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In an exclusive text for the AJ, Patrik Schumacher of Zaha Hadid Architects argues that the unified style of architecture for the 21st century will be parametricism
In my Parametricist Manifesto of 2008, I first communicated that a new, profound style has been maturing within the avant-garde segment of architecture during the last 10 years. The term 'parametricism' has since been gathering momentum within architectural discourse and its critical questioning has strengthened it. So far, knowledge of the new style has remained largely confined within architecture, but I suspect news will spread quickly once it is picked up by the mass media. Outside architectural circles, 'style' is virtually the only category through which architecture is observed and recognised. A named style needs to be put forward in order to stake its claim to act in the name of architecture.
The concept of style deserves to be defended
The concept of style has for a long time beenlosing traction within architectural discourse. To let this concept wither away would onlyimpoverish the discourse, and a powerful asset for communicating architecture to societywould be lost. However, the resuscitation of this drained and battered concept requires conceptual reconstruction in terms that are intellectually credible today.
What stands in the way of this is thetendency to regard style as merely a matter of appearance, as well as the related tendency toconfuse styles with superficial, short-lived fashions. Although aesthetic appearancematters enormously in architecture and design, neither architecture nor its styles canbe reduced to mere matters of appearance. Neither must the phenomenon of styles beassimilated to the phenomenon of fashion.
The concept of style must therefore besharply distinguished and cleansed of these trivialising and distracting connotations. It denotes the unity of the difference between the architectural epochs of gothic, renaissance, baroque, classicism, historicism and modernism.The historical self-consciousness of architecture demands the revitalisation of theconcept of style as a profound historical phenomenon that can be projected into thefuture. For this purpose I have proposed that architectural styles are best understood asdesign-research programmes, conceived in analogy to the way paradigms frame scientific research programmes.
A new style in architecture and design isakin to a new paradigm in science; it redefines the fundamental categories, purposes and methods of a coherent collective endeavour. Innovation in architecture proceeds via the progression of styles so understood. This implies the alternation between periods of cumulative advancement within a style, and revolutionary periods of transition between styles. Styles represent long, sustained cycles of innovation, gathering design-research efforts into a collective movement so that individual efforts are mutually relevant,spurning and enhancing.
Parametricism offers a credible, sustainable answer to the crisis of modernism that resulted in 25 years of stylistic searching
From the inside, within architecture, the identification of parametricism demarcates and further galvanises a maturing avant-garde movement, and thus might serve to accelerate its progress and potential hegemony as acollective research and development effort. As a piece of retrospective description andinterpretation, the announcement of parametricism seems justified after 10 years of consistent, cumulative design research. Prospectively, the announcement of the style should further consolidate the attained achievements and prepare the transition from avant-garde to mainstream hegemony. Parametricism finally offers a credible, sustainable answer to the drawn-out crisis of modernism that resulted in 25 years of stylistic searching.
Parametricism is the great new style after modernism
Post-modernism and deconstructivism were mere transitional episodes, similar to art nouveau and expressionism as transitions from historicism to modernism. The distinction of epochal styles from transitional styles is important. In a period of transition there might emerge a rapid succession of styles, or even a plurality of simultaneous, competing styles. The crisis and demise of modernism lead to a deep and protracted transitional period, but there is no reason to believe that this pluralism cannot be overcome by the hegemony of a new unified style. The potential for such a unification is indeed what we are witnessing.
Beyond the modernistparadigm of separationand repetition
The modernist order of separation and repetition is being supplanted by the parametricist order of continuous differentiation and intensive correlation. Within the broad new paradigm of parametricism, many subsidiary styles might be expected to enrich and progress the coming epoch of parametricism.
Modernism's crisis does not mean an end to unified styles
Modernism's crisis and its architectural aftermath has led many critics to believe we can no longer be expected to forge a unified style. Did the profound developmental role of styles in the history of architecture, as evidenced in the gothic-renaissance baroquehistoricism- modernism sequence, come to an end? Did history come to an end? Or did it ragment into criss-crossing and contradictory trajectories? Are we to celebrate this fragmentation of efforts under the slogan of pluralism?
Architecture today is world architecture
Every architectural project is immediately exposed and assessed in comparison to all other projects. Global convergences are possible. This does not mean homogenisation and monotony. It merely implies a consistency of principles,ambitions and values to build upon so that different efforts add up, are relevant to each other and compete constructively with each other, to establish the conditions for progress rather than pursuing contradictory efforts that battle over fundamentals. This is the idea of a unified style; initially as a unified avant-garde design-research programme, and eventually as a unified system of principles, ambitions and values that constitute global best practice.
The new generation
The consistency of the style as a collective design-research programme depends upon the unfailing adherence to the strictures and impositions of parametricism. The good news is that a whole generation of young architects is already adhering to this.
Many theorists – like Charles Jencks, for example – presume that the demise of modernism ushered in an era of stylistic pluralism. Accordingly, the search for a new, unified style is seen as an anachronism. Any style today – so it seems – can only be one among many other simultaneously operatingstyles, thus adding one more voice to the prevailing cacophony of voices. The idea of a pluralism of styles is just one symptom of the more general trivialisation and denigration of the concept of style. I repudiate the complacent acceptance (and even celebration) of the apparent pluralism of styles as a supposed sign of our times. A unified style has many advantages over a condition of stylistic fragmentation. Parametricism aims for hegemony and combats all other styles.
Parametricism's crucial ability to set up continuities and correspondences across diverse and distant elements relies on its principles holding uninterrupted sway. The admixture of a post-modernist, deconstructivist or minimalist design can only disrupt the penetrating and far-reaching parametricist continuity. The reverse does not hold, because there is no equivalent degree of continuity in post-modernist, deconstructivist or minimalist urbanism.In fact, parametricism can take up vernacular, classical, modernist, post-modernist, deconstructivist and minimalist urban conditions, and forge a new network of affiliations and continuities between and beyond any number of urban fragments and conditions.
Preparing for the style war
What are the current styles that must be combated by parametricism? Is there really still some kind of stylistic pluralism, as posited by Jencks? In fact, post-modernism has disappeared, and the contributions and advances of deconstructivism have been incorporated within parametricism. The mainstream has, in fact, returned to a form of pragmatic modernism with a slightly enriched palette; a form of eclecticism mixing and matching elements from all modernism's subsidiary styles. The inability of post-modernism and deconstructivism to formulate a new viable paradigm led to the return of modernism in the guise of minimalism as the only consistent, ideologically stringent style that confronts parametricism today. The primary confrontation in the struggle for stylistic hegemony is thus between parametricism and minimalism.
Parametricism claims universal validity.
It cannot be dismissed as eccentric signature work that only fits high-brow cultural icons. Parametricism is able to deliver all the components for a high-performance contemporary life process. All moments of contemporary life become uniquely individuated within a continuous, ordered texture.
The latest built works from Zaha Hadid Architects are much more than experimental manifesto projects; they succeed as highperformance projects in the real world. The Nordpark Cable Railway stations in Innsbruck are a good example. No other style could have achieved this coincidence of adaptive variation to the different site conditions with genotypical coherence across those phenotypical variants. Parametricism is ready to go mainstream. The style war has begun.
Patrik Schumacher is a partner at Zaha Hadid Architects
What is parametricism?
Parametricism implies that all architectural elements and complexes are parametrically malleable. This implies a fundamental ontological shift within the basic, constituent elements of architecture. Instead of classical and modern reliance on rigid geometrical figures – rectangles, cubes, cylinders, pyramids and spheres – the new primitives of parametricism are animate geometrical entities – splines, nurbs and subdivs. These are fundamental geometrical building blocks for dynamical systems like 'hair', 'cloth', 'blobs' and 'metaballs' that react to 'attractors' and can be made to resonate with each other via scripts.
Parametricism aims to organise and articulate the increasing diversity and complexity of social institutions and life processes within the most advanced centre of post-Fordist network society. It aims to establish a complex variegated spatial order, using scripting to differentiate and correlate all elements and subsystems of a design. The goal is to intensify the internal interdependencies within an architectural design, as well as the external affiliations and continuities within complex, urban contexts.
The avoidance of parametricist taboos and adherence to the dogmas delivers complex order for complex social institutions.
Negative principles (taboos)
- Avoid rigid forms (lack of malleability)
- Avoid simple repetition (lack of variety)
- Avoid collage of isolated, unrelated elements (lack of order)
- Avoid rigid functional stereotypes
- Avoid segregative functional zoning
Positive principles (dogmas)
- All forms must be soft
- All systems must be differentiated (gradients) and interdependent (correlations)
- All functions are parametric activity scenarios
- All activities communicate with each other
The parametricist vanguard: educational institutes across the globe
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
UCLA's department of architecture and urban design is the US headquarters of parametricist Greg Lynn. The inventor of 'blob architecture' claims to have developed a new architectural aesthetic via a fresh design sensibility, formed by rhythmic patterns created by the possibilities of infinitesimal geometric calculations. www.aud.ucla.edu
Architectural Association (AA), London
The AA's Design Research Laboratory (DRL) was founded in 1998 by AA director Brett Steele and Patrik Schumacher (AJ 21.02.08). The DRL is 'dedicated to exploring the possibilities of today's highly distributed digital design networks and tools'. It's also known as 'Zaha boot camp' because of its connection with the founder of parametric urbanism, Zaha Hadid, who often recruits from the DRL. www.aaschool.ac.uk/aadrl
Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC), USA
SCI-Arc is a centre of innovation established to transform technological and cultural paradigms into the practice of architecture. A selection of SCI-Arc research projects were shown earlier this year at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, during an exhibition called 'Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum'. Artists, architects and designers were invited to imagine the interventions they would make in Frank Lloyd Wright's spiralling rotunda. www.sciarc.eduSerena Valietti
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Readers' comments (37)
and what will be the death of parametricism?:
superlatives and absolutes
oh, and materials scarcity.
What is it about Germans always trying to start the war? Albeit, this time, relatively harmless, let the style just evolve by itself and the time will tell if parametricism has a long term future. You can't force construction industry into this just like that, it will take a long time. I personally think that it is a scary prospect of the industry being hijacked by a bunch of Rhino scripto-nerds who are probably can't draw simple water proofing detail.
I was going to say that this was a pretty lucid defense of the pretty much indefensible, but the end of the article seemed to trail off a bit. Is it really sensible to say that only parametricism could have produced workable solutions to the Nordpark project?
I think that there are a number of problems with the premise of this article. Patrik seems to be suggesting that Modernism was a style that we got bored of when in fact it was a style whose limitations began to be understood (cold bridging, leaky rooves, aesthetic poverty in the eyes of lay-people. Modernism was also not really a style; it was an attempt to get to grips with the technological and economic fall out from the industrial revolution. If Parametircsm is a 'proper' (epochal in Patrik's words) style rather than a transitional one (like PoMo or Decon) then it has to be borne of a similar urgent necessity to the one that gave rise to Modernism in my humble opinion. Now I'm no tree hugging eco-warrior, but global warming,as well as the
scarcity of fuel and materials is the only 'thing' going in my opinion that compares, in terms of urgency and universality, to the industrial revolution which spawned Modernsim (which is neat because the Industrial Revolution and the Sustainability question are two sides of a very big coin). If we accept that this is indeed the case, then we have to look at the likes of BedZED, the works of people like Baumschlager Eberle, Konrad Frey, The Vales and other Sustainability pioneers as the real harbingers of an epochal style. Parametricsm then turns out to be just another style (and I really like the Nordpark scheme actually) best suited to the high end 'Formula 1' type of market. In fact I think that Zaha Hadid should design the next F1 racing venue if they haven't done so already because that seems to me to be a magnificent fit
so, floors are still flat, doors are still rectangular w/knobs to open/close, walls still separate spaces, stairs/ramps/elevators/etc. still the ways you get around in "parametric" constructions, toilets/urinals/bidets/sinks are stilll...well, you get the idea.
Will this have been possible without the number crunching power of computers and design software, which is the womb that nurtured this child. It does not respond to any of our pressing realities so therefore will never grow up to be any thing further than fashionable.
The idea that the concept of "style" needs to be re-habilitated while conceding that it's the primary way the public understands architecture underlines the main problem within the profession. They could care less about the public.
This article is the most conservative architectural treatis I've recently read in that all the modernist conventions are being upheld. The false dichotomy of either historicism or modernism blows right over the fact that modernism as a style (broadly speaking) is as historicist as any other.
This guy's attempt to institutionalise whatever work his firm does as the go to style of today is as transparent as the false intellectualism of the early modernists. We are modern, eclectic people, and as such ought to to whatever we feel like. If only architects as professionals would get over their fear of being tradespeople, we might actually produce buildings people care about. It's no wonder European cities have been frozen in time, it's the public's way of acknowledging we can't do anything better. Look back at most architectural commentary of the last 300 years, and the evolution of whatever style was in vogue was always refered to as modern. To me, it's just another used car salesman pitch.
Style is a relatively recent and historical term - it was not, for instance, something that was self-applied by practitioners of classical or baroque architecture as noted above.
There's no point in claiming a style of today for any reason other than glory or megalomania.
Architects should simply work in whatever manner is suitable for the project. Historians can worry about style.
Take a chill pill mate.
Parametricsm is a style that even describing it as the style offering diversity and complexity in fact lacks the DIVERSITY. All projects look the same, only architects between themselves could see slightly noticeable differences and appreciate the sexy flow of the curve, or if it was done with nurbs or subdiv. So what? It does not solve any current problems, but provides a dream for the current graduates of a giant 3D printer (that is actually already exists). And by the way Patrick as soon as it is considered a style - it becomes mainstream and you loose your avant-guard status. It is mainstream already who wants the world filled with Zaha Hadid Architects clones?
And as soon as there was a mention of negative and positive principles seemed like a religious sect of Parametricsm. Scary!
Dear Patrik Schumacher,
"Let the style war begin" seems either offensive to the architects' community or like an impatient attempt to reach "mainstream hegemony" to use your own words.
Twitter is being recognised as a universal tool of communication because everybody can use it after watching a one minute clip. I am not sure, at the time to write this article, that you gave the chance to every architects and designers to understand how they can design in the so-called parametric style.
Zaha Hadid herself has been using a rich palette of architectural vocabularies all along her career, so why should we restrain ourselves to one style?
As historians will notice, the Nordpark Cable Railway combines two very distinctive architectural families, between the aerial part and what happens on the ground. It is a transitional project in term of styles.
Thierry Bidet
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In a Learning 2.0 world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals?
Here's my list of four things I think are most important:
- Valuing and working with company and organization leaders to build a "Culture of Learning" or "Learning Organization" via Peter Senge's Model. Forget being able to launch the next best thing in social networking or Learning 2.0. If this is not a huge part of your company or organization's mission and culture. You may find an uphill battle in introducing change. In my experience companies who work without a "Culture of Learning" often end up making reactionary moves instead of ones built around a vision, achievable goals and a realistic plan. They hire reactionary managers and staff, and at the very worst the company devolves into an environment where 'fires' are contantly fought and nothing new is really developed. How can any group or individual really inspire real change in learning let alone innovate in these types of environments?
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Richard Littlemore | August 14, 2009
By Richard Littlemore • Friday, August 14, 2009 - 12:46
A total of 1,150 different companies and advocacy organizations have participated so far this year in lobbying Congres on climate change, an increase of more than 30 per cent this year alone.
According to records compiled by the Center for Public Integrity, energy interests and heavy industry led the charge, with agri-business coming in with a huge new push to protect or promote the (highly debatable) benefits of biofuels.
The Centre for Public Integrity couldn't attach a dollar figure to the over all lobbying effort, but the Associated Press had already reported that oil and gas lobbyists had spent $44.5 million in lobbying in the first quarter alone - a rate of spending that will shatter last year's record-breaking annual total of $129 million. (Even that number was up 73 per cent over the previous two years.)
Facing legions of lobbyists at work and a faked public outcry at home (see next story), is it any wonder that U.S. legislators have watered down legislation - or simply failed to react to the risks of climate change? They can't hear the scientists over the self-interested and highly choreographed shouting.
OttawaCon replied on Permalink
Lobbying is not monolithic
Included in that number is a lot of pro- lobbying, and an enormous amount of expenditure of lobbying resources on allowance allocation. One of the striking things your piece glosses over is the vast amount of lobbying by the electrical generation industry compared to natural gas interests.
The vast majority of 'oil and gas' lobbying was actually oil, natural gas interests really didn't catch on. Which has led to idea that coal is the only economical and available fuel for generation to go almost unchallenged. The reality is that there may be natural gas reserves than coal in North America. Natural gas emits carbon, but at half the rate per MW, it is probably the best next step - and a heck of a lot closer than 'clean coal' through carbon capture and sequestration - which works better and is cheaper for natural gas anyway.
Richard Littlemore replied on Permalink
Hey Ottawa ....
John Mashey replied on Permalink
Well, if I could wave a magic wand and replace all N. American coal by gas, I'd do it, since gas:
1) Is less CO2-intense for the same MWh.
2) Is generally less bad for local environments. [I grew up in Western PA… there are still mine collapses from ones closed years ago]. less mercuryt is not bad either.
3) Is much more conducive to distributed cogeneration (heat/electricity)
4) Is much more compatible with variable solar/wind, i.e., gas peakers rather than big baseload coal.
5) Is lower on construction cost, and higher on fuel cost … and that's probably good.
RickJames replied on Permalink
The current political system
The current political system is basically legalized bribery and the dems love it more than anybody else. You know what - they could fix it they wanted to but no - they love the lobbyists and the money behind them.
Washington overwhelmed is Washington's fault.
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ANGA was formed because
ANGA was formed because natural gas interests were asleep at the switch during Lieberman-Warner, and ANGA is tiny in comparison to the efforts of EEI. I think total spending for the coal generators (including EEI in that, perahps somewhat unfair) on Waxman-Markey was over $30 million, natural gas just under $3m. Oil was another huge spender, but if you think through the allowance allocation problem, oil and natural gas have fundamentally different interests.
As for natural gas supply forecasts, the emergence of shale gas plays has meant that available and potential supply has exploded in the past 3 years, one reason why natural gas prices are so low, and will likely stay that way. Unfortunately, I can't recall a really good summary that is in the public domain, but this press release from the Potential Gas Committee is a decent capsule (http://www.mines.edu/Potential-Gas-Committee-reports-unprecedented-increase-in-magnitude-of-U.S.-natural-gas-resource-base). This is just the tip of the iceberg too, because NG prices are so low now that no one is exploring some high potential shale plays, nor investing in the pipelines that would service them.
In the interest of intellectual integrity, I will freely admit to being professionally involved in this field - but the bottom line is that the coal interests have been selling a load of hooey on their importance to the near-term energy future.
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The baby can get the Spanish Nationality as Colombia is not recognizing children born abroad to Colombian citizens, but the US does, so if you register his birth, the authorities may consider the child is an US citizen. Anyway, the Civil registry studies each case in particular and may as well grant the Spanish Nationality. It is worth a try.


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Morning Five: 09.10.14 EditionPosted by rtmsf on September 10th, 2014
- As we descend the back end of the calendar year, slowly but certainly inching toward cooler weather and the magical return of college basketball, the 24/7/365 behemoth that is Kentucky Basketball continues to play chess while the rest of its competition is playing checkers. John Calipari announced on Tuesday that he plans to offer a first-of-its-kind scouting combine for NBA personnel to assess his boatload of prep All-Americans in a structured environment (and in lieu of endless in-season scouting visits to practice). Several college football programs do something similar for their future professionals, but these so-called "pro days" typically come after the season has completed but before April's NFL Draft. And if you think there won't be a recruiting component to this October 10-11 event in Lexington, keep dreaming. Coach Cal continues to think creatively, and his success is to show for it.
- The rest of the SEC's basketball programs have enough trouble keeping up with the Caliparis on the recruiting trail as it is, but as CBSSports.com's Gary Parrish notes in this article, a little-known league rule about junior college transfers further limits the SEC's 13 other schools from attracting local players who could have been good fits. Marquette's Jae Crowder — originally from Georgia — is his prime example, citing that the Peach State native and 2012 Big East Player of the Year was precluded from enrolling at any SEC school (including the one in Athens) because he had not spent at least three semesters at his junior college prior to matriculation. It's an exceptionally odd rule — especially in the loosey-goosey SEC — but it is one that limits the talent pool by a sliver and gives other leagues a bit of a competitive advantage in certain instances.
- New Jersey governor Chris Christie hasn't had the best year-plus in his role as the chief executive of the nation's favorite drive-through state, but he may have turned the corner in many sports fans' minds with his announcement this week that the Garden State would allow sports gambling in its race tracks and casinos. This is an obvious last-ditch response to the ongoing implosion of the Atlantic City gaming industry, but the timing of this initiative with the NFL and college football getting under way couldn't be any better from a quick revenue perspective. The NCAA is on record as very much against this, and it's unclear as to the ultimate legality of the directive, but Christie is willing to take a shot at it. Could Jersey finally be on a path to become the East Coast's Vegas through sports gambling? Stay tuned on this one over the next few weeks and as we push on toward the start of college hoops in November.
- While in the legal realm — hey, it's the offseason — the plaintiffs in the Ed O'Bannon name and likeness case announced earlier this week that they would not seek an appeal of any part of district court judge Claudia Wilken's decision that mostly fell in their favor. The NCAA, of course, is appealing the antitrust holding of the decision — the core issue that will require schools to compensate players for the use of their images — so you may be wondering why the winners would even consider an appeal. The reason is because the O'Bannon plaintiffs didn't get everything they were hoping for, but they got enough. Now on to the appellate court…
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Science is a broad term describing a number of fields of study or knowledge. While it can be colloquially used to refer to a number of skills, its usage in this wiki generally refers to the system of discovery and invention based on empirical evidence and experimentation rooted in methodological naturalism. The means by which science is executed is known as the scientific method.
Relationship with religion[edit]
Science has had a long and at times adversarial relationship with religion.
- Galileo affair
- Evolution and climate change denialism is often associated with certain religious beliefs
- Claims that science should limit its inquiries
- Religiously motivated subversion of science education e.g. Scopes Monkey Trial and Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
- Opposition to medical treatments, STD vaccines, blood transfusion (Jehovah's Witnesses).
- Opposition to certain types of research, such as stem cell research.
- Some scientists pledging to more frequently comment on religious debates. [1]
- Many admired scientists were religious
Early origins of science[edit]
Many early scientists believed that the natural world was a "book of nature" which, along side scripture, was part of God's revelation to humans. However, as natural philosophers began using experimentation and systematic investigation, serious omission and errors in both scripture and classical philosophy began to emerge.
"Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written."
"Some people, in order to discover God, read a book. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above and below, note, read. God whom you want to discover, did not make the letters with ink; he put in front of your eyes the very things that he made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?"
"There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures [i.e. natural phenomena] which express his power."
However, to claim that "Christianity invented science" is an over simplification. In a sense, science grew out of religion.
Some commentators believe that science and religion could never be in disagreement, so there is no problem. Francis Collins, a leading geneticist, is one apologist that argues that science and religion are complimentary. Others consider religion and science to address entirely separate issues (i.e. they are nonoverlapping magisteria). However, if a religion claims that miracles occur in an observable manner, we should expect to have reliable evidence of their occurrence.
"For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. Religion, on the other hand, deals only with evaluations of human thought and action: it cannot justifiably speak of facts and relationships between facts."
Only 36.6% of US scientists believe that scientific and religious knowledge is in conflict. [4]
Some literalist fundamentalists claim that science and religion are not compatible because it contradicts their interpretation of scripture. One of the most vocal groups that hold this view are young earth creationists.
Anti-science apologetics[edit]
The primary anti-science claim of apologists is that science cannot provide sufficiently accurate knowledge about reality as it relies on naturalistic methodologies which exclude supernatural explanations.
Another common anti-science claim is that since there are so many things that science doesn't have the answers for, it is incomplete and thus unworthy of belief.
Many people dismiss the findings of science because science "keeps changing", because that supposedly makes it unreliable.
Counter arguments[edit]
Science has proven to be the only consistently reliable method of defining reality. Science, by definition, cannot consider supernatural explanations as they are simply unverifiable assertions. Supernatural explanations have yet to provide any reliable, verifiable information about reality, and hence remain a matter of faith. If a supernatural claim does contain scientifically testable assertions, then those assertions may be tested to see if they hold up in nature. However, even if the tests verify the assertions, the supernatural claim itself will remain unverified until the remaining parts of it that previously had no way of being tested do.
The fact that science doesn't currently have all the answers to every question about life, the universe, and everything certainly doesn't mean that science as a whole is unreliable. Two centuries ago science had very little information (and in many cases none at all) about things like quantum mechanics, dark matter, the age of the universe, etc. However, nowadays we know much more simply because science is constantly progressing. Indeed, the rate of scientific progression seems to increase the more we learn. It's not illogical to expect that we will soon have answers for those questions that Creationists (for example) tout as holes in scientific knowledge.
By contrast, religion does not appear to advance human knowledge in any consistent or reliable way. Most knowledge contained in religions is not unique to the religion and could be considered to be "folk wisdom".
Assumption of no first cause[edit]
- "There is a kind of religion in science . . . every effect must have its cause; there is no First Cause.. . . [5]"
This is a straw man because scientists don't worry about a first cause because it is not something they can investigate. Science needs to be reproducible and one off events are not.
Reproducibility crisis in science[edit]
Commercial pressures on academic scientists are at the point of significantly undermining certain areas of research. Often, published results cannot be reproduced by other scientists and this implies their published conclusions were false. Making unsubstantiated claims is too often rewarded while activities that keep scientists honest are not incentivized. The degree of the problem seems to vary between disciplines, with medical research, cognitive neuroscience and psychology being of particular concern. [6]
- "The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness. As one participant put it, 'poor methods get results'. [7]"
While some scientists agree there is a problem, there is little agreement on how it should be addressed. On major tool for avoid biases is to conduct meta analysis studies that considers the overall picture based on many separate studies that examine the same thing. While the reproducibility problem is significant, various theories like evolution or the Big Bang are unlikely to be overturned.
Apologists like Norman Geisler argue that scientists are not motivated to question theories such as evolution because their funding and reputation depends on its continuity. This is an misunderstanding of how individual scientists actually make discoveries and publish their work.
"One of the most cherished hopes of a scientist is to make an observation that shakes up a field of research. [...] any assumption that a conspiracy could exist among scientists to keep a widely current theory alive when it actually contains serious flaws is completely antithetical to the restless mind-set of the profession."
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Sermones, 68, 6
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ Conflict Between Religion and Science Among Academic Scientists
- ↑ I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist
- ↑ [3]
- ↑ Richard Horton, Offline: What is medicine's 5 sigma?, The Lancet, Volume 385, No. 9976, p1380, 11 April 2015
See also[edit]
- Scientism
- Science can't touch god
- Science is a faith
- Pseudoscience
- Christianity invented science
- Science can answer moral questions
External links[edit]
Dictionary.com entry on science


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Telltale Games has been churning out the episodes of their Sam & Max and Strong Bad series; GameSetWatch talked to Mike Stemmle, LucasArts veteran and current Telltale writer and designer, about the Telltale design process, the veteran-friendly atmosphere (unsurprisingly, the Telltale ranks are full of other LucasArts veterans), and the potentials for non-licensed IP. On the inner workings of Telltale, Stemmle has this to say:
I'm just flabbergasted by the level of smoothness of the production process at Telltale, while keeping the quality up. This isn't sort of "knock it out" game design production here. This is everybody coming together and making sure things get polished. It's not passing bucks around. It's just about everybody working on a project to do about three or four things. When they see something wrong, it's their responsibility to fix it or immediately get in front of somebody who can fix it. It's great. It's full, hands-on programming and designing. I've been exercising my feeble programming chops, my choreography chops, my design chops, my writing chops night and day to get these things together and so does everybody else. Testers come in and do patches and even code on occasion. It is something can do, so we don't have to bother always. It's great.
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Safety and Efficacy of Lean Body Weight-based IV Heparin Dosing in Obese/Morbidly Obese Patients
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01363193
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified May 2013 by Nazareth Hospital.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : June 1, 2011
Last Update Posted : May 14, 2013
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Standard weight-based IV heparin for normal weight patients is based on actual body weight (ABW). However, no well-defined guidelines have been established for patients considered to be obese or morbidly obese. In current practice, the calculated ABW based heparin initial bolus dose and infusion rates are quite high, and therefore often not used for obese/morbidly obese patients for fear of bleeding.
Heparin is distributed in the body approximately the same as blood and does not get distributed to adipose tissue. There are some studies suggesting that lean body weight (LBW) might be a better basis for dosing heparin. LBW is a calculated weight that excludes the weight of fat.
The investigators hypothesize that intravenous heparin dosing based on the Lean body weight of obese/morbidly obese patients would be safe and effective in achieving a therapeutic level of heparin in 24 hours compared to the usual practice in this patient population.
|Condition or disease
|Obesity Morbid Obesity Venous Thromboembolism Atrial Fibrillation Angina Chest Pain
|Drug: Lean Body Weight-based heparin dose
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Unfractionated Heparin has been used as an anticoagulant in various disease states and conditions, such as atrial fibrillation, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary embolism (PE), myocardial infarction, acute coronary syndrome, and peripheral vascular disease. Prior studies have demonstrated that a weight-based heparin (WBH) dosing regimen is superior to a fixed dosing regimen (e.g. 5000 units bolus and 1000 units/hour) in achieving a therapeutic activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) more quickly and with fewer complications (1,2). The importance of achieving anticoagulation to a targeted aPTT range within 24 hours after starting intravenous heparin infusion has demonstrated a therapeutic benefit (1,3,30-31). WBH dosing is now the standard of care for intravenous heparin therapy.
Prior studies have assessed the benefit of WBH utilizing the patients' actual body weight (ABW), but have not significantly considered the issue of dosing and titrating WBH in the obese and morbidly obese (O/MO) patient population (1,16-17, 32). There are few studies that have examined the effect of obesity in heparin dosing, and there are wide variations in how obesity is defined and how (if at all) WBH nomograms based on ABW are adjusted in this patient population (4,12,16-18, 23, 25). In addition, there are but a few case reports addressing WBH-dosing in the O/MO patient population according to a more modern definition of obesity. These limitations make it difficult to apply in the clinical setting (16-18, 21-28). In current practice, ABW-based heparin bolus doses and infusion rates are quite high and therefore often not used for O/MO patients due to fears of over-anticoagulation and of serious bleeding. Studies have in fact reported a higher potential of supratherapeutic aPTT in the bariatrically-challenged population (19, 23-24, 26-27). Therefore, it remains uncertain as to how to optimize intravenous heparin dosing in these patients.
The volume of distribution (Vd) of heparin is similar to blood volume and adipose tissue has little vasculature to account for heparin's distribution (5-11). LBW has recently been proposed to be a better metric for dosing heparin in obese/morbidly obese patients (14-15,20,29,34).
The investigators hypothesize that intravenous heparin (IVH) dosing based on LBW of O/MO patients would be safe and effective in achieving aPTT within 24 hours compared to the usual practice in this patient population. In addition, the investigators postulate that it would be cost-effective since it would reduce the number of blood draws and laboratory tests (13).
This prospective study will involve the departments of emergency medicine, internal medicine (sections of cardiology and critical care), laboratory, nursing, and pharmacy. Those patients who are O/MO according to 2004 World Health Organization (WHO) definition (BMI > 30) (33) and have an IVH order will be enrolled to receive heparin via a LBW-based nomogram.
As a comparison, the investigators will also have the calculated initial bolus and infusion doses that would have been given in a traditional ABW-based treatment algorithm.
A signed consent form from the patients will be obtained in order to use the LBW-based heparin nomogram. In accordance with the standard weight-based heparin protocol and 2008 CHEST guidelines, the modified version of current Mercy Nazareth Hospital (MNH) weight-based heparin protocol will be followed in all other aspects beyond the dosing nomogram. An aPTT tracking form and data collection tool will be utilized to monitor and gather results.
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|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|100 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Assessing Safety and Efficacy of Lean Body Weight-based Intravenous Heparin Dosing in Obese/Morbidly Obese Patients. A Pilot Study
|Study Start Date :
|July 2011
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|December 2014
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|December 2014
- Drug: Lean Body Weight-based heparin dose
For patients who meet the inclusion criteria including body mass index of 30 and greater (and do not have any exclusion criteria), will have intravenous weight-based heparin (unfractionated heparin) dose based on their Lean body weight.
Lean Body Weight is based on the formula by Janmahasatian et al. 2005. Calculated by a computer program; Male = [9270 x weight (kg)] / [6680+216 x BMI] Female = [9270 x weight (kg)] / [8780+244 x BMI]Other Name: unfractionated heparin
- Percent of study patients achieving therapeutic aPTT within first 24 hours on a hospital based IV heparin protocol using Lean Body Weight [ Time Frame: 24 hours ]
- Evaluation of side effects and/or complications during the index hospitalization [ Time Frame: participants will be followed for the duration of hospital stay, usually 7 days or less ]
Evaluation of side effects/complications - bleeding, other events related to heparin therapy such as Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and recurrent thromboembolism during study period.
Study duration/completion - until discontinuation of heparin or discharge from inpatient hospitalization.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
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|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with body mass index greater than or equal to 30
- Patients admitted to Nazareth Hospital inpatient units
- Weight-based intravenous heparin, with a diagnosis of atrial fibrillation, suspected or confirmed deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism, unstable angina or Non ST elevation myocardial infarction with hemodynamic stability, or peripheral vascular disease, ordered at the time of admission/transfer or during the patient stay in the Intensive Care unit or Progressive Care unit.
- Prior permission from the patient's attending physician
- Permission from the physician who ordered the intravenous weight-based heparin (if different from the attending)
- Signed consent form by the patient.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with stroke, TIA, or ST elevation myocardial infarction
- Patients who have hemodynamic or cardiopulmonary instability at the time of intravenous heparin order
- Patients with thrombophilia
- Patients who are pregnant or may be pregnant
- Those patients who have been on any oral anticoagulants (Warfarin, rivaroxaban, dabigatran or apixaban), treatment dose of other anticoagulants or intravenous thrombolytics in previous 7 days.
- Patients who have a PTT greater than 37 seconds.
- History of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia or known allergy to heparin
- Deviation from the Weight-based heparin protocol ordered by a physician at the time intravenous heparin was written (i.e. no bolus dose ordered, different target therapeutic aPTT range, different bolus dose per kg, etc.)
- Informed consent either refused or not obtained
- Objection from a physician caring for the patient
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01363193
|Contact: Rachel J Park, PharmD, BCPS
|Contact: Scott B Chelemer, MD, FCCP
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Twitter seems to let it floW the best these days, at least for me.
April looks like it will be a Diamond of a month.
I thought I would share this little video about Jupiter and Maestro Flores that I did over a year ago.
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Burt Reynolds in Gummo.
"I want a mustache dammit, I want to be Bret Reynolds" says Chloe Sevigny's little sister as her two older blond siblings wash a black cat.
Funny enough the band Poison plays live in 1986 after John Cusack time travels via Hot Tub Time Machine in Hotel room 420.
This and his appearance alongside Seth Green while searching for DB's treasure in Without A Padlle had me looking at Mr Reynolds' singular poster lineup.
Singular as in awesome syncs, hilarious testosterone fueled mayhem and probably the biggest collection of films I had never heard of..
Some choice picks:
Come and get him.
Come and get him.
Jim put this up on Twitter yesterday..
I don't even want to know....
I don't even want to know....
My most memorable Burt film is smoKEY and the Bandit. Jackie Gleason is seen below using his Jupiter Finger to point to Burt. Jack always brings me back to the Jupiter Jack phone sync.
I like how the word BANDIT can spell BAD TIN. Tin being interchangeable with Jupiter as they share the same alchemical sign. This is also fitting as the logo for the Bandit is a Phoenix/Eagle which connects back to Jupiter as well.
The Jack Key Gleason Jupiter finger reminds me of the commercial I saw tonight on TV for the show Glee which starts up again April 13th. The symbol seems to be a hand making the L shape for Loser, which is also a Jupiter Finger pointing UP.
The Jupiter Finger is also replacing the L and therefore the word can say Gee or G as well.
G for me now symbolizes balance as 7 is a balanced pH.
Makes me think of the film The Losers coming out on 4/23.
The Losers is Theo L'sers. Or Jupiter G people.
The metal Tin shares its Alchemical symbol with that of Jupiter making them resonators.
The Men of The Tin Star (Good/God guys) and the BandiT/BadTin (Devil) are masks of Jupiter.
In Bandits aka BadTins we see Cate Blanchett and Billy Bob Thornton, both also Pushers of Tin!?


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Pediatricians often prescribe antibiotics for ear pain but bacterial infections aren't necessarily the culprit. Earaches can also be caused by viruses or allergies. NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman reports.
By Kristina Krohn, NBC News
Every parent worries about ear infections, often turning to the first line of defense: antibiotics. But according to new recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued on Monday, doctors now say to hold off on the antibiotics for children older than six months.
"The goal is to improve the diagnosis and make sure that we preserve the healing power of antibiotics by using them judiciously in kids who benefit most. And conversely, giving kids who don't need them the opportunity to improve on their own," said Dr. Richard Rosenfeld a pediatric otolaryngologist at SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
Ear infection symptoms are the main reason doctors prescribe antibiotics to children. While every parent wants their children to feel better as quickly as possible, the AAP stresses antibiotics may not be the answer.
According to the new guidelines, children over six months old with earaches should get antibiotics if:
- They have a history of frequent ear infections
- Their fever is higher than 102.2
- Their pain lasts longer than two days
- They have a bulging ear drum
Without these symptoms, an earache is mostly likely caused by a virus, allergies, even teething. In these cases, it is safe to put off seeing the doctor and taking antibiotics.
In these cases, the AAP encourages doctors and families to watch the child closely for improvement for 48 to 72 hours before giving antibiotics. Parents should give a child pain relievers (acetaminophen or ibuprofen based on the child's age -- never Aspirin). If symptoms gets worse parents should not hesitate to go to their doctor.
Dr. Richard Rosenfeld, a pediatric otolaryngologist at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, says other than the common cold ear infections are the number one reason parents take their children to pediatricians. He also said the bottom line for parents is be sure your doctor is making an accurate diagnosis before they treat an ear infection, and explore the opportunity for observation as well as talking about preventive strategies.
For children with multiple ear infections, tubes implanted in the ear can help drain fluid while also allowing air into the middle ear to ward off future infections.
But what can parents do to prevent their children from getting ear infections in the first place?
- Ensure children are up to date on their vaccines and get influenza and pneumococcal vaccines as soon as they are eligible
- Exclusively breast feed up to six months of age
- Avoid exposing children to tobacco smoke


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These are my red chopsticks. They are world travelers! Among a few other treasures - my paper lanterns and prayer flags from Tibet, an intricately dyed and embroidered green batik from South China, coins, my photo albums (I didn't have a digital camera at the time) and a few special items that I bought for my first apartment - I brought my chopsticks home with me.
I love my collection of chopsticks, and I wish I'd bought a few more while I was there. I have a few fancy ones, given to me as gifts from my students, and my everyday ones similar to what I ate with in the Chinese households to which I had the honor of being invited to dinner, but these red ones are some of my favorites. I even wear them in my hair (not these exact ones, I have more than one set for different uses).
Ask my friend Jessica, and she'll tell you that I wanted to bring everything home with me when we returned to the States. My towels. My bathroom rug. Even my flowered plastic trash can. It was my first place, after all, and everything was special to me. But after much indecision and a lot of restraint, I limited what I brought home to just two jam-packed suitcases that flew back with me on the plane (this was when you were allowed to pack them up to 70 pounds each), and two boxes that I shipped back. (Now, it's very hard to imagine all of my belongings fitting into two suitcases and two boxes!) From my kitchen, I kept just two dishes that I had bought, a green coffee cup and a smaller green cup with a matching saucer. Amazingly, they didn't break on the journey home.
Last night, I pulled out the box containing little colorful silk purses from the Pearl Market in Beijing, my coins and paper money (including a counterfeit 20 yuan bill that I didn't know was a fake until I tried to spend it!), a few trinkets from Tibet. A glass Coca-Cola bottle from a dinner out with friends. Various business and hotel cards, as well as my coffee shop punch card and even my Bank of China card.
Some people might consider all this junk. And maybe it is. But these are my treasures and they carry so many memories. They tell a story of another life, and even though I may never go back, I don't want to lose something that was such a significant part of me. And after all, it's just one little box of stuff, so I don't think I'm in any danger of becoming a hoarder. :)
Jamie and I make stir-fry for dinner just about every other week. It's healthy and quick to prepare on a weeknight, and we can vary it up with chicken, beef or shrimp, and any kind of veggies we want. I've never written down how I make it, but to share it with all of you, I jotted the recipe down last night. I like it a little spicy, so I'm pretty liberal with the chili garlic sauce, but go easy on that if the stuff scares you. This recipe can easily be tailored for many kinds of veggies and meat, so really this is just a starting point for your favorite combination of flavors.
I've made it many times before without adding cornstarch, but then there's a lot of flavorful liquid left in the bottom of the wok, so using the cornstarch will thicken everything up into a delicious sauce that coats all those wonderful vegetables so that you don't lose any flavor.
And the little rice pyramid... that was just for fun. Because food should be pretty - even simple and plain brown rice.
Shrimp and Veggie Stir Fry
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- 1 pound raw shrimp, thawed
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 4 tablespoons light or low-sodium soy sauce, divided
- 2 teaspoons chili garlic sauce, divided
- 1/4 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
- salt and pepper
- 2 broccoli florets, cut into bite-sized pieces
- 1/2 red onion, sliced
- 8 Baby Bella mushrooms, quartered (or your favorite mushroom)
- 2 cups (or a large handful) snow peas, trimmed
- 1 bell pepper, seeds and ribs removed, cut into bite-sized pieces
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
Peel and clean the shrimp, rinse well with cool water and place in a bowl. Add the cornstarch, 2 tablespoons soy sauce, 1 teaspoon chili garlic sauce and sesame oil. Add a pinch of salt and pepper, and toss to coat well. Set aside to marinate while you prepare the vegetables.
When the vegetables are prepped, heat the remaining 2 tablespoons soy sauce, 1 teaspoon chili garlic sauce and 2 tablespoons oil in a wok over medium high heat. Add all the vegetables and a little salt and pepper (don't over-salt the dish - remember that even light/low-sodium soy sauce still contains a good amount of salt) and cook, stirring frequently, for about 10 minutes until the vegetables are crisp-tender and still have a bright green color.
Add the shrimp and cook, stirring frequently, until the shrimp are cooked through, approximately 5 minutes. Remove wok from the heat and finish the dish by sprinkling with the rice vinegar.
Serve with white or brown rice.
Yields 4 servings.


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About a week or so ago I applied to be an independent contractor for The Examiner. I was contacted by them on Friday and now I am the Columbus Gluten-Free Food Examiner! How exciting is that? I am so excited! I love sharing all of my fun tips, recipes and finds here with you all. This will be a great opportunity to really focus on areas of Columbus that I haven't been able to focus on so far and share even more with you all! I have already been brainstorming on all kinds of things to write about. I can't wait to get started! Oh, by the way, I just published my first article on gluten-free grocery shopping in Columbus, Ohio. Stop by & take a peek! 🙂
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By Lewis Krauskopf
NEW YORK, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Americans have only a few more days to sign up for insurance plans created under President Barack Obama's healthcare law to ensure coverage starts on Jan. 1, a deadline that could triple demand and strain enrollment systems.
The expected rush could also encounter a new complication, as a handful of states have extended their sign-up deadline past the Dec. 23 date set by the federal government, adding an extra element of confusion for consumers.
More than 500,000 people have signed up for the new coverage under Obamacare, as the law is popularly known, according to a Reuters tally of reports from state and federally run exchanges.
The pace of sign-ups has accelerated since October and November, when technical problems crippled the federal HealthCare.gov enrollment website, but is still far behind the Obama administration's goal of providing insurance to millions of people by the end of March.
"They stepped all over the first two months of the enrollment period. Now I think there's this big effort to give people as much flexibility as they can to sign up for coverage effective Jan 1," said Karen Pollitz, senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation. "The downside is there could be more confusion. The upside is that many more people could get in under the wire."
The administration has made late adjustments to help ensure people who need benefits on Jan. 1 will not face a gap in health coverage. It has even urged insurers to allow retroactive coverage for people who enroll after Jan. 1, while the deadline to pay for coverage depends on where enrollees live.
The government is still saying that consumers should sign up by the Dec. 23 deadline to ensure coverage starts at the new year - a point made by pro-Obama group Organizing for Action to the more than 40 million Twitter followers of @BarackObama. It also has some leeway under the law to allow sign-ups past that date should there be major technical problems with the exchange.
Last week, the administration said that nearly 2 million people have been determined eligible for coverage but not yet selected a health plan, providing some sense of how many consumers are still considering signing up under the Affordable Care Act, which was passed in 2010 and opened for enrollment on Oct. 1.
HealthCare.Gov, which consumers in 36 states rely on, is intended to accommodate 800,000 users a day. Any overflow is supposed to be handled by a queuing system, where visitors wait for traffic to clear.
The government has bolstered its training and staffing at 17 call centers in anticipation of a last-minute rush, adding 800 new agents to its ranks of more than 12,000 people, a senior administration official said.
"Many people tend to have questions and act when you come up against a deadline," said Julie Bataille, a spokeswoman for the agency overseeing the federal marketplace.
Several of the 14 states that are running their own exchanges say they have added capacity to their computer systems, or extended hours or increased staffing at call centers, where the volume of calls has risen this month more than some expected.
Some state-run marketplaces are already pointing to a spike in sign-ups. Covered California, which signed up 109,000 people during October and November combined, said on Thursday that 53,510 had enrolled in three days alone this week.
That includes 20,500 enrollees on Wednesday, a figure that Covered California executive director Peter Lee said he thought would be "greatly exceeded on the 23rd."
Kentucky's kynect exchange at the start of December added servers and made other technical refinements to boost capacity on the website by more than 80 percent. Last week, Kentucky enrolled 5,433 in private plans - a jump of one-third of all the enrollment the exchange had reported up to that point.
Washington's state exchange, Washington Healthplanfinder, last week saw the number of unique visitors to its website jump to 30,000 at one point, more than double prior levels. Such volume could triple as the deadline approaches, said Michael Marchand, director of communications for the Washington Health Benefit Exchange.
"Our biggest concern is volume, being able to meet the demand we're going to see," Marchand said.
Another concern, Marchand said, is whether some last-minute applicants put in erroneous information, leaving the exchange to sort out the data so coverage begins smoothly on Jan 1.
Ensuring that data from new members is accurately transmitted to insurers will be critical over the next few weeks, said Ron Williams, former chief executive of Aetna Inc , one of the largest U.S. health insurers.
"The biggest challenge is just the reconciliation of the exchange enrollment process," Williams said. "It's aligning what the consumer believes has happened with what has actually happened."
Aetna's chief financial officer, Shawn Guertin, said the insurer has set staff levels in preparation for much higher enrollment than has so far occurred. But he said that while volumes are up since Nov. 30, "they still are quite low in absolute terms."


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- 1 (12-ounce) tuna steak, poached
- 1/2 minced yellow onions
- 3 hard boiled eggs, chopped
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1 tablespoon sweet pickle relish
- 1/4 to 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- Salt and black pepper
- 8 thin slices of white bread, toasted
- 4 (1-ounce) slices of medium Cheddar cheese
- 4 (1/2-inch) slices of Creole tomatoes
- 1 avocado
- 2 cups Cole slaw, purchased or homemade
- 4 bags of Zapís Potato Chips
- 4 pickle spears
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Crumble the tuna into a mixing bowl. Add the onions, eggs, garlic, and relish. Mix thoroughly. Season the mixture with salt and pepper. Stir in enough mayonnaise to moisten the salad and according to taste. Reseason the salad with salt and pepper. Spread a quarter of the salad over four pieces of bread and place on a baking sheet. Top each salad with a piece of cheese. Place the sheet in the oven and cook for a couple of minutes or until the cheese melts. Season the tomato slices with salt and pepper. Peel and remove the pit from the avocado. Slice the avocado into 1/4-inch slices. Season the avocado with salt and pepper. Top the melted cheese with the tomatoes, avocados and remaining slices to toasted bread. Place each sandwich on a plate and cut in half. Garnish the sandwiches with the Cole slaw, chips, and pickles.
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HAVELOCK � It won�t be like the shootout at the O.K. Corral and it won�t be like singing �Kumbaya� arou
HAVELOCK � It won�t be like the shootout at the O.K. Corral and it won�t be like singing �Kumbaya� around the bonfire, but what Craven County and Havelock officials hope to do next week is at least talk to each other.
�I hope that we can have some open dialogue,� said Havelock Mayor Jimmy Sanders, who will attend the meeting. �A lot of times without the glare of the light you can sit and talk and be a little more candid with one another about what our expectations are and hopefully we can come together a little more than what we currently are.�
Havelock City Manager Jim Freeman said the press and the public aren�t invited to the meeting Monday at the Havelock Tourist and Event Center. He said the city and county boards of commissioners would not have quorums, meaning the meeting is not subject to open meetings laws.
However, the meeting does have an agenda, which is wide-ranging and in many cases addresses who is going to pay for what.
Among the issues to be discussed is the congregate meals program that the county cut at the Havelock and Godette senior centers and new computers for the Havelock library, a plan for which calls for the purchase of a Linux computer system for all county libraries.
�I�m for doing the best I can for the senior meals and I�m also for providing money for new computers for the library,� said Craven County Commissioner Theron McCabe, who is scheduled to attend the meeting. �It�s a good thing that the city and the county commissioners can get along to discuss some of these issues.�
McCabe, who represents eastern Craven County and parts of Havelock on the Craven County Board of Commissioners, said he isn�t optimistic about the meeting but believes a dialogue between Havelock and the county is a good thing.
Havelock officials are expected to address recreation costs, saying an estimated 40 percent of people using city-paid programs are actually Craven County residents, not Havelock residents.
Havelock officials are also concerned about funding for Havelock rescue and ambulances, which serve eastern Craven County to include the Adams Creek and Harlowe areas to Carolina Pines, Stately Pines and Catfish Lake Road outside the city limits.
Funding for school resource officers that are provided by the Havelock Police Department is also expected to be addressed.
Havelock officials plan to seek county funds for a one-time courtroom security measure that will be required in the construction of the new Havelock City Hall, where the meeting hall is used as a county courtroom twice per month.
Havelock officials also believe that they are not getting a fair share of Tourist Development Authority funding for the Havelock Tourist and Event Center.
Ownership of the defunct 34-acre Phoenix Recycling site will be discussed. The site is in the county, yet Havelock officials have spearheaded an effort to clean up the area, which is located near Tucker Creek Middle School. More than a decade�s worth of back taxes are owed on the property, yet the county has declined to foreclose for fear of being liable for cleanup costs, estimated to be as high as $7 million.
The two sets of officials will also be considering the transfer of between 50 and 200 county water customers over to the Havelock water system.
Sanders has asked that the county�s electronics recycling program policy be discussed. Currently, Havelock collects old televisions and computers, but the county has refused to accept them. The program costs the city about $16,900.


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OK, we know some view marriage as a "death" of sorts. But one man took things a little too far.
Tucker Blandford, 23, apparently faked his own death to avoid marrying fiancee Alex Lancaster on Aug. 15, according to the Daily Mail.
The two met in August 2012 while she was attending college in Connecticut.
They fell quickly in love, and Blandford proposed before Lancaster, who is also 23, was set to return home to the UK. She said yes.
The couple began planning a wedding in Connecticut, with Lancaster spending money on a dress, invitations and even flights for Blandford so they could see each other.
But a few months ago, Lancaster got a phone call from a man claiming to be Blandford's father.
"He told me Tucker had been deeply depressed and wanted to die, so had thrown himself in front of a car," Lancaster told Yahoo! News UK. "The man explained that they had been trying to send Tucker off to a psychiatric unit for help. But it was too late. I couldn't breathe. It was absolutely devastating."
When she called the family back a short time later, Blandford's mom answered and said her son was alive and well. She thought the two had split up, and it turns out, Blandford had never even booked the venue for their nuptials.
"I'm a terrible, awful person. I know I shouldn't have told her I was dead, but I didn't know what else to do," Blandford told the Daily Mail.