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Squalicum Creek is a lowland stream that originates in the Cascade foothills east of Bellingham and flows west through the City limits before entering Bellingham Bay. The stream drains approximately 22 square miles and historically provided approximately 32 miles of accessible salmon habitat (Williams 1976). The stream currently provides habitat for Coho, Chum, Pink, and Chinook and Steelhead (both listed under the Endangered Species Act). It also supports populations of fish, birds, and mammals, as well as recreational opportunities for citizens. However, the health of this ecosystem is in jeopardy. Symptoms of ecosystem stress include exceedances of water quality standards and declining salmon populations.
The largest thermal-loading (i.e. heat) issues in
Squalicum Creek were formerly caused by Sunset Pond and Bug Lake. These two water bodies are man-made pits created during the construction of I-5 for fill material. Because the ponds are both shallow and wide, they absorb large amounts of solar heat, causing peaks in water temperature that are harmful to salmon.
During the summer of 2015, Phases 1 and 2 of the Squalicum Creek project re-routed nearly a mile of Squalicum Creek around Sunset Pond into a newly created channel, reactivating remnant channels and reconnecting the stream with its floodplain. This project also eliminated existing fish passage barriers at James Street and I-5, opening up over 22 miles of salmon habitat upstream of James Street. This project is anticipated to decrease water temperatures, improve dissolved oxygen levels, enhance biotic integrity and benefit salmon habitat in Squalicum Creek by routing water flow away from Sunset Pond.
Reactivating remnant channels and reconnecting the stream with its floodplain will make self-sustaining improvements to habitat conditions of Squalicum Creek. The project phases were designed with a thorough understanding and consideration of the hydrology, climate patterns, geology, and ecology of the watershed.
Phase 1 runs from the northeast corner of Bug Lake eastward to James Street and is funded by a $1.7 million grant and loan package from the Department of Ecology (DOE). The City received an additional $2.1 million grant and loan package from the DOE for Phase 2, which runs from James Street eastward to Irongate. The City contracted with Interfluve, Inc. for the design and permitting of both phases and Washington Department of Transportation installed a culvert under I-5 to accommodate the re-route.
The first two phases of the Squalicum Re-route project have been the recipients of two national awards:
Phases 3 and 4 of the Squalicum Re-route Project will address water quality and habitat issues associated with Bug Lake and the area immediately downstream of Bug Lake. Project construction will likely begin in 2020.
The re-route project is being closely coordinated with other projects in the area which includes the
James Street Bridge improvements,
Bay to Baker trail, Woodstock/James streets intersection improvements, and the
Orchard Street Extension. The City presented an overview of all the
Squalicum corridor projects at an open house on May 6, 2014. Project information can also be found on the
Squalicum Creek Re-route Phases 1 and 2 capital project page.
Project Manager: Analiese Burns, Habitat and Restoration Manager, Public Works Department, Natural Resources. (360) 778-7968, email@example.com


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Students from Forest Heights Academy visited the United Nations (UN) in New York in September along with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fred Mitchell, as a part of the reward for winning the Model United Nations (MUN) debate on climate change in April this year.
Cole Albury and Donte Richard along with their teacher Nadira Kawalram travelled to the New York to sit in on a session of the UN and hear the Minister Mitchell speak on Behalf of the Bahamas.
Donte and Cole both said that the trip was fantastic and wonderful. After a two-and-a-half hour flight hey were greeted at the airport by Bahamian delegates who carried them to their hotel.
They were given a tour of the city, including Grand Central Station and Times Square which Cole said was "absolutely amazing; pictures don't do it justice."
"It was a breath taking to see all different kinds of people and hear all the different sounds. There where street performers trying to earn an honest living," Cole said.
They began their second day meeting with Bahamian officials and guests in The Bahama House after which they took a short walk to the UN where they were searched and given identifications before entering.
Once inside, Donte and Cole were guided to their seats where they listened to the Speaker for Bahrain and India.
Cole said "what filled me with the most pride was watching Fred Mitchell get up and Address the world on behalf of the Bahamas. Hearing him speak to the world really made me realize that though we are a small country, we matter to the world. They care just like they care about America or any other country in the UN. It filled me with pride and love for this little country of ours."
Donte said that Mr. Mitchell referenced them (Cole and himself) during his speech and noted that young men in The Bahamas are not meeting their potential and that it was refreshing to have two young men win this competition.
Cole said that after leaving the UN they explored New York City's famous China Town which he said was fun, and Donte added that they also had a dinner reception with the Bahamian delegates and had light conversation before heading back to the hotel to prepare for their journey home the next day.
He said that "this trip was a blessing and I'm so thankful for Interact and Bahamian Foreign Affairs for making this possible. I'm also grateful for the teacher, Mrs. Nadira Kawalram for giving her time to train us for the competition which allowed us to receive this amazing opportunity."


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Why Purrloin?! Spooky Cup Team
Now before I say anything else, I did not have the best results playing in the Spooky Cup. I finished 1620 with a 19-9 record and over 20 games left to play when it ended. On top of that my account didn't even show up on the final rankings so I got DQ'd apparently. Despite these shortcomings, I had plenty of fun playing in the Spooky Cup and even theorymonning with friends so I'd love to share my team with all of you and hopefully inspire people to give these fun Wi-Fi tournaments a shot!
Teambuilding Process
So after talking with a bunch of people from Skype I figured Volcarona, Hydreigon, Aegislash, Crobat, and Weavile would be massive threats in this format. I wanted to make sure I had an advantage over those Pokemon 100% of the time so I figured I would use either Trick Room or Rain to dismantle the aforementioned threats. I ended up going with a Trick Room team because it allowed me to use a lot more Pokemon that I was personally fond of, and in the end I was pretty happy with that decision
So I knew right off the bat that I wanted Jellicent to be one of my Trick Room setters. I have been using Jellicent since VGC 2013 so I felt more than comfortable with throwing it onto this team and expecting good results from it. To keep up with the 2013 aspect, I threw on Marowak next because of the infamous Jellicent Marowak core that was piloted by Sejun Park in Vancouver Worlds. I was a big fan of this core by how perfectly Marowak supported Jellicent with its Lightning Rod ability and being able to compensate for Jellicent's lack of offensive pressure.
Moving on, I knew that If I was going to run a Hard Trick Room team that having one Trick Room setter wasn't enough. With that in mind, I scanned the list of available Trick Room setters legal for this format until I boiled it down to Beheeyem and Gothitelle. Beheeyem had a respectable Special Attack stat and low enough speed which would make it an ideal Trick Room Pokemon, but it could not take hits as well as Gothitelle could. On top of that Gothitelle's Shadow Tag ability appealed to me because it meant I could trap and have the partner KO a threat which paved the way for other Trick Room sweepers. Shadow Tag sounds like a poor choice in a format with a bunch of Ghost Pokemon but it ended up being pretty clutch in practice so I decided to throw on Gothitelle.
Now that I felt comfortable with two Trick Room setters, I wanted another Trick Room attacker to round out the core of my team. I ended up deciding on Granbull for a number of reasons. Both of my Trick Room setters were weak to Ghost and Dark, and even though they could both take hits from those types I needed something to threaten them back. Granbull was a solid answer to most of the Dark- Types in the format thanks to its Fairy typing and had Crunch to threaten Ghost- types. The other neat thing about Granbull was its Intimidate ability which played a huge roll for this team. Both of my Trick Room setters had a ton of SpDef investment to take boosted hits from Hydreigon, Chandelure, and Aegislash which left their physical defense vulnerable. Granbull helped to mitigate this by neutering physical attackers which helped in setting up Trick Room vs other threats like Krookodile, Weavile, and Kabutops and then immediately taking them out with Granbull in position.
With the Trick Room core ironed out, I wanted a Rage Powder/Follow Me user to redirect attacks from my Trick Room setters and sweepers to make their lives easier. With no access to Follow Me users, I turned to Volcarona which was by far the perfect Rage Powder user for this team. Volcarona's role on the team wasn't restricted to redirection spam either. Not only did it have respectable bulk to take multiple hits, it had a solid base 135 base Special Attack which gives it the option to outright OHKO threats to the team. With that in mind I tossed Volcarona on the team and didn't look back
Finally, I had my 5 Pokemon, but I was missing something crucial to any hard Trick Room team, the Fake Out user. This was probably the hardest part because Scrafty, Hariyama, and HItmontop are usually the go-to Fake Out Pokemon to put on a Trick Room team, but unfortunately none of those were available. I looked at the list of available Fake Out Pokemon and saw Sableye, Liepard, Purrloin, and Croagunk. Liepard was out of the question as it was too fast and frail for a team like this. Croagunk was a good option because it had Knock Off and Drain Punch to dent both Ghost and Dark types for the Trick Room setters, as well as Helping Hand. Sableye was also a good choice as also had Knock Off but had other moves such as Will-O-Wisp, Recover, Leer, Confide, etc. In the end I chose Purrloin for good reason. I really loved the moves Encore and Fake Tears and figured they would be neat additions to the team. Since people love to use Fake Out against Trick Room I knew Encore would be a good tool against that. Also Fake Tears was nice in conjunction with Jellicent and Gothitelle. I'll go into more details on Purrloin later, but it was a solid choice for the team and I'm glad I stuck with it.
Jellicent @ Mental Herb
Ability: Cursed Body
EVs: 252 HP / 156 Def / 100 SpD
Sassy Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Scald
- Ice Beam
- Trick Room
- Recover
So my idea with Jellicent was that I wanted her to be as resilient as possible so I maxed out its bulk. The spread enables Jellicent to take a Choice Specs Dark Pulse from Modest Hydreigon and a Life Orb boosted Shadow Ball from Modest Aegislash. I figured those would be two of the strongest Special Attacks for Jellicent to worry about in this format and I knew from past experiences with Jellicent that is was more than capable of taking lethal hits like that. Of course the rest of the EVs go into it Defense which gives me a better shot at surviving random Knock Offs from various threats like Krookodile, Weavile, and Zoroark. I chose Mental Herb because while I knew I could take strong hits I needed an out against Taunt which would severely ruin my momentum. Cursed Body was the highlight of this set as I loved being able to come out on top 1v1 vs Hydreigon, Chandelure, Aegislash, and Weavile just because i disabled their respective super effective attacks.
As for the attacks themselves, Scald was a natural fit on a bulky water type and getting random burns never hurts. I was tempted to put Dazzling Gleam over Ice Beam because it was a guaranteed OHKO on Hydreigon at -2 even with spread damage but I kept on Ice Beam because it also aided in dealing respectable damage to Tangrowth and Gliscor. Recover complimented Cursed Body really well as I could disable a hard hitting move then Recover it off and no longer be threatened. Finally Trick Room was Trick Room and I needed it for obvious reasons.
Marowak @ Thick Club
Ability: Lightning Rod
Level: 50
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Bonemerang
- Rock Slide
- Low Kick
- Protect
Like I said before, Jellicent and Marowak are a match made in heaven. Jellicent sets up Trick Room and can whittle down the opposing team by spreading around burns and disabling certain attacks, while Marowak redirects Electric moves from the likes of Galvantula, Rotom-A, and Pikachu and can come in and clean up when everything else has been weakened. I didn't see the need to go fancy with the spread here, but I chose Adamant over Brave Marowak because it allowed Gothitelle to outspeed Marowak in Trick Room and then pull off some neat tricks which I will explain later. Bonemerang was really fun because it was able to OHKO 252 Hp / 0 Def Aegislash in Shield Form and doesn't make contact, preventing an Attack drop if it attacks into a King's Shield (previous wording implies it bypasses King's Shield). It also gave me a good shot at OHKOing 252 HP Volcarona so I wouldn't have to worry about Wide Guard blocking Rock Slide. I had Low Kick specifically for OHKOing Hydreigon so that my two Trick Room setters would be safe from it.
Granbull @ Lum Berry
Ability: Intimidate
Level: 50
EVs: 28 HP / 252 Atk / 228 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Play Rough
- Crunch
- Rock Slide
- Protect
First off I would like to say that GRANBULL IS TRASH!!! Anyway, Granbull was probably the least effective mon on the team but it still played a neat niche. As an Intimidate user, it made physical attackers slightly more manageable for the team and there weren't any relevant Defiant or Competitive users to be worried about which was nice. The other thing was that Granbull a Fairy type which was naturally good against all the Dark types that would plague the format. The interesting thing about Granbull was that it was had the same base Speed as Marowak so I also gave it an Adamant nature which meant that Gothitelle would outspeed it under Trick Room. As for the spread itself, it's meant to survive a Life Orb boosted Flash Cannon from Modest Hydreigon. The spread is probably not even optimal and hardly ever came into play, but it was still nice to have I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lum Berry was chosen as it allowed Granbull to absorb a Will-o-Wisp from Sableye and nuke it in return with Play Rough. It also helped me turn the tables on people who don't know how to use Swagger properly and sweep teams with a +2 Granbull under Trick Room. I gave it Crunch just so I'd have a move to hit Ghost- types with and Rock Slide to drop Volcarona on its neck. Granbull is trash.
Gothitelle @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Shadow Tag
Level: 50
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Psychic
- Tickle
- Trick Room
- Gravity
Now Gothitelle was one of the more unique members of the team and was the centerpoint of the many tricks and traps this team had. Like i said before, Gothitelle may sound like a weird option considering there would be a lot of Ghost- types allowed in the format that could evade Shadow Tag, but being able to trap and KO other threats like Weavile, Volcarona, Hydreigon, and Crobat whenever I wanted to was something I didn't want to pass up so I decided to give Gothitelle a shot. The spread looks really bland, but Gothitelle specifically needed 252 Hp / 252 SpDef to be able to tank a Choice Specs Dark Pulse from Hydreigon and a Life Orb boosted Shadow Ball from Aegislash in blade form, not at the same time of course. Then I just gave Gothitelle a Sitrus Berry because it had no other form of recovery and nothing else on the team really needed it.
Now I'll get into the fun part! For about a week I was pondering over other moves besides Psychic and Trick Room to give Gothitelle. After talking with a few friends on IRC and Skype, we came up with Tickle as the third move which ended up being a key factor. As I said before, Gothitelle was one speed point slower than both Marowak, Granbull, and Purrloin. This allowed me to Tickle a target and then have them annihilate that same target at -1 Def immediately after. This came in clutch so many times in practice and Tickle became a staple on the team. Now as I was still figuring out how to round out the Gothitelle I noticed that my team was really weak to Rotom-W as nothing on the team had any moves to deal significant damage to it. This is where Gravity came in as it allowed me to remove the Rotom's Levitate ability which then enabled Marowak to follow up with a Bonemerang which guaranteed the OHKO on even 252 Hp / 252 Def Bold Rotom-W. Gravity was also nice in that it made all of my moves more accurate so I hardly ever had to worry about Bonemerang missing vs Aegislash or Rotom-W. This set made the team so much more fun to play with and I'm glad that Gravity got to work out in pretty much every opportunity that was granted.
Volcarona @ Charcoal
Ability: Flame Body
EVs: 252 HP / 204 Def / 52 SpA
Modest Nature
- Bug Buzz
- Overheat
- Rage Powder
- Roost
Volcarona is one of my favorite Pokemon and definitely one of the reasons I wanted to play in this format because I knew it would be a powerful threat. I was looking to find a way to incorporate Volcarona onto every team I built for the Spooky Cup. Eventually I settled on the bulky Rage Powder set to redirect harmful attacks from my Trick Room setters which allows Trick Room to be set up more securely. Rage Powder also doubles as making Volcarona death fodder so that I can send in my Trick Room sweepers as soon as Volcarona eventually gets taken out while Trick Room is active. When I didn't need Rage Powder I could just fire off powerful Overheats and Bug Buzz which OHKO'd a large portion of Pokemon in the Spooky Cup even with the minimal investment which made Volcarona a valuable member of the team.
The 52 Evs in Special Attack allowed Volcarona to OHKO 4 Hp Hydreigon 100% of the time and OHKO 252 hp / 156 SpDef Aegislash aka "CollinSlash" with the Charcoal attached. The HP and Def were all just a dump and enabled Volcarona to tank random Rock Slides a lot better. Roost was just a random filler move that I figured would be helpful in letting Volcarona stick around a lot longer, but it ended up hardly ever being needed. If anything I should have had Giga Drain there which would allow me to check Rotom-W a tad bit better.
Purrloin @ Focus Sash
Ability: Prankster
Level: 50
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Spe
Brave Nature
IVs: 1 Spe
- Fake Out
- Knock Off
- Encore
- Fake Tears
Finally we have what was easily one of my favorite Pokemon to use on the team. I would be lying if I said Purrloin was a better overall pick compared to Sableye and Croagunk for a Trick Room team. But like I said before, Purrloin performed a satisfying role for the team and it is also way more adorable than the other two so I could not pass it up. Purrloin was also surprisingly effective when used in practice vs friends so I figured I would give it a shot for the actual tournament. As for the odd looking spread, I needed the 1 IV + the 4 Speed investment which made Purrloin hit 64 Speed at Level 50 which was one point higher than Gothitelle which meant it would be slower than Gothitelle under Trick Room which allowed Tickle -> Knock Off to happen. I know it sounds dumb to use a Purrloin as an offensive threat but considering that a lot of Pokemon in the format were weak to Knock Off, Purrloin fit that role surprisingly well. Also there was no point in maxing out its bulk since it's still ridiculously frail even with Eviolite and had no reliable form of recovery so it only made sense to give it Max Attack with a Focus Sash.
Encore is my favorite disruptive move, and allows me to put my opponent is very disadvantageous positions which the team thrives off of. One example is baiting out Fake Out onto Gothitelle and having Purrloin Encore them into Fake Out the same turning leaving them locked into Fake Out and forced to stay in due to Shadow Tag. I could also Encore them into a move that was disabled by Jellicent's Cursed Body and perform a pseudo Encore Disable lock which is always fun. There is just so many possibilities with Prankster Encore and it's why I love Purrloin and Liepard. Finally Fake Tears was a neat move because it made Jellicent and Gothitelle less of sitting ducks and enabled them to actually inflict some significant damage. For example, Jellicent can 2HKO Hydreigon at -2 with Ice Beam which doesn't seem like a big deal but allowed Jellicent to win vs Hydreigon under Trick Room without even needing Cursed Body to trigger. Gothitelle could also OHKO standard Bulky Crobat at -2 SpDef with ease.
Closing Remarks
Was Purrloin the optimal last Pokemon for the team? Probably not. Was it the most fun out of most other Pokemon to consider? Definitely yes! I knew this would be a more laidback tournament and a nice break from VGC 15' so I decided to just have a good time with a bunch of cool mons I would probably never get to use in an competitive environment and I had definitely had fun. If there's anything I hope you got from this article it is that these casual Wifi tournaments are a lot of fun and I would recommend trying them out to get a feel of different formats and exercising your brain to see what kind of unique strategies you can come up with!
Battle Videos:
I apologize in advance if these battles aren't very good but these were all I managed to save as the games I had vs higher ranked players ended up in them D/Cing on me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Fun game vs BlitznBurst despite having a good matchup. Shoutouts to him :]


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Petition against mosque in Herefordshire
ipetitions has a petition against the idea of building a mosque in Herefordshire.
Unfortunately mosques are completely unlike any other place of worship. Christian Churches , Jewish Synagogues, Hindu Temples and Sikh Gurudwawas do not appear to spend an inordinate amount of time promoting hatred for members of other religions or other races. Only Islam promotes an extreme genocidal hatred of non Muslims. It is only mosques in the UK that have been implicated in radicalising their members to hate that which is outside of their own beliefs.
Only Islam is a major threat to our society. Only Islam has blown up tube trains and buses. Only Islam is acting as a fifth column against British freedom and the British people.
Sign the petition if you can if you are in Herefordshire and you object to the ideology of Islam. It's not about the design of the building or its location that people should object to, it is what goes on inside. Don't be put off by the multikulti traitors who will scream 'racist' at you for objecting to the fascist ideology of Islam. Objecting to Islam is no more racist than saying 'I don't like carrots.' Islam is an ideology, NOT a race.
People should be free to worship what ever god they wish, but when a persons belief in that particular god, or religious ideology, in this case the belief that Mohammed the 'prophet' was a perfect man, starts to damage our society then it should be perfectly morally acceptable to peacefully and legally object to that belief or ideology.
Those who believe in freedom and justice should no more want a mosque in their town than they should want a local branch of the Nazi Party.
Click here to find out more details about the petition.


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Ever felt your Big Mac meal was more/less expensive last time round, but you're too drunk to be certain? McDonald's aficionado Tom Ravenscroft decided to scoff his face do some serious research, visiting 57 branches of the fast food chain within the M25, and recording the prices at each.
Then he made this map:
Just like a Big Mac itself, the results are bafflingly tasty.
Says Ravenscroft, "My assumption was that I would find two price points that would broadly divide the city into a doughnut: either with reduced prices in the suburbs surrounding higher ones in the centre, or vice versa."
Not so. Not only does the map reveal an array of Big Mac meal price points, but they don't always appear in the areas of London you'd expect them too.
While relatively affluent Greenwich has London's cheapest Big Mac meal (£4.09), Romford shopping centre is in the steepest price bracket (£4.69).
And if you're thinking the chain is targeting less affluent/competitive areas with higher prices, that doesn't seem to be the be the case either: Victoria station (affluent, well-connected) also has a £4.69 Big Mac meal, while in Kingston it's just £4.39.
"Prices do not seem to be more expensive in zone 1 than the suburbs," says Ravenscroft. "While the majority of central McDonald's are priced at £4.49 and £4.59, many others are not.
"Overall," he concludes, "it is almost impossible to determine a board pattern or even rules."
So far, the map only covers about 30% of London's McDonald's. Ravenscroft now wants your help completing it. If you visit a London branch of the chain which doesn't feature on the map, please report the price of a Big Mac meal via the McMapping the City website, or tweet @tomravenscroft


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Ralph Nader Makes Open Call for Trump to Veto Anti-Consumer Bill
By now all consumers have been made aware that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) powers were reduced and essentially taken away. This is really bad and not good for the little guy, but there is still hope for those who want to challenge their mortgage lenders. According to an article written by Ralph Nader on commondreams.org, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) restored consumers' constitutional right to challenge fraud, cheating, deception, and swindles perpetrated by banks and other financial institutions before an impartial judge or jury. Ralph Nader Makes Open Call Nader cites in his open letter to President Donald Trump: "Unscrupulous banks, payday lenders,Read More →


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|This is one of a series of web pages I created between 2001and 2006. I was angry and frustrated at the LDS Church. Since then I have moved on and calmed down. So please remember, if you read these pages, that they reflect my past and not my present feelings. Thanks for your understanding! - Chris Tolworthy
Judging by the divorce statistics, atheists have stronger families than Mormons. Catholics also have stronger families than Mormons. But Mormons have stronger families than Born Again Christians or members of tiny denominations. Draw your own conclusions.
Belief: % who have been divorced Non-denominational Christians (small groups; independents) 34% Jews 30% Born Again Christians 27% Mormons 24% Other Christians (average) 24% Catholics 21% Atheists and agnostics 21%
(Source: religioustolerance.org, based on research in the USA by Barna and Gallup)
After posting this page, a church member told me that you can make statistics appear to say anything you like. If that were true, where is the other side of the story? Where are the statistics that say Mormon marriages are good? The only pro-Mormon statistics I have seen come from completely unreliable sources and are easy to disprove. In contract, the other statistics come from Barna, Gallop, and other reputable studies.
The Mormon divorce rate in America is the same as the average for all Americans. However, the Mormon church makes it look much better by focusing on the ones that last, and ignoring the rest. In any church or group, some people will have more in common and so have a stronger marriage, and others will have less in common and a weaker marriage. The church is unusual because it takes the "lots in common" group and gives them a special marriage, a temple marriage. Then it claims that the temple is the cause of the strong marriage, when there is no evidence for that.
Some Mormons marry in the temple, which means "for time and all eternity." Most do not, often because only one partner is a believer. Obviously, if both partners have a lot in common (i.e. the church) then those marriages will last longer. But if the partners feel differently on fundamental things (i.e. a believer married to a non-believer) then the marriage will not last as long on average.
- If both partners like the church, they can marry in the temple. Since they agree on basic issues, their marriage will last longer.
- If one partner does not support the church, they cannot marry in the temple. Since one believes, they still count as a Mormon marriage. But since they disagree on basic issues, their marriage will not last as long.
- If both dislike the church, they leave, and do not show up on Mormon statistics.
As a result, the statistics show that temple marriages last longer than non-temple marriages in the church. It has nothing to do with the temple - the same effect could be seen within any other church that used a similar filter.
According to http://www.adherents.com/largecom/lds_dem.html, mixed Mormon marriages (where one partner believes and the other does not) have a huge 40% divorce rate. Meanwhile the ones who believe the same have a divorce rate that is correspondingly lower than 24% (see below). Some marriages pull together and last longer, some pull apart and don't last quite as long. But the average across both groups is 24%, just like the average across all of America.
If the church is responsible for making temple marriages longer than they would be normally, then it follows that the church is also responsible for making the non-temple marriages shorter. If the church made temple marriages better and did not change non-temple marriages, then the average for all marriages would be better. But the average is not better, it is just 24%. So if the church makes temple marriages better, it must be making non-temple marriages worse to compensate. And since there are more non-temple than temple marriages among Mormons, then the church hurts more people than it helps.
Newspaper articles about temple marriages often quote a figure of 6% as the temple marriage divorce rate. (See for example, "In Era of Divorce, Mormon Temple Weddings Are Built to Last" by William Lobdell, L.A. Times, Saturday, April 8, 2000). Note that this is 6% of people who have married. The previous figure of 24% referred to the number of individuals who reported a divorce some time in their life. Some people answered "no" simply because they never married. So 6% of people who married would probably be equivalent to something around 4% of people in general. Down from 24% to 4% ! Astounding! But also very suspicious. There are at least two reasons to doubt it:
First, 4% or so is statistically extremely unlikely. The church does not reveal detailed statistics in anything (I wonder why?), but in the early 1980s, Neal A. Maxwell told a leadership meeting that "temple marriages had fallen off to forty percent" (see Sunstone, January 1985, "The Lee Revolution and the rise of correlation" by Peter Wiley). If 40% of Mormon marriages had a 4% divorce rate, but the average across the board is 24%, then the remaining Mormon non-temple marriages would need to have a sky-high divorce rate to make the numbers add up. There is no evidence for this.
Second, the church will not officially support the 6% (or 4%) claim but does refer to reputable studies that show more realistic figures. The official church web site includes press release about a study in the journal Demography. The press release is vague, but further searching indicates it was a 1993 study. It showed that when Mormons marry other Mormons, only 13% divorce in the first five years, compared with 20% or more for other religions. This can easily be explained by the fact that the average believing Mormon has a greater commitment to their church than the average Catholic or Protestant has to their church. So two Mormons are likely to have more in common, hence a stronger marriage. When believing Mormons marry believing Mormons it is generally in the temple, so the temple marriage figure must be fairly similar. The number 13% refers only to the first five years. If we add in divorces from the next fifty years (i.e. before death) obviously that figure will rise considerably. So we have a figure in the high teens or 20s. This looks reasonable - a lot better than the average (which includes marriages between people with different beliefs), but several times worse than the mythical 6% (4%) figure. So where did that come from?
Whenever I found the 6% figure it could be traced to BYU professor Daniel K. Judd. But look a bit closer. Judd is not an expert on demographics or relationships. He is an emeritus professor of ancient scripture, not family matters. His "expertise" comes from editing the book "Religion, Mental Health and the Latter-day Saints" for FARMS (the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies), the apologetics arm of BYU (Brigham Young University, wholly owned by the church and dedicated to supporting the church). His book was designed to answer the criticism that Mormon women get depressed more often than others. But judging by a Web search, only BYU and apologetics sites thought it was worth reading. Other universities did not even mention it. I went to the Amazon site in 2003, several years after the bok was published,, and the only "customer review" was by someone called... Daniel K. Judd (surprise!), who gave it five stars (even bigger surprise!). I am sure that Judd would not deliberately lie about the 6% figure, so where did he hear it?
It is possible that the 6% figure refers to a small study in some area of Utah where divorces happen to be very rare. But if it refers to the whole church, then the simplest explanation is that the 6% figure refers to official temple divorces. Not every divorce is accepted by the church as official. A temple marriage is recorded both in their country's civil records (for time) and also in the temple (as a "sealing" for eternity, according to the church). When a temple-married person gets divorced, this is automatically recorded in the civil records. But it does not automatically lead to a temple divorce. The church lets people stay sealed to their old partner as well as any new partners "just in case." Partly this is a relic of the old belief in polygamy. And partly it is the theory that God will sort out the "best" partner after death. Thus, many people are still classed as temple married even when they are really divorced. As a friend of mine commented, "Many divorced people are still temple-married on the Church's database. My own mother and father are still temple-married, even though he has been married to another woman (and in the temple, no less) for 15 years."
In conclusion, when two people are committed to the same beliefs, they have a stronger marriage. This is true in any church or set of beliefs. It is just more obvious in the Mormon church because the church has a special kind of marriage for this sub-group. And the church exaggerates the effect by allowing temple married people to stay married on paper even when they divorce. But the fact remains that the overall beneficial effect of Mormonism on marriage is zero.
On average, American Mormons have the same divorce rate as Americans in general. Does this mean that Mormonism is neutral? Probably not. It may have a a small negative effect. Mormons are urged to endure to the end and see their marriages in an eternal perspective. So we would expect Mormons to put up with more difficulty before contemplating divorce. Also, Mormons tend to have more children, which makes divorce that much harder. So if Mormon marriages are just as happy as other marriages we would expect them to last longer. Yet they last just the same, suggesting that Mormon marriages are less happy than other marriages.
If you really want to trust your marriage to a church or a culture, instead of your own efforts, you can still do much better than the Mormon church. Every few years, the Unification Church (UC) marries thousands of people all at the same time. Naturally, the people who choose this kind of marriage share the same beliefs. Eighteen years later, thousands of the American couples were tracked down. The divorce rate was only 17%. In comparison, after just 5 years, 13% of Mormon-Mormon marriages have ended, so after 18 years the figure was probably much higher than 17%. The UC success is all the more remarkable because many of the couples did not even know each other before being married. (Source: "Survey of the Unification Church 1982 Marriages" at http://www.unification.net/news/news20000328.html for details.)
Finally, here are ten countries that have genuinely low divorce rates. And within these countries there are no doubt areas and sub-cultures with even better figures. Clearly there are ways to achieve a much longer marriage than anything the Mormon church can offer.
(Source: www.divorcereform.org, using the most recent years available when the table was compiled in 2002. Many countries were not listed, probably because of the usual difficulties in gathering data, but there were enough to gain a reasonable picture. This is based on married couples, whereas the figures at the top of the page were based on all people who completed surveys. For comparison, 24% of Americans (and 24% of American Mormons) report that they have been divorced at one time. But the 24% includes people who have had several marriages, and the remaining 76% includes many people who never married. The following table is based on actual marriages. For comparison, the USA figure is 54.8, so just over half of individual marriages end in divorce. So if these figures were of "what percentage of individuals have experienced a divorce" then the numbers would be much lower. )


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The COSA computing model is closely related to my ongoing research in artificial intelligence and my rejection of the GOFAI symbol manipulation approach to AI. I understood early on that it is symbol manipulation that requires intelligence and not the other way around. In other words, symbol manipulation is something that intelligence does, not what it is. Likewise, I realized that function calculation is what a computer does and not what it is. Calculating algorithmic functions is just one of the many possible behaviors that a computer can exhibit but it is not what computing is based on. This is analogous to the way human intelligence operates. We can do all sorts of things such as speaking, running, walking, and grasping but our intelligence is not based on any of those things. Some other principle is necessary.
Nature Is Parallel and Reactive
It also occurred to me that serial processing is not an inherent property of real-world objects but an emergent phenomenon that results from the way objects react to one another. A predecessor/successor sequence should thus be seen, not as an ordered list of operations to be processed by a central processor (the Turing model), but as a causal or reactive mechanism analogous to stimulus/response coupling in psychology or to sensor/effector pairing in neuroscience. I reasoned that computers and intelligent systems are types of behaving machines and they can exhibit an indefinite number of behaviors. For more on this subject, read The Hidden Nature of Computing.
Timing Is of the Essence
It did not take me long to figure out that precise timing is essential to the reliable operation of a parallel system. It turns out that deterministic timing can be easily implemented in software by ensuring that all elementary reactions have the same duration, based on a virtual system-wide clock. This is the reason that, as I explained elsewhere on this blog, I initially promoted COSA as a solution to the software reliability crisis. I still do, although I have recently changed my approach by emphasizing the inherent parallel nature of COSA programs.
Task Scheduling vs. Security
I am so convinced of the crucial importance of deterministic timing that I insist that every program in a COSA system should be synchronized to a single virtual clock. I refuse to consider any suggestion that applications or component could have their own local clocks ticking at different frequencies so as to manage scheduling. I believe it would be disastrous to system-wide reliability and security. Which brings me to a message that Tom Lieber emailed to me recently:
Consider a program which is (maliciously?) designed with a large number of components continuously slinging signals around so that the number of signals to be processed for its execution is gigantic compared to the number of signals in the other components. In a process-based model, every process can still be given its fair share of the processor time via scheduling, but in COSA it seems that there is no recourse, if the only mechanism for scheduling priority is the message queue.In my opinion, this is precisely why traditional task (or process) scheduling is bad. It allows malicious programs to infect a system by giving them a portion of the processor's time. Traditional multitasking operating systems provide no easy way to detect intruders because the overall processor load (number of requested instructions for a given concurrent cycle) is unknown. By contrast, a denial of service attack, such as the one described by Tom, would never work in a COSA system because the system keeps track of the load being processed during every cycle. As soon as the load grows above a pre-configured safe limit, the system can either alert an administrator or automatically shut down the offending application. In fact, every COSA application can monitor its own performance (measured in number of application cycles per second) and trigger an alarm if it drops below a preset unsafe level.
Event Completion in Mission-Critical Applications
In many industries (e.g., aviation, power generation, transportation, health care, defense, etc.), software failure is not an option. COSA will go a long way toward eliminating the sort of accidental failures that are the bane of traditional systems by automatically eliminating blind code or hidden data dependencies. There is another way in which COSA can increase the robustness of a system even in the event of a hardware failure. Safety-critical systems, such as avionics, use a plurality of sensors to guide automated decision-making. Unlike software, hardware sensors can suffer from material fatigue. Every so often, they fail. Failure can also occur due to unforeseen circumstances in the environment. For example, a light sensor may become temporarily affected by smoke, dirt or some other obstruction.
During the testing phase of a COSA program, the system can automatically discover temporal correlations. At the discretion of the programmer, temporal watchdogs can be inserted in the program that can either trigger an alarm if an event (discrete signal) fails to occur at its expected time and/or automatically generate a replacement event in order to prevent a total breakdown. In artificial intelligence, this is called pattern completion. Human and animals could not survive without it. This anticipatory capability is what allows us to follow a conversation in a noisy room or recognize a partially occluded object. I believe it can go a long way toward increasing the robustness of complex systems even in the presence of hardware failures and sensory uncertainty.
The nice thing about the COSA model is that it addresses not just the parallel programming problem but the software reliability, safety and security issues as well. These are the most important issues facing the computer industry at this time. The captains of the industry must either embrace the COSA model or suffer increased financial and societal hardships. There are no two ways about it, in my opinion. COSA is the solution and it is not rocket science. More to come.
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A researcher calls for intensive study for better care
Venkat Raman
The high rate of obesity and increasing incidence of breast cancer are issues of concern in New Zealand and hence need more research and study.
While breastfeeding can control obesity in children in their formative and later years, it can also protect women from contracting breast cancer.
However, there is not enough data to take appropriate action.
Therefore, there is a need for more research.
These are among the views of Massey University PhD candidate Narges Alianmoghaddam, who is pursuing research on the subject.
"Breastfeeding can help control obesity in our children during their childhood and adulthood lives, but it also has a protective impact on breast cancer in breastfeeding mothers. Research shows, every 12 months of breastfeeding in a woman's lifetime leads to a significant decline in the risk of developing invasive breast cancer significantly. Through promoting breastfeeding, the New Zealand health system could reduce rates of obesity and breast cancer to a certain extent," she said.
Inadequate Research
Her paper titled, 'Breast Cancer, Breastfeeding and Mastectomy: A Call for More Research,' in the world's most cited breastfeeding journal, Journal of Human Lactation has evinced interest among medical scientists and researchers.
Ms Alianmoghaddam wrote the Paper with her doctoral supervisor Associate Professor Cheryl Benn with colleagues Dr Kaveh Khoshnood and Professor Holly Powell Kennedy from Yale University, United States and Dr Minoor Lamyian from Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, highlighting the lack of research relating to the potential protective effects of breastfeeding after breast cancer.
"Our paper draws attention to the high rate of mastectomy (removal of the entire breast) among premenopausal women across the world. Removal of breasts eliminates the chance of future breastfeeding, an optimal method of infant feeding. Although we found several studies that show the possibility of breastfeeding in breast cancer survivors, especially in women who had breast conserving therapy (removal of the tumour only, with treatment via radiation therapy) or unilateral mastectomy, we could not find any research on the protective effect of breastfeeding after breast cancer treatment regarding recurrence of breast cancer, or developing breast cancer in the second breast for breast cancer survivors. I would like to pursue this research further, and hope to do so in my post-doctorate studies," Ms Alianmoghaddam said.
Global statistics
She said that breast cancer is the most common form of cancer affecting women worldwide and that recent research published in The Lancet by Professor Cesar Victora et al (University of Pelotas, Brazil) showed that with the current rate of breastfeeding, about 20,000 breast cancer deaths are prevented globally, compared to if no women breastfed.
"There is a chance an additional 20,000 deaths caused by breast cancer could be prevented annually if the duration of breastfeeding increases to one year per child amongst women in high-income countries including New Zealand, or to two years per child in low and middle income countries. In New Zealand, the rates of exclusive breastfeeding at six months continue to decline, while health professionals, especially midwives and lactation consultants, are actively involved in promoting and supporting six months exclusive breastfeeding," Ms Alianmoghaddam said.
"Patients under 40 years of age make up about 5% of the overall breast cancer population in the United States. In New Zealand, in 2011, more than 11% of breast cancer patients were aged 25 to 44. However, in developing countries, including Arab countries, that rises to half of the breast cancer patients being in the reproductive age range," she added.
For successful breast conserving therapy, breast cancer should be detected in the early stages, but detection in childbearing age women is challenging.
Although mammography can save lives via diagnosing breast cancer about five years earlier than clinical examinations, it is less efficient in reproductive age women for several reasons including high rates of false negative results, breast density and over-diagnosis, she said.
Editor's Note: The above is only an extract. For full text of the report, please visit www.massey.ac.nz
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I got a ticket. A big fat speeding ticket, and I blame it all on the sonic screwdriver. Last night was the magical night of Dr. Who in 3D on the big screen. (The doctor informed us all that he thought we should all have been watching it in 12D by this point, but sadly, we have not advanced that far.) I opted not to see it – in select theaters – on the 23rd as getting to one of those few theaters would have required boarding a plane, or possibly a TARDIS, neither of which was handy. I did drive two hours last night though, to Bristol, VA with my son and his girlfriend to a giant movie complex where we paid fifteen dollars for popcorn and almost four dollars for Twizzlers.
We drove Robin's car, which appropriately has a WHOVIAN license plate. We got in and turned up the radio to just under window-breaking level so that Robin and his friend could sit in the backseat and feel the giant speaker that lives in the trunk vibrate and BOOM BABABOOM BA BOOM BOOM against their bodies. I can assure you, they didn't need to restrict themselves to the backseat to feel the vibrations of that speaker, I think they could have been anywhere within fifty feet of that car and had the same experience. But we plugged in his downloads of rap, dub-step, club music, and Tenacious D and headed out to see the great Doctor. Just a note: if you ever have the chance to listen to Tenacious D, Jack Black's parody heavy metal band, my recommendation is you set yourself on fire instead.
Somewhere along interstate 81 we ascended a steep hill causing me to really have to push the gas pedal as this car has no cruise control. Also, I would like to add, I was wearing new boots (which are really, fabulously cute!) and I wasn't aware how heavy my foot would be in these new, cute boots. Then we began to go downhill and I had Usher in the speakers forcing me to seat-dance because "the DJ was making us fall in love again" and all these forces combined so that when I got to the bottom of the hill, I basically blew the doors off of the state trooper's car that was parked in the middle of the interstate waiting on some moron like me to come sailing through there at a gillion miles an hour. He immediately flipped on those dreaded blue flashy lights and I slowed down enough to be able to see the shoulder of the road and pulled over. Several minutes later, he caught up with me and pulled in behind me. He walked up and I only slightly rolled down the window because, to my satisfaction, it was freezing cold outside in preparation for the upcoming ice storm. He asked for my license and whatever those papers are they ask for (I can't remember, I've only ever had two other tickets in my life). I had to ask Robin where they were and dug around for a while until I found them. I didn't bother to hurry as I was hoping to freeze Super Trooper into a fish-stick so I could make a clean getaway. I finally found what he needed and slipped them through the slit in the window. He then informed me the reason he pulled me over was that I was doing 86 in a 70 mile per hour speed zone and anything over 80 was considered reckless driving. Did I have any reason for going so fast? I scrunched up my face and pooched out my cheeks, which I have noticed is a face I make when I'm thinking really hard, and I tried desperately to think of some reason that I could have legitimately been driving nearly 90 miles per hour. Dead grandmother? No, she's already dead, I wouldn't need to get to her in any particular hurry. I quickly realized I had lost too much weight to fake being in labor and both of the kids looked entriely too healthy to say I was taking them to the hospital. I thought about the truth for just a split second "I was bonding with my son over Dr. Who and we are just really happy about it?" No. Then I remembered while we were at Burger King earlier I had taken Robin's sonic screwdriver, pointed it at the steering wheel and buzzed it for a good five seconds. I told Robin if his screwdriver had been any good whatsoever, it would enhance the car and we would be there already. That damn sonic screwdriver did it! I blew all the air out of my cheeks, looked up at the officer and said "No, I didn't really have a reason for speeding at all". After all, I wasn't about to let him confiscate my sonic screwdriver.
He spent what seemed like the next hundred years, writing my ticket and checking out who knows what about me in his little car. Robin's friend was slightly upset in the backseat and whispered that she could see his gun right there in her face (it's a short car). She said she started to panic when she saw the blue lights and I asked – just to make sure – if she was hiding any cocaine I needed to know about or anything. She assured me she wasn't and I was able to calm her down. At one point Robin asked if he could get out of the car and go knock on the guy's window and ask him to hurry up because we had stuff to do. I advised him against this and told him he'd probably get shot. This seemed to quench his desire to jump out of the car and confront a man with a loaded gun, which I thought was a testament to my stellar parenting skills.
Finally, Mr. Policeman came back to the car carrying a flashlight which he shined directly into my eyeballs ensuring I wouldn't be able to see clearly enough to drive over thirty miles per hour for the next several days and had me sign that nasty little paper that says I got caught and he sent us on our way. He told me how to accelerate in the shoulder and pull onto the interstate, but I didn't hear him and he had to repeat himself, which he did with robot-like accuracy, including his goodbye salutation. I had never been pulled over on an interstate before, so I legitimately didn't know how I was supposed to go from zero to seventy in a matter of seconds before being plowed over by a semi. We still got to the theater in plenty of time to find the perfect seats for the 50th anniversary of Dr. Who and all in all, it was a wonderful night! Also, I have until February 5th to ignore the ticket and save up the money to pay what I am sure will be a terrific fine. And please feel free to send donations!


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THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minnesota, USA - May 7, 2009
Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry's broadest selection of electronic components available for immediate shipment, announced today that it is now stocking Stackpole Electronics' RNCS series of passivated Nichrome chip resistors, an ideal low-cost alternative for expensive and hard-to-find tantalum nitride chip resistors.
Digi-Key is stocking the most commonly used values of this series in sizes 0603, 0805, and 1206 packaged on 1K reels. Additionally, these products are available in cut tape quantities. A smaller quantity can also be ordered for same-day shipment on a custom Digi-Reel®. These products are available on Digi-Key's global websites and are slated to be featured in future print and online catalogs.
The RNCS series employs a special manufacturing process to ensure high precision, ultra stable performance, and long life in the harshest environments. In moisture comparison testing, the lead-free and RoHS compliant RNCS series outperformed Nichrome chip resistors and demonstrated the anti-corrosive claims characterized by tantalum nitride resistor products.
To learn more about SEI's RNCS series, a PTM Online... On Demand® product training module entitled "RNCS Series Passivated Thin Film Resistors" is available on Digi-Key's websites. This learning presentation, available in both audio and non-audio versions, discusses the different technologies used for precision surface mount resistors and the benefits of each technology, explains the differences in manufacturing technology used in Stackpole's RNCS series, and compares standard features of nichrome and tantalum nitride.
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Test Illustration Dinner Plate Vector Art
Dinner Plate
Here is a test illustration I created, the idea was to create a range of home ware products, however due to costs involved its something which I am still investigating and researching. The ceramic print I have illustrated is inspired by my illustration work I had created for the Galaxy Chocolate advertising campaign. I was inspired to created a pattern using my distinctive floral style of work.
The Ceramic dinner plate test print, I created 1/4 of the pattern which I then mirrored, using the mirror tool in adobe illustrator. The floral print has very delicate and intricate floral and leaf form which I created. I enjoy hand drawing the line work digitally using a combination of Adobe Photoshop & Adobe Illustrator, I individually place each leaf and floral motif on to the delicate lines, building up the artwork with with delicate flowers and leaves.
This piece of work is at its experimental development stage and I would be very grateful to speak to a potential investor who can see potential in my work, who would be interested in taking it to the next development stage.


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Genealogy from [GAFTER.GED]
This GEDCOM was created using PhpGedView 4.2.0 on 22 February 2010
Most Common Surnames
Creating an Account
14 February 2009 - 8:23:45am
I have created this site such that anyone can look at it but that the data is private for the living, i.e. our data and our children's data is not visible unless we are logged in.
To create an account :
1. From the home page select 'login' (top center)
2. You will be redirected to a login page, at the bottom of this page select the link "Request new user account'
3. Fill out the form
4. You will then be sent an email asking you to confirm your email address (please confirm it)
5. Then it can take up to 24 hours before the system processes your confirmation
Please let me know if you have any problems or if you think the security is too cumbersome
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Dr. David Alexander
Chief Geospatial Scientist, FLOOD APEX Program Manager
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology First Responders Group
Board Advisor
Mr. Alexander's career in the geospatial information field spans more than 3 decades. He assumed responsibility for the DHS Geospatial Management Office in 2012 after having spent 4 years in senior leadership roles with the DHS OCIO. He has practical experience at the local, state, federal, and private sectors levels including serving as the Deputy Chief for FEMA Enterprise Geospatial Services, Chief of Digital Cartography for the State of South Carolina providing leadership to support statewide geospatial public safety and emergency management activities, and private sector corporate experience. Mr. Alexander has lead several national initiatives including the Homeland Security Geospatial Concept of Operations (GeoCONOPS), the DHS Geospatial Information Infrastructure (GII), the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Data Working Group (HIFLD), the US Department of Labor's CareerOneStop Service Locator system supported under grant to the State of Minnesota, technical lead for the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary's Operations Center's Response technologies program, and administered the Statewide E-911, Legislative redistricting, and health and demographic mapping programs at the State of South Carolina. Mr. Alexander holds several advanced degrees encompassing History, Geography, and Business Management.


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November 29, 2011 at 3:18 pm
I would definitely say that the falsification of the current absurd paradigm for the generation of biological information is a compelling research result.
Well, gpukio, what you definitely say is definitely irrelevant to science's results and further pursuit of knowledge.
Neil Rickert
November 29, 2011 at 5:14 pm
As best I can tell, what has been falsified is the strawman that the ID folk have been erecting.
November 29, 2011 at 5:21 pm
WOW a strawman of a strawman, nice move Neil. Can you do that trick while standing on one foot and rubbing your head???
Your christian 'civility' is showing, phil. Can you go potty all by yourself or does your mommy have to help you?
November 29, 2011 at 6:57 pm
OK Neil- what is this alleged strawman?
The one(s) that you IDiots keep ignorantly erecting, because you're too brain-dead and religious to actually learn anything about science and the ToE.
November 29, 2011 at 9:30 pm
I wouldn't be so quick to attribute the strawman to design. Perhaps it evolved over time from a pile of sawdust that was struck by lightning.
A good example of an IDiotic strawman. NO scientist has ever claimed that life evolved over time from a pile of sawdust that was struck by lightning. You IDiots continue to demonstrate how little you know about the ToE and science in general. No wonder science doesn't take your bald assertions and strawmen seriously.
If anyone ever wonders if the IDiots actually have a good argument, think about this: VERY few of them EVER step outside of their carefully controlled sanctuaries and argue their "position" on forums where scientists can (and would) debate them. If the IDiots are so sure that they're right, why don't they present their arguments to the people who actually work on evolutionary biology and other aspects of science? NO ONE is stopping them from doing so, except THEM. They simply don't want to hear critiques of anything that they assert.
They're too chicken to argue their "position" on open forums because they know that their arguments are impotent and/or dishonest. If I wanted to present or argue something about any topic and felt that I was right or at least had a reasonable opinion, I wouldn't be the slightest bit afraid to present it ANYWHERE and to ANYONE. The fact that MOST IDiots hide in the UD sanctuary (or others like ENV) shows clearly that the IDiots are a bunch of cowardly authoritarians who just want to preach their religious, political, non-scientific gobbledegook without facing disagreement.
Oh sure, a few people are 'allowed' to disagree on UD at times, but those people have to be careful of what they say or they will be blocked and/or banned. Letting a few people disagree gives the impression that UD is open to honest discussion, but it's just a ruse. If their forums were really open and honest there would be a lot more people debating and disagreeing with the IDiots there.
Preaching to the choir isn't going to show that ID is a credible 'inference/hypothesis/theory'. Only real scientific evidence and open and honest discussion would have a chance of doing that, and I am 100% sure that the IDiots will never produce any real scientific evidence or welcome open and honest discussion. Their track record speaks for itself.


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[Update, Feb. 19: Police have released additional information about the incident in question, saying that the mother, upon arriving home, headed back out with her son to try to find the individual involved in an earlier confrontation on the road. The mother and son identified a vehicle matching the one from the earlier incident, police say, but they then lost track of it. It was at this point that, as pair was returning home, the shooting occurred, police say, according to the Associated Press.]
An exchange of words after a near crash has apparently led to the road-rage shooting death of Tammy Meyers, a 40-something Las Vegas mother of four, in what has become an uncomfortable reminder for a commuting nation of the most dire consequences of rudeness and lack of compassion in traffic.
Police describe the suspect who killed Ms. Meyers as a young white man with a spiked hairdo and blue or hazel eyes. The two nearly collided at an intersection and had words, and then the suspect followed Meyers back to her house.
Once there, Meyers asked a family member for help, who apparently returned gunfire after Meyers was shot. The mother, who sustained head injuries, was taken off life support Saturday night.
No doubt, it's a scary and exceedingly tragic episode, leaving one heartbroken family and Greater Las Vegas with far more questions than answers. "He fired the shot. She's gone. And I don't have my wife," Meyers's husband, Robert Meyers, told CBS News.
On one hand, the incident fits into a long history of road-rage violence in the United States, including some recent viral videos highlighting drivers gone mad. But the frequency of road-rage murders, according to a 1990s-era study, is low, given a total of 218 such killings over six years in a country where 210 million people drive an average of 37 miles each day.
Some researchers hypothesize that road rage is more common today. On the whole, police reported 12,160 road-rage injuries between 1990 and 1996, according to the study, done by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
Unfortunately, no agency keeps detailed statistics on road-rage incidents. According to the surveys that have been done, males under the age of 19 are the most likely road-ragers. Moreover, half of drivers who encounter a hand gesture or other act of aggression from a fellow driver tend to return the favor, according to SafeMotorist.com.
But by far, the biggest point of complaint coming from US drivers isn't people brandishing weapons, but dummies who weave through lanes. Lead-foots figure into nearly 2 of every 3 accidents, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In Georgia, for one, LED highway signs are now warning of a crackdown in that state on tailgating and other forms of pushy driving.
Distracted driving, the scourge of the texting age, can also play a role in tensions on the road.
But road rage is often different, more like the occasional conclusion of aggressive driving.
"People tend to feel more anonymous when they're in their vehicles," Dr. William Van Tassel, manager of AAA's driver training programs, told Autoblog.com recently. "They might behave differently than they would at the workplace, with people they don't have to deal with."
A major manhunt continued Monday in the Las Vegas area for the suspect in the road-rage shooting.


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McKinsey: Get Ready For Sensor-Driven Business Models
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Read Write Web has a post on a new report from McKinsey on the "Internet Of Things" concept that Bruce Sterling used to spend a lot of time popularising, focusing on the "new sensor-driven business models" this enables - McKinsey: Get Ready For Sensor-Driven Business Models.
McKinsey sees two categories for emerging applications: "information and analysis" and "automation and control." Many of the applications listed are for large companies or specialized industries (for example automobile manufacturers). But consumers should take note too, because there will be a lot more data about us flowing onto the Internet.
McKinsey defines Internet of Things as "sensors and actuators embedded in physical objects [...] linked through wired and wireless networks, often using the same Internet Protocol (IP) that connects the Internet."
In the "information and analysis" category, McKinsey firstly lists tracking behavior. An example is insurance companies installing location sensors in customers' cars, allowing them to base the price of policies on "how a car is driven as well as where it travels." Another example is Tesco's use of sensors to capture shoppers' profile data via membership cards. According to McKinsey, this "can help close purchases by providing additional information or offering discounts at the point of sale."
On the B2B side, McKinsey points to companies using sensors to track RFID tags placed on products moving through supply chains. We've written before about IBM's activities in this market.
The next information and analysis application is enhanced situational awareness. This is when large numbers of sensors are deployed in infrastructure such as roads and buildings, in order to report on real-time environmental conditions such as weather or temperature.
Sensor-driven decision analytics shows how revolutionary sensor technologies could be, without most consumers even realizing it! The report explains that some retailers are presently studying ways to gather and process data from shoppers as they flow through stores. Sensor readings and videos will be able to "note how long they linger at individual displays and record what they ultimately buy," data which McKinsey says "will help to increase revenues by optimizing retail layouts."
The second major category for Internet of Things apps in this report is "automation and control." By this McKinsey means "converting the data and analysis collected through the Internet of Things into instructions that feed back through the network to actuators that in turn modify processes."


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The Rochester Music Hall of Fame 2017 announced the names of the 2017 inductees this week. The honorees are Samuel Adler, Joe Beard, Gary Lewis, Uncle Roger McCall, Greg Sullivan and the Penny Arcade, and Lewis Soloff. The induction ceremony, which will include several performances and tributes, takes place on April 30 at the historic Eastman Theatre.
Inductees (in alphabetical order):
Samuel Adler, celebrated classical composer and Eastman School of Music professor of composition from 1966 to 1995. With Adler in attendance, the Upton String Quartet with Yi-Yang Cheng on piano will perform his 1999 composition "Piano Quintet for Piano and String Quartet."
Joe Beard, revered blues guitarist and vocalist, who has played with the likes of Son House, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, and John Lee Hooker. Joe Beard will perform at the ceremony, joined by his sons, Chris and Duane, and backed by house band Prime Time Funk.
Gary Lewis, frontman of Gary Lewis and the Playboys, peforming since the 1960's, topping charts and selling millions of records worldwide. Gary Lewis and the Playboys will be performing some of their best hits.
Uncle Roger McCall, also known as "Uncle Rog," the longest running DJ at a single station in the US (1973-2003) and hero to the local music scene, which he passionately promoted up until his murder during a robbery in 2003. Local musicians will peform a tribute to both Uncle Rog and Greg Sullivan.
Greg Sullivan and The Penny Arcade, the legendary rock club was opened in 1973 by Sullivan, who booked national acts and mentored local musicians. Sullivan died of a heart attack in 2014, and the plaque in his honor hangs on the now-closed Penny Arcade.
Lewis Soloff, Grammy Award-winning trumpeter for Blood, Sweat & Tears, and instructor at Juliard and Manhattan School of Music. Sorloff died of a heart attack in 2015. A tribute to Lew will be performed by David Clayton-Thomas, lead singer of Blood, Sweat, & Tears.
Tickets for the ceremony on April 30 are now on sale at the Eastman Theatre box office or online.


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November 2015 - 10 Night Southern Caribbean Seafarer (Ft. Lauderdale Roundtrip) Cruise on Oosterdam
wonderful mattress was best feature
The ship decor is tasteful, warm, plenty of curved lines, warm wood, admin areas that look more like small hotel lobby and welcoming. For the value this was a great cruise. However, shipboard activities offered were boring and mostly in sales ode such as services of spa, jewelery offerings. Although seemingly design for mature crowed, we seniors like continuing learning opportunities and educational lectures were lacking. For a short cruise that's great but for ten days it was boring. Food was good and similar in quality to other cruise lines I've taken. It seemed the cabin and dining attendants were allocated more than their manageable share of workload. There were not a lot of noticeable happy faces and many seemed tired and sad.


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French Finance Minister announces bid to head IMF
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French Foreign Minister Christine Lagarde announced on Wednesday her intention to run for the next head of the International Monetary Fund following the resignation of fellow Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn last week.
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde entered the race to head the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday, seeking to replace former chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who resigned last week amid sexual assault accusations.
"It is an immense challenge which I approach with humility and in the hope of achieving the broadest possible consensus," Lagarde told a Paris news conference, saying she planned to travel extensively in the coming weeks to consult other member states.
If elected, the 55-year-old centre-right politician would be the first woman to lead the Washington-based international lending organisation since its foundation in 1945.
- Born January 1, 1956, in Paris
- 1981: Joins the Paris branch of the law firm Baker & McKenzie
- 1999: Transfers to Chicago as head of Baker & McKenzie's executive committee
- 2002: The Wall Street Journal ranks Lagarde as the fifth most powerful European businesswoman
- 2005: Becomes French Minister of Trade in Dominique de Villepin's government
- 2007: Becomes Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries
- 2007: Becomes Minister for Economy and Employment
- May 25, 2011: Announces her candidacy as next IMFchief
Before joining politics in 2005, the dapper grey-haired finance minister spent much of her career as a lawyer in the United States, where she headed the Baker and McKenzie law firm in Chicago.
Lagarde has won praise and respect from international leaders for her deftness to broker international deals under pressure during France's G20 presidency. She played a key role in bringing the IMF and the European Union to agree on rescue plans for debt-ridden EU members Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
Many European countries, including Germany, UK and Italy, are backing Lagarde's candidacy. The US has yet to announce the candidate it backs.
Since its creation, the IMF has been continually led by a European as per an informal agreement under which the US nominates the World Bank president. Four of the ten IMF chiefs in history were French.
However, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, countries known as BRICS, have called for a break in this tradition. ``We feel it is outrageous to have the post reserved for a European,'' said Nogueira Batista, IMF executive director from Brazil and one of the signatories of the BRICS joint statement.
The IMF's 24-member board is due to draw up a shortlist of three candidates before the June 30 deadline for picking a successor. Nominations for the leadership of the 187-member organisation are open until June 10.
The notorious tycoon
Lagarde's announcement comes amid a French judicial inquiry into her alleged involvement in cash handouts to a notorious French Tycoon.
According to the allegations, Lagarde mediated in 2007 a case between Bernard Tapie, a former singer, socialist minister and football club owner, and French bank Credit Lyonnais over the sales of Adidas shares in 1993.
The dispute ended in 2008 with Tapie, a former bankrupt who was jailed in the 90s for match fixing, awarded 285 million euros.
Members of the opposition Socialist Party (PS) have called for a judicial inquiry, and a select panel of judges has until mid-June to decide whether an investigation should be launched.
But while it was Lagarde's decision as Finance Minister, some opposition members believe Sarkozy was behind it, and that he was using Lagarde to reward Tapie for supporting his successful 2007 presidential bid.
Lagarde on Wednesday dismissed the accusations, insisting she has "a perfectly clear conscience".
Strauss-Kahn's predicament comes at an opportune time for Sarkozy, who will face a presidential election in a year's time. Known by his initials DSK and whose legal process is being closely followed in France, the former IMF chief was tipped to win the PS's US-style primaries later this year as the candidate with the best chances to beat Sarkozy in the vote.
DSK was believed to be on the cusp of announcing his candidacy for the presidential election when he was arrested in New York.


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With the Spring season behind us, and a moment to breathe before the end of May (my son's wedding), I thought I'd try to catch you up on things.
Our St. Patrick's Day outreach was fun, with many good conversations had. Of course it doesn't hurt to dress in a kilt, and play the pipes. People want to talk to you and it's not hard to steer the conversation to St. Patrick, to spreading the Gospel in Ireland, and to spread the Gospel to them here in Dogtown. It's such an easy opportunity to talk to people about Jesus. And I always have the Jewish people come and ask if we are Irish or Jewish! That is also a great conversation starter, because often the implication is that the Irish are Christian, and the Jews are not, so how can you be both? Then I get to tell them that you can be Jewish and believe in Jesus. By the way, our parade won the Readers' Choice award for the second year in a row as the best parade in St. Louis. And our bagpipe band, St. Louis Irish Pipes and Drums, won the award as the best bagpipe band of the parade…and yes, there were more than one. If you are on Facebook, you can find new Facebook pages, one for St. Louis Irish Pipes and Drums, and one for Congregation Chai v'Shalom. Come and visit? I'm never sure what this means but "Like us on Facebook!"
The Passover Seder season saw me in Chicago, Central Illinois, and of course St. Louis. Our congregation's Seder hosted 104 people, several of whom are Jewish, and a lot of children who wouldn't really dance with me to "Pharaoh, Pharaoh." I guess that's OK, cuz I'm gettin' too old for that! Well, we'll see.
One of the traditions of Passover has become deflecting comments from well-meaning Lutherans who don't believe that Christians should celebrate Passover. I say "well-meaning" as I try to put the best construction on it, but it is frustrating to continue to have to defend the Seder as a great opportunity to grow in our faith, and share our faith with others. I just don't see why they don't get it. One of the great blessings of the season for me was a last-minute invitation to a woman whom I met and found out was Jewish and a holocaust survivor. She had been rounded up and imprisoned in a concentration camp when she was 8 years old. Having survived the holocaust, she made it to the U.S., and has lived here ever since. Her confusion was not so much that I am Jewish and am a Christian, but that I could be a Lutheran pastor. She came and we went through the Seder and she enjoyed it, had good questions about Jesus, and wants to get together later. So please pray for her. We'll call her Elisheva (Elizabeth) and hope that in her older age, the angel of the Lord would come to her with the gift of faith as we bask in the glory of the resurrection. Christ is Risen. Alleluia!
P.S. Go Cards! (OK, so maybe it's about baseball a little!)
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Wednesday, 15 May, 2002, 12:18 GMT 13:18 UK
Pearl family anger at broadcast
The family of a murdered American journalist Daniel Pearl have reacted with outrage to the broadcast of video footage of the moments directly preceding the journalist's execution.
CBS News did not show footage of the moment of Pearl's execution.
In a statement, Mr Pearl's family said CBS's decision was "heartless" and called on other networks not to broadcast the tape.
His body has never been found but a video tape confirming his death was delivered to US officials in Pakistan on 21 February.
Four men accused of kidnapping and killing Mr Pearl have gone on a trial in Pakistan.
'Despicable propaganda'
The statement issued by the Pearl family criticised attempts to rationalise the television network's decision to air what it called "this despicable terrorist propaganda video".
"Terrorists have made this video confident that the American media would broadcast it and thereby serve their exact purpose.
"By showing this video, CBS or any other broadcaster willing to show it proves that they fall without shame into the terrorists' plan".
'Important' video
CBS said it decided to show the video - entitled "The slaughter of the spy journalist, the Jew Daniel Pearl" - after considerable deliberation and despite the US Government's calls not to air it.
"We believe it's important for Americans to see it, and to understand the full impact and danger of the vicious propaganda being spread against the United States," senior CBS presenter Dan Rather said.
He said that graphic scenes were not aired for taste reasons and out of respect for the Pearl family.
CBS said the tape had been found on an Arabic web site and was a recruiting poster for radical Islamic organisations.
Gruesome footage
It carries Arabic sub-titles translating Mr Pearl's words and is interspersed with news footage of Israeli forces fighting Palestinians.
CBS says the tape begins with Mr Pearl giving a brief description of his roots.
"My father's Jewish. My mother's Jewish. I'm Jewish."
Mr Pearl then goes on to recite an anti-American statement apparently prepared by his captors.
"We Americans cannot continue to bear the consequences of our government actions such as the unconditional support given to the state of Israel."
The CBS said the tape ends with Mr Pearl's beheading.
Several US television companies have recently said they have copies of the tape, but have decided not to show it citing its graphic content.
See also:
14 May 02 | South Asia
Pakistani court views Pearl 'murder tape'
12 May 02 | South Asia
FBI agent testifies at Pearl trial
09 May 02 | South Asia
Pearl suspects' plea rejected
30 Apr 02 | South Asia
Pearl trial lawyers win new venue
24 Apr 02 | South Asia
New evidence in Pearl case hearings
28 Mar 02 | South Asia
Analysis: Doubts surround Pearl murder trial
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I came back and did some coverage of the Frankfurt book fair, which was fun but also time consuming without too much yield. I'll have to think it over better next time. One thing I did was put together a slide show of the best book covers I saw. Like any reporter I did a lot in advance - in fact I had a list of books I hoped to find, and wrote blurbs in anticipation. But not one of those books was there! I had to start from scratch, navigating acres and acres of space.
I hope my routine returns to normal now. I did go back to the fair for pleasure. One of the highlights was seeing Richard Ford, whose "Canada" I just finished. I met a woman born in the same hospital as me. I talked to various people and came away with seven great books. Six of those books were handed to me free, including two Fence books, put into my hands by Rebecca Wolff herself. Fence shared a stand for 4-5 other poetry/literary presses, including Red Hen, and the funny detail was that, unlike most other stands, instead of a bottle of water there was a bottle of Jack Daniels on their table.