love to watch the nut move around like that. when they get especially big right near the end, it's crazy how much you can feel it! i'm on pins and needles waiting for him to arrive :)

Oh, I remember that feeling! I have a daughter who is 17 months old so I still remember the sensations. It is odd to have someone moving around inside you and then it's odd when they come out and you don't feel them any more. They're way more fun on the outside. And someone else can hold them for a change.

Good luck! Don't worry about the delivery. You'll be fine and it doesn't last forever. I recommend the drugs, but then I'm a pharmacist so I have to as a professional curtesy.

That's amazing (and just a little freaky)!! Can't wait to virtually meet the little Dudster!

holy dooley! that's some crazy disco dancing he's doing there! great vid.

no freakin' way...that is insane! flynnie didn't move around that much...mostly the hiccups, which he gets all the time now.

so amazing... *almost* makes me want to go through the whole thing again... *almost*!

Oh I miss the days of baby lug dancing in the belly! He'll be dancing when he's out and you'll recognize his moves!

that's so crazy! he's really groovin in there. can't wait to meet you, dudley!

bleak house baby! (and dudley too...)

I remember that! It was so trippy! Have you tried to push back and see what Dudly does? I used to push Max's feet back in, he's push them and out and I'd be lopsided, he's kick me back.

Ah, seeing this again makes me miss being pregnant!

that is awesome! go dudley go!

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wow. He's really rocking and rolling in there! So cool.

whoa, looks like a wild baby ride in there!

That was so incredible, thank you for sharing! I swear my second child was trying to kick her way out, it was so funny.

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Saturday, November 16, 2013

Just In Time For The Holidays

Just in time for the holidays, a major toy company announced a brand new video game:

The goal of the game is to graduate as many students as possible.  The quality of education or the caliber of the graduates is inconsequential.  Numbers are all that count.  At the end of the game, the administrator with the best statistics will be given a pat on the bag, receive a bonus check for $10,000 and be Time Magazine's person of the year, complete with picture on the cover.

The player will assume the persona of a 30 something year old  teacher who has taken a few weekend and online courses and is now running a department in a public high school.  The teacher has barely taught any subject and may never have taught the subject he or she is supervising.  The qualifications for this job are  an ability to turn on a computer and type.  Having a heart and a brain is discouraged.  Having a nasty and mean streak is required.  Players can choose avatars with names like Ms. Nasty Pants, Mr. You All Suck, Mrs. I've Got Balls and Dr. I Am Going To Destroy You All.

The player will be given an office, a computer, an I-pad and a pair of sneakers to roam the halls of their schools to search out the teachers who will be most willing to go along with their unscrupulous plans.  The teacher must be willing to forgo any ideals about providing real educations and be willing to falsify credits, complete assignments for their students, supply answers to standardized tests while the tests are being taken and to change answers if necessary during the exam and while it is being graded.  The teacher must also sign a blood oath to never reveal doing this.  They must also squeal on any teacher who insists on doing the old fashion thing called teaching.

Special bonus points are given to players who assume the persona of special education administrators.  The job here will be to take students, some of whom have IQ's of 70 or less and convince the world they have passed regents exams and have earned high school diplomas.  To take this position, you must think and act like the ancient Romans who threw gladiators and others to the lions for sport as this is what will happen to students in your charge.  They will all graduate and go on to a college they have zero chance of succeeding in and will not be prepared for any jobs.

At the end of the game, players who have met and exceeded their school's AYP will get accolades and receive all the prizes mentioned above.  They will then qualify for such jobs as school principal, superintendent, chancellor and presidential cabinet member in charge of education.

There will be a rush for these popular games so put in your order early to be sure you won't be left out.

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Hong Kong based British racing driver Dan Wells made a competitive showing in Round 4 of the Audi R8 LMS Cup at the Korean International Circuit on September 24/25, qualifying in P4 before taking a 5th and 6th place finish in his GT3 sprint race debut.

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Dan Wells (GBR) KCMG at Audi R8 LMS Cup, Rd7 and Rd8.

Dan competed in his first GT3 sprint race last weekend after a late call up from race team KCMG on Wednesday, and thanks to Audi Motorsports Asia, Formula Masters China Series, KC Motorgroup, and car sponsor Choctails, a deal was done to allow him to make his debut in the category.

Practice consisted of two 45 minute sessions at the former Formula One venue, which allowed Wells the chance to familiarise himself with the car and the competition. He completed the first session in P10, before rising up to P4 in the second practice. Qualifying then followed with a 15 minute session to make the top 8, where they would go on to compete in the Superpole – a one lap shootout to decide the grid for the first four rows. It was Dan’s first time on new tyres but he managed to qualify in 4th place, lining up behind Championship Contender Alessio Piciarello, former F1 driver and reigning Champion Alex Yoong, and 2012 Audi R8 LMS Cup Champion Marchy Lee.

The first race consisted of a rolling start and Dan managed to finish in 5th place, two seconds behind a podium placing at the end of the 13 lap race. The second race was a standing start and Wells managed to finish in 6th place with the 4th fastest lap of the race.

Dan commented, “This weekend has been a great experience for me and I have learnt a lot. I’d like to thank Audi Motorsports Asia, KCMG, Formula Masters China Series and Choctails for allowing me to make my debut in the series and I hope that I can return. The car is awesome to drive and even better that it was at such a fun track as Korea – the close proximity of the walls gives a similar sensation to that of driving a street track – which I very much enjoy…”

If you are interested in aligning your brand with Dan in the Audi R8 LMS Cup, or if you are a driver interested to make your debut in the series, please contact dan@danwellsinvestors.com

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Friday, August 30, 2013

Read Stuff, You Should

Happy Birthday to Bill Daily, 86. Of course I'm a big Bill Daily fan; you knew that, right?

The good stuff seems to have more political scientists and a lot more Syria than usual:

1. Molly Jackman on discharge petitions -- and the immigration bill.

2. James Fearon on Syria.

3. Deborah Avant on Syria.

4. I already linked to this one at the other place, but it helped my thinking a lot so I'll repeat it here: Charli Carpenter on Syria.

5. And Dan Drezner's "Shatners." Unfair! To Kirk, that is. On content...I'm skeptical that there isn't something worse than the last one on his list, the Somalia misadventure.

  1. Who among us does not love Bill Daily?

  2. Good Syria stuff. The Obama administration may have painted itself into a corner with its "just send a message" rhetoric after the "red line" comments. Not sure if they have any good options fitting both those requirements.

  3. A gedanken experiment on Syria. Suppose the US and its allies wind down the rhetoric and announce loudly that Assad will not be challenged. However, the US and allies will accept up to a million refugees as immigrants from Syria a year, for at least a decade. This gets 10 million people who really dislike Assad out from under his thumb, ideally with some share of their wealth. Syria's population falls from an estimated 22 million people to about half that -- presumably all of whom are reconciled to or even happy about being ruled by Assad.

    The emigrants gain. The nations receiving these motivated new citizens gain. Assad, in some sense, gains. But Syria becomes a much smaller and less wealthy nation, with much less capability to be a trouble maker in the Middle East.

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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

SOS... CME ... MTBoS

I've been looking through the CME Precalculus book and I think its wonderful.

I was just given precalc to teach, and while I've taught Alg1, Alg2 I've never seen, or can't recall ever having been taught or asked to consider the way some of the stuff in this textbook is presented.

 I think some of the ways they have introduced things is very interesting, ie complex numbers as an introduction and standard used throughout as a means of working with Trig identities.  I've never seen it before, and I understand what is happening mathematically; I also know that I'm not sure how to teach it.

The work CME provides is a good start, but only for students really prepared for that level of material.  My students lack many of the skills and the confidence which comes with them, to drive the discourse.  In my school we've discussed the issue of students cramming for assessment, without really learning the material and we agree it is an issue that needs to be fixed.  We've been working on this issue, and slowly it is being addressed, but this is a systemic issue - not one fixed easily.

As I've been working through the material, I've though how great it would be if a textbook publisher was clever enough to take advantage of the potentials of social media and how it could be a great resource, for the educators who perhaps haven't seen this material (in this way) or for whom such mathematics was 20+ years ago.

If there were a weekly/biweekly chat, a chat room or a means of connecting with other teachers using this material I know it would make me even more strongly interested in using it.  (granted this might require engaging the teaching community in a more personal way than most textbook manufacturers currently do it). Recruiting and advertising should occur fairly locally as many teachers who aren't very -social media savy do speak with other teachers at least locally.

One more thing....  Textbook manufacturers MUST consider making and perhaps offering resources (as in free, gasp) to help teachers remediate key skills in mathematics, especially at the secondary level, though not exclusively.  Had I known I was teaching this class, I would have actually spent much of the summer looking at the curriculum.  (which I do recognize is not universally standardized, which makes a social media solution better than a one-size fits all)

I know that there are many teachers who use no textbook at all.  I actually went 90% of the way there in Alg1 and Alg2.  I also know that there are teachers who go page to page in the book.  (and by way of full disclosure I think I know one of the contributors).

I'm not yet ready to make really good decisions about how to teach this.  A popular addition to many textbooks is the student goal section.  I bet teachers would like to see the "necessary skills list" in addition to a series of activities or examples as good as those explaining the necessary content.

I've got friends in the #MTBoS who help with this, for me.  Textbook manufacturers needs to plan on enticing teachers like me as well as ones for whom that hashtag thing is a mystery, or just plain silly.

I was given a recommended pacing and curriculum (which was simply all the (+) standards) and told to"go" partway through the marking period.

Already I see concerns with the curriculum.  Vectors with Logarithms?  Complex with matrices?

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Sequence and Series Cards

I made a set of sequence cards over the summer and while I knew then that I wanted to use them to help students with sequences I didn't know exactly how I planned on using them.  I shared them on twitter with a few ppl, but got no suggestions on how to use them.

On Friday as I had just completed working with Arithmetic and Geometric sequences with 2 of my classes  I decided that I wanted my students to work on writing explicit and recursive equations, so I had the students break themselves into small groups (3-4 students max) and I gave each group 1 (of the 5) sets of 8 equations.

Here is where it got fun.  First, the students cut out the cards and placed them face-up on one of the desks.  Then I had them choose 1 card to give away (group 1 to 2, 2 to 3... 5 to 1).  So they gave away their hardest sequence.  Then I let 1 person from each group take 2 cards from another group (this time 5 from 4, 4 from 3, ...)  Now that the cards were exchanged, and a little attitude distributed to the groups we were ready.

I gave the groups 10 minutes to find both kinds of equations for each of the sequences.  The time limit assured that it was unlikely that 1 of the students could do this while the rest of the group watched (I hate that ).

I took a set of cards myself and shuffled them.  After the 10 minutes had passed I started randomly choosing sequences and rolling a die to choose which rule I wanted (explicit or recursive). If a correct answer was given the group picked a representative to throw a bean bag for a chance to get up to 3 points for the upcoming quiz.

Next time I need to find a way to make sure more groups get a chance to play (the first hour I did this, one groups got 4 chances to throw the bag and 2 groups didn't get called on at all).  I will do this by limiting the cards in my own shuffled deck (12 instead of the full 40 cards).  I will also make sure to keep the warm-up to just the 5 mins its supposed to take and spend less time on the previous day's homework so the time for this activity is greater.

Still, it was a great lesson.

Monday, November 18, 2013

Testing day MADE for MATH

Today I'm giving my Pre Calculus students a test (on matrices and rational expressions) and while going through my standard testing procedure checklist I rattled off my warning speech.  I made the first part up about 10 years ago and added a second part to it a couple years back.  The students find it amusing and each trimester many of them try to memorize it.

Here goes...

You may “look down in concentration”
Or up for inspiration
You may not, however, look to either side
Or behind you out of desperation
To do so means I will draw a pretty circular illustration (on the top of your page)
And you get to deal with your parents’ frustration
And consternation.

Alternatively, if you are struggling with stressful perspiration
And are led into plagiaristic temptation
You may find yourself on academic probation
And suffer familial humiliation.

I had not planned to post this, but the students in my 3rd hour class insisted and I figured it might make a quirky made for math Monday posting.

Friday, November 8, 2013

It took me too long to figure out MTBoS #5

That my job should be all about getting kids from utter frustration, feeling like they just can't do it, to convincing them that they can (even if it appears to me that its unlikely).   If I don't at some point make a student have to look at math differently, not just a student, but every student, then I'm not what I want to be as a teacher.

It's at that point, when math looks strange is where growth in our subject occurs.

The difficult, woefully ill prepared, students give us this opportunity the most.   I know I need to get better at engaging them.   I want them to know, I want them to see and experience what I see in Mathematics.   I'm trying different things with different groups of students.  We'll see what comes of it.

Thank you, to the whole #MTBoS.  I'm better than I was and I will be better than I am.   I joke with my students that when I retire the tech in my classroom will be so magical that I won't ever want to leave.  I know that the real magic is the kids.   You all have helped me see that.  If I'm following you, please know it is because I'm in awe.

For the peeps doing the chats I attend, know you're among the very best.  #statschat , #precalcchat , #MSMathchat , #Alg2chat .

Station activity -sequence and series. Afterwards

The NSPIRE activity was definitely the most problematic.   Students struggled with how to manipulate the activity as well as how to get started, though interestingly enough one group told me they thought this one was their favorite because the calculator sort of walked them through the activity and all they had to do was observe and discuss.

The teacher led activity included 4 sequences to discuss and figure out.  I was surprised how difficult it was to hint and cajole a small group 3-4 students, through the material.  I know that at times we all want to just scream out the answer is 4 (or whatever) but it really is much more tempting with a smell group sitting there looking truly lost.   Fibonacci's sequence was the first one, with n^2 and n^2+1 beefing the second and a hybrid fraction geometric and arithmatic for the last.   I wish the second one had been first and that I had primed them by asking them to use blocks to build out each of the terms in the sequence.

There was a worksheet station in which students were required to I'd each set of numbers as arithmetic or geometric or neither and in hindsight I wish I had left that worksheet for the lower groups, but had a more accelerated one for groups ready for more of a challenge.

I had two groups in which members browsed on the IPADS, thus making it difficult for the next group to get started right away.   Fortunately given my proximity to that station I know which students were not on task and write ups and phone calls will address the issue (both students, have previously been addressed about being off task previously).

I still think the teacher led station could be reworked so that I am not tied down and busy the whole time.  I do have write-ups from the students, but its not the same as actually observing where students struggle.

Station activity - Sequences and Series - Before

I like the concept of station activities.  I truly do, but preparing one is nothing less than an exercise in frustration and just darn tiring.

Admin decided that since stations work so well in ELA that math should be doing them regularly as well.  I know people have blogged about this topic before Julie at I speak math being the quintessential example.  But the department chair (and presumably the administration) have made it clear that station activities should look a certain way.  ie. technology enhanced station, a teacher led station (forget about being able to help stuck groups).

enough complaining...My goal here is to actually blog before and after and see hwo I do at predicting how things will go.

The unit we are covering in Algebra 2 is sequences and series.  our stations include 1) identifying arithmatic vs geometric sequences (and differences and ratios) 2) finding the sum of an infinite geometric series (on the NSPIRE) 3) a teacher led station on "neither" sequences such as squares and Fibonacci and the two I worked on 4) having students find the rule for sum of angles of a regular polygon and # of triangles formed from a vertex of a regular polygon (both done through the use of geogebra and IPADS) and 5) a hands on station in which students will tie knots in a rope and measure how the length changes.

Students will rotate in small groups around the stations interacting with the activity and, hopefully, the mathematics which ties all of these mini-lessons together.  At the end they will turn in a single page which has a space for work from each station as well as a short response question at the end.

I already know that the NSPIRE activity will likely be a problem.  I've found that the students frequently find the NSPIREs complicated and manipulating the buttons and sliders is not as easy as it *should* be.

I'm hoping that being tied the whole time to a single lesson isn't frustrating as I know that normally I would prefer being able to move around the room assisting or just observing.

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Friday, January 29, 2010

Assessing Freeze Damage

by Bob Albanese

It has been only 3 weeks since the cold weather and everyone seems to be “chomping at the bit” to get out there and do winter clean up, but whoa Nellie -- hold off on the pruning.

Unfortunately it is still too early to prune. The damage done by the freeze is still manifesting in many of the plants. In my own yard the first week after the freeze things looked pretty good and I had very little visible damage. Now two weeks later it looks like someone torched the leaves of many of my previously untouched plants.

Some considerations are:
If at two weeks after a freeze you have plants that got damaged by the cold and the leaves have turned brown and they are still hanging on the plants, it is a very bad sign. These parts of the plants where the leaves are still hanging onto the branches are probably dead or dying. However, do NOT remove them yet! The leaves that are holding on are still serving a purpose, they are protecting the undamaged parts of the plant by acting as umbrellas that will catch later frosts, and they are insulating the stems against another freeze.

Some plants show no signs of any green under the tender bark on the trunk, if so those areas are in fact dead, but if further down you see bits of very dark green just below the tender bark these areas are still manifesting freeze damage. Unfortunately the full extent of the damage is not known yet.

If you see staining and or bleeding on the trunk, this is also a bad sign but not necessarily proof of death, again patience is advised.

Some plants have the ends or tips of their branches shriveling and turning soft, these parts are dead, but the damage is probably not complete yet. Again be patient for a few more weeks.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Treating Cold-Damaged Palms

With the unusually cold weather and freezes in the area many palms can be damaged or even killed by these cold temperatures.

Some popular palms such as Adonidia merrillii (Christmas palm), Roystonia regina (royal palm), Ptychosperma elegans (Alexander palm), Hyophorbe lagenicaulis (bottle palm), Hyophorbe verschaffeltii (spindle palm), and Cocos nucifera (coconut palm) can be damaged and some even killed by cold temperatures.

You can find out about your particular palm and its tolerance to cold by calling (727-582-2110) or visiting the UF/IFAS Pinellas County Extension Service, 12520 Ulmerton Road, Largo. Betrock's "Landscape Palms" by Alan Meerow is also an excellent source of information.

Treating cold-damaged palms may be necessary to keep them from getting bud rot. To learn more see this UF/IFAS publication:


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Summary: Agricultural production systems are continuously evolving to meet the demands of society. Making farming systems more sustainable in the eyes of the public may be good for addressing environmental quality issues, but is it good for production? This presentation will help consultants, growers, and other practitioners in the Southern U.S. cotton-producing states understand the science underlying soil health and help to demystify how to achieve healthy soil. Farmers and consultants will be introduced to the important processes in soil that comprise a healthy soil, a few key indicators for evaluating soil health, and some modeled and field results showing the value of no-till and cover crops on soil organic carbon and soil biological activity. In the end, practitioners will have a greater appreciation for how conservation agricultural management systems can be a model for balancing the perceived dichotomy between productivity and environmental quality.

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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Karl Lagerfeld - 'Remember Now' (short film)

Is there anything the Kaiser can't do?

Shot in St. Tropez, featuring Elisa Sednaoui, Baptiste Giabiconi, Freja Beha Erichsen, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Heidi Mount and Leigh Lezark, 'Remember Now' is a 17 min short film written and directed by Karl Lagerfeld.
What exactly is the film about? Not sure. Will it be any good? Probably not. But like Tom Ford's 'A Single Man,' it will be amazing to look at.
Check out the trailer for the high fashion, dancing, partying and style.

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Friday, 2 October 2015

NG 690

New game 690 is now available.

The re-run is episode 393; its rounds are here and its writeup is here.

Round 1: E I L G S T A R S

I had ISLE, TILES, GAITERS, LARGEST, TIGRESS, GLISTERS (GLISTER: "to glisten; glitter"), GLASSIER, and REALISTS.  It's a shame that a fourth vowel was not taken, as the ensuing U would have given the full monty of LIGATURES.

REGALISTS is not listed, so eight is the best to be done.  The others are GRISTLES / GRITLESS, SALTIRES ("Heraldry an ordinary in the form of a Saint Andrew's Cross") / SALTIERS (SALTIER being a variant spelling of SALTIRE), and GLARIEST*.

My selection: REALISTS

Round 2: U C W P S B I O E

I had CUSP and COPIES.  After time I noted BICEPS as another six, and confirmed that SUBEPIC was not a word.

The other six is COUPES.  COWPIES is not listed, as I've mentioned before, but there is another seven: PICEOUS ("of, relating to, or resembling pitch").

My selection: COPIES

Round 3: Target 252 from 25 50 75 100 6 8

The easiest first approximation was 6*50 = 300, and the offset is 48; that led directly to 252 = 6*(50 - 8).

My selection: 252 = 6*(50 - 8)

Round 4: L N T M T U A A O

I had TAUNT and really wanted a second A to produce the element TANTALUM.  I was quite happy when it arrived.  Aside from that, I also noted OUTMAN / AMOUNT, MUTANT, and MULATTO.

It's not in the Macquarie, but some sources allow AUTOMAN as a term for a manufacturer of cars.  But the other seven that is listed is AUTOMAT ("an automatic apparatus for serving articles, especially food, to customers upon the dropping of the proper coins or tokens into a slot").

My selection: TANTALUM

Round 5: C T I N N O A S T

I had COIN, TONIC, ACTION, NATIONS, and CONTAINS.  After time I noted another seven of STANNIC ("of or containing tin [...]").

The other eights are SANCTION / CANONIST / ACTINONS (one meaning of ACTINON being as a synonym for ACTINIDE, any element with atomic number between 89 and 103), CONSTANT, and OSCITANT ("drowsy; inattentive") / TACTIONS (TACTION being an obsolete term for "touch; contact").

My selection: CONTAINS

Round 6: Target 740 from 25 75 50 10 6 10

The obvious approach is 740 = 10*75 - 10, but I could not resist looking for more complicated options, eventually finding 740 = 10*(50 + 10*75/25 - 6).

My selection: 740 = 10*75 - 10

Round 7: D L I S R K E A F

I had LIDS, DIRKS, FIELDS, DARKIES (DARKIE being a type of fish), and FLAKIER.

Seven is the best to be done; the others are FRISKED, DERAILS, SKIRLED (SKIRL: "Chiefly Scottish to sound loudly and shrilly (used especially of the bagpipes)"), DARKLES (DARKLE: "to appear dark; show indistinctly"), FLAKERS ("Colloquial unconscious; dead drunk"), and FARDELS (FARDEL being archaic for "a bundle; a burden").

My selection: DARKIES

Round 8: Target 671 from 50 75 9 9 8 10

Applying the standard method gets us to 675 easily enough, and needing to make a 4 with the remainder.  The key is to divide 50 by 10, and the resulting solution is 671 = 9*75 - (9 - 50/10).

My selection: 671 = 9*75 - (9 - 50/10)

The useful fragment here is -NESS, and with an I the -INESS ending is usual.  In this case it leads to HEFTINESS in short order.

My selection: HEFTINESS (3.0s)

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Mike Backhouse said...

POISE (saw COWPIES but realised it was two words)


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Unlike tooth decay which usually causes discomfort, it is possible to have periodontal disease without noticeable symptoms. Some warning signs include: gums that bleed easily, gums that pull away from the teeth, persistent bad breath, pus, loose teeth, or a change in the way your teeth come together when you bite.

Plum Grove Dental Associates - Periodontal Disease

My parents lost all their teeth to periodontal disease early in life. Am I at risk?

Genetics and environment do play a role as a risk factor for periodontal disease. Other risk factors include poor oral hygiene, smoking, systemic diseases such as diabetes, and certain medications that alter the condition of the gums.

How do I treat my periodontal disease?

Periodontal disease is first treated by a non-surgical procedure called scaling and root planing. A local anesthetic may be used during the procedure to reduce discomfort. The dental hygienist or doctor, goes below the gumline to the bottom of the pocket to remove bacteria, plaque, and calculus, creating a clean root surface. A local antibiotic material may also be placed in a deeper pocket. Treatment may require more than one visit depending on the areas of your mouth that are affected.

What is the reason for doing surgery for periodontal disease?

Surgery is done when areas have not responded to scaling and root planning procedures. Surgery allows the dentist and the patient to access hard to reach areas that require the removal of plaque and calculus. Surgical procedures also allow access to recontour bony defects to promote proper healing.

My gum tissue is receding on my front tooth, what can be done?

Gum recession can be a significant sign of periodontal disease. Fortunately, there are treatments available to reduce the process and to rebuild the gums through grafting procedures.

Do I have to see a specialist to treat and monitor my periodontal disease?

Most conditions can be treated through the non-surgical procedure of scaling and root planing at your dental office. More complicated conditions that have not responded to initial treatment may require more advanced procedures and require the specific skills of a periodontal specialist.