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I had been taking a little break from maple but then I came across this recipe for a maple oat bread that I just had to try. This bread is baked with maple syrup in it and maple sugar is sprinkle on top. The maple-y goodness does not stop there though as I had a jar of maple butter that I was just itching to try. In addition to using the rolled oats this recipe also includes some whole wheat flour which I always like to see. This is a yeast based bread so it takes a bit more effort than the quick breads that I more usually make but it is well worth it. The smell of the maple bread baking was just amazing and only built up the anticipation even more. I could barely wait for the bread to cool down enough to cut of a slice to enjoy. The maple bread was great! It had a nice crisp crust with a light and soft inside and the smelled just like maple syrup. The maple flavour however was more subtle and I really enjoyed it. The maple butter that I served with the bread with added a ton of maple flavour as well. The maple butter tasted just like maple syrup but it had the texture of butter. I will definitely be making this bread again.
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- 3/4 cup + 2 tablespoons hot water
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup butter (melted)
- 1 1/4 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
- 2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast
- water
- 3 tablespoons maple sugar
- Mix the hot water, oats, maple syrup, butter, salt and cinnamon in a bowl.
- Add the flours and yeast and stir to form a dough.
- Knead the dough for 10 minutes.
- Place the dough in a greased bowl, cover and let it rise to double its size, about 60-90 minutes.
- Deflate the dough and form it into an 8 inch long log.
- Place the dough into a greased loaf pan, cover and let it rise over the edge, about 60-90 minutes.
- Brush the top with water and sprinkle with the maple sugar.
- Bake in a preheated 350F/180C for 35-40 minutes. Cover in foil after the first 15 minutes to prevent burning.
- Let cool for 5 minutes and remove from pan.

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Good morning. I'm David Greene. Earlier this week we told you about a Michigan judge who held himself in contempt when his cell phone went off in the courtroom. He said judges are not above the rules. An Oregon judge this week showed that jurors are not above the rules, either. During a trial in the town of Salem, the judge noticed that a juror's pocket was glowing.
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- how just-so stories have been used to blame and repress minority groups,
- how the in-group uses the stories to align with power and justified thuggery,
- how the breeding log of Genesis provides convenient hooks for derivative religions, and
- how so many aspects of the goofy episodes in Genesis still remain with us while the really embarrassing ones are forgotten.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
The Bible's greatest hits: Genesis edition
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aAack... I'm listening to the first caller...
What a dope. He wants to believe the supernatural claims of the bible while dismissing the wacko claims of the Koran, Book of Mormon (it has "eyewitness" accounts), Scientology, and everything else.
Why shouldn't Matt or any atheist require the same type of evidence that would make a theist believe in some other religion or supernatural claim?? What exact evidence would a non-Mormon need to believe in the magical gold plates (there are many supposed "witnesses" to these plates) and to further believe they were messages from an invisible man in the sky about ancient Israeli tribes hanging out in America?
We have lots of evidence that humans are prone to very specific types of misperceptions, delusions, and wishful thinking. We have NO evidence that any dead people come alive. None. Trust me, this is something all scientists would be studying and refining their knowledge on if we had such evidence-- for their own benefit as well as the benefit of their loved ones. We have no more evidence for "souls" and "gods" than we do for demons, leprechauns, Xenu, and invisible clowns making the faithful say stupid things. That's why all rational people treat such beliefs similarly.
I am endlessly appalled at the semantic games necessary for believers to keep the faith "alive" so they can imagine themselves special and saved for believing.
The stupid caller believes in the resurrection... and Tom Cruise believes he's a Scientologist Messiah operating at Thetan Level 7. Is there a difference as to the veracity, respectability, or usefulenss of these beliefs?
Believers want the right to dismiss the "wackos" but they don't want others to have the right to dismiss their equally wacky claims under the same logic. We don't dismiss claims because there are no eyewitnesses-- it's because humans are delusional and seem to "witness" all sorts of events that cannot be true. We even understand why and how this evolved. (Humans confuse correlation with causation and confirm their biases... it is generally a good learning mechanism--religions hijack this built in "meme" template).
Religion makes the arrogant and ignorant feel humble and chosen never realizing what a terrible meme infection they have.The problem with all woo arguments as that they could be used to justify things the believer doesn't believe in. I could use the callers own arguments on him to prove that the golden plates in the Book of Mormon are real or that People speaking in tongues are getting a true sign from god or that rain dances work.
He uses the same special pleading to imagine the belief in his favorite zombie is real that Tom Cruise uses to presume that all the wacky stuff he believes in is real.
I just wish one caller could explain to us why we should take their magical beliefs any more seriously than THEY take the average Scientologist.
I suspect I feel exactly the same way about them that they would feel about a Scientologist trying to use semantics to get them to take a "free personality" test.
You don't need to emotionally bully people and manipulate them to get them to believe something that is actually true. The normal stuffl like examples,demonstration and evidence tend to work just fine. Of course "woo" doesn't really have any of that, does it?If I had a dollar for every time I face-palmed during the first caller's tirade, I'd be typing this on a bigger screen right now.
As for claims of "Miracles" in the Koran, wasn't Mohammed supposed to have been visited by the Archangel Gabriel in a cave? It might not be up there with a zombie infestation, but it's something you don't see every day.Anyone that has been personally present at an event reported by the news media will be aware of differences between what they experienced and what was reported. This is for same day reporting. Resent research has shown that our memories of even major events such as the Kennedy assassination or 9/11 are highly unreliable.
Yet when it comes to the gospels we are asked to believe that accounts written no sooner that 50 years after an event are accurate. Talk about your miracles!!
Yah, Yah I know they were God inspired. If that is the case why does it look as if Satin did the proofreading? Obviously if it all made sense no one would need faith to consider it evidence."As for claims of "Miracles" in the Koran, wasn't Mohammed supposed to have been visited by the Archangel Gabriel in a cave? It might not be up there with a zombie infestation, but it's something you don't see every day."
Mohammed was supposed to be illiterate...THE WHOLE KORAN IS SUPPOSEDLY A MIRACLE!!!!That first caller made some good points. I usually hate it when atheists say things like "Why don't you believe the Koran?It has the same evidence." It was nice to see Matt D. get called on it.
As for the Quran it says that only miracle Allah gave Mohammed was the revelation of the quran (and the prose therein). Unless you think good arabic poetry is a miracle the Quran doesn't really have miracle accounts.
There are some written accounts of sayings and narrations of Mohammed's life with miracle acounts that were collected 200 years after his death called the hadith (Even Muslims scholars admit many of these sayings and stories are unreliable).The evidence is in no way equivalent.
And of course I don't think anyone who has investigated the Mormon claims will claim that the Mormon evidence is equivalent (seeing as every "eyewitness" who was not related to Smith later recanted their position and left the Mormon church).
Matt made some good points but then dropped into incoherence and poor logic. "Philosophy is useless. I'll just use my senses to verify my senses" and using failed subjective epistemic maxims like "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".
You can't declare your opponent has "no rational justification" for trusting a book and then use subjective criterion to assess it and draw an arbitrary line in the sand about what kinds of evidence you find admissible.There is nothing arbitrary about being more skeptical of magical claims than of non-magical ones.
That is not a line in the sand. That is a giant stone wall with barbed wire and machine gun turrets.
If you want to claim that tales of Heracles, say, are based on an real sportsman, adventurer or warrior - fine by me.
If you want to claim that this person fought an actual hydra, however, the burden of proof goes up. WAY up. Like, into the stratosphere.
I don't care if you have impeccably-sourced and dated documents from ancient Greece. If these documents tell me some guy was sired by a god and fought fantasy monsters, you bet your ass I'm going to treat them with more skepticism than, say, Thucydides writing about Pericles.
As would you. As would Tommy the caller - which gives us yet another example of what an intellectual sham such apologetics are.If you want to claim that tales of Heracles, say, are based on an real sportsman, adventurer or warrior - fine by me.
If you want to claim that this person fought an actual hydra, however, the burden of proof goes up. WAY up. Like, into the stratosphere.
I would add: and if you're going to insist that I believe your stories, or burn for all of eternity...
Why am I bothering? Never mind.Agreed on the frantic facepalming during caller #1.
Personally I look on his arguments this way:
I've read Herodotus, Appian, Suetonius, Julius Caesar, etc. There are certain aspects of these ancient writers that modern historians see as correct.
However the miraculous and mythological aspects of these works are, if not necessarily totally discarded, treated with a lot of caution.
The question is why not the Bible, in this case Matthew? His (supposed) writing is in the same time period as these Roman authors so why isn't the same standard applied to him? The Romans were at least as convinced of the presence of the supernatural so what's the difference?Well, here's something tangentially related: a creationist fan of VenomFangX is a criminal it seems.
ReplyDeletei love and hate callers like Tommy (hope that is his name, i am referring to the same caller as the others here). he is part of what makes the show so entertaining, but I felt his arguments employed classic debate tactics rather than a truly constructive dialogue. for example, calling matt out to give examples of something he wasn't prepared for in advance and then trying to claim some sort of "victory" when he didn't have one immediately is lame. Especially since, in this case, the caller has the topic in mind before he calls, so he has the upper hand for such things.
to me, tho, the real face palming that makes it so painful is the fact that the thing Tommy was able to steer the argument into seemed so irrelevant to me since the question of whether or not historians consider something historically accurate or not is not the same as accepting something as scientifically accurate or even plausible. i know matt tried to address this several times, but it just seemed like after Tommy admitted that he considered the accounts of the bible as sufficient evidence, the conversation was at a dead end and it should almost be worth leaving it there.
still, it would be worth looking up references after the show to hit him with just for fun. i am sure he would totally justify his non belief in other texts, but I would be game for hearing them, regardless of how painful.
one side note, i didn't realize the qu'ran didn't make any miracle claims. interesting. i immediately have more respect for it than the bible. :) then again, doesn't it support all the miracle in the bible and promise an afterlife?"one side note, i didn't realize the qu'ran didn't make any miracle claims."
There's a reason you didn't realize that, it's a lie. There are a couple I can think of off the top of my head, the angel imparting the Quran directly to Mohammed as well as the winged horse he rode. I'm only minimally familiar with the Quran and even I can disprove that spurious claim with no effort at all.I can think of non-new testement miracle claims dismissed by both history and science.
Scientologies "souls in volcanos" there were no volcanos in the preposed area at the time it was supposed to happen
Mormonism: just...everything with the Native's being the lost tribe.
Old Testement: Hebrews ever having been in Egypt, much less any miracles.
I didn't read Mr. Freethinker, but I'm going to guess and say that I agree with him that Matt got flummoxed. It was hard to argue with someone like that and Matt gave him more freeway to interrupt and assert than usual. The problem was that Matt was arguing a sane statement "There's no reason to believe' even "historical' accounts of the impossible...even if the account is considered genuine." the caller argued against naturalism, really he needed it hammered in that every single supernatural phenomena tested by experiment has been debunked. He needs to read this http://xkcd.com/373/ cartoon.The problem was that Matt was arguing a sane statement
This is why dialogue is impossible. They don't understand the process; they aren't hardwired for it. They understand only monologue.
"Dialogue" to a fundie means, "I'll pretend to listen until it's my turn to tell you how wrong you are."Some Quranic points, off the top of my head..
1. The Quran (Arabic: recitation) itself is held by Muslims to be miraculous as it was dictated to an illiterate merchant by a supernatural being (the angel Jibreel/Gabriel).
2. At various times throughout the Quran, Mohammed 'downloads' new intructions or information from Allah.
3. Sura (chapter) 54 has Allah split the moon in half and then re-form it to prove Mohammed's prophethood to disbelievers.
4. Sura 72 concerns "Jinn," a race of conscious fire elementals, some of whom become Muslims when Mohammed recites the Quran to them.
Regarding ahadith (oral traditions of the sayings and doings of Mohammed, compiled post-mortem)...
While ahadith are distinct from the Quran itself, the idea that any truth claims they might contain are not relevant to Islamic belief is preposterous.
Various branches of Islam have different canonical lists - The rule seems to be that if a given hadith flatly contradicts the written Quran or is senseless on its face, then it's inauthentic. - but in all cases ahadith inform doctrine, theology, jurisprudence, social traditions, etc.
Brushing aside the entirely of the ahadith - including 'gold standard' collections like that of Bukhari - is akin to dismissing the Pauline epistles on the grounds that they're not technically Gospels.5:60 Shall I tell thee of a worse (case) than theirs for retribution with Allah ? (Worse is the case of him) whom Allah hath cursed, him on whom His wrath hath fallen and of whose sort Allah hath turned some to apes and swine, and who serveth idols. Such are in worse plight and further astray from the plain road.
9:26 Then Allah sent His peace of reassurance down upon His messenger and upon the believers, and sent down hosts ye could not see, and punished those who disbelieved. Such is the reward of disbelievers.
9:40 If ye help him not, still Allah helped him when those who disbelieve drove him forth, the second of two; when they two were in the cave, when he said unto his comrade: Grieve not. Lo! Allah is with us. Then Allah caused His peace of reassurance to descend upon him and supported him with hosts ye cannot see, and made the word of those who disbelieved the nethermost, while Allah's Word it was that became the uppermost. Allah is Mighty, Wise.
15:27 And the jinn did We create aforetime of essential fire.
27:18 Till, when they reached the Valley of the Ants, an ant exclaimed: O ants! Enter your dwellings lest Solomon and his armies crush you, unperceiving.
54:1 The hour drew nigh and the moon was rent in twain.
I would say all those count as miracles. Invisible armies, talking ants, moon torn in half, and people made from and consisting of fire, smokeless fire at that.Thanks for the addition, Bean.
Even though the talking ants supposedly occurred in the time of Solomon, we're still talking about... talking ants.
The reply will come, "Well, that's not something Mohammed did, or that his followers claimed!"
But Islam DOES claim that Mohammed brought the Quran... which takes large swaths of the Old Testament/Torah "as read" so you have to include all those miraculous things.
The Quran - direct from Allah, relayed by a divine angel, remember - presents all that as TRUE.
Islam regards Judaism and Christianity as mostly correct but flawed and incomplete... and now obsolete following the prophethood of Mohammed. That's what Muslims mean when they refer to their Abrahamic monotheist cousins as "People of the Book." The "Book" is the final, perfect revelation from God which is the Quran. Christians and Jews, they believe, had earlier, imperfect versions of it.
Those earlier "Books," of course, are chock-a-block with miraculous claims, which Islam not only validates but incorporates into its own sacred history and theology. This is in the plain text of the Quran, not interpretation or even ahadith.I assume you guys listened to Tommy's point. He said there were no miracle claims for Mohammed like that in the Quran and most of the miracles ascribed to Mohammed come from the hadith (which were narrations compiled over 2 centuries after Mohammed died)
I don't think anyone claimed the hadith were irrelavant. People did say they were unreliable.
Surah 54:1 does seeminly refer to the splitting of the moon , but the only way you can get the full account is from reading the hadith
What the Quran is referring to is old Jewish and biblical fables , like the first one from a Jewish story about fishermen who were punished for breaking the Sabbath and the talking ants in the temple of Solomon were from another Jewish story. These are not claims about any miracles Mohammed personally witnessed himself. He is just retelling these things. I hope you can see the difference.
The only think I think would probably count is the splitting of the moon and the Quran skimps on the details in this case.MFT,
1) You missed the point about ahadith. Hundreds of millions of Muslims consider ahadith, for example those in Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, to absolutely authentic and trustworthy. They are as much a part of Islam as the Quran itself and any miraculous claims made therein may properly be considered as part of the beliefs of those Muslims who accept them.
2) Sura 54 does not concern the moon 'seeming' to split. It flatly states that Allah split, then reformed, the moon.
It goes on to chasten some unbelieving witnesses as being so stubborn as to scoff at the miracle, declaring it a magic trick designed to fool them.
This is not allegorical, nor prophetic. The sura plainly says that this happened.
3) Sura 72, likewise, plainly declares the existence of Jinn and the conversion of some of their kind to Islam by Mohammed. Nor is this the only place Jinn are mentioned.
4) Islam is seen by its adherents as a continuation and perfection of something that starting with Yahweh revealing himself to Abraham, culminating in the final prophet, Mohammed.
Accordingly, the miracles of the Old Testament/Torah incorporated into Islamic teaching are not held to be "fables" nor does the Quran present them as such.
Sura 11, for example, contains the Islamic version of Noah, the Flood and Sodom. It doesn't say that Mohammed flooded the world - but then, the Gospels don't say that Jesus did either.
It matters not, since the tale is presented as a true, cautionary lesson from history of the perils of disobeying divine authori-TAH.Remind me, please, what is the value of this argument to an apologist in the first place? Suppose it's true that the Koran contains fewer miracles than the Bible does, or that the Bible's miracles are cooler than the Koran's. How does this help establish the credibility of either book?
To my wicked unbeliever's mind, the fact that there are fewer reality-bending incidents in the Koran would make it MORE likely to be true.
Also, I don't get this overly specific qualification that the Koran doesn't contain miracles that are *exactly like* the ones in the Bible? So what? The Bible doesn't contain miracles that are exactly like the ones in Alice in Wonderland. Of course it doesn't: they're different books. If every detail was the same, they'd be the same book. But again, what's the value of this argument?That was my thought, Kazim, and i totally agree with what you said. The caller basically claimed that he thought the evidence of eye witness accounts in the Bible were sufficient for him to believe they were true (the miracles, not just the accounts). Matt and many others said that isn't sufficient for them to believe the miracles occurred.
Everything after that seems irrelevant because we have different standards of evidence. It doesn't matter how many other books have miracles if we don't accept eyewitness accounts as sufficient on their own to prove something happened (miraculous or not).
The caller muddied the discussion further by arguing (I believe) that drawing the line on what eyewitness accounts you believe is arbitrary, and I think at that point you might just have to say if that is how he feels, fine. I disagree and i think for matters such as miracles, no number of testimonials is sufficient to convince an honestly rational person. It is a starting point for testing with the other means at our disposal.
it seems like, in the heat of debating "does this book have miracles" and "how much weight do we give to historical accounts," people were steered away from the premise.Something I wrote to Matt:
Essentially what Kabane was doing was explicitly rejecting the need for ANY standards in determining the truth of something. This is clearly ridiculous. By spending time addressing his nitpicks about what your SPECIFIC standards are, you let him control the flow of the conversation. You proposing a standard and he shoots it down with "You can't use THAT standard!" or "Most historians don't think that!"
IMHO, a better way to get back on the offensive would have been to just ask "So you believe absolutely everything you read." He can't say yes to that without appearing gullible. This means that he has to defend himself by bringing up his own standards, at which point, yes, you get to point out all the other things which can also be true with such loose standards. Define first, then apply examples.@Kazim
I think the point was that-
*Tommy said he believed in miracles because of certain things in the gospels (eyewitness testimony , multiple attestation ,historical criteria..etc).
*Matt said that if he was to use that criteria he would believe in Quranic miracles.
*Tommy was pointing out that the Quranic accounts were disanalgous to historical accounts in the gospels and Paul.
I think that was what we were trying to establish by showing they were different.
I think was what Matt said was that no textual account would be enough to establis a miracle for him and even if there was a historical consensus concerning this point he would reject it because of his criteria.
He then resorted to "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" (which has been disproven probabilistically by the way). If you look at Bayes theorem you can see that even if the background probability of an even is very low and the probability given specific evidence isn't very high ,if the probability of the alternatives is very low you can still have a high overall probability.
For an explanation of Bayes Theorem you can check here
http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayeslike most generalizations, the "extraordinary claims" saying isn't perfect, but I would argue it is a great rule of thumb and Matt was well founded in using it when he did. if someone claimed 2000 years ago that they witnessed something repeatable- let's say that water was falling down the rock face at Niagara- there is little reason to question the plausibility of the accuracy. if they claimed the water was flowing up the rock face at Niagara, I would look for a lot more evidence before believing it. Bayes' Theorem seems like a non-sequitur.
If there are infinite parallel universes, there must mathematically be one where water is flowing up at Niagara. I have no reason to believe that the witness experienced that parallel universe, even if he did.*Tommy said he believed in miracles because of certain things in the gospels (eyewitness testimony , multiple attestation ,historical criteria..etc).
*Matt said that if he was to use that criteria he would believe in Quranic miracles.
*Tommy was pointing out that the Quranic accounts were disanalgous to historical accounts in the gospels and Paul.That is a complete red herring. It does matter if the miracles in the Koran are identical in nature to the ones that are in the Bible. Matt's statement that Kabane should believe in them is absolutely correct, since no evidence is required.
He then resorted to "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" (which has been disproven probabilistically by the way). If you look at Bayes theorem you can see that even if the background probability of an even is very low and the probability given specific evidence isn't very high ,if the probability of the alternatives is very low you can still have a high overall probability.
For an explanation of Bayes Theorem you can check here
http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayesOh good. Then no standards of evidence whatsoever are required by you. In that case, I'm sure you'll be comfortable believing me when I tell you that I died last week and have now returned from the dead. I have 57 eyewitnesses. I promise.Until a single supernatural event is verified, I think the thing all rational people ought to do is dismiss them all. I don't care what "credentials" a historian might have... he cannot have credential to verify that a "miracle" occurred in the past since no one can verify such a thing happening in the PRESENT.
Moreover, it appears that Mr. Freethinker thinks much more of his reasoning abilities than others do. I found Matt much more coherent than both the caller and Mr. Freethinker. Of course, it's a well known phenomenon that the incompetent are most likely to overestimate their competence... whereas, the most competent usually underestimate their abilities appearing humble to others.
The irrational people just don't have the basic skills to realize they are the irrational ones it seems and so are unlikely to ameliorate the deficiency. They imagine they know more than those who might give them a clue.
On the plus side, they never fail to amuse."If you look at Bayes theorem you can see that even if the background probability of an even is very low and the probability given specific evidence isn't very high ,if the probability of the alternatives is very low you can still have a high overall probability. (MFT)"
So, MFT, if something is inherently unlikely, but still more likely than the alternative...
Ok, fine. Let's apply this to Jesus walking on water in Mark 6:45-52 (We'll leave aside Peter joining him in Matthew for the time being; also, Mark is believed to be the earliest canonical gospel.)
The claim is that Jesus walked on water. The alternative claim is that he did not.
What is more LIKELY? That a man suspended the power of gravity upon his body and walked on liquid water, or that this did not actually happen and the story was concocted and retold for evangelical purposes?
And before you start talking about theurgy (divine magic)... STOP! We are not interested in the MECHANISM of defying gravity. That's another discussion.
We are sticking to the Bayesian "likelihood" comment you made.
Which is more LIKELY?
If your answer is, "That Jesus did really walk on water," then explain exactly what standards of evidence and probability you are using."It does matter if the miracles in the Koran are identical in nature to the ones that are in the Bible. Matt's statement that Kabane should believe in them is absolutely correct, since no evidence is required."Kabane never said NO evidence was needed. He just said some kinds of evidence (like the evidence of eyewitness testimony in Matthew and other gospels). Perhaps the Quran fails to meet these (seeing as it was only compiled after Mohammed's death)
"Oh good. Then no standards of evidence whatsoever are required by you. In that case, I'm sure you'll be comfortable believing me when I tell you that I died last week and have now returned from the dead. I have 57 eyewitnesses. I promise." I never said I needed NO evidence. I was pointing out that ECREE was a bad principle."Kabane never said NO evidence was needed. He just said some kinds of evidence (like the evidence of eyewitness testimony in Matthew and other gospels). Perhaps the Quran fails to meet these (seeing as it was only compiled after Mohammed's death)"
Since everyone else stopped ignoring you, I can't resist.
"...it was only compiled after Mohammed's death"
If this invalidates the Koran as an inaccurate account WHY DOES IT NOT APPLY TO THE GOSPELS.I never said I needed NO evidence. I was pointing out that ECREE was a bad principle.
I'm agreeing with you, you see. My own claim that I died and returned from the dead would probably seem pretty extraordinary to most people, but that's okay. Extraordinary claims don't require extraordinary evidence. So you should be willing to accept this claim just based on my own personal say so. You do, right? Believe I returned from the dead?You don't really need to have an alternative explanation to point out that all non-supernatural explanations are more probable than supernatural ones.
Either a miracle that defies physics (as all miracle do) occurred or something else happened. We know a lot about the ways "something else" happening that fools others from numerous newer religions and other cults. (Heck, I have students who swear that Criss Angel can levitate because they saw it with their own eyes.)
Whether the story is cut from whole cloth or based on manipulations or misperceptions is completely irrelevant.
When people accept any claim of a miracle they are "special pleading"-- they are using evidence that they'd normally dismiss if it came to something they didn't want to believe in like "demon possession". (Even if millions of people claim that someone really is possessed, that cannot make it so--the same with "Magic Jesus". Belief cannot make "magic" real... no matter how many people really really believe it and how cleverly they've managed to play semantic games.
All those who attempt to rationalize supposed "miracles" are using special pleading to make their pet delusions sound rational. This is simply "confirmation bias".
And there is nothing in Bayes theorem that allows for that. I am so tired of apologist word games. I have a degree of expertize Bayesian theorem because I've used it extensively as a genetic counseling. I am tired of dumb people using the tools of the smart to try to convince themselves and others that their silly beliefs and opinions are well-reasoned.
There is no more probability that Jesus resurrected or walked on water than there is probability that Criss Angel really levitates.
Anyone who imagines there is, is engaging in "magical thinking" common in children-- no matter how much pedantic language they use to justify such delusions.Historians can give great accounts of millions of children all over the world who ended up with Christmas presents under their tree every year... that would not make it rational for future humans to imagine that Santa really existed.
How are Jesus apologists any more rational? Why would one take claims about "real Jesus" any more seriously than claims of the hypothetical believers in a "real Santa"? Other than semantic shenanigans, what can be gained by indulging such sloppy thinkers?
We should at least force those who wish to inflict such opinions upon us to justify why we should take them more seriously than the wackos they dismiss.
What argument can one use to justify belief in some brands of "unverifiable" miracles but not others?
It seems that believers are all for the "extraordinary claims" rule and general mockery and skepticism for lots of beliefs-- they just don't want to use it on their own-- lest their pet delusion be proven as flimsy as the delusions of those they laugh at. I believe this is called "cognitive dissonance".First off, I will not classify myself or bind the power of my thoughts and words with the chains of judgement. I know however, that my words will allow themselves to show my opinion...obviously. Let's speak in a language I presume all "Non Believers" will understand that has baffled "Believers" who haven't noticed it. The one factoidal proof that there is something that is beyond our comprehension. Some may call it, a higher power. Some a force. Some Allah. Some God. Some Ralph...I don't know. But one word that sums up my point for anyone who hasn't yet heard this name. ENERGY. That's what atheists call God right?
ENERGY: Cannot be created or destroyed, only changed in form. Energy is in ALL matter. Basically...IT JUST IS.
YHWH: Also translated Yahweh, Jehovah, Allah, El, Elohim,Adonai...point is...doesn't matter what you call it It matters what the words mean....Tetragramaton meaning "To Be" let me put that in another way. IT JUST IS
I agree with the gruesome misinterpretation people connect with "Holy" writings. Energy is in ALL matter. God is in ALL matter. You seeing a Mathematical similarity here? I hope.
Let's make it fair, scientific, and logical...
You define energy in better terms and I will tell you that what you call "Energy" isn't what some call "God".
The same force, the same anomoly, the same damn thing. Believe or don't...You are only limited by your own fear. And the need for knowledge is as unfulfilling as the need for money. Enough is never enough, fair enough?P.S.- Mathematically speaking again..."Miracles" can be classified as something that is mathematically improbable. That said...Let's just substitute the word "Miracle" with the word "Improbability". There are unexplainable mathematical "Improbabilities" all over the logical word which are occupying the lives and time of those who are trying to figure them out. They will figure them out. But that is their bible. Don't you see? Bible, Quran, that homeless guy with a clever sign, your math thesis, whatever inspires or invokes passion...or heightened energy if you will...Is your religion. And the common denominator? Well I call him God, for lack of self confusion. You may call him whatever you like. It's all the same baby, hate to break it to all of you atheists. I believe Rush said it best in the little tune titled "Free will"..."If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
Duh...Simple logic, Shouldn't a dumb uneducated Christian (there I said it)just sit behind my Bible and quote it on venues to try and convert people to my Jedi propaganda? I guess not because I ACTUALLY READ IT. And it takes the most obscure of mathematical minds to figure out what Fibonacci was trying to get everyone to see. The ultimate equation. That little number that makes something ALIVE. It is provable, scientific, absolutely not an accident. I thought you fellas used your brains...but a fool can always run his mouth.
P.S.-The grandfather of modern science...I believe you know of him... a little dude called Leonardo DaVinci. Why don't you read a few of his notes. They fill in the gaps that make people afraid to connect God to science...He was a "Believer" after all. And as for "God"...(Personification alert) He probably factored in doubt.
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Yes, it can be dangerous to run outside in the heat — especially in areas like Florida, where the humidity can get pretty high. As temperature and humidity rise, it becomes harder for your body to cool itself down, which can lead to heat-related illnesses such as heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke — a medical emergency. Dehydration increases the risk of heat-related illnesses.
When you go running, be sure to wear light clothing, stick to the shade, and drink water every 15 minutes. Symptoms of heat-related illness include muscle cramps, weakness, nausea, and vomiting. If you have any of these, stop your workout right away, cool off, and hydrate.
If you're an outdoor person in warmer climates, your best bet is to run in the morning or evening, when temperatures are cooler. But even the early-morning hours in the Sunshine State may be too hot for running. On hot days, consider moving your workout inside. You tend to burn more calories by running outside than on a treadmill, but you can always adjust the incline on the treadmill to increase the intensity of your workout. The scenery may not be as nice, but working out in a gym has its advantages, and you can add a little variety to your cardio routine by trying out other equipment, like the stair stepper or elliptical machine.
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US Gymnast Gabby Douglas Makes History Winning Olympic Gold in Women's All-Around
US Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas won perhaps the most coveted title in her sport when she took the gold medal in the women's all-around competition on Thursday in London, becoming the first African-American female gymnast to ever win individual Olympic gold.
It was the second gold medal of the London games for Douglas, 16, who two days ago was part of the squad — dubbed the "Fab Five" — that took top honors in the team competition, giving the US its first such title since 1996.
Douglas, nicknamed "The Flying Squirrel" because of her high wire routines, became the third straight American to capture gold in the women's all-around, following Nastia Liukin in 2008 and Carly Patterson in 2004.
Just two years ago, Douglas moved to Iowa from her home in Virginia Beach to train with Liang Chow, who coached gold medalist Shawn Johnson in 2008. Her mom was reluctant to let her go, but did so at the urging of Gabby's two older sisters — and the decision paid off big.
Douglas' first event on Thursday was the vault, and after doing a difficult routine and scoring 15.966, she had a lead she never relinquished. Routines on the uneven bars and the balance beam followed, with Russian gymnast Viktoria Komova hot on her heels.
Gabby was ahead by three-tenths of a point going into the final rotation, floor exercise, and while Komova performed beautifully, it wasn't enough overtake Douglas and the tearful Russian had to settle for a silver medal instead.
There was a tie for third between Russia's Aliya Mustafina and Aly Raisman of the US, who both finished with identical scores of 59.566. But once a new tiebreak system was applied — in which the top three scores for each gymnast were totaled up — Mustafina wound up with 45.933, besting Raisman by more than half a point and winning the bronze.
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Gas Pains? U.S. Diesel, Gas Exports Surpass Imports
For the first time in more than six decades, the United States is exporting more gasoline and diesel than it imports.
To be clear, we're talking about finished petroleum products, not crude oil. The U.S. still imports about half the crude it consumes.
Refineries are touting this new export statistic — after all, gasoline and diesel are manufactured products. They say a boost in exports keeps more manufacturing jobs in the U.S. But one reason exports are increasing is that demand for gas in this country is declining.
People like Rachel Ezekiel-Fishbein of Elkins Park, Pa., are choosing to drive more efficient cars and consuming less gas. She stopped driving a Honda Odyssey minivan that gets about 14 miles per gallon in the city. Now, she drives a red Prius hybrid that's getting about 40 mpg.
In the process, Ezekiel-Fishbein is saving more than $2,000 a year and buying 700 fewer gallons of gasoline. And she's not alone. Department of Energy statistics show Americans are using less gasoline these days. Consumption peaked in 2007 and has been declining since.
"It's sort of an obvious choice," says Ezekiel-Fishbein. "It's better for the Earth ... It's better for your budget, you're teaching your kids good values. What's the downside to this choice?"
The downside falls to refineries. As it happens, while demand was declining, refineries were becoming more efficient, actually boosting their production. It's basic economics: Declining demand plus increasing production is not a winning formula.
Now the country stands to lose some refineries. Sunoco and ConocoPhillips have announced that three refineries on the outskirts of Philadelphia will shut down if the companies can't find buyers. That could put an estimated 2,600 people out of work.
Members of Congress recently met with the companies. Rep. Allyson Schwartz — a Democrat from the Philadelphia suburbs — told executives, "We want you to sell to someone who can actually keep these refineries alive, keep these jobs here."
So far, no buyers. The refineries are preparing to shut down so the companies can stem the tens of millions of dollars of red ink flowing from them. Exporting gasoline and diesel has become less a luxury for refiners and more of a survival strategy.
It doesn't appear that domestic demand will pick up anytime soon.
"We're going to see the lowest gasoline consumption in January of 2012 that we've seen since January of 2000," predicts Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service.
When you consider that the U.S. population increased by 30 million in those 12 years and that consumption is still declining, you get a good idea of just how significant this is. Kloza says the sluggish economy also plays a big role in demand.
"Maybe we are dealing with an awful lot of people who are underemployed or don't show up in the unemployment ranks, who simply can't drive because they have no place to go and no place to work," says Kloza.
Philadelphia-based Sunoco isn't just selling off two refineries. In September, the company announced it would get out of the refining business altogether.
"It's a business that's not designed for the faint of heart," says Charles Drevna, president of the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association.
"We need to jump-start the economy. We need to get people back to work," says Drevna. "People will get to start driving again, they'll have more disposable income, they'll take more vacations." And then they'll consume more of the fuel his member companies produce.
But that's not the trend statistics are showing. A report from MasterCard SpendingPulse recently showed that for the week ending Dec. 16, gasoline consumption was down 4.6 percent over the same week a year ago.


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Just as a human body, though it is made up of many parts, is a single unit because all these parts, though many, make one body, so it is with Christ. In the one Spirit we were all baptised, Jews as well as Greeks, slaves as well as citizens, and one Spirit was given to us all to drink.
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Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:
Delta Researchers Schools 2008, Space Expo, Noordwijk, the Netherlands, telebridge via WH6PN Contact is a go for: Fri 2008-05-23 13:59 UTC (***)
Next missions with astronaut/hams on board. STS-124
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 346.
QSL information may be found at: http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.html http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm#QSL%27s
ISS callsigns: DP0ISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RS0ISS
The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2008-05-16 03:30 UTC. (***)
Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt
The successful school list has been updated as of 2008-05-04 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf
Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction... tf
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Studied Homeopathic Remedies
- Arnica montana
- Bryonia
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The most prominent feature of fibromyalgia, also known as myofascial pain or fibrositis, is the presence of tender, swollen, and painful muscle knots distributed throughout the body. This symptom is usually accompanied by stiffness, fatigue, and nonrestorative sleep. Other symptoms include alternating diarrhea and constipation (irritable bowel syndrome), headaches, numbness and tingling, and restless legs. Finally, people with fibromyalgia frequently develop prolonged discomfort from injuries so mild that they would not hurt a healthy person for more than a short time.
In severe cases, people with fibromyalgia experience extreme discomfort when almost any part of the body is pressed upon, even lightly. Milder cases involve moderate to severe pain that wanders from one location to another.
Scientific Evaluations of Homeopathic Remedies for Fibromyalgia
Current evidence regarding use of homeopathic remedies for fibromyalgia is mixed.
In a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study , researchers tested the remedy Rhus toxicodendron 6c on 30 people with fibromyalgia who fit the symptom picture of Rhus tox , as assessed by a homeopathic physician. 1 For 1 month, the participants took either Rhus tox 6c or placebo three times daily. For the following month, the participants took the opposite treatment; however, neither participants nor observers knew which was which.
Participants experienced a statistically significant improvement when they were taking the Rhus tox as compared to when they were taking placebo. The number of tender spots was reduced by 25% on average, and the improvement in overall pain and sleep scores was marked when taking the treatment.
However, another small double-blind, placebo-controlled study failed to find evidence of benefit. 2 In this study, 24 participants with fibromyalgia were given either placebo or one of three homeopathic remedies (Arnica, Bryonia, or Rhus tox) at 6c potency, prescribed according to traditional homeopathic indications. Participants took remedies or placebo twice daily for 3 months.
The results showed no statistically significant improvements in symptoms among those participants receiving homeopathic remedies as compared to those given placebo. However, researchers were able to find some evidence of benefit in a subgroup of participants. At the very beginning when the homeopathic practitioners chose the initial remedy, they noted whether the remedy was a close fit to the patient or not according to the principles of classical homeopathy. It turns out that if you look only at people whose remedy fit well based on the whole person symptom picture, then some benefits were seen.
This seems to indicate that properly chosen homeopathic remedies might be helpful for fibromyalgia. However, considering the very small number of people involved, it is really impossible to draw any conclusions.
In classical homeopathy , there are many possible homeopathic treatments for fibromyalgia, to be chosen based on various specific details of the person seeking treatment.
For instance, if you feel bruised as if you slept on a very hard bed and you are physically restless and irritable, as well as fatigued, then you may fit the symptom picture of Arnica montana . In addition, the use of Arnica is said to be particularly indicated when the cause of your current complaints can be attributed to a previous injury.
If you want to lie still because even a slight movement makes the pain worse and you prefer cool applications to warm ones, then your symptom picture may fit the remedy Bryonia . Other characteristics associated with this remedy include feeling extremely grumpy and not wanting anyone to disturb you.
Homeopathic Rhus tox is used under circumstances similar to those that indicate Bryonia . However, unlike the Bryonia recipient, who wants to lie still and is made worse by the least motion, the Rhus tox picture invokes a person who benefits from motion and wants to be active. In addition, the condition will worsen with exposure to cold and dampness and improve in dry warm weather.
For herbs, supplements, and other alternative treatments that may be useful for this condition, see the Fibromyalgia article.
For a thorough explanation of homeopathy, including dilution of therapies, see the Homeopathy Overview .
REF1 Fisher P, Greenwood A, Huskisson EC, et al. Effect of homeopathic treatment of fibrositis (primary fibromyalgia). BMJ . 1989;299:365–356.
REF2 Fisher P. An experimental double-blind clinical trial method in homeopathy: use of a limited range of remedies to treat fibrositis. Br Homeopath J . 1986;75:143–147.


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President Obama, like many wealthy Americans, is paying more of his income to the IRS.
The White House released the president's tax return last week. It shows he and the first lady paid $98,169 in taxes for 2013 on income of $481,098. That's an effective tax rate of 20.4 percent.
In 2012, the Obamas paid just 18.4 percent of their income in taxes. The tax bite was bigger in 2013 because of the president's own policies, including a higher income tax rate for top earners, limits on tax breaks for the wealthy, and two new taxes on the rich that help to finance the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.
The top income tax rate — for individuals making more than $400,000 or couples making more than $450,000 — climbed to 39.6 percent as part of the fiscal cliff deal the president struck with Republicans last year.
People making more than $250,000 (or $300,000 for couples) also see a gradual decrease in tax deductions and the personal tax exemption as their incomes climb. Finally, the Obamacare taxes add an extra 3.8 percent levy on investment income and a 0.9 percent levy on ordinary income for individuals making more than $200,000 or couples making more $250,000.
The Tax Policy Center estimates that with these changes, the wealthiest 1 percent of taxpayers will now pay 27 percent of all federal taxes, while collecting about 15 percent of pretax income.
Citizens for Tax Justice — a group that advocates for a more progressive federal tax code — prefers a different measure that includes state and local taxes as well. Under that measure, the share of taxes paid by the wealthiest 1 percent, 23.7 percent, is not much different from their share of overall income.
While Obama's effective tax rate rose last year, his income shrank, mostly because of declining book sales. His adjusted gross income in 2013 was nearly $128,000 lower than the year before. The first family is entitled to a tax refund this year of more than $19,000. The Obamas asked to have that money applied to their 2014 tax bill.
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As many of you observed in the comments, Vangobot executes physical paintings, but the results are only as good as the instructions it receives. As a result, it's easy to dismiss Vangobot as a kind of fancy inkjet printer.
Machines like Vangobot may develop the hand skills to manipulate the brushes and paints, but will they ever have artistic judgment? Is it possible for a computer to be programmed to see and interpret the world in the same way that an experienced painter does?
These are qualities of the "eye" or "mind" or even the "soul" more than the "hand." Blog reader M.P. invoked a quote from nineteenth century drawing instructor James Duffield Harding who characterized the great artist as having an instinct for "selection, arrangement, sentiment, and beauty" rather than just replicating reality.
For a computer to do this, it would have to understand what it was looking at, and have an instinct to do all these subjective interpretations. It would need to be able to handle a lot of brushes in a variety of ways depending on what forms it was painting.
Let's look another example, a photo of a landscape scene composed of sky, trees, water, and rock.
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Klingon Empire
The Klingon Empire is a major political entity in the Alpha Quadrant of the Milky Way galaxy in Star Trek.
The Klingon Empire is ruled by a Chancellor with the support of the Klingon High Council. Shockingly, a Klingon's close combat skills seem to be the main qualification for the Chancellor's office, rather than any political skills. If the reigning Chancellor is killed in a duel with another Klingon, then the killer has the right to claim the Chancellor's position. If a Chancellor dies under other circumstances (poison, disease, or in a battle, for example), his replacement is chosen by an Arbiter of Succession.[1] The Arbiter chooses from eligible candidates (usually Council members themselves) in a process called the Rite of Succession, based on rules established in Klingon law. A Chancellor with some foresight can decide who will be the Arbiter of Succession after his own death. Beneath the high council, there are various prominent noble houses that constantly jockey for position.
Family honor is important in 24th-century Klingon society, and children inherit both the honor of their parents' heroic deeds and the dishonor of their cowardly transgressions. Given the value assigned to personal and family honor, it should be no surprise that dueling is still an accepted method of resolving disputes under Klingon law, particularly when one party's honor has been insulted. Klingon duels are typically fought in an official arena with government officials present as witnesses. All known duels have been fought with hand-to-hand weapons like bat'leths, swords, and daggers.
Klingon society is moderately misogynistic. Property is typically controlled by Klingon males,[2] and female Klingons are not allowed to serve on the Klingon High Council (in the 24th century, at least).[3] Female Klingons, however, have considerable control over their marital status, being able to marry or divorce a male with just a ritual statement before witnesses.[4] Females can also serve in the military without prejudice, and in the absence of a male heir, they can gain legitimate control of a household's property and resources.
A clone of the Empire's founder, Kahless, was recently crowned Emperor, but his title is ceremonial and carries no real governmental authority.[5]
Klingon physiology makes them considerably tougher than humans; many of their major organs have redundancies that allow them to survive injuries that would kill a human. Klingons tend to be physically stronger than humans, but this is probably more a result of widespread martial training than a genetic trait. Klingons have a reputation for violence that is widely considered genetic, although it is just as likely a result of the culture of militarism that has become dominant in Klingon society.
Klingons set the standard for having a bumpy forehead in Star Trek.[6]. From 2154 to the mid-23rd century, however, some Klingons lacked their distinctive forehead ridges due to genetic engineering.
The Klingon Empire controls a large volume of space that shares borders with the Romulan Star Empire and the United Federation of Planets. The full extent of their territory is unknown, but it is probably not substantially greater than that of either of its neighbors. According to a Star Trek website (which might be inaccurate), the Klingons have some 500 conquered worlds and 100 member worlds.
Threat Assessment
The Klingons are one of the most formidable military powers in the Alpha Quadrant. Martial traditions are so widely revered in Klingon society that almost every Klingon has at least basic military training. Similarly, virtually every Klingon has personal weapons and body armor, and attaining any sort of political influence requires a good military service record. Klingon technology is comparable to that of the other major Alpha Quadrant powers, and they invest heavily in military assets.
In an alternate timeline, the Klingon Empire was shown to be decisively winning a war against the United Federation of Planets.[7]
Notable Klingons
Notable Klingon-Human Hybrids
- With their make-up makeover in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Klingons established the "bumpy forehead aliens" trend in later Star Trek.


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Four color spirals or fusilli of organic red beet, orange carrot/annatto, green spinach, and golden grain from the U.S.A. high plains. All organically grown. The colors brighten when cooked. Each color is separately made. Crafted at the Eden Organic Pasta Company on vintage Italian equipment with brass dies and slowly air dried. Provides protein and folate B9. A pantry staple, this shape holds a lot of sauce and is fork friendly. They're great in salads, soups, and casseroles. Bulk packed, poly bag in a recycled and recyclable corrugated box.
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Eden Small Vegetable Spirals are small batch hand crafted at the Eden Organic Pasta Company, a Detroit landmark using traditional pasta making techniques and vintage Italian equipment since 1923, and the first food production facility in North America to be third party certified organic. Whole grain durum is ground at our organic, AIB highly rated, Michigan mill. Golden amber durum semolina is prepared at a certified organic mill. The dough is prepared in four separate batches - plain semolina wheat; semolina blended with organic carrot and organic annatto powder; semolina blended with organic beet powder; and semolina blended with organic spinach powder. Slow, thorough kneading prepares the dough. Using a traditional screw shaft press, each of the four separate batches of dough is extruded through an artisan brass sea shell die, cut into individual pieces and spread on drying racks. The pasta goes through an initial hot steam dryer to reduce moisture slowly and then to the drying room for about 16 hours. After the pasta is dry an equal amount of each of the four different color pastas are weighed and combined before packaging. Each step helps to create pasta of exceptional flavor, texture, and character.
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Did you see Jimi Hendrix in concert? Did you meet Jimi Hendrix or have the opportunity to interview him or have some other unique, first-person encounter with Jimi Hendrix? If so, Experience Hendrix wants to hear from you.
Jimi Hendrix
Did you see Jimi Hendrix in concert? Did you meet Jimi Hendrix or have the opportunity to interview him or have some other unique, first-person encounter with Jimi Hendrix? If so, Experience Hendrix wants to hear from you.
On the heels of Hendrix delivering the completed Band Of Gypsys release to Capitol Records on February 25, 1970, the label quickly jumped into the mastering stage for the record, ensuring its speedy delivery to store shelves.
Noel Redding returns to New York expecting to begin rehearsing with Hendrix and Mitchell for the next Jimi Hendrix Experience tour unaware that Billy Cox has replaced him in the band. "Noel wasn't told until he came back, expecting to rehearse for the tour," explains Mitch Mitchell. "Basically, no one had the balls to do it."
Hearing news that Kathy Etchingham had just married, Jimi calls her in London to confirm the account. "I hadn't heard from Jimi for a while and apparently he was having problems," explained Etchingham in her book Through Gypsy Eyes (Victor Gallancz, 1998). "He had a disastrous gig at Madison Square Gardens and walked off-stage. Around this time someone must have told him about me getting married to Ray. [Jimi] rang to find out if it was true."
Jimi flies to London where he meets Kathy Etchingham and tries to convince her to leave her new husband and move back to New York, where Jimi assures her, "everything will be all right, all those people I was hanging out with have gone." With Ray now living with Kathy at her Brook Street flat, Kathy helped get Jimi checked in at the Londonberry Hotel (Park Lane, W1).
While in London, Jimi heads to The Revolution where he attends a performance by Rubber Duck.
Island Studios, London Studio Recording Jimi was recruited by Stephen Stills to lend guitar to his upcoming debut solo release, Stephen Stills (Atlantic Records, 1970). Jimi added lead guitar to the track "Old Times, Good Times" and also recorded some additional tracks with Stills that remain unreleased.
Petticoat's Keith Altham interviews Hendrix for a May 30th piece where Jimi talks about his voice. "Singing… I used to be embarrassed by my voice. We drowned it on the first few albums I made, but then I realized I was judging it by the wrong yardstick. Dylan has a lousy voice technically, but it is good because he sings things he believes in. True feelings are really the only qualities worth listening for in a voice." Jimi also entered into discussions with Emerson, Lake & Palmer about a possible joint tour in the future.
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Olympic Studios, London Studio Recording Hendrix returned to Olympic Studios, the recording facility where his first two albums Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold As Love were recorded to record with Love. Invited by Love founder Arthur Lee to contribute to their album, Hendrix and percussionist Remi Kabaka joined Love in recording "The Everlasting First," which would later be issued as part of False Start (Blue Thumb, 1970). In addition, Hendrix took part in an extended instrumental jam session as well as a version of his own composition, "Ezy Ryder."
Are You Experienced. Bold As Love Arthur Lee Ezy Ryder Olympic Studios Recording Remi Kabaka The Everlasting First
Now a solo artist, Noel Redding begins recording the album Nervous Breakdown at New York's Sound Center Studios. Redding was joined by vocalist Roger Chapman (Family), Paul Caruso, organist Gerry Guida (Big Three) and fifteen year old drummer Steve Angel. The sessions included recordings of "Walking Through The Garden," (previously recorded by Fat Mattress) and Eddie Cochrane's "Nervous Breakdown." Also recorded were "Everything's Blue," "Highway," "Eric The Red," "Wearing Yellow," and "Blues In ¾." Ever industrious, Redding copped support from many friends who joined the bassist in the studio including Lee Michaels, Neil Landon and even the doorman from the Penn Garden Hotel (on bagpipes no less).
Gerry Guida Nervous Breakdown Noel Redding Paul Caruso Recording Roger Chapman Sound Center Studios Steve Angel
Hendrix joined his former bassist to add guitar to Redding's own "My Friend." The song remains unreleased however, as despite his best efforts, Redding's self-financed project never saw commercial release.
Working alone, Jimi arrived at the Record Plant intent on realizing a more traditional Delta blues arrangement of "Midnight Lightning" than he had previously attempted. Singing and playing live as he sat on a chair, Jimi utilized a finger picking style he rarely incorporated on his recordings. The song's slow beat was accented, in the tradition of such blues men as Lightnin' Hopkins and John Lee Hooker, by the steady tapping of his foot on the floor. One of his favorite blues themes, Jimi would later make several attempts to complete a group version with Cox and Mitchell that summer at Electric Lady. Sadly, his untimely death in September 1970 came before "Midnight Lightning" and many other scintillating works in progress could be completed.
Hendrix began this session joined by an unidentified drummer [likely Steve Angel] and together the two players recorded a quick rendition of "Bleeding Heart". This was followed by three takes of "Midnight Lightning." Bassist Billy Cox joined the session and s the tandem ran through four takes of "Bleeding Heart," the later of which was flagged as the master and later transferred to Jimi's own Electric Lady Studios where additional guitar and a new drum part were overdubbed by Jimi and Mitch Mitchell. Although Jimi never fully completed "Bleeding Heart" prior to his death, it has since been issued as part of First Rays Of The New Rising Sun (Experience Hendrix/MCA, 1997).
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Capitol Records released the eagerly anticipated live album, Band Of Gypsys. The album featured six tracks from the two Fillmore East performances on January 1, 1970. "Who Knows" and "Machine Gun," were recorded during the evening's first while all of the album's second side was drawn from the second show. Despite the dramatic shift in sound and style—especially when compared with Electric Ladyland–Band Of Gypsys nonetheless enjoyed wide commercial approval. The album debuted on Billboard's US Top 200 chart at 18 and climbed to its peak at 5. The album remained on the chart for sixty-one weeks. At the time of Jimi's death, Band Of Gypsys was Hendrix's most commercially successful album since Are You Experienced, his 1967 debut.


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Well, anyway Happy Halloween! This is the night we celebrate and relive the glorious Crusades.
If you want any candy from me, you better wear one of these costumes. No modern puffy stuff, ok?
Think of who you could conquer with great outfits like this! Maybe you could march out and take back the Holy Cartoon Land of Los Angeles from the infidels!
It might be time to restore its ancient glory.
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"This is a double whammy for boys," said Dr. Joy Lawn of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, who led the team of researchers. "It's a pattern that happens all over the world."
The gender difference isn't large: About 55 percent of preterm births in 2010 were male, the report found. Nor is it clear exactly why it happens.
The finding comes from a series of international studies being published Friday that examine newborn health and prematurity. About 15 million babies worldwide are born too soon, most of them in Africa and parts of Asia where survival is difficult for fragile newborns. Globally, about 1 million babies die as a direct result of preterm birth and another million die of conditions for which prematurity is an added risk, the researchers calculated.
Friday's report offers some of the first estimates of how many preemie survivors go on to suffer certain disabilities, and found that where these babies are born, and how early, determines their risk.
Overall, Lawn said about 7 percent of survivors have two of the most burdensome disabilities: neurologic-developmental impairment ranging from learning disabilities to cerebral palsy, and vision loss.
But the biggest risk is to the youngest preemies, those born before 28 weeks gestation. Worldwide, 52 percent of them are estimated to have some degree of neurodevelopmental impairment, the report found.
Moreover, the risk of impairment in middle-income countries is double that of wealthy countries like the U.S.
For example, China is saving more preemies' lives but at the cost of their vision, Lawn said.
Middle-income countries are missing out on a lesson the U.S. learned the hard way several decades ago, that giving these tiny babies too much oxygen can trigger a potentially blinding condition called retinopathy of prematurity.
"Disability is not something that's inevitable. It's preventable," she said, calling for improved quality of care including eye checks to prevent or reduce vision loss.
The March of Dimes reported this month that 11.5 percent of U.S. births now are preterm. That rate is inching down, thanks mostly to fewer babies being born just a few weeks early as standards for elective deliveries have tightened, but it still is higher than in similar countries.
For the public, the gender difference may be the most surprising finding of Friday's report, although Dr. Edward McCabe of the March of Dimes says pediatric specialists have long noticed that baby boys start out a bit more vulnerable.
"People are curious about it. We'd like to understand why this occurs," McCabe said.
One possible reason: Mothers have a higher risk of certain pregnancy complications - high blood pressure and placenta abnormalities - when carrying boys, Lawn said.
And if a boy preemie and a girl preemie are born at the same gestational age, the boy will be at higher risk of death or disability, she said. But Friday's report concluded there is too little information to quantify how big that risk is.
"Girls walk sooner than boys. They talk sooner than boys. They develop more quickly. That's also true in utero," Lawn said. For a preterm baby, "the difference of a few days maturity between a boy and a girl can mean the difference between major lung complications or not."
It's not just a prematurity issue. The report found that full-term boys also are more likely than girls to experience other newborn health problems including birth complications.
Other findings from the studies, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and published in the journal Pediatric Research:
-In high-income countries - the U.S., Canada, Australia and most of Europe - more than 80 percent of preemies both survive and thrive, although babies born even a little premature are more likely than full-term babies to be rehospitalized or have learning and behavioral challenges.
-In low-income countries, preterm babies are 10 times as likely to die as those in high-income countries, and death is more common than surviving with a serious disability.
-Aside from preterm birth, other leading causes of death and disability among newborns include birth complications that block breathing; severe jaundice and infections.
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SF Matt Cain vs. CIN Mat Latos, 10a
STL Kyle Lohse vs. WAS Ross Detwiler, 1p
BAL Joe Saunders vs. NYY Phil Hughes, 4.30p
DET Justin Verlander vs. OAK Jarrod Parker, 6.30p
Five Six of the eight teams face elimination today, thanks to all but one of my picks yesterday going bust. The Tigers' ninth-inning implosion was all that saved me from 0-fering yesterday. So I'm just going to shut up now and let you guys wipe your feet on me.


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Michael Morse continued a hot spring with his eighth home run and Felix Hernandez allowed three runs on nine hits as the Mariners (20-11) closed out the home portion of spring training with a 10-7 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Peoria. Morse's eighth home run, a two-run shot off former Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw, tied the club record for most Cactus League homers.
Morse, acquired from the Washington Nationals during the off-season, belted his home run in the first inning, matching Mike Wilson's club mark, set in 2009. Morse also drew a pair of walks and hiked his spring average to .365.
Hernandez, making his final spring start, threw 96 pitches, issued one walk, fanned three and hit a batter. He finished with a 2.65 ERA in four starts and will be Seattle's opening night pitcher Monday against the Athletics in Oakland.
Manager Eric Wedge, who earlier Wednesday named his starting rotation (see below), was tossed in the sixth inning for arguing balls and strikes.
Catcher Jesus Montero went 2-for-4 and had an RBI single in the third. Dustin Ackley also had two hits, including a triple. Minor league callup Nate Tenbrink had a three-run double in the sixth that made the score 9-3 and chased Ted Lilly.
The Mariners have hit 55 spring home runs with two games to go and have gone deep in 30 of their last 31 games. In the past 20 years, only the 1999 Cubs (62) and 2006 Royals (56) hit more spring long balls.
Spring stats, though, didn't translate to the regular season for the Cubs or the Royals. The '99 Cubs went 67-95 and the '06 Royals finished 62-100 and ranked 14th and last in A.L. home runs (124).
Hisashi Iwakuma will take the mound Thursday as the Mariners close out their Cactus League season with a 12:05 p.m. game against the Cubs in Mesa. Iwakuma, who'll be the No. 2 pitcher in the rotation when the season opens next week in Oakland, is 2-0 with a 3.60 ERA in five outings. Carter Capps and Lucas Luetge are scheduled to pitch in relief.
NOTES: Manager Eric Wedge announced his starting rotation Wednesday without officially identifying his No. 4 and No. 5 starters. Felix Hernandez, Hisashi Iwakuma and Joe Saunders have the first three starts, while Brandon Maurer and Blake Beavan won the final two spots. Maurer will start the fourth game of the regular season, making him the No. 4 starter at least for now . . . Reklama: Bene pigiausios automobilių detalės internetu UAB ŠIAULIŲ AUTODOTA svetainėje Maurer is the first Mariners pitcher to jump from AA to a starting spot in the rotation since Mike Hampton and John Cummings both made the leap in 1993 . . . The Mariners also made two roster moves, optioning RHP Erasmo Ramirez to AAA Tacoma and sending RHP Jeremy Bonderman to minor league camp.


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Who me? Worry?
But then I thought twice, and realized that my mother would never take me to task for my hand-wringing. Not because my hand-wringing doesn't exasperate her, but because she long ago reconciled herself to the fact that I am - in her words - a worrier.
And because she knows that she (with a little bit of help from the Catholic Church) made me what I am: a type-A, overfunctioning worrier who is driven by guilt and fear of disappointing significant others and persons of authority. I've been well-trained in the arts of worry and hand-wringing, having learned early on that my parents and others had Very High Expectations of me and that I should have Very High Expectations of myself and that there was - is - no more terrible fate than Disappointing anyone with such expectations (not least, myself). I have always been expected to Do Well, and so I have spent a lifetime endeavouring to make good on that expectation. And, of course, worrying that I might fail in that endeavour.
It's exhausting, sometimes, but it's what I do. I could no more stop worrying than I could stop breathing. (OK. I could stop myself from breathing, but then my face would go red and I would eventually lose consciousness. Which is probably pretty much what would happen if I stopped worrying.)
Which means that this blog is often more a chronicle of my angst as a new mother (and as a wife, an academic, a feminist, etc., etc.) than it is a diary of my days with the WonderBaby. And that's fine with me. When I'm not strutting my worries upon the (virtual) page, I'm reflecting and working out ideas and figuring out my - our - story as I go. Being able to reflect upon my worrying here, with you, goes a long way toward keeping it from interfering with my day-to-day life. And as I have said many a time, you all play such an important part in this exercise, wherein I figure out, in words, how to be a good mother - or, more to the point, how to be completely comfortable being the best kind of bad mother.
So thank you. Thank you so much.
It'd be pretty lonely, otherwise.
(Seriously, people. Your comments on my post about not being able to write about Tanner actually helped me to SLEEP last week. And the many, many supportive comments and helpful stories that you shared in response to my last post, on being ambivalent about whether to have more than one child... I can't even tell you what a tremendous, tremendous difference that it all made to my state of mind. It made me less intimidated by own expectations of myself as a mother. It made me think, for a few moments here and there and now, that I'll be fine, regardless of the number of children that we have. That's huge. HUGE.
I love you.)