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Inside the matchup: Chargers at Patriots
In an effort to get a little bit more inside the game, Alen Dumonjic, an x's and o's football junkie who blogs for The Score, will give us his insight on the intricacies of the game. Look for his analysis before each game from here on out.
After an eventful week one of the season which featured record breaking performances, a lot of points scored, poor conditioning and injuries, we look to Week 2 of the season. The Patriots started off pretty hot this season by defeating division rival Miami Dolphins and now come back on a short week to face a tough San Diego Chargers team. There will be a lot of interesting match-ups in this game and few areas that the Patriots can expose the Chargers, despite them being a very talented team.
For starters, the Chargers offense is called by their head coach, Norv Turner. Turner is a Don Coryell disciple and the influence of Coryell is evident on Sunday's. The Chargers like to use a lot of two tight end sets (one flexed and one inline) or two back sets (split backs and I form) accompanied by Twin sets (two receiving threats on same side of formation) of receiving threats.
The running game features a two headed backfield of Mike Tolbert and second-year back Ryan Mathews. Tolbert is the bigger and more physical back of the two, as he goes about 245 pounds and breaks a lot of tackles. With his larger frame, he also has a low center of gravity, which means he runs low to the ground, thus having low pad level. This allows him to break a lot of arm tackles, as evidenced the last two seasons. Along with Tolbert, Ryan Mathews is a hard runner that likes to bounce it more outside than Tolbert. Mathews is capable of running through the interior, like his teammate, but his speed on the edge can be a problem for defenses as witnessed in week one against the Vikings. The Chargers like to use both in different aspects of the game, such as Tolbert in the running game and Mathews in the passing game. They will also use both in the backfield at times and will use them in protection, with delayed handoffs or in the passing game.
Speaking of the passing game, it's important to start off with the offensive line. The Chargers utilize five, six and seven man protection, as every other team does, and have a built in check-release option for their non-OL pass protectors. The backs and tight ends who protect in six and seven man are to block any pass rushers (or blitzers) that are presented. However, if there are not any, they are free to release into the open field as a check down option for quarterback Philip Rivers.
Furthermore, the Chargers like to motion their tight ends out to a flex position or in the backfield and utilize them as over the middle of the field. Norv Turner likes to use Antonio Gates and Randy McMichael on crossing routes and sit down routes over the center of the formation to give them the opportunity to do damage after the catch as well as exploit any linebackers who are not able to cover them. Their receivers, Vincent Jackson and Malcolm Floyd, are tall targets that can get down the field and come up with the big catch. Jackson is a receiver that can run all the routes on the tree effectively while Floyd is best utilized as a downfield threat as he is not always quick enough out of his breaks on shorter routes. Finally, the aforementioned running backs are threats out of the backfield because of their ability to do damage. The Chargers like to use screens and swing passes to their backs to get their shoulders squared and going downhill.
The strength of the Chargers offense is their multiple weapons in their passing game. They feature weapons that can threat the defense at all three levels of the field – short, intermediate and deep – and Philip Rivers does a great job of spreading the ball around. In week one, the Chargers were patient with the ball for the most part and spread it all around because of the way the Vikings played them. The Vikings played a lot of Tampa 2, which is a zone based coverage, and made sure that the Chargers couldn't get behind them vertically. This will be something to watch for against the Patriots because it is likely that the Patriots will utilize quite a bit of zone coverage to slow down the deep passing game of the Chargers. Norv Turner likes to often dial up deep plays and will sometimes get impatient, so there are opportunities for the Patriots to capitalize on the Chargers aggressive play calling. The key for the Patriots defense is to get San Diego in 3rd and 6 or more and keep everything in front of them.
San Diego does not have a lot of weaknesses on the team but if there was one area that could do better, it is the interior offensive line. Led by center Nick Hardwick, the offensive line had some problems against the Vikings front in week one. The running backs were unable to find room to run on the interior because of the lack of push from the interior. Hardwick and the guards were not strong enough at the point of attack at all times, which led to issues for the backs. This is something the Chargers must improve to help Philip Rivers in the passing game. Also, the line had issues with the Vikings zone and man blitzes as well as stunts. Hardwick in particular had issues at times, and this is something that the Patriots could exploit. Also of note is right tackle Jeromey Clary who does not always get his hands up quick enough, which gives pass rushers the opportunity to gain leverage on him and speed rush around the corner.
Moreover, the Chargers defense is the strength of the team. They are a very aggressive group that has the talent to apply pressure with multiple players and still hold up in the defensive backfield. The Chargers slid in and out of multiple fronts against the Vikings, such as the Under, Over and Okie. The Okie front, which is the covering of the center and tackles with defensive lineman, was the most common of the fronts utilized by the defense. The covering of the center and tackles can be either a head up or shaded technique. The Chargers like to utilize these various fronts and show the illusion of blitzers before retreating at the snap.
In the fronts, they will mix in one and two gap principles. Nose tackle Antonio Garay will two gap quite a bit and does a pretty good job of holding up. Gary also does a good job of applying pressure on passing downs from the nose tackle spot.
In general, the defense features a lot of five man rushers, with the three down lineman and two outside linebackers doing a lot of the rushing from their 3-4 front. They also often turn to a four man line on third down with it occasionally showing up on second down. Defensive coordinator Greg Manusky likes to call a lot of man blitzes and does it with success because of the ability of their cornerbacks to hold up in man coverage. Cornerbacks Antoine Cason and Quentin Jammer are both good athletes that do well against the run and the pass, which is beneficial to Manusky.
One of the coverages that Manusky will call with his blitzes is man-free, which is also known as Cover 1. Man-Free (Cover 1) is the most popular coverage in the NFL and is used by every team. It is used because it provides eight defenders in the box along with the ability to match man for man in coverage. The cornerbacks are to defend the receiver they are aligned across of in man while the linebackers have the responsibility of covering the backs out of the backfield. The strong safety will walk down into the box and has the responsibility covering the tight end or slot receiver as well as playing in run support. Last, the free safety is in the middle of the field and is a zone defender. The free safety is to backpedal at the snap of the ball and keep his shoulders squared simultaneously so he does not lose leverage. If the safety turns in one direction, the quarterback is able throw in the opposite direction and possibly have an advantage with his target against the cornerback in man coverage. However, if the safety keeps his shoulders squared and declares his intentions as the pass is being thrown, he is able to play over the top of any route and get a hand on the pass.
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I expect the Chargers to roll into Man-Free against the Patriots to help stop the running game and to apply pressure with secondary players. One of the issues for the Chargers is that they are going to be going up against Tom Brady who is very good at finding his players in the soft spots of zone coverage, so they may be relying more on man coverage than zone in this game. We may also see a combination of man and zone coverage, with the linebackers and safeties in zone coverage while the cornerbacks play man.
Moving on to the strength of the Chargers defense, the ability to apply pressure. The Chargers got to Donovan McNabb twice in week one and applied pressure numerous times. Pass rush specialist Antwan Barnes and teammate Shaun Phillips are very good at getting to the quarterback and the two will be a tough match-up for the Patriots bookends. Matt Light had some struggles in week one and Sebastian Vollmer is not always technically sound. He does not always get his hands off his hips and onto the pass rusher to redirect. Dan Koppen's replacement, Dan Connolly, will have his hands full against Garay in pass protection, but it will be interesting to see how he fares in run blocking.
The are two weaknesses of the Chargers defense and they are the inability to stop the run up the middle as well as ILB Takeo Spikes.
Nose tackle Antonio Garay did well against the pass in week one but he and teammate Cam Thomas had some issues holding their own against the run. Both were unable to hold up blocks to stop the Vikings running game on the interior. Although Adrian Peterson did an excellent job setting up blocks using his eyes, the Chargers performance against the Vikings was not acceptable because they were gashed up the middle multiple times. I expect the Patriots to take advantage of this, as it is their best bet to run against the Chargers. If they attempt to run east-west against the Chargers, I don't expect them to have as much success because of the defenses ability to contain the edge. They are very good in pursuit as well.
ILB Takeo Spikes is a weakness in pass coverage for the Chargers because of his lack of change of direction (COD) skills as well as foot speed. Spikes is good against the run but his limitations in pass coverage may prove to be an issue in this game because of Aaron Hernandez and Rob Gronkowski. Fortunately for the Chargers, they have ILB Donald Butler, who has very good athleticism, who can help with those issues but he won't be able to cover both tight ends of the Patriots. They may turn to their nickel package, which could replace Spikes with a defensive back who is a better matchup for the Chargers.
Finally, this game should be a very good one. I expect it to be a tough battle between the two teams and another good performance between the two quarterbacks. I don't expect Tom Brady to put up a similar performance to the one he had in week one against the Miami Dolphins, but he should have another good outing. The Chargers will have their hands full on defense with the passing game of New England. Meanwhile, the Patriots will have to figure out how to stop the Chargers pass rush. They had success last week against a good one in Miami, but they will be tested once again this week. Can they slow down yet another quality pass rush with an up-tempo offense? We will see.
For more on the Patriots defense, read Alen's blog post at The Score. Follow Alen on Twitter at @DraftableXnOs.


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Two and a Half Men's Angus T. Jones Wishes People Would Stop Watching His Show
Because the show goes against his Christian beliefs.
Two and a Half Men co-star Angus T. Jones wants his living nightmare to end. "Jake from Two and a Half Men means nothing," Jones says in a video for the Forerunner Chronicles, a Seventh Day Adventist–leaning vlog series. "If you watch Two and a Half Men, please stop watching Two and a Half Men," Jones says. "I'm on Two and a Half Men, I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it. Please stop filling your head with filth. Please."
The 19-year-old twice invokes the notion of the Laodiceans, a group criticized in the Book of Revelations for being "lukewarm." According to Jones, "we need to pick our side now." (Those sides are "with God" and "not with God.") Later in the video, Jones says that "you can't be a true God-fearing person and be on a television show like [Two and a Half Men]. I know I can't. I'm not okay with what I'm learning and what the Bible says and being on that television show."
Jones recently spoke at a Seventh Day Adventist workshop and touched on that same discomfort. "It's very weird being on a television show, especially now that I'm trying to walk with God, because my television show has nothing to do and doesn't want anything to do with God," he said. "So it's a strange position that I'm put in … I'm under contract for another year, so it's not too much of a decision on my part. … I know God has me there for a reason for another year."

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With all votes now recounted, Norm Coleman has been re-elected to the Senate. I think. The Minnesota Secretary of State shows Coleman leading by 687 votes with 99.98% of precincts reporting–all but one. The Minneapolis Star Tribune shows Coleman with a 192 vote victory, with all ballots recounted.
The discrepancy is accounted for by the fact that the Secretary of State has not yet included totals from Minneapolis's Ward 3, Precinct 1, at the University of Minnesota, where 133 ballots are allegedly missing.
The only thing we know for sure is that the number of ballots that actually exist at that precinct, a DFL stronghold, is 133 fewer than the number that were recorded on the precinct's voting machine. Cynical observers suspect that 133 ballots were run through the machine twice, giving Al Franken some extra votes. Now, however, the official version is that those ballots are "missing," and the Secretary of State has given the precinct more time to "find" the ballots.
However that drama turns out, Coleman will win the recount, just as he won on November 4. But the margin is significant. The next stage takes place at the state's Canvassing Board, which will rule on all of the challenged ballots, something on the order of 5,000 distributed almost exactly equally between the campaigns. Very few of those challenges will be upheld, and no one expects the margin to be very different when that process is complete.
At that point, Al Franken will have to decide whether he wants to go to court to try to overturn the result of the election. His theory would be that some of the 12,000 or so absentee ballots that were disqualified by precincts around the state were wrongly excluded. The Franken campaign says that they believe 1,000 or so ballots may be in this category. Take those figures with several grains of salt; the number of disqualified absentee ballots is not officially reported and no one, obviously, has any idea how many such disqualifications were "wrongful."
But assume Franken's numbers are correct. If he is down by 200 votes in the recount, and a hypothetical 1,000 absentee ballots are now ruled eligible, he would have to carry those ballots by 600-400 to catch up. Incorrectly excluded absentee ballots are most likely distributed about equally between Franken and Coleman voters. So if Franken has that many votes or more to make up, he may well decide to forgo litigation, which would raise many novel legal issues and inevitably would last for months, and retire gracefully.
On the other hand, if Franken can narrow the margin down by re-counting what may be an extra 133 votes and through the challenge process, that might tip the balance in favor of protracted litigation. Either way, though, it now appears overwhelmingly probable that Norm Coleman will ultimately–albeit far too narrowly–prevail.
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The Selfless Eleven
The results are in: 11 members of the Pace Community have been selected to receive Jefferson Awards Bronze Medals for their commitment to service.
Each year, the Jefferson Awards for Public Service looks for the "unsung heroes," the selfless people who make the world a better place through volunteering and community service efforts. The Center for Community Action and Research is pleased to announce that 11 Pace University individuals have been selected to receive Jefferson Awards Bronze Medals for 2013-2014.
Known as the "Nobel Prize for public service," the Jefferson Awards were established to recognize and honor individuals whose community service efforts best exemplify dedication to enhancing the quality of life in their community. Pace University became a Champion of the Jefferson Awards for Public Service in 2008. Nominations were solicited from the University community and finalists were selected based on their personal, sustained commitment to service, and for the model of spirit and service they provide the university community.
This year's Bronze Medal Award winners include:
Hasin I. Ahmed
International Marketing, Lubin
NYC Campus
Hasin I. Ahmed is an International Marketing major and a Peace and Justice Studies minor on Pace's NYC Campus. He is originally from Dhaka, Bangladesh and calls New York City his second home. He has been volunteering and interning in the non-profit sector since his senior year of high school. As an undergraduate student, he has served as the Student Outreach Coordinator for the Center for Community Action and Research at Pace University since his freshman year. His work at the Center allowed him to plan and coordinate various volunteer service events with several NYC-based non-profit organizations and disseminate his passion for volunteer service work with Pace students, staff, and faculty. He has worked/volunteered with organizations such as Common cents, Generation Citizen, Computers For Youth, Brooklyn For Peace, etc.
Furthermore, Ahmed has served as FACES assistant for Professor Emily Welty's Intro to Peace and Justice Studies class, where he was in charge of managing the civic engagement component of five courses over a span of two years. He will be graduating with five years of work experience in the non-profit sector and he hopes to establish himself as a seasoned professional in the international non-profit/NGO sector.
Lisa Bardill Moscoritolo, PhD
Dean for Students
Westchester Campus
As a student affairs professional and educator for more than 20 years, Dean Lisa has recognized the impact that service and community engagement has on student learning and the community, and has worked to make it an integral part of the Pace experience. She was the driving force behind the creation of Pace Makes a Difference Day, a program where students, faculty, and staff spend a day volunteering in the community. This program, that now has grown to involve more than 350 students annually, has been part of the campus culture for the past five years.
Dean Lisa was also the founder of the Setters Leadership and Service House (SLH). SLH students are required to volunteer one to two hours a week, participate in workshops, and take a one-credit class based on the Social Change Model of Leadership and Servant Leadership practices. There are currently 20 SLH students, with plans to expand to 40 in the fall of 2014. She also co-taught a course on Leadership and Sustainability Practices where students were required to create sustainability projects for incorporation into the University's master plan.
Before moving to Westchester to work for Pace, Dean Lisa worked, lived, and went to college in Florida, where she helped to organize her church to provide food and supplies to those with HIV and AIDS, and served as a Red Cross volunteer for four years. She also organized students to volunteer in soup kitchens, and received a grant as a result of her work with students and the migrant farmworker population from Florida Campus Compact.
Daniel Borakove
Psychology, Dyson College
Westchester Campus
Daniel Borakove has a long and varied history of commitment to his community. Before entering Pace, he already had extensive experience working with the disabled, from his time at the Birchwood school to his volunteer work with the Special Olympics. He carried this interest into his work at Pace with his work with Successful Learning Center, a program that provides a college-like experience to developmentally disabled young adults and Camp Venture.
Borakove raised school supplies for children in South Africa, and funds for the Pace Academy's Water Walk. He has also been a teaching assistant for Professor Christopher Walther's Psychology of Civic Engagement course.
David Cassuto
Pace Law School
David Cassuto is a Professor of Law at Pace University's Law School in White Plains and the founder and director of the Brazil-American Institute for Law and Environment (BAILE). BAILE's mission is to work for the improvement of environmental protection and sustainable social and economic development.
A former professor of English specializing in literature and the environment, Professor Cassuto has published and lectured widely on legal, literary, and environmental issues. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, and is the founder and editorial director of the Animal Blawg, a blog devoted to animal law and policy. Currently, the Animal Blawg is reaching one million page views.
Professor Cassuto volunteers to teach environmental law and water law at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil each summer. From bicycling across the Amazon to raise money for rainforest causes while he was a graduate student at Indiana University, to working to end animal cruelty and exploitation through his work on the Board of Directors of Instituto Abolicionista Animal (IAA), a Brazilian NGO, he believes you do what you can for your community, a community that extends across borders and species boundaries and include entire ecosystems. In 2012, the IAA awarded him their Lifetime Achievement Award.
George L. De Feis, DPS
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Management, Lubin
NYC Campus
In his prior life, as a civil engineer, George L. De Feis has been engaged in the call for "sustainable development" for more than 25 years in the not-for-profit, academic, and professional (corporate) sectors. Two years ago, Professor De Feis was awarded a "Project Pericles Fellowship" at Pace University for developing a new course—Global Sustainable Development—where students integrate the "civic service" they have performed with "management learning," towards a full, comprehensive learning experience, which will be written about in an article as a base. He has taught this course in spring 2013 and currently in spring 2014. Professor De Feis serves on the board of a new environmental not-for-profit, AirSoilWater.
He completed his DPS in management/marketing at Pace University in 2013. He also holds an MBA in finance/investments (1987) from Bernard M. Baruch College (CUNY) and a BE in civil engineering (1982) from The Cooper Union.
Sara Digiovanna
Marketing, Lubin
Westchester Campus
Sara Digiovanna has been involved in service projects since the age of 12 when she first organized a fundraiser for the St. Jude's Children's Hospital. At St. Thomas parish, she volunteered as an Altar Server and worked at church picnics. In high school she was an avid community supporter and member of the National Honor Society and various leadership programs.
As a member and later a mentor of the Youth Leadership Sandoval County in New Mexico, Digiovanna learned to develop and inspire leadership, civic responsibility, and community involvement in Sandoval County youth by providing opportunities for education, exposure, and interaction. She was a member of the Carrie Tingley Youth Advisory Board, a non-profit organization that helps New Mexico families and children reach their full potential. The organization supports the University of New Mexico Carrie Tingley Hospital, but also funds several services and programs that assist individual families and children.
She also mentored developmentally challenged students ages 18-24 and taught them every day activities of responsibility such as going to work, cooking, and cleaning, so that they would be self-reliant upon graduation from high school. Since arriving at Pace, Digiovanna has continued to work with developmentally challenged children. Her first year at Pace she was a part of the Setters Leadership House and was a volunteer at Atria senior living home and Bedford Road Elementary School with students who had disabilities. In her sophomore year at Pace, she was chosen as captain of the cross-country team and is currently organizing the 1st 5k "Color Run" to raise community awareness and support for athletics at pace. She was also a University 101 Peer Leader.
Harriet R. Feldman, PhD, FAAN, RN
Dean, College of Health Professions and Lienhard School of Nursing
Dean of the College of Health Professions and Lienhard School of Nursing at Pace University Harriet R. Feldman's interest in service started with watching her parents give community service. Their role modeling greatly influenced her decision to enter a service profession, nursing. While at Pace, Dean Feldman was instrumental in re-starting Pace's Institutional Review Board for protection of human subjects in research, acting as its first chair. As Interim Provost, she supported the creation of Pace's LGBTQ center and has served on the University's Diversity Task Force.
Outside of Pace, Dean Feldman has been a member of the New York State Board for Nursing and the "grassroots liaison" of the Government Affairs Committee of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), where she leads NYS Deans in political action initiatives. She is a former member of the Board of Nyack Hospital and of the Task Force on the Future of Westchester Medical Center. She is an emerita member of the Board of Nurses Educational Fund, an organization that offers nursing scholarships for graduate nursing education. She was recently elected to the AACN Board and is past chair of the national nursing accrediting board, the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.
Dean Feldman is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and New York Academy of Medicine. She is a noted author, contributing countless publications on the topics of leadership and evidence-based practice, and has edited two nursing journals.
Jered Harvey
Business Economics, Dyson College
NYC Campus
Once in a great while an individual does something extraordinarily selfless that qualifies them for a Jefferson Award. Last fall, Jered Harvey non-violently intervened in a domestic dispute between a couple that turned violent. His service resulted in him being struck and thrown off the subway platform onto the tracks, which you may have read about in newspapers or seen in local news.
He cites his mother as his inspiration. "The only consistent thing in my life is my mother. Since I was born my sister, mother, and I have been on the move. Constantly changing towns, schools, states. But no matter where we went our mother made sure to remind us to show love for others. She led by example, having people in crisis stay with us in our home, volunteering in our community, and raising money for various causes. Personally I always preferred one on one help than abstract helping a cause. Offering conversation to crying strangers, giving directions to someone who is lost, making sure someone gets home safely when they've had one too many. Both in and out of Pace I'm involved with a few groups and clubs that try to help, raise awareness, or bring a little joy," he says.
Ann Marie Pavia
Economics, Dyson College
NYC Campus
Ann Marie Pavia believes in the power of education and in our democracy to alleviate poverty, social injustice, and inequality. She is a student leader at Pace and is graduating next year with a degree in Economics. She is the current treasurer for Pace University's OXFAM chapter, and was a key founder and Executive Director of Pace University's chapter of Generation Citizen, a program that works in area high schools to empower youth to solve problems in their community through a rigorous action-civics course. She then worked to successfully create the Generation Citizen at Pace student club, where she served as President.
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"You've just chosen a different religion, science"
RE: "You've just chosen a different religion, science"
Yeah religious people have a hard time with the idea that there is a system that lacks, worship, belief without evidence, and gods.
So they take their ideas and apply it to us.
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RE: "You've just chosen a different religion, science"
I think it is quite simple; you don't believe in science, you use science, because science is a method. Religions are defined by their beliefs, whereas with science, beliefs can be a product, but they always exist independently of the method.
If something can be destroyed by the truth, it might be worth destroying.
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RE: "You've just chosen a different religion, science"
I don't understand people.
They'll dismiss a way of thinking for being "occasionally wrong" but at the same time they embrace with absolute certainly a way of thinking that has never been right.
Maybe they aren't looking for truth so much as consistency.
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RE: "You've just chosen a different religion, science"
Gather together these three items
Ask your friends to identify them using their religion.
Using science you can run tests to discover what each one is.
Science has a wealth of information about the real world.
The first is charcoal, the second is sulfur and the third is potassium nitrate.
Now what can we do with these three ?
We can run experiments based upon what we know about each one.
After lots of testing, trials and errors, mixing combinations, etc etc, you could end up with this
No, not a quarter. It's black powder. Gunpowder. It's something science can produce through a lot of testing, trials and experimentation.
In that entire process of discovering what each item was and all the experiments, there were no rituals, no faith involved, no religion whatsoever. It's just observation of what we have in the real world and how they relate to each other. Science is a way of discovering something we didn't know about the world.
You'll never get gunpowder from praying or from reading the bible.
You only get answers about the real world through science.
Insanity - doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
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RE: "You've just chosen a different religion, science"
(17-01-2013 04:37 PM)Buddy Christ Wrote: I don't understand people.They grasp at straws, i think. They seem to be looking for consistency as well as comfort, in my experience.
I don't know if it was real, but there was an image going around facebook of a church sign that read, "If your faith is strong enough, facts don't count." I've encountered many people with that mindset, and it's totally useless to argue with them. All I can do is point to facts and evidence, if they don't value those, the conversation is over.
People like to think they know all the answers, and religion tells them they already have the answers, so they think there's no use searching for answers. I just feel like such a huge difference in what people value (faith or facts) often makes communication impossible.
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RE: "You've just chosen a different religion, science"
(17-01-2013 07:55 PM)Rahn127 Wrote: Gather together these three items
I like your post, but I hate your example. You've just implied that science creates destruction and given theists everywhere a new slogan to use: "Religion didn't create nuclear weapons"
Theists tend to steal just enough logic from the arguments of atheists to form semi-coherent rebuttals to pass off as their own.
Though honestly, I imagine the end of mankind to be the brilliance of science combined with the stupidity of religion.
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RE: "You've just chosen a different religion, science"
Well, actually, religion did not create nuclear weapons. Science did. Manhattan project, pretty cool stuff. There's little point in hiding that fact.
Science also created nuclear imaging that has saved more lives than nuclear weapons ever took. Science has also created televisions, cell phones, computers, microwave ovens, other kinds of ovens, refrigerators, cars, air planes, XBoxes, velcro, aspirin, viagra, and, oh, about a billion other things that we know and love and use in our lives.
Religion has created fear and ignorance and, sometimes, comfort and ignorance, but not much else.
I choose science.
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RE: "You've just chosen a different religion, science"
(17-01-2013 01:29 PM)FICKLEish Wrote: Reltzik: THANK YOU. Your answer really got to the heart of what I was trying to ask. The points you made really helped me work out the parts that were causing me confusion. In the argument that I initially posted about, we started going down a philosophical rabbit-hole which could only lead to "Do we really exist?" "Is anything true?" and that is what frustrated me. Thanks again, I'm going to paste your response somewhere so I can refer to itPaste away with my blessing.
One more thing that has occurred to me. While science is not, in itself, a religion, its findings are often elevated to be objects of faith by the... well, let's say overly exuberant, or possibly intellectually lazy.
There's a certain tendency in many (but far from all) who follow science to adopt its conclusions as articles of faith. To essentially say, "Scientists say the Big Bang happened, thus, it must have happened." Without, really, ever examining the evidence for or against the conclusion.
There is a certain validity in this. If I knew one hypothesis had been driven through the most viscous intellectual proving grounds in existence and emerged more or less unscathed, I would place greater trust in it than, say, a hypothesis that was not allowed to be subjected to the least criticism, lest its proponents get pissed off and burn you at the stake or something. We can trust that a more rigorous method, with an established track record, produces better conclusions. We can make a similar statement about scientists, in that they consistently produce better results through a better method. There is thus a halfway decent reason to trust in scientific conclusions without ever evaluating the evidence... especially because no one has time to read every scientific paper out there.
That said, this IS a sort of faith. Not blind religious faith, really, but faith in the sense of trust. Good faith and credit.
Having faith in conclusions, rather than examining them skeptically, also turns science on its ear. Utterly and completely.
I think part of the problem is that a sort of fetish has been made of results and conclusions, rather than experiments. For example, which is more widely to be known? That light speed is about 300,000 km/s? Or the methods of finding this number, starting with Ole Romer's (there should be a slash through the o in Romer, but my keyboard isn't scandahoovian) observations of how Io's apparent period varied depending on whether Earth was approaching or retreating? (Romer subsequently calculated c as 220,000 km/s, probably based on an incorrect figure for the orbital radius of Jupiter.)
Really, the way these things are figured out are way, way, way, ultra-cool and MUCH better at shutting up an argument than just quoting the number and saying "scientists say". But guess what happens if the argument starts? We tend to just Google it and say, "hey, Google says 300k, eat it." We don't reference the experiment. Goodness forbid we should actually try to RECREATE the experiment. Which do they make kids memorize in science class? Sure, they do a few experiments and labs, but the things they really have to LEARN are formulas and figures and laws and reactions and tables, not how they were derived in the first place. It's a crying shame. We learn the great thoughts and findings of others, but not how to find or think for ourselves.
As a culture, we've put so much emphasis on science's conclusions, that we've come to ignore Science Itself. In that way too, science has become a religion.
But it's still not a religion the way that religion is a religion. So eat it.
I am an antipistevist. That's like an antipastovist, only with epistemic responsibility instead of bruschetta.
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RE: "You've just chosen a different religion, science"
(17-01-2013 11:51 AM)FICKLEish Wrote: I've recently been told that since science can't truly prove anything and we frequently find new evidence to change our minds about previous scientific claims, that believing the scientific view of how the world began (etc) requires faith and is just another type of religion. I don't know what to say to that. It seems obvious in my mind that there is a distinction, but I'm not good at wording it in an argument. A little help please?This is something I've thought about a lot, and although I would never call science a religion, whoever told you that is otherwise correct in my opinion. To begin we must first ask ourselves what is truly knowable...what is 'real knowledge'. It is (to me) something which can be proven...not proven beyond "reasonable doubt" because in this particular venue of discusion we must have absolutes, and reasonable is not an absolute term. Following that what cannot lie? Well logic seems to dictate that there are many things which are true knowledge at first glance. 1+1=2...is that true knowledge? If you ask me, the answer is no. The reason why is that numbers are only ideas which are constructed through our language. This is probably my most controversial claim that would invite others to disagree, but many others will agree. Show me a "one" what does a "one" look like? You could show me a symbol of one, you can give me an example of something that quantifies the idea of one, but there is no "one". Many 'common' people, not scientifically inclined may think things like gravity is something which is proven and is therefore true knowledge, but as David Hume would point out, we can't know that. We know that the evidence seems to overwhelmingly supports the theory, we cannot know we are right beyond all doubt. It is possible (however unlikely) that angels are flying around and moving the heavens around under order from our beloved God. If that is the case what can we know? Well, our senses surely fail us at times, but it is also possible as Socrates Allegory of the Cave pointed out that we are always being lied to, and our senses are always filling us full of rubbish. What we see, taste, feel, smell...it could all very well be rubbish and we wouldn't be the wiser. Then we move onto Descartes, who was mostly full of bullshit trying to logically prove the existance of God, but he was right (before he said fuck it, and veered far left) when he said "Cogito ergo sum". As far as I'm concerned that is the only true knowledge.
With that out of the way, be a pragmatist. What we think think is true is true until evidence suggests otherwise, just like you were told. That's about as good as we humans can do. If you arguing with someone, show him/her the evidence that counters there false beliefs. Good luck!
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RE: "You've just chosen a different religion, science"
(17-01-2013 12:12 PM)FICKLEish Wrote: I thought more about how you put it, I get it now. The real point being that what I believe is based in evidence and when that evidence changes then I can change, too.There is a fundamental misunderstanding for some people on some things with science.
For instance... THEORY. The misuse of THEORY is all too common. To say "Well that's JUST a theory" is usually coming from someone who has no idea how a scientific theory comes into the works. It requires a solid base of something that has been beaten to hell and back (figuratively of course, hah). It must withstand the scrutiny of the critics and be based with scientific facts. If it cannot withstand the scrutiny, or if the facts change, the theory can change.
For instance... The theory of gravity (which we call a "law"). But the thing about gravity is that we know it's there. However our THEORY on gravity COULD change in light of new scientific facts. Gravity itself would not change, but how we understand it could change in light of new facts or evidence that explain it better.
In science, as it has already been mentioned in prior posts, must be able to admit ignorance or change of something in light of new facts.
Even the definition of scientific fact is: an observation that has been confirmed repeatedly and is accepted as true (although its truth is never final).
Meaning that if something should change that, we end up getting better science. In other words.... science can be wrong, but it ends up being replaced with better science. Quite the opposite when people end up having to make supernatural beliefs fit because there is no other way to make it work than to come up with wild assumptions or observations that are nothing more that personal and not empirical. I say that as a broad explanation, because we all know that the religious personalize their beliefs differently and not everyone "believes the same"....
Another thing as someone mentioned is that even if there are artifacts that prove that some person existed some thousands of years ago (and I'm sure there's plenty of those and NOT JUST in Christianity...) it does not prove that the person was supernatural, nor a god, nor some radical superbeing. It simply proves the person existed.
If someone wrote a book about me and there is plenty of evidence that I exist. There is documentation and information about me that people could use to prove I exist. For instance... I have a number that identifies me to my country, I have a birth certificate, I have things people have wrote that include my identity... so someone could confirm I existed.
Now if someone writes a book about me being superhuman and the son of god, and someone found this all thousands of years later, would they believe I was the son of god? Well, they confirmed I existed... and there is also a book about me. I mean holy crap! I EXISTED! Was I a supernatural force to be reckoned with? WAS I the son of god? I mean I existed so that must be pretty compelling right?
Anyone can write anything about anyone. But for something to be true, for us to confirm it is true, we need some sort of empirical evidence for it. Otherwise it's still a story, whether or not the person existed is not evidence that they were superman, or ironman. Although if Ironman existed thousands of years ago, I would find his suit and skeleton pretty compelling. But a lack of his skeleton and suit and an empty tomb labeled that he was there and a book about him to me is not compelling at all.
But I digress... one could possibly mean that you worship science as your "way of explaining the world." and if that is what they mean then so be it. But at least it is empirical and solid, able to be shown, explained and held high with dignity instead of grasping at straws at a way to explain the unexplainable because you feel sad and lonely if you couldn't deal with reality.
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Worldenterer1 wrote: Also, there's the whole living forever part. I can't remember who brought this up, I think it was Jack Reacher. But anyways, he said that if you were conscious forever, then you would go insane. You would eventually have to start trying to think of things you haven't already thought about, and then you would be rethinking everything over and over again because you have already thought of everything you can comprehend. It would be absolute mental torture.
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Skip to comments.I.R.S. Looks at Finances of Bay Area Clinic [ IRS ]
Posted on 09/05/2010 5:57:00 AM PDT by topher
The criminal division of the Internal Revenue Service is looking into the finances of Planned Parenthood Golden Gate...
Agents for the criminal division of the I.R.S. interviewed a former employee of Planned Parenthood Golden Gate on Tuesday at the Oakland field office, in response to a complaint he had lodged.
That informant, who declined to be named for fear of how it might affect his future job prospects, said he raised concerns about the financial relationship between the organization and its political arm, as well as about accounting practices.
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This article may mean there are changes that have occurred at the New York Times. They are attacking a Sacred Cow -- Planned Parenthood
All of these things happened when this entity was part of Planned Parenthood and was part of the Planned Parenthood National Chain of Clinics
This implies Planned Parenthood of America was responsible for the oversight of these clinics -- which they apparently failed to do.
Taxpayer dollars are used to finance Planned Parenthood
A few years back Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles was found guilty of Tax Fraud
So I definitely think there is smoke to warrant further investigate of taxfraud, taxcheating, and government waste of money in Planned Parenthood...
Pro-Life ping — this might be the tip of an iceberg to start some IRS investigations into other Planned Parenthood affliates...
I.R.S. took down Capone, GOD needs to take down planned parenthood. I.R.S. just isn't bad enough to do it.
This is just another criminal investigation the Obama administration will derail for political reasons, without notice by the MSM.
I am going to use FreeRepublic.com to help promote such stories and hope that TEA Party candidates, once in Congress, will follow up on these things.
It is the whole point of TEA Party.
From the story, it sounds like tax dollars (California, Federal, local) has gone from Abortion/contraception to political coffers (such Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer).
Need to get the word out...
Not Talking: Planned Parenthood Tightlipped after Revoking PP Name from Affiliate
Ironically, my posting of the story was the same day as the interview with the former Planned Parenthood with the IRS.
How this story is breaking is interesting...
FWIW, your blue underlined words look like hyperlinks.
Sorry. I use color in my posting for emphasis. I want certain key things to stick out...
Could taxpayer funds to Planned Parenthood Services be going to the political arm of Planned Parenthood?
Planned Parenthood Plans to Spend $1 Million to Save Pro-Abortion Barbara Boxer
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
July 29, 2010
Sacramento, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Carly Fiorina, the pro-life Senate candidate in California, is presenting pro-abortion Sen. Barbara such a tough challenge that Planned Parenthood says it plans to raise and spend $1 million attempting to save the seat of its closest ally in the Senate.
"I believe in the sanctity of life. I believe life begins at conception," Fiorina has said in a television interview.
She added, "In my particular case, my mother-in-law was told to abort her child, who became my husband. She chose something different, obviously, and that made all the difference in her life and mine and certainly his."
Those pro-life views run counter to the way in which Boxer has defended everything from taxpayer funding of abortions to partial-birth abortions in the Senate, refusing to vote for or allow even the most modest abortion limits most Americans support.
Kathy Kneer, president of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, told the Associated Press today that her group believes Boxer will come out on top in November because polls show a majority of California residents back legalized abortions.
But the victory she assuredly believes Boxer will win won't come without a hefty pricetag: one million dollars.
AP quotes Emily Buchanan, executive director of the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life women's group that has already invested $200,000 for Fiorina and says it plans to sink an equal amount into the general election battle.
She said Boxer is the more extreme candidate because she supported taxpayer funding of abortions in health care.
"Taxpayer funding of abortion is what was discussed in the health care bill ... and that message is what resonates," Buchanan said. "Nobody wants to be paying for abortion, no taxpayers."
A poll last week from SurveyUSA was the first to show Fiorina leading Boxer.
Boxer is trailing the Republican challenger by two points, 47-45 percent, in the survey of likely voters released late last Monday. Fiorina has been closing in on Boxer's lead over the last several polls form different polling firms, so the new SurveyUSA results are not surprising.
In a statement on its poll, the firm says Fiorina benefits from more Democrats supporting her candidacy than Republicans who back Boxer. And independent voters back the pro-life candidate 49-40 percent.
"Twice as many Democrats cross-over to vote Republican as Republicans who cross-over to vote Democrat. The Republican has an ever-so-slight advantage in Greater Los Angeles and in the Central Valley," SurveyUSA said.
Looking at voters based on abortion, 71 percent of pro-life voters are behind Fiorina while 22 percent support Boxer. Of pro-abortion voters, 59 percent favor Boxer and Fiorina is getting the support of 32 percent, showing the crossover appeal she has.
Nothing wrong with using color, I do it myself on occasion. It's the underlining that leads to confusion. Especially blue words with blue underlining.
Namely, have this explode in Planned Parenthood's face.
Planned Parenthood gets money from the state of California. If this found going into the pockets of politicians, this could be a major criminal investigation...
I will have this kitten take care of the blue underlining:
Maybe I can get this kitten to join the IRS to go after Planned Parenthood
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Even for you stubborn silent film fans out there, you've got to admit that one thing sound did well was make the Sci-Fi and Horror genres a little more interesting. It's only so entertaining to watch a giant ape come on to the screen followed by text saying, "Look! It's a giant monkey!" It doesn't really have the same effect, y'know?
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At one time I had in my possession about 5000 different original 40x60 paper movie posters used to promote films in theaters. They all were vintage 1950 thru 1980. I COULD NOT even sell them at a flea market at 5 for a dollar. Had I known then what I know now...
I absolutely love these types of posters and artwork. Sadly I'm not a fan of these specific designs and I do find them a bit on the expensive side to buy without wanting these specific posters. The canvas is what's adding the high price tag I suppose.
The woman in this poster is far bigger than 50 feet. Hollywood...
What, no Mothra?
It would be really groovy to have all of the Frankenstein ones grouped together. I'm a Frankenstein nut. I'd imagine that if I brought home a date, it would scare him off though. Wimps.
woodister wrote:What, no Mothra?
Close - there is Godzilla VS Mothra.
Love Daleks.
What about;
"Day of the Triffids"
"The Crawling Eye"
Hmmm. The Tin Man doing his version of the Heisman Trophy pose.
That should be worth something.
olcubmaster wrote:Close - there is Godzilla VS Mothra.
Ah touché
jeparz wrote:What about;
"Day of the Triffids"
"The Crawling Eye"
Especially then. If it wasn't the first of the "radiation creates giant creatures" movies, it was the best. There's an actual story in there, and, even though you know it's about ants from the posters, it's still chilling when they show the trailer ripped open, the the way the little girl reacts to the noise is creepy.
If only they had Reefer Madness. Living in Colorado I wouldn't be able to resist that.
There's nothing "vintage" about these. They're made to order! An auctioneer would be jailed if they offered these as "vintage" because it's deceptive to do so. Plus they're outrageously priced.
How unWoot! like.
Horror Hotel, great movie but what does this poster have to do with it? There's not a zombie to be found in the movie.
I might have been tempted by the Creature from the Black Lagoon IF it was in English. I have a deep connection to that particular film.
I was named after the actress that graced oh so many great B films, Terry Moore. If only I aged as gracefully as she did.
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Navy twill trousers - Audrey and Marilyn inspired
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Cotton twill trousers, very heavy twill, so it wrinkles too easily :(
I have wanted shortened trousers for a long long while. I so love the boy-ish but classic look they give. I have included my inspiration page.
Navy is pretty much my staple wardrobe colour. I am very happy with some of the details, such as the well-finished waistband and the pockets. I took great care making these, with the help of a book called "Making trousers – how to achieve great results". I used a remnant of soft baby blue cotton as lining for the in-seams pockets and the waistband, and both fabrics have a little bit of elastane. This makes the trousers very comfortable to wear.
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Cotton twill with some elastane, cotton with elastane as lining
- Book called Making Trousers: How to Achieve Great Results, by David Page Coffin
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Feb 28, 2012, 06.49 AMby stefanisarah
Wow, great looking pants. I am curious if you did any alterations to the fit. I made these too and it came baggier than I envisioned in the hip/crotch area. Plus, after I measured the pattern, I decided to make it in smaller size than I usually make. Also, I followed the instruction to the T for the waistband and my waistband came out bulky.
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Feb 28, 2012, 08.23 AMby G-A-
Hi Stefanisarah, thanks for the kind message. I only did my usual grading up one size from waist to hips, but I think that wasn't necessary. The trousers are indeed a bit baggy in the crotch area, hips are ok for me. But I think that's the intended shape, although I might modify it in the future. For the waistband, I mostly followed the book mentioned above, and it worked out great. But I used lining inside, not fashion fabric, so it's thinner.
Feb 27, 2012, 08.57 PMby CationDesigns
Lovely pants! They look so classy and fit so nicely! Thanks for showing the inspiration photos too!
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Feb 27, 2012, 09.03 PMby G-A-
Thanks, Cation! I love your creations and follow your blog, so I really appreciate your comment.
Feb 27, 2012, 08.43 PMby skeelerWell done – these pants are great!
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Thanks a lot Skeeler :)
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I am fanatical when it comes to managing the source code for my company. Everything that we build (in source form) gets put into our source control management system. And I'm not just talking about the UI and middle-tier code written in C# and ASP.NET, but also the back-end database stuff, which at times has been a pain. We even script out our Scheduled Jobs and keep a copy of those under source control.
The UI and middle-tier stuff has long been easy to manage as we mostly use Visual Studio which has integration with source control systems built in. But the SQL code has been a little harder to deal with. I have been doing this for many years, well before Microsoft came up with Data Dude, so I had already established a methodology that, while not as smooth as VS, nonetheless let me keep things well controlled, and allowed doing my database development in my tool of choice, Query Analyzer in days gone by, and now SQL Server Management Studio. It just makes sense to me that if I'm going to do database development, let's use the database tool set. (Although, I have to admit I was pretty impressed with the demo of Juneau that Don Box did at the PASS Summit this year.) So as I was saying, I had developed a methodology that worked well for us (and I'll probably outline in a future post) but it could use some improvement.
When Solutions and Projects were first introduced in SQL Management Studio, I thought we were finally going to get our same experience that we have in Visual Studio. Well, let's say I was underwhelmed by Version 1 in SQL 2005, and apparently so were enough other people that by the time SQL 2008 came out, Microsoft decided that Solutions and Projects would be deprecated and completely removed from a future version. So much for that idea.
Then I came across SQL Source Control from Red-Gate. I have used several tools from Red-Gate in the past, including my favorites SQL Compare, SQL Prompt, and SQL Refactor. SQL Prompt is worth its weight in gold, and the others are great, too. Earlier this year, we upgraded from our earlier product bundles to the new Developer Bundle, and in the process added SQL Source Control to our collection. I thought this might really be the golden ticket I was looking for. But my hopes were quickly dashed when I discovered that it only integrated with Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Subversion as the source code repositories. We have been using SourceGear's Vault and Fortress products for years, and I wholeheartedly endorse them. So I was out of luck for the time being, although there were a number of people voting for Vault/Fortress support on their feedback forum (as did I) so I had hope that maybe next year I could look at it again.
But just a couple of weeks ago, I was pleasantly surprised to receive notice in my email that Red-Gate had an Early Access version of SQL Source Control that worked with Vault and Fortress, so I quickly downloaded it and have been putting it through its paces. So far, I really like what I see, and I have been quite impressed with Red-Gate's responsiveness when I have contacted them with any issues or concerns that I have had. I have had several communications with Gyorgy Pocsi at Red-Gate and he has been immensely helpful and responsive.
I must say that development with SQL Source Control is very different from what I have been used to. This post is getting long enough, so I'll save some of the details for a separate write-up, but the short story is that in my regular mode, it's all about the script files. Script files are King and you dare not make a change to the database other than by way of a script file, or you are in deep trouble. With SQL Source Control, you make your changes to your development database however you like. I still prefer writing most of my changes in T-SQL, but you can also use any of the GUI functionality of SSMS to make your changes, and SQL Source Control "manages" the script for you. Basically, when you first link your database to source control, the tool generates scripts for every primary object (tables and their indexes are together in one script, not broken out into separate scripts like DB Projects do) and those scripts are checked into your source control. So, if you needed to, you could still do a GET from your source control repository and build the database from scratch. But for the day-to-day work, SQL Source Control uses the same technique as SQL Compare to determine what changes have been made to your development database and how to represent those in your repository scripts. I think that once I retrain myself to just work in the database and quit worrying about having to find and open the right script file, that this will actually make us more efficient.
And for deployment purposes, SQL Source Control integrates with the full SQL Compare utility to produce a synchronization script (or do a live sync). This is similar in concept to Microsoft's DACPAC, if you're familiar with that.
If you are not currently keeping your database development efforts under source control, definitely examine this tool. If you already have a methodology that is working for you, then I still think this is worth a review and comparison to your current approach. You may find it more efficient. But remember that the version which integrates with Vault/Fortress is still in pre-release mode, so treat it with a little caution. I have found it to be fairly stable, but there was one bug that I found which had inconvenient side-effects and could have really been frustrating if I had been running this on my normal active development machine. However, I can verify that that bug has been fixed in a more recent build version (did I mention Red-Gate's responsiveness?).
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