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GumTree's Sip & Shop event set for this weekend
GumTree Museum of Art's third annual Sip & Shop, a unique shopping experience full of artistic gifts, is this weekend.
The preview party is 6-10 p.m. Friday. Hours are 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, and 1-4 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $10/advance, $15/at the door.
To buy tickets or learn more, visit gumtreemuseum.com or call (662) 844-2787.
Symphony fundraiser offers dinner on stage on Friday
The Tupelo Symphony Orchestra fundraiser Dinner on Stage is 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Link Centre.
The evening also includes an almost complete concert version of "Oklahoma." Jody Neal Blake, Sarah Childers, Mickey Gousset and Mark Maharrey are a few of the singers.
The menu includes trout a la meuniere; asparagus and green bean frites; roasted yellow pepper aioli; roulade of beef, blue cheese and buerre rouge; salad and pies.
Tickets are $100.
Call (662) 842-8433 or email email@example.com for more.
State film commissioner to speak at Tupelo Film Alliance
Mississippi Film Commissioner Ward Emling is the guest speaker at this Saturday's Tupelo Film Alliance meeting.
He'll speak on "The State of Things: What's Next for Film in Mississippi."
It's free and open to anyone interested in film.
The meeting is 10 a.m. Saturday at the Tupelo Convention & Visitors Bureau.
For more info, call (662) 841-6521.
Community theater presents 'A Retro Christmas Production'
The 1960s are the theme for Pontotoc Community Theatre's Christmas show.
Elvis' Christmas tunes and "A Charlie Brown Christmas" are a few of the inspirations for "A Retro Christmas Production."
It takes the stage at the theater on Main Street in Pontotoc at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday.
Tickets are $10.
Call (662) 488-1102 for more.


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This artwork was created by me in a single original and signed on the back of the canvas.The technique used by me is of excellent quality textured oil on canvas 100% coton.The canvas is stretched on a wooden frame and artwork is ready to hang.On the painting there is a layer of final varnish that protects against UV light and dust.This original abstract painting is accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity whit photo on the back.Shipped by express courier whit insurance, in 3-8 working days worldwide.Contact me to combine two or more artwork's in a single shipment, in order to make it cheap.Please note: The images in context may not be to scale and are for display purposes only.International Buyers: for non EU countries (European Union) I have to provide Certificate from Ministry of Fine Arts in 6-7 days.Import duties (non EU countries), taxes and charges are not included, and are the buyer's responsibility.About my painting and my inspiration"Painting has always been my way to communicate.Convey emotions and feelings through paintings, to arrive in the soul of the observer is my purpose.I have the inspiration from the unsurpassed beauty of nature, by the reflection of light of a sunset, by the sound of the rain when it comes down, by the scents that releases the spring."°°° THANKS FOR VISIT, Davide
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By Ray Van Dusen/Monroe Journal
ABERDEEN – Following five break-ins this week, Aberdeen Police Chief Henry Randle is asking owners of local businesses to help the department in its investigations by considering security systems.
"I want to encourage businesses to upgrade their security. [Big Star owners] Jeff and Susan Doty's awareness has curbed break-ins on their grounds because of a security system and if it's feasible, I ask others to do the same. We need something to look at to help us in these investigations," Randle said.
The subject who broke into Reflections Salon, Kimmel's Bakery and Lana B's Consignment shop during the weekend was caught on Big Star's security camera and Randle said the department is close to narrowing down a suspect because of that help.
Video images help the APD analyze body build and posture to help point the investigation in the right direction.
Highway 145 North businesses, Harvey's B-B-Q and Shelaine Restaurant, were broken into the latter part of the week as well. The entry point in both cases matched the same method of operation.
"Someone got into Shelaine's through a suction fan. They bent one of the fans back and got through a very small opening," Randle said.
The subject who broke into Harvey's B-B-Q pushed an air conditioning unit inside the building and entered, taking cigars and lighters and tearing up the business' cash register. Randle said whoever broke into Shelaine's either sometime Thursday evening or early Friday morning took cash. Randle asked businesses to not leave cash in the register after closing time as well.
"I believe it's some of the same ones from the last time break-ins. Now they're taking cash instead of items that can be traced back to them," Randle said.
Aberdeen faced a wave of break-ins during the wintertime and less cases have been reported following the arrest of Randle's nephew, Oleathia J. Randle. Randle said his nephew has been sentenced to three years and six months in custody as a result of possession of stolen property. Randle and a 17-year-old were both charged with the breaking and entering of B&M Pawn Shop, which was broken into Feb. 10.
The APD performs nightly checks at the town's businesses, but given the events of this week, he has beefed up patrols both in patrol cars and on foot.
"I've spoken to police chiefs in other areas and everyone is dealing with the same problem. I've heard of people robbed at gunpoint and we've been blessed it hasn't been that bad here. People don't realize how many homeless people are living here. With break-ins, some are just plain criminals and some are just out for food," Randle said.
Anyone with any information in regards to the recent break-ins is asked to call the APD at 369-6454.


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Turkish ambassador to speak on EU, April 6
Posted March 30, 2005; 04:17 p.m.
Osman Faruk Logoglu, ambassador of Turkey to the United States, will speak at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, in 16 Robertson Hall. Logoglu, who earned his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1970, will discuss "Turkey and the E.U."
Logoglu has nearly 34 years of service in the ministry of foreign affairs, addressing major areas of Turkey's external affairs as well as Middle East and European matters. He has been the ambassador to the United States since 2001.
The event, rescheduled from Feb. 3, is part of a series of Ambassador's Forum lectures and is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the European Union Program and the Department of Near Eastern Studies.


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I joined the EFF today, and have been trying to recruit people for a Free Sklyarov protest in Boston.
I joined the EFF today, and have been trying to recruit people for a Free Sklyarov protest in Boston.
Midterms finished today. To celebrate that, I dove into the ximian-setup-tools code and came very close to drowning. Chema deserves thanks for his patience and availability for dealing with neophytes like me, even when he has lots to do. Hopefully I'll have my first real end-user-visible code in the GNOME CVS within a week.
In other news, a group of my friends and I decided to go to a movie. One of my friends had been to the theater, and said that it was close by, so we decided to walk from Harvard. An hour later, we arrived at the theater... in Alewife. We took the T back, and were home within ten minutes, having missed any chance of seeing a movie. It's 3:48 AM right now, and I have to be up at 6 to go on a trip to Dartmouth. I guess a sane sleep schedule can wait....
I'm at harvard summer school right now. I've contributed two more patches, which were fixes to my previous patch *blush*. I spent the day wrestling with vicious-build-scripts and the current state of GNOME anoncvs. I'm happy with my grades , school and otherwise, but the fact that midterms are in a week is freaking me out.
School, SATs, and AP tests are all over. I contributed my
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today, which I'm very happy about. Soon I'll be heading to
Harvard to do their summer program. Life is good :)
How long is themes.org going to be down?
Well, I'm going back home to the bay area tomorrow, one week after LWE is finished, of course. I'm not bitter, really......
Coding: My python irc bot is fully functional, with a userlist and a database module. Just a couple more bugs before it's ready for public consumption. Also, I've got a patch for customizing the [double|triple] click [distance|timeout]. All I have to do is submit it and see why my approach didn't work ;-)
Libglade has an xml file that contains signal and widget data. Would it be possible to write an extension to libglade that allows it to automatically script applications? For example, let's say xchat was all libglade-based. A script could tell libglade to put "hello, world" into the chat entry widget, and then call the send_chat signal. A wrapper could be written by the author, or even someone else, so one could call chat(hello, world!) and add scripting without having to touch the source. Sound feasible?
I made another theme, which has consumed most of my day.
If anyone's interested in writing an IRC bot in python (I have some code already), or has some good ideas for sawfish hacks, mail me. I really need ideas/motivation.
It seems like the GNOME guys can't win with this libs thing. With an integrated gnome-libs, people talk about "bloat" and want to split everything up. The problem is, this just adds more bloat for anyone who uses gnome, because in addition to gnome-libs and gtkhtml, we will also have to load GtkCanvas, CscHtml, and XLibHtml (for those who think gtk adds too much bloat), if we want to pick the best programs for our needs. What if console apps decided that libc was too bloated and forked off stdlib and stdio? Merging widgets into gtk+ won't really help either, because after everybody adds their favorite widget into gtk+ you'll end up with libgnomeui. Splitting everything up and removing dependencies will just decrease the number of features, and increase the amount of bloat because every bit of code has to implement its own functionality instead of using libs. Dependencies rather than writing your own code is good. Of course, one could fall victim to feature creep, but that's another story.
Wow, it's been a while (because I forgot my password and Advogato doesn't have a way to change it afaik) If you haven't checked out Galeon yet, you should. It's fast, feature-ful, stable, and improving all the time. Also worth checking out is this emacs lisp tutorial
Getting ready for AP tests. CS is Tuesday, European History Friday, and Bio week after next. Still trying to find a project I really enjoy. I'm probably going to put my geforce back in now that there are decent drivers. I also looked at the GtkHx source and got a few ideas for features I could implement.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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by Michael Fallarino
It wasn't all that long ago that the standard method that we carpenters used for protecting the vulnerable sill framing of doors and windows was a flap of the 15 pound felt building paper that was carefully cut and folded into the rough opening. Many carpenters and builders are still doubtless doing exactly the same thing. That is, at least where building wraps are used. I read an article recently which disclosed that about 50% of the new structures erected in the US were fabricated without the use of any building wrap. But that is a whole other issue.
Now that we are into the increasingly sophisticated, building science driven twenty-first century, the available smart options for protecting the most vulnerable areas of exterior wall assemblies abound. And I have to admit that I am all for these sophisticated materials and methods. Many window and door manufacturers are either actively recommending or even requiring the use of self-adhered flashings to sill framing and the installation flanges of their millwork.
Remodelers have the opportunity to reflect on how stereotypical damage patterns occur, and it seems that we now have a multitude of ways to circumvent potential damage to framing, wall assemblies, and newly installed millwork. Most of it is actually pretty simple and logical. It just takes a little bit of thought, a little bit of care, and a little time. I have to admit that I have become a flashing freak, because damage from unflashed or poorly flashed interfaces always seems to be a case where an ounce of prevention would have been worth… well, you know what I'm driving at.
While it is possible to craft pan-like protection on site from self adhered flashing such as the Grace company's Vycor®, and similar products, I have become a fan of going one better and actually installing a bona fide sill pan in addition to self-adhered flashing. As a hybrid solution, the Grace company has also added a rigid corner, the VYCORner™ to their line of flashing products.
Unfortunately, sill pans still seem to be largely non-stock, esoteric items for yards and carpenters, respectively.
A sill pan is a pre-formed adjustable system that consists of corners and straight pieces designed to protect the sill framing of doors and windows, particularly the vulnerable interface where the horizontal sill meets its vertical jack studs. This is often the place where millwork framing rots out and exterior wall assemblies become compromised, as a small persistent leak or chronic condensation attacks framing and wall materials. The pan protects the exposed framing in the wall, and with a 90° return, flashes to the exterior sheathing and other protective components.
Sill pan corners are preformed to wrap from the sill up the jack studs in one monolithic form, making water penetration at the corner virtually impossible. Different sill pan manufacturers use different designs to fill in the sill space between the corners, such as modular straight sections spliced into place with metal waterproof tape, or expandable sections. Pans are purchased based on the actual wall and jamb depth, and can also include a preformed back dam if the installer desires that design feature.
While the installation of sill pans will slightly increase the installed cost of each new window and door, they also offer nearly immutable insurance against the possibility of sill and framing damage in a structure's rough opening, as long as the properly installed millwork is well flashed and protected on the exterior face of the building. There is room for design flexibility in the overall installation sequence.
We must consider the reality that structures commonly change hands, installed doors and windows can and do outlive the exterior finish treatment (siding, trim, etc.), and that succeeding remodelers may not be as meticulous as the original installer. One aspect of building green is that we must accept responsibility now for what might happen in the future. The need for a subsequent excuse to explain unforeseen damage just doesn't cut it.
Mike Fallarino is a contractor in the Albany, New York, area. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.
© 2009 Michael Fallarino | www.Fallarino.com. All rights reserved.
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Sweet and Tangy Butterflied Chicken
Butterflying Guarantees Crisp Skin, Even Cooking.Butterflying is a neat technique for removing the backbone from a whole chicken so that the bird lies flat. This way, the entire surface of the chicken is exposed to direct heat (hello crispy skin!) and the meat cooks quickly and evenly. It's a snap to learn (see our tip, below), or ask your butcher to do it for you.
Once butterflied, the chicken marinates in a seductive sweet-and-spicy mix of red wine vinegar, hot sauce, and seasonings, with a touch of brown sugar to make the flavors pop. Grilled, butterflied chicken is a super sassy summer dish that's easy to carve, and even easier to love!
Serves 4
Prep time: 10 min.
Total time: 1 hr., plus marinating time
3 tbsp. GOYA® Red Wine Vinegar
1 tbsp., plus 1 tsp. GOYA® Hot Sauce
1˝ tsp. GOYA® Adobo All-Purpose Seasoning with Pepper
1 tbsp., plus 1 tsp brown sugar
1/8 tsp ground cloves
1/8 tsp. ground cumin
ľ cup GOYA® Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 chicken (about 4 lbs.), butterflied (Note: Ask your butcher to butterfly the chicken, or
follow our simple instructions, below)
|In medium bowl, using whisk, mix together vinegar, hot sauce, adobo, brown sugar, cloves and cumin. Slowly drizzle in olive oil, whisking to combine. Set aside Ľ cup marinade for basting (cover and refrigerate).
|Transfer chicken to releasable plastic bag; add remaining marinade, massaging to coat chicken completely. Transfer to refrigerator; marinate at least 2 hours, and up to 24 hours for best results. Bring chicken to room temperature 30 minutes before grilling; discard marinade.
|Heat grill to medium heat. Add chicken (skin side-down) to hot, greased grill grates; close cover and cook (maintaining grill temperature of about 350˚F), until well browned on skin side, (about 15 minutes). Flip chicken. Continue to grill chicken, basting occasionally with reserved marinade, until cooked through (internal temperature will register 165˚F on quick-read thermometer when inserted into breast without touching the bone), about 20 minutes more.
|Transfer chicken to cutting board; tent with foil to keep warm. Let rest 10 minutes. Cut chicken into pieces; transfer to platter
How to Butterfly a Chicken
Butterflying a chicken, that is, removing the backbone, is an easy technique to learn and master. Here's how: Place chicken on cutting board breast side-down. Using a boning knife or kitchen shears, cut chicken along one side of the backbone. Repeat on remaining side to remove backbone. Place chicken on cutting board, breast side-up with both legs extended. Using the heel of your hand, firmly press on breastbone (located in the middle of breasts) to break it and flatten chicken.


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I know there are several of us who are DVD collectors. Anyway, I have been cruising for good movie bargains lately on DVD, and thought it would be neat if we could pass on our finding here.
Anyway, in the last week, I ran across the following:
Best Buy
Drop Dead Gorgeous - $5.99
Loaded Weapon 1 - $5.99
Media Play
Kingdom Come - $6.99
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - $6.99
Stargate - $6.99
George Lucas In Love - $6.99
If you find anything online, or in stores for a low price, let me know!


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Books spark controversy. Sometimes, they're even been burned, often in the face of the First Amendment. This is Banned Books Week, and organizers of the commemoration are staging a virtual read-out, where participants are encouraged to post a video of themselves reading from a banned or challenged book. Here's a sampling of books that have, at one point or another, been condemned, banned, or burned.
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (Dial Press Trade Paperback). A masterpiece in nonlinear story structure that moves forward and backwards in time, Vonnegut's book centers around possibly delusional solder Billy Pilgrim, who is captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. While detained in a slaughterhouse, Billy experiences past and future events out of order, including being kidnapped by aliens and the moment of his murder. Exploring the concept of fatalism over free will, Vonnegut's book is as much of a trip as Billy's journey to the planet Tralfamadore.Story: Vonnegut library offers banned book to students
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Harper Perennial Modern Classics). Often banned for sexual content and adult themes, Huxley's book is eerily prescient, with fetuses being genetically manipulated and divided into different castes, and citizens conditioned to value consumption and to loathe being alone. With reproduction taken off the table, sex is encouraged as recreation, and marriage, parenthood, and pregnancy are never mentioned or pursued. Published in 1932, Brave New World was and is a brave new book.Story: One sentence by J.D. Salinger on eBay for $50,000
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume (Delacorte Books for Young Readers). There is a rite of passage which every prepubescent girl must undergo before she can call herself a woman. That, dear readers, is plowing through Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Born to a Christian mother and Jewish father, sixth-grader Margaret sets out on a quest to find a religion. Meanwhile, she's dealing with the usual pre-teen issues, including wishing for bigger breasts (doing exercises while memorably chanting, "I must, I must, I must increase my bust!") and her period. Blume captures the familiar angst and confusion of an adolescent seeking her identity.Story: It's academic: Your back-to-school reading list
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (Random House Trade Paperbacks). Perhaps the most controversial book of our generation, Rushdie's book focuses on the struggles of two Indian expatriates in England who are transformed in a plane crash into an archangel and devil. But it's the dream sequences — one about a fanatic religious leader that is a thinly veiled allusion to the Ayatollah Khomeini — that have resulted in an ongoing fatwa against Rushdie and his publishers. Individual purchasers of the book have not been harmed.Story: Flu-season reads: 6 books to make you feel better
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (Grove Press). Banned for its sexual content, Miller's 1934 book is a frank, semi-autobiographical novel about an expatriate American in Paris. A meditation on the human condition in all its squalid, lonely, and rollicking glory, the work opened the literary door for other writers to write more candidly about sex. Perhaps knowing the book would be controversial, Miller felt compelled to write as honestly as possible, writing "There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books."
For more information on challenged and banned books, see this liston the American Library Association's website.
What banned book do you think is worth reading? Are there any books you'd ban from your home?
New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Worick has published more than 25 books. Also a publishing consultant, she can be found at The Business of Books.
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In this case one man was carrying an illegally displayed weapon (It would have been legal if it had remained concealed and he possessed a valid concealed carry permit, I am not actually sure that a billy club is illegal in PA anyway.). That man was arrested and removed.
The other man, a resident of the building where the polling station was located, was determined by the responding officers to be doing nothing illegal and no action was taken.
There was nothing at all illegal about the "uniforms" they were wearing. If you want to appear at the polling station in a cheerleader outfit or a Gestapo uniform, your right to do so is protected. You may even wear buttons and other political statements on your clothes when you enter the premises to vote if you so choose based on a court case this year.
You may not verbally threaten someone and you may not display a weapon openly. The individual in question was arrested for violating those laws.
Are you suggesting that they should have been arrested because they were black?


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Chapter 7: Atmospheric Processes
Earth's atmosphere is in constant motion
Stand outside on a windy day and it's easy to see that Earth is a dynamic planet. But being dynamic takes energy. Where does that energy come from? In the atmosphere, it comes from the Sun. Solar energy provides the power needed for the atmosphere to move.
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Thermosphere and Beyond
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Electromagnetic Energy in the Atmosphere
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Solar Energy on Earth
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The layers of the atmosphere are divided by their temperature gradients. The lowest layer is the troposphere. All weather takes place in this layer. The next layer is the stratosphere. The stratosphere contains the protective ozone layer. More sunlight strikes at the equator than at the poles. This is what drives the global winds. Warm air rises, moves poleward, and then sinks when it meets with air moving toward the equator. The result is six atmospheric circulation cells around the world. There are three cells in each hemisphere. Pollutants enter the atmosphere from a few sources. The most important is fossil fuel burning. Air pollution has bad effects on the environment and on human health. By reducing fossil fuel use we can make the environment cleaner. When ozone depletion was found to be a problem, the world acted. As a result, the ozone hole has stabilized. The hole will be getting smaller over the next decades.


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Camporee '08 is now in the books and I would say that we accomplished our goal of having fun.
This year the Scouts decided that Top Troop may not be in their grasp. Skill levels are improving and the Patrols are gelling, but Top Troop was just not in their sights. So the goal was to have fun and participate this year.
Trying something new, we camped using Back country techniques this year. Practicing leave no trace and going in light. No big gateway, no patrol boxes, and no pots and pans.. Backpacking stoves and meals and traveling light, we established camp in no time and broke camp faster. It was fun to watch as the rest of the district put up their big front country sites. It showed Scouts the idea of using skills and the ease of Back packing.
The Patrols built back pack racks using their pioneering skills and did a fantastic job with camp craft, cooking and keeping the campsite neat gave the Scouts more time for fun and hanging out.
We watched as five of our Scouts were "Tapped out" or "Called out" into the Order of the Arrow.
We are proud of them and all of our Scouts for the great example they displayed this camporee. Many comments were made about how we camped and what our site looked like.
It was nice to hear when we checked out that the Staff appreciated the way our Scouts led and ran the Troop.
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Recreation and Crafts
Take part in the many exciting, healthy or just plain relaxing activities available for everybody to enjoy around our area......
Blue Ginger Gallery
The converted barn, in the grounds of a 16th century Herefordshire farmhouse, is home to a continually changing exhibition of work by British and international artists, with a special place for the strength of local talent. It's a haven from high street shopping with plenty of parking, disabled access and a wealth of unusual and creative gift ideas.
- Telephone: 01886 880240
- Website: www.blue-ginger.com
- Location: Stiffards Bridge, WR13 5NW (Find on google maps)
- Opening Times: Wed-Sun 10-5.30
Bronté Porcelain
Bronté Porcelain are a major manufacturer of fine bone china and are particularly well known for exceptional quality and detail.
Bronté's collection includes authentic sculptures of animals, intricate models of flora and fauna, hand painted plaques, highly detailed figurines and of course their famous candle extinguishers.
Every item produced is made entirely by hand within their studio in Malvern, Worcestershire where visitors are welcome to tour the studio during opening hours.
- Telephone: 01684 310888
- Website: www.bronte-porcelain.com
- Location: Merebrook Business Park, Hanley Road, WR13 6NP (Find on google maps)
- Opening Times: Monday - Friday 9am - 4.30pm
Cob House Fishery
Cob House nestles right in the heart of rural Worcestershire, only three miles from the centre of the Cathedral City of Worcester itself. The idyllic surroundings offer the visitor time to relax to sit and enjoy the countryside from our spectacular Mayfly Café overlooking some of our beautiful lakes and parkland whilst participating in many of our wonderful activities on site - Archery, Coarse and Game Fishing, Animals, Wildflower meadow, Timber Trail play area, Grassland play area, Wildlife pools, Walks, Bird Watching, Activity Meadow for kite flying and football
- Telephone: 01886 888517
- Website: www.cobhouse.org
- Location: Wichenford, nr Worcester, WR6 6YE (Find on google maps)
Eastnor Pottery & The Flying Potter
Remarkable pottery experiences for individuals, groups and organisations. We work with tens of thousands of workshop participants, all ages and abilities, sharing the many benefits of working with clay. Eastnor Pottery is located within the magnificent Herefordshire Country Estate of Eastnor Castle, surrounded by the Malvern Hills. Great walks and dramatic scenery make this the ideal place to spend a creative break.
- Telephone: 01531 633886
- Website: eastnorpottery.co.uk
- Location: Eastnor Pottery, Home Farm, Eastnor, Ledbury, Herefordshire, HR8 1RD (Find on google maps)
- Opening Times: Workshop sessions available all year, including childre's holiday pottery sessions - please phone to book
The Fold
A not for profit community enterprise mixing elements of inspiration, creativity and healing to provide a space away from the commercial norm in a refurbished barn and other converted farm buildings. At the heart of The Fold is The Fold Cafe; plus a range of designers and makers working, demonstrating, exhibiting and selling their creations from studio workshops.
- Telephone: 01886 833633
- Website: http://www.thefold.org.uk/
- Location: Bransford, WR6 5JB (Find on google maps)
- Opening Times: please see website
Green Frog Pottery
Green Frog Pottery is a pottery painting studio in Malvern, Worcestershire. We have everything you need to have fun creating your own ceramic masterpiece. Don't worry if you've never painted before – our friendly, experienced staff will give you all the help you need. It's a good idea to book a table on Saturdays and during school holidays.
- Telephone: 01684 561778
- Website: www.greenfrogpottery.co.uk
- Location: 107 Barnards Green Road, Malvern, WR14 3LT (Find on google maps)
- Opening Times: Tuesday to Saturday from 10am
Hire a Bicycle
Tour our beautiful countryside by bicycle to appreciate how it inspired Sir Edward Elgar - cycles are available to hire from:
- Telephone: 01684 572445 / 01531 635024
Hop Pocket Craft Centre
Quality crafts from over 300 craftsmen displaying original and local craft work and gifts. Hop garlands and pillows for poor sleepers, craft units, plant centre and all day restaurant.
- Telephone: 01531 640323
- Website: www.thehoppocket.com
- Location: New House Farm, Bishops Frome, WR6 5BT (Find on google maps)
- Opening Times: See website for details
Leisure Facilities
The Malvern Splash Leisure Complex has:
25m Leisure Pool including wave machine, flume and beach area; Fitness suite, dance studio, treatment room and sunbed; Cafe; Creche and Sauna /Steam Room
Tenbury Swimming Pool has:
25m Pool; Fitness Suite; Refreshment Area; Baby Changing; Disability Access
Details of other Leisure Facilities in the area can be found on the MHDC Website
Malvern Splash contact details:
- Telephone: 01684 893423
- Website: www.freedom-leisure.co.uk centres malvern splash leisure complex
- Location: Priory Road, Malvern, WR14 3DS (Find on google maps)
- Opening Times: 7am - 10pm Mon - Fri; 7am - 8pm Sat & Sun
Malvern Hills GeoCentre
The official visitor centre for the Geopark Way is located near the Wyche Cutting on the B4218 Malvern to Colwall road at Upper Colwall. The Malvern Hills GeoCentre provides information on the geology, archaeology and history of the Hills using modern touch screen computers and other interactive resources. The GeoCentre also houses Cafe H2O selling healthy lunches, snacks and beverages.
- Telephone: 01684 252414
- Website: www.geocentre.co.uk
- Location: Wyche Cutting, Upper Colwall, WR13 6PL (Find on google maps)
- Opening Times: Each day except for Wednesday
Malvern Theatres
A centre for drama and entertainment, the Malvern Theatres regularly welcomes some of this country's leading productions from the West End. The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal National Theatre and the Almeida Theatre Company are all visitors. The Theatre produces a brochure giving full details of all productions and events and you can find a full list on the Events List.
The Theatre also organises combined Theatre Breaks in conjunction with local hotels - details can be found on their website.
- Telephone: 01684 892277
- Website: www.malvern-theatres.co.uk
- Location: Grange Road, Mavern, WR14 3HB (Find on google maps)
- Opening Times: Restaurant open daily from 10am. For Theatre and Cinema time - please see the website.
Theatre of Small Convenience
Transformed from an old Victorian Gentleman's lavatory, the Theatre of Small Convenience is the smallest theatre in the world (building), in the Guinness Book of Records 2002. If you want to see just how small then you can view an interactive panoramic view here (panorama kindly shot by Robert Bilsland of panoview.co.uk).
You can also view a short film taken of a performance on YouTube (courtesy of Julie Anderson).
Situated in Edith Walk in the centre of Great Malvern, it has been host to a great variety of theatrical experience.
The founder is Dennis Neale, a keen puppeteer and drama enthusiast. He continues to run the theatre as an independent and non profit-making project.
- Telephone: 01684 568933
- Website: www.wctheatre.co.uk
- Location: Edith Walk, Malvern, WR14 4QH (Find on google maps)
- Opening Times: Saturdays (plus Wednesday till Friday during holidays) throughout the year except January, February and sometimes March
The Malvern Spa
The Malvern offers an extensive range of luxurious spa treatments delivered in beautiful treatment rooms by qualified and experienced therapists. The Malvern also has extensive relaxation facilities including the cool, calm hydro-spa area; the spacious serenity of the Grand Salon and the total tranquility of the post-treatment relaxation suite.
- Telephone: 01684 898290
- Website: www.themalvernspa.com
- Location: Grovewood Road, Malvern, WR14 1GD (Find on google maps)
- Opening Times: please see the website
Ravenhill Woodland Reserve
Fifty acres of privately owned ancient woodland in glorious countryside. Waymarked trails through woodland. Unusual birds and flowers with picnic areas.
- Telephone: 01886 821661
- Website: www.ravenshillwood.org.uk
- Location: Lulsley, WR6 5QP (Find on google maps)
- Opening Times: Daily from April to October; November to March weekends only (toilets not open)
Regal Tenbury Wells
The Regal Cinema opened on Thursday July 29th 1937 but the building to which alterations were made in 1936 to construct the foyer, offices and projection room, had stood on the site for many years.
This wonderful example of an art deco cinema has recently been fully restored and fitted out with all the very latest Digital Projection equiment and now benefits from modern heating, onsite catering facilities, box office and front of house staff and in house technicians.
- Telephone: 01584 781767
- Website: www.regaltenbury.co.uk
- Location: 47-49 Teme Street, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8AE (Find on google maps)
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Severn Leisure Cruises offer two picturesque boat trips on the MV Conway Castle from Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire, which allow you to soak up the natural beauty of the River Severn.
The Upton Waterbus trip offers you a relaxing 1 and ¼ hour cruise each way between Upton upon Severn and Tewkesbury. Every Wednesday from May to September.
The Worcester cruise offers you a fascinating way to visit the vibrant city of Worcester.
Other themed and special occasion trips are also available - details from the website.
- Telephone: 01684 593112
- Website: www.severnleisurecruises.co.uk/boat-trips
- Location: Waterside, Upton upon Severn, WR8 0HG (Find on google maps)
- Opening Times: please see the website
Severn Expeditions
Severn Expeditions is a family run Day Boat Hire business based in Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire in the heart of rural England. Our beautiful setting on Britain's greatest natural waterway offers an abundance of wildlife and stunning scenery, and what better way to enjoy its tranquil waters than by boat? We have both self-drive and skippered boats available for day hire, operating from Upton Marina. There is Free Parking and excellent on-site facilities. We can also offer a variety of guided fishing trips on our large boat "Severn Expeditions" with Tim Maslen.
- Telephone: 01684 592654 / 07894268059 and 07894862417
- Website: www.severnexpeditions.co.uk
- Location: Upton Marina, Upton upon Severn, WR8 0PB (Find on google maps)
The Three Counties Showground Malvern
This picturesque showground with the backdrop of the Malvern Hills has over 200 events during the year. In addition to organising the three major events, the RHS Malvern Spring Festival, the Royal Three Counties Show and the Malvern Autumn Show, the site hosts a National Sheep Show, arena concerts, dog shows, fairs and rallies. The showground is also sometimes known as the Malvern Showground and is run by the Three Counties Agricultural Society. You can find a list of the major showground events on our Events List.
- Telephone: 01684 584900
- Website: www.threecounties.co.uk
- Location: Hanley Swan between Malvern & Upton Upon Severn, WR13 6NW (Find on google maps)
- Opening Times: See website for details of each event
Westons Cider Visitor Centre
Nestling on a gentle hillside amongst apple and pear orchards, 'The Bounds' with its 400 year old farmhouse, is the centre piece to a unique day out for all the family to enjoy.
Join a guided tour around the cider mill and savour the aromas of traditional cider making. Hear how cider is produced from planting of the orchards to the moment it is poured. After the tour you are welcome to sample some Westons Ciders and Perries (Adults only) and Apple juice from local producers. Sampling is FREE. There is a play park for the children to let of steam either before or after your Tour. (The Play Park is open April - November ). TOUR TIMES: 11.00am, 12.30pm, 2.00pm and 3.30pm. EVERY DAY. For prices please phone or go to our website (see below).
Enjoy the Henry Weston Courtyard garden and visit the Cider Bottle Museum based in a converted 17th Century cowshed where you can also have a cup of tea and a piece of homemade cake. Also in the Courtyard is our restaurant, The Scrumpy House, where you can have lunch. Also open Thursday evenings.
- Telephone: 01531 660108 for information & to book tours, 01531 660626 to book lunch or dinner in the Scrumpy House
- Website: www.westons-cider.co.uk
- Location: The Bounds, Much Marcle, Ledbury , HR8 2NQ ( on Google maps) (Find on google maps)
- Opening Times: For Visitor Centre: Monday - Friday 9.00am till 5.00pm Saturday and Sunday 10.00am till 5.00pm


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After all this time I finally found them again. I passed on them twice when they were first released and then suddenly the shelves dried of them. I was on my way home from vacationing in North Dakota and stopped at a Wal-Mart in Utah (I think) and there were three of them staring me in the face!
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Hayden Hayden High School senior Isaac Bridges had the hot hand all night, and for three quarters Friday, the Tigers looked every bit the part of defending league champions.
But Hayden boys hoops coach Mike Luppes will be the first to say it: One player can't win a game, and four quarters of solid basketball is imperative to success.
The Tigers, playing in their first league game of the season, fell to Hotchkiss, 59-42, despite facing a 22-point deficit at halftime.
Hayden and Hotchkiss went toe-to-toe through the first quarter, tying at 11 apiece. But the Bulldogs quickly asserted themselves in the second, jumping out on a 7-0 run that turned into a 25-3 run when the teams retired to the locker rooms after two periods.
"We did not play a very good first half," Luppes said. "All of us were disappointed in the way we played that first half. They came and played much better in the second half."
Led by Bridges after halftime, Hayden made things interesting at the start of the fourth quarter, trimming away at Hotchkiss' lead. At the end of the third quarter, the Tigers trailed by just 13 and got within 11 with about six minutes left, but the double-digit hole held strong.
Bridges poured in a game-high 22 points. Hotchkiss' collective effort, however, made the difference.
Three Bulldogs scored in double figures and six players total had five or more points. Inside, 6-foot-6 center Chris Allen swallowed up eight rebounds before leaving at halftime to get stitches on his eyebrow. River Panish, Andrew Tiedeman and Clayton Oxford combined to score 36 of Hotchkiss' points.
"They want to get some wins without a doubt," Luppes said. "Those seniors are used to winning. But they've kept a pretty good attitude."
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Also in the bad news department is Hayden has a less than 24-hour break before hosting Paonia on Saturday afternoon, a tall test for the Tigers, Luppes said.
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Why couldn't the NAACP just have let the initial refusal stand?
What part of "No" didn't they understand, the "N" or the "o"?
"the message were getting is that were not welcome"
It isn't like the NAACP was excluded from an official state function. Do you think ADM or Exxon, to use your examples, would issue public statements complaining that Maine's chief executive wouldn't attend one of their events?
But because of their agenda, the Assoc. felt they had to "call out" LePage, the newly elected governor and try to get him on the defensive early in his administration. Because in the public court of "racism", it's been well demonstrated that you're guilty until proven innocent.
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Wasn't the question: is it appropriate for the U.S. to relinquish the "control" of the Internet to some international body?
As was stated ... since the U.S. developed the technology, financed its common usage, and has thus far been very willing to share that technology universally, how much better could it be managed by an international body? We can readily see the political use to which the Olympics and the UN has been put. Would such political manipulation be an advantage for the free use of the Internet?


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Posted April 4, 2002; 05:12 p.m.
Lawrence Katz, professor of economics at Harvard University and former chair of the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies, will present a lecture at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 8, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall. The address is titled "Universities and the Low-Wage Labor Market: Outsourcing and Wages at Harvard University."
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Panel, exhibition explore modern-day slavery
Posted February 19, 2009; 11:50 a.m.
"Bought and Sold: Modern-Day Slavery," a panel discussion planned in conjunction with a new exhibition on the subject, will take place at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, in 16 Robertson Hall.
The panel will include photographer Kay Chernush, whose exhibition, "Bought and Sold: Faces of Modern-Day Slavery," is on view through March 27 in the Bernstein Gallery of Robertson Hall.
Photos in the exhibition depict exploited women in brothels, bonded child laborers in textile and brick factories, enslaved children on fishing vessels, parents in search of their stolen children and other images "to put a human face on the statistics and headlines, to tell the stories of modern-day enslavement and the journey toward freedom," according to Chernush.
Chernush's interest in issues related to human trafficking began with an assignment for the U.S. State Department, resulting in work that has been exhibited at the United Nations in New York and Vienna and at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. She currently is working on an audiovisual project on sex trafficking to be exhibited in Amsterdam next fall.
The other panelists are Benjamin Skinner, a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and Kathy Maskell, U.S. advocacy director at Love146, a nonprofit organization that works toward the abolition of child sex slavery and exploitation. The discussion will be moderated by Stanley Katz, a lecturer with the rank of professor in public and international affairs at Princeton.
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The most eminent evolutionary scientists have surprising views on how religion relates to evolution
Gregory W. Graffin, William B. Provine
During the 20th century, three polls questioned outstanding scientists about their attitudes toward science and religion. James H. Leuba, a sociologist at Bryn Mawr College, conducted the first in 1914. He polled 400 scientists starred as "greater" in the 1910 American Men of Science on the existence of a "personal God" and immortality, or life after death. Leuba defined a personal God as a "God to whom one may pray in the expectation of receiving an answer." He found that 32 percent of these scientists believed in a personal God, and 37 percent believed in immortality. Leuba repeated basically the same questionnaire in 1933. Belief in a personal God among greater scientists had dropped to 13 percent and belief in immortality to 15 percent. In both polls, beliefs in God and immortality were less common among biologists than among physical scientists. Belief in immortality had dropped to 2 percent among greater psychologists in the 1933 poll. Leuba predicted in 1916 that belief in a personal God and in immortality would continue to drop in greater scientists, a forecast clearly borne out by his second poll in 1933, and he further predicted that the figures would fall even more in the future.
Edward J. Larson, professor of law and the history of science at the University of Georgia, and science journalist Larry Witham, both theists, polled National Academy of Sciences members in 1998 and provided further confirmation of Leuba's conjecture. Using Leuba's definitions of God and immortality for direct comparison, they found lower percentages of believers. Only 10 percent of NAS scientists believed in God or immortality, with those figures dropping to 5 percent among biologists.
Our study was the first poll to focus solely on eminent evolutionists and their views of religion. As a dissertation project, one of us (Graffin) prepared and sent a detailed questionnaire on evolution and religion to 271 professional evolutionary scientists elected to membership in 28 honorific national academies around the world, and 149 (55 percent) answered the questionnaire. All of them listed evolution (specifically organismic), phylogenetics, population biology/genetics, paleontology/paleoecology/paleobiology, systematics, organismal adaptation or fitness as at least one of their research interests. Graffin also interviewed 12 prestigious evolutionists from the sample group on the relation between modern evolutionary biology and religion.
A primary complaint of scientists who answered the earlier polls was that the concept of God was limited to a "personal God." Leuba considered an impersonal God as equivalent to pure naturalism and classified advocates of deism as nonbelievers. We designed the current study to distinguish theism from deism—that is to day a "personal God" (theism) versus an "impersonal God" who created the universe, all forces and matter, but does not intervene in daily events (deism). An evolutionist can be considered religious, in our poll, if he calls himself a deist.
Comprised of 17 questions and space for optional comments, this questionnaire addressed many more issues than the earlier polls. Religious evolutionists were asked to describe their religion, and unbelievers were asked to choose their closest description among atheist, agnostic, naturalist or "other" (with space to describe). Other questions asked if the evolutionary scientist were a monist or dualist—that is, believed in a singular controlling force in natural science or also allowed for the supernatural—whether a conflict between evolution and religion is inevitable, whether humans have free will, whether purpose or progress plays a role in evolution, and whether naturalism is a sufficient way to understand evolution, its products and human origins.
Perhaps the most revealing question in the poll asked the respondent to choose the letter that most closely represented where her views belonged on a ternary diagram. The great majority of the evolutionists polled (78 percent) chose A, billing themselves as pure naturalists. Only two out of 149 described themselves as full theists (F), two as more theist than naturalist (D) and three as theistic naturalists (B). Taken together, the advocacy of any degree of theism is the lowest percentage measured in any poll of biologists' beliefs so far (4.7 percent).
No evolutionary scientists in this study chose pure deism (I), but the deistic side of the diagram is heavy compared to the theistic side. Eleven respondents chose C, and 10 chose other regions on the right side of the diagram (E, H or J). Most evolutionary scientists who billed themselves as believers in God were deists (21) rather than theists (7).
The responses to other questions in the poll parallel those in the ternary diagram and are summarized in graphs below. Furthermore, most (79 percent) of the respondents billed themselves as metaphysical naturalists. They were strongly materialists and monists: 73 percent said organisms have only material properties, whereas 23 percent said organisms have both material and spiritual properties. These answers are hardly surprising given previous polls. But the answers to two questions were surprising to us.
Evolutionists were presented with four choices on the relation between evolution and religion: A, they are non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA) whose tenets are not in conflict; B, religion is a social phenomenon that has developed with the biological evolution of Homo sapiens—therefore religion should be considered as a part of our biological heritage, and its tenets should be seen as a labile social adaptation, subject to change and reinterpretation; C, they are mutually exclusive magisteria whose tenets indicate mutually exclusive conclusions; or D, they are totally harmonious—evolution is one of many ways to elucidate the evidences of God's designs.
Only 8 percent of the respondents chose answer A, the NOMA principle advocated by Stephen Jay Gould, rejecting the harmonious view of evolution and religion as separate magisteria. Even fewer (3 percent) believe that evolution and religion are "totally harmonious," answer D. A weak response to both of these options is unsurprising since the participants are so strongly nonreligious, shown by their answers to other questions in the poll. But we did expect a strong showing for choice C, which suggests that evolution and religion are mutually exclusive and separated by a gulf that cannot be bridged. This was the answer chosen by Richard Dawkins, who has a strong reputation for declaring that science has much better answers for human society than does religion.
Instead, the wide majority, 72 percent, of the respondents chose option B. These eminent evolutionists view religion as a sociobiological feature of human culture, a part of human evolution, not as a contradiction to evolution. Viewing religion as an evolved sociobiological feature removes all competition between evolution and religion for most respondents.
Evolutionary scientists are strongly motivated to ameliorate conflict between evolution and religion. Sociobiology offers them an apparent conciliatory path to the compatibility of religion and evolution, avoiding all language of inescapable conflict. Sociobiological evolution is the means to understanding religion, whereas religion as a "way of knowing" has nothing to teach us about evolution. This view allows a place for religion and sounds superficially comforting to compatibilists.
Charles Darwin was also loath to talk about evolution and religion in On the Origin of Species. He sought ways to lessen the conflict between his idea of natural selection and Christianity in the period just after 1859. Asa Gray, the Harvard botanist who was so taken by the Origin, wrote two reviews arguing for the compatibility of the intelligent design of God and Darwin's idea of natural selection. God, according to Gray, guided the available variation and thus controlled the evolutionary process. Darwin sought Gray's permission to reprint parts of both reviews as a pamphlet that Darwin, at his own expense, distributed widely to those who raised religious objections to his views in the Origin. At this time, Darwin privately believed that Christianity was incompatible with his idea of natural selection but used Asa Gray's reviews to help mute public and academic uproar from religious objections to his book.
Nine years later, On the Origin of Species had become a huge international success, and Darwin published The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. No longer needing a compatibilist slant on natural selection and religion, he clearly distanced himself from Gray's views. In the last paragraph of Volume II, Darwin rejects the possibility that God was guiding evolution and writes about Asa Gray:
… no shadow of reason can be assigned for the belief that variations, alike in nature and the result of the same general laws, which have been the groundwork through natural selection of the formation of the most perfectly adapted animals in the world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided. However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief that "variation has been led along certain beneficial lines," like a stream "along definite and useful lines of irrigation."
If Gray were right, then natural selection was superfluous; an omniscient Creator determines the goals of evolution. "Thus," Darwin concludes in the last sentence of the book, "we are brought face to face with a difficulty as insoluble as is that of free will and predestination." Darwin, however, had solved the problem of free will more than 30 years earlier; he believed it was nonexistent. He also believed that he had solved the problem of intelligent design in adaptations—that also was nonexistent for him, a view shared by the vast majority of the world's most eminent evolutionists alive today, according to our study.
If Asa Gray represented the commonly held view of scientists who studied evolution in the 1860s, evolution could be subsumed under religion as a manifestation of God's design. Today, as our results show, the commonly held view among evolutionists is that religion is subsumed under sociobiological evolution. There has been a complete inversion of the naturalist worldview in the last 150 years.
Eminent evolutionists are now caught in a bind that reminds us of Darwin in 1859. They worry that the public association of evolution with atheism or at least nonreligion will hurt evolutionary biology, perhaps impeding its funding or acceptance. Asa Gray's gloss and that of the evolutionists in this poll, however, differ fundamentally. Gray offered a theological synthesis with natural selection that Darwin carefully used for a few years before extracting himself from it. Seeing religion as a sociobiological feature of human evolution, while a plausible hypothesis, denies all worth to religious truths. A recent informal poll of our religious acquaintances suggests that they are not pleased by the thought that their religions originated in sociobiology.
Charles Darwin recognized the importance of free will to evolutionary biology. He first wrote about human free will in his M & N notebooks as he became a materialist in 1838, soon after the voyage of the Beagle:
The general delusion about free will is obvious because man has power of action, & he can seldom analyses his motives (originally mostly INSTINCTIVE, & therefore now great effort of reason to discover them.…)
Darwin saw punishing criminals for any reason other than deterring others as morally wrong: Criminals should be pitied and rehabilitated rather than hated. Revenge he abhorred. Further, "this view should teach one humility, one deserves no credit for anything (yet one takes it for beauty and good temper)." And finally, he said, a "believer in these views will pay great attention to Education."
Our questionnaire offered evolutionary scientists only two choices on the question about human free will: A, all organisms are locally determined by heredity and environment, but humans still possess free will; B, all organisms are locally determined by heredity and environment, and humans have no free will. To our surprise, 79 percent of the respondents chose option A for this question, indicating their belief that people have free will despite being determined by heredity and environment. Only 14 percent chose no free will, and 7 percent did not answer the question.
Some philosophers have come to the view that human beings are entirely determined but still possess free will—see, for example, the views of Daniel Dennett or Ted Honderich—but we doubt the evolutionists polled have read carefully this genre of modern philosophy. This view was not mentioned in the interviews nor in the many comments generated by the free-will question. Instead, we think there is a conflation of free will with choice.
We anticipated a much higher percentage for option B and a low percentage for A, but got just the opposite result. One of us (Provine) has been thinking about human free will for almost 40 years, has read most of the philosophical literature on the subject and polls his undergraduate evolution class (200-plus students) each year on belief in free will. Year after year, 90 percent or more favor the idea of human free will for a very specific reason: They think that if people make choices, they have free will. The professional debate about free will has moved far from this position, because what counts is whether the choice is free or determined, not whether human beings make choices. People and animals both certainly choose constantly. Comments from the evolutionists suggest that they were equating human choice and human free will. In other words, although eminent, our respondents had not thought about free will much beyond the students in introductory evolution classes. Evolutionary biology is increasingly applied to psychology. Belief in free will adds nothing to the science of human behavior.
Only 10 percent of the eminent evolutionary scientists who answered the poll saw an inevitable conflict between religion and evolution. The great majority see no conflict between religion and evolution, not because they occupy different, noncompeting magisteria, but because they see religion as a natural product of human evolution. Sociologists and cultural anthropologists, in contrast, tend toward the hypothesis that cultural change alone produced religions, minus evolutionary change in humans. The eminent evolutionists who participated in this poll reject the basic tenets of religion, such as gods, life after death, incorporeal spirits or the supernatural. Yet they still hold a compatible view of religion and evolution.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/evolution-religion-and-free-will/2
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TORONTO -- Navigating the red carpet, even in fancier footwear and duds than usual for a high school freshman comfy in gym shorts and Vans, is nothing compared to hanging onto a speeding horse -- while doing tricks.
Unlike older, even Oscar-winning actors, Gattlin Griffith had no handler sitting across the room just in case of ... a public relations or time management emergency. Three months shy of his 15th birthday at the time, Gattlin puts press interviews into perspective.
"People always ask me if I'm nervous when it comes to this kind of stuff. I used to be, until I had to get on a horse that's running as fast as it can and not only ride it but do tricks on it while it's running. I just kind of compare it to that, and I think I'm not going to die doing this kind of stuff, so it's not a big deal."
Gattlin, the eldest of four sons of a stay-at-home mom and a stuntman and the grandson of legendary trick and rodeo riders, was stationed in a small suite at the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Toronto to talk about "Labor Day."
The Jason Reitman movie had premiered days earlier at the Telluride Film Festival and was playing at the Toronto festival in September. It arrives in Pittsburgh theaters today.
"Labor Day," based on the Joyce Maynard novel and set in 1987, is about a pivotal Labor Day weekend for a divorced mother, her lonely 13-year-old son and the escaped convict they shelter -- and how he changes all of their lives in the process.
Gattlin is Henry Wheeler, Kate Winslet his mom, Adele, and Josh Brolin is Frank, the uninvited house guest. The story is told through Henry's eyes.
This wasn't Gattlin's first rodeo, er, movie. At age 7 or 8 he portrayed Angelina Jolie's son in "Changeling," directed by Clint Eastwood and based on actual events.
Ms. Jolie was Christine Collins, a divorced working mother whose 9-year-old son disappears in 1928 Los Angeles. Months later, the cops joyfully announce that her beloved Walter has been found, but the child they hand over is not hers. When she speaks up, she's branded delusional and unfit.
"I just want to say thank you to both of them," he said of Ms. Jolie and Mr. Eastwood. "That was my first film. It could have gone a lot of different directions and they were so nice to me. Everyone on the set was nice to me. That kind of started my acting career and made me like it."
Gattlin, who also played the younger version of Ryan Reynolds' character in "Green Lantern" and has commercials and TV guest appearances to his credit, had an inauspicious start with "Labor Day."
He was at the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo when he received selected lines for Henry, which he read only once or twice before filming them at the show's media center. "There were people opening Coke in the background and people on their laptops looking straight in the camera, all this crazy stuff."
He and his family sent the early audition anyway and were surprised when someone phoned two weeks later for a callback. "Are you sure?" they asked. Gattlin tracked down the novel and did three or four callbacks before winning the job from Mr. Reitman.
The California teen had read with Mr. Brolin during one of those appearances but was taken aback during their first scene when the bleeding, no-nonsense stranger confronts Henry during a rare shopping trip with his emotionally fragile mother.
Those first couple of takes were intimidating, and in between Gattlin walked over to Ms. Winslet and whispered, "He's so scary." She assured him, "Don't worry. Don't worry. He's just acting. Use that for the scene."
She was making good on her promise that she would support him through the project.
Gattlin had been a "nervous wreck" when he first met the "Titanic" star, stuttering a bit and trying to disguise his jitters with his customary impeccable manners. He calls adults Miss or Mrs. or Mister, even referring to Mr. Reitman that way during an earlier studio press conference.
"It's Kate, first of all. You seem a little nervous," she said to him. "I'm going to be here for you throughout the whole movie. You can count on me for anything," she promised. "From then on, I knew that. She was kind of like a mother on set," the teen says.
"Labor Day" was shot in Massachusetts in summer 2012 and while it required Gattlin to leave school a week or so early, it also meant he could be with his three brothers (12, 10 and 4 at the time of the interview when he was 14) since the production rented the family a house near a park, no less. Owners of 50 horses, the Griffiths normally live on a ranch.
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"Most of the time, I could have gotten away with being cute in the other movies I'd done," he acknowledged, but this time he had to convey what Henry was thinking and feeling. Mr. Reitman, whom he also calls "JR," advised underacting rather than overacting and said he wanted to see his performance in his eyes and facial expressions.
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Gattlin knew Ms. Winslet from "Titanic" although it was released a year before he was born and was a fan of Mr. Brolin from "Men in Black 3" but was stunned to discover another co-star, James Van Der Beek, in a movie he watched after filming wrapped. It was "Varsity Blues" and Gattlin not only plays football and soccer but brings a football to every set.
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