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Printed in Practical Homeschooling #70, 2006.
The modern era of science education began when the Russians launched their Sputnik satellite on October 5, 1957. Sputnik's launch confirmed America's fear that the Russians were getting ahead of us technologically and that this technical superiority would be the doom of the country unless the trend was reversed.
The general consensus was that education was to blame for the situation; therefore the solution was better science and mathematics education.
The same cry is being renewed today. Companies are saying that we have a shortage of good mathematicians, scientists, and engineers. They claim they have to hire from China, India, and other foreign countries in order to fulfill the demand for researchers, engineers, and computer professionals. Not enough students in the U.S.A. are being properly prepared to serve in those professions.
This all leads to an extreme emphasis on science in American schools. Some science is required in every state for every student to graduate. It doesn't matter whether you are preparing yourself to be a brain surgeon or to write romance novels - you still have to take science.
You would think that at home we would have the freedom to pick your subjects. But look at the minimum science requirements for graduation from a representative sample of states. Note that one credit is the same as one full year of classes:
The National Center on Educational Outcomes website (education.umn.edu/nceo/TopicAreas/Graduation/StatesGrad.htm) has links for each state that give that state's graduation requirements. You can check your state there. Please note that these are currently in flux and that the trend is towards requiring a minimum of three years in science.
Most states require at least 2 credits of science just to graduate with a high-school diploma. Many specify what courses these credits have to be - usually biology and a physical science. State requirements are the minimum needed for graduation. Every student has to fulfill them, even someone who wants to write poetry for a living.
The minimum isn't enough for most of us. Most of us want our children to go to college and colleges almost invariably want more than the minimum. You can't predict which colleges require how much. Princeton University, an Ivy League school, requires two years of lab science. On the other hand, University of Mississippi, a state school, specifies that they want three years of science and they list the possibilities: Biology, Advanced Biology, Chemistry, Advanced Chemistry, Physics, Advanced Physics, or a rigorous Physical Science course. Two of these have to be lab courses.
Boston University wants three years of science all with lab components. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute wants three years of science. University of Missouri at St. Louis wants three years of science including one lab science course. Alaska Bible College wants four years of science. See any pattern here? I thought not. You need to check the requirements for each individual college to which your child might apply.
If you are looking on the Internet, you will most often find the requirements for application under the admissions department. For example, to check admission requirements for M.I.T., I went to mit.edu. They have a link for admissions on their home page. On the admissions page I chose "Undergraduate." Then I chose "for Parents;" then "Applying." On the "Applying" page, I chose "High School Preparation" and that brought up a section of the page that told me that, among other things, a student applying to M.I.T. should have a year each of biology, chemistry, and physics.
Similar exploration should locate this information in just about any college website you try.
When Should I Start Planning My Child's High-School Science Curriculum?
If you are going the vocational/technical route, you can take your time and just fulfill your state's requirements. But if you plan for your student to go to college, you need to determine what the requirements are for the school(s) you want to prepare him for as early as possible. That way you can plan so that you can systematically get everything finished before the end of senior year.
Count backwards. Physics-senior year; Chemistry-junior year; Biology-sophomore year; and most likely physical science or other junior high science-freshman year. The big Christian curriculum publishers, e.g., BJU Press, already follow this sequence.
If you have no idea if, or where, your son or daughter will want to go to college, just play it safe. Have him or her take four science courses and let at least two of them be lab courses.
"Other" Sciences
In states that require more credits in science than they require lab science, you can branch out into sciences other than the "big three." For example, you could take a course in astronomy as an elective. Or, if you have taken biology, marine biology, botany or zoology could serve as advanced biology courses.
Apologia Educational Ministries has done us a service in adding several of these courses to its already excellent line of textbooks.
Computer Science
Some states allow computer science to count as a science course. When considering this option, you need to make a distinction between "computer literacy" and "computer science."
Computer literacy courses are mini-elective courses on a par with typing and library science. You learn how to start up the computer and use a keyboard and mouse to navigate and enter data. You also learn how to use a word processing program, such as Microsoft Word, and maybe a spreadsheet program like Excel. You will probably also learn how to handle email and to do research on the Internet. Computer literacy is a good college survival skill, but it belongs under language arts, not science.
Computer science courses assume you are already computer literate. They introduce to computer architecture and how a computer works internally. They teach programming, traditionally in C++, but more recently in Java. AP Computer science is an excellent science course for an aspiring computer science major to take as a science elective. Unfortunately it doesn't count as lab science.
What About Evolution?
If you get your curriculum from a secular publisher you will invariably get evolutionary biology and big-bang physics along with it. If this is a problem, you can buy your science from one of the Christian publishers.
There is a downside to this you should know about. College admissions officials in the University of California system recently began refusing to accept high-school biology courses that teach biology from a creationist or intelligent design framework. A lawsuit is currently in the works challenging the university's practice, but if the UC schools win, you will probably see similar policies springing up in other state colleges.
Colleges that don't teach evolutionary biology are extremely rare. We sent one of our children for dual credit to a local Christian college for biology and she got into an argument with the professor because he was teaching evolution as truth. If you want your child to end college believing that God created the universe, they need to be thoroughly convinced of the flaws in the evolution model before they go to college. Either use a secular course, debunking the evolution as you encounter it, or use a Christian course and teach evolution using creationist materials.
The Benefits of Debate
Teaching Blends
The Gift of a Mentor
Give Yourself a "CLEP Scholarship"
Character Matters for Kids
Joyce Swann's Homeschool Tips
Getting Started in Homeschooling: The First Ten Steps
Interview with John Taylor Gatto
The Equal Sign - Symbol, Name, Meaning
Whole-Language Boondoggle
Narration Beats Tests
The Charlotte Mason Method
Montessori Language Arts at Home, Part 1
Phonics the Montessori Way
Don't Give Up on Your Late Bloomers
University Model Schools
Can Homeschoolers Participate In Public School Programs?
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Myth of the Teenager
Classical Education
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Art Appreciation the Charlotte Mason Way
AP Courses At Home
I Was an Accelerated Child
Saxon Math: Facts vs. Rumors
Combining Work and Homeschool
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Advanced Math: Trig, PreCalc, and more!
Who Needs the Prom?
The History of Public Education
How to "Bee" a Spelling Success
The Benefits of Cursive Writing
Top Jobs for the College Graduate
What We Can Learn from the Homeschooled 2002 National Geography Bee Winners
Getting Organized Part 1 - Tips & Tricks
Teach Your Children to Work
A Homeschooler Wins the Heisman
Laptop Homeschool
Getting Organized Part 3
Critical Thinking and Logic
Top Tips for Teaching Toddlers
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Before we begin, in the interest of full disclosure, we will make it clear that Simon and Schuster did forward us free copies of Stormrage for this review. They did not, however, dictate any of the opinions held in this review. In addition, our network has a policy against keeping 'giveaways' sent to us, so our copies of the novel will be given away on our site sometime in the future. With that out of the way, let's get to the review.
The last book we reviewed here on WoW.com was Arthas: Rise of the Lich King. It was written by Christie Golden and was a little over three hundred pages of Prince Arthas Menethil's personal history, from his childhood to his fall to the Scourge. If that's what you're expecting out of Richard A. Knaak's Stormrage, drop those expectations. All of that can be found in the War of the Ancients trilogy. Despite the similar naming scheme, Stormrage is a novel that takes place at the same time as the events going on in Wrath of the Lich King. It's specifically stated that the Wrath Gate incident has already happened by the time the events in this novel begin. This isn't backstory, this is buildup to Cataclysm.
The beginning of the novel doesn't waste much time bringing you into the story. Very little time is spent on exposition pertaining to the main plot. There is some time taken to introduce characters readers may be unfamiliar with such as Broll Bearmantle and Thura, a female orc warrior who happens to be the niece of Broxigar and Varok Saurfang. The plot itself is made quite clear, however: Malfurion Stormrage is lost in the Emerald Nightmare and he is dying.
As you might have gleaned from the Stormrage preview Simon and Schuster released, this story is not exclusively about Malfurion. That's only one part of the story, and I would go as far as to say it's a relatively minor part. The book addresses a number of Night Elven plots and storylines that have been hanging loose for years now. The Emerald Nightmare, the corruption of Teldrassil, Fandral Staghelm's role in Night Elven society and his obsession with Morrowgrain all play prominent roles, and I would say all of that is far more interesting than the intitial journey to save Malfurion. The novel spans far more than just Elven territory, too. The story spans the entire world, bringing in key figures from the Horde and the Alliance. Varian Wrynn is a strong presence in the novel, for example.
One of the complaints often leveled at Richard Knaak's Warcraft novels is that they're rather disconnected from the overall story of Warcraft. His books include important antagonists such as Deathwing and Queen Azshara, he's the one that introduced the various Dragonflights, but you rarely see any of the primary protagonists from the rest of the Warcraft universe standing on their own two feet. Original characters such as Rhonin, Krasus and Kalec steal the stage. While Stormrage is no exception on that front, you might find it promising that Richard Knaak does use a number of somewhat obscure, existing characters to fill out the cast.
Right alongside Broll Bearmantle and Hamuul Runetotem, druids that have made frequent appearances in the expanded universe, Stormrage reintroduces us to lesser known druids like Naralex and Arch Druid Renferal. Even Goldshire's Marshal Dughan makes an appearance. As strange as it may sound, this sequence was actually one of my favorites from the novel by a wide margin. It's light, it's fun, and Marshal Dughan leading a band of soldiers against a mine full of kobolds felt more heroic than many of the more dire battle sequences in the novel. It had the most Warcraft feel to me. There was drama and there was action, but there was also a light, almost humorous tone to break it up and keep it from becoming tedious. That's what I feel Warcraft is, and these cameos nail it.
There are other examples of this throughout the novel. Green dragons from Warcraft past make appearances, and without giving too much away, you'll run into notable NPCs that you probably haven't thought of since you last leveled a character through Ashenvale. These moments are, without a doubt, the most enjoyable sequences in the novel. It's not a matter of nostalgia, but rather embracing the little things that enrich the world. These sequences are done very well. Richard Knaak has the capacity to tap into what makes Warcraft such an enjoyable universe, and this proves that. I get the impression that he sat down and played the actual MMO to get inspiration for these scenes rather than digging through the Warcraft library. It's noticeable and it's appreciated.
However, a majority of the novel is very different from those few cameos. It is, essentially, standard Richard Knaak fare. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is really up to the reader. His original characters for this novel are still bothersome heroes that our standby Warcraft figures couldn't have lived without. Lucan Foxblood, a new character introduced in this novel, is particularly irritating in both concept and execution, background and personality. It made me long for Rhonin, and if you're at all familiar with my writing here on WoW.com, you'll understand that what I am saying is not a compliment. I found it difficult to get through all 400 pages of this novel.
One oddity in particular is the characterizations of Tyrande and Malfurion. In Warcraft III both of these characters were clearly thousands of years old. Their speech, their presence, their resolve -- it was always very clear that they were strong leaders that have been around for a very long time. Tyrande in particular was a very determined woman, going as far as to cut down many of her own people for what she saw as the greater good. These things are not present in Richard A. Knaak's version of the character. Tyrande and Malfurion strike me as people that have not grown at all since the War of the Ancients trilogy, where they were little more than teenagers.
It's easy to say Richard Knaak didn't pay enough attention to the source material, but at this point he's had control of Tyrande Whisperwind more than Blizzard themselves have. So which is the valid interpretation of the character? The strong, outspoken version of her that Blizzard created or the calmer, quieter version Knaak uses? Blizzard's Tyrande is someone comfortable with their power and willing to lead when leading needs to be done. Richard Knaak's Tyrande is someone that strikes me as uncomfortable with who she is, someone that feels they need to keep secrets lest they be looked at funny. Either way, the character in Stormrage is not the Tyrande we saw in Warcraft III. Take that as you will.
If you liked Richard Knaak's previous work, you will love Stormrage. If you didn't like Richard Knaak's previous work, this won't change your mind about it. It's the same as ever. Same strengths, same flaws. Should you buy it? I can't tell you yes or no, that's your decision. While I enjoyed parts of it, I didn't particularly enjoy the overall story. It was dry, I found it hard to care about what most of the main characters were saying or doing due to their lack of compelling characterization, and the language Richard Knaak uses, archaic and overwrought, often strikes me as trying too hard. He tries to be poetic, but it actually comes across quite silly. Reading about druids shapeshifting into flight form in full detail every few pages for the first half of the novel was particularly grating. The heroes are absurd, and the villains might as well be twisting their mustaches. It is not very complex.
Despite all of that, I do recommend reading it eventually. A lot of the events in this novel will be reflected in Cataclysm and other future World of Warcraft content. Those that never read the World of Warcraft comics were dumbfounded when Varian Wrynn made his return to Stormwind in-game without much fanfare. How did he get there? What happened? Stormrage will make that look like small potatoes. Read it, but if you've never read any of Richard Knaak's Warcraft novels (especially War of the Ancients) before, keep Wowwiki handy. You'll need it.


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When a student misses school, their absence falls under four categories:
Tardiness is not counted against the attendance requirement. School districts may have their own policy on tardiness.
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NYU's Movement Laboratory has reconstructed the motions of Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic, to offer an animated, three-dimensional look at the actions of a conductor.
New York University's Movement Laboratory has reconstructed the motions of Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic, to offer an animated, three-dimensional look at the actions of a conductor.
The video is part of an online feature, "Demystifying Conducting: A Connection Between Gesture and the Music," by principal producers Graham Roberts and Xaquín G.V., graphics editors at The New York Times, at NYTimes.com and an article, "The Maestro's Mojo," by The Times' Daniel Wakin that unpacks the nature of conducting. The story will appear in the April 8 "Arts & Leisure" section.
"Demystifying Conducting: A Connection Between Gesture and the Music" may be viewed here.
The work by NYU's Movement Laboratory isolates Gilbert's motions, free from the sounds of the orchestra, to give viewers a sense of the complexity of a conductor's actions while leading musicians during a rehearsal. For more on the laboratory's work on the project, click here.
The Movement Laboratory, part of NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, recorded Gilbert during the orchestra's rehearsals, then the lab's computer scientists reconstructed the images to offer an animated, three-dimensional view of his motions.
"Demystifying Conducting" is the latest in a series of projects by the Movement Laboratory, which is headed by Computer Science Professor Chris Bregler, on motion capture. In 2010, it recreated Yankee closer Mariano Rivera's pitching motion to offer a three-dimensional look at how he appears before hitters.
Motion capture records movements of individuals, who wear suits that reflect light to enable the recording of their actions. It then translates these movements into digital models for 3D animation often used in video games and movies, such as "The Polar Express" and "Iron Man". The more sophisticated computer-vision technology, by contrast, allows for the tracking and recording of these movements straight from video and without the use of motion capture suits.
Bregler and his colleagues have already developed a method to identify and compare the body language of different speakers—a trait they call "body signatures." Titled "GreenDot," the project employs motion capture, pattern recognition, and "Intrinsic Biometrics" techniques. In 2008, their results showed that actress Tina Fey, who was widely praised for imitating Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin's voice and appearance, also effectively channeled the Alaska governor's body language.
The research team—the NYU Movement Group—has also developed computer vision techniques that enable the researchers to capture and analyze large amounts of YouTube videos and television broadcasts. In collaboration with Peggy Hackney, a movement expert and a faculty member in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, the research group has designed a new system that can automatically classify different motion style categories and find similarities and dissimilarities among body signatures.
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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof premiered last night in New York. The play is receiving some sh-tty reviews, but Scarlett's performance has generally been very well received. Here's Scarjo on stage in costume and on the carpet wearing the SH-T out of Dolce & Gabbana. The jacket is perfectly fit. The pants stop at just the right length by her ankles. Can't stop staring at every inch of it.
Afterwards Scarjo was seen with her French boyfriend Romain Dauriac looking like she knew she did a good job but not smug either. I like this. I wish Annie Hathaway could make the same face instead of having to apologise or recite her wedding vows on stage clutching an award.


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Texas, California, Oklahoma, and especially North Dakota have been grabbing headlines over the past couple of years as energy companies have been reaping the rewards of the technological innovation that has made it commercially viable to tap into the Eagle Ford and Bakken and other such gigantic shale formations, and they're not even close to finished with expanding the boundaries of the shale boom yet.
Oil and gas companies have been steadily buying up acres of mineral rights in potential shale hot spots around the country, and it looks like the Tuscaloosa Marine shale is next on the list. It's estimated to hold a full-on 7 billion barrels of recoverable oil, and as a couple of companies have been threshing out the situation, local economies are already starting to benefit. The Associated Press has a great rundown of the scenario:
Residents living above an oil-rich shale formation that stretches across southwest Mississippi and Louisiana have been waiting on a boom for years. A steady trickle of drilling is already boosting the rural region's economy, and spending by two oil companies could make 2014 the year that many other locals finally cash in on the oil far beneath their feet. …
Gillsburg and surrounding Amite County lie above a prime section of the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, a geologic formation that stretches in boomerang shape across Louisiana's midsection and into southern Mississippi. …
For the region's economy, though, the drilling has already provided a much-needed infusion, even if it's not an all-out boom yet.
Heavily wooded with only a handful of small towns, Amite County has relied on forestry in recent decades. But Georgia-Pacific LLC closed a plywood mill in Gloster in 2009. Combined with other business closures, Chancery Clerk Ronnie Taylor said Amite County lost as many as 850 jobs. The county's 4,600 workers had an 8.7 percent unemployment rate in December, higher than Mississippi's average. Here and there, pastures are reminders of the county's fading dairy industry.
Bernell McGehee, an accountant in Liberty, said his family leased some forestland south of town to Encana for a $300-an-acre one-time payment. He stands to earn more in royalties if the land produces oil.
"Any debts we've had, we've pretty much been able to get rid of," he said.
Read: The recession pretty much economically ravaged the area, and the energy sector is what's helping to finally bring it back.
The region is still something of a financially risky play, with drillers trying to figure out the precise technological recipe for taking the best advantage of the Tuscaloosa Marine formation's particular geological makeup, but the amount of oil and gas down there could very well be equal to amount in the Bakken formation that's pulled North Dakota out of our otherwise meager economic "recovery."
I would point out again that so much of this boom is happening on private and state lands, and not because of the Obama administration's economic or regulatory policies, but in spite of them — and indeed, that the administration is actively preventing energy companies from bringing similarly robust economic recovery to areas that the federal government controls.


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Ibn Sab'in is well-known in Islamic philosophy for presenting perhaps the most radical form of Sufism. He argued that everything is really just one thing, part of the deity, and that breaking up reality into different units is to deny the nature of creation. He was hostile as a result to the attempts of the philosophers who were inspired by Aristotle to develop logic as a means to understand reality. The best way to attain the truth is the mystical path, and this is achieved by appreciating the unity of everything, not by analysing reality into separable concepts.
Ibn Sab'in came from Murcia (southeast Spain) and embraced the same type of philosophical thinking and writing as the main mystic of the twelfth century, Ibn al-'Arabi. Ibn Sab'in moved to Mecca after the year ah 642/ad 1245, where he remained until he put an end to his life. His pre-eminence in Sufi circles won him the title 'Qutb ad-Din' (the Pole of Religion). He belongs to a school of Sufism which views existence, both in its divine and worldly forms, as one indivisible unit. An important work is Asrar al-hikma al-mashriqiyya (The Secrets of Illuminationist Philosophy). The most important source of Ibn Sab'in's philosophy, however, is his book Budd al-'arif (Escape of the Gnostic) which deals with the path to knowledge, which he wrote in ah 643/ad 1245 after moving from Spain to Morocco. In this book, Ibn Sab'in poses the fundamental question of how a Sufi can reach truth and prepare for the reception and comprehension of divine perfection. In answering these questions, he discusses the opinions of the philosophical schools that preceded him, proving the inability of those schools to reach the truth.
In his writings, Ibn Sab'in attempted to enter the realm of Sufism by way of philosophy, explaining in his presentation of the history of Islamic thought that such disciplines as philology, scholastic theology (kalam) and philosophy are but milestones along the Sufi's path to perfection. Thus the discipline of the Sufi who has achieved perfection is the essence of all the other disciplines. In his attempt to determine the manner in which a Sufi attains unity with God, Ibn Sab'in examines the manner in which a person achieves knowledge. By knowledge, he means the discipline of logic and the ability of such a discipline to help one to achieve divine knowledge (see Logic in Islamic philosophy). He then deals with a host of concepts with a special focus on the 'intellect' and the 'self' as being the tools for achieving knowledge and as having a primary role in bringing the Sufi closer to God. Ibn Sab'in is close to most Muslim Sufi thinkers in their initial emphasis on other disciplines that a Sufi should master, particularly logic. He differs from them, however, in his conclusions about the role of logic. Whereas most philosophers, particularly the Aristotelians, view logic as a tool which helps us to know the world and which founds the theory of knowledge (see Aristotelianism in Islamic philosophy), Ibn Sab'in views the role of logic as being random and worthless, since for him knowledge is only knowledge of God. Such knowledge is subject in its meaning to one consideration, a consideration of the internal experience based on our stimulation and sensations, sensations with standards and bases superior to the standards and methods of logic.
Since according to Ibn Sab'in the unity of existence is the criterion for understanding existence, examination of the various phenomena in existence would be incompatible with such unity and hence would mean the postulation of the idea of a God superior to and separate from his creations. In Ibn Sab'in's concept of absolute unity of existence, following that of Ibn al-'Arabi, the separation of God from his creation is inadmissible. He presents the 'intellect' and the 'self' as the means which lead us to the divine Being. In this theory, Ibn Sab'in is critical of his predecessors who viewed the mind or intellect as no more than a means for the acquisition of knowledge; he views the intellect as being of divine origin. His defence of this theory is based on the Prophetic hadith (tradition) that 'the first thing God created was the intellect; God then told it to come forward which it did, and then told it to go away which it also did.' Ibn Sab'in's attempt to demonstrate the possibility of the intellect contacting the divine is based on this relationship, namely that the intellect is a divine creation and as such the mind can directly and without any mediation communicate with its origin. The philosophers' attempt to reach a higher level of knowledge through making contact with the active intellect is a less ambitious attempt than that of the Sufis, who make unity with God their chief concern.
Like the intellect, the self is not merely a means by which perception takes place but should rather be perceived as a goal in itself, a goal which constitutes the knowledge that the Sufi seeks. In Ibn Sab'in's theory the self, like the intellect, is a divine creation. The path that leads to unification with God, then, is based on the discovery of the self or, more correctly, discovery of the secret which God has entrusted to us. Unification with God is thus an internal experience which does not follow the philosophers' accounts. For whereas the philosophers saw the path to God as a matter of proof, Ibn Sab'in saw such a path as a matter of experience based on a particular discovery through which the truth becomes evident, so that the Sufi feels that God is closer to him than his own jugular vein.
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This method of actively seeking out intelligent life in our galactic neighborhood is the opposite of our SETI efforts to date where we use "Passive SETI" to try and listen for a message or beacon from another civilization. These passive programs date back to the 1970's and have benefited from massive increases in our abilities to scan the radio spectrum for hints of life. Multi-channel spectrum analysis that allows us to listen to millions of "channels" from specific stars at one time has dramatically increased the chances of success – someday.
Alas, to date there has been no indications that anyone in the cosmos is interested in communicating with anyone else. We have found no beacon, no messages inviting us to make contact. And we haven't stumbled across any inter-planetary communications networks that would prove the existence of alien life beyond earth.
But take heart. We have explored only a small piece of the sky so far and there are several good reasons why we may have even missed a message in past sweeps. We may not be technologically advanced enough to decode it. We may lack the imagination to recognize a message even though it's been right in front of us. But the most likely reason we have yet to achieve success in our SETI efforts is that there just aren't that many civilizations transmitting.
Does this mean that there are fewer advanced civilizations than we thought? This is a definite possibility. It could very well be that the deck is stacked against any intelligent civilization reaching our level of sophistication. Rouge asteroids or comets, an unstable sun or moon, a nearby supernova not to mention the possibility that the denizens of any technologically advanced society could blow themselves up all make it a distinct possibility that while intelligent life is abundant in the universe, it doesn't necessarily stand to reason that it survives long enough to reach out and try and touch someone.
Then again, there could be another explanation for our failure to make contact with an alien race. And this reason is at the heart of the debate over the passive vs. active SETI programs.
Perhaps those alien civilizations know something about the neighborhood that we don't; that calling attention to ourselves by lighting earth up like a flare in the blackness of space might bring unwelcome – indeed catastrophic – attention to our planet.
The question isn't so much are there evil alien monsters out there bent on death and destruction of any planet luckless enough to come to its attention. The question is why take the chance?
Should it be our position that all alien races are benign and would mean us no harm? The more I think about that the less I agree with it. Not necessarily because aliens would be hostile. They may have the best of intentions. As Jared Diamond, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel points out in his book The Third Chimpanzee that any contact with an alien race is likely to resemble the contact made here on earth between advanced civilizations and primitive ones to the catastrophic detriment to the primitives. It may be best that until we have reached a level of technology more equal to our neighbors, we remain passive observers of their civilization.
And beyond that, there is the question of who decides whether escalating our SETI program to include active measures to make contact should be our policy?
Author, lecturer, scientist David Brin has thought about these issues of First Contact and other SETI matters for many years. He serves on a SETI subcommittee of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) charged with developing protocols and policies regarding our SETI efforts. It was this subcommittee that came up with the very First SETI Protocol: "Declaration Of Principles Concerning Activities Following The Detection Of Extraterrestrial Intelligence" – a great read if you are at all interested in this stuff.
This is from a piece Brin wrote two years ago about the controversy of active vs. passive SETI:
With that success behind us, we on the IAA subcommittee turned to a Second Protocol dealing with Transmissions from Planet Earth. The widely accepted draft contained articles asking that all of those controlling radio telescopes forebear from significantly increasing Earth's visibility with deliberate skyward emanations, until their plans were first discussed before open and widely accepted international fora.
It seemed a modest and reasonable request. Why not present such plans, openly, before a broad and ecumenically interested community of experts in fields like exobiology, sociology, history and biology, at a conference where all matters and concerns could be honestly addressed? If for no other reason, wouldn't this be common courtesy?
At first, the subcommittee drafting the Second Protocol deemed this to be obvious. Moreover, the core group at the SETI Institute seemed to concur. Indeed, this was not even a new document, but rather a revision of one that the Instituter's own Jill Tarter presented to the UN six years ago — confirming that they once favored restraint and consultation before transmission. They are the ones who have changed their minds.
But recently… and after a draft appeared ready for submission to the IAA… several members of the IAA SETI Committee, including chairman Seth Shostak, abruptly balked and demanded alterations, abandoning even a collegial and moral call for pre-transmission discussions.
Indeed, suddenly all notions of pre-consultation or discussion — before making Earth dramatically more visible — were derided as paranoid, repressive of free expression and nonsensical. Almost no discussion of the matter was brooked; no questions were answered.
(HT: Instapundit)
I should add here for clarity that most of the scientists at the SETI Institute favor holding discussions on placing more emphasis on active search protocols. The balkers are a group of Russians for the most part who apparently have ideological reasons – among others – for not even allowing a forum for all interested scientists to participate.
Brin points out that the ideology grew out of the old Soviet model. The Russians believe any aliens receiving an active SETI message would be benign because they would be socialists! They figure any advanced intelligence would have developed along the socialist model of governing and would therefore, by definition, be peaceful.
On such stupidities might the fate of the world hang.
As I said, the question of whether or not to engage in active SETI research should hang on erring on the side of caution. This is especially true since what is driving the active SETI movement is impatience at the lack of progress in the passive SETI program. One can certainly understand the desire to reach out and attempt contact. But without examining all the ramifications by failing to invite other scientists and researchers into a debate before starting any active SETI search is not only foolhardy but unscientific.
It reminds me of the global warming debate. Scientists who will brook no opposition to their cherished beliefs vilify their colleagues who think differently. They are simply frozen out of the discussion, marginalized in the community. This has proven to be a huge mistake as more and more information challenging climate change orthodoxy is either dismissed out of hand or tainted with charges of coming from biased sources. It has had a deadening effect on scientific debate and thus has done a disservice to policy makers and the public who are groping for answers on who to believe and what to do – if anything – about climate change.
Recently, Brin updated his 2006 article with ominous news:
As of Summer 2008, Retired senior US diplomat Michael Michaud has resigned from the IAA SETI Subcommittee in protest over what he sees as continuing efforts to repress open discussion of these issues, and to disparage those who see anything wrong with METI. He was recently joined by Dr. John Billingham, one of the founding fathers of SETI and director of NASA's long-running SETI program.
The METI folks make the point that in 20 years, anyone with a computer and a dish will be able to aim their own powerful signal at the stars so why oppose their efforts today? They make a good point while at the same time, obviating the need for active SETI research to begin immediately. There is time to discuss all of the issues surrounding active SETI before it becomes a reality.
Work on the Second SETI Protocol should continue and a consensus reached. For if we can't come together on these basic questions regarding our potential role in a crowded universe where contact with other civilizations becomes a reality, we will be unprepared for any consequences that might arise from this success.


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My friend Robin Hanson kvetches that scientific contrarians don't get no respect: even if they ultimately turn out to be right, it's the more cautious, Johnny-come-lately "conservative radicals" who get the lion's share of the credit. (Like many of Robin's posts, this one is written in a purely descriptive mode that nevertheless leaves no doubt where his sympathies lie.) And so, as a firmly-entrenched pillar of the hidebound scientific establishment, I thought I'd tell you our side of the story.
In the US, there are companies whose business it is to patent (or buy patents for) every obvious idea they can think of, then sit around and do nothing with those ideas, wait for some other company to build a successful business around one of them, and sue that company for patent infringement. (The textbook example is NTP's lawsuit against Research In Motion.)
In science, one occasionally sees the intellectual equivalent of these patent-holding companies: people who publish one flaky idea after another with no data or calculations to back them up; and then if, after years of painstaking research, one of their speculations turns out to be right (or even 10% right), scream "they stole my idea!"
But in my experience — and happily for all concerned — the truth usually lies between this extreme and the opposite extreme described in Robin's post. To illustrate, let's consider the example of Robin's that I know best: that of David Deutsch and quantum computing.
Unlike the patent-holding firms, David Deutsch really was a scientific pioneer, thinking deeply about quantum physics and the Church-Turing Thesis back when basically no one else was. His philosophical insights led him to define the quantum Turing machine model, prove its universality, and realize it might have implications for complexity theory. But his one concrete example of a quantum algorithm — how shall I say? — sucked. In particular, he gave an algorithm to compute the XOR of two bits (and know one has done so) using one quantum query and with success probability 1/2. (Later it was realized that success probability 1 is achievable, but that's still only a factor-2 speedup compared to classical computers.) If this was all you'd seen of quantum computing, you would rightly file it away with dozens of other promising ideas that hadn't led anywhere.
Unless, that is, you were Ethan Bernstein and Umesh Vazirani. These "conservative radicals" from Berkeley decided to put quantum computing under the microscope of theoretical computer science. The result of their labor — besides a bounteous harvest of complexity theorems like BPP ⊆ BQP ⊆ P#P — was the first example of a black-box problem for which quantum computers gave a superpolynomial speedup over classical randomized ones. Shortly afterward, another conservative, Dan Simon, set out to prove that the speedup of quantum computing was illusory — and ended up with strong evidence (now called Simon's algorithm) for exactly the opposite conclusion. A year later, yet another conservative — an expert on combinatorics and discrete geometry by the name of Peter Shor — took a close look at Simon's algorithm, and realized that if you changed the underlying group from (Z2)n to the cyclic group ZN, then you could efficiently compute the period of a black-box function, and thereby factor integers, and thereby break the RSA cryptosystem, and thereby change the world.
A Hansonian might downplay these later achievements — arguing that, were it not for Shor, some other "mainstream mathematician" (a strange description of him!) would've sooner or later discovered the factoring algorithm. But it's equally true that, were it not for Deutsch, some other "renegade physicist" would have come up with quantum Turing machines (and indeed Feynman and Benioff were close). My own judgment is that Deutsch and Shor both made creative scientific contributions of the highest order, and are both deservedly celebrated for them. Indeed, if anyone gets short-shrifted in the usual popular accounts, I think it's the people in between — like Bernstein, Vazirani, and Simon.
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Counter Reformation
Christian Theology
History and Traditions
Important Figures
The Counter Reformation (from about 1560 to around 1610 or as late as 1648, according to some historians) was a partially successful effort by the Roman Catholic Church to roll back the Protestant Reformation. Using new religious orders like the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), which worked among the people rather than retreating from the world in the manner of monks, and addressing much of the corruption and complaints that had weakened the Church and given the Reformers many arguments, the Church managed to hold or reclaim most of Southern and Eastern Europe. The terrirories involved included Spain, Italy, Austria, France, and large parts of Poland, Hungary and Germany. By clarifying Catholic theology and reducing objectionable practices, it hoped to either reabsorb or neutralize the Protestant movement while renewing the faith of the Catholic Church.
The Counter Reformation began in 1560 and ended in 1648 with the conclusion of the Thirty Years' War between Catholics and Protestants. Some defining moments were the creation of the Jesuits and the convening of the Council of Trent. In the end, the Protestant break was permanent and positions adopted or reaffirmed by the Catholic Church had a tendency to define the differences, but did little to mend them.
Local impact
The Roman Catholic Church paid renewed attention to the role of the parish priest who was directed to become much more involved in ministering to the social and cultural needs of the parish. A modernized administrative system was designed to help the priest to get to know all his parishioners individually and support them. He became responsible for registering baptisms and marriages, making house visits, delivering sermons, attending to annual Easter confession and communion, and conducting intensive confirmation classes.
Reacting against the eroticism of the Renaissance, the Counter Reformation preached chastity and defined strictly what types of sexual behavior were acceptable, even within marriage. Some medical doctors linked sexual immorality to physical illness. Several, for example, held that illicit sexuality caused tuberculosis.
The Jesuits fostered traditional beliefs and practices associated with saints, relics, and sacramentals and used exorcisms and visions for didactic and proselytizing purposes. They tried to purge popular piety of its "superstitious" elements. Unlike most religious orders, the Jesuits were not adverse to involving themselves in political matters, which tactic led ultimately to the order's expulsion from a number of European countries.
One of the main weapons used by the Counter Reformation Church to discipline its faithful was excommunication. In theory, this was the gravest spiritual punishment because it meant not only deprivation of the sacraments but also the termination of communication and human relations—no good Catholic was supposed to talk to an excommunicated one. However, the abuse of excommunication from the late Middle Ages onward led to its discredit in the minds of many Catholics. In 1563, the Council of Trent made the decision to reestablish excommunication as a punishment for disobedience, rebelliousness, or contumacy, no matter what the reasons were for the contumacy.
The aristocratic archbishop of Valencia Juan de Ribera (1532-1611) was frustrated in his initial attempts to institute the Counter Reformation in his diocese. He established a Tridentine seminary, the Colegio de Corpus Christi (1583-1604), to reform the clergy, promote popular piety, and serve also as his personal chapel, reliquary, museum, and mausoleum. Since the municipal government had resisted his call for them to loosen their control over the university, Ribera's seminary became a center for urban reform in Valencia. The bishop co-opted popular devotion (for example, to Dominican missionary Luis Bertrán) to serve his agenda. New saints whose devotions he could shape provided a tool for implementing his vision of the Church. He used sacred objects such as the holy relics in his treasury to gain cooperation aristocrats when he donate the relics to their favored churches.
The (lay) Third Order of Saint Francis was revived in 17th century Castile, establishing the Counter Reformation at all levels of society from royalty to peasantry. The priests vigorously developed and defended the concept of purgatory, which had been rejected by Protestant theology. Despite the Church's efforts to make its intercession the only means of benefiting departed souls, other folk beliefs remained common in popular religious culture.
Spanish America
The cult of Our Lady of Guadalupe in colonial Mexico supported and aided the Counter-Reformation by preaching and by the deployment of an associated iconography. By focusing on the importance of the miraculous apparition, Church elites, intellectuals, theologians, preachers, and artists succeeded in communicating certain ideals responding to specific religious and cultural projects of the crown and the Church in New Spain.
German states
From 1621 the Upper Palatinate underwent recatholization. The Church used newly discovered relics of the Catacomb saints in Rome. The relics were sent to Germany in large quantities to replenish the depleted stock of local relics. Such relics were used to help reconsecrate altars and provided objects of veneration. They also quickly became the focus of miracles, particularly the curing of illness or injury, thus filling the local voids left by the loss of pre-Reformation saints during the period of Protestant rule.
Friedrich Förner, a principal architect of the Counter-Reformation in Germany, is famous for his 1626 treatise on witchcraft, Panoplia Armaturae Dei. Taking a historical perspective, he argued the simultaneous rise of witchcraft and Calvinism represented the final stage in the devil's assault on Christianity. With the defeat of the Calvinist heresy in the first stages of the Thirty Years' War, in desperation the devil had employed witches in a last-ditch effort to destroy the Catholic faith. Förner's reconstruction of ecclesiastical history provided the ideological justification for the final assault on witchcraft, culminating in the many trials of the 1620s and 1630s.[1]
In Poland the Reformation had made its greatest gains around Crakow. Calvinism and sometimes Unitarianism became popular mostly among the nobility and the rich gentry, but had few followers among the peasants or shopkeepers. The Catholic Church fought back by taking back parish churches the Protestants had appropriated. The regulating of religious life comprised mostly attempts at the improvement of the morals of both parishioners and clergy as well as the sense of duty of the latter. Diocesan authorities stressed the need to explain the rudiments of the creed to the laity. Their religious practices and the ways they were to be molded represented a continuation of the medieval heritage.
Austrian Empire
From the 1580s to about 1650, most parishes had elementary schools, designed chiefly to provide candidates for the priesthood. After 1650, as the decisions of the Council of Trent took effect, the Church began intensive efforts to organize secondary schools as well. The goal was an educated laity among the middle classes and the lesser nobility. The Jesuits played a key role; their friaries became centers of intellectual, cultural, and religious life. For example, Jesuit school plays expressed Baroque aesthetic values and had a dramatic impact in the Hungarian and Bohemian regions. They influenced popular culture and popular theological beliefs and religious piety.
The Roman Holy Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (or "Propaganda Fide") was the papal organization governing missionary work throughout the world. It regarded the entire territory of 17th century Hungary as a missionary area. Ottoman-occupied Hungary and Transylvania needed help from the missionaries because of the disintegration of pre-occupation religious organizations, the rule of the "pagan" (Muslim) sultan, and the Protestantism of the princes of Transylvania. Royal Hungary needed missionary help to bolster an ailing Catholic Church and to bring Protestants back into the Catholic fold.
France and the Netherlands
Pollmann, (2006) compares the reactions of Dutch and French Catholics to the Reformation. Although both groups opposed the Protestants, French Catholics often took violent reprisals against them while Dutch Catholics were more passive. Among the causes of the difference in reactions were the dependence of the Dutch Catholic clergy on retaining the goodwill of the ruling class with its strong Reformed connections, the absence of Jesuit influence in the Netherlands, and the reluctance of the Dutch clergy to call on the lay population to take to the streets.
All of those reasons contrasted strongly with France, where the ruling class and priests often encouraged the laity to take violent actions against Protestants. The violence that often occurred between the two groups during the Reformation was not inevitable but dependent on local conditions.[2]
External links
Further reading
- Dickens, A. G. The Counter Reformation (1969), the best introduction
- Hsia, R. Po-chia. The World of Catholic Renewal 1540-1770, (2nd ed. 2005), 282pp; standard scholarly summary. excerpt and text search
- Hsia, R. Po-chia. A Companion to the Reformation World (2004), 573pp; essays by 24 scholars cover the major themes excerpt and text search; ch 14-19 on Counter Reformation
- Janelle, Pierre. The Catholic Reformation (1949) 402pp; broad survey with stress on culture and art online edition
- Luebke, David, ed. The Counter-Reformation: The Essential Readings (1999) excerpt and text search, 9 essays by scholars
- MacCulloch, Diarmaid. The Reformation (2005), 830pp; influential recent survey covers both Reformation and Catholic responses excerpt and text search
- O'Connell, Marvin R. Counter-reformation, 1550-1610 (1974)
- Olin, John. The Catholic Reformation: Savonarola to St. Ignatius Loyola. (1993) 218pp excerpt and text search
- Pollen, John Hungerford. "The Counter-Reformation." in The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. (1908) old but detailed; strong Catholic viewpoint
- Wernham, R. B. ed. The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 3: Counter-Reformation and Price Revolution, 1559-1610 (1968), essays by scholars
- Wright, A.D. The Counter-Reformation (1982), advanced scholarly synthesis
- ↑ Wm. Bradford Smith, "Friedrich Förner, The Catholic Reformation, and Witch-Hunting in Bamberg," Sixteenth Century Journal 2005 36(1): 115-128
- ↑ Judith Pollmann, "Countering the Reformation in France and the Netherlands: Clerical Leadership and Catholic Violence 1560-1585," Past & Present 2006 (190): 83-120 online at EBSCO


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SSR 78-3: SECTIONS 218(c)(5) and 218(s) (42 U.S.C. 418(c)(5) and 418(s)) STATE AND LOCAL COVERAGE -- COMMISSIONER'S RULING -- MONIES PAID BY A HOSPITAL TO A RESIDENT DOCTOR -- ARIZONA
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- A hospital which had formerly reported its resident physicians and interns as employees asserted that after June 30, 1970: 1) these individuals were independent contractors and not employees; 2) they were students whose services were excluded from coverage under the State's section 218 agreement with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; and 3) the amounts they received were scholarships or fellowships and not wages. Held, upon review the Commissioner of Social Security found that: 1) the resident physicians and interns were employees under the common-law rules; 2) these individuals were not excluded from coverage under the student exclusion; and 3) since they were employees of the hospital and were covered under its 218 agreement, the amounts paid constitute wages.
The State of Arizona had timely requested a review of three assessments of contributions under its agreement regarding a resident physician performing services for the Maricopa County General Hospital in the years 1970 through 1974.
The hospital had reported both its resident physicians and interns as employees until July 1, 1970. At that time, the hospital entered into written contracts with these individuals describing them as independent contractors. The State's position was that: (a) the individuals were independent contractors and not employees of the hospital; (b) they were students whose services were excluded from coverage under the student exclusion; and (c) the amounts they received were scholarships or fellowships within the meaning of Section 117 of the Internal Revenue Code and not wages.
The Commissioner found on review that the resident physicians and interns were subject to the hospital's control as to the manner and means of performance of their services and were, therefore, employees under the common-law rules. They worked full-time at the hospital under the supervision of a staff physician who could change the manner in which they administered medical treatment to patients. Moreover, in the written contracts, they agreed to abide by hospital policies and procedures, medical staff rules and regulations.
The Commissioner further found that their services were not excluded from coverage under the student exclusion. The 1965 Amendments to the Social Security Act provided that effective January 1, 1966, the services of medical and dental interns would no longer be excluded from coverage. These individuals would be covered on the same basis as other employees working for the same employer. The Social Security Administration has always held that resident physicians are not students. This position was supported by a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals (St. Luke's Hospital Association of Cleveland, Ohio, of the Methodist Church v. U.S., 333 F.2d 157 (6 Cir. 1964), cert. denied 379 U.S. 963 (1965)). The court held that the residents-in-training were not exempt, under 26 U.S.C. 3121(b)(13), from the statutory definition of employment and thus the hospital was required by pay Federal Insurance Contributions Act taxes on their wages.
The Commissioner also found that the amounts paid to the interns and residents constituted wages. While the question of whether a payment is a scholarship or fellowship under Section 117 of the Internal Revenue Code is a matter for determination by the Internal Revenue Service, it appeared clear in this case that the payments represented compensation for services. As such, these payments would be wages as defined in section 209 of the Social Security Act.
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In this season of giving thanks, I would like to express my gratitude to all of you for following The Gardener's Eden. Thank you for  your many delightful comments and email correspondence, and thank you for sharing this site with your friends. I truly love hearing from you, both here on the site, and also on The Gardener's Eden's Facebook and Twitter pages. I am so grateful for the many wonderful, new friendships growing from this lovely garden online. It takes time and care to build friendships, just as it takes time and care to build gardens. Thank you for joining me here.
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I've made some wonderful connections through The Gardener's Eden over the past year and a half, and I am deeply grateful for those new friendships. Thank you to Guillermo at The Honeybee Conservancy, for your enthusiasm and encouragement over the past year -it has been a pleasure working with you. And thank you to Kristin Zimmerman. Kristin, I had so much fun working with you at Barnes & Noble's Garden Variety , and although I hope you are enjoying your new job, I want you to know that I am already missing you, your careful editing and our weekly email exchanges. And a great, big, heart-felt thank you to Stacey Hirvela and Miranda Van Gelder at Martha Stewart Living's At Home in the Garden and Martha Stewart Living Magazine for extending a hand across this virtual, online gardening community. Thank you for opening the door to such unexpected and exciting opportunities.
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Are you a bubbles or no bubbles water drinker? I've always been no bubbles but on a recent trip I started drinking bubbles. So far my favorite has been San Pellegrino water and Orangina Soda. It was fun to drink while traveling. When I returned home I wanted to recreate that great bubble and juice flavor.
So I took my fresh juiced fruit and vegetables juice and mixed it with some San Pellegrino and I had a fun drink with bubbles that was packed with good for you juice.
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4 organic carrots
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2 dozen organic cherries
1 dozen organic grapes
3 organic oranges
1 organic pear
1 organic Granny Smith apple
Place everything into the juicer and mix well when juiced. This will make a nice pitcher of juice for your day.
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Some things come first!
HAve a great weekend
Friday, July 31, 2009
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Home Sweet Home
I just came back from the San Diego Comic Con yesterday, and it was GREAT!
I'm taking it slow this week, so there may be only this sketch for now( MAYBE!), but I'll get back to a regular schedule after that!
Have a GREAT one!
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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.... Probably the last post for a little while.I'm leaving tomorrow for Comic con and won't be back on the blog for a week or two!
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I have two versions for this one. I drew the large one first , and I like it,but I also like the reframed , shorter one.
What do you guys think?
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Rainy day
There are also new images on Scribiling today!
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Sketchbook drawings
Loosely based on Marseilles, the town in the south of France.
Loosely based on Marseilles, the town in the south of France.
Loosely based on Marseilles, the town in the south of France.
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More Monkeys!
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Summer time is....
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