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Julia introduces her family's new baby and, along with her little brother, describes how children are a blessing from the Lord. Presented by Vision Forum, Doug Phillips, and the Everyday News Network. www.visionforum.com

Sorry for the bad video quality.... so I also show the text here; the bibliography will also be given at the end... Abstract. The article presents a mind-bending game-theoretic dilemma which arises from a sociobiological finding on male homosexuality. It follows the pattern of a paradox first evoked by Fisher's hypothesis that smoking does not cause lung cancer but that a common cause leads to both the phenomena. My dilemma is, however, not vulnerable to an important type of objection against Fisher's problem. The dilemma may occur in the actual world and may give further support to the validitiy of the hypothesis that male homosexuality is linked to an increase in maternal female fecundity because several of its possible solutions may, on the basis of this hypothesis, straightforwardly explain the selection of homophobic traits. Keywords. Homosexuality, Evolutionary Game Theory, Social Organization, Adaptation, Fisher's Problem, Causation Camperio Ciani et al.'s (2004) solution to the Darwinian paradox of the survival of male homosexuality poses a threat of yet another paradoxical constellation, this time in game theory. Camperio Ciani et al. (2004) showed that homosexuality may bear reproductive advantages beyond some of the merely somatic survival benefits described by Kirkpatrick (2000) because the same genetic factors that give rise to the trait in males might boost the fecundity in their maternal female relatives. Indeed, maternal female relatives of homosexual males turned out to be significantly more fecund and to be mothering homosexuals more frequently than those of heterosexual males. It is unclear, however, what exact causal relation obtains when a human male acts upon his sexual identity tendencies. In Fisher's words, "the fact is that if two factors, A and B, are associated [...,] it may be that A is an important cause of B, it may be that B is an important cause of A, it may be that something else, let us say X, is an important cause of both" (1958, p. 155). Therefore, this correlation leads to a type of game-theoretic dilemma first evoked by Fisher's (1958) hypothesis that smoking does not cause lung cancer but that smoking and lung cancer are caused by one and the same third entity, e.g., the person's genotype, provided that it is unchanging as of fertilization.

Again, sorry for bad quality of the visual part: The table can be seen more clearly here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Nbz5jBNa-w0 In this version, the problem is, unlike many formulations of Fisher's problem, not vulnerable to the so-called tickle defense (Jackson and Pargetter 1983): A smoker's wish to continue to smoke may indicate the presence of the fatal genetic disposition -- which is why he or she might as well continue to smoke --, but any subjective tickle which could serve as evidence for the one or other genetic disposition is ruled out in the present special case, where homophobia is an external condition most unlikely to reflect a personal bias in our adolescent male. Moreover, the dilemma's soundness would not be diminished by the possible fact that Camperio Ciani's explanation applies only to a percentage q of the occurrence of human male homosexuality: Given Camperio Ciani's evidence, the external parameters of the game situation, and the subject's preferences, it is clear that becoming homosexual still increases the animal's hope that his family will be larger-than-average -- unless a secure criterion for determining whether or not, if you should turn homosexual, you will belong to the q-fraction be at hand and unless a similar genetic fecundity booster be present in the relatives of at least the q-part of heterosexual males, where the latter would, however, be utterly incompatible with the general evidence of homosexual males' maternal female relatives (and only these) being significantly more fecund than those (or any other relatives) of heterosexual males; and where the discovery of the criterion would, most likely, merely reduce the number of dilemma cases but not necessarily kill the dilemma altogether. We can thus construct the following game-theoretic model of the situation. Let p be a probability function. Let c1, ..., cn be choices of the agent, s1, ..., sn states of affairs relevant to the decision, whose payoffs are given by a utility function u(ci; si ). The specific choices, which are exhaustive and exclusive, are becoming heterosexual, c1 , and becoming homosexual, c2, the relevant (exhaustive, exclusive) states of affairs are s1: "genetic factors for female fecundity and male homosexuality are not present" and s2: "genetic factors for female fecundity and male homosexuality are present" (see Tab.1).

I use ) for greater than and ( for smaller than... The specific payoffs u(ci; si) and the conditional probabilities p(si/ci) are also given in the matrix: The profit of an undisturbed heterosexual life in the homophobic environment is worth Y [utility units], while the highest preference of the agent is to have a family larger-than-average, i.e. in this case, one with the "gay" gene, an outcome worth X [utility units], where X ) Y. The latter assumption is the only bit of arbitrariness in the model; however, to take some survival risks and suffer hardships in order to increase the number of offspring sharing at least a part of one's genes seems a familiar, adaptive, uncontroversial presupposition, and it would only surprise if Y )= X held true. We may thus calculate the expected utility values of c1 and c2: EV(c1) = Y (1 - r) + (X + Y) r, EV(c2) = q X, which allows us to infer that EV(c2) ) EV(c1) if, and only if, X ) Y / (q - r). p(s2/c1) = r (between 0, 1), too, will remain unknown until the hypothesized genetic factors predisposing females to be overly fecund and males to mate with males are identified at the genetic level or at least until the percentage of those individuals among heterosexual males with overly fecund maternal female relatives giving birth to overly many male homosexuals is revealed; Camperio Ciani's evidence is, however, incompatible with r )= q, so that r ( q can be presupposed. This empirical constraint guarantees that, if X ) Y / (q - r), then X ) Y, as the agent's preferential payoff hierarchy requires. In conclusion: On the one hand, if we assume that X ) Y / (q- r), the maximum expected utility principle of game theory will clearly recommend the agent to become homosexual, i.e., to choose c2. On the other hand, becoming heterosexual (c1) is clearly the dominant strategy because, for all i, it holds that u(c1; si) ) u(c2; si) (cf. Tab.1); and, where choices are causally independent of whether or not certain relevant states of affairs obtain, it is often recommended to follow the dominance principle rather than that of maximum expected utility: the agent should become heterosexual, i.e., choose c1. The two game-theoretic principles lead to different, contradictory recommendations quite analogous to those in Fisher's well-known smoking paradox. This, at first sight, purely decision-theoretic, anthropically psychological dilemma reflects the substantial sociobiological problem of insufficient information about the exact causal relation between female fecundity and male homosexuality. To whatever degree human action may be free or indeterministic, the formulation of such mind-bending dilemmas should not leave unstirred issues that can, in principle, be settled through empirical methods. The dilemmatic problem is not merely psychological in nature but emerges from and concerns the incompleteness of hard biological facts in Camperio Ciani (2004) (e.g., the unknown exact location and identification of the "gay" gene). The only way in which, given this incompleteness, the dilemma does not arise at all is that the truth of X ) Y / (q - r) can somehow be ruled out, but then at least this impossibility remains to be shown or supported.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racak_incident colonization of its eastern regions by purchasing land from the poles, but the fecundity of the Polish mothers defeated German organizations and money. This Poland regained its Pozan in 1918. Our statistics of the 1921-31 period, which we have already mentioned, show that the fecundity of the Albanian women defeated our colonization policy too. From this we must draw a conclusion, and do so quickly while there is still time to correct matters. All Europe is in a state of turmoil. We do not know what each day and night may bring. Albanian nationalism is mounting in our territories too. To leave the situation as it is would mean, in case of any world conflict our social revolution, both of which are possible in the near future, to jeopardize all our territories in the south. The purpose

If the world or at least the part of it concerning animals' sexual identity is strictly deterministic, it arguably makes little sense to recommend to an agent a strategy upon which he should act when faced with the dilemma. He will become homosexual or heterosexual depending on some psychobiological cause even if he be in the middle of Kinsey's scale in the first place and have some natural ascetic talent -- unless he will not skid at all as would then be dictated by some other cause. Nonetheless, evolutionary game theory may still want to find out who of those that did skid significantly up or down the scale are the winners and who are the losers. If Camperio Ciani's findings really reflect a common cause for fecundity and male homosexuality, then the homosexuals should turn out to win since it is rather they than the heterosexuals who have a larger-than-average family, which is worth X utility units, despite their lack of the additional Y units which they would get when living an undisturbed heterosexual life in the homophobic environment (see Tab.1). The heterosexuals will lose despite their gain of the latter Y units since, given the common genetic cause for the two states of affairs (female fecundity and male homosexuality), in the moment they turn heterosexual it is plain that their family will tend not to be larger-than-average, and thus they will rather not get the X units that this outcome would be worth. Should the heterosexuals turn out to win, then Camperio Ciani's correlation cannot possibly reflect a causal relation. In this sense, the dilemma may provide a test scenario for Camperio Ciani's account. If, on the other hand, nature has made room for a kind of indeterminism to be interpreted as free will, there are still at least two causal constellations in which the homosexuals would win and which are not ruled out by the evidence as published in Camperio Ciani (2004). Although I leave aside the dubious possibility of some kind of backwards causation ("an agent, by becoming homosexual, determines the genetic disposition that his female maternal relatives already had at earlier points in time"), the first of these causal constellations is still somewhat odd, and passionately Einsteinian scientists are advised to skip it. It is, however, mentioned because nothing may rule it out completely: There may be a strong and mutual causal relation between fecundity and homosexuality, but the seemingly odd couple as a whole is indeterministic in its occurrence, and probably simultaneous, and so in some sense the result of the collective, entangled free will of a family. This constellation rejects the premise that the genetic code does not change as of fertilization and builds on hypotheses such as Löwdin's (1963) that it is quantum tunnelling that could lead to spontaneous genetic mutations responsible for aging or the development of cancer. Likewise, biochemists and quantum physicists should scrupulously check and see whether or not there might be non-local, simultaneous effects at work amongst the genes of different individuals of a certain family that are reflected at the psychobiological level by an increase in fecundity among females and homosexuality among their maternally related males. The second causal constellation is much more straightforward. Moreover, it also applies to the following hypotheses concerning the evolution of homosexuality: (I) There is a homosexual genetic variation not necessarily or at least not so immediately related to a male's maternal female relatives, and (II) homosexuality is, to some degree and either in a chaotic and thus pseudoindeterministic or even well predictable way, sociodynamically determined. Due to space problems, the rest of the text is in the matrix video here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Nbz5jBNa-w0

a bigger matrix AND... this is the rest of the text of part 5/8, there wasn't enough space there: This constellation would involve orthodox causation: By "freely" choosing or being genetically and/or socially determined to be homosexual, the males actively contribute to the fecundity boost among the females in their maternal family. The social dynamics -- whose roots may, of course, nonetheless be genetic -- which produce a certain number of homosexuals could be adaptive if these homosexuals, in turn, sociodynamically increase their maternal family's number of births. This hypothesis could be thwarted if a significant number of females have already been born and proved to be overly fecund before overly many homosexual maternally related family members are born or conceived; otherwise, especially given the mean age of 33.22 in Camperio Ciani's (2004) homosexual sample group, it could be a substantial hypothesis worth testing. The birthdates of the relatives and "coming out" dates or other parameters of the homosexual males were not taken into consideration in Camperio Ciani (2004). Both of these causal constellations would resolve the dilemma in favour of the homosexuals. It is only if the female fecundity is one fixed thing and the sexual orientation of the males underdetermined -- albeit somewhat affected -- by it that there can be a chance for the heterosexuals to win the game.

MY REPLY There is no "logical" flaw. The reviewer simply misunderstood the use of "this or that action makes it more probable that....": Nowhere did I, by necessity, claim that the agent, by choosing some action, changes the past or, more precisely, the existence/presence of the genetic factor leading to smoking/cancer or fecundity/homosexuality. We must, however distinguish between various causal constellations here. I treat first the constellation suggested by Camperio-Ciani and the reviewer, namely that there is some maternally inheritable genetic factor causing both excessive female fecundity and male homosexuality: In that case, consider an agent who is or has become heterosexual: If, among the causes of homosexuality is the one just mentioned, he is simply less likely to have inherited the "mad about men"-gene than a fellow man who is homosexual. The homosexual is more likely to have inherited the "mad about men"-gene if it exists at all. The empirical evidence this is based upon and that the reviewer claims is missing is simply Camperio-Ciani's result that female maternal relatives of gay males are more fecund than those of straight males. And so, if you have a man who becomes homosexual, he will, after that, *be* a homosexual man, i.e. belong to the homosexual sample group or be in a perfect condition to belong to it. And for that group it simply holds that a member of that group is more likely to have inherited the genetic factor. What else may have made him "choose" being homosexual? This factor would be one explanation for it! If a man becomes heterosexual, he will, after that, *be* a heterosexual male and, thus, he will be less likely to have inherited the "mad about men"-gene than a homosexual male! Maybe the absence of it has caused, among other things, his heterosexuality. On the other hand, the reviewer bases his criticism on what decision theorists call "causal decision theory", which states that rational actions are to be for the sake of what they cause, i.e. -- according to sensible theories of causation -- for the sake of the future. Some claim, however, that this is an arbitrary and in certain aspects mythical/magical view on how rational actions work in Homo sapiens. There is another, evidential, view on decision theory according to which rational actions are to be for the sake of what they give evidence of or for. In this framework, the view that rational actions be for the sake of the future and not the past seems as arbitrary as the view that rational actions are to be for the sake of the east and not the west. To choose, e.g., becoming homosexual simply provides (probabilistic) evidence that the "mad about men"-gene is present, and, therefore, if you want to have the gene, you "choose" homosexuality if such choices are possible. The reason causal decision theory can be regarded as magical/mythical in certain respects is that it is sometimes all too rigid and inflexible as far as causal constellations are concerned. One view of causal influencing is embraced, and if, *according to that view*, some choice cannot cause something the agent wants, the choice is left aside as an option/means of actively achieving what the agent wants to achieve. To speak clearly: The reviewer's criticism is valid only if the genetic factor theory as presented by Camperio-Ciani and him or herself is, indeed, valid. If some of the other possible causal constellations obtains, then it may be completely invalid: e.g.: if there is no genetic factor for "mad about men" at all but, e.g., some simply "(male) gay gene", then it could be the case that homosexuals actively (as "prime movers") contribute to the fecundity boost among their maternal female relatives; Camperio-Ciani's result does, to my knowledge, not rule out that possibility -- and in that case you can even legitimately understand "this or that makes it more probable that..." in the way in which the reviewer misunderstood it, i.e., of course not as: "... (ACTIVELY) makes it more probably that the genetic factor is present" but as "becoming homosexual (ACTIVELY) makes it more probable that the females will be more fecund" just as the trait "jumping off high buildings" (ACTIVELY, in the "prime mover"-manner) makes it more probable that you die early. To put that in a nutshell: Once you accept causal decision theory, you also accept a causal myth/story which has been told; or differently put: At a time when - as the reviewer himself or herself stated - the causal links of a correlation are not too obvious, as in the current case, there is too little reason to argue about decisions using a causal decision theory, even if it is - as I myself believe - better than evidential decision theory in the very end. Before the causal story is verified you should not base decisions on causal decision-theoretic arguments.

Seventh Wave - Only the Beginning(From the Album Psi Fi). Formed by Kieran O'Connor and Ken Elliott after the dissolution of the British progressive band Second Hand, Seventh Wave is an early example of a synth duo, a pop configuration that was to loom large in the 1980s. They released two albums in quick succession in the mid-70s, on which they showed a certain instrumental fecundity. Elliott's tools were a veritable catalogue of 70s synth technology (ARP, clavinet, Moog, Crumar strings, Mellotron), while O'Connor showed a distinct orchestral bent in his array of perucssion instruments. While their debut struck an uneasy balance between pop-rock and prog synth, they cultivated the latter influence more successfully on their next release. Both albums have been rereleased on CD, allowing a glimpse at an interesting, if lesser known, stab at early synth rock. (minder)

Hey Brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying. Hey Sister Bleeding Heart with all of your compassion, Your labors soothe the hurt but can't assuage temptation. Hey man of science with your perfect rules of measure, Can you improve this place with the data that you gather? Hey Mother Mercy can your loins bear fruit forever? Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure? And I want to conquer the world, Give all the idiots a brand new religion, Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness and toil, Promote equality in all of my decisions With a quick wink of the eye And a "God you must be joking!" Hey Mr. Diplomat with your worldly aspirations, Did you see your children cry when you left them at the station? Hey moral soldier you've got righteous proclamation, And precious tomes to fuel your pulpy conflagrations. And I want to conquer the world, Give all the idiots a brand new religion, Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness and toil, Promote equality in all of my decisions I want to conquer the world, Expose the culprits and feed them to the children, I'll do away with air pollution and then I'll save the whales, We'll have peace on earth and global communion. I want to conquer the world! I want to conquer the world! I want to conquer the world! I want to conquer the world!

Think of a context (evolution) Think of a contest (fidelity, fecundity). Who is the winner? So what?

Seventh Wave - Eversolightly (from the album 'Things to Come'). Formed by Kieran O'Connor and Ken Elliott after the dissolution of the British progressive band Second Hand, Seventh Wave is an early example of a synth duo, a pop configuration that was to loom large in the 1980s. They released two albums in quick succession in the mid-70s, on which they showed a certain instrumental fecundity. Elliott's tools were a veritable catalogue of 70s synth technology (ARP, clavinet, Moog, Crumar strings, Mellotron), while O'Connor showed a distinct orchestral bent in his array of perucssion instruments. While their debut struck an uneasy balance between pop-rock and prog synth, they cultivated the latter influence more successfully on their next release. Both albums have been rereleased on CD, allowing a glimpse at an interesting, if lesser known, stab at early synth rock.

Daria Corrias e Nicola Marfisi Mamoiada (NU), 2005 The Mamuthones are an archaic mask of Sardinian carnival and they represent an ancient and mysterious ritual, famous not only in the Mediterranean area, but all over the world. They have their first appearance of the year on January 17, on occasion of the St Anthony’s Day. Usually but not only in Sardinia, of course, this period of the year is dedicated to a series of propitiatory rituals in order to assure the fertility of the fields, as well as the fecundity of women. The prosperity of all the community. Terrible and frightful masks, the Mamuthones are imposing and proud. They dress animal leather and a black wooden mask. They break the surreal silence around them shaking powerfully the cowbells carried on the shoulders, in perfect unison. Mamuthones go along with Issohadores, excellent launchers of soha, lazo, with which they skilfully capture women, friends, spectators, wishing well and fortune. The origin and the meaning of this ritual is largely unknown. It might be a shape of dramatic art or the parody of an historical event or an ancient propitiatory ritual. Oral tradition is the only way for its survival. Hinghìelu male is a short trip inside the ritual of Mamuthones by the words of the oldest mamuthone still in activity, Franco Sale. A travel on the thread of memory, tradition and love for the own roots.

"The Romanians have preserved their national being and their specific civilization and they evolved their own highly original tradition, an ancient tradition, coming down from the Neolithic, developed by the Dacians and then enriched by the Greco-Roman world and the Byzantine one. Outstanding artworks with an archaic decoration featuring anthropomorphic, zoomorphic (the snake, the horse, the bird) and vegetal elements (the wheat ear, the fir tree, the tree of life) or else geometrical elements that once had sacred meanings related to fecundity and fertility rites. In Romania pottery has a millennial tradition, the museums boasting most valuable items dating back to the Neolithic. Evidence are the two anthropomorphic statuettes unearthed at Cernavoda and considered masterpieces, the Thinker and his spouse, as well as the famous Cucuteni painted earthenware. In 40 of the onetime 300 earthenware centers, potters still use traditional techniques to craft glazed or unglazed, red or black ware, decorated with sgraffito or with applied colors, usually red, black, brown, yellow, green and white. It is superb by its simplicity, natural pigments and very ancient, cosmogonic style of decoration (spirals, concentric circles, wavey patterns) steeped in traditions of previous millenia . "

Suffering... Suffering impressed me and incite me a lot. Bcz it is so long. From the beginning it purifying u in the end u become a stupid it destroy u annihilate u till disintegration. Aestheticians & dilettantes takes the suffering like as another divertissement form. They exclaim. Astonish. Wonder. Admire. Curse. They can not percept this disintegration Disaggregation Poison. However... In hideousness of it The Suffering hide the seed of fecundity. Still... this new born life isn't too expansive for us? Starea de degradare spirituala, psihica si fizica prin suferinta. Fecunditatea, un nou inceput. Intotdeauna exista o cale!

The Easter tradition is an ancient Babylonian fertility practice which was grafted onto Christianity. The egg and the rabbit are ancient symbols of fertility, birth and fecundity. These worship practices are in violation of the Commands of God regarding idolatry.

Coya Raymi is an annual festivity of the Quichua Indians of the province of Imbabura. It celebrates women, fecundity and corn production. One of the many activities of this fiesta, which takes place during the month of September, is a race of caballitos de Totora (canoes made out of reed) in the Lake San Pablo. The video is a representation of the race that took place in September 2000.

A celebration of the inexhaustible fecundity of nature. The music is the wonderful "My Name is Lincoln by Steve Jablonsky. Images were made in a Canon DSLR and processed in photoshop and edited in Final Cut Pro

With the help of prospector and Fecundity, I have infinite mana and cards, so, how would I lose?

Why Killing Doesn't Work Killing is not the cure, but the cause of overpopulation. Killing causes the population to balloon. Educated people oppose lethal measures, because these politically motivated, lethal schemes initiate the rebound effect: less deer (after killing), plus the same abundant food source, equals better overall health, and increased fecundity. Killing deer, year after year, is a self-defeating measure. Hunters kill MILLIONS of deer across the nation, annually, with no decline in population numbers. Gary Alt, former Chief Deer Biologist in PA, said, Deer management has been the biggest mistake in the history of wildlife management. He refers to it as MALPRACTICE. http://www.all-creatures.org/cash/cc2007-w-doe.html IS DEER HUNTING A VIABLE CONSERVATION TOOL? http://www.all-creatures.org/cash/cc2001-fa-deer.html "The good news is that there is a growing appreciation for wildlife, and an increase in environmental consciousness. This ethical and environmental awareness portends a bleak future for sport hunting in America. I believe the idea of using sport hunting as a conservation tool will become as obsolete as using the Pony Express to deliver mail. Hopefully, the changes will not come too late. Nineteenth Century philosopher Arthur Schopenhauers concept of the three phrases of truth are: First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Finally it is accepted as being self-evident."

Hey brother christian with your high and might errand, Your actions speak so loud, I cant hear a word youre saying. Hey sister bleeding heart with all of your compassion, Your labors soothe the hurt but cant assuage temptation. Hey man of science with your perfect rules of measure, Can you improve this place with the data that you gather? Hey mother mercy can your loins bear fruit forever? Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure? And I want to conquer the world, Give all the idiots a brand new religion, Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness and toil, Promote equality in all my decisions With a quick wink of the eye And a god you must be joking! Hey mr. diplomat with your worldly aspirations, Did you see the children cry when you left them at the station? Hey moral soldier youve got righteous proclamation, And precious tomes to fuel your pulpy conflagrations. And I want to conquer the world, Give all the idiots a brand new religion, Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness and toil, Promote equality in all of my decisions I want to conquer the world, Expose the culprits and feed them to the children, Ill do away with air pollution and then all save the whales, Well have peace on earth and global communion. I want to conquer the world! (x4)

Contributed by: (http://www.india-herbs.com): Sarees from South India: 1. Kanjeevaram Saree - No Indian bridal trousseau is complete without the 'Kanjeewaram' saree, characterised by gold-dipped silver thread that is woven onto brilliant silk. Kanchipuram is a town in Tamil Nadu with more than 150 years of weaving tradition -- completely untouched by fashion fads. - Kanjeewarams are favoured for their durability. Kanjee silk is thicker than almost all other silks, and is therefore more expensive. The heavier the silk, the better the quality. Peacock and parrot are the most common motifs. Though lightweight kanjee sarees are popular as they are easy to wear and cost very little, the traditional weavers do not like to compromise. While Korean and Chinese silk is suitable for light-weight sarees (machine woven), only mulberry silk produced in Karnataka and few parts of Tamil Nadu, is right for the classic Kanjeewaram. 2. Konrad Saree - The konrad or the temple saree is also a speciality item from Tamil Nadu. These sarees were original woven for temple deities. - They are wide bordered sarees and are characterised by wedding related motifs such as elephants and peacocks, symbolising water, fertility and fecundity. - Traditional colours for these sarees are earth shades of browns, greys and off-whites. However, brighter shades have been introduced for the North Indian buyer. 3. Others - Pashmina silk, kota silk, Mysore crepes, pochampallis and puttapakshi sarees are also popular South Indian sarees. - Typical wedding sarees from Kerala are the nayayanpets and bavanjipets which usually have a gold border on a cream base. - Traditional colours for these sarees are earth shades of browns, greys and off-whites. However, brighter shades have been introduced for the North Indian buyer. Sarees from East India: 1. Baluchari Sarees - This saree from Bengal is usually five yards in length and 42" wide in flame red, purple and occasionally in deep blue. The field of the saree is covered with small butis and a beautiful floral design runs across the edges. The anchal has the main decoration depicting narrative motifs. Taingals and kanthas are other speciality items from Bengal.

Music Video of Luke Powers' acoustic fingerpicking song about wine, women and what Faulkner called "fecundity." From album Picture Book (on I-Tunes and CDBaby.com).