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Evolution and Other Fairy Tales
Larry Azar
AuthorHouse, 2005
619 pages
If you are looking for a thorough philosophical debunking of the theory of Evolution, this is the book for you. Larry Azar has done a comprehensive study into the thinking of Charles Darwin and his supporters. What he uncovers is astounding – deeply flawed evolutionary beliefs and a theory without any scientific support.
Professor Emeritus Larry Azar received undergraduate and graduate degrees in Math, Physics, and Philosophy from Boston College and a Doctorate in Philosophy from the Pontifical Institute of the University of Toronto where he studied under Étienne Gilson, Anton Pegis, and Armand Maurer. He has taught at Fordham, Lehman, Hunter, St. John's and Iona, and also served as assistant to Jacques Maritain at Princeton. Numerous articles by him have appeared in journals both national and international.
In this book Prof. Azar highlights Darwin's personal beliefs, and some of his fellow evolutionists' beliefs, many of which are contradictory. Also discussed are various facts which reveal the scientific and philosophical problems with the theory of Evolution. Some of the highlights from the book are listed below.
Darwin's Beliefs:
The very title of Darwin's most popular work, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, reveals a racist attitude. This is further revealed in one of his comments about the Irish: "The careless, squalid, unaspiring Irishman who multiplies like rabbits." However, according to his own theory, the Irishmen, having more offspring, were the fittest!
Darwin was heavily influence by Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) and his doctrine of the "struggle for existence." Malthus predicted, quite erroneously, that by 1932 the human population would overwhelm the earth. He advocated birth control, and praised war, famine, pestilence, and disease, and ways of increasing the death rate. Darwin agreed with him on more than one point: "I could show that war has done and is doing much … for the progress of civilization."
Darwin did not even believe in distinct species: "No line of demarcation can be drawn between species." And, "Species are merely artificial combinations made for convenience." However, sterile hybrids show that there are genetic barriers.
Aristotle said, "Nature means the essence of natural objects." Darwin rejected essences and, therefore, nature. He even admitted that one of the foundational points of his doctrine was contrived: "In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a false term." The first five editions of Origin did not even use the term "evolution" once.
Darwin was ignorant of genetics. Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), his contemporary, understood that the determinants of an organism exist in the cell. Acquired characteristics cannot be passed to offspring. Aristotle is quoted as saying that when a man loses an arm, he will still have children with two arms.
Loren Eiseley: "There is a surgical precision about Mendel's procedures which is in marked contrast to the bunglesome anecdotal literature which fills so much even of Darwin's treatment of the subject."
Darwin claimed that his greatest joy in writing his Origin was his refutation of Genesis. He firmly held that those who comprehend his evolutionary views, "cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation."
Darwin had severe psychosomatic illness causing heart palpitations, upset stomach, skin abnormality, dizziness, and fatigue. He feared being criticized for the antireligious implications of his theory.
Darwin did not understand the effects of original sin: "I cannot see beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. … I see no necessity in the belief that the eye was expressly designed." However, even he could see that, "… the universe is not the result of chance." And he also believed in a creator: "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one …"
Evolutionists' Beliefs:
Ernst Mayr: "No other philosopher or scientist has had an impact on the thinking of modern man as Darwin."
Richard Dawkins: "Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist."
Theodore Roszak: "For if even a whisper of intentionality [design] slips into the evolutionary theory, all the great questions of destiny and value will not be far behind, and with them all the nasty philosophical conundrums which conventional science prefers to avoid. It was precisely to sidestep such questions that so many scientists rallied to Darwin's banner when it was first unfurled, even before the basic terms of his theory had been coherently defined, and long before any genetic knowledge was on hand to making convincing sense of how variation and selection might occur."
Teilhard de Chardin: "Evolution is a general postulate to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must henceforth bow and which illuminates all facts, a trajectory which all lines of thought must follow." He also said, "It is Christ, in very truth, who saves – but should we not immediately add that at the same time it is Christ who is saved by evolution?"
Josef Stalin: "Evolution prepares for revolution and creates the ground for it; revolution consummates the process of evolution and facilitates its further activity."
Pope Pius XII in his 1950 encyclical Humani Generis – On Certain False Opinions Which Threaten to Undermine the Foundations of Catholic Doctrine stated that, "Some imprudently and indiscreetly hold that evolution, which has not been fully proved even in the domain of natural sciences, explains the origin of all things, and audaciously support the monistic and pantheistic opinion that the world is in continual evolution. Communists gladly subscribe to this opinion in that, when the souls of men have been deprived of every idea of a personal God, they may the more efficaciously defend and propagate their dialectic materialism." And further, "If such conjectural opinions are directly or indirectly opposed to the doctrine revealed by God, then the demand that they be recognized can in no way be admitted."
Nazism was based on the idea of a master race. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a famous atheist and is credited with being the link between Darwin and Hitler. Marx was contemporary with Darwin and used the ideas of survival of the fittest in his concept of class struggle. Social Darwinism can be directly linked with the extermination of millions of people during the wars and revolutions of the 20th century.
Thomas Huxley: Described evolution as a description of the "complete and irreconcilable antagonism to that vigorous and consistent enemy of the highest intellectual, moral, and social life of mankind – the Catholic Church."
National Academy of Science: "Religion and science are separate and mutually exclusive realms of human thought."
Nobelist Polykarp Kusch: "To my mind the most important statement in science, the really fundamental statement, is that the world is ordered.
G. G. Simpson: "All science is philosophical. A scientist cannot so much as make an observation without reliance on a philosophical premise."
William Beck: "Science rests on a philosophical foundation and cannot be absolutely separated from it."
Luther Burbank: The limits of development in breeding processes are based on the Law of the Reversion to the Average. Organisms tend to revert back to the average.
J. B. S. Haldane: "The barrier of inter-specific sterility is the most serious argument against Darwin's Organic Evolution."
Hampton L. Carson: "The origin of species is a major unsolved problem of evolutionary biology."
Futuyma said, "It is likely that the topic of speciation is more thoroughly awash in unfounded and often contradictory speculation than any other single topic in evolutionary theory."
W. L. Johannsen: Variability within a species is not indefinite. There is a limit beyond which variation is impossible.
Leslie Orgel: "The origin of the genetic code is the most baffling aspect of the problem of the origins of life."
I. L. Cohen: "There is no mathematical probability whatever for any known species having to have been the product of random occurrence."
E. O. Wilson: Extinction constitutes, "a central problem of evolutionary biology."
Francis Crick: "The origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going." This had led scientists to formulate the Anthropic Principle – that the universe appears to have been tuned for human life. Any small change in the universe would have negated all possibility of life appearing. Henry Margenau describes it as absolutely convincing evidence of a creator.
Simpson: "The origin of the cosmos and the causal principles of its history remain unexplained and inaccessible to [natural] science. Here is hidden the First Cause sought by theology and philosophy."
Aristotle, a pagan, maintained that the existence of a Prime Mover could be demonstrated by reason. This is not religion; it is metaphysics, the study of being.
Loren Eiseley: "It is surely one of the paradoxes of history that science, which professionally has nothing to do with faith, owes its origins to an act of faith that the universe can be rationally interpreted, and that science today is sustained by that assumption."
William Stansfield: "If a carbon-14 [dating result] supports our theories, we put it in the main text. If it does not entirely contradict them, we put it in a footnote. And if it is completely 'out of date,' we just drop it."
E. D. Lukas: "The modern antipathy toward all forms of creationism is partly due to a widespread philosophical prejudice that arises from the a priori, nonscientific assumption that there can be no divine intervention into the workings of the universe and that the scientific method is the only way to truth."
Botanist Chester Arnold: "As yet, we have not been able to trace the phylogenetic history of a single group of modern plants from its beginning to the present."
Goldschmidt (hopeful monster thesis): "The first bird was hatched from an egg laid by a reptile."
Lord Zuckerman declared that the fossil record offers no evidence of man's evolution from other anthropoids.
Richard Dawkins: "If you throw out gradualism, you throw out the very thing that makes evolution more plausible than creation."
H. S. Lipson: "In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it, and many are prepared to 'bend' their observations to fit in with it."
L. H. Matthews: "Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation."
Evolutionist Soren Lovtrup described neo-Darwinism as the greatest hoax in the history of science.
Colin Patterson: "Question is: Can you tell me anything you know about evolution, any one thing that is true? I tried that question on the geology staff at the Field Museum of Natural History, and the only answer I got was silence. I tried it on the members of the Evolutionary Morphology Seminar in the University of Chicago, a very prestigious body of evolutionists, and all I got there was silence for a long time, and eventually one person said, 'I do know one thing – it ought not to be taught in high school.'" (Audio and transcript of talk available from Kolbe Center)
Malcom Muggeridge: "I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent to which it's been applied, will be one of the great jokes in the history books of the future."
Other Scientific / Philosophical problems with evolution:
The only thing all evolutionists agree on is that Evolution is a fact.
Distantly related species cannot produce offspring. More closely related species may produce hybrid offspring which may be sterile (a horse bred with a donkey results in a sterile mule).
Breeders have to be very careful in selecting males and females (intelligent breeders using artificial selection). Natural selection has no intelligence behind it.
Sexual reproduction has no advantage over asexual reproduction. Any genetic characteristic has a 50% chance of being eliminated through sexual reproduction.
Genetic mutations are almost always harmful, if not benign. The accumulation of genetic mutations is known as the "genetic load." If the genetic load becomes too high, a species will not be able to reproduce and will become extinct.
In the survival of the fittest, the fittest are defined as those who survive. This is circular reasoning as can be shown: Who survives? The fittest. Who are the fittest? Those who survive.
Intelligence is independent of the size of the brain. Einstein had a smaller than average brain.
Language has devolved from more complex forms to more simple. Some of the languages of "primitive" tribes are very complex. Ancient Greek and Latin are more complex than modern languages.
Walking on two feet has disadvantages relative to walking on four feet (speed and agility).
Radioisotope dating methods are based on the assumption that the elements are decaying into simpler forms. This is the opposite of evolution.
The so-called vestigial organs have been found to have uses. Similar organs in different animals often develop differently in the embryo. The idea that embryos develop through their respective stages of evolution has been refuted.
Homo sapiens (wise man) is essentially superior to the other animals because he acts in an essentially superior way (art, language, religion, science, etc.)
Rocks are used to date fossils. Fossils are used to date rocks. This is circular reasoning. The geologic column does not physically exist anywhere in the world. The Grand Canyon has at least five large "gaps."
There are no transitional fossils in the fossil record. Not only is there a missing link between apes and man, the links are missing between every species. There are no known links between invertebrates and vertebrates, or between fish and amphibians, or between amphibians and reptiles, or between reptiles and mammals.
Evolution of birds is a major problem (feathers, lungs). Archaeopteryx was a bird with teeth. There are modern birds with teeth.
Plant evolution has not even been seriously discussed among scientists.
Fossils from all phyla are in existence in the Cambrian rocks. This is fatal to the theory of Evolution.
The book has an extensive discussion on hominid/hominoid fossils. All are either apes, men, or frauds. The Piltdown fraud was not revealed until 40 years after its "discovery." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was involved. It has been called the greatest hoax in the history of modern science.
Neanderthal men are true men. Their skulls are larger than modern men. Cro-Magnon men were larger than modern men and their skulls were also larger.
Some evolutionists have given up on gradualism and switched to saltation, or punctuated equilibrium, or hopeful monsters.
In Manchester, England, over a period of 50 years the peppered moth population changed from almost exclusively white to almost exclusively black. During this time industrial pollution changed the color of the tree trunks upon which the moths sat from light to dark. Predatory birds could better see the moths when their color contrasted with the color of the trees. The moths did not change at all; only the ratio of the black to white colored individuals. The story of the peppered moths does not demonstrate evolution in action.
Teleology, being a metaphysical topic, simply transcends the concepts of biology.
Gradual evolution is problematic; the mutant chicken cannot wait for the mutant rooster.
In scientism the denial of final causality stems from a materialistic bias, whereby nothing which transcends matter is tolerated. Matter fails to be an ultimate explanation of effects.
Abiogenesis (life from non-life) is not tenable. Life only comes from life – Law of Biogenesis.
Adaptation has been shown to be due primarily to geographic isolation.
The long epochs of time required for Darwinian gradualism appear to be an anomaly in that more species would tend to perish than be generated. Extinction rate is about 1000 per year. It [theoretically] takes tens of thousands of years for a new species to emerge. Of all species that have ever existed, 99.9% are extinct.
Salamanders and lilies have more DNA than man.
Things which have never been demonstrated: 1.) Abiogenesis, 2.) Single cells combining to form more complex organisms, and 3.) multi-celled organisms evolving into other organisms.
Dating methods are not accurate, but they are based on the irreversible decay of elements. This demonstrates the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which evolution denies. Assumptions built into methods are: 1.) known quantity of original elements, 2.) constant decay rate, and 3.) no contamination of sample. These are generally false. There is no absolute measure of age.
DNA is in all living cells, but there are no intermediate forms leading up to it.
The scientific status of Evolution: Not testable. Not deductive (no direct proof, only inferences). Not observable.
Evolution and Other Fairy Tales reveals the errors of Darwin and his followers. Prof. Azar highlights Darwin's personal beliefs, and the often contradictory beliefs of his fellow evolutionists. This book is a gold mine of facts which reveal the scientific and philosophical problems with the theory of Evolution. The lack of an index makes it a challenge to dig up these facts but there are extensive notes and a large bibliography.
Azar himself seems to favor St. Augustine's view of a single act of creation in which the seeds of all future beings were implanted in the things that were made. In the course of time, these unfolded into all things that proceeded from them. He accepts millions of years of earth history as fact. It should be noted, however, that Augutine's theory of "rational seeds" is not evolutionary. In Augustine's view, these "seeds" possessed their specific natures from the moment of their creation "in the beginning." Augustine speculated that God simply delayed the realization or expression of the seeds of certain organisms until a point in time after the end of the creation period.
Dr. Azar calls the Biblical six-day creation narrative "metaphorical" although practically every Church Father other than Augustine believed it to be literal. The chapter on Fundamentalism maintains that the six-day creation, Flood, and Tower of Babel stories of Genesis are taken literally by Fundamentalists. However, Azar notes that not all creationists are Fundamentalists.
This book is ideal for the serious student of philosophy. Larry Azar has done a comprehensive study of the thinking of Charles Darwin and his supporters. He reveals deeply flawed evolutionary beliefs and a theory without any scientific support.
Reviewed by Eric Bermingham
November 11, 2006


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If only there was more people like Joy the world would be a better place, thank you for your love for these dogs. We. Take there loyalty and love for granted and treat them like garbage, people are so selfish and cruel it makes my heartache,thank you again.

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In order to understand this, you must first learn who Noah really is.
Noah Shaw has a foot fetish.
Noah loves big feet, small feet, tattooed feet and especially high-arched feet. The main reason he agreed to work as a emcee in a strip club is that he gets to admire them all.
Red toenails, toe rings, colorful tattoos, sometimes it's hard for Noah to remember why he shouldn't kidnap one of the strippers and keep her in his closet.
"Goodnight, Noah," A raspy voice says. He looks to his left to see Sparkles. She leans in and kisses him on his cheek.
"Sharing is caring!" She says as she stuffs some money in his pocket.
"Goodnight, Sparkles." He winks at her as she turns to leave.
Sparkles is one of his favorite girls. Pale pink toenails, a single star ring on her right pinky toe, Daisy tattoos on both ankles. She has this little white scar on her left big toenail that drives Noah crazy.
Sometimes it hurt Noah to look at Sparkles' feet.
It's about 8 A.M. now and Noah holds the keys to lock the doors of the club. He dreads this routine every morning: Having to abandon his safe haven and deal with boring reality. This instantly reminds him of the second reason why he needs this job: Noah's mother has cancer.
The medical bills are crazy, but the club pays good money. Sometimes celebrities pass by to get wasted, which means you'll get a shitload of cash for keeping their dirty secrets.
Noah walks through the streets of a noisy New York morning-no surprise there!
Five minutes later, he turns left at one of the ditches in a hurry. The weather is freezing and he's much eager to reach his comfortable rat-infested apartment.
Realizing that he had taken a wrong turn, he turns around but-
"Kneel, you mewling quim"
What the hell?
A sharp object pierces his skull, causing his knees to drop to the floor. He crouches on all four and tries to look up, but a wave of burning fire shocks his brain, blinding his vision.
What the fuck? He tries to say.
"You're not vey bright, are you?"
Am I getting mugged?
"I am Loki of Asgard, and I am burdened with glorious purpose."
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The CEO of AT&T's mobile business, Ralph de la Vega, told CNET in an interview that the company is working on family data plans that would give consumers one big pot of data that all devices could share. While minute plans have worked this way for years, since tiered data came along, customers have been waiting on a way to pool their data.
No details are available on how the plans will work, or how it will affect subsidized devices. It's also unclear whether or not devices like tablets would be entered into the mix. One of the biggest hang ups on selling network-enabled tablets (aside from the increased device price) is convincing customers to buy into yet another data plan. If devices could be grouped together on one large data plan, this might boost sales.
Of course, any speculation about how the plans will work is just that at the moment. We do know Verizon is pursuing similar plans, so it will be interesting to see how these two compete on their pricing structures. So, now begins the waiting game.
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Michael Pawlyn and Steve Tompkins attempt to debunk the most common defences used by architects to justify working on airport projects
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The late David MacKay [the government's former chief scientific adviser] argued that sustainability was about 'numbers, not adjectives' and that – to paraphrase slightly – 'if we're planning for the future of humanity, we'd better have a plan with numbers that add up'.
Nowhere is this advice more relevant than in the heated debate among design professionals about 'sustainable new airports'.
Various positions have been adopted to justify a continuing role in airport expansion over the coming crucial decade of decarbonisation. So, assuming that the science of climate change as reported in the 2018 IPCC report is accepted, it's worth examining some of these through a David MacKay 'numbers' lens.
Position 1: 'Soon we will have electric planes so we need to be designing "green-plane-ready airports"'
It is true that the first electric planes are in development, so the question is 'Can we make the transition in time?' Currently the energy density of batteries is about 2.6 per cent that of kerosene. This means that to replace one tonne of kerosene would require 38 tonnes of batteries, which is clearly self-defeating for a form of transport that depends on lightness for efficiency.
Battery performance will improve of course but we have to be realistic about how much and over what timeframe. The current predictions are that, 10 years from now we will only have a very limited number of small electric planes capable of short flights.
Coupled with the amount of time it takes to replace plane fleets, it is doubtful whether electric planes will make any significant contribution to greening air travel in the next 20 years. We have half that time to make dramatic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
Position 2: 'Biofuels will solve the problem'
There have been promises about biofuels for over 20 years and the delivery has repeatedly fallen short. Biofuels still provide only a fraction of 1 per cent of aviation's needs.
More importantly, nearly all biofuels compete for land with food production or land that, in the bigger picture, would deliver much greater benefits through being reforested. It can reasonably be argued that shifting all aviation to run on biofuels will create more problems than it solves.
Position 3: 'We can expand air travel within our carbon budget'
The UK Government has set a target of getting to zero carbon by 2050 and the carbon budgets related to this target allow for a degree of growth in air travel. So what's the problem? The problem of course is that the 2050 goal is nowhere near consistent with what the IPCC has set out as a target of no more than 1.5oC of global heating. This requires an unprecedented 18 per cent year-on-year reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, so to think we can stay within 1.5oC while expanding air travel looks like a dangerous delusion.
Position 4: 'UK business needs expanded airport capacity to remain competitive'
The government's own data shows that business air travel has not grown in the past 10 years. In fact, it has dropped slightly as people have got more accustomed to video-conferencing. In the UK 70 per cent of all flights are taken by just 15 per cent of all citizens so it is clear that a frequent flyer levy could be highly effective at reducing air travel without unduly impacting either on business or on poorer members of society.
Carbon offsetting is a controversial subject, but a mandatory $100 per tonne charge on flying (as recommended by the UN) would more closely reflect the real offset cost and further incentivise digital alternatives.
Position 5: 'Green airports – low-energy buildings with good public transport links –- will solve it'
Currently Heathrow Airport's annual CO2 footprint divided by the number of passengers works out to be very close to 5kg of CO2 per passenger trip. Let's imagine a super-green airport were designed to use 40 per cent less energy than Heathrow: that would be a saving of 2kg of CO2. Let's say, instead of driving 50km in an average car (with emissions of 200g CO2/km), everyone takes the train instead: that would save about another 6kg of CO2.
So the combined saving of a super-green airport with a passenger arriving by train would be 8kg of CO2. But an economy class return trip to New York emits roughly 1,670kg of CO2 per passenger. In other words, the flying part of the trip currently produces 200 times more greenhouse gas than the savings from the super-green airport and public transport. So, while it is reasonable for architects to argue that greening existing airports is just another component of retrofitting our existing building stock, it has to be admitted that building new or expanding our airports to support greater flying capacity is just contributing to the problem.
Position 6: 'If we don't design new airports someone else will'
Possibly so, but the same argument is often put forward for all manner of dubious activities, such as selling arms to repressive regimes. Obviously it's hard to contemplate losing a valuable source of income (think Australia and coal), but the key point here is that this is not leadership; to coin a phrase, it's trailership – trailing edge thinking that makes our current situation worse and does nothing to advance ethical standards. If an architect argues (with some justification) that unilateral action may not make much difference, then the more effective approach is to engage in collective action.
A headline such as 'Top UK airport architects and engineers agree moratorium on designing new airports over the next decade' really would start to change the global attitude towards the climate emergency.
Position 7: 'People who oppose airports are hypocrites if they fly at all'
This accusation is rarely heard from architects who design airports – we're very polite to each other – but it is common in the media and in politics. The fault with the hypocrisy argument is the implication that unless someone is perfect, they don't have a right to talk about how things could be better. The fact is that we have all contributed to the climate crisis and, somehow, we all need to work our way out of it. Adopting defensive positions in response to legitimate, constructive criticism is going to make that more difficult.
So, what should architects and engineers conclude from this? In the crucial 10 years we have left to get on top of the crisis, electric planes will not save us. Neither will biofuels. We cannot expand air travel if we are serious about trying to stay within the 'safe' 1.5°C limit of global heating. Making airport buildings and ground transportation greener addresses less than 1 per cent of the problem.
There is no robust business case for expanding UK air travel. Calling people hypocrites solves nothing. Science-based evidence points irrefutably to the collapse of our ecosystems and societies within 20 years if we don't drastically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. Still think it's okay to expand air travel? Maybe you're not a numbers person.
Michael Pawlyn is an architect, speaker and writer. He is the founding director of Exploration Architecture and a member of the steering group for Architects Declare.
Steve Tompkins is a founding director of Haworth Tompkins architects and a member of the steering group for Architects Declare.
This article is written in their personal capacities.
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Marketers Face Zooming Costs as ESPN Launches 3-D Channel
Walt Disney Co.'s (DIS) ESPN network has convinced three major advertisers to produce expensive 3-D commercials for its new sports channel debuting Friday with the 2010 World Cup broadcast.
It is the first major test of marketers' appetite for 3-D pitches. Procter & Gamble Co. (PG), Sony Corp. (SNE) and Disney's Pixar will all experiment with spots on the new 3-D sports channel. ESPN has previously aired several 3-D telecasts, including the Masters Tournament.
Trying to convince the ad industry to embrace the in-your-face technology is tough. Ad executives say 3-D ads are costly and represent a time-consuming effort since there are so few production firms skilled enough to create these types of spots.
Prices to create regular, 30-second ads, for major marketers, can cost between $500,000 to $1 million and 3-D commercials can increase the price by 30 to 40 percent, say ad executives.


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A simple, yet delicious heart healthy Latino snack
Yuca is a healthy snack providing many nutrients.
Eating healthy may seem difficult at times, but taking simple measures can lead to a healthier lifestyle. Consider searching for other cultural recipes to diversify your meals. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institute of Health has created an online recipe finder designed to help you choose healthy, delicious meals. Here, you can find Latino, Asian, Mediterranean and American cuisine that can meets your nutritional needs.
To start, here is a simple, yet flavorful Latino recipe:
Oven fried yuca
- 1 pound fresh yucca (cassava), peeled and cut into 3-inch sections (or 1 pound peeled frozen yuca)
- Non -stick vegetable oil spray
- In a kettle, combine yuca with enough cold water to cover it by 1-inch. Bring the water to boil and slowly simmer the yuca for 20-30 minutes or until it is tender.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Transfer the yuca with a slotted spoon to a cutting board, let it cool, and cut in lengthwise into 3/4 inch wide wedges, discarding the thin woody core.
- Spray a cookie sheet with the vegetable oil spray. Spread yucca wedges in a single layer on the cookie sheet and spray the wedges with vegetable oil spray. Cover with foil and bake for eight minutes. Uncover and return to oven to bake for an additional seven minutes.
Nutritional content:
Yields: 6 servings; serving size 1 piece (2.5 inches long)
Calories 93
Total Fat 1gram
Saturated Fat 0 grams
Cholesterol 0 milligrams
Sodium 3 milligrams
Total Fiber 1gram
Protein 2grams
Carbohydrates 20 grams
Potassium 522 milligrams
This food is very low in saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium. It is also a good source of manganese and a very good source of vitamin C.
Remember to always look at the nutritional label on a recipe to ensure it is low in saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, sodium and calories. Keeping this rule of thumb will help you in the decision making process of making a healthy meal.
For additional nutritional guidelines, please refer to My Plate. Michigan State University Extension offers various educational programs that focus on lifestyle changes to promote healthy eating.


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So, I originally got my ukulele last year when I was doing a songwriting challenge. Now, I'm shit at writing my own songs, but I don't think I'm too bad at singing OTHER people's songs. And I decided to fiddle around today (as I do sometimes) and record myself. This is done entirely with my own vocals and my ukulele. Yes, even the percussion.
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We're huge fans of changing the home screen around a bit and creating a new user experience for our Android. So much so that we present this weekly series of Get This Look posts.
In a nutshell we show you a new look for your Android handset and tell you which apps you'll need if you want to mimic the feel. Some of these are a little easier to create than others and many of them can be tweaked to no end. The following details are but the ingredients to which you can create your own delicious Android dish; your results will vary. Which is awesome!
If nothing else, this is a great way to discover new apps, widgets, icons, and more!
Colorful Elegance by M.K.
Comprised of many of the same apps that make up other designs in the Get This Look series, these are some of the most flexible around. Zooper only gets more popular with time and Media Utilities is fast becoming a preferred app.
The overall look here is much more rich in color and personality that others we've profiled; it's anything but that clean and minimal stuff. It might take a bit of finesse and money but this one really pops off your phone, especially with those 720p and 1080p HD displays!
The apps used in this design can be used to create some other fantastic layouts, some of which can be found in other Get This Look features.
What you'll need:
- Zooper Widget | FREE
- Media Utilities | FREE
- ssLauncher | FREE
- Nox Icons | $1.99
- Popup Widget | $1.50
- Simple RSS Widget | FREE
- Calengoo | $5.99
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Voice of freedom in Eastern Bloc countries
For close to half a century, Radio Free Europe was the only window on the world for 80 million people living behind the Iron Curtain. Its Polish section was headed for over 25 years by Jan Nowak- Jeziorański, the legendary "Courier from Warsaw."
"Rebuilding a sense of community was the first and foremost aim of our radio station. Maintaining hope was its second purpose," wrote Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, the first head of Radio Free Europe's Polish section, in his memoirs. The Munich-based radio station started broadcasting on 3 May 1952 at 11 am. "In the darkest years of Stalinism, the Security Office's omnipotence, repressions, distortion of history and secrecy, Radio Free Europe gave Poles a sense that someone, somewhere, knows the truth and speaks the truth; that the crimes of the regime will be named and the perpetrators―punished."
Radio Free Europe was founded in New York City in 1949 as a broadcast service of the National Committee for a Free Europe. It was financed by the United States Congress. RFE targeted "people's democracies," or countries which had fallen into Moscow's sphere of influence after World War II. After a merger between Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, the RFE/RL station broadcasted in 20 languages, reaching 80 million people behind the Iron Curtain. Although communists used to spend USD 100m a year to jam it, 60 engineers and technicians would always find a way to transmit information from the West to the East.
Every day, the radio station broadcasted an 18-hour programme to Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary, and a five-hour programme to Bulgaria and Romania. The channel employed 500 people, including eminent journalists who stayed in exile after World War II. They not only informed Eastern Bloc inhabitants about the situation on the other side of the Iron Curtain, but also put straight information distorted by the communist propaganda. A special section was dedicated to recording and translating into English reports from the Communist Bloc. The most eminent émigré politicians and writers, such as Gustaw Herling-Grudziński and Leopold Tyrmand, cooperated with the Polish section of Radio Free Europe.
Poles, Hungarians, Czechoslovaks, Bulgarians and Romanians listened to RFE risking their freedom, and sometimes even their life. In the 1950s, listening to RFE was punishable by up to three years of prison. Listeners took the risk because the radio allowed them to discover "imperialist" music, forbidden literature (RFE's library consisted of 80,000 volumes), and the latest world trends. It was thanks to Radio Free Europe that many of them discovered rock and roll, miniskirts and the hippie movement. The radio also played folk music, from Hungary's czardas to Poland's polka, as well as national anthems. Presenters of the Hungarian section read messages from Hungarians in the West to their relatives living in the country. The section also broadcasted programmes for housewives.
Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, the legendary Courier from Warsaw, was the founder and first head of Radio Free Europe's Polish section in Munich. He headed the radio for almost 25 years, until 1975. In 1943, Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, a professional diplomat and scholar, volunteered for the Home Army as an emissary between the Home Army and the Polish Government in Exile. In the same year, he set out on a mission to London, where he met with Polish and British government officials,including, in 1944, Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Hailed as one of the Warsaw Uprising's heroes for providing the British with plans of a revolt against the occupying forces, he was sceptical whether the West would provide Warsaw with the help it had been expecting.
"Before I left for London, I realised that the underground command were out of touch with reality. They believed that (…) the whole world revolved around Poland, that Brits had their eyes fixed on our country. BBC broadcasted a disproportionate amount of information from Poland and about Poland, so they thought it was also the line of the British government," he told Andrzej Wajda 60 years later. The Polish director, in cooperation with Andrzej Kotkowski, made a documentary titled Jan Nowak-Jeziorański. Courier from Warsaw. Sixty years later (1944-2004).
Jan Nowak-Jeziorański would reproach himself for the rest of his life, although he was the last envoy to reach the Polish capital before the uprising, and the one who brought hundreds of documents and photos to London, on orders given by Home Army General Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski on the eve of the Polish surrender. He was also the first to tell the West the truth about the Warsaw Uprising after reaching London through Germany and Switzerland. "I spoke about the ominous silence that had fallen on the other side of the Vistula River on the fourth day of the uprising," he recalled after many years.
But Jan Nowak-Jeziorański did even more for Poland as head of Radio Free Europe. He played a key role in Poland's accession to the EU and NATO, which he called a dream come true.
In 1994, he was decorated with the Order of the White Eagle. He was also awarded the highest civilian distinction of the United States―the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He was made a doctor honoris causa of the University of Wroclaw, the Jagiellonian University, Poznan's Adam Mickiewicz University, and the University of Warsaw, and an honorary citizen of several Polish cities.
In 2002, he returned to Warsaw, where he died on 20 January 2005. A Jan Nowak-Jeziorański's bench stands in front of the building where he lived after his return to Poland, at 178a Czerniakowska Street. It is worthwhile taking a seat, especially this 2 October, on what would have been the 100th birthday of the Courier of Warsaw.


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In hip fashion circles throughout the Twin Cities, "used" is increasingly the new "new."
Twenty years ago, thrift stores were nothing more than glorified garage sales, with worn-out clothes and icky shoes strewn from corner to corner. But the Great Recession and its frugal influence may have changed shopping habits for good, and now resale shops are adding stores, offering more merchandise and launching new concepts to expand the customer base.
An exploding trend among resale retailers is the so-called "pound program," where bargain hunters can grab a bundle of merchandise, have it weighed and pay a set price. The concept has been so popular that the Salvation Army just switched half of its flagship Minneapolis store on N. 4th Street to a by-the-pound program that moves goods in and out weeks faster than before. Clothes, shoes and handbags sell for $1.49 per pound, while toys, kitchenware and tools go for $1.29 per pound.
"We want goods, especially clothing, to flow out the door quickly. If you let them sit too long, you have quality control issues," said Tom Canfield, district manager for Twin Cities area Salvation Army stores.
In the by-the-pound program, men's, women's and kids' clothes unsold after three weeks are gathered from 12 stores and sent to the Minneapolis warehouse. There they are divided into large containers and dumped onto tables every 15 minutes, where extreme bargain hunters quickly sort through each new load. The Salvation Army has more than 25,000 pounds of goods waiting to be sold in the pound program, Canfield said. Although consumers pay less than $1.50 per pound, it's still more profitable for a charity than selling it as surplus to operators overseas.
Customers can expect to see fresh merchandise every time they shop, Canfield said, not schlocky merchandise that is marked down.
Last weekend's grand opening exceeded sales expectations. "We thought we'd sell 10 percent of everything that we put out, and we ended up selling 40 percent of it," Canfield said.
It's a concept that has worked well in thrift shops on the East and West Coasts, but it has also seen success here in Minnesota. For instance, Goodwill-Easter Seals Minnesota has operated a by-the-pound program at its outlet on University Avenue in St. Paul for nearly 20 years. Many customers have low incomes, but in the new economy, they're bumping elbows with consignment shop owners, eBay sellers and extreme bargain hunters.
"Every week we see 20 people who own consignment shops, buyers from Africa, Honduras and Mexico, and bargain hunters who would rather pay a buck than $5 for jeans," said Nick Calo, customer service supervisor at the Goodwill outlet.
Jose Gonsalez of Minneapolis has shopped there for five years, buying clothes and shoes that he ships to a supplier in Mexico. "I pay about $3 per bag for the clothes, $2 to ship it and sell it for about $6, so I make a dollar a bag," he said.
Gonsalez and others are looking forward to having another by-the-pound store in the Twin Cities. And they're about to get a third. Along with the Salvation Army's store, Goodwill plans to move and expand its by-the-pound outlet into the existing store location at 553 Fairview Av. N. in St. Paul in spring 2015. Then it will open a second by-the-pound location in Brooklyn Park by winter 2015.
A nationwide trend
Nationally, the number of used-goods stores has grown 7 percent each year since 2010, making it a $13 billion industry in 2012, according to the National Association of Resale and Thrift Shops. Locally, thrift stores are reporting record sales. Thrifts such as Steeple People and Assistance League, Goodwill, Salvation Army and Arc's Value Village have reported healthy sales gains of 3 to 20 percent annually in the past several years.
Along with by-the-pound stores, resale shops are launching other new concepts or just growing in general.
For instance, Goodwill will also add a new store called Gina + Will, which will sell casual and trendy clothing shoes and accessories for young men and women. The store will debut in late August in Minneapolis' Venue complex in Dinkytown. The nonprofit also will open new full-line stores in Savage and Alexandria in the fall, bringing the total in Minnesota to 39.
The Salvation Army is planning to open a new store or two each year, Canfield said. His district will open a 12th store in the Twin Cities in the fall, at a location yet to be announced.
Arc's Value Village, which has four locations, has no plans to add a by-the-pound store. Business director Laurel Hansen said customers don't want to dig for merchandise. "Our customers are clamoring for more personal shopping attention. That's why we added personal shoppers in 2012," she said. "Customers buy more when they use them."
Arc is also in a solid growth period. It doubled the size of its New Hope store in 2013, and May sales at that location were up 50 percent over last year. "Haute Spot" sections have been added in each store with the best designer brands based on consumers' insatiable appetite for premium labels. Arc's also has plans to open a fifth store later this year at a to-be-announced location and a Village on the Go mobile thrift truck, which will be parked at festivals and community events throughout the summer.
"Historically, people have had low expectations for thrift stores. We want to give them options and keep raising the bar," Hansen said.
With sustained growth each year and a hip quotient solidified in Macklemore's "Thrift Shop" song, resale continues to surge. "There's been a broad shift in the attitude of customers," said Jason Seifert, chief financial and operations officer of Goodwill-Easter Seals Minnesota. "Whether they're looking to be green by keeping stuff out of the landfill or just looking for a bargain, it all works for us."


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DALLAS ~ Last week, Farmers Branch Sustainability Manager Katy Evans (left) shared the stage with local restauranteur and philanthropist Shannon Wynne, leading a discussion about his journey to becoming an environmental activist.
The event took place in conjunction with a young professionals group associated with EarthX, where Ms. Evans also serves on the Board of Directors, staying on the forefront of sustainability issues.
Mr. Wynne, whose family famously founded Six Flags Over Texas, recently commissioned a short film about invasive plants in Caddo Lake, "There's Something in the Water."


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Half Way Rocks
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Half way rocks is so called because it is part way between Vase Rock and Maen Voes. It is the most dramatic of all the pinnacles on the Manacles with one side being almost vertical, from 12m to 37m. It is quite often confused with PenWyn although it is around 50m away. The top of the rock is around 12m, with the sea bed as far away as 37m. Covered in anemones and corals, it is also often described as an underwater garden. One of the U.K's best reefs. read more →


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Not sure what the ramifications are as of yet, but AVG have just given me a warning about two trojan horse virus' on my laptop.
I have a saved hijack this log file on request. Really hope someone can help,
Thanks in advance.
AVG is crap, to be honest. I would look into Avast!, or even Kaspersky if you have enough system resources for it. As for the trojan, I would try running Trojan Remover here and see if that helps: http://www.simplysup.com/
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Sorry mate not to be cheeky, are you one of the guys who help on this site, wasn't sure whether or not it was safe to click on the link etc, plus im used to someone asking for the hijack log first to help?
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Baby gulps down several ounces of amniotic fluid every day, both for hydration and nutrition and to practice swallowing and digesting. And, these days, those taste buds actually work! Studies show that after birth, babies are most interested in tastes they've already experienced through amniotic fluid. Meaning, think about what you want your future child to eat as you prepare your own lunch.
His skin has changed from being translucent to opaque as the skin cells grow and stretch in preparation for the fat deposits, which will soon form under baby's skin. If your baby is a girl, her womb and vagina are formed. She will have 6 million eggs in her ovaries decreasing down to one million, before she is even out of her own mother's womb.
Your baby's tongue is now fully formed and he is strengthening his muscles with movement. His bones are hardening nicely and his movements are much more coordinated now. He may be doing some gymnastics inside you at this very minute. Back flips and somersaults are entirely possible, and they are great practice for his leg and arm muscles.
Swallowing is becoming a steady activity with baby. After he takes in amniotic fluid, his body absorbs the water in the liquid, with the waste moving on into his large bowel. The digestive system is already at work!
As your baby grows, his wake and sleep cycles begin to form. Your activity level and eating patterns are normally what rules his, as he can now hear all that goes on around him. And when you eat and drink, he eats and drinks. It is now that you start to find out if you have a night owl or an early bird.
not baby O; just so you can see it really is a REAL baby in there :)
During my ultrasound last week they estimated baby O at 14 oz; heartrate was 156. To read more about that appointment and see pics, go HERE. I actually have another appointment next Tuesday and will have another ultrasound in about 3 weeks.


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South Korean President Park Geun-Hye held talks with External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid here on Thursday, to bolster bilateral ties.
President Park Geun-hye arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday for an official four-day visit that would conclude on January 18.
South Korea's first woman President would hold delegation level talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and discuss bilateral, regional and global issues.
The daughter of former president Park Chung-hee, who ruled South Korea for almost two decades, Park took over as president in February last year.
The visit will expand and strengthen the India-Republic of Korea Strategic Partnership.
President Park Geun-hye has been accompanied by a high-level delegation which includes the Foreign Minister, the Minister for Science, ICT and Future Planning, and the Minister for Trade and Industry.


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In response to an increasing demand for new capacity on highways, many states are exploring Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in state highway development. PPPs allow public agencies to access private project financing and specialized expertise, often resulting in saved public investment, expedited project completion, and improved service quality and diversity. However, the confusion and controversy surrounding recent concession cases in the United States has led to widespread public concern and legislative caution on the question of whether a PPP project is advancing the public interest.
In this seminar, Jerry Zhao will report on a study of public interest associated with PPPs in terms of both outcome and procedure. For each PPP option, the study analyzed public benefits, associated risks, and possible approaches to mitigate these risks. Research also included an archive study to examine related public concerns and discuss potential strategies to address these concerns at different stages of PPP decisions.
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Jerry Zhao is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs. His research focuses on local and nonprofit financial issues, including the mechanisms used by local governments and nonprofit agencies to generate sufficient revenues, how the financial structure of public or nonprofit organizations affects the pattern and effectiveness of public service delivery, and how public and nonprofit organizations interact in budgetary and service decision making.


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