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Basics About Acne – Everything You Should Know About This Skin Condition

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Acne is stigma, which has to be born… something which rise shame. Something which brings derision – (dr. A.C.Chue).

This is the way many people suffering from this problem thinks. However it’s worth knowing and understanding causes and growth of acne lesions, as well as its effective treatment. It will help to understand, that contemporary, proper therapy significantly improves skin condition after one month in over 80% of cases.

Acne’s Characteristic

Skin lesions of young men, appearing as comedones, nodules, blotches rise huge anxiety. This is not only cosmetic issue, but also reason of emotional problems and shame. Conviction that acne is incurable is co common, that there is even worldwide support group (ASG) based in England. Its aim is to help people suffering from this disease, so their life with disfiguring acne could be easier.

Acne’s Causes

Acne is nightmare of many people. Skin lesions visible on a face can make many teenagers’ life miserable. However acne occurs also adults and even babies. There is no specific age, in which we can expect it. So where does it come from? Acne is severe inflammation disease of skin sebaceous gland, which causes excessive tallow production. Tallow answer for proper moistening and skin tension. Its overflow irritates skin and block hair follicle. As a result mucus is unable to get outside, and eczemas appears. Acne mostly occurs people between 11 and 30. Almost 100% of boys and 90% of girls suffer from it.

Acne’s Symptoms

Everyone know how acne looks like. Characteristic acne’s lesions appear on skin – in area of forehead, chin, nose and chicks, as well as on the back and chest.

  1. Noninflammatory – open and closed comedones and micro-comedones
  2. Inflammatory – blotches, nodules and cysts with purulent substance.

Acne lesions has severe character. During summer skin condition improves due to insolation.

Types of Acne

For growing girls it is often real tragedy, especially when it “pop out” day before party our date. Pimples are different sorts of spots, blackheads, and nodules on our body, mostly on face. Usually when we speak about pimples we mean acne. Below there are several kinds of this disease.

Acne vulgaris

It is one of the most common type of acne. It occurs young people during puberty. Almost everyone pass through this skin problem, however some have short-living, barely visible skin lesions, and some suffer from protracted, perplexing affliction. The cause of acne vulgaris formation are hormonal changes, leading to hyperactivity of seborrheic gland. As a result, comedones start to form, with accumulated gland and tallow. As it is bacterial – friendly environment it may lead to local infection.

Infection causes inflammation, and comedones transform in hard, painful nodules. Pimples appear usually on face, but some people may observe pimples on back or chest. Treating acne vulgaris is about lubricating skin lesions with exfoliating creams containing salicylic acid or germicidal preparations. In some situations dermatologist may refer you for hormonal treatment or antibiotic oral or local therapy

Neonatal Acne

Causes of its formation are unknown, that’s why as the matter of fact there are no ways of treating it. Usually it passes spontaneously after couple or several days. However it is recommended to wash skin only with delicate lubricants instead of ordinary soap. If there will be no improvement after a couple of days, medical advice should be sought.

If a child is above 4 months old it also recommended to visit doctor, because this disease affects only children in their first months after birth, so it good to check whether it is not any other affliction. The symptom of neonatal ace are painless red pimples or spots in area of face, neck and forehead. It is characteristic that it “disappears” when it’s cold, e.g. after going for a walk, and it becomes more visible when it’s getting warmer.

It’s protracted affliction affecting adults. It’s appears as various exanthema on face. It can be lesions such as rash, nodules, pimples and sometimes conjunctivitis. Lesions appears particularly in specific face areas – under eyes, on chin, nose and under eyebrows.The cause of this acne occurrence mostly consists of several factors, including environmental and genetic.

The affliction mostly occurs people between 30 and 60, mostly women, but men are believed to suffer from the most severe cases. Rosacea may be also connected with immune system disorder. Depending on lesions character and stage, various types of treatment may be applied: local pharmacological treatment, phototherapy, laser, cosmetic therapy and in most severe cases – surgery.

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It’s not feeds that I have a problem with, just using the term ‘RSS feeds’ or ‘RSS’ to describe them.

The term ‘RSS’ is hairy to begin with.  It isn’t sure if it should stand for ‘Really Simple Syndication’, ‘Rich Site Summary’ or ‘RDF Site Summary’.  That third one, with the nested acronym, is particularly hideous.  Passable for people who work with RDF perhaps, but that isn’t many people these days.  Besides which, ‘syndication’, and ‘site summary’ just don’t seem to convey the right idea to me.  They don’t reach out and tell me about grabbing headlines and bits of articles from a site and viewing them in other ways.  ‘Site Summary’ is a fairly vague term which could just as easily refer to a website’s ‘About Us’ page, and ‘Syndication’ is not really what feeds are used for these days.

Then there’s the issue that not all feeds are RSS, and not even all RSS is RSS.  RSS is a name used by two separate, competing and incompatible formats (or more if you count previous versions which are not forwards-compatible).  RSS is therefore not only useless in referring to the concept of a feed, but it’s useless in referring to a particular format of feed.  Yet another format is called Atom – not RSS at all.  The term ‘RSS’ unfairly excludes other implementations of the same concept.

Feeds are being increasingly used by web users due in part to better integration of feed readers or subscription mechanisms for feeds into browsers.  But along with this we need to use an appropriate name for them.

I am a fan of the term ‘web feeds’.  Firefox 2.0 used the term ‘feed’ as in ‘subscribe to this feed’.  The upcoming Firefox 3.0 gets more specific by calling them ‘web feeds’.  Internet Explorer 7.0 simply calls them ‘feeds’.  Opera 9.x muddies things by alternating between the terms ‘feeds’, ‘subscriptions’ and even ‘newsfeeds’.  And last but not least, Safari 3.1 refers to them as ‘RSS’.  Not even ‘RSS feeds’ – just ‘RSS’.

Google Reader simply calls them ‘subscriptions’ as far as I can tell, which is a decent term.  In other locations Google also uses the term ‘feeds’.  Wikipedia’s main page about feeds is now called ‘Web feed’.

With the exception of Safari, then, the major browsers and the other companies I mentioned have all opted to avoid the technically vague and misleading ‘RSS’ term and go with a more general term for the concept, with ‘feed’ by far the most popular, followed by ‘subscription’ and trailed by variants upon the word ‘feed’ such as ‘web feed’ or ‘newsfeed’.

So, is ‘feed’ a suitable term?  The word itself doesn’t describe the function; feed could easily be something I give to an animal.  The usage of the word seems to come from the context of radio or television broadcasting, where a ‘feed’ is some content that has been sourced or ‘streamed’ from another network.  It’s not an obvious link, to me at least, but once realised the analogy holds up.  I can subscribe to a feed of content sourced from another website.

What is certain is that the term ‘RSS’ really has to go.  It isn’t specific enough to be used as a technical term because it could refer to one of multiple competing formats.  At the same time, it isn’t inclusive enough as a general term as there are feeds that are not actually using any RSS-named technology.  With the exception of Safari, the term ‘RSS’ is not exposed to end users in any of the major web browsers, which instead opt for the more general ‘feed’ or ‘subscription’.  Most of all, it’s a confusing, alienating three letter acronym that doesn’t become more self-explanatory after expanding it into any of its many alternative backronyms.

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Thursday, August 29th, 2013

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Thursday, August 1st, 2013

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“…I’d been a fan of Nibs since his early days as part of folk group Landscape Prayers.

Their Bush Telegraph album was one of the few acoustic albums I really enjoyed. It had a spooky, anonymous and ancient quality to it, a sound of spacey, twinkling guitars and hail-on-a-zinc-roof percussion overlaid with some really funky and hypnotic tangents, it felt like some sort of artifact recovered from deep within the earth from the thousand hills of KwaZulu Natal.

It was my soundtrack to Sunday afternoons with mugs of cheap wine, looking over blocks of urban decay and wondering, hoping and finally realising, thanks to Bush Telegraph, there still had to be some beauty left in the world.

It’s any wonder I didn’t throw away my shoes right then and there and run away to the country with my own badly-tuned, three-stringed Ibanez classical strapped to my back. Thanks for that, Nibs. I may get there yet…” CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE

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Mozilla, Tor Release Patches to Block Active Zero Day Exploits

December 20, 2016 | By Comodo

Mozilla and Tor recently released patches for the Firefox browser as well as the Firefox-based Tor browser aiming to block a recent attack. This attack exploited a Firefox animation remote code execution flaw to unmask users of the Tor anonymity network.

This vulnerability, which is not publicly known, is in all likelihood another among zero day exploits and uses the Firefox or Tor browser to load a malicious webpage, containing malicious JavaScript and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) code. Consequently, it leads to scooping up the real IP address and MAC address of Windows systems, which is then sent to a central server.

Mozilla, Tor Release Patches to Block Active Zero Day Exploits

Though it’s seen that the payload works against Windows systems that run Firefox browser and the Tor browser, there were also reports of the vulnerability being there on Firefox for Mac OS and Linux and hence users were promptly made to update their browsers on these platforms.

Mozilla’s release describes the vulnerability in brief- “A use-after-free vulnerability in SVG Animation has been discovered. An exploit built on this vulnerability has been discovered in the wild targeting Firefox and Tor Browser users on Windows.” The Mozilla release, dated November 30, rates it as critical and says that it is fixed in Firefox version 50.0.2, Firefox Extended Support Release version 45.5.1 and Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client version 45.5.1.

A Tor release, dated November 30, states- “Tor Browser 6.0.7 is now available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory. This release features an important security update to Firefox and contains, in addition to that, an update to NoScript (
The security flaw responsible for this urgent release is already actively exploited on Windows systems. Even though there is currently, to the best of our knowledge, no similar exploit for OS X or Linux users available the underlying bug affects those platforms as well. Thus we strongly recommend that all users apply the update to their Tor Browser immediately. A restart is required for it to take effect.”

Mozilla’s security lead, Daniel Veditz dwells on another aspect of the zero day exploit in a post made in the Mozilla Security Blog. He says- “The exploit in this case works in essentially the same way as the “network investigative technique” used by FBI to deanonymize Tor users (as FBI described it in an affidavit). This similarity has led to speculation that this exploit was created by FBI or another law enforcement agency. As of now, we do not know whether this is the case. If this exploit was in fact developed and deployed by a government agency, the fact that it has been published and can now be used by anyone to attack Firefox users is a clear demonstration of how supposedly limited government hacking can become a threat to the broader Web.”

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Saturday, January 31, 2004

Humanism and good writing both are in limited supply on the web. It's a thing made by and for conceptualists: ideas matter, not the forms they take. It may be important to eat and have a roof over one's head, but it doesn't matter if the roof is made of tin, the walls are made of sheetrock, and the food comes as a pill. So I wander through discussions of technology, linguistic analysis, and economic theory, references to Star Trek and Tolkien, and 'best of' lists that are predicated on such ignorance I can have no response.
People who are interested in, who take pleasure in, the strength and flexibility of language have other things to do and other ways to keep themselves engaged. The only exceptions I've found, the only others more interested in means than ends, for whom the idea of 'content' is implicitly -and in one case explicitly vulgar- are women:
two observant Muslims and a Jewish whore.
We know that after 9/11 there were intense battles pitting the Intelligence Community against political appointees in the administration and that those battles were over almost every aspect of the Iraqi threat: nuclear weapons capacity, ties to terrorism, whether Saddam would use his arsenal against the United States, degrees of certainty about the state of Saddam’s chemical and biological programs, everything.
We know of many points of controversy. And, to the best of my knowledge, every last one involved administration politicals pressing for more extreme and ominous interpretations of the Iraqi threat against skeptical members of the Intelligence Community. Every last one.
Josh Marshall.

Someone should send Hutton a copy of the Carnegie report. The BBC should should have stood their ground, and they had better start to now.
Nathan and I disagee.

Friday, January 30, 2004

The Bad News and the Good:
Monsanto, the world's largest genetically modified seed company, has been awarded patents on the wheat used for making chapati - the flat bread staple of northern India..
The Guardian
However, Mr Scalia's protestations of neutrality have met outrage, with nearly two dozen newspaper editorials calling for Mr Scalia to step aside. Their fury has not been abated by the refusal of the chief justice, William Rehnquist, to ask Mr Scalia to stand down.
Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte
For no one reason in particular, but for a few: Louis Feuillade.
I've seen only Barrabas, in one long -six hour- afternoon, at MoMA. It was astonishing.

I spent a lot of time in Tom Gunning's classes, though I was never one of his students. Once we were at a lecture by his old teacher Jay Leyda, at the opening of a series of early silent films at the Whitney. I think this was about 1987. My girlfriend worked for the Whitney's film curator, and at the same time I had gone back to Purchase to finish my degree. Leyda was old and frail, and spoke with a knowledge and affection for the history of film that seemed odd for a man his age. He spoke like someone who had discovered his life's work in childhood, and who not only loved movies but understood their importance, and had done so from the first. In the car going back up to Westchester I mentioned this to Tom.
"But what's Leyda's degree in?"
"Film Studies"
"At his age, where did he get a degree in Film Studies?"
"Who'd he study with?"
"There's an attitude in Godard, despite the assertions of wanting to converse, that says, Don't argue or cross me about such things. And this book does not alter the notion of his brilliant immaturity. The most fascinating point of all applies more broadly than to Godard; it reaches out to anyone who believes that film is more important than the world. Maybe film is not the great new language of engagement with the world that Bazin hoped it would be. Perhaps it is, instead, a vehicle more suited to dreaming, sensationalism and not wanting to grow up. Perhaps language--the construct of words--was always subtler, deeper and more humane.

Here's a remarkable passage from Godard the young theorist, writing in 1956, trying to pin down the virtues of and the affinity between cinematography and montage:

If direction is a look, montage is a heartbeat. To foresee is the characteristic of both: but what one seeks to foresee in space, the other seeks in time. Suppose you notice a young girl in the street who attracts you. You hesitate to follow her. A quarter of a second. How to convey this hesitation? Mise-en-scène will answer the question 'How shall I approach her?' But in order to render explicit the other question 'Am I going to love her?' you are forced to bestow importance on the quarter of a second during which the two questions are born. It may be, therefore, that it will be for the montage rather than the mise-en-scène to express both exactly and clearly the life of an idea or its sudden emergence in the course of the story.

How odd that this furious analysis misses the clarity, the exact hesitation, with which words have evoked the moment. It reminds me of a scene in My Life to Live where the philosopher Brice Parain tells a story from Dumas's Twenty Years After: how Porthos puts a bomb in a cellar, and as he walks away with head down, notices the movement of his own legs. How does that happen? he wonders. The mystery transfixes him, and he is killed in his own explosion. "In sum, the first time he thought, it killed him."

There's a lost writer in Godard, to be sure, and it's never clearer than in those lovely and poignant places where he actually writes on film--the hand, the curling of the letters, the line of sense. Could it be the ultimate lesson in Godard's career that plunging into the dark was a misreading of his map?"

Probably the best brief description of the intellectual and esthetic limitations of cinema, and of the life and works of it's greatest fan, that I have ever read. David Thomson in The Nation

Thursday, January 29, 2004

And don't forget The Carnegie Report:
Last week, the non-partisan Carnegie Endowment for International Peace issued a 111-page report entitled “WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications.” The report concludes that “Administration officials systematically misrepresented the threat from Iraq's WMD and ballistic missile program” by treating possibilities as fact and “misrepresenting inspectors' findings in ways that turned threats from minor to dire.” The report also charges that U.S. officials “politicized” the intelligence process to help its arguments for war.
Within minutes of asking for help with blogger's syndication feature, I wrote, published, rewrote and republished a post at least five times.
I annoy enough people already. Syndication would piss off the few I like.
It didn't work anyway, and now it's gone.
Courtesy of Atrios:

The Center For American Progress.

Imminent Semantics
KAY IGNORES THE FACTS: But Kay's remarks are belied by the facts. Numerous intelligence agencies of the U.S. government – including the CIA, DIA, DoE and an arm of the State Department – warned the White House that there was inadequate evidence to definitively establish that Iraq possessed chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. (Read the detailed list of pre-invasion intelligence warnings). The Financial Times reports the international community also expressed their doubts.
That's what I want more of.
CT send us to The Economist, which says George Bush and Tony Blair exaggerated, but they did not lie.

So the BBC is in danger, because of what exactly?
I want more. Either Cheney was lying last week, or he belongs in a fucking nut house.
Pick one.
More from Crooked Timber.

The Teenager is an idiot.
I don't know where to begin.
A Journey Through Genocide.
There is Houy the deputy head of security, Khan the torturer, Thi who kept the registers, who all seem detached as they recall, almost wistfully, Khmer Rouge ideology; and there is Poeuv, indoctrinated as a guard at the age of 12 or 13. In one spellbinding sequence, he becomes robotic, as if seized by his memory and transported back. He shows us, with moronic precision, how he intimidated prisoners, fastened their handcuffs and shackles, gave or denied them food, ordered them to piss, threatening to beat them with "the club" if a drop fell on the floor. His actions confront all of us with the truth about human "cogs" in machines whose inventors and senior managers politely disclaim responsibility, like the still untried Khmer Rouge leaders and their foreign sponsors.
I'm waiting for more from anyone on the Hutton report and future of the BBC. And I'm waiting for more comments like this on David Kay.

Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Juan Cole.
Helena Cobban's interview with Shiite thinker Abdulaziz Sachedina of the University of Virginia is a must-read contribution. Sachedina has recently been to Iran and moved among the Shiites. Interestingly, he seems to think that there is more support for Muqtada al-Sadr than for Sistani except in Basra. From a distance, I would say that Sistani has more general, but vaguer authority, whereas the devotees of Muqtada are really devoted. Sachedina doesn't think Sistani has read Gandhi or knows his philosophy, but allows that some of his followers may have. He believes that Sistani wanted to get the UN involved in the Iraqi elections, and that was one of the real goals of his recent activism. I concur entirely.

Monday, January 26, 2004

I looked at Sitemeter today and found a link from google to this post. Rereading it now, it's a bit rough, but all in all not bad. Here's one paragraph:

What is it Kitsch?
We live in a world of language. We comminicate by way of language. As I wrote elsewhere, the difference between a lover who sounds convincing when expressing his/her love and one who sounds like a fool, is the language. It is the language or the gesture that 'convinces'. It is the telling of the story that makes someone into a convert, to love or christianity, not the story.
The interesting thing, to me, about religion is that it elides the obvious: that it is the mediating form that attracts people to one specific faith or another. The language of faith/ the rhetoric of faith/ the demonstration of faith... is faith. We can not escape the means of communication and mediation, even, or especially, when that escape is the object of our desire. It's all brilliantly circular, though no believer can accept such a definition.
But what is kitsch? Kitsch is unmediated faith. It is the equivalence of the plastic Jesus with Michangelo's Pieta. That is a standard definition. But what does it mean? It is belief without rhetoric. In a sense it is the only actual demonstration of a faith in something outside of language, or out of the world. It is the only example of a faith where the rules of rhetoric and representation do not apply. And that very fact makes it off limits to discourse; makes it considered absurd, even by the vast majority of the faithful.

Sunday, January 25, 2004

Gone for the day.

It's Sunday, go read Belle
Happy New Year:
PARIS, Jan. 24 - The Eiffel Tower turned red to celebrate the Chinese New Year on Saturday, but it might just as well be blushing at the country's ardent embrace of all things Chinese on the eve of the Chinese president's arrival here.

President Hu Jintao's first state visit to France, which begins Monday, coincides with the 40th anniversary of the two countries' diplomatic relations. The anniversary is being commemorated with a national, government-sponsored campaign that has produced an outpouring of Orientalism in the French capital.

As part of the country's "Year of China" promotion, officials closed Paris' grand avenue, the Champs-?lys?es, on Saturday afternoon for a huge parade dominated by a dancing dragon ? the first time the avenue has been taken over by an intrinsically non-French event since German troops marched down it during World War II.
Chalk the Gallic eagerness up to China's market potential and its emerging role as a strategic node in the multipolar world that both France and China hope will eventually supplant the world's sole-superpower status quo.

The New Manchester:
"If Marx could see Guangdong today he would die of anger," says Dai Jianzhong, a labor relations expert at the Beijing Academy of Social Science. "From that perspective, China is speeding in reverse."
Not surprisingly, Chinese officials do not put it that way, and few here believe that China needs another Marxist revolution. Nor would Communist Party officials say that democracy, rather than an authoritarian political system, is needed to bring greater social justice to China.

Still, Communist leaders increasingly seem convinced that neither economic growth nor China's tattered legacy of socialist laws will prevent social unrest, even violent upheaval of the kind that helped bring the party to power in 1949.

President Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, the prime minister, have vowed to raise peasant incomes and stop the most egregious abuse of workers. Executives of multinational corporations say they have a harder time getting appointments with Mr. Wen and Mr. Hu than they did in the past.

"Inequality these days is too stark to be ignored," says Kang Xiaoguang, a leading political analyst in Beijing. "The party has begun to recognize that its legitimacy cannot come from economic reform as such. It needs to stress fairness and justice."
Talking Head Sunday.
Gay marriage and the President's duty to upold the Constitution, with examples: the right to visit a partner in a hospital and to inherit property. "I'm not personally supportive of gay marriage but I'm a supporter of rights in America, and I think we have to protect rights"

Kerry plays it very smart, everything down the middle, which still makes Bush seem out on the fringe.

Saturday, January 24, 2004

Damage/grammar control. I can pretty much guarantee that if I throw off a few paragraphs without thinking, and they hold up well -or more than well- on later inspection, the next post, written the same way, will be crap.
Reading around the political blogs, Marshall, Atrios et al.:
If the Democrats continue to play the sincerity card, they'll continue to lose.
Esthetics as Ethics.
Astaire v. Kelly: A study in classical rhetoric and communication.
The one a performer of popular dance, brought to perfection on its own terms and thus to a level of art.
The other a trained artist working in a popular medium, engaged in a process of esthetic 'elevation.'
The first interested in issues of formal value, non formal issues being taken as given, the second in intellectual value under the assumption that givens are such are no longer applicable.
The former 'conservative'
the latter 'liberal.'
The one restrained/ The other free.
The one Early, the other Late.

"Political emancipation is the reduction of man, on the one hand, to a member of civil society, to an egoistic, independent individual, and, on the other hand, to a citizen, a juridical person."

I could argue with much of what Scott Martens says here. For one thing I have no fear of Islam at all. As I've said more than once, Islam is the only religion at this point for which I have any respect, because it is the only modern religion that still exists as an 'order' of language. When religion becomes a hobby it becomes meaningless.

As I wrote in an email to Riverbend a while ago, Islam is becoming the new Judaism in that it's returning to us a sort of scholastic rigor born of religious debate. But this happens only as Islamic thought becomes secularized, as Germanic culture was transformed by Jewish assimilation.

The quote from Marx is lovely. Legal argument is the only form of reasoning in secular society which is acknowleged to allow, indeed to demand, a sense both of absurdity and of formal intellectual rigor. Again and again I return to the notion of 'imperfect justice' not as the product of a philosophy but its manifestation.

I used to work with a sheetrock taper who had a few phrases he used to mumble or yell on occasion apropos of nothing, while we were on the job. We'd be working in silence and suddenly I'd hear a shout: "I see!! said the blind man!" followed often, as if roared from a pulpit by: "Members...of the Jury." And a chorus of women would reply in song: Yeeeeeaaaaaahhs!!!

Say 'Amen,' somebody.

Friday, January 23, 2004

Keith M. Ellis, another comment writer from Crooked Timber [not a member as I had said previously] wrote me a note this evening. He was perfectly reasonable, though I had not been.
Here's what I wrote him in response. Sloppiness, Typos whatever:

I'm very tired. I'll respond in as much detail as I can later. People are rude in these arguments. To not take someone's ideas seriously is to insult them and that's all well and good. But I have a hatred of a sort of over determined intellectualism. 'designer's disease' I heard it called recently, maybe on CT. Linguistic analysis as a tool for the observation of and commentary upon the world, as opposed to merely upon itself, is something I find absurd. The study of internally consistent systems is not philosophy it is simply formal logic. The scientization [is that the word?] of all intellectual discourse frankly disgusts me. If you'll read my blog, however, you'll find I have no interest in religion or metaphysics. The truth of science, however, is used to reinforce the truth of the market and a technocratic ideal. Individuals become defined as unidirectional in their interests, and even choose to define themselves as such. This saddens me. Scientists who go to museums to see how the other half lives don't count for much.
My interest in legal argument as experience, as opposed to legal philosophy as idea -as science- comes from my interest in the inevitability of ambiguity in communication. I have no interest in systems or ideas as objects and quanta. I am interested in relations between and among those ideas and objects. I am interested in narrative: with all its limitations the basis of any and all understanding of the world AS WE EXPERIENCE IT. The curiosity basic to science- the search for concrete truths- is simple by comparison. A mathematician may by brilliant and 8 years old. A lawyer will not.

To equate consciousness with a clean functioning system, a model, as if to work towards an end is to make an argument from a teleology of mechanical process: it is rooted in history as much as in science. It also does not do a very good job of explaining how we actually behave. Create a computer with a desire- a need- to exist, to function. Create a program that learns by way of conditioned response Give that computer obstacles and threats to it's survival, and problems whose solutions contradict its reflexes, and it will become conscious. It will doubt.

It's never a matter of ideas and objects but the struggles between them. Designers hate that. They want their designs to be right. And they never are. Why is there never any discussion of an unconscious in designers' chatter? Because it implies that the designers are not in control of their own minds. Their taste for over determination is as good a demonstration of this as any. I find it frustrating that designers by their very nature can not know what 'over determinization' even means. Science does not recognize such a thing, nor should it, but any understanding of communication demands it.

I hate designers, I hate technocracy. I hate the twin ideologies of science and of markets. The world itself exists and people are greedy, but an awareness of both is not a 'belief' in either. My anger is ethical and logical, personal and political.

Well, I gave a long answer after all.

The Best Laid Plans and all That.
The French fiasco with the headscarves etc. -last I heard someone was trying to add beards to the list- is a perfect illustration of the limits of philosophical rationalism.
Again, all my interests tend to dovetail into one another, and more and more as I grow older. Case in point, this crap from Crooked Timber. My response is to the comments more than anything, I already did my bit on McGinn:

Consciousness is the spontaneous product of the conflict between a conditioned response -'It's always happened that way before'- with a clearly exceptional event: "Not this time MF!".
When what had previously been, in the experience of an organism, a reflex, an automatic mechanical activity, is challenged by an observation, made possible by a capacity for objective computation and reason, the resulting INDECISION is the first act of consciousness. Consciousness is not reason, it's the conflict between reason and conditioned response, or the memory of past experience.

All Consciousness is FLAWED CONSCIOUSNESS. You fucking idiots,

Searle is right but like seemingly everyone else, is unable to focus on a space between the two competing forces. It's not A or B that matter but their anxious relation.
Now someone buy me a god damn beer.
Courtesy of Cacoa
Originally from the Times of India.
A protester against a proposed ban on headscarves in Lille, northern France.
French girls are sexy.

Thursday, January 22, 2004

From a letter

It's really become a running theme for me that people tend to look to ideas as objects to be named. I was amazed reading Solum v. Balkin on constitutional change. Solum yammered on about how it change should occur without any mention of how it actually does. And of course I would say it occurs as a form of assimilation that's documented -or demonstrated- in rhetoric and art. When an idea can be described in a form of common grace, and I remember I've used that phrase recently, its time has come. Until then it's the property only of visionaries and intellectuals, none of whom will ever be as valued as the one who, building on their work, for the first time describes their idea as if it had always been obvious.

I don't think there's that much for science to study in Bush's con, any more than there was in Clinton's, but the con worked and continues to. Dean had the guts to stand out in front, but he can't articulate a clear and 'popular' response from ideas the majority take for granted. If Edwards is as good a courtroom performer as you say, then he might do a better job at it, and be able to build on what Dean began. But the country will still have to be ready for him. The process is key. The normative is in constant motion. Do we move it, or does it move us?

What are the differences between the language of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X? Why did my parents as 'intellectuals' prefer Malcolm X hands down as smarter, edgier and more complex, while King is rightfully more 'important.' What was it about Lincoln that made him able to articulate not so much a moral position as a moral ambiguity that white Northerners understood but that abolitionists rightfully disdained? Does it take more brilliance to be appropriately ambiguous than to speak the truth? That's a question for the Platonists (and the answer can't make them happy.)

Bush is feeding, as Bin Laden is, off the last gasp of reaction. And if the two of them don't get us all killed, in time they will be seen as having done no more than mark the final victory of technocratic neoliberalism in the US and the rise of Modern secularized, technocratic, Islam.
Brian Leiter says Colin McGinn is not being nice. McGinn enjoys his arrogance; I only wish he were smarter. What I've read of his work of esthetics is crap. His work on consciousness I know less of- though I've read him in the NY Review- but given the state of the field as a whole, I'm suspicious.
Here's my response to one bit of sloppy reasoning.

Tuesday, January 20, 2004

Brian Leiter:
Of the "major" contenders for the Democratic nomination, only one would be considered a mainstream social democrat in, say, Canada or Germany: namely, Dennis Kucinich, the Ohio congressman. He got 1% of the vote in Iowa last night--which pretty much sums up the morally depraved state of America, but that's a topic for a different day.

He's almost as funny as Max.
He's going with Edwards; read the whole post.
Garance Franke-Ruta at Tapped:

"I feel like I'm in a foreign country," said one Perfect Stormer[!?] wearing a lilac windbreaker. "I'm off the net. I'm not watching television. I can't find the New York Times. When I'm at my desk, I read 40 papers a day, all the political pundit sites...Now I'm doing something different. I'm talking to real people who have real lives raising kids." She looked around the KFC at the families eating extra-crispy chicken like they were a novelty, instead of her countrymen.

"Sushi, Herr Leutnant?"
"Ja. Vielen dank"
Yesterday I said it was Kerry's style. On Friday I said this:
"As the war drags on and the economy slides, it will get easier -it already has- for the rest of the Democratic contenders to speak out. The more timid candidates will have 'permission' to be impolite. This may not be good for the two who spoke first, who may become sacrificial lambs on the altar of consensus, but it's good for the Dems as a whole."

Radical outsiders have always played a part in mainstream politics. In this country that is their only importance beyond the academy (that's both our strength and our weakness.) It's a sign of the times that the role is being played now by a moderate whose only claim is to speak for common sense.

Monday, January 19, 2004

Mark Kleiman on Clark: "And if you think about it, John Wayne almost never raised his voice. He didn't have to."
Jesus Fucking Christ.

But he also links to poll numbers in Iowa showing Kerry ahead of Dean, and New Hampshire showing him behind (and well behind nationally.) I'm still tempted to think that Kerry on the ground and in person makes the difference.
I put a new link in last night's post. Kenji Mizoguchi was one of the best and perhaps the greatest director in the history of film.
Josh Marshall says no one understands just why John Kerry is surging so fast in the polls. The answer seems obvious enough: the whole state is involved, the candidates are spending more time there than anywhere else- walking around, shaking hands, listening to people kvetch- and Kerry comes off better off the cuff and in person than Dean. People support 'the idea' of Dean, not the man. As far as his manner is concerned, he's a good stand in for John McCain, another awkward, arrogant SOB. The Kerry organization did not understand political theater, but Kerry understands what it means to be respectful and polite. For Dean it's the reverse. Simple, no?
This doesn't mean I'm betting either way. Dean's people say they aren't polled. Who knows.
Film by its nature is about absence, the shadow of the thing no longer -if ever- here. Most film, however, ignores the obvious, claiming to be about presence: of the story, of the characters and the objects in the frame. Indeed what is most interesting in the greatest film -and what is at the heart of all American film- is the presence of the dream, the presence of the illusion, in all innocence. This is also true, of course, of the worst film.

"All technical refinements depress me. The perfection of photography, the big screens, the stereo sound, all of it makes possible a servile reproduction of nature; and that reproduction bores me... The artist's personality interests me more than the copying of an object." Jean Renoir

The most wonderful thing about Renoir, or Mizoguchi, or Ford, was their ability to make illusion itself profound. By contrast Crimson Gold, like most serious films fights the illusion, fights the effortless narrative of film mechanics, so as to avoid the banality that any intellectual now recognizes -has recognized for 50 years- as a very American/Capitalist form of false consciousness. Crimson Gold is about absence. But then its makers do not claim to be innocent, so we sense a purpose when a camera is placed -as an eye- to look at an object or event; we sense the gaze of the lens carrying a moral weight that we do not experience often in American visual culture. It was the genius of Renoir and Mizoguchi and Ford to have carried that complexity, not without intellect or thought, but also not without a certain casual, and in a sense common, popular, grace.

Sunday, January 18, 2004

Riverbend on Sharia and family law: We're going backwards.

I usually ignore the emails I receive telling me to 'embrace' my new-found freedom and be happy that the circumstances of all Iraqi women are going to 'improve drastically' from what we had before. They quote Bush (which in itself speaks volumes) saying things about how repressed the Iraqi women were and how, now, they are going to be able to live free lives.
The people who write those emails often lob Iraq together with Saudi Arabia, Iran and Afghanistan and I shake my head at their ignorance but think to myself, "Well, they really need to believe their country has the best of intentions- I won't burst their bubble." But I'm telling everyone now- if I get any more emails about how free and liberated the Iraqi women are *now* thanks to America, they can expect a very nasty answer.
Tom Dispatch
Let's not mince words. American policy today toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is insane
"Gee Tom, y'think?"

Except for his "collective madness" dig at the wogs -condescenscion being one of the perqs of greatness -not a bad performance by an asshole.
I don't link much to Keven Drum, but this time why not?.

Saturday, January 17, 2004

Thank you, Katharine Gun.
Gun appears in court tomorrow accused of breaching the Official Secrets Act by allegedly leaking details of a secret US 'dirty tricks' operation to spy on UN Security Council members in the run-up to war in Iraq last year. If found guilty, she faces two years in prison. She is an unlikely heroine and those who have met her say she would have been happy to remain in the shadows, had she not seen evidence in black and white that her Government was being asked to co-operate in an illegal operation. [...]

At the time Gun, who was sacked after her arrest and whose case is funded by legal aid, said in a statement: 'Any disclosures that may have been made were justified on the following grounds: because they exposed serious illegality and wrongdoing on the part of the US government who attempted to subvert our own security services; and to prevent wide-scale death and casualties among ordinary Iraqi people and UK forces in the course of an illegal war.'

She added: 'I have only ever followed my conscience.'
Also see the [Mis]adventures of a self hating Jew: 'Ambassador, you're really spoiling our party'.
Juan Cole: al-Hayat reported that Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani's representative in Karbala, Shaikh Abdul Mahdi al-Karbala'i, warned that the coming days will witness demonstrations and strikes, and possibly confrontations with the occupation [Coalition] forces if they insist on "their colonialist plot and in designing the politics of this country in ways that serve their interests." Al-Karbala'i called everyone in his Friday sermon before hundreds of worshippers "to support the religious leadership," affirming that "the Shiite leadership in Najaf takes a great interest in the process of transferring sovereignty to the Iraqi people through general elections."
Brian Leiter links approvingly to this bit on epistemology and the left/right divide. It's witty, and in terms of Washington politics it's just fine, but it goes nowhere towards understanding conservatism or the conservative impulse. As Spencer Coxe, the founding director of the Philadelphia ACLU used to say: " The ACLU is a conservative institution." The notion of law itself is conservative. We need a more complex description of the history and roots of what we read as David Brooks' stupidity than Benjamin Hellie gives us. I would expect more from a 'philosopher.'

Friday, January 16, 2004

"The real division in the race for the Democratic nomination is between those who are willing to question not just the policies but also the honesty and the motives of the people running our country, and those who aren't."
I hadn't thought about it but my last post was if anything a response to Krugman.
A general comment on American politics and the situation in Iowa and New Hampshire:
As the war drags on and the economy slides, it will get easier -it already has- for the rest of the Democratic contenders to speak out. The more timid candidates will have 'permission' to be impolite. This may not be good for the two who spoke first, who may become sacrificial lambs on the altar of consensus, but it's good for the Dems as a whole.

It's interesting that Dean now is getting a long list of name supporters as he's beginning to slide into the pack.
[see below] I had said I could 'quibble' about the equation of Nassar and Saddam, but it's more than that. Hussein, like Reza Pahlavi, was a modernizer, if a corrupt one. The house of Saud is not. Religion is an occasional tool of our 'pragmatic' foreign policy. We contradict ourselves -that's what pragmatism means- but we also do it stupidly.
Max does good:
The concession to Islamic supremacy over secularism is not some short-term slip out of pragmatism. It is fundamental to U.S. hegemony in the Middle East, and always has been. Theocracy is one of the U.S.-aligned Oil Cartel's weapons against secularism, nationalism, and democracy. The other one is expansionist Zionism.

Theocracy is synonymous with privatization of oil, for the sake of putting international markets (=foreign customers) first, and Arab national interests last. That's why the U.S. backed Osama and the mujaheddin against the Soviet-friendly Afghani government, why it upholds compliant monarchies, why Israel attacked the PLO before Hamas. It's why the corporatist Right inveighs against people like Saddam Hussein and before him, Nasser, and ignores equally horrendous crimes against human rights in other places.

Wednesday, January 14, 2004

Juan Cole

The Baghdad/London daily az-Zaman reports that there were widespread demonstrations on Tuesday by women against the order decreeing abolition of Iraq's uniform civil codes in favor of religious law, which they say "repeals women's rights" in Iraq. This story appears to have been completely missed so far by the Western news media, which is a great shame. Women are important, too, guys.
Women activists representing 80 women's organizations (including the female Interim Minister of Public Works!) gathered at Firdaws Square in downtown Baghdad to protest the IGC decree, issued three days ago. Minister of Public Works Nasreen Barwari complained to az-Zaman about the lack of "transparency" and of "democratic consultation" in the promulgation of the decree by the IGC. Protesters carried placards with phrases like "No to discrimination, No to differentiating women and men in our New Iraq." and "We reject Decree 137, which sanctifies religious communalism." Activist Zakiyah Khalifah complained that the law would weaken Iraqi families.

The last two paragraphs:
Since the Interim Governing Council was appointed directly by the United States, it is in effect an organ of the Occupation Authority. As such, it is a contravention of the 1907 Hague Regulations for it to change civil law in an occupied territory. The US appointed a number of clerics and leaders of religious parties to the IGC, almost ensuring that this sort of thing would happen.
The US is now in the position of imposing on the Iraqi public, including the 50% who are women, a theocratic code of personal status. The question is whether this step is just the first in the road to an Iraqi theocracy.
There is a story I've heard, and maybe repeated here, about a well known analytic philosopher [Belgian?] who renounced his calling after spending a day watching lawyers in a court.

I sat through 8 hours in a waiting room today, and was called in once for a voir dire and let out. The judge who introduced the legal process to us was graceful and witty as an old Jewish New Yorker can be, and calmed the fears of his nervous herd without condescending. The two lawyers, in ways opposite to each other, were uninteresting: one a mannered copy of the judge, as insecure as he had been confident; the other a younger but not young woman struggling with the pomposity and sexism of an old fart.
Rational actors, my ass. People on the whole, neither particularly smart nor particularly stupid, are nervous around authority. They often do not understand because they assume they're not supposed to. I spent some time with a Belarussian Jew who was worried about losing his job at a Yeshiva if he ended up on a jury, and an Arab immigrant who didn't know enough English to understand that he could have been let out by 9:30 if he'd raised his hand to say he couldn't understand English. I helped the system run a little more smoothly I suppose.
Law is theater.

Tuesday, January 13, 2004

Up and running again. My absurd hobby.
Sometimes it's best to keep things simple.

Sunday, January 11, 2004

It's Sunday, go read Belle.
It takes more imagination to describe the world, than to describe what it should be.
Juan Cole: Read the last few posts.
I find it really annoying when liberals, Atrios for example, get annoyed at pundits who focus on style. Does anyone think Clinton ran on substance? Clinton, Carville et al. understood that politics is theater. It's packaging. Dean understands this more than most, Clark less so (Mark Kleiman's fandom, in this context, is amusing) and Lieberman is the definition of an incompetent: one who does not realize his own incompetence.
Courtesy of Brian Leiter. A letter from a US soldier about the situation ''on the ground" in Iraq.
I watched a few of the Sunday talking heads this morning. It was interesting to see John McLaughlin's crew, including Buchanan, come off as serious compared to the absurdity of Fox. How far we've come.

Will Paul O'Neill's 'revelations' -here
and here- have any effect?
Nathan Newman says Bush is toast, but things will have to fall far, and fast.

Friday, January 09, 2004

Bush is such a whore it's ridiculous. It'd be amusing if it weren't so tragic.
There's no logic in (Human Behavior.)
I'm taking a break from plastering a ceiling; Bjork on the stereo,
no money in the bank, but today my small portfolio is up 30%.
In this context two things come to mind: one, obviously, is -are- my social connections; the other is that my broker is a firm believer in the moral seriousness, but not the moral perfection, of the market. This makes both for interesting conversation and good advice. Needless to say, he hates Bush.

Frontline (symbol: FRO)
OMI (symbol: OMM)
Golar LNG (symbol GLNG.)
He was following Frontline at $6, but I had no money, and no interest.
And in the next year I'll have a dealer (gallerist) again in NY: a woman I trust absolutely, at least with my money and my work (about other things questions remain, and will for years.)

Wednesday, January 07, 2004

Friday Morning: Writing still sloppy, and still on someone else's computer.

Nathan Newman on Bush and immigration.
rough draft on the fly

I've made my opinions clear on this issue a few times already (as clear as they can be).
Societies are structured on one of two basic paradigms: that of convention, or that of desire. The manic desire for upward mobility manifest in capitalism makes the status quo for all but the idle rich appear as failure. The working class in this country live an empty existence, denied a pleasure in their own social economy, they live to serve as vessels for the desires of the market.
Immigrants come to this country as both radical escapees from their own history and as conservatives, carriers of a memory that in their children and grandchildren will gradually fall away. Each new wave reimagines its own bourgeois revolution/ is the force behind all that is considered both destructive and yet noble in the modern economy.

I work with illegals. I am able to talk with them about the world in ways I can talk to few Americans, even of my own education and background. [The cheapest and the worst tradesmen in the country are foreign born, but so are the best. ]
In the interest of the construction of an American populace that sees itself not as it wants to become but what it is, I am opposed to open borders. Immigrants are fresh meat for the economy, and anyone who thinks they don't drive down wages is either lying or deluded (I can give you a list of the rates of various tradesmen and their various nationalities if you like.) I've talked with Nathan about this in the past, and he ended up defending inclusion as the only moral choice, regardless of the consequences. Union moves towards an acceptance of immigration are made out of necessity and are not healthy in the long run: as immigration continues each generation competes with its predecessor. Union organization across national borders is a different matter, and worthwhile.
The last time I posted on this I ended with a joke: Close the borders, I said, but then I'll have to leave the country; I won't have any friends here anymore. Maybe in 20 years I'll come back.

None of this is to say that Bush is anything more than a cynic. This has nothing to do with his whoring. I'm responding only to the substance this administration abhors.

Tuesday, January 06, 2004

My laptop had to go back to Apple for the second time. Back by the end of the week (maybe.)
I actually spent an hour at the computer store writing a post: on The New York Review, Oliver Sacks, narrative and consciousness, John Rawls' Theory of Justice, and the humor of J.M. Coetzee...
then the store's computer crashed.

Go read

Sunday, January 04, 2004

The computer's down again. It lasted all of a day (and barely that.)

Thursday, January 01, 2004

Comrad Max says "Communists don't want your Metallica collection."

And read the recent posts by Juan Cole: on Plame, and more importantly on smuggling of drugs and oil, and on the porous borders around Karbala, with the population literally doubling with the influx of Iranian, Shiite, pilgrims.
"No idea's original, there's nothin' new under the sun
It's never what you do, but how it's done...
From Czechoslovakia to Texas metropolis..."

happy new year

And a recap from Dec. 12 (below)
"The normative, as such, is a function of any given system, and can not at such be denied its role in argument.
Anti-foundationalism is not banal if the system it describes is complex enough to exist as an organic whole. Society, as a collective construction, is complex, self perpetuating and foundationless. Technocracy is foundationless, simplistic and inorganic, and is arguably the very definition of banality: an inorganic, indeed anti-organic, totality."

For the metaphysics of argument not victory.
Technocracy denies the dialectic its most important role by representing it as acting most forcefully between two figures that each manifest the same desire. But given the complexity of the world, of our living in the world, that is not so much description as projection of a wish.
The dialectic at its most basic exists between the individual and the collective, between person and state, individual and community, between speaker and language. Science is merely a factotum in the service of other interests.
I've been doing damage in the last weeks: whiskey and tequila. I've got a hangover, $250 in the bank, and a few thousand in the markets, long term; that's where it all goes from here on- there and the few other places where money does the work of man.


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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

'Lost' City of Atlantis: fact & fable

A 1669 map by Athanasius Kircher put Atlantis in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (original)

From LiveSciences

Atlantis is a legendary "lost" island subcontinent often idealized as an advanced, utopian society holding wisdom that could bring world peace.
The idea of Atlantis has captivated dreamers, occultists, and New Agers for generations.

In the 1800s, mystic Madame Blavatsky claimed that she learned about Atlantis from Tibetan gurus; a century later, psychic Edgar Cayce claimed that Atlantis (which he described as an ancient, highly evolved civilization powered by crystals) would be discovered by 1969.
In the 1980s, New Age mystic J.Z. Knight claimed that she learned about Atlantis from Ramtha, a 35,000-year-old warrior spirit who speaks through her.
Thousands of books, magazines and websites are devoted to Atlantis, and it remains a popular topic.

Map of the New World by Sebastian Muller, 1540, showing the name "Atlantis Island"

The origins of Atlantis

Unlike many legends whose origins have been lost in the mists of time, we know exactly when and where the story of Atlantis first appeared.
The story was first told in two of Plato's dialogues, the Timaeus and the Critias, written about 330 B.C.

Though today Atlantis is often conceived of as a peaceful utopia, the Atlantis that Plato described in his fable was very different.
In his book Frauds, Myths and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology, professor of archaeology Ken Feder summarizes the story: "a technologically sophisticated but morally bankrupt evil empire — Atlantis — attempts world domination by force.
The only thing standing in its way is a relatively small group of spiritually pure, morally principled, and incorruptible people — the ancient Athenians. Overcoming overwhelming odds ... the Athenians are able to defeat their far more powerful adversary simply through the force of their spirit. Sound familiar? Plato's Atlantean dialogues are essentially an ancient Greek version of Star Wars."

As propaganda, the Atlantis legend is more about the heroic Athens than a sunken civilization; if Atlantis really existed today and was found, its residents would probably try to kill and enslave us all.

It's clear that Plato made up Atlantis as a plot device for his stories because there no other records of it anywhere else in the world.
There are many extant Greek texts; surely someone else would have also mentioned, at least in passing, such a remarkable place.
There is simply no evidence from any source that the legends about Atlantis existed before Plato wrote about it.

 The "Atlantis Insula" or map of "Atlantis Island" by French cartographer Guillermo Sanson, 1661.

The 'lost' continent

Despite its clear origin in fiction, many people over the centuries have claimed that there must be some truth behind the myths, speculating about where Atlantis would be found.
Countless Atlantis "experts" have located the lost continent all around the world based on the same set of facts.
Candidates — each accompanied by their own peculiar sets of evidence and arguments — include the Atlantic Ocean, Antarctica, Bolivia, Turkey, Germany, Malta and the Caribbean.

Plato, however, is crystal clear about where Atlantis is: "For the ocean there was at that time navigable; for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, ‘the pillars of Heracles,’ (i.e., Hercules) there lay an island which was larger than Libya and Asia together."
In other word it lies in the Atlantic Ocean beyond "the pillars of Hercules" (i.e., the Straits of Gibraltar, at the mouth of the Mediterranean).
Yet it has never been found in the Atlantic, or anywhere else.

No trace of Atlantis has ever been found despite advances in oceanography and ocean floor mapping in past decades.
For nearly two millennia readers could be forgiven for suspecting that the vast depths might somehow hide a sunken city or continent.
Though there remains much mystery at the bottom of the world's oceans, it is inconceivable that the world's oceanographers, submariners, and deep-sea probes have some how missed a landmass "larger than Libya and Asia together."

Furthermore plate tectonics demonstrate that Atlantis is impossible; as the continents have drifted, the seafloor has spread over time, not contracted.
There would simply be no place for Atlantis to sink into.
As Ken Feder notes, "The geology is clear; there could have been no large land surface that then sank in the area where Plato places Atlantis.
Together, modern archaeology and geology provide an unambiguous verdict: There was no Atlantic continent; there was no great civilization called Atlantis."

Theosophical map of Atlantis : Poseidonis

Myth from misinterpretation

The only way to make a mystery out of Atlantis (and to assume that it was once a real place) is to ignore its obvious origins as a moral fable and to change the details of Plato's story, claiming that he took license with the truth, either out of error or intent to deceive.
With the addition, omission, or misinterpretation of various details in Plato's work, nearly any proposed location can be made to "fit" his description.

Yet as writer L. Sprague de Camp noted in his book Lost Continents, "You cannot change all the details of Plato's story and still claim to have Plato's story.
That is like saying the legendary King Arthur is 'really' Cleopatra; all you have to do is to change Cleopatra's sex, nationality, period, temperament, moral character, and other details, and the resemblance becomes obvious."

The Atlantis legend has been kept alive, fueled by the public's imagination and fascination with the idea of a hidden, long-lost utopia.
Yet the "lost city of Atlantis" was never lost; it is where it always was: in Plato's books.

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writing website contentHow long has it been since you refreshed the content of your website?  Not just updated your operating hours or posted your latest special, but really picked it apart and changed it up.  Unfortunately, it is common practice to just write it and forget it when it comes to website content.  And as search engines update their algorithms continuously, it’s more important than ever to ensure your website content is optimized, fresh, and engaging in order to stay visible in the search results.

The three main aspects on a website that influences SEO are: (1) structure; (2) website design/user experience; and (3) content.  While these are all important, it has always been said that content is king.  Ultimately most people are searching for information, right?  Therefore, you must provide them with content that is valuable and relevant to their search intent. In other words, an answer that makes sense.

What do the search engines deem as valuable and relevant content?

Search engines use algorithms to return results, and those algorithms (in turn) should determine much of your content strategy.  For instance, Google’s most recent Panda 4.0 update focuses on rewarding sites with robust content and penalizing those with thin or low quality content; while the major search engine’s Hummingbird update focuses on the intent of the search (among other things).  In general it’s best to think about your content from the perspective of a searcher. Would your content be interesting to YOU? Would you be enticed to click around the website, or would you bounce from the site and look elsewhere? It’s extremely important for content to have context, be clear, and answer the intent of users’ queries.

Here are several things to think about when writing content for your website.

How to keep your website content relevant:

  • Content which provides value to user (give answers to searchers’ questions)
  • User enjoys reading it and they bookmark it and/or share it
  • Helps bring more traffic to your website and increases conversion
  • Directed to your target audience
  • Highlights the unique selling points of your business
  • Include words/phrases that people are using to search for your business

How to keep your website fresh and engaging:

  • Talk about current local events and trends in the area that correlate to your business
  • Incorporate holidays and seasonality into your copy
  • Keep things up to date, immediately remove expired specials or past events, etc
  • Utilize online reviews and social channels to see what people love about your business or what they find interesting and then talk about it on your site
  • Mix in multimedia content such as videos to engage users from a different angle

We recommend you review this list at least once a year and evaluate the opportunity to refresh your copy.

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Kelsey Hunsinger, Team Lead Manager
Jamie Lesperance, Sales & Marketing Specialist

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If you have any type of Internet presence for your business at all, the chances are high you’re always searching for relevant, high-quality content to put out into the world on a regular basis. Quality content accomplishes a number of different goals. It allows you to maintain an active presence on the Web, to engage with your target audience, and to establish yourself as a thought leader in your industry. It also happens to be incredibly important for reasons that go above and beyond those — and will only get more and more integral to your strategy as time goes on.

The Google of it All

One of the major reasons why high-quality content is so important to your website, your blog, or your social media presence has to do with Google. Google is essentially the “be all, end all” way of getting recognized by your target audience in the digital age. If your blog appears near the top of the search results for relevant keywords, you can expect a huge boost in visitors (and ultimately revenue) as a result. Because of all this, quality content is important for one simple reason: Google thinks it is.

How High Quality Content Ultimately Benefits You

Even going above and beyond website traffic, the quest for quality content is one that ultimately benefits your business in a wide range of different ways. For starters, it forces you to stop thinking of your website visitors as users and to start thinking of them as real people. This is a great approach to have, as it puts you in a better position to connect with them in a meaningful way and to form a meaningful, loyal bond in return.

Secondly, striving to generate high-quality content online can be a great mentality to take with you into the offline world, too. If you use the same practices when generating offline content that you do for your online content — an emphasis on readable, relevant, and interesting materials — you can form the same meaningful connection with those you’re targeting via direct mail and other materials as you do with Internet users.

Ultimately, however, the quest for high-quality content means one thing: everybody wins. You aren’t “faking your way” into the position of a thought leader in your industry. You aren’t “tricking” your customers into thinking you know more than you really do.

You ARE a thought leader in the industry and you ARE a voice to be listened to. Google and similar companies that emphasize high-quality content are essentially performing the biggest magic trick of all — they’re slowly forcing businesses in all industries to become better at what they do on a daily basis. When you look at it from that perspective, it’s a position that’s certainly hard to argue with.

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by Matthew Sterne on November 8, 2010
3 min read

The Horny Grazer Review
Four Rhino Rating
1 Corinthians 13:13:
And now these three remain: Sevruga, Beluga and Blonde. But the greatest of these is…

Even the mighty Corinthians would have had a devil of a time trying to decide between these three Cape Town institutions.

Each of Sevruga, Blonde and Beluga has a unique charm. One for every mood or occasion. Beluga was the final stop in the portfolio for the Horny Grazer. There’s a distinctly edgy, industrial feel to the location, tucked behind the pink strip in Green Point. The Foundry is a 100 year old red-brick building that once housed one of the city’s oldest metal works (and Rhino Africa HQ for that matter). Now converted into a modern interior design and office centre in the heart of Cape Town’s film and advertising district. There’s also a fantastic courtyard for summertime al fresco dining. It’s a huge, dark and brooding restaurant with a sleek and sexy bar that is still a favourite among Cape Town’s beautiful cognoscenti.

Thankfully they made space for Cape Town’s ignorant and less attractive patrons on a busy Tuesday night. As summer creeps up on the Mother City it’s about time for the Horny Grazer to shed the extra pounds acquired over the winter months in an attempt to avoid a harpooning on the beaches of Clifton and Camps Bay.

Beluga Restaurant

But not just yet! First we had a banquet to get through. My dinner companion and I are getting slowly further apart with every review dinner – wedging ourselves twixt table and tummy.

It’s an awful lot easier to write a derisory review than it is to be effusive. Platitudes grow tiresome and maudlin. Sadly however there is nothing really bad to say about Beluga. The wine list is perhaps on the pricey side, but it’s extensive so you’ll be able to find something to fit your budget. There are a few hidden gems. I was particularly excited to find a cheeky little Neil Ellis ’97 Shiraz for R220 – unfortunately 13 years was a bridge too far – DOA.  The cork simply disintegrated in the two bottles we tried before opting instead for a Rupert & Rothschild Classique for R230.

Beluga Restaurant

Aside from that little farcette, Beluga was as slick and polished as its Capetonian brethren.  Beluga is much vaunted for its Sushi and there is in fact a completely separate Sushi menu – we tried a few pieces and they were indeed delicious. Far too slimming for us though. We kicked things off with the Panko-crumbed calamari – probably not the healthiest option, but meaty, tender and delicious. Healthy though in comparison to the double-baked cheese soufflé, dusted with a fine biltong powder – now that’s my kind of starter.

Beluga Restaurant

Mains included a fillet of beef Rossini and a scrumptious beef Wellington. The beef was fantastic -perfectly cooked and rolled with duck liver pâté, puff pastry and a rich marchand de vin sauce.

Of course it wouldn’t be a proper review if we didn’t try the puddings, so in the name of professionalism, we tucked in to the Lindt white chocolate beignets with vanilla bean ice cream and butterscotch sauce, as well as a zesty lemon tart and a decadent Belgian chocolate truffle cake. The wise words of Oprah haunted my every mouthful – ‘Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.’ She clearly hasn’t tasted the beignets…

Check out the Samurai Platter Sushi Special – R89 and it consists of Samurai Rolls, Salmon Roses, Prawn Nigiri and Tempura Prawn rolls!

Beluga Restaurant
The Foundry
Prestwich Street
Green Point
Cape Town

Tel: 021-418-2948/9


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All welcome at Wednesday’s Green Lake Community Council meeting

All are welcome at the next Green Lake Community Council meeting. The meeting will be this Wednesday (March 9, 2011), 7:00 – 9:00 p.m., at The Hearthstone (6720 East Green Lake Way N).

Meeting topics will include:

–  How special events at Green Lake are approved. Your input  is requested on updating the requirements. (More info here.)

–  Potential new children’s playground at or near Green Lake

–  Update on property/burglary crimes near Green Lake from Deputy Prosecutor

–  Village Cove progress and Hearthstone happenings

–  Update from the Friends of Green Lake

–  Green Lake Emergency Preparedness

–  Update from the Northwest District Council

–  Update from Seattle Police Department’s North Precinct

–  Current and upcoming events at the historic Bathhouse Theater at Green Lake from the Seattle Public Theater

For more information, contact Michael Cornell, Chairman, at mike [at] or (206) 786-1789.

Future meetings of the Green Lake Community Council will be on the second Wednesdays of the odd-numbered months (May 11, July 13, September 14, November 9, 2011.)

©Amy Duncan for My Green Lake | Seattle's Green Lake Blog, 2011.

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Credit cards for the “credit challenged,” Part II

If you’re a young person, you may find your pursuit of a credit card hobbled by your lack of credit history, the fact that you have no job and your firm belief that your comic book collection counts as collateral. While it is unreasonable that credit card providers expect you to have, like, a job to get a regular credit card, there are ways around these restrictions. If you have a somewhat tarnished past with credit, this will work for you too.

One suggestion: if you’re a parent looking for your kid’s first card, give this card strings. Make the money in the savings account the child’s own. Insist your kid participate in the research with you. Attend a credit seminar or two together; you can often find these on community calendars on the web. You building up a good credit history for your kid is all very nice, but teaching your child good credit habits and a healthy respect for the dangers is a whole lot better.

Secured credit cards–a way to a respectable credit history
At first glance, secured cards may look a lot like prepaid or debit cards: you put money into an account, and your credit is limited by how much money is in there. However, secured cards differ is some very important ways.

  • Secured cards require you to put up money in a savings account as security. You will not actually be spending this money. That is, the money doesn’t automatically come out of that account when you charge something on the card the way it does with prepaid cards or debit cards. You cannot spend more than you have in that account, so you’re in no danger of charging yourself into trouble.
  • You are actually operating on credit. That is, you pay a bill every month just as you would with any credit card. The money in your account is collateral, and as long as you continue to pay your credit bill regularly, that money will sit there, quite happily earning interest.
  • Your collateral savings earn interest. Obviously, rates vary according to the institution you have your card with, but these rates should be comparable to what an ordinary savings account would offer.
  • You can use the card anywhere credit cards are accepted. Buy stuff online, rent a car or buy a plane ticket: these cards will do the trick. You may also get other advantages of credit such as automatic insurance for travelers, insurance on rental cars, insurance or extended warranties on purchases made on the card. Don’t be afraid to ask and don’t be afraid to keep looking if the card doesn’t have the benefits you’re looking for.
  • These cards report to credit bureaus. You’ll need to do your homework here. Ask the issuer if they report, if they report to all three of the big bureaus, and if the card is flagged as “secured.” That doesn’t look so hot on your credit report, and you may want to keep looking.

Some questions to ask issuers
How much is the annual fee? All secured cards come with an annual fee. However, these can vary greatly, so scout around. There may be other fees associated with the card, so always always read the fine print. You don’t want to get a secured card only to find your entire deposit absorbed by fees.

What is the interest rate? If your purpose in having this card is to establish or tidy up your credit history, don’t charge more than you can pay off every month. If you never carry a balance, the interest rate is less important. However, if you can imagine times when you’ll need to carry a balance, look for a card with a lower rate.

Will you allow me to increase my available credit beyond the amount I have in my savings account? This probably won’t happen right away, and lots of secured cards don’t have this option, but if yours does, it’s a good intermediate step for new credit users between totally secured and totally unsecured.

How quickly can I move from a secured to an unsecured card? If you pay your bill on time and are otherwise responsible and upright, etc., a year is the norm. If you have your card through your own financial institution, you may be able to negotiate a shorter time.

Do you require additional insurance? DO NOT sign on for a card that requires you to apply for insurance on the card. Your money in that savings account is the insurance. Asking for more is unnecessary and unethical.

Where can I find this magical card?

More than half of all credit unions offer secured cards, so if you belong to a credit union, start there. Your chances of getting accepted and quickly are greater with an institution that already knows you. also offers this list of secured card issuers.

Change chore: If you’ve been good and paid your bills regularly, consider calling your credit card company and negotiating a lower interest rate. I don’t advocate ever carrying a balance, but I know that emergencies happen. A lower interest rate could make it possible to recover from that financial emergency a whole lot faster and at far less expense. Besides, it’s good to exercise a little fiscal muscle now and again, just as a reminder to your card agency and to yourself that YOU are in charge

Shannon Perry


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Saturday, October 9, 2010

Culture Counts in Every Business, Large or Small

By Roger S. Robinson, Ph.D.

Can an intangible like a company’s culture make a difference in your business? That is a tough question. After all what is culture? And can it impact your bottom line?

The concept of culture really entered the world of business through Peters and Waterman’s “In Search of Excellence.” They defined it in terms of successful organizations permeated with strong and sustaining systems of beliefs. Later authors have refined this definition to include a company’s character, its deeply entrenched perspective that influences the way that organization develops new ideas, weighs options, and responds to changes in its environment.

Perhaps a simpler way to think about culture is to think of it in terms of how an organization makes choices, how it develops its values, its ethics, how it trains, recognizes and rewards its associates, its spirit, and not to be overlooked, how it treats its customers - both internal and external. In other words culture can be thought of as the ideology of the organization (Mintzberg).

Clearly this concept sounds good, but does it really matter. Given the nature of various industries, both large and small, data on this issue is hard to come by. But are there lessons that can be learned?

The airline industry is one example that comes to mind. Its attractiveness from the point of view of Wall Street is low. Costs for entry and for modernization are high. Competition is high, profitability is low, especially low when compared with some of the new, hot industries such as those burgeoning in the high-tech arenas. In terms of analysts such as Michael Porter of Harvard, the bargaining power of buyers, the customer, is high. The customer has many alternatives, there is low buyer loyalty, decisions by customers are easy to make.

In other words it is hard to be different in this, the airline industry, Yet one company has been able to differentiate itself from all the other airline carriers - Southwest Airlines. And they are so successful they may soon become the largest airline in the US.

Yes Southwest does feature low costs to the consumer and none of the standard frills like meals, travel agents for reservations and baggage connections transfers, but they are also the most efficient with the lowest operating costs in this industry. Their service performance is perceived as extraordinary. Their on time ratings are excellent. They have the fewer complaints filed against them with the FAA then other airlines.

But the thing that most clearly differentiates Southwest from all of their competitors is culture -Southwest is a fun place to work and for many a fun airline to fly. Employee turnover is extraordinary low. Productivity is high - even pilots have helped with luggage and turnaround if needed. There has never been a layoff nor a labor shutdown in their history. Once you have a job with Southwest, it is yours for as long as you want. Lifetime employment is implicit. Employees are involved and empowered and rewarded for their performance and for innovation.

Southwest’s success is based on many things, not the least of which is that it is a place where there are a lot of people who take pride in what they are doing. As noted above this is a fun place to work and that spirit, that culture has made this airline over the past 35 years the most consistent profit performer in this mature and difficult industry.

Are there lessons here? If nothing else, focus on the attitude of your associates, your employees and how they interact not just with your customers but also with each other. What really matters is how you train, trust, treat them - how you recognize them, reward them - how you value them. Not to be ignored is how you lead them. Consider the model your behavior factors into this equation. As Herb Kelleher, former Southwest CEO, noted in a past Wall Street Journal article, “You have to recognize that people are still most important. How you treat them determines how they treat people on the outside.”

My conclusion is, not just for the airlines, but for virtually all businesses, culture counts. After all when you spend your money, don’t you want to do it where you are well treated, where you enjoy yourself, where your expectations are exceeded? And especially where you have fun.

Today’s article is presented by my friend Roger S. Robinson, Ph.D., President of KnowHow, Inc, counselor to small businesses through SCORE, and author of Basic Business Planning for Entrepreneurs. You can contact him directly at .

  1. Excellent article. I think you really hit the key to a successful culture ... how you value and hlead your employees. A leader out of touch with the rank and file ends up ensuring high turnover.

  2. Great post, Roger.

    After reading about the importance in books, such as "Built to Last", "Mavericks at Work", and "Delivering Happiness", there's no doubt in my mind that culture is something crucial that companies needs to establish.

    This begs the question -- why don't all companies take their cultures as seriously as other aspects of their business? Any thoughts?

  3. Justin,
    My guess is that they cannot comprehend the impact of culture on the bottom line. Give the short term focus of most businesses they cannot or do not know how to measure/appreciate its benefits. That being said, take a look at the impact of the "balanced scoreboard" concept introduced several years back by some Harvard Business School faculty members Kaplan & Norton. Their latest research should throw more light on this subject.


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Aaaaand we’re up!

We’re super excited to welcome you to the official TrakMaps blog!

I’m Paul- and when I’m not working on our website, social media feeds and back-end systems, I’m the Controller doing typical accounting-related tasks. I’m a total geek and enjoy the outdoors and Bollywood movies (maybe it’s because so many of them are filmed in the Swiss Alps?). Big fan of Cards Against Humanity and cooking, I find time to relax when I’m not putting in crazy hours at work.

But enough about me!

We’re hoping to turn this blog into your one-stop shop for product tutorials & announcements, customer & partner showcases as well as life at our office. We want to get a closer perspective of our customers and users, and with your feedback and suggestions, we’ll be able to provide you with a fuller and richer experience using our maps.

I will be managing the blog, but I’m really looking forward to collaborating with my amazing colleagues to bring you the latest news, tidbits, articles and fun stuff for you all.

We’re all looking forward to hearing from you through the comments below, FacebookTwitter, LinkedInGoogle+, and of course all you Pinterest amateurs out there!

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Steve Jobs Apple Tribute Logo a Copyright Dispute

A copyright and trademark battle is brewing, and it involves the Steve Jobs tribute logo.

Three individuals claim to have independently created the popular image, which replaces the bite mark on the Apple logo with a profile of Steve Jobs.

One claims to have created his logo in May. Another says he created his in August. And a third says he designed the logo on the day of Jobs' death.

The last one, Farzin Adeli, has since filed for copyright and trademark protection.

Adeli is going to have a difficult time obtaining exclusive rights to his image, but not because two others created it before him.

Even though the three designers can claim independent creation amongst themselves, they still copied Apple's logo. Copyright law only protects original works, and the Steve Jobs tribute logo appears to be a derivative of Apple's logo.

Derivative works such as these require permission from the original copyright holder. Otherwise they constitute infringement.

And while Adeli could try and argue fair use, the Marin Independent Journal reports that he is selling items with the design. Even though he intends to donate the money to cancer research, he may still be making a personal profit.

Apple also owns the trademark rights to its logo, which it heavily enforces. There are marked similarities between the original logo and the Steve Jobs tribute logo, which is likely to cause consumer confusion.

Any item branded with the tribute could thus be said to infringe upon the company's trademark.

The Steve Jobs tribute logo is a nice gesture, but its creators will likely be in hot water if they try to capitalize on its success.

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