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In its first iteration, the OMB Circular did not focus very much on federal agency participation in standards development or even on regulations. Federal procurement was the big focus. Of all agencies, the U.S. Department of Defense had the greatest initial influence on the circular, along with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. But by the 1993 revision, regulatory use and agency participation were emphasized far more, and then with the passage of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act in 1996, the circular was again revised in 1998 and has had growing influence ever since.
So what changes happened that drove the legislation and the revisions of the circular since it was first conceived and which might indicate an increase in federal government participation in the development of standards? Clearly, one factor is that trade now means big business even to small businesses because it's a global marketplace with global supply chains. Everyone is looking for bigger markets, broader markets - domestically and internationally. As a result, standards have to enable not only the production of those goods but also communication among buyers and sellers in different economies. Standards are at the very center of not only the cross-border trade element of business, but all of the economic elements - production, resources, design, testing and so forth - that go into the making and distribution of goods and services around the globe.
So as the trade world expands, how do we ensure that the environment and public health are adequately cared for? The answer to that is going to include both regulations and the participation of regulators in developing standards that help produce those globally traded goods. The OMB Circular language reflects the fact that agencies have the authority to participate and are encouraged to participate.
In 1993, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a statement that said not only are federal employees able to participate in standards development, but that we are able to participate at all levels. It was encouraging to know that we could lead technical committees and serve on boards of directors where policies are made that impact strategic, standards-related goals. Federal agencies have become more aware of their ability to contribute their own expertise and leverage the expertise available in the private sector by participating in standards development organizations.
The EPA wants to be able to interface with standards to coordinate its mission - its mandate for environmental protection - with the needs of industry and others in developing technologies. Within the standards development arena, to have the combined perspective of industry, consumers, nongovernment organizations and academia has become more and more important to EPA, especially in areas such as sustainability, clean technologies, energy usage and efficiency, the built environment, water and others. So our participation in standards development has grown.
OMB has been looking at developments since the last time the circular was revised. One issue revolves around incorporation by reference. Some say that, since a regulation has the impact of law, all information in that regulation, including the referenced standards, should be freely available to the public. This presents a challenge for agencies and ASTM International and other standards developing organizations - to accommodate the needs of the public sector for access to information while at the same time ensuring that intellectual property is protected. The Office of the Federal Register has been petitioned in the last year to require that standards referenced in notices of regulation or final regulations be freely available. In addition to this, OMB is also exploring the impact of the digitization of information on the federal use of standards.
OMB held a workshop last year to address some of these questions with the public sector and is determining whether to revise the circular. As far as I know, at this point OMB has not made any final decisions. I expect we may see more about this in 2013.
The issue of incorporation by reference and free accessibility is a difficult one. On the one hand, it is difficult to argue against the accessibility of something that is referenced in a law. On the other hand, standards developing organizations possess the copyright to these standards.
One of the advantages of having copyrighted information in a document is that you have a source you can go to in order to discover how the content of that document was developed and assess the value and quality of that content. Without that ability, one is less sure of how that information might be useful in a regulation. The fact is that federal agencies such as EPA do not have the ability to develop all of our own standards. We rely on the private sector for the various reasons I mentioned earlier.
When EPA issues a rule for public comment and it has an ASTM standard incorporated into it, which happens quite often, ASTM International makes that standard available on a read-only basis during the public comment period. In addition, ASTM has recently made available all standards referenced in U.S. regulations on a read-only basis. This is a big help for the agency as well as the regulated community and the public.
For regulatory purposes in particular, there is a huge value in knowing that the deliberative consensus process includes the broad array of stakeholders that are necessary to produce a quality standard and to enable the applicability of that standard. It is of value to the regulator to know that the regulated community itself has likely participated in the development of the standard. Given this approach, it's far less likely that we're going to get feedback in the public comment period saying that a standard is too narrow, or that it only serves the interest of a certain sector, or is monopolistic. Any of these things that could hinder the usefulness of a standard within a regulation are reduced dramatically when the consensus process is used.
Sometimes, when there is a need to issue a regulation quickly, and a required standard is under development, it can be difficult to get the standard finished quickly enough within the consensus process. But ASTM does have the ability to accommodate the need for faster turnaround. That is extremely helpful for the agency, as it is for industry.
The value of consensus is that you have a much higher chance of getting the work done right the first time. The accuracy, the quality of it, the chances of it being the right solution, are much higher.
We've already talked about some of the challenges faced by the public-private partnership in standards development. Another challenge is one of discerning the appropriate role of government when it comes to developing standards for national crises or priorities. In establishing its own Subcommittee on Standards, the National Science and Technology Council of the White House has put a marker down for thinking strategically about standards. We are now asking how to determine the federal government's role when systemic concerns such as national security, national energy issues such as smart grid, or cybersecurity arise that require a collaborative and strategic approach. Each of these has a standards component to it.
Are there cases where it would be appropriate for the government to take over the development of standards in a given area? What would be the metrics for that? Are there cases where the government's appropriate role would be a leading one but still within the sphere of private-sector standards developing organizations? These are issues we are actively exploring. Another way to engage would be to determine where industry and other sectors are already involved in standards development in broad areas such as environmental risk assessment and sustainability, for example. In those cases our proper role might be to bring our agencies' views and expertise to the table; perhaps not taking the sole leading role in those instances, but addressing the issue in a way that we can support. And finally, there might be times when private sector standards development might be enough and, while we're interested in the outcome, we do not have to participate.
This is where the challenge is going to be for federal policy - to help federal agencies identify and discern what their roles are so that we leverage and maximize public resources. I see ASTM International as one of the essential connections in the deliberation and communication between government and the private sector.
I would like to recognize the excellent work of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in assisting federal agencies, coordinating across agencies by chairing the Interagency Committee on Standards Policy, and particularly the efforts of NIST director, Patrick Gallagher, Ph.D., in helping to establish the White House Subcommittee on Standards, which is a real boon to the U.S. federal government as well as to industry. The U.S. standards system as a whole and industry have been looking for leadership at the executive level. For those of us in the federal sector, it can be difficult to think about systemic national challenges in terms of needed standards in a strategic way when you have also to think about it primarily in terms of your own agency's mission. Where will that integrated approach occur? With NIST's management of the ICSP and the Subcommittee on Standards, when it comes to national crises and issues, we now have a solid base of cross-agency information sharing, collaboration and idea-building relative to standards that is going up to the executive level; the public and industry can only benefit from this. There's a lot of good information on the ICSP and the subcommittee on the standards.gov website.
The classic perception of sustainability is that it's a coming together of environmental, economic and social issues. One way to think about it is to approach any given situation or challenge, any activity or decision, whether it be in manufacturing or public policy or in healthcare or agriculture or food services, and ask: If I'm going to make a decision, will that decision result in something that improves the interface between these three broad areas? Is it sustainable if I look at it from an environmental perspective? Is it sustainable economically? Is it sustainable for the community that will be involved or impacted? Or am I missing an essential element that will severely handicap one or more of these three "legs"?
And this is where standards are particularly key. Let's say I am going to make a decision on where to build a manufacturing plant, and I know that sustainability is important to my company. The questions I ask myself include: Where is the best location in terms of reducing environmental impacts, preventing pollution, sustaining the environment? What business models and management tools in this chosen location will be sustainable in terms of growth and prosperity for the company, welfare of my employees and the surrounding community? Am I going to be able to meet the requirements of regulations? And what are the tools I can find to help me make the decision? Are there tools for environmental risk assessment? There are. Are there tools for green building products and processes? There are. Are there business management tools and economic incentive tools? There are. These are all found in standards. Standardization communities have to be prepared to assist companies, industries, government agencies and consumers in addressing situational issues holistically, based on principles of sustainability. This will probably require suites of standards. ASTM is already taking this approach and offers this kind of assistance; for example, ASTM has a suite of green meeting standards.
In determining what you need in order to assess the sustainability of any of your decisions, you need to engage the community - the community of people in your company, the community of people in the surrounding area, the community of experts who can give you information. And that is where organizations like ASTM International offer a tremendous advantage, because ASTM is composed of thousands of high-level experts from around the globe who can help you make those decisions.
EPA has a basic mission to protect human health and the environment. We do that through regulatory processes, but also through partnership programs such as WaterSense and ENERGY STAR, where we leverage our resources with those of industry, to envision what sustainability goals we can push for. Some ASTM standards undergird the ENERGY STAR program.
Take the green meetings or green hospitality issue again. There are large hotels that have already undertaken a lot of greening in their processes and operations. When EPA chooses a hotel for a conference, should we look for facilities where there is a focus on sustainability? If we say yes to that as a principle, it's not just EPA making this decision. It means we are already supporting the decisions and goals for greening set by the industry. Which is why all stakeholders - the industry, EPA, customers, suppliers - need to come together in the development of useful, high quality standards that support the greening process and the ability of customers to identify which institutions are working toward that. The same holds true for products. What EPA is looking for in an area like this is not generally standards to put in regulations, but standards that will help push the envelope, which is why agency folks participate in work such as the suite of standards mentioned above.
EPA is interested in contributing our expertise, but we want to involve the public and stakeholders in across-the-board, life-cycle thinking. Our approach is to meet people and organizations where they are and lead them to the extent we can and have expertise to achieve their own vision of how to be sustainable and how to integrate that with their own business model and their interactions with their communities. We are especially in need of standards that will enable data comparisons so that consumers, industry and anyone can readily assess which products and services they are most interested in relative to their own environmental or sustainability goals. So I would say the agency is interested in a range of different standards types.
This has a tremendous value for EPA, particularly in our regulatory work. When we incorporate a standard by reference, it's very important to have access to validation studies, particularly in communicating to the private sector - and the public as a whole - why we've chosen a particular test method and how that test method fits with the purpose of the regulation. Validation helps us show that if the regulated community uses this test method, they can be assured they're in compliance with the testing requirements of the regulation.
Occasionally, rule writers may feel they cannot use a given standard because they don't have the validation data. ASTM is quite flexible in responding to requests from the EPA and other government agencies. If they can make validation data available to us, it can mean the difference between being able to use a standard that would work really well in regulation and not being able to use it.
I am excited, honored and humbled all at once at the privilege of serving as chairman of the ASTM International board of directors. I also want to express my appreciation for the network of people and circumstances that have enabled me to do this. ASTM International has a wonderful, sustaining ethic and culture. The entire team of officers and the ASTM staff are the highest quality of people one could hope to work with. The standards produced by this organization, the expertise that you draw upon from around the world, are very valuable to EPA, to the U.S. public and private sectors, and to the global marketplace.
I'm particularly pleased that 2013 is the Year of the Leader at ASTM. Two themes I'd like to weave through this year are, first, encouraging the mentoring and development of the coming generations of standards professionals. ASTM's leadership program for that is outstanding. Secondly, helping to bring public and private sector leaders into a greater understanding of how voluntary nongovernment consensus standards such as those developed through ASTM International are fundamental tools for achieving regulatory and business goals. We are stronger as a country and a global community when our strategies and visions are as aligned and mutually constructive as possible. As you can tell, I'm really looking forward to this year with ASTM!
Mary C. McKiel, Ph.D., is the standards executive with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C.
At EPA, McKiel directs the agency's implementation of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act and OMB Circular A-119, Federal Participation in the Development and Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards and in Conformity Assessment Activities. She establishes standards-related policies for the agency and aids EPA offices in using voluntary standards and participating in standards developing organizations such as ASTM International. She has been instrumental in assisting EPA offices in using ASTM and other voluntary consensus standards both in rule-making actions as well as in voluntary programs.
McKiel also represents the agency in various domestic and international standards arenas in both the public and private sectors, including the Pacific Area Standards Congress and the United Nations Work Group on Regulatory Practices in Standards. McKiel participates and contributes to government-wide standards and conformity assessment policies along with other federal regulatory, science and technical, consumer and trade agencies. She represents EPA in the Interagency Committee on Standards Policy chaired by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. EPA has honored her with bronze, silver and gold medals for her standards work.
Prior to working at EPA, McKiel was director of quality standards at what was then the Federal Supply Service of the General Services Administration, and for her first five years of public service was an analytical chemist with the then National Archives and Records Services, where she conducted and published original research leading to the production and preservation of archival quality documents. While at the National Archives, McKiel was a member of ASTM Committee D06 on Paper and Paper Products.
McKiel has worked on various ASTM committees for more than 20 years and currently serves on Committees E50 on Environmental Assessment, Risk Management and Corrective Action and E60 on Sustainability. She served three years on the ASTM International board of directors before being elected as vice chairman of the board.
In addition, McKiel is a former vice chairman of the board of the American National Standards Institute, a position she held for eight years. She currently chairs the ANSI ISO Council as well as the Government Member Forum and is an ex-officio member of the ANSI board of directors. She served as vice chair to the U.S. Technical Advisory Group during the development of the ISO 14000 series of standards on environmental management. In 2008, she was awarded the ANSI George S. Wham Leadership Medal for her contributions to standardization. She is also the recipient of the 2010 Leo B. Moore medal from the SES: the Society for Standards Professionals, for achievement, service and contributions in the field of standardization. For more than 10 years McKiel has been a member of both the Management Systems Advisory Council and the UL Environmental and Public Health Council.
McKiel has written about the federal use of nongovernment standards for a wide variety of governmental and private sector publications worldwide and has delivered presentations in person and via television to both national and international audiences.


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FORCE Night at the New Hampshire Fisher Cats Baseball Game
Michelle and Carrie (Boston Coordinators) with the Fisher Cats mascot.
FORCE's Boston outreach group joined the New Hampshire Fisher Cats (Double A Baseball team) for a special FORCE night at the stadium. The group sold tickets to the game and participated in a 50/50 raffle to raise funds for FORCE. The game highlights included Michelle Steen (Boston Coordinator) and Bethany Cove (Volunteer) throwing out the first ball. Carrie Catlin (Boston Coordinator) did a radio interview at the top of the 4th inning, and FORCE volunteers staffed a table and handed out information to attendees.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The military plays such an important role in the Jacksonville area and Thursday night the Jacksonville Jaguars will try to show the city's gratitude with what's being called "The Salute to Service Military Appreciate Game."
The special tribute is planned at EverBank Field where the Jacksonville Jaguars will take on the Indianapolis Colts -- a game that can be seen locally on Channel 4 and nationally on the NFL Network.
When the Jaguars take the field in front of a national audience tonight, they'll play the Colts, reminding the fans about the sacrifices of military personnel and their families.
Both end zones at EverBank field have been painted with the special message 'Salute to Service'.
During Thursday night's game, each player's helmet will have decals representing a branch of the military.
The players will also be wearing newly designed gloves, carrying camouflage branded towels, and they'll play with a game ball with a camouflage logo.
In the stands will be 8,000 military fans, who had tickets donated to them from local companies.
Retired Naval Senior Chief Jack Aschenbach is one of many veterans who said he feels honored.
"When folks see that, it gives them a chill that they're being honored in such a way," Aschenbach said. "A small way. A thank you. A reminder. We appreciate your efforts for the country."
Outside the stadium, the military is flying in a Lakota Helicopter and a Seahawk Helicopter during the pregame.
The team will recognize veterans that served during World War II, the Korean War, and in Vietnam.
The team will be lead out of the tunnel by sailor and marines, stationed on the Naval Submarine Base at Kings Bay.
"It's just a fabulous time for our men and women to be recognized," Aschenbach said. "Our mission is to have peace and that's why we are here."


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There's an old puzzle (but the physical it is):
Lumberjack chop wood and float it down the river. He noticed an interesting feature: in the spring, when the water is comming, timber is nailed to the shore. In the hot summer, when the water lowers, timber, by contrast, floats exactly in the middle of the river. Why is that?


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It's been a number of years since I was indoctrinated by Professor Hans Rosling to no longer refer to LEDCs and MEDCs when referring to the development status of a country. Here's why…
The AQA GCSE syllabus A requires that students are familiar with the correlation and analysis of development indicators and of course the Gapminder website is a crucial teaching aid. Students have to be mindful of the dangers of using a single statistical measure of development and aware that countries have different development priorities and perceptions of quality of life. I devised the following activity as a group work task to sum up this aspect of the syllabus.
Five groups were established and the activity introduced via the first slide of the presentation embedded below. (Needs to be downloaded from Slideshare to work as intended)
Each individual was given a table of 2012 development statistics and a commentary. The examples were carefully chosen to represent nations with very different development priorities. Each group was tasked with creating a rank order of the countries based on the statistics, the commentary and their own opinions.
Once the initial task was complete, the groups passed their rankings clockwise around the room, spending a couple of minutes perusing and commenting on each others thoughts. Once the circuit had been completed, each group had to construct a final ranking, taking into account the all the information and their newly acquired understanding of development priorities.
As part of ensuring that everyone was fully involved, certain students were randomly selected to describe and justify their final rank order. Much debate took place, though there was 100% agreement in terms of the top and bottom placed countries. Conveniently, since they all chose Norway as the most developed nation, I was able to introduce the Human Development Index data for 2013 which confirms their finding and illustrates the usefulness of this measure of development.
This is a nice little activity which requires very little planning and develops really interesting interaction between group members. Groups become accountable to each other and nobody can opt out of the final task. Originally it was intended as an "expert groups" activity and the passing on of their work was actually suggested by the students themselves. To my mind it fits nicely with Dylan William's assertion that group goals and individual accountability can double the speed of learning.


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My four-year-old daughter snagged my phone the other day. It was the huge pile of blurry photos at weird angles in my photo library that tipped me off.
At first, I was annoyed by all random shots, but the more I looked… the more I realized what an interesting window they were into how our enormous world appears to a tiny child.
My daughter doesn't know anything about framing or technique or what she's supposed to find beautiful. Her take is still completely authentic and unfiltered… and involves following cats.


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Some columnist named James Knight has decided to strike back against New Atheist tyranny by rebutting their major claims, and he's starting out by picking on Hitchens and Dawkins, who, he says, make terrible arguments.
As you'll see, Dawkins and Hitchens have ready-made methods for twisting meanings and distorting logic in a way that the more pliant and impressionable individuals don't seem to notice.
Prepare yourself; that's from a guy who's about to launch into a series of theological arguments. Self-aware, he's not.
Knight has a whole series of excerpts from the Hitch he warbles about, and I'm just going to pick two of the more famous arguments he's made, and I think that will be enough to see that Knight is all pompous puffery. I'm sure you're all familiar with Hitchens' theistic challenge.
Name me an ethical statement made or an action performed by a believer that could not have been made or performed by a non-believer.
Now read Knight's pratfall:
To me that is the sort of pliable question that sounds intelligent but isn't really. I think Hitchens' question shows a lack of understanding of what religious belief entails, and also the overlooking of something that should be trivially obvious. The short answer is, the question is as meaningless as asking whether quenching thirst is better than feeding oneself. It is true in most cases that there is no 'statement' or 'action' that a theist can make or do that others cannot, but that tells us nothing meaningful about the God debate, because a proper analysis involves much more than just the statement or action – it involves analysing the beliefs, intentions, humility, motive, and other psychological factors that do not come out in a mere action. Naturally we could name good moral actions taken by both religious and non-religious people that have produced the same results, but that does not tell us anything about what is directing the action, or whether the person is living a Godly life, and it certainly has no bearing on whether there is a God.
That's not a reply, it's an evasion! We don't understand what religious belief entails? Then tell us what it does. Throughout his replies, he does this constantly:
you just don't understand, he whines, implying that there is some great deep thought behind his claims, while never illuminating exactly what it is.
But most importantly, it's an abject concession. He can't cite anything a believer does that could not be done by a non-believer — there is no special grace granted by faith. We have
good moral actions taken by both religious and non-religious people that have produced the same results, is one concession, but this is the bigger one:
that does not tell us anything about what is directing the action. Exactly! You cannot discern the presence of a guiding moral force outside of any individual person, and Knight agrees…so how can he talk about a
Godly life? How does he know?
It certainly does have bearing on the argument about the existence of gods. I have never debated anyone who doesn't eventually get around to an argument from consequences: How can you be good without god? Aren't you worried about Hell? Society will fall apart without god! Yet here is Knight, admitting that there are no moral consequences to disbelief, while also implying that goodness is a
Godly life. He wants to simultaneously argue that unbelievers can be morally good, while predicating the standard for moral goodness on a god.
Here's another famous Hitchism that Knight dislikes:
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
Watch out, here comes the egregious relativism, which sounds like something straight out of Answers in Genesis.
To express fully what is wrong with this statement would take a whole essay in itself. But briefly, it grossly caricatures religious faith to state that it is 'asserted without evidence', when, in reality, evidence is in the eye of the beholder, and different people accept and interpret different evidences differently. Maybe some people are too easily seduced by interpretations that shouldn't ever be offered as reasons for belief in God, but equally there are going to be lots of people whose psychological agitations predispose them to a scepticism that demands too much evidence, or the wrong kind of evidence.
I suspect Christopher Hitchens' main problem is that he'd never thought through properly what evidence for God actually means, and how it might be different from the more simplistic evidence found in empirical science. Never once did I ever hear Christopher Hitchens tell us what he thinks good evidence is, what makes good evidence good, how belief in God differs from knowledge of the empirical world, and what he thinks would be satisfactory evidence for God.
I really despise the vacuous
Well, we just interpret the evidence differently argument — it's a lie. Over and over, I see it said in order to defend ignoring the bulk of the evidence.
I see a pad of post-it notes next to my keyboard on my desk. This is clearly evidence that tiny invisible elves from 3M climbed up the wall outside my window, translocated extradimensionally through the glass into my office, and left me a present. Or is it evidence that I picked up a pad at the central office and put it in a convenient spot near my phone? You don't get to say that the existence of this pad is equal evidence for both claims; you have to ignore the consilience of phenomena that provide better explanations. There is a cabinet of these things just down the hall from me; it's a mundane object with obvious utility; there are torn-off post-it notes with scribbled comments attached to my phonebook. At the same time, 3M elves have no evidence for their existence, have posited powers with no known mechanism, and are arbitrary, ad hoc, bizarre explanations for a perfectly ordinary object. It is not demanding
too much evidence to expect some independent corroboration of the mechanisms of the phenomenon that aren't more simply explained by my ability to walk 50 feet to a collection of supplies.
In the same way, believers like to say they do have evidence for their supernatural phantasm…and then they point to their Bible. Sure, it's evidence. Evidence backed up by documents and history that over the course of many centuries, human beings collected stories and legends and hectoring homilies and poetry, all written by people, and assembled them into a clumsy compilation, and stamped it all with the imprimatur of religious authority. Meanwhile, you're trying to tell me this hunk of cellulose and ink was magically transported into the world of Catholicism by the equivalent of invisible elves.
Who actually has evidence for the origin of the object?
Knight's second paragraph is a complaint that Hitchens' didn't tell them what evidence for their god would be acceptable, which is a fair complaint. Or it would be, if there weren't another problem: define God. I can't tell you what would be evidence for or against it if you're not going to settle down and get specific about this god's properties and nature. Is it an anthropomorphic being with a penis that can impregnate human women? Is it a vast eternal cosmic intelligence that encompasses the entire universe and manipulates matter and energy with its will? Is it benign fluff, a happy feeling of love that permeates us all? I suspect he'd tell us some meaningless noise about a "ground state of being", which seems to be the universal bafflegab right now to avoid answering the question.
You know, this is the big difference. If you tell a scientist that their evidence doesn't distinguish between two alternatives, it's the scientist who thinks hard about the problem, comes up with what would be differing consequences of an experiment if his hypothesis was valid or invalid, and does the work. We actually love this part of theorizing, thinking through the implications of a hypothesis and then testing them. And that's a process that involves getting specific about the details of our hypothesis.
Theologians, on the other hand, hate that part. We can ask them what the difference would be between a universe that had a god and one that didn't, between a god that answers prayers and one that doesn't, between a Christian god and a Muslim god, between a Catholic god and a Protestant god, and they love to tell us that the differences are
profound, but not anything specific. And then they yell at us that we haven't given them the criteria that we could use to discriminate between the alternatives. And then, most aggravatingly, if we go ahead and make some predictions ourselves about what the universe ought to be like if there is or isn't a god, they yell even more that their god isn't like that, we used the wrong premises, we didn't address their idiosyncratic view of a god…which is always conveniently tailored to circumvent whatever test we propose.
Do you theological wankers even realize that as the proponents of hypothesis about the nature of the universe, it is your job to generate testable hypotheses about how it all works? And that we, as agents in opposition to your nonsense, would be overjoyed to have you say something explicit about an implication of your ideas that we could test? Actually, I think you do know, because you so invariably avoid presenting any useful descriptions of what your philosophy entails. We keep waiting. And right now, your silence and the vacuity of what few feeble replies you make are just added to our stockpile of evidence that you're all farting theology out of your asses.
James Knight ends with what he thinks is an insightful comment about the nature of god debates.
The God one accepts or denies is only likely to be as intellectually tenable as the intellectual tenability of the person holding those ideas.
I will therefore take the lack of intellectual competence of his arguments for gods as evidence of his own, personal intellectual emptiness.
Don't worry, James. You're in the company of a great many idiots, so you'll just blend in.


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The Spanish are indicating that the light at the end of the tunnel is indeed light and not as some of us were beginning to feel, the front of an oncoming train.
Giovani Dos Santos will come with the usual endlessly tiered contract dependent upon the usual variables of appearances, goals, Super Mario Kart Hi Scores etc.
The player's agent is said to have been busily sparring with THFC bean counters earlier week and this thing could be resolved as soon as tomorrow. Monday.
The agent has said, "The project is promising and has offered Giovani ambitious and wants to become great in the Tottenham and helping the team to be. . It is true that to leave the club this is a risky decision, but for his qualities seem to be the best option for him." Which doesn't sound too awful, as agent pronouncements go.
The player's father is quoted as saying, "it is an honor that teams such as Tottenham are set in Giovani, but there is nothing official yet but is well under way." Which is again optimistic enough fare for any Spurs fan, I would've thought.
Interesting snippet to all this is that the father goes on to remark that the ankle injury to his boy is now good and the recovery ought meet the dealines.


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The kids are alright. Not only is that the title of one of my favorite songs by The Who, but it also happens to be the theme of much of my public policy research. Specifically, I spend a great deal of time analyzing social trends and media usage in an attempt to show that, contrary to what many media critics claim, the whole world is not going to hell. I've touched on these themes before in essays such as "Why hasn't violent media turned us into a nation of killers?" and my PFF paper about "Fact and Fiction in the Debate Over Video Game Regulation."
In this research, I try to bring some hard evidence to bear on the question of whether there is any correlation between exposure to violent media and real world acts of violence / aggression. And I also try to show that parents are actually far more involved in raising their kids, and instilling good values in them, than critics care to admit. In essence, parents are parenting! I illustrate that in my ongoing book, Parental Controls & Online Child Protection: A Survey of Tools & Methods." I keep that publication up to date with as much info as I can find on the subject and plan on issuing new versions of the report every few months. (Version 3.0 is due out early next year.)
And now I have some more great stats and charts to include in my report thanks to the release of a big batch of new Census Bureau data on child-parent interaction. The Census Bureau data, which is available here, is part of a report entitled A Child's Day. The last report was conducted in 1994, and the most recent one in 2004, but the data for 2004 was just recently released.
The results are very encouraging and generally show that "Parents are taking a more active role in the lives of their children than they did 10 years ago," according to the Census Bureau. For example, as Exhibit 1 above shows, parents are crafting more TV rules for the kids today than they were in the past.
I devoted an entire chapter of my parental controls book (Chapter 2) to "household media rules" like those described in the Census Bureau survey. In many ways, these household media rules represent the most important steps that most parents can take in dealing with potentially objectionable content or teaching their children how to be sensible, savvy media consumers. Moreover, to the extent that many households never take advantage of the many technical parental control tools (or ratings), it is likely because they rely instead on the informal household media rules.
I group those household media rules into three general categories: (1) "where" rules; (2) "when and how much" rules; and, (3) "under what conditions" rules. (I discuss these rules in more detail in this previous post). The Census Bureau also does this in its report and those numbers cited in Exhibit 1 above are for parents who use 3 types of TV rules: rules for the type of programming allowed, the number of hours watched, and the time of day viewed. Again, parents are setting more of those rules than they did in the past.
Those results are similar to the findings of recent polls by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Pew Internet & American Life Project, two of the leading organizations studying online trends. A 2003 Kaiser survey found that "Almost all parents say they have some type of rules about their children's use of media." More recent Kaiser surveys have bolstered that finding.
For example, a 2006 Kaiser survey of families with infants and preschoolers revealed that 85 percent of those parents who let their children watch TV at that age have rules about what their child can and cannot watch. Of those parents, 63 percent say they always enforce those rules. About the same percentage of parents said they had similar rules for video game and computer usage. Likewise, a June 2007 Kaiser poll revealed that:
* 65 percent of parents say they closely monitor their children's media use;
* 73 percent of parents say they know a lot about what their kids are doing online;
* 87 percent of parents check their children's instant messaging "buddy lists;"
* 82 percent of parents review their children's social networking sites; and,
* 76 percent of parents look to see what websites their children have visited.
Pew Internet & American Life Project surveys show similar trends. A 2006 Pew survey of media usage by teenagers revealed that 74 percent of homes with teenagers have their computers in an "open family area." That result was consistent with Pew surveys taken in 2004 and 2000. The 2006 Pew survey also found that 58 percent of parents limit the amount of time their children can spend watching television; 59 percent limit how much time their kids can play video games; and 69 percent limit how much time their children can spend online.
Thus, these Kaiser and Pew survey results support the Census Bureau findings about parents getting more serious about setting household media rules.
And there's more good news in the Census report. The percentage of parents reading books to their children seven or more times per week has risen from a decade ago. Exhibit 2 highlights these findings. That's great news because many educators and development experts believe that reading to young children is incredibly important for their educational and psychological development.
For extracurricular activities, the results are somewhat mixed, but still generally encouraging. As Exhibit 3 illustrates, the amount of time that young children are spending playing sports increased from 1994 to 2004, but the numbers fell a bit for 12 to 17 year olds. The amount of time both sets of children spent taking lessons of various types rose considerably over that period. But the amount of time they spent with clubs fell. It could be that social networking and other online activities is substituting for some of those old "clubs," so I'm not too worried about those results yet.
The world isn't perfect, of course. If it was, 100% of parents would be reading to their kids multiple times each day, setting sensible household ground rules for media consumption, and getting their kids involved in more activities. But these new Census numbers are encouraging and have generally been improving over time. With more education and awareness-building efforts about the importance of parental involvement with children, these results will hopefully improve even more in coming years. Let's give parents (and kids!) a little credit for once.


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Last month we reviewed the Fitbit Zip, which was basically a glorified pedometer. The Fitbit One is the Zip's big brother, and successor to the very popular Ultra line. Is the feature-filled gadget worth £80?
It's a tiny fitness monitor that counts the steps you take, the stairs you climb, and the calories you burn, and even tracks the quality of your sleep.
People who want data about how much exercise they get throughout the day.
It's a smooth, oblong pebble. One button lights up the LED screen and allows you to scroll through your stats. It comes with a clip you wear while working out, and a wrist band for wearing it as you sleep.
Just carry it all day and it'll track your activity. The data wirelessly syncs when you're near your computer, and then you can view all sorts of charts and graphs online. You wear the One in a wristband as you sleep—just start the timer when you lie down and stop it when you wake up.
The altimeter. Other fitness monitors count steps. But a step on level ground is not the same as going up stairs or climbing a hill. The Fitbit One's altimeter considers that and estimates the calories burned.
The sleep monitoring is buggy. If you don't manually input the times, it guesses. One day, it said I went to bed at 8:07pm and woke up at noon the next day. I wish. (In fact, I was out at a bar until 3:00am and then got up at 7:40am.) Yet I couldn't manually input my actual sleep times.
You can set a silent alarm that'll wake you up but leave your bedmate undisturbed. Set the time online, sync it, put the One in the wristband, and pass out. A series of vibrating pulses shakes your wrist when it's time to rise and shine. I thought I'd fallen asleep with my phone in my hand—but it successfully woke me up without rousing my girlfriend. Weird, but cool.
- Because it isn't attached to your body (like, the Nike Fuelband) it's easy to forget to keep it on you. Every time I changed jeans, I forgot to switch it out. For tracking sleep, you need to take it out of your pocket, put on a wrist band, then put it in the wrist band, then start recording. It can be a nuisance.
- Paradoxically, the fact that you don't wear it could also be a major selling point to some. People who dress up a lot might not want to have a funky rubber bracelet on all the time.
- We really like the design. The aluminium backplate makes it feel extremely solid. The button has nice click to it, but it doesn't feel like it will be accidentally depressed in your pocket.
- One of the biggest advances is the display. It's a lot brighter and more pixel dense than the Fitbit Ultra was, which greatly improves readability.
- You can also track data with smartphone apps. The iPhone 4S and 5 can sync data directly with the One. The Android app can't sync directly with the One (because no Android devices currently support the low-power Bluetooth protocol), but you can use it to view your data, add meals, and stuff like that. Both apps are very good looking.
- Another weird thing about sleep monitoring: You can select Normal or Sensitive modes. On Normal, it thinks I'm fully asleep 92 per cent of the time that I'm in bed. On Sensitive, it thinks I'm only asleep 52 per cent of that time! The truth has got to lie somewhere in between, but that's such a gigantic margin of error one has to assume this data is essentially unusable. Major bummer, as this was the feature I was most looking forward to.
- Really solid battery life. You should get close to a week of use on a single charge, and it charges quickly with the included USB adapter.
- The screens in the app are: Steps, Distance, Calories burned, Floors climbed, a Clock, and a handy stopwatch that you can start/stop by long-pressing the button. A little Flower grows and shrinks based on your recent activity. It also displays a greeting when you pick it up. Adorable.
- The Fitbit dashboard on the website is really a mess to navigate. Things are not intuitively laid out. For example, to add an alarm, you have to know to click on your device, go into the settings, and then find the alarm. It's visually pleasing, but it needs some reorganising.
- Through the website, you can choose to have all your data auto-sync to other programs like RunKeeper, Endomondo, and others
If you're considering the Fitbit Zip, then sure. It's certainly better, due to the altimeter, improved screen, and rechargeability. And the silent alarm is a cool feature. It's also £30 more, but the £30 is worth it for the added functionality. And it's £50 less than the Fuelband.
As for the flaws, to be fair, the device doesn't ship until early November, and they have been sending out firmware updates throughout the last week. In other words, the sleep functions may get better. Even if they don't, though, this is still a pretty decent piece of kit. [Fitbit]
- Radio: Bluetooth 4.0
- Size: 1.89 x 0.76 x 0.38 inches
- Weight: 0.28 oz. (8 grams)
- Screen: LED
- Colors: Black, Burgundy
- Splash-proof: Yes
- Battery: Rechargeable Li-Po
- Price: £80
- Giz Rank: 3.5 stars


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I took the Theme Park Engineering class and posted my project process and backstory at WriteSafe.com (which also automatically enters it into their quarterly contest - the project got to the finalist level).
I would love to have feedback or comments from y'all. It can be found at
under Castaway Mountain. (The very end of the project also includes the overall ideas for a whole theme park.) I highly recommend the class, and also recommend WriteSafe for registering any ideas (art, writing...) that you may want to protect, or showcase. (it's cheap, too)
There are also a few sitcom spec scripts listed under the television category if you are really bored and want some of that style of reading.
I look forward to anything anyone has to say - I can take criticism.
(editted after I figured out the next morning that I put Island instead of Mountain - like all of the other mountain rides. Too many long hours and late nights with work lately.)
Somehow I missed this post... I'll take a look and respond later!
In trying to better my show writing, I'd appreciate any feedback.
Here's the Outline version. Hope it isn't too long (4 pages in Word format).
"Castaway Mountain"
Flume Ride Outline
The mountain is a heavily forested, tropical rainforest with misty waterfalls cutting through the drifting fog. At the base of the mountain there are lush gardens and peaceful koi ponds with bridges beckoning us to take a leisurely stroll toward the Yacht Club Restaurant, built into the side of the hill, where cares of the busy life are quickly forgotten. The air is filled with the smell of plumeria blossoms as well as the island sounds of slack key guitar and dew dripping from unbridled foliage. Beside the outdoor patio we see an entrance to "Robinson's Cruises" inviting us to sail to adventure. The plants around the doorway are more overgrown, as if abandoned for a while.
Inside, we find ourselves in the queue. We start by making our way up a gang plank in a room with the look and feel of the open sea, where mild breezes blow, gulls soar, gentle waves lap, and a cerulean ocean blends to an azure sky. This is the start of our journey, from a leisurely afternoon cruise that became a bigger than life adventure for our captain.
The next room is more like a sail boat, with guy lines and teak railings all around. The skies are darker, with the sound of distant thunder and rain you can smell. The lighting cycles through changing intensities. The music is now more powerful, signifying eminent doom. Through projections, and a slight swaying of the platform, there is a sense of movement to the room, like a rolling sea.
In the final room, there is a rope and plank bridge, surrounded by thick jungle. We can see the mountain from here. The exterior façade has become the cyc ceiling for the interior. There is a base camp that has been decorated with household items made from bamboo, shells, and coconuts. A canopy made from an old sail hangs overhead, torn from falling palm branches and years of wear. Piles of coconuts in a corner indicate that the island won't hold up to intrusion or support anyone much longer. Audio-animatronic Captain Rob assures his pet pelican, Freddie, that he won't be eaten. He then reminds everyone to save their resources for when they need those most – especially the gas for the motor, when it will be needed for getting through the rough surf at the end of the journey.
"Frida" lends a hand as we climb into rickety, weather-beaten old lifeboats, to escape the dangers of the island, with a warning that much more lies ahead of us.
Each room in the queue has had a subtle rise in elevation, bringing everyone to the load platform, about halfway up the mountain. Each room on the ride will have a drop, but even more of a rise, masked with forced perspective, slanted set pieces, and motion control bases that keep the boats level while ascending the ramps with water rushing down to look like rapids instead of going uphill. The flume circles the "inside" mountain as it goes up, with side trips through the middle, while the ceiling is used for lighting and projection for sky, jungle canopy, and other effects.
Just as we start around the first turn, Butch, who appears to have been stranded a long while on the island, warns against trying to steal HIS treasure. He uses a gaffing pole to push the boat away from the calm water, sending it down a turbulent, rapid-filled alternate fork in the river. The pole hooks onto the motor's handle, starting it and sending it careening toward danger.
Our adventure begins with threats from the animal world. Striking snakes narrowly miss the boat, as gorillas fight big cats on the banks. Mischievous monkeys help Butch start a landslide of rocks and trees, coming right toward us. Sounds of wild animals in the jungle continue throughout the ride. We are protected from them as we turn into a small cave.
The second room reveals the presence of warring natives. Spears fly by and an overhead rope bridge is cut, swinging just ahead, but missing the river. Captain Rob appears, grabbing a bamboo pole, guiding us into deeper brush, and yelling at us to turn off the motor, as we escape peril once again.
The next room brings us higher and closer to the center of the island… and the volcano that made it. The heat intensifies as lava flows and rocks spew into the river all around us, steaming as they hit. The smell of trees burning fills the air and the rumbling explosions drown out the sounds of the jungle. Just before the whole mountain blows its top, there is a bend in the river, leading to a lazy, peaceful section.
Around the turn, we come out of the thick underbrush, and find that we are outside, high atop the (outside) mountain, overlooking a lagoon with a resort, far below. The nearly catastrophic cruise had only led to the other side of the island, not uncharted or uninhabited at all. However, our boat is headed toward a giant waterfall. Huge boulders in the river funnel the water faster, the sound of the falls grows louder, and the motor runs out of gas, just before the edge. Around the last boulder, the boat detours into a dark, steep cave of hidden, twisting tunnels. Every turn of this heart-pounding final thrill ride is filled with hard-beating jungle rhythms at every turn.
At the bottom of the cave, the boat splashes down, disrupting a tranquil lagoon, soaking Butch and others who dare to cross the bridge into the wild side of this island. Guests at the Yacht Club enjoy their relaxing dining experience on the other side of the lagoon, safely away from the splash zone.
Disembarking safely, Captain Rob thanks everyone for coming and invites us to enjoy an Island Shave Ice in the Shave Cave, just on the other side of Tropical Treasure Trove and Trinkets. Available for sale are souvenirs made of coconuts, bamboo, shells, as well as "survival" t-shirts and a video copy of your journey on DVD or to send home as an e-mail. There are also trails around the mountain, to linger in the tropical atmosphere a little longer (but away from the boats).
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As you implied, this is a rather long read for an introduction to the attraction. What is the throughline? In other words, pretend that I am a busy executive, and you have only a few sentences to get me hooked into your idea. What would you tell me?
I was reading an article by Joe Rohde last night (a creative exec at Imagineering). He was talking about how Animal Kingdom was designed based on three ideas: "the universal love of animals real and imaginary, the power of physical adventure, and the intrinsic value of nature itself". That is the entire park, in a nutshell. These ideas allow them to judge every design decision so that they know whether or not they are telling a cohesive story.
What is the core idea? Put that first. Second, what is your "elevator pitch". If you had 30 seconds or less to get someone excited about the idea, what would you tell them?
What you have here is a great long-form narrative, with plenty of lush adjectives and descriptions, but make sure to also hone your short-form -- so that you can effectively "market" your idea or design to the client or investors... and this will also help you know if each scene is effectively building into the idea or emotion that you want to convey.
It is clear that you have a gift for writing, and the descriptions gave me a clear image in my mind of the queue and progression. It sounds like an interesting attraction overall with some potentially compelling characters and situations. I am wondering if there is more to the "payoff" than just a splashdown flume, though. You have set up an interesting storyworld which could have many layers of rich narrative (like Expedition Everest or Splash Mountain), but the progression of the attraction seems like a series of events rather than a beginning, middle and end or a layering of narrative detail. Butch, in the beginning, warns you away from "his" treasure. Is there treasure? Do we want it? Is there a possibility of finding it? Of helping him find civilization? Who is Captain Rob? Did he know that the cruise would be perilous and wanted a quick buck (but doesn't want bad press)? Or is he the swashbuckling Indiana Jones type who always inexplicably appears just when disaster is iminent?
This is fodder for a great attraction... even a diamond has to be polished...
P.S. Watch those passive verbs - especially in the first few paragraphs...
Thanks Holly. That's a lot of great insight things to think about. I know I need to work on my short form and these specific notes help me in figuring out how to do that. I'll work on it and post a quick, short version. Thanks again for taking time to give feedback.
(links to other sites no longer work - lost a lot of my work when the write safe site went away)
This project is what started me on the path to show writing. Imagineeringclass.com is still highly recommended. Lots of fun. Great way to learn technical and creative sides.
I have short, medium and long versions of this.
Steve Alcorn is someone we've been in contact with many times over the years. I'd like to see if we can get him in on an interview soon. I'm glad he inspired you to show writing!
That would be a great interview. Good one for the podcast.
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Post updated based on feedback and comments received, 07 April 2018. Deliveries now updated to end of March 1942.
It was pointed out to me that the original post at this link contains errors. I have therefore gone back into the actual cargo ship loading manifests to try and correct it. The result is attached in the form of the PDF, which can be downloaded here: Tank Deliveries up to March 1942 (corrected 07 Apr 18). The file is at present published for comment and corrections prior to finalisation.
I will continue this work through to the end of my documentation of manifests, which is sometime towards the end of 1942, as time permits me. At present the file covers to 30 July inclusive.
Explanatory notes:
- Yellow highlighted cells indicate interpretation of tank type based on weight. I.e. no vehicle type other than 'Panzer XX tonnen' was given. 5-7 tons is a Panzer I or kleiner Befehlswagen (command tank on the basis of Panzer I chassis), 10 tons is a Panzer II or a Panzerjaeger I or a kleiner Panzerbefehlswagen for Panzerjaegerabt. 605, 20 tons is a Panzer III or grosser Panzerbefehlswagen (command tank on Panzer III chassis), and 22 tons is a Panzer IV.
- Peach highlighted are sunk tanks. S/S Adana and Arta were part of the ill-fated Tarigo convoy which was sunk in its entirety off the Kerkennah banks off Sfax, Tunisia, during the night of 16/17 April 1941. This convoy primarily carried units of 15. Panzerdivision. The two tanks would almost certainly have been grosse Panzerbefehlswagen, while that on Arta is difficult to tell.
- This list does include tanks delivered on Italian cargo ships, such as Andrea Gritti.
Burning kleiner Panzerbefehlswagen in Libya, from the AWM via Wikimedia Commons
German steamer S/S Adana in better days. From Wrecksite.eu


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USING METRICS OF SCATTERING TO ASSESS SOFTWARE QUALITY by Gustavo Uanús Perez A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMPUTER SCIENCE) May 2011 Copyright 2011 Gustavo Uanús Perez
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Born John David Jackson November 18th, 1977 in Brooklyn., New York of Domican and African American decent and better known to us as Fabolous the Hip Hop artist celebrated his thirty fifth birthday and release of Soul Tape 2 in the early morning hours of November twenty-fourth at the Keating Hotel.
Was Fabolous fabulous ask the family friends and family that awaited him inside.Even though the night was delayed due to Fabolous's flight being in a fog delay in Los Angelos. Immediately upon entrance into San Diego's newest jewel of a 5,000 square-foot hot-spot The Pussycat Doll Dollhouse club featuring a spacious dance floor and two luxury bars, Fabolous was onstage performing. He performed four songs interspersed with thanks to the beautiful woman of San Diego and different shout outs to the crowd. The crowd surrounded the stage holding up the phones and recording. It appears everyone wanted to remember the performance for a long time to come.***imagine2***
The glamorous décor of the Pussycat Doll Dollhouse is the design of Amy Kim of AK DisignNetwork.
Following Fabolous's performance the crowd enjoyed seductive dancing from a pussycat doll who worked one of the poles onstage. As Fabolous stayed on to party away the night with family and friends.


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Seth MacFarlane brings laughs, jabs and music to 2013 Oscars
He sang, danced, made some insults and managed to be self-deprecating in his 15-minute-plus intro at the 85th Academy Awards.
Seth MacFarlane was arguably a "risky" choice as host for the sometimes stiff Academy. "What would he do?" many thought before going into the 2013 Oscars. Apparently, a lot.
With an opening song, called "We Saw Your Boobs," the "Family Guy" creator did not disappoint in terms of edginess, calling out actresses who have gone topless on the big screen. MacFarlane also dressed as a flying nun in another taped sketch with "Lincoln" star Sally Field, which ended with the two kissing.
"I honestly can't believe I'm here," MacFarlane said, adding, "It's an honor that everyone else said 'no.' From Oprah all the way to Ron Jeremy."
MacFarlane then went through the best picture nominees, lobbing jabs all around, including one at the Academy itself, which neglected to nominate Ben Affleck in the best director category.
"The film is so top secret that the film's director is unknown to the Academy," MacFarlane said to a lot of applause. "They know they screwed up."
He went on to mention how winning an Oscar can lead to a successful career. "Last year Jean Dujardin won best actor for 'The Artist' -- and look now he's everywhere," MacFarlane joked.
When speaking about Quentin Tarantino's violent film, "Django Unchained," MacFarlane said Chris Brown and Rihanna would call it "a date movie."
MacFarlane also called out "Silver Linings Playbook" star Jennifer Lawrence, who had joked at the Golden Globes that she beat Meryl Streep for best actress. "Whether I win or lose, it's an honor Meryl Streep wasn't nominated," MacFarlane said about Lawrence on Sunday.
Things got more interesting when a video screen emerged onstage, featuring actor William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk of "Star Trek," who proceeded to "look into the future" to forecast that MacFarlane would be dubbed the "worst Oscars host ever."
"Your jokes are tasteless and inappropriate, and everyone ends up hating you," said Shatner, noting, "I'm here to stop you from doing what you're about to do."
That prompted MacFarlane to show off his song and dance skills, performing "The Way You Look Tonight," with Charlize Theron and "Magic Mike" star Channing Tatum. Daniel Radcliffe and Joseph Gordon-Levitt then joined MacFarlane for a version of "High Hopes."
MacFarlane attempted to keep his humor going throughout the night, at one point joking that the Oscars ceremony, which is held on Sunday, is like church, "but only with with more people praying."
"Our next presenter portrayed a raging alcoholic in the movie '28 Days,' which is kind of a weird coincidence because I'm going to be playing one in about an hour and a half," he said when introducing presenter Sandra Bullock.
Later, MacFarlane managed to make an Abraham Lincoln joke, reminding viewers that actor Raymond Massey was an Oscar nominee for 1940's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." "I would argue that the actor who really got inside Lincoln's head was John Wilkes Booth," MacFarlane said. "A hundred and 50 years later, and it's still too soon?"
"It's a balance between not being completely dismissive of the ceremony, but at the same time, injecting a little bit of a lighter sensibility than maybe we've seen in the past," MacFarlane told The Associated Press in the days leading up to the ceremony. ''The Oscars does have a history of taking itself so deadly seriously. And while it obviously is a ceremony that's important to the people involved, you know we're not curing cancer here. So if there's any subtle reminder that I'll try to inject into the show tonally, it would be that."
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