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Seriously now, this is one of the saddest and most disturbing phenomena of our ruined society. The ability to think has been removed from the populace.
Seriously now, this is one of the saddest and most disturbing phenomena of our ruined society. The ability to think has been removed from the populace.
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What ails me:
Deeply entrenched and powerful depression for over 50+ yarn. Fueled by "Profound Loneliness," as the last psychologist called it.
It's awful.
"I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
My Alma…
The University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople
…My Mater
Wossamotta U
In it's day, the legendary Denbeigh Super Chauvinist Mark VIII Saloon (my *true* dream car) was widely regarded as the high-point of post-war British automotive design, rivaled only by the Austin A40 Somerset for its singular combination of styling and performance.
Buckle Down, Pilsudski, Buckle Down!
@ Leanne's Wedding!
I have and have always had tremendous difficulty in acting on the following observation by my hero, Amelia…:
"The sun will rise; and we will try again."
Oh and Jeffrey Epstein Didn't Kill Himself!
What has been seen — cannot be unseen.• Crazy Reported News That Was Quickly Dropped Never Heard Of Again
• Physics explains why time passes faster as you age.
The Mind of Einstein:
"The 4th world war will be fought with sticks and stones"
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
"If we knew exactly what it was we were doing, then it would not be called research, would it?"
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."
"The greatest charity one can do to another is to lead him to the truth."
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Cryptids, Antediluvian Civilizations and UFOs.
"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet."
— Bob Marley
Living has always been a big part of my life. I was born at an incredibly young age and ever since then I have been alive.
"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody will see it."
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting,
For fear of little men;
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– The Fairies
"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge."
— Napolean Hill
— Theodore Roosevelt
"So round, so firm, so fully packed."
— Lou Costello
"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply."
― Stephen R. Covey
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"Rarely is the real cause of a problem located where the problem is manifesting."
— Owen Marcus
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"Be who God meant you to be, and you will set the world on fire."
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Truth is the greatest enemy of the state.
"Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it."
— Samuel Johnson
There you go.
Saipan's Marie Castro is well known to readers of this blog, and I won't repeat the myriad details of the many stories I've posted about this brave woman. Though she was only 4 years old in 1937 when Amelia came ashore at Saipan's Tanapag Harbor with Fred Noonan as captives of the Japanese military, Marie later came […]
Most observers of the true history of research into the disappearance of Amelia Earhart are familiar with the work of Vincent V. Loomis, the former U.S. Air Force C-47 pilot, who, with his wife, Georgette, made four investigative trips to the Marshall Islands in the late 1970s-early '80s, finding and interviewing several extremely important witnesses, […]
Anyone who's read extensively about the disappearance of Amelia Earhart has seen various claims that, while in the Lockheed repair facility in Burbank, Calif., following the March 16, 1937 Hawaii crash on takeoff, the Electra underwent special modifications that would allow the plane to accommodate aerial reconnaissance cameras in order to best prepare it for […]
I received an email from Guam researcher Tony Gochar (see p. 263-264 Truth at Last) recently that I wasn't expecting, about something that's been sitting in plain sight for so long without being addressed that I had taken it for granted. (Boldface emphasis mine throughout.) Most readers of this blog are familiar with the so-called […]
In late October 2017, Ms. Carla Henson, daughter of the late Everett Henson Jr., contacted me for the first time, completely out of the blue. You will recall Pvt. Henson, who, along with Pvt. Billy Burks, was ordered by Marine Capt. Tracy Griswold to excavate a gravesite several feet outside of the Liyang Cemetery on Saipan […]
The so-called Richards Memo of Nov. 1, 1938 and retired Air Force Col. Rollin Reineck's commentary on it appeared in the July 1998 edition of the Amelia Earhart Society Newsletters. I've always wondered why this document received so little attention. Maybe I'm missing something. Obviously, other researchers haven't been enamored of it, and some must […]
We continue with Part II of our "Earhart Research Page of Honor." Again, this is an alphabetical list, and I make no claim that this group is complete or sacrosanct. All suggestions for additional honorees will be considered. If you disagree with any of these selections, you're invited to express your opinion. Please make your […]
I don't know why this page was so long in coming, or even why the idea finally dawned on me when it did, but the old cliché, "Better late than never," just about covers it. Shortly after this "Earhart Research Page of Honor," as it were, is published, I'll also convert it into a permanent […]
We continue with Phase II, the conclusion of Paul Rafford Jr.'s response to questions about his unique theory, in this case a true "conspiracy theory" in the Earhart disappearance, the "Howland Island Fly-By." Rafford's thesis appeared in the March 1992 issue of the Amelia Earhart Society Newsletters. Bill Prymak, AES founder and president is designated […]
We return to the work of the late Paul Rafford Jr., the last survivor of the original members of Bill Prymak's Amelia Earhart Society of Researchers, who passed away on Dec. 10, 2016 at 97. (Boldface emphasis mine throughout.) Readers of this blog are familiar with Rafford's fascinating work. His public introduction came in Vincent […]
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"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it." — Thomas Jefferson
"Some of us look to the universe with a profound sense of peace and belonging. Is that because we truly understand we are made of Star Stuff?"
– Dr. Carl Sagan 1934-1996
American astronomer, educator, science popularizer, marijuana advocate and a hero of mine
Lt. Colonel Percival Harrison Fawcett
British artillery officer, archaeologist and explorer.
"Our" event, as described in the image above, took place in 1907 in the Reserva Territorial Madre de Dios, Peru.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
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|Regular Chiropractic Care Supports a Healthy Brain
|When we think about taking care of our bodies, we usually don't specifically consider taking care of our brains. Oddly, the brain is an afterthought. But your brain's health and welfare is critically important to your overall well-being.
Regarding brain physiology, the primary concern is the status of arteries and arterioles, the blood vessels that supply your brain cells with oxygen and other nutrients. Arterioles clogged by cholesterol- and fat-containing plaque may weaken over time and eventually burst, causing varying degrees of loss of neurologic function and even death.
The primary means of prevention of such arteriosclerotic disease is to engage in regular vigorous exercise and eat consistently nutritious food selected from all five food groups. Regular chiropractic care helps you get the most out your exercise program and nutritious diet. By keeping your spine aligned and your nerve system operating at full capacity, regular chiropractic care helps you achieve optimum levels of good health, including healthy brain function.
The concept of cloud computing has become a buzzword in recent years. The notion of "the cloud" originally referred to data storage. You could backup your computer files or even an image of your hard drive to a server bank in some remote location. Now you can access fully featured software programs via the cloud, including well-known productivity and photo editing programs. Cloud computing enables you to save money you would have spent on costly software packages and frees up valuable space on your home or office networks. The only drawback involves security issues, but such issues exist on your local networks as well.
The computing paradigm has taken over more and more not only of our work day, but our recreational environments as well. As a result, it has become increasingly easy to neglect and ultimately forget about the precious components of human physiology upon which all computing systems are based, that is, our very own brain and central nervous system.
There are serious downsides to such neglect and lack of care. Most of us are aware of the need to engage in regular vigorous exercise and eat a consistently nutritious diet. We do these things because we've learned the importance of a healthy lifestyle. Of course, these healthful activities support the functioning of your brain and central nervous system. But your brain requires more than mere physiological sustenance. Your brain itself requires the performance of actual work so that it can continue to do what it was designed to do.1 The critical function of your brain is to provide you with creative, innovative solutions to the challenges you face every day to the survival and welfare of you and your family.
Your brain is staggeringly complex. It is estimated there are more connections among your brain cells than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Specifically, there are more than 100 billion neurons in your brain, with several 100 trillion (1014) and possibly as many as 1 quadrillion (1015) connections. This massive network is built for heavy lifting, but most of us now fritter away this priceless resource as we spend seemingly endless hours talking and texting on our cell phones and playing games on our phones, tablets, and laptops.
Now we may be developing eye-hand coordination when we lose an entire afternoon playing race car and other arcade-style games.2,3 But as the great philosophers have known for almost 3000 years, actual thinking is the best and most worthwhile use we can make of the free gift of self-awareness we receive as humans. Only thinking will provide us with the tools and techniques we require to grow, develop, and thrive in our increasingly complex and shrinkingly small global village. But the skill (or art) of thinking is based on training. Fortunately such training is available everywhere and the cost is frequently only that of time. Reading books is the primary training ground for developing the skill of critical thinking that will make a difference in our lives. Reading books that challenge you, followed by study and practice, will hone and refine your ability to actually think and make use of your brain, your own personal cloud. Surprisingly, and possibly shockingly, everything we need for such life-enhancing thinking is available right there "within" us.
1Vigliecca NS, Baez S: Screening executive function and global cognition with the Nine-Card Sorting Test: healthy participant studies and ageing implications. Psychogeriatrics 2015 Mar 3. doi: 10.1111/psyg.12104. [Epub ahead of print]
2Moisala M, et al: Brain activity during divided and selective attention to auditory and visual sentence comprehension tasks. Front Hum Neurosci 2015 Feb 19;9:86. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00086
3Banerjee S, et al: Interests shape how adolescents pay attention: the interaction of motivation and top-down attentional processes in biasing sensory activations to anticipated events. Eur J Neurosci 41(6):818-834, 2015


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Missionary Ridge Fire
Editor's note: This is the third in a three-part series about the 2002 Missionary Ridge Fire.
The conditions were perfectly aligned:
La Plata County was in an extreme drought. Very little snowpack covered the local peaks. The forests were full of dense, dry vegetation ready to burn.
All it took was a spark, and a blaze tore through the county, destroying 72,962 acres, 56 homes and taking one life.
And it could all happen again; all it would take is another spark.
The combination of another extremely dry winter, budget cuts to fire districts' manpower and equipment and the mixed results of efforts to minimize fire danger have officials on edge.
"We're worried now the way we were worried in 2002 before the Missionary Ridge Fire," said Butch Knowlton, director of the La Plata County's Office of Emergency Management.
A dry winter
This past winter was the second consecutive year of La Niña conditions, an ocean-atmosphere phenomenon characterized by unusually cold water temperatures in the Pacific Ocean that affects climate across the globe. Although it often leads to wetter weather in some parts of the United States, it typically results in warmer, drier weather in southern Colorado.
Since 1900, only 11 back-to-back La Niña winters have been recorded, and the second year usually is drier than the first, according to Craig Goodell, a fire mitigation and education specialist at the San Juan Public Lands Office.
The winter leading up to the 2002 Missionary Ridge Fire was also a La Niña winter, but it was only the first year and didn't last for a second, Goodell said. The current lack of moisture in the southwestern United States is leading La Plata County into a moderate drought.
Currently, the region's snowpack is only about 16 percent of the norm after high temperatures and dust caused rapid melting this spring.
The lack of moisture means vegetation will dry out more quickly and be primed to burn if a fire starts.
Area forests and vegetation look green now, but fire officials say it won't last much longer. High temperatures and strong winds are drying out the vegetation quicker than normal, said Rich Graeber, the Upper Pine River Fire Protection District chief.
"Everything is looking pretty lush, but with the temperature and winds we've gotten, this green-up is not going to last very much longer," Graeber said in a recent interview.
The drying process started a month early because of the lack of moisture, which means the fire season also has started a month early, Knowlton said.
"All of the data leads down to the fact that we're just ever so slightly better off right now than we were this time of year in 2002," Goodell said. "We've got a pretty good green-up based on that little bit of moisture in the winter. We didn't have that in 2002, but that's really the only difference."
A problem 100 years in the making
The energy stored up in the forest's vegetation will burn hot and quick if a fire ignites. It has been building up since 1910 when the U.S. Forest Service started suppressing every fire, said Scott Dehnisch, assistant handcrew supervisor for the Columbine Ranger District.
The Great Fire of 1910, which started the suppression era, burned about three million acres in northeast Washington, northern Idaho and western Montana and killed 87 people.
"We thought at that time that fire was bad, and we needed to put them out," Goodell said.
That took fire – a natural part of the ecosystem that releases stored energy in the forest and allows it to grow new vegetation – out of the cycle and caused the current buildup of old vegetation.
The buildup has fueled the large, catastrophic fires the country has seen more of in recent years. If the conditions align, it doesn't matter how many firefighters are fighting a blaze. They won't get it contained until the conditions change, Goodell said.
The buildup also helped the Missionary Ridge Fire burn as quickly and last as long as it did.
"All it takes is an ignition starter and it can happen again," he said.
Fire officials say to reverse these huge fires, natural fires need to be reintroduced and homeowners need to mitigate – limit the fire hazard around their homes – to save their homes when a fire does come through.
Some mitigation work and education about natural fires is in place.
Firewise Southwest Colorado was formed in June 2003 after Durango Fire & Rescue Authority hosted a national workshop following the Missionary Ridge Fire for people concerned about the fuels buildup in Southwest Colorado.
Firewise was established to help educate residents and has since established the Neighborhood Ambassador Program, where volunteers teach neighbors about protecting their homes. Volunteers contributed about 2,300 hours last year to clean up projects and mitigation, said Pam Wilson, program director for Firewise Southwest Colorado.
Firewise created two demonstration sites in La Plata County where residents can see what a mitigated property looks like. One of those is in the Rafter J subdivision.
Mitigating a home is like city residents mowing their lawns, Graeber said. It's necessary and should be considered general maintenance.
The Upper Pine Fire Protection District established an 11-person mitigation crew through grants the district received.
The crew mitigated about 300 acres last year and is working in the Forest Lakes subdivision. Wilson said Forest Lakes is the No. 1 high-risk subdivision in La Plata County because of the density of vegetation and number of people living there.
There are 1,300 occupied acres in the subdivision, and 700 to 800 acres need to be mitigated, Graeber said.
The mitigation crew is making progress, but Graeber said it has a long way to go.
"It's a lifelong project," he said. "It's one subdivision at a time and one acre at a time."
While some local residents are on board, a lot of public education is needed before fire crews can start more controlled burns, Dehnisch said.
The smoke controlled burns cause has residents worried and tourists staying away from the area. The state tells fire districts when they are allowed to burn, but that's only one component.
"Even if the state approved it, it would still be a huge public story and issue," Dehnisch said. "We're working with the public to find out what they will accept. We're bringing them on board with small burns here and there and showing people the effects it has."
A budget in crisis
While current moisture levels and the buildup of fuel may be causing the fires to grow, firefighters have fewer resources to combat major blazes.
After the fire seasons of 2000 and 2002, fire districts' budgets grew. Officials put that money to use in mitigation programs, but those funds are running out.
"Since (2000 and 2002), funding has slowly been decreasing every year," Dehnisch said. "This year, at least on the ground level, it has been more noticeable than it ever has been before."
Specific funding figures were unavailable.
But with fires getting bigger and bigger, fighting the blazes has become more expensive.
U.S. Forest Service suppression costs averaged $900 million annually from 2000 to 2005, according to a 2006 Government Accountability Office Forest Service audit.
Fire districts also have less manpower and equipment. Only nine heavy air tankers are available this year, Graeber said.
Two additional heavy air tankers were available until one crashed in Utah on June 3, killing all the crew members. The other was damaged in an accident in Nevada.
Several heavy air tankers were taken out of service after the 2002 fire season when 44 air tankers were available because of safety concerns, Goodell said.
This also means less resources will be available to defend homes.
The funding problem is larger than just individual fire agencies. Firefighters are sent from all over the country to fight a major blaze, but large areas of the nation are facing dangers that are far above normal, according to the 2012 National Seasonal Assessment for the Western States, Alaska and Hawaii.
This means those areas will be competing for already limited resources if there are multiple fires.
The National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, determines who gets what resources. The agency bases decisions on how many homes and people are in danger. It's all about doing the greatest good for the greatest number of people, Dehnisch said.
Seven heavy air tankers were fighting the Missionary Ridge Fire when the Hayman Fire broke out near Colorado Springs. The air tankers were sent to the Hayman Fire because it was burning homes, Knowlton said, making it more difficult to fight Durango's blaze.
That could happen again if multiple fires break out this summer, which officials say is likely.
"The conditions are aligning for a catastrophic fire," Dehnisch said.


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The afternoon sessions at the Nobel Week Dialogue covered a lot of ground, which was inevitable if you put six extremely smart people on the stage, give them a topic, and set them loose. Although there's no way to summarize the full conversation, it's possible to pull out some important themes that the speakers returned to. I'll attempt to do that for the discussion on genetics and the environment.
One of the things that became clear at this panel (and more generally through the day) is that we may have become a bit sloppy in our thinking about heritable and environmental influences on human health and behavior. If we don't attempt to form clear hypotheses and demand evidence to support them, there's a chance that we'll end up accepting things that appeal to our personal biases.
That may sound a bit dry, but it played out in dramatic fashion across the course of the panel, in part because of the prickly presence of James Watson.
Our genes, our identities?
Geneticist Mary-Claire King started out by strongly arguing against genetic determinism, or the idea that your genes are necessarily your destiny. Throughout the panel, people pointed out that things like a rich early childhood environment had a profound impact that persists throughout a person's life. It was also noted that, in some cases, genetic risk factors for diseases like high blood pressure may be significant if a person lives in some cultures, but irrelevant in others, as environmental influences swamp the (relatively minor) predispositions influenced by genes.
If genetic determinism were dead, however, the panel as a whole wasn't ready to bury it. At the far end of the row of chairs, Jim Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, was visibly squirming during the opening statements. Watson has a history of inflammatory remarks on this topic, saying that there are genetic differences in intelligence among the races and sexes. Although he skirted those subjects here, he still managed to stir up the panel by saying that the resistance to genetic determinism was partly social, saying, "the middle class does not like to hear they're limited by their genes."
Buried within the bombast, though, was a valid point: there's strong evidence that schizophrenia has a strong genetic component, and we all seem to accept that. Why is there so much resistance to the idea that positive mental attributes can also be inherited?
This was one of the first of several points where King called for more rigor and the generation of specific hypotheses (about either genetic or environmental influences) that we can test. Without them, we're likely to accept or reject weaker evidence, in part because it supports positions we favor for ideological reasons.
Somewhere in the middle of this, Helga Nowotny (President of the European Research Council) dropped a term that kept cropping up all day: epigenetics. This term refers to persistent changes to DNA that don't affect the actual sequence of bases; typically, they involve a chemical modification of bases or changes to the three-dimensional DNA packaging. Epigenetic changes can persist through multiple cell divisions and, in some rare cases, can be passed on to offspring.
For a number of people, including Nowotny, epigenetics nicely explains how things like early environmental influences can end up looking like stable genetic differences. Again, Watson wasn't buying it, saying that "epigenetics is used for a lot of crap, and it's used by people who don't like genes." But again, buried in the rhetoric, he had a point, one that other members of the panel were willing to put in more convincing terms.
We simply don't have any evidence that epigenetics does much in humans, aside from being involved in a few rare mental disorders. We certainly don't have any evidence that it can lead to the inheritance of an acquired behavior in humans—the closest we come is a single study in rats.
In fact, King suggested that, when it comes to epigenetics, "we have a semantic problem that's becoming a philosophical problem, and on the verge of becoming a dangerous political one." Over the past few decades, the definition of epigenetics has broadened. "Epigenetics" was once strictly used for those rare cases where something was inherited across generations without involving a change in DNA sequences. Now, biologists use it for things that can be inherited when a cell divides, and so persist only for the lifetime of a single individual.
Partly as a result, epigenetics has touched on more and more areas of research. But King seemed to be warning that there's a danger that people are misreading evidence that epigenetics may be involved in things like health and behavior, and jumping to the conclusion that epigenetics explains everything about them. If we do that, there will be a temptation to ascribe all sorts of things to epigenetics without evidence. The social consequences of doing so aren't obvious, but a number of speakers (including, at some points, Nowotny) appeared to be close to doing just that.
Nowotny picked up on King's caution almost instantly and made a comparison to the public reception to Chaos Theory. That had specific, mathematical meaning as the scientific community understood it, but Nowotny said the public latched on to how the name reflected a lot of their personal experiences and started applying it to situations where it wasn't appropriate. (Philosopher John Dupré also seemed to take King's warning to heart, later joking, "I get tempted to generalize about epigenetics, given I'm a middle-class Englishman.")
I was given the chance to pose a question, so I asked about a relatively recent discovery that was further clouding the already blurry boundary between environment and heredity: de novo mutations. We've recently discovered a number of cases where individuals have a condition associated with a mutation they carry, but didn't inherit (this was most prominently discovered with autism). These mutations have apparently occurred either in the cells that produced their parents' eggs and sperm, as evidenced by the finding that their frequency goes up with parental age. (To bring this full circle, parental age is notably influenced by social factors.)
Rather than focusing on this as being social or genetic, King again called for being careful with how we use our terminology. "Genetic" doesn't necessarily mean "inherited," any more than "inherited" necessarily means that something is "genetic" (King cited money as something that is inherited but not genetic.)
King's focus on greater rigor and hypothesis testing is the right way to put the science on sounder footing, but it's clear that society is, in various ways, already responding to the incomplete data we already have. As Nowotny put it, we're already challenged to deal with differences we're aware of—they can be enriching, like diversity, or can be a mechanism for marginalizing and excluding people.
Even if reality ends up being closer to Watson's view, with genes playing a larger role in determining human fates, Dupré said that the "genome is not a puppet master, just a single link in a complex chain." And Bruce Beutler brought the discussion full circle, noting that, although there's certain to be some level of genetic determinism, we need to focus on what we can—the things emphasized by King at the very start, like education and parental involvement.
This piece is part of our ongoing coverage of the Nobel Week Dialog, and first appeared on the Nobel site.


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The Los Angeles Lakers made it look easy when they racked up win after win after win for an NBA-record 33 straight games.
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Those Lakers of 1971-72 won 17 games during that streak by 15 points or more. The Heat take more of a grind-it-out approach, often getting into trouble before flipping a switch and pulling away.
"We're going to get everybody's best shot because of the streak," Heat guard Mario Chalmers said.
That's why instead of savoring the 27 in a row they've already won, the Heat are bracing for perhaps one of the biggest road tests so far in their pursuit of those Lakers. Miami plays at Chicago on Wednesday night, a renewal of a rivalry that, on paper, certainly has lost some of the sparkle it had a year or two ago.
The Bulls still don't have injured point guard Derrick Rose back in the lineup and have lost 13 of their last 22 games. Still, the Heat expect a playoff-type, rough-and-tumble meeting.
"Our historic run is about winning championships," Heat star LeBron James said. "That's what we want to be known for. It's part of a process. Whatever comes in between that, we can be excited about it. We didn't have a goal in mind to say, `Let's go on a long consecutive win streak,' but our goal is to win every game when we are on the floor."
In recent days, that hasn't been easy. Boston had the Heat down by 17 early and 13 in the fourth quarter. Cleveland put Miami in a 27-point hole, and in Detroit and Charlotte, the Heat trailed by 11 before pulling away. On Monday night, the Orlando Magic and Heat were tied late in the third quarter before James keyed a 20-2 run that changed everything.
"We like knowing we have that switch," guard Dwyane Wade said. "We just don't want to use it too much."
Chicago has already beaten the Heat once this season, on Miami's home floor. On Friday, the Heat head to New Orleans, where the Hornets just snapped Denver's 15-game winning streak. And Sunday's game at San Antonio is against not only the Western Conference leader and potential NBA Finals opponent, but also likely will have huge implications for the No. 1 overall playoff seed.
Whether the opponent is a playoff team like Chicago or a lottery-bound club, James said the approach has been steady.
"It has been tough all year," he said. "It hasn't been easy for us at all. Every team has given us their best. We know that Chicago is going to be a tough game for us, and playing in that building. We want to come out with our game plan ... and give ourselves a chance to win."
Since Miami landed James and Chris Bosh to play alongside Wade in the summer of 2010, no team has confounded the Heat more than the Bulls, and it's not even close. The Heat and Bulls have played 14 times since then, each team winning seven, and Miami averaged only 90.1 points in those games. That's six points less than they averaged against anyone else in that span, and 11 points shy of what they typically score against the rest of the league.
"You can't necessarily gauge them against other teams," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said Monday night, after Miami topped Orlando 108-94. "When they play against us, it's highly competitive. We've played them in the playoffs. All of our games have been physical and hotly contested. You have to deal with the physical aspect but also the mental aspect of staying with it, grinding possessions."
Moments after the Heat extended their winning streak to 27, Spoelstra urged his team to be " grateful for this opportunity and stay in this moment."
That's his way of saying, yes, enjoy the moment but don't lose sight of the only goal that matters - another NBA title. That's what the players talked about in the locker room after the Orlando game, as they wolfed down chicken, pasta and vegetables and headed to the bus.
"To be honest with you, we don't really think about the streak," Heat forward Udonis Haslem said. "People might find this hard to believe, but if you start thinking about a streak, that's when you slip up. If you start thinking about the Lakers' record, that's when you're going to slip up."
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What should liberal wonks make of the conservative movement's abandonment of center-right policy innovations like the individual mandate and cap-and-trade once President Obama took them up? To answer this, it might be useful to look at revisions made to the 1892 edition of Herbert Spencer's classic 19th century handbook of laissez-faire, Social Statics or The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed. That's the book Oliver Wendell Holmes alluded to when dissenting in Lochner, famously saying, "The Fourteenth Amendment does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics."
Herbert Spencer's name bounced around the internet while I was on vacation after President Obama referred to Paul Ryan's budget as "thinly-veiled Social Darwinism." Damon Root at Reason wrote that that it's unfortunate that Spencer is smeared as a monster when he was a proponent of free markets, a defender of private charity, and had "pioneering support for feminism and women's equality."
The feminism, women's equality, and women's suffrage points are correct. In his book Social Statics, originally written in 1851 and with the following taken from the 1888 reprint, Spencer had chapter 16 titled "The Rights of Women," which opens, "Equity knows no difference of sex." Spencer thought dominion of man over women in the household was a form of feudalism, something he believed his evolutionary thought was there to bury: "in as far as our laws and customs violate the rights of humanity by giving the richer classes power over the poorer, in so far do they similarly violate those rights by giving the stronger sex power over the weaker."
Spencer embraced the worry of critics that giving women some rights would inevitably lead to demands for suffrage: "The extension of the law of equal freedom to both sexes will doubtless be objected to, on the ground that the political privileges exercised by men must thereby be ceded to women also. Of course they must; and why not?" He concludes, "it has been shown that the rights of women must stand or fall with those of men; derived as they are from the same authority; involved in the same axiom; demonstrated by the same argument."
He was a serious defender of women's rights… until it looked like women might actually start getting rights. He then suddenly became very concerned about equality between the genders. The revolutionary language and political equality above was removed from the 1892 edition of Social Statics.
And Spencer had changed his position much earlier. In August 1867, when John Stuart Mill asked Spencer to join the Women's Suffrage Society, he declined, saying that there had been a "modification" of his views. The same year, Spencer also declined Mill's request, on behalf of his step-daughter Helen Taylor, that "The Rights of Women" from Social Statics (the essay that Root linked to in his post) be included in a collection of essays she was putting together. When Mill sent him a copy of The Subjection of Women, Spencer replied that someone should write an essay called The Supremacy of Women, about how women nag men and that gives them a lot of hidden power. (Mill responded, "two contradictory tyrannies do not make liberty.")
People change their minds all the time. But the reasons Spencer gave weren't impressive. One argument was that women don't share in military service, thus they shouldn't share political rights. Given how important it was to Spencer that his arguments be rigorous and hang together logically from his system of authority, axioms, and arguments, this reversal is so underdeveloped many argue it resulted from his lack of luck with romance and women.
But I think it's clear what his real objection was: universal suffrage has the potential to advance socialistic causes, interfering with his laissez-faire project. From his autobiography: "Another extension of the franchise since made…will inevitably be followed by a still more rapid growth of socialistic legislation." When he realized women's equality could potentially interfere with laissez-faire economics, it was time for women's equality to get cut from his overall theory of a better world. He would rather mutilate his intellectual project instead of allowing his enemies to continue to build their governance project.
Because Spencer was an ardent defender of laissez-faire. He thought evolution would bring about less government, he attacked the idea that government regulations "will work as it is intended to work, which it never does," he believed in a Right To Ignore The State, and, of course, he believed that private property in land was a joke and that all land should be nationalized and run like "a joint-stock company" by the State. His belief that the injustice of private property in land fell so naturally out of his rigorous theory of laissez-faire that he titled Chapter 9 of Social Statics "The Right To Uses of the Earth," which argued that "to deprive others of their rights to the use of the earth, is to commit a crime inferior only in wickedness to the crime of taking away their lives or personal liberties."
What's that you say? How could a laissez-faire person like Spencer be against private property in land? Spencer:
For if each of them "has freedom to do all that he wills provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other," then each of them is free to use the earth for the satisfaction of his wants, provided he allows all others the same liberty… Equity, therefore, does not permit property in land…
For if one portion of the earth's surface may justly become the possession of an individual…eventually the whole of the earth's surface may be so held…the rest of its inhabitants can then exercise their faculties—can then exist even—only by consent of the landowners; it is manifest, that an exclusive possession of the soil necessitates an infringement of the law of equal freedom. For, men who cannot "live and move and have their being" without the leave of others, cannot be equally free with those others.
Separate ownerships would merge into the joint-stock ownership of the public. Instead of being in the possession of individuals, the country would be he held by the great corporate body—Society. Instead of leasing his acres from an isolated proprietor, the farmer would lease them from the nation… A state of things so ordered would be in perfect harmony with the moral law.
This was a crucial part of Spencer's thinking… until it wasn't. In the 1892 edition of Social Statics, the entire chapter on land reform is gone. Spencer suddenly thought that his policy had some serious problems right around the time land reformers were making progress.
The equivalent of the late 19th century wonk blogosphere sprang into action to figure this out. Alfred Wallace, who you may know as the person who discovered evolution by natural selection separately from Darwin, was the president and founder of the Land Nationalization Society. He dedicated his 1892 presidential address to Spencer, noting that reading Social Statics in 1853 made him found the Society, and tried to clarify why Spencer's new policy was incorrect, both as they related to his overall theory and the practical reality of the policy itself. Clearly he just made a mistake.
Henry George wrote A Perplexed Philosopher, a large critique of Spencer's new opinion. George noted that Spencer took the brave and daring step of siding with the wealthy, landed aristocracy in his new policy. In the conclusion, George refers to the about-face as an act of "intellectual prostitution." Clearly he was bought off.
Spencer had always been under attack for that chapter of his book. The Economist magazine, god bless 'em, praised the laissez-faire parts of the original Social Statics but went after the land reform parts at length in its 1851 review. The conservative press, and well as laissez-faire organizational groups like the "Liberty and Property Defence League," were constantly attacking Spencer on the land question because they saw reformers do the "even Herbert Spencer agrees…." thing. Clearly he realized what the correct argument was all along.
But what if it is the same situation as women's suffrage? What if he saw, correctly, that this piece of his theory was emboldening his enemies in the progressive, socialist, and reform movements? Even though he agreed with them in principle, to see democratic challenges from below succeed would both show that the other side can deliver on its projects and would threaten the laissez-faire economy he wanted to build.
What's both fascinating and sad about the process is that, in order to defeat even the potential of his enemies gaining a policy priority he believed in, he was willing to butcher his elaborate theory of the world so that it could protect the thing – the regressive, anti-evolutionary, feudal, unproductive, landed British aristocracy – he was hoping it would bury.
Two quick endnotes:
1. Here's a thought: All property in land exists through the might of a barrel of a gun and the subsequent property documents are dripping with the blood from a sword. To try and cynically create a calculus that x years wipes y amount of the blood off the documents makes you as cupable as the person who pulled the trigger. The thought of a radical, Kenyan, anti-colonialist thinker? Nope, just Herbert Spencer in Social Statics, Chapter 9, Part 3:
It can never be pretended that the existing titles to such property are legitimate. Should any one think so, let him look in the chronicles. Violence, fraud, the prerogative of force, the claims of superior cunning—these are the sources to which those titles may be traced. The original deeds were written with the sword, rather than with the pen: not lawyers, but soldiers, were the conveyancers: blows were the current coin given in payment; and for seals, blood was used in preference to wax…
"But Time," say some, "is a great legaliser. Immemorial possession must be taken to constitute a legitimate claim"…To do this, however, they must find satisfactory answers to such questions as—How long does it take for what was originally a wrong to grow into a right? At what rate per annum do invalid claims become valid?
2. I'm currently reading Free Market Fairness by John Tomasi; here they are debating the theory at Cato Unbound. In order to explain the difference between classical liberals and high liberals like Rawls, Tomasi uses the thought experiment of how each would set the rules for a game of Monopoly. He does it in the book and he does it in this blog post. Classical liberals want equal rules for everyone in Monopoly and are okay with unequal starting money; High Liberals are concerned about inequalities in wealth, even after the game begins. And so on.
How would Herbert Spencer approach Monopoly, a game entirely about private property in land? The crucial part of the game isn't the issue of fairness between players on turn one, it's how fair the game is to people who start on turn 30. At that point, the productive capital (all the land cards) have been purchased. The turn 30 players would run around the board hoping not to be bankrupted. Maybe they'd pass go enough times to build enough wealth to buy some land, but most likely all their income would be siphoned off in rents by the turn one players. To use Spencer's phrase, the turn 30 players cannot "'live and move and have their being' without the leave of others" and thus "cannot be equally free with those others."
Spencer answered Tomasi's rules question when he anticipated the incrementalist types in the land reform movement who thought redistributing the land once and setting up some side rules would suffice (i.e. restart the Monopoly game) by noting "what becomes of all who are to be born next year? And what will be the fate of those whose fathers sell their estates and squander the proceeds? These portionless ones must constitute a class already described as having no right to a resting-place on earth—as living by the sufferance of their fellow men—as being practically serfs. And the existence of such a class is wholly at variance with the law of equal freedom."
So if you asked the young Herbert Spencer how to fairly set up the rules of Monopoly, he'd probably say "there are no fair rules to this game," flip the board over and walk away. Like a boss.


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The qualifiers in Panama City will be played Nov. 15-19 at Rod Carew National Stadium, and will feature the national teams of Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua and Panama. Rivera, who is recovering from season-ending knee surgery in April, will take part in promotional activities throughout the week and will throw out the ceremonial first pitch prior to the opening game between Panama and Brazil on Thursday. Panamanian native Bruce Chen of the Royals will throw out the first pitch prior to Panama's second game on Saturday night.
Overall, 13 current or former Major Leaguers will participate in the Panama qualifiers, including: Mets right-hander Manny Acosta (Panama); free-agent right-hander Manuel Corpas (Panama); Padres shortstop Everth Cabrera (Nicaragua); Indians catcher Yan Gomes (Brazil); Lee (Panama); Rangers catcher Luis Martinez (Colombia); Mariners right-handed pitcher Erasmo Ramirez (Nicaragua); Phillies right-hander J.C. Ramirez (Nicaragua); Renteria (Colombia); Ruiz (Panama); Marlins second baseman Donovan Solano (Colombia); Nationals catcher Jhonatan Solano; and Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada (Panama).
Each of the four teams in Panama will be led by a former Major Leaguer, including Brazil, which will be managed by Hall of Famer Barry Larkin. Larkin, who played 19 seasons as a shortstop for the Reds, currently serves as a baseball analyst for ESPN. Giants first base coach Roberto Kelly, an outfielder in the Majors for 14 seasons and a two-time All-Star, will lead his native country of Panama. Four-time All-Star Dennis Martinez, who was recently named the bullpen coach of the Astros, will skipper his native country of Nicaragua. Eduardo Perez, who played 13 seasons in the Majors and was recently named the bench coach of the Astros, will lead Colombia.
Damon, who will take the field for his mother's native country of Thailand, will headline the qualifiers in New Taipei City, Taiwan, from Nov. 15-18 at Xinzhuang Stadium, which will feature the national teams of Chinese Taipei, New Zealand, the Philippines and Thailand. Damon, a two-time All-Star and two-time World Series champion, is currently a free agent after playing for the Indians in 2012.
"I am honored and thrilled with this opportunity to represent Thailand in the World Baseball Classic," said Damon. "This decision is an easy one because it's important to me to trace my roots by visiting the homeland of my mother. As a proud American, I truly appreciate being given the chance to share the game I love with the people of Thailand, and in the process pay tribute to my mother, who has been so supportive of my baseball dreams and pursuits. I can't wait to put that uniform on and trot out onto the field as a member of Team Thailand."
The winners of the Panama City and New Taipei City pools will advance to the 2013 World Baseball Classic in March.
Tickets for games played in Panama City are available at www.ticketplus.com.pa. Tickets for games played in New Taipei City are available at www.famiticket.com.tw and at FamilyMarts across Taiwan. Ticket information for both venues can also be found at www.worldbaseballclassic.com.
MLB Network will air the final qualifier game of the New Taipei City pool on Sunday, Nov. 18, live at 1 a.m. ET and the final qualifier game of the Panama City pool on Monday, Nov. 19, live at 8 p.m. ET. All games at each venue will be produced by World Baseball Classic, Inc., streamed live on www.worldbaseballclassic.com and televised by partners around the world. In addition, MLB Network will exclusively air all 39 games of the 2013 World Baseball Classic in the United States from March 2-19.


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Published in 1658, The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents depicts both real and fantastical creatures in detailed woodcuts. A wide swath of the animal kingdom is represented, including mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects, and marine life, as well as an array of mythical beasts. The digital collection contains 175 of these illustrations from the book, presented alphabetically by animal.
Entries in the digital collection include the original titles taken directly from Topsell's work, as well as the modern names of the animals. For example, Topsell's "Bear Ape Arctopithecus" is now known as the three-toed sloth. Also on display here are bees, scorpions, frogs, crocodiles, goats, apes, bison, snakes, lizards, camels, sea serpents, tortoises, and many other animals.
Topsell's mythical creatures are particularly interesting, such as the "Hydra," with two claws, a curled serpent's tail, and seven small mammalian heads; the "Lamia," with a cat-like body, hooves on the hind feet, claws on the front, and a human woman's face and hair; and the "Mantichora," with a lion's body and mane, a man's face and head of hair, and a grotesquely smiling mouth.
Born in 1572, Edward Topsell attended Cambridge before becoming a clergyman in the Church of England. He published several books on religion and other matters during his lifetime. In 1607, he published his illustrated work Historie of Foure-footed Beastes, Describing the True and Lively Figure of Every Beast. This was followed by The Historie of Serpents; Or the Second Booke of Living Creature. The illustrations that Topsell used in his books came directly from earlier works by Swiss physician, naturalist, and author Konrad Gesner. Gesner's four volumes of the comprehensive Historiae Animalium included both real and fantastical animals, and each entry described the animal from Greek, Roman, Arab, and medieval sources, adding contemporary observations. A detailed woodcut depicted each animal.
In 1658 – some 20 years after his death – his zoological books were reissued together as part of a three-volume work called The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents (which also features The Theater of Insects by Thomas Moffet, not included in this digital collection).
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Edward Topsell Bibliography
Curious Woodcuts of Fanciful and Real Beasts; A Selection of 190 Sixteenth-Century Woodcuts from Gesner's and Topsell's Natural Histories [by] Konrad Gesner. New York: Dover Publications, [1971].
The Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to 1900. London: Oxford University Press, 1921-1922. [Edward Topsell entry]
Gesner, Konrad. Beasts & animals in decorative woodcuts of the Renaissance. New York: Dover Publications, 1983.
Willy Ley. Introduction to The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents and Insects. New York: Da Capo Press, 1967.
Zeydel, Edwin H. Sebastian Brant. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1967.
Bibliography for Identification of Beasts and Serpents
Primary Source
The Simon & Schuster Encyclopedia of Animals: A Visual Who's Who of the World's Creatures. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
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Dave's Mythical Creatures and Places
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If you're just joining us, this is WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Kelly McEvers. And it's time for some music, some super-funky music.
MCEVERS: This is Dur-Dur Band, and this is the sound of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia in the mid-1980s. It's a time and place most people can't actually imagine, a city that's long gone. That's why the recent rerelease of Dur-Dur's hit tape, "Volume 5," has caused a bit of a stir among some music critics.
The founders of Dur-Dur now live in Columbus, Ohio. We asked them and an interpreter to go to a studio and talk to us about the newly released record. Abdinur Daljir and Sahra Dawo join us from member station WOSU in Columbus, Ohio. Dur-Dur Band, welcome to the show.
SAHRA DAWO: Thank you.
ABDINUR DALJIR: (Through translator) Thank you very much for having us.
MCEVERS: Tell us what that scene was like, that nightclub scene in Mogadishu in the 1980s. Of course, when we hear the word Mogadishu, we think of something very different. Take us back and let us feel what it was like then.
DAWO: (Through translator) In the beginning, we used to sing and dance with American music. And later on, we decided to shape our own music in such a way that it is comfortable enough for people to dance with it, for people to enjoy it.
MCEVERS: So you took these sort of very traditional-sounding Somali songs and Somali lyrics and put them to these very, very funky Western beats and made something new.
DALJIR: (Through translator) Yes. We have followed the Somali traditional way of composing, of writing of the songs, and we were combined the Western music and the Somali song in such a way that it made people want to dance.
DALJIR: (Singing in foreign language)
(Through translator) The lyrics that I just sang are part of the "Volume 5" music that was just released in the new album. It's called "Ilawad Cashaqa" which means move the love with me.
MCEVERS: When you first started, the band was only, you know, four musicians. Eventually, it grew to more than a dozen people. I want to listen to a song from this rereleased album. This track is called "Dooyo."
MCEVERS: So we're hearing keyboard, drums, guitars, horns. It's very funky. But then you hear Sahra's voice.
MCEVERS: If you could transport yourself back to then, and you're standing on the stage, and you're singing "Dooyo," what does the nightclub look like? You know, what do you see from the stage?
DAWO: (Through translator) When I sing this song, people always request it for repeats. And people sang and played and danced in a very crazy way to the extent that some of them would fall down to the ground. And they would keep asking for repetitions, three, four, five times, sometimes.
MCEVERS: Were there other bands like you in Mogadishu at the time?
DALJIR: (Through translator) There were a couple of other bands, Sharero and Iftin, which were also privately run, while every other band was part of the government's ministry.
MCEVERS: I'm sure you're going to tell me that you were the best. You had more crowds at your nightclub than the other guys, right?
DALJIR: (Through translator) In fact, we had more fans and more supporters and more audience in our music. Our music was so unique that it attracted everybody, including other musicians.
MCEVERS: Well, we are not surprised by that because we like it too. Can you tell us when you left Somalia?
DALJIR: (Through translator) So in 1992, when the conflict occurred in Somalia, we decided to leave as a band, and we went into Ethiopia. And we started performing in Ethiopia. We recorded an album in Ethiopia as well.
MCEVERS: Now you live in Columbus, Ohio, and you own a record shop there. Do you guys still make music?
DALJIR: (Through translator) Yes. We have been producing songs, but this time, the songs that we have been producing are based on the situation in Somalia, which is terrible. We are promoting things like graduation from high schools and colleges so that young people can become more productive and more helpful to their communities.
DAWO: (Through translator) There is a song that we sang in 1992 when we left Somalia.
DAWO: (Through translator) What we are doing is we are taking responsibility for what happened in Somalia. We're saying that it is our responsibility. It's something that we did, and we're asking for forgiveness. And we're asking for God to give us his forgiveness and his mercy and his kindness from above and to bless Somalia with peace. So that is the essence of the song.
MCEVERS: Abdinur Daljir and Sahra Dawo are two members of the Somali music group Dur-Dur Band. The band's hit tape, "Volume 5," has just been rereleased. Dur-Dur Band, thank you so much for doing this.
DAWO: (Foreign language spoken)
DALJIR: (Through translator) Thank you very much.
MCEVERS: We wanted to know more about the music scene in Mogadishu in the '80s, so we asked NPR's East Africa correspondent, Gregory Warner, to talk to some Somali musicians who now live in Nairobi. Hey, Greg.
GREG WARNER, BYLINE: Hey, Kelly.
MCEVERS: Can you help us understand the music scene in the '80s?
WARNER: Absolutely. And to do that, I need to rewind the clock a little bit to the 1960s. So if you were, say, a hippie backpacking through Mogadishu in 1963, this is the music that you would've heard.
WARNER: You asked me to talk to some Somali musicians in Nairobi, so I rented a hotel room in Little Mogadishu, Eastleigh, at the neighborhood in Nairobi where many Somali refugees live, and I invited musicians to come talk to me. I didn't actually realize they'd bring their instruments. So here's this musician. She was very famous back in the day. Her name is Khadija Fodey Nur, and she brought her oud and started playing it for me.
WARNER: So this is a classic Somali love song, definitely untouched by Western music, Western rock and roll. Then comes 1969. There's a coup. A general named Siyaad Barre establishes a communist dictatorship, and he gives a speech that all the musicians that I talked to, all the Somali musicians that I talked to in Nairobi remember where he says to the musicians - he says: You're part of our revolution.
We're going to give you a good salary, we're going to give you, some of you nice houses in town so that this communist revolution we've started can proceed to the beat of the best songs, the best poems, the best dances that Somali artists can create.
MCEVERS: So how does that start changing the sound of Somali music?
WARNER: Well, turn on the radio in Somalia in the 1970s, and you can hear Elvis Presley, James Brown, Bob Marley, Etta James. And the government's not only bringing in music, but they're allowing in instruments - so trumpets, saxophones, later Moog synths, Gibson guitars. You know, Somalia went electric before most of the country had electricity. I think it might have sounded something like this.
WARNER: I'm not going to play too much of that because it's a bit cacophonous. But this does set the stage for a band like Dur-Dur that picks up those instruments later and, you know, makes them funky fresh.
MCEVERS: So by the '80s, you've got bands like Dur-Dur and, you know, Iftin, Dur-Dur's main competitor at the time, playing the nightclubs. What are other bands doing at that time?
WARNER: The broader picture in the '80s is that the dictatorship started to crumble. And so while you still have this official party line, you also have samizdat, the dissident music. And so this is an example of that kind of underground scene. This is a song from 1990 called "Land Cruiser."
WARNER: So "Land Cruiser," as you can guess from the title, it takes a not-very-friendly look at the automobile-buying habits of the communist elite. Now, this song hits the underground circuit in, as I said, 1990. By 1991, the communist government is overthrown. Somalia doesn't have a central government again for 20 years.
MCEVERS: So you're saying that the musicians that were built up by the communist government played a major role in bringing down that government.
WARNER: I don't know how much of a role they played, but I do know that they definitely feel responsible. I put this question to one of the musicians - we heard her earlier playing that traditional Somali song - and I asked her, do you regret singing dissident songs against the regime? And she said, yeah - and she was speaking through a translator.
KHADIJA FODEY NUR: (Through translator) Yes. She said, really, we were expecting only for change, but we never expected total collapse of life. So we have very much a regret. And we are saluting the old regimes and say we are sorry. Sorry what happened.
WARNER: She says this is a song of regret.
MCEVERS: NPR's Gregory Warner joined us from Nairobi, Kenya. Thanks so much, Greg.
WARNER: Thanks, Kelly.
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"Sitting in a window seat during a long flight can increase the risk of deep vein thrombosis," according to The Daily Telegraph. It has long been known that flying is associated with an increased risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a type of serious blood clot in a major vein, but new US guidance has looked at a range of factors that could potentially raise the risk.
Those of you thinking of booking your summer holiday might be interested to know that flying in cramped budget seats, while often annoying, presented no greater risk than flying in business class. And while pricey booze available during a flight can prove wallet-damaging, the guidelines say there was no firm evidence that drinking it could bring on DVT. However, sitting by a window during a long-haul flight was associated with a greater risk because of the limited opportunities for walking around. People's age, previous DVT and recent operations were among the other factors found to raise DVT risk.
The evidence-based guidelines were produced by the American College of Chest Physicians to address the risk of both DVT after long-haul flights and the potentially fatal lung clots (pulmonary embolisms) that can follow. The guidelines also include recommendations about the best ways for travellers to reduce their risk of DVT.
The guidelines seem to debunk the long-held assumption that a lack of legroom causes DVT. This much-debated phenomenon is often referred to as "economy-class syndrome".
What is "economy-class syndrome"?
It is long established that inactivity is associated with DVT, and so some people believe that the lack of legroom when flying in economy class can increase the risk of developing a blood clot. This has led to the theoretical phenomenon being dubbed "economy-class syndrome".
Some have also suggested that dehydration is more common during economy travel and may increase the risk of DVT. However, the existence of this so-called "economy-class syndrome" is controversial and has never been proven.
What is DVT?
Deep vein thrombosis or DVT is when blood clots form in a deep vein. A clot that develops in a vein is also known as 'venous thrombosis'. DVT most commonly affects the leg veins or deep veins in the pelvis. It can cause pain and swelling in the leg but in some cases there may be no symptoms.
DVT can lead to the potentially life-threatening condition known as a pulmonary embolism. This occurs when a clot breaks off into the bloodstream and travels to the chest, where it blocks one of the blood vessels in the lungs.
Experiencing DVT and pulmonary embolism together is known as venous thromboembolism (VTE), which is a condition that can be life-threatening. Each year more than 25,000 people in England die from VTE contracted in hospital. This is approximately 25 times the number of people who die from MRSA. VTE occurs in hospitals as a result of patients lying sedentary in bed for extended periods following an operation. In recent years the NHS and Department of Health have run a major programme of measures to help reduce the rates of VTE developed in hospitals. For example, many patients are now given a VTE risk assessment when being booked into hospital.
Who is at risk of DVT?
In the UK each year about one person in every 1,000 is affected by DVT. Anyone can develop it but there are certain known risk factors that include:
- increasing age
- pregnancy
- previous venous thromboembolism
- family history of thrombosis
- medical conditions such as cancer and heart failure
- inactivity (for example after an operation or on a long-haul flight)
- being overweight or obese
Where has the advice come from?
The advice comes from new evidence-based guidelines produced by the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP). The findings were published in the February issue of the medical journal CHEST.
The guidelines are extensive, running over hundreds of pages. They detail both the risk factors for DVT and measures to diagnose and prevent DVT.
What do these guidelines tell us?
The evidence review that informed the guidelines looked at a range of risk factors for the development of DVT in long-distance travellers. These included the use of oral contraceptives, sitting in a window seat, advanced age, dehydration, alcohol intake, pregnancy and sitting in an economy seat compared to business class.
The reviewers conclude that developing DVT or pulmonary embolism from a long-distance flight is generally unlikely, but that the following factors increased people's risk:
- previous DVT or pulmonary embolism or known 'thrombophilic disorder'
- cancer
- recent surgery or trauma
- immobility
- advanced age
- oestrogen use, including oral contraceptives
- pregnancy
- sitting in a window seat
- obesity
The finding relating to window seats was discussed further. The study authors suggest that long-distance travellers sitting in a window seat tend to have limited mobility, which is responsible for their increased risk of DVT.
However, the review did not find any definitive evidence to support the theory that dehydration, alcohol intake or sitting in an economy seat (compared with sitting in business class) increases the risk of DVT or pulmonary embolism during a long-distance flight. On this basis, they conclude that travelling in economy class does not increase the risk of developing a blood clot, even during long-distance travel. However, they believe that remaining immobile for long periods of time does.
Overall, the study authors say that "symptomatic DVT/PE [pulmonary embolism] is rare in passengers who have returned from long flights", but that the association between air travel and DVT/PE is strongest for flights longer than 8-10 hours. Furthermore, most of the passengers who do end up developing a DVT/PE after long-distance travel have one or more risk factors.
What can be done to prevent DVT?
For travellers on flights longer than six hours who have an increased risk of DVT the new guidelines recommend:
- Frequent walking about during the flight.
- Calf muscle stretching.
- Sitting in an aisle seat if possible (as you are more likely to get up and move around during the flight).
- Wearing below-the-knee compression stockings that are 'graduated', meaning they apply greater pressure lower down the leg. They are designed to put pressure on the lower legs, feet and ankles to increase bloodflow, thereby making it harder for a clot to form.
The guidelines do not recommend compression stockings for long-distance travellers who are not at increased risk of DVT.
The guidelines advise against using blood-thinning aspirin or anticoagulant therapy to prevent DVT or pulmonary embolism for most people. They suggest that anti-clotting medications should be considered on an individual basis only for those at particularly high risk of DVT, as in some cases the risks may outweigh the benefits.
Analysis by Bazian
Edited by NHS Website
Links to the headlines
Dangers of DVT: Why you should avoid the window seat on the plane (even in First Class)
Daily Mail, 7 February 2012
DVT risk raised by sitting in the window seat
The Daily Telegraph, 7 February 2012
Links to the science
Bates SM, Jaeschke R, Stevens SM, et al.
Diagnosis of DVT : Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines
Chest 2012;141;e351S-e418S. Published online February 7 2012