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Noah's Ark Was Real
- Main Article: Noah's Ark
Did the Great Flood actually happen? Every society has a legend of a global flood and of one man, or at least a leader of a small band or family unit, that survived it. uniformitarians routinely dismiss these legends as made-up stories, begging the question of why so many disparate societies should make up the same kind of story about a prehistoric event. Among the grounds that they use for that dismissal is that no group of men, of any size, could have built, in ancient times, a massive cargo ship that could have survived the awful hydraulic catastrophe (or to use the literal Greek word, cataclysm) that the Flood was.[1]
In 1961, John C. Whitcomb and Henry Morris II wrote their seminal book, The Genesis Flood, that some observers credit with starting the creation science movement in ernest. Few people remember that Noah's Ark has been the subject of serious feasibility study since at least 1904 and arguably for more than four centuries. But Whitcomb and Morris certainly started a process that has sought to answer a number of questions about the historicity and the feasibility of the first eleven chapters of Genesis. These include how God created the heavens, the earth, and humankind, what sort of event the global flood was, and finally, how Noah and his family survived it.
This is to say that creation science has found an answer to the last question. The answer is: Noah's Ark was definitely real, definitely was as large as stated, and definitely would have served the stated purpose.
The Narrative
Genesis 6-8 tells the story of the global flood, the building of the ark, and Noah's voyage in it. The salient points of the narrative are these:
- God gave warning to Noah 120 years in advance of sending the Flood. Noah therefore had that long to build the ark.
- God told Noah to build the ark of wood and to coat it with pitch inside and out.
- God gave Noah explicit dimensions for the ark: 300 by 50 by 30 cubits.
- God told Noah to build the ark with three decks, with a topmost weather deck (intended solely as a roof, not a deck for walking) with one cubit of ventilation clearance.
- The ark was to carry eight adults (Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their wives) and at least two of every created kind of animal then on the earth.
- On the appointed day, God commanded Noah and his family to load the animals on board, and to board the ark themselves. This they did, whereupon God Himself shut them in.
- The Flood waters rose steadily and buoyed the ark off its resting place.
- The waters covered all points on the earth to a minimum depth of fifteen cubits.
- The flood covered the earth for 150 days.
- God sent a wind to blow on the earth while the ark was afloat.
- The ark came to rest "in the mountains of Ararat."
- The ark had at least one window, through which Noah sent out first a raven, and then a dove. He made three trials with the dove, and in the third trial the dove did not return.
- Noah then "removed the covering" of the ark to look out on the earth.
- Finally, God commanded Noah to disembark and unload the animals, which Noah did.
Any concept of the ark must conform to, or at least be consistent with, each of these points.
The chief objection to the idea of the ark is that no society, among the first of the ancient superpowers (Sumer, ancient Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, etc.) ever built a ship nearly as large as the ark, nor do any artifacts remain of the antediluvian civilization to suggest that it was any more technologically advanced than were the post-Flood powers.
This objection raises two issues:
- What technology did Noah have available to him?
- What technology would have been required to build a ship all of wood to suit the requirements?
The second issue relates to another, more serious objection: could a vessel so large, made all of wood, stay afloat? The common reason to doubt that it could is that a vessel with a single layer of planking for a hull would warp, allowing water to pour in through the seams and sink the vessel within minutes.
Tim Lovett[2] and the curators of the Creation Museum have suggested that the Bible, in Genesis 4 , suggests a minimum level of technology that would have been available to Noah. Specifically, Tubal-Cain, son of Lamech the Murderer, is credited with introducing metallurgy to antediluvian civilization. So Noah would at least have had metal corner braces available to use at key points in his design.
The maximum level of technology might not at first seem apparent. However, a number of out-of-place artifacts, some of which are buried in the geologic strata that the Flood likely left behind, suggest that antediluvian technology might in fact be more advanced than most students of the Flood story have previously believed. In fact, novelist and Project Apollo historian Shane Johnson[3] has suggested that antediluvian society was far more advanced even than modern civilization today. In that case, Noah still would have built his ark of wood, because God told him to, but would have had available to him a composite wood that would have been stronger than the wood of any single tree.
Lovett,[2] however, explicitly denies that any technology more advanced than that of ancient Egypt, with some metallurgy included for good measure, would have been required. He has diligently worked out a hull design including multiple layers of planks, with crossed seams, that would have held the water out and also withstood the structural stresses that the ark must have undergone.
Johnson[3] points out that more than sixteen hundred years passed between Creation and the Flood—the same amount of time between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of modern man to the point of landing teams of explorers on another celestial body. Twentieth century man could certainly build something like the ark—and, says Johnson,[3] pre-Flood man might have been far more advanced, being so much closer to Adam's original state, not having the burden of multiple generations of downward genetic drift.
But as Lovett[2] points out, such an advanced civilization would also have many other ships. The Flood would then have wrecked them all. That it wouldn't have wrecked the ark as well might have required a miracle—and perhaps we should borrow a turn-of-phrase from William of Occam and suggest that one ought not multiply miracles without sufficient reason.[4]
In sum: we cannot know how advanced antediluvian civilization was. But the Bible presents enough hints that Noah had all the technology he needed to build a suitable vessel.
The Bible says nothing of the materials of the ark other than that the wood was called "gopher wood" and that it was covered with "pitch." The meaning of the phrase gopher wood is lost. Some commentators have tried to suggest various single-species woods as candidates for this "gopher wood." The Geneva Bible suggested pine; the New International Version suggested cypress.
Johnson[3] suggested that Noah used a wood composite. Lovett knows nothing of Johnson's ideas but rejects out-of-hand the notion that any composite timber would be necessarily stronger than any single-tree timber that Noah might have had available to him. (However, Noah would not have used pine; pine is not nearly dense enough for such a job.)
Lovett[2] does admit that perhaps Noah used a laminated wood. But neither does he state that lamination would be required for all elements of ark construction.
The design
The proportions
Lovett[2] emphasizes that the proportions of the ark strike the best balance among the competing considerations of strength, stability, and a quality that he calls "sea-keeping" that affects the comfort of the passengers and, in this case, the cargo of animals that the ark carried. A taller ark might capsize; a longer ark might literally rupture amidships; and a wider ark would roll so badly that it might kill everyone and everything aboard.
The shape
Many other detractors of the ark story might subconsciously be reacting to the typical and unfortunate concept of the ark that far too many children receive in their Sunday Bible studies. The ark depicted in most children's versions of the Flood story resembles nothing so much as a claw-footed bathtub with a simple rectilinear house built on top. The proportions alone dictate that this cannot be an accurate shape.
The Bible does not tell us the shape of the ark. Whitcomb and Morris (and, for that matter, Johnson[3]) assumed that it was a box, like a modern barge. Lovett,[2] however, uses clues from the designs of ancient Greek and Roman ships and suggests that these ancient shipwrights probably copied many of their design elements from the ark. These include a protuberance below the waterline that shifts the center of water pressure toward that end, and a rigid sail, usually at the opposite end of the vessel. If sail and protuberance are so placed, then the ark would tend to turn with the sale away from the wind and waves and thus avoid the uncomfortable position of "broaching to," or being broadside to the wind and sea.
The hull
As previously mentioned, Lovett[2] suggested that Noah would have had available to him a sensible solution to the problem of building a hull of sufficient strength that would also keep the water out. Instead of laying all the planks in one direction, Noah might have built the hull in three layers, each with planks running at a different angle. Such a hull would not warp and would therefore hold the water out. It would also be strong, as ancient ships' hulls generally were.
The volume
The unit of measure given in the Bible is the cubit, which literally is the length of a man's arm. If it were the length of a typical post-Flood man's arm, then it would have been little longer than 18 US Customary inches. But Lovett[2] points out that even such a short base unit would have yielded an ark that was 450 by 75 by 45 feet, or 1,518,750 cubic feet—quite enough volume to carry two of every created kind of animal, if not necessarily two of every species.
Some have objected that brachiosaurs would never fit in such an ark. A fully-grown adult brachiosaur would not, but a young brachiosaur would.
Furthermore, the ark was likely much larger. Johnson[3] assumed that the actual cubit used was as long as twenty-four inches. That, of course, is fiction. But the Babylonians used a royal cubit that was almost that long; the Egyptian royal cubit was somewhat shorter. At least two different cubits, a long and a short, are recorded as used by the Hebrews. Lovett[2] assures his readers that a larger ark, built to a longer cubit, would have been able to withstand its structural stresses—and would in addition have allowed enough deck-to-deck clearance for the inclusion of mezzanine decks that would have made the job of caring for and feeding the animals that much easier.
The door
According to the Bible, the ark had a door. It would need one, because this ship, unique in the history of shipbuilding, would not be able to load through hatches in the weather deck. But the door would not likely have been on the lower deck. It would have been on the upper deck, well above the waterline.
Lovett[2] reminds us that the Hebrew word used for "door" never meant anything other than an ordinary, side-hinged door. Noah probably accessed it by climbing a system of ramps from ground level.
Once closed, that door likely never opened again. When the ark landed, the Bible says that Noah "removed the covering" from the ark. This probably means carving out a hole, either in the weather deck or, more likely, in the hull at lower-deck level, which would be ground level.
The window
The window was not an ordinary window. That word probably referred to the ventilation system on the weather deck.
Launching the ark
Noah did not launch the ark in the same sense that a post-Flood shipwright would. Noah knew that the water would come to the ark.
The Bible gives few clues to the nature of the Flood, or to how quickly the Flood waters rose. They probably did not rise slowly and gradually like a river that overflows its banks and never stops rising. The only thing in modern experience remotely close to the Flood would be a tsunami. Even that might not have done the Flood justice. Johnson[3] suggested that the Flood might have come as a wall of water, 1.5 to 2.0 kilometers high. If antediluvian civilization had the technology of shipbuilding, then it had ships, and the Flood must have wrecked them all. Why, then, did it not wreck the ark instead of merely buoying it up?
Of course, antediluvian civilization need not have had shipbuilding for Noah to build his ark. The ark could therefore have been the very first ship ever built, and hence an even stranger object for Noah's neighbors to gawk at until the end came.
Lovett[2] suggests that Noah might have chosen a hilltop site on a peninsula. We might never be able to map the pre-flood continents in great enough detail to find Noah's original site. But mountains did not rise as high before the Flood as after, and so even the highest mountains might not have had the "timber line" that modern mountains have. Noah would logically have built the ark on the very site where he had timber readily available and in quantity. He could easily have found such timber on a mountain high enough so that at that location the Flood would arrive as a more gradually rising water level, one that would slide underneath the ark as it sat on its construction cradle and then buoy it up. Or the water would arrive as a wall, but high enough only to spill over the ark and then rise steadily and lift it when it became deep enough.
The Bible says that the waters covered the earth to a minimum depth of fifteen cubits. Lovett[2] suggests that the ark drew that much water as it floated. This would represent half its height, and would be in keeping with modern experience with supertankers and other heavy freighters.
No one has reliable found the ark. The Bible says only that it came to rest in "the mountains of Ararat." This might or might not have had anything to do with the Mount Ararat in Turkey near the Armenian border. All we have from that site are less-than-reliable anecdotes.
But God does not generally preserve relics of His miracles. For example, we have no material from the original Cross. The Shroud of Turin has become an object of worship of the least appropriate kind. The Bible records one other "sacred" object—Moses' brass serpent—that similarly became an object of worship, so much so that King Hezekiah ordered it destroyed to put a stop to the cult that had grown up around it.
Noah's ark not only was feasible, but also is the only reason why mankind survived the greatest catastrophe (Greek cataclysmos) that the world has known since its creation. It is also the common denominator in multiple legends of a global flood and the only way that any group of people could have survived it.
But the ark is more than that. Johnson[3] reminds us of the symbolism of its materials: wood covered with pitch, to represent man covered by the blood of Jesus Christ.
- ↑ Some of these same detractors also dispute the scope or the severity of the Global Flood, forgetting that they cannot have it both ways.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 Lovett, Tim. WorldWideFlood.com. 132 Web pages. Accessed April 24, 2008.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Johnson, Shane. Ice: The Greatest Truths Hide in the Deepest Shadows. Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook Press, 2002. 395 pp., paperback. ISBN 1578565480
- ↑ Johnson does, however, suggest a possible solution to this dilemma: that pre-Flood man, immediately before the Flood, had simply sunk to such an appalling state of anarchy and crime that they might well have destroyed all their marvelously advanced cities before the Flood happened. Johnson even suggests that pre-Flood man had an exploratory base on the Moon—but that the base crew, after watching the destruction of the surface of the earth, wiped one another out through mutiny, mayhem, and mutual murder, except for a few survivors who in the end committed suicide. In truth, neither astronaut nor telescope has ever demonstrated any such base, which, if found, would surely be the most remarkable out-of-place artifact ever found.


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February and March were crazy busy as far as my genealogy research went. After watching a Legacy-hosted webinar on newspaper research with Thomas Kemp of GenealogyBank, I decided to check it out. I had really good luck and was able to back my way into solving one of my Irish family's brickwalls. On a second research front, a terrific Irish records site came on-line and was mentioned in a blog post that directed me to church records for Counties Cork and Kerry. A bit of reverse sleuthing and comparisons with previously found but unproven census records and another of my Irish family's brickwalls finally came down. Both finds need some more work, but I am light years ahead of where I was two months ago. A nice bonus is that I now have additional family members (siblings of my direct ancestors who are "new to me") to research and connect with. Both of those finds will be the subject of their own posts in the near future. All I can say in my own defense (for my February and March blogging slump) is that I was so busy researching and working through the connections that I just let my blogging slide.
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- March ~ I prepared my 1940 Census To-Do Lists using the Legacy Census Tool. I broke down the to-do lists by county and state. Knowing that some of my family remained in the same towns and counties in Nebraska and Illinois I decided to focus on these areas as well as my grandparents (both located in Seattle, Washington and for whom I had their 1940 addresses).
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- I cleaned up my Legacy database and standardized all my census entries so I had 1930 census information for my extended family. This was an excellent exercise to prepare for the 1940 Census and also to review my earlier census entries and clean up my sources.
- Steve Morse, Joel Weintraub and the volunteers who worked on the OneStep 1940 Census program – thank you for such great programs and tutorials – I learned so much from using these programs and was able to drill down to the correct enumeration districts. You are all The Best!
- The various websites that uploaded the digital images of the 1940 Census – it was an embarrassment of riches ~ The National Archives, FamilySearch, Archives, MyHeritage, and Ancestry ~ all worked hard to make so much available from day 1 ~ just brilliant! I used several of the sites and was able to noodle my way to finding the census pages.
- DearMyrtle ~ every evening Monday through Friday she hosted a webinar roundup that entertained, explained, shared stories, answered questions and kept the genealogy community involved in the hoopla that was the 1940 Census release. I was thrilled to listen to and watch the presentations by Joel Weintraub, the representatives from Archives, the National Archives, and Ancestry, the examples provided by Russ Worthington, the finds shared by attendees, and the discussion among the attendees on Twitter. There was a lot going on and it was clearly a labor of love ~ thanks DearMyrtle and RootsMagic for hosting the webinars.
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- April ~ I need to follow up on the Kiley and Cannell families and transcribe and source all the material I found in March. I am in the process of adding it (with appropriate sources) to my Legacy database. I am also contacting current Cannells to hopefully find out more information about both the Kiley and Cannell families.
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- I need to follow up with extended family members in Nebraska and Washington both for family records and 1940 Census research. To any Murphys in Johnson County, Nebraska ~ let's work on filling in some blanks. My email is over at the right so please get in touch. John ~ thanks for your comment I emailed you directly and would love to hear from you!
- March & April ~ I am continuing to organize my digital materials (photographs, census images, images saved in my Ancestry Shoebox, images saved from Genline of Sweden, images from DigitalArchives of Norway, and county and town research and images downloaded from Irish websites as well as all my Newfoundland research). Now that I have a system in place it is a process of working on this a bit each day ~ this is an ongoing project but I do see light at the end of the organization tunnel!
- April ~ I need to get back on board with Amy Coffin's 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy. I need to finish my blog post about my grandfather Ernest William Lidman. I need to blog on a weekly basis ~ remember the Nike mantra ~ just do it!
- March ~ There were lots of webinars to choose from in March and I attended the following:
- Introduction to Irish American Catholic Records with Michael Brophy on March 3 ~ This was a interesting presentation, with lots of insights and some tips to help me get farther with my Irish American research.
- 1940 Census with Thomas MacEntee on March 7 ~ A nice preparation webinar and he answered many questions to help us prepare for the census release.
- Using the Census Tool in Legacy with Geoff Rasmussen on March 9 ~ Thank you for this great tool and for the quick and responsive updates, you made my preparation so much easier!
- Using US Federal Records to Locate the Towns of Your Irish Ancestors with Donna Moughty on March 12 ~ An excellent presentation and I got lots of helpful tips to help me dig a little deeper with my brickwall Irish families.
- How to Use a Blog for a Research Log with Drew Smith on Mar 19 ~ This was a disappointing webinar from a usually reliable presenter. Drew discussed blogs in detail but it was clearly for beginners. There was no serious discussion of the research log aspect listed in the webinar title and which is why I (and others) attended the webinar.
- Tips & Tricks for Webinar Presenters with Thomas MacEntee on Mar 21 ~ Thomas does a good job and this webinar was helpful to understanding how the process works (or rather should work) and is a real must watch for anyone planning on giving presentations.
- Digital Writing & Genealogy with Lisa Alzo on March 30 ~ Lisa always does a great job and this webinar was no exception. Some really helpful tips and plenty of great examples.
- April ~ It has all been about the 1940 Census Release but there are also some additional subjects out there for webinars.
- I attended 4 of 5 days of DearMyrtle's roundup of all things Census (missed Thursday's webinar but listened to it after the fact). These were all-around great and very useful. We received some terrific best practices tips from all the major players.
- I plan to attend the following webinars during the remainder of April:
- Going Digital with Josh Taylor on April 10
- Genealogy on the Go – the Families App with Malcolm Green on April 11 (through Legacy)
- Using Legacy Family Tree to Support Family Groups/Associations with Geoff Rasmussen on April 14 (through Legacy)
- Reverse Genealogy: Finding the Living with Megan Smolenyak (through Legacy)
Giving Back
- I signed up as a 1940 Ambassador.
- March ~ I signed up to index the 1940 census when available, indexed the practice census sheet and watched the FamilySearch presentations so I would be ready to go when the census pages were uploaded and available.
- April ~ During the past week, I indexed census pages from Delaware, Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota and Oregon (I have indexed 1120 names and have a 98% accuracy rating ~ thanks to those enumerators who printed or had good penmanship). It is interesting and fun. More importantly, if we all volunteer we will have an index up and available for researchers and genealogists. It is a nice way to give back and thank those who indexed the previous censuses I have relied upon to find my families! I plan to index 3 batches each day (120 names) first thing in the morning. Are you signed up and indexing? If not, why not give it a try.
Onward and upward ~ I need to stay on track to reach my 2012 goals. If the first week is any indication, April is going to be a big and busy genealogy month! What have you been up to? Any great finds? If you recognize any of the surnames and/or locations mentioned here, please contact me. Cheers!


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My response to #1: I don't see this point. We are saying in the choice that the changes made by any failed statement are rolled back. We don't even talk about successful statements - and you are right, those are not rolled back.
My response to #2: ARGH! I think you make a very good point; we were a bit sloppy with words here. The DML statement as a whole does not fail, just because an attempt to change a row identified by that statement fails. The statement, in fact, continues to execute.
One player also wrote regarding this choice:
He said: "In the answer 4 example, FORALL is NOT part of the dynamic DML. So I doubt the question can be answered in a clear way given this example. I guess my objection will be overruled by pointing out the choice of the phrase "used with dynamic DML". Well, my grandmother could cook a great meal WITH dynamic DML, if necessary."
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It simply asserts that you can do this
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE my_dynamic_dml;
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beside INT/SP for leveling from 85 to 90, is reaching the hitcap the most important thing too or only for heroic dungeons and raids and for leveling is it crit?
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Hit capping can be helpful while leveling, but you don't need as much. How much you need depends on your level and the level of the target.
I won't actively try and hit cap while leveling but I won't completely avoid it either. Check your character UI while in game. If it says there is a chance to miss a mob a level a head of you then you don't have enough.
- September 21, 2012 at 9:50 AM
Thank you!
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Citation: Patterson, K.K., Exler, J., Lemar, L.E., Holden, J.M., Phillips, K., Harnly, J.M., Byrdwell, W.C., Wolf, W.R. 2008. Optimization of Methodology for Vitamin D3 in Fortified Foods. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) Analytical Methods and Reference Materials Program, Vitamin Methodology Workshop, July 7-8, 2008, Gaithersburg, MD.
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Technical Abstract: Food composition data for vitamin D in the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference are being updated and expanded as part of the USDA National Food and Nutrient Analysis Program (NFNAP). This program has focused on high priority foods and requires validated analytical methodology and appropriate quality control reference materials in order to achieve accuracy and consistency in new data. Since there are very few certified reference materials for vitamin D, 4 matrix-specific control materials (vitamin D3 fortified - ready-to-eat cereal, orange juice with calcium, fluid milk, and processed cheese) were developed. Six experienced laboratories analyzed each of the control materials in five separate runs to account for run-to-run variability in the results. Additional studies on specific concerns such as recovery and mass spectrometric analysis were done to validate quantification. In one laboratory two AOAC vitamin D methods were combined and adapted to develop a final method that was validated for a variety of food matrices. Results from three laboratories, one using the newly adapted, validated method and the others using their standard methods, were in agreement for the fortified materials once a calibration problem at one laboratory was resolved. From these data, tolerance limits for the control materials were established. It was concluded that an internal standard was necessary to achieve adequate precision, and that an experienced analyst and attention to detail were needed. Overall the methodology is cumbersome, and the procedures are time consuming. This tends to reduce the number of sample analyses that can be made even though more analyses would be desirable. To date, validated methodology has been applied to the analysis of calcium-fortified orange juices and fluid milk. The CV for the control materials was found to be 4 – 5% and the values were within the tolerance limits. The accuracy and precision of sample analyses for these foods will make it possible to determine valid estimates of the vitamin D content.


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Salza was a zine that was created by high school student Jill Hathaway (using the pseudonym Cleopatrae Jones) in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She began publishing the zine after encountering A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World at a Barnes and Noble. The zine contained reviews of other zines, interviews with local celebrities, poetry, and personal essays. A total of five issues were created throughout 1997 and 1998 and distributed to various other "girl zine" publishers, as well as in a local comic book store. Today, there are copies of the zine in the archives of the University of Iowa library. Jill went on in college to produce a one-shot zine entitled Escape from Diet Hell (published in 2002), in which she grappled with her eating disorder and weight issues. She studied to become a high school English teacher and has since produced several zines in the classroom with her students. Jill Hathaway (now Jill Wheeler) currently resides in Van Meter, Iowa, with her husband, Shane (a high school history teacher). She is earning her MA in English Literature at Iowa State University while teaching high school English full-time at Carlisle High School and coaching speech and drama. She hopes to soon produce another zine.


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- Featuring places connected with my own family history
- Highlighting places with happy memories
- Shining the spotlight on place names that appeal.
- Linking my interests in history, travel and photography.
HAWICK in the Scottish Borders was my home for all my married life, until we moved last year. Knitwear (Pringle, Lyle & Scott, Peter Scott) , rugby and pride in its heritage typify this, the largest town in the Scottish Borders, (population 14,800), some 50 miles from Edinburgh and 44 miles north of Carlisle.
Hawick among the hills
One of my favourite local songs tells how:
"Where Slitrig dances doon the dell
To join the Teviot Water
There dwells auld Hawick's honest men
Hawick where the River Teviot (here) meets the smaller Slitrig River ,
as depicted in the town song above.
The 1514 Monument (right), unveiled in June 1914 and known locally as "The Horse", commemorates this victory. nown locally as "The Horse", commemorates this victory.
All of the main towns in the Borders have a 'common riding' - or something similar, but each one has its own unique spirit and specific traditions. Typically, a "Cornet" or other named representative, i.e. Standard Bearer, Braw Lad, Callant, Reiver etc. is selected from the young men of the town, and becomes an honoured figure. He leads a procession of mounted and foot followers through the town. He proudly carries the town flag, creating a marvellous spectacle. He then leads his cavalcade of riders out of the town into the hills and around the town's ancient boundaries re-enacting the age old ritual of 'riding the marches.
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Corsair have been known for their quality cases for a long time now, but this new release is a little different from the offerings that we're used to. The new case breaks the typical tower design that the rest of their lineup follows, instead going for a more cuboid shape with a wider base. With 'Air' in the name you wouldn't be blamed for thinking that, much like Cooler Master's HAF series, the case is focussed on air cooling. However, with the ability to install up to a 360mm radiator in the front and a 280mm in the top, this case is perfect for the watercooling enthusiasts among you.
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July 18, 2012
HIV therapy is a rapidly changing field. One might hope that more than 30 years of intimate experience with a virus might leave us with a firm sense of precisely how to treat it. But HIV has largely eluded easy answers, and antiretroviral therapy continues to evolve dramatically almost from year to year.
As a result, seemingly simple questions -- such as "When do I start my patient on antiretroviral therapy?" -- don't have simple answers. In this interview, I was honored to discuss this most fundamental of HIV treatment questions, along with other related issues, with two of the world's leading HIV specialists: Joel Gallant, M.D., M.P.H., a professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the associate director of the Johns Hopkins AIDS Service; and Paul Sax, M.D., the clinical director of the HIV Program and the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital, as well as the editor-in-chief of Journal Watch HIV/AIDS Clinical Care.
Both men are currently members of the panel of experts that periodically revises the bible of HIV treatment in the U.S.: the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) antiretroviral therapy guidelines for HIV-infected adults and adolescents.
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Myles Helfand: It has not been a ridiculous number of years since U.S. HHS HIV treatment guidelines set 200 CD4+ cells as the threshold for starting treatment. And now, here we are: As of March of 2012, the guidelines have been updated to include a recommendation that people start treatment when their CD4+ cell count is above 500. What has led us to where we are now, in terms of the aggressiveness of when to start antiretroviral therapy?
Joel Gallant: Part of it is that the regimens and medications we have are so much better than the ones we had when the cutoff was 200. We used to expect inevitable toxicity with our antiretrovirals. That's no longer the case. We can usually treat with a single, daily dose of medications that are very well tolerated and have pretty minimal long-term toxicity.
In addition, I think we've come a long way from the days when we thought that the only bad thing that happened to you with HIV was that you had a low CD4 count, and that you got opportunistic infections and malignancies. We now know that HIV is a disease of inflammation; of immune activation that, over the long term, can cause medical consequences beyond those of the traditional list of opportunistic infections. These things are more independent of CD4 counts -- and more, perhaps, driven by viral replication. So there's a benefit to suppressing viral replication, regardless of what your CD4 count is.
And then, finally -- and maybe what tipped the scales over to this approach -- has been the results of HPTN 052, showing that antiretroviral therapy for positive patients is the most effective form of prevention that we have. And so when you combine the benefits to the individual who is infected, and the benefits to that person's sexual partners -- and to society, as a whole -- it seems like sort of a slam dunk.
Myles Helfand: Dr. Sax, anything you want to add to that?
Paul Sax: I'd just like to reinforce the last point that Joel said, and mention that it's had an interesting effect in the clinic: Even though it's a public health benefit, this prevention transmission, it turns out to be very motivating for your patients, also.
It's really unusual these days to have someone, once they hear that information, say, "Still, treatment's not for me." Because I guess, deep down, people understandably don't want to be contagious to others. They want to be less contagious. And so 052 -- even though it's kind of new, and we knew it was going to work -- still, having those results out there really changed things a lot.
One other factor is that there's a long-standing belief that, if you use your treatment now, when you're healthy, you're not going to have anything left when you're sick -- because of the idea that eventually everybody fails. But it really turns out that's not the case.
We now know that, over the long-term, people who are successfully treated can remain successfully treated, probably indefinitely, provided they continue their medications. The development of multi-class resistance is a thing of the past, and more linked to the inadequate therapies we had in the '90s than anything about treating HIV.
Joel Gallant: Yeah. In fact, there are some studies now that are showing that people who start with higher CD4 counts are less likely to develop resistance, and less likely to develop toxicity, than people who start with lower CD4 counts. So that just emphasizes the point that Paul made.
Myles Helfand: To what extent is that related to an increase in the potency of the regimens that we have, versus, say, increased levels of adherence, thanks in part to the proliferation of single-pill, once-daily regimens?
Joel Gallant: I think it's both. I think the regimens clearly are more potent; but they're also much easier to adhere to, because of their simplicity and greater tolerability.
In the past, people could do well with combinations of indinavir [Crixivan] and stavudine [d4T, Zerit] and lamivudine [3TC, Epivir], but it was really challenging. And the toxicity was really significant. So even the most adherent patients were going to have problems with those regimens.
Now, we're typically in clinical trials seeing efficacy rates of 90% or above, which is just unprecedented, compared to earlier regimens. It's a combination of the better drugs and easier adherence.
Paul Sax: The other factor is that the use of boosted protease inhibitors [PIs] had almost eliminated the whole issue of new onset protease inhibitor resistance. It's really remarkable, when you think about your clinic population and who the patients are in your clinic who have triple-class failure -- the old-fashioned, triple-class failure [i.e., to PIs, NRTIs and NNRTIs] -- and have high-level PI resistance. Really, none of them started treatment after 2001 or so, when lopinavir/ritonavir [Kaletra] became the standard PI.
So it's really uncommon to see any new cases like that. They do happen, but they're not happening frequently.
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Scores of Help the Homeless Community Walks to Occur Across Washington
Aug 24, 2012
More than 100 Community Walks Registered for Fannie Mae's Help the Homeless Program
Keosha Burns
August 3, 2012
WASHINGTON, DC – More than 100 Community Walks have been registered across the Washington metropolitan area as part of Fannie Mae's Help the Homeless Program (HTH), organizers announced today. In its 25th year, HTH has made a meaningful difference in addressing the issue of homelessness across the region and this year, 77 of the area's leading nonprofit organizations committed to serving the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless will benefit from funds raised through the program.
Community Walks, either hosted by the beneficiary organization or a supporter of the organization, are designed to bring members of the community together to raise awareness of the issues surrounding homelessness and raise funds to help homeless families and individuals. Recently, innovative and unique Community Walks have been planned including a singing competition, Zumba class, harvesting event, and more, all with the goal of raising critical funds to end homelessness.
"We are very pleased that more than 100 Community Walks have already been planned as part of Fannie Mae's Help the Homeless Program and we are expecting many more this fall once area children return to school. For 25 years, we've been committed to supporting organizations that serve the homeless in our nation's capital-area and have seen the positive impact Community Walks across the region have on raising awareness and driving action," said Rosie Allen-Herring, Senior Director, Office of Community Investment and Engagement for Fannie Mae.
Earlier this year, Fannie Mae announced its plan to introduce HTH to five additional cities with the goal of building the capacity of the following beneficiaries:
Atlanta: Nicholas House
Chicago: Hesed House
Dallas: The Bridge
Philadelphia: The Philadelphia Veterans Multi-Service & Education Center
Los Angeles: United Way of Greater Los Angeles
In 2011, HTH raised more than $6.2 million and engaged more than 115,000 community members through 771 community walks across the Washington region. Several HTH events have already occurred in the area since May 2012, and program organizers anticipate hundreds more will occur by the program's end in November.
HTH beneficiary organizations provide a range of services to children, families, and veterans facing homelessness including permanent affordable and supportive housing, emergency shelter, and homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing that allows clients to avoid homelessness. Many beneficiary organizations offer support services such as food programs, case management, health care, child care, drug and alcohol treatment, job training and placement, housing counseling, financial skills training, and more.
Since 1988, HTH – the nation's largest fundraising effort focused on homelessness – has raised more than $90 million for nonprofit organizations. To learn more about Fannie Mae's Help the Homeless Program, please visit www.hthwalks.org.
About Fannie Mae's Help the Homeless Program: The Help the Homeless (HTH) Program provides a fundraising model to help build the capacity of nonprofit organizations working to prevent and end homelessness. Each year, tens of thousands of people get involved in the Program by participating in a HTH community walk, making a donation, being a sponsor, or volunteering their time to support organizations dedicated to serving homeless people. To learn more about HTH, please visit www.hthwalks.org.


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So a while back I was chatting on yahoo in hackers' lounge, and this dude was telling people he could hack anyone's computer. Then he started pming them and asking for IP's. Well when he pm'd me I started talking to him, and I gave him my IP cause I wasn't too worried. Luckily it didn't work on me. He ended up giving me the code and saying it was all secret and not to show anybody else. So I take part of the comment and put it in google and there's a bunch of hits for it as a proof of concept for a flaw in windows. Here is one of many (This was a while back, I know this is old)
So I decided I wanted to fool around with this. I have never coded in C before, so I had a hard time compiling the exploit, but with the help of some in IRC I got it compiled.
Anyway, just to be sure I was vulnerable I reinstalled windows and waited to start patching till after I messed with this thing. So I ended up running it against myself and it worked, and I also ran it against my older bro's box on the network. (he needs to run windows update :P). I have a few questions about this.
1. Does anyone else do this type of thing?
2. Is it considered skiddieish to test like this?
3. How is this type of thing detected on the computer being exploited? *
4. Is there any more extensive testing I can be doing?
* As I was doing my testing, I started to think that this sort of thing is hard to detect. In terms of the box the exploit was run against, I really couldn't think of any way other than being at the computer and typing netstat to tell if this is happening to you. If you happened to have an IDS between the computer and the internet, I'm sure that would pick it up, and if you had a firewall you probably wouldn't have the problem to begin with. So can it be traced by the casual admin?
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The 1911 census website is officially live!
This DOES include Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire, so you will be able to locate and download the household pages for your Wing families. If you are searching for a common name, it's a good idea to use their advanced search as you can put down another name that should be in the same household - and hopefully there will be at least one forename in the family which is unusual enough that you can be sure you are paying for the correct entry. I wouldn't have been able to locate my Hughes, Hall and White entries in London without that feature! For your reference, the Residential Place is Wing, the District is Leighton Buzzard and the County is Bedfordshire - you won't find your Wing residents if you include Buckinghamshire in your search parameters.
I won't be transcribing the Wing entries for the One Place Study website any time soon. There's two main reasons for this. Firstly the financial cost of downloading each individual household at £3.60 each is completely prohibitive (especially once that's converted into NZ dollar purchasing power). Secondly, the infirmity information is not going to be available until 1 January 2012, so I'd have to go back and redownload and repay to get that final piece of information.
Try not to crash their server, and please do let me know what you find out about your Wing families!
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
1911 census available
The 1911 census website is officially live!
Posted by Unknown at 4:03 pm
Labels: census, resources - digital
2 comments:
- Nikki-ann said...
Hey, I'm here from the Genea-Blogger's group on Facebook.
I've downloaded a few of the 1911 census forms (for ancestors in Shropshire), but will have to wait for the Welsh ones. Plus there's the whole expense of it all... I'm hoping it'll soon be available on Ancestry.
- 26/1/09 5:47 am
- Alex said...
Hi Nikki-ann - Apparently Ancestry has said this won't be till sometime in 2011, due to the way the licencing works. I also have an Ancestry subscription so I'll be waiting not-so-patiently along with you.
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The Texas A&M University System is engaging with IBM in a wide-ranging agreement that expands the use of IBM technologies by the institution and could station IBM people on campus to work with university researchers. The partnership is intended, according to a prepared statement, to "align skills, assets and resources to pursue fundamental research, applied development, educational reach and sustainable commercial activities."
The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), which conducts research for practical application, will be heavily involved in the new initiative. "This is a unique opportunity to meet the needs of engineering, geosciences and agriculture and life sciences researchers to expand in areas not feasible before with small-scale HPC systems," said Katherine Banks, director of TEES and vice chancellor of the College of Engineering.
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Strong and Courageous is the name of the CD.
neither be thou dismayed: for the
Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest."
(The words say it perfectly and the music is beautiful.)
and in ALL Places . . ."
have to do with modesty?
if you were going to see the Prophet?
if you were going to see the Savior?
We will be offering our boys an incentive for each
article of immodest clothing they were willing to give away.
For each family member that participates in the challenge
we will present them with the
Modesty Rocks Awards and Journal Page PDF
You will need:
A package of Pop Rocks for each award
and a printed copy of the PDF.
Take pictures to add to your Family Home Evening Journal.
You can also have each member of your family sign the
Modesty Rocks Commitment Page
(Included in the PDF)
and add it to your journal.
We are going to have each family member sign a ROCK!
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Following on from my last post about what we get up to in the Sea Cadets with bushcraft I thought I might go into a bit more detail on some of the areas we cover.
I tend to cover all the basics with the cadets and staff, such as shelter, fire, food, tools and games. Sounds a bit like the survival basics of shelter, water fire and food I know. I have though learned from looking at my pictures that I do not cover the skill of water purification too much with cadets – must be because it rains a lot here 🙂
This post focuses on areas we teach the cadets on how to set up some form of shelter.
When I started teaching cadets, campcraft was all about setting up tents, and at most showing cadets all the different types of tent. I felt it could encompass so much more than this, so started to teach cadets about some of the shelters I'd built as a child. One of the things that most struck me about working with Sea Cadets was that they were always taught and shown how sailors slept in hammocks on board ship: to me it was a logical step from this to introducing them to hammocks in the woods. I had never slept in a hammock before I joined the Sea Cadets, but now I will do anything to avoid sleeping on the ground (unless it is on a spruce bough bed).
I always like to teach using only positives. We discuss the need for shelter and look at the resources available to us then I ask the cadets to build something in groups. After they have built their shelters all the cadets discuss each others' shelters, but they are only allowed to give positive feedback. From these positive learnings we set them off again to build another shelter and I always find the differences amazing.
Weather permitting, I will offer cadets the chance to sleep in a shelter that I think is of a good enough standard. I do love to listen to them in the morning telling their friends of all the noises they heard in the night. If the weather is too bad (for example, heavy rain) the cadets don't sleep in the shelter but I leave some pots in there instead to see if they leak, and to prove how good they can be.
When we set up camp I like to get the cadets involved as much as possible and one of the tasks that I find a chore but the cadets love is to help put up the parachute under which we have our group fire. It can be fun getting the line up into the trees:
It is a good leadership task to set them and after it is set up I find they do appreciate sitting under the chute more.
All the cadets who come on a bushcraft course now know we have hammocks they can use. Some have even bought their own which is great to see. It was with a heavy heart three weeks ago I had to tell the cadets on a course I was running that because of the high winds that weekend they would not be offered the chance to sleep in hammocks. Sometimes you have to make decisions that not everybody is happy with but luckily that is rare. When they do get the chance I always have more volunteers than hammocks (I have fifteen now).
They have to set up their own hammocks under supervision .
Makes for a great picture.
Quite a few cadets really dislike sleeping in tents now – I wonder why 🙂
Snug as a bug in a rug.
Sometimes we experiment. This is a freestanding hammock stand.
We have to raise funds for all the equipment we buy as the Sea Cadets are a registered charity. I ran a charity bushcraft course last year that helped to pay for some of these hammocks. Also I received an award from the Jack Petchey Foundation that went towards the equipment we use.
Once you've sorted your shelter, you need a good cup of tea: the next blog will cover what happens when cadets start to play with fire.