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Posted on 12/05/2005 4:06:56 AM PST by PatrickHenry
The leaders of the intelligent design movement are once again holding court in America, defending themselves against charges that ID is not science. One of the expert witnesses is Michael Behe, author of the ID movements seminal volume Darwins Black Box. Behe, a professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University, testified about the scientific character of ID in Kitzmiller v. Dover School District, the court case of eight families suing the school district and the school board in Dover, Pa., for mandating the teaching of intelligent design.
Under cross-examination, Behe made many interesting comparisons between ID and the big-bang theory both concepts carry lots of ideological freight. When the big-bang theory was first proposed in the 1920s, many people made hostile objections to its apparent supernatural character. The moment of the big bang looked a lot like the Judeo-Christian creation story, and scientists from Quaker Sir Arthur Eddington to gung-ho atheist Fred Hoyle resisted accepting it.
In his testimony, Behe stated correctly that at the current moment, we have no explanation for the big bang. And, ultimately it may prove to be beyond scientific explanation, he said. The analogy is obvious: I put intelligent design in the same category, he argued.
This comparison is quite interesting. Both ID and the big-bang theory point beyond themselves to something that may very well lie outside of the natural sciences, as they are understood today. Certainly nobody has produced a simple model for the bigbang theory that fits comfortably within the natural sciences, and there are reasons to suppose we never will.
In the same way, ID points to something that lies beyond the natural sciences an intelligent designer capable of orchestrating the appearance of complex structures that cannot have evolved from simpler ones. Does this claim not resemble those made by the proponents of the big bang? Behe asked.
However, this analogy breaks down when you look at the historical period between George Lemaitres first proposal of the big-bang theory in 1927 and the scientific communitys widespread acceptance of the theory in 1965, when scientists empirically confirmed one of the big bangs predictions.
If we continue with Behes analogy, we might expect that the decades before 1965 would have seen big-bang proponents scolding their critics for ideological blindness, of having narrow, limited and inadequate concepts of science. Popular books would have appeared announcing the big-bang theory as a new paradigm, and efforts would have been made to get it into high school astronomy textbooks.
However, none of these things happened. In the decades before the big-bang theory achieved its widespread acceptance in the scientific community its proponents were not campaigning for public acceptance of the theory. They were developing the scientific foundations of theory, and many of them were quite tentative about their endorsements of the theory, awaiting confirmation.
Physicist George Gamow worked out a remarkable empirical prediction for the theory: If the big bang is true, he calculated, the universe should be bathed in a certain type of radiation, which might possibly be detectable. Another physicist, Robert Dicke, started working on a detector at Princeton University to measure this radiation. Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson ended up discovering the radiation by accident at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., in 1965, after which just about everyone accepted the big bang as the correct theory.
Unfortunately, the proponents of ID arent operating this way. Instead of doing science, they are writing popular books and op-eds. As a result, ID remains theoretically in the same scientific place it was when Phillip Johnson wrote Darwin on Trial little more than a roster of evolutionary theorys weakest links.
|When Behe was asked to explicate the science of ID, he simply listed a number of things that were complex and not adequately explained by evolution. These structures, he said, were intelligently designed. Then, under cross-examination, he said that the explanation for these structures was intelligent activity. He added that ID explains things that appear to be intelligently designed as having resulted from intelligent activity.
Behe denied that this reasoning was tautological and compared the discernment of intelligently designed structures to observing the Sphinx in Egypt and concluding that it could not have been produced by non-intelligent causes. This is a winsome analogy with a lot of intuitive resonance, but it is hardly comparable to Gamows carefully derived prediction that the big bang would have bathed the universe in microwave radiation with a temperature signature of 3 degrees Kelvin.
After more than a decade of listening to ID proponents claim that ID is good science, dont we deserve better than this?
ID is running out of friends, when even its natural allies are turning their backs.
Your puerile attempts to suppress other points of view are useless. People are free to investigate and inquire based on their own beliefs. What a sad and demented life you must lead. Each waking moment spent attempting to stifle others so that your own twisted logic is the only one allowed.
I never could understand why the scientific explanation of the way things are had to interfere with ones faith in God.
I guess it is because I was raised RC(the original fundamentalist Christian religion) and not into one of the newer Christian faiths.
Yes the R.C. church did persecute people like Galileo etc., but have since seen the error of their ways.
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I cannot say that S&T News is any kind of friend for ID, nor that it ever would have been. I tried it out and found it resolutely opposed to the very notion of Theology having any dependability for any question whatsoever. The magazine appears designed to destroy whatever credibility theology might have ever had. It should really be named Science trumps Theology News.
Thanks for posting this, though. Always good to know that the mainstreamers occupy every height in culture now as ever and are just as blind and self-centered now as ever.
Or are you agreeing that Fred Hoyle looks like anything but a fool for having so readily discounted the Big Bang?
IDers will go the way of the Flat Earth Society and Baseball Card Economists. They will remain a cult with devoted followers, but with little respect.
Oh how your ideaology has blinded you. No one is attempting to suppress anything. All researchers are asking is that ID proponents actually do some science to support their positions. So far, there hasn't been one piece of research done with the aim of finding evidence for design. Partly I believe this can be chalked up to the ID proponents not having clue one on how to test for design. Their whole thesis revolves around, "this looks like it was designed, so therefore it must have been -- and besides, Darwin sucks."
Hoyle was wrong about his "steady state" theory, although at the time he was its champion, it fit the then-available data. He was also wrong when he wandered from his specialty and started babbling about tornadoes in junkyards.
ID has many foes, but evo has the world saying, "where's the beef"???
God Almighty, here we go again.
Ya mean sorta like the general public views evols?
I ain't got no dog in this hunt but it impresses me that evols are not only defensive about a position that they claim has no foundation and are often downright abusive about it. That ain't no way to win a battle considering that the majority of American's think evolution is full of holes.
Might I suggest that another approach is to calmly and without invective explain the position rather than use words like "cult", "ignorant", "bible thumpers", "knuckle draggers", "cousin marrying", et al. All of which I have seen used to describe those that question any aspect of the ToE.
Just a thought of course. If evols want to continue to insult those they wish to convince by all means, that is certainly the way to go.
But then that's the way the ACLU usually operates so I guess it's just business as usual.
You should be thankful that evolution is not the game of chance as you have falsely implied, or you wouldn't be here.
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The smallest living organism . . .
All true, which means "chance" can't be the explanation; on that, all sides are agreed.
Of course, the odds against Avogadro's number of sodium chloride molecules "just happening" to arrange itself into a cubic crystal are also so astronomically huge as to make the event a practical impossibility.
The conclusion we draw there is that some sort of physical law is at work -- a conclusion that would be justified even if we couldn't yet state the law precisely, as long as there was no compelling reason to the contrary.
What we need from the ID crowd, and haven't seen (and in my opinion aren't going to see), is just such a compelling reason to the contrary.
Going to the "general public" for views on science is like going to a chef for open heart surgery: NOT QUALIFIED.
Exactly one-half of the population of America has an IQ of 100 or less. And, even if the majority believe in space aliens and ghosts...should we let those who are uneducated and unqualified dictate the course of science?
Maybe my naivete is extreme, but it seems to me that science would have nothing to research if there was no reason in creation. Isn't that what scientists DO... try to find out how things work? If they kept discovering chaos, they would stop.
Those of us who believe in divine creation are all the more awed when science uncovers yet another layer of amazing interrelationships in the universe. (The Golden Mean is a prime example). I remain awed, and firmly believe that ultimate discovery will come when we "see Him face to face". In the meanwhile, no approach to science is wrong, or sacreligeous - they all serve to humble us even more.
Seemed to work out pretty well for him and for our country.
But of course if the annointed elete don't wish the great unwashed to be educated and that the annointed ones are only those that have the answers then that's probably not an issue.
But to me at least that kinda sounds like how liberals operate.
Maybe my naivete is extreme, but it seems to me that science would have nothing to research if there was no reason in creation. Isn't that what scientists DO... try to find out how things work? If they kept discovering chaos, they would stop.
Sure, scientists look for patterns and principles that describe the underlying order in what may look superficially like chaos. And many people (the famous Deist from whom I took my screen name, for example) have regarded the existence of such order generally as evidence of a "cosmic architect" or "designer."
But that's not what the ID folks argue. They claim to be able to tell apart two different kinds of order: one that can be explained in terms of the operation of natural law, and one that can't. It's only the latter that they attribute to the operation of intelligence.
As a matter of science, their "argument" founders on the fact that they haven't got any reliable way to tell the two apart or any real program for investigating the matter scientifically.
Laying out a theory in a way a lay person can understand it rather than calling them idiots might be a better strategy.
It all sounds SOOOOOO familiar....
I don't know from where you get your probability calculations, but assuming they are correct, if these processes occured millions and millions of times, one would get 410 amino acids forming a protein molecule fairly quickly and easily. Same with forming the smallest organism.
Evols realize that Creationist IDealogues have demonstrated by their refusal to either defend or abandon discredited arguments that they are not open to convincing .
Ergo Plan B: "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women."
"They claim to be able to tell apart two different kinds of order: one that can be explained in terms of the operation of natural law, and one that can't. "
How do they explain "natural law" in the first place? Where do they say it comes from?
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Fair enough.
And if these things occured on a second or so worldwide, in the 6 BILLION years they earth has been around that means that this could have occurred 6,000,000 x 365 x 24 x 60 x 60 = 1,892,160,000,000,000 times so far (at a minimum)...so those "1 in a billion" odds don't look so bad when you do something 1 quadrillion times....
You are missing the point completely.
Science is the study of what happens when God does not intervene.
Theology is the study of what happens when God does intervene.
Inteligent Design might be true, but it can never be Science. It is by definition Theology. Therefore is shold never be taught in Science Classes.
If people want to be honest and add Theology classes to public schools, that would be OK with me, but don't debase science.
Infinite combinations of matter over an indefinite period of time can explain everything that exists. Shall we call this "science?"
I opt for more and better Sci-Fi movies as a substitute for the MSM. (with tongue in cheek).
I'm curious. If you deal every card in a deck of playing cards out in front of you, what are the odds of you dealing the exact sequence of cards you end up with? Funny thing, those probabilities.
Allow me to be the first to sign on to that proposal!
And yes, the few times I've been involved in a story I haven't recognized it either. Scary.
Human myoglobin has 153 amino acids. Human cytochrome c has 104 amino acids. Hen egg lysozyme has 129 amino acids. Where do you dig up this rubbish?
It's all based on the stereochemistry involved.
Simple chemistry dictates that amino acids can condense and that a chain containing 410 amino acids units will form via condensation quite readily. It's freshamn chemistry.
So, IDers, tell us something we didn't know, based on your theory. Then go find it.
Of course not. Those ignorant, unwashed masses of little people have no business doing anything other than what WE tell them to do.
I read your comment just as I was falling off yet another turnip truck so I may have misinterpreted what you wrote. But it seemed a bit elitist, don't you think?
Believe it or not, there are scientific theories based on essentially that idea. Provided an infinite universe, there will be a region of space with the exact same arrangements of matter and energy as we have here. There is a statistical probability for this. A very low probability, but a finite one. But given an infinite universe, that makes that low probability a certainty. That means there are multiple Fester Chugabrew's and doc30's out there.
Basicly yes, but some clarification is needed here. There are not an infinite number of combinations as the structure of the amino acids will only allow so many combinations. Have this finite number of combinations attempt to happen milions and millions and millions all of times all over the earth where the primordal soup existed and bingo, you start having protein molecules. That's called science.
And, the process very obviously is not happening for an "infinite" amount of time because the primordal soup from which we came ceased to exist in that form millions of years ago.
Where did you get in my post that this suggests an explanation for "everything that exists"? That is not science.
The closest analogy I can find to your model is the Genesis creation story. A man is formed from dust in one afternoon. Yes, it's pretty ridiculous. I doubt even God would do it that way.
Speaking as a believer, I think science would be aided in it's advancement by not ignoring the 100% accuracy of the Bible regarding physics.
God states in the Bible that we humans should know he is God because he tells us the ending from the begining. There is recorded in it's pages details of future physical events that will greatly impact not only the earth but the universe.
For instance the sun will grow hotter and scorch the earth and it is the sun's power, not man that will cause global warming on a scale that blisters men with sores.
It also relates the rising seas, roaring tides, the sudden stillness of the sea, it's turning red and watery as a dead man's blood, now the evidence is in, we have the "red tides". We are told that this red tide will kill every living thing in the sea. This red tide has already appeared from Galveston to Italy devastating the fishing industry with each appearance.
We are told that the stars will appear to fall, that the earth will rock to and fro on it's axis like a drunkard.
All these things are coming, it's rediculous for science to disregard the Bible out of hand. Especially given the universe is speeding up rather than slowing down as predicted, the red tides are here, the melting of polar ice, and the contested global warming, the conditions that are causing fish kills on a massive scale are here.
The speed up of the universe could be explained because of the black hole discovered at the center of the Milky Way, or some other reason yet to be discovered. We count on science to ponder the causes of these future events, identify them, and use the same physics used to discover the Big Bang, to verify where we are along our clearly marked path using the Bible as it's template.
I don't think that it's alot to ask of science to stop being one step behind the Bible, blindly following along after the fact instead of in sinc.
If an Intelligent Designer is responsible for things so complex they could not have happened by chance, surely the Intelligent Designer is the most complex of all.
So who designed the Intelligent Designer ?
Ahh gee, I wish I could say I'm sorry.
Should we just let anyone do science or surgery or rocket design? And why wait all those years plodding through high school and college, just to satisfy some smart elitist?
Nah, there a damned good reason that those pursuing such professions are intellectually endowed.
How do they explain "natural law" in the first place? Where do they say it comes from?
Probably many (most? all?) ID proponents are of the personal opinion that an intelligent creator is responsible for all of natural law as well. But that's not part of the official theory of intelligent design, because ID itself doesn't seek to explain the origins of things that can be accounted for by natural law.
Way to go, Miss Pie!
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I'm convinced that Behe and thus ID are nothing but a book selling charlatan hoax. What baffles me are the people who fall hook, line, and sinker for this hoax. On one hand it's understandable that a person who's never studied science could easily be deceived by charlatans (after all they're selling their pseudo science books to someone). But, on the other hand it would seem that people who fall for a charlatan hoax and are interested in understanding evolution would sooner or later get around to reading a real science book. The evidence I see from these threads is that the trolls who keep invading seem to relish digging themselves deeper into the pit of ignorance when it would be so much simpler and more personally rewarding to just read the science books that debunk the pseudoscience. What is it about pig-ignorance that causes otherwise rational people to wallow in it? Common sense tells you that a any new heavily marketed best selling book that starts off telling you that all the other scientists and experts on the planet are wrong is feeding you a line of stinky BS.
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FERRON-Roxie Westover Nelson, age 96, passed away June 26, 2008. She was born on July 23, 1911, the fifth of six children born to George and Alice Ann Westover. Roxie grew up in Huntington, Utah. She married Paul A. Nelson on July 1, 1937, in the Manti LDS Temple. They then made their home in Ferron.
She was an active member of the LDS church where she held various positions throughout her life. Roxie was also heavily involved in her community being director of the Peach Days celebration numerous times. She even persuaded the Osmond Brothers to entertain at one of the celebrations. She was chairman of the Ferron City and Emery County Republican Party for many terms. Roxie was also Vice President of the State Farm Bureau. Her hobbies included crocheting, quilting, and creating "plastic cross stitch" articles.
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Gillis would "absolutely" burn the first year of Corrado's ELC if he's "going to help us win hockey games"
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April 24 2013 02:09PM
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Mike Gillis gave Matt Sekeres and Blake Price a pretty meaty interview on the Team 1040 on Wednesday afternoon. We'll probably pivot off of a couple of things he said today, just because there was enough content to legitimately do so, but let's start with some choice comments Mike Gillis had on the subject of Frank Corrado and entry-level contracts.
In particular Gillis was asked if the team would be willing to burn the first year of Corrado's entry-level contract, which because Frank Corrado didn't turn twenty until this past spring is on schedule to "slide" so long the rookie defenceman plays in fewer than six NHL games, including playoffs, this season. His answer was definitive, so read on past the jump.
Here's the relevant Mike Gillis quote (transcription my own, and emphasis my own too):
"Absolutely [we'd burn the first year of Corrado's entry-level contract] we're here to win hockey games. The consequence of burning a year for Frank isn't going to be that much of a consequence. We're projecting him say a guy whose going to compete for a spot on this team next year anyway. You know if he's going to help us win hockey games he's going to be in the lineup."
First of all, Mike Gillis is absolutely right here. If Corrado is one of your top-six available defenceman heading into any given playoff game this spring, you play him. Remember, if Corrado can help you win playoff games that's not really "burning" a year of his entry-level deal.
The term "burning" implies that you're not recouping proper value from it, like lighting a cigar with an old style Robert Borden. But if the player - in this case Corrado - is able to help you out in the postseason, then that's quite probably more valuable to the Canucks than it would be to have a probable fifth or sixth defenceman on the books, for less than 600k against the cap, in a season three years down the road when the Sedin twins will be thirty-five. So yeah, it's not like when the Oilers dithered around with Ryan Nugent-Hopkins...
Now it's not a slam dunk that Corrado will be one of the team's top-six defenceman at any point in time, but considering his competition includes guys like Derek Joslin and Cam Barker, it's not really a long-shot either.
But I digress, beyond Mike Gillis' comments on "burning" the first year of Corrado's ELC, I found his comment: "the consequence of burning a year for Frank isn't going to be much of a consequence" particularly telling. With the likes of Kevin Bieksa, Jason Garrison, Dan Hamhuis and Alex Edler locked up for the next three seasons, and Chris Tanev sure to follow this summer, it seems pretty unlikely that Frank Corrado is going to be counted on to play major minutes regularly during his entry-level contract. Certainly he won't be when everyone is healthy.
As such, even if Corrado's entry-level contract expires when he's twenty-two (as opposed to when he's twenty-three) we're probably not talking about a lot of money to sign him to his second deal anyway (presuming he's even a regular NHLer at that point). Hell if the Habs can sign PK Subban to a two year deal worth less than three million per season for his second contract, imagine what a third pairing utility guy with nowhere near Subban's offensive upside will go for a couple of years down the line. Maybe 1.2M?
Mike Gillis has taken some heat in the Vancouver market of late, and he's made some moves that I think have been, or willdown the line prove to be costly (the Luongo contract, and the plethora of no-trade clauses in particular). But it's very rare that Mike Gillis talks about managing an asset, and isn't totally dead on. If you're paying attention to teams and General Managers around the league, that sadly isn't as common as one might expect...
In addition to those illuminating comments on burning Corrado's entry level contract, Mike Gillis had this to add about Corrado's season, development and skill set:
"Frank is a really good player, in our opinion he definitely should've been on the Canadian World junior team, I still don't understand why he wasn't when he was clearly in everyone's estimation either the best defenceman, or one of the top two defenceman at the camp. He's had a really strong season and does a lot of things well. He skates well, he's got good size, and he's got good vision. It's only been one game but I'm not surprised he stepped in and played well."
On what sort of role we can expect to see Corrado play on the club going forward, Mike Gillis added these comments as well:
"He'll play the next couple of games and he's definitely going to be available to play games. Whether or not he plays regularly or not depends a lot on Chris Tanev and how long it takes him to come back, and other injuries we may face. But it's a pretty comforting feeling knowing you have a pretty good young player who can step into the lineup, and play, and not hurt you."
Gillis is definitely correct that it would be well worth it to burn a year of an ELC if a player is helping the team win games in the playoffs.
If you want an example of a team playing games with service time to their detriment, look at the LA Angels last year with Mike Trout.
Sure, the fact that he was the best player in baseball after his callup was unpredictable.
But the value that can be provided both in terms of winning and revenue to the owner by improving the chances of winning playoff games is well worth burning a year of an ELC.
"If you want an example of a team playing games with service time to their detriment, look at the LA Angels last year with Mike Trout."
Why are we looking to Baseball when we got the Oilers just sitting there?
Because that was a pretty dramatic example...for effect.
Here is a better perspective: Considering that SC playoffs are most important part of the season, better to have Corrado play now than wasting a year of his ELC on the regular season.
It doesn't have to be one or the other, though.
If the Canucks were a non-playoff team, there's an argument that it would be a poor use of Corrado's ELC to get him into 6 or more regular season games.
But as Thomas says, considering how good the team is and the age of the Sedins, of course it makes sense to use him if he's one of the best 6 healthy options.
I'm trying hard to keep my expectations low about Corrado, but I love this kid. Very excited about what he can (potentially) bring to the team going forward.
We will see tonight when they play Anaheim Ducks. If he has an awesome game,or even scores a goal I will start to get excited.
I think Tom has it bang-on with the fact that his second contract is unlikely to be too expensive anyway, so there's not a whole lot really being burned. It's a similar situation to Chris Tanev. He's proven himself perfectly NHL-capable, but that doesn't mean he's about to get a $5 million raise as an RFA.


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Matthew Cock, Head of Web, British Museum
I was lucky enough to be part the British Museum's team running the first module of the Leadership Training Programme, which has just finished in Delhi. The programme was initiated by the National Culture Fund (NCF) under the Indian Ministry of Culture, with 20 delegates drawn from museums across India – from Delhi to Kolkotta, Mumbai to Chennai – including directors, curators, conservators and administrators.
The course is spread over three modules, the first focused on strategic, leadership and management skills, the second in March at the British Museum, on the more practical specialisms of a modern museum such as interpretation, documentation, marketing and education. The final module will be in Mumbai in May. I have no doubt that the two-way exchange of knowledge between delegates and British Museum staff will continue between modules and hopefully beyond the end of the course.
The training sessions were held at the National Culture Fund, in their offices next to the National Gallery of Modern Art. The sessions were long and energetic, with lots of discussion, workshops and case studies from both within and outside the Museum sector, and plenty of passionate debate about ways of leading institutions in times of change. On the day I joined the course, delegates made short presentations following visits to the National Museum of Delhi and the Sanskriti Museums, where they identified opportunities and prioritised changes that could be made to improve the visitor experience.
Our NCF hosts looked after us really well – particularly at lunchtime, where each day brought a new selection of delicious hot food, with local breads freshly cooked on site.
It was a fascinating experience, and though I didn't have much time to see a lot of the city in the four days I was there, I learnt a lot about Indian museums, and the amazing quality of their collections. I'm looking forward to working with the delegates again in March, and continuing the discussions we began on the use of digital in many aspects of museum work.
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Question 1 of 30
How many barrels of oil are produced around the globe each day?
In 2015 worldwide oil production averaged a staggering 80 millions barrels per day.
Question 2 of 30
True or false: Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) members produce more oil per day than all non-OPEC member nations combined.
OPEC countries produce a combined 24,377,000 barrels per day, while non-OPEC nations produce nearly twice that amount daily.
Question 3 of 30
Which of these countries produces the most oil on average?
With an average daily output of more than 10 million barrels per day, Russia produces more oil than China and Mexico combined.
Question 4 of 30
True or false: In 2014 the United States became the world's largest oil producer.
With production at 11 million barrels per day, the U.S. overtook Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world's largest oil producer in 2014.
Question 5 of 30
What is shale?
type of rock
Shale is a type of rock from which oil can be extracted via fracking. Shale deposits in North Dakota and other states allowed the U.S. to ramp up oil production in 2013 and 2014.
type of oil rig
type of refining method
Question 6 of 30
True or false: The U.S. is only expected to lead the world in oil production for a year or two.
Oil industry experts expect the U.S. to lead world oil production all the way through the 2030s, with production climbing to 13.1 million barrels per day by 2019.
Question 7 of 30
Who produces more oil, Africa or Europe?
They produce about the same amount.
With 8.7 million barrels produced each day, Africa produces about twice as much oil as Europe.
Question 8 of 30
Which of these countries produced the most oil in 2014?
Brazil produced an average of 2.9 million barrels per day compared to 2.6 million in Venezuela. Ecuador averaged just half a million per day.
Question 9 of 30
What country's economy is most dependent on oil?
Kuwait is the most oil-dependent country on Earth, followed closely by Libya. The value of crude production as a share of gross domestic product is higher in these countries than any other nation.
Question 10 of 30
How many barrels of oil were burned in Kuwait during the 1991 war?
1 million
1 billion
More than a billion barrels of oil were burned in Kuwait and another million were dumped into the sea. This led to not only a serious economic loss but also a lingering environmental crisis.
1 trillion
Question 11 of 30
Where will you find the largest oil field in North America?
Prudhoe Bay in Alaska is home to North America's largest oil field and ranks among the 20 largest oil fields ever discovered worldwide.
Question 12 of 30
What South American country is home to the Santos and Campos basins?
The Santos and Campos basins in Brazil are significant oil and natural gas sources.
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Which Canadian province is known for its oil-rich sands or tar?
The Alberta government estimates that the province's three primary oil-sand sites contain a staggering 173 billion barrels of recoverable oil.
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How much of the oil and gas deposits in the United States have been lost due to poor production techniques?
25 percent
75 percent
An estimated 75 percent of all oil and natural gas deposits located in the U.S. were lost due to unsustainable production techniques.
99 percent
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What year was OPEC founded?
OPEC was founded in 1960 with five original members.
Question 16 of 30
Which of the following nations was NOT an original member of OPEC?
OPEC consisted of just five nations when the group formed in 1960: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.
Question 17 of 30
What year was the world's first oil company founded?
The Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company was founded in August 1859 when oil was discovered 69 feet (21 meters) below the ground in Pennsylvania.
Question 18 of 30
Which of the following was NOT a founding member of Standard Oil?
Henry Flagler
John D. Rockefeller
William Jennings Bryan
Standard Oil, which dominated the oil industry during the 20th century, was founded by John and William Rockefeller, Henry Flagler and Stephen V. Harkness.
Question 19 of 30
True or false: In 1909 the U.S. produced as much oil as the rest of the world combined.
After a major oil boom in Texas in 1901, oil production in the U.S. continued at a frenzied pace for the next decade, resulting in U.S. oil production levels that equaled those of every country on Earth combined.
Question 20 of 30
True or false: The U.S. produced almost 90 percent of the world's oil as recently as 1950.
The U.S. was responsible for half of world oil production through 1950, but the rise of production in Europe, Russia and the Middle East helped to reduce the U.S. share of the world oil market since that time.
Question 21 of 30
What country is home to the Burgan oil field?
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait's Burgan oil field, discovered in 1938, is one of the largest oil fields on the planet.
Question 22 of 30
What country is home to the world's largest oil field?
Saudi Arabia
The Ghawar field, discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1948, is the world's largest oil field.
Question 23 of 30
How much of Saudi Arabia's oil comes from Ghawar?
20 percent
60 percent
An estimated 60 percent of Saudi oil comes from the massive Ghawar field.
99 percent
Question 24 of 30
What year did the U.S. experience its first major oil shock thanks to an OPEC embargo?
A 1973 OPEC embargo severely limited oil supplies, resulting in shortages and severe price increases.
Question 25 of 30
True or false: Oil prices dropped more than 70 percent worldwide from mid-2014 to the end of 2015.
Oil prices dropped more than 70 percent from 2014 to 2016 largely due to record production rates, particularly from the U.S. shale industry.
Question 26 of 30
When do economists estimate that "peak oil" will occur?
by 2020
by 2040
Economists estimate that peak oil — a period when world oil production levels will begin to permanently decline — will occur by 2040 as supplies dwindle and other energy sources become more economical compared to oil production costs.
by 2080
Question 27 of 30
How long will known North American oil reserves last if current production stays the same?
34 years
At current production rates, North America has enough known oil reserves to last 34 years.
68 years
102 years
Question 28 of 30
How long will world oil reserves last at current production rates?
52 years
At current production rates, the world's known 1700.1 billion barrels of oil reserves will last 52 years.
102 years
152 years
Question 29 of 30
What percent of world oil reserves are held by OPEC members?
25 percent
71 percent
OPEC members hold 71.6 percent of known oil reserves worldwide.
99 percent
Question 30 of 30
True or false: The U.S. does not import any oil.
Despite becoming the world's largest oil producer in 2014, the U.S. still imports 7.5 million barrels per day as of 2015.


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Statement by Ambassador Herman Schaper
Permanent Representative of Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
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Informal interactive dialogue on the Responsibility to Protect
5 September 2012
Mr. Moderator,
I would like to congratulate you with your appointment as the SG's Special Advisor on Prevention of Genocide. I would also express our gratitude to Special Advisors Francis Deng and Ed Luck. Our discussions with them as co-chairs of the Group of Friends of R2P always have been very enriching and stimulating.
The concept of R2P has matured since the World Summit in 2005. International support has grown substantially and is widespread in all regions. However, some countries still seem to favor an absolutist Westphalian concept of sovereignty, over the concept of sovereignty as responsibility. This makes it sometimes very difficult or impossible to come to a collective approach on the exercise of our collective responsibility to respond to mass atrocities, as we have seen in Syria.
R2P is based on fundamental norms, standards and principles of international law which should be applied in cases of mass atrocities such as genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, as the SG also mentions in his report and speeches. It is not a concept which opens the door to arbitrary and widespread military intervention, but it is a narrow and deep concept focusing on four mass atrocities only.
For timely and decisive action in such cases a large toolbox is available, not just military means, as also described in the report of the SG. Commissions of Inquiry, mediation, sanctions, arms embargoes, referral to the ICC and civil missions are all important instruments in such a toolbox, as the deputy SG also mentioned. That means that even in serious and threatening situations, there are many alternatives to the use of force.
In the UN, we have all these tools at hand. But we need to improve their application and increase our political and financial support, as preventive tools are underfunded.
Military intervention - with Security Council approval – is the absolute last resort. In this context, it is a misconception that coercive non-military measures will automatically result in military action. Taking such a position would block any effective action by the international community and are in essence an excuse for inaction. Each situation requires a different response and there is no automatic escalation model from condemnation of violence to sanctions and ultimately sending in the marines.
Inaction also has its price, as we see in Syria. The violence has escalated, many people have died, the opposition is strengthened and a political solution has become extremely difficult. The scenario that the opponents of collective action through the Security Council feared, has become reality, not because of action by the international community, but to a large degree because of its inaction.
Mr. Moderator, the Secretary-General is very correct when he states that there is no template for decision making in case of coercive measures. However, we do believe that decision making by the Council could benefit in the case of military action from a more structured and substantial discussion, also to ensure that afterwards no disagreement will surface on the exact meaning of the language in a mandate.
Mandates with military aspects should be based on sound military advice. Such military advice would help to come to clearer and more specific mandates, which would also make monitoring the implementation of mandates easier.
Finally, I would like to underline the importance of prevention, as the President of General Assembly has done in his concept note and many speakers during this debate.
Next to the elements mentioned by the Secretary-General on early warning, a strategy of prevention should be comprehensive.
Creating the conditions for economic development, good governance, an independent judiciary, adequate policies for managing diversity, reducing inequalities between people, regions, and genders, and preventing impunity. All this contributes to the prevention of mass atrocities.
We would therefore welcome an interactive dialogue on prevention during the 67th UNGA.
Thank you.


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Having lived in two countries where this holiday is not celebrated, I'm unfamiliar with how one actually "does" Thanksgiving. But, the sentiment behind the celebration is something I wholeheartedly agree with. There are so many things to be thankful for in my life, and taking time out to appreciate them is a wonderful idea.
One of the things I'm grateful for is where I live. Like many Australians, the beach holds an immense fascination for me, and I am extremely fortunate to live within walking distance of one.
A picnic dinner by the beach with my family and our close friends sounded like the perfect way to celebrate.
It's almost summer over here in Oz and of course the silly season is in full swing. Ladies in party frocks trot down city streets in the evenings, shiny baubles are up in the stores and a feeling of anticipation hangs in the air.
When I first got to Australia, one of the many things I found extremely intriguing was the way Aussies do party food. During my first Christmas, I was confronted by a massive bowl of bright orangey-pink cooked prawns in the centre of the table. Now, prawns (shrimp) are a favourite of mine, but we'd always had them cooked in some interesting way - Butter Prawns for example, or Sweet and Sour Prawns, or my favourite, Asam (Tamarind) Prawns. But these Australian creatures were simply boiled and placed on the table to be eaten as is, with lemon wedges and cocktail sauce. Of course, I was instantly won over (it's prawns we're talking about here), but this food memory was not unique to me. My dinner party guest who hails from Brazil shared a laugh about her first surprise encounter with the boiled crustacean too. (These prawns are actually sold at the fishmongers, so no extra cooking is necessary making them a very easy party dish).
I put together a picnic menu to try and capture the essence of what I see as Aussie celebration food. There had to be prawns of course, and oysters. Also something to "throw on the barbie (barbecue)" accompanied by bread and salads. And to finish – pavlova. There seems to be some contention with the Australianess of this favourite dessert, Apparently the Kiwis want it back, claiming they invented it first. Tell you what, how about you guys keep Russell Crowe and we'll trade you the pav eh bro?
Of course, I couldn't resist jazzing things up a little. The prawns were served with a homemade garlic aioli while the oysters were sprinkled with a passionfruit-lime "agar-jelly" and chilli. The bread was homemade wattleseed focaccia, the chicken for the barbecue was marinaded with bush tomato, and the pavlova took the form of a roulade. (Recipe for aioli, bread and pavlova below).
A smattering of rain did threaten to send the picnic indoors, but we got lucky at the last minute. The wind that had been howling all afternoon also calmed down - "the late evening glass-off" according to Mr. Kitchen Hand (a keen surfer). It turned into the most perfect balmy evening.
The seafood entrees went down very well and Mini-Critic Senior tried her first ever oyster au naturel. "I like the texture but not the taste", was her verdict. That's something we can work on kiddo! Mini-critic junior hooked into the prawns, ordering all the adults around her to "peel another one! Pwease" . And our friend E threatened to eat up the garlicky aioli by the spoonful.
Then we sent the boys off to do the barbecuing. For some reason I still haven't quite fathomed, barbecuing is considered a bloke's job. They'll stand around the barbie, with beers in hand, singeing the sausages and charcoaling the chops. Luckily, Mr. Kitchen Hand is very adept at the art of the barbecue, and I was happy to release the chicken and mango skewers, kangaroo sausages (called kanga bangas), and green beans and asparagus into his care.
Free public barbecues were another item that I found very interesting as a newbie Aussie. I was amazed at how folks would happily cook their own food on these things and trust that the person before them had cleaned the barbecue properly. I was also surprised that these often exposed barbecue plates were not covered in bird-droppings! I later discovered that these barbecues are maintained by the local councils and someone is in charge of regularly cleaning them. Phew!
The lads trekked back from the first barbecue area glumly – it had been decommissioned. Luckily, there are two other barbecue stations near our picnic spot, and they headed off in the opposite direction. What seemed like an eternity later, they returned with our food. It had taken them that long because only one of the two barbecue plates was working. At this stage, I was very thankful for patient friends! The mini-critics had kept boredom at bay by covering themselves in sand.
The winner for this round turned out to be the barbecued beans and asparagus. Mr. Kitchen Hand had sizzled them very briefly with olive oil and garlic, then squeezed lemon juice over them just as they came off the barbecue. The greens had a fantastic smoky flavour yet retained a "snap" of freshness we found very appealing. The kids and J enjoyed the roo sausages and the bush tomato seasoning lent a distinctive, tangy flavour to the chicken.
As for dessert? Well, silence descended as everyone tackled the roulade. That is the best compliment of all I think, when food has the power to quell conversation.
We lingered after the meal, surrounded by fellow late-evening picnickers. As the night progressed we watched diners from the nearby restaurants stroll along the promenade enjoying the evening air. It was way past the kids' bedtimes by the time we packed up and headed home but it was well worth it, truly an evening to be thankful for.
Thank you for letting me share it with you.
Watteleseed and Honey Focaccia
(adapted from a recipe found here. My mother-in-law sent me some packets of bush spices from the botanic gardens where she works as a volunteer. I'd never used wattleseed before and it smelt very coffee-like in its "raw" form. We couldn't quite taste the wattleseed in the finished bread and I would definitely add more next time. I thought there was an underlying earthiness and a hint of coffee in the bread but not sure if that was because I was actively looking out for it.)
300 ml warm water
2tsp honey
2tsp instant dried yeast
3 cups bread flour + more to dust/flour benchtop
pinch of salt
1 tsp ground wattleseed (will add more next time)
1tbsp olive oil + 1 tsp honey to brush onto top of bread before baking.
Stir the honey into the warm water. Add the yeast and set aside for a few minutes until yeast foams up. Put the flour, salt and watteseed into a large bowl and make a well in the centre. Pour the water mixture into the well, stir with a fork or spoon from the inside out, drawing the flour into the liquid. The mixture will come together into a sticky ball. Turn this out onto a floured surface and knead until the dough stops being sticky, and becomes elastic instead. I found that after a whole heap of kneading (10 minutes), my dough was still extremely sticky so I added an extra ¼ cup flour to it.
Form the dough into a ball, place in a well oiled deep bowl, and cover the top with oiled plastic wrap. Leave the dough till doubled in size. "Knock back" the dough, then gently roll it flat and place on a baking tray (I just used a baking sheet, but should probably have used a tray with sides). Leave until risen again then brush the top with a mix of the oil and honey (warm honey if too sticky). Sprinkle with salt if desired. I also poked a few decorative divots in the dough to ensure even rising.
Bake in a hot overn (about 200˚C) until golden and the bread sounds hollow when tapped.
(I actually made the dough up till it was put on the tray, then wrapped it in oiled plastic wrap and stored it overnight in the fridge. The next day, I brought it up to room temp and proceeded with the oil and docking procedure and baked it.)
(Apparently traditional aioli doesn't usually contain egg yolk and should really be made in the mortar and pestle. I did crush the garlic with a mortar and pestle, but stirred everything in a large bowl using a whisk. It worked very well and tasted great so I'm calling it a success. I adapted a recipe by Stephanie Alexander found in The Cook's Companion)
1 egg yolk
3 cloves garlic
pinch of salt
2 tbsp lemon juice
about 1 cup or more olive oil
Grind the garlic cloves and salt into a fine paste in a mortar and pestle. Transfer to a clean bowl, mix in the egg yolk carefully until well blended. Start adding the olive oil very little at a time (I glugged it out of the bottle about 1 teaspoonful at a time). Stir very well after each addition to make sure the mixture doesn't curdle. Once it starts to thicken well, add olive oil in a thin stream and stir. Just before desired consistency is reached, add the lemon juice and mix well. Add more olive oil if needed. Store in fridge until required. I have seen recipes suggesting pressing a piece of plastic wrap over the top before storing, but I stored mine in a jar and it was fine.
Chocolate Pavlova Roulade with Raspberries and Mint.
(I'd made the original Pavlova roulade with toffee plums recipe found in my favourite Delicious magazine many times, always to rave reviews. Wanting to do something a little different I incorporated my favourite summer berry. The addition of cocoa powder seemed to alter the pavlova consistency very slightly, it becomes a little less marshmallowy and slightly more cakey which isn't really a bad thing, and probably not very noticeable to anyone who hasn't eaten the original version).
For the pavlova:
5 eggwhites
20g cocoa powder (about 3 heaped teaspoons)
250g caster sugar
2 tsp vinegar (I used apple cider vinegar)
Preheat the oven to 160˚C – I actually baked it at a lower temp (according to my oven thermometer -250˚F) for slightly longer, turning the tray around halfway through. Grease and line a large rectangular baking tray (I actually used a roasting pan).
Whip eggwhites until stiff. Add caster sugar a little at a time making sure to beat well after each addition. If the sugar hasn't dissolved properly, the resulting pavlova will weep. I added the cocoa powder to the last lot of sugar and beat that in. Add the vinegar and beat it quickly in. I've made pavlova without vinegar before and it works fine but I like to think of the vinegar as a bit of extra insurance.
Bake as mentioned earlier until the top is just crisp but not brown and the middle is still marshmallowy. Touch the top to help decide if it's cooked or not and shake the pan lightly, if it wobbles, it needs more time.
Let the pavlova cool in the tin
For the filling
About 300ml thickened cream, whipped with 2 tbsp icing sugar until peaks form
Handful of fresh raspberries
About 1 tbsp diced mint leaves.
Tip the pavlova out onto some baking paper, carefully peel off the baking paper used during cooking. Spread the cream over the cooled pavlova, sprinkle on the raspberries and mint. Starting from one short end, carefully roll the whole thing up as you would a swiss roll. Don't worry if it cracks, it doesn't really matter too much.
Once rolled, wrap the whole thing in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 3 hours. Slice thickly and serve with extra raspberries. If feeling industrious, make a chocolate sauce to go with it.
To save the pavlova from getting crushed, I stored the plastic wrapped roll in a loaf tin in the fridge.
Note: make sure thickened cream is used as it contains a stabilizer. Pure cream may "water out" if left standing for too long.


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Mr. Zink was the coolest teacher in my middle school. Everyone liked him: nerd, jock, cheerleader alike. He taught science, and if you were lucky you got him two years in a row. In those few minutes after the lesson finished, but before the bell rang, he would tell us the grossest stories that he knew.
I still remember them. The one about the kid playing basketball with his class ring on, who left his ring and its attached finger on the rim after a dunk, connected by all the tendons from his finger to his shoulder. (Can that really happen?)
Yes, that can happen. Well, not the "to his shoulder" part as the tendons to the fingers don't originate that high in the arm, but the avulsion of the ring finger can and does. (photo credit--III type injury) A typical story may be
She had avulsed the skin off her ring finger of her right (dominant) hand whilst attempting to jump over a spiked fence, catching her ring on the spike.
The physics/mechanics of the injury is explained well here.
The first 1998 study conducted under Dr. David M. Kupfer, Department of Plastic and Orthopaedic Surgery, University of San Diego in California, involved dropping a 30-pound weight attached to a ring bearing finger hanging from a hook, from a 9-inch height.
Results showed that in more than 90% of cases, the injuries caused by rings and wedding bands are Class II (29%) and Class IV (61%). On the tested sample (41 fingers), Class I injuries (10%) occurred at less than 80 N and the first ring avulsions at 111 N. Maximum finger resistance is 346 N with average resistance at 154 N. Film records also show that the skin is the finger's strongest part. Once the skin tears, the remaining finger degloves or quickly avulses. Accordingly, although thin and narrow or tight rings are less resistant to traction and cause the skin to shear under traction, they are more dangerous than wide, thick rings.
Classification of Injury (Urbaniak)
Class I
- Circulation adequate.
- Standard bone and soft tissue treatment is sufficient.
Class II
- Circulation inadequate.
- Vessel repair preserves viability permitting immediate or delayed repair of other tissues
Class III
- Complete degloving or completed amputation. (photo credit)
- Judgement is essential because, although a complete amputation can be revascularised and viability restored, the potential for function is limited.
- In degloving injuries, the potential for useful function exists, but revascularisation is not easy or may not be possible.
These injuries are best avoided.
Be careful if you are in the building/construction, logistics and transportation industries. Consider not wearing your wedding ring while at work (that's exactly what I have told my husband).
Remove any rings or wedding bands during activities where the risk of injury is especially high. This includes many DIY activities, gardening, and handling heavy objects.
Your thumb, index, and middle fingers are most crucial for hand function. Consider wearing rings only on the ring or pinkie.
Ring Avulsion Injury: The Do's and Don'ts of Initial Management; The Internet Journal of Orthopedic Surgery ISSN: 1531-2968; A Atrey, MRCS, P Landham, MRSC, T Lasoye, FRCS
Recommendation on the Risk of Wearing Rings and Wedding Bands; THE CONSUMER SAFETY COMMISSION (15th December 2005)
Finger Avulsion Injuries: A Report of Four Cases; Indian Journal of Orthopaedics, Vol 42(s), pp 208-211, 2008; Fejjal N, Belmir R, El Mazouz S, Gharib NE, Abbassi A, Belmahi AM
Microvascular management of ring avulsion injuries; J Hand Surg Am 1981;6:25-30; Urbaniak JR, Evans JP, Bright DS. [Pubmed]


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ORANGEVILLE -Our sweet mother, grandma, great-grandma, great-great grandma, sister and friend, Donna Snow Huntington, passed away peacefully at her home on Feb. 12, 2012. Donna was born to Samuel Russell and Vera Lucille Hickman Snow on Sept. 8, 1916 in Castle Dale, Utah. She married Grant Orlo Huntington on Oct. 3, 1934 in the Manti LDS Temple. He died Nov. 23, 1986.
Donna was a faithful and active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She lived an exemplary life and held many church callings serving in the Relief Society, Primary, and Mutual auxiliaries.
She worked in the Emery County Courthouse as Deputy County Recorder for 20 years, in the telephone office for 20 years, and in Huntington Brothers Store in Castle Dale for five years.
She is survived by her three children: Monna (Val) Jensen of Huntington, Kitty (Elmer) Larsen of Orangeville, and Donald (Carol) Huntington of Castle Dale; 12 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; 17 great-great-grandchildren; a sister, Juanita (Elwin) Rasmussen; a brother, Sharpe (Seretia) Snow; three sisters-in-law, Evota Snow, Anna Snow and Rose Denison; and brother-in-law, Morris Huntington.Donna was preceded in death by her husband; parents; great-grandson; sisters, Lucille Larsen and Betty Lou Snow; and brothers, John Snow and Sterling Snow.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012 at 11 a.m. at the Orangeville LDS Church (45 West 100 South, Orangeville). There will be a viewing Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. at Fausett Mortuary (720 N. Center St., Castle Dale) and on Thursday from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at the church prior to the services. Interment will be in the Orangeville City Cemetery.
Services are in the care of Fausett Mortuary. Family and friends may sign the guest book and share memories of Donna at www.fausettmortuary.com.


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HELPER- Marla Trientje Roberts Wheeler, age 55, passed away suddenly Nov. 12, 2012 at Castleview Hospital in Price.
She was born Aug. 15, 1957 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Ray O. and Geessien Alberts Roberts.
Married Jed Wheeler March 13, 1999 in Price, Utah.
Funeral service was Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, 11 a.m., Helper LDS Stake Center. Interment, Mt. View Cemetery, Helper. Arrangements entrusted to Mitchell Funeral Home of Price where friends are welcome daily and may share memories of Marla online at www.mitchellfuneralhome.net.>


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Legal Objectivity and the Illusion of Legal Principles
Larry Alexander
University of San Diego School of Law
August 18, 2008
RIGHTS, LAW AND MORALITY: THEMES FROM THE LEGAL PHILOSOPHY OF ROBERT ALEXY, M. Klatt, ed., Oxford University Press, 2009
San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 08-069
In this essay I approach the topic of legal objectivity by analyzing law's possible relationships with morality, rules, standards, and principles. I argue that law's function is to settle moral controversies, which renders problematic law's incorporation of morality and points to the moral desirability of determinate rules, even though such rules will conflict with morality. I argue that legal rules can be objective. On the other hand, I deny that there are any norms that can play the role that so-called "legal principles" are said to play, whether in Dworkin's account of them or in Alexy's.
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Keywords: objectivity, rules, standards, principles, morality, settlement
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By Scott Reed
Recently, I wrote about my thoughts regarding the strengths of a diversified portfolio. It is not an earth-shattering concept – it's basic Portfolio Construction 101. I've heard from several readers that they were interested in that column and really needed to make sure they were diversified. I realized I needed to write about how to diversify.
Over the years I've found many different opinions on what proper diversification looks like. It's important to remember that the goal of a diversified portfolio is to decrease risk without significantly decreasing potential return. Keep your upside and make your ride as smooth as possible.
The first thing you must do to properly diversify away risk is to determine what risk you need to lower. I remember asking a potential client in 1999 if he thought he was well-diversified. He said he was, that his portfolio had 20 different stocks. The problem was he was trying to diversify away market risk, and all 20 stocks were technology stocks. Just three months after that conversation the technology sector crashed. The client lost about 70 percent of his market value because he didn't have anything that could protect him against a crash in technology stocks. The client managed to be well-diversified against any one tech stock doing poorly, but not against the whole sector doing poorly.
There is a law of diminishing returns in diversification. The rule of thumb tells you that you start losing effectiveness fairly rapidly after about eight positions. So, my potential client from earlier could have diversified away most of his technology risk with just eight tech stocks. But if he wanted to diversify his total market risk, he would have to have eight different stocks from different asset classes. And if he wanted to be well-diversified in each asset class, he now has to have eight positions in each of eight asset classes. So now he is up to 64 positions in his diversified portfolio.
We've found it is extremely difficult to manage the overall portfolio, keep up with the research on 64 different securities and stay on top of it all. That's why my firm spends its time working on the big picture of portfolio management. When we need to have a diversified portfolio in a specific asset class, we hire a money manager or a mutual fund to keep up with the individual securities for us. It is extremely hard to do everything in the investment process well. It's helpful to find what you like to do most and hire out the rest of it.
There are four steps in this process: Determine your goals, pick your percent in the major asset classes (equities, fixed income and alternatives), pick your sub-classes (large-cap, small-cap, international, etc.) and pick your securities.
Make sure you are diversified in each one of those steps and you'll have avoided a great many of the surprises that tend to come your way in the investment world.
Contact Scott Reed at (662) 823-4722 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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All of the winners who took the stage to pick up their Oscars for Hugo praised Scorsese as a passionate leader who took them on a wonderful journey. "We wouldn't be here without the genius of Martin Scorsese," said the film's visual effects team at the ceremony. Scorsese was also honored at the AARP's Movies for Grownups Awards for his "Breakthrough Achievement" of making a movie in 3D, a feat that gives the groundbreaking director enormous pride. "Any film that's worth doing is nerve-racking, scary and exciting because the picture, at least in the beginning stages, is going to take you into very unknown territories because it has to," says Scorsese. "You have to discover it, to surprise yourself. And there were lots of surprises for us in this picture. And along with surprising yourself, you hope you surprise the audience. It gives them something to discover too."
Scorsese relates his experience of doing Hugo, his first film in 3D, to the beginning of moviemaking. "Doing a picture like this is like new technology, yet moving back to the origins of moviemaking itself, and we're back to where the filmmaking pioneer Georges Méliès started," he explains. "We are paying tribute to the great filmmakers of the past and the stars of the past. This picture is my first film in 3D and high-def. It should be seen in 3D. This is a 3D film as you can see, and not a gimmick. People who have seen the film two or three times have told me that. To me, it's a giant new technology…. The truth is, in making this film you begin to learn so much more every day about what is possible in creating cinema."
While Scorsese is well known for his prolific career as a master filmmaker, he also enjoys keeping busy with television projects. He's currently the executive producer of the acclaimed HBO series "Boardwalk Empire," the Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning show that focuses on gangsters and bootlegging in Atlantic City. Scorsese directed the pilot and hopes to do more episodes for upcoming seasons. "I shot [the pilot] quickly, and it was an energizing experience," he recalls. "I visualized the show just like it's a feature film." Scorsese's other television projects include documentaries, such as History Channel's "Lady by the Seas: The Statue of Liberty," "The Blues" for PBS, and several episodes of the PBS series "American Masters," including "No Direction Home: Bob Dylan." The director's next feature to hit theaters will be The Wolf of Wall Street, a crime drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Scorsese also has many film projects in development, including Silence, a drama (starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Benicio Del Toro) about Jesuit priests in 17th-century Japan, and a biopic about the legendary singer Frank Sinatra.