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Dear Forum,
I just installed Xampp v220.127.116.11.1.0 and all running fine--except mySQL login error. I'm sure there must be a problem in config -- somewhere! -- I've checked httpd.conf....phpmyadm: config.inc.php .... mySQL: my.ini, my.cnf, my-large.ini....it's no wonder it's confused, or I guess,
I'm the one confused.
Anyhow the passwords all agree in the above mentioned config files.
There are two inconsistencies that I wish someone would explain: Apache CGI(working fine) wants "localhost" for server name.
MySQL does not recognize this, it wants--I think-- 127.0.0.1.
SECOND problem: the my.ini file wants user password, but there is no "user" specification under "[Client]" .... so does this mean
that the password is for "root"??
The documentation does not seem to address this , but when I try to login in as "root" that's when the above error occurs. If it does not want "root" then why no spec in my.ini for a username??
Appreciate any help and/or clarification.


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U.S. Boosts Horse-Meat Testing on Imports
The U.S. plans to ramp up its testing for horse meat in imported products in an effort to make certain consumers are not affected by overseas recalls. Bill Tomson explains. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Earth : North America : United States of America : Mid-Atlantic : New York (state) : Metro New York : Long Island : Suffolk County (New York) : East Hampton : Montauk
Montauk is a hamlet in East Hampton on Long Island in New York
Get in
Montauk is easily accessible by car, by bys, by rail,and even by boat.
By Air
Taking a plane to New York is easy. There are three airports to chose from in the region. John F. Kennedy Airport (JKF) and LaGuardia Airport, both in Queens, and MacArthur Airport in Islip are all easily the first step to getting to Montauk.
By Car
Either travelling in your own car or by rental car it is easy to get out to "The End". The only road that goes out to seaside town is Sunrise Highway (or Route 27), which runs from New York City all the way to Montauk. Along the way Sunrise Highway turns into Montauk Highway yet it is still known as Route 27.
By Bus The Hampton Jitney bus service runs from Manhattan to Montauk. There are also local buses run by Suffolk from town to town.
By Rail
The Long Island Railroad (LIRR) is an alternative to driving. It too runs from Penn Station in Manhattan to Montauk.
By Sea
There are also places at which one can dock their boat and also ferries that run from other East End locations.
Get around
Once in Montauk the most efficient and convenient way to see all the sights and destinations is by car. While some hotels are within walking distance to many sites there are more that are spread out.
There is plenty to do in Montauk. It is renowned for its fishing and even claims to have the most saltwater fish records than any other port in the world. There are six state parks, the famed Montauk Point Lighthouse, and many restaurants, shops, and sights.
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Skip to comments.Evolution debate persists because it's not science
Posted on 02/22/2009 10:58:04 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
Monday, Feb. 23, 2009
Evolution debate persists because it's not science
By Raymond H. Kocot
But did you ever wonder why Darwinism's general theory of evolution, sometimes called macroevolution, has been debated for over 150 years without resolution? The surprising answer is Darwin's macroevolution theory is not a legitimate science. The National Academy of Sciences clearly defined science in its 1998 guidebook for science teachers. The definition begins with [stating that] science is a particular way of knowing about the world, and ends with, "Anything that can be observed or measured is amenable to scientific investigation. Explanations that cannot be based on empirical evidence are not part of science." In other words, a legitimate scientific theory (a hypothesis or idea) must be observable in real time and must be testable, yielding reproducible results. That is the core of the scientific method that has brought man out of the Dark Ages.
Because confirmable observations and generating experimental data are impossible for unique events like life's origin and macroevolution theory, world-famous evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr prompts evolutionists to construct historical narratives to try to explain evolutionary events or processes. In other words, stories are all evolutionists can muster to support macroevolution theory. If macroevolution theory, which must rest on faith in a story and is considered to be scientific, why not the creation story. With that in mind, it is no wonder the molecules-to-man debate has persisted for 150 years...
(Excerpt) Read more at myrtlebeachonline.com ...
Hitler, and the majority of Germans during the time of Nazi Germany, were Christians.
When looking at the language Hitler used to whip up hatred of the Jews "blood upon the Cross" and "cast the vipers out of the Temple" took center stage.
As such the Nazi's were drawing upon a long and storied tradition of prevalent anti-Jewish sentiment among European Christian communities.
How could such insignificant ignoramuses have any appreciable impact on public opinion? And such a small number of insignificant ignoramuses at that.
Which is not to say that Hitler or the Nazi's were "good" Christians; but they thought of themselves as such, wore crosses, prayed, carried Bibles, put crosses on their equipment, wrote "God is with us" on their belt buckles, etc, etc.
All the trappings of Christianity, but none of the spirit of Christ.
Reminds me of several posters on this forum.
Cedric, once again I see that one of your cut'n'paste posts has been demolished by the actual facts. Thanks doc, for doing the dirty work this time.
Quote mining is a tired, annoying, dishonest creationist practice we are all very familiar with. You won't get anywhere with it in life (except in the eyes of fellow dolts such as yourself.)
And your response to being shown how dishonest your post was was to snidely remark that he "missed one." You are yet another embarrassment to conservatism.
As predictable as the sun rising.....
Never laid a glove on me.
Sorry, but I think medical quackery is a bit over the top, even for FR.
If you have a problem with it I suggest you take it up with those who post bizarre medical advice.
Hint: it isn't anyone I hang out with.
The interesting fact is that the same people you hang out with seem to think HIV doesn't cause AIDS, that AIDS treatment is the cause of AIDS, and that your "perverse practices" are appropriate treatment for a wide range of diseases.
Personally, I think that all forms of science denial are new age mumbo jumbo. Some comes from the left wing, some from the right wing, but it's all the same rubbish.
But nice attempt at misreading a word used in the 1860's with an eye to the modern meaning.
Is your understanding of the subject really as shallow as THAT?
"Evolution [is] a theory universally accepted not because it can be proven by logically coherent evidence to be true, but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible." (Professor D.M.S. Watson, leading biologist and science writer of his day.)
"My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed.....It is not even possible to make a caricature of an evolution out of paleobiological facts...The idea of an evolution rests on pure belief." (Dr. Nils Heribert-Nilsson, noted Swedish botanist and geneticist, of Lund University)
"Scientists who go about teaching that evolution is a fact of life are great con-men, and the story they are telling may be the greatest hoax ever! In explaining evolution we do not have one iota of fact." (Dr. Newton Tahmisian, Atomic Energy Commission.)
"When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea that the universe did not just happen, but that there must be a purpose behind it."
(John Polkinghorne, Cambridge University physicist, "Science Finds God," Newsweek, 20 July, 1998)
"Many have a feeling that somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe."
(Charles Townes, 1964 Nobel Prize winner in physics, "Science Finds God," Newsweek, 20 July, 1998)
"250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for by Darwin." (Dr. David Raup, curator of geology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, "Conflicts Between Darwinism and Paleontology")
"The miracles required to make evolution feasible are far greater in number and far harder to believe than the miracle of creation." (Dr. Richard Bliss, former professor of biology and science education as Christian Heritage College, "It Takes A Miracle For Evolution.")
"Scientists at the forefront of inquiry have put the knife to classical Darwinism. They have not gone public with this news, but have kept it in their technical papers and inner counsels." (Dr. William Fix, in his book, "The Bone Peddlers.")
"In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations plus natural selection-—quite unaware of the fact that random mutations turned out to be irrelevant and natural selection tautology." (Dr. Arthur Koestler)
"Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation of life are so tiny as to require a 'miracle' for spontaneous generation tantamount to a theological argument." (Dr. Chandra Wickramasinge, cited in, Creation vs Evolution, John Ankerberg, pg. 20.)
"Complex molecules that are essential to particular organisms often have such a vast information content as...to make the theory of evolution impossible." (Bird, Origin of Species Revisited, Vol. 1, pg. 71)
"A further aspect I should like to discuss is what I call the practice of infinite escape clauses. I believe we developed this practice to avoid facing the conclusion that the probability of self-reproducing state is zero. This is what we must conclude from classical quantum mechanical principles as Wigner demonstrated" (Sidney W. Fox, "The Origins of Pre-Biological Systems)
"In terms of their basic biochemical design....no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any other system, nor is there the slightest empirical hint of an evolutionary sequence among all the incredibly diverse cells on earth." (Dr. Michael Denton, molecular biochemist)
"We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of which is composed of a set of large protein machines...Why do we call [them] machines? Precisely because, like machines invented by humans to deal efficiently with the macroscopic world, these protein assemblies contain highly coordinated moving parts."
(Bruce Alberts, President, National; Academy of Sciences "The Cell as a Collectrion of Protein Machines," Cell 92, February 8, 1998)
"We should reject, as a matter of principle the substitution of intelligent design for the dialogue of chance and necessity; but we must concede that there are presently no detailed Darwinian accounts of the evolution of any biochemical system, only a variety of wishful speculations." (Biochemist, Franklin M. Harold "The Way of the Cell," page 205)
"Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes. Now that biochemists have opened the black boxes and seen what is inside, they know the Darwinian theory is just a story, not a scientific explanation." (Professor Phillip E. Johnson)
"The simplicity that was once expected to be the foundation of life has proven to be a phantom; instead, systems of horrendous, irreducible complexity inhabit the cell. The resulting realization that life was designed by an intelligence is a shock to us in the twentieth century who have gotten used to thinking of life as the result of simple natural laws. But other centuries have had their shocks, and there is no reason to suppose that we should escape them. Humanity has endured as the center of the heavens moved from the earth to beyond the sun, as the history of life expanded to encompass long-dead reptiles, as the eternal universe proved mortal. We will endure the opening of Darwin's Black box" (Michael j. Behe, Biochemist "Darwin's Black Box, pg. 252")
"An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going." (Dr. Francis Crick, biochemist, Nobel Prize winner, Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature, pg. 88)
"A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution."
(Dr. Nils Heribert-Nilsson, Swedish botanist and geneticist, English Summary of Synthetische Artbildung, pg. 1142-43, 1186.)
"The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during which prebotic evolution occurred." (Dr. Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize winner)
"The complexity of the simplest known type cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle." (Dr. Michael Denton, molecular biochemist)
"The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop." (Dr. Edwin Conklin, evolutionist and professor of biology at Princeton University.)
"Hypothesis [evolution] based on no evidence and irreconcilable with the facts....These classical evolutionary theories are a gross over-simplification of an immensely complex and intricate mass of facts, and it amazes me that they are swallowed so uncritically and readily, and for such a long time, by so many scientists without a murmur of protest." (Sir Ernst Chan, Nobel Prize winner for developing penicillin)
"All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel it is too complex to have evolved anywhere. We all believe as an article of faith that life evolved from dead matter on this planet. It is just that life's complexity is so great, it is hard for us to imagine that it did." (Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel Prize winner)
"The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together. Each part of a living thing depends on all its other parts to function. How does each part know? How is each part specified at conception? The more one learns of biochemistry the more unbelievable it becomes unless there is some type of organizing principle-—an architect." (Scientist Allan Sandage)
"One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural selection, blindly picking the rare winners from among numbers drawn at utter random.....nevertheless although the miracle of life stands "explained" it does not strike us as any less miraculous. As Francois Mauriac wrote, "What this professor says is far more incredible than what we poor Christians believe." (French Biochemist and Nobel Prize winner, Jacques Monod, "Chance and Necessity.")
"To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts."
(Dr. Pierre-Paul Grasse, University of Paris & past-president of French Academy of Science.)
"It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind." (Dr. A.E Wilder Smith, chemist and former evolutionist)
"Science...has become identified with a philosophy known as materialism or scientific naturalism. This philosophy insists that nature is all there is, or at least the only thing about which we can have any knowledge. It follows that nature had to do its own creating, and that the means of creation must have included any role for God." (Professor Phillip E. Johnson, "The Church Of Darwin," Wall Street Journal, August 16, 1999)
Chance Renders Evolution Impossible
"The probability of a single protein molecule being arranged by chance is, 1 in 10-161 power, using all the atoms on earth and allowing all the time since the world began...for a minimum set of required 239 protein molecules for the smallest theoretical life, the probability is, 1 in 10-119,879 power. It would take, 10-119,879 power, years on average to get a set of such proteins. That is 10-119,831 times the assumed age of the earth and is a figure with 119,831 zeros." (Dr. James Coppege from, "The Farce of Evolution" page 71)
"The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is one to a number with 40,000 nought's after it...It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of Evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor on any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence." (Sir Fred Hoyle, highly respected British astronomer and mathematician)
"I could prove God statistically; take the human body alone; the chance that all the functions of the individual would just happen, is a statistical monstrosity." (George Gallup, the famous statistician)
"The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the material therein."
(Sir Fred Hoyle, Highly respected British astronomer and mathematician)
"The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10-340,000,000. This number is 1 to 10 to the 340 millionth power! The size of this figure is truly staggering, since there is only supposed to be approximately 10-80 (10 to the 80th power) electrons in the whole universe!"
(Professor Harold Morowitz)
"The occurrence of any event where the chances are beyond one in ten followed by 50 zeros is an event which we can state with certainty will never happen, no matter how much time is allotted and no matter how many conceivable opportunities could exist for the event to take place." (Dr. Emile Borel, who discovered the laws of probability)
"The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer." (Professor Richard Dawkins, an atheist)
"The only competing explanation for the order we all see in the biological world is the notion of special creation." (Dr. Colin Patterson, evolutionist and senior Paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History, which houses 60 million fossils)
"The vast mysteries of the universe should only confirm our belief in the certainty of its Creator. I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science."
(Werner von Braun, father of space science, "Gone Bananas," World September 7, 2002)
"Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical."
(Sir John Templeton "the Humble Approach," page 115)
"It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather carefully thought out...The seemingly miraculous concurrence of these numerical values must remain the most compelling evidence for cosmic design." (Physicist Paul Davies, "God and the New Physics," page 189)
"Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?" (Sir John Templeton, "The Humble Approach: Scientists Discover God," page 19)
"Set aside the many competing explanations of the Big Bang; something made an entire cosmos out of nothing. It is this realization—that something transcendent started it all—which has hard-science types...using terms like 'miracle.'" (Gregg Easterbrook, "The New Convergence")
"Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists. At times this has led to scientific ideas...being advanced with a tenacity which so exceeds their intrinsic worth that one can only suspect the operation of psychological forces lying very much deeper than the usual academic desire of a theorist to support his or her theory." (C. J. Isham, "Creation of the Universe as a Quatum Process" page 378)
"Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling throughout our society that religious belief is outmoded, or downright impossible, in a scientific age. I don't agree. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if people in this so-called 'scientific age' knew a bit more about science than many of them actually do, they'd find it easier to share my views."
(Physicist John Polkinghorne, "Quarks, Chaos, and Christianity")
"There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No paleontologist..denies that this is so. It is simply a fact, Darwin's theory and the fossil record are in conflict." (Dr. David Berlinsky)
"Scientists concede that their most cherished theories are based on embarrassingly few fossil fragments and that huge gaps exist in the fossil record." (Time Magazine, Nov. 7, 1977)
"Contrary to what most scientists write, the fossil record does not support the Darwinian theory of evolution because it is this theory which we use to interpret the fossil record. By doing so we are guilty of circular reasoning if we then say the fossil record supports this theory." (Dr. Ronald R. West)
"The evolutionary establishment fears creation science, because evolution itself crumbles when challenged by evidence. In the 1970s and 1980s, hundreds of public debates were arranged between evolutionary scientists and creation scientists. The latter scored resounding victories, with the result that, today, few evolutionists will debate. Isaac Asimov, Stephen Jay Gould, and the late Carl Sagan, while highly critical of creationism, all declined to debate." (Dr. James Perloff, Tornado in a Junkyard (1999), p. 241)
"I doubt if there is any single individual within the scientific community who could cope with the full range of [creationist] arguments without the help of an army of consultants in special fields."
(David M. Raup, "Geology and Creation," Bulletin of the Field Museum of Natural History, Vol. 54, March 1983, p. 18)
"I think in fifty years, Darwinian evolution will be gone from the science curriculum...I think people will look back on it and ask how anyone could, in their right mind, have believed this, because it's so implausible when you look at the evidence." (Dr. Johnathan Wells, author of the book, "Icons of Evolution")
"As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency—or, rather, Agency—must be involved. Is it possible that suddenly, without intending to, we have stumbled upon scientific proof of the existence of a Supreme Being? Was it God who stepped in and so providentially crafted the cosmos for our benefit?" (Astronomer George Greenstein, "The Symbiotic Universe," page 27)
"Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, one with the very delicate balance needed to provide exactly the conditions required to permit life, and one which has an underlying (one might say "supernatural") plan." (Nobel laureate Arno Penzias, "Cosmos, Bios, and Theos," page 83)
"Human DNA contains more organized information than the Encyclopedia Britannica. If the full text of the encyclopedia were to arrive in computer code from outer space, most people would regard this as proof of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. But when seen in nature, it is explained as the workings of random forces." (George Sim Johnson "Did Darwin Get it Right?" The Wall Street Journal, October 15, 1999)
"The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is one to a number with 40,000 nought's after it...It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of Evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor on any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence." (Sir Fred Hoyle, highly respected British physicist and astronomer)
"Everyone who is seriously interested in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe a spirit vastly superior to man, and one in the face of which our modest powers must feel humble." (Albert Einstein)
"Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they are suggestions, hunches, pipe dreams, hardly worthy of being called hypotheses."
(Dr. Norman Macbeth, Darwin Retried (1971), p. 147)
"Evolution is baseless and quite incredible." (Dr. John Ambrose Fleming, President, British Association for Advancement of Science, in "The Unleashing of Evolutionary Thought")
"The fact is that the evidence was so patchy one hundred years ago that even Darwin himself had increasing doubts as to the validity of his views, and the only aspect of his theory which has received any support over the past century is where it applies to microevolutionary phenomena. His general theory, that all life on earth had originated and evolved by a gradual successive accumulation of fortuitous mutations, is still, as it was in Darwin's time, a highly speculative hypothesis entirely without direct factual support and very far from that self-evident axiom some of its more aggressive advocates would have us believe." (Dr. Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1986), p. 77)
"In conclusion, evolution is not observable, repeatable, or refutable, and thus does not qualify as either a scientific fact or theory." (Dr. David N. Menton, PhD in Biology from Brown University)
"The success of Darwinism was accomplished by a decline in scientific integrity." (Dr. W.R. Thompson, world renowned Entomologist)
"I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extant that it's been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so flimsy and dubious a hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it has." (Malcolm Muggeridge)
"George Bernard Shaw wisecracked once that Darwin had the luck to please everybody who had an axe to grind. Well, I also have an axe to grind, but I am not pleased. We have suffered through two world wars and are threatened by an Armageddon. We have had enough of the Darwinian fallacy. (Dr. Kenneth Hsu, "Reply," Geology, 15 (1987), p. 177)
"Unfortunately for Darwin's future reputation, his life was spent on the problem of evolution which is deductive by nature...It is absurd to expect that many facts will not always be irreconcilable with any theory of evolution and, today, every one of his theories is contradicted by facts." (Dr. P.T. Mora, The Dogma of Evolution, p. 194)
"Ultimately the Darwinian theory of evolution is no more nor less than the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century...The origin of life and of new beings on earth is still largely as enigmatic as when Darwin set sail on the [ship] Beagle." (Dr. Michael Denton, molecular biochemist, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1986), p. 358.)
"It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science." (George G. Simpson, "The Nonprevalence of Humanoids," in Science, 143 (1964) p. 770.)
"The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake." (Dr. Louis Agassiz, quoted in H. Enoch, Evolution or Creation, (1966), p. 139. [Agassiz was a Harvard University professor and the pioneer in glaciation.]
"There is no evidence, scientific or otherwise, to support the theory of evolution." (Sir Cecil Wakely)
"The theory of life that undermined ninteenth-century religion has virtually become a religion itself and in its turn is being threatened by fresh ideas...In the past ten years has emerged a new breed of biologists who are scientifically respectable, but who have their doubts about Darwinism." (Dr. B. Leith, scientist)
"A growing number of respectable scientists are defecting from the evolutionist camp.....moreover, for the most part these "experts" have abandoned Darwinism, not on the basis of religious faith or biblical persuasions, but on strictly scientific grounds, and in some instances, regretfully." (Dr. Wolfgang Smith, physicist and mathematician)
"It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked." (Dr. Derek V. Ager, Department of Geology, Imperial College, London)
"One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom, a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance and natural causes which can be accepted on the basis of fact and not faith has not been written." (Dr. Hubert P. Yockey)
"I have always been slightly suspicious of the theory of evolution because of its ability to account for any property of living beings (the long neck of the giraffe, for example). I have therefore tried to see whether biological discoveries over the last thirty years or so fit in with Darwin's theory. I do not think that they do. To my mind, the theory does not stand up at all." (H. Lipson, "A Physicist Looks at Evolution," Physic Bulletin, 31 (1980), p. 138.)
"The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith which is necessary to have when one encounters the great mysteries of religion....The only alternative is the doctrine of special creation, which may be true, but irrational." (Dr. Louis T. More, professor of paleontology at Princeton University)
"Evolution is faith, a religion." (Dr. Louist T. More, professor of paleontology at Princeton University)
"Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism into the Nether regions, and I'm quite sure that Freud, Marx and Darwin are commiserating one with the other in the dark dungeon where discarded gods gather." (Dr. David Berlinski)
"In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend" their observations to fit in with it." (H.S. Lipson, Physicist Looks at Evolution, Physics Bulletin 31 (1980), p. 138)
"A time honored scientific tenet of faith." (Professor David Allbrook)
"Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia." (Nancy Pearcey, "Creation Mythology,"pg. 23)
"When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer to give. Faith has given way to agnosticism. Meanwhile, though our faith in evolution stands unshaken we have no acceptable account of the origin of species." (Dr. William Bateson, great geneticist of Cambridge)
"Chance renders evolution impossible." (Dr. James Coppedge)
"It (evolution) is sustained largely by a propaganda campaign that relies on all the usual tricks of rhetorical persuasion: hidden assumptions, question-begging statements of what is at issue, terms that are vaguely defined and change their meaning in midargument, attacks of straw men, selective citation of evidence, and so on. The theory is also protected by its cultural importance. It is the officially sanctioned creation story to modern society, and publicly funded educational authorities spare no effort to persuade people to believe it." (Professor Phillip Johnson, "Objections Sustained: Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law and Culture," pg. 9)
"Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special assumptions on special assumptions, ad hoc hypothesis [invented for a purpose] on ad hoc hypothesis, and tearing apart the fabric of science whenever it appears convenient. The result is a fantasia which is neither history nor science." (Dr. James Conant [chemist and former president of Harvard University], quoted in Origins Research, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1982, p. 2.)
"Scientists who utterly reject Evolution may be one of our fastest growing controversial minorities...Many of the scientists supporting this position hold impressive credentials in science." (Larry Hatfield, "Educators Against Darwin," Science Digest Special, Winter, pp. 94-96.)
And you take "Preservation of Favoured Races" to mean . . . ?
Evo-Atheists like people to forget that fact! Darwin was talking about "favoured races", which he assumed he a member. That's exactly what he meant and what his disciples have pushed! Hitler was just following the direct teachings of Darwin, who was inspired by Satan himself! Evo-atheists want to be the ones running the camps of the future. Their *science* can only lead to the gas chambers. Their bigotry can never be tolerated!
So why did Hitler order Darwin's books burned?
As if I, or anyone, is going to read that cut and pasted crap. Do me a favor, google "Creationist quote mining" and cut and paste the actual contexts that all your dishonest quoting is actually from.
Here's a hint, anytime you see ellipses, you know off the bat the quote is dishonest.
Regardless, is this how creationists do "science?" Sit on their lazy dumb asses and pick and nit at other people's work?
You're on the endangered list.
Guidelines from Die Bücherei 2:6 (1935), p. 279
1. Die Werke von Landesverrätern, Emigranten und von Autoren fremder Völker, die glauben, das neue Deutschland bekämpfen bekämpfen und herabsetzen zu können. (H.G. Wells, Rolland). 1. The works of traitors, emigrants and authors from foreign countries who believe they can attack and denigrate the new German (H.G. Wells, Rolland).
2. Die Literatur des Marxismus, Kommunismus, Bolschewismus. 2. The literature of Marxism, Communism and Bolshevism.
3. Die pazifistische Literatur. 3. Pacifist literature.
4. Die liberalistisch-demokratische Tendenz- und Gesinnungsliteratur und die Propagandisten des Weimarer Staates (Rathenau, Heinrich Mann). 4. Literature with liberal, democratic tendencies and attitudes, and writing supporting the Weimar Republic (Rathenau, Heinrich Mann).
5. Alle Werke zur Geschichte, die darauf angelegt sind, die Herkunft, das Wesen und die Kultur des deutschen Volkes herabzusetzen, die deutsche Volksordnung in ihrer Art und Rasse aufzulösen die Kraft und Bedeutung großer Führergestalten zugunsten der Masse infolge Gleichheitsgedanken zu verneinen und deren Größe in den Schmutz zu ziehen (Emil Ludwig). 5. All historical writings whose purpose is to denigrate the origin, the spirit and the culture of the German Volk, or to dissolve the racial and structural order of the Volk, or that denies the force and importance of leading historical figures in favor of egalitarianism and the masses, and which seeks to drag them through the mud (Emil Ludwig).
6. Schriften weltanschaulichen und lebenskundlichen Charakters, deren Inhalt die falsche naturwissenschaftliche Aufklärung eines primitiven Darwinismus und Monismus ist (Häckel). 6. Writings of a philosophical and social nature whose content deals with the false scientific enlightenment of primitive Darwinism and Monism (Häckel).
7. Bücher über Künste, deren Vertreter der entarteten blutleeren, rein konstruktiven 'Kunst' positiv gewürdigt werden (Grosz, Dix, Bauhaus, Mendelsohn). 7. Books that advocate "art" which is decadent, bloodless, or purely constructivist (Grosz, Dix, Bauhaus, Mendelsohn).
8. Schriften der Sexualpädagogik und zur sexuellen Aufklärung, die sich in den Dienst des Genußegoismus der Einzelperson stellen und damit volks- und rassezerstörend im höchsten Grade wirken (Hirschfeld). 8. Writings on sexuality and sexual education which serve the egocentric pleasure of the individual and thus, completely destroy the principles of race and Volk (Hirschfeld).
9. Die dekadente, zersetzende, volksschädliche Literatur der "Asphalt- und Zivilisationsliteraten! (Graf, H. Mann, Stefan Zweig, Wassermann, Franz Blei). 9. The decadent, destructive and Volk-damaging writings of "Asphalt and Civilization" literati! (Graf, H. Mann, Stefan Zweig, Wassermann, Franz Blei). [transl. note: a derogatory term for writers dealing with upper middle class urban society].
10. Die Literatur jüdischer Autoren, gleichviel welcher Gebiete. 10. Literature by Jewish authors, regardless of the field.
11. Die Gesellschafts- und Unterhaltungsliteratur, in der das Leben und die Lebensziele auf dem Grunde einer bürgerlichen oderfeudalen Lebensauffassung in oberflächlicher, unwahrer und süßlicher Weise dargestellt werden. 11. Popular entertainment literature that depicts life and life's goals in a superficial, unrealistic and sickly sweet manner, based on a bourgeois or upper class view of life.
12. Der nationalistische, patriotische Kitsch in der Literatur (P.O. Höcker!).
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Early block play predicts conceptual understanding of geometry and mathematical equivalence in elementary school
Lori Petersen and Susan Levine (Co-PI)
University of Chicago
Research up-date as of January 7, 2016:
- We are currently working on some more extensive coding for this project with respect to gender. Mothers tend to talk more about spatial concepts to their sons than to their daughters during block play. The current question we are addressing with coding is what mothers are talking about when they do talk about space. Are they simply pointing out superficial aspects of the structure (e.g., "This building is tall."), or are they describing spatial relations necessary for learning how to build a secure structure? [Note: A more detailed up-date will follow when that becomes available.]
Individual differences in spatial skills can be detected before children begin school (Linn & Petersen, 1985). It is important to understand which early experiences influence spatial skills because they are linked to future math achievement and STEM career outcomes (Casey, Nuttall, & Pezaris, 1997). Unfortunately, few studies have investigated the naturally occurring activities that influence spatial reasoning (Levine, Ratliff, Huttenlocher & Cannon, 2012). The current study examines children's early block play, a rich spatial activity that may be related to later mathematical thinking (Wolfgang, Stannard & Jones, 2003).
56 parent-child dyads were visited in their homes every four months between 26- and 46-months. At each visit, the dyads were videotaped for 90 minutes while they engaged in their daily routines. During the home visits, families engaged in many activities, such as eating during snack time, playing on a playground, or reading a book together. The six home visits were coded for whether children engaged in block play (or not). A block play episode was defined as the child playing with blocks of any kind, including Legos, for at least 30 seconds.
Previous research has shown that block play complexity measured in preschool related to standardized test scores and math grades in middle school and high school, but not in elementary school (Wolfgang et al., 2003). Thus, we predicted that children who played with blocks would have better scores than children who didn't play with blocks on more complex math skills, like geometry, but perhaps not on simpler math skills, like calculation. To test our hypothesis, we measured children's mathematical thinking at two time points, in first and third grade. In first grade, children's verbal calculation and nonverbal calculation were tested. In third grade, children were given four assessments: (1) Woodcock-Johnson II Applied Problems, (2) KeyMath Geometry, (3) Math Equivalence Problems, and (4) 1-1000 Number Line Estimation Task.
Some previous research suggests that children who build more complex structures with blocks also have better spatial reasoning (Brosnan, 1998; Caldera, Culp, O'Brien, Truglio, Alvarez, & Huston, 1999). Thus, we also predicted that children who played with blocks would have better spatial reasoning skills than children who didn't play with blocks. To test our hypothesis, we measured children's spatial visualization in third grade with the Spatial Relations Subtest, Thurstone Primary Mental Abilities, Readiness Level. In order to test the specificity of the benefits of block play to spatial and mathematical thinking, we examined the relation of this kind of play to reading comprehension in both first grade (Woodcock-Johnson II Passage Comprehension) and third grade (Gates MacGinitie Test of Reading Comprehension).
As predicted, block play did not predict the simple math measures in first grade, but it did predict some of the more complex math measures in third grade. Specifically, children who played with blocks during preschool scored higher on KeyMath Geometry and on the Math Equivalence Problems. However, early block play did not predict performance on the Woodcock-Johnson Applied Problems, the Number Line Estimation Task, or the Thurstone spatial visualization task. Further, block play also did not predict reading comprehension in either first or third grade.
In summary, results suggest that block play during the preschool years is associated with math equivalence and geometry knowledge four years later. Although block play did not predict 2D spatial visualization in third grade, it may be related to other spatial skills such as 3D spatial visualization, including mental rotation (Casey, Andrews, Schindler, Kersh, Samper & Copley, 2008). These correlational findings open the possibility that early block play is causally related to later mathematical thinking. Future experimental research should manipulate various aspects of block play in order to examine which aspects are particularly supportive of later mathematical thinking.
- ♦ Brosnan, M. J. (1998). Spatial ability in children's play with Lego blocks. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 87, 19-28.
- ♦ Caldera, Y. M., Culp, A. M., O'Brien, M., Truglio, R. T., Alvarez, M., & Huston, A. C. (1999). Children's play preferences, construction play with blocks, and visual-spatial skills: Are they related? International Journal of Behavioral Development, 23, 855-872.
- ♦ Casey, M. B., Andrews, N., Schindler, H., Kersh, J. E., Samper, A., & Copley, J. (2008). The development of spatial skills through interventions involving block building activities. Cognition and Instruction, 26, 269-309.
- ♦ Casey, M. B., Nuttall, R., & Pezaris, E. (1997). Mediators of gender differences in mathematics college entrance test scores: A comparison of spatial skills with internalized beliefs and anxieties. Developmental Psychology, 33, 669-680.
- ♦ Levine, S. C., Ratliff, K. R., Huttenlocher, J., & Cannon, J. (2012). Early puzzle play: A predictor of preschoolers' spatial transformation skill. Developmental Psychology, 48, 530-542.
- ♦ Linn, M. C., & Petersen, A. C. (1985). Emergence and characterization of sex differences in spatial ability: A meta-analysis. Child Development, 56, 1479-1498.
- ♦ Wolfgang, C., Stannard, L., & Jones, I. (2003). Advanced constructional play with Legos among preschoolers as a predictor of later school achievement in mathematics. Early Child Development and Care, 173(5), 467-475.


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Courtesy Motors completed a perfect season last night at Worthman Field defeating Erie Haven 10-9 in a nail-biter earning the regular season and tournament Sandy Koufax titles for Adams-Wells Counties.
The pair of Decatur squads faced off after Erie Haven won their semi-final contest in Monroe the night before and Courtesy handled the Monroe Harvestland crew in five innings.
Courtesy struck first with four runs in the first and another four in the second to take a big 8-0 lead and looked to be on their way to another blow out. Erie Haven posted three on the board in the third, then two in the fourth and fifth to make the score 9-7 in favor of Motors.
After a quiet sixth inning, Erie Haven tied the game at 9-9 with two runs leaving it in the hands of Courtesy in the bottom of the seventh to close the game. Cody Fields hit a single to left-field scoring Austin Knous and the celebration was on.
Both teams netted 13 hits in the game. Adam Weaver, Mason Shinabery, and Fields each had three hits for Courtesy, while Kyle Wittwer and Will Mitchem had three hits in a losing effort for Erie Haven. Mitchem had the game's only homerun, an inside-the-park blast in the fourth inning, while Fields tripled in the second, Weaver had doubles in the first and second inning, and all three of Shinabery's blasts were doubles in the first, second, and third. Kyle Wittwer also doubled in the third.
On the hill, Knous went seven innings to anchor Courtesy in the win allowing nine runs on 13 hits with five K's and two walks. Witwer started the game but was pulled early after allowing two runs on a hit with two walks. Tracy Bauer pitched in relief for two innings allowing seven runs on eight hits with a walk. Cole Miller finally settled things down shutting down Courtesy to just one run in the seventh in five innings of work allowing four hits, three K's and a free pass.
NOTE: Courtesy was mistakenly given two losses in the final standings due to games that were not played on the schedule. They ended their season with a perfect 17-0 record.


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ON TASAWWUF Imam Nawawi (d. 676)
One of the great Sufi scholars, strictest latter-time hadith masters, and most meticulous of jurists, Shaykh al-Islam Imam Muhyiddin Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi is with al-Rafi`i the principal reference of the late Shafi`i school. His books remain authoritative in the methodology of the law, in Qur'an commentary, and in hadith. His commentary of Sahih Muslim is second only to Ibn Hajar's commentary of Sahih Bukhari. Allah gave his famous compilation of Forty Hadiths more circulation and fame than possibly any other book of hadith, large or small, and has allowed Nawawi to be of immense benefit to the Community of Islam.
Nawawi was considered a Sufi and a saint, as is evident from the titles of some of his works and that of Sakhawi's biography entitled Tarjamat shaykh al-islam, qutb al-awliya' al-kiram, faqih al-anam, muhyi al-sunna wa mumit al-bid`a Abi Zakariyya Muhyi al-Din al-Nawawi (The biography of the Shaykh of Islam, the Pole of Noble Saints, the Jurist of Mankind, the Reviver of the Sunna and the Slayer of Innovation… al-Nawawi).
Nawawi writes in his short treatise entitled al-Maqasid fi al tawhid wa al-`ibada wa usul al-tasawwuf (The purposes in oneness, worship, and the foundations of self-purification):
The specifications of the Way of the Sufis are five:
- to keep the Presence of Allah in your heart in public and in private;
- to follow the Sunna of the Prophet by actions and speech;
- to keep away from people and from asking them;
- to be happy with what Allah gave you, even if it is less;
- to always refer your matters to Allah.1
He died before he could complete his Bustan al-`arifin fi al-zuhd wa al-tasawwuf (The garden of the gnostics in asceticism and self-purification), which is a precious collection of sayings of the early and late masters of tasawwuf elaborating on some of the finer points of self-purification. Here is an excerpt:
Al-Shafi`i said, may Allah have mercy on him: "Only the sincere one (mukhlis) knows hypocrisy (riya')." This means that it is impossible to know the reality of hypocrisy and see its hidden shades except for one who resolutely seeks (arada) sincerity. That one strives for a long time searching and meditating and examining at length within himself until he knows or knows something of what hypocrisy is. This does not happen for everyone. Indeed, this happens only with the special ones (al-khawass). But for a given individual to claim that he knows what hypocrisy is, this is real ignorance on his part.
I shall mention in this book a chapter, Allah willing, in which you will see a type of wonder that will cool your eyes. To illustrate the great extent of the concealment of hypocrisy we only need relate the following from the Teacher and Imam Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri, may Allah have mercy on him, from his Risala with our isnad previously mentioned.
He said: "I heard Muhammad ibn al-Husayn say: I heard Ahmad ibn `Ali ibn Ja`far say: I heard al-Hasan ibn `Alawiyya say: Abu Yazid [al-Bistami], may Allah be well pleased with him, said: I was for twelve years the blacksmith of my ego (haddadu nafsi), then for five years I became the mirror of my heart (mir'atu qalbi), then for a year I looked at what lay between the two of them and I saw around me a visible belt [i.e. of kufr = the vestimentary sign of a non-Muslim subject of the Islamic state]. So I strove to cut it for twelve years and then looked again, and I saw around me a hidden belt. So I worked to cut it for five years, looking to see how to cut. Then it was unveiled for me (kushifa li) and I looked at creation and saw that they were all dead. So I recited the funeral prayer over them."
I say: That hypocrisy should be as inscrutable as this to the peerless master in this path [i.e. tasawwuf] is enough to show how greatly hidden it lies. His phrase: "I saw them dead" is the apex of worth and beauty, and seldom do other than the Prophet's words, Blessings and Peace be upon him, gather up such wealth of meanings. I shall touch upon its meaning briefly. It means that after he had struggled long and hard and his ego had been disciplined and his heart illumined, and when he had conquered his ego and subdued it and achieved complete mastery over it, and it had subjected himself to him totally, at that time he looked at all created beings and found that they were dead and completely powerless:
- they cannot harm nor can they benefit;
- they cannot give nor can they withhold;
- they cannot give life nor can they give death;
- they cannot convey nor can they cut off;
- they cannot bring near nor can they take away;
- they cannot make happy nor can they make sad;
- they cannot bestow nor can they deprive;
- they possess for themselves neither benefit nor harm,
- nor death, nor life, nor resurrection.
This, then, characterizes human beings as dead: they are considered dead in all of the above respects, they are neither feared nor entreated, what they have is not coveted, they are not shown off to nor fawned upon, one does not concern oneself with them, they are not envied nor disparaged, their defects are not mentioned nor their faults pursued and exposed, one is not jealous of them nor thinks much of whatever Allah-given favors they have received, and they are forgiven and excused for their shortcomings, although the legal punishments are applied to them according to the Law. But the application of such punishment does not preclude what we have mentioned before, nor does it preclude our endeavoring to cover up their faults without disparaging them in the least.
This is how the dead are viewed. And if someone mentions human beings in a dishonorable manner we forbid him from probing that subject in the same way that we would if he were going to examine a person who died. We do not do anything for their sake nor do we leave Him for them. And we no more stop ourselves from fulfilling an act of obedience to Allah on their account than we do on account of a dead person, and we do not over-praise them. And we neither love their own praise for us nor hate their insults, and we do not reciprocate them.
In sum, they are as it were non-existent in all the respects we have mentioned. They are under Allah's complete care and jurisdiction. Whoever deals with them in such a way, he has combined the good of the next world with that of the lower world. May Allah the Generous grant us success towards achieving this These few words are enough to touch upon an explanation for Abu Yazid al-Bistami's saying, may Allah be well pleased with him.2
1 Cf. Nuh Keller, Al-Maqasid: Imam Nawawi's Manual of Islam(Evanston: Sunna Books, 1994) p. 85-86.2 al-Nawawi, Bustan al-`arifin (Beirut: dar al-kitab al-`arabi,1405/1985) p. 53-54.
Reproduced with permission from Shaykh M. Hisham Kabbani's The Repudiation of "Salafi" Innovations (Kazi, 1996) p. 349-353.
Blessings and Peace on the Prophet, his Family, and his Companions


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- Are your children bored with the parties they have been going to?
- Are you looking for a birthday party that easy for the parents and great for the kids?
At United Martial Arts Centers we specialize in children's birthday parties. Birthday parties at UMAC are engaging and exciting for all of the guests, while making the birthday boy or girl feel extra special. Parties are super easy for the parents and super fun for the kids. The greatest part is that a party at UMAC will make your child's special day a day he/she will always remember and you will be the super star parent!
What are the Benefits of having a UMAC Birthday Party?
- Alternative to typical boring parties: There are many birthday parties out there in the community. "Inflatable castles," "Pin the tail on the donkey," and "Ring around the rosy" are things of the past. UMAC provides the most exciting party where the guests will be engaged and have a "KICKING" great time.
- Birthday boy or girl made to feel special: The birthday boy or girl is the star of the day at UMAC. They will have "special" opportunities during the party that puts them in the spotlight. He/She also gets to break a birthday board in front of all of his/her friends to add to the special day.
- Easy for parents: Parents, there are no children at your house and no messy cleanups to take care of. We do it all so you don't have to. All you need to do is provide the cake, paper goods, goody bags and pizza if you desire. We have a designated area for you to set up while the kids are having a blast! We take care of the clean up so you can continue to have fun with your child.
- Everyone is in the fun: There are a lot of parties where the children are watching and being entertained. Not at UMAC! They are IN the fun from the moment they walk out on the floor until the minute they leave. They will participate in every activity, being engaged and excited the whole time. Of course, the birthday star is made to feel extra special.
- FUN: Fun is our middle name! We have a saying at UMAC, "If it's not fun, why do it?" and parties are no different. Birthday parties at UMAC are extremely fun as the children are kicking things, yelling loud, running and flying through the air. Think about it, what could be more fun than that?
Why UMAC is Uncommon:
- Structure and Fun in one activity: Just about every birthday party we host receive compliments on the structure of the party. Parents are amazed by how the children are so well-behaved and respond to the instructor. This is due to the engaging nature of martial arts and the way we keep everyone active and having fun. We have even been asked if our staff are professional actors because the party is so entertaining!
- The "UMAC Character Building Board": In our parties, we utilize the "UMAC Character Building Board" to help reinforce the martial arts values. Even at our birthday parties we ask the students, "What is important to a martial artist?" Students answer the values such as, "self-control, respect, confidence", and as the students demonstrate those values, they receive positive recognition by writing their names on the board so the rest of the class could see. This is what helps provide the structure and fun at the same time.
100% Engaging: UMAC Birthday parties are super engaging for three reasons:
- All guests participate in all activities and everyone is made to feel special and part of the party.
- Utilizing the "UMAC Character Building Board" keeps the guests wanting to do a great job so they can get the recognition.
- Our staff is engaging and exciting while they are committed to making your child's special day extra-special.
- Our Staff: All of the staff and instructors are what we call "home grown." They have been UMAC certified and been trained by our Masters Instructors from their beginnings. All UMAC Instructors have completed our Black Belt, Leadership and Instructor Training Programs. They share the passion to make a positive impact on the students of UMAC and are ready to make your child's birthday special.
We sincerely appreciate the opportunity to run your child's birthday party and make their party the best one ever. There are many options for parents and when a family chooses us, we take that to heart. That is why we make sure your child's party is fun and memorable for all who attend.
Party Details:
- Hour and a half long
- Scheduled on Saturdays and Sundays by appointment
- $300 for up to 15 children
- $75 deposit due at initial sign up
- Over 20 guests, please let us know so we can arrange additional assistants
- Invitations provided with liability waiver that must be returned by all guests to be allowed on the floor
Results to expect from a UMAC Birthday Party:
A happy child that says, "I Love you" because they had the best birthday they ever had.
Happy families and guests because they had a terrific experience at UMAC while their children had fun learning a few valuable skills.
Happy parents because they had an easy party, sitting back and enjoying themselves while UMAC did all the work.


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August 19, 2005
Dr. D. Kent King
Commissioner of Education
Missouri Department of Elementary
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Jefferson City, MO 65102
Dear Commissioner King:
As you know, Missouri indicated in its accountability plan the intent to use a confidence interval for 'safe harbor' considerations. In his letter of September 9, 2004, former Assistant Secretary Raymond Simon approved Missouris use of this statistical method but required the State to provide the Department information on the impact and implications of this approach as a condition of receiving final approval of Missouri's accountability plan. This condition is also reflected on Missouri's fiscal year 2004 Title I, Part A grant award.
We have received sufficient information from States to conclude that the use of a 75% confidence interval for 'safe harbor' considerations is a viable means of determining AYP. As a result, we have removed this condition from Missouri's 2004 grant award. I am pleased to fully approve Missouris amended plan, which is posted on the Department's website.
I appreciate the efforts Missouri has made to remove the conditions on its accountability plan and ensure its ability to hold all schools accountable for the academic success of all students.
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DENVER — During a community awards ceremony last night, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced that Master Sergeant Larry Bennington with the Arvada Police Department was the 2012 recipient of the "Attorney General's Excellence in Law Enforcement Award." Attorney General Suthers presented the annual award as part of the Arvada Police Awards Ceremony which celebrates the heroes of the community.
"During his 42-years with the Arvada Police Department, Master Sergeant Bennington has become an iconic presence to the police department and to the city," said Attorney General Suthers. "Master Sergeant Bennington embodies the very spirit of the Excellence in Law Enforcement Award serving the Arvada community honorably for his entire law enforcement career."
In nominating Bennington, Arvada Police Chief Don Wick wrote, "His integrity has never been in question and his love of service is clearly demonstrated with every shift. Without any intent and without wanting credit, Master Sergeant Bennington has crafted and positively influenced the culture of the Arvada Police Department through his decades of mentoring and leadership."
The Excellence in Law Enforcement Award recognizes exemplary service by an individual in Colorado law enforcement during that person's career. The quality of the service performed by an individual is the determining factor. The award's recipients will have exhibited extraordinary efforts of valor, crime prevention, investigative work, community outreach and other law enforcement functions.
Master Sergeant Bennington's has supervised every unit in the department during his career and his list of accomplishments is long, but it is his selfless dedication to mentoring the next generation of law enforcement leaders that made him a standout among this year's impressive field of nominees. Master
Sergeant Bennington is heavily involved with the Field Training Program that trains new officers. He consistently mentors and trains new officers and newly promoted sergeants. In 2011, Master Sergeant Bennington was approached about the potential for working the graveyard shift. He readily accepted this challenge and is back working the most difficult of hours so that he may mentor others in the department. Master Sergeant Bennington embraced this as an opportunity to continue cultivating the department's next generation of leaders.
A panel of law enforcement leaders — the director of Colorado's Peace Officer Standards and Training program, the executive director of the Colorado District Attorney's Council, the deputy attorney general for criminal justice and two leaders from local law enforcement agencies — selected the finalists for the award. From the finalists, the attorney general selected the winner.
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A non-profit association has been started to promote distance paddle training. It's called Stand Up Paddle Association of Hawaii - acronym SUPAH. SUPAH helps facilitate the active race scene in Hawaii and training opportunites and will be putting on 2 WPA sanctioned races this year in conjunction with Blue Planet Surf and Wet Feet:
SUPAH also works with Blue Planet Surf and Wet Feet to put on the Dollar Race Time Trials every Wednesday at 5pm an the Hawaii Kai Boat Ramp. Click the link on the menu for more info.
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SUPAH will also be doing community service projects such as ocean/shoreline cleanups using SUPs and public awareness and educational campaigns on SUP ocean safety and surf etiquette. WE partner with Malama Maunalua www.malamamaunalua.org protect Manualua bay and we support the work Na Kama Kai with keiki- www.nakamakai.com
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Vendors and organizers are preparing to officially celebrate the market's new, modernized digs with grand opening festivities Saturday, April 24, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The City Market, established in 1909, has been open in its new location since early January. The old location, which opened in 1938 a few dozen yards north and east at the corner of Cedar and Shiawassee streets, is in the midst of demolition.
Not all vendors made an immediate move in the early days of the new building. Since the "soft opening," some vendors have delayed opening due to contracting issues, but market manager John Hooper says, despite delays and a bit of vendor angst, capacity has reached 100 percent, with even more vendors looking for a space.
A new face has popped up since the move: City Fish has joined the ranks of vendors at the market. Owner Steve Joseph also runs two Scalawags restaurants in town, but at the market, his lake creatures are sold fresh to take home and cook yourself. Joseph says he specializes in wild caught (i.e., non-farm raised) fish such as walleye, whitefish and lake perch from Michigan waterways.
A few market stalls hold signs promising a vendor will be coming soon. Caruso's Candy Kitchen has such a sign, but Hooper says the confectioner that makes homemade candies and popcorn will be up and running by the weekend. Uncle John's Cider Mill will have a home in the market as well, selling products from its Fruit House Winery. But with its liquor license not yet finalized, only samples will be available for the festivities.
Two spaces will likely remain unoccupied for the grand opening. Longtime vendor Shoua's Kitchen may be open by then, but Hooper says coordinating a half-dozen contractors to finish installing equipment has been an incredible challenge. One space will definitely remain a work-in-progress: the one belonging to The Waterfront, the City Market's highly anticipated anchor restaurant to be operated by the owners of Williamston's River House Inn. Hooper says that a late-spring/earlysummer opening is expected.
So far, vendors seem satisfied with the new space, despite a design often described as that of a pole barn. Kevin Nichols of Bella Harvest, an organic produce vendor, says the new infrastructure is far superior tothe previous market building. Dead spots at the end of corridors in the old, H-shaped building meant some vendors saw little foot traffic.
"Now, people are almost forced to make a loop around and see every vendor," Nichols said. At the grand opening, Nichols will offer a buy one-vegetable-getanother-half-off special, and he hopes to have a fresh supply of locally produced, organic salad greens as well, possibly along with some other early crops that have taken off in what has been a fantastic early-growing season.
The biggest improvement in the new market, Nichols says, has been felt, not seen. "The old building was poorly insulated with gaps in the doors this big," he said, holding a thumb and forefinger a couple of inches apart. "And with no air conditioning in the summer, we just sat in our sweat."
Hooper makes Nichols' anecdotal claim of better insulation more concrete: "We've cut heating costs by two-thirds," Hooper says. "That's a significant savings for both the market and the city."
Along with the new building, vendors have adjusted to new hours as well. The market is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, and vendors are required to serve the public a minimum of 40 hours a week. Those late-morning opening times on weekdays, though, have some vendors concerned.
Magda Seif of Seif Foods, which will offer $1 off for every $10 in purchases this weekend, says many loyal customers want to have their shopping finished as early as possible.
"Opening at 11 a.m. can be a problem," she says. "Sometimes, people are waiting outside before we open."
Joseph of City Fish agrees. "We miss a ton of people in the morning," he says. "From 3 to 7 p.m., it really slows down. We have to address that, or we may start losing vendors."
says a problem with the previous market vendor agreement was that some
stalls were open when others were not, resulting in an inconsistent
shopping experience. So now each vendor is required to remain open
during normal market hours.
addition, the marketing strategy of the new City Market tends toward
gentrification. Hooper says the plan is to position the market as a
grocery store alternative by attracting what he calls "urban dwellers"
who live nearby and may shop after work. Suburbanites, who work
downtown until 5 p.m., are targeted as well.
an extra hour to shop in the new building (the old location closed at 6
p.m.), Hooper hopes the market will see growth in new demographics.
I would like to stay open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.," Hooper says. "That's
the way many urban markets operate." He notes, however, that extended
hours are available to vendors upon request, contingent on market
supervision. When The Waterfront restaurant opens, it will operate late
into the evening, and others, such as Hickory Corners, have already
taken advantage of extended hours, a privilege open to all vendors, Hooper says.
is another ever-present worry on the minds of vendors. Bob's Produce
owner Bob Falsetta is concerned about parking as the Market grows into
its new location and planned development sprouts up on the corner of
Cedar and Shiawassee.
Falsetta is especially concerned with parking during the annual Common Ground festival in July.
"I'm thinking of not even opening that week," Falsetta said.
the short term, free parking should not be a pressing issue, but if
planned development becomes a reality, the abundant free lspace the
market now enjoys may go away.
an urban public market," Hooper says. "If you go to Pike's Place in
Seattle, you're parking eight blocks away. You're always going to have
parking issues."
But before then, the market's grand opening hopes to build on the buzz generated by its new home.
to City Market's opening Saturday, Hooper, Mayor Virg Bernero and other
dignitaries will speak before a ribbon is cut at 8:45 a.m. Live bands
are scheduled to perform at 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m. Guest speakers,
demonstrations, face painting, pie-eating contests for kids and other
events will fill the day.
says his Bella Harvest stand had its best day ever when the new
building opened in January. "I hope the grand opening is even more
successful," he says.


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At least at this firm - it's 2000 hr requirement for the firm, and hours get kicked back ALL the time! It seems really stressful since the clients are pretty sophisticated.
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Hopefully we'll hear at least a few of these tracks when Brian Setzer plays the Lynn Auditorium on June 21.
He's best known for reviving rockabilly with the Stray Cats in the 1980s and fueling the '90s swing craze with his 17-piece Brian Setzer Orchestra. But Brian Setzer has also continued to crank out his own albums in between those projects, and it's as a solo artist that he's bringing his "Rockabilly Riot" combo to the Lynn Auditorium on June 21. You can expect loud guitars, rockin' boogie-woogie piano and no shortage of cat tattoos.
To mark the occasion, we thought we'd run down our 10 favorite solo tracks from the modern era's greatest rockabilly rebel.
1) "The Knife Feels Like Justice" from "The Knife Feels Like Justice" (1986). Some diehards didn't exactly love Setzer's first solo effort, which moved away from rockabilly and toward Mellencamp-style roots rock. But it's actually an insanely catchy album, and the title track is both haunting and beautiful, with (of course) a killer guitar break.
2) "Barbwire Fence" from "The Knife Feels Like Justice" (1986). Part hillbilly hoedown, part rockabilly raveup, it's a wild and smoking-hot closer to Setzer's first foray away from the Stray Cats.
3) "Ignition" from "Ignition" (2001). Cheeky car/girl double entendres are a rockabilly standard, and the title track to this album -- credited to '68 Comeback Special, the trio Setzer formed after a decade fronting his orchestra -- is a classic of the genre.
4) "8-Track" from "Ignition" (2001). This driving country rocker features 31 glorious seconds of yodeling -- basically Setzer's way of flipping the bird to anyone who thought he might actually adhere to early 21st century pop radio standards.
5) "Ring, Ring, Ring" from "Nitro Burnin' Funny Daddy" (2003). The album's an underrated rockabilly gem, and this turbocharged stomper lampoons frenetic daily lives full of barkin' dogs, yakkin' women and suin' lawyers with a quick shift into overdrive that never lets up.
6) "When The Bells Don't Chime" from "Nitro Burnin' Funny Daddy" (2003). Setzer's banjo skills take center stage on this bluegrass-flavored twanger. (There's even a separate banjo remix at the end of the disc.)
7) "Peroxide Blonde in a Hopped Up Model Ford" from "Rockabilly Riot 1: A Tribute to Sun Records" (2005). All the Sun covers on this disc are blisteringly authentic, but this loosey-goosey rumbler stands out: Setzer actually looked up the song's original artist, Gene Simmons, to help him finish off his take on a long-lost unreleased track whose original master had been partially erased.
8) "Really Rockabilly" from "13" (2006). Setzer hilariously bites the hands that feed him (or at least some of them) with this winking takedown of rockabilly poseurs ("He's wearin' 1956 underwear").
9) "Pickpocket" from "Setzer Goes Instru-Mental!" (2011). Setzer's all-instrumental album picks and grins through rock, country, surf, noir, and even jazz with his take on Ray Noble's "Cherokee." But it's this chugging original that best shows off his rockabilly bonafides.
10) "Let's Shake" from "Rockabilly Riot! All Original" (2014). It's not all about the guitars -- even if it's mostly about the guitars. This Jerry Lee Lewis-inspired rattler -- "whole lotta shakin' goin' on!" Setzer declares halfway through, in case you hadn't gotten the point -- plays Setzer's Gretsch against Kevin McKendree hard-stomping piano, to great effect.
Honorable mention: "When the Sky Comes Tumblin' Down" from "Live Nude Guitars" (1988). It might not be Setzer's best song, but it's certainly one of his weirdest, with its apocalyptic imagery and nuclear winter setting. "Oh no I don't need sedation, I got my daily dose of radiation," Setzer wails, lending hope to the idea that rockabilly could outlast civilization. We should be so lucky.
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"The turnovers killed us," said ETSU head coach Murry Bartow. "We were not very efficient tonight on offense. We wanted 12 to 13 turnovers for the game and instead we had 20 in the first half. The defensive effort had a lot to do with our offense. When you don't execute on offense, it makes defending that much harder."
In the first half, the Bucs committed 20 turnovers and the Vols capitalized on the mistakes by scoring 20 points off the miscues. Tennessee would lead by as many as 17 points three times in the first half, but the Bucs did manage a rally midway through the first half, cutting the lead to eight points at 32-24 with 4:51 left before the intermission.
However, from there
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At that point, Smith - who scored just four points in the first half - scored 10-straight points in a 47-second span to cut the lead to 14 at 77-63. However, from there the Vols held off the ETSU momentum, scoring 11 straight and leading 88-64 with over six minutes left in the game.
Smith finished with 26 points and eight assists, but also picked up nine turnovers. Along with Smith, senior forward Dillion Sneed (Chicago) collected a double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds, while freshman guard Courtney Pigram (Memphis) and senior guard Ben Rhoda (Dayton, Ohio) netted 16 and 11 points, respectively.
ETSU shot a strong 53.3 percent from the floor and held its own on the boards with
The Bucs will return to action Tuesday night at non-conference foe Radford. Tip for the game is set 7 p.m. Check ETSUBucs.com for updates on ETSU basketball throughout the year.


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The new frontier in lighting continues to expand well beyond the ever-hyped solid-state lighting (SSL) market, as communications/control systems of all stripes were evident at the Lightfair International show, held May 3-7 in New York's Jacob Javitz Convention Center.
Energy matters
Because the first rule in the energy efficiency game is to reduce electric lighting power usage when it's not needed, sensing and control systems are increasingly using Cat. 5e UTP cabling to conveniently interconnect components and sophisticated software to monitor the installations. Not surprisingly, one of the educational sessions at this year's event was titled "The Integration of Lighting and IT."
Given the fact that solid-state lighting is an important product segment in this era of limited natural resources — and because the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is committed to transforming lighting technology through educational activities, industry alliances, standards development, and certification programs — the DOE had a noticeable presence at the show with a large booth. To help the more than 23,000 attendees learn in a vendor-neutral environment, half-hour sessions were available, covering subjects from the CALiPER testing program to the Next Generation Luminaires competition to the two new standards (LM-79 and LM-80) for LED sources.
High brightness (HB) light-emitting diodes (LEDs), offering high efficiency and stable white color for a variety of applications, were evident almost everywhere. Some of the advancements in HBLED technology can be attributed to the efforts of the DOE in recent years. However, a critical fact that limits the intensity of HBLEDs is extraction efficiency: the percentage of useful photons able to escape from the surface of the die, instead of remaining trapped inside by internal reflection.
To address this problem, an MIT spinoff, Luminus Devices, designed a die with an array of sub-wavelength microstructures known as photonic lattices, which send out photons in a highly directional manner. The dies, called PhlatLights, are available in a broad array of color temperatures, allowing, for example, a single CSM-360 M LED package to deliver over 6,000 lumens. The single Chip-on-Board package consists of four separate monolithic chips, each with a light-emitting surface of 9 mm (square). Applications include general, architectural, and portable lighting markets.
Several LED fixtures on display did something a little different, including Everbrite Lighting Technologies' MedLux XLS-2 downlight for use in MRI spaces, which replaces the commonly used incandescent downlight that can suffer premature lamp failure caused by a strong magnetic field. In addition, an incandescent filament nearing its point of failure can resonate and degrade the radiology image. Rated at less than 60W, the LED fixture delivers 50 fc at task level. Lightolier's Calculite LED downlight uses remote phosphor technology to redirect back-reflected light out of the 4-in round and square models. Rated at 20W, with a 50° cutoff, the unit provides 11,000 lumens at 4,000K. Cooper Lighting's 2×2 ft recessed troffer mounts the LEDs within a stylized heatsink suspended below the reflector, allowing the fixture to operate in high ambient temperatures.
Look for Genera Electric, Osram Sylvania, and Philips to have true LED replacements lamps for A-line, B10, and PAR 38 incandescent sources in the near future. Philips, which purchased Genlyte, the No. 2 U.S. maker of lighting fixtures in 2007, had 24 separate booths for all of its product lines, which employ many of its high-performance LEDs. Osram Sylvania has business strategies with fixture makers such as Acuity Brands for its top-performing LEDs, and General Electric is investing in evolving technologies and pursuing a strategy of building highly reliable LED systems that meet the demands of major customers like Wal-Mart.
Outdoor endeavors
Several manufacturers introduced products at this year's event that turn an outdoor lighting system into a communications network, making it easier to monitor, control, and maintain not just roadway lighting but also call boxes, dynamic message signs, cameras, inductive loops, and the entire related power distribution system.
The development of the Electrical and Lighting Management Systems (ELMS) network stems from the efforts of three associations, including the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA). The ELMS network incorporates a standard from the National Transportation Communications for Intelligent Transportation System Protocol (NTCIP), which provides remote monitoring of electrical-based equipment.
The NTCIP123, "Electrical Lighting and Management Systems," allows for standards-based, 2-way communications between a central monitoring station and street lighting equipment. Typically, the communicating device containing a microprocessor and a wireless transceiver plugs into the standard NEMA twist-lock receptacle atop the luminaire. Four of the five communications protocols supported by the ELMS equipment are BACnet, LonTalk, DALI, and DMX.
With both the wide acceptance of LED roadway lighting and the expansion of solid-state HID ballasts, the use of bilevel switching to achieve a uniform 50% reduction in light output while maintaining uniformity levels during late night hours is also gaining popularity. In the future, energy costs will likely vary with the time of night, as unnecessary street illumination is curtailed.
At the show, Echelon teamed with Beta Lighting and LED Roadway (LED streetlights), ROMLight (electronic ballasts for HPS and MH streetlights) and Streetlight. Vision (streetlight and high-bay lighting system management software) to demonstrate the ability to individually dim and monitor a fixture. Echelon's control technology also can be integrated into warehouses, retail spaces, hangers, and other large structures.
Partnering for success
Also at this year's event, a trade association called LONMARK International announced the formation of an advisory committee to promote open networks in lighting systems. Founding members include: the California Energy Commission, the California Lighting Technology Center, Echelon Corp., Philips Lighting, and ROMlight International.
Leviton Manufacturing Co. entered the arena of digital communications/controls, energy monitoring, and LED illumination on a large scale with three strategic partnerships. Using wireless products from EnOcean GmbH, Leviton introduced a lineup of self-powered occupancy sensors that require no new wiring in a retrofit application. The system includes occupancy sensors, remote switches, wall switches, and integrated wireless receivers that automatically turn lights on when occupancy is detected and off when the space is unoccupied. The receiver switches are rated 10A, 120-277V.
The second partnership is with ADMMicro, a firm that offers real-time monitoring to create an energy profile for a facility and then implement a plan for increasing energy efficiency. Investment payback can be achieved in two years or less. Revenue grade accuracy is provided for electricity, natural gas, propane, or water consumption.
The third partnership aligns Molex's Transcend Lighting Series of LED products with Leviton's extensive distribution system, promoting the adoption of LED technology by fixture manufacturers. Transcend is a line of self-contained, pluggable LED light modules; the RM2 (reflector model) uses an AC line voltage LED with a GU24 base for integration into new and existing directional and decorative fixtures. The PM (surface puck module) is for general service and decorative fixtures. Molex's partner is Seoul Semiconductor, maker of the Acriche 4W AC LED. DC solutions will be offered in the future.
The growing acceptance of LED lighting (which generally is served by a 12VDC or 24VDC power supply) for general interior office applications is a key factor in the development of the Emerge Alliance, another new open industry association, promoting low-voltage, DC power distribution from an enclosure installed in the above-ceiling space.
The founding members are Armstrong World Industries, Johnson Controls, Nextek Power Systems, Osram Sylvania, and WAVE. The first liaison members include BACnet International, the EnOcean Alliance, and the ZigBee Alliance. Acuity Brands Lighting, Lighting Science Group, Sensor Switch, Tyco Electronics, WattStopper/Legrand, and Crestron Electronics are among the more than 30 companies in the alliance.
A prototype model, with the new power distribution system supporting solid-state ballasts, LED fixtures, and wireless switching, was shown at the Osram Sylvania booth. To reduce resistive power losses in such a DC system, run lengths are likely to be relatively sort and wire gauges sufficiently large.
Because Class 2 power-limited circuits can carry a maximum of 100VA, the DC circuits likely would use spider or hub-and-spoke wiring topologies. Additionally, DC power coming from renewable sources at the site, such as solar or wind, would likely use Class 1 wiring, eliminating the need for DC-to-AC inverters, filters, and isolation switches.
This system would complement the AC power system in a building, serving as an economical way to power "native" DC equipment, such as cell phone chargers and other personal use devices, as well as basic building controls, sensors, VAV actuators, security systems, and A/V systems.
While looking at the outdoor market, it's worth commenting on viable street and roadway LED light options that include designs from Phillip's Hadco, McGraw Edison's Generation, and Osram Sylvania's post top street light retrofit kit. General Electric showed the Evolve LED Garage Light fixture, available in 80,110W and 125W rating, and in three optical designs. The Evolve LED Series Area Light is rated from 97W to 214W, depending on the light distribution pattern.
In control
Electronic controls help lighting loads sip power, a trend that was highlighted by many vendors at the show. For example, Watt Stopper offers Digital Lighting Management (DLM), a series of plug-together lighting controls with automated self-configuring sensors, switches, and other components. DLM uses Cat. 5e RJ45 cables to connect the room components. This eliminates most of the contractor labor associated with interpreting wiring diagrams, setting DIP switches, and terminating low-voltage connections, thus eliminating the potential for wiring errors.
Hubbell Building Automation's LX Networked Light Controls distribution panel has a touchscreen GUI at the top of the enclosure. The IntellADAPT occupancy sensor analyzes occupancy and adjusts the time and sensitivity settings. The Light BAT GZ dual-level controller and PIR sensor serves 175 to 1,650 CWA-type HID ballasts in high-bay applications.
Cooper Controls introduced the ControlKeeper EM Lighting Control System, which offers full network control from a single color touchscreen, true power metering, and a complete energy conservation system. The DemandKeeper is an automated wireless demand response lighting control system that can cut usage at critical times or in response to market prices.
Acuity Brand's nLight digital communications network consists of occupancy/photo sensors, power packs, and wall switches, which can be supervised via Web-based management software called SensorView.
Lutron showed its GRAFIK Eye QS control panel, which has wireless capabilities. The Radio Powr Savr occupancy/vacancy sensor features wireless setup and contains front-accessible buttons/an illuminating lens to verify ideal locations.