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Sunday, September 30, 2012
Anniversaries: She said | universally speaking
In exclusive relationships, from long term to long distance, there?s a special day for celebrating your significant other aside from Valentine?s Day. In matters of romance, some of us dread, are indifferent to or look forward to this hyped up event for varying reasons. The mark- ings on your calendar signify the day you and your significant other officially became a couple ? your anniversary.
How could you possibly dread a celebration dedicated to the person you?ve been spending weeks, months or years with? For us girls, it?s no secret sometimes we just don?t have the slightest clue what to get him.In either case, there?s a bit of excitement and wishful thinking for the girl who hopes to be treated like a princess and the guy who wants to feel like Han Solo by the end of the night. Liberal studies student Crystal Bonilla, who?s been married to her husband for more than a year, admits it can be a little nerve racking.
?If he?s the one planning some- thing, then I get a little anxious because I?m trying to figure out what I can do to surprise him,? she says. ?It?s always a lot more work to surprise a guy than a girl.? Leave it to romantic com- edies and pop songs to raise our already instilled hallmark-experi- ence expectations. Let?s be honest with ourselves ladies. It doesn?t matter how indifferent you are to mushy displays of affection, if you think ?Titanic? is the worst romantic movie of all time, or if you don?t turn up the volume at the first note of your favorite in- sert cheesy pop song. So if your boyfriend sends a dozen red roses to your work with a hand written love letter, you?d automatically feel like Allie from ?The Notebook.?
When it comes to celebrating anniversaries, from my obser- vations, there are four types of lovebirds: the weekly, monthly, halftime and yearly couples. To happily married couples, it?s a day to look forward to. ?It?s like a birthday,? Bonilla says. ?You celebrate it with your significant other and do something nice to symbolize another year spent together.? Bonilla prefers to celebrate her anniversary at the half year point. ?I like half marks because it just sounds more impor- tant versus the 2nd month or 7th month,? she explains.
?I don?t see the point,? SDSU media studies student Jennifer Romero says. She thinks celebrating anniversaries too often is a waste of time early on in a relationship because sometimes spring flings and summer romances just don?t last. ?You celebrate a lot of things throughout the year anyways ? birthdays, Valentine?s Day and Christmas,? says Romero. She also admits that even though she?s not the affectionate type, it?s the little things that count most when celebrating an anniversary. ?I prefer celebrating yearly anniversaries and doing adventurous things like hiking or scuba diving,? Romero added. ?It should be a fun day spent acknowledging each other.?
The couples celebrating monthly anniversaries are in the getting- to-know-each-other stage and in the process of writing down a laundry list of do?s and don?ts in the relationship. At the same time, they?re emptying out their wallets for an investment, which might not reap any benefits in the long run. ?If I celebrated every month with my significant other, then I?d be broke,? Romero says.
Then there is the excessively festive couple that, for whatever reason, celebrates weekly anniver- saries. ?I?ve always thought that was lame, but I did that with my high school sweetheart.? Bonilla says. ?I see that as high school stuff, but as adults, I don?t think it?s necessary to do that.? So, how often should you celebrate an an- niversary?
For couples that aren?t serious yet, there should exist an anniver- sary time boundary that doesn?t necessarily have to be avoided, but could be wishy-washy playing if crossed. For instance, if you?re barely getting to know someone, why take the time to celebrate a relationship without reaching a serious landmark? If a relation- ship doesn?t last a year, then there shouldn?t be too much to celebrate. Preferably, I?d choose to celebrate anniversaries on a yearly basis, or perhaps at the half-year mark. If you think about it, ?you can show affection for your boyfriend any day of the year,? Romero advises.Source: http://universallyspeakiing.blogspot.com/2012/09/anniversaries-she-said.html
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Tigers?fall to Twins, fail to stretch lead
By DAVE CAMPBELL
AP Sports Writer
Associated Press Sports
updated 11:17 p.m. ET Sept. 28, 2012
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Miguel Cabrera and the Detroit Tigers can't stand still. The Chicago White Sox are right behind them.
Ryan Doumit had four RBIs for Minnesota, including the go-ahead two-run double in the eighth inning to help the Twins beat the Tigers 4-2 on Friday and cut the their lead in the AL Central back to one game on the White Sox.
After gaining five games on the White Sox in nine days, the Tigers let their grip slip a little after a four-game sweep of Kansas City. Chicago ended Tampa Bay's eight-game winning streak with a 3-1 victory.
"Nothing comes easy for us, it seems like. We knew the White Sox weren't going to go away," catcher Gerald Laird said.
Rookie Drew Smyly struck out five over 5 1-3 scoreless innings, allowing only two hits in a fill-in start for Max Scherzer, but Brayan Villarreal (3-5) walked three to load the bases in the eighth before Doumit's one-out hit put the Twins ahead.
"Villarreal just didn't have it," manager Jim Leyland said, adding: "We got beat. It's simple. They did more than we did."
Doumit exploited an error by Tigers first baseman Prince Fielder to start the seventh inning, following with a broken-bat home run off Phil Coke that made it 2-0. Omar Infante's two-run homer after an error by Justin Morneau spoiled Scott Diamond's shutout in the eighth, tying the game at 2, but Glen Perkins picked up his 16th save with a perfect ninth inning after Doumit's next drive.
"Unfortunately for us watching the scoreboard won't help us. But we can go out there and be a part of one with the other team," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "You're looking out there and seeing the Mighty Whities are winning. And we're in one of those twister games. So it is fun."
Cabrera had two hits for the Tigers to raise his league-leading average to .327, but he was thrown out at the plate to end the sixth.
The inning started with a line drive he sent screaming toward right field so hard he thought it was gone, standing to watch it soar before realizing the ball would hit the wall and hustling down the base line. Right fielder Ben Revere, a weak thrower, fired a perfect one-hopper to second to keep Cabrera at first.
Fielder followed with a single, so had Cabrera been able to get second base on his hit he might've scored.
"You watched the game, didn't you?" Leyland said, when asked if he thought Cabrera could've gotten a double.
Delmon Young singled to right after that, and Cabrera was determined to give the Tigers their first run. But Revere's throw was strong and on line, beating Cabrera to the plate to end the inning when he slid instead of colliding into batting title competitor Joe Mauer. Cabrera got up gingerly, but Leyland said he didn't think his star slugger's ankle was bothering him.
Cabrera didn't want to talk about the game afterward.
"He doesn't run like Quintin Berry," Leyland said, when asked if Cabrera was able to go full speed.
Mauer fell five points behind Cabrera by going 0 for 2, but the chase is even more intriguing given Cabrera's legitimate chance to become the first player since 1967 to lead the league in batting, home runs and RBIs in the same season. Cabrera's triple crown depends on holding Mauer off and surpassing Josh Hamilton (42) and Edwin Encarnacion (41) in the home run category. He's gone deep 41 times. He has a comfortable lead in RBIs.
Smyly, the team's second-round draft pick in 2010, made his 18th major league start. He was bumped to the bullpen when the Tigers acquired Anibal Sanchez, but he still has a lot of value. He started the second game of the doubleheader last weekend, and when Scherzer was scratched because of a lingering shoulder problem the 23-year-old left-hander got the call again.
Diamond, in three starts against the Tigers this season, has been dominant. Infante's drive was the first homer he gave up against them. Diamond finished 21 innings, allowing only 15 hits and six runs.
"That's a good team, and this is twice in a row he's thrown well against them, so this is fun," Doumit said.
NOTES: Leyland said he's "not counting" on Scherzer being able to start on Wednesday, so Smyly will probably pitch in the regular season finale. "Mark this down and take it to the bank: Scherzer won't pitch unless he is physically ready to pitch, under any circumstances," Leyland said. ... The Tigers will send RH Justin Verlander (16-8, 2.72 ERA) to the mound on Saturday afternoon against RH P.J. Walters (2-4, 5.88 ERA). Walters pitched six strong innings against the Tigers last Sunday, allowing one run in the second half of the doubleheader. Verlander, the reigning AL Most Valuable Player and Cy Young Award winner, has won six of his last eight starts. ... Leyland said he put Villarreal in because RH Octavio Dotel had soreness in his biceps. "I don't think it's a big deal," Dotel said.
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Nikon Coolpix S800c starting to ship in U.S and Australia
Despite being somewhat overshadowed by the Jelly Bean toting Samsung Galaxy Camera, we shouldn't forget about the Nikon Coolpix S800c. Having been announced prior to IFA 2012 where we first saw the Galaxy Camera, all fell quiet ahead of an expected late September release. It's now late September, and we're starting to see some of the first retailers with stocks of the camera.
Down under, in Australia, the S800c is showing up in stock at CameraCity for AU$399 plus delivery and is available in black or white. According to the guys at Ausdroid, no local retailers are showing the device in stock, but some are showing up in retailers systems to place orders for.
Back across the Pacific, and one of the earliest U.S. retailers to announce pre-orders for the S800c, B+H Photo Video, also shows the camera as in stock. Initially they only have the white version, but the black is due to ship any time soon. Pricing is set at $349.95 with free shipping to the U.S.
Considering the expected price for the Galaxy Camera, the Nikon could be a bit of a steal. The Galaxy Camera offers more on the Android front, that goes without saying, with the Nikon languishing on Gingerbread. But, we should remember this is supposed to be a camera first and foremost, and it's really this end of the device that matters the most. If you're thinking of picking one of these up, or have already taken possession, hit us up in the comments below and let us know your thoughts.
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Abbas accuses Israel of 'ethnic cleansing'
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ? Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of ethnic cleansing Thursday for building settlements in east Jerusalem.
"It is a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people via the demolition of their homes," Abbas said in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly.
His remarks came shortly before Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was scheduled to speak.
Israel conquered the eastern part of Jerusalem from Jordan during the 1967 Mideast War. It later annexed it but the move has not been internationally recognized. The Palestinians want east Jerusalem to the capital of their future state in the West Bank.
Abbas also said he has opened talks on a new bid for international recognition at the U.N., but didn't specify exactly when he will ask the General Assembly to vote.
"Intensive consultations with the various regional organizations and the state members" were underway, he said.
The Palestinians will apply to the General Assembly for nonmember state status.
That stands in sharp contrast to last year, when they asked the Security Council to admit them as a full member state, but the bid failed.
Abbas insisted that the new quest for recognition was "not seeking to delegitimize Israel, but rather establish a state that should be established: Palestine."
Palestinian officials said their bid is likely to be submitted on Nov. 29.
Abbas said in a speech to the assembly that efforts to win Palestine status as an observer state ? a lower level than last year's failed bid for recognition as a full state ? were not intended to pose any threat to Israel.
"We are not seeking to delegitimize Israel, but rather establish a state that should be established: Palestine," Abbas said.
However, Abbas said he was "speaking on behalf of an angry people," who believed they were not winning their rights despite adopting a "culture of peace and international resolutions,
"Israel gets rewarded while continues the policies of war, occupation and settlements," he said.
Abbas also accused Israel of seeking to "continue its occupation of East Jerusalem, and annex vast parts of West Bank ... and refuses to discuss seriously the Palestinian refugees issue."
He claimed that Israeli actions threatened to undermine the Palestinian Authority to the point "which could lead to its collapse."
Palestinian officials said that their bid for recognition will likely be submitted to the General Assembly on Nov. 29, after the U.S. presidential election. Abbas has sought to avoid entangling the Palestinian statehood bid in U.S. presidential politics.
Appealing to other nations for their support, Abbas asked world leaders to help avoid a new "catastrophe" in Palestine. "Support the establishment of the free state of Palestine now, and let peace win before it's too late," he said.
"We have started intensive consultations with the various regional organizations and the state members in order for the General Assembly to take a decision granting the state of Palestine the status of nonmember state during this U.N. session," he said.
At last year's General Assembly, Abbas took center stage with his attempt to win full membership to the world body. However, that application failed to win enough support in the U.N. Security Council.
Palestinians did win membership last year of UNESCO, the Paris-based U.N. cultural agency ? despite the objections of Israel and the U.S.
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Ice Age Co-Stars: Horses, Camels And Cheetahs
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This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. We're broadcasting live from Boise, Idaho. And Idaho, you may not know, is not only famous for its potatoes. Just a couple of hours from here are the Hagerman Fossil Beds, where the skulls and skeletons of hundreds of early horses have been dug up. These fossils are the earliest known examples of the equus genus, relatives of today's zebras and horses and donkeys.
And that's right - horses evolved here in the grasslands of North America before going extinct here also. But they weren't alone. There were a lot of unusual creatures roaming around North America during the Ice Age, ones you don't hear much about, as much as the mammoths and the saber-toothed cats.
Did you know that camels lived here too, alongside supersized bison, American lions that are bigger than the African lions, and cheetahs. And this is safari-quality stuff. But you'd have to be a caveman to have gone on safari in those days because many of those large beasts disappeared around 10,000 years ago, just as humans were entering upon the scene.
Were they hunted to extinction? Where did they go? Killed off by disease? Or could the culprit have been then climate change also? And why did most of the large mammals die out where the small ones lived on to modern-day time? Just a few of the mysteries about our North American fauna, and that's what we'll be talking about for the rest of the hour.
We won't be taking calls today, but if you're here in the audience, I invite you to step up to the mic and ask a question. You can also tweet us @scifri at S-C-I-F-R-I, and go to our website at sciencefriday.com, where you'll find links to the topic, and you can leave a message also.
Let me introduce my guests. Matthew Kohn is a distinguished professor in the Department of Geosciences here at Boise State University. Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY.
MATTHEW KOHN: Thanks Ira, pleasure to be here.
FLATOW: You're welcome. Christopher Hill is associate dean of the Graduate College at Boise State University. He's also associate professor of anthropology here. Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY.
CHRISTOPHER HILL: Thank you, Ira.
FLATOW: You know, this is - this I think is certainly knew. When we were talking about topics we were going to talk about when we came to Boise, is talking about the menagerie of animals, Christopher, that were here at one point. You always hear about the mammoths and the saber-toothed cats, but there's a whole lot of other stuff like camels here.
HILL: Sure, there were both plant-eaters like camels and bison. Down in Idaho we had musk ox and caribou. So there were a lot of plant-eaters, and then there were meat-eaters like saber-tooth cats.
FLATOW: So you mean the camel was here before it was out there in the desert in another continent in the Middle East?
HILL: Sure, the camel evolved in North America. It started off as something about the size of a rabbit about 20, 40 million years ago, and over time the population's changed, and it became even larger than the kinds of camels we see today. So there were gigantic camels for a while.
And then around 11,000 years ago camels disappeared in North America.
FLATOW: Did they go someplace?
(LAUGHTER)
FLATOW: I mean...
HILL: They became fossils.
FLATOW: They became fossils, and you have found those fossils of the camels.
HILL: Yes, so we found examples of camels in Southern Idaho and in Montana, and they're connected with all these other animals you were talking about.
FLATOW: Did they evolve into the camels that you see in other parts of the world?
HILL: Sure, so they spread across probably from Alaska to Siberia and into Asia and then became the different types of camels we see all over the world.
FLATOW: Wow. Matthew Kohn, you've studied the horses from the Hagerman Fossil Beds. Tell about that. It must be very exciting. You found a lot of stuff in that bed.
KOHN: Well, one of the things I do, my specialty is really in stable isotope geochemistry.
FLATOW: What?
KOHN: Stable isotope geochemistry. And so what we do is we analyze the ratio of stable isotopes of oxygen and carbon to learn something about the ecosystems and the plants that were living in the area at the time. So what we analyze are scraps of tooth enamel, and they're tooth enamel from these different animals that lived here.
Some of them are from Hagerman horse. There were also some camels, mastodon. We've analyzed some beavers as well.
FLATOW: And these are all found in this one spot? What makes that spot so special that all of these fossils were found?
KOHN: Well it's one of the more fossiliferous localities in the...
FLATOW: We keep doing these F-things, I'm going to run out of...
(LAUGHTER)
FLATOW: Why would they be all there in that one spot?
KOHN: Well, those particular kinds of sediments turn out to be quite fossiliferous. Hagerman has an extremely well-exposed sequence of sedimentary rocks. They're all about three to four million years old. And there is one particular locality, the Hagerman Horse Quarry, where hundreds of horses were discovered, their fossils were discovered back in the late 1920s, early 1930s.
FLATOW: And how does the Hagerman Horse fit in with the modern horses and zebras of today?
KOHN: Yeah, it is the earliest representative of the genus equus. So you have to think about horses. There used to be many, many different genera of horses across North America. There are individual localities in - from about 14 or 15 million years ago, where there will be seven or eight different genera of horses, not just species, but these are the actual genera, whereas today we only have one genus, the genus equus.
So these genera evolve, and over time the genus equus evolved. Hagerman is the earliest representative, as far as I know, of the genus equus, and from that genus then spread out all of the different species of equus.
FLATOW: So the big mystery, we had the horses, we had lions that were bigger than lions in Africa, Christopher?
HILL: That's right.
FLATOW: Giant lions, how big?
HILL: About 20 percent bigger than the African lion. And there were other kinds of large cats.
FLATOW: Such as?
HILL: There was a saber-toothed cat.
FLATOW: We call it the saber-toothed tiger, right? Is that a...
HILL: Please don't say that.
(LAUGHTER)
FLATOW: I won't say that.
HILL: So there's another saber-toothed cat called homotherium, and we've found examples of that. And besides the American lion, there's also a puma, but it looks sort of like a cheetah, so it's sometimes called the American cheetah.
FLATOW: And they all disappeared about 10,000 years ago, and that's the big mystery of where they went - they became fossils - and what happened to them. And your theory is about what happened.
HILL: Well, it's an important experiment we have in the natural history to look at these examples of animals that went extinct and to try to figure out what might have been the reasons why they went extinct. And the two big reasons, usually, that are discussed are either changes in the environment, like global warming events or global cooling events, or also predation, like..
FLATOW: Hunters.
HILL: Hunters. And one example of that would be over-hunting by humans.
FLATOW: These were the Clovis people?
HILL: In North America, the old Stone Age people that lived right at the end of the Ice Age are called the Clovis people, based on an archaeological site in Clovis, New Mexico, where the first spear point was found with mammoth, mammoth bones.
FLATOW: Would it be that they suddenly learned how to be better hunters?
HILL: Well, so one argument is that there was a human population, a small human population here, maybe before 11 or 12 thousand years ago, but they didn't know how to use spear points to hunt these large animals, and then around 11,000 years ago that population learned how to use spear points, these large spear points, to hunt the animals.
FLATOW: Matthew, you were shaking your head about all of this.
KOHN: Oh, absolutely, yeah. Those are the two hypotheses: rapid climate change, changes in the environment or ecosystems, and then over-hunting by humans. I should say not all of the large animals went extinct, right? We still have deer, we still have moose, we still have antelopes, and they lived back in the same time period that all of these - you know, we consider them exotic animals - were living here too.
FLATOW: The bison were living back then, right? Why didn't they get hunted for extinction if they were hunting?
KOHN: Well, we almost did, didn't we?
(LAUGHTER)
FLATOW: Well, that was just 100 years or so ago, right?
KOHN: Well, that's true.
FLATOW: But they were a little heartier, maybe, Christopher?
HILL: There are some examples, or many examples, of bison kills connected with a time right after Clovis, called the Folsom Period, around 10,500. And that was - most of those sites connected with Folsom are connected with bison, whereas Clovis sites are connected with mammoths.
But the bison is an example of an animal that probably came to North America between two and one hundred thousand years ago and then survived in different versions until about 11,000 years ago. So it went through different climate change episodes, and then right around 11,000 years ago, apparently there was a bottleneck, a decrease in the population. The numbers of bison and all the bison that live in North America now are from a group that was a fairly small group that almost went extinct around 11,000 years ago.
FLATOW: Quick question before the break, yes.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Ira, I think you're wonderful, first of all. Thanks for coming to Boise. Can families take their children to Hagerman to see the fossils that you have explored?
HILL: You can certainly go to Hagerman Fossil Beds, and you know, it's a public area. You can walk around. But in general, the fossil localities themselves are not open to the public. And in general, all federal lands are prohibited from vertebrate fossil collection. Private lands, of course you talk to a landowner, but federal lands are generally protected.
FLATOW: We have a tweet coming in from Jado(ph), who says: Don't forget about the giant ground sloth, the short-faced bear and the giant armadillo. Those are - we're not forgetting now.
HILL: We've analyzed them.
(LAUGHTER)
FLATOW: How big were these animals? Were they bigger than the kind we have today, or are they...
HILL: Ground sloths are, what, seven feet tall?
KOHN: Yeah, there was a ground sloth called Megalocnus that was found at Hagerman, and it was probably seven or eight feet tall, and it was probably one of the smaller of the ground sloths. And a version of that ground sloth also went extinct around 11,00 years ago.
An interesting thing about the ground sloths is that their - we were talking earlier in the previous hour about what is native and non-native, what would be an exotic animal. This is an example of an animal that would - originated in South America and migrated into North America.
And there are other examples of that also. A living example would be a porcupine. It's an example of - the ancestors of porcupines came from South America. On the other hand, we were talking about bison, and they are also an exotic animal if you look at geologic time scales.
They came to North America between two and one hundred thousand years ago.
FLATOW: Wow. All interesting stuff. We're going to take a break and come back more - and talk more with Matthew Kohn and Christopher Hill, and questions from the audience, talking about the lions and tigers and - no tigers. No more saber-toothed tigers. We're not going to call them that anymore. So we'll be right back after this break. Stay with us. I say, we'll be right back. Don't go away.
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FLATOW: This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. We're talking this hour about the beasts of the Pleistocene, like mammoths and camels and early horses and why they suddenly disappeared about 10,000 years ago. My guests are Matthew Kohn, distinguished professor at the Department of Geosciences; Christopher Hill, associate dean of the Graduate School, all here at Boise State University.
Our number is 1-800 - but we're not going to take calls today. We're going to take calls - hopefully - people stepping up to the mic here. Let me ask you, Matthew, as we begin: This must have happened - if there was a climate change, this must have happened over a really short period of time, did it not? What would be the estimate on that?
KOHN: Well, it's interesting because when we talk about climate change on the Earth, there are different parts of the Earth that respond more or less rapidly. So when we look at places at high latitudes, they respond very quickly to climate change. We see that today, that the arctic is responding very quickly to global warming.
When people have looked at the Greenland ice cores, they have found evidence for climate change that is very rapid, this is the transition from the Glacial Period into the warm period of the Holocene, on timescales of decades or even less than decades.
Now, once that occurs, there's a huge ice cap over North America, it takes thousands of years for that ice cap to disappear. So there's some parts of the climate system that respond more slowly, but there are other parts that are very sensitive, and they respond very quickly.
FLATOW: Yeah, we're watching the Arctic respond very quickly these days.
KOHN: Exactly.
FLATOW: Let's go to the - let's go to the audience here.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: To the question earlier, we took our children to the Hagerman National Fossil Beds Visitor Center, which was really interesting for them. They became junior rangers. But a ranger that was there explained to us that the majority of the fossils they found of the Hagerman horse all died at the same time. And so I had questions if you had theories as to how they died.
KOHN: Yeah, so the Hagerman horse fossils, I mean we're talking about a single quarry that - where over 200 individuals were excavated, mostly as skulls or jaws but also some complete skeletons. In general, these deposits are called bone beds, and they're really two different kinds of generations of bone beds.
One is a gradual accumulation - for example, a watering hole that might have animals that accumulate every year until finally you have a lot, or you can have a catastrophic event. And the theory, the prevailing theory for Hagerman horse, those horse fossils, is that it was a catastrophic event - for example, a flash flood that could've taken out a herd of horses.
Or they could've been killed upstream and washed downstream and deposited in that location. But it is viewed by most people as a catastrophic accumulation.
FLATOW: Thanks. We have a tweet poured in from MichaelDeGraff(ph), who says: To the lady who wanted to show your kids the fossils, please take your kids to the National Park Service Visitor's Center at Hagerman, so you can get - I'll go here and I'll come back here. Yes, ma'am.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Going back to the Pleistocene overkill versus climate change hypothesis, Matt and Chris, it seems - I'm not a hunter, but it would seem pretty to take out a seven-foot sloth, but maybe not so easy to take out a giant cat. So did the cats go extinct because they lost their prey, or were people actually maybe hunting them?
HILL: You know, there aren't any examples that I know of where we have evidence of people hunting the carnivores, like the saber-toothed cats. But there is an example where one of the saber-tooth cats, homotherium, we found a den that contained lots of examples of baby mammoth teeth in that den. So it's an example where the homotherium, that ancient cat, probably went extinct not because of over-hunting but because its prey went extinct, and that's one example that we have of that.
FLATOW: Was it a scary time to be a person? We've got these - all these big animals that might be coming after you...
KOHN: Ira, maybe it was a delicious time.
(LAUGHTER)
FLATOW: No beer. No...
(LAUGHTER)
FLATOW: Yes, ma'am.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: With the advancement of technology, can you evaluate multiple evidences at the same time and create a probability of one theory versus another theory more easily than maybe 10 or 20 years ago?
FLATOW: Christopher?
HILL: Well, there are lots of different ways we could kind of try to answer the questions about over-hunting or climate change. And some of them are - we find bones that we can't identify based on what they look like. And it might be that we could use techniques like DNA to test those bones to see if they're actually extinct animals or animals that still persist today.
Another big question when we're looking at the different models, the different ideas connected with extinction, is the timing. Do we have people there before or after the extinction event? And today we have much better precision in terms of being able to estimate, measure and estimate the timing for extinctions.
FLATOW: Would there be enough people around at that point to wipe out all these animals?
HILL: Well, that's a good question. I think there were very low numbers of people at that time. So one idea would be that overkill was a contributing factor but not the only factor that combined to lead to the extinctions at the end of the Ice Age.
FLATOW: OK, let's go here, and then I'll come back here, yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: So I'm curious what it takes to identify a new species from the fossil record. It seems like in the past, you know, somebody will find a fragment of a skull and declare it a new species. I'm wondering what's the threshold. Do you need an entire skeleton? Do fragments count? How does that work?
KOHN: Most species - genera and species are identified based on tooth morphology, and that's largely because - well, for a couple reasons. One is it's distinctive, and so different species have different crenulations to their tooth enamel and so on. But the other thing about teeth is they're incredibly well-preserved.
So they're very resistant to physical abrasion and to chemical decay, and so that's one of the best materials that we have. It's not the only thing that is used to identify different species, and so the morphology of the skull and the shape of the limb bones is also used, although the limb bones and body bones, generally called post-cranial material, is generally less well-preserved than the skull material.
FLATOW: Before - you want to follow up?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Well, I just was going to say I'm a dentist, I just happen to be a dentist, and I see tons of different morphology in teeth in humans. I don't know if that's different from other species, but it's just a coincidence.
FLATOW: They could use you over there at the dig.
(LAUGHTER)
KOHN: But it's also true, there is internal variability to any tooth morphology that one might be willing to assign to a particular species. So it has to be a morphological feature that exceeds some threshold that is identified by looking at populations of teeth.
FLATOW: OK. Yes, sir.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Hi. I was glad to hear you say that hunting was a contributing factor because I'm a retired science teacher, and I remember before plate tectonics came in, I was starting to teach. And then plate tectonics came in, and it started to explain things. And they had that theory about everybody running across the land bridge, slaughtering animals and populating North America.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: And then they figured out that you'd have to have tribes of people every few years picking up and moving down to make that happen. And so my question is: You know, as we find more and more evidence, like Kennewick Man or like other spear points, not just in Clovis, New Mexico, but on the Eastern Seaboard, maybe near New York, and they find these things around, how does that register for you as a teacher, professor and a scientist, in changing how we view the theories that we once purported as being the best theory, and now we've got to move on because it's obvious there's new evidence.
So how do you guys address that? That's my question.
HILL: Well, the great thing is we're getting more and more information. We're getting larger samples and samples that we can study in a lot more detail. So you're right. I think if we were in a radio show 20 years ago, we would talk about Clovis, and Clovis would be the first real good example of people in North America.
And today, with more discoveries, there are some possibilities of older things, older than Clovis. And that would then connect with the question of extinction. If there are already human groups in North American prior to Clovis, why didn't they cause the extinction? So there are all these new discoveries that then lead - help us test our explanations, test our hypotheses.
FLATOW: We were a radio show 20 years ago and did talk about Clovis.
(LAUGHTER)
FLATOW: Apologies to the audience. We've run out of time for this segment. We're going to thank you both for taking time to be with us today, and it was very interesting, talking about all the species that have become extinct. And thanks again.
HILL: Thank you.
KOHN: Thank you.
(APPLAUSE)
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Corporate Tax Loopholes Are Killing Us | Wall Street Oasis
I don't see why people don't make an effort to make improvements to the current system. My perception is that if people entertain an impossible fantasy, they don't ever have to really make an effort to engage in reality....they can always cop out and say that "since my version of reality isn't happening, it's not my fault". And I don't buy that. Just like our monetary system, the tax system worked fine until people started mismanaging it: lousy managemeng will screw up any other system put in place, so why not address the lousy management? And as Carlin once pointed out, this nation hates its politicians, but we elect them....so who is really to blame here? The average person is so partisan that they've convinced themselves that the other half of the coutry is the problem....but I think that's not true. And I think a lot of people know this, but it's easier to play the blame game.
IMO, a flat tax is about as relevant as the gold standard: it's easy and simple to think about, but the reality is that it's a very inferior system. I question the judgement of people who disagree: shall we reinstate the divine right of kings, go back to the horse and buggy, or renounce our knowledge of astronomy and just all agree that the earth is flat? No, that would be....ignorant.
That's clever, I'd put it in the same category of "research" (wink wink nod nod) as the Phillip Morris scientists 'proving' that smoking has no bad influence on health. How about working to make something perform better instead of blocking all progress while calling to dismantle it. Before widespread education, the average person was barely able to write their name...is that really a great reality to return to??
TNA:
We all should question ... what does the money get spent on. Everyone who pays taxes has the right and obligation to question this.
This is where public debate is, yes? What the taxes are and what it's spent on is most of that conversation. Am I missing something here? (rhetorical question)
monaco1:
Rather we should be questioning why we pay taxes in the first place.
To fund what the gov't does. If you want to dismantle the gov't, cool, me and my gang will run my block. I have an AK47 and I decide to make myself king, next we're going to conquer the next town over No? Doesn't sound good? Ok, so some sort of gov't is needed. That costs money. For more, take US Gov't 101 or read a book. I definitely think that it can be cut down in some places and made more efficient in others....focus on that. But his whole infatuation with dismantling the government is delusional: realistically, that's not going to happen, so get real or kindly stop gumming up the conversation. Open letter to all extreme anarchists: you are ignored. Grow up.
As for flat tax: this idea won't get any traction for a bunch of reasons, and this debate has been beaten to death. Look at the countries that use a full flat tax system: for the most part, they're barely above third world nation status. In addittion, rich people/companies can afford accountants and lawyers that will beat the flat tax system as well.
As for ANT's comment on people owning houses or having kids: those are deductions. It's one thing to acknowledge a tax rate and then get a discount because the govt (aka....people) value those things, it's another thing all together to set up my "headquarters" in another region and funnel money through there. Also, flat tax systems in use in other countries have both deduction allowances and people/companies beating the system on havens.
In other news, most people posting on this thread have already made up their minds, so anything else is rather futile....yes? No one is here to actually open their mind and learn the different theories, they're here to push their own opinion.
Why bother? It's always the same.
Source: http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/blog/corporate-tax-loopholes-are-killing-us
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Broad Recognition ? Fat, Ugly, or Slutty: Where Online Gaming ...
By Nathanael Deraney
September 24, 2012
Trigger Warning: This article contains graphic language about rape and violence.
Street harassment is nothing new. From the supposedly-flattering to the outright threatening, it follows anyone guilty of Walking While Pretty. Or Walking While Not Pretty. Or Walking While Not White. Or Walking. But as the internet brings encyclopedias, music, and friends on other continents into our living rooms and bedrooms, harassment follows. This is particularly evident in online gaming, perhaps the ultimate cesspit of sexism (and racism and homophobia and transphobia and?) on the internet short of communities solely dedicated to those aims. But in a cross between Hollaback (which lets harassees ?holler back? virtually at street harassment, not uncontroversially) and Feministe?s Next Top Troll, the women gamers who are the recipients of this constant curdling onslaught are fighting back by naming, shaming, and most of all laughing. And if you have a strong stomach, then you, too, should visit http://fatuglyorslutty.com.
The name comes from the three most common tropes in online gaming harassment: the girl (who often just beat our strapping lad) must be fat or ugly, or why else would she bother with games rather than shopping (for shoes or boyfriends)? Or slutty, because (a) girl gamers are HAWT, which means sex object, which means slut, (b) it?s the go-to insult for women ?outside their place? and threatening male power, or (c) both at the same time. Given that this is often combined with propositioning, however, coherence decreases even further, but when the messages come from such brilliant usernames as DeAdGiRlZrEasy, and make text messages look Shakespearean, that?s not surprising. And given how much this is about power, about the response to women entering male-coded spaces, not surprising either is the frequency and forcefulness of rape ?jokes.?
Beyond those four main categories, Fat, Ugly or Slutty also tags posts with other snarky categories (with ever so many [sic]s). There?s Sandwich Making 101, e.g. the strangely polite ?get back in the kitchen please. thank you.? Closely paired is Stepford Mentality, e.g. ?YOUR A GIRL ! STOP PLAYING VIDEO GAME CAUSE YOUR AN IDIOT AN YOU SUCK AT THEM !? A step up (or down or sideways) is Crudely Creative: ?me and u 1 on 1 in the bed room hows that sound? (also an example of Lewd Proposal). Then there?s Jealous, much?, when the harassment seems a direct response to losing! to a girl!, and Pen15 club, awarded for the nearly-obligatory penis mentions in these messages, which have found their ultimate expression in a text-art ejaculating penis.
And then there?s the Death Threats tag.
What?s scariest are not the simple projections of cruelty but those that bounce back and forth, like this which goes from ?am gonna slit your throat you *****?? to ?can i have yo number? to ?AM GONNA **** YOUR COLD HARD BODY? to ?love you x??all apparently because the woman in questions had more online friends than her harasser.
As might be expected posts usually merit at least four of these tags, sometimes in the strangest combinations. Then there?s the just weird, like S1ggit?s important question ?this question may sound werid [sic] but what color toenails do you have? or Death Muffins? ?can I butter ur muffin.? Then there?s H I TTTT L 3 R, who interrupts his series of HEIL HITLER and WHITE POWER messages to demand (in one word messages) GO BACK TO THE KITCHEN.
Online harassment is, however, Serious Business. There?s a danger, here, turning sexism (especially the incompetent faily kind, as displayed) into comedy gold: it can be easy for the focus to be on the stupid people being stupid, rather than sexist people in a sexist society being sexist (and using the power that that sexist society grants them to do so quite invasively). When online sexism is brought up in more general spaces, that?s often the response from commenters: it?s just some bad apples being stupid. Ignore them, or laugh at them, don?t feed the trolls, and poof! all done. Fat, Ugly or Slutty at first seems to encourage this view.
But despite the disclaimer on the About page that this is all for humor (and maybe for the shaming), the comment the submitter can add to her post, and the space for others? comments below, give room to vent the genuine anger as well as ridicule the harassment generates. Perhaps most importantly, however, for changing this situation, the relentless chronicling by Fat, Ugly or Slutty, even as it encourages laughter and shaming, helps break through that bad apples / matter-for-laughter delusion. And as a recent staff post to the blog points out, things are changing. Kotaku has hired prominent female critics. Game expos include panels on sexism. The Times writes a front-page story. It?s finally becoming a problem that does dare speak its name, or rather one that others (than the targets) are deigning to notice.
Nathanael Deraney is a senior at Yale College. He is a staff writer for Broad Recognition.
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