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The triglyceride level is a laboratory test to measure the amount of triglycerides in your blood. Triglycerides are a type of fat.
Your body makes some triglycerides. Triglycerides also come from the food you eat. Leftover calories are turned into triglycerides and stored in fat cells for later use. If you eat more calories than your body needs, your triglyceride level may be high.
See also:
Triacylglycerol test
A blood sample is needed. For information on how this is done, see: Venipuncture
You should not eat for 8 to 12 hours before the test.
Alcohol and certain drugs may affect test results. Make sure your doctor knows what medicines you take, including over-the-counter drugs and supplements. Your doctor may tell you to stop taking certain medicines for a little while. Never stop taking any medicine without first talking to your doctor.
Drugs that can increase triglyceride measurements include beta blockers, cholestyramine, colestipol, estrogens, protease inhibitors, retinoids, thiazide diuretics, certain antipsychotics, and birth control pills.
Drugs that can decrease triglyceride measurements include ascorbic acid, asparaginase, clofibrate, fish oil, and statin medications.
When the needle is inserted to draw blood, some people feel moderate pain, while others feel only a prick or stinging sensation. Afterward, there may be some throbbing.
The most important use of this test is to help estimate your LDL cholesterol. This test is also done to help determine your risk of developing heart disease. A high triglyceride level may lead to atherosclerosis, which increases your risk of heart attack and stroke. A high triglyceride level may also cause inflammation of your pancreas.
Persons with a high triglyceride level often have other conditions such as diabetes and obesity that also increase the chances of developing heart disease.
The triglyceride level is usually included in a lipid panel or coronary risk profile.
Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
The examples above show the common measurements for results for these tests. Some laboratories use different measurements or may test different specimens.
High triglyceride levels may be due to:
Low triglyceride levels may be due to:
Veins and arteries vary in size from one patient to another, and from one side of the body to the other. Obtaining a blood sample from some people may be more difficult than from others. Other risks may include:
Pregnancy can interfere with test results.
Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults. Executive summary of the third report of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) expert panel on detection, evaluation, and treatment of high blood cholesterol in adults (Adult Treatment Panel III). JAMA. 2001;285(19):2486-2497.
Implications of recent clinical trials for the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III guidelines. Circulation. 2004 Jul 13; 110(2):227-39.
Semenkovich CF. Disorders of lipid metabolism. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 213.
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The Dropa Discs
The Dropa Stone Discs
The Dropa (also known as Dropas, Drok-pa or Dzopa) are, according to certain controversial writers, a race of dwarf-like extraterrestrials who landed near the Chinese-Tibetan border some twelve thousand years ago. Skeptics note, however, a number of problems with the case (and a lack of corroborative evidence), which offers significant doubt as to the reality of the more sensationalistic Dropa claims. Mainstream critics argue that the entire affair is a hoax.
Alleged Discovery — Chi Pu Tei, a professor of archaeology at Beijing University, and his students were on an expedition to explore a series of caves in the pathless Himalayan mountains of the remote Bayan-Kara-Ula in Qinghai on the border of China and Tibet. The caves may have been artificially carved to be a system of tunnels and underground storerooms. The walls were squared and glazed, as if cut into the mountain with great heat.
They found many neat rows of tombs with short 4 ft 4 in inch skeletons buried within. The skeletons had abnormally big heads, and small, thin, fragile bodies. A member of the team suggested that these might be the remains of an unknown species of mountain gorilla. Prof. Chi Pu Tei was said to respond, "Who ever heard of apes burying one another?"
There were no epitaphs at the graves, but instead hundreds of one foot wide stone discs ("Dropa Stones") were found having 3/4 inch wide holes in their centers. On the walls were carved pictures of the rising sun, moon, stars, the land, mountains, and lines of pea-sized dots connecting the earth with the sky. Along with the discs, the cave drawings had been determined to be about 12,000 years old.
Dropa Stones
Each stone disk was reportedly inscribed with two fine grooves spiraling from the edge to a hole in the disk's center, perhaps not unlike the Phaistos Disk.
The disks were labeled along with other finds of the expedition and stored away at Beijing University for 20 years, during which deciphering attempts were unsuccessful. When the disks were closely examined by Dr. Tsum Um Nui of Beijing around 1958, he concluded that each groove actually consisted of a series of tiny hieroglyphs of unknown pattern and origin. The rows of hieroglyphics were so small that a magnifying glass was needed to see them clearly. Many of the hieroglyphics had been worn away by erosion. When Dr. Tsum deciphered the symbols, they told the story of the crash-landing of the Dropa spaceship and the killing of most of the survivors by local people.
According to Tsum Um Nui, one of the lines of the hieroglyphs reads, "The Dropas came down from the clouds in their aircraft. Our men, women and children hid in the caves ten times before sunrise. When at last they understood the sign language of the Dropas, they realized that the newcomers had peaceful intentions . . . ." Another section expresses "regret" by the Ham that the aliens' craft had crash-landed in such a remote and inaccessible mountain range and that there had been no way to building a new one to enable the Dropas to return to their own planet.
Dr. Tsum's report supposedly appeared in a professional journal in 1962. He was subsequently ridiculed to the point of self-imposed exile in Japan, where he died. The Peking Academy of Pre-history never allowed him to publish and never speak of his findings.
"Tsum Um Nui" is not a real Chinese name, and critics suggest that Dr. Tsum may not have actually existed. However Tsum Um Nui is a Japanese name adapted to Chinese language. There is no evidence of him beyond the Dropa allegations.
Further research
In 1965, Professor Chi Pu Tei and four of his colleagues were finally given permission to reveal their theory. They published it under the title "The Grooved Script concerning Space-ships which, as recorded on the Discs, landed on Earth 12,000 years ago".
The records, some 716 grooved discs later uncovered in the same caves, tell an astonishing story of a space probe sent by the inhabitants of another planet. After landing at the Bayan-Kara-Ula mountain range, the scripts allegedly say, the peaceful intentions of the aliens confused the members of the Ham tribe, inhabitants of the neighboring caves, who hunted down and killed the extraterrestrials.
Photos claiming to show Dropa Disks are in fact Bi Disks, thousands of which have been found throughout China, mostly in the Southeastern Provinces. Bi Disks range in size of a few inches to several feet, and are most commonly made of jade or nephrite, with a round or square small central hole.
Most Bi Disks date to the Neolithic Period (c. 3000 BCE), but are found up to the Shang Dynasty Period. Bi Disks beyond the Shang Period are usually more ornate, carved with dragons, snakes and sometimes fish, and used in ritual ceremonies.
Most Neolithic Bi Disks were found in gravesites, buried beneath the head or feet of the deceased. It is theorized that this was to assist the deceased's spirit. No Bi Disks have been found to contain writing or spiral grooves as described in the Dropa story by authors such as Hartwig Hausdorf.
The Dropa Disks are said to be only 12 inches in diameter. However, one black and white photograph claimed by Hausdorf and others to display a Dropa Disk clearly shows the disk resting on a seat, and it is clearly several feet in diameter and has no markings whatsoever.
Russian Research
Russian scientists asked to see the discs and several were sent to Moscow for examination. They were scraped free of rock particles which had stuck to them and then put through chemical analysis. To the surprise of the scientists, the disks contained large amounts of cobalt and other metallic substances. What is more, when placed on a special turntable, according to Dr. Vyatcheslav Saizev, who described the experiments in the Soviet magazine Sputnik, they vibrate or "hum" in an unusual rhythm as though an electric charge is passing through them. Or as one scientist suggested, "as if they formed some part of an electrical circuit." At some time, they have clearly been exposed to extraordinarily high voltages. "They seem like ancient hard disks, spinning like the hard disks we have now days. Perhaps if we could read these ancient hard disks, we would find more answers."
Wegerer's Photos
In 1974, Ernst Wegerer, an Austrian engineer, photographed two disks that met the descriptions of the Dropa Stones. He was on a guided tour of Banpo-Museum in Xian, when he saw the stone discs on display. He claims he saw a hole in the center of each disc and hieroglyphs in partly crumbled spiral-like grooves.
Wegerer asked the managers of Banpo-Museum for more information on the pieces in the showcase. The manager knew nothing of the stones' history, though she was able to tell a complete story about all the other artifacts made from clay. She only knew that the stone discs were unimportant "cult objects".
Wegerer was allowed to take one of the discs in his hand. He estimated their weight at 1 kilogram or 2 pounds, and the diameter at one foot. The hieroglyphs can't be seen in his photos, because they have crumbled away partly, and his camera's flash washed out the fine detail, such as the spiral grooves.
A few days after his visit, the manager was called away from her job without telling her why. She and the two stone discs vanished, according to Professor Wang Zhijun, the Director of the Banpo-Museum in March of 1994.
In the years since the discovery of the first disc, archeologists and anthropologists have learned more about the isolated Bayan-Kara-Ula area. Much of the information has been interpreted as corroborating the story recorded on the discs.
Legends supposedly still preserved in the area speak of small, gaunt, yellow-faced men who "came from the clouds, long, long ago". The men had huge, bulging heads and puny bodies and were so ugly and repellent that they were shunned by everyone. "Men with the quick horses" hunted down the ugly dwarfs. Strangely, the description of the "invaders" is said to match that of the skeletons originally discovered in the caves by Professor Chi Pu Tei.
Critics have largely rejected the above claims, arguing they are a combination of hoax and urban legend. For example, writer David Richie notes that the Dropa tales intrigued Gordon Chreighton, a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Society and Royal Geographical Society. Upon investigation, Chreighton judged the sensationalistic Dropa-Extraterrestrial allegations to be "groundless," and detailed his findings in an article for Flying Saucer Review.
No traceable, credible evidence for this theory exists, or can be proven to have existed in the past. Proponents of the Dropa-stones story claim that this is the result of social disruption caused by the Chinese Cultural Revolution and of a conspiratorial coverup by Chinese authorities. However this story goes well beyond China. Its opponents claim it is long proven to be a forgery by Erich von Daniken.
Below is a detailed rebuttal of most sensationalistic Extraterrestrial/Dropa claims:
- 1. The discovery. There are no mentions of 'Tsum Um Nui' anywhere; as he is supposed to have fled China and died in Japan in the 1960s this cannot be negated by Cultural Revolution, Communist coverup theory. Also, there is no mention of the 1938 archaeological expedition to the Banyan Kara Ulla range. No "Peking Academy of Pre-History" ever existed.2. Early Sources. The earliest mention of the story is in Erich von Damien¹s infamous 1968 book, Chariots of the Gods. The book has been widely criticized as unreliable; in fact, the vast majority of names and sources appearing in the book cannot be corroborated, and no existence of the following Soviet or Chinese scholars can be found anywhere outside this story: Cho Pu Tei, Tsum Um Nui, Ernst Wagener, Vyatcheslav Saizev, and Sergei Lolladoff. Most tellingly, Däniken gives his main source for the story as a Soviet science fiction writer Alexander Kazantsev; however Kazantsev himself disagrees with Däniken's account and says that it was Däniken who told him the story, not the other way around.
3. Later Sources. The 1978 book Sungods in Exile "edited" by David Agamon, appeared to lend support to the story of the Dropa, but Agamon admitted in the magazine Fortean Times in 1988 that the book was fiction and that its alleged author, a British researcher named Dr. Karyl Robin-Evans, was imaginary. Some websites claim to show a photo of Dr Robin-Evans with the Dalai Lama. A frail, old man assisted by the current Dalai Lama, the photograph is quite recent and can not be Dr Robin-Evans — he died in 1978, according to Hartwig Hausdorf.
4. Translation. There is absolutely no precedent for an unknown language being successfully deciphered. All lost ancient languages have been rediscovered only because they survived in forms familiar to scientists. Even in such cases, deciphering and understanding these older language forms and their scripts has usually taken decades for multiple teams of highly competent linguists, and their findings are constantly being debated and updated. Many ancient scripts (notably Linear A from the island of Crete and Rongorongo from Easter Island), have defied deciphering precisely because they cannot be linked to any known language. Given these facts, there would be even greater difficulties in translating a truly extraterrestrial language. It is therefore highly unlikely that a single Chinese scholar with no reported background in linguistics could single-handedly decipher an alien script or language in his spare time.
5. The Disks. All that exists of the supposed alien disks are several wide-angle photographs. The disks photographed, firstly, do not match the described "12-inch disks"; the disks photographed are very large. Secondly, the photos show none of the supposed deep grooves. Finally, absolutely no photos, descriptions, analyses or any other evidence of the actual 'alien script' appear anywhere at all.
6. The Evidence. The disks were supposed to be stored in several museums in China. None of these museums have any traces of these disks, nor can any be found of the ones supposedly sent to USSR for analysis.
7. The Dropa Tribe. While reported to be a tribe of feeble dwarfs, in actuality the Dropas are nomadic herders who inhabit most of the northern Tibetan Plateau. The Ham are also inhabitants of Tibet, and traditionally have supplied Tibet's warriors: many of the 13th Dalai Lama's bodyguards during his escape from the Chinese invasion were Ham Tibetans. The word "Dropa", according to Chrieghton, describes the nomadic residents of Tibetan highlands, and can be roughly translated as "solitude" or "isolated". Furthermore, Chreighton described the Dropa as not resembling "troglodytes", or as stunted; on the contrary, they tend to be rather large and sturdy, befitting their occupation as herders. (Richie, 95-96)

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- French Open, Day Four
Empty seats show disrespect, not French fancy, for FedBen Blackmore May 30, 2012
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How much would one pay to see Usain Bolt at the London 2012 Games this summer? Would £5000 do it? In some cases, maybe. What about £1000? Getting there. £500? Almost certainly.
Now switch the focus from the world's best sprinter to, arguably, the greatest tennis player to have ever graced the game: Roger Federer. How much to witness the majesty of the 16-time grand slam winner in the sun-soaked conditions of Court Philippe Chatrier in Paris?
Granted, it is an unfair comparison. The Olympics only come every four years and may only arrive in England once in a lifetime. By contrast, Federer has played Roland Garros for 13 years and will more-than-likely do so again in 12 months' time.
However, a considerable piece of history was made by Federer on Wednesday - a real "I was there" landmark, and it was done against the disrespectful backdrop of empty seats and the distant, muffled sound of clinking champagne glasses.
Federer's victory over Adrian Ungur was, in isolation, utterly predictable and only mildly memorable. But it may go down as one of the finest achievements of the Swiss' phenomenal career after he registered his 234th victory in grand slam competition, breaking the Open era record previously held by Jimmy Connors.
Many locals will be able to say they were there to witness it. But the majority of the privileged - owners of the VIP seats for the day - may not even remember how they got home, let alone the piece of sporting history that had just passed them by.
The rows of empty seats in Paris were staggering, particularly when placed in the context of Wimbledon, where stars from all over the world annually convene to feast their eyes on not only Federer, but the rest of his peers too. Sean Connery has been spotted, Diana Ross, Sachin Tendulkar... all royalty in their respective fields. Speaking of royalty, the future King of England Prince William loves to witness a bit of the Wimbledon action.
That is not to say that Roland Garros doesn't attract its own share of stars - it does - but you can count the amount of times there has been an empty seat at Wimbledon during a Federer match on one hand. To be in the presence of greatness is both priceless and unmissable; to shun such an opportunity for the perks of VIP seating is to show a clear lack of respect.
Unfortunately, 'respect' is something that has often been questioned in the context of the Paris crowd at Roland Garros. Rafael Nadal, for instance, despite proving himself to be the most formidable player ever to have pounded the French clay - with six French Open titles to date - still gets booed by sections of the locals.
Even ahead of the 2012 iteration Nadal had to answer questions about how he feels when the crowd turn on him. He played it down, such is his mild manner, but he deserves to have plenty to say about an audience that, at times, show clear displeasure in his direction despite his worst trait being a tendency to take his time when serving.
Maria Sharapova is another to have experienced hostility, and famously she did lash back after a 2008 match with Dinara Safina. After being booed off court due to her grunting and apparent Americanised ways, the Russian shouted: "Allez… up your f***ing ass."
When the likes of Sharapova, Nadal and certainly Federer are heard over the coming weeks saying Wimbledon is their favourite slam, do not dismiss it as crowd-pleasing hyperbole. Federer, in particular, makes such statements out of deep respect for SW19, which is mutually reciprocated by those in attendance.
To witness the greatness of such individuals as Bolt and Federer is hard to put a price on. But to show them the respect they deserve by staying in your seat to watch them requires nothing... other than a little dignity of course.


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What does Power Nap do?
If your Mac supports Power Nap, these activities can occur while your Mac is asleep:
- Mail receives new messages.
- Contacts keep up to date with changes made on other devices.
- Calendar receives new invitations and calendar updates.
- Reminders keep up to date with changes made on other devices.
- Notes keep up to date with changes made on other devices.
- Documents stored in iCloud keep up to date with changes made on other devices.
- Photo Stream keeps up to date with changes made on other devices.
- Find My Mac updates the location of the Mac, so you can find it while it's asleep.
- VPN on demand continues working so that your corporate email updates securely. (Power Nap supports VPN connections that use a certificate to authenticate, not VPN connections that require entering a password.)
- Mobile Device Management can remotely lock and wipe your Mac.
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- Mac App Store items (including software updates), download in the background.
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- Wireless base stations can wake your Mac using Wake on Wireless.
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If your Mac has a hard drive (HDD) or a Fusion drive, you might hear sounds from the drive as it comes on during a Power Nap update, during operation, and when the drive turns off. You have the option to turn Power Nap off.
When Power Nap is turned on, your computer might be warm to the touch, even if it's sleeping. If your Mac exceeds a predefined temperature, Power Nap operations are suspended so that your Mac doesn't overheat. When your Mac wakes up, it's ready to go.
Which Mac computers can use Power Nap?
You can use Power Nap on these Mac models:
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- MacBook Air (Late 2010 and later)
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Turn Power Nap on or off
The Power Nap setting is in the Energy Saver pane of System Preferences.
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Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Energy Saver. Use the "Enable Power Nap" checkbox to turn Power Nap on or off. The default setting is on if your desktop Mac uses flash storage (not including Fusion Drive).
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Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Energy Saver.
- Click the Battery tab, then use the "Enable Power Nap while on battery power" checkbox to control whether your Mac uses Power Nap while on battery power. The default setting is off.
- Click the Power Adapter tab, then use the "Enable Power Nap while plugged into a power adapter" checkbox to control whether your Mac uses Power Nap while using AC power. The default setting is on.
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Power Nap responds to your battery power state
The year your notebook computer was released determines how Power Nap responds to your battery power state.
Computers with 2013 or a later year in the model name use Power Nap until the battery is drained. Computers with 2012 or an earlier year in the model name suspend Power Nap if the battery has a charge of 30% or less. Power Nap resumes when you connect to AC power.
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- Mail, Notes, Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, Photo Stream, Find My Mac, and iCloud documents are checked every hour. To receive updates during Power Nap, Mail and Notes must be open before your Mac sleeps.
- Time Machine backups are attempted hourly until a successful backup has been completed.
- Software Updates are checked daily.
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Ocean Conservancy Donor Henry Gorecki Plans for Legacy of Support
As a certified financial planner who owns his own investment firm, Henry Gorecki is in a unique position to advocate for enduring support of the causes you care about. "You have to have a plan for what may happen to your assets when you die," Gorecki explains. "If you don't, the state and federal government have a plan for you."
Gorecki's own plan includes supporting Ocean Conservancy long after he's gone; it's a cause that's always been close to his heart. Water has figured prominently in Gorecki's life since boyhood, when he and his family spent idyllic days swimming and picnicking on Wisconsin's inland lakes.
"Growing up in Milwaukee, there were many reminders of the importance of the lake in our lives," Gorecki says. "My dad and I used to take long walks along the lake, and the beauty of the cliffs on the shoreline is vivid for me to this day."
Gorecki also recognized early the connection between his beloved Lake Michigan—one of the largest freshwater bodies of water on the planet—and the ocean. "I used to see the big boats on the St. Lawrence Seaway with names that reflected their country of origin," he recalls, "so I knew from a young age that my Lake Michigan was connected to the wider world."
The idea of seeing the lake or the ocean polluted or full of trash moves Gorecki to act. He does his part globally, through his support of Ocean Conservancy, and also locally, spending occasional weekends picking up the trash in his neighborhood. His passion to eradicate trash stems from his boyhood memory of the first Earth Day and a Madison Avenue advertising campaign featuring Native Americans saddened at the idea of a beautiful landscape marred by litter.
"I'm a firm believer that if you respect yourself, you'll respect the environment, too. I want my commitment to encompass the whole world. That's why I support Ocean Conservancy."
Still living near Lake Michigan, Gorecki, an avid runner, appreciates the famous "lake effect" weather. "Sometimes I'll be running," he says, "and there will be a fog curtain because the temperature drop near the lake is that dramatic. Near the lake, it's warmer in winter and cooler in summer. With climate change, we risk losing that natural temperature adjustment."
Gorecki is hopeful that others will follow in his footsteps and leave a legacy of support for causes that are important to them.
"I encourage people to do what I've done and include Ocean Conservancy as a beneficiary of their retirement plan assets, one of the most tax-wise gifts. As I tell my clients: 'Think about your legacy and the causes that were important to you in life and include them in your plans.'"


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On 3 September I asked CMI's Calvin Smith the following by a wide circulation email (they block me from making any comments under their actual articles):
"Below are 10 instances where the biblical creation based explanation of the observations were so much more reasonable than the previous evolutionary ones that evolutionists have actually adopted the creationist explanation to a great degree (even though they still hold to evolution)."
What the liar Smith means is that 'evolutionists' are REFUSING to fully embrace biblical creation based 'explanations' as more 'reasonable' but are refusing to do so for no valid scientific reason. But can he show this is the case? NO.
(1) "At one time any mention of catastrophism pertaining to geologic processes was mocked and ridiculed as religious and unscientific in the mainstream geologic community, which almost unanimously conformed to Charles Lyell's uniformitarian views". Young earth creationist ideologues like Smith reject ALL uniformitarianism because this disproves a 'young' Earth. Scientists have simply accepted SOME catastrophism. But they reject a 'recent global flood' because there is NO evidence for it whatsoever.
(2) "So evolutionists now accept the creationist position that fossils can form quickly." So what? The ones in question still formed quickly a very very long time ago.
(3) "The long held evolutionary belief that because all living things supposedly have the same genetic code we are all linked back to one original life form has been shattered by recent research however." This - alluded to by evolutionist Craig Venter in the quoted exchange with evolutionist Paul Davies - is hardly earth shattering or a falsification of the so-called universal or standard genetic code within life on Earth. According to Wikipedia, researchers have uncovered slight variations of the code within human and other mitochondrial (not nuclear) genes, as well as variations such as the translation of the codon UGA as tryptophan in various mycoplasma bacterial species and the translation of CUG as a serine rather than a leucine in some yeasts such as Candida albicans.
And in the world of liar Smith these two diagrams presumably show the 'same' thing ie in the latter diagram 'evolutionists' have now 'adopted' the creationist 'explanation' shown in the former diagram:
[second link appears to now be broken - but see the diagram at 'The Tree of Life today' here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life_(biology)]
(4) "Rapid speciation has recently been observed in different varieties of mosquitoes, mice, daisies, flies, finches, finches, lizards, butterflies and many other creatures." Maybe. But NOT so rapid that in the words of Smith "approximately 8,000 ... kinds of creatures that were on board Noah's Ark [less than 5,000 years ago] could account for the millions of species we see around the world today". That is utter fiction. And if that is also the 'creationist position' that Smith is referring to, which it assuredly is, then NO - evolutionists have NOT 'conceded' it. Because it is utter fiction and make-believe (and not even biblical since Genesis speaks of animals multiplying as they spread across the Earth rather than rapidly changing into similar but different new species that would no longer interbreed).
(5) "Once again the evolutionists have adopted the creationist's position, insofar that they now concede that the vast majority of the human genome isn't 'junk'." The ENCODE Project team suggested that about 80% of DNA (not 100%) has a biochemical function; other scientists dispute this saying that just because a piece of DNA has biological activity that does not demonstrate that it has an important function in a cell.
(6) "'Vestigial' organs have function." In the world of Calvin Smith that is reason enough for a Christian or non-Christian to immediately embrace young earth creationism.
(7) Smith is attacking one of young earth creationism's favourite bogeyman, Ernst Haeckel - who of course is not around to defend himself. Smith should of course know that although SOME other human species once existed but they are all now extinct, evolutionary theory does not preclude the possibility that some of them might still have been around at the start of the 20th century. The idea that because we now know that this is not the case, therefore scientists should reject evolution and embrace young earth creationism instead is laughable. And whilst it was long suspected that all of us alive today belong to the same human species, the only one that is still extant, we have been aware of the results of the Human Genome Project for just 15 years.
(8) Smith's religiously-motivated claim that Neanderthals were 'fully human' (what about eg Homo erectus) is only supported by a minority of genuine scientists. "The variances in body structure fall within the normal range of humans." Prove it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/19/scien ... .html?_r=0 (never mind the morphological differences between us and Neanderthals)
"And to top it all off DNA studies have shown that Neanderthals bred with modern humans, meaning they themselves must have been fully human." What a stupid statement. Is Smith really denying that hybridisation can never [ever] happen in nature? "Once again the honest evolutionist must concede that the creationist position was correct all along." That is a lie. If the Bible was infallible, no other human species should EVER have lived.
(9) "However, there is abundant evidence now agreed upon by evolutionary scientists that the entire human race on the planet today originated from two people just a few thousand years ago." Calvin Smith is a Liar. "The majority of evolutionists have adopted the biblical creationist position." Calvin Smith is a Liar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve (the 'creationist position'?)
(10) "Today, the majority of evolutionists believe in the 'Out of Africa' theory, where people came from a small founding group a short (for them) time ago and dispersed across the planet. So except for the more southern dispersion point, most evolutionists now hold to a much more creationist viewpoint." At this point words fail me.
Of course the CMI Facebook zealots will lap this up. Ten more nails in the 'coffin' of 'evolutionism'! From the dishonest 'creationist position'. "There is no reason to fear challenges from the scientific community." There would be if you stopped lying and making absurd claims Mr Smith.
Science is not infallible. Whereas Smith clearly believes that the Bible IS infallible. Which is behind his opening comment that the Bible (NOT evidence from the natural world) is the 'best' starting point when conducting origins science.
I am submitting this comment to CMI in the UK by email using their website. It will of course NEVER be published on their website and they will NEVER reply to my points either."


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Roundtable Discussion
Roundtable Discussion
CIO Insight: Don Tapscott, let's start with you. You wrote the bookliterallyon what you identified as the Net generation in your 1998 book, Growing Up Digital. Who are these people and what makes them so vastly different from previous generations?
Tapscott: First, demographically, they're the echo of the Baby Boom. If you were born between 1946 and 1965, you're part of the Boom, the biggest generation ever until now. After the Boom, the birth rate dropped for 12 years as the Boomers delayed having kids, the first generation to do that. Then in 1977, the Boomers started having children, and between 1977 and 1997 they produced this huge new generation. In the United States, it's 80 million youngsters, and on the basis of the demographic muscle alone, this generation will dominate the 21st century. This new generation is now the biggest generation ever. And it's the first generation to be surrounded by digital media. I started studying these kids as a generation when I noticed that my own kids were effortlessly able to use all this technology. At first I thought my children were prodigies, and then I realized that all their friends were just like them.
What's the challenge to CIOs and others in the workplace?
Tapscott: Well, this is the first time in history when kids are an authority about something really important. I was an authority on model trains when I was a kid. Today, these kids are authorities on the big revolution that's changing every institution in society.
So imagine this wave of kids coming into the workplace and you say, 'Hello, I'm your boss, who's an authority on everything.' 'Well, just a sec,' says this youngster, 'I'm used to being an authority on something important since I was 11, and I have a very different view of what authority means and how we can each have an area of authority where we work together.'
Or imagine I'm the older boss and I say, 'Work real hard here and we'll give you the big corner office after 10 years.' 'Well, just a sec,' says the youngster, 'I've grown up interacting and creating wealth.' The corner office isn't going to do it anymore.
This is, very soon, going to lead to profound changes not only in the nature of work systems, but also in the nature of management and compensation programs, and in the way we integrate IT into the business.
For example, a young person is going to want to be treated as an investor of his or her intellectual capital rather than as a variable cost, which is how we think of labor today.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project, in a recent survey, found that most teenagers today don't think their educators know how to use technology to help them learn or enrich their studies, and they're demanding change. John Patrick, you led IBM's Internet strategy for many years. Is this generation going to tell corporate America, 'You don't get it' and ask, 'What have you done for me lately?'
Patrick: Yeah, I think they will. They already are. It used to be that kids would come looking for a job and their questions were, 'How much am I going to make?' and 'How long is your training program?' and 'When do I get to be a manager?' and 'How long will it take me to run the company?' Today, the kids come and they want to know, 'How much bandwidth will I have? What kind of laptop are you going to give me?' Or, 'You have Wi-Fi access everywhere in the company, so what kind of PDA are you going to give me?' The value system has changed quite dramatically, and they don't care so much about how much you're going to pay them. They've grown up connected, they are connected, and then they come to a company and they're not sure if they're going to be connected anymore.
In order to recruit these kids, you've got to have good answers to those questions, and you can't BS the answers. It means that if your infrastructure is old and creaky, like many infrastructures in major companies are today, it's going to not only impact morale but it's going to impact your ability to get these kids to come to work for you.
Michael Furdyk, you started and soldfor millions of dollarstwo or three Web companies before you were 16. You're now 22, and you're the co-founder of a nonprofit that seeks to help young people create opportunities for themselves. Do Don and John have it right?
Furdyk: Yeah, I just turned 21, so I'm not that old yet.
Sorry. You're younger than we thought. (laughter)
Furdyk: Yeah, I think they definitely are right, although I think I would add that my generation will expect not only just to be able to share in the wealth it creates, but also to share in the decisions that are made about what's going to happen with it.
One of the things I was involved in a couple of years ago was a project with Microsoft that involved going inside the company and working in various product groups and looking at how they understood youth. Right now, companies are just starting, as Microsoft was then, to realize that young people are really important, that they're obviously a big market segment. The first thing I think people realize is, wow, this generation represents a really big group of people. But then, when people dig a little bit deeper, they start to realize that this is not just a bigger generation. It also does things in really different ways. People of this generation expect different things from companies. I think the whole idea of transparency is really going to be important to this new generationyou know, the idea that companies can't really hide anything from these young people, both as consumers and as employees. I think that is something that will really start to become visible.
Darwin John and your son, Steven John, you're both CIOs. Darwin, you're 65, Steven, you're 42. Is the IT department ready for these changes? The rise of the CIO came largely out of the fact that nobody on the business side of the company knew much about information technology to begin with. How will the role of the CIO need to change?
Darwin John: Steve, I'll respond first and then you can join. Two ideas, quickly. First, my sense is that there will always be a role for the CIO because there will always be a need for an integration point, at several levelsthe technical integration point, which sets the architecture and figures out what the choices are and how it's all going to work, and the management integration point. It's going to be tough: Huge enterprises haven't made it out of the last generation yet, let alone positioned themselves for the next generation. And so you're going to have to traverse or maybe live in several generations at one time within an organizationand do so for a while. Technology changes so quickly, I don't see this as being a temporary demand.
I'm just coming from my focus as CIO at the FBI, and I would say that we're living in three worlds at once. We're living in a world which is very much a catch-up, we're living in a world of trying to keep current or stay caught up, and then we're in a world of trying to position for the future. These worlds are becoming increasingly different from each other, not increasingly the same.
What the CIO needs to be very good at now and going forward is learning to lead in a different way. For me, it's been years now since one person could get their mind around a whole, and I think it's physically not possible anymore. You've got to recognize that you have to create cross-generational teams comprised of different types of people and skills in order to do that.
Steven John: I might be uniquely placed if you talk in terms of Baby Boom. I've been mentored through my career by people at the front end of the Baby Boom. I actually come out of the tail end of the Baby Boom, and I spent my years managing the echo. And so I think that the role of the CIO stays in place. Some of what CIOs are helping senior management to understand is the resource, and maybe it's not so much nowadays helping them understand the iron as the people that are creating the IP. And it's also now about the CIO helping the business understand the new engine, which is represented by this new generationpeople who understand and are familiar and comfortable with new technologies.
Glenn Kelman, in the mid-1990s while in your 20s, you had to convince some Boomers running some pretty conservative companies like Procter & Gamble to take a chance on you and your new company. Will this new generation have the same patience you had at 22 or 23 to negotiate the generation gap within corporations?
Kelman: Well, I think that I wouldn't have been able to do that on my own if we didn't have some gray-haired salespeople helping us. It would have been a problem otherwise. But I think we benefited from the anxiety of the time, among people of older generations, that they were missing out on something. That's not so much the case today. I feel that when we founded the company, we were able to benefit from an historical oddity, the information technology boom, that allowed us to mature from some larval stage into a company that's now matured and grown. I'm not sure that if we were to start our company today and invite some corporate bigwigs from Procter & Gamble or Ford Motor Co. to meet us todaythe "us" being a bunch of people under 30that these older people would have been as easily convinced that we could do something for them. I think some older people now feel vindicated by the turn in the economy, so they're now less willing to listen and less willing to help.
Fred Crawford, Michael Roberts, you're somewhat of a cross-generational team. You both work at the same company. Fred, let me start with you. You are older than Michael.
Crawford: The word dinosaur comes to mind.
Michael is much younger, yet you work with him closely. How do older generations stay relevant in this kind of mix, not only as CIOs but certainly as people involved in IT?
Crawford: I'm 40 years old, and if you check my career, I was always the guy with the newest idea, the hottest thing, and that's how I made my bones in business. Nowadays, though, I wake up to find that I have responsibility in North America for 8,000 people, and I'm a dinosaur. I mean, I literally am learning as fast as I can, and yet I feel like I'm on a treadmill running, you know, like in one of those cartoons where the treadmill is going and going and I'm falling off the back and climbing back on. And the reason Michael and I are here, really, is that what I'm learning, and it's on-the-job training, is how to manage a generation that knows more than I do about what's valuable and not valuable.
I learn from Michael every day, and I think he's cool with that because what I'm learning about managing is that you've got to set your ego in the drawer and throw it away. The truth is, I have a lot of experiences and others like me have experiences and insights and wisdom around doing deals and striking deals and managing complexity that guys that are in Michael's situation in his career don't yet have. Yet Michael has so much more wisdom and knowledge about technology than I do, so we have kind of a symbiotic relationship.
Michael, what do you find to be the most difficult aspect of this generational divide?
Roberts Let me answer that by going back to something that Michael Furdyk said about empowerment and transparency. Technology, or how my generation thinks about technology, is integrated into how we learn from the start. It's an essential part of a good liberal arts education. Technology and the approach to it is part of how you teach people to think. So the difficulty is when you're dealing with a generational divide in terms of how older people were taught how to think. Then it becomes frustrating and uncomfortable, sometimes, to catch people up.
Explain your relationship with Fred. The younger Michael is the older Fred's technology mentor, correct?
Crawford: Absolutely, he's my guy. I mean, I say, hey, I need a new PDA, hey, I don't understand this, etc., and literally, without reserve, I just reveal all my weaknesses and lack of understanding and I just ask for guidance. And I don't think that this compromises our working relationship. In fact, I think it makes it stronger.
Can I tell a quick story? I think this crystallizes what we're talking about. I'm working on a new product, and I'm working with other figurative graybeards like myself, and we're at the end of a long couple of days and we're very proud of what we just had produced. And it just struck us before we took it to the next step, maybe we should get some opinions.
So we ran out in the hallway and grabbed the nearest three consultants that were there, all in their 20s. We took them through it and they were very puzzled. I could tell they were just agitated a third of the way through the pitch, and I said, 'What's wrong?' and they said, 'You don't, I mean, with due respect, Mr. Crawford, you don't get what it's like to be a consultant anymore.' And I said, 'What are you talking about?' I asked that because I'm literally consulting every day. They said, 'You built this as though there's a business need and a business set of skills and a technology need and a technology set of skills. That might have been your reality. That's not ours. Our clients expect that we have all of that inside our heads and that each of us brings all of it.' So it's not a question of defining business, defining technology and merging. You've got to bring it all at once. And it was just that simple, but I was blinded by my own paradigm. And that's what it's about.
Felicia Webb: You guys are talking a lot this morning about your need to lead in different ways, how you have to look at your jobs differently, and how you're feeling like you don't have to be an authority on everything. And I think this is exactly right. I'm 29, and I teach high school students in Silicon Valley, technology students in the Cisco Academy technology program, and they're 14 to 18 years old. I would say that in my classroom, it's no longer that students sit and they listen and cross their hands and everything I say is perfect and good and wonderful.
My students demand that I be willing to admit that I don't know everything. They spend 12 hours a day working on computers, and they walk in and, oftentimes, they are teaching me things, and here I am, one of the technology teachers. I know that they are teaching other teachers things constantly, and that they demand that their teachers be willing to be a coach more than a leader and more of a team member rather than the be-all-and end-all of all things.
So you're a facilitator?
Webb: Well, definitely I bring a lot of knowledge and a lot of experience, but like Michael said, I think students nowadays learn differently than I did when I was a kid. First, it's not about stocking their brains with information. It's about teaching them how to think, teaching them how to approach technology. They know how to use it. It's giving them the confidence to sit down and explore how to make things happen with technology.
Therefore, it's very important that I allow them to teach each other, to share their discoveries with each other. Sometimes I'll know the things they discover, sometimes I won't. But letting them discover things and interact is how they learn, and that's how they will contribute.
Certainly, this has strong implications for the workplace.
Patrick: Yes, and for the CIO. I think it's really important for a CIO to be an integrator. These kids know a lot but they don't know everything. They think deeply and technically in many ways, but not necessarily across the expanse of an organization. So the CIO needs to know how to listen to what the kids have to offer, but they also need to rely on the experience of people who have been around the block a few times as well.
How will information technologies themselves, such as those that promote mobility, also change the game?
Patrick: I think that's a really important topic. Mobility is a fast-moving target. Wi-Fi is changing the world now, and we've really just seen the beginning. So as soon as we get Wi-Fi chips in all the handheld devicesthings we used to call cell phonesthen the Internet's going to be everywhere, and kids are leading the charge on that. I'm over here in Singapore right now, talking with you via telephone, but SMSshort message serviceis all over. Everybody SMSes everything here, much different than in the States. What I've discovered about kids lately is you can't reach them by e-mail anymore. It used to be you couldn't get them by phone, so you sent an e-mail, and grandparents are learning e-mail so they can reach the kids. Well, that isn't good enough anymore because kids don't answer e-mail. You have to get them through instant messaging. That's the only way they respond. And over here it's SMS. So the cycle time for communications with kids is getting a lot closer to Nintendo, which they grew up on, than it is to the way the rest of us grew up. This is a big change.
Tapscott: I think a key concept here is partnership. The reverse mentoring that Fred and Michael are doing, that kind of stuff is really importantbecause if we don't listen to young people, there could be a generation gap. I mean, we don't have the kind of gap that existed in the 1960s between kids and parents over ideology and values. But if we continue to be threatened by young people, to try and manage them in traditional ways, then we're going to have a lot of problems.
Could I just give one quick story? It has to do with Michael Furdyk, actually. I was giving a talk to a group called the Business Council. It's 125 of the top CEOs in America, so John Chambers and Bill Gates and Alan Greenspan were there, a pretty senior crowd. And I gave a talk, and then I had a panel of young people. I think Michael was about 15 or 16 at the time. One of the questions to Michael was, 'What would we have to do to get you to come and work for our company?' And then Michael said something like, 'Gee, I'd like to work for your company. The way to do it would be as a partnership. You know, my company will work with your company.' He says this like a 16-year-old. (laughter)
Furdyk: I was trying to learn how to drive. I don't think that Bill Gates would have thought that a year later I would be in Redmond working across his teams and exposed to all the strategy in the company, so it worked out.
I think this idea about mobility, that my generation takes its work everywhere, is really important. So is this concept of partnership. Okay, so how am I going to be differently rewarded for taking my work everywhere? For example, now I've got an organization of about 22 people in Toronto, it's a nonprofit, but it still runs very much like a company.
So how differently do I reward the people that hang around the office till two in the morning working with me than the people who go home at 5:01 in the afternoon, and how can I judge productivity by time and how does technology affect all that? Because although someone may not be there in the office, they're still, you know, when I'm in New York and they're online at two in the morning, they're still working.
I think it creates a different concept of partnership in that the new generation is really stepping up to another level of work and productivity. If young people are going to be rewarded for it, then it would really have to be a partnership. It's just not a one-way relationship where they serve me, because if it is, then they'll just put in the minimum. They have to be treated and valued and supported as partners in what we're doing, and if they are, and if they really feel that way, I think you can really get a lot more productivity out of people because work becomes fun, it just doesn't become work. It becomes something that they want to do 24/7, not just something they do to make money. So that idea of a partnership is not just a partnership in business, but a partnership in achieving everything that both sides want to achieve.
Tapscott: If we don't approach this new generation from the perspective of a business partnership, they'll become a generation of entrepreneurs. That's a real possibility.
Furdyk: What a tragedy that would be! What companies really have to be challenged to do is to create an entrepreneurial environment so that these young people actually become attracted and interested in becoming a partner in that sense versus just going off and starting their own companies.
Darwin John: Okay, but managing for the entrepreneur type in the more traditional workplaces will be a tremendous challenge to existing companies. I just joined an organization where the IT budget is toward a billion dollars and it just brought in a CTO who is 31 who just had a successful software company of his own and sold it. Trying to manage that entrepreneurial approach to work is a tremendous challenge. For me, it comes back to leadership. The CIO is going to have to be able to traverse that whole generational spectrum within a given environment, to be able to draw on the capability of the new and the bright and the different mind-set and what motivates this new generationand also to accommodate the differences in how work is done. It's going to require identifying what's possible and blending that with some much more traditional kinds of individuals and team members who have the knowledge of how the business can work and does work, and what the legal boundaries are, and all of the rest that goes with that.
Are today's CIOs up to the task?
Steven John: I think we'll always be lacking in the full set of skills. One of the strengths we have coming is this next generation, and we need to know how to leverage that strength and not worry about some of the weaknesses that may come along with that.
So what are the skills that older people have that are becoming irrelevant? What skills do members of this new generation lack?
Kelman: You know what I've noticed? I think there's a new kind of antisocial behavior, I find in myself, and certainly that I observe in people who are younger than me, which is that you'd rather not talk to anyone, and that can be very counterproductive. You can e-mail, you can IM, you can SMS, there are just so many ways to avoid direct confrontation. And confrontation is enormously important in bringing about decisions. Yet so often, you'll have people within eight feet of one another saying things to people over IM or e-mail that you'd never say to their face, and you could probably make the decision faster in another way, but it's more pleasurable. I would pay $100 sometimes not to get up from my desk and go say, 'Dude, are we going to do this or not?' and settle it.
Crawford: I couldn't agree more with what you just said, and I actually don't want to miss this opportunity to bring up two things that are bothering me about the new technology-enabled generation. One is when I talk to them on college campuses, when I'm recruiting, they do notand I'm going to generalize, there are always the starsby and large they do not have the social skills that people had just five short years ago. And they don't make eye contact and they don't speak in complete sentences and they are, relatively speaking, unpolished. I'm generalizing, of course. The second thing I notice is that they kind of have ADD, attention deficit disorder. I mean, they can't stick on a point for more than five minutes, and you know what? Some points take a day. So I'm anxious to get some reactions and some coaching because it's a critical problem that I think actually could hinder our workforce if we don't sort it out. And I don't mean just mine. I mean ours, collectively.
Patrick: Let me comment on that. I think there's a lot of truth in it, and this is the opportunity we older people need to take to help these young people develop. We can either just let them sit in the corner and SMS all day or we can bring them into the conversations and help them see the value of engagement, and help them develop. That's our job.
Tapscott: Fred's point about ADD? I'm not sure that's right. I think kids can be very, very focused for very long periods of time. They're just doing a whole bunch of things at once because they've grown up in three windows with the radio on in the background and three magazines open, they're on the telephone, and they're doing their homeworkand all at the same time. But I think, therefore, that it's incumbent upon us to try and understand whether this is a different way of working that may actually be more effective.
Are these behavioral changes in younger people simply part of a larger, necessary shift to new sensibilities that will be critical to attain if we're to keep pace with the real-time companies we're just starting now to create?
Steven John: I was trying to chime in earlier on this. When I worked at Transora, I had an IT team of close to 100 people and I was the only person married with children. It was a very young group, they worked around the clock, and we brought in food and all those things to facilitate that. But one of the things I found, and the analogy's appropriate now that I'm in an agricultural company, is that I didn't understand the law of the harvest. Now, how do you keep waiting and working when the harvest seems delayed, where I'm swinging the axe but no chips are flying? I had to do a lot of counseling around how it doesn't always happen in a day, even in accelerated startup companies. Sometimes there are early harvests and sometimes there are late harvests. So helping and mentoring them to understand that delayed gratification is a reality of the workplace was difficult.
Okay, but now what does the role of the IT department become when business and technology skills reside in one person?
Jory Marino: I think the successful CIO two, three, five, ten years from now is going to have to be able to build an organizational framework for attracting, developing and retaining people that includes attachment to new technology, along with the understanding that the complete piece around technology doesn't reside in the CIO organization but resides more ubiquitously across the company.
Tapscott: I think that's very true. And when you have people throughout the organization who have grown up using this stuff, they're going to think a lot differently in terms of how to solve business problems, how to interact with customers, how to collaborate and so on. And this is really good news for the CIO given the current context where you can have articles in the Harvard Business Review that are taken seriously that say IT doesn't matterthat your goal should be to minimize costs as much as possible, because everybody has got the same thing. It's the thought that any application can be replicated instantly, and, therefore, IT has become irrelevant.
Well, there's good news for the embattled CIO. You're going to have the biggest generation ever in the workforce that thinks very differently. They're going to be constantly looking for opportunities to innovate, create new business models, change the way that products are brought to market and build different kinds of technology-enabled relationships with customers and so on. And overall I think this is a really welcome development for the embattled CIO today.
Roberts: Yes, I envision a future where every conversation and every function of a business has a technology element to it, and it's just the way of thinking. I think every single personis going to have a technology way of thinking, and that's going to be a requirement for every function within business.
Tapscott: True, but let me make another point. We've talked here today about how it's not just a greater knowledge about technology that differentiates this new generation from any other, but also a different way of thinking and working and collaborating.
However, let's not overlook that this new generation also has a different view of authority and, in my view, this is going to cause a labor crisis. It's going to be the older people who won't listen to them that are going to be the victims, not this younger generation.
The danger is generational displacement in the workforce. This wave of kids comes in, and rather than listen to them and try to embrace them and learn from them, we end up combating them, or creating dissonance and conflict, and so on. I think it's not going to be the young people who are going to be the ones who will suffer, because they're much better equipped, naturally, for this new kind of organization and new kind of economy.
It sounds like there will be friction if things aren't managed right. Are we headed for war in the workplace?
Webb: There's already some friction in the schools. There are a lot of teachers who don't want more technology in the classroom. They want more time to get their kids ready. But the students demand the technology and, to be truthful, it's almost like the technology is the best way to communicate with them, to prepare them. Some of us hope we can speak to them through the technology, through a medium that they spend hours and hours on, and teach them those basic skills that they have to have later. The problem is, they're not listening to me when I tell them to take out a piece of paper and ask them to make the 50th rough draft. For my students, the computer and keyboard is more natural for them. Paper and pencils are unnatural, weird. Sure, educators are concerned about whether these kids will learn the basic skills but we need to use the technology to get them better preparednot think of technology as an impediment.
Crawford: Yeah, I notice that there is a bifurcation among more senior people, and it bifurcates much like you're talking about.
Patrick: Those who get it and those who don't.
Crawford: Yeah, it's pretty simplethose who get it and those who don't. And those who don't are being forced out, and they're being forced out of my clients, they're being forced out of my company, they're being forced out all over the place. I got a wake-up call a couple of years ago, and so I recommitted myself to learning. I hope that I can come up a learning curve at a reasonable pace so that if I don't get it now, I'll get it soon. I think that's an attitude that all of us better have.
Tapscott: I'd just like to end with that thought, that in terms of us older adults, be sure you're one of those who gets it. Yes, of course, there's a lot that we have to teach young people, but that's not the big problem. The dynamic of older people teaching younger people has always existed in the workforce. What's new, and what is the big new problem we all face today, is that we, the older ones, are going to have to listen to and learn from young people and embrace their new culture and their new way of working. This has to happen in every institution in society, and some societies will do this better [than others].
I know Michael, when he started out in school, wasn't allowed to use the Internet because he hadn't taken a prerequisite course on how to use the Internet. This kid has a Web site with 20 million page views a month, and he can't use the Internet at his school. So we fear what we don't understand, and fear gets in the way of doing the right thing. And rather than fearing Michael, they should have been hiring students to teach teachers how to use the big new innovation in learning.
This is a humbling thing, and it's tough, but I find that people who can get their heads around these coming trends, whether they're teachers or managers or CIOs or whoever, they think differently about this generation and can learn from that, and it can be a very exciting thing that can give people and their institutions a whole new lease on life. Click here for the full transcript
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This morning when I got up my friend Michael had emailed me that my film "Quasi at the Quackadero" had been included in 2009 National Film Registry.
"The National Film Preservation Board members enthusiastically supported this addition to the more than 500 U.S. films now recognized as "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" and worthy of preservation."
I want to toast E.E. Gregg Snazelle. Right after college I rented an editing room at Snazelle Films in San Francisco so I could finish my third film, "Chow Fun." Gregg saw the film and offered me a job at his film company. The job was to experiment with animation, and do commercials for him when the jobs came in. He also hoped I'd figure out how to solve 3-d without glasses.
Needless to say I didn't solve 3-d. I didn't even do very many commercials over ten years, but I showed up at 8:30, took an hour off for lunch and worked till 5:30. I was paid $350 a month, and I could live on that then.
He encouraged me generously without ever paying much attention to me. These days if an opportunity like that even existed, you'd be forced to sign all kinds of rights statements for characters and content created, but this was before "Star Wars" and he just seemed to be happy to have me around. We were never particularly close. It spoiled me for any job after that.
I made all my "Quasi" films while I was working at Snazelle. Unfortunately he's no longer alive, but here's to you, Gregg, with a big heart and much thanks.


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New stadium won't impact Braves' decisions for 2014
GM Wren looking at trade market to add ace, hopeful of re-signing right-hander Hudson
ATLANTA -- Much of the Braves-related chatter surrounding this year's General Managers Meetings has focused on the club's intention to move to a new suburban stadium for the start of the 2017 season. But this plan does not necessarily impact what will be done over the next few weeks and months.
"That's pretty long range, that's four years out," general manager Frank Wren said of the new stadium. "I don't think that has anything to do with what we're doing this season. I think it will start to in the next couple of years. I don't think it will have big implications currently."
As things currently stand, the only Braves player under contract through the 2017 season is B.J. Upton, whose five-year deal will expire that same year. Justin Upton, Jason Heyward and Kris Medlen will all be eligible to become free agents after the 2015 season. Freddie Freeman, Craig Kimbrel, Brandon Beachy and Chris Johnson could all become first-time free agents at the end of the 2016 season.
With all of this in mind, it is far too early to have a good feel for who will be wearing a Braves uniform after the completion of the next three seasons. But the next few months and possibly years will likely bring speculation about whether Heyward and Freeman will both still be in Atlanta when the new stadium opens.
The Braves briefly talked to Heyward in March about the possibility of buying out some of his arbitration years with a multiyear deal that would have obviously extended beyond 2015. But those negotiations died quickly.
Like Heyward last winter, Freeman will become eligible for arbitration for the first time this offseason. Whether the Braves approach Freeman with a multiyear deal that would extend beyond 2016 remains to be seen.
But there is certainly reason for Wren and his staff to spend time this winter at least talking about whether it makes sense to extend multiyear offers to some key players who are either currently arbitration-eligible or set to become so within the next couple of years. The most likely candidates would be Heyward, Freeman and Andrelton Simmons, who will not be eligible for free agency until after the 2017 season.
While the Braves could certainly benefit from having a dominant Kimbrel around for many years to come, they will likely not attempt to buy out any of his arbitration seasons because of the unpredictability that comes during the lifespan of an effective closer.
Kimbrel will make more than $7 million as a first-year arbitration-eligible player this winter. If he extends the success he has had in his first three years as Atlanta's closer, there is a chance he could make more than $13 million in 2016 -- his third and final arbitration-eligible season -- and then likely venture into free agency without the certainty that he will still be with the Braves when the new stadium opens
While evaluating the futures of his many young talented players is certainly one of his responsibilities, Wren has spent the past few days talking to agents and fellow general managers about deals that could shape his 2014 roster.
It is no secret that Atlanta would like to acquire one of the few aces available on the trade market and find a team that is willing to assume a portion of the $26 million Dan Uggla is owed over the next two years.
Neither of these tasks will be easy. But Wren has seemingly been encouraged with some of the dialogue he has had over the past few days.
"In the case of some of the agents we've talked to, things are moving at maybe a little brisker pace than the past few years," Wren said. "That's kind of what I'm getting a sense of.
"As far as trades, I think there was a lot of preparation before we ever got here. I felt I got a good sense more than usual. Teams were ready to get this Hot Stove season going."
The Braves entered this offseason with the understanding they would likely be bidding adieu to Brian McCann, who has continued to draw strong interest from a number of teams, namely the Rangers, Red Sox and Yankees.
But Wren has at least remained hopeful of re-signing veteran pitcher Tim Hudson, who has also drawn interest from a number of clubs, including the Royals, Indians, Red Sox and Giants. The Braves made an initial one-year offer that Hudson opted not to counter. But Wren has continued to show interest in the 38-year-old pitcher, who missed the final two months of this season with a fractured right ankle.


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A rich set of peripherals, flexibility and ease-of-use combined with Ultra low power consumption make the Microchip ǀ SMART SAM L21 ARM Cortex-M0+ based microcontroller series ideal for IoT, wireless, and any system that needs large memories and ultra-low power consumption. The SAM L21 is designed for simple and intuitive migration between SAM L devices with identical peripheral modules, compatible code and a linear address map and is compatible with the SAM D family of general-purpose MCUs.
- DMA:16 -channel DMA
- Processor:Cortex-M0+, 48 MHz
- Cryptographic Engine:128.256 -bit Advanced Encryption Standard
- RNG:True Random Number Generator
- Other:12 x Event System channels
- ROM:256 kB
- RAM:32 kB
- RAM:8 kB
- Supply Voltage:1.63 V .. 3.63 V Operating Voltage
- Maximum Clock Frequency:48 MHz,
- RTC:32 kHz
- Other:1 x USB Embedded Host and Device mode
- Other:6 x SERCOMM (i2C, USART, SPI)
- Watchdog:1 x Watchdog Timer
- Timer/Counter:3 x 32-bit Timer/Counter for Control
- Timer/Counter:5 x 32-bit Timer/Counter
- ADC:20-channel x 12 bit ADC
- DAC:2-channel x 10 bit DAC
- Temperature Sensor:1 x
- Other:2 x Analog Comparator
- Operating Temperature Range:-40 °C .. 85 °C Operating Temperature Range
- I/Os:51 General Purpose I/Os
- External Interrupts:16 External Interrupts
- Package, QFP:64-lead TQFP Package
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Pronunciation: flê-ji-shês
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: 1. Brutal, vicious, atrocious, inclined toward heinous crimes. 2. Nasty, mean, irresponsibly wicked.
Notes: Remember, {g} tends to be pronounces soft before front vowels (vowels pronounced in the front of the mouth), {i} and {e}, so this {g} will be pronounced {j}. Before back vowels, {g} is generally pronounced hard: gorge, gurgle, garish. The adverb is flagitiously and the noun flagitiousness. (Flagitiosity reared its ugly head a time or two but didn't stick, thank heavens.)
In Play: Today's good bad word is difficult to joke about; its reference is very, very serious: "The flagitious regime of Saddam Hussein cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Iranians." However, as the second definition indicates, this meaning is softening a bit in use: "He was so flagitious as to criticize her hair when she had just left the beauty parlor."
Word History: If this word conjures up images of Indiana Jones cracking a whip above his head, it is because the Latin word for whip shares an origin with today's word. Today's word came from the Latin adjective flagitiosus "shameful, disgraceful". This adjective rose up from flagitium "a shameful act, a protest", itself from flagitare "to importune, to demand vehemently". The point of origin is PIE *bhleg- "strike, hit", which also underlies Latin flagrum "whip". The same root provided Icelandic with blása and English with blow "act of hitting". (It would be, indeed, bordering on the flagitious not to thank our Agoran of the Day, named appropriately enough, M. Henri Day, for suggesting today's word.)
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This is the second in a series of green IT product reviews.
Making sure the computers and devices under your purview are as energy-efficient as possible has quickly become one of the core duties of the average network administrator. Of course, one area that can readily be overlooked is the device handling the power output, that is, the uninterruptable power supply (UPS) or surge-suppressing power strip.
Just because a device such as a printer or scanner is turned off does not mean that it is drawing zero power. Often these devices go idle and continue to use a tiny bit of electricity, sometimes called phantom or vampire power. Over time, and when multiplied by several hundred users, this unnecessary expense can really add up.Many "smart" power strips are on the market now that cut power to certain sockets to help eliminate these "phantom loads." However, they accomplish this by monitoring the power level of a master socket that the computer is typicaly plugged into, and that usually takes some guesswork on the part of the power strip. Besides, not one includes a UPS battery system, most UPS systems don't have this power-saving feature, and generally you don't want to cut power to the devices you need uninterruptable power for in the first place.
Tripp Lite Energy-Saving UPS SystemPros: Regular and predictable shut-offs for Eco outlets.Cons: A bit heavier than some users will want.Performance: A-Ease of Use: AFeatures: A-Value: APrice: $111Reviewer's Choice
PREVIOUS: ColorQube proves you can't judge green by power use alone
The Tripp Lite ECO750UPSTAA Energy-Saving UPS System combines a smart power strip and UPS into one device, providing the best of both worlds. It measures 12 inches long by 6.75 inches wide by 3 inches high, which is the size of four to six regular power strips bundled together. Of course it weighs significantly more than several power strips, mostly because of the 750 volt-amp battery. However, at 8 pounds, 12 ounces it's still manageable enough to carry with one hand.The eco UPS has six sockets along one side that are connected to the battery, and six on the other that are not, having only surge-and noise-protection. Four of the latter have "Eco" capability, which means they will cut power to anything that is plugged into them when told to by the UPS. There is also a pair of telephone jacks that provide surge-suppression to a phone line (used for either a dial-up modem or DSL)The Tripp Lite unit differs from other power supplies that manage the output of their sockets in the means it uses to figure out when it should cut power. Included is a special cable with an RJ-45 connector (typically on network cables) on one end and a USB plug on the other. The RJ-45 end is plugged into the communication port of the UPS and the other is connected to a computer. Whenever the computer shuts down, the Tripp Lite unit waits three minutes (in case it is just rebooting or momentarily loses connection) and cuts power to the Eco sockets. It will also do this if the computer goes into sleep mode. It did this without fail in our tests.Dual-use power deviceA typical configuration of powered devices might be as follows: The battery side would have your computer and things that you never want to turn off, like a cable modem or router. The Eco outlets would have devices that are never used when the computer is off, such as a printer or scanner. The last two outlets would be for items that tend to operate independently of the computer, such as a desk lamp. Using this or a similar configuration will allow devices the power they need when they need it, and save on electricity overall.If for some reason you don't want those four sockets to save you money, you can turn off the Eco mode by holding down a recessed button for a second. Once the LED goes off, the four outlets work just like the other two on that side, with only basic surge and noise-suppression.With everything plugged in where it should be and Eco mode in full swing, Tripp Lite claims that this device could save up to $50 per year in electricity costs. These savings can really add up when multiplied by all of an organization's users.Trip Lite is selling the ECO750UPSTAA retail for $111. This is a very good price for a 750 volt-amp UPS system, let alone one with additional non-battery outlets. At this price it will pay for itself in fewer than three years. And that helps to make it a green IT star, earning it a Reviewer's Choice designation to boot.Tripp Lite, www.tripplite.com
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Zsa Zsa Gabor was reported in critical condition Wednesday after being taken back to the hospital with pneumonia, her publicist said.
The 94-year-old actress was taken by ambulance to a Los Angeles hospital after complaining of breathing troubles, according to Jon Blanchette, Gabor's publicist.
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She was reported in critical condition. Doctors were attempting to drain the fluid from her lungs, according to Gabor's husband, Frederic von Anhalt.
Gabor has been in and out of the hospital since requiring surgery in July after falling out of bed and breaking her hip.
After her right leg was amputated in January because of gangrene, the original "Moulin Rouge" star refused to have her other leg amputated when her blood stopped flowing.
Gabor's left leg has since responded to medication at home.
Gabor is the last living of three Gabor sisters with careers in Hollywood. The legendary screen star has been equally famous for having been married nine times.


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I'm in the process of recording several more, so stay tuned for updates.
For now, give these a listen!
- What's the First Impression Your Church Makes? (200Churches Podcast)
- How To Improve Your Church's First Impressions with Greg Atkinson (Vanderbloemen Podcast)
- Greg Atkinson Reveals Secrets from Being a Church Secret Shopper (unSeminary Podcast with Rich Birch)
- Greg Atkinson on the Secrets of a Secret Church Shopper: What People Are Looking for When They Come to Your Church (The Carey Nieuwhof Podcast)
- The First Impressions Checklist – Pro Church Podcast with Brady Shearer
- The Importance of First Impressions – Leadership Conversations Podcast with Josh Reich and Casey Cease
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U.S. officials are pushing General Motors to prepare for a bankruptcy filing ahead of the June 1 deadline, according to a report.
GM insists publicly that it can reorganize before that date, but the auto company -- which was granted $13.4 billion in federal aid -- spent last week in talks with members of Obama's automotive task force discussing how to prepare for a "surgical" bankruptcy, the New York Times reported.
The preparations are meant to assure that the company is ready to file for bankruptcy if GM cannot reach an agreement with bondholders to change $28 billion in debt into equity, the paper reported.
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Fritz Henderson, GM's new chief executive who replaced Rick Wagoner in late March, said bankruptcy is probable for the ailing automaker if it cannot reach a deal with labor and bondholders by a June 1 deadline, imposed by the administration.


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2. Uses more memory because unused drivers take up space.
3. Generally slows system down due to memory usage.
4. However, communicates with hardware faster.
1. Drivers are compiled as modules.
2. Uses less memory since only necessary drivers can be loaded.
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Would it be possible to make a game trainer or a keylogger in Java ?
I was looking for programming stuff on YouTube. Then I found something like "how to make a trainer in vb...".
It sounded interesting, so I searched for trainers or keylogger in Java, but I couldn`t find anything.
And I`m very curious about it. So, VB could do this, and Java couldn`t ?
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The convenience of mobile wallets and contactless payment technologies is a boon for busy account holders, but it requires financial institutions and merchants to apply fraud safeguards at the same speed, sometimes in less than a second.
Authorization is no longer just a yes/no decision; it's a decision to apply just the right level of authorization to preserve the user experience, and when necessary, to step up the authentication at the correct moment, while the customer is waiting.
Balancing security and convenience will require an approach that combines consumer-facing authentication (such as passwords, PINs and biometrics) with background security measures (such as transaction and session-behavior analytics). It's the way to stay ahead of the fraudsters, rather than one step behind.
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Website BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.
If you are motivated and have excellent personal management skills then apply for the Human Resources Manager Job offered by the BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.. They are offering new job opportunities in their Tampa, FL 33615 offices. Application deadline is approaching, apply soon.
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Job: Human Resources Manager Job
Company: BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.
Location: Tampa, FL 33615
Job Description
BJ's Wholesale Club was the first retailer to introduce the warehouse club concept in the northeastern United States. Today, we're a multibillion dollar operation with more than 200 clubs in 17 states from Maine to Florida.
While our Members know us for helping them save up to 25% off grocery prices every day, our Team Members love us for providing a supportive and engaging workplace that's committed to developing great talent.
If you're a motivated and enthusiastic person who enjoys working collaboratively and is committed to providing great service for our Members, we want to hear from you. BJ's offers a fast-paced, team environment with great training opportunities and competitive salary and benefits packages to help you succeed.
Job Summary
Responsible for management and administration of Human Resource functions in a specified club location. Administers programs, policies and procedures of the BJ's Human Resources Department. Accountable for leading and administering the hiring/onboarding processes, Team Member relations, payroll, and training.
The manager is responsible to function as the Manager on Duty (MOD) as assigned. While MOD, the manager has responsibility to manage the entire Club, including all Club departments, to ensure excellent Member engagement, to address any and all concerns brought to the MOD's attention, and to escalate any concerns, as appropriate. The manager could be assigned as MOD 50% or more of the manager's scheduled shifts.
Major Tasks, Responsibilities, and Key Accountabilities
Regularly provides direction and guidance to Team Members regarding company policies. Acts as a mediator between Team Members and management on conflict resolution and/or Team Member relations matters.
Controls comprehensive scheduling processes for all hourly Team Members, ensuring a productive workforce is available within budget guidelines.
Ensures club payroll is completed accurately and timely weekly, and ensures all payroll records are maintained properly.
Supervises and directs the activities of the human resources Clerical and maintenance Team Members.
Actively recruits, screens, interviews, and hires hourly Team Members. Recruiting efforts involve, among other things, using newspaper ads, in-club hiring table, and visiting campuses of local schools/colleges/universities.
Conducts Team Member orientations/training for all new hires. Acts as the "on-site administrator" of intranet-based training and communications system to coordinate club training needs (e.g., cashier training, safety, etc).
Administers all personnel paperwork, including completing and processing new hire paperwork, hourly wage increases, hourly promotions, terminations, worker's compensation and unemployment claims.
Conducts benefits orientations and oversees annual benefits open enrollment process.
Handles Team Member's confidential information with privacy and care.
Additional administrative tasks as required.
1-3 years payroll, clerical or HR experience and/or 2+ years of management experience.
Interviewing/hiring techniques, payroll background, counseling experience.
Demonstrated leadership capabilities, including managing/supervising cross-functional teams, training Team Members and Team Member relations.
Strong interpersonal skills, time management, prioritization, and multi-tasking skills required.
Basic computer knowledge (MS Word, MS Excel, Email) required.
High school diploma and/or college degree preferred.
Open shift availability required.
At least 18 years of age.
Job Conditions
Most of the time is spent moving about on hard surfaces. There may be a need to occasionally position oneself to sit, twist, lift, bend, pull, reach and move files or boxes.
Intermittent time sitting at computer workstation.
Sometimes requires lifting objects up to 30 pounds. May require having to position oneself to examine or scan merchandise, and/or lift and move heavy and/or awkward objects in excess of 30 pounds with assistance.
Located in a comfortable indoor area with frequent exposure to temperature extremes and loud noises. There may be occasional exposure to cleaning agents.
BJ's Wholesale Club is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for all qualified team members and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, ancestry, national origin, physical and/or mental disability, genetic information, atypical cellular or blood trait, marital and/or familial status, pregnancy, gender identity and expression, military or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.
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WEATHER: Take a guess.
WHERE TO: Lincoln Park, Mall, Lincoln Memorial, home
MOOD: Sensual.
I've realized that I've been an absolute hellbitch lately, mostly due to just about the worst week at work ever last week ("Who taught me how to write? Drunk baboons?"), combined with a tiring running weekend ("I will PEE ON EVERY NON-WORKING WATER FOUNTAIN I FIND, I SWEAR TO GOD, WASHINGTON, DC!"), which has made me less than pleasant to live with ("Bring me the head of whatever ass-hat loaded this dishwasher!").
Life is taxing sometimes, dear readers. Sometimes it's all too much. Sometimes life voms on your shoes and steals your lollipop. Sometimes you need an escape. Sometimes you want to light some candles and get down with your bad self in a bubble bath with a box of Godiva and a glass of Cabernet and an Enya CD while breathing winsomely, "Calgon, take me AWAY!"
Sometimes, girlfriend, you need romance.
And so I am here to deliver you from your hellish daily life with a romantic story, delivered to you in serial format…partially in an attempt to get you to keep comin' back for more running-log goodness, and partially…no, actually, mostly in an attempt to get you to keep comin' back for the goods.
Tonight, I bring you part 1 of 7. Why seven? Well, I've always found seven to be the most sensual of the single-digit integers.
So, without further ado, I bring you: