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Déjà Vu - Will History Repeat Itself?
If you've been following the USA's exciting run to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, then you know the scenarios in which head coach Bob Bradley's troops can qualify on Saturday. If you don't, then wipe off that red, white and blue face paint, put away your American flag cape and break your vuvuzela in half. Or…read on.
The USA will qualify for South Africa 2010 on Saturday with a win in Honduras, a tie coupled with a Costa Rica tie or loss at home against Trinidad & Tobago, or a Costa Rica loss. Given the difficulty for a visiting team to get one point in Costa Rica, never mind three, the fact that T & T are eliminated already, and that Honduras has not lost at home in 2010 qualifying, the pundits will think it unlikely that the U.S. will qualify this weekend.
But that, as we say, is why they play the games. For proof of that, let's rewind…
Back in 2001, the U.S. faced a similarly implausible scenario that had parallels to this year, one that also involved our friends from the two-island nation in the Caribbean getting a result on the road. Here's how it went down:
Going into Matchday 9 on Oct. 7, 2001, the U.S. was in fourth place in the group. Costa Rica sat in first with 19 points, Honduras 14, Mexico 14 and the U.S. 13. In order for the U.S. to advance that day:
- The U.S. had to beat Jamaica at Foxboro Stadium outside of Boston
- Trinidad had to beat Honduras in Honduras AND Mexico and Costa Rica had to draw (in this scenario, Mexico and Honduras would both have 14 points. They would play each other in the last game, which meant only one team could catch the USA if three points were earned against the Reggae Boyz)
At the time, T & T had just one point in qualifying and were long since eliminated. In the U.S game, energetic forward Joe-Max Moore scored to give the U.S. a 1-0 lead in just the 4th minute. Ten minutes later, Jamaica equalized on a goal by James Lawrence. The game progressed for nearly an hour before Landon Donovan was taken down in the penalty area and Moore converted the spot kick in the 81st minute, leading to a 2-1 victory. Meantime in Honduras, a goal by Stern John in the 61st minute stunned the home side, and miraculously T & T held on for the 1-0 win. Costa Rica and Mexico played to a 0-0 tie, and once word of the results filtered through to Boston, the U.S. celebrated wildly on the field in Foxboro.
Surely, there are many moving parts here, not to mention the final match of qualifying on Oct. 14 against Costa Rica at RFK Stadium in which the U.S. could also earn its berth, but there are 90 minutes to be played in two Central American countries on Saturday, the outcomes of which could produce a glorious case of déjà vu for the Americans. Stay tuned…

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The Feds Are in Denial About Marijuana
In light of recent referendums in the U.S. states of Colorado and Washington which have legalized marijuana, could the drug war be headed for a serious meltdown? Such a notion would have been unthinkable just a short while ago, but there is no denying that America is in the midst of cultural change. Even though the federal authorities continue to prohibit marijuana, baby boomers and a more youthful and progressive electorate seems to be headed in the opposite direction and could force a serious rethinking of the authorities' heretofore disastrous and misplaced approach to narcotics, which has resulted in the incarceration of 500,000 people at staggering financial cost. If that was not enough, the drug war has also racked up racially biased arrests, absorbed police time and money, and enriched Mexican drug lords.
Truckin' to Treason: The Hot Air of Secession
A white Ford F-250 pick-up rumbled through town, a Confederate rebel flag on a pole behind the cab; on the rear bumper were a pro-life and three Anti-Obama stickers, two of which could not be revealed in a family newspaper.
It wasn't a lone wolf protest; several cars, trucks, and homes in the area sport similar flags and messages. During the summer, when a 4-wheel Jamboree and a Monster Truck rally are held at the local fairgrounds, attracting thousands from a multi-state area, many trucks fly rebel flags, insignia, and political statements. During the annual eight-day fair at the end of September, vendors sell all kinds of items with the Confederate battle flag, most of them made overseas.
The rebels say they are fierce independents. But, being a "rebel" doesn't mean you can complain about paying taxes, while also denying climate change and evolution. Nevertheless, those flying rebel flags, although they may be disenchanted and alienated from the mainstream, are still part of traditional mainstream America.
Violating the Constitution by the Religious Right: We Are Not a Christian Nation
Roman Catholic Bishop Daniel Jenky, of Peoria, Illinois, ordered all parish priests in his diocese to read a letter to their congregations condemning Barack Obama. The letter, to be read the weekend before the election, declared that Obama and the Democrat-controlled US Senate had launched an "assault upon our religious freedom."
He wasn't the only priest who used the pulpit to attack the President. Bishop David Lauren of Green Bay, Wisconsin, told his congregations that voting for Obama and other candidates who were pro-choice or who believed in embryonic stem cell research or gay marriage could put their "soul in jeopardy." Others, primarily from evangelical Protestant faiths, were even more adamant in their religious intolerance, declaring that voting for Obama would definitely condemn their souls to Hell.
Obama in the First Debate: Terrible Performance or Political Rope-a-Dope?
The general consensus from the right, left and middle (as those terms are defined in the U.S., not world, sense) was that Obama really messed up in the first 2012 Presidential debate. After all, Romney lied and uttered falsehoods about his positions and the President's and his own records, all over the place (1, 2, 3). (By the way, there is a difference between the two: when you tell a lie you know that you aren't telling the truth. When you utter a falsehood you may or may not know that it is.) And Obama didn't come slamming back at him. He certainly could have. He's got the style, he is a law-school graduate (Harvard no less), and he didn't need an overwhelming assortment of facts to nail Mitt to the post. Just a few would have done the job. So why didn't he?
Chris Matthews went almost apoplectic over Obama's generally non-responsive mode. Ed Schultz got depressed. My colleague William Rivers Pitt laid into Obama in his characteristically strong but literary way (4). A good friend of mine, retired teacher Ellen Diamond, put it this way:
With 19 States Deprived of Exit Polls, the Blind are Even Blinder
According to the "father of exit polling," the late Warren Mitofsky, exit polls are intended for academic analysis of voting patterns and opinions (e.g., what did 25 to 34 year-old white males regard as the most important issue?) and not as any sort of check on the validity of the votecounts. Unless, of course, you are anywhere else on Earth (other than America), where exit polls are routinely employed, often with the sanction of the government of the United States, as just such a check mechanism, and have frequently led to official calls for electoral investigations and indeed electoral re-dos.
In America, where votecounts in competitive and significant races consistently come out to the right of the exit polls (it is called the "red shift"), the media machine has waved off the exit polls, concluding, without so much as a quick peek under the hood of the vote-counting computers, that the exit polls must be "off" because they "oversample Democrats," conclusive evidence to the contrary notwithstanding. We're the Beacon Of Democracy, dammit--we don't need no stinkin exit polls! We're "one nation under God" so our elections must be honest!
Venezuela: Bolivarian Revolution on the Line in Crucial Election
With so much blanket media coverage being provided to the presidential debates in the U.S., it is easy to lose sight of other important international events. On Sunday, voters will go to the polls in Venezuela to decide the fate of Hugo Chavez's so-called Bolivarian Revolution which has been fourteen years in the making. Though the maverick Venezuelan politician has survived many political challenges in the past, and even seems to have overcome his battle with cancer for the time being, Chavez faces a formidable challenger in the form of Henrique Capriles Randonski.
WikiLeaks: Paraguay's "Quasi-Coup" Has the Smell of Oil
In the wake of Paraguay's suspicious impeachment of President Fernando Lugo, which observers have likened to a kind of "quasi-coup," some may wonder whether underhanded corporate forces may have played a role in the political crisis. Such suspicions were heightened recently when the new de facto regime led by Federico Franco, Lugo's former conservative Vice President, inked a deal with Texas-based PetroVictory/Crescent Global Oil to open up the remote Chaco region to petroleum exploration.
Supporters of Lugo's highly dubious ouster claim that Crescent could help to ease Paraguay's dependence on foreign oil. Richard González, Crescent's CEO, announced that the company would invest $10 million in the Chaco and start exploratory drilling within the next few months. To be sure, there's no proof or "smoking gun" that Crescent had anything to do with the political shakeup in Paraguay, yet the timing of the deal raises eyebrows.
Hucka-Veep: Can the Christian Right Get Mike Huckabee On the Ticket?
If you are paying any attention to Mitt Romney's choice for his running mate – and we'd all be better off spending our time doing something else – you certainly understand that there are contenders (shortlisters) and pretenders (long shots).
The Devil Still Has Us Death-Dancing at Fukushima
The molten cores at Units 1, 2 & 3 have threatened all life on Earth. The flood of liquid radiation has poisoned the Pacific. Fukushima's cesium and other airborne emissions have already dwarfed Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and all nuclear explosions including Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Tea Party Movement Planning for the Long Haul
For many involved with the Tea Party, the days of rallies at the Mall in Washington, demonstrations in cities around the nation, donning colonial outfits, and breaking up meetings of congressional representatives is over. Instead, institutionalization is on the agenda. As Matt Kibbe, the director of FreedomWorks, one of the most powerful and well-funded Tea Party organizations, said in a recent radio interview: "We're out-Saul Alinskying the left."


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babyreba wrote:Like MIchelle, I've used corrections in my training over the years, always subscribed to "balanced" training methods. But when I did actually meet Button and realized that he wasn't right, I knew that he could not be handled like I would handle a well-adjusted dog. He was too fragile. I dove headfirst into learning to handle him using only positive methods and now I am really glad I did. I learned a ton. There was a time, before I had ever had to live with a truly fearful dog, that I would never correct a fearful response, I never would have thought twice about teaching the obdience commands then correcting for choosing not to respond to them, which is what most balanced training is based on.
furever_pit wrote: But then again I have not kept or dealt long term with a truly fearful dog - if they don't have the materials to work the program, they don't stay.
babyreba wrote:yeah, that's how i'd always handled dogs before. and i subscribed to a "least force necessary to get the job done" rule. but handling a dog that needed more than just confidence building but a complete rethinking of everything i was accustomed to doing was a game changer. i know that the theory behind a lot of training is that, even when it gets uncomfortable or difficult, you work through the problem and the dog comes out better off in the end. the message for the dog is that, no matter what's going on in the environment, the dog should learn to make the decision that results in the least amount of stress/correction ... and a lot of dogs do, and they end up being OK because their constitution/temperament is strong enough to handle that kind of stress and pressure and conflict ... but i've definitely seen enough dogs that were either handled so very badly or just had such poor temperaments now that i can see how, exactly, bad handling or bad decision making on the part of an owner has exacerbated a problem so badly that the dog has become dangerous.
while i do see "results" with some adept handlers and fearful dogs using corrections, a lot of what i see is suppression of behavior, at least in the presence of the corrective device, and not actual resolution of the problem. and part of the underlying, deep-down problem that people with dogs that are truly temperamentally troubled, I think, is that they don't realize that the dogs will never be truly "normal" like well-adjusted, easy dogs. But that's what people want/expect. some dogs with milder problems may actually improve significantly, but a lot of dogs don't or won't be "fixed." they are what they are, and living with them is a combination of behavior modification, counter-conditioning, perception modification and management. people who aren't willing to live with all of that seem to accept, maybe even prefer, suppression of behavior. because they want absence of the bad things in their dog's temperament, even if they don't realize that a lot of times, underneath the "calm, submissive" exterior, there's still a terrified, on-edge, frustrated animal just beneath the veneer ... and when that dog is poorly managed (as in the situation Michelle described) or things change, the dog may actually do something "he's never done before." and that may be true (the he's never done that before part), but the reality is, anyone who's really in tune with what that dog's had going on and knows anything about how a dog acts and responds to things should have been able to predict that this could very well have happened, sooner or later.
Integrating corrections into this kind of behavioral rehab is just beyond most handler's abilities.
that woman michelle was dealing with probably had NO IDEA that her actions prior to letting that dog off its leash led to exactly what happened in the scenario described.
DemoDick wrote:Michelle is being too kind. Connor won't let you reach into his crate and take his dinner away. He growls and I don't doubt he would bite. As soon as I saw this behavior I recognized the potential need to get food away from him so I just called him out. Problem solved.
I know a lot of people would insist on pestering the crap out of the dog to "train" him to tolerate people messing with his food no matter what because dogs should tolerate anything and everything, etc., but I think that's pretty silly. If you try and mess with *my* dinner I will take exception so I understand where he's coming from. No need to provoke him and get bit proving a non-point, just leave him alone and let him eat.
Demo Dick
I wasn't criticizing what you did with your dog.
babyreba wrote:oh, i totally didn't take it that way at all. i was just saying what i said in case it seemed like i was one of those people who liked to do things just to prove something ... i've known a lot of people who say asinine things like, "i can take ANYTHING away from ANY of my dogs ANY time i want because they must KNOW that i am GOD and i own EVERYTHING and god forbid my dog act like a dog and take umbrance with my badassery!" i hate that so incredibly much.
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HUM 185 - Film Analysis, Theory & Criticism
This writing-intensive course examines foundational concepts and methodologies in Cinema Studies, introducing students to a number of theoretical approaches central to the study of film, including semiotics, psychoanalysis, and Cultural Studies. Our focus is not film appreciation but rather the analysis of film as a language and "reading" film texts for their meanings. Since film is a system of representation, the study of gender, sexuality, race and class will be crucial to our interpretive practice throughout. Prerequisite: One course in English, Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, Philosophy, or Art History. Instructor: Geller. TTh 1-2:20/ M 7-10pm screenings
HUM 290 - Film Genres
This course will examine the theory, criticism, and history of film genre. We will take a comparative approach, analyzing the stylistic and narrative conventions of specific genres, and their relationship to culture, race, sexuality, gender and national identity. We will discuss various film genres, including the musical, screwball comedy, melodrama, and film noir. The objective of this course is to explore the question of genre through a range of theoretical rubrics (structuralism, psychoanalysis, feminism and ideological criticism) to address both the social implications and aesthetic properties of cinema. This course requires weekly screenings (usually two films per week) along with the assigned class reading. Prerequisite: HUM 185 or permission of instructor. Geller. TTh 2:30-3:50; M 7-10 pm screenings
AMS 245 - Shaping American Identities in Moving Images
This course explores representations of American identities and the binaries generated by these explorations including here/there, foreign/local, abroad/ home, American/Other. Films and readings will highlight the theme of amalgamation as an alchemic process (the melting pot) shaping Americanness and its association with characteristics such as respectability, recognition and respect. Prerequisite: one 100-level course in Humanities or Social Studies. Gibel Mevorach. MW 1-3:50
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This course offers an exploration of the intersection of culture and revolution in Russia, from its beginning in the 1900s to the present day. In the first part of the course, students will consider the vibrant literary and artistic world of the Russian Avant-Garde; the cataclysmic change ushered in by the Russian Revolution; and the establishment of the totalitarian doctrine of Socialist Realism. The second part of the course will explore the Soviet experience - Stalinism, World War II, the Thaw, ad the Cold War, as reflected in Russian aesthetic traditions. The final part of the course will consider the culture of post-Soviet Russia, which emerged in the revolution of 1991 and which has seen the rise of authoritarianism and Putin's regime - and a new culture of dissent with the appearance of oppositional voices like those of Pussy Riot and other. Prerequisites: one 100-level course in the Humanities division. Instructor: Armstrong. MWF 9-9:50
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This course provides an introduction to postwar Japan through major ideas and social changes that impacted Japanese popular culture. Using cross-disciplinary methodologies drawn from sociology, history, literature and film studies, we will explore critical questions such as center/margin, past/future, and self/other. Readings and screenings will examine the impact of postwar social, economic, and political changes on various groups of people, including corporate workers, youth, women, and ethnic minorities. Instructor: Saito. MW 1-2:20
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1 hit ko is probably one of the most annoying yet best ability that a card can have. 1 hit ko means that a card can dealt a mixn of 12 damage to the other player in one round which is most likely a ko if theres no extra life or blockers. ive seen alot of players use cards like Kolos (R) to make 1hko but there is ALOT more cards than that can 1hit too with the help from many others. i created this guild to explain and show you all of the 1hko possibility cards hope it helps you in your future gaming.
standard 1hkos:
three most common 1hko cards are Kinjo (U), Lost Hog (C), and Kolos (R). Kinjo (U) and Lost Hog (C) needs clan bonus to make a 1hko while Kolos (R) is the only one who can 1hko along without the clan bonus. Lost Hog (C) is the only one who can 1hko even against soa. most skilled players can avoid 1hko from these cards so theres no need for me to say more.
alternative 1hkos:
alternative 1hkos is based on a more strategic deck building which needs the help from other clans cards. its a very unusual stratege but most players will not be expected it to happen and thats where you will get them.
the first one is No Nam (C). he seems to be a 7/7 even with clan bonus and fury he can still only deal 11 damag. this is where the helpers come in. Timber (R) from the leaders with a ablilty of team damag +1 which makes every card on his team gets one extra damag. and when partnered with No Nam (C) BOO theres another 1hko killer. only a few people will manage to avoid it but most will just be stunned.
pillz are like vitamins, they're good to be used, but assigning a character too many of those will probably( if not definetely) make you lose the battle. DEpending on opponents cards, I as rule start the game with a high powered card like Erpeto and assign it a min 4pillz (it means I have 8 pillz remaining), so even in the case I lose the first round I'll have enough force to comeback! Actually, the 4pillz per round strategy is pretty much common in here, as far as I had seen, but this doesn't make it less predictable and the game less funny.
osaeres04 Senior the british bulldogs Tuesday 01/07/2008, 14:14
Lennox is the cheapest One hit KO
(*with timber)
Gilgamesh_kh Titan Tuesday 01/07/2008, 23:43
Geanrial cr
PL_LP Hero Pinoy Locals Wednesday 02/07/2008, 10:49
Is lennox counted because i did a 1hko 1 time
Waffle God Guru Thursday 10/07/2008, 21:15
First of all....wow thats alot of typing but overall its a pretty good post, im not quite sure if you mentioned lennox from the bangers as a 1hko, with his ability,bonus, furry, and timber he can hit 12 (i know its easily stopped and hard to get but no one...i mean no one will predict it). IMPORTANT! When you are starting the round and you have a 1hko in your hand its always best to use 1 pill(z) on a different mid-high strengthed card (only if your 1hko os pretty obvius, like kolos) becasue your oppenent will believe that your bluffing and will use 1 pill(Z) on one of his cards in order to secure an easy win. The only time you should use your 1hko card in your hand in the first round is if your oppenent goes first and DOESN'T
Waffle God Guru Friday 11/07/2008, 11:48
Play a damage reducer
Legacy PH Senior Face Everything And Rejoice Saturday 12/07/2008, 08:34
Good supporter for common 1 hit kos and CR too...
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Farron Cousins | November 17, 2011
By Farron Cousins • Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 14:15
When it comes to climate change denial, a new study shows that the folks at Fox News are leading the pack. Through politically-charged news segments and commentary, Fox News personalities are helping spread misinformation about climate change while convincing their viewers that scientists are torn on the issue.
The International Journal of Press/Politics has published a new study titled "Climate on Cable: The Nature and Impact of Global Warming Coverage on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC," [PDF] which details the ways in which the major American news outlets are reporting stories on climate change.
From the report:
National surveys reveal that many Americans do not believe that scientists are in agreement over this issue. More troubling, the number of Americans who believe that global warming is happening and that it is a result of human activities has declined in recent years: In April 2008, 71 percent of Americans perceived solid evidence for global warming, relative to only 57 percent in October 2009. And while President Obama has pledged that passing legis- lation to curb pollution that contributes to global warming is a priority of his admin- istration, in January 2009, Americans ranked global warming last in a list of twenty policy issues that they felt were important for the president and Congress to address. These surveys also point to stark partisan divides in global warming perceptions, with Democrats far more likely to accept the evidence for the human causes of global warming and to consider environmental protection a policy priority than Republicans.
The views that many Americans have towards climate change are clearly reflected in the cable news arena. Fox News, sadly, has the highest ratings of any other cable news organization, and the study shows that their viewers are for more likely to believe that manmade climate change isn't happening. More from the study:
Of the three networks, Fox News was simultaneously the least likely to be accepting and the most likely to be dismissive of climate change. Nearly 60 percent of Fox News broadcasts were dismissive of climate change, whereas less than 20 percent were accepting of climate change. On the other hand, more than 70 percent of CNN and MSNBC broadcasts were accepting of climate change. Not a single MSNBC broadcast took a dismissive tone toward climate change and just 7 percent of CNN broadcasts did so.
The fact is that at least 97% of credible scientists believe that climate change is not only real, but that it is the result of human activity. But that fact hasn't prevented Fox News from reporting that there is no scientific consensus on whether or not climate change is actually happening.
And, as Media Matters for America pointed out recently, this isn't just biased news coverage or the opinions of Fox anchors: The network's climate change denial is part of a broad agenda by network management to prevent the truth from reaching their viewers:
As an internal email revealed, Fox's Washington managing editor Bill Sammon directed Fox journalists in December 2009 to cast doubt on the basic fact that the planet has warmed.
That same month, Fox News was aggressively promoting the false claim that the so-called "Climategate" controversy showed scientists "doctoring" data – a claim that the network continues to repeat to this day.
Fox has also tried to manufacture a number of pseudo-scandals by distorting climate science research, misrepresenting or disavowing the temperature record, and seizing on any opportunity to distract from what the National Research Council has called "a strong, credible body of evidence" supporting manmade climate change.
The study also found that Fox hosted "a higher ratio of climate change doubters to believers as interview guests." These guests often don't know what they're talking about but are presented as climate experts. And Fox, a network that has made an annual tradition out of mocking global warming during winter storms, reveals its bias through both what it chooses to cover, and what it chooses to ignore.
This is quickly becoming a systemic issue with Fox News. As the new report points out, Fox's coverage has actually become more aggressive in recent years in their efforts to paint climate change as a hoax. Even as former skeptics of climate change are coming forward admitting that they were wrong on the issue, Fox continues to push their misinformation campaign on the American public - a public that is eating this news up, bringing a false sense of security to millions who no longer believe that climate change is something that we need to worry about.
RickJames replied on Permalink
Muller never changed sides or
Muller never changed sides or anything else. Attempting to make something out of this disinformation helps you with your attack on fox but it's also misleading which I think is your complaint about fox. Birds of a feather?
"It is ironic if some people treat me as a traitor, since I was never a skeptic – only a scientific skeptic," he said in a recent email exchange with The Huffington Post. "Some people called me a skeptic in my best-seller 'Physics for Future Presidents' I had drawn attention to the numerous scientific errors in the movie 'An Inconvenient Truth.' But I never felt that pointing out mistakes qualified me to be called a climate skeptic."
Muller quoted from huffpo - home of the lefties
The problem with your comment
The problem with your comment is that it shows you have no clue what a skeptic is.
It's the mainstream scientists who agree on the mountain of evidence who are the skeptics. It's largely how science works. Muller was something of a true skeptic. What you mean by skeptic is a denier, who never changes his mind no matter how much evidence is shown, and no matter how many times skeptic arguments are disproven. Your "skepticism is based in political ideology, like most deniers. The others base theirs on religious ideology. A true skeptic bases his on science, and is willing to change his mind when proven wrong.
Here's what another true skeptic has to say.
from the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. The author is Mark Boslough, a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories
"Denialists have attempted to call the science into question by writing articles that include fabricated data. They've improperly graphed data using tricks to hide evidence that contradicts their beliefs. They chronically misrepresent the careful published work of scientists, distorting all logic and meaning in an organized misinformation campaign. To an uncritical media and gullible non-scientists, this ongoing conflict has had the intended effect: it gives the appearance of a scientific controversy and seems to contradict climate researchers who have stated that the scientific debate over the reality of human-caused climate change is over (statements that have been distorted by denialists to imply the ridiculous claim that in all respects the science is settled)."
As for Fox; I would wager that nothing that's ever been said about climate change on Fox is true, or at least not misleading.
All of Murdock's news outlets spread disinformation on climate change - News of the World, The Austrailian, Wall Street Journal, FOX, you name it.
RickJames replied on Permalink
My argument was based on
My argument was based on countering the misleading thought that Muller had made some great change in his understanding of climate science. That red herring was presented as evidence that there is some sort of shift going on. Muller has made no changes. It was a misrepresentation of fact.
He always believed in the science and he made some criticisms of mistakes in publications and Al Gorres movie. He didn't walk back any of his criticisms and he never questioned the basic science in the first place.
Don't use Muller as an example of a skeptic seeing the light. There was no change.
By the way I have a perfectly good understanding of what a scientific skeptic is and I'm not one of those. I am a cynic. I take a critical view of things I read on the internet.
Try to keep up.
I don't really like the way you said that...
…but I think you are right.
I got the impression that Muller was bait for the Koches.
Specifically, Bill Gates got the ball rolling for BEST, and talked Koch into funding it. But if you look closely, Muller's daughter (?) probably worked with the Gates on third world issues.
RickJames replied on Permalink
I'm sure you're right about
I'm sure you're right about the tone. Mostly was just a response to the charge that I don't have a clue about what a skeptic is.
Getting talked down to isn't much fun and it gets a like response.
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
Name misspelled:
Faux Neuz
RickJames replied on Permalink
but you approve of the other
but you approve of the other news outfits because they don't have an agenda right?
fair and balanced every one.
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
All graded D on down by me.
TV news turns out not to be worth the time watching.
Actual news comes from othr media sources.
troydonscott replied on Permalink
Well now we can basically cry
Well now we can basically cry about people not listening to our cases and call them deniers and all kinds of other things. But just for a minute step back and ask yourself why. Maybe it is because too many of you don't present the right evidence. Take a scientist that is well liked among you makes a statement and this gets thrown into the case but in the courtroom your evidence is torn to shreds by the defense. I feel that if you are trying to make a case and want a strong case then present evidence that is factual, evidence that would be allowed in the courtroom. Then if you are going to present something that is a lie or greatly exaggerated then make sure that there will not be anybody that can prove it wrong. If in a courtroom you are clearly busted out as lying or intentionally exaggerating any facts and figures then your whole testimony is worthless. Phil asked a while back if I worked in the oil and gas industry and that I comment a lot on fracking. Well that is just because while reading these articles I read things, such as facts and figures and just say "that ain't right". So then when reading article written about something that I really don't know about I just have to assume that facts and figures here will be exaggerated, inflated, or untruthful just the same. I have read articles where someone or some group has went to some hearing or committee meeting to present evidence against the fracking or such and came back with their tails between their legs. Well probably so if they use stuff like published in many of these articles. It draws uneducated people on board for your cause. But going up against industry experts they will rip you apart. If per se I were an elected official and found myself having to make decisions about issues whatever they be they would not be based on listening to one side but rather both sides and a rational decision made based on the evidence. I would hope and a congressman, a judge, a community official or a juror, would hold to this. So ask before writing, will this hold up as evidence? Can any evidence be produced to prove this wrong? Follow these ethics and you may get more people to believe in the cause. Other than the truth and you will be a fraud.
RalphNader replied on Permalink
One important distinction is that 97% of Climate scientists surveryed. Belief in CAGW by scientistsin other more reputable fields is certainly a mixed bag.
Who says that?
Ralph, for you to be right, I'd be able to go to my hair dresser to get my car repaired, the day after she graduated from plumbing school. Life don't work that way.
I don't really care what other scientists say. They are ignorant. Look at their qualifications, and look at their experience, and look at their papers. You need a minimum of 7 years education post secondary, and then you have to produce papers and actually do work in a field before you get a real grasp of it.
Armchair quarterbacking by the likes of Freeman Dyson is crazy. He knows nothing.
Here's what Dyson's son says Freeman was doing instead of studying climate science (building rockets powered by detonating nuclear bombs);
Here's the man Dyson thinks is wrong (I'm reasonably certain he can't build a rocket powered by nuclear bomb explosions);
I think you are an imposter.
The real Ralph Nader
would not post as you do.
Using such a sock puppet is just sick.
Umm... I wanted to post as Fred Singer...
Maybe if I chose the name 'Fraud Singer'…
RickJames replied on Permalink
I think I'll be Glen Beck
I think I'll be Glen Beck
lara jorgensen replied on Permalink
You mean that he's not the
You mean that he's not the real Ralph Nader? I'm shocked, lol!
lara jorgensen replied on Permalink
Somewhat off topic....
The situation in Australia continues to amaze me, businesses are now forbiden to blame any price changes on the new Carbon Tax. Green police will enforce this decree with fines up to $1.1 million.
"The situation in Australia
"The situation in Australia continues to amaze me, businesses are now forbiden to blame any price changes on the new Carbon Tax."
Are you saying that price gouging & profiteering does not exist?


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Thursday, October 25, 2007
Ruby Iterators And The Law Of Demeter
Here's a simple Ruby collection iteration:
collection.each {|element| do_something.with(element)}
Of course this comes straight from Smalltalk:
Collection select: [:each | each doSomething]
Compare this to a typical JavaScript iteration idiom, which has very close parallels in Java, C, and many other languages:
for (i = 0 ; i < collection.length ; i++) {do_something_with(collection[i])}
Obviously as a Rubyist I'm going to say the Ruby/Smalltalk approach is much cleaner than the classic Algol-style syntax, which tangles the implementation of iteration into the act of iterating itself. But syntax doesn't matter here. It's what syntax gives you that matters. In this case, what matters is the habit of mind this syntax trains you in.
Nobody sits at their desk going, hmm, Law of Demeter. Should I break it? Or obey it? The value is in the fact that once an object conforms to the Law of Demeter, you can start to think of it as self-contained. Which means that you don't think about it at all - you think with it.
In practical terms, Ruby programmers generally only step through collections sequentially, using integers, when the problem space involves integers. If the problem space requires you to go through an array, you just say "go through an array" and let the Array handle the details. It's kind of like subliminal training to always write clean code. The more you build the habit of matching problem space to terminology, the cleaner your code gets.
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The Smalltalk code snippet you have there is not equivalent to the Ruby.ReplyDelete
If the Ruby code says:
collection.each {|element| do_something.with(element)}
then, the equivalent Smalltalk should be:
aCollection do: [:each | each doSomething].
The #select: method returns a new collection with all the elements that satisfies the condition specified in the block.
Doh! My bad. That's right.ReplyDelete
There is a Ruby equivalent to original (mistaken) Smalltalk example though:
collection.select {|element| element.matches_criteria?}
My job is with C# and I've gotten very frustrated with collections that don't have the higher-order functions implemented. So much that just last week I wrote this little gem..ReplyDelete
public static IEnumerable<R> Map<T, R>(IEnumerable<T> source, Converter<T, R> converter) {
foreach(T item in source)
yield return converter(item);
public static T Find<T>(IEnumerable<T> source, Predicate<T> match) {
foreach (T item in source)
if (match(item))
return item;
return default(T);
There is a similar method in Java:ReplyDelete
for(Objtype obj : aCollection){
I assume C# has a similar construct.
@hardwareguy: for and foreach in Java/C# aren't really the same. They're built-in keywords hard-wired to IEnumerable/IEnumerable (in C#) instead of methods on collection objects.ReplyDelete
In fact, the C# List generic class has a ForEach and some other methods... except that more often than not you have an object that implements one or more collection interfaces, and not an honest List class to use ForEach on.
@hardwareguy: That's similar, but not really the same sort of thing. It's basically equivalent to the Ruby #each or Smalltalk #do: in function, but the difference is the Ruby/Smalltalk versions are methods of the object, not a built-in keyword. The objects themselves know how to perform basic common operations themselves. Consider the #select, I imagine in Java you would do something like:ReplyDelete
CollectionType result = new CollectionType();
for (ObjType obj: aCollection) {
if (obj.matches_criteria) {
Which is a whole different way of thinking about it. And that was the point of the post to begin with.
I don't know Java well enough to know if you can have higher-order functions, but I don't think so. In C# you do this sort of thing like:
aCollection.FindAll(delegate(ObjType obj) {return obj.matches_criteria;});
But most collection types don't actually have these methods available. Also notice that the syntax isn't nearly as expressive as the Ruby/Smalltalk. And, yes, C# has a loop for collections:
foreach (ObjType obj in aCollection) {
IIRC higher-order functions are basically impossible in Java, or at least very very difficult. I do know there's a prominent blogger who went to great lengths to essentially add method_missing to Java but then remained quiet about it instead of blogging his discoveries for some reason (probably perfectionism, i.e., I'm assuming he wasn't satisfied with the implementation).ReplyDelete
These days I'm kinda fuzzy on the latest Java features. I did read a blog post where somebody added Ruby-like iterators to either Java or C#, similar to Brennan's comment. I think this implementation subclassed Array, but don't quote me on that.
Well JavaScript happens to have higher order functions (but people didn't notice until now).ReplyDelete
This week I found that Mozilla JavaScript implements useful iteration methods were you can pass functions to operate on the collection:
filter, forEach, every, map, and some
Then you can easily write:
funtion doSomethig(element){ /*whatever*/}
and then:
Suddenly, JavaScript coolness factor has increased for me :-)
(also, they provide the JS source code, and is small enough to include it if you're using another browser)
I've seen this done elsewhere as well, but that's very cool. especially every() and some(). some() is like an include? that takes a block and every() is likeReplyDelete
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Saturday, 10 September 2011
Jay Gee's Nook - Just a Note
Marci with Rose stamp. There's plenty more La La Land stamps in the JG's Nook Store, I love them all :)
Supplies: cardstock: Canson (deep blue), recycled kraft, white; paper: My Mind's Eye (Stella & Rose); stamps: La La Land Crafts (Marci with Rose); ink: Memento (Tuxedo Black); Copics; Dizzy Doily die: My Favorite Things; sentiment sticker: SRM Stickers; grosgrain ribbon/lace: Kaisercraft; buttons
I combined the SSS125 sketch, with the colours of PDCC98:
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Fabulously coloured and what a great take on the insp. piece.ReplyDelete
Man I need to come and sit with you and learn how to colour like that...another WOW! card from you again this week Chupa! Love it!ReplyDelete
Love the way you pulled those colours in from the inspiration picture Iowna. I think I need you to give me some lessons using my copies :) Love your card.ReplyDelete
Oh she is so sweet Iwona....your colouring is fab...I admire the way you have honed your colouring skills....it is a credit to you....well done!ReplyDelete
Love, love, love your colouring and your card is stunning ... xx AngeReplyDelete
Another cutie Chupa. Love this adorable little girl. The bit of lace peeking out and the buttons are the perfect accents!ReplyDelete
What an adorable card! Fab!ReplyDelete
So cute! Love these colours and your colouring job is spectacular!ReplyDelete
My Goodness this is just Gorgeous Miss Iwona! Your coloring is Fabulous and love how your worked both the sketch and the color inspiration. Your dp's are just perfect and I love the touch of lace! Just a really Darling card! Thanks so much for playing along with us at The Sweet Stop! 8-)ReplyDelete
Woohoo, Marci looks absolutely gorgeous all in blue- coloured to perfection, gorgeous colour combo! :)ReplyDelete
Gorgeous card Chupa! Love the sweet image, the colors... the buttons, doily, lace are all fabulous! Thanks for playing along with us at The Sweet Stop.ReplyDelete
This is adorable!! I love these papers and pretty lace detail. Thank you for joining us at The Sweet Stop. I always love seeing your creations.ReplyDelete
Stupendous coloring of that little girl, Chupa! Boy, I sure would love to see your craft room sometime. I'll bet it's heavenly! THanks for playing with us at THe Play Date CAfe!ReplyDelete
Absolutely adorable! So many gorgeous textures and scrumptious trims and elements! LOVE it! Thanks so much for playing along with us this week at The Play Date Cafe!ReplyDelete
Adorable Chupa! Love all the elements on this card and the coloring on that image is fantastic :) Thanks for playing this week at the Play Date Cafe!ReplyDelete
This is GORGEOUS! Love it!ReplyDelete
GORGEOUS! Your coloring is flawless! Love the color scheme! Thanks for playing along with us at the Sweet Stop this week!ReplyDelete
Your papers are gorgeous!!! Love that ribbon down the side and the bit of lace peeking from the bottom. Thanks so much for playing along at The Play Date Cafe this week.ReplyDelete


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Here is new research that suggests that the more we think more analytically, and less intuitively, the less likely we are to believe in a god. I agree with that; I have said for many years that the best way to promote atheism and discourage religion is the careful and rigorous promotion of logic, reason and critical thinking in the public schools, and use a system of learning (such as the Socratic Method) that requires their use, all the way through public school, so they become habitual and second-nature.
-Scott B.
Analytical thinking erodes belief in God
Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein famously did not believe in a supernatural God, and neither do some scientists today. It now appears there may be a good reason for this: thinking analytically dims supernatural beliefs, apparently by opposing the intuitive thought processes that underpin them.
The vast majority of people believe in a supernatural god or gods, says social psychologist Ara Norenzayan of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Yet there are hundreds of thousands of atheists and agnostics who do not. While scientists have begun to study the psychology of belief, we know little about what causes disbelief.
Humans use two separate cognitive systems for processing information: one that is fast, emotional and intuitive, and another that is slower and more analytical.
The first system innately imputes purpose, personality or mental states to objects, leading to supernatural beliefs. People who rely more on intuitive thinking are more likely to be believers, while the more analytical are less likely. This doesn't necessarily mean analytical thinking causes disbelief, but activating analytical thinking can override the intuitive system – and vice versa. Norenzayan used this to test the causal relationship.
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I recently came across an article on a pop science site (so take it for what it's worth) that said that up to 40% of a person's critical thinking ability might be do to genetics. So that's an interesting statement you made. How do we address those that accept information that fits their preconceived beliefs, but totally discount dis-confirming information? Obviously it can be done, western society came out of the medieval period. But, living in the US today, the task does seem daunting.
Cool, thanks for the article Scott!
Analytical thinkers are more difficult to indoctrinate and less likely to jump to conclusions because, by the nature of their analytical thought, they question more. Therefore, processing people to be more analytical would reduce their propensity to accept by faith and, in this, reduce their propensity to believe in a god. However, it is important to remember that analytical thought is only as valid as the definitions and axioms it is founded in. Accordingly, intuitiveness in the form of requiring that the beginning definitions and axioms be self-evident has its place. For example, the self-evident proposition that nothing all good could want to be worshiped would be a valid axiom and could be used to present the Biblical god concept as self-contradictory. On the other hand, the non-self-evident proposition that we cannot know the mind of a perfect being would leave the Biblical god concept completely in tact. Resultantly, intuition in the form of self-evidentness must be satisfied in the definitions and axioms at the beginning of analytical thinking in order to be confident that the process of analytical thinking leads us to truth.
Agree. If we teach people to think analytically outside of the conflictual context of Religious beliefs, people are less likely to feel threatened as well. It appears that often when I am criticizing a relgious stance, people feel that I am attacking their "group" their "loved ones" rather than attacking the text or the world view/
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The Central Connecticut men's track and field team competed at the UMASS Pre-Conference Meet on Saturday in Amherst, MA. The Blue Devils also finished up competition at the Penn Relays, where they broke a CCSU record in the 4x800 meter relay.
The 4x800m relay team, consisting of senior Mike Waterbury, sophomore Brian Biekert and freshmen Malcolm Connor and Joseph Gioielli, crossed the finish line in 7:38.32 for 13th place out of 31 teams. Waterbury was on the previous record-holding team that set the record of 7:39.31 in 2011.
At UMASS, the Blue Devils were led by sophomore Jordan Watkins who placed fifth in the 110m hurdles with a time of 15.31. Watkins also placed 10th in the 400 meter hurdles with his time of 57.47.
In the 400 meter dash, two Blue Devils earned personal collegiate best times. Sophomore Jamie Tobias placed sixth in the event, crossing the finish line in 50.76. He was followed by junior Chris Savvidou who finished eighth with a time of 51.25.
Also placing in the top ten for Central was freshman John Sudol. He took 10th in the long jump with a new personal best mark of 6.01m and third in the triple jump with a distance of 12.36m.
In the 1,500 meter run, a trio of freshman earned new personal best times. Derek French crossed the finish line in 4:07.31. He was followed by Tyler Raymond in 4:10.54 and Matt Walker in 4:13.17.
Other performances for the Blue Devils at UMASS include sophomore Joey Farrington, who ran the 800m in 1:59.79 and classmate Patrick Hubbell, who crossed the finish line in 2:00.88.
The team finished eighth of eight overall. Click here for complete results.
The Blue Devils will return to action on May 4-5 in West Long Branch, NJ for the NEC Outdoor Track and Field Championships.


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As early afternoon truck traffic on Brooks Road mixed with after-school traffic Friday, Nov. 16, on Elvis Presley Boulevard, a few tourists from the Graceland area mixed with several dozen local government and business leaders at the visitors center at the intersection.
Streetscape improvements on Elvis Presley Boulevard finally kick off.
(Daily News File Photo: Lance Murphey)
If they were expecting another Elvis-centric event the day the Christmas lights were turned on at Graceland, they were surprised.
At the kickoff to long-awaited streetscape improvements to Elvis Presley Boulevard between Brooks and Shelby Drive, the tone was decidedly local and long range.
"For over 30 years, business owners, tourists from all over the world and the residents of the greatest community in Shelby County have endured a transformation of our community to what we see now," said Memphis City Council member Harold Collins, the political force behind the state and local funding for the road and infrastructure improvements. "We also say to the visitors of Memphis that redevelopment is taking place in our core city again."
Collins and the other political and business leaders spoke outside the small visitors center that was an early modest goal of the effort to revitalize Whitehaven.
Collins said there might be some changes down the road, so to speak, for the center.
"As we go forward with the redevelopment of the street … there will be assets along the boulevard that we believe could be used for other opportunities," he said when asked specifically about the visitors center. "We are looking at everything as we go forward. We're not done yet."
The streetscape improvements begin after the funding was secured several times over the years but then shifted to other parts of the city. Collins was wary the same thing would happen as a new round of public hearings began earlier this year, repeating a process that can delay even the most routine state road project for years.
The administration of Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has worked to cut some years off the traditional road project timeline.
The specific improvements will bring a more consistent look to Elvis Presley Boulevard, a U.S. highway that was a major thoroughfare even before Whitehaven was annexed into Memphis in the late 1960s.
Parts of the boulevard haven't changed much at all from the pre-annexation country highway.
"Over the years it's become rutted and worn out just from the heavy truck traffic," City Engineer John Cameron said. "We'll be adding curb and gutter where there is no curb and gutter. One of the key things is we are going to make it more pedestrian friendly by adding sidewalks all the way up and down the road. Right now there are long segments that don't have any sidewalk."
Major intersections like the one at Brooks Road will get stylized crosswalks at the intersections to promote a stronger individual identity for the area.
Most but not all of the utility poles should go over the next few years of work in three phases starting at Brooks and going south.
"We're working to get most of the utilities underground," Cameron said. "At the cross streets there may be utilities. But for the major portion of the road, we're going to be putting utilities either underground or on the back property lines or feeding the users from different directions rather than from the street."
Brooks is more than a gateway to Elvis Presley Boulevard. It is where the hub of the aerotropolis concept – Memphis International Airport – links up with Whitehaven's version of Main Street.
"This is the western anchor to the aerotropolis plan," said Andre Dean, vice president of public policy and community affairs at the Greater Memphis Chamber. "It's going to be huge to the overall strategy. We have a lot of large employers in this corridor. This is not just good for tourism, it's good for industry."
Jack Soden, the CEO of Elvis Presley Enterprises, agreed on the larger impact.
"We've needed it for a good portion of the 30 years since Graceland opened. Even by the mid- to late-80s the exodus has started. Anyway, it's long overdue," Soden said. "Of course, Elvis Presley Boulevard is a gateway to Graceland. … But the fact is it is the gateway for tens of thousand of wonderful residents of Whitehaven. At the heart of it is that."
Not that Graceland's impact is anything less than major on the area and the city as a whole.
Later that day, in throwing the switch on the Christmas lights, Soden and Graceland executives announced the landmark has hit the 18 million mark of visitors who have toured the late entertainer's home since it opened to the public in the early 1980s.
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