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Last month, the manager of the Beverly Hills restaurant Red Medicine shamed diners who didn't turn up for their Saturday night reservations by calling them out on Twitter.
"I hope you enjoyed your GF's Bday and the flowers that you didn't bring when you no-showed for your 815 res," Noah Ellis tweeted. "Thanks."
But shame is only one tactic used by restaurateurs working to make sure their seats are filled each night.
This coming week, anyone looking to score a table at hotly anticipated Trois Mec, the new restaurant from celebrity chefs Ludo Lefebvre, Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, will have to buy tickets — just as they would for a movie or a concert.
The 26-seat Trois Mec, which opens Thursday in an unmarked former pizza joint in a Melrose Avenue strip mall, will be the first restaurant in Los Angeles to sell nonrefundable tickets online — nearly $100 with tax and tip (not including wine) — and is among only a handful of others in the world doing the same.
"We considered everything — no reservations, putting a deposit on a credit card," says Krissy Lefebvre, Ludo's wife and partner. "But people pay for tickets for entertainment. This just happens to be entertainment in the form of dinner."
All over town, restaurants, which operate on notoriously thin profit margins, are in a battle with no-show diners, who increasingly are expected to bear more responsibility for their end of the bargain. Restaurants such as Urasawa in Beverly Hills require a credit-card hold with a $100-per-person cancellation fee. Saison in San Francisco takes it a step further; if you cancel within 72 hours of your reservation, you're still required to pay the full cost of the meal (it has one menu, priced at $298 per person).
Public humiliation isn't unheard of either. Red Medicine's Ellis sparked controversy when he tweeted the names of several no-shows, but his isn't the only restaurant to out customers who didn't honor their reservations. A short-lived social-media campaign by restaurateurs in Australia employed the Twitter hashtag #noshowshame, attached to tweets with the names of people who shirked their reservations. And Rene Redzepi, chef of renowned Copenhagen restaurant Noma, famously blew up online when two tables no-showed and he tweeted a picture of him and his staff extending their middle fingers.
"The sad thing is we ran about 15% no-shows last Saturday night [post-shaming]," says Ellis, which is "where we typically were before. It's frustrating because we haven't found a great solution here, to be honest with you."
Nick Kokonas, co-owner, with Grant Achatz, of Alinea in Chicago and its spinoffs Next and Aviary, says the answer, for some restaurants at least, is tickets. Kokonas spearheaded the ticketing system at Next, then adopted it at Alinea and is planning to roll it out for other restaurants under the name Next Table. It is the system Trois Mec is using, and also is used by Elizabeth restaurant in Chicago. (Leave it to a former derivatives trader to reconfigure the financial pact between restaurant and customer.)
"There were several surprising things to me when we opened Alinea," Kokonas says, "and one of the most surprising was that people don't mind canceling last-minute. They just assume you are going to fill the seat. It's true of restaurants all over the world." Even Alinea, with a 200-person waiting list, couldn't always fill spots on short notice. Kokonas says he doesn't condone Ellis' response to no-shows, "but I understand how frustrated they were."
Making a reservation "is like an unwritten contract," says David Chang, the chef behind the Momofuku empire of restaurants in New York, Toronto and Sydney. It helps restaurants anticipate how much food and staff are needed on a given night, and diners know that they'll be able to sit at a table at a certain time (which doesn't always happen, especially if restaurants overbook — usually in anticipation of no-shows).
But diners are human: Sometimes they forget or get sick. "Diners for the most part are benevolent. They don't wake up in the morning thinking, 'I'm really going to screw this restaurant over and not cancel,'" says Alexander Kvamme, founder of online reservations service Seatme.com, who has noticed more restaurants that require credit-card holds because of no-shows. "It's really an unfortunate position for restaurants. Every empty seat because of a no-show really costs you."
At Trois Mec ("three guys" in French), which has only four tables and eight bar seats, if "one table doesn't show up for each seating, that's more than 10% of our business," says Krissy Lefebvre. "It's an inventory issue as well. We order based on exactly what those guests need — to be able to provide the best possible experience. Then there's labor costs. If a table doesn't show up, we've probably overstaffed by one person."
"The only way you can really prevent a no-show is having people pay ahead of time," says Momofuku's Chang. Though he says he hopes that tickets are the future of dining, he hasn't instituted them at his restaurants such as 12-seat Momofuku Ko (a notoriously difficult online-only reservation). But he is especially intrigued by dynamic pricing, which means paying a premium for seats that are more in demand — a table for Saturday night at 8, for example, would cost more than a table for Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.
That's how it works at Next, which sold nearly $20 million in tickets in the last two years, Kokonas says. But Next and Alinea are considered two of the best restaurants in the country, offering experiences on the level of theater. Their menus are set; everyone who buys a ticket gets the same elaborate, multi-course meal.
For certain restaurants with a la carte menus, "I just think it's really tricky," Red Medicine's Ellis says. But Kokonas is betting that others will innovate to fit their own circumstances. "It's not just for the Alineas of the world but the little Chinese place down the street."
Lack of ticket demand isn't a likely problem for Trois Mec. Because of the popularity of LudoBites, the pop-up dinners that brought Ludo Lefebvre culinary fame, the Lefebvres ended up using a lottery system for reservations for the last few series. Thousands of would-be diners trying to get a spot at LudoBites have been known to crash reservation systems.
Trois Mec tickets will be available on the restaurant's website, where a customer has to register with a user name and password before making a purchase. Registration starts Tuesday, and tickets for the next two weeks go on sale at 8 a.m. on Wednesday for parties of up to six at two rolling seatings (between 6 and 6:45 p.m. and between 8 and 9 p.m.). Tickets will then be released every two weeks on Fridays at 8 a.m.
It's $75 for a five-course menu, including dishes such as potato pulp with milk skin, brown butter, bonito, onion soubise and Salers cheese from Auvergne; chicken and asparagus with mustard flower mustard, pancetta and brioche; and strawberries with almond ice cream, rhubarb, rose ice and olive oil cake. The total ticket price including an 18% service charge and tax is $97.13, and beer and wine will add to the tab. There are no refunds or exchanges, but diners can sell their tickets and then transfer them on the Trois Mec site.
Now someone has to figure out how to get Angelenos to dinner on time. At Trois Mec, service will start whether all the members of your party have arrived or not. It's like baseball, says Ludo Lefebvre. "If you're late, the game's starting anyway." Even if it is bumper-to-bumper on the 101.


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(COLUMBUS, Ohio) - Sophomore quarterback Jensen Gebhardt (Kings Mills, Ohio/Kings) led the Thomas More College football team to a 20-0 win over Capital University today (Saturday, September 7, 2013) in both teams' season opener at Bernlohr Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.
With the win, the Saints open the season at 1-0 and the Crusaders fall to 0-1.
Thomas More never trailed in the game as it led 6-0 after one quarter, 13-0 at halftime and 20-0 after three quarters.
Thomas More took a 6-0 lead at the 1:07 mark of the first quarter when Gebhardt connected on a 31-yard touchdown pass to sophomore wide receiver Goose Cohorn (Independence, Ky./Dixie Heights) and senior place kicker Tim Gormly, Jr.'s (Cincinnati, Ohio/McNicholas) point-after-attempt was no good.
The Saints increased the lead to 13-0 at halftime when Gebhardt connected on a 16-yard touchdown pass to sophomore wide receiver Tyler Vogelpohl (Cincinnati, Ohio/LaSalle) and Gormly added the PAT with 9:20 to play in the second quarter.
Junior running back Domonique Hayden (Lexington, Ky./Lexington Christian Academy) closed out the scoring with a 29-yard touchdown run and Gormly added the PAT with 4:27 to play in the third quarter for the final score of 20-0.
Thomas More outgained the Crusaders, 379 yards to 190 yards, as the Saints had 199 yards rushing and 180 yards passing and Capital had 147 yards rushing and 43 yards passing.
Gebhardt finished the game 11-of-22 passing for 144 yard and two touchdowns. Hayden led the team on the ground with 21 carries for 157 yards and one touchdown. Cohorn led the team in receiving as he had four catches for 74 yards and a touchdown, while junior wide receiver Bobby Leonard (Edgewood, Ky./Dixie Heights) had three catches for 41 yards, Voglepohl had two catches for 31 yards and a touchdown and junior wide receiver Ryan Winkler (Independence, Ky./Simon Kenton) had two catches for 23 yards.
Defensively, the Saints were led by junior defensive lineman Erick Butler (Eminence, Ky./Henry County), who had 10 tackles, including three and a half for a loss. Junior linebacker Nate Dorsey (Henderson, Ky./Henderson) had nine tackles, while senior linebacker Alex Taylor (Cincinnati, Ohio/Elder) finished with eight tackles, including one and a half for a loss and one interception and sophomore linebacker Nick Pennekamp (Cincinnati, Ohio/Elder) had six tackles.
Thomas More is idle until Saturday, September 21 when it travels to New Wilmington, Pennsylvania to play Westminster College in its Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) opener at Harold Burry Stadium. Kickoff is at 7 p.m.


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Making the halberd into an improvisational guitar, Lara starts to play as the head happily sings along the first chorus that comes to his mind:
The white mage quickly plugged his ears.
And indeed, a fairly hard rock showed up above the East Leader.
He pressed himself against the side of the wall, barely avoiding the falling rock, which still managed to knock off his visor.
The Killer Queen didn't stop at this. Rather fickle with her affections, she prepared to cast away her newly acquired toy.
into the neck of the heavy. However, his armour barely saved him.
Lost the pics that showed the white mage's attacks and the effects... goddamnit those took me ages to put up. I'm enduring a bit of a crappy week. Anyway the leader died. In the background the axemen rushed upon the remaining imperials.
Enraged by the loss of their great leader, the heavy closest to the white mage picked up the sniper's fallen crossbow and fired at his killer, but the mage cast away the bolt. He got maddened by confidence, having managed this so many times already this battle.
White Mage: "HARHARHAR! NO MERE ARROW CAN HARM ME!"
Phalanx: "We'll see about that."
They picked up the crossbowman and ranger's fallen equipment.
Deafened by the loud rock music and his own shouting, the white mage didn't see the attack coming, and was cut down. However, he - quite literally - went down as probably the most badass non-hero character of the battle.
There was a LOT of damage in the Bulls' attacks; the hero was hurt but the Starcape heroically defended himself.
The banner carrier didn't fare as well: the heavy crushed his throat.
Seeing this, the purple mage decided to show he could give someone a worse death. The wagon jerked forward...
and killed the heavy before he knew what was going on.
The bodyguard got crazy mad after being wounded.
Bodyguard: "YOU SCRATCHED MY ARMOUR! IT COST A FORTUNE! WHAT WILL THE OTHER GIRLS SAY NOW!"
As she began her frenzy, the Starcape locked in the conflict scrambled to get his hands on his gun, with which he was still more familiar. On a sidenote, the last remnant of Bull East was meanwhile eliminated.
Still wondering how it was he survived, he opened fire on the nearest crossbowman.
He took the shot in the face, thus the Bulls' hopes at victory were all but crushed, though they could still make a leap for the queen? In any case, the bodyguard, still frenzied, forgot her manners and followed her sudden urge to:
Warhead wrote:Yell at the Queen to get her Royal High-Anus in gear!
Carnage, anyone?
Quite destructive rolls this turn. Seems I'll have to revise my opinion. Anyway the bodyguard had a double attack, just like the ranger, and it seems to have paid off.


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An ultrasound uses sound waves to produce a picture of the baby on a computer screen. It can be used to determine fetal age. The test can also identify twins (or more), evaluate fetal structure, study breathing, and measure amount of amniotic fluid. An ultrasound may be done at anytime during the pregnancy. In the first trimester it can be done to make sure the age of the fetus is known. In the second trimester it is often done to evaluate fetal structure.
This screening assesses a baby's risk for Down or Turner syndrome in the first trimester. It uses ultrasound to measure the space in the tissue at the back of the fetus' neck, where fluid tends to accumulate if Down or Turner syndrome is present. The results of this test can indicate the need for further testing.
NT can also be used during this time to screen for congenital heart defects in fetuses without chromosome abnormalities. Further testing can be done later in the pregnancy with a fetal echocardiogram.
The triple screen looks for three specific substances in the mothers blood:
Abnormal levels of the substances can indicate possible Down syndrome or other chromosomal abnormalities. It can also help identify neural tube defects (spina bifida).
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This is a blood test that can detect the amount of the fetal DNA in the mothers blood. This test can help identify babies at increased risk for certain chormosomal abnormalities like Down syndrome or Trisomy 18 early in the pregnancy.
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Jose Mourinho says Chelsea will wait to make fresh move for Wayne Rooney
Jose Mourinho says Chelsea will not make a fresh bid for Wayne Rooney before Monday's game at Manchester United.
Last Updated: 22/08/13 4:26pm
Chelsea have identified Rooney as their primary transfer target of the summer but have so far had two offers for the striker rebuffed.
United remain adamant that the England international is not for sale and he made an appearance as a substitute in Saturday's 4-1 victory over Swansea City.
The Blues are expected to test United's resolve yet again, but Mourinho insists it would not be appropriate to make a move before Monday's meeting between the sides at Old Trafford.
"I don't want Chelsea to do it before we go there," said Mourinho, following Chelsea's 2-1 defeat of Aston Villa on Wednesday.
"Everybody in the club, in the board, they agree with me. They share that opinion.
"I think this period, by the ethical point of view, is a period where we're going to be quiet."
Mourinho admitted earlier in the week that he respected United's right to turn down any bid, and revealed he did have other targets if Chelsea's pursuit of Rooney was ultimately unsuccessful.
"We trust a lot in our project for the future because the team is very, very young," he said on Tuesday. "But we have conditions to try and improve our team by bringing in one more player and we are going to try that until the end.
"When you think that you'd like to have one player and the market is open, then official bids are not forbidden. Official bids are always accepted in an ethical way.
"You try because nobody forbids you to try and, of course, the player's owners can do exactly what we did in relation to David Luiz and Barcelona."
"We have a plan B and a plan C! Don't ask me names, because it's difficult to speak about players from other clubs."


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Davis, CA, Oct. 2, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Moller International, Inc. (MI) (OTC-QB: MLER), the developer of the Skycar® aircraft, the Rotapower® line of rotary engines and the Aerobot® line of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) will conduct its 2013 Annual Shareholders meeting on Saturday, November 16, 2013 from 10:00 AM to noon.
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Chris Mooney | September 14, 2011
By Chris Mooney • Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 06:32
Readers of my posts over the last half year will be familiar with the phenomenon of motivated reasoning, in which people's subconscious emotional impulses lead them to respond, in a biased way, to information that challenges their deeply held beliefs and worldviews. We've been focusing on this so much because I believe it explains a great deal of what we here call climate change denial, and the resistance to inconvenient science (and inconvenient facts) in general.
One important researcher on motivated reasoning is Dartmouth political scientist Brendan Nyhan. In Mother Jones, I described one of his previous studies, demonstrating how motivated reasoning can lead to a "backfire effect" when people are confronted with politically inconvenient information:
Take, for instance, the question of whether Saddam Hussein possessed hidden weapons of mass destruction just before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. When political scientists Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler showed subjects fake newspaper articles (PDF) in which this was first suggested (in a 2004 quote from President Bush) and then refuted (with the findings of the Bush-commissioned Iraq Survey Group report, which found no evidence of active WMD programs in pre-invasion Iraq), they found that conservatives were more likely than before to believe the claim. (The researchers also tested how liberals responded when shown that Bush did not actually "ban" embryonic stem-cell research. Liberals weren't particularly amenable to persuasion, either, but no backfire effect was observed.)
So how do you persuade people, if not with factual corrections of the sort run by newspapers? That's what a new paper by Nyhan and Reifler has undertaken to study.
This time, the contested issues under examination were whether the 2007 troop "Surge" decreased insurgent attacks in Iraq (it did), whether the U.S. economy added jobs during 2010 under President Obama (it did), and whether global average temperatures have risen since 1940 (they have). Those who opposed the Iraq war and supported troop withdrawals were disinclined to credit George W. Bush's surge with having worked. Those who oppose President Obama are disinclined to credit him on the economy, or to generally believe in global warming—especially that it is human caused.
Nyhan and Reifler once again confronted partisans with information on these subjects that (presumably) contradicted their beliefs—but there was a twist. This time, the contradictory information was sometimes presented in the form of a convincing graph, showing a clear trend (in attacks, jobs, or temperatures). And second, sometimes the individuals went into the manipulation after having undergone a "self-affirmation" exercise, in which they were asked to describe a positive character attribute or value that they possessed, and a situation in which showing that attribute or trait made them feel good about themselves.
And in both cases, the manipulation worked—although by different means.
Presenting an unequivocal graph was powerful enough to change people's views, even as presenting technical text (at least in the rising temperatures case) was not. Meanwhile, getting people to affirm their values and sense of self also decreased their resistance, presumably because they felt less threatened by challenging information after having had their egos reinforced and their identities bolstered.
This is a really important development, in several ways. First, it shows that scientists who communicate in wonk text, or cluttered graphs that are hard to follow, are shooting themselves in the foot. For instance, here is the wonk text in question, straight from a NASA press release*—the text that failed to work where a graph succeeded:
Groups of scientists from several major institutions — NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center, the Japanese Meteorological Agency and the Met Office Hadley Centre in the United Kingdom — tally data collected by temperature monitoring stations spread around the world. All four records show peaks and valleys that vary in virtual sync with each other. They each show an increase in average global surface temperatures of approximately 0.5 degrees Celsius over the last three decades. Data from each source also indicate that the last decade is the warmest since 1940.
By contrast, here is the graph that worked (it is also the image accompanying this post).
But I think the finding about self-affirmation is even more important. Because what this shows is that people are clearly resisting facts because these threaten their identities—which means that arguing back at them factually will only make them more defensive and engender a backfire effect. By contrast, approaching them in an emotionally sensitive and aware manner, and making them feel less threatened, will open them up. (Sometimes, at least.)
Nevertheless, there are also several potential problems that I see with the study, and its global warming portion in particular.
First, none of the study's manipulations were done in a really partisan context that would have gotten people's political emotions firing, priming them to be really, really defensive. For instance, people were asked if jobs increased, but they weren't asked whether "President Obama's unfairly maligned stimulus worked to help save the economy from disaster, in contradiction to the bogus claims of many Tea Partiers."
Similarly, the most hotly contested issue in the climate debate is not whether the world has warmed, but whether humans are responsible for that warming. Many deniers will agree that warming has occurred, but then claim that it's natural. So they might not have found the information presented in the study very threatening. And once again, it wasn't presented in the most partisan and emotionally arousing way—e.g., they weren't shown evidence to prove that "Al Gore is right about global warming and those who have been irresponsibly attacking him, like Rush Limbaugh, don't know what the hell they're talking about."
Second, while I am not surprised that John Q Climate Skeptic cannot refute a definitive temperature graph, I think that those who occupy climate denial blogs—a very small proportion of the total public, but individuals who are very engaged on this issue and very intense in their beliefs—would be more than happy to give it a try. In fact, we see them picking apart and undermining graphs, like the Hockey Stick graph, all the time.
In other words, if high bias is combined with high sophistication (as in the case of the most engaged climate deniers), I don't think the graphical treatment is going to work. Nyhan and Reifler write that "graphs may be effective in reducing misperceptions because they are more difficult to counter-argue"—but some will still be able to. Al Gore showed lots of graphs in An Inconvenient Truth, and that hardly stopped him from being attacked (by people who don't know what the hell they're talking about ;>).
Will the self-affirmation work on such folks? I would imagine at least to an extent. It would make them less defensive. But some people are so set in their beliefs that they are virtually unchangeable.
Luckily, the new study suggests they're a relatively small proportion of the overall population.
*CORRECTION: The graph and text discussed above were based on, but did not exactly duplicate, the NASA press release. I regret the error.
SocraticGadfly replied on Permalink
Sorry, Chris, but Nyhan says
Sorry, Chris, but Nyhan says nothing about the "anthropogenic" behind global warming, and explicitly states that in his paper. You're overinterpreting him: http://socraticgadfly.blogspot.com/2011/09/chrismooney-get-real-about-agw.html
Check out page 32 of the report.
"As in the previous two studies, Graph is effective. It reduces misperceptions about global temperature change for both groups (p < .01; columns 1 and 2) and makes strong Republicans more likely to acknowledge that global warming is real and man-made (p < .01; column 4), though it has no effect on beliefs about global warming among respondents who do not identify as strong Republicans (column 3).
As I understand that quote, their results do show that graphs are able to make strong Republicans more likely to acknowledge global warming is real and man-made.
Maybe I am missing something, but it seems Nyhan does say something about the anthropogenic portion of global warming. Where does Nyhan explicitly state that he has excluded it in his paper?
SocraticGadfly replied on Permalink
See page 34 of the PDF, body text
On the not fully addressing the "anthropogenic," there's this, from page 34, body text of the PDF:
Since our stimuli only concern temperature change (and not the role of humans in
causing it), we restrict our attention to the predicted probabilities that respondents will agree that "Global warming is just a theory" in Figure 4.
(The "stimuli" is items such as the graph.) So, Nyhan is saying his research isn't directly, at least, measuring the feelings on the cause of global warming, just the fact that it is or not.
Nyhan also self-limited the study, per page 31, body text of the PDF:
Second, we excluded respondents who failed to pass a pre-treatment attention filter designed to make sure that subjects were reading survey questions rather than clicking through mindlessly (the question is available in the online appendix).
How much does that correspond to reality? Given the level of motivated reasoning of the typical denialist, they're trolling for how to reframe information to fit back into their own worldview.
Chris Mooney replied on Permalink
Huh? I point out exactly the same thing.
SocraticGadfly replied on Permalink
True ... which I didn't notice on first, or second read
You did say that, but you buried it near the bottom of your post. Since that basically … somewhat disconfirms the stance of this blog post, shouldn't you have noted that more prominently? I mean, the whole angle of the post is, hey, how much can we learn from Nyhan … and the answer might just be, in light of this "not a lot," or might be … "converting denialists isn't as simple as some people would like to believe," or, per Nyhan's comment about "self affirmation," which you didn't pick up … that "denialists have 'self-healing' mechanisms."
"You did say that, but you
dissonance displayed
The issue isn't about "poor self worth" which purportedly leads people into denial (according to your strawman argument) but of holding two incongruent attitudes, which contradicts their self-image as a rational being, and thus their self worth.
Skeptics of climate science can accept that global warming is occurring but are unable to accept the anthropogenic aspect of the problem because it threatens their core identity as market fundamentalists, thus the need to compartmentalize the anthropogenic component.
From my own observations, use of the term "natural" tends to trigger this rationalizing compartmentalization. It's a term that has no real explanatory value. Scientists would use the term forcing to describe temperature inputs but "natural" changes would be ones that are supposed to occur, given the connotation of the word. Frank Luntz is known for achieving framing effects through the use of certain individual terms that carry emotional baggage. I suspect a Luntz-like disinformation strategy is in play since it's such a rudimentary mistake that no scientist would make but it has utility as a propagandizing tool for persuading low information voters, as well as some of the better informed ones, too.
Anyway, this is an interesting article with some practical advice.
I can attest to the power of self-affirmation. Presenting science from peer-review literature does not mean all that much to deniers. What works better for me is diplomatically trying to understand what their real issue happens to be. I don't even discuss the science with a denier all that much anymore, just go straight to the discussing the solutions and risk management.
SocraticGadfly replied on Permalink
Have you all read through Nyhan's PDF? Did Chris?
Nyhan's study is a LOT more nuanced and hedged than Chris' take on it.
on body text page 4 of the PDF is this:
However, unlike previous studies, we find little evidence that affirmation increases the persuasive power of corrective information.
Followed by this a few pages later:
Individuals who encounter dissonant information that is threatening are thus motivated to restore their feelings of self-worth; resolving the dissonance directly is just one of many ways that this goal can be accomplished. Steele supports this claim with a series of experiments showing that individuals who completed an exercise in which they affirmed personally important values and thereby felt secure in their self-worth did not engage in dissonance reduction, suggesting that their need to do so had been eliminated.
(That's my emphasis within the pull quote.) In other words, rather than getting affirmation from a "scientific elitist," a John/Jane Doe can "pull a Stuart Smalley" and say, "I'm smart enough to have resisted such elitism." Nyhan goes on to add that the self-affirmation process can be contingent on personal or situational relevance.
There's also questions of how tightly self-worth and worldview offer and much more. Nyhan's saying this process isn't easy and it's not simple. If we accept that, we won't promote simple-to-simplistic strategies for "conversion." For more on that, and more on why Chris' reading doesn't do Nyhan enough justice, hit my blog post: http://socraticgadfly.blogspot.com/2011/09/chrismooney-get-real-about-agw.html
You admitted that you did not read it...
Before you changed your blog post, you had admitted that you did not "plow through the 56-page pdf" either.
In any case, I don't have any skin in the game either way. If the study covers just temp rise denial and excludes the anthropogenic cause, whatever. It still is a useful contribution to psychology. If it ends up getting strengthened/weakened by further research, I'll update my views. I myself just read the portions that dealt with climate and the conclusions section. I would have to digest it further to fully understand the results, maybe wait to see an abstract.
Let's focus on the real reason why you are here, though. You seem to be anxious to show that Chris Mooney is wrong. Why is that? Has he been wrong before? Do you perceive your political views to be opposed to his?
Ah here it is...
Ah, here is the quote from the cached page.
>> "I didn't plow through Brendan Nyhan's 56-page PDF upon which Mooney bases his post; I just scanned the start. It's got other problems, though. First, he assumes denialists are denialists due to poor self-worth, I think, if he's listing boosting their self-worth as another "conversion strategy." I wonder how "lasting" the effects are, as well as how strong."
SocraticGadfly replied on Permalink
Other points from Nyhan - again, it just takes a little reading
There's this, page 30, body text of the PDF:
Second, we excluded respondents who failed to pass a pre-treatment
attention filter designed to make sure that subjects were reading survey questions rather than clicking through mindlessly (the question is available in the online appendix).
Well, how closely does that approximate reality?
On the not fully addressing the "anthropogenic," there's this, from page 34, body text of hte PDF:
Since our stimuli only concern temperature change (and not the role of humans in
causing it), we restrict our attention to the predicted probabilities that respondents will agree that "Global warming is just a theory" in Figure 4.
So, Nyhan is saying his research isn't directly, at least, measuring the feelings on the cause of global warming, just the fact that it is or not.
That's why I said, in response to Chris, that even if you take an overly simple reading of Nyhan, all you do is convert a "denier" into a "minimalist."
Hey, it wasn't that hard for me to find all this. C'mon, now.
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He has been wrong politically/sociologically before
This is a man who, on a Facebook thread, salutes Democrats for working better with big business, evidently buying the Obama line that "we're already over-regulating businesses." And other things. I didn't claim, and haven't claimed in the past, that Chris is wrong about the science; I have claimed in the past, and still claim, that he's politically naive in some ways. (And, I'm not alone in that claim.)
As for not "plowing through," I did plow through, and found nothing to greatly change my original impression of the post. So Chris did note the non-anthropogenic; he buried it 3/4 of the way down, perhaps because it undercuts his original idea. And, that said, because he missed, or ignored, Nyhan's other caveats, he draws the wrong sociolgical lessons, too.
Were DeSmog Blog insightful enough to have hired me, I would have written a far different post than his, titled: "New Research Says Motivated Reasoning May Not Always Be Easy to Overcome" and subhead "Self-Affirmation Can Inoculate Against Cognitive Dissonance." That's what Itook away from Brendan Nyhan's paper.
Motivated Reasoning?
>> "As for not "plowing through," I did plow through, and found nothing to greatly change my original impression of the post. "
That's not the point. You criticized Mooney's article on the Nyhan/Reifler paper before even analyzing it yourself. Now that you apparently have analyzed the paper, you come to the same conclusion as before, maybe through motivated reasoning? I don't think much credibility can be assigned to your comments on the matter, really.
I'll stick with what I have learned from this article by Mooney and from reading portions of the Nyhan/Reifler paper. If new info comes up or the authors further clarify in a journal publication, I'll be open to modifying my understanding of the matter. I would imagine most rational people would do the same.
>> "So Chris did note the non-anthropogenic; he buried it 3/4 of the way down, perhaps because it undercuts his original idea."
Uh, he hid it in plain sight?
chasing red herrings
With no intended criticism of you, Otter, it's pointless to argue the anthropogenic issue although nonetheless tempting. SG's initial comment was irrelevant. It might have been interesting to hear what he/she thought the point of contention was but that argument was never made.
The subject of this topic is the Backfire Effect – a psychological/cognitive effect. Chris' comments are on point since it's difficult to say that the experimental design countered the Backfire Effect. Subjects weren't challenged in their beliefs so the reality-denying effect of ideology never came in to play.
I find SG's comments illuminating in that he/she apparently considers the anthropogenic issue relevant to the discussion of the Backfire Effect. It's apparently an attempt to validate his/her skepticism of a portion of climate science, as if arguing against the causes of global warming is somehow less contentious if one admits to the fact that it exists.
I've always considered this change in argumentative strategy as a significant event in itself, in that it showed a possible disingenuous intent. I haven't ruled out other explanations, such as denial, etc., but the willingness to accept the fact of GW and deny the anthropogenic causes smells of intentional deception and bad faith. Primarily, in those cases in which this does apply, it's a shifting the burden of proof tactic. We're supposed to knock down an endless series of pseudo-theories that no one has attempted to actually prove. They're like Potemkin theories, without any legitimate purpose and instead contrived to guile uninformed lay people.


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Interior Minister'Yosef Burg, who has . jurisdiction over the police, and Police Superintendent Haim .Tavori made it clear that disciplinary action would only be taken against the organizers of the demon- , stration. CJF Annual Meeting Changed Sidney Blatt, chairman of the 53rd Annual Meeting, has announced that a committee has been appointed to plan the special evening of tribute in honor of Ben M. Mandelkorn, retiring - Executive Vice President of the Columbus Jewish Federation. The September 16 dinner affair will be held at Temple Israel, rather than at the Neil House, as previously announced. Serving on the planning committee are past presidents, general campaign chairmen, and key women's divisionleadership who have served with Mr. Mandelkorn since his arrival in Columbus in 1956. The memberefof- the committee are: Herbert Levy, William Kahn, Ed Schlezinger, Marvin Glassman, Norman Meizlish, Ernest Stern, Myer Mellman, Ben Yenkin, Morris Skilken, Harold Schottenstein, William Glick, Ben Goodman, Gordon Zacks, Millard Cummins, Irving Schottenstein, Lee Skilken, Bernard Yenkin, Eleanor Yenkin, Joyce Zacks, Judith Swedlow, Edythe Furman, Rhea Kaplan, Cressa Goodman, Miriam Yenkin, Sally Blatt, Sara Schwartz, Sylvia Schecter and Diane Cummins. The following subcommittee chairmanships haye now been confirmed: Eleanor Yenkin, registration; Joyce Zacks & Diane Cummins, menu and j. arrangements; Sara j , Schwartz & Edythe Furnian, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 9) Carter Administration Appears To Soften Position On PLO "Al VW5 Xj "1'vJHH Shown in upper photo: Mr. and Mrs. Saul Goldmeier; lower photo: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nutis. Cong. Beth Jacob Celebrates Tenth Year At College Ave. The Tenth Anniversary of the Beth Jacob Congregation in its College Avenue home will.be celebrated on August 19 at 6:30 p.m. in conjunction with the Annual Synagogue Dinner. A multi media presentation in sound and sight of the many faceted programs of .the congregation during the last ten years will be featured. The construction of the new synagogue, the consecration of the cornerstone, and the dedication of the sanctuary will be -presented on film, slides, and audio recordings. Voices from the past and visual aids will highlight an interesting and inspiring program. Mr. Bernard Hirsch, President of the congregation said a highlight of the evening will be the presentation of the "Kesser Torah Service Award" to Mr. and Mrs. Saul Goldmeier and to Mr. Harold Tanenbaum. The "Parness Award" will be presented to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nutis. Mr. and Mrs. Goldmeier, life long members of the congregation worked diligently and devotedly during the daily minyon, as well as Shabbos .morning Gabbai. Mrs. Saul Goldmeier (Mollie) a,true,"-woinan of valor" of the synagogue devoted her energies to prepare synagogue banquets, Passover seders and Chevrah Kaddisha Dinners. Rabbi David Stavsky said "we are proud to pay tribute to two senior members of the congregation whose de- Mr. Harold Tanenbaum votion, labor of love to the congregation in those years of transition and growth were immeasurable." Mr. Harold Tanenbaum, secretary of the Beth Jacob Congregation, and inv mediate past vice president, will receive the "Kesser Torah Service Award", for his dedication to the con- years prior to the relocation of the synagogue from the f Bulen Ayeriuje'Iocation to the gregation.} The ;stajned and 1 ColMe:'Avenue, site. From leaded glab? wttdM, in the 1963ito' K7o7 Mr. Saul Gold- main sanctuary which he de- mei<* was Gabbai of the (continued on page m WASHINGTON (WNS)- Despite official denials, the Carter Administration is being perceived here as softening its stand on the Palestine Liberation Organization. In particular, the Administration is seen as prepared to accept changes in United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 demanded by the PLO. The State Department reiterated that the U.S. stands firmly behind Resolutions 242 and 338. "We continue to hope that the PLO will change its firmly held position and concede and grant Israel's right to exist," Department spokesman Hodding Carter said. He said if that happens President Carter "has said he would be willing to talk with the PLO." But the Department spokesman stressed that U.S. "efforts are aimed specifically at the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza to indicate ! we want them to be participants as called for in the (Israeli-Egyptian) peace treaty." _ - -^^.^h£--latest* perceptfoTT arose when the Security Council, acting on the request of the United States, Kuwait and the PLO, agreed | July 30 to postpone until Aug. 23 its debate .on Palestinian rights. Sources at the UN said this was due to the failure of the Arabs to persuade the U.S. not to veto a Kuwait resolution urging the Security Council to support the right of the Palestinians to "self-determination." There were reports that the U.S. might still support some change in the resolution to include the Palestinians. In Israel, Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin said that any attempt to change 242 would be a serious obstacle fo the peace process. He said that even an implied change was unacceptable. The situation became further exacerbated when President Carter in an interview with the New York Times compared the Palestinian issue to the civil rights movements in the United States. In that interview, Carter said he does not think that stable peace can come to the Middle East without a solution to the Palestinian problem which he said could be likened to the civil rights movement. His statement brought an immediate sharp reaction from Jewish groups. The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations said it was "dismayed and disappointed jthat the President should i4yen think of the. civil 'rights movement, characterized by non-violent means and seeking the liberties that our Constitution promises to all Americans, in the same breath as the obscene acts of terrorist groups which seek ' through violent means to eliminate the Jewish State!" Charlotte Jacobson, chairman of the World Zionist Organization-American Section said that Carter "will lose the confidence of the American Jewish community if he tries to equate the Palestinian cause with the civil rights movement. It makes a mockery of the civil rights cause and distorts the opportunities for the Palestinian people to solve their, problems by negotiating with Israel. The Palestinians stood in their own way—not Israel." Bertram Gold, executive vice president of the American, Jewish Committee, also said that Carter did an "injustice" to the civil rights movement in his statement. "The civil rights movement never resorted to the acts of terrorism against innocent people that so char- "acterize the activities of the PLO, which is the most visible part of the movement for Palestinian rights." In a clarifying statement issued by White House Press Secretary Jody Powell later, Carter was described as meaning that although "he felt the right of return was important to Palestinians as a matter of principle," many would not exercise it, "as certain rights are important . to certain Black citizens as a matter of principle." Powell said that "references to the civil rights movement in the context of Palestinian issues underscores the personal view of the President and the position of the American government, in total opposition to terrorism and violence. The American civil ' rights movement was and continues to be nonviolent. Tbe efforts of this and previous American Presidents have been directed toward the resolution of long-standing differences by peaceful means rather than through death and destruction." ; In his interview, Carter expressed hope that American Jewish leaders will support his- efforts that will give "autonomy to West Bank (CONTINUED ON PAGE 12) B'nai B'rith Zion Lodge Hosts Children's Home Day At Fair Over 2000 children and their chaperones from Children's Homes throughput Ohio will be guests of B'nai B'rith on Monday, August 20, for the 14th annual B'nai B'rith Children's Home Day . at the Ohio State Fair. B'nai B'rith Zion Lodge No. 62, with Stephen M. Grossman and Dr. Richard H. Gurevitz as Co-chairmen of the 1979 event, is coordinating this state-wide B'nai B'rith community service project, Y Children's Home Day— officially designated by Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes—is the largest event at the fair -sponsored; by :a service organization. Zion Lodge sends letters of invitation to children's homes in the State of Ohio inviting them to the fair. A day at the fair includes entrance to the fairgrounds, rides, lunch, entertainment and all exhibits. Wendy's International will be providing lunches for the children and their chaperones. Honorary Chairwoman is Mrs. Jack S. Resler who will continue with her support of Children's Home Day in memory of the late Jack Resler who was instrumental in the day's success sihee its inception in 196$; [ ' his continued support for the ' past thirteen years enabled thousands of children to enjoy the excitement of the Ohio State Fair. B'riai B'rith members and their spouses are urged, to 'volunteer their services and spend the day at the Fair .with ; the children. Those wishing to help should contact Grossman or Gurevitz by phoning 445-8881 OC864-1442. 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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lenders are making more subprime auto loans again, reversing the cautious approach they adopted after the credit crisis, an industry research firm said on Tuesday.
The portion of car loans made to subprime borrowers rose to 40.8 percent in the second quarter from 37.2 percent a year earlier, according to Experian Automotive, a unit of credit bureau and research firm Experian Plc.
The data shows how keen lenders are to boost their loan books amid a sluggish U.S. economy. Car loans are seen by lenders as relatively safe, because they are collateralized and repossessing cars is easier than foreclosing on homes.
Average credit scores for borrowers declined and the average term for their loans extended by one month to 63 months on new cars and 59 months on used cars.
"We are continuing to see growth in subprime, both new and used, and loans are becoming looser," Melinda Zabritski, director of automotive credit for Experian said in an interview.
In mid 2007, loans to subprime borrowers made up 46.2 percent of the total. That easy lending led to a surge in delinquency rates before lenders turned conservative.
Tighter underwriting has resulted in fewer loans going bad. Loans delinquent by 30 days fell to 2.59 percent of those outstanding in the second quarter of this year, down from 2.89 percent a year earlier, according to Experian.
"Even though we have growth in subprime of late, our delinquency rates right now are extremely low," said Zabritski. "We have an overall stable market because we did have a lot of conservative lending in 2009 and 2010."
Repossessions have declined, too, with the percentage of car loans ending in repossession falling to 0.59 percent from 0.62 percent.
In a measure of market share tracked by Experian, the five most frequent lenders and their portions of the number of loans of all kinds made during the quarter were: Ally Financial, 6.93 percent; Wells Fargo & Co, 5.79 percent; Toyota, 4.84 percent; JPMorgan Chase & Co, 4.75 percent; and Honda, 3.92 percent.
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'Late Night, Maudlin Street' by Morrissey...
What are your thoughts on it?
Mine vary wildly depending on how drunk i am.
Have honestly never been able to definitively confirm whether it's cheesy pap, a career-defining epic, or y'know, just okay.
I love it.
I think it's severely over looked in his canon and up there with his best.
There are moments of sheer over- indulgence but they're fun. It's completely over the top but there are lines in there that are heart wrenchingly good:
Love at first sight
It may sound trite
But it's true, you know
I could list the detail
Of everything you ever wore or said
Or how you stood the day
As we spent the last night
On Maudlin Street
When I sleep
With that picture of you framed beside my bed
Oh, it's childish and it's silly
But I think it's you in my room, by the bed
(...yes, I told you it was silly...)
I think it's up there with the best stuff he's written. The music is great too. I wish there was more material from the Moz/Reilly collaboration.sexy_girl this'd this
I've read a couple of writers say...
it's his solo I Know It's Over, or compare the two.
Without thinking it's up there with that, or as good, i kind of agree.
he's a dildo
period.forzaborza this'd this
THIS GUY HAS OPINIONS ON STUFF.gonad this'd this
i think its great
And the vocals are better than any he did in the smiths. morrideys voice was at its best on those first few solo albums.
me and a mate used to howl at
"your Gran died.. " and it became a catchphrase for a while. still seems hillarious.
- cliquester this'd this
I think it's one of his best
I'd even stick my neck out and say Viva Hate is up there with the rest of The Smiths' cannon.gonad this'd this
Before the gun jokes begin...
this song would be infinitely better without the drums
It's alright
I'm not a big fan of Viva Hate in general, and I prefer 'I Don't Mind If You Forget Me' which probably says a lot.dexicola this'd this
Any news in the book i.e when is it out?!?
Was hoping it would be out in time for my christmas list
Vini Reilly is the reason for Viva Hate's greatness
well him and Stephen Street. Reilly changed all the guitar parts and basically rewrote all the demos Street and Moz had done.twicetwoequalsfour this'd this


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After a few posts about why we release KDE 4.0 while it's in a not-yet-perfect state, Aaron wrote an excellent post about it. Even though is post was pretty much perfect, I want to add a little thing to it - maybe obvious to most, but probably insightful to others.
As many of you might know, KDE is a large project. Under the KDE umbrella are projects like Kalzium, KTouch and KStars from KDE-EDU (each saw a lot of work). Of course, there are the games, receiving new graphics and features. KDEGraphics, which contains Gwenview (video), Okular, and kolourpaint. And let's not forget the many KDE Base applications like Kate or Juk from the KDE multimedia area. And of course I'm skipping over many other useful KDE applications.
These applications are, for most part, ready for release. Actually, the games and educational applications could have had a release a year ago. The latest OpenSuse, 10.3, already ships some KDE games and KDE Edu applications from KDE 4!
We could let these applications wait for another 6 months - sure. But that would hurt them. They would lose users (no release = no new features & fixes so users will start to look somewhere else). They would not gain new developers (which are, after all, often attracted to cool projects - and you're not that cool if you don't release). They might even lose developers (developers often develop because they want their code to be used. Not sit bit-rotting in a big repository somewhere).
So, a choice had to be made. Wait more, let the parts of KDE 4.0 which aren't up to 3.5 standards mature, while other parts of KDE would slowly start to deteriorate? Or do a release in true FOSS spirit, bring it out while it's fresh, and hope that it will infuse a stream of new developers to help us make it more mature?
Well, you all know what happened. Yesterday tagging. Release in a little over a week. I think the right decision was made.


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After many years as a stalwart Firefox user I have today made Google Chrome my default web browser.
I installed Chrome a second time in an attempt to solve a problem that I thought was an issue with Firefox and turned out to be something else entirely! The installation was quick and easy. Chrome imported all my Firefox bookmarks with ease, reminding me to close Firefox so it could access them. I didn't allow the installer to make Chrome the default browser initially, but after half an hour I was ready to take the plunge.
This won't be news to those of you already using Google Chrome but the new browser feels much faster than Firefox. I see that 20% of visitors to G4ILO's Shack are using the Chrome browser. I think it won't be long until it overtakes the 27% of my visitors using Firefox.


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Executive Vice President, People and Digital
Christine M. Pambianchi is executive vice president, people and digital. In this role, Pambianchi is responsible for leading Corning's Global Human Resource and Global Security functions. Christy has led the HR function since January 2008 when she was named vice president, Human Resources.
Pambianchi was named division vice president, Business Human Resources in July 2004. Prior to that appointment, Pambianchi was director, Business Human Resources, where she supported many of Corning's operating divisions. Pambianchi joined Corning in 2000 as division human resource manager, Corning Optical Fiber, and went on to become director, Human Resources, Corning Optical Communications.
Prior to working at Corning, Pambianchi worked at PepsiCo, Incorporated for 10 years. While at PepsiCo, Pambianchi held human resource manager positions in plant and regional distribution locations and worked as the organization capability manager for the field sales organizations. Her last position at PepsiCo was director, Human Resources for Information Technology.
Pambianchi serves as president of the board of directors at the Alternative School for Math and Science; is on the board of trustees for the Corning Foundation; is a member of the advisory board of the Cornell Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies and the dean's advisory board for Cornell's College of Industrial & Labor Relations. In November 2017, Pambianchi was installed as a Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources.
Pambianchi holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations.