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|Date: 2003/01/19 01:45:45, Link
|Author: lpetrich
Taken from two postings in the thread "The Multi-Design Inference" over at the Internet Infidels.
This is an inference that multiple designers had designed some entities; this is a natural extension of Dembski's "Design Inference". And it is an inference often made about human designers.
This is an essential part of efforts to detect forged signatures; handwriting styles are individualized, and a close examination of a signature may reveal whether it was written with an imperfect imitation of someone else's style.
Handwriting analysis has also been useful in archeology; by that means, it was shown that the various Mycenaean Linear B tablets had been written by several scribes, each of whom had written several tablets.
Such stylistic analyses have been used in other fields; much of the debate about the authorship of various parts of the Bible has been based on stylistic analyses -- characteristic vocabulary, preoccupations, etc. More recently, the Unabomber was identified when someone recognized some familiar styling in the text of his manifesto.
Applying that to the world of life, one concludes that if many features had been designed, then there had likely been more than one designer. Camera-like eyes are sometimes pointed to as examples of design, but those of vertebrates have one characteristic architecture and those of cephalopods have another. So could there have been a separate designer for each? Charles Darwin himself, in his creationist years, had concluded that Australia's distinctive fauna might suggest that "there had been two Creators at work."
Likewise, predator-prey relationships suggest multiple designers, one for the predators and one for the prey, because predators are adapted for finding and catching prey, and prey are adapted for avoiding and resisting predators. Multiple food-chain levels suggest additional designers. Thus, in a grass-deer-wolf food chain, with deer eating grass and wolves eating deer, the grass, deer, and wolves had had separate designers.
Host-parasite relationships are a close analogue of predator-prey relationships, with parasites being adapted to live off of their hosts and hosts being adapted to resist their parasites. Thus, in this example, the wolves can be afflicted with fleas, heartworms, and distemper viruses, adding yet another designer to the list.
In an attempted rebuttal, Walter ReMine has claimed to have demonstrated that there had only been one designer, but I've yet to see his "proof".
The multi-design inference must be an embarrassment for the Intelligent Design movement, because it goes against the theological predilections of many of its participants. However, I doubt that those like the Raelians would be terribly bothered by a multi-design inference.
However, it must be conceded that single superpowerful designer can imitate several less-powerful designers. But the trouble is that such a hypothesis tends to lack falsifiability; for sufficiently powerful designers, it would be difficult to rule out hypotheses like creation with apparent age, like Philip Gosse's Omphalos hypothesis.
Also, there is a parallel to the single-powerful-designer hypothesis in Biblical criticism.
Among present-day scholars, the favorite hypothesis of the authorship of its first five books is the JEDP hypothesis, which posits four separate sets of authors, each with a characteristic vocabulary and preoccupations.
The traditional hypothesis, however, is that all those five books had been written by Moses and only Moses, and its present-day defenders maintain that he had repeatedly switched stylistic gears as he wrote.
|Date: 2003/01/19 02:20:58, Link
|Author: lpetrich
William Dembski apparently believes that beavers intelligently design their dams.
However, beavers have some sort of dam-building instinct that consists of placing sticks and mud wherever they hear rushing water, such as at an underwater speaker playing that sound. This document on beaver control warns about that, and understanding that has enabled the design of a Beaver Deceiver fence around a culvert inlet.
I find it curious that both supporters and critics of Intelligent Design theory have said so little about the question of intelligent design by species other than Homo sapiens, because there is an abundance of seeming evidence of such design, like beaver dams, spiderwebs, and so forth. And if much of that is true intelligent design, then we have an abundance of nonhuman intelligent design right under our noses, in a sometimes very literal sense!
Animal-intelligent-design capability is part of a lot of folklore, and many pet owners seem to think that their pets have that capability. And the reputable biologist George Romanes had offered numerous seeming examples of that capability in the late 19th cy. Only to be repeatedly ridiculed later as an example of how not to do animal-behavior research.
Much animal behavior has been found to be a combination of instinct and simple forms of learning, though the instincts involved may be very complicated, and though instinct and learning are often closely intertwined. For example, web-building spiders know how to build their webs without being taught, and the webs they build have a stereotyped, species-specific architecture, despite their complexity. There has been some simulated-spider research that implements web building with a combination of algorithms with the form of "if you feel this configuration of nearby strands, go here".
And much animal learning would be hard to call intelligent design on the animal's part; this includes mechanisms like
Imprinting (Konrad Lorenz became the "mother" of some geese)
Habituation (not responding to "meaningless" stimuli)
Latent learning (wandering around and picking up detail)
Classical/Pavlovian conditioning
Instrumental/operant conditioning
There is an exception:
Insight learning (pausing and then implementing a solution)
This may be called a form of intelligent designing. But it has been seen in only a few species, most notably chimpanzees. So one reasonably concludes that the intelligent-design ability is rare in the animal kingdom. And the closeness to our species of the main counterexample is consistent with what one would expect from evolutionary biology -- in fact, Wolfgang Koehler had used evolutionary biology to decide on an experimental subject for his pioneering experiments.
And what, precisely, might Koehler's chimps have been doing? An analogy with human problem-solving suggests that they were manipulating a mental model of their solution before implementing that model. Thus, a chimp who sees a lot of crates and an out-of-reach banana may imagine crates stacked on other crates to reach that banana before actually trying to stack those crates.
So performing intelligent design may simply be manipulating a mental model of something before building it. Thus, if I wish to build a dam across a creek, I don't get seized with an uncontrollable urge to collect mud and sticks and place it where I hear rushing water. Instead, I picture in my mind that dam and imagine where best to place it and how I'd build it.
By contrast, intelligent-design advocates generally treat intelligent design as some sort of unanalyzable fundamental principle.
And from the occurrence of structures that appear to be produced by intelligent design, but that are not, one obtains a powerful counterargument to the "design inference".
One counterargument is that spiders, beavers, etc. were designed with their instincts, but that does not change how the appearance of design had been produced by a non-design mechanism. The ultimate origin of those instincts is an entirely separate question.
|Date: 2003/01/20 04:09:01, Link
|Author: lpetrich
Thanx. I downloaded and read the whole book; it was nice to discover that it also referred to mental modeling as an important ability.
There was an interesting experiment mentioned in it (chapter 9) for finding out how chickens and chimpanzees find their way around obstacles:
Thus, chimps can do intelligent designing, while chickens cannot -- at least as judged from their behavior.
|Date: 2003/01/24 22:28:11, Link
|Author: lpetrich
Self-recognition is an ability possessed by very few species. Human children acquire that ability at about 18 mos - 2 years of age, but great apes acquire that ability at adolescence. Outside of Pongidae/Hominidae (Pongohominidae?), the only species that show evidence of self-recognition are the bottlenose dolphin and the Asian elephant (the most common captive cetaceans and proboscideans, however).
And self-recognition may be a byproduct of a more general mental-modeling capability, with the model being of oneself.
|Date: 2003/02/02 17:14:46, Link
|Author: lpetrich
I wish to propose an analogy that may be helpful in understanding the evolution of irreducible complexity.
Honeybee societies.
Honeybee hives contain a queen, as many as 10,000 workers, and some drones (male bees). The queen depends on the workers for all her needs -- food, shelter, protection, etc., while the workers depend on the queen to replenish their numbers. Queens cannot exist without workers, and workers cannot exist without queens. Thus, irreducible complexity.
This total dependency extends to the founding of new hives. Workers do all the work of founding; they scout for hive locations and then go to whichever one attracts the most interest. And then they do all the work of construction in that location.
Compare solitary bees, in which a female does all the tasks that honeybee queens and workers do, though with much simpler nests.
Which makes it seem difficult to picture how honeybee societies could have been a result of evolution by natural selection, or at least that's what an entomological counterpart of Michael Behe would say.
But fortunately, the diversity of life offers examples with a very plausible intermediate state: bumblebees. A bumblebee queen overwinters in isolation and founds a hive in the coming spring, constructing it and bringing food to her offspring in the fashion of a solitary bee. But her offspring become workers who help her with the next generations over the year.
Thus, the evolution of honeybees can be broken up into two steps:
1. Some of a female's daughters staying home and helping to raise that female's other offspring, thus the evolution of the queen/worker distinction.
2. A queen recruiting some workers to help found a hive, thus giving that queen "instant" workers at that new hive. This makes it unnecessary for a queen to do anything but lay eggs all day.
Michael Behe's work, it seems to me, focuses on the molecular equivalent of honeybees; the challenge for understanding the origin of these features is to find the molecular equivalent of bumblebees, or at least work out some plausible scenario for their occurrence. And biologist Kenneth R. Miller has attempted to do exactly that, finding plausible bumblebees for the bacterial flagellum's honeybee.
I think that he'd have a bit more respect if he simply decided that the origin of what he discusses is a mystery. he could have been like Robert Shapiro, who has criticized various origin-of-life scenarios in detail without claiming that that means that the Earth had been "seeded" with its first organisms.
|Date: 2003/02/11 01:38:28, Link
|Author: lpetrich
Over in this Internet Infidels thread, I had posted some interesting recent research into the evolution of life before the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUA, LCA, LUCA) of all known cellular Earth life. To summarize, both papers I'd looked at point to the earliest Earth life as being closer to prebiotic chemistry than more recent life. And the second paper points to evidence of much less complexity in the earliest life.
The enormous volume of genetic data collected over the last few decades, including the sequencing of over 100 genomes, has made possible the reconstruction of several of the genes and proteins contained by the Last Universal Common Ancestor.
The amino-acid content of these proteins is interesting; according to the work of Brooks DJ, Fresco JR, Lesk AM, Singh M, the LUCA's proteins were enhanced in amino acids known to be produced in prebiotic-synthesis experiments, and depleted in amino acids known to be rare or absent in such experiments. This adds support to the hypothesis that the original source of amino acids was prebiotic synthesis; the earliest organisms simply eat some Primordial Soup.
By comparison, Brian K. Davis's work focuses on 10 proteins, and uses a different criterion for assigning amino-acid origin time; how many metabolic steps are necessary to produce some amino acid from a Krebs-Cycle predecessor. Aspartate and glutamate, for example, score very low, while lysine and arginine score very high. The low scorers are also those relatively abundant in prebiotic syntheses, which suggest that biosynthesis of them was developed as a substitute for Primordial-Soup eating (the Horowitz hypothesis).
The "code age" of a protein he determined by finding the average score of its amino acids; he used this to work out the proteins' order of appearance.
The oldest of these proteins was ferredoxin, a biosynthesis enzyme that contains iron-sulfur clusters and that transfers electrons (hydrogen-atom equivalents). This protein he reconstructs as having a negatively-charged tail; this can stick to positively-charged objects like mineral surfaces with their metal ions -- which is consistent with the view of Gunter Wachtershauser that life originated from iron-sulfur-associated chemical reactions on mineral surfaces, and that the Krebs Cycle dates from this time. Note that the Krebs Cycle's members are all acids -- negatively-charged ions -- meaning that they can stick to mineral surfaces.
This suggests that the earliest life had not had well-defined cells, that it had been a sort of Haeckelian Urschleim living in the mud of hydrothermal vents.
Not much younger than ferredoxin is a protein involved in cell division and an ATPase component that resides in cell membranes; as a consequence, nearly all the rest of Brian Davis's scenario takes place in distinct cells, including the acquisition of "difficult" amino acids like the benzene-ring and alkaline ones.
Also after the origin of cells but before the LUCA is the origin of DNA; enzymes for synthesizing DNA nucleotides from RNA ones, copying DNA to RNA, and copying RNA to DNA date from this period. So DNA is younger than both RNA and proteins.
However, DNA-to-DNA copying systems are much more difficult to place in this period, since those of the (eu)bacterial and the archaeo-eukaryotic lineages are very different, suggesting separate elaboration -- or even separate origin. The LUCA could have had a DNA-RNA genome, with DNA being copied to RNA and back.
Brian Davis's paper did not address the RNA-world question, but his work suggests that an RNA world, if it had existed, had been pre-cellular.
An interesting result is that the earliest Earth life is closer to various sorts of prebiotic chemistry than later Earth life. This poses an interesting conundrum for the hypothesis that some designer had "seeded" the Earth with some organism that became the ancestor of all its later life. Why this choice of "seed"? Why not a "seed" with a chemistry more like that of present-day organisms?
Also interesting is the absence from the earliest life of DNA, distinct cells, and several amino acids; this indicates the absence of the enzyme systems necessary for constructing and handling them. Thus, the origin of life has to account for much less complexity than one would expect from present-day cell architecture.
Brooks DJ, Fresco JR, Lesk AM, Singh M.
Evolution of amino acid frequencies in proteins over deep time: inferred order of introduction of amino acids into the genetic code.
Mol Biol Evol 2002 Oct;19(10):1645-55
At this PubMed entry.
Davis BK.
Molecular evolution before the origin of species.
Prog Biophys Mol Biol 2002 May-Jul;79(1-3):77-133
At this PubMed entry.
|Date: 2003/04/13 19:20:52, Link
|Author: lpetrich
I'm posting my announcement here because I don't know where a good place for it is; it's not YEC, and it's not explicitly "Intelligent Design".
Here is one of that debate's home pages. Walter ReMine has just submitted his final contribution, the final one of the debate. The subject:
"Comparisons of molecules (proteins, DNA) of various species provide independent and compelling support for the hypothesis of biological macro-evolution"
It seems to me that Dave Thomas has made a much more reasonable case than Walter ReMine, who liked to wander all over the place without really explaining what his "Message Theory" was. ReMine often seemed to me to not really understand what he was talking about, and he has apparently spent a sizable amount of time working in a quote mine.
|Date: 2003/10/09 15:29:29, Link
|Author: lpetrich
Has anyone tried to explore why creationism has been so politicized? Politicization is not very common among pseudoscientists, even those who advocate very popular beliefs.
Astrologers, for example, are apolitical; they don't seem to want equal time for astrology in astronomy classes.
But a better comparison is with vitalism, the view that the processes of living things are due to some "vital force." It is a centuries-old view that survives as the "theoretical justification" of certain "alternative medical therapes." Aristotle had even identified three kinds of this force: the vegetable soul, the animal soul, and the rational soul.
But vitalism has suffered defeat after defeat after crushing defeat over the last few centuries, and it has become totally discredited among respectable scientists. Though there are still plenty of physiological puzzles, "vitalism of the gaps" is never thought worth considering.
Vitalists can easily make arguments parallel to creationists, like mentioning physiological processes that continue to be puzzles, the simplicity of "VitalForceDoesIt", how teenagers would be more likely to commit suicide and kill their classmates if they believe themselves to be biochemical robots rather than animated by some "vital force", etc.
Yet vitalists are apolitical, not wanting equal time for vitalism in classrooms. And creationists who appear to believe in some form of vitalism do not make an issue out of it, and coexist with apparently non-vitalist creationists like Michael Behe.
Notable politicized pseudosciences in the past have been Hanns Hörbiger's Welteislehre (Cosmic Ice Theory) and Lysenkoism.
The advocates of the Cosmic Ice Theory would apply pressure to get people to accept the theory; they were known to heckle astronomers' meetings with "Out with astronomical orthodoxy! Give us Hörbiger!". They even aligned themselves with Nazism, though the Nazi Party never officially endorsed it.
Trofim Lysenko had claimed that he could breed improved crop plants by altering their heredity; he believed that genes do not exist. He claimed impressive "results", but his experimental procedures were shoddy beyond belief -- he had no conception of a controlled experiment, and he believed that doing statistics is a waste of time. However, he got the support of Joseph Stalin himself, and mainstream geneticists were forced to recant, sent to gulags, or executed. Even the great biologist Nikolai Vavilov could not escape; he was sent to prison for allegedly being a British spy, dying there.
|Date: 2003/10/24 01:25:40, Link
|Author: lpetrich
An article in http://www.salon.com , How I decoded the human genome, features this comment from someone with a long career in programming:
A bricoleur is a tinkerer, someone who constructs with whatever is available.
|Date: 2003/11/15 09:42:49, Link
|Author: lpetrich
The problem there is that different Christian sects vary widely in how political they are, no matter what the Bible says. Never underestimate the ability of a believer in a sacred book to argue away awkward parts of that book.
So one must look at fundamentalism, especially American fundamentalism, more closely -- and even a cursory glance reveals that some fundies are almost obsessively political. So one has to ask why they make a big issue out of creationism, and not vitalism.
|Date: 2005/02/10 06:46:01, Link
|Author: lpetrich
And Dembski has it all wrong about the methods of SETI.
SETI researchers devise their strategies by trying to work out what some extraterrestrial-signal designer might want to design, rather than use some measure of "complex specified information" or "specified complexity" or whatever.
For instance, most search strategies have involved searching for very narrowband signals, something like 1 Hz bandwidth for a typical frequency of 1.4 GHz or thereabouts. No known astrophysical source can produce such narrowband signals, while radio-transmitter technology can easily do so. Also, narrowband signals are more prominent against the interstellar background than broadband ones, because their power is concentrated in a smaller frequency range.
|Date: 2005/02/10 07:00:04, Link
|Author: lpetrich
Archdeacon Paley and the Museum of Watches
Let's imagine that Archdeacon Paley, of watches-need-watchmakers fame, could come to our time and visit some museum of watches and clocks and other timepieces over the centuries. He'd see:
Purely-mechanical clocks and watches
Electromechanical clocks and watches
Purely-electrical clocks and watches
Their displays would be:
Their timing would be controlled by:
The Sun
Falling sand
Quartz crystals
Oscillating atomic nuclei (in atomic clocks)
Archdeacon Paley might scratch and scratch his head and ask who designed all these timepieces. There are two main possibilities:
1. A single master designer who has designed every timepiece there ever was.
2. Multiple designers of timepieces over the centuries and at each time.
Would Archdeacon Paley try to argue (1)? And argue that all that single designer's designs are the best possible, in Panglossian fashion? Or would he recognize that it is (2) that had actually happened?
Turning to the Earth's biota, I think that a strong case can be made that if much or most of its features was designed, then this designing would be designed evolution in (2) fashion.
Back in his creationist days, Charles Darwin was inspired by Australia's distinct fauna to note in his diary that:
And over at The Panda's Thumb, there is a nice article discussing Multiple Designers Theory, which is (2) applied to the Earth's biota.
Also, How I decoded the human genome featured this comment from someone with a lot of experience in computer programming:
To sum up, it looks like (2) rather than (1) to that experienced designer.
I think that it is a good test of the open-mindedness of IDers whether they are willing to take seriously the possibility of multiple designers. And one can ask why they present ID in opposition to evolution and natural selection. Evolution can proceed by ID (evolution by genetic engineering), and ID and natural selection can coexist as mechanisms of evolution -- they are NOT mutually exclusive, despite what some IDers seem to think.
I have, however, seen some counterarguments offered to the multiple-designers hypothesis.
One of them is that nearly all Earth organisms use DNA as their molecule of heredity, something that somehow implies only a single designer doing all the designing.
If you people find it hard to keep yourselves from laughing, you have my sympathy, because that argument is almost absurdly weak. It's like Archdeacon Paley maintaining that all those clocks and watches had a single master desginer because they all measure time in the same units -- 1 day = 24 hours, 1 hour = 60 minutes, 1 minute = 60 seconds.
I wrote "nearly all", because RNA viruses are an exception, and apparently the only one. But RNA is a close chemical relative of DNA, making that exception a weak one.
I note in passing that it seems to me that DNA is often described as some sort of "magic molecule of life" in quasi-vitalist fashion. Though it's the nearly-universal carrier of genetic information, that appears to be its only function. What makes a living thing alive is the interaction of its various parts, not any particular substance.
Another counterargument is that one superpowerful designer is somehow a simpler hypothesis than a multitude of less-powerful designers. In my watch-museum example, it is deciding on hypothesis (1) rather than (2) -- even though (2) is what has happened. Unless one wishes to believe that there was some superpowerful designer behind these designers' thoughts and efforts, a case of (1) having the appearance of (2).


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Healthcare makes up a large segment of all worldwide economies. It is a very diverse environment made up of many entities, which can include large health systems, children's medical centers, rural hospitals, ambulatory facilities, urgent care centers, laboratories, medical testing facilities, pharmacies, therapy centers, surgical facilities, long-term care facilities, teaching and research organizations, ambulance and mobile units, component and equipment manufacturers, vendors and distributors, etc. These entities are often spread over a large geographical area and are heavily regulated by each respective government. Correspondingly, the networks employed by the industry reflect the inherent complexity.
The healthcare industry is seeing rapid and evolutionary changes due to recent government regulations, primarily concerning the conversion of medical records to a digital format. This is expected to generate massive amounts of new data and will continue to do so for years to come. Many of the existing network infrastructures do not currently have the capacity to handle the expected increase in data traffic. These networks need to be responsive, since practitioners may be geographically far from the data centers where the information is typically stored. For example, video conferencing and tele-health initiatives are used to allow surgeons to collaborate during complex operations or to allow physicians and nurses to directly communicate with the patient at home. Additionally, digital X-rays are transmitted to radiologists in remote locations. In such cases, it is essential that there be minimal latency in the network. Healthcare IT networks also need to be reliable in every sense – patient monitors and infusion pumps, etc. are increasingly controlled over the network. Downtime is not acceptable in a healthcare IT network, no matter how small, since it could literally be a matter of life and death.
Healthcare IT networks of the future must be flexible with the integration of existing components, scale to handle massive amounts of data and be extremely simple to manage. Brocade has the expertise in designing and deploying networks that meet the stringent requirements of the healthcare industry. Over the coming weeks, a series of papers will be released with details surrounding Brocade's healthcare network reference architecture.
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It should be a happy new year for the economy – or at least a happier one.
2014 is set to be the best year of economic growth for the UK since the financial crisis. In the four years of recovery so far, the UK economy has averaged GDP growth of 1.4pc. But this is less than half the average rate of growth (3.2pc) in the decade before the crisis.
While the UK is not getting back to the pre-crisis growth trend, our forecast at PwC is for GDP to rise 2.4pc this year, nearly double the rate of growth in the previous four years. The Office for Budget Responsibility, the CBI and most City economists have very similar forecasts.
One factor that is helping the recovery is inflation coming down from a peak of more than 5pc just over two years ago to 2.1pc, according to the latest figures. That is easing the squeeze on consumers and allowing them to spend more freely.
So, with growth picking up and inflation is coming down, all should be set fair for the year ahead, and we just need to sit back and enjoy the ride. Unfortunately, economic life in the "new normal" world is not so straightforward. Better economic prospects will create new challenges – and bring back some old ones.
The first challenge will be for the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The MPC has set a threshold of a 7pc unemployment rate before it will consider the case for higher interest rates.
With better economic growth, it is highly likely that this threshold will be reached early this year. The unemployment rate for August to October was 7.4pc – 0.3 percentage points down on the previous three months. If the jobless total continues the same rate of decline, we will see a 7pc unemployment rate in the next three or four months.
In August last year, when the Bank of England set out its forward guidance based on a 7pc unemployment rate, its forecasts suggested that this benchmark would not be reached until 2016.
So, getting there two years early represents quite a dramatic change in the economic outlook. And even though inflation is currently close to the target, I believe there is a strong case for starting the process of gradually raising interest rates in 2014.
The MPC may duck the challenge. But if it holds off too long before raising rates, the Committee will find itself in the same position as the US Federal Reserve in the mid-2000s. After all the turmoil following the 9/11 World Trade Centre attacks, US interest rates were held at 1pc until mid-2004 and then raised sharply to more than 5pc in the space of less than 18 months.
That change helped to trigger the global financial crisis. The lesson from that experience – and other previous similar episodes – is that holding down interest rates at very low levels for too long risks a big shock to the economy in the future if they then need to rise sharply.
A stronger pound is a second issue that could emerge in an environment of stronger growth and rising interest rates. The pound has been gradually appreciating in recent months as better economic news has filtered through. But it is still around 20pc below its value against other major currencies before the financial crisis. The fall in sterling since 2007 added to the pressures on consumers by raising import costs. And though a weaker pound did help exporters, we did not see much benefit of that in terms of economic growth because UK exports are not very price sensitive.
If the pound does continue to appreciate this year, this would be a welcome development in my view. Sterling still looks undervalued – particularly in relation to the euro, where an exchange rate of €1.30 to €1.35 is more in line with longer-term historical averages. And a rising pound would ease some of the pressure on consumers from rising energy and food prices, as it would make imported goods and services cheaper.
A third challenge we are likely to face in an improving economy is rising costs for business. Upward pressure on business costs is likely to come from two directions.
First, as growth picks up and unemployment falls, wage increases are likely to pick up. After a long period of wage restraint in difficult economic conditions, employees will expect to share in the success of the businesses they work for.
John Cridland, the director-general of the CBI, has argued that this would be a healthy development for the economy. And a tighter labour market – with falling unemployment and rising vacancies – will reinforce this upward pressure on wage levels.
The second way in which stronger growth will feed through into costs and prices is through rising energy, food and commodity prices. These prices reflect global demand and supply rather than what is happening in the UK economy. But international organisations such as the IMF do expect a recovery in global growth this year and into 2015. Unfortunately, we may see this reflected in rising business costs and household bills as we get to the end of this year.
How is this outlook likely to affect George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as he battles to reduce government borrowing and contain rising public debt? There looks to be quite a bit of upside for him as stronger growth feeds through to improving public finances. The challenge he faces will be to avoid the temptation to have a pre-election surge in spending or to make premature tax cuts.
Despite the improving economic environment, the UK's deficit is still more than double the level that would be sustainable in the long term. Better economic growth should enable him to reduce the deficit more quickly and hold out the promise of a better financial position in the next Parliament. But it should not be used to finance pre-election giveaways.
So, as we move through 2014, we could see a new set of challenges unfold for the UK economy – rising interest rates, a stronger pound, rising wages and a return of global energy and commodity price inflation.
We are not at the end of the adjustment following the financial crisis – or even at the beginning of the end. But, as Winston Churchill said after the Battle of El Alamein in 1942, we may have reached the "end of the beginning".
There is still more to be done – in repairing public finances, normalising monetary policy and restoring business confidence – before we can declare total victory.
Andrew Sentance is senior economic adviser at PwC and former MPC member


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Exactly! Yet more division, diversion and distraction. The 'Refugee' crisis was entirely planned, and those masses of migrants are not opening the gates of Europe themselves; they are being let in. The master-psychologist in charge of western nations are counting on us to get mad at the immigrants themselves - this is why they report so freely on 'taharrush' (group rape) and the other misdemeanours of the (Muslim) immigrants. We need to both protect our communities from predatory, disrespectful migrants as well as always remembering who enemy #1 is. You don't cure a cold by merely wiping snot from the nose.ReplyDelete
The media have their part in all this too. This whip up anti Muslim feelings and then there's always a surge in pro Israel movements. Muslims are abrahmic by faith, so their religions view towards women is shared by the jews and christians, who hold similar outrageous sexist views towards women. But why isn't it being reported in equal measure than German police were told to ignore the crimes of these muslim men over the new year? There can be no opposition to the dark lodges master plan.ReplyDelete


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The Swiss Air Force on Wednesday 28 September endured it third crash in three months, as a AS532 Super Puma crashed in the Gotthard area. Images on social media show a burning helicopter. Two fatalities were confirmed by the Swiss Ministry of Defense several hours after the accident. The crash follows that of an F-5 Tiger in June and an F-18 Hornet in August.
The cause of today's crash is not yet clear, but it took place in a relatively flat area in the otherwise mountainous Gotthard region in Switzerland. The Swiss have been operating Puma and Super Puma helicopters for decades.
San Gottardo, "2 morti" #ultimaora #gotthard https://t.co/LlYDTQkAD1 pic.twitter.com/a14wJk20P9
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The crash of an F-5 Tiger on 9 June was the result of an collision with another F-5 of the Patrouille Suisse display team during an airshow over Leeuwarden in the Netherlands. The pilot ejected while his jet came down in a small lake.
The crash of an F-18 Hornet took place near Meiringen air base in central Switzerland. The pilot was unfortunately killed as his jet impacted the side of a mountain. The accident is still being investigated, but preliminary results say the aircraft was flying lower than was required.
It seems very unlikely the recent crashes are in anyway connected. Nevertheless, re-checking safety procedures may be a wise thing to do for the Swiss. The US Navy recently did a similar thing after a quick string of crashes with military aircraft.


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It seems almost unpatriotic to serve a burger without fries. So when grilling my favorite hamburger, I always make sure to have a few servings of these grilled sweet potato and white potato fries ready!
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Below is the Psychological Evaluation Guide. Provide this document to your physician so they may conduct your psychological evaluation in accordance with the FAA's requirements. You (the pilot) may also use this guide to prepare for your evaluation.
This guide has been updated with the new FAA requirements as of 1/27/2016. The process is still relatively the same. Instead of requiring a complete written evaluation, as previously required, the FAA now requires your mental health professional to fill out and submit the "FAA Gender Dysphoria Mental Health Status Report" in its place. This is essentially the only difference in the process.
This information is not endorsed by the FAA or the United States Government. Information is based on other transgender pilots' experiences with the process of FAA medical certification.
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Public-bathroom mirrors now play electronic ads as you wash, primp, brush -- and bemoan no end to product bombardment.
The LED mirrors by Novo Ad are already in Tel Aviv and they're coming to Barentin, France, this month, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. Novo Ad is looking to expand into the United States.
Chicago's O'Hare Airport began experimenting with the technology last year, using models from Clear Channel Outdoor and Mirrus. The ad images shrink to a manageable size so you can take care of your personal stuff, but is any size tolerable in a place that used to mostly leave us alone?


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The blistering heat of an Alabama June weighed me down as I stood graveside, attending the funeral of my good friend's mother. Sadly, the words of the officiating minister weighed down my heart even more. Bedecked in garb intended to mark the liturgical season, the matronly minister raised her hands and admonished us all to join with her in saying the Lord's Prayer. What she proceeded to say was infinitely more damaging than the fact that she stood in a position that she was unqualified to hold.
"Let us call on God our mother when we pray," she said. After which, she solemnly bowed and led the gathering of mourners in her radically modified "Lord's Prayer."
Yes, I've read the books and have listened to the arguments of those who think that calling God "our mother" is not only sound logic but also good counsel. But I remain unconvinced for all the reasons that have been rehearsed in almost every major systematic theology. Others have addressed the issue with great skill and clarity, and there is no need to rehearse the arguments.[1]
Instead, the practical question I want to address is: Does it really make a difference in our lives if we think of God as mother rather than father? Or is it just an issue of semantics? After all, the Bible does say that God is a "Spirit" (John 4:24).
The problem with that sort of thinking is it is only tethered to human logic. Knowing all too well how inconsistent we can be, we are better off asking: "What does the Bible consistently teach?" Words have meaning, and we must respond to what the text actually says not what we would wish to insert. Since the Bible is not a buffet line of semantically arranged choices to pick and choose from, we use the word "Father" when we pray because:
- 1. The Word "Father" reveals His divine nature.
The Triune God is one, eternally existing in three divine Persons who are equal in essence but different in personal expressions through one undivided and eternal divine nature. What distinguishes the Father from the Son and Holy Spirit is not deity, for they are all equally and fully God. The distinguishing mark is the fact that the Father has a unique relationship with the Son and a unique relationship with Holy Spirit.
Yes, the Bible does occasionally describe God using humanly feminine terms (Deuteronomy 32:18; Isaiah 42:14; Isaiah 66:13). However the context of such passages makes it abundantly clear that these are metaphors and personifications. The Bible never uses feminine terms, names, or titles to invoke the Father. Rather, it uses masculine terminology. In other words, "Father" is not just a description of God, it's who He is.
Calling God "Father" is not like adding personification to an inanimate object. He reveals Himself as Father on every page of Scripture because this is who He really is. "Father" is how He truly relates to the Son (Romans 8:31, Luke 2:49, John 5:36, Ephesians 1:3, Philippians 2:9) and how He truly relates to us (Matthew 5:45; Romans 8:31; Hebrews 12:7; James 1:17). Therefore, we cannot abandon or replace His Fatherly identity with an alternate word.
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Kindle DRM Removal
Kindle (.azw / .prc / .mobi) is an extraordinary format among others. It is established by amazon and only available for Kindle readers. Once we have paid for the goods we want to use them anywhere, not the standalone device—kindle. Besides, drm is another bugaboo that kindle possesses to refrain us to transfer the books to other places. The two factors have become the great barrier in front of us for choosing a free reading way.
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Kindle for PC
As it is known by all of us that Amazon released a Kindle for PC app, which is available as a free 5.17MB download for Windows 7, Vista, and XP. It is of great resemblance like Kindle for iPhone app. Kindle for PC syncs your Amazon e-book downloads and shows them on your computer for convenient reading either when you're away from your svelte e-book reader or if you chose not to buy it in the first place.
Though kindle is a nice handy device, the application is also necessary I think. Kindle for PC app does the job we want it finish for us. Except for other benefits, it syncs your last read page with Whispersync as well as Kindle notes and promises to utilize Windows 7's touch technology. It is also capable for us to share the joy of pinch-zoom, turning pages with finger swipes. Amazon is reportedly working on the ability to create notes and highlights on your PC and a search function. We are truly looking forward those elevated changes.
Kindle DRM Removal for Mac
It's been far away from the time for us to make a fuss on the drm protection attached on Kindle books which brings great trouble for reading them on other applications., such as such as iPad, Sony Reader, iPhone, iPod touch, Android phone/tablet. But amazon books also have its own glory that attracts us to lend, read and buy. If you are always seeking for a way to get over this dilemma, especially for Mac users. Then we recommend you Kindle DRM Removal for Mac.
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Amazon Kindle Fire HD gets update to 7.2.2
Just a few days ago, we told you that an update for Amazon Kindle Fire users was on the way. So you shouldn't be too surprised when we tell you that the update, to software version 7.2.2, is now making its way to Amazon Kindle Fire units. As we told you the other day, the update brings with it the Kindle Free Time Unlimited capabilities that give your kids the chance to find appropriate content on the tablet. Designed for those in the 3 to 8 year old bracket, each kid will get an individual profile and home screen space. Apps have had commercials and social media removed and in-app purchases are disallowed. It's almost like having a separate Amazon Kindle Fire for you and one for your children. Amazon Prime members must pay $2.99 for the service for one child, or $6.99 for the whole family. If you aren't an Amazon Prime member, those prices jump to $4.99 and $9.99 respectively.
In addition, the content available with the service includes just about every movie or television show made for kids. Amazon has really come up with a feature that parents will find useful and kids will just love. In such a highly competitive tablet market, Kindle Free Time Unlimited can be the difference between parents buying an Apple iPad mini or deciding on an Amazon Kindle Fire HD instead. Those that decide on the Amazon Kindle Fire HD or the Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 can receive one free month of Kindle Free Unlimited by clicking on the Kindle Free Time app before January 15th 2013
In addition to Kindle Free Time Unlimited, the update allows you to now take pictures using the front facing camera. And Swype has been added to the tablet allowing you to type by swiping your fingers over the virtual QWERTY keyboard. The update has rolled out OTA, so installing it should be a breeze. Look out for the new software which should hit your Amazon Kindle Fire at any time.
Amazon To Offer Unlimited Kindle Fire Content for Children
Amazon has just fired another shot in its battle to convince families to buy its Kindle Fire tablet (starting at $159). The company just announced Kindle FreeTime Unlimited, which it describes as an "all-you-can-eat content service built from the ground up just for kids." The service requires a Kindle Fire device (it doesn't work on iPads and Android tablets) and prices start at $2.99 a month per child for families that already subscribe to Amazon's $79 a year Amazon Prime service (that also includes free 2-day shipping and access to free videos). A family membership is $6.99 a month for Prime members. Non-prime subscribers pay $4.99 per child or $9.99 for a family membership. Owners of the newest Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD get one month of FreeTime Unlimited for free
The new service is aimed at children from 3 to 8.
Kids will be able to watch videos, play games, use apps and read books from content partners including Andrews McMeel Publishing, Chronicle Books, DC Comics, Disney, HIT Entertainment, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Marvel, Nickelodeon, PBS, Rainbow and Sesame Workshop.
Amazon said that children wil be able to explore content on their own and "pick for themselves what to read, watch or play next." Characters will include Elmo, Dora, Thomas & Friends, Cinderella, Buzz Lightyear, Lightning McQueen and Curious George.
Amazon has disabled any in-app purchases so parents don't have to worry about their kids running up a bill.
Amazon said that it's working with Common Sense Media, a non-profit organization that provides independent ratings of books, movies, television, apps, games, websites, and music.
How to use Send to Kindle for Firefox
Send to Kindle for Firefox is an extension by Amazon that allows you to send Web content to your Kindle. Previously only available for Chrome, it's a nice way to queue up long Web articles for offline reading. It also formats the content for easier reading, sans ads, menus, and other distractions. Here's how to use Send to Kindle for Firefox.
After you've installed Send to Kindle for Firefox, the Kindle button will appear in the upper right-hand corner of the Firefox toolbar. Left-click on it to bring up the options box.
The "Send to Kindle" option sends the content immediately to your Kindle. The first time you use it, you'll be prompted to log in to your Amazon account and choose delivery options, including which Kindle device(s) you want to send it to. You can also choose "Preview & Send" if you'd like to look at the layout first. If you want to only send selected text, choose "Send Selected Text."
That's it. If you want to change which devices you want your articles sent to, go to Settings; you'll be able to change delivery settings, as well as log yourself out of all active Send to Kindle browser extension sessions.
The Windows 8 Kindle Application
If you own a Kindle device you know that the books you download are associated with your Amazon account so that you can access them on other devices as well. Kindle apps have made their appearance on several devices not manufactured by Amazon directly, including a Kindle reader for Windows and web browser versions. Kindle apps are available for all major smartphone operating systems and tablets as well.
It feels like a natural progression that Amazon has released a Kindle application for Windows 8 that users of the operating system can make use of to read their ebooks on a device running the operating system. You are asked to either create a new Amazon account or sign in to an existing account to get started. If you are an existing user, you will shortly thereafter see all your Kindle ebooks listed in the application interface.
If you have added books recently to your account, you may need to right-click and select synchronize to start a manual synchronization of books. Books include free and commercial Kindle ebooks that you have purchased.
You can click on any title on display here to start reading right away in a full screen interface. A right-click while doing so displays a slider at the bottom highlighting the current location in the text, and a tools menu at the top which you can use for a variety of information outlined below:
- Library links back to the book library on the start page.
- Back goes back to the page you have been reading previously.
- Go to enables you to quickly jump to a page
- View opens an onscreen menu that you can use to make changes to font size, margins, the color mode and the number of columns displayed while reading.
- Bookmark and Notes/Mark enable you to bookmark pages and jump to them.
- Sync jumps to the furthest page read on all devices connected to your Kindle account.
- Pin to start allows you to pin the book to the start screen of the Windows 8 operating system.
You can go back and forward with a mouse click on the left or right side of the current page while reading or use the cursor keys for that instead. It is very likely that you can also use touch to do that on touch-enabled devices, but I could not test that.
The front page links to the Amazon Kindle store, but that is far from ideal as it is launching the store in the default system browser instead of the application interface. Another thing that is missing is the ability to add local ebooks to the app so that you can read those ebooks using the application as well.
All in all an app that will probably only be used by Kindle owners who also own a Windows RT tablet as it is not possible to install the PC reader software on RT versions of the operating system.
Amazon Kindle Fire HD Sales Increase After iPad Mini Revealed
The Amazon Kindle Fire HD line of devices have witnessed increased sales since Apple's reveal of the all new iPad Mini. According to the company sales for its moderately priced $199 tablet shot up following Apple's Wednesday press conference.
Kindle Paperwhite To Be The First Japanese-Language Kindle
One of the more overlooked announcements from Apple's event yesterday was that the iBooks now has support for Asian languages. Chinese, Korean and Japanese are all available in native right-to-left format with their own stores to support the titles available in these countries. It seems the announcement has forced Amazon's hand to announce their own Asian expansion.
Amazon announced today that the Kindle Store is now available in Japan with the Kindle Paperwhite being the first device to natively support the Japanese language. The device will have access to over 50,000 Japanese-language Kindle books and over 15,000 manga titles. The Wi-Fi Paperwhite will be available for a relatively cheap 8,480 yen ($106) and the Wi-Fi/3G version will retail for 12,980 yen ($162).
"After twelve years of selling print books on Amazon.co.jp, we are excited to offer the millions of Amazon.co.jp customers the new Kindle Store, with the largest selection of the books people want to read, the largest selection of Oricon best sellers in books, bunko, and manga, and over 50,000 Japanese-language titles—all available to anyone with a Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Fire, Android phone, Android tablet, iPhone, or iPad," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Founder and CEO. "Kindle Paperwhite is the Kindle e-reader we have always wanted to build—it has 62% more pixels and 25% higher contrast than the previous generation Kindle, built-in front light, perfect for reading in bed or in sunlight, even thinner, with 8 weeks of battery life."
The Japanese Kindle store will launch on October 25. The store will feature a number of exclusive titles from some of Japan's most prolific authors including Arimasa Osawa and Yusuke Kishi. Amazon is also going to be pushing manga in a big way by making the latest volume of Neon Genesis Evangelion exclusive to the Kindle Store.
The Kindle Fire HD is already available in Japan, but the Kindle Paperwhite is their first stab at offering eReaders in the country. Tablets are growing in popularity in Japan thanks to the iPad, but it's hard to tell if eReaders will have the same success. The exclusive title are definitely a good first start.
Kindle DX Removed from Amazon's Website
The Amazon Kindle DX has gone through a few iterations since it was initially released May 6, 2009. It featured a 9.7 inch e-Ink screen that mainly appealed to people who read complex PDF documents or need a bigger screen. In 2010, the international edition was released to over 100 different countries and the Kindle DX Graphite was issued in July of 2010. The Graphite was the company's flagship large screen reader with better contrast and an accelerometer to automatically switch the orientation. The hefty price-tag and unwieldy nature ensured that it would never garner the mass market appeal that Amazon had originally envisioned. Today the company removed all official product listings from the website and the only way to purchase one is via third parties.
One of the biggest drawbacks on owning a Kindle DX was the lack of features implemented via firmware updates. There hasn't been a single new update issued in almost two years and many people saw the six inch line take all the glory. With the advent of the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD line of e-readers and tablets, there is no reason to continue selling the DX. Amazon has never disclosed whether it will introduce a follow-up, and it is extremely unlikely that they will ever release another e-reader larger than six inches.
Kindle Paperwhite Tips: How to Take Screenshots and Remove Recommended eBooks
I learned a couple of nifty tips for the Kindle Paperwhite over the weekend, including how to capture screenshots and how to remove the annoying recommended titles that appear on the first page of the homescreen.
Mastering how to snap screenshots takes a little practice, but once you get it down it works well. All you have to do to take a screenshot is tap the upper left corner and lower right corner at the same time. Or you can tap the upper right corner and lower left corner at the same time. Both options will do the trick.
When it works the screen will flash once and refresh.
To access the screenshots you have to plug the Kindle Paperwhite into a computer with a USB cable. The images get saved to the root of the Kindle drive in PNG format.
To remove the recommended ebooks that Amazon places on the bottom of the homescreen, as shown in the screenshot above, all you have to do is turn on parental controls in the settings menu and then turn off access to the Kindle Store.
Doing this removes the recommended titles from the homescreen, but it also makes it so the Kindle Store icon is grayed out and inaccessible. The downside with this is you have to go back into parental controls, enter a password, and re-enable the setting any time you want to visit the Kindle Store.
Amazon has already said that they are going to add the option to turn off recommendations on the Kindle Fire HD in an upcoming firmware update. Perhaps they will do the same for the Kindle Paperwhite too.
Is Amazon phasing out the Kindle DX?
The tech world took to the announcement of Amazon's latest two Kindles, the Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Paperwhite, with enthusiasm, but not every Kindle model is riding the wave of good tidings.
Amazon's Kindle DX, the extra-large reader introduced in 2009, may finally be experiencing an official phase out.
The signs became clear Monday, as all evidence of the Kindle DX, including Amazon's official Kindle comparison tables and Kindle product box images, was apparently scoured from the web.
Tellingly, the Kindle DX is no longer being sold directly by Amazon, either, and there's no indication that it will ever return, though third-party sellers on the website still offer it.
Awaiting Amazon's clarification
TechRadar has reached out to Amazon for comment on what's going on, but for now the evidence appears to speak for itself.
We'll update this post if and when Amazon decides to officially announce the death of the Kindle DX – or refute this rumor entirely.
There are still reports that a second-generation Kindle DX is for sale through Amazon, though its software and hardware is said to be severely out of date.
It's truly unclear what all this means, so hopefully Amazon decides to speak up soon.
Death of the Kindle DX
The Kindle DX hasn't been updated since 2010, so Amazon's apparent move to discontinue it isn't entirely unexpected.
The 10-inch reader reportedly never quite caught on, due possibly to its sheer size and general unwieldiness.
Monday's reports of the Kindle DX's discontinuation come hot on the heels of a massive discount on the reader, which went from $379 (UK£239, AU$369) to $299 (UK£186, AU$291) within a week.
The price drop may have well been a final effort on Amazon's part to empty its shelves of Kindle DX stock before discontinuing the device forever.
However, some hardcore Kindle DX fans may still hold out hope for a Kindle DX Paperwhite, an extra-large reader with up-to-date tech, though Amazon's given no indication of such a product's existence.
We can still hope, right?


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Dalston is centred around the high street, specifically Kingsland Road, which runs south to Shoreditch and North to Stoke Newington, and where grubby shops and pubs have given way to trendy bars, cafes, clubs and boutiques. Some of the cash funded from the Olympics has created a new railway station – Dalston Junction - on the East London line, and trains run frequently to West Croydon and Crystal Palace via Canada Water and Surrey Quays.
Connections to the City, West End and Canary Wharf are already good: the Jubilee line, Victoria line and DLR can all be picked up within a few stops – and they're about to get even better. The area's other station, Dalston Kingsland, is on the North London line, linking Stratford and Richmond, and there are numerous buses. Dalston is in Zone 2, and an annual Travelcard into Zone 1 costs £1,168.
At the heart of the regeneration scheme sits Dalston Square, a huge development featuring a public square, shops, restaurants, a library and archives as well as the well renowned station.
Most of Dalston's housing is somewhat older – a typical inner city mix of Victorian and ex local authority properties, plus a smattering of Georgian buildings. The spacious 19th century houses in the streets of Kingsland Road were long ago converted into flats, and home buyers after period family houses head to the conversation areas in pricey London Fields or De Beauvoir Town. These houses have remained the same but other aspects of Dalston have changed enormously.
Dalston's upturn is reflected in property prices. A one bed period flat starts at around £270,000 and two beds range from £350,000 to more than £600,000. People who live on the N1 side want to say and announce they live in Dalston, whereas in the past they would have called it Islington. The areas trendiness is reflected in the letting market too. One bedroom flats start at around £1,000 per month, so there's something in the area for all, even if you are on a budget.
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text: Since 1990, major banking and current crises have occurred in many countries throughout the world - including Mexico and Latin America in 1994-95, East Asia in 1997-98, and Russia and Brazil in 1998 - with large costs both to the individual countries experiencing the crises and to other nations. As a result, considerable effort has been expended by economists and policymakers to identify the causes of these crises and to design programs with the aim both of preventing similar crises from occurring in the future, and of minimizing the costs when these do occur. These studies have cut across national boundaries, being undertaken by individual researchers and organizations in particular countries, as well as by international institutions. This book collects the papers and discussants' comments presented at a conference co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, and held in Chicago, in early October 1999. The purpose of the conference was to identify and discuss the lessons to be learned from these crises. Topics discussed included reviews of the crises in the individual countries and regions; analyses of the policy responses, both by the affected countries and by official international institutions; what has been learned from these crises; deposit insurance reform; the design of bank capital regulation; the role of bank supervision and regulation; and the future of official international financial institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The conference participants included a broad range of academic, industry, and regulatory experts from more than twenty-five countries. Because of the timeliness of the conference and the wide-ranging expertise of the participants, the papers in this book should be of significant interest both to students of financial crises and to domestic and international policymakers.


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The Characters:
Dr. Paul Armstrong - He studies science, because he is a scientist, and a scientist's whole purpose in life is to advance the field of science, through the study of...science.
Betty Armstrong - Why don't you hop in the kitchen and cook something to keep yourself busy while your scientist husband is working on science?
Kro-Bar - An alien from Malva. His name is particularly splendid, because his character's social ineptitude made me feel like someone was pounding on my central sulcus with a crowbar.
Lattis - Kro-Bar's wife. Her sole purpose in this universe is to crank up her husband's stress level just enough so that he dies two years before she does. That's what women do. A race could have an average lifespan that spans millennia, and the wife will still do everything she can to cause her husband to have a heart attack two years before she kicks the bucket.
Ranger Brad - This guy kissed too many chipmunks as a child.
Dr. Roger Fleming - He looks like the stupid brother from "My Name Is Earl." Acts just as stupid too.
Animala - She might look human, but this feral firecracker was created from forest critters. She is also the only character I found endearing, because she constantly says, "Rowr!" and tends to lick people on the nose.
The Mutant - What has three eyes, claws, and wears a skirt?
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra - Now that it is found, it is in dire need of a new descriptive title. Suffers the same fate as Humpty Dumpty, if you substitute "cliff" in place of "wall."
The Plot:
The trouble starts when Paul and Betty take a vacation so that the scientist can look for a meteorite made of atmospherium. Back in those days, married couples took vacations so that the husband could get some work done while the wife made dinner. Being on vacation was not all that different from life at home. The men liked it because they slept in somebody else's bed. The women liked it because they did not have to spend all day cleaning the house (though they usually did anyway).
You need to be warned
right now
that I detest about eighty percent of this film's dialog. It is all intended to make fun of the ridiculous lines that characters are forever speaking in classic b-movies, but most of the attempts were off target. It is easy to blame the abominable chatter on lazy writing. However, after Paul uses the generic term "science" for the sixth time in less than a minute, you start to wonder if actual malice is behind it all.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." I know, I know. I refuse to believe that the screenwriter is actually that stupid. There he is, on the screen (it's Paul, in case you are also looking for someone to blame). He does not look stupid. His shoes are on the correct feet. He never sticks a fork in an electrical outlet. His attire presents a neat and tidy appearance, and nobody taped a sheet of paper to his back with the word "IDIOT" written on it. Paul is not an idiot. No, he did this on purpose...to hurt me.
Paul and Betty easily locate the atmospherium meteorite, and they take it back to the cabin for further study. There are not any specimen containers available, so Paul keeps the glowing, highly radioactive chunk of exotic matter on one of the dinner plates. Any future meal served off of that plate would likely cause the contaminated person to either die or mutate, but the couple laughs about the situation. When Paul remarked that they would wash the plate after he was done with it, I laughed. It
funny. Do not get too hopeful. Moments like that one are few and far between.
A meteorite made of pure atmospherium is an incredible discovery; there are others who want the meteorite for their own purposes. Kro-Bar and Lattis need the atmospherium because their spaceship was damaged during an emergency landing. Without the miracle element, the two marvans (they are from "Marva") will never be able to return home. Dr. Fleming wants the atmospherium so that he can resurrect the Lost Skeleton of Cadavra. Frankly, I do not know why the evil paleoanthropologist wants to give the skeleton more power; the only thing it ever does is to insult him.
The dedicated scientist cannot stop talking about science, and atmospherium...and science. The idle chatter reaches prying ears; ears that are attached to those who need atmospherium. Everybody needs atmospherium, and everybody hears Paul talking about it. The only way to obtain it is to steal the meteorite from the clueless scientist. The little vacation cabin is soon the social center of the backwoods. Kro-Bar and Lattis disguise themselves as nondescript humans. Dr. Fleming is already human, but he steals the aliens' transmorphing gun and creates Animala from a collection of random fauna. Obviously, consorting with a woman who constantly acts like a feral cat is a good way to appear normal.
Animala looks like a
Cat-Woman of the Moon
, but she is completely terrestrial, and half ferret. The truth about a woman's ancestry can be surprising at times. I still remember when a very Asian girl told me that she was half Irish. She did not look terribly Irish; she had long black hair, almond eyes, and smooth tan skin, but apparently she was half Irish. Oh, and she also told me that she hated potatoes. I have long suspected that little Miss Irish Mystery Meat was pulling my leg.
Watching the aliens' fabricated social flailings as they attempt to convince the humans that they too are human is agonizing. It made me want to claw my eyes out (and my ears immediately thereafter). Luckily, Animala saves the day, and my eyes, by being herself. I like Animala. Her character is actually funny. The aliens mistakenly taking their social cues from her is funny. Three people eating dinner by sticking their heads into their plates is funny. Dr. Fleming's raised eyebrow is funny.
However, once the meal is over and the eyebrows licked clean, it is right back to the pain.
The aliens and Dr. Fleming do eventually join forces to steal the meteorite from Paul. Animala hypnotizes the scientist with her primal dancing. Not one to let a black-coated hussy steal her man, Betty gives chase. The flustered housewife runs smack into the marvans' escaped mutant and faints at the sight of its three-eyed visage. The Mutant happily carries the limp woman around for a while; it finally learns what every human man eventually figures out: women are too darn heavy to carry around everywhere. The marvans learn the hard way that you should never trust a mad scientist. Fleming takes all the atmospherium, and the poor little aliens get none. They would cry all the way home, except that home is six thousand light years away, and they cannot get there without atmospherium.
Betty wakes up wherever it was the alien dropped her and rejoins the plot. The scientific couple and the marvans sort out their differences inside the spaceship (which is fittingly decorated with silver pegboard). However, the alliance accomplishes almost zilch before the Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, reanimated by its minions, returns and mentally enslaves the marvans. Kro-Bar means nothing to the flagitious collection of bones, but Lattis is to be the skeleton's unwilling bride.
I did not like this movie, which seems to surprise many people. It took me a little while to figure out why I disliked the film so much. "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra" is an attempt to make fun of old science fiction b-movies. They are trying to parody something being cheap and stupid, that everyone already recognizes as being cheap and stupid, by being cheap and stupid. All they did was annoy the heck out of me (believe me, I know; I was there, watching it), and the shame is that they were so close. In fact, the movie had it nailed perfectly in at least two places: Paul insisting they would wash the plate and the scene at the dinner table.
They knew what to parody, but could not quite figure how, so they went overboard. They could have used the same story, but written the script to be completely serious, and I might well have loved it.
I wish...I wish that this had turned out differently. It was like watching my neighbors build a new house in a single day, and they did
everything right. As the sun set, I took a seat on my front step and regarded the house, and it was good: the foundation was level, the walls were square, and the roof was the perfect pitch. Unfortunately, they built the house out of fish, rather than brick and wood. So, there I sit, looking at the house, and knowing that it is going to stink to high heaven after the sun comes up tomorrow.
Things I Learned From This Movie:
Country life is so laid back that folks spend half of their day just standing by the side of the (dirt) road, hoping that some lost city slickers will stop to ask for directions.
Squirrels are hilarious.
The anthropologist who dies with the most bones, wins.
Earning a degree in geology requires the student to spend six months studying human anatomy.
Cranberries are universally ubiquitous.
The only thing worse than listening to a couple engage in a horribly staged conversation is listening to two couples engage in a horribly staged conversation.
Housewives like to play hide-and-go-seek with the mutant every now and then (no, that is not a euphemism).
You can smother someone by covering their ears.
Stuff To Watch For:
8 mins - "...fish, bicycles, fish on bicycles..."
9 mins - Where is a discarded Ed Wood screenplay when you need one?
14 mins - Three things should happen here: he finds a pile of shaving cream, bubbles fill the air around him, and he suddenly drops dead of an aneurysm. The first two ideas are homages, the third is me being bitter.
17 mins - I don't know how much more of this I can take.
29 mins - Do you see that knothole in the wall? No, not that...yes, that one. That knothole is doing more for the profession of acting than anyone else in this scene.
33 mins - Arrrrgggghhhhh! It is better when you shut up!
36 mins - Heaven help me, but I just laughed.
52 mins - I want to take that rock and kill him with it. "Him" meaning him, the screenwriter, and the director.
73 mins - Are you saying that you have always wanted to marry a homely woman?
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Starving actors speak out
Betty: "I hope the owners don't mind their good dishes holding a radioactive meteor."
Paul: "Don't eat the meteor by mistake, whatever you do!"
Both laugh.
Paul: "Seriously, we'll clean the dishes before we go."
Ranger Brad: "Oh say, you don't believe those old legends about the Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, do you?"
Dr. Fleming: "Hahahaha. Ranger Brad, I'm a scientist. I don't believe in anything."
Lattis: "Maybe the special bars on the mutant cage got bent in the crash."
Kro-Bar: "Oh, this is fine, fine! Now, we must not only repair our ship, we must find our mutant, which we were to return to our planet, Marva."
Lattis: "Or who knows how many untold millions will die by its hand."
Kro-Bar: "If only it did have hands, my woman. If only it did have hands..."
Dr. Fleming: "Won't you please be seated, my dear?"
Animala: "Rowwwwr."
Dr. Fleming: "May I say, you look lovely this evening."
Animala: "Rowr!"
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Re: The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Reply #25.
Posted on November 21, 2008, 03:08:38 PM by
Racist Melon Farmer
Hey, that'd make a great drinking game, wouldn't it? Take a shot or a chug everytime someone says "science"!
Maybe that's how you make this movie bearable to watch.
Re: The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Reply #26.
Posted on November 23, 2008, 12:54:34 PM by Big Galloot
To Andrew -
I'm a bit surprised that you weren't struck by the similarity between Ranger Brad and the Canadian Cop. I actually showed that piece of the Giant Claw to a female friend and fellow Lost Skeleton fan and asked "Who is this?" "OMG - It's Ranger Brad!! That's hilarious!" Was the reply, so I am not alone in this.
I guess that Ranger Brad is in the eye of the beholder.
Re: The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Reply #27.
Posted on November 23, 2008, 09:05:43 PM by
Mofo Rising
Quote from: Trevor on November 21, 2008, 03:59:51 AM
Mofo's comment about Fay Masterson reminded me of when that actress came to South Africa to make
Jock Of The Bushveld
in 1992. She was really not used to the conditions and whined to the director (and to all that would listen): "Oh, it's so dusty here, I'm going to lay bricks when I go to the loo."
And yet she also filmed
The Power of One
that same year. It's alright, a little fiber does the body good.
Re: The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Reply #28.
Posted on November 24, 2008, 02:05:30 AM by Ricky Sanchez
I was so happy to read this review and no that other people didn't like this movie. I thought it was a dreadful bore!
Re: The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Reply #29.
Posted on November 24, 2008, 08:25:26 AM by
Quote from: Mofo Rising on November 23, 2008, 09:05:43 PM
Quote from: Trevor on November 21, 2008, 03:59:51 AM
Mofo's comment about Fay Masterson reminded me of when that actress came to South Africa to make
Jock Of The Bushveld
in 1992. She was really not used to the conditions and whined to the director (and to all that would listen): "Oh, it's so dusty here, I'm going to lay bricks when I go to the loo."
And yet she also filmed
The Power of One
that same year. It's alright, a little fiber does the body good.
Yikes: John G Avildsen's anti-South African statement ~ I'd forgotten about that one.
Re: The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Reply #30.
Posted on December 12, 2008, 10:42:26 PM by GilbeeFromMagoombo
Greetings from Magoombo! First off let me start by stating that I am wholly aware of the fact that people have differences of opinion and taste. That said, I think you, sir, must have the sense of humor of a gnat. Your review of The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra couldn't have been more off the mark. I have been a slightly rabid fan of this film since I first picked it up from my local video store's "bargain bin". Apparently, some other knuckle-headed fool shared your views on this masterpiece of cinema. I had heard of the film during it's theatrical run, but for some reason or another never got around to seeing it. Part of me was wary of this type of film. I agree with you on that, I generally stay away from "spoofs" altogether. They just don't agree with me whatsoever (gas,bloating,nausea,crying fits,etc). Yet, Hollywood still seems to find the Time and Money to crank out these monstrosities at an alarming rate. So, I popped this thing in my dvd player expecting a bad reaction, but boy was I surprised. It was a treat from start to finish. I loved it, my family loved it, the mailman even loved it. I thought that the "spoofing" was done with a lot of respect and love for those old films, and in no way did I feel my intelligence was being insulted. I could tell the film's creator was a true lover of bad cinema and thought he did an excellent job. I feel the film is laughing right along with the b-movie spirit, not at it. It Troubles and Saddens me to think that anyone would feel the way you do about this, sure to be classic, gem. Oh well, to each his own, as Rick James would say. Anyways, I'm glad to see the film reviewed on your site, which I am new to, and will enjoy visiting in the future.
Re: The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Reply #31.
Posted on December 12, 2008, 11:01:22 PM by
I would just like to say that me and GilbeeFromMagoombo are not the same person. He is my evil twin (or am I the evil one? Hmm...my memory isn't what it used to be.) I do, however agree with everything he posted in his comment. Except for that thing about Rick James, I'm not so sure if that's accurate.
Re: The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Reply #32.
Posted on January 27, 2009, 08:41:54 AM by Cavey2000
So what does a bad review on "BadMovies.org" mean? Does that make it a good movie? I'm so confused.
For the record, I liked it.
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Verizon Wireless Contributes $250,000 To Central High's Quigley Stadium In Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK, AR — Verizon Wireless, the leading wireless company with the most reliable voice and data network, announced today that it is making a $250,000 contribution toward a new, synthetic turf field at Little Rock Central High School's historic Quigley Stadium. The 108-year-old stadium, which plays host to a variety of high school sports and community events each year, will be renamed Quigley Cox Stadium at Verizon Wireless Field as part of the overall refurbishing project.
By providing the foundation for the new Quigley Cox Stadium at Verizon Wireless Field, Verizon Wireless is strengthening its roots in the Little Rock community and demonstrating its commitment to the area. The new turf allows the stadium to be open to a multitude of new events that weren't previously possible due to maintenance costs associated with the natural grass surface. Scheduled to use the new field include high school and youth football, soccer, school marching bands, Junior ROTC units and other community events. Quigley Cox Stadium at Verizon Wireless Field will also be the new home for Arkansas Baptist College's home football games.
"Little Rock Central High's Quigley Stadium is one of the most historic and enduring symbols of our community," said Steve Smith, south central region president, Verizon Wireless. "The new field will allow Central Arkansas youth the ability to compete and perform in the same way previous generations did. Verizon Wireless is excited to now be a part of such a long-standing tradition within Central Arkansas."
Opened in 1901 as West End Park, Quigley Stadium was originally home to the Little Rock Travelers of minor league baseball's Southern Association. Renamed Kavanaugh Field in 1915, the park was sold to Little Rock Central High School in the 1930s, expanded and renamed in honor of legendary Little Rock Central High's football coach Earl Quigley.
Home to countless memorable high school events over the past seven decades, Quigley Stadium's use had been restricted in recent years due to growing demand and increased stress on the natural grass surface. The new turf field will allow the stadium to hold more events without a major increase in maintenance costs. Little Rock Central's first home football game on the new field will be September 25 against Van Buren.
"This is a great day for all Little Rock high school students and anyone who values the importance of extracurricular activities for our youth," Little Rock School District Athletic Director Johnny Johnson said. "No longer will we have to tell administrators and coaches no, they can't use the field. Our only challenge now will be in scheduling all the activities we'll now be able to host here."
In addition to the naming rights for the Stadium, Verizon Wireless will also host tailgating and sampling activities at major events as well as phone drives to help support its HopeLine® initiative.
About Verizon Wireless Verizon Wireless operates the nation's most reliable and largest wireless voice and data network, serving more than 86.6 million customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with more than 86,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone (NYSE and LSE: VOD). For more information, visit www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.