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We close pollinator week with this animated tribute to the bees, bugs, birds, bats, and others who make life a little sweeter.

Original from Maria Sibylla Merian’s Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und sonderbare Blumennahrung , 1730

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One of the most common questions I’ve been asked about neo-Khuzdul is “what does Gimli say to Haldir?” This has been asked since the release of The Fellowship of the Ring way back in 2001. With the release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug last year, the question was revived in the form “what does Thorin say to Thranduil?”

The answers are a bit embarrassing to me for three different reasons.

First, it’s not a line I wrote. I was asked to come up with a curse for John Rhys-Davies, playing Gimli, to utter in the scene in Lothlórien. What I came up with was embarrassingly insipid and weak — I think because I was (and still am) a bit squeamish about real profanity, even in a language that nobody could understand. After all, some day I was going to have to explain this, possibly to audiences containing small children; and I’ve just never been very good at profanity, even if I can appreciate the kind of torrent of lyrical invective which is, alas, so very rare these days. So I just rendered “a great darkness upon you Elves” into the kind of Khuzdul I was producing then:

Gabil-narga ai-mênu Kanâd!

Of course, I’ve changed neo-Khuzdul quite a bit since then, and if I were to do it today, it might come out as:

Aznân gabil ai-fnadumên!

Where we see a bit of colloquial Khuzdul syncope. The elements are much the same, but the word for “elf” changed when I realized that the first Elves that the Dwarves would have encountered would probably have been of Telerin origin, or Avari closely related to the Teleri, calling themselves some version of *Pendi.

This is not, of course, anything that ever appeared on film or was recorded in the first place. This leads to my second embarrassment:

I had no idea what the line John Rhys-Davies uttered meant for over a decade. I don’t even know how it came to be filmed that way; a story that I heard was that he ad-libbed it on set, being unable to produce the line I wrote for one reason or another. But that is a second-hand or third-hand story, or worse, and if he has a different story to tell about it, it supersedes anything I have to say on the subject. What I always said when I was asked was that I assumed it was so unspeakably nasty as to be untranslatable — at least in polite company!

I didn’t even know exactly what he had said, much less its meaning. So when I finally got asked about it by the scriptwriter I had to find the scene and listen to it over and over and over again before I came up with:

 [ɪʃˈkɑkʰʍi ɑɪ duˈrugnul]

Well, that may be Khuzdul, but it’s not my Khuzdul, and even includes a sound that I excluded from neo-Khuzdul — any variation of /w/. But when I heard that there was consideration of having Thorin use the same curse, I thought “Aha! Here’s a chance to deal with all of those questions, and the additional ones to come.” So I sat down and reverse-engineered (so to speak) a Khuzdul version from Rhys-Davies line, using my grammar and phonology.

What I came up with was:

îsh kakhfê ai-‘d-dûr-rugnul

îsh fit in well with my overall scheme for imperatives, CiCiC; it could come from a root ʔAYAŠA or *ʔAWAŠA ([j] regularly substitutes for /w/ before a vowel in Longbeard Khuzdul). ʔAWAŠA is reminiscent of English “wash,” and suggests a meaning “pour out, pour down, pour over.”

kakhf (f substituting for ʍ, since I had no /w/-type sound) is reminiscent of Latin cacāre, and so I decided that it must mean excrement or fæces.

–ê was the already-existing first person singular possessive.

ai we already knew meant “upon”.

So what was “durugnul”? Obviously it had to refer to the Elves in some way. But it had to be bitterly contemptuous, in a peculiarly Dwarvish way. It should go beyond the usual reflections on intelligence, sanity, sexuality and personal hygiene that are the backbone of so many English curses.

After quite a lot of thought (more than I like to admit to) I came up with the compound dûr-rugn. On the face of it, this isn’t much of an insult. Dûr simply means bare, naked, or uncovered, from a root √DAYARA (*√DAWARA) “strip, shave, make naked”; rugn (plural ragân) is the lower jaw (or chin). Dûr-rugnul is an adjectival form (here used substantively, preceded by the definite object marker id-) meaning “bare-chinned” or more literally “with naked (hairless) lower jaw.”

It is, Tolkien wrote, “characteristic of all Elves to be beardless” (Unfinished Tales, p. 247); but all adult Dwarves, male and female, have beards of which they are very proud. Only a very young Dwarf, or one who had suffered some tragic injury or illness, would lack a beard.

The beardlessness of Elves would therefore appear comic to the Dwarves, a sign that they were at best infantile, and would be an obvious subject of mockery; it might also suggest that they lacked the gonads (of either sex) to produce a proper beard. At any rate, to go about with a bare chin must appear to the Dwarves to be shameful, all the worse for the fact that the Elves appear unconscious of their shame, or even proud of it.

Of course, when walking in the world, a Dwarf generally keeps such thoughts to himself; but they are apt to be let loose when under stress or when angry. So we find both Gimli and Thorin using this crude Dwarvish surmise about the less-than-intact nature of the Elves in their curses.

The literal meaning is therefore May my excrement be poured upon the naked-jawed (ones); a meaning giving the full connotation of the words would necessarily be less literal and more expressively vicious.

So at long last, there is the answer — or, at any rate, an answer, if perhaps not the fully satisfying one people may have been looking for. And if I don’t find it quite as loathsomely vile as I always assured people it was, I suppose I have noone but myself to blame for my third embarrassment.

In 1906 – Model Evelyn Nesbitt causes a stir at her husbands murder trial – with her outfit!

Evelyn Nesbitt – one of the 20th Century’s first style icons and the woman said to have inspired the Gibson Girl look was a young model /actress thrust into the limelight in New York when her name was involved in the infamous murder of Stanford White, a respected architect in 1906. He was sensationally murdered at point blank range in a theater by Harry Thaw – Evelyn’s jealous and psychotic husband.She appeared in a demure corseted suit which had women ordering copies within days.

“Many believe that Merle Haggard also played that night, but if you look closely you can see a different date beside Haggard’s name”

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Fan-favorite X-Men character Dazzler looks to be getting an extreme makeover from Brian Michael Bendis and Kris Anka in "Uncanny X-Men."

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“"You want to see Americans become activists? Cancel a TV show they like."”

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Hey, who’s In The Mood for a new Wong Kar-Wai movie? That’s a little cinephile humor for you. But seriously, folks, Hong Kong’s visionary director of Chungking Express, In The Mood For Love, and 2046 is reportedly hard at work on his next feature film, according to Indiewire. This is great news for fans of the director, who have waited six years in between his Hollywood crossover attempt, My Blueberry Nights, and his most recent film, the martial arts saga The Grandmaster. Mei Ah Entertainment describes the as-yet-untitled project as a “romance,” which is well-worn territory for Wong. Better yet, all the ladies in the house get excited, because Mei Ah chief executive Patrick Tong Hing-chi says that the lead actor is someone “all women are crazy about.” Who could it be? Ryan Gosling? Michael Fassbender? Benedict Cumberbatch? Honestly, it’s probably Tony Leung, but a girl ...

Silicon Valley, and the San Francisco Bay Area in general, has been a magnet for technology innovation going back seven decades—to long before Apple was even a wannabe disruptor. And despite aspirations of cities such as Boston and New York, the recent boom in startups and a spate of techy IPOs has only reinforced the Bay Area’s status as the Westeros of the tech universe (in the parlance of Game of Thrones enthusiasts).

Investors that have been plowing money into tech startups include the venture capital companies Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, Benchmark Capital and Sequoia Capital, to name a few. And although the growth of the tech market in recent years has driven up real estate prices and fostered some tension over the area’s gentrification, a recent note by JPMorgan makes it clear why the banking community has been paying very close attention to the Bay Area.

Lucrative tech jobs and a relatively young, smart population are at the heart of the area’s appeal, JPMorgan’s report indicates. Silicon Valley boasts a median annual household income of about $87,000, compared to the US average of $52,000, according to SNL Financial. Although other cities have emerged over the years as tech outposts, the Bay Area remains the world’s preeminent tech hub, JPMorgan’s analysts conclude:

VC funding, companies and entrepreneurs need a presence in the Valley. This became almost palpable to us and, we believe, in large part is why some of the  largest companies keep all of their employees in one place even within the Valley. New York and Boston came up as secondary hubs for innovation, but the network effect of being in close proximity to the Valley was evident, with implications for sustained business formation as well as appreciation for real estate values given supply/demand imbalance across commercial, multifamily and residential real estate categories.

Regional banks such as First Republic and SVB Financial are poised to benefit from the tech boom, wrote JPMorgan analysts, who cover stocks of mid-sized banks. And, they said, the boom has another two years to run before real estate and company valuations peak. That’s good news for venture firms, which JPMorgan estimates still have $60 billion to invest in the next would-be tech disruptors.

By the looks of the video, it’s hard to imagine who would welcome such a fantasy without realizing its disturbing nature.

From the sound of it, GungHo Online and Grasshopper Manufacture's PS4 exclusive Let It Die is some sort of giant death recycling program. As we detailed last week, Let It Die stores every player death on its servers, and those dead players repopulate...

A broker for the realty company that sold the house to Rose was even left flustered, telling The Oregonian "We did expect him to do a substantial remodel, but you pay $1.3 million and tear a house down? In Portland? That doesn't happen in Portland."

But Rose is unmoved—he even had the property removed from a "historic property inventory" to expedite the demolition. Now he's telling his petition-signing neighbors that his $1.3 million house is a lemon, and the only way to salvage the property is to start over.

Twee: The Gentle Revolution In Music, Books, Television, Fashion, And Film by Marc Spitz
I often write about punk and metal for The A.V. Club, but at the end of the day, I’m just as apt to be listening to Jonathan Richman or The Smiths. Veteran music journalist Marc Spitz has written plenty of stuff about angry music before, but he’s also penned a novel whose title riffs on one of Morrissey’s best-known songs. In other words, he’s well qualified to write Twee: The Gentle Revolution In Music, Books, Television, Fashion, And Film. The book came out earlier this month, and I just finished reading it—not that it was any kind of slog for me, seeing as how the entire topic of twee is one I’ve always had mixed but strong opinions about. In a nutshell, twee is the celebration of wimpy introversion ...

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Best game endings ever: Silent Hill 2 - Dog Ending

**SPOILER ALERT!!!**

Okay, you’re James Sunderland. You’ve been stuck in Silent Hill and during your stay here you’ve been attacked by monsters, met and killed a few people and seen a woman who looks like the twin of your dead wife die numerous times and in a very brutal manner just to find your deceased wife who sent you a letter telling you she was in your “special place” in Silent Hill waiting for you.

You finally get to the “special place” to realise not only is she not there, but you in fact killed her yourself and she is dead. You’re depressed, lost all hope and this town just chucks you back into the otherworld.

You walk into the next room from your “special place” to find a little Shiba Inu controlling some levers and looking pretty happy with herself. Turns out she’s been controlling Silent Hill and there really is no Mary. Just Mira (the dog’s name).

You fall to your knees, and Mira jumps off the chair, comes over and does some comforting gestures by sniffing your face and the game ends, followed by a parody of the regular ending credits and a VERY catchy little tune by Mira.

Here’s the video (x) and remember DOG=GOD!

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Even after he maxes out his federal student loan allotment, Pell grant, scholarships and the college fund his mother painstakingly built from the time he was in diapers, Stevens is still thousands of dollars short of meeting tuition requirements at his private Flint, Mich., engineering school. His school of choice, Kettering University, is known for its unique curriculum, in which students alternate between two three-month terms in class and two three-month terms working full-time jobs in the field of their choice. Stevens earns $16 an hour (double the national minimum wage) and gets free housing from his employer while working. After each three-month stint on the job, he should be more than capable of affording an apartment back on campus. Instead, he has to save 90% of his pay to cover the next term’s tuition.