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The Seattle PI reports that Rev. George Coyne, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, has observed the obvious namely that "Intelligent design isn't science even though it pretends to be,…"
While the Catholic church obviously supports 'intelligent design', it also seems to realize that 'Intelligent Design' is scientifically vacuous.
I just stumbled on an interesting old article in the Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation (The ASA is the long-established organization of scientists who are evangelical Christians. The membership ranges from young-earth creationism to theistic evolution).
The article is creationist Nell Segraves's contribution to a five-person response to the question, "Biblical Creation: Should It Be Taught in the Public Schools as a Mandated Subject Alongside Evolution?" Segraves replied:
Biblical Creation: Should It Be Taught in the Public Schools as a Mandated Subject Alongside Evolution?
From: JASA 33 (December 1981): 231-235
(A public discussion on May 14, 1980 sponsored by the Community Services Office, San Diego Community College, and the Biology Department of San Diego Mesa College.)
Nell Segraves
Nell Segraves is a co-founder and an administrative assistant at the Creation Science Research Center. She has been involved in the evaluation of science, social science and health textbooks for approximately eighteen years.
Those of us involved in the Creationist Movement are not attempting to legislate biblical creation into science classrooms. Biblical creation is a belief that we hold, but we are no more advocating our belief in the Scriptures as a science subject than is the humanist advocating atheism as a subject for classroom discussion in science. The Creation Science Research Center is not attempting to introduce to public schools Bible stories or Bible verses. Neither are the other established responsible Creationist organizations. What we are advocating, rather, is the introduction into the science classroom of scientific data which are currently being excluded…namely, scientific data which conflict with the evolutionary theories of origin, and which are needed for the critical evaluation of evolutionary theories as science.
Yep, all we want to do is just teach the "scientific data which are currently being excluded" and "conflict with the evolutionary theories of origin", and do some "critical evaluation"! It seems like I've heard that before, somewhere.
From London comes the astonishing news that the unmistakable image of Charles Darwin has appeared in the bottom of a postdoc's frying pan. Scientists around the world1 are puzzled about the possible mechanism that might have resulted in the 19th century naturalist's portrait being deposited on the suface of a cooking utensil.
In one attempted application of the Explanatory FilterTM it was found that the probability of this occurance is less than that of fairy circles appearing to form a mole on the face on Mars2. (This is, coincidentally, precisely equal to the probability that Nicholas Caputo would have hit David Berlinski if he had fired an arrow at Albert Einstein's door during a total solar eclipse.)
Scientists say that the object's being specified is beyond doubt. An anonymous fellow of an anonymous Intelligent Design PR firm, when asked on background and off the record, responded that "Objectively, we can only conclude that the image was designed by an intelligence3, perhaps by means of infinite wavelength radiation emanating from the stove of the discoverer's flat."
It has not yet been ascertained whether the pan's dicoverer was cooking spaghetti at the time the image appeared.
The owner and discoverer of the miraculous pan has opened bidding for the object on ebay. All proceeds from the sale will benefit the American Civil Liberties Union, which conserves the civic values – including freedom of religion supported by the separation of church and state – of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights.
1One in London, one in Princeton. 2Work not shown. 3Maybe supernatural, maybe not.
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A new fossil mosasaur, one of a group of non-dinosaurian reptiles that return to marine existence, has been found by an amateur fossil hunter (see? Science can be done by non-professionals) near Dallas Texas, appropriately called Dallasaurus turneri after the location and discoverer Van Turner who found it 16 years ago.
This fossil is interesting because it is one of your classical "missing links". Mosasaurs, which ended up 40 feet long (12m) at the end of the Cretaceous when they and dinosaurs and a whole lot of other life went extinct from a bolide impact, evolved fins from their limbs, and many of the primitive mosasaurs had partial limbs/fins.
D turneri, however, has the complete set of limbs it shared with its reptilian ancestors and cousins. This is interesting for mosasaur specialists of course, but it also allows me an opportunity to talk about two often-misunderstood terms in evolution - "missing link" and "primitive".
Continue reading "The Mosasaur and the missing link" on Evolving Thoughts…
I hate to divert attention from the fascinating serious discussion (for the most part) taking place in response to my last post, The fundamental (and wrong) religious argument of the IDists in Kansas, but you all really should take a look at the new website KansasMorons.com. (Motto: "Welcome to Kansas, please set your watch back 100 years.")
For a start, read the first page of the "Kansas Teachers Guide to Intelligent Design", a parody of a introductory letter by Kansas state Board member Connie Morris.
Here's the text, but you really need to download the real thing to get the full flavor of this:
Carl Zimmer's new book, Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), is available, and he has a summary of its contents at The Loom. This should be excellent—Zimmer has a real knack for writing about the evidence for a general audience without diminishing it—and I'm looking forward to getting my hands on a copy. More accessible descriptions about what we know and how we know it are exactly what we need to get out to the public!
I first ran across the thylacine (aka "Tasmanian tiger" or "Tasmanian wolf") when I was preparing to teach a summer course on vertebrate zoology for a local Catholic college during grad school. While I'd had a decent amount of organismal biology and zoology as a college undergrad, I was a bit rusty from a few years of only studying organisms lacking nuclei, so I was looking for a quick refresher as well as some interesting topics for final paper assignments for the course. Just announced around that time was a "breakthrough" in the attempt to clone the thylacine, so I introduced that to the class in a discussion of the effects of geographic isolation, and had a nice discussion of both the molecular techniques and the ethics of a Jurassic Park-type scenario.
Tangled Bank #41 is up!
When we look at the face of another person, we can recognize specific features that have familial resemblances. In my family, for instance, I can recognize a "Myers nose" that my grandmother and my father and some of my siblings and kids have, and it's different than my wife's or my mother's nose. These are subtle differences in shape—a bit of a curve, a knob, a seam—and their inheritance suggests that these differences are specified somehow in the DNA. If you think about it, though…how can whether the profile of a nose is straight or curved be encoded in a linear stretch of nucleotides? The complicated answer is that it isn't—morphology is a consequence of epigenetic interactions during development—but we know that the alleles present in the genome do contribute in some significant way to three-dimensional form. How?
We don't know all the details. This is one of those huge research problems that has gaping holes, full of promise and interest, where we don't understand exactly how all the pieces fit together. However, here's an important point that is relevant to other, larger issues in evolution: even where we lack full information about mechanisms, we can roughly perceive the shape of the answer, and that helps us rule out many alternative explanations and guides us in the general direction of a more complete understanding.
People's noses are a difficult subject for research; we don't get to define human crosses, people tend to be a little snippy about telling them who to breed with and taking their genes apart, and humans are awfully slow to breed. Fish are better experimental animals, much more pliable and faster and more prolific in their breeding. Some fish, such as the African cichlids, also have highly diverse populations and species with easily recognized and often quite dramatic morphological differences—and we can explore how those differences are generated by genetic and molecular differences in development. In particular, we can start to figure out how fish jaws are shaped by developmental processes.
Continue reading "Evolution of the cichlid mandible" (on Pharyngula)
Remember Steve Fuller who was a defense expert witness in the Kitzmiller trial? Steve Miller is also on the editorial board of the SciPolicy Journal.
His colleagues have filed an Amicus Curiae or Friends of the Courts, brief:
There is a logical fallacy in mandating the inclusion of intelligent design since it provides neither scientific explanation nor empirical evidence of the actual existence of a designer, but through fiat simply asserts that a designer must exist to explain the gap in knowledge. Stripped of its intellectual facade the announcement is nothing but a transparent effort to engraft religious dogma onto the classroom examination of scientific theory.
Just when I thought I'd seen it all, Red State Rabble notes that Kansas Board of Education chairman Steve Abrams has just published an op-ed entitled "Science standards aren't about religion" in the Wichita Eagle. I can't tell if it is the same op-ed that Abrams said in an interview yesterday he was sending to "newspapers across the state, as well as CNN, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post," but it probably is.
To begin, Abrams declares that the changes to the Kansas science standards are not about religion, and then promptly makes it extremely clear that they actually are. Specifically, Abrams makes it clear that this really is about good old-fashioned creationism, when he writes this:
Resistance to antibiotics has been a concern of scientists almost since their widespread use began. In a 1945 interview with the New York Times, Alexander Fleming himself warned that the misuse of penicillin could lead to selection of resistant forms of bacteria, and indeed, he'd already derived such strains in the lab by varying doses of penicillin the bacteria were subjected to. A short 5 years later, several hospitals had reported that a majority of their Staph isolates were, as predicted, resistant to penicillin. This decline in effectiveness has led to a search for new sources and kinds of antimicrobial agents. One strategy involves going back to a decades-old approach researched by Soviet scientists: phage therapy. Here, they pit one microbe directly against another, using viruses called bacteriophage to infect, and kill, pathogenic bacteria. Vincent Fischetti at Rockefeller University has used this successfully to kill anthrax, Streptococcus pyogenes, and others. Another novel source of antibiotics has come from our own innate immune system, one of our initial defenses against microbial invaders.
Bestill your beating hearts, Darwin fans, for yet more Darwin texts are free online. Many have long known and loved the website The writings of Charles Darwin on the web run by John van Wyhe, at the British Library, which has virtually all of Darwin's published books and articles online (yes, Virginia, Darwin wrote over 100 articles in addition to all his books). And, less well known but very useful, all the volumes of The Correspondance of Charles Darwin are searchable at Google Print.
Now, as reviewed by Niles Eldredge in PLoS Biology [1], we have online Darwin's early notebooks – the "Red" and "Transmutation" notebooks – and manuscripts: the 1842 Sketch, the 1844 Essay, and the massive unpublished book for which Origin of Species was the "abstract", Natural Selection. The website is The Darwin Digital Library of Evolution at the American Natural History Museum (http://darwinlibrary.amnh.org).
1. Eldredge, N. 2005. "Darwin's Other Books: 'Red' and 'Transmutation' Notebooks, 'Sketch,' 'Essay,' and Natural Selection." Public Library of Science: Biology, 3(11): e382. November 15, 2005.
PS: Hmm, the PLoS: Biology article says that the "Red" and "Transmutation" notebooks are online at the website, but I can't find them. Post a think if you find them.
On a local discussion forum in Lawrence, Kansas today, a poster named "Conservativeman" wrote a nice succinct summary of the main arguments presented by the Intelligent Design advocates (IDists) at the Kansas "science" hearings last May, and of those arguments incessantly put forth by ID leader John Calvert.
It may be that I am being too repetitious in my posts here at the Panda's thumb, making the same points over and over. However, I think these points may become critical in case the Kansas situation goes to court, so for me I think it's worth my while (if not the readers) to try to get as clear of an understanding of the fundamental religious argument that is being made by the IDists in Kansas.
Conservativeman wrote,
The problem is that an "Evolution Only," policy is not really scientific or constitutional. It is not scientific because it is officially biased rather than scientifically objective. Because it is biased, it is not religiously neutral. Evolution Only effectively requires our children to "know" that we come from a natural rather than an intelligent cause, that we are occurrences and not designs, and that we naturally arise without purpose from a purposeless process. It effectively teaches that no rational evidentiary basis exists for theistic beliefs. Evolution Only converts these scientific claims into dogmas that are the fundamental tenets of non-theistic religions and that directly contradict the fundamental tenets of theistic religions. Accordingly, in my opinion, Evolution Only is not "secular" or neutral. Rather it is an ideology that directly conflicts with the First Amendment rights of parents and students.
This argument is quite wrong in a number of fundamental and important ways – ways that may eventually be settled in a court case. I'd like to respond to these points a few lines at a time.
The Kansas Board of Education has rewritten the science standards so that they may include the supernatural. That's OK with me, as long as they play fair: Scientists must now be allowed to investigate the supernatural, including the truth claims of religion, and their judgements must be taken seriously. Science is, after all, our most successful enterprise (especially if we count medicine and sanitation), and we should be allowed to apply the principles of science to religion or anything else that makes objective claims. I say, Bring science into the churches!
It's official. Flying Spaghetti Monsterism has now produced more original peer-reviewed research than "intelligent design" (aka "creintelligent designationism"). Don't believe me? Well, look at these:
Audoly, B., and S. Neukirch. 2005. "Fragmentation of rods by cascading cracks: Why spaghetti does not break in half." Physical Review Letters 85 (Aug. 26): 095505.
Gladden, J.R., N.Z. Handzy, A. Belmonte, and E. Villermaux. 2005. "Dynamic buckling and fragmentation in brittle rods." Physical Review Letters 94 (Jan. 28): 035503.
How bent spaghetti break
Dynamic Buckling and Breaking of Thin Rods
Hat-tip to Peter Weiss of Science News, in his online article "That's the Way the Spaghetti Crumbles," Science News, 168(20), p. 315 (Nov. 12, 2005).
Update: November 15, 2005. The Templeton Foundation has issued a statement objecting to the implication that they have ever been a supporter of ID. The statement makes it clear that they do not support ID, and that on those occasions where foundation money went to ID supporters, it was for purposes other than supporting ID research. The statement begins:
Today the WSJ ran a front page story mentioning the John Templeton Foundation in a way suggesting that the Foundation has been a concerted patron and sponsor of the so-called Intelligent Design ("ID") position (such as is associated with the Seattle-based Discovery Institute and the writers Philip Johnson, William Dembski, Michael Behe and others). This is false information. In fact, quite the opposite is true. The John Templeton Foundation has provided tens of millions of dollars in support to research academics who are critical of the anti-evolution ID position. Any careful and factual analysis of actual events will find that the John Templeton Foundation has been in fact the chief sponsor of university courses, lectures and academic research which variously have argued against the anti-evolution "ID" position. It is scandalous for a distinguished paper to misinform the public in this way.
In light of this, I apologize for suggesting that the Foundation was losing faith in ID, when it seems, in fact, they never had any faith in it to begin with. I still regard it as significant, however, that a foundation dedicated to bridging the gap between science and religion would wish to distance itself, with considerable passion, from ID.
The website of the Beaver County Times and Allegheny Times is reporting that Senator Rick Santorum has reversed his position on teaching ID in science classes:
U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said Saturday that he doesn't believe that intelligent design belongs in the science classroom.
Santorum's comments to The Times are a shift from his position of several years ago, when he wrote in a Washington Times editorial that intelligent design is a "legitimate scientific theory that should be taught in the classroom."
But on Saturday, the Republican said that, "Science leads you where it leads you."
And later:
Though Santorum said he believes that intelligent design is "a legitimate issue," he doesn't believe it should be taught in the classroom, adding that he had concerns about some parts of the theory.
Santorum is one of the most conservative Senators around, and he is a darling of the Religious Right. Consequently, this flip-flop is highly significant. I provide some further commentary here.
Today's Wall Street Journal has an article on ID in college classrooms today.
AMES, Iowa – With a magician's flourish, Thomas Ingebritsen pulled six mousetraps from a shopping bag and handed them out to students in his "God and Science" seminar. At his instruction, they removed one component – either the spring, hammer or holding bar – from each mousetrap. They then tested the traps, which all failed to snap.
"Is the mousetrap irreducibly complex?" the Iowa State University molecular biologist asked the class.
"Yes, definitely," said Jason Mueller, a junior biochemistry major wearing a cross around his neck.
That's the answer Mr. Ingebritsen was looking for. He was using the mousetrap to support the antievolution doctrine known as intelligent design. Like a mousetrap, the associate professor suggested, living cells are "irreducibly complex" – they can't fulfill their functions without all of their parts. Hence, they could not have evolved bit by bit through natural selection but must have been devised by a creator. "This is the closest to a science class on campus where anybody's going to talk about intelligent design," the fatherly looking associate professor told his class. "At least for now."
Overshadowed by attacks on evolution in high-school science curricula, intelligent design is gaining a precarious and hotly contested foothold in American higher education. Intelligent-design courses have cropped up at the state universities of Minnesota, Georgia and New Mexico, as well as Iowa State, and at private institutions such as Wake Forest and Carnegie Mellon. Most of the courses, like Mr. Ingebritsen's, are small seminars that don't count for science credit. Many colleges have also hosted lectures by advocates of the doctrine.
Ugh, ugh, ugh.
Despite the complaints by ID proponents that Intelligent Design is not about religion or faith, they seem to have a hard time convincing even their fellow creationists.
In Lecture Planned on Intelligent Design we read the following
In the current controversy between scientific proponents and religious opponents of evolution, Hugh Ross concedes that scientists have a valid point.
"The most ubiquitous complaint from scientists is that evolution-bashers don't have the courage to say what their model of the origin of life is. Frankly, I have to agree. All they're doing is making negative arguments," Ross said from his office in California. "We don't critique the evolution model, we present our model."
It only gets better:
Some of you may not know this, but the Panda's Thumb does have a forum on AntiEvolution.org: After the Bar Closes.
For those of you missing the Bathroom Wall, you can post your pearls on the forum.
Check out this: "Backtracking Birds Show Islands are not Evolutionary Dead End" on the blog A Scientific Life (or Scientist, Interrupted), aka girlscientist.blogspot.com. The post reports on a paper on bird biogeography published in Nature, "Single origin of a pan-Pacific bird group and upstream colonization of Australasia." The main point of the paper is that the biogeogaphy of a group of pacific island monarchs is not a simple matter of flow from the continental source to the island sink; instead, there has been some back-and-forth over the last few million years.


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Brady Legacy Will Moonwalk All Over Manning's
Chris Rock had a routine a few year back about the raging debate of the 1980s: Prince or Michael Jackson? This was before Michal died and during the height of the child sex scandal. Rock stated simply, "Prince won." He was right. And he was right even putting the scandals aside. While Michael was an amazing entertainer, Prince is arguably one of the most talented musicians that has ever lived. During their heydays, in the prime of their careers, it was easy to lump them together and harder to see just how wide the gap was. It wasn't until 20 years later, looking at the totality of their careers, could you see just how silly the debate was all those years ago. Prince won, and it wasn't even close.
I thought of this Sunday night after the Patriots and Broncos game concluded. All week I heard people debate, Brady or Manning? I heard all these insane stats proving how close they really are. Listened to people accuse Brady of being a system quarterback. Was forced to look at charts detailing how many Pro Bowls their teammates made over the years. Watched ESPN Sunday Countdown where talking heads actually chose Brady or Manning? And it wasn't unanimous.
Are people really so close to this that can't see it clearly?
Tom Brady is the best quarterback of this generation. Period.
You can go with regular season numbers and regular season awards but none of that matters. The only numbers that matter are Super Bowl appearances and Super Bowl wins. Both of which Brady leads. 5-2 and 3-1. And head-to-head meetings which Brady also leads 10-4.
That's it! Case closed.
And the Manning defenders can take their insane stats and charts and put them away now. They don't mean anything. Not after the Broncos blew a 24-0 halftime lead. Not after Tom Brady threw for 344 yards in the same weather that limited Manning to 150. Not after the Broncos left New England with a loss.
Stats and charts don't mean a thing when you have a set of working eyes.
And the people talking about Brady being nothing more than a system quarterback need to stop embarrassing themselves. They claim Brady couldn't win without Bill Belichick. With this logic we should conclude Michael Jordan wouldn't have won without Phil Jackson and Joe Montana wouldn't have won without Bill Walsh. Both coaches with systems. Both with superstars to make them work.
Bill Belichick didn't have Tom Brady in Cleveland and last I checked that didn't end well.
If Manning can make it to the Super Bowl and win this year, this debate gets a little less crazy. However, does anyone really expect the Broncos to beat the Patriots in the playoffs if they meet in cold conditions? After what we witnessed on Sunday night?
I don't.
And none of this is meant to deny that Peyton Manning is great. That he isn't one of the best quarterbacks off all time.
However, he's not Tom Brady.
And that's okay.
"Thriller" is still a great album. Sold a ton of copies and won lots of awards.
But it's not "Purple Rain"
And for me, just like Brady versus Manning, it's not even close.
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NFL games ending in ties needs to be abolished. If it weren't for a muffed punt at the end of the Sunday night game we may have seen two on Sunday. Play until someone wins. And I don't care if it takes all night.
To say RG3 looks like a shell of his former self is insulting to shells everywhere.
The Giants played a real quarterback for the first time in a month and lost. As expected.
Somehow Greg Schiano has gotten himself off the hot seat.
Ron Rivera is off the hot seat and looking toward a well-deserved extension.
Geno Smith is so bad I will not watch another Jets games until he's not under center.
Matt Stafford is quickly becoming Detroit's version of Jay Cutler. Four picks, at home versus a secondary missing Darrell Revis for the bulk of the second half is more than unacceptable. It's pathetic.
San Diego made Kanas City look like an afterthought in the playoff picture.
Atlanta should be the most disappointing team of the year but Houston refuses to allow them to be.


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PLAY DATE: The Poulsbo Cooperative Preschool is hosting a preschooler play date at Lions Park in Poulsbo on July 9 from 10 a.m. to noon. Meet the teacher, other preschoolers and learn more about the school. Poulsbo Cooperative Preschool is located on the Vinland Elementary campus and is currently enrolling 2-5 year olds for the 2008-09 school year. Info: www.poulsbocooppreschool.org or (360) 779-4104.
NK GOP MEETING: The North Kitsap Republican Women will have their regular monthly meeting on July 15 at the North Kitsap Fire Station on Miller Bay Road in Kingston at 11:30 a.m. Guests will be Mark Lowe and Larry Cooney, candidates for state representative from the 23rd Legislative District; Tim Matthes, running for county commissioner in the 2nd Commissioner District; Bruce Danielson, non-partisan candidate for Superior Court; and Tim Ford, candidate for Court of Appeals. Info: Brenda Petrick (360) 871-2200.
CLASS REUNION: The North Kitsap High School classes of 1972, 1973 and 1974 will have a combined 35th class reunion at 7 p.m. on July 18 at the Suquamish Clearwater Hotel waterfront. On July 19, there will be a potluck at 3 p.m. at Raab Park. Info: SuAnn Seaman Skelley (360) 779-5650, Marilyn Howerton Wistrand (360) 697-2997 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
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BELLY DANCE and BELLYFIT: Belly dance and BellyFit classes will begin in Poulsbo on July 28. Belly dance classes run from 6:45-7:45 p.m. Mondays; BellyFit classes are held Mondays from 5:45-6:45 p.m. A five-week session costs $74. To register, call Poulsbo Parks and Recreation at (360) 779-9898.
GREAT PENINSULA FUTURE FESTIVAL: Historic Port Gamble will be the setting for the greenest outdoor sustainability festival in Washington Aug. 2-3. The Great Peninsula Future Festival will mix interactive displays of green concepts, products and services with family entertainment, live music, food and hand-made crafts. Vendor info: firstname.lastname@example.com. All other info: (425) 788-7496 or www.GreatPeninsulaFutureFestival.org.
CLASS REUNION: The North Kitsap High School class of 1958 is celebrating its 50th reunion on Aug. 14 at Kiana Lodge starting at 5 p.m. Info: Bonnie Thomas at (360) 697-6131; Jeff Hahto at (206) 842-4326; Bob Alness at (253) 565-7559 or Jim Martin at (360) 779-7701.
CRAFTERNOONS: Bring handwork projects and look at craft books during Crafternoons at Little Boston Library. Crafternoons are held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesdays, July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30. Info: (360) 297-2670.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY: The Kingston Historical Society meets in the Indianola Room of the Kingston Community Center at 10 a.m. on the fourth Wednesday of the month from January to October. The group works to collect stories and preserve pictures of Kingston and its vicinity. Visitors are welcome.
ARTISTS' LEAGUE: The Poulsbo Artists' League meets every Wednesday at Vinland Lutheran Church at 2750 NW Finn Hill Road from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Info: Mike Clayton at (360) 692-3901.
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Under fire for crime cameras that critics say often don't work and haven't proved an effective tool for fighting crime, officials of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's administration tried Tuesday to redefine the equipment's purpose to justify spending another $1.6 million on maintenance next year.
At a City Council budget hearing, council members Stacy Head and Arnie Fielkow questioned the proposed expenditure, saying they need proof the cameras are providing a crime-fighting benefit.
"Unless you can show third-party validation that we'll have 200-plus cameras up and working every day of the year and that they can be used by prosecutors as evidence, I think we're throwing good money after bad, " Fielkow said.
Head said the city has spent $7,500 this year for maintenance and upgrading of each of the 240 cameras but that it costs only $6,240 to buy and install a new camera. The $1.6 million proposed to be spent in 2009 on maintenance and restoration is more than it would cost to buy all new cameras.
Hurricane Gustav knocked out 100 of the cameras, and Head said the city's current goal is to restore only 200 cameras, which would yield an even higher per-unit maintenance cost. She said she wants to see the budget proposal cut by $1 million, leaving only enough to maintain the current array of cameras, at least until their usefulness can be determined.
Harrison Boyd, the city's new technology director, defended the expense by saying the cameras can do more than monitor street crime. He said he is working to set up a system for linking the cameras to an emergency operations center to help city employees work more efficiently during hurricanes and other disasters.
That drew kudos from Budget Committee Chairwoman Cynthia Hedge-Morrell and Councilwoman Cynthia Willard-Lewis. Willard-Lewis urged Fielkow and Head not to "throw the baby out with the bath water."
"It might not have been the original intent, but it might still be a great benefit to the city, " Hedge-Morrell said, praising Boyd for finding a way to "save this $7 million investment."
Head appeared incredulous, saying the point of the cameras was to address the city's No. 1 priority, reducing crime.
"We have to cut this city budget, and we have to assure citizens that we're moving toward a goal, " she said, her voice growing strident. "We've had four years to look at it. In that time, have the police and DA been using that tool? Without that information, we are merely throwing money into a system that hasn't shown any tangible results. We don't have any proof it's really doing us any good."
Earlier this year, Head said a crime camera installer was operating without a license and filing invoices that appeared to overcharge the city. When she asked Tuesday about the status of that contractor, LSI Research of Huntsville, Ala., Boyd said it has been replaced. LSI was hired by Boyd's predecessor, Anthony Jones, who was demoted in August.
Boyd on Tuesday presented a $17.1 million budget for the Office of Technology, which is part of the chief administrative office. Under questioning from Head, he acknowledged that his salary and those of two other officials, totaling $359,000, are not included in his budget, but in the budget of the mayor's office.
He said a $1.5 million line item for telecommunications would cover, among other things, the city's AT&T cellular telephone service. But again under questioning by Head, Boyd said other departments actually pay for their own cell phones, and the Office of Technology only arranges the purchases.
"I wonder how many other squirrel piles we have out there, " Head said.
While Fielkow, Head and Councilwoman Shelley Midura credited Boyd with cleaning up mismanagement in his department and seeking efficiency, including replacing outside contract employees with more in-house staff, the three council members said they were disappointed that his budget was not lower than that for 2008.
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Last month's stretch of summer-like weather brought with it a reminder of one of the downsides of summer: a rash of serious or fatal motorcycle crashes.
The Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning offers reminders for drivers to watch carefully for cyclists.
But cyclists aren't totally at the mercy of drivers, experts say. There are steps cyclists can take, too, to protect themselves.
A snapshot by the numbers
"It's a very big misconception that drivers are the biggest problem for motorcyclists," said F/Lt. Thad Peterson, commanding officer of the Michigan State Police traffic services section in Lansing. In general, about half of Michigan's motorcycle crashes don't involve another vehicle, Peterson said.
Michigan State Police statistics from a 2006 report show 47 out of 100 motorcycle crashes do not involve a collision with another motor vehicle. The motorcycle may slide on loose gravel, fail to negotiate a curve, or collide with a train, pedestrian, bicyclist, or an animal.
Those crashes cannot be blamed on the "other" driver, because there is no other driver, the report notes. And even in the 53 percent that do include another vehicle, of those about half of the time it is the cyclist, not the driver of the car, that is at fault, Peterson said.
"If all you do is try to get drivers not to cause your problems, you're sticking your head in the sand," Peterson said.
Defensive riding
Recent crashes
March 18: A 43-year-old Hamilton man was critically injured, with multiple fractures of his legs and face, after his motorcycle crashed into the back of a pickup.
March 21: An Illinois man was knocked from his motorcycle and killed in Benton Harbor when a 71-year-old driver turned in front of him.
March 31: A 23-year-old Kalamazoo County man died of injuries he suffered in an early morning crash in downtown Kalamazoo March 21.
Peterson said an important step is increasing visibility, since the 2006 analysis of crash data shows that many car/motorcycle crashes happen when the driver of a car fails to yield the right-of-way to the motorcycle.
Larry Davidson, owner of Davidson Express motorcycle sales and service shop in Otsego said his experience echoes those findings.
Here are some tips Davidson offers to make sure drivers notice motorcycles:
Stand out: " I wear a white helmet, not black, and people can see me coming from quarter mile away with my big white head," Davidson said. Peterson said European studies confirm that a white or brightly colored helmet greatly increases visibility.
Use high-tech gear to advantage: New headlights and tail lights that can go to flickering mode as a bike approaches an intersection " make people pay attention," he said. Fluorescent orange and green attire, reflective tape, and brightly-colored rain gear are gaining popularity too, he said.
"I know a lot of riders wear black because it makes them look skinny," Davidson said with a laugh. "But I want to stay around and hang out with my grandkids."
Avoid high traffic areas if alternatives are possible: It's always a good idea to avoid mingling with cars when possible, Davidson said, just to reduce the odds of meeting up with an inattentive driver.
A final tip, one Davidson considers one of his best:
Choose a route with care: "I always want to find safest route, and when I
plan my rides, I plan them all in a clockwise motion," Davidson said,
with right turns instead of left whenever possible. Careful planning creates fewer opportunities for potential conflict.
Tina Hightower, program manager, rider and coach of Michigan's Safest Riders, a safety instruction course for motorcyclists, teaches a three-day class in motorcycle safety that includes one session in the classroom, two on the riding range.
Visibility is a huge issue, she agreed.
"Drivers (of cars and trucks) have such a huge blind spot – I teach my riders that they appear smaller than a highlighter at 35 feet," Hightower said.
Motorcyclists are equally invisible when they are behind drivers, she said, and must be careful to allow plenty of reaction time to accommodate sudden, unsignaled moves by drivers.
"Riders must pay attention to everything in their surroundings, and have to be even more aware than vehicle drivers," she said.
She recommends that riders keep their eyes on the horizon, beyond the car directly ahead of them, to anticipate actions before they occur.
"If you think something is kind of funny, slow down to pull you away from the situation," Hightower recommended.
Peterson said learning, and perfecting, riding skills is one of the best safeguards for a motorcyclist. Proper braking and turning skills can help cyclists avoid crashes, or keep them from making a bad situation worse, he said. Both skills require instruction, Peterson said, because a motorcycle reacts differently than a car or a bicycle. Then practice is essential, he said.
He agreed with Hightower, too, that mental alertness is crucial, and recommended adopting an attitude on every ride that "every other vehicle is going to try to make you crash."
Wave of the future
Davidson said motorcycles are more popular than ever, perhaps as an alternative to high gas prices.
"There's been almost a 30 percent increase since 10 years ago, and it's getting bigger," Davidson said. "We've sold 27 bikes already this year; we used to sell 8 by this time of year."
Tips for motorists
- Actively look for motorcyclists, especially on curves and at driveways.
- Check the "blind spots" around your vehicle for motorcyclists before changing lanes or making a turn.
- Predict evasive actions. Traffic, weather and road conditions require a motorcyclist to react differently than a driver.
- Realize that motorcycles have a shorter braking time than other vehicles do. Keep this in mind when driving behind a motorcyclist.
- Be careful when judging the speed of traffic. Motorcyclists can accelerate faster than other motor vehicles.
Source-- Office of Highway Safety Planning
The rider safety classes required now are far more
comprehensive than those required when he first became licensed to ride,
Davidson said.
Riders then were simply required to demonstrate starting, stopping and a few figure 8 maneuvers in the parking lot behind the police station, he said.
Given the increasing numbers, Davidson said, it is wise for riders and drivers alike to get better at sharing the road.


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Incumbent Mike Ahrenius took a commanding lead in the Friday Harbor Port Commission race, outpacing challenger Daniel Miller by garnering 83 percent of election night results, a total of 1,936 votes. Miller had 390 votes, or 17 percent. Island Rec commission incumbent Scott Zehner grabbed an equally decisive advantage, earning 1,784 votes, or 87 percent, of the early returns. Opponent Ian Paterson, a first-time candidate for public office, garnered 274 votes.
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When Chris Clarke's oldest son was born, he and his wife Denise uprooted their lives in Nova Scotia to move back to their hometown of Grand Falls-Windsor to be closer to family and friends. It was then Clarke started his business — Gentleman B. Though times were tough at first, they fought through their struggles together to build one of the most popular local apparel stores in the region. — Photos by Andrea Gunn/Advertiser
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Gentleman B Lifestyle Apparel has grown from a 750 square-foot rental shop with used light fixtures to a 7,200 square foot apparel store with over 50,000 pieces of inventory, including men's, women's and youths' clothing and footwear.
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Gentleman B Lifestyle Apparel on Princess Drive in Grand Falls-Windsor won the 2013 Business of the Year award last month at the Exploits Regional Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Awards.
Entrepreneur struggled to stay true to his vision
Gentleman B Lifestyle Apparel in Grand Falls-Windsor is a perfect example of how hard work, perseverance and staying true to your values pays off.
It's grown from a small, 750-square-foot men's clothing store to become one of the most popular apparel boutiques in the region with a 7,200 square-foot building and 12 employees.
And, after 14 years of serving the Grand Falls-Windsor area, owner Chris Clarke received the prestigious Business of the Year award at the Exploits Regional Chamber of Commerce's annual Business Excellence Awards last month.
But Clarke says he'd never have enjoyed success without the support of his family
Today, Clarke is doing well — his store stocks 50,000 pieces of inventory, including men's, women's and youths' clothing and footwear, boasting one of the largest selections as an independent retailer in central Newfoundland.
Gentleman B serves customers, organizations, municipalities and businesses across the province. The company has experienced growth each year, and Clarke is in the process of expanding to include a 3,000 square-foot warehouse.
But things haven't always been so peachy for Clarke and his family.
Clarke grew up in Grand Falls-Windsor, and following graduation from high school, completed post-secondary education to become a microcomputer specialist. He subsequently went to work with a national inventory company in Grand Falls-Windsor, and was promoted to area manager — a position based out of Halifax. Clarke and his wife, Denise, were living in Dartmouth when their first child Brandon came along in December 1999.
"Being in the inventory business, that was my busiest time of year and required me to be away from home throughout Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec … (meaning) I would never be home for our son's birthday," Clarke explained.
Clarke and his wife decided to make a life change and move back to Grand Falls-Windsor — where they both grew up — to raise their child closer to friends and family.
"Giving up my position with this company wasn't an easy decision, as it was a well-paying job," Clarke said, adding he was unsure what he would to do to support his family back in Newfoundland.
"As a younger man, I was always an entrepreneur at heart and always wanted to be in charge and work for myself. My father was a retailer and a buyer for a regional chain of stores, and my sister ran her own business in retail as well, so I made the decision that I would go into retail and looked for a niche market in Grand Falls-Windsor."
Starting off small
Clarke opted to open a retail store focusing on menswear. His goal was to offer a quality product that customers couldn't get anywhere else in town.
His first step was securing funding to open his new store.
"First I needed a business plan and what would separate my business from other retail locations currently operating in (the area). I spent days and nights trying to develop a niche market business plan, and a 40-page plan later I went and tried to get financing," he said. "My first stop was (Business Development Bank of Canada), who now is my biggest business partner."
To his dismay, Clarke was turned down for his $50,000 loan request because the agency didn't think his plan was viable in the area. He then approached the not-for-profit Central Business Development Corporation (CBDC) for a loan.
Clarke said they were reluctant at first, but he was eventually able to obtain a $20,000 loan for startup.
"Looking back now, I realize how lucky I am that my business even got off the ground," Clarke said.
With funding in place, Clarke was able to secure a 750-square-foot rental location close to the Exploits Valley Mall, as well as a computer, fax machine, printer, a used sign to put over the door, used fixtures, hangers and other used items to get started.
"I then went to Montreal and hired a buying agency to take me around to vendors and purchased what I could to open my store — Gentleman B: Apparel for Men, in which the B stands for my oldest son, Brandon."
Open for business
Gentleman B opened its doors on Oct. 16, 2000. Though he was happy to have things off the ground, Clarke said it was a struggle from Day 1. With limited resources and a restricted cash flow, Clarke was the only employee. He worked in the store all day serving customers, and overnight doing orders, merchandising, opening freight, cleaning and more.
With little money for advertising, he said it was tough getting customers in the door.
Clarke said every dollar that came in went to pay bills and invest in inventory, to react as quickly as he could to serve his clientele's needs.
Down but not out
For two years, Clarke paid himself $250 a week — well below minimum wage. They lived with his parents and borrowed their vehicle for his family to get around.
He said he would have to call vendors daily to get extensions on post-dated cheques as there was never enough cash in the bank and he was unable to obtain a line of credit.
"I remember having days in the minus, (where) I had more returns than purchases. I remember closing the doors in the middle of the afternoon, frustrated a few times, calling my wife to pick me up and thinking I was finished, that the business would not succeed," Clarke said.
"Fortunately for me, my wife encouraged me to stick with it. (She told me), 'Things will come around,' although I knew how frustrated she was with our financial situation. With no home and no vehicle, we pushed forward."
Clarke said with hard work and dedication, things started to improve, little by little and year after year.
"Sales begun to increase as clientele grew. We focused on brands that were trending, and on the side I started contacting businesses, organizations, fire departments, municipalities (and so on), to see if we could source any apparel needs for them … with alterations, cresting and embroidery, which did help with cash flow."
Clarke said he still remembers his first sidewalk sale. As the only employee, he took care of setting up and servicing outside, as well as serving customers inside.
"I'm a pretty determined guy when I put my mind to things," Clarke said, laughing.
In 2003, they had an opportunity to move into a 1,500 square-foot building for a small rental increase that they could afford. Shortly after, Clarke hired his first part-time employee, and things grew from there.
"We were starting to get noticed with key brands, customer service and a friendly shopping experience," he said.
"By 2007 my lease was up and my landlord advised another tenant would be acquiring my space, so we had to move again. We then moved to a 2,400 square-foot location not too far from our existing building. Business by this point was increasing 40 per cent (per year)."
Coming out on top
By 2010, business was going extremely well and Gentleman B had four staff members, including Clarke.
Soon after, Clarke decided he didn't want to rent anymore. With financing from BDC, the agency that had first denied him a loan, he was able to acquire some land next to his existing location.
Gentleman B soon had a new home. Today it runs out of a 7,200 square-foot retail store located on Princess Drive.
"I really wanted to make a impact with my retail location … so I hired a retail store designer from Montreal to do interior design, store layout and electrical and lighting design. I have to say, we still get a lot of positive feedback on our store design and its modernness."
Today, Gentleman B does retail sales 10 times Clarke's original business plan. They have 12 employees, and in are the process of adding a warehouse. Clarke hopes to soon have a full online store to expand his customer base across Canada.
And although the operation isn't without challenges — he still has to compete with larger chain stores and strive to offer the top trends and fashions — he said he's confident that his practices will keep his business viable for years to come.
"I have a very high standard when it comes to servicing our customers. We constantly invest in new trends across Canada (to) offer them right here in Newfoundland. We invest into our employees to ensure we have a team that is keeping our original business practices, values and standards in place," Clarke said.
"My mission has always been to exceed our customers' expectations every time, and I still strive to hold true today. Without our customers we are non-existent,"
Clarke said if he had to advise other new business owners, he would tell them to stay in touch with customers, ensure high service standards and never underestimate the value of hard work and perseverance.
"I have learned so much since opening in 2000, and still learn things daily. Do not be hesitant in reaching out to professionals who specialize in different aspects of daily business practices. … There is a world of knowledge out there to help you succeed."
Clarke said his Business of the Year award is a source of pride and feels like a pat on the back from the community he has worked so hard to serve.
Despite the challenges, Clarke said every day he is thankful for how things worked out, and for his family for sticking with him through the tough times.
"I appreciate each and every one of my customers and team of staff that enables me to do what I love on a daily basis, and to be able to live and raise my three boys right here in the town I grew up."


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After decades of promise, finally, companies like Apple and single application websites like twitter, enable us to use and manage knowledge without the constant struggle and by designing dummy solutions which mean that to use and operate them we do not need to acquire new knowledge ourselves or in anyway change our habits and behaviour, these solutions bypass the human resistance to change. (They call it 'intuitive' but actually it means 'using your current knowledge and skills.' Would an ipad be intuitive to a 12th century peasant?). Companies and organisations have been slow to understand and adapt. This has resulted in a form of time travel where, you go to work and use information and knowledge equipment and software set in the late 1990's and then come home in the evening and connect the 21st century equipment to with youtube and face book and digg whilst skyping your grandchildren.
To me it has been the first decade where the recognition that the pace of change, complexity and scale outstrip our traditional rate of learning has been so obvious.
The best innovation of the decade I think has been the discovery by pharmaceutical companies that it costs them nothing and at the same time helps mankind to sell crucial drugs to the poorer parts of the world at cost or below. The discovery that they to date have only made drugs for a small proportion of the world, the rich world, and their apparent determination to do something about it has to be very high on the list of the best innovations of the decade.


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so true.... so true.....Originally Posted by PokeChamp
i gave up on AR, it ruins the replay value if you hacked too much..Originally Posted by sharingun master
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so true.... so true.....Originally Posted by PokeChamp
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AR is good for brainless who cant beat the game ex.PokeChimp
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i never use ar, but for people who do: i dont have a problem with them, as long as you dont take your cheated out game online and start saying your the champion at whatever game it is you used it on.
basically what im trying to say is use it on one plyer games only, that way you only cheat yourself.
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No AR n00b can defeat a properly EV'd team; unless they're pulling off wondertomb bullshit. Every time I hear of or see a hacked pokemon with Hydro Cannon/Frenzy Plant/Blast Burn/Hyper Beam, I lol.
this thread is so old it was opened when i was active :P
I don't think AR is that bad if you keep stats legit and use good hacks ( fast egg hatch, max Tms, ect)
As long as things don't go overboard like all 31 ivs and all 265 evs
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A Reply to Natalie Waddell, CEO of lawyerlocate.ca
Dear Ms. Waddell,
I take this opportunity to reply to your post entitled: My Apologies to the Canadian Legal Blogging Community.
I acknowledge your immediate "public relations damage control" response to the objections raised by some, including myself, on Twitter regarding your "dailyblawg" RSS aggregator site, which you subsequently have taken down, pending further consideration.
Please note that I do not speak for the "Canadian Legal Blogging Community." As far as I know, there is no organized community of "blawgers", which many of us prefer to be called. I do, however, speak for myself as a member of the Blawgosphere, which is made up of a number of communities, but is ,otherwise, amorphous and Matrix-like in its various manifestations.
According to your company's website bio, you are not a lawyer. Please then allow me to take the liberty of explaining to you some fundamental legal concepts that you should consider going forward with your business marketing plan strategy as it relates to the Blawgosphere. Of course, this in no way constitutes legal advice. You ought to retain a lawyer. Perhaps, as described by your business colleague, Mark C. Robins, on Twitter, you may find a lawyer willing to assist you on your "national legal referral service and directory".
In your apologia, you write,
"I created this aggregator as a way to facilitate this mission, and as a way to give back to the legal industry. You all write such fantastic, leading edge, and topical legal information, and I truly felt I was providing an additional venue for your information to be heard and easily shared amongst yourselves and with the public."
I have no reason to doubt your intentions as anything less than altruistic. Your mission statement says so. It is a material representation that I intend to rely upon. Hence, I will extend to you the benefit of my doubt that you wish your company to become the information hub for Canadian lawyers and the public.
The problem, from my vantage point, is that the devil is in the details.
Why, you may ask?
The internet is not free. If it were, then we would not have to pay for the privilege of access. Even in cases where Wi-Fi or internet cafes offer free web services, there is a cost absorbed or incurred by someone.
In your post, you continue,
"I must say though, that I am extremely hurt when I am accused of "scrapping" and "taking" your content for the purposes of financial gain. The truth of the matter is this:
- Full acknowledgement was given to all feeds and items that were included in the aggregator.
- All articles linked back to the originating source. This was done using a dofollow linking structure, ensuring maximum benefit to the blogs, with respect to the search engine rankings.
- The feed item bodies were limited in length from between zero to 500 characters. This was done to ensure the visitor would have to click through to the original source to read the entire post.
- This site was not developed with our financial benefits in mind, but rather to increase the awareness of and access to your legal information. It was offered up as my "good-will" to the very community that supports my company and to the very industry that we support through our on-going sponsorships to the CBA, the OBA-YLD, and others relevant organizations. We had absolutely no intention of ever running ads on this site, nor to turn it into a paid blog listing service."
Your hurt feelings are irrelevant to this discussion. While I appreciate that you feel offended, frankly, the issue is not about how you feel. It's "scraping", not "scrapping" by the way.
The issue is whether you understand that the effect of RSS blog aggregation is not the "tragedy of the commons", it's "taking what's not yours" or "forced sharing." When you create an RSS aggregator site without prior notice or consent of those whose original ideas, thoughts, expressions, and opinions you wish to "share" with to the public, you're not "sharing". Unless you consider it to be "sharing" if I came over to your house, "borrowed" your paintings without asking, and then put them up for sale on eBay.
There are many copyright and related intellectual property issues that you will have to reconsider.
The first rule, however, is to actually visit the blawgs you wish to "aggregate" or "curate" and contact the owner as a courtesy to inquire whether they may be interested in sharing their content. At a minimum, you must determine whether the owner has asserted copyright. If you scroll down to the header of this post, you will find two things: 1) Disclaimer-which notifies the read that, inter alia, this is not a law firm blawg, but a personal blawg, and 2) Copyright Notice, which reads:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Please note the emphasis on the phrase "non-commercial". The fact that you say you will not be "running ads on this site, nor to turn it into a paid blog listing service" is inconsequential. The fact remains that your main site does run ads. Non-lawyers will be unable to distinguish between those lawyers who are your clients, and those lawyers who neither wish to be your clients, nor are interested in any form of association.
I also commend you to the following posts:
Copyrights, Blogs, News, Content Aggregation and RSS Feeds (via Law Pundit)
Blog Content Aggregation, RSS Feeds and Copyright Law (via Eric Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog)
Since you are not a lawyer subject to the professional rules of conduct, I cannot prevail upon you as a colleague. However, since many of your clients who actually pay for your advertising and marketing services are lawyers, they may wish to read these posts as well:
Virtual Hegemony or Roadkill (via Scott H. Greenfield at Simple Justice)
Notes on SiteMeter Stats vs Blogger Stats (and Blog Aggregators) (by Garry J. Wise at Wise Law Blog)
Your company's mission statement and your personal beneficence notwithstanding; corporations exist to make a profit. Lawyers and law firms also seek to make a profit. However, the former are not subject to ethical rules of conduct, while the latter certainly are. Most lawyers who value their professional reputations, know that they only way to do so is to exercise some measure of autonomy and control over their online content.
In my opinion, "your online reputation is your content." The decision to share or syndicate one's RSS feeds or blawg content is exclusively personal. Implied licenses are not handed out like Halloween candy.
Finally, I am also concerned by the following excerpt from your company's website:
"Not a lawyer?
You do not have to be a lawyer or a law firm to take advantage of our banner advertising options. You should contact us [link removed] for more information on how we can tailor our banner advertising options for you and help you reach your target audience through exposure on LawyerLocate.ca."[emphasis added]
You may wish to consult with a lawyer regarding the legal and ethical implications of allowing both lawyers and non-lawyers to advertise on the same legal marketing website.
Good luck.


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ORANGE BEACH, Alabama -- A new webcam nestled atop an osprey-nesting platform at the city's recreation center is beginning to create a buzz around town and will most certainly reach a crescendo after chicks hatch.
The city launched the new webcam website -- www.ospreycamera.com -- on Monday, according to IT Director Rauf Bolden. In a nest made of thick twigs, Spanish moss and bark, an osprey couple is caring for at least two eggs. Bolden said the female sits on the eggs at night while the male fills in on the day shift.
The "Osprey Camera" was spearheaded by Phillip West, the city's coastal resource manager, and it was made possible with help from the Alabama Coastal Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, Baldwin EMC and the city of Orange Beach, Bolden said.
From the ground the nondescript osprey nest towers over the recreation center's parking lot on Wilson Boulevard. The nest-level view, however, is much more appealing. Before sunset Tuesday night one of the osprey was seen either inspecting the eggs or turning them over.
The osprey, also called a sea hawk, fish eagle or fish hawk, is a large fish-eating raptor. When an osprey finds a mate, it's usually for life. After an egg is laid it takes about a month to 40 days for a chick to hatch. The male raptor handles the meals as he'll catch fish and bring it to the nest. A young raptor is usually ready to leave the nest and begin flying after about seven to eight weeks.


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There are four upcoming ways to be thankful for the blessings one has and to celebrate the joys and promise of the Christmas season at First Presbyterian Church of Cranford. On Sunday, Dec. 23, First Presbyterian Church presents its annual Christmas Cantata during which the Chancel Choir, under the direction of Alison Nead, will present "A Ceremony of Lessons and Carols," by Anna Laura Page and Jean Anne Shafferman. There will be three Christmas Eve Services on Monday, Dec. 24. The first, at 4 p.m., is the annual Children's Cantata, entitled "The Christmas Chronicles." The 8 p.m. service is a Candlelight Service of Lessons & Carols. At 11 p.m., First Presbyterian Church will hold a Candlelight Service with Holy Communion. First Presbyterian Church is located at 11 Springfield Ave., Cranford.
Cranford Church celebrates Christmas this season
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I'm a junior, and so far I have a 4.0 UW GPA. However, I'm pretty sure that I'm gonna get a B in AP Chem this semester,which will ruin my perfect GPA. Even though it's a tiny difference in my actual GPA, do colleges look at a 4.0 as substantially better than a 3.9? If it matters, science isn't at all my "hook" or my interest........
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In the grand scheme of things, it won't hurt you one bit. G.P.A is only one factor out of many in the admissions process. Comparing a ~3.9 to a 4.0 is on the same level as comparing a 1500 S.A.T to a 1520 S.A.T.
It will only hurt you if you allow it to, really. That is, you belittle yourself or reduce your academic standards due to the grade alone.
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Plaza de Cibeles
The Plaza de Cibeles is a square with a neo-classical complex of marble sculptures with fountains that has become an iconic symbol for the city of Madrid. It sits at the intersection of Calle de Alcalá (running from east to west), Paseo de Recoletos (to the North) and Paseo del Prado (to the south). Plaza de Cibeles was originally named Plaza de Madrid, but in 1900, the City Council named it Plaza de Castelar, which was eventually replaced by its current name.
It is currently delimited by four prominent buildings: The Bank of Spain, the Palacio de Buenavista, the Palacio de Linares and the Cybele Palace. These constructions are located in four different neighbourhoods from three different adjacent districts: Centro, Retiro and Salamanca.
In the years Cybele Palace and her fountain have become symbolic monuments of the city.[1][2][3]
The place where Plaza de Cibeles sits today used to form part of a wooded, longitudinal axis that, during the Renaissance, separated the urban section of Madrid from different monastic and palace complexes. It consisted of three main sections, known as the Prado de los Recoletos Agustinos (now the Paseo de Recoletos), the Prado de los Jerónimos (which corresponds to the now Paseo del Prado) and the Prado de Atocha.
The first important reform of this axis was carried out by Phillip II in 1570. In the eighteenth century, during the reign of Charles III, a new renovation had begun.
Cibeles Fountain[edit]
The fountain of Cybele is found in the part of Madrid commonly called the Paseo de Recoletos. This fountain is named after Cybele, a Phrygian goddess who had a significant cult in Rome, and is seen as one of Madrid's most important symbols. The fountain depicts the goddess, sitting on a chariot pulled by two lions. The fountain was built in the reign of Charles III and designed by Ventura Rodríguez between 1777 and 1782. The goddess and chariot are the work of Francisco Gutiérrez and the lions by Roberto Michel. The fountain originally stood next to the Buenavista Palace, and was moved to its present location in the middle of the square in the late 19th century. Up until the 19th century both the fountain of Neptune and Cybele looked directly at each other, until the city council decided to turn them round to face towards the centre of the city.
On one side of the fountain of Cybele, the Paseo de Recoletos starts, heading north to link up with the Paseo de la Castellana. On the other side, the Paseo del Prado begins and heads off south, towards the fountain of Neptune, in the Plaza de Cánovas del Castillo, and on until Atocha. Calle de Alcalá is the street which intersects the fountain from east to west. Calle de Alcalá starts in the Puerta del Sol and continues on to the outskirts of Madrid.
The fountain of Cybele has been adopted by the football club Real Madrid, whose fans use the area to celebrate its triumphs in competitions such as La Liga, the Champions League or the Copa del Rey. A flag of Real Madrid is usually wrapped around the Cybele statue.
Cybele Palace[edit]
The most prominent of the buildings at the Plaza de Cibeles is the Cybele Palace (formerly named Palace of Communication). The cathedral-like landmark was built in 1909 by Antonio Palacios as the headquarters of the postal service. This impressive building was home to the Postal and Telegraphic Museum until 2007 when the landmark building became the Madrid City Hall (Ayuntamiento de Madrid).
Banco de España[edit]
Across the Paseo de Prado from city hall is the Bank of Spain. It is found opposite to the General Staff Headquarters of the Spanish Army. The oldest part of the enormous building, bordering the Cybele square, was built between 1882 and 1891. Throughout the twentieth century, three extensions were undertaken. The first of them took place between 1930 and 1934 and the second between 1969 and 1975. The most recent extension was added in 2006 and was designed by Rafael Moneo. Each architect has respected the original layout of the building since its inception. Inside, 30m below the surface is an area where the central bank stores its gold. Before modern security was installed, the room was flooded in case of danger by water coming from Cybele Fountain.
Linares Palace[edit]
Opposite the Bank of Spain is the Palacio de Linares. The baroque palace was built in 1873 by a rich banker, José de Murga. A century later, the building had fallen into disrepair but in 1992 it was completely renovated. It currently houses the Casa de América, a cultural center and art gallery focused mostly on Latin American arts. The building is said to be haunted by the spirits of its first owner, who made his fortune in the New World.
Built in 1777 by the Duchess of Alba with designs of Pedro de Arnal. Surrounded by a French style garden by Ventura Rodríguez. Facing Cybele Palace is the Buenavista Palace, headquarters of the Spanish Army. The Crown owned it after the death of the Duchess of Alba, and became War Ministry in 1847 until 1939 when it was ceded to the Spanish Army to host its Headquarters.
- ^ "Plaza de Cibeles | Spain.info in english". Spain.info. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
- ^ "Madrid's Palacio de Cibeles Renovated Into Jaw-Dropping CentroCentro Cultural Center | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building". Inhabitat. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
- ^ "Cibeles Fountain - Tourism in Madrid". Turismomadrid.es. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
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Time to Get Serious
Looks like the Rays will have a nice crowd for the Yankees tonight and while the team seems to be somewhat nonchalant about the necessity of winning the series with the division leaders, the numbers tell another story.
Tonight's game is the Rays' 100th of the season, so they have 63 games — including tonight's — to overcome a 6 1/2 game deficit, which is the margin they trail the Yankees. Making up 6 1/2 games in 63 games is a difficult proposition. Even more disturbing for Rays fans is the prospect of a Yankees sweep. If that happens it's hard to imagine the Rays overcoming a 9 1/2 game margin.
It might be July, but these are big, big, games for the Rays.
–Bill Chastain
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I notice that the Rays name appears nowhere on the list for the trade deadline..We certainly are not looking good in the bullpen..Our starters are struggling..Our offence turns up with no bats.
My comment on the batting has to be the batting coach..Why is it that Carlos just cannot break out of the slump..His mechanics leave somewhat to be desired…Mr Batting coach are you not the one to correct and get players to adjust…I really am surprised..
The pitching coach is not doing any better either… Our Ace last year Mr Price has disappeared from the radar..Shields gets the job done but nowhere near as effective..Caz is Caz. Matt is getting roughed up and Jeff is making some strides..
Our running game seems to get us into trouble more often than before..
Maybe its time to improve our coaching
Go Rayssssssss
anyone know why Sun Sports did not run the game last night?


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