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The Post-racial President's Profiling: DWW (Defending While White) by Selwyn Duke Posted July 25, 2013
What would it have taken for the jury that acquitted George Zimmerman to find him guilty? Well, try this on for size: imagine that instead of emerging from his encounter with Trayvon Martin bloodied with a broken nose, he didn't have a scratch on him. Imagine he had also admitted he confronted Martin with gun drawn and hadn't actually been attacked — but had shot Martin simply because the teen was running at him. Lastly, imagine Zimmerman was built like a brick outhouse, had trained in a few martial arts and even competed in martial-arts tournaments. Is it conceivable there could have been an acquittal?
Luckily for Zimmerman, the above was not his scenario. But those were the facts in the case of another man who shot and killed an unarmed 17-year-old.
And there was an acquittal.
The case was however, different in two apparently significant ways: the teenager was white and the shooter was black.
The man's name is Roderick Scott, and he shot teen Christopher Cervini in 2009 in Greece, New York. As with Zimmerman, Scott was aware there had been crimes in his neighborhood; unlike Zimmerman, Scott wasn't a neighborhood-watch volunteer. But after observing some individuals preparing to break in to a neighbor's vehicle on an April 4 night, Scott grabbed his handgun and walked outside "to stop or detain the criminals," as he put it. He then saw someone rummaging around inside the vehicle and saw two suspects altogether, at which point he drew his weapon, chambered a round, took a shooting stance and ordered the teens to freeze, prompting one them to run off. But the other, Chris Cervini, charged toward him yelling that he was going to get him, claims Scott. Having already warned the criminals he was armed, Scott testified that he then shot the teen so he would not "kill me or hurt me."
Other similarities between the two cases are that Scott was also faced with a manslaughter charged and was judged by a mostly white jury. But then there are some more differences. The national media didn't pick up his story and make it a cause célèbre. We didn't see news outlets plaster articles with a picture of a smiling, cherubic, pubescent Chris Cervini or NBC doctor a tape to provoke racial unrest and make Scott appear a bigot. We didn't see the DOJ send operatives to NY to foment demonstrations, and Eric Holder never contemplated civil-rights charges against Scott. And no one said "It's now legal to shoot white kids in America."
Oh, yeah, and the best information has it that Cervini was not armed with a bag of Skittles.
It is also inconceivable that muscular martial-arts competitor Scott couldn't have taken the teen down in mere seconds with his bare hands. But I suspect he was a no-nonsense type, that his attitude was, "If those punks make one wrong move, I'm gonna' smoke 'em." But this is conjecture. Scott is a human being, deserves fair treatment, and I accept that reasonable doubt existed in his case. From a practical standpoint, however, that wasn't the main reason why — unlike Zimmerman — his case proceeded without fanfare. It's not the main reason he is not now a marked man.
It is that he wasn't guilty of DWW.
At least since the first high-profile Defending While White case — Bernhard Goetz's in 1984 — it has been clear that liberals have it exactly backwards (as usual). They feel that whites get favored treatment after inter-racial confrontations, but the reality is that if there's any gray at all when it's black vs. white, the journalism runs yellow. The media can have that story they love: privileged white oppressor guns down helpless black babe-in-the-woods victim. And then it's sort of how your sex can be whatever you want today. Hispanics become white, a teen thug becomes a child, a defender becomes an attacker and lies become truth.
One thing Martin's defenders are right about, however, is that black kids just aren't safe on the streets of America. After all, homicide is the leading cause of death among black teens. In fact, as liberal Juan Williams wrote last year citing DOJ statistics based on a 2005 analysis, "Almost one half of the nation's murder victims that year were black and a majority of them were between the ages of 17 and 29. Black people accounted for 13% of the total U.S. population in 2005. Yet they were the victims of 49% of all the nation's murders." But then there's something else the DOJ tells us.
Ninety-three percent of these black victims were killed by other blacks.
That doesn't leave much left over for other races, so what percentage of black and white homicides involves whites killing blacks?
Three percent1.
Moreover, this includes justifiable homicides (defensive situations), and only a minority would be incidents in which an older white man kills a black teen. And very, very few of those would be considered murders. Yet Eric Holder's DOJ now behaves as if this phenomenon is such an epidemic that federal power must be used to stamp it out.
Of course, if Holder truly cared about blacks and not just agendas, his focus would be on the true epidemic of blacks killing other blacks. And if he cared about truth, he would actually publicize the findings of a study conducted by his own DOJ in 2011. And here is a sampling of them from Investor's Business Daily:
[E]ven though black men between the ages of 14 and 24 make up only 1% of the U.S. population, they represent 27% of all the nation's murderers.
…While blacks make up just 13% of the population, they're responsible for more than half — 53% — of the country's murders.
The 36-page study, which analyzed race-based crime data spanning three decades, found that whites were twice as likely to be murdered by blacks than the other way around….
Note that the DOJ included Hispanics in its "white" category. If only non-Hispanic whites are considered, however, the US murder rate is comparable to that of Western Europe (because of this demographic reality, the murder rates in New Hampshire, Vermont and Iowa are lower than Britain's).
Conclusion? If you're a prospective murder victim in America, the probability is good that your victimizer will be a black youth. This is why the DOJ study also tells us, "[N]early 40% of all justifiable homicides were blacks defending themselves against violent blacks (and that doesn't include all the black cops killing black thugs)," writes IBD. And we don't hear much about this. But what if you're a white person who must defend himself against a violent black youth?
You may be charged with DWW.
Then the media can publish its baby pictures. It can talk about how you murdered a "child" as it murders your reputation and perhaps your chances for a fair trial. It can twist the truth. And it can state idiotic things, such as that your "injuries weren't life-threatening," as some said about Zimmerman (wait until you have life-threatening injuries before defending yourself and you may not be able to defend yourself).
And if you think DWW is problematic here, just look overseas to South Africa, where whites are sometimes imprisoned on trumped-up charges after defending themselves. Moreover, the nation's ANC-led government started disarming the white population in 2010 and, wrote Frontpage Mag in March:
Thus, white farm families were forced to relinquish their last line of defense against the tens of thousands of criminal gangs roaming the countryside–armed with AK47s. [sic] and as Genocide Watch noted on its website last July one more step was taken as well. "The government has disbanded the commando units of white farmers that once protected their farms, and has passed laws to confiscate the farmers' weapons," it reported. "Disarmament of a targeted group is one of the surest early warning signs of future genocidal killings."
Speaking of which, Genocide Watch places the imperiled South African whites at stage six in the genocidal process.
Stage seven is extermination.
Much like what some plan for George Zimmerman, the DWW transgressor with a $10,000 New Black Panther bounty on his head.
1Data are from the FBI, the Census Bureau, and the Department of Justice (details)
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One more Corvette has emerged from the sinkhole that opened up under the National Corvette Museum's Skydome—but this one will need more than just a good cleaning.
"Ruby"—the 1993 Corvette 40th Anniversary Edition coupe—emerged from the sinkhole yesterday afternoon, the second of the eight Corvettes that were trapped by the collapse of the ground beneath the Museum's Skydome on February 12.
As you can see, "Ruby" sustained more than a little damage, and will benefit from a full-on restoration at the GM Tech Center in Warren, Michigan, by the crew at GM Design's Mechanical Assembly facility.
As for the other six Corvettes that are still in the sinkhole, the "carchaeologists" on scene will continue their recovery work later this morning. Check back here later today for more pictures, video, and Vette-recovery news.
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gregg necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 95 diseños de 39 diseñadores freelance.
We are a new company that will manufacturer signs of every conceivable type for both businesses and consumers, coast to coast throughout North America. To see the vast array of products we'll offer, see another company at http://www.texascustomsigns.com (a different company, not ours).
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When most people think of sign companies, they think of small shops in retail strip malls that primarily create paper, plastic and vinyl signs and banners for the CONSUMER market. Names like Fast Signs, Signs By Tomorrow, Signs and More, Behold Signs and others. Their names and logos also communicate speed and economy.
We can make those signs as well, But we will have an office or light industrial park presence (not retail) and want to appeal mostly to businesses (B2B). Thus the name of our company: EPIC (to suggest the scope/size of our products), SIGNS (to identify of business, and INTERNATIONAL (to reflect the broad geography we will serve).
We will manufacture and install both indoor and outdoor signs and seasonal and permanent signs of every conceivable type: paper, plastic, vinyl, wood, foam, stone, monument, electrical...even vehicle wraps. Our clients will include virtually any and every business or organization that uses signs,
Our new logo will be used in both print and web
- You may include graphic elements OR opt to design using just the company name - EPIC Signs International.
- You can use the "ESI" acronym, but all 3 words must also appear in the logo.
- We'll need 3 versions of the finished design: full color, 2-color, and B/W
- We don't have a strong preference for certain colors.
- You might check the Yellow Pages and/or Google "Sign Companies" to see what others are doing.
- Think of EPIC as meaning: 1. "heroic; majestic; impressively great. Example: the EPIC events of the war." 2. "unusually great size or extent. Example: a crime wave of EPIC proportions."
- Hard to say what we don't want until we see it! If your design(s) reflect the type of company image we've described above, we're sure it will be great!
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Microsoft to Kill the Messenger, Supplant It With Skype
Nov 7, 2012 11:03 AM PT
Microsoft will phase out Windows Live Messenger, its consumer instant messaging platform, over the next several months as its users are moved to Skype, the company announced this week.
Microsoft hopes to smooth the transition to Skype for Live Messenger users by allowing them to log in to Skype with their Microsoft ID so that contacts in one program will automatically transfer to the other.
The move to Skype will be beneficial to Live Messenger users, said Microsoft spokesperson Dani Reese. Bringing together Messenger and Skype contacts within Skype provides a richer and easier way for users to communicate and collaborate with those they care about the most.
"We've worked hard to incorporate users' favorite Messenger features into Skype, beginning with the ability to sign-in to Skype with a Microsoft account and ensure that they can IM with their contacts right away without needing to set up," Reese told TechNewsWorld.
More Power Under Umbrella
By moving to Skype, Live Messenger users will be able to avail themselves of a new set of robust features, such as the following:
- support for more devices;
- consolidation of functions -- video, landline and mobile calling -- into a single application;
- sharing of screens;
- video calling from mobile devices and through Facebook; and
- group video calling.
"The end result is you get something that's more universal than what you had before and with quite more capability," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld.
IM On Decline
"It's a logical consolidation of two redundant services that Microsoft has under its brand right now after acquiring Skype," Rob Sanfilippo, analyst at Directions On Microsoft, told TechNewsWorld.
"There's a lot of similar functionality offered between those two services right now, and Skype is definitely the service Microsoft will be supporting going forward so it makes sense to blend Messenger into Skype," he added.
The popularity of Instant Messaging as a technology in the consumer space has been waning, said Enderle. "For the most part, Instant Messaging is a technology that everybody let languish. You still have your three platforms, but almost no one talks about it anymore because most of its functionality has moved over to social media."
Instant Messaging is more popular in other parts of the world than it is in United States. "Texting has replaced IM in a lot of cases. Even just chatting over social networks has become popular, rather than going to a specific Instant Messaging service," Sanfilippo said.
Instant Messaging Dominance
Worldwide, Microsoft dominates the Instant Messaging market, according to an analysis released in June by Opswat, a maker of software management and security solutions. That analysis shows the combined market share of Live Messenger and Skype to be 83 percent.
"In terms of installed applications, this is a very narrow market," Opswat Marketing Manager Elisse Lockhart told TechNewsWorld. "Almost 99 percent of the market is made up of three products, and a good share of that goes to Microsoft."
While Instant Messaging is waning in the consumer sphere, it continues to be popular with the enterprise, according to Gartner Research Director Bill Pray. "In the enterprise market, there are some specific use cases, particularly in unified communications, where Instant Messaging plays a significant role," he told TechNewsWorld.
Within enterprise Instant Messaging, presence functionality -- the ability to know a coworker's location and availability -- is built into the software, he explained. That functionality is being incorporated into the productivity tools across the enterprise.
Just Another New Client
That's a different scenario than what's happening in the consumer market, Pray continued. "In the consumer market, there's a lot of competition with the social messaging environment," he explained.
"Social messaging has been rapidly adopted on the consumer side, whereas it's fairly nascent on the enterprise side," he added. But even enterprise social software makers are integrating instant messaging into their offerings because presence functionality is so important in the enterprise, he noted.
Microsoft's enterprise product that includes Instant Messaging is Lync. While it's unlikely that Skype will supplant Lync, Microsoft will probably increase integration between the two programs in the future, Pray said.
The forced move to Skype most likely won't be disruptive to most users. "Over the years, the Messenger IM client has gone through a lot of evolution of its own and a lot of name changes," Sanfilippo observed.
"There's always been a new client that users have been prompted to upgrade to," he continued, "so this move is really just another new client upgrade to them."


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Jared Allen Chosen For Pro Bowl
The NFL announced the NFC and AFC Pro Bowl teams Tuesday and defensive end Jared Allen is the lone Minnesota Viking to make the NFC team. Allen leads the NFL in sacks with 18.5 and is just 3 sacks away from setting a new Viking franchise record for sacks in a season. Allen will be making his 4th pro bowl appearance and will start for the NFC at the Pro Bowl in H0nolulu, Hawaii on January 29.
The Vikings close the 2011 season Sunday, January 1 against Chicago at noon, pregame on WJON at 11am.


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Behind the images and narratives of progress, effectiveness and innovation of electronics that make us believe in dematerialized technology without consequences (Gabrys, 2011:57), there is something dirty and 'forgettable' (Hird, forthcoming). That is electronic waste (e-waste).
Over the past November and December, I followed a group of informal waste pickers in Barcelona to study how they re-materialize and re-purpose discarded computers. What I found is that e-waste is not merely about dirtiness and forgettable materials. It is also about innovative everyday practices that compete to establish and negotiate different ontologies of value and functionality as waste moves across different legal regimes.
A common European Directive, the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE), currently regulates the Spanish system of e-waste management. …


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Changde EX-507 is featured as excellent clarity, fast curing, strong bonding and wide bonding range of material, with main raw materials imported innocuous, odor-free and irritant-free. Convenient and safe application, with characteristics as water resistance, shock-proof, acid and alkali resistance.
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These various rubber stamps can cling mount to any clear acrylic block. What a space saver! They are part of a line of stamps designed by Tim Holtz.The stamp sheet measures approximately 7 by 8.5 inches.
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Needless to say, with all the make up that I see and play with there's not much on your average make up counter that gets me excited, but when I saw the new Shiseido spring collection, I was just coo-ing (see the colours at the end of the post!).
Alas I was dragged away from the counter by Mr C, something about 'having too many lipsticks'.
Amazingly enough, he presented me one evening with the one my heart desired (so I guess the glazed over look was just a facade) PK407, Stiletto, a hot pink with tons of blue micro sparkle.
You know, my local Selfridges ditched the Shiseido counter for Nars. I get that – Nars is wonderful, but I'd have sacrificed another counter, before getting rid of Shiseido which has a strong following.
Anyway. The packaging! As always with Shiseido, heavyweight, sold, pretty packaging.
They say:
Luxurious shine and plumping action, achieve a just applied with adhesive gel oils. All day moisture lasts up to 8 hours with a shimmering, glossy and lustrous finish.So now we know what we have; a sheer, glossy, plumping lipstick. It's perfect for spring although I am madly into the creamy lip look at the moment, even in a gloss.
Japanese brands always do the glossy, hydrating, water shine lip sticks very well.
Stiletto or PK407 is a hot pink, but never fear, it's really sheer:
This lipstick fulfils all the criteria for people who want a glossy, plumped up look. There's no minty stuff going on, it just seems give a bit of a 3-D result…what's the word? Multi dimensional!
I'll buy anything with that blue micro sparkle to be honest:
Verdict for this lipstick so far is that I like it a lot; it reminds me of Shu Uemura Supreme Shine lipsticks, but without the horrible design fault in the lid (it cracks easily), and slightly less in your face with the gloss.
Here is the full range anyway. I did notice the colours swatched differently on my hand than on my lips so maybe if you can, test it out properly as these are £19.50 each.
Will you be purchasing any Shiseido Shimmering Rouge lipsticks?


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Black Watch (2008)
10/01/2008 - 21/12/2008
Hurtling from a pool room in Fife to an armoured wagon in Iraq, Black Watch is based on interviews conducted by Gregory Burke with former soldiers who served in Iraq.
Viewed through the eyes of those on the ground, Black Watch reveals what it means to be part of the legendary Scottish regiment, what it means to be part of the war on terror and what it means to make the journey home again.
John Tiffany's production makes powerful and inventive use of movement, music and song to create a visceral, complex and urgent piece of theatre.
In 2008, Gregory Burke won the Writers' Guild Award for Black Watch in the Best New Play category. BBC Scotland's documentary, Black Watch: A Soldier's Story won a BAFTA Scotland Best Documentary Award.
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Rita Ora Covers ASOS Magazine
Rita Ora is adding covers to her portfolio left and right, before her debut album is even in stores. Her bookish Complex cover just dropped, and now she's landed the front page of the September issue of ASOS.
Rita's the new cover girl and her bright, bold look is just what fashion plates like to emulate, so this cover is a perfect fit for the rising star and Jay-Z protege. The ish lands on July 30, but we've got an advance peek of our gal Rita Ora looking fine in her unique, street-glam chic style.
Ora rocks a bespoke bomber jacket designed by ASOS. However, the rest of the ASOS clothing she is wearing is available for purchase here. So you can rock the Rita Ora look, ladies!
The oft ruby-lipped Ora admits two key style icons. It was Gwen Stefani who "made me want to wear red lipstick. When I saw it on her, I thought she was the prettiest person in the world." Another style icon for Ora? Yeezy! Yep, she digs a dude's style too, saying that Kanye West is "one of my fashion icons. I'd love to be the female Kanye. I think he's so cool and effortless."
In the mag, Rita doesn't just look good. She opens up and lets us in, as she talks style and substance. Here's what we learned!
Her favorite designer: "I'm really into Ashley Williams. She's British, so young and fresh."
On those pesky Rihanna comparisons, which are becoming tired: "It's a great comparison, but I don't think about it. When the album's out, it's going to separate me from that without me having to say anything."
On her face-to-face meeting with Rihanna, during which no claws were bared: "We literally just had drinks, a dance and a good time. There was no word talk. It was a great party though." That's how they do, to borrow a phrase from Ora's smash hit 'How We Do.'
On her relationship with Drake: "We're great friends, if he ever needed me I'd fly out. He's one of the nicest guys I've ever met and if anyone talks s— about him, I get protective … I really admired that he was so interested in new artists even though he was new himself. We just clicked."
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text: Ocean City Elementary School was the first school in the state to achieve 100 percent proficiency in mathematics and reading, as measured by the 2007 Maryland School Assessment (MSA). The accomplishment has sparked the interest of educators across the state, as well as in the United States Department of Education (USDE). Ed Cashman, center, Region III Deputy Representative for U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, spent June 2 with the faculty and staff to explore the school's formula for success. Joining Cashman are Principal Irene Kordick and Superintendent Dr. Jon Andes.


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Robert Bertolino
March 12, 2012
- BSW in Social Work, University of Missouri-St. Louis
- M.Ed. in Counselor Education, University of Missouri-St. Louis
- Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, St. Louis University
Courses Taught
Foundations of Rehabilitation Counseling, Counseling and Personality Theory, Foundations of Family Therapy, Internship
Research Interests
Adolescents and Families, Clinical Outcomes
When I'm Not Teaching
I enjoy playing and listening to music as well as traveling the country to see US concerts.
Selected Publications
- Bertolino, B. (2010). Strengths-based engagement and practice: Creating effective helping relationships. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
- Bertolino, B. (2003). Change-oriented psychotherapy with adolescents and young adults: The next generation of respectful and effective therapeutic processes and practices. New York: Norton.
- Bertolino, B. (1999). Therapy with troubled teenagers: Rewriting young lives in progress. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
- Bertolino, B., Kiener, M. S., & Patterson, R. (2009). The therapist's notebook for strengths and solution-based therapies: Homework, handouts, and activities. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
- Bertolino, B., & O'Hanlon, B. (2002). Collaborative, competency-based counseling and therapy. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
- Bertolino, B., & Schultheis, G. (2002). The therapist's notebook for families: Solution-oriented exercises for working with parents, children, and adolescents. New York: The Haworth Press.
- Bertolino, B., & Thompson, K. (1999). The residential youth care worker in action: A collaborative, competency-based approach. New York: The Haworth Press.
- O'Hanlon, B., & Bertolino, B. (1998). Even from a broken web: Brief, respectful solution- oriented therapy for sexual abuse and trauma. New York: John Wiley & Sons.


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Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Community Board 6 chair Joseph Hennessy were both honored last week at the Queens Community House's (QCH) Spring Event in Forest Hills.
"Melinda's been a tireless advocate for residents of this community," said Anita Phillips Straus, vice president of the QCH Board of Directors. "Now, her great leadership will benefit the whole borough."
After Katz was recognized, she honored Hennessy, who also serves as QCH director emeritus, with a proclamation declaring April 1 "Joseph Hennessy Day" and called the honoree "a gift to Queens."
"Joe has served this community for more than 37 years," Katz announced. "In all he does, he demonstrates the qualities of humility, tenacity, kindness, courage, compassion and collaboration."
Former QCH board member Blanca Izaguirre then presented Hennessey with the 2014 Queens Community Builder Award, established by the QCH Board of Directors in 2013 to recognize an individual who has made a dedicated effort to unite the neighborhood.
"Like a young tree, the Community House planted its roots in Forest Hills but its branches now reach throughout Queens," Hennessy said after the presentation.


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As a hospital that is part of a larger integrated health system, we believe our most important responsibilities involve our quality of care and the safety of our patients. Because you deserve to know how we are doing, we openly provide our performance measures. As we continue our quality improvement efforts, we invite and welcome your comments and suggestions. Thank you for putting your confidence in our care.
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We invite you to learn more about how quality and safety are measured and what our patients have told us about the care they have received.
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Danbury Hospital and Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN) are deeply committed to a culture of excellence and compassionate care that is focused on patient safety and quality as our absolute top priority. This is our Safe Care Promise.


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Karl Pearson
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Karl Pearson's mother Fanny Smith and his father William Pearson were both from Yorkshire families. William was a barrister of the Inner Temple [26]:-
He was a man of great ability, with exceptional mental and physical energy and a keen interest in historical research, traits which his son also exhibited.William and Fanny named their second child Carl and he used this name until he was about 23 years old when he changed the spelling to Karl. In this article we shall refer to him either as Karl or as Pearson.
Karl, together with his one older brother and one younger sister, were brought up in an upper-middle class family. After being educated at home up to the age of nine years, he was sent to University College School, London. He studied there until he was sixteen, but he was then forced to leave due to illness. A private tutor was engaged to teach him at home and he took the Cambridge Scholarship Examinations in 1875 and, coming second in the examinations, he won a scholarship to King's College.
At Cambridge he was taught by Stokes, Maxwell, Cayley and Burnside. His coach was perhaps the most famous of all the Cambridge coaches, namely Routh. He spoke of his undergraduate years saying (see [3]):-
At Cambridge I studied mathematics under Routh, Stokes, Cayley, and Clerk Maxwell, but read papers on Spinoza.But these were days of great happiness for Pearson [22]:-
There was pleasure in the friendships, there was pleasure in the fights, there was pleasure in the coaches' teaching, there was pleasure in searching for new lights as well in mathematics as in philosophy and religion.As he indicates in these quotations, his studies at Cambridge were unusually broad. He read Goethe, Dante, and Rousseau, read about the history of religious thought, and enjoyed debating with students of moral philosophy about their subject.
Pearson was never one to accept authority and this comes out clearly during his undergraduate years at Cambridge. At that time divinity lectures and attendance at chapel were compulsory. Pearson was deeply interested in religion yet hated the compulsory nature of these activities. He argued successfully to have the University regulations changed so that attendance was no longer compulsory at divinity lectures and, having won this battle, fought the second battle on compulsory chapel with his father's help. Having won, he surprised the University authorities by continuing to attend chapel but, of course, to Pearson there was a world of difference between attending voluntarily and compulsory attendance.
He graduated from Cambridge University in 1879 as Third Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos (meaning that he was ranked third among those who gained a First Class degree). He then travelled to Germany to study at the University of Heidelberg. There he studied physics under G H Quincke and metaphysics under Kuno Fischer. He next visited the University of Berlin, where he attended the lectures of the famous physiologist Émile du Bois-Reymond on Darwinism (Émile was a brother of Paul du Bois-Reymond, the mathematician). Other subjects which he studied in Berlin included Roman Law, taught by Bruns and Mommsen, medieval and 16th century German Literature, and Socialism. He was strongly influenced by the courses he attended at this time and he became sufficiently expert on German literature that he was offered a post in the German Department of Cambridge University. On his return to England in 1880, Pearson first went to Cambridge [3]:-
Back in Cambridge, I worked in the engineering shops, but drew up the schedule in Mittel- and Althochdeutsch for the Medieval Languages Tripos.His first book, The New Werther, was published at this time. In it Pearson gives a clear indication of why he studied so many diverse subjects (see for example [17] or [26] or The New Werther):-
I rush from science to philosophy, and from philosophy to our old friends the poets; and then, over-wearied by too much idealism, I fancy I become practical in returning to science. Have you ever attempted to conceive all there is in the world worth knowing - that not one subject in the universe is unworthy of study? The giants of literature, the mysteries of many-dimensional space, the attempts of Boltzmann and Crookes to penetrate Nature's very laboratory, the Kantian theory of the universe, and the latest discoveries in embryology, with their wonderful tales of the development of life - what an immensity beyond our grasp! ... Mankind seems on the verge of a new and glorious discovery. What Newton did to simplify the planetary motions must now be done to unite in one whole the various isolated theories of mathematical physics.Despite the feelings he expresses in this quote, Pearson decided to study law so that he might, like his father, be called to the Bar. Again quoting Pearson's own account [3]:-
Coming to London, I read in chambers in Lincoln's Inn, drew up bills of sale, and was called to the Bar, but varied legal studies by lecturing on heat at Barnes, on Martin Luther at Hampstead, and on Lasalle and Marx on Sundays at revolutionary clubs around Soho.Despite being called to the Bar in 1882, Pearson never practised law. During 1882-84 he lectured around London on a wide variety of topics such as German social life, the influence of Martin Luther, and historical topics. He also wrote essays, articles and reviews as well as substituting for professors of mathematics at King's College and University College London.
He spent most of his career at University College, London, after he was appointed to the Chair of Applied Mathematics in 1885 as Goldsmid Professor. One of his former pupils writes in [3]:-
He was no "textbook" teacher, and could instil an understanding of the fundamentals of a subject with greater ease and in a shorter time than any mathematical lecturer I have since known. His personal appearance was arresting: the typical Greek athlete, with finely cut features and a magnificent physique. ... He was a pertinacious controversialist, but in any personal discussion his humorous twinkle was disarming.From 1884 to 1890 Pearson was highly productive. As well as giving lectures on statics, dynamics and mechanics, he completed the unfinished first volume of Clifford's The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences (published in 1885), completed and edited the half written first volume of Todhunter's History of the Theory of Elasticity, began working on the second volume which had hardly been started by Todhunter, and published many papers on applied mathematics. He also lectured on The Ethic of Free Thought, and undertook research on a number of historical topics such as the evolution of Western Christianity. In 1885 he was a founder member of the Men and Women Club dedicated to discussion of the role of men and women in society, and at meetings of the club he met Maria Sharpe. Their marriage in 1890 produced three children; Egon Pearson (born 1895) who followed his father's profession, and two daughters Sigrid Loetitia who was three years older than Egon and Helga Sharpe who was three years younger.
It is worth pausing to realise that Pearson is known as one of the founders of statistics, yet we have reached 1890 and the 33 year old professor of applied mathematics, although having a high reputation in a wide variety of areas, had still not begun to work on statistical problems. As Aldrich writes in [6]:-
... his contribution to statistical methodology overshadowed his contribution to any substantive field. His statistical contributions can be divided into ways of arranging numerical facts - univariate and multivariate - estimation and testing.Two events changed the course of his career. The first was the publication by Galton of his book Natural Inheritance in 1889. The second was the appointment of Weldon as Professor of Zoology at University College London in 1890. Walker writes in [26]:-
The importance for science of the intense personal friendship which soon sprang up between Pearson and Weldon, then both in their early thirties, can scarcely be exaggerated. Weldon asked the questions that drove Pearson to some of his most significant contributions.Through Weldon and Galton's book, Pearson became interested in developing mathematical methods for studying the processes of heredity and evolution. From 1893 to 1912 he wrote 18 papers entitled Mathematical Contributions to the Theory of Evolution which contain his most valuable work. These papers contain contributions to regression analysis, the correlation coefficient and includes the chi-square test of statistical significance (1900). His chi-square test was produced in an attempt to remove the normal distribution from its central position.
His book The Grammar of Science (1892) was remarkable in that it anticipated some of the ideas of relativity theory. It was wide ranging and attempted to extend the influence of science into all aspects. Pearson coined the term 'standard deviation' in 1893. His work was influenced by the work of Edgeworth while he in turn influenced the work of Yule.
Pearson was a co-founder, with Weldon and Galton, of the statistical journal Biometrika . This came about because he had presented a paper to the Royal Society, of which he had been elected a Fellow in 1896 and received its Darwin Medal in 1898, in 1900. The paper looked at heredity and argued using a mathematical analysis of large amounts of collected data. Biologists in the Royal Society were not, however, prepared to accept biological conclusions based on mathematical analysis. Weldon, in a letter to Pearson on 16 November 1900, suggested solving the problem of getting such papers published by setting up their own journal. Pearson was enthusiastic and suggested they name the journal Biometrika . The first volume appear in October 1901 with Pearson as its editor, a role he continued to hold until his death 35 years later.
From around 1906 Pearson put a large effort into setting up a postgraduate centre. He did this (see [17]):-
... to make statistics a branch of applied mathematics with a technique and nomenclature of its own, to train statisticians as men of science ... and in general to convert statistics in this country from being the playing field of dilettanti and controversialists into a serious branch of science, which no man could attempt to use effectively without adequate training, and more than he could attempt to use the differential calculus, being ignorant of mathematics.He was the first Galton Professor of Eugenics, holding the chair from 1911 to 1933. Galton had set up the Eugenics Record Office in 1904 and in 1906 he put Pearson in charge. Pearson already ran the Biometric Laboratory and in 1911 the two laboratories were combined into the Department of Applied Statistics in University College. Galton had expressed the wish that Pearson should be offered the chair, so becoming head of the new Department. In so doing Pearson gave up his Goldsmid chair.
Pearson had a long, bitter, and very public dispute with Fisher. At first they exchanged friendly letters after Pearson received a manuscript from Fisher in September 1914 of a paper he was submitting for publication. Pearson's initial response was to say (see [18]):-
I congratulate you very heartily on getting out the actual distribution form ... if the analysis is correct which seems highly probable, I should be delighted to publish the paper in Biometrika.Again a week later [18]:-
I have now read your paper fully and think it marks a distinct advance.Pearson then offered to have his staff at the Galton Laboratories work on a tabulation of values for the frequency curves arising in Fisher's paper to test the exact distribution produced by Fisher against previously known approximations. By May 1916 they were still corresponding in a friendly manner. However Pearson misunderstood the assumptions of Fisher's maximum likelihood method, and criticised it unfairly in the May 1917 Cooperative Study paper which he co-authored with his staff concerning tabulating the frequency curves. Fisher, believing that Pearson's criticism was unwarranted, responded with a paper which criticised examples in the Cooperative Study to the extent of ridiculing them. Fisher had looked again at his earlier correspondence with Pearson, noticed that many of his papers had been rejected, and concluded that Pearson had been responsible.
Although both were strong advocates of statistical methods their approach was rather different. Pearson used large samples which he measured and the tried to deduce correlations in the data. Fisher, on the other hand, followed Gosset in trying to use small samples and, rather than deduce correlations, to find causes. The dispute became bad enough to have Fisher turn down the post of Chief Statistician at the Galton Laboratory in 1919 since it would have meant working under Pearson. The dispute continued to grow in intensity with each taking every opportunity to attack the other's views.
Maria, Pearson's wife, died in 1928 and he remarried Margaret Victoria Child, a co-worker in his department, in the following year. Pearson resigned from the Galton Chair in the summer of 1933 and University College decided to split his Department into two. His son Egon Pearson became head of the Department of Statistics, while Fisher was appointed to the Galton Chair to succeed Pearson as head of the Department of Eugenics.
Greenwood writes of Pearson's character in [9]:-
Pearson was among the most influential university teachers of his time; he took great pains to be intelligible and could hold a large audience either of students or merely casual hearers who were without special interest in his topics. In the smaller circle of his research pupils he inspired enthusiastic personal affection; no head of a department repaid loyal service more generously. ... He had some of the defects of his qualities; he was dominating, ... he had an intense and genuine belief in freedom of thought but was apt to attribute intellectual differences of opinion to stupidity or even moral obliquity. Personal relations between him and his pupils were sometimes painfully interrupted for years; but it is pleasant to record that eventually most of these broken friendships were happily resumed. Only intellectual differences disturbed harmony; in the ordinary social relations of life he was a charming host, guest, or travelling companion. Pearson's influence upon those who only knew him through his writings was also great. He was admired and feared, rather than loved, by many; in some he aroused bitter hostility.Walker sums up Pearson's importance in [26] as follows:-
Although Pearson made contributions to statistical technique that now appear to be of enduring importance, these techniques are of less importance than what he did in arousing the scientific world from a state of sheer interest in statistical studies to one of eager effort by a large number of well-trained persons, who developed new theory, gathered and analysed statistical data from every field, computed new tables, and re-examined the foundations of statistical philosophy. This is an achievement of fantastic proportions. His laboratory was a world centre in which men from all countries studied. Few men in all the history of science have stimulated as many other people to cultivate and to enlarge the fields they themselves had planted. he provided scientists with the concept of a general methodology underlying all science, one of the great contributions to modern thought.We have mentioned above some of the honours which Pearson received. Let us also note that he received an honorary degree from the University of St Andrews and from the University of London. He was also elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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Logic and political argument
September 04, 2008, 12:26:57 AM »
When I was in high school, I had the good fortune to have an English teacher that also taught a course in logic. At grade 10, I had my first exposure to both formal and informal logic. One of the things that has stuck with me over the years has been an appreciation for the informal fallacies of logic. This does not mean that my arguments are necessarily more logical, only that I was exposed to the concepts of a course in logic.
From the above site:
"The Misuse of Appeal to Laughter: Diverts attention from the central issues and stifles serious thought and analysis. "Anyone who accepts the conclusions of my opponent would also be forced to accept the view that the tail wags the dog."
The Appeal to Pity (Argumentum Ad Misericordiam): Replaces relevant evidence for a conclusion with a bid for the sympathy of an audience. "John deserves a 'C' in this class since his parents have sacrificed to send him to college and he will not graduate if he receives a lower grade."
The Appeal to Reverence: Replaces relevant evidence for a conclusion with a bid for respect for traditions. "We must beware of foreign entangling alliances since Washington, the founder of our nation, warned us against taking such a course of action."
The Bandwagon Fallacy: Appeals to an interest in following the crowd and doing as they do rather than to adequate evidence justifying a conclusion. "You ought to buy a small European sports car as all members of the smart crowd now own one of these cars."
The Common-Folks Appeal: Appeals to attempts to secure acceptance of a conclusion by the speaker's identification with the everyday concerns and feelings of an audience rather than on the basis of adequate evidence. "I'm sure that you will recognize that I am more competent than my opponent. When I was in high school I had to get up at four-thirty every morning to deliver papers. In college I was barely able to make C's and had to do janitorial work in order to make ends meet to put myself through school. Therefore, I would make a better Congressman."
Appeal to the Gallery (Argumentum Ad Populum): Seeks acceptance of a point of view by an emotional reaffirmation of a speaker's support of values, traditions, interests, prejudices, or provincial concerns shared widely by members of an audience. "As you union members know, I am a champion of the labor movement, and seek to eliminate exploitation of the common worker by big business. Therefore, you know you can trust my judgment when I say that this agricultural legislation will be good for the country."
Much of political rhetoric makes use of arguments that are based on informal fallacies. For example, to nullify an argument by placing it in a disreputable larger category is one example the informal fallacy of logic called "Name Tagging"
"Name-Tagging: Assumes the attachment of labels to persons or things constitute evidence for conclusions about the objects to which the labels are applied." How many of the above short list of fallacies can you identify from the recent conventions?
Its amusing to listen to political speeches with an ear tuned to pick up informal fallacies of logic. Quite frankly that includes some of the arguments put forth on these boards.
Do you think that it is reasonable to purposefully recognize when informal fallacies are being used and to point them out as a means of furthering a discussion? In other words, if someone is making an argument based on such premises is it a requirement of reasoned discourse to point it out?
Perhaps this is a bit of a rhetorical question.
So I will broach another topic...what constitutes proof? How do you know when something is true? How do you distinguish between opinion and fact? What is a fact?
This kind of "thinking about thinking" is important. For example, highly persuasive, emotional argument (name calling for example) is not about the truth yet much political rhetoric and even argument that occurs between colleagues is filled with this and other fallacious arguments. If the average person is not educated in fundamentals of argument then it is harder to find the truth is it not?
When you listen to politics is it possible to identify people who are trying to find the truth versus people who are trying to win? Is winning what matters? Do the ends justify the means? If political speeches become so bent on persuasion that they freely invoke informal fallacies and this is considered to be acceptable, is this not an example of the ends justifying the means?
Perhaps I have been watching too much CNN! As usual, I offer my thoughts in the interest of open discourse.
Last Edit: September 20, 2008, 06:36:45 PM by Karsk
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September 08, 2008, 02:42:09 AM »
Man has four basic functions: thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition. Thinking is the dominant function for approximately only 10% of the population.
This explains a lot
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September 08, 2008, 03:39:16 PM »
What does this explain? I think I get the flavor of your response. That most people focus less on thinking and emphasize other ways of interacting with the world than that. There are several points that can be brought up.
Sometimes I rely on my intuition or my feelings to make decisions. When is this valid and when is it not?
If people can be influenced by things other than rational argument, then is it ok to use those approaches that appeal to emotion or encourage intuition in order to persuade?
When I was in graduate school, I had a friend from Iran, named Hank
that worked in the same lab as me. This was right about when the Ayatollah Khomeini took power. My friend returned to Iran at that time to support the Ayatollah so you know that he was strongly influenced towards fundamentalism. I remember a discussion that I had with him about the media. It seems that his point of view about the media and "truth" was that the truth was very relative. It was relative to passion, to the capacity to persuade, to the presentation. He believed that there was no objectivity that really mattered. He also believed that it was the obligation of the media to support the efforts of the Ayatollah by being as persuasive as possible in that regard. He believed that "Truth" occurred when everything was done with the intention of doing the right thing e.g. follow the fundamentalist beliefs that he espoused.
So when I listen to political speeches that argue in an emotional way, smoke and mirrors, misrepresenting, appealing to the common man ( example: "Oh, and she has an 80 percent approval rating among Alaskans." —Doug Patton" the implication being that because she has an 80% approval rating among Alaskans that this is somehow useful or valuable in evaluating whether she is worthy to be a vice president??!! or "but there's a tone of contemptuous dismissiveness about the experience that she does have" which is an emotionally based argument which ultimately also has nothing to do with anyone's capacity to serve) I have to ask the question....what is the difference?
Certainly, their is justification for paying attention to other modalities of "knowing" and that communicating is appropriately and simultaneously emotion laden as well as rational. There are times when feelings and intuition are most certainly valid. But here is the thing. At the end of the day one thing that constitutes proof and helps to clarify the truth is coherence. Coherence, or integrity, among the various methods of observation, the methods of knowing, and the theories. Coherence in world view. At the end of the day, if we are really looking at the truth, then feelings, intuition, sensations, and reasoning all mesh in a single coherent understanding. If science contradicts religion, then something is not yet completely understood. If the model of the atom is inadequate to explain contradictions then the model is changed until it is coherent with all that we presently know. The purpose of argument and discourse is to uncover the contradictions and to explain them...to take facts and build coherency. When emotion and fact contradict figure out the depth. Figure out why. As you do that a deeper understanding occurs. The nature of the observer becomes as important as that which is observed because why someone might feel something helps to explain the context.
There is this idea that the average person is incapable of thinking in any way. But even though I said it in a fancy way its more about common sense than anything else. A cynicism of the age comes from a bunch of people trained in marketing constantly presenting bull**** to the point where people no longer believe that there is anyone out there that could possibly be a straight shooter or maybe even that straight shooting is a myth. And so why not lie. Why not blow smoke. They could be friends of ol' Hank. But down deep everyone knows the sensation of having smoke blown up yer *** and down deep lots of people hate that lack of integrity.
Last Edit: September 20, 2008, 06:37:07 PM by Karsk
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September 08, 2008, 03:45:15 PM »
What makes a good leader?
What should be the qualifications of the President? The Vice President?
Last Edit: September 20, 2008, 06:37:27 PM by Karsk
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September 08, 2008, 03:56:42 PM »
"What does this explain? , , , That most people focus less on thinking and emphasize other ways of interacting with the world than that."
"Sometimes I rely on my intuition or my feelings to make decisions."
Right. These functions have their purposes.
"When is this valid?"
When things turn out well.
" and when is it not?" "
When they don't
(Secret tip: Yes I know that additional points can be made with regards to what I just said. I'm just being silly.)
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September 17, 2008, 07:26:39 PM »
The real difference between liberals and conservatives by Jonathan Haidt
"Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most.
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies morality and emotion in the context of culture. He asks: Why did humans evolve to have morals -- and why did we all evolve to have such different morals, to the point that our moral differences may make us deadly enemies? It's a question with deep repercussions in war and peace -- and in modern politics, where reasoned discourse has been replaced by partisan anger and cries of "You just don't get it!"
I think the concepts in this video relate to a lot of things that have been discussed on this forum including why a tribe is appealing.
The audience is attending a conference called TED (Technology, Education, Design?)
Last Edit: September 20, 2008, 06:37:41 PM by Karsk
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September 18, 2008, 09:03:39 PM »
I recommend both of you read the book The Art of Speedreading People. This would explain a lot!
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September 18, 2008, 09:07:44 PM »
Please expound!!!
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September 18, 2008, 09:13:27 PM »
Who needs logic I let the beer do my thinking for me. Hey haven't been wrong yet.
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September 19, 2008, 02:54:06 PM »
From Science the Journal of the AAAS:
"The Politics of Fear
By Constance Holden
ScienceNOW Daily News
18 September 2008
Why do people have the attitudes they do toward social issues such as welfare, abortion, immigration, gay rights, school prayer, and capital punishment? The conventional explanations have to do with their economic circumstances, families, friends, and educations. But new research suggests that people with radically different social attitudes also differ in certain automatic fear responses. Political scientists say the work is evidence that certain attitudes are conditioned by fundamental traits of temperament, which could help explain why it's hard to get a donkey or an elephant to change its coloring.
Quite a bit is known about the physiology of response to threat, and some of this can be measured by simple noninvasive tests. So the researchers, headed by Douglas Oxley of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, decided to test the idea that liberal and conservative (or "protective") social beliefs are related to individuals' sensitivity to threat.
The authors first conducted a random telephone survey of Lincoln residents to find some who held strong political opinions. Then 46 selected respondents were invited to come in to the lab and fill in questionnaires to reveal political beliefs and personality traits. Participants were then given two types of tests to measure physiological responses to threat.
First, they were attached to equipment to measure skin conductivity, which rises with emotional stress as the moisture level in skin goes up. Each participant was shown threatening images, such as a bloody face interspersed with innocuous pictures of things such as bunnies, and rise in skin conductance in response to the shocking image was measured. The other measure was the involuntary eye blink that people have in response to something startling, such as a sudden loud noise. The scientists measured the amplitude of blinks via electrodes that detected muscle contractions under people's eyes.
The researchers found that both of these responses correlated significantly with whether a person was liberal or conservative socially. Subjects who had expressed a high level of support for policies "protecting the social unit" showed a much larger change in skin conductance in response to alarming photos than those who didn't support such policies. Similarly, the mean blink amplitude for the socially protective subjects was significantly higher, the team reports in tomorrow's issue of Science. Co-author Kevin Smith says the results showed that automatic fear responses are better predictors of protective attitudes than sex or age (men and older people tend to be more conservative).
How are body and belief connected? The authors point out that family and twin studies have revealed strong genetic influences both for liberal-versus-conservative views and for people's sensitivity to threat. They speculate that the correlation could have something to do with the patterns of neural activity surrounding the amygdala, the seat of fear in the brain.
"These findings are extremely important," says political scientist James Fowler at the University of California, San Diego, who has been doing research linking certain gene variations to political activity. "In essence, the authors have filled in a 'missing link' between genes and brains on the one hand and psychological personalities and political attitudes on the other." He adds that the subject pool is limited to "a handful of white subjects from Nebraska, ... but many great ideas start with a simple test."
The editors suggest the following Related Resources on Science sites:
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Political Attitudes Vary with Physiological Traits
Douglas R. Oxley, Kevin B. Smith, John R. Alford, Matthew V. Hibbing, Jennifer L. Miller, Mario Scalora, Peter K. Hatemi, and John R. Hibbing (19 September 2008)
Science 321 (5896), 1667. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1157627]
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