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John Collum of Civic San Diego, a city-owned entrepreneurial partner for improving urban neighborhoods and building transit-oriented development, gave a presentation on the status of more than 50 property parcels left over from Naval Training Center's (NTC's) Reuse Plan — a document guiding the transition from the former NTC to civilian use.
Collum told the Peninsula Community Planning Board (PCPB) these holdover parcels, which have not yet been rehabilitated or redeveloped, are awaiting improvements or development in accordance with the terms of a lease agreement with master developer McMillin NTC LLC.
"What's happened is these successor agency-owned properties left over from (NTC) redevelopment are being put into a long-range property management plan to decide how those properties might be used in the future," said Collum.
He said Civic San Diego has been working since the beginning of the year to compile an inventory of such properties.
Collum distributed a handout with detailed information, as well as a color-coded map, showing the 54 surplus NTC properties still under the redevelopment agency's control.
On Sept. 19, PCPB also rolled out a long "wish list" of potential projects to be included in the city of San Diego's fiscal year 2015 capital improvements project budget.
The capital improvements program (CIP) is the city's long-range plan for all individual capital improvement projects and funding sources.
CIP projects are unique construction projects that provide improvements or additions like land, buildings and infrastructure. CIP projects are designed to enhance the overall quality of life by improving police, fire and lifeguard stations, upgrading infrastructure like streets, drainage and flood-control facilities, as well as developing recreational amenities like libraries, park and recreation centers.
"We reached out though our Facebook page to get input and, as a result,we have 11 projects that were submitted by the community for consideration by this board," said PCPB chair Julia Quinn.
Quinn noted the types of improvements which tend to get funded these days with the city's tight fiscal budget are "traffic and public-safety-type improvements."
PCPB's 11 proposed infrastructure improvement projects include Cabrillo Park's north stair and asphalt path repairs, Plum Street Park development, a sidewalk for Famosa Bridge, bus Route 28 turnouts, a bikeway for Chatsworth Boulevard, Catalina Boulevard drainage improvements and hillside developments, stormwater management, lower parking lot improvements and demolition of upper rental properties for Sunset Cliffs Natural Park.
The PCPB voted 8-3-1 to forward the entire list of 11 infrastructure improvement projects to the city.
PCPB secretary Nicole Burgess said she abstained from voting on the CIP because she was "uncomfortable with some of the descriptions in the drainage issues and some technicalities."
In other notable items from the PCPB, John Ly from District 2 City Councilman Kevin Faulconer's office told the group interim mayor Todd Gloria has adopted a stance that any and all medical marijuana dispensaries are "not allowed by any land-use designation," and are therefore operating illegally and subject to law enforcement.
• Burgess clued her colleagues in on recent developments with pedestrian and cycling improvements. She noted Nimitz Boulevard has been designated "a priority for safe routes to school traffic calming." She added the recently held Ciclosdias event appropriating 30th Street for part of a weekend day only for non-vehicular users was a big success in promoting bicycling and alternative modes of travel. Burgess said a new bike-sharing program recently approved by the City Council will make at least 1,800 bicycles available for self-service use citywide. The program is anticipated to launch early next year.


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|Beth Israel Cemetery, Hazleton, PA
Maurice wasn't living in Hazleton or even Luzerne county when he registered for the draft and he wasn't married to Hazel yet, so how could I be sure that I had the right WWI registration? It wasn't hard to discover this. There are lots of great records out there that touched on Maurice's military service like his WWII registration which not only listed Hazel as his wife, but gave his birth date and birth location. That birth information was exactly matched in a World War I registration in Allentown, Leigh County, Pennsylvania. I can be pretty certain that this is the right Maurice. I know stranger genealogical coincidences have occurred, but this with matches that corroborated it from census records that I know to be him and veterans burial records help to solidify this match (a visit to his grave when home also was helpful, but that's tomorrow).
So what did I find about Maurice and World War I and why is it important.
|WWI Draft Registration*
Home Address - 609 N 6(th) Allentown PA
Date of Birth - April 10, 1895
Citizenship - declared intention
If not citizen, what nation are you a subject - Warsaw, Russia
Occupation - (unk) foreman silk mill
Employer - Allentown Silk, Allentown
Dependents - sisters
Marital status and race - single / caucasian
Prior military service - None
Exemption claims from military service and grounds - Two sisters in Europe
And about how Maurice looked (although there was a head shot of him with his obituary) - he was of a medium and slender build with blue eyes and light brown hair.
Remember that the borders to countries change. They still do and always have. Heck state and county borders in our own country do the same! We all (should) know that Warsaw is in Poland not Russia, but at the time this was apparently not the case. Even if you don't remember your history very well, what Maurice tells us in this registration lets us know that Warsaw was under Russian control then. We also see that he is responsible for the support of 2 sisters that are still in Europe (presumably in Warsaw) and that Maurice was not yet an optometrist.
From this registration I know his date and place of birth and can find him a bit more easily in the census records knowing that I may not find him in Luzerne county. I can use his birth information to help narrow down searches including finding him on passenger lists and naturalization records. Only two sisters are mentioned here and we know that one was alive and well in Tel Aviv in 1971, but we don't know her name or when she eventually passed on. One hard to read record can yield a lot of information that will help me to find more and get to know Maurice (and thus Hazel) a little better.
*WWI Draft Registrations can be viewed from many genealogy search sites, both paid and free of charge like our wonderful National Archives!

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"Meat As a Condiment" Goes to the Next Level with Hardee's New Philly Cheesesteak Thickburger
Apr 20, 2006
New Thickburger is Topped with Philly-Style Steak, Veggies and Cheese for Authentic Cheesesteak Experience Like None Other in Fast Food
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – April 17, 2006 – Using meat, such as bacon, as a burger topping is not a new idea, but Hardee's has taken the concept to its extreme today with the launch of the new Philly Cheesesteak Thickburger™. It's meat-on-meat as Hardee's new burger features a 1/3-lb. Angus beef Thickburger patty piled high with thinly sliced steak, two kinds of cheese and green peppers and onions. The result is a truly delicious and authentic tribute to the classic Philly Cheesesteak – as only Hardee's can make it.
"Other restaurants have just topped burgers with cheese, peppers and onions, and called them 'Cheesesteak burgers,' but they didn't taste like a Cheesesteak," said Brad Haley, executive vice president of marketing for Hardee's. "So, when we set out to make a great Philly Cheesesteak burger, we literally put a Cheesesteak on a burger, steak and all."
Condiments have always played an important role when it comes to creating a mouthwatering, palate-pleasing burger. So, the marriage of one of America's favorite sandwiches to a Thickburger was no exception. In fact, Hardee's sister chain, Carl's Jr.®, proved this with the successful launch of its Pastrami Burger™ last year.
"The Carl's Jr. Pastrami Burger was one of the most successful new burgers at the chain in the last few years," said Haley. "So, the concept of 'meat as a condiment' – as Jay Leno joked on The Tonight Show in reference to the Carl's Jr. Pastrami Burger – lead us to experiment with similar products at Hardee's, and the new Philly Cheesesteak Thickburger was born."
The Hardee's adaptation of the Philly Cheesesteak Thickburger features a charbroiled 1/3-pound, 100 percent Angus beef patty, topped with thin-sliced steak, sautéed peppers and onions and Swiss and American cheeses on a seeded bun. The Philly Cheesesteak Thickburger will sell at participating Hardee's restaurants for $3.99 by itself, or $5.79 for a small combo meal.
Hardee's Philly Cheesesteak Thickburger Hardee's Food Systems, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR) of Carpinteria, Calif. As of the fiscal year ended Jan. 30, 2006, CKE Restaurants, Inc., through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,160 franchised or company-owned restaurants in 43 states and in 13 countries, including 1,049 Carl's Jr.® restaurants, 1,993 Hardee's restaurants and 102 La Salsa Fresh Mexican Grill® restaurants. For more information, or to find a Hardee's near you, go to www.ckr.com or www.hardees.com.
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River of dreams
Last Summer, the eyes of the world were on the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Our author prefers the green heart of Brazil, the forest, the water, the eternal Amazon – a declaration of love to a legend
The most magical time is at dawn, at that moment when the night glides across into morning. When the first fishing boats return to Belém harbor, borne up on a tide that can rise to as much as three meters here, deep in the Amazon Delta, with the constant threat of spilling onto its banks. In the half-light of the street lamps, the boats are firmly tied up at the quay wall before the men take their catch to Ver-o-Peso market. Some fish shimmer silver, others gold or pink. Hefty catfish lie side by side with small sardines. Once experienced, the commotion of this early-morning market scene is never forgotten. Ver-o-Peso market has always been the gateway to Amazonia – for me, too. I traveled here for the first time nearly three decades ago. A young ethnology student at the time, I had already set my mind on doing field research on the Nambikwara Indians in Mato Grosso, to follow in the footsteps of the famous ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, whose book Tristes Tropiques I had made my travel primer. I have been coming back here ever since. Amazonia has a hold on me.
"Ver o peso" translates to: Watch out for the weight! Duties were once levied at the market on all products coming into Belém. These days, Ver-o-Peso is the biggest open-air market in all of Latin America. The country's top chefs come here to buy exceptional products for their restaurants – yes, even Alex Atala, the heavily tattooed kitchen rebel. Of the nearly120 different kinds of fruits that grow in the rainforest, dozens are sold from the market's colorful stalls. Bacuri, buriti, camu-camu, cupuacu, muruci, tapereba and uxi – heard those names before? They sound like poetry and taste that way, too.
The Amazon, its majesty and magnitude, hold a fascination for me to this day. The river is around 6500 kilometers long and at some points 20 kilometers wide. With its many tributaries, it forms the largest river network in the world and is navigable over a distance of 50 000 kilometers. Seventeen of its branches are, each on its own, longer than the Rhine. Even at the peak of the dry season, the Amazon is so deep that ocean liners can sail easily into the inland port of Manaus, approximately 1600 kilometers from the Atlantic coast. In order to really grasp these dimensions, you have to travel by water, of course. And that's what I do.
The famous river steamers set out from Belém. They have barely changed in almost 150 years: round-bellied, their wood colorfully painted, often several stories high – they are, in effect, floating houses. Because there are only very few roads in Amazonia, everything people need is transported by ship. A banking ship that grants small loans to the inhabitants of remote villages runs once a month between Manaus and Tabatinga, for example, and as well as a ship carrying a court of law that traverses the jungle, there are waterborne ambulances and schools, too.
I start by claiming my hammock. The hammocks are where it all happens; they are meeting place, bed and cabin all in one. This is where you get to know your fellow travelers – it's unavoidable. Once, on the way to Manaus, I had a pretty bulky mid-thirty-something woman with her son sleeping to my left, and to my right, a shop owner from Tabatinga. Just before sunset, we all went up onto the top deck together. Both told me about their lives – some very personal stories about marriage and betrayal, about new partners and old loves. The people of the Amazon simply cannot keep a secret. They love to chat. Beer flowed, Brazilian pop songs pounded from the loudspeakers and suddenly everyone was dancing wildly. Party time!
And then by day, there's the other Amazonia. What a contrast! The animal kingdom, nature. You can steam down the river for hours without seeing a single human habitation. But there's plenty to be heard. Birds squawk, insects hum, monkeys screech and their many voices blend into a sensual symphony. And at the same time, something weird happens: The noise level makes the stillness that also exists in the jungle seem even more powerful. It grows, it gets under your skin and spreads throughout your body in a great "omm" that massages your psyche. I once talked with a couple of young Indios in Manaus who were apprentices there. They said the noise was the worst thing about the city: It was constantly with them, kept them from sleeping, made them ill. But for the Indios and Mestizos who stayed by the river instead of migrating to the cities, there's not much to do. They catch fish, doze outside their huts, play with their children. Some still believe in witchcraft. They wear amulets made of dried dolphin eyes to ward off the evil eye, and mummified birds on a chain to assure them of luck in love. On the Amazon, superstition complements modern science, which still has trouble explaining many a natural phenomenon.
When in 1541, Francisco de Orellana became the first white man to travel the Amazon from West to East; dense rainforest covered the river's banks everywhere. These days, there are large gaps in the tropical vegetation, and great barrages frequently block the meanders. The Caboclos, descendants of the Indios and the white conquerors who have lived on these shores for centuries, are having to relocate to manmade lakes.
Once, a long time ago on my first trip to Amazonia, I stayed with the Caboclos. They let me sleep in their villages, and gave me a guide to show me the rainforest. The air was so humid and heavy that after only a short tramp through the forest, I was dripping with sweat. Not a breath of wind reached the ground. When we arrived at a lagoon, I undressed and jumped right in. Marvelous, so refreshing! Had I known what else was swimming in the water, I would not have been so dauntless. Fishing right after my dip, I felt a tug on my line and pulled it in – and with it, a piranha! At least piranhas are not as dangerous as the bloodcurdling stories of many an explorer would have us believer, my local guide informed me. Barbecued, they even taste pretty good, despite their many bones. And compared with some of what I had been served while traveling along the Amazon, the piranha ought even to rate as classic local fare.
On the Río Beni River, Indios served me a freshly killed monkey. They had cut off the top of his skull. I was given a spoon to scoop out the brain, which is considered a delicacy here. The mass was warm, raw, and repulsive. I preferred the while larvae on the Rio Marañón, probably because they were served in a hot, spicy sauce. Roasted ants are also a specialty in the region. Their hard exoskeletons crunch between your teeth and they have a very full flavor. I was particularly surprised by one type of ant that is found in São Gabriel de Cachoeira on the Río Negro. The local Indios let them stew slowly and they had a sweet, limey flavor.
The rainforest provides a home for all of these creatures. That's why I sometimes see it as a kind of parallel universe. Like Pandora, the world of James Cameron's movie Avatar, it is full of amazing creatures, colors, and smells – butterflies every color of the rainbow; monkeys scaring off brightly colored macaws; giant toucans rising squawking into the air. Everywhere, blossoming bromelias and orchids. Pink river dolphins swim alongside the steamers as though hired especially to entertain the passengers. Caimans lie in wait, only their eyes and nostrils visible to us on deck. There are spiders as big as plates here, and giant anacondas that can grow to a length of nine meters. Amazonia, the land of superlatives. At night, travelers search the shore in the beam of the ship's reflectors. The jungle is teeming with life. Everywhere, you can see luminous spots – are they jaguars, or perhaps insects? No one knows. Suddenly, black beetles rain down on our heads and women scream. Humans become very small because the forest is so large.
It took Francisco de Orellana a good eight months to travel from the foot of the Andes and across the Río Napo to the mouth of the Amazon. Along the way through that green hell, his men had to fend off headhunters and arrows shot at them from the shore. Over and over again, they urged the Indios to tell them about a city made of gold that was allegedly hidden in the jungle. These ancient stories gave rise to the myth of Amazonia almost five hundred years ago.
Ultimately though, it was not gold but the rubber tree that brought fabulous wealth to the region. It was the sap of the rubber tree that made the cities of Manaus and Belém great in the second half of the 19th century. There was great demand from North American and European industry for the new raw material, which was used to produce tires for the newly developed motor car, for instance. Thousands of workers, day laborers, and fortune hunters combed the rainforest and collected the precious sap in the toughest conditions. Unscrupulous businesspeople in Manaus became millionaires overnight. And all the hype and hysteria electrified the jungle metropolis.
It was here that Latin America's first electric streetcar went into service; here, that at the apex of the boom an opera house of sumptuous splendor was built: the Teatro Amazonia. Its marble came from Carrara, the glass for the chandeliers from Murano, the furniture from Paris – nothing was too costly for the rubber barons. In 1896, the opera house staged a magnificent opening show, the first premiere of Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda. Then the flow of rubber wealth dried up as suddenly as it had begun, when the British stole rubber seedlings and laid down their own plantations in Southeast Asia. By the early 20th century, they were producing rubber far more cheaply than the Brazilians. Manaus rapidly fell into decline, and it was not until the implementation of the Special Economic Zone in the 1970s that the reincarnation began of the city that is a starting point for jungle tours today.
When I am in Manaus, my favorite haunt is Amarelinho, a small bar where I can sit for hours, sipping a cold beer, enjoying the sight of ships sailing the Rio Negro at my feet. At some point, the setting sun turns the river into molten golden. For me, that's freedom, a dream come true.
My favorite experience? There have been so many. Once I climbed a jungle giant that was over 50 meters tall. The ascent was installed by the photographer, adventurer and tree climber Leonide Principe. My adrenaline level shot up with each length of rope I put behind me. My exertions were rewarded with an incredible view of the rainforest's leafy roof. Cicadas began their serenade … Amazonia really is sometimes too good to be true. It's a kingdom. I'd say I spent that night in its crown.
This story first appeared in the October issue of Lufthansa Exclusive, the frequent traveller magazine. For more information about Lufthansa Miles & More offers, please click here.
Andrzej Rybak
Amazonia is his second home: Reporter Andrzej Rybak has traveled the region over a dozen times.


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As promised, here is the pattern for the Sag(ittarius) Snood/ Cowl! I made the snood version for Chris' birthday, which just so happens to be tomorrow! It's super bulky and super warm, just in time for winter. I love the texture of double seed stitch, especially in a bulky yarn like Brown Sheep Burly Spun. Whether you make the snood or cowl version, you'll be able to tuck right in once the snow starts falling.
Finished Measurements
Cowl: 32 inch (81 cm) circumference and 8 inches (20 cm) high (fully extended)
Snood: 32 inch (81 cm) circumference and 23 inches (58 cm) high (fully extended)
Brown Sheep Burly Spun (100% wool; 132 yards/ 121 metres)
Cowl: 1 skein of Sable (BS07)
Snood: 3 skeins of Deep Charcoal (BS06)
US 15 (10.0 mm)/ 20 inch (50 cm) circular needle, or size to achieve gauge
stitch marker
tapestry needle
measuring tape
10 sts in 4 inches (10 cm) of stockinette stitch
Pattern Stitch
Double Seed Stitch in the round
Round 1: * P2, k2; rep from*.
Round 2: same as round 1
Round 3: * K2, p2; rep from*.
Round 4: same as round 3
Repeat these 4 rounds for pattern stitch.
Cast on 80 sts (I used the cable cast on method)
Work pattern stitch until piece measures 8 inches (20 cm) from the cast on edge for cowl, 23 inches (58 cm) for snood (or desired length)
Bind off (I used the chain bind off method)
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RALEIGH (AP) � A Superior Court judge charged with holding North Carolina officials responsible for giving every child a sound education began reviewing new test results on Wednesday that show a minority of public school students are performing at levels that would put them on track for college and a successful career.
RALEIGH (AP) � A Superior Court judge charged with holding North Carolina officials responsible for giving every child a sound education began reviewing new test results on Wednesday that show a minority of public school students are performing at levels that would put them on track for college and a successful career.
Judge Howard Manning Jr. called a two-day special hearing beginning Wednesday to review year-end test results from this spring and other measures that will help determine whether the state is meeting its responsibility under state Supreme Court education rulings. Taxpayers are spending $7.9 billion this year to educate about 1.5 million public school students.
The new READY Accountability measure of student progress, released for the first time last week, started holding students to a higher standard. Students now are being tested for whether they have learned enough at their age to be considered on track to a career or college after graduation. Previous end-of-grade tests measured whether students had learned enough for their grade level.
But Manning noted that out of more than 107,000 third-graders, just 45 percent were considered proficient readers under the new, tougher exams. Just 26 percent of the state's nearly 2,500 schools met all targets, which included math, science and reading scores, attendance, graduation rates, and performance on a college-entrance exam.
�Those seniors who graduated last year and were not proficient, the race is over for them, isn't it?� Melanie Dubis, a lawyer representing poor school districts, asked the state Department of Instruction's testing expert.
�Yes,� Tammy Howard said.
The judge praised a state law the General Assembly adopted last year requiring that third-grade students prove they're able to read well before being promoted to the next grade. Those who are falling behind get intensive summer instruction to see if they can catch up before they are held back.
�It addresses everything that I have been griping about in grades K (kindergarten) through 3 since 2009, when I realized the children can't read and that's why they can't do very much when they get to high school,� Manning said. �I give the bill an A-plus. The problem I see is the enforcement.�
Manning also will review the state's efforts to turn around the school system in Halifax County, one of the state's poorest and lowest-performing districts. A composite score of student performance in the school district was two-and-a-half-times lower than the statewide average. Manning ordered the state's intervention in Halifax County schools in 2009, calling the persistently poor test results a form of educational genocide.
The new statewide test results show that students in Halifax, Hoke, Robeson, and Vance counties � four of the five counties that are the focus of the long-running education funding case Manning is overseeing � still lag way behind the statewide average.


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There is much debate as to whether Science and Religion are compatible and in particular can Evolution and the Biblical creation account co-exist as valid worldviews or does one negate the other. As far as I am concerned the debate is only a bone of contention for religionists. Science is the study of the natural world. It does not look for supernatural outcomes to its investigations. Religion has for the last 400 years has been continually discounted as a reliable tool to discover anything new. It's explanations of the working of the natural world are being proven incorrect and Science is filling the gaps it used to dwell in.
When I am referring to the Theory of Evolution I am talking about Modern Evolution Theory and not just "Darwinism". Creation as used will mean the Bible story and Creationism in general.
If I posted this 400 years ago it would read "The theory of Heliocentricity and the idea that the Earth is at the middle of our Universe – are they compatible?" The religious did their utmost to thwart the advancement of scientific discovery. They did not "believe" it was true that the sun was at the center. It was "only a theory" and the scientists behind it were deemed to be heretics. Only as people became educated did they understand it. Now this once special knowledge is deemed almost to be common sense. The churches now accept the Theory of Heliocentricity as being true. That is mighty of them but irrelevant to me because like the Theory of Evolution it was never a matter of faith. It is only a matter of education. Knowledge is power. They controlled the flow of it for too long in schools and even Universities. Information takes away more power from religion so it will do whatever it takes to keep as much of it as it can. So religions come up with alternative "theories" to counter the modern day heretics.
Even today I still get told by apologists that the Bible knew the world was round. Many have become "Hebrew scholars" and love informing me about the meaning of the word "chug" to insist Isaiah know the world was round. He did not. He "knew" it to be flat as did everyone else at that time.
The same people will then try to argue with me that Intelligent Design is a credible scientific alternative to the Theory of Evolution and should be taught in schools. They "don't believe in Evolution". So they read more biblical science and come up with the idea that their god created every animal including man in his present "form". I will not discuss I.D. any further but if anyone else thinks it a good idea and has any merit please fire ahead. Maybe the dinosaurs died because they fell over the edge of the planet. These theists are the same as they were 400 years ago. They still maintain their book is the one and only truth necessary and deny the validity of the Theory of Evolution just as they denied the fact the sun is at the center of the galaxy.
I am not a scientist and do not claim any academic qualifications in this area. Due to my lack of believe in any god or the veracity of written accounts I turned elsewhere for answers. I find that the Theory of Evolution is a fact because I understand it to be proven. It therefore reinforces my reasons for remaining an Atheist but in itself it did not make me an Atheist. I will reference my replies later to any questions I try to answer.
I consider it fair to say that most Theists deny the fact of Evolution because they do not know it. Those that think they do usually have only learnt it from the science section of the bible or from their local preacher. I have never met a Theist (I mean never) who could explain it to me correctly. I also consider it fair to claim that one does not need be an Atheist to see that the Theory of Evolution is a Fact.
The Theory of Evolution is the scientific study of how life of earth has evolved over time. To start with we need to get some concept of the time scale. It started about 3.5 billion years ago. You need to stop a minute and think about that. It is almost impossible to conceive of such a scale. Millions of species have lived and died out before man appeared a relatively short time ago. We are about as a modern species for the last 200,000 years. 40,000,000 years before us Mt. Everest rose up and yet 25,000,000 years before that the dinosaurs became extinct. A few billion years further back and our early ancestors were getting ready to crawl out of the sea. Sound as fantastic as other stories? Well yes but all of this can be and has been fully proven. When all the various fields of Science, geology, chemistry, anatomy, fossil studies and especially DNA are taken together we see that all life on Earth is connected. No matter what species we look at once we go back far enough we see a common ancestor is shared amongst us all.
I am not going to further explain the Theory here other than say that the word "Theory" in this case means a body of facts and not an hypothesis that is still in need of evidence to make it acceptable. It is because Evolution is a proven fact that it is deemed to be a Theory.
I fully acknowledge that the Theory of Evolution does not explain how life on Earth began but that is not what it is about. I also accept that the Theory of Evolution does not disprove the existence of any particular deity.
However if anyone accepts that the Theory of Evolution is a fact (which it is) then we humans are descended from other species and if we keep going back we are evolved from simple life forms that lived in the sea. Therefore we could not have been created in human form in one day. Therefore the Christian story of creation is not true. It is a myth like those of all other religions.
Feel free to tell me where you think I am wrong and show me how the bible is right or at least compatible with Evolution. We can discuss the Theory of Evolution in greater detail and clear up any misconceptions held about it if this discussion EVOLVES.
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Aw come on, Archaeopteryx.
You know that chicken tastes like tyrannosaur. Or more precisely like velociraptor. (I should think you of all of "god's creatures" would know why!)
Seriously, I do use "tastes like tyrannosaur" where others use "tastes like chicken." I got the best reaction to that line when I encountered chicken nuggets shaped like little dinosaurs at the local Costco as one of the freebie samples; the guy giving out the samples was a young 'un and got a good laugh out of it. The irony of it was too much to resist; I even bought a box and took some to a skeptics gathering; this crowd of evolutionists definitely appreciated the joke.
How many 3-ft tall archaeopteryx do you think ever had a chance to find out what velociraptor tastes like?
More to the point, the wafer fails your test (as James Cox has attested). It doesn't taste like chicken, it doesn't taste like tyrannosaur, and it definitely doesn't taste like "long pig" which would be more in line with expectations if it literally turned into human flesh.
And that doesn't matter. Catholics still believe it is the literal flesh of Jesus (many if not most protestant churches consider the communion a more symbolic gesture). You are not supposed to chew it or poke it, if it should get stuck to the roof of your mouth, which is why the line "drink the wine, chew the wafer" in Tom Lehrer's song "Vatican Rag" is either scandalous or freaking hilarious (or both) to people raised as catholics.
It doesn't matter. And yes, the fact that it doesn't matter itself makes no sense. It's theology and it doesn't have to make sense.
It was a common belief in the middle ages that Jews would kidnap consecrated hosts and torture them (yes, torture wafers) at which point they would literally bleed. As if being responsible for killing Jesus were not enough of a charge to lay at their feet. This was a part and parcel of the antisemitism of the time.
Much more recently, a college student left a mass without having consumed his wafer; the Catholic League pressured his school to expel him. In response to this, PZ Meyers wrote several good rants about how it was just a cracker and for Catholics to get over it. Predictably, that annoyed them greatly, so he arranged to receive a consecrated wafer and himself descreated it, driving a tack through the center of it and doing all sorts of things that would be indignities, if it weren't just a freaking cracker.
Many of the catholics who came to his site surprisingly weren't all that outraged. They accused him of faking the photographs! This really puzzled me until it finally dawned on me that they were convinced that no one would actually dare to do that to the body of christ, not even someone who claimed he didn't believe that it was the body of christ (cf. the belief that no one can really be an atheist, Catholic version). Or alternatively that anyone who did do it would be struck dead on the spot, and that somehow even PZ Meyers realized this, chickened out, and posted fake photographs. The mere continued existence of PZ Meyers was not proof that they were wrong about the wafer--which is in part what he was trying to demonstrate. To them, it was proof that he had to have faked it somehow.
I imagine that even if PZ Meyers had film of the entire sequence, from wafer being absconded with by someone pretending to do communion, all the way to his "desecration" of it, the video would be claimed to be faked somehow; if the catholic commenter had actually witnessed the whole chain of events, they'd be convinced it was a stage magic trick somehow (the sort of thing that Penn and Teller do at their show in Vegas), and that PZ somehow by sleight of hand pulled off a substitution.
Logic like that simply cannot be argued with, but not because it is good logic.
Why would anyone torture a perfectly good cracker? Seems to me that being groundup in your mouth, swallowed, and the carbohydrates broken up by enzymes, would be enough! Which might beg the question, 'how would the body metabolize the Body of Christ, if it were real?' Ok, I defer to a previous post, 'try not to make make sense out of non-sense'.
Nelson on rye?
Recently a character in 'The Big Bang Theory', had a toaster that made Klingon toast. Sadly the characters on the show offer little similarity to the nerds I have known.
It is possible the term 'nerd' makes certain demands upon the person that might wear the lable. Certain schools might have extensive class time given to 'Nerd Modeling and Socialization', such as, 'Pocket protector design and utility', 'Allowed technical syntax & lexacon', ' Well formed Conversational Calculus', and 'The cultural history of hard Science Fiction and Technology'.
For others, the wanabe 'nerd' might just be expected to show skill in the lab, and not monopolize lab and class time with qoutes from Spock, and technical suggestions from the Star Trek field manuals. Sadly, I seem to be from this catagory...;p)
You might like this from a site I may or may not have a special interest in. (Ahem).
If you google "Christopher Hitchens deathbed conversion" you might land on that site too !! Enjoy.
Quick question, Reg: "local atheist Donald Chapman" wouldn't at all be related to Graham Chapman of "Monte Python" fame by any chance, would he? After all, the nut doesn't fall far from the tree, and it does sound like it would make a great "Python" skit!
Hi there Arch – No, I don't think that was in the air when the article was written. It got over 100,000 unique hits its first week. However the irreverence is great. The Hitchens conversion story was written long before he passed and got a huge number of hits after the 15th Dec last year. A year already man!!
PS re the picture of the slice of toast - I think it is the only time I have seen Nelson without the cool shades on!!
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November 19, 2012
In the bustling science museum, 3-year-old Leah assembles triangular blocks into as many arrangements as she can. She gives them to Daniel Blasher '13. "That's great," he says. "Can you make some different shapes?"
It looks like play—and it is. But it's also serious research being conducted by Lewis & Clark professors and students at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI). This cognitive development study, one of several by Lewis & Clark researchers by Lewis & Clark researchers, examines the best way to maximize children's creativity.
"This is a unique partnership between Lewis & Clark and OMSI to bring scientific psychology into the public view," says Todd Watson, assistant professor of psychology.
Lewis & Clark and OMSI make up one of four research hubs for the Living Laboratory, a national project funded by a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation.
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St. Michael Lutheran Church in Mifflin Village will have a community meal on the first Saturday of every month with the first one being March 2nd from 4 until 6 p.m. The meal is absolutely free and we will be serving great homemade food. For more information call 419-631-4886.
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This is beginning to feel like the Y2K scare.
After all of the hand-wringing, finger-pointing, accusations and the high anxiety, the International Foundation of Employee Plans put out a survey a couple of weeks back that puts things into proper perspective and should calm nerves.
According to its research, 94 percent of all organizations questioned said they're likely to keep offering health care coverage to their employees come Jan. 1.
Related story: Employers test mix of strategies to avoid PPACA
That's the date when we all begin to feel the full effects of Obamacare and when, if some of the more excitable forecasters were to be believed, the United States was going to turn into a nation of uninsured part-timers able to obtain coverage only through a government exchange and only thanks to subsidies that will bury us under further debt.
Common sense should have told us all along that our best strategy was to start breathing, slowly, perhaps into a brown paper bag.
Look, I'm not trying to minimize what I know a lot of HR managers have been going through, especially over the past few months. There's no doubt part-timers have lost hours, if not jobs.
See also: Shift to part-time workers began pre-PPACA
And we all agree the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has more than its share of flaws.
But let's step back and remember that a) the vast majority of companies with more than 50 employees already offer their workers health coverage and b) no corporation with any hope of attracting the sort of talent it needs to stay competitive will suddenly shut off the benefits spigot.
Yes, concern about this point was certainly appropriate at some point. But the foundation said it found that 69 percent of its respondents say they will "definitely" offer coverage — up from 46 percent when it conducted the same survey a year ago — and the other 25 percent said it was "very likely."
Less than 1 percent of those surveyed plan to stop offering coverage, and among those, two-thirds are "somewhat likely" to offer a subsidy so workers can buy coverage via an exchange.
It's not as if they had much choice, but the study also said that 90 percent of all employers have moved beyond a "wait and see mode" and are moving forward with implementation.
Will things be perfect for American workers or their employers? Hardly. Forty-three percent of the 966 respondents said they either have or plan to increase employees' share of the premiums paid. One in four plan to increase their emphasis on higher deductible plans and health-savings accounts, while 14 percent more are looking into the possibility.
But that's a far, far cry from the collapse of civilization some would have us believe was coming.


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Age Of The Oreo
The curious case of Ray Nagin says it all. Here's a politician who had specifically failed the African-American community in New Orleans during its most urgent moment of need, in the desperate days after Hurricane Katrina. Yet, he was able to win re-election with the help of absentee Black voters bussed back to the once predominantly Black city just for the occasion. Blacks blessed him with 80% of their support, even though there's absolutely no reason to believe that the business interests he is beholden to will ever welcome the thousands of suddenly homeless and seemingly permantly displaced back to The Big Easy again.
Nagin is not the only African-American leader whose loyalties have to be questioned. There appears to be an explosion of Blacks willing to leverage their skin color in a campaign only to turn around and do the bidding of big business once settled in office. For instance, Congressman Harold Ford (D-TN), has recently been indicted as the "Black Point Man for the Right� by The Black Commentator Magazine.
Ford, who is currently running for the Senate seat about to be vacated by Majority Leader Bill Frist, delivered the inspirational keynote speech at the 2000 Democratic convention designed to get out the Black vote. At the time, he was dubbed the future of the Party in much the same way that Barack Obama was positioned as the up and coming Black Messiah just four years later.
While most folks may only think of Republicans like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as the only prominent Uncle Toms who have forgotten where they came from, truth be told, the majority of African-American elected officials no longer operate with the best interests of Black people in mind.
According to the aforementioned Black Commentator article, only 18 of the 43 members of the Congressional Black Caucus can be considered proponents of the progressive ideals embraced by those who put them into office. This means that most representatives of predominantly African-American districts now answer to the corporate interests which funded their campaigns. This helps explain why unions, Social Security, and even the right to vote itself are endangered species and may soon go the way of the dinosaur.
This makes the sage observation of Malcolm X as relevant as ever that 20th, now 21st Century slavemasters, by design, are inclined to rely on Uncle Toms as opiates of the African-American masses. Thus, the message is clear. If Black people are to survive what's shaping up to be a very challenging 21st Century in this country, then it's time to hold politicians accountable for far more than their skin color and party affiliation.
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By DAVID HANKINS
Gorham Fayette Superintendent
The Gorham Fayette Local Schools would like to take this opportunity to provide you with some information and philosophies concerning the 7-mill levy renewal for operating expenses that appears on the Nov. 6 ballot.
School funding in Ohio is certainly a complicated and unpredictable computation, and we have been fortunate at FLS to be able to maintain stability in our finances while continuing to provide a quality education for the students in this school district.
You have probably also followed the discussions the Board of Education has had concerning the decision to let the current levy expire vs. placing the issue on the ballot. The resolutions were passed to place the issue on the ballot a short time before the lawsuit with DH Holdings was settled. Knowing the amount of the settlement, and remembering their promise to district residents to provide maximum tax relief, the board chose to remove the issue until the finances of the district and options for bond repayment could be studied in the hope of providing for you the maximum return on your investment.
We heard from many of you at that time stressing that you did not want to see the issue removed and felt it was in the best interest of the district to maintain that revenue flow and to provide an opportunity for you to vote on that issue. $1.5 million has been set aside from the settlement to establish a defeasance fund to pay off current notes, and the majority of the board agreed to place the levy renewal on the November ballot. Later in this article I will share numbers and the effect of the renewal on our district.
There are four types of levies that are available to school districts for funding.
• A regular operating levy for current expenses is based on millage and not a dollar amount. Our current levy expiring is in this category. It can be renewed or replaced.
• An emergency levy is submitted as a dollar amount to be raised per year. The mills are adjusted each year to keep the income constant for that levy. It can be renewed.
• A replacement levy can raise more revenue than the levy it replaces, even though it could have the same millage rate. The reason is that the original levy which is being replaced may have been in existence through one or more reassessments. If the value of the property has increased, the factor of HB 920 kicks in. HB 920 reduces millage to provide the constant amount of dollars originally voted in. In the case of our 7-mill levy, our current effective millage is approximately 6.1.
• A school district income tax is based on a percentage and our district tax is currently 1.0%. Income tax is not affected by HB 920 and can grow with the district.
The Fayette Board of Education has chosen to go forward with a renewal of our current 7-mill five-year operating levy. This would result in you paying no more in taxes than you are currently paying, and with continued cost cutting should continue to operate our district and provide the extra funding needed for the new facility for operating costs.
Also, the defeasance will allow for bond repayment which will result in a rollback of millage, and which should show up in your tax bill at some point. If you log on to your computer at www.ode.state.oh.us and click on the left side on the School District Financial Status box, it will take you to the Five Year Forecast. You can check on the status of any school district in Ohio.
If you look at ours, you will see that we are projected with the renewal of this levy to remain in the black until 2011. With continued cost cutting and the levy renewal, that deficit can be held off until 2012, when the levy currently up for renewal will expire again.
We truly appreciate your support for the Fayette School District. If you have not driven by our new facility lately, please do. Parking lots have base coats, lighting is up and operable, windows and doors are in, roofs are almost completed, and the yard is seeded. They are on schedule, and move-in is on target for this coming summer, with a fall 2008 start in the new facility.
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- Kosher salt
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- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 3 medium onions, peeled and cut into wedges
- 1 12 -ounce bottle amber ale
- 1 1/2 cups low-sodium chicken broth
- 2 bay leaves
- 6 sprigs thyme
- 2/3 cup apple cider vinegar
- 3 tablespoons honey
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Pat the ribs dry, season with salt and sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon paprika. Heat the olive oil in a large Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the ribs in batches and cook until browned, about 8 minutes per side. Remove to a plate. Add the onions and cook until browned, about 10 minutes. Add the remaining 1 teaspoon paprika and season with salt.
Add the beer; bring to a boil and cook until the liquid is reduced by half, about 8 minutes, scraping up the bottom of the pot with a wooden spoon. Add the chicken broth, bay leaves and thyme; when the liquid begins to simmer, return the ribs to the pot and transfer to the oven. Cook, uncovered, turning the ribs once or twice, until the meat is almost tender, about 1 hour.
Mix the vinegar and honey in a measuring cup. Remove the pot from the oven and place on the stovetop; bring to a simmer over medium heat. Add the vinegar mixture and bring to a boil, then return the pot to the oven. Continue to braise, uncovered, until the ribs are tender, 15 to 20 more minutes. Return the pot to the stovetop and transfer the ribs to a plate. Bring the sauce to a boil over medium heat; skim off the fat and cook until thickened, 10 to 15 minutes. Return the ribs to the pot and heat through. Discard the bay leaves and thyme.
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The rumors have been circulating for weeks that Milwaukee would be in the hunt to add a veteran arm to what is shaping up to be an incredibly young rotation in 2013. One name that has been mentioned in the discussion is that of former Chicago Cub Ryan Dempster who split time between Chicago and Texas in 2012. Dempster who was 12-8 with an ERA of 3.38 in 28 starts is one of a thin crop of talented free agent starters who could fill a key role for a Brewers team that is looking to make a playoff run in 2013.
To add fuel to the fire is the fact that Brewers' beat writer Tom Haudricourt has reported that both sides are mutually interested in getting a deal done. The hitch? The length of the deal that Dempster is looking for.
Dempster, who turns 36 next year, is seeking a 3 year deal meaning he would be under contract until the age of 38. The Brewers, however, have made it publicly clear that they would not be interested in offering any potential pitchers a contract longer than 2 years. And frankly, who can blame them?
In the recent past, the team had signed long term free-agent deals for both Jeff Suppan and Randy Wolf only to be burned by both deals. Suppan showed diminishing returns each year that he remained in Milwaukee with an ERA that climbed from 4.62 in 2007 to 7.84 in 2010 while his wins fell from 12 in 2007 to 0 in 2010.
Wolf on the other hand managed to put together two 13 win seasons to start his tenure in Milwaukee with an ERA that improved from 4.17 to 3.69 from 2010 to 2011. The wheels, however, came off in 2012 as Wolf was only able to piece together 3 wins in 24 starts while his ERA climbed to 5.69.
Additionally, Dempster comes with some concerns of his own. Beyond the fact of his age is how his season broke down last year. While with the Cubs, Dempster was 5-5 in 16 starts and carried an ERA of 2.25. Impressive! However, once traded to Texas his ERA climbed to 5.09 while posting a 7-3 record over 12 appearances.
So, is Dempster the answer? Maybe, but not at the current asking price.


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For sure, this approach is expensive cpu-wise, etc., but if I need a solution that works right away then "module fetches/renders HTML into text", combined with regex processing that at least I know how to do, IS a solution. Sure, per RBFuller, "... if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong" but if those cycles won't be used for anything else, who cares? This bear of little brain would have his program done.
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African voices: Kadiatu's wishes for Sierre Leone
My name is Kadiatu, I am 20 and have two daughters. I had my second child when I was 18. Like every mother, I want the very best for my children and do everything I can for them, but I worry that it will be difficult for them, just like it was for me.
My father died when I was very young and I was only able to go to school up until the age of six. I left my mother's home to go and live with my uncle, but he was hardly ever around. His wife, my aunt, did not care for me as she did her own children and we did not get on. I was forced to carry out domestic chores while her children were able to attend school.
As the war became more intense, we moved to Freetown. Upon my return to the village my mother forced me to be initiated into the bondo society, a group that practices female genital cutting. I did not want to. I wanted to go to school.
My mother told me that she couldn't afford to pay my school fees, and yet she could afford to spend a lot of money on the initiation process. Once initiated, I was forced into marriage at the age of 12 and became pregnant the same year. The baby's father left when I was six months pregnant. I haven't seen him since. I suffered a lot to raise the baby with no support from my mother or any other relative. Selling wood, potato and cassava leaves were the main sources of income for myself and my child.
There was no way I could continue with schooling without parental support. Later, I met another guy who fooled around with me and made me believe he could handle my problems. He started well, but then he got me pregnant and ran away to Liberia. I got my second child at the age of 18. Life is very hard and quite challenging for us coming from a very poor family but we all do our best.
It should not be like this for me and nor for my two daughters. I want them to be free to get an education, and to not be worried about marrying too young or experiencing violence. I want them to grow up to be strong young women who can make their own choices, go to school, own land and control their own lives.
Kadiatu Blango outlines a few answers to questions from Restless Development:
What challenges do women face in your community?
The main challenges faced by women are numerous to name but a few are:
• Sexual assault and harassment
• Teenage pregnancy
• Gender Based Violence
• Parental or family support
• Finances to help support them on their day to day activities
• Access to land for farming and agricultural activities
How does your family make a living?
• Through selling local condiments like potato and cassava leaves and sometimes selling firewood to make up our living on daily basis
What opportunities would you like to see for your kids?
• To be children of substance and contribute meaningful to the development of my country
• Government, CSOs, INGO and CBOs to put modalities in place to address burning issues that are affecting young girls like us bearing children
• Provide quality information to help informed us our the dangers early marriage and teenage pregnancy
What would you like to see leaders promise to do to help communities like yours?
• To tackle issues on poverty
• Teenage pregnancy and early marriage
• Standardized free medical health services for all children and women not only the specified category in the free medical scheme zero to five years but even those above ten.
• Improved agricultural activities and revised land tenure systems for our community for suckling mothers to have easy access to backyard farming
• Microfinance opportunities for women
What would you like world leaders to focus on that would have impact on your life?
• To tackle issues on poverty
• Teenage pregnancy and early marriage
• Agriculture
• Free Education for girls at all levels
• Corruption
• Youth employment
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Underlying these points are high rates of teenage pregnancy. About 34 percent of women aged 15 to 19 have either already had a baby or are pregnant. This also often leads to interrupted education, reduced earning potential, poor marital outcomes and reduced health outcomes for surviving children.
Furthermore, youth unemployment is a major problem in Sierra Leone, with an estimated one-third of urban and one-sixth of rural 20- to 24-year-olds out of work, and more than 17 percent of the urban populations aged 15 to 35 years unemployed. Work opportunities are rare (around 9 percent of the workforce are formally employed), which means that stories like Kadiatu's are mainly the norm rather than the exception.
Featuring contributions from African citizens who are living in communities affected by extreme poverty, ONE's African Voices series will follow their progress to give a better understanding of the day-to-day challenges they face and also to track changes that occur over time. Find out more at one.org/africanvoices.


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Q. The meteorite-slamming-into-Earth theory to explain the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago is well known. What's the too-high-flying balloonist theory? P. Fogg
A. In the Andes Mountains of Chile and Peru, at 17,400 feet (5300 m.), miners must make do breathing air at only 50 percent the oxygen at sea level, say Brian J. Skinner, et al. in The Blue Planet: An Introduction to Earth System Science.
Still, miners who grow up in the region become acclimated. For brief periods, some can go on even less than the 50 percent. Mountain climbers in the Himalayas have camped for weeks at 23,000 feet (7000 m.), where the oxygen level is only 44 percent of the sea-level value.
"This is probably very close to the lower human limit because balloonists who have attempted longtime flights above 7000 meters have found it necessary to breathe bottled oxygen; some who attempted to fly without extra oxygen perished in the attempt."
Richer air can be a problem as well. Beginning at 40 percent richer concentration than sea level, oxygen becomes toxic, and breathers start to "burn up." So survivability demands oxygen levels from 44 percent below to 40 percent above sea-level air.
Now to the dinos: Air trapped in ancient amber suggests oxygen content 100 million years ago in the early Cretaceous period was 40 percent higher than today, say the researchers. Although the dinos were probably finished off by a meteorite impact, they had been declining before that. As the Cretaceous came to a close, oxygen levels started to decline. But perhaps because the dinos had developed small lungs in the oxygen-rich earlier atmosphere, now they couldn't cope.
"And so, like high-flying balloonists, they died out from respiratory stress."
Q. Giving 110 percent in sporting competition sounds good, but when might giving only 95 percent serve athletes better? L. Aller
A. On a test of 400-meter track runners, the ones asked to hold back to 95 percent of capacity actually had better times, say Robert S. Weinberg and Daniel Gould in Foundations of Sport & Exercise Physiology, 3rd Edition. The 110-percenters were using all their energies and muscular capacities, but running is done most effectively when some muscles are contracting while others are relaxing.
Muscles group as agonists and antagonists, performing opposite actions; firing off both simultaneously sacrificed speed. The 95 percenters, using agonists while relaxing antagonists at appropriate times, won the race.
In baseball, an overthrowing pitcher using all his muscles not only loses control, but the pitch won't even go as fast, say Weinberg and Gould. For maximum effectiveness, "some of the muscles of the arm– particularly the flexor muscles like the biceps– need to relax as the extensors, such as the triceps, do most of the work."
Q. Imagine flipping a "fair" coin again and again. At 100 flips, you'll probably be pretty close to 50 heads, 50 tails. At 1000, you'll probably be pretty close to 500H-500T, as things tend to "even out over the long run." So answer this: Which is likely to be closer in actual count of heads vs. tails– the 100 flips or the 1000 flips? D. Trump
A. Most people will guess the 1000 flips, assuming that "evening out" means the number of heads and the number of tails tend to get closer and closer with larger numbers of flips, says math professor Mike Dawes, of the University of Western Ontario. But intuition can play tricks here. What does tend to even out are the percentages of heads and tails, moving closer and closer to 50 percent-50 percent as the flip count rises, but not close to 500-500 or 5000-5000, etc.
Most likely you will see the actual difference in the number of heads and tails grow and grow. For instance, the chance of getting a split somewhere between 45 and 55 with 100 tosses is almost 73 percent, says Dawes. But for the H-T count to be this close (within a range of +5 to -5) after 1000 flips is much less likely, about 27 percent; and even less likely, about 9 percent, after 10,000 flips.
Q. Kite-flying Ben Franklin is often depicted doing his famous "lightning is electricity" experiment during a raging thunderstorm. What's wrong with this picture? T. Jefferson
A. Franklin was never that stupid, says Jearl Walker in The Flying Circus of Physics. A lightning strike to the kite would have destroyed it, the twine, the trivial silk shield and possibly Franklin himself. Rather, he wisely flew his kite before the full storm arrived.
In Europe, G. W. Richmann, in attempting to duplicate Franklin's experiment, became an apparent victim of a mysterious type of lightning called "ball lightning": "A pale blue fireball about the size of a fist left the lightning rod in his lab, floated quietly to Richmann's face, and exploded. With a red spot on his forehead and two holes in one of his shoes, Richmann was left dead on thefloor."
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Syzygy is a new software startup with a current focus in business process management. Syzygy develops custom software for companies, identifying their business processes, optimizing those processes, and implementing a workflow based customer relationship management system. In less technical terms, Syzygy helps businesses capture the steps they take to do what they do, how to be more efficient at it, and make software that keeps them on track. This allows an iterative refinement and improvement in their processes and relationships with customers.
The term syzygy is:
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1. an alignment of three celestial objects
Which presents an image of order and organization in a complex system.
Our core target audiences are currently individuals in businesses of medium or small size. Very large corporations generally produce in-house software, our targets are companies that may not have the resources or technical knowledge to implement a solid business process management system. The individuals that will be presented our corporate image are professionals, such as executives, corporate relations workers, technology managers, marketing, sales, etc.
We need a logo that represents our company, and a business card with the newly created logo on it.
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Take some artistic license in providing us a unique and interesting logo and corporate identity. Please feel free to explore ideas, and feedback will be provided.
Vector image format
Aspect ratio near golden ratio
"Syzygy" should be the only text.
-Professional, not too formal, more modern than classic
-Unique, identifiable at all scales and memorable
-Suggestive of cutting edge or innovative technology
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-Sticking with the astronomical theme of the company name
-Integrate name text with the icon rather than separate. For example, Dell versus Wikipedia.
- Three Y's in 'syzygy', also three "celestial bodies"... perhaps something can be done with that
-Cooler palette than a warmer one.
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text: Ken Heebner's flagship, one of the Kiplinger 25, is the talk of the fund world. Before investing, though, know its risks. By Manuel Schiffres, Executive Editor January 2, 2008 The coronation of King Ken is under way. Before the old year had even ended, Investor's Business Daily published an article about the over-the-top returns in 2007 of Ken Heebner's CGM Focus fund. Over the next few days, you'll see plenty more in the business and general press about Focus, which returned 80% in '07, beating Standard & Poor's 500-stock index by a tidy 74 percentage points. Only two specialized funds, both leveraged, did better last year. Make no mistake: Heebner is a marvelous investor. CGM Focus (symbol CGMFX) has been a member of the Kiplinger 25, the list of our favorite no-load mutual funds, since May 2006, and Heebner adorns the cover of the January 2008 issue of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine. Sponsored Content My concern, however, is that many investors will see that 80% figure and jump into Focus without fully appreciating the fund's extraordinary volatility and risks. This won't be a surprise. Advertisement Performance-chasing investors often buy first and ask questions later, usually after one year's sizzler turns into next year's black hole. They typically forget one of the basic rules of investing: High returns are usually accompanied by high risks. By highlighting Focus's risks, we don't mean to suggest that either the fund or Heebner are flashes in the pan. Focus's long-term record is fabulous, too. The rewards. Over the past ten years through 2007, according to Morningstar, the fund returned 26% annualized. That beat the S&P 500 by an average of 20 percentage points per year. An investor who placed $10,000 in Focus ten years ago would now have a stake worth nearly $102,000. More to the point, Heebner is one of the smartest, most-intuitive money managers around. I first spoke with him 21 years ago, shortly after joining Kiplinger's. At that point, Heebner already had an 11-year record on CGM Capital Development, a fund that has been closed to new investors for years. Advertisement It would be easy to accuse us of Heebner-worship. One reason we are so enamored of him is that he operates so differently from most fund managers. He trades frenetically. He makes huge bets -- Focus owns only about 20 stocks. He doesn't care where a company is based, which makes Focus, with 63% of assets in foreign stocks at last report, look a lot more like a global fund than a domestic fund. And he's willing to bet against stocks by selling them short. Focus, in other words, is run like a hedge fund in the guise of a mutual fund. And most of Heebner's bets begin with his big-picture view of the economy, the markets and individual sectors. Most other managers say they pay little heed to such top-down analysis and instead pick stocks from the bottom up -- that is, issue by issue. Advertisement It's this big-picture thinking that prompted Heebner to invest in fertilizer stocks Mosaic (MOS) and Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (POT). He sees growing wealth among developing nations translating into higher living standards for their citizens. That means more demand for meat and grains, which leads to more demand for fertilizer. Heebner also sees growing demand for corn-based ethanol boosting fertilizer prices. At any rate, the next time you feel like crowing about your killing in Apple (AAPL) or Google (GOOG), just remember that shares of Potash tripled in '07 and that Mosaic's stock more than quadrupled -- up 341%, to be precise. The down side. But now let's turn to the risks of CGM Focus. Bear with me as we spend a little time looking at some numbers. Many of Heebner's techniques -- particularly concentration, rapid trading and short selling -- make Focus extra volatile. How volatile? Advertisement Statistics geeks like to look at standard deviation, which in this case measures how much a fund's returns vary from month to month. Over the past three years, Focus's standard deviation has been nearly three times greater than that of the S&P 500 index. Put aside the gobbledygook and look at actual returns. Consider, for starters, monthly results. Since Focus's launch in September 1997, it has surrendered 10% or more in a month on eight occasions. The S&P index has experienced two monthly double-digit declines -- 11% in September 2002 and 15% in August 1998. Focus has had four monthly losses of 20% or more -- 20% each in August 1998, September 2001 and July 2002 and a breathtaking 24% drop in January 2001. And when Heebner's thinking is out of sync with the market, Focus can lag by wide margins over lengthy periods. Consider that from the fund's launch through January 2000, Focus lost 7% annualized (or a cumulative 15%). Over the same period, the S&P 500 gained 19% annualized (or 51% cumulative). If you think I'm trying to frighten you, you're right. Anyone who puts money in this fund should be aware how quickly you can lose big chunks of your investment. If you put short-term savings or a disproportionate amount of your wealth into Focus, you are courting trouble. And if you buy into the fund thinking that you truly are a long-term investor who can ride out those short-term spills, you'd better be right. CGM Focus should be a relatively small part of a well-rounded portfolio, probably 10% to 15% of your assets at most. Focus is ideal for dollar-cost averaging -- investing a fixed amount at regular intervals -- because that technique puts you on automatic pilot and takes the emotion out of your buy decision. It's okay to invest in high-risk funds as long as their returns are commensurate with the chances they take. CGM Focus is such a fund. But it also represents a classic case of look before you leap.


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Price: Fifteen options from $6.99 to $21.99
Notes: Vegan/vegetarian friendly; closed Sundays
Rex and Val Bobi, the husband-and-wife team behind Savor in Norwalk, Connecticut, are serious about making pizza healthier and accessible for those with dietary restrictions. The fridge is stocked with coconut water, the dough is available in a gluten-free version, and those who can't eat dairy have some choices. For those with allergies or vegan lifestyles, this isn't pizza blasphemy; it's an oasis of comfort food that they can actually enjoy.
For the rest of us, it feels like the pizza equivalent of a juice fast.
Of the 15 different pizzas that are available, the Sausalito best exploits the variety of organic produce. Topped with portobello mushrooms, roasted garlic, sun-dried tomatoes, artichoke hearts, goat cheese, and light mozzarella, this pizza is anchored by a fairly mild basil pesto sauce and a sturdy yet thin whole wheat crust. This crust is studded with flax seeds; the density makes it more akin to a cracker than a crust. It carries the hefty toppings with aplomb, though.
At Savor, you can choose between five crust options including wheat-free rice, corn, spelt, corn wheat or whole wheat. Each ball of dough is pressed in a Dough Pro press and pre-baked in one of the Baker's Pride ovens.
This isn't pizza as much as a Canyon Ranch snack, and the vegetables are largely unfettered rather than doused in oil or caked in cheese. Regular pizza seems a bit flabby and out of shape after a Savor slice.
But maybe that's what we want pizza to be.
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More companies, cities and regional governments than ever are managing to reduce their carbon footprints while strengthening operational performance, shows a new edition of the report Carbon Down Profits Up. In many cases these organisations have made significant cost savings as a result of their actions.
As in previous years, this third edition of Carbon Down Profits Up highlights leadership in the area of climate change and points to the action, innovation and concrete results from those organisations that have done most to cut their carbon emissions.
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- The 137 leading corporations, cities and states selected for coverage in the report are drawn from 20 countries and have reduced carbon emissions by an average of 14%. This is nearly three times the percentage cut required of participating economies under the Kyoto Protocol.
- The 27 corporations reporting on the cost savings from their actions reduced emissions further, by an average of approximately 18%
- The five highest achievers - Catalyst Paper Corp., DuPont, AstraZeneca and the governments of Seattle (US) and Woking (UK) - each report cutting operational emissions by over 60%.
- Greater energy efficiency, sourcing of renewable energy and better waste management were the most frequently implemented measures within the organiz ations.
- Ninety-two per cent of those in the report pursued energy efficiency gains in particular, saving both the climate and money.
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On February 12, 1861, the Daily National Intelligencer reported on the activity of the U.S. House of Representatives the previous day. Like the Washington Convention meeting at Willard Hotel, the members of the House desperately wanted to preserve the Union. On that day, they debated measures that might accomplish that goal.
Orris S. Ferry of Connecticut suggested a resolution to investigate the feasibility of a constitutional amendment mandating that a state could not secede without the approval of two-thirds of Congress, the President, and all the other states. "Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of amending the Constitution of the United States so as expressly to forbid the withdrawal of any State from the Union without the consent of two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, the approval of the President, and the consent of all the States."
James B. McKean of New York put forward a resolution to study whether the border states secession might be prevented and their ties to the northern states strengthened through a program of compensated emancipation in that region. "Whereas the Gulf States have assumed to secede from the Union, and it is deemed important to prevent the Border Slave States from following their example; and whereas it is believed that those who are inflexibly opposed to any measure of compromise or concession that involves or may involve a sacrifice of principle or the extension of slavery would nevertheless cheerfully concur in any lawful measure for the emancipation of the slaves; Therefore, Resolved, That the select committee of five be instructed to inquire whether, by the consent of the people or of the State Governments, or by compensating the slaveholders, it be practicable for the General Government to procure the emancipation of the slaves in some or all of the Border States, and, if so, to report a bill for that purpose."
As the representatives of the remaining slave states vigorously objected to both the Ferry and McKean resolutions they never came up for a vote. Neither resolution gave the South the security for the institution of slavery that they demanded. So in end, the House unanimously passed a resolution giving the southern members what they wanted. The resolution stated simply: "Resolved, That neither Congress, the People, nor the Governments of the Non-slaveholding States have the constitutional right to legislate upon or interfere with slavery in any of the Slaveholding States of the Union."
This resolution, combined with activities of the Washington Convention, would lead to a constitutional amendment passing Congress in early March 1861, promising the slave states to disempower anyone except the slave states themselves from ever again legislating the peculiar institution. So it is clear with the future of slavery vexing the slave states, and with Abraham Lincoln now on his way to Washington, D.C. (he left his home in Springfield the same day as the February 11 resolution passed), Congress was working rapidly to satisfy the South before the new president, with his strong opposition to slavery's spread, had the power to weigh in. But clearly, slavery was at the nexus of southern discontent and eleventh-hour attempts to preserve the Union.


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I want to thank all the folks who attended. All of you brought open minds and fine palates. Thank you!
And big thanks to Doug for the use of the space, all the hard work, etc. And to Luca for the hard work and assistance.
Most of all - huge thanks to all the roasters. Your generosity is so appreciated, and the quality of the coffees you provided was humbling.
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–Have you heard the news?
All HELL is breaking loose, people are fuming, folks are on a witch hunt, infernos are ready to blow your minds.
You see, there's this dude, a dentist (isn't that irrelevant?) who hunted down and brutally mutilated the well-loved & legendary lion, Cecil. What I know is this: he shot him with an arrow, then proceeded to hunt him down for more than 40 hours before fatally shooting him in the head.
I don't desire to know the rest. It hurts my heart and soul.
If you want to see the photos, they're all over the internet like an ugly spreading stinking cancer. The dentist is the one grinning from ear to ear holding up dead lions, leopards, and rhinos, presumably while boasting a hard-on.
This scenario reminds me of the horror film, Hostile. Long story short: prosperous, narcissistic, entitled, hideous, Trump-like, spoilt individuals bid for humans to murder like in one of those snuff movies. These evil-doers pay gigantic amounts of money to perform these acts of violence and this is the highlight and thrill of their vacations.
Apparently, murder, killing, and blood must make one who is dead inside feel more alive.
While people are in mayhem over the slaughtering of Cecil, others are shouting, "What does this matter? There are horrendous things happening all over the world! Why care about a lion in Zimbabwe?"
I Disagree.
It's not simply about a lion; it's larger than that, more multifaceted than that.
It's about our humanity, our evolution. It's about respect for all things. It's about compassion and empathy. It's about a populace that actually believes they're higher than, superior, entitled, and oh-so-worthy and powerful.
It's about people calling themselves human beings when they care nothing about the life and well being of others.
That's what's really going on here.
What Cecil has done is put a face to our world's hatred, apathy, indifference, & disregard for our universe.
Yeah, I get it, we're all going to hell in a hand basket. I mean, look out your front door, turn on CNN, Nancy Grace, Dr. Drew, Talk Radio, Reality TV.
It's all too much to absorb. TOO Damn Much.
It makes you want to yell out your window like that guy from Network…
"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
Mercy Adiambo, my lovely pen-pal, repeats this phrase about the chaos in her country often…
"Africa kills her sun, Kim. We continually kill our sun."
It seems apt to say, we do the same.
I think of the dentist staring into the eyes of this magnificent lion and the lion staring back at him like a majestic God. I think of his suffering, pain, the arrow sticking thru him, his heart beating rapidly wondering what will happen next.
And I cry because I already know.
I cry because we kill our sun, too.
Every. Single. Solitary. Day.
I cry because this story is not only about a lion.
—–I will be taking August off from blogging, my darlings, but I'll still be reading yours.
Mr. Liverpool and I have planned a well needed vacation to some fun places. I think it will be beautifully liberating & fabulous. Remember—I love you. Xxx
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