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Feb. 14, 2011 — -- Talk about good timing. It's Valentine's Day and, as luck would have it, couples looking to have an 11-11-11 baby should get started tonight.
Any baby conceived right around Feb. 18 has a good chance of being born on 11-11-11 according to Dr. Samuel Pang, medical director at the Reproductive Science Center of New England.
The time from the date of conception to the expected date of delivery is usually 38 weeks. But, fair warning, that can vary by one to two weeks before or after the expected due date.
"They can certainly try to time when they get pregnant but the variable is when the woman is ovulating and once you become pregnant there are so many other variables, the exact date is really up to Mother Nature," said Pang.
While things might ultimately be up to Mother Nature that hasn't stopped couples from doing everything they can to have a baby with a memorable birth date.
On Babycenter.com one mom wrote about planning to "time everything right" and that included having a Caesarean section on Nov. 11.
Why all the fuss about this particular date? Numerologists think they have the key.
"There's no way a child born on that day will not be significant. ... It's that cool of a date," said Glynis McCants, a numerologist who has studied numbers for over 20 years and runs the website Numberslady.com.
"Anyone born on the 11th is here to master their life," McCants said. "It's a master number that encourages intelligence."
But that's not all. Numerologists believe that each number has a trait and a "vibration" attached to it. So, you take the number by itself and then you also break down each two-digit number into a single digit. In this case, you add one plus one to get two and two in numerology equals love.
Then you take the month and the day and reduce those to single digits as well to get four.
A four, according to McCants, is someone who seeks knowledge. Finally, when you add all the numbers together, including the year 2011, you get eight and "eights love the finer things in life."
The Numbers Say Yes!!
McCants also said that people who meditate and have faith in the power of numbers have long believed that one of the best times to meditate is at 11 in the morning or 11 at night.
"The belief is that the universe is open to whatever you want at that time, the number is so significant," said McCants.
Valentine's Day is also one of the most popular days to get engaged. And many happy couples are already eyeing 11-11-11 as a wedding date -- despite the fact that it falls on a Friday.
A Facebook contest offering a free wedding on 11-11-11 down in Key West, Fla. was swamped with more than 1,400 entrants. The lucky winners, Kristin and Billy from Campbell, Ohio were announced today.
And Twitter is abuzz with people announcing their wedding plans for 11-11-11 like @BMareeR. And the folks at @EternalBride tweeted they had three brides in one day alone looking for dresses for that date.
@SoCalBarbie_619 is also hoping to get married on 11-11-11, though unfortunately she doesn't have a groom in mind - yet.
Couples have also approached McCants for her advice on whether to plan a wedding for 11-11-11.
"I have dozens of people who have contacted me and want to get married on that day. They wanted to know if it's a good day, a lucky day," said McCants.
Her advice? "Two means love. You always want a two in your wedding day. And four is about couples and commitment." In short, said McCants, the numbers say yes.
"I'm very, very excited about that date," said McCants.
And so apparently are lots of other people.


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BIRDSBORO – Kindergarten, sports and other large expenditure items will likely be recommended once again for cuts in the Daniel Boone Area School District, the school board president warns.
Board President Andrew Basile, who also serves as chairman of the board's finance committee, said reduction or elimination of those programs would be one option for the board to reduce an anticipated $3.6 million budget deficit for the 2014-15 school year.
The district avoided steep cuts in programs and activities this year by dipping into its budget reserves.
Dennis Younkin, the district's interim business manager, provided the finance committee with an updated Act 1 Timeline for 2014-15, a five-year budget analysis, and a 2014-15 proposed budget.
Younkin was hired on an interim basis after the resignation in June of Business Manager Danielle Penza and has been working with the district's Assistant Business Manager Mark Boyer.
Younkin said the $3.6 million deficit were based on his calculations of a $55 million budget with $52 million in revenues that include a tax increase to the index of 2.8 percent for $900,000 revenue; the district's salaries and benefits total $2.7 million of the expenditures.
Basile said the district's administration will present a balanced 2014-15 budget to the board in November.
He said it will then be the board's job to determine if it agrees with the administration's recommendations of program curtailments, a tax increase, and/or the use of the $4.6 million (as of June 30) fund balance money, or any other expenditure or revenue ideas.
Boyer said that the fund balance includes the $700,000 in 2013-14 budget surplus money, and also that the fund amount could change upon completion of the audit.
Superintendent Gary L. Otto said he would start meeting with department heads in October to review their budgets, which will no longer include any contingency amounts.
'My aim is to create a district (general) contingency,' said Otto, adding, 'I will say 'no,' and the departments must explain why not. Each department won't have its own contingency and the only way to know would be to go line by line. That's the level of detail we'll go to.'
'That's what the fund balance is for – no one should be padding anything,' said school board member Frank Cerminaro, adding that the board would most likely 'take the tax increase out and put fund balance in' to balance the budget.

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Niebuhr, Reinhold
Niebuhr, Reinhold rīn´hōld nē´bo͝or [key], 1892–1971, American religious and social thinker, b. Wright City, Mo. A graduate of Yale Divinity School, he served (1915–28) as pastor of Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit, where he became deeply interested in social problems. In 1928 he began teaching at Union Theological Seminary, becoming professor of applied Christianity in 1930; he remained in this post until his retirement in 1960. In the early 1930s he shed his liberal Protestant hopes for the church's moral rule of society and became a political activist and a socialist. A prolific writer, he urged—notably in Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932), Christianity and Power Politics (1940), and The Nature and Destiny of Man (2 vol., 1941–43)—clerical interest in social reforms as well as the beliefs that men are sinners, that society is ruled by self-interest, and that history is characterized by irony, not progress. After World War II, he dropped much of his social radicalism and preached
conservative realism.In his later works, such as Faith and History (1949), Niebuhr argued for balances of interests and defended Christianity as the world view that best explains the heights and barbarisms of human behavior. In A Nation So Conceived (1963) he analyzed aspects of the American character. He also wrote Man's Nature and his Communities (1965), Faith and Politics (ed. by R. H. Stone 1968), and The Democratic Experience (with P. E. Sigmund, 1969).
See biographies by R. H. Stone (1972) and R. W. Fox (1987, repr. 1995); D. F. Rice, Reinhold Niebuhr and His Circle of Influence (2012); studies by H. P. Odegard (1956, repr. 1972), J. Bingham (1961, repr. 1972), N. A. Scott, Jr., ed. (1975); bibliography by D. B. Robertson (1984).
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Stress, deadlines, or caffeine can give people a few sleepless nights, but there are some people for whom insomnia is chronic, complete, and fatal. Find out about a rare, but scary, condition known as fatal familial insomnia.
The first case of fatal familial insomnia shocked the world in 1984. An Italian man named Silvano, in his mid-fifties, with no history of major sleep problems, checked into a prominent sleep clinic. He had completely lost his ability to sleep. For most of us, having 'insomnia' means not being able to sleep for a couple of hours when going to bed. Sufferers of FFI are unable to sleep at all, sometimes for months. The man whose arrival at that clinic in Bologna first brought the condition to the world's attention, died after four months of documented insomnia. Then, and now, doctors have no explanation for his death.
Silvano's family, and about forty other families world-wide, have a specific genetic mutation. Almost all members of affected families have reported a full night without sleep, but the disease only kicks into gear in some cases. In some cases, though, the insomnia becomes chronic and life-threatening.
The 1984 official diagnosis was preceded by a stream of unofficial deaths. In the 1970s Silvano's niece suddenly began to lose the ability to sleep, and died about a year after the onset of the illness. Sleeping pills and other forms of medication did no good. Some time after she died, her sister was struck with the same set of symptoms. The woman's husband was a doctor. Mystified and frightened, he looked back through ancient family records and found more family members who had died of 'epilepsy' or 'mental illness,' that seemed to fit the pattern, and met older and more distant relatives who had seen their family members die of a similar affliction.
Genetic testing revealed that fifty percent of the family were carriers of the gene. Most of the carriers remained healthy throughout their lives. Those that lost the ability to sleep, though, faced a horrific future. The insomnia was caused by a protein that began attacking the structure of the brain. Silvano's brain, when examined by doctors, was full of tiny holes. Once the sleeplessness has gone on for too long, the patient becomes suspended in a half-dream-reality. Patients act out their dreams, and mime combing their hair or putting on clothes. They are still awake, but unable to engage with things happening around them. They lose the ability to walk and talk as their bodies become weaker. At last, after months of sleeplessness, they die.
Doctors still don't know exactly why those patients were affected when other carriers of the gene were not. In fact, doctors don't know exactly why people sleep, or why the loss of the ability to sleep becomes fatal. They hope that a cure for this rare disease will come in the next decade, but right now, the only hope for those with the mutation is that it never becomes active.
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text: If there's anything that makes me squeal like a little girl on a pixie stick high, it's watching videos of pets playing with gadgets. This little kitty uses the family Roomba as its own amusement park ride, presumably vacuuming up the mess it sheds everyday on the side. I'm not sure how they managed to get it so close to something so noisy-my own cat freaks out every time the doorbell rings. [Neatorama]


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The Polar Urals tree ring site is another staple of multiproxy studies, being used in Bradley and Jones [1993], Hughes and Diaz[1994], Overpeck et al. [1997], Jones et al. [1998], MBH98, MBH99, Crowley and Lowery [2000], Esper et al. [2002], Bradley, Hughes and Diaz [2003] and Rutherford et al. [2005] (which recycles MBH98). In fact, it seems to have been used in every study.
The Polar Urals site is considered in a series of studies, starting with Graybill and Shiyatov[1992], continuing with Briffa et al [Nature, 1995] and Briffa et al. [Nature, 1996].
In an earlier posting, I pointed out the striking change in altitude of samples at this site, with 13th century samples averaging from an altitude of about 310 m. (NATO 1996, Figure 4, top panel), while modern samples all come from between 200 and 250 m. Briffa says that the elevations of the subfossil cores are known precisely, but not the modern cores (p. 35). I have requested elevations of the subfossil cores without any success. At a typical lapse rate of 6.5 deg C/km altitude, a difference of 60-110 m between the altitudes of modern samples and 13th century samples is pretty significant: 0.39-0.72 deg C., say 0.55 deg. C and something that would seem to require adjustment. NATO Figure 4 shows different altitudes than a similar graphic from Shiyatov, shown as Figure 1 below, which shows a maximum difference in treeline of 70 m. I presume that the "mean elevation" of NATO Figure 4 and the "altitude of the upper treeline" of the Shiyatov figure measure slightly different things, but the amount of displacement in the two concepts seems pretty similar.
So how is the problem of changing altitude handled by Briffa (and Jones)?
"We examined the evidence for a time-dependent elevation bias in the reconstruction by regressing mean MXD against mean sample elevation for different age classes of trees … These results (shown in [their] Table 2) indicate no significant elevational influence on mean density, at least over the range of elevation involved in these calculations"
Here is their Table 2:
TABLE 2. Correlation (Number of Samples) between Mean MXD and Elevation by Age Class, Polar Urals.
|Age Class
|Subfossil Only
|All Samples
|0.09 (37)
|-0.07 (62)
|0.05 (49)
|-0.12 (90)
|0.10 (40)
|-0.05 (71)
|-0.20 (17)
|-0.07 (39)
|0.10 (8)
|0.22 (18)
|-0.25 ( 3)
|-0.08 ( 9)
The original caption stated:
"The density data in each age class are averaged over different time periods so that effects of climate variability should hopefully largely cancel out. Two sets of correlations are shown: one based only on the subfossil series and the other including the living tree material whose precise elevations are not known and have been set here to a constant elevation of 250 m. None of the correlations is significant indicating that there is little evidence for an elevation influence on ring density and hence little age-dependent bias in the temperature reconstruction arising out of the differences in sample heights shown in Figure 4."
But think for a moment about what is actually being said here: if MXD is measuring temperature and there is no elevation effect, then the temperatures being estimated in the Briffa reconstruction are for varying elevations. So if you want a temperature reconstruction for a constant elevation, you need to adjust for the varying elevations i.e. increase the 13th century results by about 0.55 deg C. If the effect went the other way, how long do you think it would have taken the Hockey Team to do that adjustment?
When I get a digital version of the changing altitudes, I'll do an adjusted version of the Polar Urals data set and update this page. There are only 3 proxies in Jones et al. [1998] in the first part of the warm 11th century: Tornetrask, Polar Urals and GISP2 — so you can probably guess where I'm headed with these details.
There's another interesting issue about data quality in the 11th century, which I'll get to sometime this week.


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text: SanDisk may have a new PMP on the way. An accessory bundle for something called a Sansa Fuze was spotted on maker HandStands' website earlier—currently the address redirects to generic Sansa accessories. The player pictured in the ad looks like competition for a 3G iPod nano, and will likely include 8-16GB of memory as well as video and radio playback. When we know for sure, you will too. [anythingbutipod]


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One weekend, my friends and I were playing Truth or Dare and I ended up getting dared to eat a piece of pizza topped with just cheese, sauce, and garlic! It was super-gross but I figured I wouldn't be kissing anybody that night, so I did it. Well, just my luck, later on when we were all hanging out at my house, the doorbell rang and it turned out to be my crush! He confessed to me how much he liked me right then and there, but I had to apologize, run upstairs, and brush my teeth before I could kiss him because I had garlic breath! When I came back down, my friends were laughing hysterically and my crush had heard every detail of my dare earlier on!
I kept getting these love notes signed from my secret admirer for a week, and after investigating, I figured it actually was my crush! I got so excited and admitted to him that I liked him, but then I found out he wasn't my secret admirer, my friend was and was playing a joke on me! I was so embarrassed, and since then I've been avoiding him as much as possible!
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When I set up my first e-mail account, my crush had given me his e-mail, so I e-mailed him to see if it worked. I called him a little later to see if he had gotten my e-mail but he was doing homework, so he said he hadn't checked yet. Leaving my account logged in, I decided to go hang out and relax, and check back later for a response. Well, to my surprise, when I checked my e-mail a little later, my little sister had gone on and e-mailed my crush a message saying, "I Love You! Love, Nici." I was so embarrassed, but now I've learned to log out of my e-mail just in case!
I'm a cheerleader, and at this one game I was doing our regular routine, and did a toe touch. Well, it was that time of the month, and I was wearing a pad, but as I did my toe touch, the pad flew out of my uniform and onto the floor. One of the cute basketball players came over and asked if I was okay, but then he noticed my pad lying on the floor in front of him! Even worse, the next day the entire school knew about my flying pad!
My friends and I went bowling one weekend, and one of them told a hilarious joke while we were eating lunch, and we all busted out laughing. Suddenly I slammed my hand down on the table and this cup of hot sauce flew straight in the air and landed all over me! My friends started laughing even harder, and next thing I knew, the cute guys sitting at the table next to us were laughing too! One of them even said, "Hey, Hottie!" I was so embarrassed, and had to bowl smelling like hot sauce for the rest of the night!
My sister, Hannah, and I love waking up early and taking walks through the park. This one time I threw on an old T-shirt and some baggy shorts and didn't even bother to comb my hair or anything, figuring nobody I would know would be up so early. To my surprise, as we passed the basketball courts, I saw my friend's boyfriend and his best friend, who I have the biggest crush on! I quickly hid my face with my frizzy hair and turned around and walked in the other direction, but it was too late, because I heard him calling my name. I kept walking! Hopefully he didn't get a chance to see my face, because I looked superbad!
My family took a vacation in Florida and it was superhot, so I was wearing this cute halter top. Right when we were eating lunch, my top completely fell off and I didn't notice until a few seconds later! When I realized what had happened, I quickly pulled it back up and tied it in a knot, hoping nobody saw. However, this little boy wouldn't stop staring at me for the rest of the trip!
I was walking down the hallway at school when suddenly I saw my crush walking toward me. I was trying to act cool, so I flipped my hair. Sadly, I tripped and fell into a garbage can filled with leftovers from lunch. I was so embarrassed! I had to walk around smelling like rotten food for the rest of the day!
"Our school went to a local camp on a field trip for two days. On the second day, my friend and I decided to go rock-climbing, but I hadn't worn a belt that day. Nevertheless, I started climbing and was nearly halfway when the instructor asked me to come down for a moment. I was so confused, but it turned out that my underwear was hanging out and everybody on the ground was laughing at me, even my crush! Now I know to always wear a belt!
Last year I went to a pool party at my friend's house and I found out my crush was there. I wanted to impress him by doing a flip off of the diving board, but I didn't know that my period has just started. So, after I did my little routine, I got out of the pool and waited for my crush to come say hi. Everybody started laughing and I couldn't figure out why! I turned around, and the pool was almost filled with blood! I haven't gone swimming very often since then.


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Troppau, Congress of
Troppau, Congress of trôp´ou [key], 1820, international conference convened at the behest of Czar Alexander I of Russia under the provisions of the Quadruple Alliance. The congress, which met at Troppau in Austrian Silesia, was attended by representatives of Russia, Austria, Prussia, Great Britain, and France. Its purpose was to consider the means of suppressing the liberal uprisings against Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Ferdinand VII of Spain. No decisions were taken on the problems under consideration, which were referred to later meetings (see Laibach, Congress of, and Verona, Congress of). However, Austria, Russia, and Prussia signed a protocol (proposed by Alexander I) that threatened armed action against any revolutionary attempts to disturb the status quo. Britain and France refused to adhere to the protocol, marking the first serious weakening of the congress system.
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A New Mexico man's dinner was downright divine after he discovered an image of Jesus on his tortilla.
Post by: Anderson Cooper
Filed under: The RidicuList
Enjoy all your Ridiculists, lol. This one is something how it really looked like the Lord on the foods and the dog, and I like that toaster that presses the Lord's look on the toast. 🙂
Interesting but A little much.
Anderson, you can be funny. This was funny!
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Last week, SciPy 2007 came to Caltech. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend many of the talks because I was busy with lab work and other deadlines, and because SciPy was held immediately upstairs from my lab I could just duck out to go back to work. However, I did attend a few of the talks and found all of them interesting -- and I heard that I seriously missed out on one or two. Hopefully other people will blog about those.
The talks I am qualified to comment on are the two other biology-based ones that I could attend. One was on pygr, given by Chris Lee, and the other was on Galaxy, given by James Taylor. Together with my talk on Cartwheel, I think they illustrated three entertainingly diverse approaches to bioinformatics and biology. Chris focused on addressing query paradigms (pygr implements a graphic database) as well as data size issues in alignment and annotation of large sequences. James talked a lot about building workflow interfaces to packages, thereby presenting a possible solution to many of the current problems in bioinformatics such as formatting, reproducibility, and software interaction. And I talked about how Cartwheel provided biologists with one specific way to answer one specific kind of problem, and did so in about as simple a manner as you can imagine. I already have plans for cross-fertilization...
Hopefully we can attract other bio talks to SciPy next year!
I also gave a rather low-key tutorial on "idiomatic Python", which went OK but was, well, low-key. I attended two birds-of-a-feather, one on testing (organized by fperez) and one on biology (organized by me). I'll write more about those later.
The BoFs and the after-talk interactions really convinced me that SciPy is a very useful conference for meeting other people who have similar problems to you (perhaps in slightly different fields). While I feel the talks are widely scattered by topic, ultimately a lot of the issues -- data handling, interfaces, visualization, parallelization -- are shared by everyone, and because we all use Python we can actually use each other's technology! Very cool stuff. Next year I'd suggest having more mixers and shorter presentations, so that we can get more of a sense of what's going on out there, but that's all I would suggest.


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Editor's note: Steve Politi is a sports columnist for The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey. He can be reached at email@example.com or Twitter: @StevePoliti
By Steve Politi, Special to CNN
(CNN) - Football can't do much to help the devastated communities along the Jersey Shore after Hurricane Sandy. But this is what residents in dozens of towns are discovering this month: Football players can.
From Union Beach to Seaside Heights, from Belmar to Bayville, local high school teams are aiding the recovery effort with supplies, with support, and sometimes, with strength.
That was the scene in Point Pleasant Beach last weekend. More than a dozen members of the town's undefeated high school team went door to door helping their neighbors. They carried out flood-ravaged debris to the curb, from couches to dressers to dining room furniture, and when they finished one house they would walk as a group to the next and start again.
"I said to the kids when I texted them (to organize the cleanup), the community has been so behind us, this is an opportunity for us, in a way, to say thank you," said John Wagner, the team's head coach.
Many of the players had done the same thing at their own homes earlier in the week. Others were displaced, living in hotels or shelters, not sure where their families would settle long-term.
This is the case up and down the Jersey Shore, the epicenter of the devastation from the unprecedented storm. The images on television days after, from the roller coaster from the Seaside boardwalk sitting in the ocean to the boats piled up like toys on the streets, do not begin to sum up the damage.


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http://mmajunkie.com BIRMINGHAM, England – With perhaps his biggest win yet, Mark Munoz is convinced he's ready for a title shot.
Following a two-round beating of fellow middleweight Chris Leben that forced the fighter's corner to call it quits before the third, Munoz was declared the TKO winner of the main event of Saturday's UFC 138 event.
The event took place at LG Arena in Birmingham, England. The main card airs via same-day delay on Spike TV in the U.S., and it aired live in other countries.
Although scheduled as the UFC's first non-title five-rounder, Munoz needed just 10 minutes.
The two-time NCAA Division I national-champion wrestler scored a quick takedown in the first, but Leben quickly worked his way back up. Munoz made him pay with body punches, but after some strikes of his own, Leben surprisingly scored a takedown and unloaded some solid punches when his opponent quickly returned to his feet. After Leben's failed guillotine choke, Munoz took top position and battered him with ground and pound, as well as heavy punches as Leben staggered back to his feet. Leben returned fire, but the round was Munoz's.
Leben looked clearly fatigued as the second round started, and Munoz tripped him to the mat within the first minute of the frame. Munoz postured up with some heavy ground and pound, and he made Leben pay with power punches as he got back to his feet. After another takedown, Munoz battered a kneeling Leben with blows that left the "Crippler" badly bloodied. After a timeout to check the cut, Leben initially told the doctor he couldn't see. But when the ref threatened to stop it, Leben assured him he was OK to go. The beating continuing once the round continued.
The round was Munoz's, and it proved the final action of the night. Between rounds, cornermen told officials Leben couldn't see, and the fight was halted via corner's stoppage.
"It's hard to fight when you're choking on blood," a dejected Leben said. "I'm definitely going
to need to evaluate my ground game after that performance."
For the usually mild-mannered Munoz, it was his opportunity to stump for a shot at the middleweight belt.
"Chris Leben is a tough, tough competitor," he said. "I knew I needed to look out for his left hand. … I had to get my angles, utilize my wrestling, get my single-leg (takedowns), and utilize my ground and pound. That's what I did.
"I paid my dues in this weight class, and I think I deserve a title shot. Anderson Silva is by far the best pound-for-pound fighter. I give him all the respect and honor, but I think I deserve a title shot right now."
Munoz (12-2 MMA, 7-2 UFC) now has won four straight and seven of his past eight. Leben (22-8 MMA, 12-7 UFC) sees the momentum of a 4-1 run halted by the loss.
Renan Barao wins 27th straight
Will people finally start taking Renan Barao seriously?
Following his co-main-event win over fellow bantamweight contender Brad Pickett, it's hard not to. After all, the Brazilian has now registered a staggering 27 straight victories.
The bout opened with an immediate slugfest, and both fighters connected with some heavy shots. The damaging blows continued through the first few minutes of the fight, though Pickett seemed to dictate the pacing. But with two minutes remaining in the opening round, Barao unloaded a big knee right up the middle that staggered Pickett. Barao immediately unloaded a combination that dropped Pickett, stood over him and rained down more punches, followed him to the mat, took back mount, and then choked out the dazed fighter with a rear-naked choke in a lightning-quick sequence.
The crowd-silencing finish came at the 4:09 mark of the opening round.
Pickett, whom many thought could become the UFC's first English champ, was given every opportunity to recover, but Barao's relentless attack gave him no time to shake the cobwebs.
"I fought really hard and had a great camp," he said. "My power, technique (and) skill [were] all fantastic, and I couldn't be happier with this win against a tough opponent."
Barao (27-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC) now has won every fight (plus one no-contest) since a split-decision loss in his 2005 promotional debut. Pickett (20-6 MMA, 0-1 UFC), who returned from a near-yearlong layoff due to injury, is now 1-2 since a career-best nine-fight win streak, which included a stint with the WEC.
Alves impressive in win over newcomer Abedi
Thiago Alves got an impressive victory when he needed it most, and he ultimately scored a first-round submission victory over newcomer Papy Abedi.
In the first round, Alves, a heavy favorite, opted to stand and trade with Abedi, who initially got the better of exchanges with punches and kicks from varying angles. Quick combos and inside leg kicks proved especially effective, and after stalking the Brazilian, Abedi appeared ready to hang with one of the world's top welterweights.
But a determined Alves remained alert and soon unloaded his own combination that dropped the Swedish-Congolese fighter, who was on wobbly legs. He then opened up a laceration with a slicing elbow across the face after he moved into the mount position. Abedi tried to roll free, but Alves locked on a fight-ending rear-naked choke moments later.
The ending came at the 3:32 mark of the opening round.
Despite 19 career victories, Alves' registered his first true submission win.
"I love England, and this is one of the highlights of my career," said Alves, who eyes a return at January's event in Rio de Janeiro. "I had an amazing training camp and can't wait for the next one. I'd love to fight in Brazil. That is my dream."
Alves (19-8 MMA, 11-5 UFC), a former UFC title challenger, snapped out of a 1-3 skid with the much-needed victory. Abedi (8-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC), a veteran of the European fight circuit, suffers his first career loss.
Perosh avoids Diabate's striking, gets submission win
Anthony Perosh avoided his opponent's renowned striking and picked up his second straight win since a return to the light-heavyweight division with a second-round submission victory over Cyrille Diabate.
In the first round, Perosh simply tried to avoid Diabate's striking and continually failed to get the fight to the ground until late in the round. By then, though, it was too late to mount much in the way of offense.
But in the second, he did it in the first minute and immediately took the mount position. He transitioned between top and back mount while mixing in some heavy blows and rear-naked-choke attempts. Diabate had opportunities to escape, but the French kickboxer failed to capitalize. After a final volley, Perosh saw his opportunity, and the Australian vet clamped on the fight-ending choke.
The tap-out came at the 3:09 mark of the round.
"My first (UFC) win was great, but I needed to back it up, and I'm delighted to have done so." Perosh said. "I[ve trained in boxing for only one year, but I have focused on it twice as much as anything else, and it paid off."
Perosh (12-6 MMA, 2-3 UFC), who's bounced between the light-heavyweight and heavyweight divisions during two UFC stints, has built some recent momentum with submission victories over Diabate and Tom Blackledge. Diabate (17-8-1 MMA, 2-2 UFC) suffers just his second loss in nine fights.
Etim dazzles after long layoff
After a 19-month layoff due to a lingering injury, English lightweight Terry Etim needed just 17 seconds to claim a victory in his return fight.
Facing Hawaiian fighter Eddie Faaloloto, Etim simply landed a few short hooks, unloaded a spinning back kick, locked on an arm-in guillotine choke, and then wrapped guard as his opponent slammed him to the mat.
With the choke tight, Faaloloto was forced to tap out in just 17 seconds, which brought the English crowd to a roar.
"I said I was coming back with a bang, and there you go," Etim said. "I really enjoyed that. I've been out for a while, so I need to get back and gain some momentum."
Etim (15-3 MMA, 6-3 UFC), who had been sidelined with a lingering rib injury, quietly moves into title contention with his fifth win in six fights. Faaloloto (2-3 MMA, 0-2 UFC), meanwhile, falls to 0-3 under the Zuffa banner and likely will be released.
SEE ALSO: UFC 138 preliminary-card results: Maguire survives early knockdown, Omigawa wins
- Mark Munoz def. Chris Leben via TKO (corner's stoppage) – Round 2, 5:00
- Renan Barao def. Brad Pickett via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 1, 4:09
- Thiago Alves def. Papy Abedi via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 1, 3:32
- Anthony Perosh def. Cyrille Diabate via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 2, 3:09
- Terry Etim def. Edward Faaloloto via submission (guillotine choke) – Round 1, 0:17
- John Maguire def. Justin Edwards via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
- Philip De Fries def. Rob Broughton via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
- Michihiro Omigawa def. Jason Young via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
- Che Mills def. Chris Cope via TKO (knee) – Round 1, 0:40
- Chris Cariaso def. Vaughan Lee via split decision (28-29, 29-28, 29-28)
For the latest on UFC 138, stay tuned to the UFC Events section of the site.
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|Donna Weinbrecht performs in women's moguls during the world
championships on Feb. 8, 1997 in Nagano, Japan.
Mogul and aerial skiing are grouped together in the category of freestyle skiing and both were included as demonstration sports in Calgary in 1988. Moguls became a medal sport in the Winter Games in 1992 in Albertville, and two years later, in Lillehammer, aerials were added to the Olympic Winter Games program. Although these sports are relatively new Olympic events, Americans quickly became a force, beginning in 1992 when Donna Weinbrecht won the moguls gold. Nelson Carmichael added a bronze medal for Team USA that year. Team USA did not win Olympic medals in aerials until 1998, but made up for lost time as Eric Bergoust and Nikki Stone both won gold medals in Nagano. Team USA has had several medalists since and is hoping more of its athletes will reach the podium at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games.
Four sets of medals will be handed out in freestyle skiing at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, making a total of 12 medals (men's moguls and aerials and women's moguls and aerials). The United States won four medals in three events at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, including gold by Hannah Kearney in women's moguls. No other nation won as many freestyle skiing medals in Vancouver. Also earning medals in freestyle skiing in the 2010 Winter Games were Shannon Bahrke (bronze, moguls), Jeret "Speedy" Peterson (silver, aerials) and Bryon Wilson (bronze, moguls).
|Hannah Kearney skis during the FIS Freestyle Ski World
Championship dual moguls on March 8, 2013 in Voss, Norway.
A two-time Olympian from Vermont, Hannah Kearney clearly has established herself as the top women's moguls freestyle skier in the world. The defending Olympic gold medalist, Kearney is a three-time world cup overall champion in women's moguls and won the world championship in March in Voss, Norway. Kearney has been so dominant in the sport that her consecutive winning streak of 16 in world cup competition in 2011 and 2012 set a record for the longest win streak in any skiing discipline in FIS World Cups. Her list of world championship gold medals dates back to 2005 when she was 18. She made her Olympic debut at the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games, where she finished 22nd in women's moguls.
"No one in the sport of freestyle skiing has won two gold medals, so that's my aim," Kearney recently said to NBC. "Anything can happen in sport, but I'm training hard."
The brothers who fly fish together ski together. And if the qualification results fall just right, Bryon and Bradley Wilson might both be on the U.S. Olympic Team as members of the men's moguls squad. Bryon, who is four years older than Bradley, earned a bronze medal in men's moguls at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games and has a strong shot of making the 2014 U.S. Olympic Team. Bradley had an impressive 2012-13 season, medaling four times on the FIS World Cup circuit and winning a gold medal in Inawashiro, Japan. The start of the 2013-14 season dealt Bradley Wilson a tough blow. He suffered a contusion to his right lung during a training crash in August in Chile. Bryon Wilson, coming off ACL reconstruction surgery, won his first world cup event in Kreischberg, Austria. The brothers, who hail from Butte, Mont., both have won junior world championship titles.
The United States has built up its moguls muscles internationally. Led by Kearney's gold medal, Team USA won three of six moguls medals at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Three-time Olympian Shannon Bahrke (now retired) claimed a bronze in the women's moguls and Bryon Wilson also earned a bronze medal in the men's competition. At the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games, the United States won just one moguls medal. The U.S. moguls team also won the 2012 Nations Cup title. In addition to Kearney and Wilson, who hope to return to the Winter Games in February, other Team USA medal contenders for Sochi are Heather McPhie, Pat Deneen, Jeremy Cota and Bradley Wilson, all world cup podium finishers. The history of strong U.S. moguls teams goes back to the Albertville 1992 Olympic Winter Games, when Donna Weinbrecht won gold in the inaugural Olympic women's moguls event.
In addition to a strong moguls team, the U.S. aerials team will be expecting strong performances in Sochi. Among the leaders of that group are 2010 Olympian Ashley Caldwell, two-time Olympian Emily Cook, and 2010 Olympian Scotty Bahrke and Dylan Ferguson.
|Scotty Bahrke trains in men's aerials at the Visa Freestyle
International on Feb. 3, 2012 in Park City, Utah.
The Olympic legacy in the Bahrke family now falls to men's aerials skier Scotty Bahrke. His sister, Shannon, is a three-time Olympian and finished her international career by earning a bronze medal at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. While Shannon was a moguls whiz, Scotty turned his full-time attention to aerials in 2005. Just two years later, he was the world cup rookie of the year in men's aerials, and in 2010, he made his first U.S. Olympic Team. He won his first World Cup event in February 2012 in Austria. This time, Shannon, also a 2002 Olympic silver medalist, could be a cheering onlooker.
Eleven years of gymnastics is paying off for U.S. aerials skier Ashley Caldwell, who will seek her second Olympic appearance in Sochi. She placed 10th in women's aerials at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Caldwell was a gymnast in Virginia when she watched Olympic skiing on TV in 2006 and decided that she wanted to give aerial freestyle skiing a try. After just three years of training, she made the national team in 2010 at age 16, finished among the top 15 at her first three world cup competitions and made the U.S. Olympic Team. A knee injury in early 2012 put Caldwell on the sidelines, but she is expected to be positioned for another run at the Winter Games in 2014.
Freestyle skiing competition will begin Feb. 6, the day before the Opening Ceremony. The first event is women's moguls, which will be held Feb. 6 and 8. The men's moguls competition will be held Feb. 10, followed by the women's aerials Feb. 14 and men's aerials Feb. 17.
All freestyle skiing events will be held at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park. Snowboarding and freeskiing also will be held at Rosa Khutor. The competition venue, which will have a spectator capacity of 8,000 for freestyle skiing, is located west of the Rosa Khutor area that will be used for alpine skiing. The venue has been host to a number of test events beginning in March 2012, including an FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup in February 2013 and an FIS Snowboard World Cup in March 2013.
Aerial and moguls freestyle skiers will qualify for Sochi based on their performances at FIS world cup events between July 1, 2012, and Jan. 19, 2014. U.S. skiers are vying for a total 26 spots for freestyle skiing and freeskiing events. Athletes are eligible for selection to the Olympic team if they earn a top-30 finish at a FIS World Cup or world championships event in the qualification period. Up to four U.S. skiers can compete in each of the Olympic disciplines.
In moguls skiing, the tricks and the jumps are the thing. Athletes race down a course and are required to perform two tricks and jumps on each run. The more challenging they are, the higher the score. The course includes a series of gates. Mistakes are costly because the Olympic format includes just a one-run elimination round. The final round also is a one-run format with the skiers receiving the highest score for tricks and jumps winning the medals. Judges score on the quality of a skier's tricks, and on the quality and difficulty of jumps. Speed is also rewarded.
The wow factor plays big in the men's and women's aerials competition. The preliminary round in Sochi will consist of two jumps. The top 12 athletes advance to the finals, which also will consist of two jumps. Scores from the preliminaries will not carry over to the finals. Judges score on jump form (50 percent), landing (30 percent) and takeoff (20 percent).
The aerials and moguls competitions have their own set of terminology and much of it involves twisting and flipping while in the air. Think of it as Olympic divers on skis. A lay-full-tuck routine includes a triple flip, followed by a second flip with a twist, then finishing with a tuck and a landing. A lay-full-full includes a double-twisting triple flip. A half-full-half jump consists of three flips with half-twists on the first and third flips, and a full twist on the second flip. Oh, and don't try this at home.
In moguls, the length of the skis is usually about 180 centimeters for men and 170 centimeters for women. In aerials, the skis for both men and women are about 160 centimeters. Ski poles are used to help an athlete pick up speed, turn effectively and maintain balance.
Paul D. Bowker has been writing about Olympic sports since 1990 and was Olympic assistant bureau chief for Morris Communications at the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games. He also writes about Olympic sports for the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Bowker has written for TeamUSA.org since 2010 as a freelance contributor on behalf of Red Line Editorial, Inc.


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How to Calculate THC Dosages in Cannabis Edibles
Have you ever had the experience of eating too much homemade cake or cookies? Fun is different. Roughly calculating the THC dosages is crucial to have a good time.
Cannabis-infused edibles are getting more popular and can provide a safe way to use cannabis without smoking it. There are a few things worth considering when we make edibles ourselves. The old Latin saying "Dosis sola venenum facit" is perfectly valid for the making of edibles, meaning that only the right dosage will give us the desired effect. We aim for feel-good relaxation without overwhelming effects. If you're interested in a recipe to make your own cannabis butter, click here.
Estimating the amount of raw material based on personal experience is a good approach often followed by experienced bakers, but this can be hard to do for first-timers, and people who understandingly like to be precise. This blog will give you some general information on factors that can have an influence on your "highness", and will also provide a basic way to calculate dosages for the next baking session coming up.
When it's your first time eating cannabis edibles, it's best to do this in an environment where you feel comfortable and safe. It can make a big difference if you consume cannabis edibles in your own private walls, where you're generally comfortable, in contrast to a place where lots of stress and tension lie in the air. Environment includes people, so choose wisely and get baked with people you know and like.
The opposite, a bad environment for experimenting with edibles, would a place where you don't feel comfortable for whatever reason. When the environment causes discomfort, this feeling might be enhanced when larger quantities are being consumed, resulting in a negative experience.
It's only logical that a heavy-weight boxer needs to eat a little more than a rather skinny female user. Seems unfair, but is the only way to get the best experience for everyone. THC tolerance is also a major factor. Smokers who consume frequently need more than first-timers.
Besides the actual dosage, it's probably the state of mind you're in, influencing the high the most. When you're experiencing lots of stress, uncertainty and negative feelings, maybe paired with a little anxiety, it's not the best time to experiment with edibles. These negative feelings might dominate your thoughts when you're high, and make things worse instead of more relaxed. The perfect state of mind to experiment with edibles is when you're kind of relaxed and happy in the first place.
We first need to identify the percentage of THC in the strain we're using as raw material for our edibles. Most of today's strains are tested somewhere between 15-20% of THC when grown properly, some weaker material might only have 10%. We will calculate with 10% to simplify things:
- 1 gram of cannabis equals 1,000mg of dry weight, with a total THC content of 100mg.
- Beginners can start off with as little as 5-10mg THC per serving, assuming they might one to eat more than just one (e.g. one cookie)
Theoretically, just 2g of dried bud would be enough to infuse 20 beginner-friendly cookies or edibles with 10mg of THC. Practice, however, shows that these amounts are sometimes not sufficient.
It's only an assumption that 100% of the THC gets completely transferred from blossom to edible! Our production process is not precise, and we don't maintain the specific temperature in which THC leaves our plant, and binds to our carrier material. Practice showed good results when we double this amount, assuming a THC loss of approximately 50% due to imprecise methods and temperatures. This would get us to following dosages for first-timers, rookies, and experts.
- 20 First-Timer Edibles = 4g of cannabis (approximately 10mg THC per serving)
- 20 Rookie Edibles = 8g of cannabis (approximately 20mg THC per serving)
- 20 Expert Edibles = 16g+ of cannabis (approximately 40mg+ THC per serving)
Have fun in the bakery and don't get nervous if you get the feeling that you ate too much. Nobody has ever died from eating cannabis-infused edibles, and chances are high you won't be the first one.


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Lindsay Lohan has been banned from her favorite place on Earth, the Chateau Marmont hotel, all because of one trivial little issue (she owes them $46,000).
But hold on to your hats because it turns out Lindsay did nothing wrong and everything is someone elses fault. What a shocking twist this story took!
Sources close to the actress tell TMZ, Lindsay claims producers agreed to cover her stay at Marmont while she filmed "Liz & Dick" earlier this summer — so she was shocked to learn there was an outstanding 5-figure bill in her name.
I'm as amazed as anyone, but that's probably true. Getting around LA is impossible and infuriating so it makes perfect sense for the producers to get her a room close to the set. It happens all the time. Her first day was June 4th, and the hotel bill begins June 5th (after she no-showed the first reservation, of course). So far so good.
Normally that would be the end of a story like this, but Lindsay Lohan is a pathological liar / kleptomaniac / cunt, so it's not.
Here's the deal: Lindsay lives on San Ysidro Drive in Beverly Hills (red arrow), and even shares a driveway with this much better house where Heidi Klum and Seal used to live 🙁
'Liz and Dick' was filming in Marina del Rey, "A" on this map. Lindsays house is "B", Chateau Marmont is "C". So instead of getting a room near the set, whenever her water bottle was out of vodka and she needed to rape a pile of coke, she would drive to a hotel that was half a mile past her house.
And just like the previous 100 billion times a company paid for an employees hotel room, Lindsay was expected to cover incidentals. That's all she was charged for until June 15th. After that, the producers were still paying for her room, but now that room was in the Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey, because, yes, it only took 2 weeks for her to figure out that walking 15 feet to a luxury hotel is easier than driving 25 minutes to one.
The move paid immediate dividends. Except that she was found unconscious that very same day. Obviously I meant other than that.
Now, since the movie wasn't paying for her room at Marmont anymore, you might be wondering why Lindsay didn't leave, why she didn't check out, but keep in mind that Lindsay is a moron, and if she could she'd tell you and your perfectly reasonable questions to go fuck yourselves.
Of course it is possible that she really did think the producers were paying for everything during filming. Since the movie wrapped on July 2nd, that would explain why she stocked up on $502 worth of tiny alcohol and gummi bears from the mini-bar on July 1st. Those producers took a big chance and hired her when no one else would, so why not fuck them over as much as possible, ya know? $19 for a Toblerone? YOLO.
And after that it was practically a holiday; surely the producers would want to thank their star and have her stay a few more days, and then charge over $2,500 in the hotels restaurants and bars on July 4th. And so that's exactly what she did!
And the producers should pay for all that! They should pay the $20,000 the hotel is charging while she made the movie! And also the $26,000 the hotel is charging for the two months since then, because why not. What an honor this must be for them!


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Towards a Science of Morality: A Reply to Massimo Pigliucci
In this year's annual Edge.org question "What should we be worried about?" I answered that we should be worried about " The Is-Ought Fallacy of Science and Morality." I wrote: "We should be worried that scientists have given up the search for determining right and wrong and which values lead to human flourishing". Evolutionary biologist and philosopher of science Massimo Pigliucci penned a thoughtful response, which I appreciate given his dual training in science and philosophy, including and especially evolutionary theory, a perspective that I share. But he felt that my scientific approach added nothing new to the philosophy of morality, so let me see if I can restate my argument for a scientific foundation of moral principles with new definitions and examples.
First, morality is derived from the Latin moralitas, or "manner, character, and proper behavior." Morality has to do with how you act toward others. So I begin with a Principle of Moral Good:
Always act with someone else's moral good in mind, and never act in a way that it leads to someone else's moral loss (through force or fraud).
You can, of course, act in a way that has no effect on anyone else, and in this case morality isn't involved. But given the choice between acting in a way that increases someone else's moral good or not, it is more moral to do so than not. I added the parenthetical note "through force or fraud" to clarify intent instead of, say, neglect or acting out of ignorance. Morality involves conscious choice, and the choice to act in a manner that increases someone else's moral good, then, is a moral act, and its opposite is an immoral act.
Given this moral principle, the central question is this: On what foundation should we ground our moral decisions? We have to ground the foundations of morality on something, and we secularists (skeptics, humanists, atheists, et al.) are in agreement that "divine command theory" is untenable not only because there probably is no God, but even if there is a God divine command theory was refuted 2500 years ago by Plato through his "Euthyphro's dilemma," in which he asked "whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods?", showing how it must be the former—moral principles must stand on their own with or without God. Rape, for example, is wrong whether or not God says it is wrong (in the Bible, in fact, God offers no prohibition against rape, and in fact seems to encourage it in many instances as a perquisite of war for victors). Adultery, which is prohibited in the Bible, would still be wrong even if it were not listed in the Decalogue.
How do we know that rape and adultery are wrong? We don't need to ask God. We need to ask the affected moral agent—the rape victim in question, or our spouse or romantic partner who is being cuckolded. They will let you know instantly and forcefully precisely how they feel morally about that behavior.
Here we see that the Golden Rule ("Do unto others as you would have them do unto you") has a severe limitation to it: What if the moral receiver thinks differently from the moral doer? What if you would not mind having action X done unto you, but someone else would mind it? Most men, for example, are much more receptive toward unsolicited offers of sex than are women. Most men, then, in considering whether to approach a woman with an offer of unsolicited sex, should not ask themselves how they would feel as a test. This is why in my book The Science of Good and Evil I introduced the Ask-First Principle:
To find out whether an action is right or wrong, ask first.
The moral doer should ask the moral receiver whether the behavior in question is moral or immoral. If you aren't sure that the potential recipient of your action will react in the same manner you would react to the moral behavior in question, then ask…before you act. (This principle applies to rational sane adults and not to children or mentally ill adults. Asking a 12-year old girl raised in a polygamous family belonging to the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints if she feels it is moral to marry a man in his 60s who is already married to many other women is not a rational test because she does not have the capacity for moral reasoning.)
But what is the foundation for why we should care about the feelings of potentially affected moral agents? To answer this question I turn to science and evolutionary theory.
Given that moral principles must be founded on something natural instead of supernatural, and that science is the best tool we have devised for understanding the natural world, applying evolutionary theory to not only the origins of morality but to its ultimate foundation as well, it seems to me that the individual is a reasonable starting point because, (1) the individual is the primary target of natural selection in evolution, and (2) it is the individual who is most affected by moral and immoral acts. Thus:
The survival and flourishing of the individual is the foundation for establishing values and morals, and so determining the conditions by which humans best survive and flourish ought to be the goal of a science of morality.
Here we find a smooth transition from the way nature is (the individual struggling to survive and flourish in an evolutionary context) to the way it ought to be (given a choice, it is more moral to act in a way that enhances the survival and flourishing of other individuals). Here are three examples:
In his annual letter Bill Gates outlined how and why the progress of the human condition can best be implemented when tracked through scientific data: "I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. You can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal."
One notable sign of progress is seen in this graph from Gates' Annual Letter (right).
If the survival and flourishing of the individual is the foundation of values and morals, then this graph tracks moral progress because we can say objectively and absolutely that reducing extreme poverty by half since 1990 is real moral progress. On what basis can we make such a claim? Ask the people who are no longer living on less than $1.25 a day. They will tell you that living on more than $1.25 a day is absolutely better than living on less than $1.25 a day. Why is it better? Because individuals are more likely to survive and flourish when they have the basics of life.
This is why Bill Gates is backing with his considerable wealth and talent the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals program that is supported by 189 nations, in which the year 2015 was set as a deadline for making specific percentage improvements across a range of areas including health, education, and basic income. Gates reports, for example, that the number of polio cases has decreased from 350,000 in 1988 to 222 in 2012. Is that a moral good? Ask the 350,000 polio victims. They'll tell you. Or ask the 5.1 million children under the age of 5 who didn't die in 2011, who in 1990 would have died (Unicef reports that the number of children under 5 years old who died worldwide was 12 million in 1990 and 6.9 million in 2011).
A second example may be found on the opposite end of the economic sale in a study conducted for the National Bureau of Economic Research entitled "Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth" by the University of Pennsylvania economists Daniel Sacks, Betsey Stevenson, and Justin Wolfers, in which they compared survey data on subjective well-being ("happiness") with income and economic growth rates in 140 countries. The economists found a positive correlation between income and happiness within individual countries, in which richer people are happier than poorer people; and they also found a between-country difference in which people in richer countries are happier than people in poorer countries. As well, they found that an increase in economic growth was associated with an increase in subjective well being: "These results together suggest that measured subjective well-being grows hand in hand with material living standards." How much difference? "A 20 percent increase in income has the same impact on well-being, regardless of the initial level of income: going from $500 to $600 of income per year yields the same impact on well-being as going from $50,000 to $60,000 per year." Contrary to previous studies, the economists found no upper limit in which more money does not correlate with more happiness. As well, on a 0–10 scale measuring "life satisfaction," people in poor countries averaged a 3, people in middle-income countries averaged a 5–6, and people in rich countries averaged a 7–8 (Americans rate their life satisfaction as a 7.4). The economists' conclusion confirms my moral science theory that the survival and flourishing of individuals is what counts:
The fact that life satisfaction and other measures of subjective well-being rise with income has significant implications for development economists. First, and most importantly, these findings cast doubt on the Easterlin Paradox and various theories suggesting that there is no long-term relationship between well-being and income growth. Absolute income appears to play a central role in determining subjective well-being. This conclusion suggests that economists' traditional interest in economic growth has not been misplaced. Second, our results suggest that differences in subjective well-being over time or across places likely reflect meaningful differences in actual well-being.
Here is the figure for the relationship between happiness and GDP from this study:
Why does money matter morally? Because it leads to a higher standard of living. Why does a higher standard of living matter morally? Because it increases the probability that an individual will survive and flourish. Why does survival and flourishing matter morally? Because it is the basis of the evolution of all life on earth through natural selection.
There are many more examples like these in which we can employ science to derive all sorts of findings that show how various social, political, and economic conditions lead to an increase or decrease of the survival and flourishing of individuals. This is why in my Edge.org essay I discussed data from political scientists and economists showing that democracies are better than dictatorships and that countries with more open economic borders and free trade are better off than countries with more closed economic borders and restricted trade (think North Korea, whose citizens are on average several inches shorter than their South Korean counterparts because of their crappy diets). These are measurable differences that allow us to draw scientific conclusions about moral progress or regress, based on the increase or decrease of the survival and flourishing of the individuals living in those countries. The fact that there may be many types of democracies (direct v. representative) and economies (with various trade agreements or membership in trading blocks) only reveals that human survival and flourishing is multi-faceted and multi-causal, and not that because there is more than one way to survive and flourish it means that all political, economic, and social systems are equal. They are not equal, and we have the scientific data and historical examples to demonstrate which ones increase or decrease the survival and flourishing of individuals.
One final example on the regress side of the moral ledger: On Wednesday, February 6, 2013, a 20-year old woman and mother of one named Kepari Leniata was burned alive in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea because she was accused of sorcery by the relatives of a six-year-old boy who died on February 5. As in witch hunts of old, the conflagration on a pile of rubbish was preceded by torture with a hot iron rod, after which she was bound and doused in gasoline and ignited while surrounded by gawking crowds that prevented police and authorities from rescuing her. Tragically, a 2010 Oxfam study reported that beliefs in sorcery and witchcraft are not uncommon in the highlands of New Guinea, as well as in many parts of Melanesia in which many people still "do not accept natural causes as an explanation for misfortune, illness, accidents or death," and instead place the blame for their problems on supernatural sorcery and black magic.
By now it seems risibly superfluous to explain why this is immoral and what the solution is, but in case there is any doubt: We know that belief in supernatural sorcery and witchcraft and their concomitant consequences of torturing and murdering whose so accused is wrong because it decreases the survival and flourishing of individuals—just ask first the woman about to be torched. The immediate solution is the enforcement of laws prohibiting such acts. The ultimate solution is science and education in understanding the natural causes of things and the debunking of supernatural beliefs in sorcery and witchcraft. And it is science that tells us why witchcraft and sorcery is immoral.
Note to my readers: What I am outlining here is the basis for my next book, The Moral Arc of Science, which I am researching and writing now, so I ask you to post your critiques here or email me your constructive criticisms. My role model is Charles Darwin, who solicited criticisms of his theory of evolution and included them in a chapter entitled "Difficulties on Theory" in On the Origin of Species. Of course, if you agree with me, and/or think of additional examples in support of my theory, then I would appreciate hearing those as well!


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A growing interest in 'slow flowers'
First came slow food. Now, think slow flowers.
Following the trend of locavores who seek food close to its source, interest is growing in seasonal, local, sustainable flowers.
The farm-to-vase movement is gaining momentum as small organic and urban farms add more flowers to produce stands.
Local farmers markets feature colorful bouquets of old-fashioned summer favorites. Restaurants are requesting slow flowers to accompany their locally sourced entrees. Gardeners are finding joy in growing their own table toppers.
To Shawn Harrison, "slow flowers" make sense. That's why his farm is producing some zinnias and snapdragons along with tomatoes and snap beans.
"The floral industry traditionally is chemically dependent," said Harrison, co-founder and executive director of Soil Born Farms, near Sacramento, Calif. "Most of the flowers you see in stores are grown internationally. Their carbon footprint is huge.
"We can grow a lot of gorgeous flowers in our area, just like food," he added. "We know people want locally grown food. Locally grown flowers are a big opportunity."
Helping to drive the trend, chefs started requesting bouquets as part of their produce orders.
Said Harrison, "It doesn't make sense to go to all of the trouble of using seasonal, organic, locally sourced food, then putting some flowers on the table that may have been soaked in intense chemicals and come from who-knows-where."
Garden author Debra Prinzing, who moved to Seattle from the Los Angeles area, challenged herself to make a bouquet of locally sourced flowers every week for a year.
"I wanted to debunk the myth that I'd have limited options," she said. "If the weather is cold in winter, what would I have to work with –– twigs and berries?"
Instead, she found that there were more than enough flowers to dress her table year-round. She just had to look past the old standbys and think seasonally.
Instead of relying only on annuals, Prinzing mixed in perennials, flowering trees and shrubs.
"It has to be intentional, just like food," Prinzing said. "You have to make decisions. Everything is about choices."
Prinzing's personal challenge grew into her new book, "The 50-Mile Bouquet: Seasonal, Local and Sustainable Flowers" (St. Lynn's Press, $17.95, 144 pages).
She chose 50 miles as an arbitrary limit, but stretched that boundary on occasion. The idea is to buy as local as possible. Even better, grow your own.
"I worked on this book for four years," she said. "The publishing world didn't get this book for a long, long time. We don't eat flowers; why should we care if they're organically grown?"
The recession also slowed interest in slow flowers, she noted.
"Flowers in America are considered a luxury good," she added. "We may not eat flowers, but we do handle them. The pesticides they're treated with come into our homes. Interest in health as well as sustainability has helped drive this movement."
So have farmers markets, a natural for offering seasonal flowers.
"Farmers markets are exploding," Prinzing said. "A lot of farms have found they can grow flowers, too."
Some farms have taken the next step by competing directly with floral imports. They fill the demand for organic, American-grown flowers coupled with the convenience of ordering by phone or online.
From its Terra Bella Farm in Chico, California Organic Flowers now ships bouquets via its website nationwide (www.californiaorganicflowers.com) or phone orders, 530-891-6265. The family-run farm is a popular source for organic wedding bouquets and flowers for other special occasions.
Seasonal bouquets often look like they were pulled from Grandma's garden. That's not a coincidence. Past generations grew many of these same flowers to decorate their homes and tables.
Snapdragons, zinnias, asters, cosmos, bachelor buttons –– these flowers add a touch of nostalgia as well as color.
Growing flowers also helps attract pollinators to farms and vegetable gardens, which means a larger harvest.
"I enjoy seeing the multitude of bees and insects that enjoy the flowers, too," said Cristina Martinez-Canton, who helps tend Soil Borns' flower garden at its American River Ranch in Rancho Cordova, Calif. "This place is just buzzing.
"It feels good that I'm attracting beneficial insects that will help with agriculture," she said. "It's part of the ecosystem. And they're pretty, too."
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I wanted a totally reliable backcountry exploration vehicle, Randy Buchanan said. His 60 CJ-5 became all that and then some. Randys Willys has so many innovations that we could literally write a book if we had the space. Instead, well cover some of its most unique highlights.
Axles came from a ¾-ton 78 Dodge. Randy had Dynatrac narrow them to 54 inches. The Dana 44 frontend was then assembled with 5.89 gears, an ARB Air Locker, and disc brakeswith Ford knuckles, GM ¾-ton rotors and calipers, and custom caliper mounts. Similar treatment went to the Dana 60 rear: 5.86s, an ARB, and GM ¾-ton discs. Randy later completed the brakes with a Wilwood master cylinder, a Mico-Lok pressure-holding system, and a transfer case mounted disc e-brake.
For the suspension, Randy achieved about 6 inches of lift by doing a spring-over using 1-inch-lift Rancho leafpacks. An Energy Suspension 1-inch body lift added extra clearance for 35x15.50 TSL-SX Swampers on 15x10 Allied rims.
But the Jeeps most unique feature is its engine. Randy dared to be different by choosing a marine four-banger. Fains Automotive in Ventura, California, handled the buildup of the 181ci/3.0L GM Mercruiser. Goodies include 8.5:1 GM pistons, Sealed Power rings, and a hydraulic 254-grind Clifford cam. On top, the 153 Chevy head received new valves and springs as well as cast Crower roller rockers. Breathing is completed with a 278-cfm Rochester 2G carb, a Clifford intake, a Randy-built exhaust manifold, and a MagnaFlow muffler. He estimates output at 160 to 180 hp.
In addition to custom intake and exhaust adapters, Randy had to make a few other tweaks for the swap. For one, he used a rear-sump oil pan and pump pickup from a 71 postal Jeep. Randy also made a custom adapter and incorporated a GM 250ci straight-six bellhousing to mate the Mercruiser to the stock T98A four-speed.
To keep weight down and his four-banger happy, Randy got a glass tub from 4WD Hardware and added a 71 postal Jeep grille. He shot the skin with DuPont Centari 6561A, also known as National Car Rental Penske Yellow. He finished the look with custom butt-end stenciling and Steel Horse flares. Randy then did the armor at his shop, Buchanan Precision Machine in Ventura, California. Aside from front and rear bumpers, he also modified a Smittybilt rollcage.
This Jeep has served Randy well at the Rubicon, Moab, TDS, Glamis, Pismo, and Hi-Desert Roundup. Off-road, its killer, Randy says. Ive never broken anything major, never been stuck, and it does everything well except for the freeway.
During the process, Randy learned a few things. I didnt take any shortcuts, so it took longer to figure out what I wanted than it did to build it, he says. Randy also claims that the Mercruiser is a viable all-around engine as long as weight is kept to a minimum. Furthermore, he adds, Keep in mind that short Jeeps tend to tip over backward in extreme rocks. But short Jeeps are more maneuverable and can go over taller obstacles with less lift.
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DocBook is an XML dialect that is used by a wide range of projects to maintain their documentation. Examples for DocBook usage in OpenSource projects are the documentations of KDE and PHP. PEAR has opted for using DocBook because we believe that it provides a solid foundation for the technical documentation for PEAR packages.
The trade-off for using DocBook is that it is relatively hard to use. Testing documentation requires a special tool to be installed and one needs to learn a (not very complicated) XML dialect. Once one is familiar with how DocBook works they will enjoy writing documentation with it though.
The book DocBook: The Definitive Guide, written by Norman Walsh and Leonard Muellner and published by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., is available online and it makes up a great resource for people interested in learning DocBook.
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The F-22 has been okayed to fly again, after being grounded, cleared, grounded, then cleared once more—all within a year. And yet, the Air Force hasn't fixed the plane's life threatening flaw. It doesn't seem like it cares.
The F-22 Raptor program was birthed two decades ago, designed, according to its proud Air Force backers, as a decisive stealth, electronics-jamming, nimblest-of-nimble finger in the eye of the Soviet Union. It would guarantee Communist-free skies, being able to out-maneuver and outgun anything Moscow could scramble.
It was plagued from the start. A year after the USAF and Pentagon high-fived over the super billion dollar plan, the first and only F-22 crashed and exploded due to a computer guidance glitch. The program remained "essentially unaffected," the NYT reported back in 1992, and it continued—with nail-biting Pentagon urging:
Today, though, at least six other aircraft — the Russian MIG-29, SU-27 and SU-35, the French Mirage 2000 and Rafael and the European Consortium's Eurofighter — threaten to surpass the aging F-15, our current top-of-the-line air-to-air fighter.
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These words came from Air Force Secretary F. Whitten Peters in a 1999 NYT op-ed. Note that none of those countries posed (or pose) a threat to the US. France is in NATO.
And since then? It's not just the oxygen supply problems of recent months. After formally entering service in 2005, the plane has proven to be a mechanical pain in the ass, all while making us exactly 0% safer against enemies that don't exist. It flies exercises, rather than fighting. In May, Wired's David Axe summed up the plane's material woes:
Last year, rust problems briefly grounded most of the F-22 force. A whole squadron of Raptors had to turn back from a planned flight from Virginia to Japan in 2007 when their navigational systems went haywire as the planes crossed the International Date Line. In 2006, an F-22 pilot was stuck in his plane on the ground for five hours because the canopy wouldn't open.
Does the Raptor's stealth supremacy lie in its ability to stay absolutely still? Are we battling a fleet of Russian tyrannosaurs?
But what about Libya, that consummate display of Western air power? The revolution that was won from the sky? The F-22 was sitting on the ground. American Drones and NATO jets did the shooting.
Mixed in to all of this, of course, is the aforementioned oxygen problem, which has caused hypoxia-like symptoms—pilots can't breathe. This might have already killed one pilot in a crash last year, and poses a threat to literally every single plane, every single time it's in the sky. The Pentagon's taken a wait and see approach with the F-22's oxygen defect—but what more needs to be seen? Repeated groundings have yielded no fix at all, and after each embarrassment, the Air Force simply says it'll take precautions and collect data, to no end.
So why keep the F-22? Politics and money. Surprise! Each time one of the clipped-wing superbaubles is constructed, it taps workers in 44 states across the country. That's 44 sets of legislators with a cruise missile pointed up their asses to keep those workers working, and to justify the Air Force's mission to defend the skies. From what? I do not know. But this isn't likely to change anytime soon—if ever. It's just the way things work. The weapons industry trumps any rationality of the country those weapons are labeled to defend. It's self-propagating, self-justifying, entirely an end in itself.
Simply, the F-22 doesn't need to be fixed, because "The Next Air War" F. Whitten Peters dreamt of isn't on the way. Former Defense Secretary Gates even admitted as much, calling the F-22 a "niche" plane. What needs to be killed, scared, or otherwise blown to hell from the sky can be done so with our sophisticated flock of UAVs—a killing mechanism unprecedented in the history of things destroying other things. They're our crown jewel, not F-22s lying fallow in Alaska and Virginia.
But if we're going to keep the stealth rave going, let's at least make sure it doesn't kill anyone. The Pentagon just gave Lockheed Martin $24 million, atop the billions they've already received, to find and fix the oxygen supply defect. So, once and for all, find the cause of the problem. We were originally supposed to build 600—thanks goodness we stopped at 160. So let's deal with the ones we have, and fix the damn thing.
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Frankly, we can't think of anyone's closet we'd more like to raid than the Jenner sisters. They always look perfectly put together, and are pros at rocking girly silhouettes with edgy details! Case in point: Kylie's leather t-shirt dress she wore to pick up balloons and supplies for her friend's birthday this weekend. The best part of the look? A super similar dress is on sale now at Urban Outfitters! Check out the four basic pieces you need to recreate Kylie's all-black-everything ensemble for your Saturday night plans.
- Even though this is a t-shirt dress, the leather detailing makes it feel appropriate for fall! And now's the perfect time to buy—Urban Outfitters is offering 30% off all sale items through this Sunday. (Lucca Couture Faux Leather T-Shirt Dress, $29.99, urbanoutfitters.com)
- A plain pair of black Chelsea boots are a must-have in your closet! Seriously, you will wear them every. Single. Day. (Ankle Boots, $34.95, hm.com)
- Ankle socks are back in, so stock up on plain black as well as patterned ones to complete all your winter looks! Once it gets even colder you can layer them with tights. (Merona Women's 3-Pack Trouser Socks, $7, target.com)
- Not sure if you've heard, but the 90s are having a moment. Snag a choker with a cool metal detailing for an updated spin on the trend, or make your own with a piece of black velvet ribbon from the craft store! (Velvet Ribbon Choker, $17, topshop.com)
What do you think of this edgy look? What other celeb's style would you love to steal? Sound off in the comments section!


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