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Many definitions of the scientific method have been formulated, and all have their merits. However, every single one can be counterfeited by pseudoscientists. Thus, pseudoscience has profound implications for models of science.
The stereotypical picture of science is developing a hypothesis and performing an experiment to test it. Although this approach is useful for testing highly specific claims, no single experiment can rule out the possibility that a hypothesis might be false in some other context, and many phenomena in science are hard to test experimentally. What experiment would show why the dinosaurs died out, for example?
Pseudoscientists have been known to fake experiments outright, but much more common are cases of faulty or biased technique. Even if these results do not stand the test of time, they tend to be cited by pseudoscientists as valid results that favor their beliefs. Pseudoscience is rife with selective citations of obsolete or faulty experiments that agree with their beliefs, while later and better results tend to be ignored.
The ability to make successful predictions is a hallmark of valid scientific theories, but prediction is also one of the tools most abused by pseudoscientists. Velikovsky's infamous "predictions" that Jupiter should emit radio waves or Venus should be hot are prime examples. Prediction is valid only if the prediction follows rigorously from the theory, which Velikovsky's do not. Scattergun predictions, random hits, and after-the-fact coincidences with vague predictions are not valid.
Falsification was cited by Karl Popper as the defining characteristic of science. Although an idea can be proven valid in a specific case, we can never be entirely sure it won't be false in some other case. However, if we prove an idea false, it is false, period. Although falsification is perhaps the most workable universal definition of science yet proposed, it's not perfect. Many falsifications have turned out to be wrong because they were based on erroneous assumptions. Simon Newcomb, one of the most famous American astronomers at the beginning of the 20th century, "proved" that heavier than air craft were impossible. His assumptions about the strength of materials and the weight of power sources were far too conservative. Indeed, the Wright Brothers devoted a great deal of effort to finding a power source light and powerful enough to propel an airplane. Also, in many cases, it is possible to verify claims. It makes far more sense to say we have determined the chemical composition of a material than to say we have falsified all other compositions.
Scientific Creationists have had a field day with falsification. They have argued that it is impossible to falsify evolution and that it is therefore a philosophy or theology on a par with their own beliefs rather than a scientific concept.
Pseudoscientists also make extensive use of naive falsification, the assertion that a single contrary result is enough to undermine a scientific concept. For example, physicist Dayton C. Miller performed the Michelson-Morley Experiment (the basis of Relativity) in the 1930's and got results contrary to everyone else. There continue to be people who argue that his contrary results show that:
However, any such conflict has two sides. On the one hand we have an anomaly that indicates the prevailing scientific view is wrong, on the other we have a large body of accumulated data that indicates that the anomaly either doesn't exist, was incorrectly observed, or has some other explanation. Since there's a huge body of evidence in support of relativity and no credible experiments in support of Miller, we are justified in concluding that Miller's experimental methods were wrong rather than relativity.
It's also possible to appear to submit ideas to scientific testing while not actually doing so. One common approach is to devise tests that are known in advance to be impossible or impractical. For example, creationist Robert Gentry has argued that granite formed within seconds, and that the earth must have been created almost instantly. "All" it will take to falsify his theory, he states, is the laboratory synthesis of a fist-sized chunk of granite from molten rock. "All" you need to perform the experiment is a pressure vessel capable of sustaining temperatures of 600-800 C and a couple of thousand atmospheres for perhaps a few decades, a setup costing millions of dollars. Atheists who claim they would be convinced of the existence of God if they could witness a miracle are in pretty much the same class. There are all sorts of rational reasons why a God might choose not to perform miracles on demand, therefore the fact that we live in a universe where miracles do not occur on demand proves nothing.
Replicability is another powerful criterion for testing scientific theories. When someone rejects replicability, as paranormalists do, for the sole reason that his findings are not reproducible, we are justified in labeling him a pseudoscientist if not a charlatan.
However, replicability does not necessarily make an idea correct. The French physicist Prosper Blondlot claimed to have discovered mysterious rays called N-rays, and he was able to repeat his measurements in total darkness in front of skeptics. His house of cards came down when Robert Wood showed that not only could Blondlot repeat his observations, he could do so even when vital pieces of his apparatus were missing.
Replicability by independent observers is the only reliable way to test the validity of scientific claims. "Independent observer" is not necessarily synonymous with "skeptic" because some skeptics can be so biased that their own results are no more trustworthy than the ideas they are trying to refute. Independent observers are those capable of testing a hypothesis in an impartial manner. There will also be a far wider circle of scientists who care little about the details of some controversy except insofar as it affects their own work.
No single criterion yet formulated has succeeded in defining science completely, leading to two possible interpretations. Either we haven't found the all-sufficient definition yet, or it doesn't exist. The latter seems to be much more likely. Thus it is wrong to speak of the "Scientific Method". Rather, there is a constellation of scientific methods. The most robust definitions - those of widest applicability, most immune to abuse and capable of correcting errors - revolve around replication of results by independent observers and seeking ways to falsify theories. But the specific details of what constitutes replication and falsification vary so much from case to case that it is probably better to abandon the quest for a Scientific Method and think instead somewhat the way social scientists do, of a constellation of attributes that are shared by valid scientific theories. The constellation is larger than the attributes of any single theory so that testing of any scientific theory makes use of some subset of the whole constellation.
Although no single concept seems to define science, we can go a long way by applying falsification and replicability, especially in detecting and refuting pseudoscience. In particular, pseudoscientists are very loath to submit their ideas to testing and falsification by independent investigators. A good general cut-through-the-crap question I use whenever I deal with someone I suspect of playing games rather than seeking truth is "what would it take to convince you that your ideas are false?" The responses I get range from a deer-in-the-headlights look of utter bewilderment to spluttering rage that I would even make such a demand, but very rarely do I get any evidence of serious thought. But fair's fair - if I expect somebody to define what would refute his ideas I'd better be prepared to do the same with mine.
Since every imaginable structural feature of science can be counterfeited by pseudoscience, one conclusion is clear: no structural or process definition of science can be valid. Science is determined by content, in addition to structure. Science is a constellation of methods that have proven useful in deriving testable, repeatable results, but it is also the results themselves and the subject areas within which those results lie. Astronomy, for example, is the accumulated knowledge of planets, stars and galaxies, but it is also the study of those subjects - the discovery of hitherto unknown facts.
Thus, not only does the accumulated knowledge of science expand, but so do its methods and its domain. The French philospher Auguste Comte once cited the chemical composition of the stars as an example of knowledge that would be forever beyond reach. Within 20 years, astronomers were using spectroscopy to study the chemistry of the stars. A new method had been shown capable of yielding valid results, and in turn opened up a new domain for study. Numerous aspects of the social sciences like linguistics and archaeology are moving more and more into the domain of science as their methodologies evolve.
It's considered hubris - probably rightly - to think we will ever apply the methods of science to all human affairs, but we can go much further than we presently do in testing ideas. A couple of examples:
Some key questions we can apply just about anywhere:
To Nolan Ryan, the strike zone is a big target. There are many different correct ways to throw a baseball, none necessarily more correct than any other. To a Little Leaguer, however, the strike zone is a tiny target.
Now imagine the stands are full of people who have no idea at all how to play baseball. Some think you throw the bat at the ball, some think the object is to hit the batter, others think the object is to throw the ball as far as possible into the stands. From out in the bleachers, the strike zone is a pinpoint and there is only one correct way to throw a baseball. At that distance, fastballs, curves and sliders are trivial variations on a single theme. This analogy is to baseball exactly what pseudoscience is to normal science, and the study of pseudoscience is important because it helps to develop an external perspective on science that most scientists, immersed in the minutiae of their own specialties, do not have.
Relativistic concepts of science work well in a graduate student bull session or a faculty tea where the participants, for the most part, are well educated and share a common set of assumptions. Just as a group of major league pitchers might enjoy discussing the many ways to throw a baseball, scientists enjoy discussing the role of alternate viewpoints about science and the way it works. This approach would not only be utterly irrelevant to a totally naive audience, it would be positively misleading. Discussing all the ways of throwing a pitch would be meaningless to somebody who didn't know the rules of baseball; worse yet, it might actually mislead him into thinking that hitting the strike zone wasn't crucial. Similarly, discussing science as a social construct serves to mislead many non-scientists into thinking there's reason to doubt many findings that are rock-solid.
Skilled professionals can dwell upon the nuances of their trade because they simply tune out the (to them) irrelevant ways that outsiders can get confused. But if we're looking at things with the outsiders' perspectives in mind, we cannot do that. Consider what we can call idea space, the realm of all the possible ideas that could ever exist, regardless of how bizarre they are. When we consider all the ideas that could conceivably exist: atoms, angels, dragons, plate tectonics, ghosts, unicorns, DNA, we observe that:
By trivially false, we mean that we don't learn anything of value by refuting them. We don't know the exact age of the Earth, but we know for certain it is not a year, 10 years, 100 years ..., and also it's not a trillion, 10 trillion, and so on. The Earth is not an exact sphere, and a detailed description of its shape is a complex affair. However, we do know it's not a cube, pyramid, disk, ring, and so on. These ideas are so far off the mark that refuting them does nothing significant toward telling us what is right. Nevertheless, there are people who believe some of them, and here the study of pseudoscience plays a vital role by showing just how vast the realm of invalid ideas is and just how many people live there. Lots of folks insist that the Earth is only about 10,000 years old and hollow-earth cults existed in the 19th century and even later.
These ideas are false, but in the process of refuting them we can come significantly closer to a correct answer, especially if we can rule out entire classes of ideas. The Earth is almost certainly not 4 billion years old, or 5 billion. Its estimated age is 4.6 billion years, but the true value could easily be 100 million years one side or the other of that value. Between 4.5 and 4.7 billion years there are an infinite number of possible ages, only one of which is correct. If we can rule out, say, all ages younger than 4.58 billion years, we still have an infinite number of possible wrong answers, but we have also narrowed the range of possible answers a great deal.
Likewise, the Earth is not a perfect sphere. It's an oblate spheroid flattened at the poles by about 1/298 of its diameter. Well, actually not 1/298; more like 1/298.3, or 1/298.26, or 1/298.257. Even that last figure isn't entirely correct, because the Earth's equatorial diameter is a smidge longer in one direction (longitude 14 degrees) than 90 degrees away. And the Earth isn't really an ellipsoid; it has slight bumps and hollows. Each refinement means that all earlier approximations are false, but also that the new value is a significantly better one. And the earlier approximations can still be useful in certain contexts. A spherical earth works just fine for world maps; it's only for small-scale maps where we want to measure locations very accurately that the ellipsoidal shape becomes important.
When we consider the ideas in all domains of knowledge that have proven even minimally valid, and compare them to the range of all the possible ideas that could ever exist, the domain of valid ideas is an infinitesimal point. It is only when we focus on the domain of valid ideas with what amounts to an electron microscope that we see even hints of internal structure at all.
Scientists and philosophers who focus on the tentativeness of science, who view science as a social construct and are fascinated by the role of alternative models have a lot to say that is useful. However, we need to bear in mind always that they are focused on the ultramicroscopic structure of a domain that is itself submicroscopic compared to the universe of palpably false ideas around it. To parody Isaac Newton's famous analogy, they are playing with pebbles on the beach while the great ocean of untruth lies undiscovered (indeed its very existence unsuspected) all about them.
In dealing with non-scientists who may be far outside the realm of ideas that are valid by even the most charitable definition, it's clear that the first order of business is to show them where the strike zone is. Descriptions of science that focus on tentativeness, social constructs and alternative models are utterly premature at this stage. Worse yet, they are positively misleading. If a description of science creates the impression that it's permissible to remain in the domain of invalid ideas, that description is false, regardless of how valid it might be in the ultrafine structure realm.
The analogy above is similar to what we find in a famous short story by Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel. The story involves an incomprehensibly vast universe of hexagonal cells, each containing bookcases which are believed to hold every possible permutation of characters. All the books are identical in format and size. Hidden in these cells are useful books, but as Borges' narrator states:
for every sensible line of straightforward statement, there are leagues of senseless cacophonies, verbal jumbles and incoherences.
On the other hand:
every copy is unique, irreplaceable, but (since the Library is total) there are always several hundred thousand imperfect facsimiles: works which differ only in a letter or a comma.
The imperfect copies correspond to the non-trivially false ideas in science. Indeed, the closest copies wouldn't even be false because the errors would be easily correctible or insignificant - if a copy spelled "the" as "tje" would anyone even notice or care?. At some point a copy would become sufficiently corrupted that its meaning would be ambiguous and it wouldn't be immediately clear which interpretation was valid. Beyond those books would be myriads that were trivially false; that stated that Thomas Edison discovered America or Christopher Columbus walked on the moon or that herds of walruses once roamed the plains. Beyond even those would be a vast (but finite) number that made no sense at all. Indeed, the figures specified by Borges (four walls per cell with shelves, five shelves per wall, 35 books per shelf, 410 pages each, 40 lines per page, 80 characters per line, 25 characters) imply that each book contains 1,312,000 characters. Each character can have one of 25 values, so the total number of possible books is 251,312,000 (2 x 101,834,097) or inconceivably more than the number of atoms in the universe. Since the books are discrete, not only is their number finite, but even if the library were infinite, the books would be countably infinite. There are infinitely more points on a line an inch long than there would be books in this infinite library.
(Just for fun, each hexagon contains 4 x 5 x 35 = 700 books, so the number of cells is 2.8 x 101,834,094. If hexagons are five meters in diameter and two meters high, they occupy 65 cubic meters apiece, or a grand total of 1.9 x 101,834,096 cubic meters. The library, if it were a cube, would be 2.7 x 10611,365 meters on a side, or 2.8 x 10611,352 light years or 2.1 x 10611,342 times the size of the visible universe. This number is so huge that scaling up from a single room to the size of the universe makes only a tiny difference in the exponent. Then you wonder where the paper came from to make the books, and why the library doesn't collapse under its own gravity.)
The universe of pseudoscientific nonsense is obviously far smaller than Borges' library, since people who spout utter gibberish are generally ignored if not locked up. But Borges' story illustrates the point that the domain of meaningful content is insignificant compared to the domain of nonsense.
Many scientists reject the idea that science finds truth. They prefer to speak of the validity of ideas, and reserve the term truth for philosophical constructs. But consider:
Thus, many scientists want to take a plain term like truth and reserve it only for some level of certainty that can never be attained in practice and that some scientists think can never be attained even in principle. At the same time we are deprived of a term to denote ideas that have survived such rigorous scrutiny that their validity seems secure beyond any reasonable doubt.
It makes far more sense to use the term "truth" in its commonsense definition, to denote ideas that are valid beyond any reasonable doubt and which have proven so useful that, even if further refinements occur, the ideas will still be useful approximations or heuristic devices. Kepler's Laws are going on 400 years old; when they were developed it was widely believed that one could determine what theology was absolutely true and that it was justifiable to force others to conform. It was also universally believed that slavery was morally acceptable. Kepler's Laws have endured; its theological and philosophical contemporaries have not. Although there are many fine corrections to Kepler's Laws that are necessary for the most accurate predictions of planetary motions, Kepler's Laws are still employed in most astronomical desktop computer programs. We are justified in saying that Kepler's Laws are "true" in any reasonable sense of the term.
But this definition of "truth" means that occasionally an idea will be labeled as "true" and later discovered to be false.. Correct. So what? Show me a definition of "truth" that hasn't occasionally turned out to be false.
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But one of the best parts about El Casal is that it is much more than a cultural study program. Through both the internships and the homestays, each Casaler is given the opportunity to actively participate in the modern Barcelonan culture. So along with greater knowledge of Catalán Romanesque architecture, Almodóvar films, and the present subjunctive, each student brings away memories of unforgettable relationships. I spent many of my afternoons volunteering at a cerebral palsy center. All the afternoons I walked with Mabel, the 20-something afflicted with this condition, all the dinners--including the one I cut up and spooned to Carlos as the only guest on his 33rd birthday--and all the smiles I learned to interpret from María Angeles mean that those are people I will never, ever, forget.
And the homestay, oh the homestay! Who would have thought that an 18-year old Ohio girl would end up living with two slightly crazy older women in their quirky apartment full of good cooking smells every night (along with sounds of Spanish "Who Wants to be a Millionaire"), the occasional four-hour poker game, and the knitting lessons (because, yes, I did learn how to knit) to the soundtrack of Tom Jones, Leonard Cohen, and Frank Sinatra? Or that that same gap-year-girl would have such a blast and would end up learning more about being an independent woman/ experimental eater/ adaptable house mate from those two Catalanas who took me under their substantial wings than I ever expected to learn from any two people, especially in only four months?
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Like his short tenure in a WWE faction, William Regal's new book, Walking a Golden Mile, is decidedly Un-American. This isn't to say that it is anti-American; instead the book resists the urge to dumb it down for the U.S. audience.
Full of British terms and slang and references to comedians and shows from the telly known only to the most hardcore Britophile, Walking a Golden Mile, written with Neil Chandler, is both a jolly entertaining read and a terrifying descent into one man's battles with drug addiction and alcohol.
To say the least, in his 37 years, Darren Matthews (aka William Regal, Steven Regal) has gone through a lot.
He starts the reader off right at the bottom in the Prologue, explaining how he absolutely ruined a family Christmas in England in 1998, just after he'd signed with the WWF. "And it was exhausting, staggering around Blackpool trying to catch up with my old friends," Regal writes. "Buying wraps of speed -- amphetamine sulphate -- seemed to be the only way to keep going." Shortly thereafter, he was in rehab, attempting to get his life together.
More of the harrowing tales of fighting his demons, questioning the medical profession and trying to regain his life follow in the book, but further along.
Walking a Golden Mile returns to a linear timeline for the first chapter, taking us through his early days as Darren Matthews, breaking into wrestling in England and his first opportunities to go abroad on the Continent and improve at his new craft. He draws vivid images of some of the blokes he worked with there, and tries his best to explain how the British pro wrestling circuit worked in its day.
In September 1991, Regal got an invite to tryout for the WWF, but it would be in WCW shortly thereafter where he'd make his name known to a larger audience as Lord Steven Regal. His stories of working out of Atlanta, with bookers Bill Watts and Ole Anderson are good, but often leave one wanting more detail. It's not that his career is glossed over, because it isn't. Instead, Regal takes the high road and never really slams anybody, and doesn't dish out dirt. At times, it feels like he's actually kissing up to recent-day powerbroker Triple H, whom he mentored in WCW with the first run of the Blue Bloods.
Sure, there are funny stories and some good insight. His view on the WCW European tour where Arn Anderson and Sid Vicious ended up fighting with scissors is especially good reading, with some great Nasty Boys tales from the "B" bus. He talks about his forgettable second run in WCW, where he was relegated to working WCW Saturday Night, booked by Jimmy Hart, while ignored by Nitro and Thunder, which were booked by Vince Russo.
But given that he's still in the business, this isn't a tell-all, except with his dependency problems. Regal leaves no stone unturned and is completely open with his drug and alcohol problems, and the issues it created with family, friends and co-workers. He blames no one but himself, and offers thanks to those people who helped him out of his deep hole.
Simply put, you will never look at the character William Regal the same way after reading this book, and you will have a much greater appreciation for both the trials and tribulations of being on the road, and the pain that these athletes endure in order to entertain.
Though this is a WWE book, his career in the 'Fed really only makes up a minor portion of the book, which is somewhat appropriate given how long he has been wrestling. He talks about the bad -- The Man's Man gimmick, which he hated -- and the good, like his associations with the Un-Americans (especially his teaming with Lance Storm) and Eugene (Nick Dinsmore). Personally, I wanted more on the mysterious Tajiri, but 'twas not to be.
For all the good in the book, it is somewhat ruined by the lame layout. Like the style of recent WWE books from their imprint, it's full of black-and-white photos and countless pages that are just pullout quotes. So don't be fooled by the 320-page count; it's bulked up by at least 70 pages. Then there are the Union Jacks with pullout quotes on them scattered throughout, which totally throw the reader off, especially when, for some daft reason, every so often a paragraph starts with an almost identical, larger font as the pullouts.
Maybe it's one author standing up for another, but I would liked to have seen some sort of acknowledgement, like a brief bio on the flap or at the back of the book, of his co-writer Neil Chandler. One would have to assume he was someone Regal knew to be able to open up so completely.
And, while it's a common theme for my reviews, why no index? The flipside to that, however, is the inclusion of a Glossary, which Regal introduces in pompous, heel-style. It hankers back to his days trying to make a better man out of Alabama's Bobby Eaton in WCW: "It has come to my attention that many of my American fans unfortunately have difficulty speaking the Queen's English. In order to continue my education of the American people, for which I know they are very grateful, here is a guide to some of the terms, phrases, people and places referred to in the book."
But getting back to the Britishness of this book, members of the Dominion of Canada should have little trouble with the terminology, but our American friends, well, let us know how it goes, y'all. The Glossary could really come in helpful.
At first thought, Greg Oliver can't believe that William Regal left out meeting Mr. Oliver at the NWA 50th Anniversary show in October 1998, where Regal battled NWA champ Dan Severn in the main event. But upon further reflection, given how forgettable Mr. Oliver can be and how many drugs he was on during this period, it's not a surprise. Oliver is the producer of SLAM! Wrestling and can be emailed at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Lipscomb men's cross country squad finished seventh at the Atlantic Sun Championships last season. Head coach Bill Taylor thinks that with the returning experience the Bisons are primed to compete for the top spot.
"We've got two sophomores and two freshmen who all have experience running at Lipscomb along with three fifth-year seniors who are returning after redshirting last season," Taylor said.
The three seniors, Isaiah Greer, Geoff Musick and Tim Mueller, all return to the squad after sitting out last season for various reasons. Taylor is looking at them to provide leadership for the younger runners.
"They are three captains with a ton of experience," Taylor said. "Geoff and Isaiah have both been former All A-Sun competitors. It is nice to get that leadership and experience back. They have all proven they can run in the top group."
A-Sun Freshman of the Year Jared Wingerter returns for his sophomore season along with Daniel Gardner. Grant Stromberg and John Kingstedt will run their inaugural cross country campaigns but have experience with Lipscomb with track and field last spring.
"Grant was here last year but is a freshman because he had an injury in the summer before his freshman year," Taylor said. "He did run very well for us in track. Jared, Daniel and Grant qualified for the USTAF Junior Nationals during track season so they have got some good experience. We are excited about them.
"John ran during the indoor season. All four of those guys have run in the 14s and have some experience here. These are the guys we are looking to help carry us forward."
Also returning from a year ago are Fidel Leon, Ryan Gadsey and Austin Casassa. Leon, a sophomore, ran in the top five for the Bisons while Gadsey was the top finisher at the A-Sun meet for LU with a 22nd place finish. Casassa, a sophomore, ran for a few races but was shut down due to injury.
"Austin was one of the top recruits coming in," Taylor said. "He had to have surgery but all indications are he is much improved. He could be a factor in the group."
The Purple and Gold had a stellar recruiting class that included two top-15 runners in the nation in high school. Juan Gonzalez and Christian Freeman have both competed at the NIKE Cross nationals and have big race experience. But Taylor is quick to point out they are still freshmen.
"You never really know what to expect from freshmen but they are two of the best distance guys in the nation," Taylor said. "It was a stellar signing to get both of those guys but they still have got to run an 8k for the first time and still need to run a 10k for the first time.
"Fortunately we have a good group around them. If they just kind of put themselves in the middle, it will help a ton."
Taylor is also excited about Lipscomb Academy graduate D.A. Lowery.
"We really like what we have seen," Taylor said. "If not this year, in the future he will be a top tier runner. He has the potential to be a big contributor."
Working towards the first A-Sun Championship for the men's side, the Bisons are eager to reach the summit after watching the women win the last two championships.
"They are really proud of the women's team as we are one big family," Taylor said. "With that being said, what is on our walls? Two women's championship posters. What is hanging in the gym? Two women's championship banners. What have the guy's gotten to see? Two ring ceremonies.
"They would like to have their mark too. It is a big motivator and they want to share in the success."
Taylor hopes the leadership from the three seniors will help push for that success.
"They bring the heart and soul of the program," Taylor said. "They have wanted to have success for a long time. They redshirted last year because they knew we were young and would get some seasoning. On top of that, they knew the A-Sun meet would be on our home course.
"When you add in having a legitimate chance at the championship, it is something they have been striving for since they got here. They are fabulous leaders. It will take some work to replace them after this season."
The Bisons begin their stampede to the top on Aug. 30 with a meet on the A-Sun Championship course. The meet hosted by Belmont begins at 4 p.m. at Percey Warner Park.


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WASHINGTON, U.S. - A highly anticipated first Presidential medical checkup has been lined up for U.S. President Donald Trump and questions of whether a mental health checkup would be part of the test are circling around the country.
According to reports, Trump is set to undergo his first physical exam since taking office and the exam will be overseen by Dr. Ronny Jackson, who is a Navy rear admiral who directs the White House medical unit.
The test will be conducted at Walter Reed National Medical Center outside Washington, D.C.
The move, which is set to offer a rare public snapshot of the 71-year-old leader's health.
"I think it's going to go very well," Trump told reporters Thursday. "I'll be very surprised if it doesn't."
Previous information about Trump's health came from his personal physician, Dr. Harold Bornstein.
In 2015, Dr. Bornstein famously declared that Trump would be "the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency."
Later however, he provided a more elaborate account of Trump's medical status, which was unveiledamid much drama during a televised sit-down the then-Presidential candidate had with celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz in September 2016.
So far, it is not clear how much information Trump will share about Friday's work-up.
In an official statement, White House Press secretary Sarah Sanders said Dr Jackson will brief reporters on the results on Tuesday.
She said she expects Trump will be about as forthcoming as his predecessors.
The Previous similar health tests conducted on former Presidents Barack Obama and George Bush summarized their test results and pronounced the leaders healthy and likely to remain so for the duration of their time in office.
However, with the debate on Trumps mental stability to govern the country dominating much of the conversation in Washington and beyond, reports said that a psychiatric evaluation of Trump will, unfortunately not form a post of Fridays test of the very stable genius.
In 2016, Trump's physical examination listed his weight as 267 pounds, which Dr. Oz described as "slightly overweight."
If reports are to be believed, Trump currently gets very little physical exercise and uses a cart during his frequent golf outings.
His diet consists heavily of fast food, red meat and Diet Coke.
Earlier reports revealed that Trump takes a statin to control cholesterol, baby aspirin to prevent heart attacks and Propecia to treat male-pattern baldness and he doesn't smoke or consume alcohol.


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Eternal Sun necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 142 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
Eternal Sun B.V.
Eternal sun supplies large area solar simulators that accurately reproduce sunlight. Our solar simulators allow customers to test f.e. solar panels of any size, non-stop and easily!
International customers operate in the solar energy industry world wide. They are usually organizations that perform tests on solar energy applications. Examples are public or non-profit research centers, commercial research and test institutions, but also manufacturers of solar energy products.
http://www.solyndra.com/ - simple, 'less is more', sleak.
http://gtsolar.com/ - the layout and the subdivision of topics (the colours are ugly however)
http://www.scheutensolar.nl/ - consistent and uniform appearance.
We are a company that is mainly operating B2B. Therefore, the website should be B2B-oriented and in English.
Our topics are:
- Home
- About us (including mission, vision, team)
- Products & services
- News & Events
- References
- Contact us
The homepage should include:
- introduction of our company
- the solar simulator that we can produce and supply.
- the latest news
The content pages should be easy to edit and contain text and pictures.
The website should express the following key words:
- solar energy
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It's kinda an Australian icon (Or New Zealand depending where you are from) and I don't pretend to know whether it originated in Australia or NZ but I know I have been making it since before I was a teenager.....and in fact using this very recipe I'm about to share.
If you have not tried pavlova before it's pretty much a meringue like mixture which is soft on the inside.
This particular pavlova recipe has a crisper thicker more meringue like shell than some which I find good for withstanding lots and lots of topping.
When I bring a pav (that's Pavlova for short just in case you didn't catch on) to my mum's house I usually just make a big one instead of the individual ones I have shown in these pictures. I take it around undecorated and after dinner we decorate it with the cream and passion fruit at the last minute just before serving.
Often we just use fresh fruit like passionfruit, raspberries, blueberries or strawberries on top of cream sweetened with a little sugar and vanilla, but for something a little special I have created a passion fruit curd recipe you can make in the microwave in a few minutes.
and I've also included instructions so you can make some individual push up pop versions at the bottom of the recipe. Cute!
Pavlova makes 10 individual pavlovas
If you would like to make one large pavlova instead just spread all the mixture onto one tray in a circle around 25cm (11") and bake 1 to 1 1/4 hours. Leave in the oven with door ajar to cool.
4 extra large egg whites
1 1/4 cups (265g) caster sugar (US use a gently heaped 1 1/4 cups or 9 1/4 oz of super fine sugar)
1 tsp white vinegar
Preheat oven to 140 C ( F)
Line 2 trays with parchment paper and grease and sprinkle with cornflour
In a large bowl of a stand mixer on medium high speed beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Mix in the sugar about 1/8th of a cup at a time beating well until all the sugar has dissolved before adding the next batch of sugar. This will take about 15 minutes in total. Once all the sugar is incorporated beat in the vinegar
Shape the pavlova into 10 equal mounds about 10cm (4 ") in diameter on the parchment lined trays.
Place the mini pavlovas into the oven and bake for around 25 minutes or until the shell is firm to touch and dry, the pavlova should not be browning (but if it does don't get too stressed it will still taste good).
Allow pavlovas to cool to room temperature, carefully remove from paper and store until needed. You may store for 2 days at room temperature in an airtight container.
When ready to serve top whipped cream and Passion Fruit Curd (recipe follows) or fresh fruit.
Passion Fruit Curd (microwave version) makes just over 1 cup
2 eggs
1 egg yolk
1/3 cup sugar (2 1/2 oz) or 70g
1/3 cup passion fruit pulp (3 oz ) or 85g approx 3 to 4 passion fruit
65g (2 1/4 oz) unsalted butter
In a medium microwave safe bowl mix together the egg, yolk and sugar until combined. Add passion fruit and butter and heat in the microwave at 50% (medium) heat for 1 minute, remove from microwave and mix.
Return to microwave and heat for another minute at 50% (medium) heat and once again remove and mix with whisk.
Continue to heat and mix another 3 times (5 minutes total) until the mixture is thick and coats the back of a spoon.
Pop into a clean jar and refrigerate overnight until needed. Will keep up to 5 days in fridge.
and now for something a bit different..........
Pavlova Push Up Pops makes about 12
If you want something a bit different and have a batch of plastic push up pops sitting around doing nothing you can make Pavlova Push Up Pops. I picked up my push up pops and the see through stand I use in the pictures from Popular Treats in Australia. Apparently they are reusable :)
Pavlova mixture
Passion Fruit curd
300ml cream
12 raspberries
Cookie cutter 4.5cm (1 3/4")
12 push up pops
2 Piping bags
12 raspberries
Mix up the Pavlova mixture as per recipe and then shape the uncooked mixture into a rectangle around 30cm X 22cm (12" X 9") on a greased, corn flour (corn starch) dusted lined tray.
Bake for around 30 minutes. Allow to cool top with another piece of parchment paper and then carefully place a cutting board on top and flip the whole thing over. Remove the parchment paper that the pavlova was baked on.
Using a round cookie cutter cut out 24 round shapes and set aside until needed.
Whip up 300ml cream and place in a piping bag.
Put the passion fruit curd in another piping bag
Place one of the pavlova round into the bottom of the push up pop. Then carefully pipe some passionfruit curd into the push up pop, then some cream. Pop in another pavlova round, more passion fruit curd, swirl a dollop of cream on top and top with a raspberry.
Best served immediately, otherwise store in the fridge for up to a couple of hours.
What - you say you don't have any push up pops around. That's ok, you can just use mini shot glasses for a similar effect. Just find a cookie cutter to match your glass size :)
Just a tip everyone that ribbon is stuck on with double sided tape
no way would the spoon hold up otherwise.
Thanks for reading, if you love my cooking you might like to check out my book Sweets on a Stick. It's a cookbook that includes recipes for all types of Sweets on a Stick, from pies to cakpops, cookies to fruit and candy - all on a stick. The recipes are kid friendly. It's a US release for measurements and ingredients although it does have a conversion table in the back for metric. Available here at Amazon:


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Pittsburgh Conference
Pittsburgh Area MUFON Conference
October 13 – 14, 2012
Westmoreland Community College
145 Pavillion Lane
Youngwood, PA 15697
Saturday, Oct 13th
5 speakers (Stan Gordon, John Ventre, Richard Lang, Dr.Joseph Marra and Travis Walton) plus dinner with keynote speaker
Sunday, Oct 14th
4 speakers (Karyn Dolan, Richard Dolan, John Ventre and Antonio Huneeus)
Full Package w/dinner-$70
Saturday Speakers Only-25.00.
Sunday Speakers Only-$22.00
Saturday Night Dinner-$28.00
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Posted 28 September 2012 - 08:55 AM
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Posted 29 September 2012 - 11:00 AM
Have fun those who get to go. That's the weekend before my vacation.
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results." Albert Einstein
I've been hit by mrsspookypants
Posted 29 September 2012 - 11:12 AM
I recently had a nice chat with Stan Gordon at the Mothman Festival, lol. I really wish I could go to this, but my October schedule is PACKED! Everyone wants an investigation near Halloween, and we've got events, tours, and media stuff too. Blah....maybe next year. Pittsburg is not that far of a drive for me.
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edmoninc necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 161 diseños de 43 diseñadores freelance.
Jackson Hole Cookie Company, JHCookie.com, JacksonHoleCookie.com
We are located in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Currently we have over 3 million visitors a year come through Jackson Hole. We want to sell them cookies!!
Bull moose head shaped shortbread cookies to be exact. Similar to the Honolulu Cookie Company that sell cookies shaped like a pineapple, with ours being a basic outine of a bull moose head. We are looking for rustic, western, contemporary designs to be marketed on collectable cookie tins and boxed in stackable tiers.
Our goal is to have a basic line for everyday tourist to take back as souvenirs and a discerning line of tins and glass cookie jars for the collectors and specialty gift purchasers.
Jackson Hole, Wy is located in route to Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park, this why we have 3 million visitors a year. People enjoy purchasing souvenirs to send home or take back as gifts. What gift is more versatile and simple than cookies in a souvenir package?
NOTE: Please see the cartoon moose by Brad Fitzpatrick, in my uploads, this is an EXAMPLE of the mascot we want behind the name and logo, not this exact moose. Something cartoonish, whether it be a moose, cookies, cookie jar or whatever... a silhoutte, outline etc.
The freedom is yours: open to creative new ideas, something simple and clean to remember. A logo that can be marketed to stand alone and be recognized as the identity of the company and product. We lean towards copper and bronze colors to exemplify rustic and western, but we are open to all ideas. ***Logo must be able to support a full national branding campaign.
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Life Of a FrOG
By John Huffman
JMU First Year Orientation Guides perform the FrOG Dance. Photo by Seth Binsted for JMU Technology and Design.
Coming to college can be a scary time full of questions: Where do I live? What will I eat? What will my friends be like and, oh yeah, where will my classes be? Thankfully, first year students at JMU do not have to find the answers to all of those questions alone.
First years at JMU have FrOGs (First Year Orientation Guides) to help them make the transition to college life. Each first year living on campus is part of a group led by a FrOG. The FrOGs are not just there to answer questions; they are there to act as a social catalyst, providing icebreakers and making sure that everyone understands they are a part of a community.
Junior Michele Mannino decided to become a FrOG this year and recently participated in 1781 August Orientation. She remembers her move to Harrisonburg from New Jersey. It is partially because of a positive experience with her own FrOGs that she decided to participate this year. "I didn't know a single person," she says, "but my FrOGs came in and immediately told us 'Hey, we're getting dinner!' It was my first meal on campus, and I wasn't eating alone."
Mannino believes that little touches like that are an important part of the transition to JMU. She hopes to maintain the relationships she found as a FrOG, "Not just the first years, but also other FrOGs." She believes that being a FrOG helped her meet a lot of people and expand her leadership skills.
She had fun, too. Mannino's favorite part of Orientation week was the "FrOG dance," a tradition at orientation: Everyone is seated together in the convocation center, the speaker takes the podium, and then music starts. The FrOGs assemble and perform a choreographed dance number - a great welcome to JMU.
As she found out, being a FrOG is not just about Orientation. "It's first year orientation guide," Mannino says "not first week." That means that her job is not over yet. She looks forward to being there for her first years throughout their entire transition to JMU.
Check out this year's FrOG dance on the DukeDogTV YouTube channel.
Published: Thursday, September 20, 2012
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Cisco Bug: CSCut46530 - MARCH 2015 OpenSSL Vulnerabilities
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Symptom: This product includes a version of OpenSSL that is affected by the vulnerability identified by the Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVE) IDs: CVE-2015-0286, CVE-2015-0287, CVE-2015-0289, CVE-2015-0292, CVE-2015-0293, CVE-2015-0209, CVE-2015-0288 This bug has been opened to address the potential impact on this product. Conditions: Exposure is not configuration dependent.
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KFYO Presents Championship Bull Riding – Here's Your Presale Code
KFYO is proud to present Championship Bull Riding in Lubbock at 8PM on February 2nd at the City Bank Coliseum. The CBR is celebrating their 11th anniversary and fans of bull riding can expect the biggest and best event from some of the best riders in the world.
Presale tickets for the CBR West Texas Showdown in Lubbock on February 2nd go on sale Friday morning (12/14) at 10am. Presale will run through Sunday (December, 16th) at 11:59pm.
Your Championship Bull Riding presale code is: CBR.
You can buy your presale tickets online through Select-A-Seat.
Tickets will go on sale to the public on Monday, December 17th at 10AM online or at any Select-A-Seat location.
Date: February 2nd
Venue: City Bank Coliseum
Time: Doors at 7PM and Event at 8PM
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Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) products and brands recently earned 14 awards at the World Dairy Expo Championship Dairy Product Contest.
This comprehensive national contest includes a broad spectrum of dairy products, making it the only judging contest of its kind in North America. The Dairy Product Contest is held in conjunction with the World Dairy Expo.
"We are proud to see our employees' commitment to quality production earn well-deserved recognition," said Mark Korsmeyer, executive vice president of DFA and president of DFA's Global Dairy Products Group. "It is because of these dedicated workers that we are able to achieve high honors at such a well-respected industry event. Our employees take great pride in what they do and it shows in the quality products they produce."
Winning companies are afforded the opportunity to promote and market their products as "the best of the best" in North America. All product category winners (except fluid milk classes, whipping cream, nonfat dry milk and whey products) will be auctioned at the World Dairy Expo on October 2, 2012.
Awards were presented for the following DFA brands and products:
First Place — Provolone (Turlock, Calif.)
First Place — Queso Fresco Mexicano (Houston)
First Place — Demineralized Whey (Monett, Mo.)
Second Place — Provolone (Turlock, Calif.)
Second Place — Borden Cheese Deluxe American Slices (Plymouth, Wis.)
Second Place — Panela Fresca (Houston)
Second Place — Salted Whipped Butter (Winnsboro, Texas)
Second Place — Kemps 2% Premium Chocolate Milk (Cedarburg, Wis.)
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Second Place — Kemps 4% Chive Cottage Cheese (Cedarburg, Wis.)
Second Place — Kemps Raspberry Sherbet (Cedarburg, Wis.)
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Photos: From the shadow of war, a legacy of resistance
Photos: From the shadow of war, a legacy of resistance
"My father tried to help people. . . . He just could not see people suffering because they were Jewish, or because they are against Hitler," said Christoph von Dohnanyi of his father's resistance work during World War II.
The conductor's father was a key member of the German resistance. Pictured, a self-portrait his father, Hans, sketched in a German prison in 1943, two years before he was executed.
"No Ordinary Men" is a wrenching chronicle of Christoph's parents' story, providing a rare glimpse into a seminal early chapter in the life of one of today's most distinguished conductors.
Hans and his wife, Christine, in 1927.
Christoph being held by his father, Hans, alongside his sister, Barbara, and brother, Klaus, in 1939.
"In those days," Dohnanyi recalled, "we thought even if you are maybe inclining to be an artist or go into music, the most important thing is to build your country up again." Pictured, Christoph in Munich in 1950.


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KIEV, Ukraine - The chances of ending the violence that has convulsed the Ukrainian capital are high, a spokeswoman for a top opposition leader said late Thursday after a meeting with the president.
Olha Lappo, a spokeswoman for Arseniy Yatsenyuk, made the statement on his Facebook page Thursday after an hours-long meeting with President Viktor Yanukovych. That came after opposition leaders gave a Thursday evening deadline to make concessions or face renewed clashes.
Lappo did not provide details, but the assessment appeared to be the first sign of progress in resolving the two-month crisis that is threatening to spread well beyond Kiev.
However, some protesters were resistant Thursday night. Opposition leader Vitali Klitschko, one of those who met with Yanukovych, went to the site of clashes to try to persuade demonstrators to hold to an uneasy truce, but was booed and some cried "Shame!"
The demonstrators again set aflame barricades of tires that had been quenched when opposition leaders offered the deadline.
The clash site is a few hundred yards away from the protester tent camp on Independence Square, where around-the-clock demonstrations have been held since early December.
At least two people were killed by gunfire at the clash site on Wednesday. Demonstrators had pelted riot police with barrages of stones and set police buses on fire, while the officers responded with rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades.
Enraged protesters stormed government offices in three western Ukraine cities Thursday, forcing one governor to write a letter of resignation, as demonstrations intensified outside Kiev.
The president called a special session of parliament next week to discuss the tensions, telling the parliament speaker: "The situation demands an urgent settlement." But there was no indication that the move represented a compromise, since the president's backers hold a majority of seats.
The protests began after Yanukovych turned away from closer ties with the European Union in favor of getting a bailout loan from Russia. They turned violent this week after he pushed through harsh anti-protest laws, rejecting protesters' demands that he resign and call new elections.
Support for Yanukovych is virtually non-existent in western Ukraine and most residents want closer ties to the 28-nation EU.
In Lviv, a city in near the Polish border 280 miles west of Kiev, hundreds of activists burst Thursday into the office of regional governor Oleh Salo, a Yanukovych appointee, shouting "Revolution!" and singing Christmas carols.
After surrounding him and forcing him to sign a resignation letter, an activist ripped it out of Salo's hands and lifted it up to the cheers and applause of the crowd. Salo later retracted his signature, saying he had been coerced.
Meanwhile, hundreds of protesters smashed windows, broke doors and stormed into the governor's office in the city of Rivne, shouting "Down with the gang!" - a common reference to Yanukovych's government. Once inside, they sang the national anthem.
Angry crowds also besieged government offices in other western regions.
Meanwhile, anger spread after a video was released online appearing to show police abusing and humiliating a naked protester in what looked like a location close to the site of the Kiev clashes.
In the video, a young man, his body covered in multiple bruises, wearing nothing but socks, is made to stand on the snow in freezing temperatures, while a policeman punches him in the head and others force him to pose for photos.
The Interior Ministry issued a statement, apologizing "for the impermissible actions of people wearing police uniforms" and launched an investigation into the incident.
The protests have been centered on Kiev's main square, where demonstrators have defended a large tent camp for nearly two months. On Wednesday, riot police moved to dismantle barricades erected next to a government district nearby and two people were fatally shot in the clashes.
The opposition has blamed the deaths on authorities, but Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Thursday that the two men's wounds were caused by hunting rifles, which the police do not possess. The Interior Ministry said that the people could have been killed in order to escalate the crisis.
The opposition maintains that as many as five people died in Wednesday's clashes, but say they have no evidence as the bodies were removed by authorities.
The Interior Ministry said Thursday that 73 people have been detained, 52 of whom are being investigated for "mass riots" - a new criminal charge that carries a prison sentence of up to eight years.
Reaction from the West and neighboring Russia has been mixed.
The United States has revoked the visas of Ukrainian officials linked to violence and threatened more sanctions. On Thursday, it welcomed Yanukovych's face-to-face talks with the opposition as a "necessary first step toward resolving this crisis."
EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Thursday that if the situation in Ukraine does not stabilize, the EU "would assess possible consequences in its relationship." Barroso also said he had received assurances from Yanukovych that the Ukrainian leader did not foresee the need to impose a state of emergency.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her nation doesn't think this is the time to consider sanctions against the Ukrainian government but added that it must comply "with its obligations to secure fundamental democratic rights."
Russia, in turn, accused the West of meddling in Ukraine's affairs.
"We feel regret and indignation about the obvious foreign interference in the developments in Kiev," Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda.


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The Marine Corps Is Getting Soft???!!!
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I am here to see what other marines think. Especially the opinion of Marines who have been in a long time and have specifically seen the changes in our Corps over time. I went to boot camp in 2007 and it was easy. I mean when i come home and say that i thought the hardest part of bootcamp was homesickness, i think thats a problem. My cousin who enlisted in 2000 says boot camp sucked was extremely hard and he got ****ed up pretty much. So you can see the difference. In my bootcamp we were the last company to say kill. As some officer decided Kill was politically incorrect and decided it should no longer be said. Then they introduced a no-cursing policy. Also they changed the training back to third phase. So during the crucible marine corps recruits will no longer use molle packs(main packs) they will use day packs(assault packs) because the higher ups feel they dont have enough time to train in the humps for them to handle a full main pack up the reaper. Who gives a crap. Those recruits should just have to deal with the pain and rigours of it. I did. I didnt have enough time to train either. Out of nowhere we would we humping 5 miles with 70 pds of gear. I dealt with it. Besides all this bootcamp is just plain ole getting soft. Every time a new marine checks in with me. THey are showing less and less respect. No regard for authority. Acting relaxed in front of higher ups/officers/SNCO's. They are losign the pride that comes with the rigours of bootcamp and turning out half ass in my opinion. When you are utterly destroyed and make it through you pride yourself 1o times more than accomplishing a cake-walk.


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For the Sundays in June, I will be featuring some of the things my dad learned from his dad, my grandfather.
Some Things I Know or Learned About My Dad…. by Jim Eiswerth
My dad said, my grandfather, Edward Charles Eiswerth, worked at a foundry there but with the hard times of the Great Depression they moved back to central Pennsylvania where they had other family members. Dad was still a small boy then. My grandfather, Edward, and my grandmother Catherine rented a farm from relatives in the Bastress area of Lycoming County. So my dad really grew up on a farm that had chickens, pigs, cows, and work horses to till the fields. They never owned a tractor.
My dad always had pet dogs while he grew up. 'Tip' was one of his favorites. The dogs were never allowed in the house. When dad was about 10-12 years old, his father gave him a Remington pump 22 rifle, which he still has today. Anyway, dad and his pet dogs became pretty good hunters. Dad also made box traps out of scrap wood to catch rabbits in the winter, but occasionally a skunk or opossum were found in one of his box traps. The family always ate the rabbits and squirrels that dad shot.
Crows were always a problem on the farm. They would eat out of the corn silo and sit on the barn roof. Dad often loaded up the 22 rifle and shot at the crows. Although he got lots of them, he also admitted that he put many hole in the metal barn roof too. But over time he got better and better became a really good shot.
One of the most interesting pets that dad had was a pig. One of the farm sows had a big litter of piglets and one was very small – the runt. His mom was worried that the little runt wasn't going to make it, so she brought it into the house where she and dad cared for it. Well it survived and became my dad's pet, 'Sailor'. Sailor followed my dad around wherever he went. Sailor wasn't allowed in the house as he got bigger, but picked a spot by the front porch steps to sleep. Needless to say Sailor got big fast. Dad could even get on his back. The hard part of this story is that being on a farm, butchering season happened every fall. So when fall came, Sailor was to be butchered along with several other pigs. The butchering party of old German men made my dad get his 22 rifle and shoot Sailor for butchering. That was really tough, but that is life on a farm. After that in the following years, dad , 'Joey' as they called him, always got the job of shooting the pigs between the eyes at the butchering parties that travelled from one farm to the next each fall season.
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"March's budget provides one of the biggest opportunities to tackle climate change in the UK," the Virgin tycoon says. "We must ensure it encourages investment rather than creates uncertainty and delays further serious investment in the renewable sector. As a country we need to be better prepared to deal with rising energy prices."
The so-called '102 letter' is conceived partly as a response to the actions of 101 backbenchers who last month wrote to the Prime Minister attacking wind power, and a call to the Treasury to re-establish a stable investment platform for renewable energy as a driver of the recovery out of the recession.
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His angle is energy security. "Britain needs to become energy independent once more, and with the North Sea all but depleted of fossil fuels we need to look to other forms of indigenous energy. We have them in abundance, in the wind the sun and the sea, enough to power our country many times over.
"While Britain remains dependent on global energy markets, our bills can only go one way: upwards."
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In the last 12 months roughly £30 of our household energy bills has been spent on green energy support. Of this, the Renewables Obligation (RO) added just £15.15 to the annual energy bill of the United Kingdom's 26.3 million households, with onshore wind power adding only £4.68, according to Ofgem's recently published RO annual report for 2010/11 and Ecotricity's analysis.
The RO is the main support mechanism for encouraging the growth of renewable energy in the UK.
Meanwhile, the rising cost of imported gas added around £120 to energy bills last year, according to Ofgem's Electricity and Gas Supply Market Report.
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The letter says that "as entrepreneurs, investors, economists, scientists, engineers, energy providers, community builders and Members of Parliaments, we are increasingly concerned about the lack of clarity around the future of government support for land-based renewables, such as solar, wind and biogas."
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The letter, also signed by financier Ben Goldsmith, calls on the new National Planning Policy Framework to "recognise the huge value of this approach", and for planning inspectors to take into account "our collective needs, both local and national", in building our future low carbon economy.
"In wind alone, the UK has more than 40% of Europe's renewable energy resources – enough to power up our economy three to four times over, generate exports, and provide the tools for communities and entrepreneurs to do their job," they write.
Juliet Davenport, the CEO of Good Energy, another new entrant into the energy market, calls for "a more inclusive approach to the way we invest in our energy infrastructure" to make it "a vehicle for both economic and social investment in communities, towns and regions across the UK".
"If there is no stable platform for investment in renewables, we cannot expect to generate the backing or scale of innovation needed to make a sustainable difference," adds Howard Johns, Chair of the Solar Trade Association.
The letter follows one from former directors of Friends of the Earth sent on Tuesday, slamming Britain's support for nuclear power, owned by foreign companies.
Mr Cameron is not short of advice: authors and campaigners George Monbiot, Stephen Tindale, Fred Pearce, Michael Hanlon and Mark Lynas have also written to him this week in support of nuclear power, which they claim cannot be ignored.
They point out that Germany and Japan, in their attempts to do without nuclear power, are increasing their carbon emissions.
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The Chancellor will be addressing some of these issues on Tuesday; amongst his policy tools for supporting all low carbon forms of energy is the proposed feed-in tariffs with contracts for difference, as set out in the Government's Electricity Market Reform White Paper.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle college student Jon Meis, who has shied away from the spotlight since he ended a campus shooting by pepper-spraying the gunman last week, issued a written statement Monday saying it's hard to accept his status as a hero.
Jon Meis, a 22-year-old dean's list senior, was working as a building monitor at Seattle Pacific University on Thursday when the gunman walked into Otto Miller Hall and began firing a shotgun. A 19-year-old student was killed and two others injured, and authorities say the carnage almost certainly would have continued had Meis not acted by spraying and tackling the shooter while he reloaded.
Meis and his family have declined media requests for interviews since the shooting, with his family going as far as to request that his high school not grant interviews about him. But on Monday, he issued a written statement through Seattle Pacific, a small, Christian college in a leafy neighborhood north of downtown Seattle.
"I know that I am being hailed as a hero, and as many people have suggested I find this hard to accept," he wrote. "I am indeed a quiet and private individual; while I have imagined what it would be like to save a life I never believed I would be put in such a situation. It touches me truly and deeply to read online that parents are telling their children about me and telling them that real heroes do exist."
Nevertheless, he added: "What I find most difficult about this situation is the devastating reality that a hero cannot come without tragedy. In the midst of this attention, we cannot ignore that a life was taken from us, ruthlessly and without justification or cause. Others were badly injured, and many more will carry this event with them the rest of their lives."
Meis said he is not ready to forgive the gunman, whom police have identified as Aaron Ybarra, 26, from the north Seattle suburb of Mountlake Terrace. Ybarra is being held without bail; his lawyer says he's sorry about the shooting and has a long history of mental problems.
Meis wrote that when he came face to face with the attacker, "he was not a faceless monster, but a very sad and troubled young man."
"I truly desire that he will find the grace of God and the forgiveness of our community," he wrote.
Meis also said he has been overwhelmed by generosity and support. An online campaign has raised nearly $50,000 for him, and supporters bought items on a wedding registry for Meis and his fiancee.
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Monday, 2 May 2011
A Royal Wedding, a village, and a party with a potent (Courvoisier) punch
Place all ingredients in a good-sized village hall. Mix well. Stand back, and let the fun commence...
the goodies arrive...
... along with the top-secret recipe...
dress code...
the hall gets a makeover...
... and the newly-weds put in a guest appearance. Honest.
the stage is set...
... while, backstage, things are looking promising...
... and there's time for a couple of trial cups...
... which seem to go down pretty well...
... and why stop at a cup or two when you can have an entire bottle?
thankfully, a dashing manservant is on hand to make sure the punch is shared around...
the village hall quickly starts filling up...
... and our immaculate MC announces the arrival of....
... YES! The fish and chip van! Cue frenzied queueing!
... and tough decisions. Ketchup, tartare sauce, or both?
'Can I nick your chips?'
No time to digest, as the disco cranks up...
... Camilla puts in an appearance...
... and there's yet another chance for an all-important photoshoot...
... or a spot of dodgy Dad* dancing... (*not mine)
... before, all too soon, the night comes to a glorious, riotous end, marked by that well-known hymn to sobriety, YMCA.
And I'm pleased to say that there are rumours that we'll be doing it all over again soon. Diamond Jubilee, anyone? BRING IT ON.
12 comments:
- things we make said...
How absolutely fabulous! I know how hard it can be to get a village involved in an event, but that one looks just perfect. Quite jealous. Looks like everyone had a great time.
- 3 May 2011 at 10:59
- Su-Lin said...
Brilliant! I love how the wedding brought the whole village together!
- 3 May 2011 at 11:40
- Cakelaw said...
Looks like it was fun! Ininderstand that quite a few people here had parties - though sadly not my crew.
- 4 May 2011 at 14:05
- Gin and Crumpets said...
Excellent bunting, just excellent.
- 4 May 2011 at 21:20
- Sarah said...
Looks like one heck of a good time!
- 5 May 2011 at 16:41
- Foodycat said...
Your village sounds so brilliant - that looks like so much fun! Was anyone still standing after that punch?
- 8 May 2011 at 12:48
- aforkfulofspaghetti said...
Claire - it was, and they did ;)
Su-Lin - yes, it certainly did
Cakelaw - this particular village is always up for a party, thankfully! The least excuse... ;)
Gin and Crumpets - thought you'd approve
Sarah - it was :)
Foodycat - it was quite alarming how quickly that punch went down... It, er, certainly got the party going!
- 9 May 2011 at 08:42
- Nic said...
It looks like you have really settled in! The punch looks like a killer!!! (But what a wonderful way to go, lol)
- 26 May 2011 at 22:17
- Geralyn Supple said...
Looked like a barrel of fun. But I would never sully an exception drink like Courvoisier with lemonade. But that's just me.
- 1 August 2011 at 05:36
- Fae said...
So it looks like Dover has a soul, afterall.
- 23 October 2011 at 03:39
- DeeAZ said...
Using Courvoisier for punch seems like a waste of good brandy to me! but I'm sure is greatly improve upon the lemonade.
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inspiration from a year in Italy - Loulies
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Food52 Review: This recipe is originally from Joyce Goldstein's Cucina Ebraica: Flavors of the Italian Jewish Kitchen. We liked how you keep the figs whole, adding just a sliver of lemon zest, much as you might slip garlic in lamb, and uses rapid heat and a fragrant syrup (rum, sugar, vanilla bean) to quickly soften the fruit and glaze it. By the time the figs come out of the pan, they look laquered, collapsed but still intact -- and wonderfully fragrant. We ate the figs over Greek yogurt, but a dollop of mascarpone or ricotta would have done the job, too. If you have some leftover, we think it makes a perfectly acceptable breakfast: figs, yogurt and a little kick of rum. Which reminds us, the rum in the recipe is optional. In our minds, it is not! - A&M —The Editors
Serves: 6-8
pounds ripe figs, washed
Lemon zest strips, 1-inch long and 1/4-inch wide (pith removed)
cups sugar
Rum, as needed (optional)
Vanilla Bean
- Place whole figs in a deep, wide saucepan. Cut a small slit at the top of each fruit and insert a lemon zest strip into each slit. Sprinkle sugar over figs. Add water, or part water/part rum, to a depth of 1/4-inch in the pan. Place a vanilla bean in the center of the pan.
- Place over high heat and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and simmer, uncovered, until sugar caramelizes, 15-20 minutes. Serve warm.
- Note: Pears can be prepared the same way: peel, halve, and core, then poach in simple syrup or wine with strips of lemon zest and vanilla bean. They take longer to cook than the figs.
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