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1Password works. However, I was interested in transferring info in one vault to another. At one point, it asked for my A.Key. You sent it to me. It does not work - 6 times!!! Thanks, Isabel
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@Ibblet 1Password does not use a licence key: you need a licence file. If you bought your copy of 1P4, 1P5 or 1P6 from the AgileBits store (as opposed to from the Mac App Store) you should have received a licence file—which will licence all of those versions. 1Password 3 used a licence key but the upgrade from that version to any later one was paid, not free.
If you did buy the upgrade from 1Password 3 it's possible you may have used some other email address when you purchased that—or perhaps you used the same one and the AgileBits' site is sending you the 1P3 key instead of the later licence file. Does any of that make sense in the context of what you've done?
Then beginning! I found that my iPad and iPod logins were 'losing' entries. I added an additional 'Vault' in the hope that my original entries would show up. That failed. And, to make matters worse, my entries were now split between two vaults. Every 'sync' failed. I cannot remember why I was trying to get my 'Activation Key', but I did need it to sign in. Apparently, in my tired mind, the 'Team' idea seemed to be the best idea. So, now I have a Team and I still cannot get all my entries into my Primary vault! My ultimate goal is to have one vault with all my entries! I look forward to your help. Thanks,
Hi Isabel,
I'm really sorry that this has been as frustrating as it has been. Let's get this sorted out for you.
When you say that your entries are split between two vaults... do you mean two vaults on your Mac? Or on two Macs? Or maybe on a Mac and an iOS device?
While I love 1Password for Teams, and it's by far the easiest sync solution to setup, I'm not sure that it's going to help you in this case. Let's first focus on getting you setup without Teams, then once that's done we can consider the benefits of Teams... right now it'd be a bit of an apples/oranges discussion.
It sounds like you've got 3 devices, is that right? A Mac, an iPad and an iPod Touch (or iPhone?). Are they all running 1Password 5 or 6?
Assuming I understand your devices correctly, and your desire to just have a single vault that's synced everywhere, your best bet will be to use iCloud to sync. It's the simplest, and it works great. Let's take this one step at a time:
Let's make sure that we're starting from a known state. i.e. that none of the devices are syncing, so that we can best set things up again. On the Mac this should be done by going to Preferences > Sync, selecting the Primary vault, and making sure that its sync is set to None.
On your iOS devices, go to Settings > Sync > Primary, and make sure it's not set to sync to anything.
In the event that there's any data in iCloud already, let's just get it out of the way. This will not affect any information on any of your devices, it will only erase data that's sitting on Apple's servers. The easiest way to do this is to use an iOS device, in 1Password, go to Settings > Advanced > Erase iCloud Data (it's at the bottom).
Now that all devices are disconnected, and we know that iCloud is clear, we can set things up again.
On the Mac, go to Preferences > Sync, choose the Primary vault, and indicate that you'd like to sync via iCloud. If you're using the AgileBits store version of the app, it'll then ask you to sign in to iCloud using your AppleID. Once that's done, your Mac should be setup.
On each iOS device, go to Settings > Sync > Primary > Start Syncing > Sync with iCloud. It may ask you for the vault password on iCloud, which would be your Mac's Master Password. Then it may show you a scary looking dialog about the vaults being different. You'll want to tap the More Info button, and then the Merge button to merge the vaults.
I apologize for the scary dialog. In your specific case it really shouldn't be scary, but it's really difficult for us to distinguish between a user that purposefully wants to merge two vaults and a user that's doing so accidentally.
At this point your devices should all be setup to sync to iCloud. Doing a change on one should show up momentarily on all other devices.
I hope that this has helped. If you've gotten this far and would still like to hear about Teams, we'd love to talk your ear off about it.


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Some of the earliest work ever recorded by Elis Regina – issued here on a set that brings together her first two albums in one package! The sound here is quite different than the Elis Regina sound of the 70s – a lot brighter and more youthful, without as many of the somber overtones – yet still with an undeniable charm and a sense of joy that's really amazing! Even at this young age, Elis is a tremendous interpreter of tunes – and the titles mix together bossa and pop arrangements, hitting a style that's far lighter than some of the mainstream Brazilian divas of the period. Backings are by the orchestras of Severino Filho, Renato De Oliveira, Severino Araujo, and Guerra Peixe – and the CD features 22 titles that include "Tu Seras", "Da Sorte", "Dor De Cotovelo", "Amor Amor", "Poema", "Pororo-Popo", "Confissao", "Podes Voltar", "Vou Comprar Um Coracao", and "Las Secretarias". © 1996-2020, Dusty Groove, Inc.
We realize that there are many different interpretations of the standard grades used for pre-owned vinyl record albums & CD, so we thought we'd offer you the ones that we are working with, so you have an idea what we mean when we give the grade for a non-new item on our pages.
Below are stated conditions for a used vinyl records at Dusty Groove. Grading for the cover should be assumed to be near (within a "+" or "-") the grading for the vinyl. If there is significant divergence from the condition of the vinyl, or specific flaws, these will be noted in the comments section of the item. However, please be aware that since the emphasis of this site is towards the music listener, our main concern is with the vinyl of any used item we sell. Additionally, all of our records are graded visually; considering the volume of used vinyl we handle, it is impossible for us to listen to each record. If we spot any significant flaws, we make every attempt to listen through them and note how they play.
The following grading conditions apply to the vinyl component of an album or single:
This is what it says, that the record is still held fast in shrink-wrap. We tend to be pretty suspicious about these things, so if the shrink-wrap doesn't look original, or if the record seems to have undergone some damage over time, we'll probably take it out of the wrapper to ensure that it's in good shape — which is why we don't have more of these. In some cases the shrink-wrap may be torn in spots, but if it's not possible the record has been taken out and played, the record will still qualify as "Sealed".
Dusty Groove does not use the grades of Near Mint (or Mint, for that matter) because in our experience, we find that no records ever qualify for such a high grade. Even sealed records tend to have one or two slight faults, enough to usually qualify them for a grade of NM- or lower. We've often found that records which are clearly unplayed will have a slight amount of surface noise, especially in quieter recordings.
This is a grade we rarely use, as we try not to sell records in very bad condition, though in some rare cases we will list a record in such bad shape that it does not conform to the standards above. A "Fair" record will have enough marks or significant flaws that it does not even qualify as "Good", but is a copy you might consider for playing, if you're willing to put up with noise and/or flaws. An example might be a recording with surface noise so heavy that it is equal to the volume of the music. For records listed as "Fair", we will describe the extent of the condition in the comments.
Like "Fair", we rarely list records in this condition, as they represent the extreme low end of spectrum. These records typically have multiple serious problems, and we offer them as "relics" or "objects" only — for those who want to at least have a copy of a record, even if it is not really worthy of play, perhaps for the cover alone. For these records, we will describe the extent of the condition in the comments.
If something is noteworthy, we try to note it in the comments — especially if it is an oddity that is the only wrong thing about the record. This might include, but isn't limited to, warped records, tracks that skip, cover damage or wear as noted above, or strictly cosmetic flaws.
We have only one grade for non-new CDs at Dusty Groove — "Used CD". This grade is somewhat all-encompassing, but we choose it because we try to offer Used CDs in the best shape possible.
When you purchase a Used CD you can expect the disc to be free of all but the lightest of surface marks, the case to be clean (we often change the cases ourselves), and the booklet to be in good shape. Used CDs may show some signs of use but if there are significant details or defects we will list them underneath the item — just like we do with LPs — so look there for notes on cutout marks, stickers, promo stamps or other details.
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We are thrilled to appoint John Sloan as our new Trails and Landowner Relations Director. John comes with an excellent background. He has been a member of the Ganaraska Hiking Trail Association since 2011 and is President of the GHTA Barrie Club. He is a member of the Bruce Trail Conservancy and Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies (where he holds the volunteer positions of Chief Hike Leader and Ambassador). He has completed the Hike Ontario "Certified Hike Leader" course and Red Cross "Wilderness First Aid" training. John and his wife Susan have lived in Oro-Medonte since late 2015.
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European leaders were treated to a demonstration of the Flyboard Air, a gas turbine-powered jetpack/hoverboard/flying platform.
I don't think that we're going to see a "true" hoverboard that can work on any surface anytime soon, but the new and improved Hendo Hoverboard..... looks pretty damn fun.
Students don't like that safety concerns are causing hoverboards to get banned on campus. They actually want to risk being set on fire. Y'know, for fun.
One unlucky Brit flew back in time six years after a run in with one of the two-wheeled contraptions.
A British vlogger in Indonesia was excited to try out his brand new hoverboard when he got a nasty surprise this week. And naturally it was all caught on tape. See more >>
The Christmas Eve stunt got the hoverboarding father in hot water.
Not a hoverboard, a Segway clone thing. Let us know when the world has decided on what to call them.
We expected better of you, The Irish News
Science fiction becoming science fact.
Where we're going, we don't need roads. But you will need some kneepads and a crash helmet.
Remember the official Back to the Future hoverboard replica? It was expensive, so someone's gone ahead and released a cheaper one. Read More >>
We've had this technology the whole time! The. Whole. Time.
After years of waiting, the world finally has a working hoverboard. We found it hard to ride but here, skateboard legend and video-game magnate Tony Hawk shows us how it's done.
The hoverboard is real: it may be unwieldy, heavy, incredibly loud and made from mere plywood – but Arx Pax's Hendo hoverboard is pretty incredible to ride.
US startup Arx Pax reckons it will be shipping hoverboards to the populous by next October, which means we're reassuringly on-schedule with our science-fiction technology needs – seeing as Hill Valley residents had them by 2015.


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6 Guardhouse Alternatives & Similar Software for Android
1. Officer Assist
Officer Assist is a simple yet powerful dispatch and guard tour system that enable security guards to gather all the incident details and photos while being tracked with GPS and RFID technology feature. In addition, to complete guard management and guard tracing technology, Officer Assist also incorporates automated periodic activity reporting that provides users with viability and real-time insist into the guard activity. The most interesting thing about this solution is that it comes with a set of guard management tools that enable users to track employee working hours, attendance, performance metrics, and all the other similar things. GPS guard tracking, RIFD NFC tag scanning, and strategic location checkpoints enable users to track guard location at all times. Through this users can get automatically daily reports and performance metrics provide users with real-time insight into the business operations and guard performance. The client can easily access status reports as well as historical activity reports through its web portal. With its web-based system officer can easily access and track information anytime anywhere from all devices. GIS visualization, time and attendance monitoring, real-time citations, custom portal, location tracking, real-time information, and complete shift management these are core features of the solution. Do try it out, you'll be amazed at all the things in this comprehensive platforms.
2. Maintenance Pro Web
Maintenance Pro Web is a web-based maintenance management software solution that offers tools for asset management work order creation, maintenance and assignment as well as purchase order management, fuel tracking, and reporting, etc. It also enables you to track and manage asset and equipment using its range of characteristics including module, serial number, category, and location, etc. with the aim of speeding up the location of equipment. There is also has a scheduling solution that required data interval between task or by mater such as hours and miles. With this, you can generate and assign work orders for repair preventative maintenance tasks with technicians automatically alerted by email if they are assigned work order. Maintenance Pro Web automatically generate history report when work orders are closed, and maintenance is recorded that enable users to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of continued repairs on equipment easily. It is a feature-rich solution and offers all the core features that manage your overall tasks. Maintenance Pro Web core feature includes parts usage tracking, automatic notifications, work orders, inventory tracking, asset management, history tracking, cost tracking and repair request, etc. Overall, Maintenance Pro Web is one of the best cloud-based maintenance management solution as compared to the others.
3. Silvertrac
Silvertrac is a real-time security incident reporting and guard management solution that helps security organizations to monitor and respond to issues and events efficiently. The solution is specially designed for security providing companies and in-house operations of all sizes that are looking to streamline internet operations and ensure immediate, on-site accountability. It allows security and guard officers in the field to report incidents, receive tasks, get alerts and scan checkpoints via smartphone. Administrators, Dispatchers, and Supervisors can review reports in real-time with its issue monitor to proactively resolve all the issues as they happen. Silvertrac provides special tools for parking management and guard that lets users register vehicle, sell parking and manage all the other similar tasks. It is quite simple and easy to use, no need to learn any IT skills. Its step-by-step guide teaches you everything. Silvertrac core features include sales reports, schedule reports, reporting and statistics, menu generator, collaboration, data source connectors, asset tracking, ticketing, ad hoc reporting, and payment processing, etc. Silvertrac is a premium solution and has different price plans; each plan has its own cost and core benefits.
4. SiteDocs
SiteDocs is a complete workplace safety management software solution for businesses of all sizes. The software enables businesses to manage effectively, control, maintain and improve their workflow safety programs via mobile and web applications. The software helps businesses to go paperless by allow them to access and organize their safety documentation, manuals, and certifications both online and offline. With the help of this solution, users can easily monitor in real-time whether safely documentation is being filled out and immediately respond to incidents as they happen. With accountability on supervisor and sub-trades, safety standards can be maintained company-wide. SiteDocs helps companies to improve their safety culture and move workers away from the mentality, and workplace safety is a nuisance. There is also a digital forms feature that allows users to sign the document, add images and checkboxes in just a single click. With the support of voice dictation technology, the employee can complete forms by simply speaking to the solution. SiteDocs also has a range of core features that make it better than others. Do try it, if you need a complete security workflow management solution.
5. TrackTik
TrackTik is a cloud-based security workflow management solution that combines a variety of tools for managing security operations and all the back office tasks. The software comes as the alternative to Solink and offers all the core features with some new tools. It's guarding suite includes a live dashboard, client portal, guard tracking, reporting, trends and analytics and guarding toolbox, etc. The dashboard enables users to easily track all operations in real-time with activity feed of clock-ins and clock-outs checkpoint scans, reports and native mobile users in addition to GPS tracking and live metrics of exceptions. Guard locations can be tracked and checked with out-of-zone notifications provided to users in real-time via SMS and email. TrackTik's client portal provides the client with secure access to site information, custom incident, analytic reports, report history, recorded video documentation and site activity. Just like most of the workflow management solution, it also has a scheduling and attendance feature that allows you to easily schedule guard with defined roles, customize recurring shift templates and matching processes. There is also has a list of core features that make it a complete solution for all size of businesses.
6. Solink
Solink is the most leading prevention and security solution that connects video recording and POS data in order to generate system insights and risk alerts. It is a cloud-based solution and comes with the aims to transform a conventional surveillance system by integrating with real-time sales data to deliver additional visibility into every transaction across several locations. The software cans stream video of an unlimited number of locations so that they can be easily monitored remotely and on any device such as iOS and Android using its native mobile applications. In order to help business to help businesses keep track of all the major events and identify any outliers, Solink enables users to assign red flags to particular moments in video footage and transactions that seem unusual. With the help of this tool, management can easily track employee behavior including staff discounts, cancelations, voids and more. Unlike most of the similar software, it also has a simple dashboard where you can easily manage its services and access it all features. Core feature includes local server option, encryption, analytics, video looping rapid creation, audit trail, risk alert, real-time reporting, POS and much more. Solink is really a feature-rich security solution as compared to the others.
More About Guardhouse
Guardhouse is an end-to-end feature-rich workflow management system designed for security companies that allows smarter guard scheduling, error-free invoicing, GPS tracking and open communication between the office and field. The solution helps to ensure coverage and client satisfaction by optimizing workloads through its enhanced planning and shift reallocation with accurate timekeeping and rate data. With the help of this tool, the user can easily manage and monitor compliance with clearer visibility on current accreditations and compliance licenses, etc. Guardhouse is a feature-rich solution and offers all the core features and tools that manage all the major workflow management tasks. The software provides an operational and back-office suite that brings all manpower tasks onto one platform, from guard tracking and scheduling to integrated payroll and invoicing. Its scheduling tool allows users to create client customized schedules with defined roles and requirement from any internet connected device. It delivers users with quick access to information on who is working where at what time and which site. The custom portal offers a live view of the roster and displays staff licenses and renewals in order to ensure guards are ready to meet each client's need. Guardhouse also has a set of core features that make it more powerful. It has different price plans; each plan has its own cost and core benefits.


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- Well, at least he cleaned up Wall Street; so runs one common valedictory to Spitzer, but Prof. Bainbridge begs to differ (Mar. 13)(and see links at my Point of Law roundup last week).
- "Should Spitzer really go to jail because of the way he took his own cash out of the bank?" asks Larry Ribstein (Mar. 11). And indeed bank "Know Your Customer" regulations, of which I've been critical for a good long time, might now come in for much needed scrutiny (Jack Balkin, Balkinization, Mar. 13; see also). One public figure who likewise faced the prospect of a "money laundering" indictment when personal weaknesses led him into surreptitious payments was ideological antipode Rush Limbaugh, Megan McArdle reminds us (Nov. 24, 2003).
- Last week's New York Times article laying out Spitzer's big crusade against the sex trade, and his successful push for a law lengthening sentences for "johns", was powerful enough on its own terms. But isn't it curious that the Times exclusively and at length quoted the feminist and legal-services groups who worked as Spitzer's allies in that crusade, while not quoting a single source critical of the harsher penalties? Stephen Chapman has one corrective view [syndicated/Chicago Tribune, Mar. 13].
- Toronto law blogger Garry Wise says that unless Spitzer was diverting public moneys his fall constitutes "just another political lynching by the Monica brigade", a sentiment I find sufficiently wrong-headed that I'm provoked to jump in with a comment [Wise Law Blog]. P.S. Wise says he was referring not to the governor's downfall, but to his potential overcharging.
- How'd the press find out that "Client #9" was the governor of New York? All signs point to a prosecution leak — the sort of underhanded tactic that should be left to the likes of, well, the departing governor himself [Frum, National Post]. Plus: Don't assume that all the ill-advised leaks came from the prosecution side [Beldar]
- Should "Kristen" sue AP and other press outlets for swiping her MySpace pics, she might prove formidable in court: "It's not often you get a case where there's someone in the room with a higher hourly rate than the lawyers." [Steyn @ NRO "Corner"].
- One reader said he had to check Overlawyered to see whether a certain story was true or a parody, so please rest assured: it's only a parody (Jason Roth, "Spitzer Sues Prostitute Over Sex Addiction", Save the Humans, Mar. 11).
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MSMBS ran a special on the rise and fall of Eliot Spitzer this weekend. It was funny because it was about 10 minutes of coverage on the scandal and 45 minutes about sexual slavery in the world and U.S. He must have pissed someone off there for them to run that kind of association hit job that quick.
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Dave (paraphrasing): Officially he was known as Client 9, but the girls knew him as Client Four and a Half.


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Audrey is so girly. (which I LOVE) She always has to have her jewelry on!
Sitting outside today watching her play, I had one of those mommy moments. The kind where you feel like your life is flashing before your eyes. I just wanted to capture the simplicity of her fun today and try not to forget how much fun I had watching her. :) Thank you God for allowing me the privilege to stay home with Audrey.


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Dairy, Soya, Wheat and Gluten free, no corn and could be egg free with egg replacer or alternative substitute.
This is really easy to make and tastes delicious. I substituted the figs and prunes for chopped dried apricots, the sultanas for raisins as a variation today.
150ml hot black tea made with two tea bags
200g (7oz) sultanas
75g (3oz) ready-to-eat dried figs, chopped
75g (3oz) ready-to-eat prunes, chopped
125g (4oz) muscovado sugar (does work with other sugar but the taste is best with this)
2 medium eggs, beaten (would be great with banana and a little egg replacer)
225g (8oz) gluten free flour (I have used Juvela harvest mix for this too as well as Dove's Farm)
2tsp gluten free baking powder
2tsp mixed spice
Pour the tea into a bowl and add the dried fruit. Soak for 30 minutes
Preheat the oven to 180C and oil a 2lb loaf tin (or use a tin liner as I did!)
Beat the sugar and eggs together until pale and slightly thickened.
Add the flour, baking powder, spice and soaked fruit and tea then mix together well.
Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and level the surface.
Bake on the middle shelf for 45-60 minutes (mine took 50!) Check it's ready by inserting a skewer or thin knife and if it comes out clean, it's cooked through. Leave to cook.
Delicious sliced and served with Pure Sunflower Marge!
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The MoneyMaker Max (MMM) is a unique, high-quality, human powered treadle irrigation pump, designed by KickStart International in 2011 and launched in 2012. With the look of a modified Stairmaster, the easy operation and high flow rate of the MMM allows farmers to irrigate up to 2 acres of land per day. It is a lower-cost and more cost-effective solution than motorized irrigation pumps which are hard to fuel, maintain and repair in rural Africa and have a lot of recurring costs.
The MMM weighs just 16kgs, pulls water from depths of up to 7 meters, pushes it to the field through a pressurized hosepipe and produces a maximum pumping head of 16 meters. This enables the MMM to push water up a hill, power sprinklers and be used with a hand-held nozzle to efficiently deliver the water directly to the crops.
The MMM is an improved version of KickStart's best selling Super-MoneyMaker (SMM) treadle pump. It is more durable, 22% lighter weight, more rust resistant and substantially easier to operate. And like the SMM; farmers can easily transport it to and from their farm, it uses no fuel, and its user-centric design makes it easy to operate using the natural movements of the body in a Stairmaster like motion.


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Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Campus Center Auditorium (lower level)
Relevant Majors:
CHE, MIE and all students inerested in Life Sciences
Representatives from several large pharmaceutical and life sciences companies will be on campus recruiting UMass students for a variety of positions.
Students of all majors and all years are encouraged to attend although companies will be focused mainly on those with a life science major/background. Companies will be here to hire both full-time job opportunities as well as summer co-ops and internships.
Check out the two links to see which companies are attending. The "more info" link has company descriptions.
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Jordan has been a roll with their releases this month. The latest model that I have eyes on is the Air Jordan Retro 12 "Dark Grey". The colorway is too cold!
The dark grey suede surrounding the upper layer takes theses Retro 12s to the next level. Me personally, I would only wear these on special occasions but that doesn't mean you have to!
The Air Jordan Retro 12 "Dark Grey" is set to drop on Saturday, November 18th. These will be priced at $190 and will available at 10:00 AM!
If you haven't, hurry up and download Nikes official SNKRS app. This has saved me so many headaches of trying to find a pair in the store. The app notifies you that the sneaker is released and then you can just purchase it with ease. I never had any issues with this app I highly recommend it to all the sneakerheads out there. This is a game changer!
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Survey: Americans don't know much about religion
A new survey of Americans' knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths.
Forty-five percent of Roman Catholics who participated in the study didn't know that, according to church teaching, the bread and wine used in Holy Communion is not just a symbol, but becomes the body and blood of Christ.
More than half of Protestants could not identify Martin Luther as the person who inspired the Protestant Reformation. And about four in 10 Jews did not know that Maimonides, one of the greatest rabbis and intellectuals in history, was Jewish.
The survey released Tuesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life aimed to test a broad range of religious knowledge, including understanding of the Bible, core teachings of different faiths and major figures in religious history. The U.S. is one of the most religious countries in the developed world, especially compared to largely secular Western Europe, but faith leaders and educators have long lamented that Americans still know relatively little about religion.
Respondents to the survey were asked 32 questions with a range of difficulty, including whether they could name the Islamic holy book and the first book of the Bible, or say what century the Mormon religion was founded. On average, participants in the survey answered correctly overall for half of the survey questions.
Atheists and agnostics scored highest, with an average of 21 correct answers, while Jews and Mormons followed with about 20 accurate responses. Protestants overall averaged 16 correct answers, while Catholics followed with a score of about 15.
Acupuncture Not Effective in Stroke Recovery, Study Finds
Acupuncture does not appear to aid in stroke recovery, according to a new study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
Acupuncture is often used to supplement traditional stroke rehabilitation, although its effectiveness is uncertain. It is necessary to have evidence of effectiveness from rigorous randomized clinical trials to recommend routine therapeutic use.
This study, perhaps the most comprehensive to date as it includes trials published in English language and Asian journals, was a systematic review conducted by researchers in South Korea and the United Kingdom. They included 10 studies (out of a potential 664) with a total of 711 patients who had had strokes.
"Few randomized, sham-controlled trials have tested the effectiveness of acupuncture during stroke rehabilitation," writes Dr. Edzard Ernst, Peninsula Medical School, Exeter, England with coauthors. "The majority of the existing studies do not suggest that acupuncture is effective." They note that the only two studies showing positive effect were highly biased and had poor reporting which made them less reliable that the others included.
The authors conclude that "the evidence from rigorous studies testing the effectiveness of acupuncture during stroke rehabilitation is negative."
Read the full study for yourself
Interpretation: Our meta-analyses of data from rigorous randomized sham-controlled trials did not show a positive effect of acupuncture as a treatment for functional recovery after stroke.
Aspartame – Truth vs Fiction
If you believe everything you read on the internet, then is seems that a chemical found in thousands of products is causing an epidemic of severe neurological and systemic diseases, like multiple sclerosis and lupus. The FDA, the companies that make the product, and the "medical industrial complex" all know about the dangers of this chemical but are hiding the truth from the public in order to protect corporate profits and avoid the pesky paper work that would accompany the truth being revealed. The only glimmer of hope is a dedicated band of bloggers and anonymous e-mail chain letter authors who aren't afraid to speak the truth. Armed with the latest anecdotal evidence, unverified speculation, and scientifically implausible claims, they have been tirelessly ranting about the evils of this chemical for years. Undeterred by the countless published studies manufactured by the food cartel that show this chemical is safe, they continue to protect the public by spreading baseless fear and hysteria.
Hopefully, you don't believe everything you read on the internet, and you don't get your science news from e-mail SPAM, where the above scenario is a common theme. While there are many manifestations of this type of urban legend, I am speaking specifically about aspartame – an artificial sweetener used since the early 1980s. The notion that aspartame is unsafe has been circulating almost since it first appeared, and like rumors and misinformation have a tendency to do, fears surrounding aspartame have taken on a life of their own.
I am frequently asked my opinion about the safety of aspartame. Nutritionists often council to avoid the sweetener, citing unverified claims that it is unsafe. I was recently sent a chain letter warning that aspartame causes MS (which of course can be cured by simply avoiding aspartame), and Snopes informs me that this particular letter first appeared in 1998.
There are also hundreds of websites dedicated to smearing this much abused food additive. One site, run by Dr. Janet Starr Hull (she has a doctorate in Nutrition), responds to the latest report of aspartame's safety by writing:
I will never accept the news of aspartame safety. I think it is a "business" decision to discredit/discount the research results that aspartame DOES cause cancer, major nerve disorders, birth defects, and brain imbalances. Think about it – can you imagine the chaos that will occur when the truth of aspartame dangers is accredited. The FDA has known about the dangers, the corporations have known about the dangers, and the medical community (if it is really worth anything) has known about the dangers.
The statement that "nothing will ever convince me" is a huge red flag that someone is defending an ideological position, one immune to evidence or reason. Admittedly, in context it could be a clumsy statement that something is very unlikely. It would be very difficult to convince me that the earth is flat – I'm really saying that the existence evidence is overwhelming that the earth is not flat. But that is not what Dr. Hull is saying. She is specifically saying that she will dismiss any evidence that is contrary to her belief that aspartame is not safe on the a-priori basis that such disconfirming evidence is part of a vast conspiracy.
Of course, Dr. Hull also sells an aspartame detox kit, which might lead a cynical person to conclude that she cares more about selling alternative health products and stoking her sales with some unreasonable fear than about scientific evidence.
What evidence does she have for such a conspiracy? The argument from final consequences logical fallacy – big industry wouldn't want it. It's also not very plausible. Products get pulled from the market all the time when new evidence suggests they are not safe. Also, the final safety net for the consumer is legal liability. Class action law suits have bankrupted companies, even when the underlying claims were false. Imagine if they were true. Look how much the tobacco industry has had to fork over.
Now I am not arguing that corporations are all good corporate citizens or wouldn't dream of sweeping some inconvenient evidence under the carpet. But I am saying that a decades long conspiracy among industry, federal regulatory agencies, the medical community, and multiple research institutions and individual researchers – all under the nose of the press and lawyers looking for big class-action suits – is implausible in the extreme. I am also arguing that we should fairly assess all the evidence, not just cherry pick the evidence we like and dismiss the rest out of hand.
What does the evidence say about aspartame? A recent published review of all available evidence, including hundreds of studies, concluded:
The studies provide no evidence to support an association between aspartame and cancer in any tissue. The weight of existing evidence is that aspartame is safe at current levels of consumption as a nonnutritive sweetener.
Multiple reviews, going back to 1985, conclude the same thing. Since this latest review there have been more studies, in various countries (how big is this conspiracy?), showing no link between aspartame and brain cancer, and a lack of correlation between artificial sweeteners and gastric, pancreatic, and endometrial cancers.
Further Thoughts on the Ethics of Skepticism
My recent post "The War Over 'Nice'" (describing the blogosphere's reaction to Phil Plait's "Don't Be a Dick" speech) has topped out at more than 200 comments. That's a lot by Skepticblog's standards. In addition, many further responses have reached me through Twitter, blog posts, email, and direct conversation.
I'm not quite sure how to feel about all that. Certainly I expected some controversy. (After all, I was writing about a controversy.) But quite a few of the critical responses take up a theme that seems… well, kind of strange to me. Many readers appear to object (some strenuously) to the very ideas of discussing best practices, seeking evidence of efficacy for skeptical outreach, matching strategies to goals, or encouraging some methods over others. Some seem to express anger that a discussion of best practices would be attempted at all.
No Right or Wrong Way?
The milder forms of these objections run along these lines:
- "Everyone should do their own thing."
- "Skepticism needs all kinds of approaches."
- "There's no right or wrong way to do skepticism."
- "Why are we wasting time on these abstract meta-conversations?"
In a few cases, this laissez faire theme rings sort of hollow. (It seems to me that some who make this argument themselves promote certain approaches over others.) Let's leave that aside.
More critical, in my opinion, is the implication that skeptical research and communication happens in an ethical vacuum. That just isn't true. Indeed, it is dangerous for a field which promotes and attacks medical treatments, accuses people of crimes, opines about law enforcement practices, offers consumer advice, and undertakes educational projects to pretend that it is free from ethical implications — or obligations.
Before we talk about that, let's first get this out of the way. No, there is no monolithic "one true way to do skepticism." No, the skeptical world does not break down to nice skeptics who get everything right, and mean skeptics who get everything wrong. (I'm reminded of a quote: "If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.") No one has all the answers. Certainly I don't, and neither does Phil Plait. Nor has anyone actually proposed a uniform, lockstep approach to skepticism. (No one has any ability to enforce such a thing, in any event.)
However, none of that implies that all approaches to skepticism are equally valid, useful, or good. As in other fields, various skeptical practices do more or less good, cause greater or lesser harm, or generate various combinations of both at the same time. For that reason, skeptics should strive to find ways to talk seriously about the practices and the ethics of our field. Skepticism has blossomed into something that touches a lot of lives — and yet it is an emerging field, only starting to come into its potential. We need to be able to talk about that potential, and about the pitfalls too.
Professional Ethics
Recently on Vaccine Central
As many of you may know, my main focus has switched to my Vaccine Central blog. Here is a sampling of some of the latest entries I posted there:
- California Whooping Cough update 09-07-10 – 8 infants have died so far in the largest outbreak in decades.
- Ohio declares whooping cough outbreak – Franklin county has seen double the number of total 2009 cases, through August of this year only.
- American Academy of Pediatrics recommends mandatory flu shots for all health workers – About time I say.
- Anti Vax claims dissected – just a small sample obviously.
- 100 million children to be vaccinated against measles in China and 1.5 million against polio in Afghanistan
- Vaccine Preventable Death – yet another infant dead of whooping cough
- Flu vaccine efficacy and safety – Study Analysis
My rug has been pissed on
A little while ago I wrote a little post titled Skeptics Gone Wild, in which I criticized the use of an argument, which I classified as an ad hominem, against Jenny McCarthy that goes like this:
Jenny McCarthy speaks of dangerous "toxins" in vaccines, yet she gets Botox shots, which include botulinum, one of the most toxic substances around, right on her face.
That post sparked a mini-war in the comments with Tom, of Dubito Ergo Sum, who disagreed with me (see comments on my Skeptics Gone Wild post). That mini war then spilled over on Twitter where we had a brief, so to speak, exchange of messages. I could post screen shots of the exchange but I'm not gonna waste time, as Tom has written quite an extensive entry in his blog about the whole thing, titled In which I piss on the 'Dude's rug.
Now these blogging "wars" tend to get longer and longer with each reply, so I will not go over Tom's entry point by point but I will add some clarifications about the main points that he makes, in an effort to keep these entries as short as possible, and since I am not interested in conflict, but dialogue.
It appears to me that both myself, and Tom, have been affected by Phil Plait Don't be a Dick talk, in different ways. I took Phil's talk and turned it around on myself, and understood, and agreed with, what he was saying. Tom appears to have taken the opposite stance, the "hell no" stance that people like PZ Myers and Richard Dawkins seem to favor. Which is fine I guess; what most of us are doing is highly personal and each of us will make decisions about how to go about it.
However, the more I read Tom's replies, tweets and blog post, the more I agree with Phil's talk, because I can see first hand how some of the points that he makes, and he does make some good points, are affected, at least in my eyes by the, dare-I-say arrogant, way in which he, at times, communicates them.
During our exchange, I have been referred to as: a self-proclaimed skeptic, poor Skepdude, a springboard, and apparently somehow I've led Tom to the pessimistic expectation that I would not approve his last comment on my blog, the only one of his comments that went to moderation for some weird reason, thank you WordPress, and wasn't approved until later that day. Sarcasm is acceptable in debating I grant, but I must ask: how necessary is it when you have a good argument to make AND an audience that, presumably, understands logic? To me Tom's reliance on sarcasm along the way means that he's either getting personal satisfaction out of its use; or he thinks the audience witnessing our discussion will be more easily persuaded via cheap shots than a good argument, or that the sarcasm will make his real arguments more persuasive, or a combination, or some other reason I cannot think of.
So first, let us go over what sparked this whole thing specifically the personal attack on Jenny McCarthy: is it or isn't it an ad hominem? to which my response is: Does that really matter much in relation to the overall message I was trying to convey? Even if I turn out to be wrong on my classification of it as an ad hominem, does the personal attack on Jenny McCarthy have any bearing on the arguments that she makes? I will refrain from repeating myself at this point. I will only direct the reader to my original entry and ask them to look at my tobacco example, then make up your own mind if adding the "Jenny shoots Botox on her face" personal attack is warranted or not, ad hominem or not!
Secondly, my position has been straw manned a little bit, I'd like to believe unintentionally. Never did I say, or imply I believe, in our exchange that in communicating to or with the public "we can ignore ethos and pathos, and argue on logos alone", and if something I have said may have come across that way, well then I take this chance to publicly clarify that this is not what I stand for.
I may have been wrong in classifying the Jenny-Botox attack as an ad hominem (which I am not convinced of yet for the record), but my main point was that we should not allow ourselves to be sloppy thinkers, that we shouldn't fail to cast a critical eye on our own arguments to ensure that we are not committing the same mistakes that we accuse the "other side" of committing, that the end does not justify the means so to speak. How one jumps from that to arguing on logos only, I do not comprehend.
Of course, facts and statistics are dry and fail, on their own, to be very convincing to the general public; of course we need passion and the use of rhetoric, and emotions when discussing or debating these issues in public. I think that those are absolutely necessary to win in the court of public opinion, but that does not translate that therefore every rhetoric tactic is fair game, that every emotion is fair game, because I happen to believe, or to have come to the conclusion (whichever way you like to phrase it), that some don't work as well as we think they do, at least from what I have heard psychologists say about human communication. But I do not intend to turn this into a "what's the most effective way of communicating" thing, because I don't think I can add anything besides personal experience to the debate, and we skeptics know how personal anecdotes can lead us astray.
The take home point here is that just because I am advocating against the use of ad hominems/personal attacks does not logically lead to the conclusion that therefore I am advocating for "arguing on logos" only. Are ridicule & sarcasm all there is for us to draw on? What about empathy? I don't hear Tom making the case for expressing empathy anywhere in his defense of arguing with pathos.
The last point I want to make revolves about something Tom said in regards to the Ad Hominem. He maintains that if all you said is that Jenny is against toxins but she uses Botox, that would be an ad hominem, and we both seem to agree there. Then he also says that because we have other valid arguments to counter her toxins nonsense, the Botox thing no longer is an ad hominem, but it is demoted, so to speak, to a simple personal attack status. At least that's how I understand his argument, I hope I'm not setting up a straw man here; I'd hate to do that, but my only comment is this: a logical fallacy is a logical fallacy, regardless if it is preceded, or immediately followed, by any number of valid arguments. In other words a rotten apple in a basket full of good apples, is still a rotten apple. Now, I am not a philosopher, and that may be a naive view, and I am willing to defer to the expertise of professional philosophers on this issue, but until then, this is what I think.
So, not being a philosopher by training, I have to say that I have but a layman's understanding of the Ad Hominem. To my understanding it goes like this:
- Person makes claim X
- We point out something about the person (unrelated to X)
- We reject X based on 2
Now I am sure that there must be subtle variations and such, but the bottom line is we reject an argument someone makes based on some quality of the person, without really addressing the argument. So in Jenny's case we have the following:
- Jenny argues that vaccines have toxins that are dangerous to children.
- We point out that Jenny uses Botox on herself
So where does that leave us? Well as both Tom and I have said, it depends on the context. The 3rd requirement for the Ad Hominem (therefore Jenny is wrong about toxins in vaccines) hasn't been said in actual words. I maintain that when 1 & 2 are used together they imply, regardless of what the author may or may not desire to imply, that Jenny is wrong about 1, in certain cases based on the context. I specifically linked to a blog entry by Phil Plait that used the whole Jenny-Botox thing that I thought was a case where the implication was there hovering in the air, even if Phil may not have meant it that way. Go, read that entry yourself, and decide if I am right or wrong.
Now can the fact that she uses Botox be used in an argument in ways which would make it not an Ad Hominem? Sure it can, and Tom formulates examples himself, which are not the formulations I'm having an issue with anyway, but as he himself says it is still a personal attack, which adds nothing to the conversation. It is a poor tool to use in a public debate anyway (she can easily counter with "what does that have to do with vaccines? So I am misinformed about Botox, but I'm not here to discuss Botox, which is used by adults, but the health and safety of our children; so stop attacking my personal life style choices.") in which case you've already lost the public opinion war, and you will be perceived as an arrogant person trying to belittle a mom who's fighting for her son's, and other children's, wellbeing. Try explaining then that what you did was not an ad hominem attack.
If you think that facts and statistics are too dry, do you think that discussing in detail what is and what isn't, philosophically speaking, a proper ad-hominem, would be more…wet for lack of proper terms, if what you're trying to accomplish is to win the public's hearts and minds?
CFI and the Non-mosque not-on Ground Zero-An inquiry
So the CFI has joined the discussion about the non-mosque not on Ground Zero with a press release, a very worrying to me as a secularist, humanist and skeptic, misguided press release.
The Center for Inquiry is troubled by the rhetoric of some of those protesting the proposed Islamic religious center and mosque near Ground Zero, and it especially deplores the growing politicization of the dispute.
That's good actually; I am worried myself about the tone and the nonsense rhetoric being thrown around by those opposed to the non-mosque.
CFI also holds that the focus of the protests is too narrow; it would be inappropriate to build any new house of worship in the area immediately around Ground Zero, not just mosques.
What? CFI is worried by the rhetoric, because it is too narrow and it is only focused on Islam?
"The 9/11 attacks were an example of faith-based terrorism, and any institution that privileges faith above reason is an affront to those who were killed and injured in those attacks," observes Ronald A. Lindsay, president and CEO of CFI.
Oh Ron, Ron Ron Ron Ron Ron! Fox News is appalled because "The Muslims" want to have their own center near ground zero and you're appalled because "The Religious" in general want to do that? And can you please tell us what is the appropriate radius around Ground Zero where religious expression of any sort shouldn't take place because it would affront the victims and families of 9/11? Yes, Ron please specify the radius around Ground Zero where you think we should ignore the Constitution of the United States of America.
CFI fully supports the free exercise of religion; protecting the rights of believers and nonbelievers is central to CFI's mission. Accordingly, CFI endorses President Obama's recent statement reminding the country that Muslim Americans enjoy the same rights as other Americans and should not be treated as second-class citizens.
Except for a radius, to be specified by CFI, around Ground Zero that is. Way to support the guilt-by-association fallacious way of thinking Ron. See CFI cannot have its cake and eat it too; you cannot rely on the Constitution to fight creationism from creeping into our schools without accepting that the same Amendment of the Constitution demands the right of free exercise of religion be granted to people of faith. Doing that would be hypocritical and we all know, or should know, that hypocrisy has not room in rational inquiry.
UPDATE 08/29/10 – The CFI has issued an updated statement which supersedes the previous one. Here is the full text of the new, improved, statement.
The Center for Inquiry's Statement on the Ground Zero Controversy
CFI fully supports the free exercise of religion; protecting the rights of believers and nonbelievers is central to CFI's mission. Accordingly, CFI endorses President Obama's recent statement reminding the country that Muslim Americans enjoy the same rights as other Americans and should not be treated as second-class citizens. There should be no legal impediment to the placement of an Islamic community center near Ground Zero, just as there should be no legal impediment to the placement of a church, temple, or synagogue near Ground Zero.
Further, CFI laments the effort by some to turn the proposed Islamic center into a political issue. Government officials and candidates for office should not intervene in disputes over the alleged offensiveness of a place of worship. Such conduct violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the Establishment Clause. Government officials should not be deciding who is a "moderate" Muslim any more than they should be deciding who is a "moderate" Christian or Jew.
A number of private individuals have protested the proposed Islamic center. The tone and substance of these protests covers a wide range. Some protesting the Islamic center have raised legitimate questions, but to the extent the objections to the Islamic center mistakenly equate all Muslims with Muslim extremists, CFI condemns them.
CFI maintains that an Islamic center, including a mosque, near Ground Zero, in and of itself, is no different than a church, temple, or synagogue. It is undeniable that the 9/11 terrorists were inspired by their understanding of Islam, and that currently there are far more Islamic terrorists in the world than terrorists of other faiths, but those facts are not relevant to the location of the Islamic center, absent evidence that terrorists are involved in this endeavor, and there is no such evidence.
CFI's unequivocal support for the legal right of Muslims to place a community center near Ground Zero does not imply that CFI views the new center as an event to be celebrated. To the contrary, CFI is committed to the position that reason and science, not faith, are needed to address and resolve humanity's problems. All religions share a fundamental flaw: they reflect a mistaken understanding of reality. On balance, CFI does not consider houses of worship to be beneficial to humanity, whether they are built at Ground Zero or elsewhere.
This statement supersedes any prior statement issued by CFI regarding the Ground Zero controversy.
Much better, that's what the first one should have read like in the first place.
Food Faddism and Child Abuse
Guest post by Kyle Tuttle
Fad diets are nothing new; they've been around for ages. And the reason they're fads is that most people soon realize they don't work and stop using them just as quickly as they started. Unfortunately, there's always another fad diet waiting in the wings.
The typical fad diet falls into one of (or a combination of) the following three categories:
- The virtue of a particular food or food group is exaggerated and purported to cure specific diseases, and is therefore incorporated as a primary constituent of an individual's diet.
- Foods are eliminated from an individual's diet because they are viewed as harmful.
- An emphasis is placed on eating certain foods to express a particular lifestyle.
The human body requires a base level of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients to grow and function properly, and fad diets often disrupt this nutritional balance. The impact of this disruption can range from mild to devastating. In the case of developing children, the effects of malnutrition can be especially severe.
Two popular fad diets have been shown to be particularly harmful to young children:
- Vegan diets. Vegans avoid foods made from animal products, including meat, eggs and dairy — each a natural source of the proteins, fats and vitamins (particularly B12) crucial to infant development. While advocates of vegan diets do often recommend mother's breast milk as the optimal diet for children under the age of one, it's rare to hear them acknowledge that infants fed only breast milk can still be malnourished if the mother follows a strict vegan diet.
- Macrobiotic diets. These restrictive diets get progressively more limited as one gets older. Grain is the staple of a macrobiotic diet, present in disproportionately high levels, and at the expense of meat and dairy — the latter of which (as mentioned) is especially important in infants. In fact, scientific studies have shown a high prevalence of rickets and an increased risk of vitamin B-12 and iron deficiency in infants on macrobiotic diets.
While malnutrition is harmful at any age, it is particularly catastrophic for young children in their formative stages. An infant's nutritional needs are distinctly different from an adult's:
- A deficiency of vitamin D and calcium can lead to rickets – characterized by dental deformities, decreased muscle tone, and softening of the bones, which can lead to skeletal deformities, including a misshapen head and bowlegs, among others.
- A deficiency of B vitamins carries a whole host of malnutrition nightmares. For example, Vitamin B12 deficiency can cause permanent damage to the brain and nervous system.
- Due to the extensive growth and myelination of their nerve cells, children under the age two children require very high levels of dietary fat. About 50% of their overall calories should come from high-fat sources.
Increasingly, it's becoming clear that subjecting an infant or young child to fad diets or cult diets that disregard established nutritional guidelines isn't just irresponsible, but is in fact a form of child abuse. Consider the following cases, where parents were charged with intentionally harming their children through the use of overly-restrictive fad diets:
- Jade Sanders and Lamont Thomas were each sentenced to life in prison for the death of their 6-week old son, Crown Shakur. The infant was fed a diet consisting almost entirely of soy milk and organic apple juice, and weighed just 3 1/2 pounds when he died.
- Joseph and Silva Swinton were convicted of first degree assault after nearly starving their infant daughter, Ilce, to death on a strict vegan diet. At 15 months old, Ilce suffered from rickets, broken bones, internal injuries and suspected neurological damage.
- Joseph and Lamoy Andressohn were acquitted of aggravated manslaughter but convicted of four counts of child neglect when their 6-month old daughter, Woyah, died after being fed a diet of raw fruits and vegetables. The child neglect charges stemmed from the condition of their surviving children, each of whom was severely malnourished.
Clearly, these are extreme cases, but they illustrate how dangerous fad diets can be when enforced on young children who have very different nutritional requirements from adults. Without intervention, a child can suffer permanent physical or mental damage, or even death. If an adult prefers to eat a vegan diet to protect animals, that's their choice and their right. But when they have a child, perhaps that's the animal they should be saving first.
This guest post was contributed by Kyle Tuttle, whose writing focuses on helping students find the right psychology degree. He can be reached at tuttletr33 at gmail dot com.
The War Over "Nice"
Skeptics and parallel rationalist communities spend a lot of time on "inside baseball" — jargon-filled debates about technical matters that seem incomprehensible, dull, or ridiculous to outsiders. These shouldn't be the main skeptical topics (shouldn't we be busy solving mysteries and educating the public?) but some discussion on these matters is unavoidable and worthwhile. Many movement-oriented skeptics and organizations have things they hope to accomplish; with goals, there comes discussion of best practices.
Among these insider debates, none is more persistent than that of "tone." Hardly a week goes by that some tone-related tempest doesn't spill out of its teacup and across the blogosphere. And yet, these issues matter to many (including me). When people devote enormous energy to skepticism, dedicate careers to skeptical outreach, or generously commit volunteer hours or donations to skeptical projects and organizations, it's natural that abstract internal debates about the soul of skepticism are perceived to have powerful importance.
The passions of many have been swept up in the ongoing scrap about Phil Plait's "Don't Be a Dick" speech at the James Randi Educational Foundation's "Amazing Meeting 8″ conference in Las Vegas. The skeptical blogosphere began buzzing even as Plait delivered the speech, and hasn't yet stopped. The debate has reached a new level of feverishness in recent days, after Plait posted the entire video of the speech online. (If you haven't seen it, it's a powerful speech which is well worth your time.)
The flood of reactions — many hundreds of lengthy comments, dozens of blog posts and a teeming ecosystem of competing tweets — seem to have broken down along two main axes of debate. One axis defends (or challenges) Plait's factual assertion that civility tends to help skeptical communication, while incivility tends to hinder it. The other axis concerns moral values.
Talking Past Each Other
The empirical dispute about the effectiveness of civility has sometimes devolved to a clash of straw men. As PZ Myers responded,
It's a little annoying. Everybody seems to imagine that if Granny says "Bless you!" after I sneeze, I punch her in the nose, and they're all busy dichotomizing the skeptical community into the nice, helpful, sweet people who don't rock the boat and the awful, horrible, bastards in hobnailed boots who stomp on small children in Sunday school.
I can relate. I'm similarly exasperated when it is suggested that "nice" skeptics are trying to enforce uniformity; or it is imagined that Phil's speech was secretly "yet another attempt to erect a skepticism-free barrier around theistic beliefs"; or it is supposed that anyone wants to take anger and passion out of the skeptics toolbox; or, even, argued that "nice" skeptics want to "go with the flow, to pretend that a thousand issues, whether it's homeopathy or religion or transcendental meditation or an absence of critical thinking or a lack of concern about our health, are OK because they make people happy." Where does this stuff even come from?
All this noise conceals a non-trivial amount of consensus. In general, everyone actually agrees that passion, anger, comedy, and ridicule can be useful in the right context, when used carefully and well. Everyone agrees that face to face conversations are best conducted with kindness and respect. Everyone (PZ included) agrees that fact-based, collegial discourse is often-but-not-always the best outreach strategy. (Consider PZ's stated position: "I think the best ideas involve a combination of willingness to listen and politely engage, and a forthright core of assertiveness and confrontation — tactical dickishness, if you want to call it that." To me, this sounds surprisingly similar to Plait's "Don't Be a Dick" argument: "Anger is a very potent weapon, and we need that weapon, but we need to be excruciatingly careful how we use it.")
In other places, the effectiveness debate has bogged down in red herrings. For example, Richard Dawkins complained that
Plait naively presumed, throughout his lecture, that the person we are ridiculing is the one we are trying to convert. …when I employ ridicule against the arguments of a young earth creationist, I am almost never trying to convert the YEC himself. … I am trying to influence all the third parties listening in, or reading my books. I am amazed at Plait's naivety in overlooking that and treating it as obvious that our goal is to convert the target of our ridicule.
This is a serious misreading of Plait's intent, and I think rather baffling. Phil Plait is an experienced public figure, a career science communicator. Of course he knows (as I know, and as Dawkins knows) that our largest and best opportunity for outreach is often the wider audience of third-party onlookers.
Indeed, the audience of onlookers are exactly where the empirical question matters most.
Power Balance Wristbands Probed
ANSA) – Rome, August 3 – Italy's antitrust watchdog said on Tuesday that it had opened a probe into the companies which distribute the Power Balance wristband, which has become this summer's fad.
The probe by the authority will focus on "possible inappropriate commercial practices" by the companies which sell the wrist band that promises to give "balance, strength and flexibility".
The focus of the probe will be whether the consumer risks being misled by properties attributed to the product.
The probe will center on two companies: Power Balance Italy, which distributes the Power Balance brand in Italy; and Sport Town, a company which retails the product.
The two companies will have 15 days to submit medical/scientific evidence dealing with the composition of the product and its effects on the human body as well as information dealing with any possible side effects in regard to the consumer's health and safety .
Neither company has at present issued any statement about the probe.
According to the producer's website, Power Balance is "performance technology designed to work with your body's natural energy field".
SKEPDUDE SAYS – I'm certain that they can give them 15 weeks and they will still fail to come up with any scientific evidence. I suspect they'll offer a lot of celebrity testimonials, and some Applied Kinesiology videos as evidence.


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I have 2 ZX-10 ECUs - part numbers 21175-0031 and -0079.
Are these ECUs flashable using the same hardware used for flashing the K5 GSXR1000 ?
Noob question I know, but isnt it just the pin layout on the ecu that is different ?
Also, can this ECUs BIN file be read out, or would I need to source it elsewhere or cut open the ECU ?
Any help much appreciated.....


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Choosing a high quality shade or sheer from Hunter Douglas not only ensures you have a beautiful window treatment to enjoy for years, but it also means you have invested in a quality that lasts. Sheers and Shadings by Hunter Douglas come with protection that keeps the fabric looking like new for the entire lifetime of the product. Care and cleaning guidelines are found on each respective product page within the Specifications section under Instruction Guides.
Here are a few tips for cleaning your shades in Honolulu Hawaii.
Many of the sheers and shadings we offer at Design 5LTD require only regular dusting and periodic vacuuming. Hunter Douglas offers products that are treated with a proprietary process that allows them to repel dust, soil and stains. You can look at the complete list of these products on the Hunter Douglas website. These products require only light dusting and periodic vacuuming. The list of products with this treated fabric includes many of our Roman shades, Honeycomb shades and roller shades. Dusting your shades or sheers is effortless. If you have a light-dimming fabric, then you may need to use caution as a dust mitt or magnetic type duster could ruin the fabric. Vacuuming your shades or sheers can be done using a brush attachment. If you have a embedded vane in your product like our Silhouette® then you can use forced air to blow debris from the vane. A blow dryer on low setting or a can of compressed air work well.
Many of the fabric shades require special care when it comes to spot treating. Not all headrails should be spot treated. Some fabric will not withstand regular cleaning. For this reason it is important that you download the Care and Cleaning PDF from Hunter Douglas to determine if your product can handle light cleaning. If you are able to spot clean your fabric, using distilled water is recommended. For products that can withstand spot treating, use lukewarm water on a soft cloth. Gentle detergent can be used on some fabrics.
Some products require professional cleaning. Ultrasonic Cleaning is recommended for many fabrics. A complete list is included in the Care and Cleaning PDF. Some window treatments can be cleaned using the injection/extraction method of cleaning. In this process a cleaner is injected into the fabric and the dirty solution is immediately extracted. Proper care and cleaning of each fabric and product is included on the Hunter Douglas website or on the product page you receive when you purchase a window treatment.
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Ask the creative catalyst behind sprawling, bestselling games like Skyrim and Fallout 4 about his breakthrough moment, and he'll tell you a story about The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.
That was Bethesda Softworks' first stab at handcrafting a hyper-detailed fantasy world, as opposed to the procedurally generated lands of previous games in the role-playing series. Morrowind won dozens of awards and shattered Bethesda sales records, but more than half of those plaudits almost never happened: When Microsoft approached Todd Howard about putting Morrowind on its Xbox console, he balked.
"I was like 'Ehhh, we'll see,'" Howard says, "'but I don't think the game's going to work, because I'm not sure the console audience wants what we do.'"
When Microsoft announced the Xbox in March 2000, Morrowind was in the middle of development. The Elder Scrolls games had until then been PC-only affairs, following the wisdom of the time that deep role-playing experiences happened in cloistered home offices, computing tabernacles with click-clacked keyboards and mice, and not casually tapped out on gamepads in living rooms.
Fortunately for Bethesda, it did risk an Xbox version, which launched one month after the PC game in June 2002. Then, the thing no one expected to happen happened: Morrowind went on to become one of the console's best-selling games, right up there with Madden NFL and Grand Theft Auto. The previous game had "sold fine," according to Howard, but Bethesda was on the verge of shuttering. Morrowind's millions of sales—the majority of them on Xbox, not PC—might have saved it.
"To have the Xbox version do better than the PC version, I could have never fathomed that at the time," says Howard. "It told us we don't have to change who we are, we can make our kind of game and this audience wants it as well."
The Edge of Tomorrow
Not changing who it is has proved lucrative for Bethesda, which still makes its home in its namesake city in Maryland. Howard's turn directing Fallout 3, the company's acclaimed attempt to graft its world-building ideas onto Interplay's beloved post-apocalpytic role-playing series, moved over 12 million copies. And The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Howard's directorial project after Morrowind, nearly doubled that figure, driving the game far enough into the mainstream that it earned a surreal shoutout in an episode of primetime television darling NCIS.
On November 10, Howard's latest project arrived like a thunderclap: Fallout 4 is the biggest game his team has ever made, a Skyrim-sized post-nuclear world brimming with more than 100,000 lines of spoken dialogue, coupled to a mammoth crafting system fed by all those wasteland odds and ends players can pluck from dilapidated desks and derelict trashcans.
It's also filled with visual motifs inspired by Norman Rockwell paintings, John Ford movies, and, Howard tells me, references to director Doug Liman's sci-fi time-looper Edge of Tomorrow.
"I think it's a wildly underrated movie," he says. "I just saw it again the other day, so everyone I'm seeing lately I remind them, 'Have you seen Edge of Tomorrow?' There's actually a lot of Fallout in that. If you look in Fallout 4, you'll know it when you see it."
Howard says his other non-gaming influences include the Star Wars films and Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. But like most forty-something designers who grew up in the 1970s and 80s, when personal computers were embryonic and expensive curios, his formative experiences transpired crouched in front of electric green screens like that of his first computer, an Apple II.
"Once you have a device like that, it's not just playing games on it, it's because you can crack it open and do your own things," he says. "That immediately became my outlet, to see what I could make the machine do."
Howard had fooled with a Star Trek game and "a couple others" on the TRS-80, Tandy's 1977 personal desktop, lovingly (or not) referred to as the "trash eighty." But when he thinks of the Apple II, he says it's of Ultima, the beloved open-world fantasy series.
"I think if someone has a gaming obsession, Ultima became mine," says Howard. "I would say no other series ingrained itself in how I want to make games or what I want them to be more than Ultima did."
And it wasn't any one Ultima game, says Howard, but the way series creator Richard Garriott managed to keep the story and game concepts vibrant during the decade between 1983's Ultima III: Exodus and 1993's Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle. In Ultima VII, for instance, players could pick up virtually any object not nailed down, bake bread, milk cows, play music instruments, even change diapers—at the time, an unparalleled push for player agency.
"Those are kind of my defining years, you know—you're going through senior high, then through college," he says. "That's where I have an Apple II, I get a PC, I'm messing around and doing those things, and it wasn't a conscious thing, but like, this is what's good about gaming. This is what makes, at the time, computer games special. I mean I played everything, but the games that kept me up and night and tickled my fancy were the larger role-playing games like Ultima."
At some point that led Howard, matriculated at a Virginia college where he was double-majoring in engineering and finance, to go job-hunting. The closest game studio/publisher? Bethesda, just a few hours up the road outside D.C.
First Job: Producer
"Most people write this up slightly wrong, unless there's a video of me saying it," says Howard when asked how he got into turning out gaming's equivalents of War and Peace.
"I'd been playing everything, and decided that this was something I maybe wanted to make a career out of. I knew where some companies were, but I saw the name Bethesda, Maryland on Wayne Gretzky Hockey 3. I was going to school in Virginia, and so I came up to the office, and I remember it was Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the Monday in January, and no one was really here. So I knocked on the door and said 'Hey, I saw your address, and I want to work here one day.'"
Someone came out of the building to talk to him, says Howard, but only to tell him to come back when he was out of school.
"Which I did," he says. "And they still didn't have any positions. But the next time one opened up, they said 'We have something, come in for an interview.' And I came in, and they hired me. But they'd seen me a few times by then, and I'd kind of kept in touch."
His first job? Working on the CD-ROM version of The Elder Scrolls: Arena. This was early 1994, and the inaugural entry in Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls series had just shipped on a handful of floppy disks. Howard joined as the CD-ROM version's "producer," but says it really amounted to long days spent play-testing and bug-squashing.
"CD-ROMs had just come out, and they were seen as bringing games to a lot more people because you could do video," he explains. "The company had just gotten some Silicon Graphics machines, Jurassic Park had just come out, and so we were doing a better intro and cutscenes, better sound effects, and all those things. But mostly I spent my days playing Arena and writing up any issues that affected the CD-ROM version. I played that game to death for awhile, and I still love it to this day. Despite its age and size, I think it's a very elegant game. It knows what it is, and does it very, very well."
Howard's next project for Bethesda involved creating a game in the Terminator franchise, called Future Shock. The company had released two other Terminator games, a pair of primitive shooters, prior to Howard's arrival, but neither had been critically successful. Howard's idea was to craft a fully 3-D first-person shooter, but with huge levels you might spend as much time exploring as gunning through.
It was also the first game—ever—to let you use the mouse to freely look around at all times, a full year before id Software's Quake.
"They started me on Future Shock, I don't know why. I guess they saw something I didn't. I was very eager," says Howard. "And Future Shock was really great because the license for the Terminator movies was in this weird limbo, so there was no one to tell us yes or no, no one to check in with, and we were able to do whatever we wanted, which I think made the game a lot better. I have great memories of that project. And then Quake comes out and everybody forgets Future Shock, which is what it is, understandably so. But that game has a real sweet spot for a lot of us."
The other thing almost no one knows, in part because Future Shock is such a forgotten title, is that this is where Howard and Bethesda really figured out how to build vast, inhabitable worlds.
"We wanted these big, even in those days, expansive levels you could explore," explains Howard. "The way we built Future Shock, you have a height map and instanced 3-D objects rendering on top—that, believe it or not, is still how we build today. It's our basic paradigm for how to build a space. You can follow it forward from Future Shock, because you're doing full 3-D, the height map, and the instanced objects connected together on top of it. It's still what we do now."
Re-Imagining Dragons
Howard is obsessed with revisiting the obvious, the done over and over again, the seemingly mundane. He wants to reinvigorate dull-sounding gameplay tropes, attacking them from angles no one else has, translating a kind of Platonic ideal experience into a gameplay system that resonates with and beyond Bethesda's fans.
"For me, I'm always wanting to create the thing that was in my head while I was doing it," says Howard. "If I'm playing Dungeons & Dragons and things are happening, I have a certain image of what is actually happening. So I enjoy crafting the basics, like say you have a sword and shield and you're going to fight a skeleton. If you were to pitch that as a design, most people would yawn. But I find a lot of joy in making that come to life, in making that feel as exciting as possible. Even right now as we're talking, I can think of 10 ways to do it better than we've ever done it."
Take Skyrim, a game mostly about battling dragons. Howard says the team's initial response was hesitant, basically worried that dragons were to fantasy games (and stories, and movies) as the opener "It was a dark and stormy night" is to florid, clichéd prose.
"And I told them, I don't know, I haven't really experienced dragons in an open game like this. Not in a way that made me really in the awe of what the thing can do, or the power I get from killing it," he says. "Or in Fallout, it's that moment of stepping out of the vault and going into that world, I just think that's a great feeling. There's a lot of excitement for me in finding a way to make that all feel like something you've felt before, but at the same time all new, because the technology changes, and the audience also changes."
Design luminary Shigeru Miyamoto said a few years ago that he planned to step back from his iconic franchises to focus on smaller projects with tiny teams. After watching Howard build Western gaming's cathedral-equivalents for more than two decades, it feels like a natural question to ask: would Howard ever to deign to design small?
"The timing of your question, because we just wrapped up Fallout 4, I definitely need a break," he responds. "But that's normal. And after that, I just see so many things that we could do. I like to make big games, the team likes to make big games. We have lots of ideas. We plan on taking a break and coming back and finding out where those ideas take us."
"But no—we definitely don't plan on making small things."


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Foreman Seeley Fountain buildings are like my grandchildren. They are all my favorites. However, a very worthwhile non-FSF building that I really like is the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center. It is a LEED Gold Certified building whose purpose is to provide an educational facility to educate the public, especially children, highlighting the environmental heritage of Gwinnett County. The architecture is pretty cool, too.
JENNIFER (College Intern):
The Architecture building at KSU (Marietta Campus). I am currently attending Kennesaw State University, where this building is located. I have interacted with this building many times. It is by far my favorite building on campus since it is the one with the most dynamic design, in regards to the inside and outside. Every floor & every room has a different layout.
LISA (Office Manager):
My favorite piece of architecture in Georgia is the High Museum of Art. Originally founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association, the High Museum of Art received its first permanent home in 1926, when Mrs. Joseph M. High donated her family's residence on Peachtree Street. In 1955 the Museum moved to a new brick structure adjacent to the original High house. When the Atlanta Memorial Arts Center opened in 1968, the High Museum of Art was at its center. The High is the leading art museum in the Southeastern U.S. With more than 15,000 works of art in its permanent collection, the High has an extensive anthology of 19th- and 20th-century American and decorative art; significant holdings of European paintings; a growing collection of African American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography, folk art and African art. The High is also dedicated to supporting and collecting works by Southern artists.
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Liam Neeson in "The Dark Knight Rises" officially confirmed
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It's been pretty much confirmed in the past, but if you were in desperate need of some definitive proof, you now have it. Warner Bros has announced that Liam Neeson will be reprising his role as Ra's al Ghul in "The Dark Knight Rises."
Of course, they didn't just come right out and say it, but instead slipped the little nugget of information away in a press release. Neeson stars in the upcoming "Wrath of the Titans," and ComingSoon.net got their hands on the production notes for the flick. In them, Warner Bros reveals that Neeson will definitely be in the third and final Batman film.
"Neeson next appears in Peter Berg's actioner 'Battleship,' and he also will be seen in Christopher Nolan's much-anticipated action thriller 'The Dark Knight Rises,'" the production notes read.
Well, there you have it. Neeson first appeared in "Batman Begins" as the villainous R'as al Ghul. It has long been speculated that Martion Cotillard will play his daughter, Talia al Ghul, in "The Dark Knight Rises." The trailer for the film features a voiceover by Neeson, so it's fitting that he return to the franchise in some capacity for its final installment.
Back in January, Neeson had admitted that he had been on set, but wouldn't give away any details regarding his scene.
"I was on set for maybe an hour-and-a-half and the director didn't tell me anything of what it's about," said Neeson. "So, I'm being very honest when I say I have no idea what's going to happen."
"The Dark Knight Rises" is due to hit theaters on July 20. It stars Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman.
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Eyes on the prize at Haverstock
School's football, basketball and athletics teams aim to make it a historic hat-trick by lifting the Camden Shield
21 September, 2017 — By Steve Barnett
Haverstock School pupils are ready to win the Camden Shield for a historic third time – from left, Daniel Costeira, Charles Tagalan, Paul Pringot, Elijah Hall and Hector Pringot
THE sports heroes of Haverstock Secondary School have set their sights on a historic hat-trick as they look to win the Camden Shield for a third year in a row.
The boys' teams from the school in Chalk Farm have joined previous champions from Regent High School and William Ellis in winning the competition back-to-back.
But so far no school has managed to win that all-elusive treble.
In order to do so Haverstock will once again have to outscore their rivals throughout the coming school year in three major disciplines – football, basketball and athletics.
So whether it's scoring a big three-pointer, a magnificent team goal or crossing the finishing line in first place, the boys from Haverstock are ready to win the Shield for a historic third time.
Overall competing schools battle it out for points in three age groups – Under-12s, Under-14s and Under-16s – and take part in 12 categories. These include gruelling cross-country events at Parliament Hill Fields.
Haverstock PE teacher Jamie Histed says that, supported by a real, all-round team effort, his troops can once again capture the Shield, which is organised by the Camden Secondary Schools Sports Federation.
"Our success comes from the excellent extra-curricular opportunities that we have at the school," he said.
"Pupils have access to top coaching and fantastic facilities outside of school hours, including the new 4G sports pitch that we've recently had installed. We've also got a great relationship with professional and amateur sports clubs across the borough which helps us to get the best out of our promising young athletes.
"To become the first school to win the Camden Shield three years in a row would be a very proud moment for me, all the boys and, or course, for Haverstock," Jamie added.
Among Haverstock's secret weapons is rising star Charles Tagalan, who has been part of the basketball team that has helped lead the secondary to back-to-back glory.
He has yet to taste defeat while competing for the school, and says he's looking forward to getting back out on the court. "Our basketball team has great chemistry, and we can't wait to start playing again.
"We have been training hard every week and we're confident that we can help our school score some vital points."


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We all love art and we love to see what our fellow-members are creating. Through the People's Choice Awards Competition and our Monthly Featured Artists, we showcase and enjoy their creative abilities.
People's Choice Awards CompetitionPeople's Choice Awards is a competition for Exhibiting, Associate and Signature members that occurs several times during the year. Winners of the competition have their artwork featured on the hone page of the website for a month, and are also featured here. Watch for competition announcements in the Artscape newsletter.
Monthly Featured ArtistsOne member's work is usually featured at our monthly meetings. It is featured in the newsletter as well. The artist presents approximately 6 paintings along with a brief talk about their work and inspiration. If you are interested in being a feature artist, contact the Feature Artist Coordinator.


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The USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service is seeking nominations for positions on the 2018 American Lamb Board.
There are five vacancies for the 2018 Board. The vacancies include one position for a producer with less than 100 lambs, one position for a producer with more than 500 lambs, one feeder position with less than 5,000 lambs, one first handler position, and one seedstock producer position.
Any producer, feeder, first handler or seedstock producer within the U.S. that owns or purchases lambs may be considered for nomination. Candidates must be nominated by USDA Certified Nominating Organizations and complete all nomination forms. As a certified organization, the American Sheep Industry Association is accepting applications for consideration.
Anyone interested in applying should first consult with representatives from their state sheep association and the ASI Executive Board member from their region. Applications for openings should be submitted to ASI Executive Director Peter Orwick at firstname.lastname@example.com by May 5. Find more information and access the nomination form here.