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Pacific Southwest, Region 9: Superfund
Serving Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, the Pacific Islands, and Tribal Nations
Intel Magnetics
State: California(CA)
County: Santa Clara
City: Santa Clara
Congressional District: 15
Other Names: Micro Storage/Intel Magnetics
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Description and History
NPL Listing History
NPL Status: Final
Proposed Date: 10/15/84
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The Intel Magnetics site is a 1-acre facility that produced and tested magnetic products and computer memories. Micro Storage occupied the site from 1985 to 1986 and used the facility for research and development and pilot manufacturing. Micro Storage also occupied a property adjacent to and upgradient from the site that contributes to the contamination. Monitoring wells on the site are contaminated with volatile organic compounds (VOCs), believed to have resulted from surface spills and a leak from an underground storage tank. This is one of 28 NPL sites in the South Bay Area of San Francisco. Facilities at these sites have used a variety of toxic chemicals, primarily chlorinated organic solvents, which have contaminated a common groundwater basin. Approximately 300,000 people depend on groundwater within 3 miles of the site as a source of drinking water. Twenty Santa Clara wells and four Sunnyvale wells are located within a 3-mile radius of the site.
Contaminants and Risks
Contaminated Media
- Groundwater
Groundwater is contaminated with various VOCs. Accidental ingestion of or direct contact with contaminated groundwater may pose a health risk.
Who is Involved
This site is being addressed through Federal, State, and potentially responsible parties' actions.
Initial Actions
Immediate Actions: The company installed a groundwater extraction and treatment system to pump and treat contaminated groundwater in 1990. In early 1991, additional wells for the extraction and treatment system were installed at the site.
Cleanup Ongoing
Entire Site: The potentially responsible parties, under State supervision, completed an investigation into the nature and extent of contamination at the site in early 1991. A groundwater extraction and carbon adsorption treatment remedy was chosen in late 1991. Construction of the treatment system began in late 1991 and was completed in 1992. California's Regional Water Quality Control Board and the EPA are currently investigating the potential need for upgradient remediation. Groundwater monitoring will continue until cleanup goals are met.
Cleanup Results to Date
The construction of cleanup remedies is complete. The pumping and treating of contaminated groundwater has reduced contaminant concentrations, minimizing the potential of exposure to contaminated groundwater at the Intel Magnetics site. Monitoring will continue until established cleanup goals are met.
The Addendum to the Fourth Five-Year Review Report signed on May 1, 2013, determined that the remedy is protective. This document may be accessed in the Technical Documents subsection of the Documents and Reports section below.
Potentially Responsible Parties
Potentially responsible parties (PRPs) refers to companies that are potentially responsible for generating, transporting, or disposing of the hazardous waste found at the site.
The identified PRPs for this site include:
Intel Corporation
3000 Oakmead Village Drive Limited
Mark Gates
Charles Edwin Gates
GKC Limited
Eugenia L. Cashen
Kim Camp III
Kimball Small Investments III
Westall Corporation
Documents and Reports
|1993 Cost Recovery Consent Decree
|Overall Site Record of Decision
|First Five Year Review
|2nd Five Year Review
|Third Five-Year Review
|Fourth Five-Year Review
|Fourth Five-Year Review Addendum
Public Information Repositories
The public information repositories for the site are at the following locations:
The most complete collection of documents is the official EPA site file, maintained at the following location:
Superfund Records Center
Mail Stop SFD-7C
95 Hawthorne Street, Room 403
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 820-4700
Enter main lobby of 75 Hawthorne street, go to 4th floor of South Wing Annex.
EPA Site Manager
Mail Code SFD
75 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
EPA Community Involvement Coordinator
Mail Code SFD
75 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
EPA Public Information Center
State Contact
1515 Clay Street, Suite 1400, Oakland, California 94612
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Is There a Psychology of Judging?
Frederick Schauer
University of Virginia School of Law
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF JUDICIAL DECISION MAKING, David E. Klein and Gregory Mitchell, eds., New York: Oxford University Press, 2008
KSG Working Paper No. RWP07-049
Psychologists have recently begun to study the psychological dimensions of judging, but to date almost all of the research has been on lay experimental subjects. Implicit in the research, therefore, is that the judge's attributes as a human bring are more important than the judge's attribute's as lawyer and/or as judge in explaining judicial behavior. This may possibly be true, and it is relatively consistent with a Legal Realist understanding of judges and judging, but there remains a need for research directed specifically to the question whether judges by virtue of legal training, self-selection to judging, or judicial experience think and reason and make decisions differently from lay people. More specifically, when judges engage in tasks typically reserved to judges - finding and interpreting the relevant law, most prominently - are their cognitive processes different from those of lay people engaged in analogous tasks, and from those of lay people engaged in different and more fact-focused tasks? Until we can answer these questions based on systematic research, we will not know whether there is a psychology of judging at all, as opposed simply to general psychology applied to some of the tasks in which judges, like all other decision makers, engage.
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Keywords: judges, judging, psychology and law, legal reasoning, judicial reasoning, judicial decision-making
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Noah the Movie – A Missed Opportunity, part one
By Kevin J. Todeschi
Having been an Ark enthusiast for more than 30 years, I had some measure of anticipation when I first heard about the recent Noah movie: Would the movie capture some of the archetypal significance that resulted in Flood Stories for nearly every culture and civilization on the planet? Would it bring together the tales from various scholarly traditions? Would it explain unexplained portions of the Genesis account? Would it follow some of the same threads of information that had so inspired me? And so on. Unfortunately, I have to say that five minutes into the movie any anticipation I had went right out the window, as the film I watched had absolutely no bearing on the Noah I have come to know.
Wikipedia:12th century Venetian mosaic
depiction of Noah sending the dove
As background information, I was first inspired by the Noah story while reading the Genesis account and realizing two things that had never been pointed out to me: Methuselah was Noah's grandfather, and the scriptural timing for each individual's respective lifespan suggested that Methuselah had died during the Flood. My passion for the story was further enhanced while reading an Edgar Cayce life reading (those readings dealing with reincarnation) that was given to a 28-year-old woman in 1944, when Cayce stated: "What an unusual record—and one of those who might be termed as physically the mothers of the world! For the entity was one of those in the ark." (3653-1)
Eventually I was led to Violet Cummings' book that dealt with her husband's search for the Ark: Noah's Ark: Fact or Fable? And I came to understand that since 1840 alone there have been more than 20 recorded sightings of Noah's craft by approximately 200 people. My enthusiasm for the story grew, and I scoured dozens of resources. I eventually wrote my master's thesis on the topic of "The Ark Myth: Biblical, Rabbinical, and Transpersonal," (1988), and in time my novel, The Rest of the Noah Story (2010), pulling together all that I had discovered through many decades of research and study. Unfortunately for today's movie goers, the producers didn't even get the Genesis account correct.
The movie contains giant rock creatures (similar to the Ents, large tree creatures in Lord of the Rings or the rock monster in Galaxy Quest—I am not making this up)! From the movie's perspective, only Shem has a wife aboard, which contradicts the Genesis account: "In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark." (Genesis 7:13) Causing quite a bit of frustration for at least one of Noah's other sons. There is also an evil stowaway onboard, Tubal-cain, who in the Bible is Noah's cousin and a maker of iron and brass (Genesis 4:22). The movie also has Noah convinced that his mission is to help God put an end to humankind, at one point coming to the brink of almost killing his granddaughters so that no further wombs will be available to birth humankind.
There is a wealth of rabbinical wisdom and inspiration that the movie also overlooks or never knew of to begin with. Rather than having a vision of Enoch (a biblical forefather that never died but was "taken up" by God [Genesis 5:24]), Noah has a crazed dream. Rather than drawing upon some of the rabbinical thought as to why Ham deserted his family and became a wanderer and the eventual father of slaves, the movie version portrayed him as mad at his dad for allowing his girlfriend to die in a mob stampede. The list goes on and on.
Wikipedia: Noah's Sacrifice
by Daniel Maclise
Perhaps more than any other Biblical tale, the story of Noah, his family, the Ark, and the Flood are known by individuals all over the world. A conservative estimate is that more than 1.5 billion of the earth's inhabitants are familiar with the tale! However, the story of Noah is not the only known Flood Tradition. In fact, the "Epic of Gilgamesh" from Babylonian tablets dates back to the 7th Century B.C. and is also widely known.
This story, in essential detail, can be recited by countless individuals around the world. What is not so well known is the fact that Genesis contains not one account of the flood story but two! Modern religious scholarship has isolated at least three major sources for the Book of Genesis: the "J source," the "P source," and the "E source," standing for Jehovah, the Priestly document, and Elohim, respectively. It is the J source and the P source which each have their own account of the Flood.
Originally, the different sources of Genesis were discovered because of the way in which the sources referred to God. The J source uses only the name "Yahweh" (Lord) when referring to God; the P source uses the names "Elohim" (God) and "El Shaddai" (God Almighty), and the E source uses both "Yahweh and "Elohim." When the Bible was being compiled (no, it did not fall from the sky in one piece), it was the job of a "redactor" to compile all major sources together into one story, but in several instances it is easy to see items in the Noah story that were overlooked by the redactor. Examples: 1) each account has a different number of animals that Noah was instructed to take into the Ark, and 2) each account has a different length of time for the Flood itself.
P Source
Total number of animals = One pair of each creature (Genesis 6:19).
Total length of Flood: The water lasted 150 days and remained on the earth for a total of one year and 11 days.
J Source
Total number of animals: Seven pairs of birds and "clean" animals, and one pair of unclean (Genesis 7:2). Essentially a "clean animal" is one which chews a cud and has a divided hoof (Leviticus 7:1-11); a clean animal never eats other animals.
Total length of Flood: The rain lasted 40 days and 40 nights and the water evaporated after three seven-day intervals of Noah releasing the dove out of the Ark to see if it was safe. Total = 61 days.
Regardless of whether or not we believe the Flood story, it is an archetype, because it is a part of the human experience all over the world. More than 200 "Flood Stories" are scattered throughout the various cultures and continents on the planet. The story has meaning across time and traditions and, as an archetype, is a symbol that deeply touches some aspect of human experience. What this means is that over and above any possible literal truth, the Ark can be seen as a symbolic representation of transformation and change, because the ship's occupants underwent a journey over which they had no control and yet somehow ended up at a higher level of awareness because of their catastrophic experience. In most of these accounts, legend describes how a family survives a deluge of enormous proportions. Prior to the disaster, the family generally pulls together everything that is part of their world (such as the animals in the story of Noah described in Genesis) and finds refuge in a craft or a ship in which they can ride out the storm. Oftentimes, the family has no control over their journey for the ship is inundated from above and below and they are forced to simply ride out the storm. At the end of the flood, the craft generally finds higher and stable ground and the occupants can disembark and begin their lives anew. Everything that was a part of their old world is now a part of their new (e.g., the animals get off the Ark as well). The difference is that now all of the ship's occupants find themselves upon higher ground.
Because so much of the today's world finds itself in the midst of transformation and change, this archetype has resurfaced. However, take my advice—skip the movie and read the Genesis account.
Kevin J. Todeschi is the Executive Director and CEO of Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. and Atlantic University. His is the author of twenty-five books, including Edgar Cayce on the Akashic Records and The Rest of the Noah Story.


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Skip to comments.Burden of Proof: Why Most American Evangelicals Reject Long-Earth Evolution
Posted on 05/11/2012 10:56:54 AM PDT by ReligiousLibertyTV
[dc]O[/dc]n May 14, noted philanthropist and neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson is scheduled to give the commencement address at Emory University and receive an honorary degree. But there is a problem. In recent weeks Emory faculty and students have asked the University to disinvite Dr. Carson because he is a critic of evolutionary theory and advocate of creationism. Faculty and staff have written that Dr. Carsons great achievements in medicine allow him to be viewed as someone who understands science poses a direct threat to science that rests squarely on the shoulders of evolution.
The anti-Carson letter describes how there is overwhelming evidence of ape-human transitional fossils and how this evolution process has advanced an ability to develop animal models for disease and that even the work of Dr. Carson himself is based on scientific advances fostered by an understanding of evolution. The letter then argues that the theory of evolution is as strongly supported as the theory of gravity and the theory that infectious diseases are caused by micro-organisms.
In 2010, Gallup released a poll that found that 40% of Americans believe in strict creationism, the idea that humans were created by God in their present form within the past 10,000 years. Thirty-eight percent believe that God guided the process of human evolution from lower life forms over millions of years , and only 16% believe that humans evolved without divine intervention. Sixty percent of those who attend church weekly believe that we were created less than 10,000 years ago. Gallup notes that the numbers have remained generally stable for the past 28 years.
That the number of adherents of creationism remains so strong, even though Charles Darwins book, On the Origin of Species has been around since 1859 and has been taught in most public schools since the 1960s, is a testament to the persistent strength of American religious belief and faith over contradictory concepts.
Earlier this week, Forbes magazine staff writer Alex Knapp wrote an essay entitled, Why Some Christians Reject Evolution, arguing that many Christians reject evolutionary theory because it conflicts with the Protestant view of the doctrines of original sin and salvation.
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Perhaps the only way to explain how evolved human beings would end up with a soul is expressed in the hybrid evolution-creation concept advanced by Pope Pius XII in the encyclical Humani generis (1950). Pius XII writes, "For these reasons the Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God.
In Catholic thought, this has been interpreted to provide room for the concept that human beings were created over millions of years through evolution, and that God ultimately provided pre-existing, pre-created souls to those He designated and that these souls reconnect to God through practicing the sacraments.
In contrast, American evangelicals tend to view Adam and Eve as actual living people, who were literally created by God as clay forms into which God breathed the breath of life. There was no death before the fall of humanity. The time frames are important because they rely on the Biblical chronologies Matthew 1 and Luke 3:23-28 to prove that Jesus was in the prophetically-designated ancestral line of David, and draw the genealogical line all the way back to Adam, the first created human being.
Many evangelicals reject the hybrid view of creation and evolution because it would necessarily require them to regard creation, as discussed in the books of Genesis and of a new earth in Revelation, as allegory and submit the pervasive teachings of the Bible referencing Creation and other supernatural activity to the realm of mythology or cultural contextualism. Acceptance of scientific views of evolution would then, by necessity, require a major reconfiguration of matters of faith and that is something that most adherents to strict creationism are unwilling to do.
Knapp, whose own religious beliefs are not indicated, notes that while some churches have found ways to incorporate the idea of change over time into their belief systems, for many Christians, evolution isnt a minor fact of science that can be resolved into the mythos of their faith. It is, rather, a fundamental attack on their faith and many things that they believe.
There have been a number of heated arguments on the campuses of a diverse array of religious universities regarding how issues of origins should be taught. Some have tried to walk the middle line of teaching intelligent design as an alternative to creationism and evolution. Critics of those teaching intelligent design point out that trying to split the issue down the middle does no favors to either side and in the end is nothing but a weakened form of creationism, and an explanation that is of no value to secular science.
Within the larger context of American Protestant Christianity the debate continues without resolution. Among Christians, creationists are often asked to consider various forms of evidence of a long-history of the earth, but those advocating for a long-earth have largely ignored discussion of the genealogies of the New Testament and the concepts of original sin and salvation. Christian evolutionists have failed to provide a verse-by-verse rebuttal to the Biblical Creation narrative or to acknowledge the extent to which acceptance of creation would impact theology.
Instead theistic evolutionists operate on the supposition that Creationists will eventually bifurcate their religious beliefs from scientific understanding, because incompatibilities must be resolved in favor of science. This places faith directly in conflict with science and any resultant battle on these issues will take centuries if true academic freedom is to be granted, but can resolve faster if the voices of religious dissent are silenced and those who have openly criticized evolution are denied a seat at the academic table.
The attempt to purify academia by silencing the voices of critics such as Dr. Carson would be the first step toward a secular Dark Ages. So far, it appears that despite the controversy, Emory Universitys commencement ceremony will go forward as planned.
In response to the controversy at Emory, as of this writing nearly 2,000 people have signed a Petition to reaffirm Dr. Ben Carsons Welcome and Defend His Right to Express His Views. Click here to view the Petition.
I never saw a coherent proof of the evolutionary hypothesis. I saw belief statements: that fossils, because they are similar, prove evolution, or that neatly drawn "tree of life" pictures prove it, or that microorganisms, because they survive mutations, prove it, or that breeding of complex animals, because it produces different looking subspecies, proves it.
Then I noticed that a question posted form a skeptic's position: Where exactly is the proof? — is met with repetition of the belief statements, — the proverbial "pound the table" method known to lawyers; arguments about words ("species" is redefined so that selection appears as if it produces new species); references to complex research that does not prove it either, but slows the opponent down; impugning the opponent's motivation (and his religion alongside it); condescension (crack a book, young man, we are not in the Middle Ages any more); holding on to the skirts of real science (you insult science!). Or else you sue.
So I conclude, it is junk science. It ought to be ridiculed relentlessly. You don't deserve anything better.
First of all, in actual scientific terms, you might "falsify" a hypothesis, or you might "confirm" it, but except in mathematics (&?), you never "prove" it.
A "confirmed" hypothesis is called a "theory".
How do you "confirm" a hypothesis?
For one thing, by using it to make predictions, and then testing to see if those predictions prove true.
In the case of Evolution Theory, it is confirmed by an endless list of predictions, all of which proved true.
The link above refers to a few, and here is another, longer list of confirmed predictions.
Here is a long list of physical evidence confirming Evolution Theory.
And here is a summary of the entire discussion on Evolution as Fact and Theory
annalex: "Then I noticed that a question posted form a skeptics position: Where exactly is the proof?"
I am somewhat familiar with your tactics here, having years ago debated at great length with some dedicated Holocaust deniers.
I began thinking: this should be easy, since there are literal tons of physical evidence of the WWII Holocaust.
But it turned out that no amount of evidence would satisfy dedicated deniers -- no eyewitness testimony was reliable, no photograph could be trusted, no official document really meant what it said, no expert analyses mattered, even words themselves did not actually mean what they meant, according to the deniers.
And all the while deniers kept saying: show us the proof, show us the proof, show us...
Of course, you remember the old saying: "You can lead a horse to water...", well, that also applies here.
Obviously, anyone determined not to see the truth of evolution, can't be forced to see it.
annalex: "So I conclude, it is junk science.
It ought to be ridiculed relentlessly.
You dont deserve anything better.:
And in the end, it became totally obvious that those Holocaust deniers really cared nothing about the Holocaust itself, and were instead using the debate as a forum to express those ideas they truly did care about: pro-Nazi anti-semitism.
So in any future discussion, such as this one, I always try to look behind the stated arguments to see if it can be discovered: what does this person truly care about, and why are they continuing to deny the obvious in order to present their real views -- and those are what?
In your case, your "real view" seems to be simply your desire to continue to "ridicule relentlessly" science.
Obviously, I don't get it, but whatever turns you on, FRiend... ;-)
Problem with your "evidence" is that it isn't. A believer in evolution sees that as some kind of corroboration. A skeptic doesn't.
The comparison to the holocaust is self-serving. The Holocaust is an event of recent history with serious documentary evidence, plausible motivation, and available (quite unfortunately) mechanism. It was also perpetrated by people who believed in human speciation; probably not the company you would choose as an apologist for Darwin. To equate the level of evidence available regarding WWII and the figments of your fellow cultists' imagination as regards the fiction of the "evolution" is laughable.
That was just the language of those Holocaust deniers, and even when presented with evidence, they still claimed "no evidence."
annalex: "The Holocaust is an event of recent history with serious documentary evidence, plausible motivation, and available (quite unfortunately) mechanism."
Sure, but to dedicated deniers, none of it "proves" a real Holocaust.
Indeed, they called it the "Holo-hoax", and jabbered on endlessly about how all the "evidence" was manufactured by Communists and, of course, Jews.
Nothing could faze them, they had "answers" for everything.
annalex: "It was also perpetrated by people who believed in human speciation; probably not the company you would choose as an apologist for Darwin."
Indeed not.
In fact, this re-visits a point I made earlier which needs serious correction.
Comparing "Global Warming" to Evolution, I posted that the problem with "Global Warming" is: it mixes science with leftist politics, resulting in the corruption of science.
I said that by contrast, Evolution Theory had not become a left-wing political agenda item, and therefore could still be trusted as honest science.
Well, I momentarily forgot how the Nazi era clearly demonstrated what happens when even a theory as seemingly innocuous as Evolution gets mixed up in socialist politics -- millions of innocents murdered.
Today, so far as I can tell, there is no leftist political agenda being driven by Evolution Theory -- it's just science, and nothing more.
Yes, I understand somewhat your angst over the word "random", as in mutations, since it seems to remove God from the process.
But I argue that is a self-inflicted wound, since any child can be taught that what science calls "random" is often God's Long Term Plan or even God's Hand in action.
Nothing is truly "random", everything has some reason and purpose, if we only seek to see it.
annalex: "To equate the level of evidence available regarding WWII and the figments of your fellow cultists imagination as regards the fiction of the evolution is laughable."
But the Holocaust deniers used the same tactics for looking straight at evidence and claiming it wasn't there as you do.
Indeed, they were far better at their game than you are at yours -- they knew their stuff far better than you know yours.
For every piece of evidence which I thought would clinch the case, they had already prepared detailed legal briefs showing how that evidence was supposedly faked or unreliable, and so should be discarded.
By contrast, you have not mastered your subject.
For examples, you don't know basic scientific terminology, and thus can only produce "word salads" on the subject.
You don't know the differences between a scientific hypothesis, theory or law.
You cannot even accurately recite what the Theory of Evolution says.
You don't understand the processes through which evolution operates, indeed, you've repeatedly said, in effect, that you don't need to understand it to "relentlessly ridicule" evolution.
I'm only suggesting that when you attempt to "relentlessly ridicule" something you so thoroughly misunderstand, there is a serious question as to who, exactly ends up more ridicul-ous, FRiend. ;-)
LOL. Evolution is proven because there are Holocaust deniers, QED. Great job.
Theories are confirmed, not "proven".
Techniques for denying obvious confirming evidence are pretty standard, and used in various applications, including Holocaust and Evolution denial.
QED? No, what was to be demonstrated here is that annalex hates science, knows nothing about it, refuses to learn even the basics, and is only attempting to ridicule what annalex thoroughly misunderstands.
QED: I think that has been demonstrated beyond all reasonable doubt.
Don't slander me, shaman.
You slander yourself, in every post -- demonstrating your loathing for real science, your love of pretend-science and, by using words like "cult", "voodoo" and "shaman", you show your hatred of the idea of truth itself.
You even claim to be all about ridicule, which makes you just ridicul-ous. QED.
It is because evolution is a superstition that you need to cling to someone else's skirt: you want to be called science, suffer with the Jews in the Holocaust, and start lawsuits against those who see through your schemes. Oh, and you don't really need to prove your fantasies. No greater damage to science has been ever done in human history. No wonder American kids don't want to go to science, — you guys gave it a bad odor.
Sue me, won't you?
That is a false statement, demonstrating again that you have no respect for the truth. QED
annalex: "...you need to cling to someone elses skirt: you want to be called science,"
Another false statement.
I "want to be called" BroJoeK, I am posting to defend all of science, including its theory of evolution.
annalex: "...suffer with the Jews in the Holocaust..."
Another false statement.
I compared your Evolution Denial to Holocaust Denial because you use similar techniques, including over-reliance on ridicule to make your cases.
annalex: "and start lawsuits against those who see through your schemes."
Another false statement.
The word "sue" as in "lawsuit" was used exactly once before in this thread -- in your post #151.
It is a false accusation invented out of whole cloth in thin air.
annalex: "Oh, and you dont really need to prove your fantasies."
Another false statement.
In real scientific terms: you can prove a mathematical theorem and disprove a scientific hypothesis.
But you do not "prove" a hypothesis, you confirm it, and mulitple confirmations make a hypothesis accepted as "theory".
Long-term evolution is a confirmed theory, and that is a fact.
annalex: "No greater damage to science has been ever done in human history."
Nonsense, in 1632 Galileo Galilei did far more damage to science by insisting, against the Church's orders, that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
Galileo had no proof, it was just a wild "mathematical fiction" according to the Church, for which he was arrested and required to "abjure, curse and detest" those opinions.
So science has often been punished for asserting whatever the evidence confirmed.
Nothing new in that.
annalex: "Sue me, wont you?"
Yeah right, now on top of being Holocaust victims your fellow cultists are also all Galileos. Who, by the way, proved heliocentrism, — something you cannot do.
I stand by my statements.
Also, you made this a flame war. So unless you have news on the scientific justification of the evolution hypothesis, I will ignore your future rants.
Nor could Galileo.
In actual scientific terms, Galileo's telescope observations helped confirm the heliocentric hypothesis, which along with mathematical work of Copernicus and Kepler, made it a scientific theory.
Today we could also call heliocentrism a scientific fact since it has so many times been observed and confirmed (i.e., by space probes launched to photograph the Sun).
But in actual scientific terms, such a theory cannot be definitely proved because it is always possible that some new evidence will be discovered to disprove it.
By the way, we should note that at the time, the Catholic Church correctly considered heliocentrism a "mathematical fantasy", and did not object to it as such.
It was only when Galileo claimed he could confirm it through observation that the Church put its foot down and demanded recantation.
Of course I'm not saying the Church was right and Galileo wrong, only that there's no way Galileo could actually see the Earth revolving around the Sun.
So Galileo's observations did not prove the heliocentric hypothesis, they only helped confirm it, and so made it a scientific theory. QED.
annalex: "I stand by my statements."
Nearly all of your statements have been confirmed false, so wherever you wish to stand is irrelevant.
annalex: "Also, you made this a flame war."
I have merely responded with truth to each of your false statements, FRiend.
annalex: "I will ignore your future rants."
Have a nice day, FRiend. ;-)
You just keep provide material for good laughs that cannot be passed up.
Heliocentrism is the hypothesis that planets have orbits that are nearly circular with the sun at the center. That is a proven theory: astronomical observations agree with it, the observations do not agree with the geocentric hypothesis, and the laws of gravity explain the mechanism. Nothing even remotely similar can be said of the evolution hypothesis: fossil observations can agree with the similar species being unrelated just as easily; the breeding experience does not speak to the issue; and the genetic mechanism more readily explains why the species remain confined to their own boundary overtime, rather than how they supposedly evolve and cross them.
I agree that at the time of Galileo his hypothesis was not yet duly proven, this is why the Church felt it necessary to censor him. However, the insinuation that fundamental astronomical facts such as the shapes of planetary orbits are all merely relative truths that obtain till found false ("some new evidence will be discovered to disprove it") is another example of your fellow cultists not having a grasp what science is and isn't.
Overtime, Protestants and Catholics may have adjusted somewhat to the science. It was advocates of the science that attacked Chrisitianity based on their prebiased Atheistic views regarding science...never mind the fact that pure scientific inquiry and reasoning can allow no views regarding tautologies....that is arguements or concepts that can't be proven true or false. The antireligious Fabian types are picking the fight with religion, not the other way around!
Attacking Christians' biases in their reasoning based on their belief in the transcendent, the so called atheist scientists as well as the science writer wannabe activists are not being intellectually coherent about their own biases. The current view of these pseudo scientific skeptics is that any arguement that can't be proven, tested or argued true or false, or "falsified" must therefore be considered automatically false. Thusly, such scientists holding to such transcendent beliefs are not worthy to be considered "relevant" or "true to the scientific method" according to the elitist "tut tut" types of the scientific establishment. Not only that, but angry emotional scorn must always be heaped upon such folk who believe that God has a place in scientific inquiry.
True reason points out yes and no, this or that, type alternatives in rational arguements but the reasoning process must neverbe the impetus in justifying bias. A tautology can't be proven true or false and true science can never speak to it per se. Yet, while there is nothing in the scientific method that says a scientist in testing principles should draw inspiration and bias from the belief in the Transcendent God, it would be also false for the pre biased God skeptic to claim that a scientist can't believe in God and do good science...that is while trying to base his anti god bias on that same scientific method.
A scientist who truly believes in God, believes in self honesty, and knows his own pre biases; such an one won't make short cuts in testing principles leading to new discoveries. He may feel that his belief in God is justified by the order around him and in nature yet he is aware that even Reason herself can only carry him so far to the TRUTH. Such a person also recognizes an epistomological gap between knowledge of an object and the object itself, that only faith not reason can bridge!
In response, first note the example of scientific terms used below:
"It was not until the 16th century that a fully predictive mathematical model of a heliocentric system was presented, by the Renaissance mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic cleric Nicolaus Copernicus of Poland, leading to the Copernican Revolution.
In the following century, Johannes Kepler elaborated upon and expanded this model to include elliptical orbits, and supporting observations made using a telescope were presented by Galileo Galilei."
Notice that real scientific language almost never uses the term "proven theory", and if it does, qualifiers such as "apparent" or "claimed" are usually attached.
The usual scientific term is "confirmed theory", though in this particular case, note the words, "fully predictive mathematical model".
That's scientific talk, because science always has to leave open the possibility that some future data or understanding could overturn or obsolete our current thinking.
A good example of that is Einstein's Relativity Theory compared to Newton's Laws of Motion.
Einstein did not invalidate Newton, but did show the limits of Newton's laws and put them in a larger context.
And the same could happen some day with with any other scientific theory or law, however often confirmed.
It could happen with Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
Indeed, it already has, in several senses, since today's understandings (i.e., of DNA) are far beyond what Darwin originally imagined.
Or perhaps in vindication of anti-evolutionists, scientific evidence will someday be found of not only Intelligent Design, but also the Intelligent Designer!
annalex: "Nothing even remotely similar can be said of the evolution hypothesis: fossil observations can agree with the similar species being unrelated just as easily;"
No, the analogy of heliocentrism with evolution is exact, since no data-observations of any kind suggest anything other than 1) descent with modifications and 2) natural selection.
No scientific hypothesis even hints how species might arise on their own, without ancestors, at various times over millions of years but in sequences which make it appear as if long term evolution has taken place.
Indeed I'll ask it again: what scientific hypothesis explains why an Intelligent Designer would make it appear as if long-extinct species had evolved into those we see today?
annalex: "...the breeding experience does not speak to the issue; and the genetic mechanism more readily explains why the species remain confined to their own boundary overtime, rather than how they supposedly evolve and cross them."
Those are not factually true statements, as I have explained now several times, in seemingly infinite details, none of which phase you, do they?
annalex: "However, the insinuation that fundamental astronomical facts such as the shapes of planetary orbits are all merely relative truths that obtain till found false (some new evidence will be discovered to disprove it) is another example of your fellow cultists not having a grasp what science is and isnt."
In every post you demonstrate how little you know about real science, and how much you loathe it, and your statement here is no exception.
In actual scientific terms:
If all that sounds just a bit "wishy-washy" to you, well, there's a reason for it.
Every serious scientist understands, in the words of Sir Arthur Eddington:
Scientific "faith" such as it is, would be acceptance and adherence to its methodologically natural assumptions.
That is the truthful definition of science, and nobody is required to accept it, except when you intend to call your work "science".
Of course, if you wish to call your work something else, then you need not adhere to methodological naturalism.
If you call your work "philosophy" or "theology" or perhaps even "Moe, Larry and Curly", then you can adopt whichever assumptions suit you best to reach whatever conclusions you may.
Just as long as you don't call it "science", then anything is permitted of you, and any conclusions are acceptable in your own logical systems.
But if you wish to call it "science", now you must use science's terminology, follow science's rules and the first one of those is: methodological naturalism.
My biggest beef is with those who claim "by scientific reasoning" to have arrived at the conclusion that any supposition that is tautologous in nature must necessarily be false, (with heaps of scorn and ridicule to be piled on that person who may hold such suppositions to be at least... plausible!).
When the evolution hypothesis reaches anything comparable to the level of proof of the heliocentric model — or the Holocaust, — wake me up.
For example?
Wake up! Crack open a science book.
Go back to school.
Learn something about real science.
Tell all your fake-science friends where they can go. ;-)
Yeah, right. Real scientists don't not have to prove anything, they just tell us evolution myths.
Not true. Read a book. Go to school. Learn something.
For example...the belief and arguements for the existence of God. That is a discussion of a tautologous nature. Such a belief can't be accounted for in regular scientific reasoning as God has not submitted himself directly for an evidentiary inquiry. Now one can argue for the existence ordered matter and energy being derived from some unkown origin or higher intelligenceknown as the God of our universe but using the scientific method in and of itself to do so is impossible.
E Forest Mims lll was kicked off the Scientific American staff when it was revealed he was a Christian who held creationist views;the letters and comments from non religious scientists were quite vicious. There was controversy a few years back at the Smithsonian Museum when another noted scientist was "drummed out" for his religious views, the arguemet being that his religious views colored his science and there-fore he was not fit to be working at the institution. I know there was a suit of some type but I don't know how it turned out!
Indeed. My post was using irony. Yes, you have to prove the theory of evolution like any other theory.
I'm saying it isn't just "regular" scientific reasoning, it's all scientific reasoning, by definition of the word "science".
If you try to bring God into science, then what you are doing is just not "science" any more -- it's something else.
I'm saying you can give it another name, call it whatever you wish, just don't call it "science", because by definition, science is based on Naturalism.
Of course, that is supposed to mean Methodological Naturalism, not Metaphysical-Ontological-Philosophical (MOP) Naturalism, which seems to be the problem concerning you.
In other words, a scientist should be able to put on his Methodological-Natural hat when he gets to work in the morning, and take it off again at the end of the day.
But you describe a different situation, where organizations seem to be snooping into a scientist's religious practices, to see if they might influence his work products.
I find that hard to believe, am more inclined to suspect an excuse rather than real reason.
After all, people get hired or fired from jobs every day, and one often doesn't know the "real reason" and so may be inclined to "fill in the blanks" with something that sounds plausible.
And if there are lawsuits involved, the organization may agree to settle out of court, providing a strict "non disclosure" agreement is signed.
So yet another level of secrecy gets added to an already murky situation.
The bottom line is, a significant number of working scientists are religious enough to attend church regularly, and a much larger number will admit to believing in God, and I doubt if any feel seriously threatened in terms of job security on account of those things.
But maybe I'm wrong, and if so, then that's a shame.
Google E Forest Mims sometime and you'll understand my beef regarding the antireligious elitism that dominates much scientific thinking nowadays. I do understand the "in between the lines" reasons that cause some folks to lose their jobs and occaisionally such an one may attempt to use red herrings such as "a personal attack on my religious freedoms" to deflect any scrutiny away from one's shoddy work product or habits(that got one fired in the first place).
All steps from basic photoreceptor cells to modern eyes of different types can be seen in living animals. As for the rest, your questions are based on a mistake. A species - defined by the ability of members to breed with each other and have fertile offspring - does not and of course can not jump to a different species. There is no point in time where mutant members of a new generation could not breed with non muitant ones. Those who can't breed by definition don't breed, and the mutation dies with them. However, while each new step can breed with the preceding one or the following one, a large enough number of differences CAN mean that distant relatives can't interbreed. This is true both of far ancestors and of different groups of what was formerly one single specie if they migrate to different areas and adapt to different selective pressures. All creatures are transitional, including me and you. The transition is simply small enough to make breeding with our near genetic relatives possible.
Frankly, you could read all this before you post.
I've read a lot of theories. Quite frankly I'm searching for a new wrinkle, theory or angle I can research.
As we're all in transition as you say, can you give me some examples of creatures that are between species right now?
What are our nearest relatives btw? I ask because there isn't a pat answer to that. Also, has there been any discovery that has really been proven to be part ape, part man? Proven. . .not extrapolation or outright fraud.
Has abiogenesis been witnessed anywhere or reproduced in any test? Has speciation been witnessed anywhere? Why the lack of studies or papers on the subject?
To save yourself time just give me some names or direct me to a location and I'll do the legwork.
Thanks in advance. Hope all is well.
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Soon enough the local radio stations will start playing non-stop Christmas music .. one of the many milestones to me of the upcoming season. I know that we all pretty much have Christmas Music on demand from sites like YouTube, Pandora, or the various internet radio stations but once it starts coming over the broadcast radio is when I really become excited.
I suppose it is something like catching "A Christmas Story" or "Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown" on TV even though I own it on DVD. I feel like I have to watch it and its just that much better than popping in the movie.
Lite FM 106.7 New York normally switches over to their All-Holiday Music format the weekend before Thanksgiving which this year will probably be around November 17th and I wait on bated breath.
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Capped 12 times by his country, with nine of the appearances coming last year; Phipps says the lure of attending a second Rugby World Cup in 2015 was too good to turn down.
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The Canucks are an elite team even without beating up on inferior Northwest Division clubs
With all the talk about re-alignment, some of it has focused on the "man, the Canucks are going to be moved to a division with real hockey teams?" It's been unfair for the last several years that no opponent in hockey's Northwest Division has really given the Canucks any competition whatsoever for the division crown.
Mike Gillis took over the Canucks for the 2008-2009 campaign. The Canucks won four division titles, by margins of 2, 8, 23 and 21 points. The Canucks are the only team to sweep their division, and they rolled over weak competition in the last two seasons en route to two Presidents' Trophies.
In the last two seasons, four teams have made the playoffs from the Atlantic division. Four teams have reached from the Northeast, Southeast, and Central as well. Even the terri-bad Southeast division has sent three. The Canucks are the only team to have made the playoffs from the Northwest in two years.
Have the Canucks been rolling over weak foes, or have the foes been weak because the Canucks are such an overwhelming team they play regularly? This post from James Grayson shows that the Canucks have faced the divisional opponents with the weakest Fenwick Close numbers, and are moving to the division with the highest that include possession powerhouses Los Angeles and San Jose.
Finally, a little competition, no?
A comment on Pass it to Bulis by a poster going by 'not Cam Charron' said:
What might be a fun thing to do is see what the Canucks' Fenwick record is against the division as opposed to out of the division for the last three years or so.
So I did, to get an indication of how worse off the Canucks have been outside the Northwest as opposed to in it. The results were pretty surprising.
Using the data from these four scripts, I calculated the team's Fenwick Close:
|Fenwick Close%
|Close Sh%
|Close Sv%
|Close PDO
|Against Northwest
|Against Rest of NHL
(For the uninitiated, Fenwick Close is a puck-possession stat using unblocked shots as a proxy. A team's Fenwick Close is generally better at predicting a team's record than the team's record up to that point. It's very, very useful to determine how good at team is.)
Surprisingly, Canuck goalies have had better luck against shooters from Edmonton, Calgary, Colorado and Minnesota than Canuck shooters have had luck against the terri-bad goalies in that division.
However, the Canucks have a 52.2% Fenwick Close record against the rest of the NHL not including their division. Last season in 58 games "outside" the NW, they had a 51.8% record. The Cup run year, they went 52.6%. So their standing from last year is basically unchanged keeping them at 8th in the league, but dropped them from 4th to 5th in 2011. (Behind the Net and Timeonice, which I used, calculate Fenwick rates somewhat differently: BehindtheNet looks at only 5-on-5, while Timeonice uses 3-on-3 and 4-on-4 as well, leading to some differences in the overall number)
That said, the Canucks are a pretty good puck-possession team both in and inside the Northwest. We can be sure that playing inside the division helped somewhat, but outside it, they were right up with the elite teams.
In the past two years, here's the team's record in and outside the division. Numbers grabbed from Hockey Reference:
|Against Northwest
|Against Other Divisions
In 116 games outside the Northwest in two years, the Canucks' points over 82 games would be pro-rated to 108. That would have won them the Presidents' Trophy in 2011 but left them one point shy in 2012. The +49 goal differential would have been beaten by three teams: the 2011 Bruins, the 2012 Bruins and the 2012 Penguins. Not bad company right there.
So even outside the Northwest, Vancouver's been pretty good and that's sort of surprised me, given how badly they've rung up Colorado and Edmonton particularly in the last couple of years. They'll still be in a division with some of these teams, but also a couple of other real good squads. Rather than worrying about the strength of the division, Canuck fans should instead be worrying that the team is a few years older than a couple of years ago, have no players in their scoring prime years , and have had to rely more on their defence and goaltending over the last calender year.
February 26 2013, 06:19PM
"A comment on Pass it to Bulis by a poster going by 'not Cam Charron' said:"
Drafting an article based on a commenter whose pseudonym is 'not you'...how very 'meta'.
Keep up the good work! I luvs cancuksarmy
February 26 2013, 11:23PM
Unbiased, fact based assessment. From a Leaf's fan! Good job and thank you!


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Home > National Historic Sites > Chambly Canal National Historic Site > Visitor Information > Tourism Links
Chambly is a town rich in history. Visit the Fort Chambly National Historic Site to see for yourself,
then stroll along Richelieu Street next to the river to the east of the park. During the summer, the street becomes pedestrian only, and you can admire many historic 18th-century houses.
You'll also want to stop at the well-preserved little St. Stephen Church.
On nice days in the summer, the heritage guides Au pays de Chambly offer tours of this old part of Chambly.
For more information about their services, call 450-447-7412.
And for all that the City of Chambly has to offer, visit the municipality's Web site at
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Shady Behavior: Thierry Lasry x Kelly Wearstler
The design duo's collection of sunnies are hitting the states.
We'll let it slide that Paris got their hands on this chic collaboration first, when the Thierry Lasry x Kelly Wearstler "Anorexxxy" sunglasses launched at Colette at the end of September—only because they're hitting Bergdorf's now.
French sunglass guru Thierry Lasry and interior and clothing designer Kelly Wearstler joined forces on the "Anorexxxy" line of shades, 4 styles that leverage the unique aesthetics of both designers. In Wearstler's corner there are hints of her maximalist-meets-glam approach in the marble mixed with black and gold detailing and Thierry's unique '80s influence lives in the very cool shape. In other words, they're meeting our fall/winter sunnies checklist on every front.
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Jason Byrne: That's Not A Badger
Show type: Edinburgh Fringe 2004
Jason's inspired, original brand of high-energy lunacy ensures there is no other comedian presently like him and no two performances will ever be the same.
Original Review:
That's Not A Badger provides the manically effusive Jason Bryne with the perfect platform to demonstrate his spontaneous brilliance at audience interaction.
And the boisterous crowd he attracts are the sort of who like reciprocate, too, which means the initial promise of the usual good-natured 'what do you do for a living?' repartee quickly degenerates into something a lot more spirited and funny.
Byrne's technique is to explode with mock fury whenever he gets a response he considers poor. And that's most of them, lending an insane vigour to his performance that energises the room.
The lively backchat eventually leads us to the game which gives the show its title, tonight played by two 'volunteers' who turn out to be doctors so young they make Dougie Howser MD look like a has-been. This is more uranium for Bryne's comedy reactor, as his animated disbelief goes into meltdown.
It's a frantic game, in which the contestants simply have to yell out if the image presented to them is a badger or not. But the joy is in the way Byrne gets so breathlessly excited at the outcome, like a hyperactive five-year-old juiced up on Lucozade.
That's not the only game of the night; next he Sellotapes items together to make zany hybrids, his contenders' task being to choose the right name for these odd creations. But, at Bryne's instigation, it all descends to the verge of chaos, creating a brilliantly anarchic spirit.
The third and final game is the human Guess Who? which Bryne performed in last year's festival, even though Howard Read got there first. You would have thought he'd have got the hang of the rules by now, but again he feigns ignorance getting the audience to repeatedly stand up and sit down like Simon Says gone wrong.
There are a few snippets of actual material in the show, just a few inconsequential observational asides about the pitfalls of living with a woman, but they're hardly a key component. In fact, Byrne uses his script like most other comics use banter: sparsely.
Instead, he lets his recklessly overexcited inner child do most the work, and however reserved you are, you can't help but warm to his lively tomfoolery.
Date of review: Aug 2004
Older Comments
I've seen Jason many times at the edinburgh festival, and no two shows where ever alike. However more recently he seems to be using more of a script and less banter. Unfortunatly not really a change for the better.
Bevena - 11/11/2004
Undoubtedly the best show of Edinburgh 2004
Scott - 24/08/2004
Very fun and funny. Enjoyed it very much but found the constant reaction-banter a bit on the exhaustingside. A little material would have been nice too
Dot - 10/08/2004
One word: genius
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Jason Byrne: The Lovely Goat Show
Jason Byrne: Sheep For Feet And Rams For Hands
Leicester Comedy Festival Preview Show 2008
Jason Byrne: Shy Pigs With Wigs Hidden In Twigs
Jason Byrne's Telly Idea, Which May Also Work On The Radio…Show
Jason Byrne: Cats Under Mats Having Chats With Bats
Jason Byrne: The Byrne Supremacy
Jason Byrne: People's Puppeteer
Comedy Gala In Aid Of Waverley Care 2013
Jason Byrne in You Name the Show
An Irishman Abroad (Live) Jarlath Regan Interviews Jason Byrne


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Monday, May 10, 2010
Petalsweet in San Francisco - Part One
I chose to stay in Mill Valley, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge...lush and beautiful and still really green this time of year. It's so different from the dryness of San Diego...and really close to where I grew up!
The view from my hotel...and Mount Tamalpais...which is still one of my favorite hiking spots:
Gorgeous view from the Marin Headlands as I drove into the city:
I had the opportunity to work with a wonderful client who wanted to learn more about several sugarpaste flowers, including hydrangea, filler flowers, Phalaenopsis orchids and peonies. Over two days we reviewed techniques and created flowers, buds and leaves, and then spent quite a bit of time coloring them and adding all the fabulous little details that bring them to life! Two really great days, and I couldn't have asked for a nicer and more hard-working student!
Peony petals and leaves drying:
Various filler flowers and buds drying:
Finished hydrangea, orchid buds and leaves:
Phalaenopsis orchids:
An over-sized white peony - it's gorgeous! And I can't wait to see how my client ends up using it on a cake:
Color palette for a second peony with an open center:
The first row of petals for the open peony flower:
I did not get a photo of the finished open peony...and am patiently waiting for my very talented student to send me one! I promise to share when it arrives!
I also finally had the opportunity to meet the very kind and fabulous Tracy Auseklis of The Buttercream Studio! We have been corresponding via email and Facebook for quite some time, and it was so great to actually talk to her in person! She picked me up after class one evening and took me to her wonderful studio for a quick tour:
Her cakes are incredible - she has amazing talent! Here are some of her beautiful display cakes in the consulting area:
One of my favorites...in pink and black:
And the ADORABLE Tracy herself:
After seeing where she creates all of her amazing cakes, Tracy took me back into the bustling city to one of her favorite Thai restaurants in the cute neighborhood of Lower Pacific Heights...and we talked shop (and everything else), for the remainder of the evening while we enjoyed a delicious meal! Thank you, Tracy, for your generosity and thoughtfulness, and for taking such good care of me!
MORE from this trip coming soon...I can't wait to introduce you to another amazing pastry chef who is creating beautiful work with modeling chocolate!
Copyright © 2010 by Jacqueline Butler of Petalsweet Cakes. Content of this blog (including text, photographs and layout) is the property of Jacqueline Butler - please respect copyright laws. If you want to link to my blog, or post any of my photos, please contact me - it would be great to have the opportunity to connect with you. Thank you!
8 comments:
- Jennywenny said...
How fun! I'm so excited to finally have a lesson with you when you have time, those flowers are all so beautiful its almost impossible to decide which one to learn!!
- May 11, 2010 at 10:57 AM
- Davielle aka Princess Magpie said...
Jacque - BEAUTIFULLY written and illustrated post. and your work / your student's work - simply magnificent. what a gift. Miss seeing you and seeing your creations in person ... one of these days ... Hugs - Davi
- May 11, 2010 at 11:01 AM
- faithy, the baker said...
Lovely post! Those flowers made by your students are all so pretty! And when i saw that photo of Tracy's display cakes, i was so impressed with all her designs! All of them are so elegant and gorgeous! Thanks for sharing! Great post!
- May 11, 2010 at 6:47 PM
- Kate Somburanayut said...
Hello I'm waiting for your great post for 2 weeks :) U have great class and I decide I will take course with u next year absolutely !!! If possible I will take Thai recipe book for u too.
- May 11, 2010 at 9:06 PM
- Elins Altmuligblogg said...
Looks like a lovely town, and great photos from the studio. It is so fun to be able to have classes in other towns, and see new things around.
Have a nive week Jacqueline ;o)
- May 12, 2010 at 5:36 AM
- nita said...
Hello Jacqueline, I am new to your blog by a couple of weeks. You have inspired me and helped me to decide which medium I want to master in sugarpaste. I have tried the icing (cake and cookies) and cupcakes (using handmade sugarpaste decorations) but I know now 110% that 'flowers'are going to be my passion. If I can get them anywhere near to looking as good as yours I will be thrilled. Please hurry up with the book as my funds do not stretch to a plane ticket to the US to join your class!!
Beautiful, beautiful blog made with precision and dedication.
- May 20, 2010 at 4:18 AM
- Anonymous said...
I wish I can attend your flower calss, I lived in San Francisco and just found your website... I love your creation. Please let me know next time you will have a class in San Francisco again..my email : email@example.com
- June 2, 2010 at 2:54 PM
- Jacqueline Butler said...
Thank you so much everyone...what lovely comments!! Wow!
**Nita - I hope you received my email..I am so excited that you have decided to concentrate on sugar flowers!! Congratulations and I hope you share photos of your work with me!
- June 2, 2010 at 4:16 PM


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Skip to comments.New Mexico v. Val Kilmer: Payback Time
Posted on 06/21/2010 3:24:50 PM PDT by I still care
Bygones are not always bygone amid the limestone cliffs and piñon groves of northern New Mexico.
When actor Val Kilmer recently applied for permits to turn his 6,000-acre ranch outside Santa Fe into an upscale bed-and-breakfast, several of his neighbors protested.
Alleged trash talk is holding up a permit Val Kilmer wants for his ranch.
They weren't worried about traffic or noise or the prospect of intruding tourists. They were incensed about comments attributed to Mr. Kilmer in magazine articles dating to 2003 and 2005. And they didn't want him to get his way on the ranch unless he apologized.
"That's all he has to do, come and apologize," said Jose Garcia, who runs horses on a 50-acre ranch next to Mr. Kilmer's. "We're not intimidated by him."
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"An apology isn't good enough. He's insulted and hurt too many people," said Abran Tapia, a veteran and local resident. "People here want him out of New Mexico."
There's probably half a million or so non english speaking folks I'd like to see out of new mexico and into old mexico.
Interesting how quiet all the parties involved are suddenly quiet after the ACLU entered into the discussion...
Hi there!
I'm old.
And I'm fat.
Have you seen recent pictures of him? He's a real porker now.
I'll have to find out where his ranch is, and take a few pictures, preferably with Val in them, just to aggravate him. It is good to know he takes responsibility for himself by carrying a gun. Maybe he should move to Obamao's Chicago where it is peaceful.
I read this earlier and the thing that really stuck out for me was that he said that he knew more about the Vietnam War than the soldiers did since they could not get into college and were losers. Made me want to smack him.
Predictable that he'd irritate people there.
He is kind of a jerk and doper but I do not think he is a bad guy. He was fairly talented but he appears to have screwed up his career. The one person there in NM seems to be very "intolerant" in oh so tolerant Santa Fe.
First of all it was cheap, cheap, cheap. It looked like he filmed it on his own ranch and made the sets himself.
Second, it was liberal overkill. Also, it ripped off Billy Jack, which wasn't any good to begin with.
If Val had made a movie about Blackwater-type miltary contractors up to no good, or a movie about Minuteman-types turning on Latinos he just might have gotten away with it, for whatever the cheap and lousy movie was worth.
But making the Blackwater-type corporate paramilitaries into anti-Latino ethnic cleansers was going too far even for Hollywood. If there really are corporate conspirators out there, they wouldn't have any scruples about exploiting cheap labor and wouldn't be tied down by borders.
The irony is of course that Kilmer doesn't get along with the locals out there and gave them grief himself.
I retract my comments that he is not a bad guy. He is spewing propaganda to get his dirt cheap movie funded. Harrison Ford did one like not long ago about noble illegals and evil white males.
I think one of those Huckabee boys ate Chris Christie.
Stripes are not slimming.
It is a simple conception that a person's right to conduct business doesn't depend on how well some people like or how intensely others dislike him.
It sounds to me like some folks have decided a little butt-kissing is due to soothe their bruised egos. They should get over it. Van Kilmer is the one who has to live with himself, so let them take satisfaction in that.
Especially when it takes about 50 rows of them
to cross you horizontally.
That, and the fact that you need a dam 'permit' to run a business.
Chaz was awesome in all those Magnum PI episodes...remember....
I am slim and trim compared to him. I'm 6'3 250-sh and need to drop at least 20 more.
Iceman will need extra afterburner to get in the air it looks like.
It's just a little etiquette lesson from the people that create the lovely local culture that he wants to make money off of. He's getting some schooling.
Oh My Goodness. I was still picturing him in the beach volleyball scene in Top Gun...
To me its about the elite making a ton of money off "the little people" and at the same time holding them in scorn.
If it wasn't for plain folk (the type that like to see movies like Top Gun) he would be working in an office somewhere.
I'll agree with you that his right to conduct business shouldn't have anything to do with what people think. But remember, he probably voted for the type of people who made these zoning laws. I wouldn't have.
I hate him in real life.
He was great in Top Secret!
Top Secret! was good if you like cows singing 'Ach, Du Lieber Augustine'. With phoney moving lips like from the '50s.
Skeet Surfin'...
Skeet Surfin'...
If everybody had a 12 gauge
With a sufboard too.
You see em shootin and surfin'
From here to Malibu.
Because it's totally bitchin'
Ridin waves and blastin' pigeons.
And its a' neat shootin' skeet when youre ridin' on the heavies all day.
First Wave (shoot shoot) Don't get tired. Second Wave (shoot shoot) Aim higher. Third Wave (shoot shoot) Pull it and fire.
Skeet Surfin' (it's all right)
Waxin' down our surfboards
And loadin' up our traps.
Tell the teacher we're shootin'
And never comin' back.
I've got a gun rack in my Chevy
For when the surf and the flak get heavy.
And we'll have fun with our guns until the lifeguard takes our ammo away.
First wave (shoot shoot)
Don't get tired.
Second Wave (shoot shoot)
Aim higher.
Third Wave (shoot shoot)
Pull it and fire.
Skeet Surfin' (it's all right)
First Wave (shoot shoot)
Man what a 'natch.
Second Wave (shoot shoot)
Pullin' that trap.
Third Wave (shoot shoot)
How was that?
Sharing sunsets with my favorite girl,
When we shoot the curl we really shoot the curl.
First wave (shoot shoot)
Don't get tired.
Second Wave (shoot shoot)
Aim higher.
Third Wave (shoot shoot)
Pull it and fire.
Skeet Surfin'
First Wave (shoot shoot)
Man what a 'natch.
Second Wave (shoot shoot)
Pullin' that trap.
Third Wave Wave (shoot shoot)
How was that?
I wish they all could be double-barrel,
Wish they all could be double barrel guns.
Do you wanna come along with me?
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Introductioncoffee, a tree, its seeds, and the beverage made from them. The coffee tree, a small evergreen of the genus Coffea, has smooth, ovate leaves and clusters of fragrant white flowers that mature into deep red fruits about 1/2 in. (1.27 cm) long. The fruit usually contains two seeds, the coffee beans. C. arabica yields the highest-quality beans and provides the bulk of the world's coffee, including c.80% of the coffee imported into the United States. The species is thought to be native to Ethiopia, where it was known before A.D. 1000.
Coffee's earliest human use may have been as a food; a ball of the crushed fruit molded with fat was a day's ration for certain African nomads. Later, wine was made from the fermented husks and pulps. Coffee was known in 15th-century Arabia; from there it spread to Egypt and Turkey, overcoming religious and political opposition to become popular among Arabs. At first proscribed by Italian churchmen as a heathen's drink, it was approved by Pope Clement VIII, and by the mid-17th cent. coffee had reached most of Europe. Introduced in North America c.1668, coffee became a favorite American beverage after the Boston Tea Party made tea unfashionable.
Coffee owes its popularity in part to the stimulative effect of its caffeine constituent. Caffeine, a bitter alkaloid, can also contribute to irritability, depression, diarrhea, insomnia, and other disorders. Decaffeinated coffees, developed in the early 1900s, account for c.18% of the U.S. market. For those without the time or the inclination to brew their own, there are instant or soluble coffees, introduced in 1867, which account for c.17% of U.S. coffee sales.
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'Tis the season for giving, receiving and eating! Everyone will be busy cooking and baking their favorite holiday receipes this month and should have a cute apron to do it in.
Enter to win The Perfect Apron: 35 Fun and Flirty Designs for You to Make, by Rob Merrett, Cico Books, and learn how to stitch a festive apron for the holidays or for year-around.
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Questions and Answers: The Elm Seed Bug ( Arocatus melanocephalus)
Click here to see a photo of this insect.
When was the elm seed bug first detected in the United States?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed the first detection of this new invasive pest on July 12, 2012.
Where was this insect first detected?
The first detection occurred in western Idaho.
Where is the elm seed bug's native habitat?
This pest is native to central southern Europe.
What damage does it cause?
The elm seed bug feeds on elm fruits and seeds.
What is the elm seed bug's life cycle?
The adults mate in spring, and the females lay their eggs on elm trees. Worm-like larvae hatch from the eggs, feed on the tree's fruits and seeds, and become adults in summer. The adults can survive the winter to mate in the following spring.
Is this insect an agricultural pest?
This insect is not considered an agricultural pest because it is not expected to seriously damage elms or significantly impact the environment. However, it is considered a homeowner nuisance pest.
How does the elm seed bug affect homeowners?
The bug reproduces rapidly, resulting in large populations. When the weather becomes adverse, elm seed bugs can invade homes in large numbers to seek protection. In addition, the pest has a scent gland that emits a foul odor when the bug is crushed.
How did this invasive pest get into the United States?
USDA has not yet determined how it entered the United States. Invasive pests typically enter the country in commercial shipments from overseas. However, insects that invade homes in large numbers often hitchhike into the country in the baggage of international travelers.
What should I do if I believe this insect is on my property or in my neighborhood?
You should contact your state department of agriculture to report it. You can find your State's contact information on the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture's Web site at http://www.nasda.org/cms/7195/8617.aspx.
What is the USDA's response to the elm seed bug?
The New Pest Advisory Group of USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection is currently reviewing this pest. The group has two primary functions:
1. To conduct a review of the scientific literature on the pest and assess the possible impacts or damage it could cause.
2. Make recommendations to the Agency's management regarding the pest and develop, in coordination with our State partners and stakeholders, best management practices for the pest.