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Franklin County Schools Assistant Superintendent for Business and Finance, Doug Moore, told NC Policy Watch that 2013 is not the first year they've had to cut teacher assistant positions.
"Really this has been going on for the past five years or so," said Moore. "Over that time we've had to cut around 23 teacher assistant positions through attrition."
Moore said that Franklin County will also have to make cuts to instructional supplies –again, a trend over the past five years or so—and other areas, but they are still working through identifying where they'll have to make the cuts.
Franklin County joins a growing list of school districts that have been forced to make difficult cuts as the 2013-14 school year approaches.
While the debate rages on about whether or not North Carolina's General Assembly actually made damaging cuts to public schools with the 2013-15 budget, NC Policy Watch is keeping a running tally of education funding cuts that local school districts are coping with as they open up for the 2013-14 academic year.
The list below links to stories in local media that detail the funding cuts at the school district level. The information in these stories is subject to change. This list will be continually updated; if you have a report to add, please email [email protected]
- 17 teaching positions lost;
- 35 teacher assistant positions lost;
- 2 assistant principal positions lost;
- 3 directors lost;
- 4 student-support psychologist positions lost;
- $1.6 million in cuts for classroom supplies, technology and staff development [The Times News]
Brunswick County:
- 19 teacher assistant positions lost;
- Instructional supplies reduced by $48,407; planning to restore with local funds. However, the per pupil amount will likely decrease slightly because we have the same amount of funding and anticipate more students. [Officials from Brunswick County Public Schools]
Buncombe County:
- 24 teacher assistants lost;
- Teacher assistants who remain will face reduced hours and days on the job. [Black Mountain News]
Burke County
- $1.35 million budget reduction;
- 43.5 teaching positions eliminated;
- 2 instructional support positions eliminated. [The News Herald]
Cabarrus County:
- In May, the system laid off 129 teacher assistant positions; they have been able to restore only 22, resulting in a loss of 107 teacher assistants. [The Hickory Record]
Caldwell County:
- 43 teaching positions lost;
- 30 teacher assistant positions lost;
- 2 instructional support positions lost;
- Class sizes will increase from one to three students per class;
- Funding for textbooks was cut by 77 percent, a $634,000 reduction;
- Funding for instructional supplies – which covers basic supplies such as paper and pencils – was cut by 51 percent, a reduction of $374,000. [The News-Topic]
Camden County:
- Camden will lose funding for six teaching positions and four teacher assistant positions;
- Superintendent Hawkins said he plans to fund his district's teaching and teacher assistant positions that the state will not be paying for this year. [The Daily Advance]
Charlotte-Mecklenberg Schools
- 220 teacher assistant positions lost;
- Reduced hours and days for teacher assistants;
- Reduction for instructional supplies. [CMS 2013-14 Budget Report]
Cleveland County
- 50-60 teaching positions will likely be eliminated;
- 30 teacher assistant positions eliminated;
- Dozens of teacher assistants should expect reduced hours. [Shelby Star]
Clinton City Schools:
- 10 teacher positions lost;
- $238k reduction in teacher assistant funding; and
- 51% reduction in funding for instructional supplies.
- The Clinton City Board of Education has not yet decided if local funds can plug some of the holes. [The Sampson Independent]
Craven County:
- 5 teacher assistants will be laid off;
- Additional 19 percent funding reduction for jobs next year and a spending freeze on all teacher assistant positions [WCTI12.com]
Cumberland County:
- 111 teacher assistant positions cut;
- $230,000 cut for instructional supplies. [Fayetteville Observer]
Edenton-Chowan Schools:
- Facing a reduction in state funding of $831,385;
- May cut as many as 8½ teaching positions;
- May cut 8 teacher assistant positions;
- Also faces a 50 percent reduction in funding of classroom materials — it received $132,631 last year, versus $64,926 this year;
- 78 percent reduction in funding of textbooks. [The Daily Advance]
Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Schools:
- 19.5 teaching positions cut;
- 14 teacher assistant positions cut;
- One instructional support position cut;
- $4,000 in funds used for the English as a Second Language program cut for 2013-14. [The Daily Advance]
Franklin County
- 23 teacher assistant positions lost over the past five years;
- Cuts to instructional supplies and other areas TBD
Gaston County
- 50 teacher assistant positions will be eliminated, on top of 50 lost teacher assistant positions cut last year. [Gaston Gazette]
Guilford County:
- No TAs cut in exchange for all 1,300 teacher assistants losing 7 paid workdays. [News & Record]
Iredell-Statesville Schools:
- 46 teaching positions eliminated
- 60 teacher assistant positions eliminated [Hickory Daily Record]
Onslow County:
- 169 positions will not be funded for teachers, teacher assistants and instructional support. [WITN.com]
Nash-Rocky Mount Schools:
- 40 teacher assistant positions eliminated. [Rocky Mount Telegram]
Perquimans County:
- 6.5 teaching positions lost;
- 5 teacher assistants lost;
- Funding of classroom materials cut to $52,548. Perquimans had been planning on receiving about $107,000, based on student enrollment projections for the upcoming year;
- Textbook funding will also be reduced to $26,000. [The Daily Advance]
Randolph County:
- All teacher assistants will take a 6% reduction in salaries next year;
- The county will also use remaining textbook funding to try to cover remediation and staff development;
- Instructional supplies will take a hit. [The Courier-Tribune]
Roanoke Rapids Graded School District
- 12 teaching positions eliminated. [The Daily Herald]
Rowan-Salisbury Schools:
- More than 80 positions will be lost;
- $600,000 cut to instructional supplies. [Salisbury Post]
Scotland County
- 45 teacher assistant positions eliminated, which includes 25 layoffs;
- All TAs will see their salaries reduced to 82 percent of what they would normally receive;
- Other bookkeeping, custodial and finance positions will be eliminated. [The Laurinburg Exchange]
Stanly County
- Teacher assistants hours cut by 30 minutes each day;
- Four teacher assistant positions will be eliminated;
- One custodian position and one receptionist position will be eliminated
- Textbooks will be reduced by $75,000. [The Stanly News and Press]


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As execution drugs grow short, states scramble on capital punishment
c. 2014 USA Today
(RNS) Prison guards meet in the desert to hand off chemicals for executions. A corrections boss loaded with cash travels to a pharmacy in another state to buy lethal sedatives. States across the country refuse to identify the drugs they use to put the condemned to death.
This is the curious state of capital punishment in America today.
Manufacturers are cutting off supplies of lethal injection drugs because of opposition to the death penalty, and prison officials are scrambling to make up the deficit—sharing drugs, buying them from under-regulated pharmacies or using drug combinations never employed before in putting someone to death.
At the same time, growing numbers of states are ending capital punishment altogether. Others are delaying executions until they have a better understanding of what chemicals work best. And the media report blow-by-blow details of prisoners gasping, snorting or crying out during improvised lethal injection, taking seemingly forever to die.
Legal challenges across this new capital punishment landscape are flooding courts, further complicating efforts by states that want to keep putting people to death.
"I've done everything I can do to carry out the executions that have been ordered in my state, and if somebody has an idea of how we can do that, I'd like to hear it," says Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel.
Arkansas has 33 people on death row, no executions since 2005 and a death penalty sidelined last month by a state judge complaining that the Arkansas law for lethal injection isn't clear about what drugs should be used.
"I don't know where it will all end up," says an exasperated McDaniel. "I know that in the near future we will see more litigation. We will see fewer executions. We will see states scrambling to come up with alternative methods. And there will be a lot of finger-pointing."
The number of executions in the U.S. has decreased from nearly 100 in 1999 to 39 last year; death sentences fell 75 percent, from 315 in 1996 to 80 in 2013.
Pressures on the death penalty are myriad, say those who study it. Juries are less willing to dispense it, and prosecutors less likely to seek it. More states are choosing to abandon it.
"There's been quite a radical change," says Richard Dieter, executive director of the non-profit Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington-based clearinghouse for information and an opponent of executions.
And while a majority of Americans still support capital punishment, according to Gallup surveys, that 60 percent is the lowest number since 1972. Meanwhile, 3,000 people linger on death rows nationwide.
The biggest hurdle in recent years has been a very practical one—in a nation in which the overwhelming method of execution is via lethal injection, corrections officials are having difficulty getting their hands on the drugs they need.
The result is improvisation. The first four people put to death this year—one each in Florida, Oklahoma, Ohio and Texas—were killed four different ways with various combinations of drugs.
Ohio executed Dennis McGuire, who raped and murdered a pregnant woman in 1989, with a cocktail of the anti-seizure medicine midazolam and the opioid hydromorphone.
No state had ever tried this combination before. It took 26 minutes for McGuire to die. Media reports described him as snorting, arching his back, clenching his arms, hands and shoulders and appearing to gasp for air.
His family complained that this was a case of cruel and unusual punishment. Three weeks later, Ohio Gov. John Kasich postponed the next scheduled execution for eight months while the state tries to figure out what happened in McGuire's death.
Supporters of the death penalty say the dispute over lethal injection is purely political.
"There are anesthesiologists across the country rolling their eyes," says Scott Burns, executive director of the National District Attorneys Association. "This isn't about obtaining the drugs or cruel and unusual punishment. This is about those opposed to the death penalty coming up with yet another issue to try to halt, delay or continue the debate."
For many years, states uniformly relied on a so-called "three-drug protocol" to execute prisoners, beginning with an anesthetic to render the condemned unconscious, then a muscle relaxant to keep them still and, finally, a chemical to stop the heart.
Five years ago, drugmakers and pharmacies that sell them—particularly those in Europe, where capital punishment is anathema—began cutting off production or were barred from exporting drugs for U.S. executions.
The sedative sodium thiopental, used for decades in lethal injections, no longer was available. The Danish-based manufacturer of a fallback drug, the fast-acting anesthetic pentobarbital, blocked its sale for capital punishment.
State correction officials were left begging and borrowing, some hoarding what they had and refusing to share.
"We keep beating the bushes," then-Kentucky corrections official Phil Parker e-mailed in 2010. "Perhaps some pharmacy somewhere has some on the shelve (sic)."
Court documents and media public-records requests reveal an almost Wild West frenzy.
California launched a "secret mission" to swap some of its muscle relaxant for vials of Arizona's sodium thiopental in 2010. A team of California guards, picking up "the package" from Arizona, shuttled it north on Interstate 5, handing it off in the San Joaquin Valley to a second team that took it to San Quentin's Death Row.
Scott Kernan, a California prison executive at the time, exulted over the mission's success in an e-mail that became grist for Comedy Central's Colbert Report: "You guys in AZ are life savers. By (sic) you a beer next time I get that way."
Elsewhere, Mississippi officials explored obtaining sedatives from a veterinary school. Kentucky discussed how to mask the purpose of ordered drugs to avoid "ethics or moral concerns."
More recently, Missouri corrections officer Dave Dormire testified that he personally delivered $11,000 to a pharmacy he found in the Yellow Pages for testing and purchasing of pentobarbital.
"I take them cash," he told lawyers suing to block an execution in January.
Texas, the most prolific death penalty state, modified its three-drug protocol in 2011 and switched to one drug in 2012, all because of shortages, says corrections spokesman Jason Clark. "A single, lethal dose of pentobarbital is now administered," he said.
But the Associated Press says the state will run out of that barbiturate by the end of this month, with three executions slated for April. Clark says officials are looking for more drugs.
Oklahoma solves the problem of embarrassed pharmacies by buying drugs with cash, avoiding a paper trail. "It was one way we could expend cash and help hide the identify of people we are paying money to," says Jerry Massie, an Oklahoma corrections spokesman.
Seven states have passed laws in recent years to keep drug providers secret. Missouri makes them part of its "execution team," an already confidential group.
"So it makes it really virtually impossible for a death sentence prisoner to know how he or she will be executed," says Megan McCracken, a legal consultant with the Death Penalty Clinic at Berkeley Law at the University of California.
Meanwhile, the roster of death penalty states keeps shrinking. New York, New Jersey, New Mexico, Illinois, Connecticut and Maryland have abolished the death sentence in the past seven years. Thirty-two states still have it, but courts in Georgia, Arkansas,Tennessee and Louisiana have halted it amid questions about lethal injection. Governors in Washington, Colorado and Oregon have suspended executions.
California, always deliberate about capital punishment, did not resume executions until 1992, 16 years after restrictions on the state's death penalty were lifted. It has since put 13 people to death and has 731 on death row, more than any other state. While wrestling with a proper lethal injection protocol, however, California has not carried out an execution in eight years.
State legislators in New Hampshire and Missouri have suggested reinstating earlier forms of execution such as electrocution or firing squad. But Arkansas' McDaniel doubts the public would want to reverse a trend toward what many view as more humane methods.
"The euthanasia element of lethal injection," he said, "has allowed the public to temper their desire for the ultimate justice with their delicate sensibilities."

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Charles Grodin (b. 1935) is a comic actor and author who has appeared in many movies, including Midnight Run and Beethoven.
1981: Played lead villain Nicky Holiday in The Great Muppet Caper.
1990: Guest star in The Muppets at Walt Disney World as another bumbling villain, Quentin Fitzwaller, the Walt Disney World security guard.
1994: Appeared as wealthy apartment seeker Chas (opposite Susan Sarandon as Bitsy) in Stars and Street Forever
1990s: Miss Piggy appeared on Grodin's MSNBC talk show.[cite]
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Faulty headline noted
Kennedy camp reigns in Bloomberg adviser Kevin Sheekey's Senate seat lobbying efforts
(Headline on a New York Daily News article)
Oops. That should be "reins", not "reigns." Reins are the long straps on a horse's bridle that a rider uses to guide and control the horse. When a rider reins in a horse, he brings it to a stop, as the Kennedy camp would like to do with Kevin Sheekey.
A monarch reigns. After all the recent talk about the Kennedy dynasty and the entitlement to public office that the Kennedys supposedly feel, I wonder if the headline writer made a Freudian slip.
The NY Daily News article tells of efforts to "muzzle" Kevin Sheekey, who is described as New York City Mayor Bloomberg's "pitbull." Caroline Kennedy's advisers are afraid that Sheekey's high-pressure advocacy is hurting her bid for Hillary Clinton's soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat. The advisers are trying to rein in Sheekey's efforts.
Perhaps the headline writer didn't read Zane Grey westerns as a child. In Grey's fiction, cowboys reined in their horses nearly as often as they pulled out their guns. An example:
The cowboy reined in his horse, listened a moment, then swung down out of the saddle. He raised a cautioning hand to the others, then slipped into the gloom and disappeared.
(from page 54 of Desert Gold by Zane Grey)
On the frontiers of Zane Grey fiction, it didn't rain much. If anyone reigned, it was the cowboys. They had firm control of the reins.


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Hello neighbors!
For those who havent heard, were having a Mega event!!
Maritime Mega II Caching the Capital (GC3QME4) will be held in Fredericton, New Brunswick on Saturday, July 20th, 2013. It is the first Mega Event held in New Brunswick and we, the MM2 Organizing Committee, are very excited to be hosting and bringing you to our wonderful caching city.
We will be having satellite events starting Thursday, July 18th so you may want to plan ahead and come early. Try your hand at Funky Bowling, take a kayak or canoe trip down the St. John River, spend the morning at Clay Café painting your own artwork or have a blast lazily tubing down the Nashwaak River. Well be having a complimentary BBQ (donations will be accepted for the Community Kitchen) and a free concert in Officers Square .lots to do and see before the big day, not to mention the tons of caches to find!
The most important thing to remember is that you need to pre-register by May 20th to secure your personalized nametag and lanyard, event bracelet, swag bag, event geocoin and t-shirt. By pre-registering you may also purchase the boxed lunch and/or buffet supper we will have on-site at the event and attend all the workshops and games. While you may attend the event for free, why miss out on all the goodies, fun and prizes?
Visit our website, www.maritimemega.com for more information on events, schedules, news updates, accommodations and things to do. Visit our store to purchase pre-registrations, event coins and t-shirts or meals.
Were only an hour away from the border at Houlton and an hour and a little bit from Calais so grab your passports, GPSrs, geo-bags and buddies and come enjoy our maritime hospitality!
If you like challenges for coins, we have a couple for you. The Fredericton Geocaching Tour consists of 30 caches that will take you all over the city of Fredericton. Find 10 of them, get a wooden nickel, find 20 of them, get a Pathtag, find all 30 and get the wooden nickel, the Pathtag and a beautiful, locally produced, trackable, pewter geocoin. The FGT can be done in one day but you will be going non-stop from morning to night. Its much more fun to take 2 or 3 days to do it. Check here http://www.tourismfredericton.ca/en/...Geocaching.asp for the Citys information on the FGT and to get your passport and get the Bookmark of the FGT caches here http://www.tourismfredericton.ca/en/...Geocaching.asp.
The March of NB 104th is a series of caches that follows the route taken, by foot, of the 104th Regiment from Fredericton to Kingston, Ontario during the War of 1812. More than 30 caches have been placed in New Brunswick, along the St. John River, following their route. Find 15 or more of them and you will receive a trackable geocoin to commemorate their feat, and yours! Click here for information on the March of NB 104th http://www.frederictonregionmuseum.com/content/253350 and find the Bookmark for the caches here http://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/...d-57867ad3dc35.
As you can see, we have plenty for you to do. Come visit us, stay a while, cache a while and enjoy Maritime Mega II Caching the Capital.
We hope to see you in Freddy in July!


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Guillermo del Toro Sketches Show Development Process, Tease 'Mountains of Madness'
Posted on Tuesday, August 20th, 2013 by Russ Fischer
Guillermo del Toro's early development process involves lots of notes and sketches; this is a well-established bit of knowledge. We've seen hints of his sketchbooks thanks to various DVD releases of his films, and other behind the scenes peeks at his process over the years.
Now one great collection of his sketches has been assembled, and it features elements for just about everything, from the Hellboy movies and Blade II to The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth, and Pacific Rim. Even better, there are a couple things that tease what might have been if At the Mountains of Madness had come into being. Check out a gallery below.


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Commute to Downtown Mableton
Almost all errands require a car.
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This location is in Mableton. The closest park is Lions Park.
Explore how far you can travel by car, bus, bike and foot from 22 Coopers Glen Drive Southwest.
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Writing and reading go together like peanut butter and jelly. When children practice writing a letter of the alphabet or a word, it helps them recognize, and eventually read, that letter or word in other places and contexts. The mental process of handwriting also relates to other learned abilities, such as memory and recall, and spelling. Children experience a boost of confidence when they first write something, like their name, that others are able to read. And writing gives children another way to express what they think or feel.
What To Do
- Writing can be a fun way of expressing yourself. Collect some handwriting samples from family members and friends, and ask the child to identify some of the characteristics. Dont make any judgments about the quality of the writingjust help the child notice how different one persons handwriting can be from anothers. For example:
- Are letters spaced farther apart or closer together?
- Does the writing slant to either the right or left?
- Do the letters have lots of loops and curls, or are they unadorned?
- Are letters spaced farther apart or closer together?
- Make a personalized alphabet book with the child using the My Amazing ABC Book printout. If he or she has difficulty drawing a letter, draw it yourself on another piece of paper, describing each movement of the pencil as you make it. Or have the child trace the letter shape using his or her finger or a highlighter pen. Include pictures or photos of things that start with each letter.
- Help the child cut out the letters of his name from a magazine or newspaper and arrange them in order. Then ask him to trace each letter on a piece of paper.
- Look for opportunities throughout your daily routine to point out letter shapes. For example, you might show the child how a banana resembles the letter C, a tire is shaped like an O, or a hockey stick looks like an L. Have the child practice writing each letter.
- Encourage the child to explore different ways of writing his or her name. Can the child trace his or her name in sand at the playground or in new-fallen snow? With sidewalk chalk on the driveway? With shaving cream or a bar of soap on the bathroom mirror? In the summer try painting with water and brushes on walls or sidewalks.
- Demonstrate the purpose of writing in everyday life by asking the child to help you write a grocery list, address an envelope, or write a reminder note. As he or she moves from practicing letters to writing words, dont worry about perfect spelling. Guessed-at or phonetic spelling can actually help young writers understand how language is constructed. Some studies show that children who make up spelling eventually become better spellers than those who are focused only on correct spelling from the start.


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Celebrities Original Names
Alicia Keys - Alicia Augello Cook
Bob Hope - Leslie Townes Hope
Charlie Sheen - Carlos Irwin Estevez
Cher - Cherilyn Sarkisian
David Copperfield - David Seth Kotkin
Demi Moore - Demetria Guynes
Gene Simmons - Chaim Witz
Harry Houdini - Ehrich Weiss
Hulk Hogan - Terry Jean Bollette
Jamie Foxx - Eric Bishop
Jean-Claude Van Damme - Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg
Mariah Carey - Maria Nuñez
Marilyn Manson - Brian Warner
Martin Sheen - Ramón Estévez
Natalie Portman - Natalie Hershlag
Pink - Alecia Moore
Seal - Sealhenry Samuel
Shania Twain - Eileen Regina Edwards
Snoop Dogg - Calvin Broadus
Tom Cruise - Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
Suri...I can't get enough!!
I found this really cute picture of Suri without her parents (in the picture). I thought I would include it because she is so adorable!! (Photo courtesy: Us Magazine.com)
Criss is MARRIED???
I still can't even believe this...HE'S MARRIED??? Criss is married!!! I know last season on his show they showed his "GIRL" but who really knew that it was code word for "WIFE"? And now he's being sued for committing adultery with Cameron Diaz? Am I the only one here that is confused? Criss how dare you??? (Photo courtesy: US Magazine.com)
Diana's Concert
You know I watched some of the concert that was on yesterday for Princess Diana. I can't believe it has been 10 years already that she has passed. I can remember like yesterday that day. And she is still missed as much as that day.
I watched some of the concert and I was so happy to see Prince William and Prince Harry dancing and waving their hands, laughing! It was a great way to spend the day. (Photo courtesy: People.com)


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Liberty News
Chancellor appears on 'Glenn Beck' show again
Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell made his second appearance on the "Glenn Beck" TV show on Friday, May 21, for a special Founders' Fridays show to discuss revisionist history.
This was his second appearance on the show in a week. He appeared on Tuesday's show to discuss social justice and the role of religion in today's society.
Joining Falwell on both programs was Peter Lillback, president of Westminster Theological Seminary and author of "George Washington's Sacred Fire."
Falwell's appearances on the show came just days after Beck delivered Liberty University's Commencement address on Saturday, May 15. "Glenn Beck" is one of the most successful shows on FOX News. It airs weekdays at 5 p.m. and 2 a.m. ET.


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Ramirez to wait and see about Classic
Cubs third baseman more concerned about being healthy
By Carrie Muskat / MLB.com
Ramirez, limited to 123 games last season because of leg injuries, said he'll make his decision after a few days of workouts. The Cubs held their first full-squad workout on Tuesday at Fitch Park.
"I want to play [in the WBC]," Ramirez said, "but we have to take care of my health first. I'll check with the doctors and we're going to do some tests. It's not decided whether I'm going or not.
"[The WBC] is a real big deal down there [in the Dominican Republic], but I don't want to risk my season if I'm not good enough to play."
Cubs manager Dusty Baker said he talked to Ramirez on Tuesday.
"With his health conditions of the past, we sort of considered that it might be better if he doesn't play," Baker said. "It's not necessarily final at this point but he's leaning toward that."
Ramirez missed the last month of the season because of a strained left quad, but still finished with 31 home runs and 92 RBIs. The Dominican team already has named Adrian Beltre as its starting third baseman. Asked if he might be the designated hitter, Ramirez said the Dominicans already have a good one in Boston's David Ortiz.
The Dominican team will open WBC play on March 7 in Orlando, Fla., against Team Venezuela.
"I got hurt in '04 and '05 and it's about time for me to play the whole season for the Cubs," Ramirez said. "I'm fine and I feel good working out but game time is different. That's what we want to work out."
Cubs athletic trainer Mark O'Neal and strength and conditioning coach Tim Buss both visited Ramirez in the Dominican Republic to check on his rehab this winter. Ramirez passed all of their tests.
"This guy is in great shape -- this is the best shape I've seen him in," Baker said of his third baseman. "Our trainers went down and checked on him. They saw him this winter. He's doing pretty good. He hasn't played baseball for awhile so we still have to break him in slowly."
When will the Cubs third baseman make his decision?
"I'd say in about two or three days," Ramirez said. "We need some time to run the bases and hit the ball and all of that.
"I think I'm going to be fine," he said. "We're not used to being ready to play on March 7. That's why I have to be real concerned."
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Good afternoon. I have a very simple, nagging question. There are many different opinions on the Western-Rite but I'm looking for the simple truth. I come from a Roman Catholic background and often scrutinize things obsessively. I have felt betrayed by those I looked to as teachers (within the Roman Catholic church) and as such, am very wary of arguments. Unfortunately, it leads me often to a pharisaical attitude which I am trying to remedy...I seek admission to the Orthodox Church. There is a ROCOR Western-Rite church within my area that I have a strong interest in. I'm ready to give up. I'm tired of searching and being confused. I just want to surrender my will already but am afraid to do so again. I want to make sure it's what God truly wants... And I am afraid of making the wrong choice.Is the Western-Rite (within the context of the ROCOR) canonical? Would I be permitted to commune with those of other rites (if such a necessity ever arose)? Would I be able to be legitimately baptized into the Orthodox faith there? Please help me. Thank you so much.
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The nuclear crisis that crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 11 has sent a tremor through South Korea's nuclear program, the second largest in Asia after the Japanese.
"We are doing stress tests," says Lee Jin-ho, director of international cooperation at the Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety. "We are checking safety. We are doing all kinds of evaluation and experiments."
At stake is the future of South Korea's dream of not only running much of the country's huge and growing economy on nuclear power but also of exporting nuclear reactors to clients around the world.
As Korea adds five nuclear reactors to the 21 it already has and builds its first four reactors for export, the need for enhanced safety assumes paramount importance. Since putting its first reactor on line in 1978, Korea has come to rely on nuclear energy for 40 percent of its electrical needs and aims to have nearly 60 percent of its electrical power come from nuclear energy by 2020.
"We are considering more factors in the design of reactors," says Mr. Lee. "We are taking more measures to prevent hydrogen explosions" – such as those that ripped away portions of the roof and walls of units at the Fukushima plant – as well as backup systems.
Japan nuclear crisis: A timeline of key events
Changes in South Korea? Yes. No. Maybe.
"Currently there is no change to Korea's nuclear energy policy," says the nuclear industry department of the ministry of knowledge and economy in an e-mail. "We are conducting safety checks on all 21 nuclear units."
Ministry officials refuse to elaborate on that statement, while nuclear safety officials talk frankly of unresolved issues. They say potential foreign customers are reluctant to negotiate amid fallout from the disaster at Fukushima.
South Korea's Doosan Heavy Industries, the company that manufacturers all Korea's reactors, is in the midst of building reactors for export to the United Arab Emirates, a breakthrough $20 billion deal that was expected to turn Korea into a major reactor exporter. Nobody is talking about delaying or suspending that deal. Korea has put on hold sales pitches to other countries, ranging from Egypt to Malaysia.
"Countries want safer reactors with better regulatory bodies," says Choi Jong-bae, director of science and technology policy at the ministry of education, science, and technology. "The current operating reactors are fully safe, but we didn't think of this type of disaster in Japan. We have to add more systems."
Preparing for the worst
Bureaucratic supervision also has to improve, say Mr. Choi and many others. Right now the government is considering proposals to turn the ministry's nuclear safety division, which Choi headed until a recent transfer, into an independent commission with more people on wide-ranging authority.
"We would like to get a stronger organization for review and enforcement," says Choi. Although Korea does not face the same danger as Japan from earthquakes and tsunamis, he says, Korea needs to be ready for the worst.
Korean authorities are searching for ways to guarantee safety, while officials report trace levels of radiation that could only have blown over the Korean peninsula on wind currents from Fukushima. The president of the Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety reported Tuesday the discovery of radioactive iodine-131 and cesium at a dozen detection centers, including one in Seoul.
Officials said the amount was no cause for alarm, but the country has banned imports of all food items from Fukushima and three other nearby Japanese prefectures. In Korean markets, many shoppers are refusing to buy any food imported from Japan – and bitterly criticizing Korean authorities for minimizing the dangers.
"Of course we're afraid of radioactive contamination," says Kim Sung-hee, a woman working in an office in central Seoul. "The air and ocean are contaminated. They say the radiation rate is not serious, but people are afraid."
Two weeks ago, she notes, Korean officials "said so strongly there's no effect on the Korean peninsula, but now that's all false." Why, she asks, "did they claim there would be no impact?"
Those concerns are magnified in dealing with potential nuclear customers abroad.
No other choice
"In the initial term the impact is very large," says Ryu Pyung-kye, in charge of an overseas team at the Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co., a subsidiary of the state-controlled Korea Electric Power Co., which owns the four sites where Korea has all its reactors. Still, he agrees with Japanese officials on the continued need for nuclear power.
"In the long run there is no alternative," he says. "We will stick to nuclear energy." In the meantime, he predicts the Japanese crisis "will be prolonged" and "negotiations are not ongoing now."
In the end, however, Mr. Ryu predicts changes for Korea's program that will further guarantee safety for a program that so far has suffered no major incidents.
Ryu says research and development to suit Korea's needs will be part of the process. "We have to do research," he says. "We have to set up a backup system for nuclear reactors. "We are setting up remedies as a result of the Fukushima event. It will take time."


text: What's this thread about: I'll use this thread to document my rehab, ongoing development, maintenance & riding of initially a '91 R100GS 'Gus', & now more recently an R80 G/S, 'the Supertanker' Hopefully we'll get a community of GS / airhead owners here. Gus: This is what Gus looked like when I bought him in Jul 10. And the second picture shows what he looked Jul '13. The third shows Gus as he currently is, as at Jan '19, serving time as a sidecar tug... There is also a sister thread, Playing with the Chair, which documents my experiences initially with an R80TIC Frankenbeemer & Velorex sidecar combo, now with Gus & the Velorex, also used for adventure riding. Why Gus? Gus is a bastard in a number of senses. Old vehicles need names. Cursing a thing just doesn't seem right. It's always a bitch or bastard. And Gus is positively geriatric. Why I bought Gus: I'm a long time airhead fan, having owned a 78 R100RS, (there's a separate thread on that now); an '83 R80ST; an '86 R65; & an '88 R100RS. In the 90's my wife & I travelled Europe on the '78 RS. We spent about 3 yrs alternatively working in London, then travelling the summer months. The trip back home was supposed to be an extended tour through Africa. I actually purchased the ST for that trip, bought a Acerbis 43L plastic tank for it, but alas it was not to be. I wrecked the RS when a van did a u-turn on me, and then the couple we were to go with had a head-on with a minicab. The consolation prize was a trip to the South of France, & then home. Both the RS & the ST were imported back to NZ, but in a moment of madness I sold the ST to allow the purchase of a lounge suite. Which is now almost dead. I've had a couple of goes at getting a GS since, but this hasn't really worked out. The last white RS was supposed to be one, & the KTM 640a was close (in a sort of 'Paris Dakar' way). The KTM was a brilliant bike, but my experience was KTM parts support was lacking. Whilst I am sure the whole package would do big miles, portions of the bike seemed to be higher maintenance then I am used to (Hi ClintNZ & Warewolf!!). One thing I missed with the KTM was the ability to load either Katherine or Mandy on the back & to go out for a day trip. The KTM was really a one person bike. Owning it also gave an impression my riding abilities might be better than they were. Airhead GSs have been on my Trademe favourites list a long time now. I've seen a few cheaper GSs come up (Newguy, Barrie & Padmei). Padmei, you don't know how lucky you are to have your bike. My finger hovered over the buy now for quite a while the night before you bought it. I finally decided that I needed to build the bike I had lusted after for 20 yrs. So where is this heading? I have agreed with Mandy that I can spend the proceeds of the KTM sale on Gus. Given where the NZD has been against the Euro, GBP & USD I decided to buy some of the larger items now rather than wait. So I have ordered a bunch of parts from Motobins to allow repair of Gus & the RS, Touratech pannier racks & a 43l Tank (I like big tanks & I cannot lie...), to change the handlbars & risers, & have ordered an Ohlins shock from Robert Taylor at CKTechnical. Robert's price has been comparable to import (before freight & GST!), but I get the shock build to my specs. The wishlist is somewhat more advanced.... To make this thread a bit more manageable I have started & will expand on an index - green text are links. For much of the maintenance & modification I haven't always included links, largely because this happened over a number of posts or pages & may be predominantly text. Index of Maintenance - Replacing the carb throttle pivot o'rings - Replacing front wheel bearings - Do you need to improve your R100GS rear brake? How? - Replace a spoke in the rear cross lace wheel - Fork oil replacement (standard forks) - Discussion of Emulators in standard GS forks - Replacing a head gasket & replacing the camchain - Re-ringing Gus, & putting in 9.5:1 Pistons. Part one / Part two - Replacing the rear Main Seal, & Oil Pump o'ring - Breaking into the gearbox Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 - Replacing the battery Index of Modifications: - List of modifications / upgrades to date ENGINE: - Shifting the oil cooler from the crash bars - Servicing an HPN oil cooler thermostat - Upped the compression to 10:1, new valves & guides, twin plugged the heads, new exhaust. Fitting the twin plug ignition - Carb float bowl breather mod to give a higher wading depth. - Swapping 40mm Bing CV carbs for 32 mm Bing CV carbs ELECTRICS - Replacement LED Tail Light - Wiring in resistors to remedy hyperflashing indicators - Fitting a Baja Designs 8" headlight unit & a Trailtech Vapor Speedo Unit - Changing the Enduralast PMA (Ducati Energia) Rectifer/Regulator to a Shindengan FH020a R/R - Fitting a Sparkbright voltmeter LED FRAME & COSMETICS: - Fitting the HPN Tank Part One, & Part Two - Fitting Pivot Pegs - Discussion on replacement sidestands - Hardhead rocker cover protectors (replace crashbars) - Changing to the exhaust back from a two into two, into a two into one - using a SV1000 left hand muffler - Getting a replacement Rego Plate SUSPENSION, WHEELS, & BRAKES: - Nissin 4 Pot Brake Conversion - 48mm KYB fork conversion - Modifying the rear brake pedal to improve leverage, & therefore braking capacity - Building a front wheel (new Excel Takasago Rim & spokes) & servicing the forks Index of day trip ride reports: - Odlins Rd diversion. Akatarewas, Nth Island - Sutherlands Hutt (Aorangi Forest Park), May '11, associated video clips - South Wairarapa, North Island - Takapari Rd (Nth of Palmerston North) Jul '11 - Ruahine Ranges, North Manawatu, North Island - Ocean Beach Ride Aug '11, & ICU breakdown. South Wairarapa, North Island - Ocean Beach in the Rain - Wairapara Sept '11 - The Ride Of The Steves - Sutherlands Hutt & Ocean Beach, Wairarapa Nov '11 - Ocean Beach 2 up with Mandy Boxing Day '11 - Ocean Beach with Shewolf NZ, 2nd Jan '12 - Ride into the Mangatooks, Kapiti Coast, 4th Jan '12. - Dusty Butt Pre Ride - Glendhu & Flat Point, Wairarapa, 15th Jan '12 - Two Fatties & A Skinny Take On Odlins Rd (Waiotauru Rd - an ex logging road / track) - Akatarewas, 4th Feb '12 - Ocean Beach with EddieB - South Wairarapa April '12 - MAD (Makairo, Aikitio, Dannevirke) Wairarapa, 30th Sept '12 - Odlins Rd, Akatarewas, Upper Hutt, North Island. 25th Nov '12. Fell off, broke some ribs, punctured a lung... - Ocean Beach 26th May '13. Back in the saddle again... - Ocean Beach & Onoke Spit 6th June '13 with Manakau_KTM (Wayne) - Hinakura Rd, Riversdale Beach, Castlepoint Beach & Pack Spur Rd (paper road), Wairarapa 30th June '13 - Castlehill Rd / Puketoi Rd (non maintained road) / Daggs Rd - Bideford. Wairarapa 21st July '13 - White Rocks & Tora, South Wairarapa, 1st Sept '13 - Sutherlands Hut & Onoke Spit 20th Oct 13 - Takapari & North Range Road (North Manawatu, North Island) 16th Nov '13 . It must be November, I've broken some ribs again. - Glendhu & Admirals Rds, Wairarapa. Dec '13. - Rimutaka Pylon Track & Ocean Beach 22 Dec '13 - Visiting (but not riding) Pukemanu Adventure Ride, Martinborough, South Wairarapa, 23rd Feb '14 - Sutherlands Hut Track, Aorangi Forest Park, South Wairarapa. 26th April '14 - Martinborough / Riversdale Beach / Puketoi Rd, South Wairarapa. Sun 4th May - Takapari Rd, Ruahine Forest Park, Pohangina Valley, 1st June '14 - Puketoi Road & checking the Makairo Track, North Waiararapa 27th July 2014. - Not the Distinguished Gentlemans Run - Wellington, Oct '14 - White Rock Station Ride. South Wairarapa. Dec '14. - Ngawi, Batchelor Seal Colony, Cape Palliser & Ocean Beach, Wairarapa. Dec '14 - R-twin Works open day. Feb 15. Awahuri (Manawatu). - The Panzer Brigade attack on Odlins Rd. 1st April '15, Akatarewas. Maybe we should have paid more attention to the date... - North Range Road, Manawatu. 22nd May '15. - Sutherlands Hut Track, Aorangi Forest Park, South Wairarapa. 19th Jul '15 - White Rock & Tora, South Wairarapa, 3rd Oct '15 - Makuri Sidecar Overnighter, Wairarapa, 25th Oct '15. What to do when you've busted your sidecar wheel just before the weekend - Makairo Meader, Wairarapa, 24th Jan '16. Interesting recovery exercise. - Ocean Beach Ride, 10th Feb '16. - Hinakura / Admirals Rd, South Wairarapa. 4th Dec '16. 1st ride after a top end refresh - Ocean Beach Ride 31st Dec '16. 1st ride after the twin plug conversion. - Mike Britten's 'Wellington Adventure Ride' 28th Jan '16. Paid big bike friendly adv around the Wgtn region, & into ppties we don't usually get access to. - Takapari & North Range Rd, North Manawatu, 11th Feb '17. Hey, no injuries this time! - Taihape & Backcountry, Rangitikei & Ruapehu, 25th Feb '17. - Sutherlands Hut, Aorangi Forest Park, South Wairarapa 18th June '17. Team building with whales - Ocean Beach, South Wairarapa, 1st July '17. Aborted due to slips Index of multi day ride reports - Cold Kiwi Sep '10 - Central Plateau, Nth Island - 42nd Traverse, Old Whanga Rd, & Kiwi Rd Nov '10 - King Country, North Island - Clarence River Reserve Feb '11 here, here, & here. Kaikoura East Coast Sth Island, & Reefton, Sth Island - Easter Trip Away Apr '11, North Island - Taumaranui, Whangamomona, Taupo, Lake Waikaremoana, Gisborne & back to Wgtn - Cold Kiwi, Old Whanga Rd, & the 42 Traverse Sept '11 & here. Video of the 42nd rockwall here. Central Plateau & King Country, Nth Isld. - WAR. Waiouru Adventure Ride, Waiouru Miltary Training Grounds, Dec '11. Day one, day two, & day three - RRRR 2012 (Round Ruahine Range Reversed (Part One) & Part Two - 24th & 25th Mar '12 - East Cape Airhead Ride, East Cape North Island, 20th - 23rd April '12. Days Three & Four here. - MMMM 2012, July '12, East Cape North Island - Aborted Cold Kiwi attempt Sept '12 - Cape to Cape ride. Cape Egmont to East Cape, 25th - 28th Oct '13 - Top Of The South Ride - 29th Jan to 2nd Feb '14. Rainbow Station & Molesworth, including the Lake Sedgemere to Severn Track. Edwards Pass. Braeburn Track, Porika Track & the Maruia Saddle. Clarence River Reserve. The Molesworth. - The MMMM 2014. 15th & 16th Aug '14. The Ride Up & Day One, Day Two, & the Ride Home - Cold Kiwi 2014. 5th-7th Sept '14, Horopito, Central Plateau, North Island. Ride Up, Cold Kiwi Rally & the 42nd Traverse, The Ride Home - Cape to Cape 2014, North Island NZ, Oct '14. The ride there & day one. Day two & the ride home - Bannockburn Bike Week. South Island NZ, 24th Jan - 8th Feb '15. Part One - Wgtn to French Pass, Nelson, Murchison (Maruia Saddle), The Rainbow to Hamner Springs. Part Two Hamner to Clarence River Reserve, then down to Ashburton, Part Three Ashburton to Cromwell. & The Nevis, Part Four Thompsons Gorge Rd, Hawksdun Loop, The Old Dunstan Rd, Track from Alexandra to Cromwell, Part Five Mt Difficulty, Cromwell, to Home, via the West Coast & Nelson. - Central Plateau Weekend, North Island, 20th-22nd Mar '15, North Range Rd & Takapari Rd (Manawatu), to Taumaranui (King Country). Part Two Central North Island, Fishers Track, 42nd Traverse, Part Three, Old Whangamomona Rd, & Aotuhia Station - North Island Invasion of the South 3 (NIIS - 3) 1st-4th May '15. Top of the South Island, based at Reefton. Porika Track, Braeburn Track, Mt Rochfort, Denniston to New Creek, Days One & Two. NIIS (3) Days Three & Four, Big River Mine, Waitahu River Track, Maruia Saddle, Braeburn Track, Mangatapu Track - Central Plateau Weekend, North Island, 19th-21st Feb '16. Fishers Track, 42nd Traverse, Old Whangamomona Rd & Aotuhia Station - Cold Kiwi, Horopito, North Island, 1st to 3rd Sept '17. Other - What really dumb things have you done in the garage - Airhead Philosophy - Link to the CC Products performance upgrade article (twin plugging, compression increase & rejetting an Amercian GS)


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This weekend will mark the 29th summer reunion to be held in the former land in north-end Halifax, Nova Scotia known as Africville – a place where American slaves, and other Black people settled in the 1830s.
They will also dedicate the newly rebuilt Africville Church and Museum this weekend, and it will be the highlight of the reunion of the many American and Candian families which are expected to be there.
CBC Halifax has a story on the church at http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/07/24/ns-africville-church-museum.html.


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>Sifting through the published literature
>reveals why there is debate over the topic.
>Data are limited and, in many cases,
>apparently inconsistent. While this makes
>drawing conclusions more difficult, it
>should not be surprising.
>Science is very rarely as clear-cut as
>might be desired. It is difficult to design
>an ethical experiment that tests only the
>variable of interest and controls for all
>others. It is the researcher's job to design
>the best experiments possible, and it is the
>individual's or advocate's responsibility to examine the results and decide how
>to best respond to them.
>The question of diving and pregnancy is
>a difficult one to study since the trend is
>for women to refrain from diving while
>pregnant2. Most physicians treat diving
>as they would any drug for which the
>evidence with respect to pregnancy is
>incomplete: If there is not a good reason
>to take it, avoid it.
>Anyone who inadvertently dives while
>pregnant, however, may take solace in
>the anecdotal evidence from women
>reporting repeated diving during pregnancy
>without complication. There is
>certainly insufficient evidence to warrant
>termination of a pregnancy. Moreover, if
>emergency hyperbaric oxygen is required
>during pregnancy, for example to treat
>carbon monoxide poisoning, the evidence
>suggests that the risk to the fetus
>with treatment is lower than without.
>The overall picture of the literature
>indicates that, while the effect may be
>small, diving during pregnancy does
>increase the risk to the fetus, and the
>consequences could be devastating to
>all involved. Appreciating these essential
>factors, the prudent course is to avoid
>diving while pregnant. While it is possible
>that some diving could be completed
>without impact, the absolute risk of any
>given exposure cannot be determined
>from the available data. Given the ethical
>challenges of research on diving during
>pregnancy and the fact that diving represents
>a completely avoidable risk for most
>women, it is unlikely that studies will be
>conducted to establish the absolute risk
>in the foreseeable future.
>About the Authors
>undergraduate degree in biomedical science
>at Texas A&M University in December 2005.
>She was placed at the Center for Hyperbaric
>Medicine and Environmental Physiology,
>Duke University Medical Center, Durham,
>N.C., as a DAN research intern in the
>summer of 2006.
>at the Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and
>Environmental Physiology, Duke University
>Medical Center, Durham, N.C.,


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I got final confirmation and a new second cousin twice removed to go along with it…
I just hope I don't scare her away with my passion for my ancestors.
Marianne's maternal great-grandparents were Harvey Lagasse Sr and Mae K. Cox.
She had no pictures of them.
Now she has.
I am sure she will enjoy seeing them.
Now I am also sure that Harvey Sr is the little boy in this picture…
It has to be.
Grandpa Lagassy with Mary Lagassy and a little boy.
Mary would be Marie Rose Elmira Lagasse. She was older than Harvey but younger than Harry.
So it has to be Little Harvey with Stanislas Lagacé who went to the U.S. around 1889 with his family. He became known as Dennis Lagasse.
Little Harvey became Big Harvey.
That's what Marianne told me.
Finally the pictures Lionel Lagasse sent to his son Dennis last month make sense…
This one in particular. This is a picture of Mae Cox with her husband Harvey Lagassey.
Harry Lagasse, his older brother, would be with his wife Anna Campbell.
Harry Lagasse, Harvey Lagassey, Mae Cox and Anna Campbell
Dennis Lagasse IV sent these as well.
Just pictures, no captions.
All part of the big jigsaw puzzle of Our Ancestors, yours and mine…
All the efforts were worthed and still are.
The more we learn, the more we want to know.
As a footnote to this, Harvey Lagassey Jr served his country in WWII.
I am sure you would like to learn more don't you.


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The Amstutz Scholarship committee will once again be sponsoring a benefit auction at the 2019 AABP Annual Conference. All proceeds from this auction will go toward further enhancing the premier student scholarship program of the AABP. A live auction will be held during the Friday night social event. A silent auction will be held with items on display and available for bidding in the exhibit hall.
Back again this year are small group Clinical Forums, which give you, the bovine practitioner, opportunities to "pick the brains" of experts on an array of clinical topics.
Regardless of your interest areas, you will leave the conference with information that you can take home and use immediately in your own practice … the kind of information that will make you a better bovine practitioner.
We again welcome the American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners, which will meet jointly with the AABP in St. Louis. All registrants will be able to attend sessions scheduled throughout the week as part of the AABP and AASRP conference agendas … ideal for the mixed animal practitioner.
In addition to the Scientific Sessions, there are Practice Tips, Research Summaries, Student Case Presentations, and scientific posters that will be presented at the America's Center Convention Center.
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You Can't Derive Ought from Is
by Sean
Remember when, inspired by Sam Harris's TED talk, we debated whether you could derive "ought" (morality) from "is" (science)? That was fun. But both my original post and the followup were more or less dashed off, and I never did give a careful explanation of why I didn't think it was possible. So once more into the breach, what do you say? (See also Harris's response, and his FAQ. On the other side, see Fionn's comment at Project Reason, Jim at Apple Eaters, and Joshua Rosenau.)
I'm going to give the basic argument first, then litter the bottom of the post with various disclaimers and elaborations. And I want to start with a hopefully non-controversial statement about what science is. Namely: science deals with empirical reality — with what happens in the world. (I.e. what "is.") Two scientific theories may disagree in some way — "the observable universe began in a hot, dense state about 14 billion years ago" vs. "the universe has always existed at more or less the present temperature and density." Whenever that happens, we can always imagine some sort of experiment or observation that would let us decide which one is right. The observation might be difficult or even impossible to carry out, but we can always imagine what it would entail. (Statements about the contents of the Great Library of Alexandria are perfectly empirical, even if we can't actually go back in time to look at them.) If you have a dispute that cannot in principle be decided by recourse to observable facts about the world, your dispute is not one of science.
With that in mind, let's think about morality. What would it mean to have a science of morality? I think it would look have to look something like this:
Human beings seek to maximize something we choose to call "well-being" (although it might be called "utility" or "happiness" or "flourishing" or something else). The amount of well-being in a single person is a function of what is happening in that person's brain, or at least in their body as a whole. That function can in principle be empirically measured. The total amount of well-being is a function of what happens in all of the human brains in the world, which again can in principle be measured. The job of morality is to specify what that function is, measure it, and derive conditions in the world under which it is maximized.
All this talk of maximizing functions isn't meant to lampoon the project of grounding morality on science; it's simply taking it seriously. Casting morality as a maximization problem might seem overly restrictive at first glance, but the procedure can potentially account for a wide variety of approaches. A libertarian might want to maximize a feeling of personal freedom, while a traditional utilitarian might want to maximize some version of happiness. The point is simply that the goal of morality should be to create certain conditions that are, in principle, directly measurable by empirical means. (If that's not the point, it's not science.)
Nevertheless, I want to argue that this program is simply not possible. I'm not saying it would be difficult — I'm saying it's impossible in principle. Morality is not part of science, however much we would like it to be. There are a large number of arguments one could advance for in support of this claim, but I'll stick to three.
1. There's no single definition of well-being.
People disagree about what really constitutes "well-being" (or whatever it is you think they should be maximizing). This is so perfectly obvious, it's hard to know what to defend. Anyone who wants to argue that we can ground morality on a scientific basis has to jump through some hoops.
First, there are people who aren't that interested in universal well-being at all. There are serial killers, and sociopaths, and racial supremacists. We don't need to go to extremes, but the extremes certainly exist. The natural response is to simply separate out such people; "we need not worry about them," in Harris's formulation. Surely all right-thinking people agree on the primacy of well-being. But how do we draw the line between right-thinkers and the rest? Where precisely do we draw the line, in terms of measurable quantities? And why there? On which side of the line do we place people who believe that it's right to torture prisoners for the greater good, or who cherish the rituals of fraternity hazing? Most particularly, what experiment can we imagine doing that tells us where to draw the line?
More importantly, it's equally obvious that even right-thinking people don't really agree about well-being, or how to maximize it. Here, the response is apparently that most people are simply confused (which is on the face of it perfectly plausible). Deep down they all want the same thing, but they misunderstand how to get there; hippies who believe in giving peace a chance and stern parents who believe in corporal punishment for their kids all want to maximize human flourishing, they simply haven't been given the proper scientific resources for attaining that goal.
While I'm happy to admit that people are morally confused, I see no evidence whatsoever that they all ultimately want the same thing. The position doesn't even seem coherent. Is it a priori necessary that people ultimately have the same idea about human well-being, or is it a contingent truth about actual human beings? Can we not even imagine people with fundamentally incompatible views of the good? (I think I can.) And if we can, what is the reason for the cosmic accident that we all happen to agree? And if that happy cosmic accident exists, it's still merely an empirical fact; by itself, the existence of universal agreement on what is good doesn't necessarily imply that it is good. We could all be mistaken, after all.
In the real world, right-thinking people have a lot of overlap in how they think of well-being. But the overlap isn't exact, nor is the lack of agreement wholly a matter of misunderstanding. When two people have different views about what constitutes real well-being, there is no experiment we can imagine doing that would prove one of them to be wrong. It doesn't mean that moral conversation is impossible, just that it's not science.
2. It's not self-evident that maximizing well-being, however defined, is the proper goal of morality.
Maximizing a hypothetical well-being function is an effective way of thinking about many possible approaches to morality. But not every possible approach. In particular, it's a manifestly consequentialist idea — what matters is the outcome, in terms of particular mental states of conscious beings. There are certainly non-consequentialist ways of approaching morality; in deontological theories, the moral good inheres in actions themselves, not in their ultimate consequences. Now, you may think that you have good arguments in favor of consequentialism. But are those truly empirical arguments? You're going to get bored of me asking this, but: what is the experiment I could do that would distinguish which was true, consequentialism or deontological ethics?
The emphasis on the mental states of conscious beings, while seemingly natural, opens up many cans of worms that moral philosophers have tussled with for centuries. Imagine that we are able to quantify precisely some particular mental state that corresponds to a high level of well-being; the exact configuration of neuronal activity in which someone is healthy, in love, and enjoying a hot-fudge sundae. Clearly achieving such a state is a moral good. Now imagine that we achieve it by drugging a person so that they are unconscious, and then manipulating their central nervous system at a neuron-by-neuron level, until they share exactly the mental state of the conscious person in those conditions. Is that an equal moral good to the conditions in which they actually are healthy and in love etc.? If we make everyone happy by means of drugs or hypnosis or direct electronic stimulation of their pleasure centers, have we achieved moral perfection? If not, then clearly our definition of "well-being" is not simply a function of conscious mental states. And if not, what is it?
3. There's no simple way to aggregate well-being over different individuals.
The big problems of morality, to state the obvious, come about because the interests of different individuals come into conflict. Even if we somehow agreed perfectly on what constituted the well-being of a single individual — or, more properly, even if we somehow "objectively measured" well-being, whatever that is supposed to mean — it would generically be the case that no achievable configuration of the world provided perfect happiness for everyone. People will typically have to sacrifice for the good of others; by paying taxes, if nothing else.
So how are we to decide how to balance one person's well-being against another's? To do this scientifically, we need to be able to make sense of statements like "this person's well-being is precisely 0.762 times the well-being of that person." What is that supposed to mean? Do we measure well-being on a linear scale, or is it logarithmic? Do we simply add up the well-beings of every individual person, or do we take the average? And would that be the arithmetic mean, or the geometric mean? Do more individuals with equal well-being each mean greater well-being overall? Who counts as an individual? Do embryos? What about dolphins? Artificially intelligent robots?
These may sound like silly questions, but they're necessary ones if we're supposed to take morality-as-science seriously. The easy questions of morality are easy, at least among groups of people who start from similar moral grounds; but it's the hard ones that matter. This isn't a matter of principle vs. practice; these questions don't have single correct answers, even in principle. If there is no way in principle to calculate precisely how much well-being one person should be expected to sacrifice for the greater well-being of the community, then what you're doing isn't science. And if you do come up with an algorithm, and I come up with a slightly different one, what's the experiment we're going to do to decide which of our aggregate well-being functions correctly describes the world? That's the real question for attempts to found morality on science, but it's an utterly rhetorical one; there are no such experiments.
Those are my personal reasons for thinking that you can't derive ought from is. The perceptive reader will notice that it's really just one reason over and over again — there is no way to answer moral questions by doing experiments, even in principle.
Now to the disclaimers. They're especially necessary because I suspect there's no practical difference between the way that people on either side of this debate actually think about morality. The disagreement is all about deep philosophical foundations. Indeed, as I said in my first post, the whole debate is somewhat distressing, as we could be engaged in an interesting and fruitful discussion about how scientific methods could help us with our moral judgments, if we hadn't been distracted by the misguided attempt to found moral judgments on science. It's a subtle distinction, but this is a subtle game.
First: it would be wonderful if it were true. I'm not opposed to founding morality on science as a matter of personal preference; I mean, how awesome would that be? Opening up an entirely new area of scientific endeavor in the cause of making the world a better place. I'd be all for that. Of course, that's one reason to be especially skeptical of the idea; we should always subject those claims that we want to be true to the highest standards of scrutiny. In this case, I think it falls far short.
Second: science will play a crucial role in understanding morality. The reality is that many of us do share some broad-brush ideas about what constitutes the good, and how to go about achieving it. The idea that we need to think hard about what that means, and in particular how it relates to the extraordinarily promising field of neuroscience, is absolutely correct. But it's a role, not a foundation. Those of us who deny that you can derive "ought" from "is" aren't anti-science; we just want to take science seriously, and not bend its definition beyond all recognition.
Third: morality is still possible. Some of the motivation for trying to ground morality on science seems to be the old canard about moral relativism: "If moral judgments aren't objective, you can't condemn Hitler or the Taliban!" Ironically, this is something of a holdover from a pre-scientific worldview, when religion was typically used as a basis for morality. The idea is that a moral judgment simply doesn't exist unless it's somehow grounded in something out there, either in the natural world or a supernatural world. But that's simply not right. In the real world, we have moral feelings, and we try to make sense of them. They might not be "true" or "false" in the sense that scientific theories are true or false, but we have them. If there's someone who doesn't share them (and there is!), we can't convince them that they are wrong by doing an experiment. But we can talk to them and try to find points of agreement and consensus, and act accordingly. Moral relativism doesn't imply moral quietism. And even if it did (it doesn't), that wouldn't affect whether or not it was true.
And finally: pointing out that people disagree about morality is not analogous to the fact that some people are radical epistemic skeptics who don't agree with ordinary science. That's mixing levels of description. It is true that the tools of science cannot be used to change the mind of a committed solipsist who believes they are a brain in a vat, manipulated by an evil demon; yet, those of us who accept the presuppositions of empirical science are able to make progress. But here we are concerned only with people who have agreed to buy into all the epistemic assumptions of reality-based science — they still disagree about morality. That's the problem. If the project of deriving ought from is were realistic, disagreements about morality would be precisely analogous to disagreements about the state of the universe fourteen billion years ago. There would be things we could imagine observing about the universe that would enable us to decide which position was right. But as far as morality is concerned, there aren't.
All this debate is going to seem enormously boring to many people, especially as the ultimate pragmatic difference seems to be found entirely in people's internal justifications for the moral stances they end up defending, rather than what those stances actually are. Hopefully those people haven't read nearly this far. To the rest of us, it's a crucially important issue; justifications matter! But at least we can agree that the discussion is well worth having. And it's sure to continue.
You Can't Derive Ought from Is
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The detector picks up any signals in range and presents the wireless standard, signal strength and security on an LCD screen, thus saving you the effort of hauling out your laptop.
While we'd be loath to pick up a standalone detector, TrendNet has made us realise not only how useful they are, and just how many pubs and bars are hopping on the wireless bandwagon. Of course, if your notebook lacks a wireless adapter, this becomes something of a bargain, too.
Our only criticisms of the 429UF are that it's perhaps a shade expensive and slightly on the chunky side, compared to some USB keys we've seen. But when there's this much tech included, you're hardly likely to worry about it ruining the line of your trousers. PC Format staff


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Power rankings. You hate them. They're so arbitrary and pointless, especially when they include all 32 NFL teams. All you want to know after a good week of NFL action is who the bestest team in the NFL is right now, and which one is the absolute barrel-scraping worst.
That's why we're bringing you this experimental new feature, where we go to great lengths to tell you who's the top dog in football right now, this very minute. LET'S GO!
THE TOP: New York Jets
I know they beat up on the team you'll be reading about at the bottom of this post, but the Jets seems to get better every single week, which is exactly what you want to see out of a team during the year. They've now won three in a row after that rusty opening loss to Baltimore. What's more, their offensive line is AWESOME, so much so that they can make LaDainian Tomlinson actually look useful once more.
And after four games, Mark Sanchez has eight touchdowns and no interceptions. He's making Dustin Keller into a top flight tight end and it now appears that, shockingly, he may be an MVP candidate. That sounds insane given his Baltimore game, but it's becoming reality. With that line and that defense, I put the Jets over Pittsburgh and Baltimore, who also deserve consideration.
THE BOTTOM: Buffalo Bills
What's so awful about the Bills being putrid is that we all saw it coming from a mile away.
It's not like the terrible seasons that Carolina and San Francisco are both having. I think we're all a little surprised those teams are winless. But the Bills? No, we all KNEW the Bills would be horrible, and with little hope of turning it around now, or even in years to come. They have no QB. They have a washed-up retread at coach. They have no line. Their Canadian visa is still being processed. They're just so bleakly awful.
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Not like Detroit, which is playing hard and appears to have something of a future despite an 0-4 start. No, the Bills' 0-4 is the MOST 0-4 of all the 0-4 starts. They are the bottom, and I suspect they'll be here for a little bit. Make yourselves comfortable, boys. Would you care for a Cheese Doodle?


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MOSCOW – A volcano erupting in Russia's Far East is sending plumes of gas and ash high into the sky and creating a lava lake.
The Plosky Tolbachik volcano is located in Kamchatka peninsula, hundreds of miles (kilometres) from the nearest residential areas.
Gennady Karpov, a volcano expert at Russia's Academy of Sciences in the Far East, said Friday: "There were no lava lakes at Kamchatka volcanos before now. We have never seen this before."
Plosky Tolbachik has emitted jets of hot lava up to 650 feet (200 metres) high.
Its last eruption had occurred in November after the volcano was dormant for almost 40 years.
Russian officials say the current eruptions are not likely to end any time soon. However, the volcano is not forcing any changes in the flight patterns of airlines that pass over that area of Russia, said Karpov and the European air traffic agency Eurocontrol in Belgium.
AP correspondent Sylvia Hui contributed from London.


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