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Cyberthreats are everywhere, especially when you venture out of your home. You could be mugged walking down the street, but then again chances are that you will not be, especially if you are careful. But could you be cyber-mugged?
What if you were walking down the street, using public transport, or out shopping, and someone could steal money from you without even touching you or physically taking your wallet?
What if every time you got your new credit card out to pay for something, someone added an extra charge to your card for something you never bought?
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What does it mean to be a prisoner of Jesus Christ? Have you resigned from this world or are you still very much a part of it? How are we a prisoner of the flesh? Do we recognise what holds us back in life and can stop us from moving forward? We struggle in this life but look forward to the Kingdom of God when we shall be perfect.
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On 14th February most of the Western world will be observing a custom called Saint Valentine's Day. They celebrate it every year with flowers, romantic dinners, lovehearts, loving others and other romantic events.
But what are the origins of this day and its customs? Is this something that Christians should celebrate or should Christians avoid this holiday?
If we, as Christians, are supposed to love other people, should we not get into celebrating Saint Valentine's Day? Or is love something other than what people think it is on Valentine's Day?
So as we come to a new Day of Atonement this year, we can think about what we do and what it means. It is a day to fast, as stated in Leviticus 23:26–32. The New Century Version translates verse 27 this way: "The Day of Cleansing will be on the tenth day of the seventh month. There will be a holy meeting, and you will deny yourselves and bring an offering made by fire to the Lord."
In Acts 27:9 we read about the Fast being kept by the early Church: "Now when much time had been spent, and sailing was now dangerous because the Fast was already over, Paul advised them" (NKJV).
So if you choose to keep this Holy Day and follow the command to fast, i.e. to go without food and water for the whole day, from sunset to sunset, what can we learn from that? And is fasting good for us?
So today the people of Scotland (at least those given the right to vote) get to decide if they stay a part of the United Kingdom or leave and have their independence.
But what would be the best course of action? Should Scotland stay in the Union started in 1707 or should they divorce themselves from England (and Wales and Northern Ireland) and go it alone?
Let us consider some points. England and Scotland united together as one kingdom in the 18th Century, and since then they have achieved much.
Massive 3,800-Year-Old Fortress Uncovered in City of David -- The excavation of the Spring House fortress, conquered by King David, and where King Solomon was crowned, took 15 years. The biggest fortress ever uncovered in Israel from the pre-Herod period was inaugurated in March 2014 in a secret ceremony. The fortress, that was built some 3,800 years ago, was uncovered during a 15-year archeological dig in the City of David, one of the most complex and unique digs ever done in Israel.
Today, 4 August 2014, is a few days after 28 July, 100 years since the start of the First World War, also known, at the time, as the Great War, and as the second Thirty Years War.
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The fun part about weather is that no two days are ever the same—at least when covering the entire United States. There's no storyline to manufacture. No scandal to conjure up. No special effects. The weather provides its own uniqueness every day, every week and every month. This week, the weather has separated the country into three distinct sections. Let's take a look at how winter, spring and summer can coexist at the same time.
Far West and Pacific Northwest
On the west coast it's still snowing, and it still feels like winter. Last week was something special with nearly 100 inches falling on parts of Washington down through the Lake Tahoe region of California. The trough that brought this big dump is still hanging around just off the coast, which is leading to continued snow for mainly Oregon, Washington and northern Idaho. While the snow accumulations will vary through the weekend, this area will stay firmly entrenched in the winter season with deep bases and fresh powder. If you're looking for freshies, this is the place to go.
The middle of the country currently feels like spring with warm weather and big thunderstorms. Part of last week's storm along the west coast broke away from the main west-to-east flow of weather and is now hanging out over the Midwest. This storm—called a cut-off low because it has been "cut off" from the main flow of weather—is responsible for the southerly winds pumping up lots of warm air very far to the north. The upper peninsula of Michigan has even recorded high temperatures in the 80s and there's almost no snow on the ground even up north along the U.S./Canadian border. Spring has sprung for this area, though a few ski resorts like [R221R, Lutsen] in Minnesota are still going strong.
Moving east, we may as well announce that summer has arrived. Burlington in northern Vermont set a record with 80 degree temperatures on the earliest date in history. Plenty of ski resorts remain open even as temperatures force guests to break out the short sleeve shirts (better not fall). A slight cooling will commence over the weekend and a weak storm may briefly return snowflakes to the forecast early next week, but no long-lasting change back to winter seems likely over the next week to 10 days. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em… so get out and enjoy the sun and soft snow
The map shows air temperature at about 10,000 feet in elevation, which is a good way to quickly separate areas of stormy weather (cooler blue colors) from warmer and dry weather (warmer green colors). The Pacific Northwest is still in winter, the circle of cooler temperatures in the Midwest shows the cut-off low bringing spring-like conditions, and the greens along the eastern third of the country show warm, summer-like weather.
Of course the weather will continue to evolve, so just because we're seeing three seasons right now, it's entirely possible that winter and spring will move back in to dominate the country and push out the summer-like weather for another few weeks. Indeed, some longer-range forecasts do show this happening as we head into early April. Let's hope that's the case.
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Fund companies are planning to launch more actively managed ETFs. Plus: Why mREITs are getting hammered.
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The name of this website is ridiculously apt after you read the article, which I suggest you don't bother.
Let me save you the trouble. Because the Wii U sold only 160,000 units, Sony and Microsoft should be worried that the console market is on life support.
Utterly ridiculous claim. People who don't game and don't understand gaming should not attempt to talk about gaming because they end up grouping consoles together as though they are all the same thing, and offer all the same things, when they aren't and don't.
nintendo's wiiu issues won't effect sony or ms in the least. people know what the wiiu has to offer and decided to skip on it this time around. the real next gen consoles will out-sell the wiiu in no time.
I do feel consoles have reasons to worry but not due to this. This is why I preach unity among console gamers. We NEED to support the medium we enjoy. I rad an article that said the Oculus Rift will support mobile devices before consoles due to the fact that phones/tablets get stronger and stronger year after year but consoles update hardware once every 8 years now. I am concerned because I love consoles...


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Mark Webber took the pole position Saturday for the Korean Grand Prix, upstaging Red Bull teammate Sebastian Vettel and McLaren's Lewis Hamilton.
The Australian stormed to pole on the last lap of qualifying, finishing 0.074 seconds ahead of Vettel. Hamilton was third followed by championship leader Fernando Alonso of Ferrari.
Lotus' Kimi Raikkonen qualified fifth, meaning the top five in the Formula One standings fill the top five grid slots, raising the prospects of a vital shootout Sunday.
''I was happy with my lap there, it was solid and it's good to get pole,'' Webber said. ''It's a great place to start the race from. I'm looking to get off the first corner very well, that's important as there are two long straights after that.''
Vettel has won the past two races, in Singapore and Japan, and would overtake Alonso in the standings with a third consecutive win Sunday. The German dominated the practice sessions and topped the times in the first two sessions of qualifying, but when it mattered, he could not match the time set by his teammate.
''On the last run, I had to back off starting the lap as (Felipe) Massa was there, it wasn't his fault, but I had to back off,'' Vettel said. ''Nevertheless, the second lap in Q3 wasn't good enough.''
Webber, who recorded only his second pole of the season after Monaco, improved his lap time by a half-second on his final run.
Vettel can take some comfort in the fact that neither pole-sitter in the first two editions of the Korean Grand Prix had gone on to win on Sunday.
It was an encouraging result for Hamilton, who almost failed to advance to the second session of qualifying, making it through by just a quarter-second. The Briton said he expects it will be a challenge to overtake the Red Bulls on Sunday.
''It will be very tough to get ahead of them but we've put ourselves in as good a position as we could,'' Hamilton said. ''It was very tough this weekend. These guys have clearly made quite a big step within the last two races so we've just got to keep pushing.''
McLaren driver Jenson Button made an error and then was forced to slow for a late yellow flag in the second qualifying session and finished a disappointing 11th.
Raikkonen, who is third in the standings despite not having won a race in his comeback season, qualified fifth, ahead of Ferrari's Felipe Massa.


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The author of "The Black Swan" is simply telling the truth. Nails it when he talks about debt and the government's erroneous handling of it.
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IRVINE, CA – SimTech USA is proud to announce the imminent release MindMapper 17, the latest version of the company's software package. The launch will be closely followed by the unveiling of the software's redesigned website, which will reflect the spirit of MindMapper's newest version.
Following the release of the MindMapper 16 in late 2015, the company evaluated valuable customer feedback, and worked for nearly two years to make the software's integrated planner exceptionally user-friendly and easy to navigate.
The MindMapper 17 version features a split-screen view of users' "mind map" and the actual planner, so that they can see their entire map on their left hand side, and their planner on the right hand side. This way, users can have a view of the "bigger picture", as their map, daily schedule and planner are located to their right, which is where the human eye instinctively moves to when viewing an image. In addition, MindMapper 17 boasts a much more convenient planner, which allows users to even map out their entire life.
"Self-directedness, character, creativity, communication, and collaboration are skills needed to meet the demands of changing times. They are essential skills in turning one's ideas into results, by using the principles of project management", said Mr. Young G. Chung, CEO of SimTech USA.
He went on to expand on the areas which were improved for the newest version of the Mind Mapper software, saying that "To help facilitate the conversion of ideas into results, we have improved 3 main areas. Firstly, we have improved user interface and features so that users can readily organize creative ideas that unfold in their minds in random and multidimensional fashion. Secondly, we have improved collaboration features that will enhance creativity, communication, and sharing for team projects. And, finally, we have improved planner and Google Calendar integration, which are essential in implementing ideas into end results."
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President Barack Obama said on Monday he will confront climate change in his second term in office, an unexpected vow that puts the politically charged issue among his domestic priorities alongside gun control and immigration reform.
Linking climate change to devastating weather and fires, Obama said the country could grow its economy while protecting itself from the worst effects of a phenomenon scientists say is getting worse due to man-made pollutants.
"We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations," the president said, dedicating more than a minute of his roughly 20-minute address to the issue.
By pointing to the topic in detail in his second Inaugural Address, the Democratic president committed the White House to try to mitigate the emission of greenhouse gases – an area where he had uneven success during his first four years in office.
While Obama won a commitment from the auto industry to increase fuel efficiency standards in coming years, a more comprehensive plan to put a price on greenhouse gases fell flat in Congress.
Climate change was a mostly dormant issue during last year's presidential campaign, and environmentalists hoped that Obama would put the topic squarely on his agenda in a second term.
Obama said in his address that the United States should be a leader in sustainable energy and framed the issue as a matter of national security and economic opportunity.
"We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries – we must claim its promise," he said.
Scientists say emissions from cars and coal-fed power plants are among the sources of carbon dioxide warming the planet.
Last year was the hottest on record in the United States, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said this month.
Scientists caution that no single weather event can be blamed on climate change, but the force of Hurricane Sandy, which devastated parts of New York and New Jersey in October, and a withering drought in the Midwest, are seen as harbingers.
"Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms," Obama said.
Climate change activists, who say the phenomenon is worsening and will increasingly affect human health and budgets, said they were heartened by the president's words.
"My hope is renewed," Larry Schweiger, president of the National Wildlife Federation, said in a statement. "Confronting climate change is not a cause of a president or a party but an imperative for the American people."
Obama might find it impossible to revive the climate bill while his Republican Party rivals control the House of Representatives, but White House officials have said they plan to use executive power to make progress on the issue.
"I'll tell you what my green dream is: that we finally face up to climate change," Vice President Joe Biden said at a National Wildlife Federation inaugural celebration on Sunday night.
In the coming months, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to outline standards for power plant emissions. If those rules are as strong as environmentalists want, it could go a long way toward curtailing emissions for a source of 40 percent of the country's carbon gas.
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(AP) A portrait of Jesus that hangs prominently in an entranceway at a rural Ohio public school is in violation of the U.S. Constitution and should be removed, a federal lawsuit filed Thursday says.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and the Madison, Wis.-based Freedom From Religion Foundation say the large portrait at Jackson Middle School unconstitutionally promotes religion. The two groups seek a court order requiring the school to remove the portrait and prohibiting its re-hanging or any substantially similar display in the future.
"The maintenance and display of the portrait has the effect of advancing and endorsing one religion, improperly entangling the State in religious affairs, and violating the personal consciences of plaintiffs," the lawsuit says.
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Mazda CX-5 ride and refinement improved for 2014
* Mazda tweaks suspension on CX-5 SUV * Improves ride and refinement * New clutch restart system...
The Mazda CX-5 has been given a series of enhancements to boost its ride and refinement.
Mazda has retuned the CX-5 suspension to improve ride comfort as well as cut road and suspension noise.
The CX-5 also gets a new clutch restart system that lets the driver fire the engine back up again in the event of stalling without the need for the stop/start button to be pressed. It acts within three seconds and is fitted to all manual CX-5s.
The SE-L Lux and Sport models also get slightly more standard equipment, including a memory function for the electric driver's seat. An electrically adjustable passenger seat is also offered. Black leather trim comes as standard, while a light-coloured leather is now offered as a £200 option.
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Beijer Ref collaborates with, and has good relationships with, around 100 suppliers.
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By Amy Lancellotta
May 15, 2012
Shareholders deserve better than a recent MarketWatch column's clear misunderstanding of a mutual fund director's work. To correct just a few points:
Directors' independence: Mutual fund boards are robustly independent. Fund independent directors, as fiduciaries, are required to act in the best interest of fund shareholders. As the Supreme Court observed, independent directors have "the primary responsibility" for looking after the interests of the fund's shareholders and serve as "independent watchdogs" who "furnish an independent check" upon the management of the fund.
The Investment Company Act of 1940—the primary federal law governing mutual funds and directors—sets forth specific and stringent requirements for a director to be deemed "independent" and requires that at least 40 percent of the directors on a board be independent. In practice, independent directors hold an overwhelming majority (75 percent) of board seats in nearly 90 percent of fund complexes.
Directors' responsibilities: In contrast to the column's assertion, fund boards do push firms to do right by customers. One of the board's most important statutory responsibilities is to annually evaluate and approve the fund's contract with the adviser. Directors throughout the year assess the quality of the adviser's services, most notably the fund's performance, and can push for corrective action, including urging the adviser to hire a new portfolio manager or subadviser for the fund, to increase its investment research capability, or to close or merge the fund.
Directors overseeing multiple funds: The unique structure of mutual funds and fund complexes make board oversight of multiple funds within a fund complex an efficient and effective approach to governance. This is because all of the funds within the same complex usually receive necessary services (including, for example, portfolio management and shareholder recordkeeping) from the same entities, are served by common personnel, and are organized around common operating features.
Directors' pay: Fund directors are paid for the work they do on behalf of shareholders, and their fundamental responsibilities are constant, regardless of market fluctuations and the performance of different asset classes. Placing control over compensation in the hands of the independent directors and not with fund management helps to ensure the independence and effectiveness of the board. Moreover, directors' compensation is transparent: every mutual fund is required to disclose directors' compensation in its statement of additional information.
For more information about directors and the work they do on behalf of shareholders, please visit the IDC website.
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Mobile and Online Platforms Also Feature New Fan Interactive Games, Cast Bios and Photos, Access to BIG BROTHER Fantasy Teams and the Latest Videos and Behind-the-Scenes Clips
CBS Partners Again with RealNetworks for Live 24/7 "All Access" Feeds from Inside the House, and SHOWTIME for "BIG BROTHER: After Dark"
Another summer of BIG BROTHER begins July 7 on the CBS Television Network, bringing with it a host of companion presentations via cable, online and mobile platforms.
For the 11th consecutive summer, RealNetworks SuperPass members who are registered as premium users will have access to exclusive live streaming video 24/7.
For the first time, live streaming from inside the BIG BROTHER house will be available on mobile devices. Fans can catch all of the action on a new app for Android(TM)-based mobile phones and tablets*. Fans can subscribe through RealNetwork's SuperPass at www.real.com/bigbrother.
This summer marks the first time that a reality show will provide a live feed of their program for mobile users. The mobile app will be available for download on Android-powered mobile devices following the show's premiere via the Android Market(TM). The tablet app will be available for download later in the month.
All users of the BIG BROTHER app will have free access to the following features:
· BIG BROTHER cast bios and photos, the latest videos and behind-the-scenes clips.
· Management of CBS.com BIG BROTHER Fantasy Teams directly through the app.**
· A Fan Central destination where fans can chat with each other, follow the latest Tweets from BIG BROTHER fans, participate in weekly polls and monitor all of the latest BIG BROTHER news.
A menu of CBS's multi-platform initiatives for BIG BROTHER includes the following elements:
BIG BROTHER on THE CBS TELEVISION NETWORK:
· BIG BROTHER returns on Thursday, July 7 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Following the premiere, BIG BROTHER will be broadcast three nights weekly, Sundays (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT, beginning Sunday, July 10), Wednesdays, (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT, beginning Wednesday, July 13) and the LIVE eviction show, hosted by Julie Chen, Thursdays (9:00-10:00 PM, live ET/delayed PT, beginning Thursday, July 14).
· The Ultimate Fan (Sweepstakes)*** - The Ultimate Fan game returns for another season of rewarding fans for being active on the site with a chance to win a trip to the BIG BROTHER finale. Fans can earn points and badges by participating in various activities around the site, such as watching and commenting on videos, voting on the best moments and photos of the season, and much more. Two weeks prior to the finale, the top 25% of high scorers are entered to win a trip to the BIG BROTHER finale in Los Angeles.
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6.0706 Signature required—Identification.
(a) Every person upon applying to vote shall sign his name in the poll book prepared for that purpose. This requirement may be waived by any district official if for reasons of illiteracy or blindness or other physical disability the qualified elector is unable to write. Every person shall provide identification if so requested by a district official.
(b) After signing the poll book and receiving his ballot, the qualified elector shall proceed to the voting booth to vote according to the voting system in use in his district. The district official may, and upon request shall, explain to the qualified elector the mode of voting.History: 1977, PL 15-42 § 1.


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So the Peoria Police Department sent multiple officers to raid and execute a search warrant at a West Bluff home Tuesday regarding suspicions of an alleged crime being committed there — that being misdemeanor impersonation of the mayor on a Twitter account labeled parody that had 50 followers.
Some observations:
First, local police hauled five people — pulling two off their jobs, which likely got their employers' attentions — to the police station for interrogation, while also confiscating phones and computers (as well as some marijuana and other drug paraphernalia). There is some dispute as to how many cops showed up — Police Chief Steven Settingsgaard says four, typical for a warrant; the residents say up to seven. Whatever, we appreciate that not many may have memorized the Fourth Amendment — which in our experience may be the most battered in the Bill of Rights — but they should: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." The Founders were sensitive on this score, given the excesses of their one-time British rulers and occupiers.
That said, a local judge — actually several judges on various aspects of this investigation — found reasonable grounds for search and signed off. The public officials involved will forgive those who suggest Americans have more to fear from an overreaching, all-powerful government than from a rogue Twitter account. Some locals may view this as another example of overreaction/overkill by police (especially those who recall last year's surveillance of a former councilman on likewise misdemeanor suspicions). Some may object to the use of public resources to address a predominantly private matter, though it could be argued the tweets were a not-so-flattering reflection on the city, as well. Others might suggest the situation had already been rectified by the previous suspension of the Twitter account. Might a knock on the door and a "knock it off" have sufficed?
Second, there is some disagreement over whether this Twitter account — created in February with Mayor Jim Ardis' photo, the city logo and his email address under the handle @Peoriamayor — was satirical in intent. Among the some 50 tweets were vulgar references to sex and drug use and comparisons to erratic, reprobate Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Ardis says that "you couldn't print the things it attributed to me in your paper," that it was embarrassing to his family and that "there's a line here that was not just crossed, but vaulted over." We can appreciate how irritating that would be. It doesn't say much for the adults who were responsible, who certainly invited scrutiny they may not have gotten otherwise. Ours is emphatically no defense of them.
But in fact public figures don't have as much protection against libel and slander as other citizens, having to prove malice in any legal defamation action. Were that not the case, well, for one thing we'd likely have millions of Americans critical of their politicians in court.
In any event, at some point if not at first this Twitter account was titled parody, with one of those questioned this week calling it "fake ... a joke." The police chief and mayor would beg to differ. We'd say this: That people might take these tweets literally or seriously — no one ever went broke underestimating the gullibility of the population in an America where some still believe the president was born in Kenya and swore his oath of office on a Koran — doesn't necessarily disqualify them as satire, even if it's bad satire. Of course, neither does it make them satire (and from what we can gather, few would find them funny). No right is absolute, but government should tread very cautiously here. Indeed, we trust Peoria police won't be storming Peoria's annual Gridiron Dinner — this year's version held last night — an evening of raucous, freewheeling, sometimes even mean-spirited parody.
Police have and should get a fair amount of leeway in enforcing the law, but the statute in question deals with impersonation "with intent to intimidate, threaten, injure, defraud, or to obtain a benefit from another." Was any or all of that the motivation here? Meanwhile, the law makes it a no-no to pretend to be a public safety worker — cop, firefighter, paramedic — veteran, charity worker, attorney, airline employee, parent of a minor child, elected official, government worker in general, even a member of the "Pawner's Society," to which we'd respond: What, not a journalist? It helps to have a thick skin in this profession, as well.
Ultimately, social media is something like the Wild, Wild West of communication. It takes some getting used to. The perceived anonymity it permits can turn it into an adolescent playground, which can be frustrating and infuriating. But we also have a Bill of Rights, including a First Amendment that affords this nation's citizens uncommon latitude to speak their minds, even unfairly, even viciously, even wrongly. Arguably it's the price of living in a free society, which is not always a walk in the park but beats the alternative, and which public officials exercising good judgment should always keep in mind.
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So the Peoria Police Department sent multiple officers to raid and execute a search warrant at a West Bluff home Tuesday regarding suspicions of an alleged crime being committed there — that being misdemeanor impersonation of the mayor on a Twitter account labeled parody that had 50 followers.


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Florida governor proposes funding for spring facilities
LAKELAND, Fla. -- Florida governor Rick Scott used the Tigertown complex as the backdrop to announce a proposal to help cities in his state fund projects for Spring Training facilities to keep teams in the Grapefruit League.
The proposal seeks to establish a $5 million annual fund from which the state would work to match local government funding. The money would be tied specifically to Spring Training facilities.
"It's my job as governor to make sure Florida remains the No. 1 destination for Spring Training," Scott said in a statement.
Since 1998, six clubs have moved their Spring Training facilities to Arizona: White Sox ('98), Royals (2003), Rangers ('03), Dodgers ('09), Reds ('09) and Indians ('09).
The governor spent the day touring the Tigers' Spring Training facilities, meeting players and joining the grounds crew for pregame field work. The Tigers and Lakeland boast the longest-running relationship between a Major League team and its Spring Training home, having hosted the team since 1946. The club first began training in Lakeland in 1934, with a three-year interruption during World War II.
The city of Lakeland is working on a renovation plan for Joker Marchant Stadium that would add seating in some areas and update seating in others, while also renovating practice fields and other facilities.
"For 77 years, the Tigers organization has enjoyed an outstanding relationship with the City of Lakeland, calling Joker Marchant Stadium and the complex their winter home," team president/CEO Dave Dombrowski said in a statement. "We are excited and appreciative that the great state of Florida is doing all it can to continue this partnership for many years to come."
Florida's plan comes as the Grapefruit and Cactus Leagues maintain an even split of Major League teams, 15 in each state. The odd total leads to split-squad games and off-days for every team over the course of the schedule. With each Spring Training agreement that nears expiration for a team, speculation begins anew that Florida or Arizona will try to lure a team from the other state and bring its team total to an even number.


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It's been over two months since the last time I posted, and there's nothing I want more than to tell you I've been doing wonderfully interesting things, that I've been really and truly living. But that would be a hyperbole. I've been alive, yes, and I've done some fun things, yes, but nothing that should keep me from writing.
So let's catch up, shall we?
I haven't lost any weight, but I have gained some. I haven't really been trying, as I've felt mostly unmotivated and uninspired lately. Is this summertime sadness? Is this some looming emotional, existential crisis that has finally landed? Am I just melodramatic? Rather than answer these questions, I usually eat a bag of potato chips (the ones that say "Family Size") and fall asleep on my couch.
I think I've identified one behavior that needs to change.
I wish I had a camera that could take quality pictures of the moon and do its beauty justice.
"A heart that hurts is heart that works."
I don't fantasize about sex. I fantasize about intimacy; how sad is that?
I think a duck must have a perfect life. They just float on, no matter if the water is calm or choppy. They can take off and fly whenever they want. If the only dunk their heads in the water, they have food. It's simple and free, and I am envious.
I am done romanticizing broken men, as if loving them adds something noble to my character.
"I don't hold grudges. I believe that's the shit that leads to cancer."
The school year ended on a high note. The senior events I was charged with helping to plan (Mr. Manchester, Senior Prom, graduation) all went off without a hitch. I am proud of the work I've done.
"Nothing is ever over."
I really need to use my upstairs more. I don't have central air though, so during the summer, the temperature is almost unbearable up there. So I'm in pretentiously self-proclaimed "office," but it's dark in here. It's really dark in my house. I'll say it's to keep it cool, since I don't have central air, but in all honesty, it's because I've been too broke to afford light bulbs and now that I do have money, I'm simply too lazy to buy some and replaced the old ones.
"I know what I want, and I don't mind being alone."
It's really dark in my house. I'll say it's to keep it cool, since I don't have central air, but in all honesty, it's because I've been too broke to afford light bulbs and now that I do have money, I'm simply too lazy to buy some and replaced the old ones.
This is what a successful adult looks like, no?
The literary agent who requested the first fifty pages rejected me, but my original publisher is still thinking about it. What's that saying, when God closes a door, He opens a window? I'm feeling ambivalent to everything, mostly because I'm sunburned and it hurts so I'm cranky.
I like collecting little, seemingly unimportant details of the people in my life to better craft my characters.
When school was in session, I realized that the worst thing about leaving my house each weekday morning wasn't having to bid adieu to my comfortable bed and its cozy covers, but that I miss the early sunlight streaming through the windows and lighting the wooden floors. It's beautiful, and I was sad I could never just sit and admire it. But now I can. I think that's how life is supposed to work.
I do this thing sometimes where I just sit in my car. I might leave the engine running, or I might shut it off, but either way, I sit in the driver's seat, scrolling through the social media garbage on my phone or playing Tetris. It's wasting time, one of the most precious gifts, and I hate it. I don't know why I do it. Is it exhaustion? Is it moodiness? I abhor how lazy I am. I had an idea for a scene for my third novel, but the details have faded. I remember it had something to do with a modest, upstairs library and someone watching on anxiously as someone else carefully surveyed the titles. I wanted to throw in visiting a favorite author's grave, but there was definitely more to it, like dancing or something? I need to write things down more often … obviously.
"Wanting it doesn't make you the monster, taking it does."
Some days, I just waste the hours until I can go back to sleep.
"You can fail at what you don't want to do, so you might as well do what you love."
I've been in a miserable sort of funk, so I'm endeavoring to change my life. My friend thinks I need to be comfortable alone before I can be comfortable with someone. She recommended hiking, picnicking, wine on the beach, seeing movies, and getting coffee. I also think I should leave the state. I've been dying to go to Key West in Florida. This summer, I've decided to dismantle myself from the inside out, rebuilding to be more carefree, more creative, more in love with myself and less dependent on others. Some days, I have to talk myself into getting out of the shower, and even then, I change into pajamas.
But I'm trying to be positive, I swear. I've begun keeping a running list of things that make me happy to be alive (in no particular order).
- fireworks on a summer night
- driving my Jeep without its roof and doors
- sunburn (as long as it turns tan)
- books (even the shitty ones because they're non-examples for my career)
- clean sheets
- hot showers
- food, glorious food!
- running and being sweaty after a run because it helps me to love my body
- good movies
- laughing
- the national pride fearlessly displayed by soccer fans
"The effect you have on others is the greatest currency you'll ever have."
I recently lost a banana for 24 hours.
"I'm ripe with things to say. The words rot and fall away."
So, here's an excerpt from the novel I'm working on. You should hit "play" on the video that follows now, so you can have a soundtrack. Ironically, the song playing is not the one I quote in the paragraph that follows. I wish I knew why I do the things that I do.
"The thing about things is that they can start meaning things nobody actually said, and if he couldn't make something mean something for me, I had to make up what it meant."
– Amanda Palmer
Kelly dropped the box filled with odds and ends concerning the kitchen with an exaggerated, dramatic sigh of relief. The box landed on Charlotte's tiny, cheaply and poorly made kitchen table, a piece of furniture she had salvaged from her grandmother's home, a piece that had likely been in the home for forty years – a horrible blend of Formica and putrid pastels. For a moment, Charlotte had been hopeful the weight of the box would crush the table and put the ugly thing out of its misery, but she had no such luck. She watched Kelly similarly drop herself into a chair, sweaty and tired from a day spent moving, a day of manual labor. "I don't want to do this anymore," she whined.
Charlotte offered a grin of commiseration. "I know, me neither." She moved a few steps closer, resting against the back of a chair.
"Then let's call it quits and do something better."
"Like what? As you can tell, I haven't got much of anything."
Kelly thought for a moment. "You got playing cards?"
"I think so," Charlotte said. She knew damn well that she did, but she was playing it cool for no other reason than it was a habit turned instinct. It was irrational – there was no way Kelly would give a shit about how those cards came to be in Charlotte's possession, or how seeing those cards made Charlotte's dumb heart skip a beat even now, even though she was nearly 1,000 miles away.
Kelly's face of thoughtful concentration broke into a youthful smile of excitement. "Well, shoot – I've got beer and some of them crisps. How's 'bout you and me play us a few rounds of cards?"
"Sure," Charlotte smiled. Kelly scurried back to her neighboring apartment to scrounge up some beer and some snacks, and Charlotte headed to her bedroom. At the foot of her bed, upon the creaky floor, sat a box labeled, "PERSONAL." It had been the only box Charlotte had personally moved, had tucked discreetly in her car and carried hurriedly across the threshold of her new apartment, lest anyone should see and ask about the contents, most of which meant absolutely nothing to anyone except Charlotte (hence the label). It wasn't filled with lingerie or vibrators or dirty pictures or anything like that. The contents only embarrassed Charlotte because of their innocence, because only a prude would cling to a random assortment of objects that reminded her of people who had long since removed themselves from her life, or had been removed for any number of offenses. The items in the box would mean nothing to a passerby and that embarrassed Charlotte, like there was something shameful and almost juvenile about being anything but obvious.
She squatted somewhat uncomfortably to delicately open the box, lovingly unfold the flaps so that she had complete access to some of her memories, so that the majority of the contents were visible. Charlotte only needed to scan the contents for a few seconds before she found the deck of cards, quaintly contained in cardboard, beaten up from a few years of handling. A smile splayed itself unabashedly upon her lips as she reached into the box the same way a heart surgeon would reach into her patient's chest cavity. With the same kind of epic patience, she removed the playing cards from the box and began walking back to the kitchen. The youthful, exuberant smile quickly became nostalgic and sad.
The playing cards were white with silver, loopy hearts decorating their backs. The hearts were cute, sure, but there was nothing remarkable about their appearance. They were a treasured item for Charlotte only because of the way the cards came to be in her possession. A few years ago, Charlotte had fallen in love with a beautiful, brilliant, and broken man. As a result, she had developed a constant need to be around him, to be close to him, and so, she invited him everywhere.
One night, she invited him back to her hotel room after a work conference. She and her colleagues had all been drinking for quite some time, right up until the lights came up for last call. The beautiful, broken man had joined them at the bar, at Charlotte's request, of course. Charlotte had always envied the sort of effortless grace that surrounded him, the way he could suddenly appear anywhere at anytime and be welcomed and accepted. When he strolled into the bar without fanfare or pomp and circumstance, without having attended any of the conference because of a prior commitment, Charlotte was breathless with awe. It was like something of a horribly cheesy and romantic movie made for network television; he could have been walking in slow motion beneath a burning spotlight towards a strategically placed wind machine. The fact that he was walking towards Charlotte smiling was wonderful and she was so happy she could burst apart. She never ever wanted her time with him to end, and her colleagues and friends didn't want to stop drinking, so a select few decided to buy some beer and return to Charlotte's room. She turned to her beautiful, broken man and invited him. He played it cool – he was always so goddamn cool – and didn't really answer one way of the other. Even when they were walking back to the hotel, just across the street, he wouldn't accept or outright reject the invitation. When he climbed into his car, a lump formed in Charlotte's throat. She would let him go and hide her disappointment, try and play it cool, so her parting words asked that if he did come, to bring playing cards. He waved somewhat dismissively and drove away. The copious amounts of alcohol she had consumed kept Charlotte's mood from dipping too low and she scampered back to the hotel among friends, arm in arm, with high spirits.
He sent her a text later saying he couldn't find playing cards and was just going home. Charlotte sighed heavily and thought her best recourse was to just keep drinking.
About twenty minutes later, there was a booming knock at the hotel room door. It sounded particularly authoritative and Charlotte was worried it was the cops. Were they being too loud? Her one friend raced to the bathroom to hide while the other pressed herself further into the bed, as if the mattress could swallow her whole and conceal her. They had left Charlotte to answer the door and so she did, despite feeling suddenly and incredibly nauseous. She opened it and saw no one. No one was there.
She whipped her head to the right and gazed down an empty hallway.
Looking to the left revealed her beautiful, broken man. He was leaning against the hallway wall like some leading man from Hollywood. His arm was bent at the elbow so he had one hand behind his head and rested his weight against the wall through the point of that bent elbow. His right leg was crossed behind the left one and the toes were pointed down at the plush carpet. In his other hand, he twirled a pack of playing cards. He was smiling, quite pleased with himself and the effect it all had on Charlotte. There was certainly something gorgeous about him, something more than his appearance. His demeanor drove her wild – she would never able to pull off such an entrance, but he had.
And it had been for her. What more could a girl possibly ask for?
But nothing had come of it. He was with some woman with a checkered past and too much makeup. Charlotte's grandma was worsening, and so she had left it all, run away. But she kept the playing cards to remind herself that for one night, she had gotten exactly what she had wanted, that she had been perfectly happy. The cards symbolized possibility – if it happened once, couldn't it happen again?


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Final Post: Did We Prove It?
I started this blog more than two years ago. And this last post will soon join all of the others I've done in the great Internet Archive in the sky (luckily still searchable!). But before we say goodbye (for now), I want to gather up part of what I've learned, contributed, and where I went wrong.


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Will You Wear the 'Brothel Creeper?'
The new sole of the fashion world is geeky, clumsy, and androgynous. Christina Binkley joins Lunch Break to explain how one ugly shoe is gracing the prettiest runways. Photo: Prada.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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McLouth impacting game whether he runs or not
ARLINGTON -- Orioles left fielder Nate McLouth stole his first base since June 19 in the first inning Saturday night, and that's perfectly fine with manager Buck Showalter.
"I love what he's doing," Showalter said of McLouth, who has a career-high 25 steals in 29 attempts already this season. "It's not there. Guys are about 1.1 [seconds] to the plate when he's over there now. And he's not going to run into outs."
McLouth has the second-most stolen bases in the American League, and the 31-year-old has been a spark atop the lineup, taking over the bulk of the Orioles' leadoff duties. Through the team's first 97 games, McLouth hit .278 with six homers and 17 RBIs, and his speedy ways sparked a team T-shirt giveaway that dubbed him the "Base Bandit."
"We talked about it in the dugout the other day," Showalter said. "He said you all [in the media] are saying something to him about it. He said, 'The [stolen bases] are not there.' I said, 'I know they are not. But by them being quicker on you, the guys are hitting better, because [of the offspeed] pitches they aren't able to throw.' So, he's impacting the game even when he doesn't run. If they relax on him again, he'll ambush them."


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Each repository Web service defines a security function. This function lets you define a security policy that can be applied across many services at once. You can define these functional names and security policy relationships in the Web Service Security Configuration section of the Oracle ATG Web Commerce Web Service Administration interface. See Creating Web Services in the ATG Web Services and Integration Framework Guide for more information.
If you want to change any of these functional names in order to change the way different Web services are grouped, you must regenerate the Web services, because the functional name for security policy purposes is hard coded into the generated class. The functional name for each of the three repository Web services included in the Oracle ATG Web Commerce platform is
repositoryOperation. By default, this functional name is mapped to a security policy that allows access only by Administrators. You are free to change this to suit your needs, depending on how you expect to use this service.


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Josef Marcolin was invited to Sweden in 1954 to give new impulse to their glass industry. In 1961 he started his own atelier in Ronneby, Sweden - together with his brother Benito Marcolin. This enterprise continued until 1991 when he retired. His collection is now produced in Italy by ColleVilca.
"The Credo of Josef Marcolin:
Genuine hand-sculptured art crystal = the result of love and sweat,
Raw material = fascinating molten crystal (1200° C)
Qualities: In the liquid state = glowing, flowing, living
In the solid state = man's copy of nature's most intricate piece of art - the diamond.
Since the dawn of Man, the human hand, nature's most elaborate instrument, has imposed its will upon the forms and forces of nature. Yet in no field has it been more successful in achieving and ever surpassing its desire to create beauty than in the field of shaping art crystal. The hand has learned to master and form the glowing, living matter through inspiration, muscular power, the sensitivity of the fingertips, with simple tools, all in the few seconds preceeding solidification. The hands have learned to give to the material a symbolic expression of its own life and motion, to be frozen there forever."
I like furnace decorated glass.
The form is elegant and precise.
It came from the Salvo's five weeks ago
There is an interesting video of one of Marcolin's students creating a cat sculpture on youtube:
This yacht also comes in a two-toned coloured version.
It is signed on the bottom Marcolin Sweden B638.72.
Height 22 cm / 9 inches
Length 21 cm / 8.9 inches


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Connecticut bill includes up to $50M for Newtown school
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Connecticut lawmakers are setting aside up to $50 million to help Newtown build a new school to replace the one where a shooting massacre took place last year.
The money was tucked into a bonding bill passed Wednesday, the final day of the legislative session. It's among municipal grants for infrastructure projects and programs including planning, property acquisition, site preparation and construction.
A Newtown task force last month voted to tear down Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 children and six educators were killed. It voted to construct a new building on the site.
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Dying for Science: The 100th Anniversary of the Doomed Scott Antarctic Expedition
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Larson talks about his article "Greater Glory" in the June issue of Scientific American on the forgotten science of the doomed Scott expedition a hundred years ago. Web sites related to this episode include Greater Glory and Edward Larson's page on Amazon.com
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Steve: Welcome to Scientific American's Science Talk, posted on May 26th, 2011. I am Steve Mirsky. This week on the podcast:
Larson: When they dump everything and are sort of racing back to get to the final depot, they haul those 35 pounds of fossils all the way to when they die.
Steve: That's Edward Larson. He's a professor of history and law at Pepperdine University and a prolific writer. Larson won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1998 book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion. His latest work is Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science, and he has an article called "Greater Glory" in the June issue of Scientific American on the little-known scientific expedition aspect of the race to the South Pole between Scott and Roald Amundsen. On May 23rd Larson was in New York City to lecture at the Explorer's Club; we got together just before his talk. At the conclusion of the interview, I will tell you how to access his Scientific American article on the Web at no charge for a limited time.
Steve: Well, the story has everything in it. It's got adventure, it's got, unfortunately, tragedy, it has this, kind of, incipient understanding of plate tectonics, that's implied, it has evolutionary theory. How did you wind up getting interested in this story?
Larson: I got interested in this story because of the science part. Of course, I love adventure like everyone else, and the trip to the South Pole, being of Norwegian and Swedish ancestry myself, of course Amundsen always has been a hero of mine; Scott is a fascinating man. So I always liked the story just for the adventure. But as a historian of science, what really drew me to write a article and to write more, a book on it, is because of the science. Because that's what people haven't understood. The story is so good because of the tragedy. The race to the pole is so exciting. That is what most of the historians and most of the popularizers focus on. And what they leave behind is this incredible rich array of scientific research of what Scott's team was doing and Shackleton's team were doing before him, and this is where the evolution comes in and the new theories of geology, new research on geology, a re-understanding of climate and how the Antarctica is at the centre of a global system. Really those early scientific expeditions, which we remember as a race to the pole, really that's where ecology was invented in many ways, because they realized that the world was a global system in many ways based on the Antarctic, and they found evidence of the climate change that we are now experiencing; that's what got me so interested in the story. The legend is great, the adventure is great, but what really is of lasting significance is the science, and I wanted to add that to the story.
Steve: When I am old enough where when I was a kid, Scott was still, you know, had this fame still attached to his name and this heroism and again the tragic aspect because he does not live through the mission. But I doubt kids today hear much about Amundsen and Scott.
Larson: We don't hear about them as much in the United States. Of course still in England and in Europe, especially in England, Scott is very well known and in Scandinavia, Amundsen is very well known. People do generally know a little bit about the South Pole, and they know a little bit about the story, because it has lived on. But interestingly, when if you're old enough, you do remember Scott as a hero because that was the legend that was created out of England, because they wanted heroes. But by the later part of the 20th century especially after a book called Scott and Amundsen went back and looked it over again, they began then to view Scott that he was a bungler, that he had insisted in man hauling, pulling the sledges himself, while the Norwegian sailed down there with dogs, had an easy trip down and back, very efficient and very well run. Shackleton, who was a rival in the entire enterprise, his star rose; he became synonymous with leadership. It's partly from his later expedition where his ship went down and he had the magnificent voyage back, captured in Endurance, and his own book, South.
Steve: And the movie with Kenneth Branagh; he really had it going about 10 years ago.
Larson: Amazing stuff. And so in a way, Shackleton and to a lesser extent Amundsen eclipsed Scott's star mostly, and Scott had been reduced to the level of being a bit of a bungler. You can capture it in a way, that one time there were four pictures of Scott in the National Portrait gallery in England, which is sort of their pantheon of heroes—they're all gone. Shackleton is still up but Scott has gone. Well what allowed that to happen was leaving the role of science out.
Steve: Right. The Norwegians, they just wanted to get to the South Pole, so they could travel light. But Scott had this scientific enterprise in mind also, so that necessitated all the other stuff they were carrying.
Larson: He had a huge team; he had 33 people down there. They were off on a variety of other expeditions. Many of their best men were involved in doing other things: trying to hunt for fossils, studying glaciers and glacial movements, studying climate, studying penguins.
Steve: That's another amazing thing about the article. They already were thinking about something that's still controversial in some circles today—it's pretty much been decided—that is that birds evolved from reptiles. Again that was something that was not accepted until fairly recently, but there were people on that expedition looking for evidence for that connection.
Larson: The idea was out there. Biologists had suggested maybe birds came from reptiles. T. H. Huxley had suggested that in the late 1800s. One of the main goals of the expedition, one of the reasons why it was funded by the British government and backed by the Royal Society, was to look for just that evidence. Because they thought back then that penguins were the oldest form of most ancient species of birds. And penguins were very little known, certainly the emperor penguin was literally unknown before Scott's first expedition, and they wanted to go down there and study penguins, study the penguin lifestyle, study the penguin life cycle, and try to see if there was evidence in these penguins of a connection to reptiles—basically that they might have been a living fossils as it were. So they were looking into those questions, which was right on the cutting edge of science. It wasn't just, they weren't just collecting a few specimens on the side. They were actually trying to conduct scientific research. And this, even though Scott himself wanted to get to the pole and Scott himself was a leader—he wasn't a scientist himself—he became interested in the science. He had teams that he had to provision and he had to send out, and many of the men that were on his expedition to the pole, the group that went all the way to the pole, many of them had already been taxed by earlier trips before they were going to the pole to go out and study penguins or to go study glaciers or do other work. One of them, Wilson, was the scientific chief and zoologist. In contrast with Amundsen, there were nine of them down there, every one of them was focused 100 percent on getting the team to the pole. They were focused—that's one of the strengths of focus. If you want to study leadership there's many lessons you can learn from Amundsen: He had a goal, he knew how to get there, and he had a brilliant trip down, a brilliant trip back. He gained weight on the trip.
Steve: That was an amazing part of the story. These guys are running around on Antarctica, it's 70 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, and this guy actually gains weight.
Larson: Well, they had too much food. They left food at these depots, and they weren't eating, they couldn't use it all, they were so well supplied, so well planned. In contrast of course, Scott starves, he runs out of food on the way back. So, certainly Scott made some mistakes, but he was doing a variety of things. And in so many ways his expedition, and before that Shackleton's first expedition and before that Scott's first, they were very similar to modern scientific enterprises. And they really created a longer legacy, because somebody would have gotten to the pole some day anyway. It's a great accomplishment, it's a great feat, but it doesn't have lasting significance. Whereas the science that was done by these early expeditions, they laid the foundations for the research that's still going on today, and that's, of course, what most people are doing in Antarctica now is scientific research.
Steve: Tell the story of the search for this particular plant fossil, because what I found really fascinating about it was, it was in part an effort to debunk a creationist notion, but it also assumes that the continents had to have been together at one point.
Larson: That's one of the interesting stories that come out. Again there are many bits of science, just like when we send a spacecraft to Mars or to the Moon or just to go into orbit, we try to pack a lot of different scientific experiments on that same one so that all added together they can justify the expense. Well the British were doing the same thing. And among those things that they were looking for, they were looking for better studies of glaciers, they were looking for climate, they were looking for oceanography, they were looking in a lot of different areas; they were looking at of course penguins and possible connections with reptiles and links, birds with reptiles. But one of the added things and this was partly because T. H. Huxley and then Joseph Hooker were involved. Now, Joseph Hooker was head of the Kew Gardens and a very close friend of Charles Darwin—the last survivor of his inner circle as it were—and in the 1870s one of the arguments used against Darwin's theory while Darwin was still alive was the fossil record shows that there was a particular sort of broad-leafed flora, a broad-leafed fern-like plant that was discovered in the fossil record of Africa, South America and Australia. Now, it appeared to be about of the same age and so creationists would say this is evidence of a progressive creation, that God created these things. Because there was no way for this particular plant to get to those three different places, these three different areas in the southern hemisphere and to be about the same, that would have evolved if there had been evolution or it would have had to start somewhere and a simpler form had to be discovered. So what Darwinism is, the evidence for evolution is what's called hypo-deductive, that is you come up with a hypothesis and then you go down and see if it works. That's evidence for evolution. Darwin said, there must be a continent down in the South Pole. Now at that time no one knew, before these expeditions no one even knew there was a continent down there; they knew there were some islands but they thought it could be, just as easily be, like the North Pole where there are few islands like Baffin Island and Greenland but then there it's open ocean. They had no evidence that there was a continent. Darwin said that there must be a continent which was once warmer—so not only did he hypothesize there was a continent —but that was once warmer and this type of flora had evolved there and spread from there over land bridges or some sort of connections to the southern continents. So that was his hypothesis, and Huxley remembered that and Hooker remembered that. And so when the effort began building to send an expedition to the Antarctic continent, to actually winter there, they got on the board and they pushed hard; and Huxley died before it happened, but Hooker remained alive and was on the planning committee. And he pushed that one of the main goals was to try to find this flora. That would mean proving that there was a continent down there that was once warm enough to evolve a different form of plant life. And so Scott's first expedition went down, the so called Discovery expedition in 1901, and they found that there was a continent down there and they found rocks that looked like they suggested there might have once been plant life but no distinct fossils. Well, Shackleton goes next. He had been on the first one but he took his own expedition in 1906, and he took better scientists and better geologists, and they discovered plant fossils in coal seams, beds of coal in Antarctica. So not only did they establish it was a continent but that it was once warm enough to harbor enough life to have produced whole beds of coal and a lot of distinct fossils. So they have gone a long way but they still didn't find this particular type. And so what happened was, when Scott went back down they were specially looking for this, because that would basically strike down one of the creationists' arguments. And so they were looking for this. And various teams were out, he had many teams out doing research, and they found a vast array of fossils, fossilized trees, but they still didn't find this particular one. What's so amazing and fitting, touching in a way, is on that death march back from the pole, when they were running out of food, running out of fuel, when it was dicey whether they would even make it back—of course with them was Edward Wilson who was their science chief and a biologist—on the one place on the whole trip back that's not totally covered with ice, they come down Beardmore Glacier and there are some cliffs that stick out; there are some mountains when they were coming down Beardmore Glacier but half way back there were some exposed cliffs. And he spotted what looked like very suggestive fossils. So they went somewhat out of their way and they geologized for a day—remember they were dying, they have scurvy, they're injured, one of them is going to die just a couple of days later, they're short on food—but they spend a day geologizing and they find this particular fossil. The first time they found this particular type of fern, they bring it back, when they dump everything and are sort of racing back to get to the final depot, which they don't make, Wilson insisted they kick those fossils with them, 35 pounds, so they hauled those 35 pounds of fossils all the way to when they die. And so when the party comes the next year, the search party to find their remains, they find with them the tent and the three men in there, they find the sledge with the fossil remains, which include this long-sought plant. So it's an amazing story that pulls it all together.
Steve: Do you draw parallels in the book by any chance to the space program? the two kinds of efforts seem to have a lot of parallels?
Larson: There are some in the preface, in the beginning materials, the comparisons with how they're similar, in the sense that they both had a goal. I mean what did we really want to do in the space program? Well, we wanted to get to the moon, and John Kennedy set us that goal, and that was a national prestige. And for Britain that was similar; they wanted to get to the South Pole, they wanted to get there first. But just like our space program did science along the way; at every step it was doing science, it was collecting rocks, it was studying, scientists were preparing challenges for them and puzzles for them; that was the same way that the British went about this. The government funded the expeditions and it supported it, so did the scientific organizations like the Royal Society and the Royal Geographic Society, and they gave it a scientific agenda. So in that way there are the definite parallels, and it was similar to the importance for the British morale and British spirit. Of course the one difference, which makes it a little problematic, is the fact that, what if the Russians had just barely beat us without doing science? And that is, sort of, what happened to the Brits. So there was quite a bit of animosity and anger in England, even though in United States and the continent of Europe there was tremendous admiration for what Amundsen had done. In Britain there was a tremendous sense of he had not gone about it fairly in the proper British way. Of course they didn't know Scott had died for another year; Amundsen had come back and they thought Scott was still down there doing science. And so all the papers and newspapers and magazines were writing, "Well, he may not have gotten there first, but he did it right, he is going to come back with all this incredible science." Scott wrote touching letters to his family, to his wife, to the British people, while he was dying in the tent; and they were so well written—Scott was a beautiful writer. And World War I was coming, the Great War, and for the British government and the British people and British leadership, it became more important to play up that heroic death, that sacrifice for the country, because that's what so many were going to do. And so the science was dropped out of the story for 80 years. And it was certainly dropped out during the Great War and instead they talked about, look at Scott dying' and there were a lot of comparisons made then to the many Brits who were shot in no-man's land and left to die in between the lines. And they would use Scott as an example: Think how heroically Scott died those last eight days in that blizzard. And that became the story, and so when the futility of World War I set in, that this was a meaningless war and meaningless carnage; when that finally set in—which really didn't fully set in until the 1950s or '60s but began setting in earlier—Scott, since he was so tied with that, he was seen, well his was just as much folly, his was just as much foolishness. Well if you take science out, it was like World War I: courageous but maybe misguided. But if you add the science to it, then you got a modern story that resonates in the 21st century.
Steve: And we should point out this the 100th anniversary, and what made me think about the space program connection, in addition to the obvious parallels about going places that are exceptionally dangerous, hostile and no one has ever been; this is one of—as I said, I am old enough so that when I was a kid we still heard about Scott, and I realized it's not exactly the same amount of time by any means, but it's getting close to from when I was a kid back to 1911, to now in comparison to the space program. So it's kind of mind boggling when you look at it that way, to me anyway that, you know, you jump 50 years in one direction and you go from Scott to practically the moon; and you go another 40 years, and here we are today wondering what we're going to do next because we don't even have a space, a particular vehicle at the moment.
Larson: It does force one to think about how far we've come that 100 years ago—you're right, it was 100 years ago in December 1911 that Amundsen reached the South Pole—so that means 100 years ago today, we still had not reached the South Pole; and it was only 101 years ago we reached the North Pole. To think that is so recent—of course, we later found out that they didn't even make it to the North Pole on that one but that's beside the point. The point is, that is so recent that there were places on Earth we hadn't reached and that then in the next 100 years we reached to the moon, and we're making all this progress in space. Personally I wish we would get back into space exploration because I, like you, grew up in that period, and to me people like John Glenn and Neil Armstrong were real heroes.
Steve: John Glenn was a god in my house when I was a little kid.
Larson: And he has lived up to that expectation. No one, unlike Scott, no one has ever debunked what he has done, no one ever debunked what our space program did. And it was leading us into ways that lifted us all up. And frankly I, if you would have asked me when I was a boy watching John Glenn or watching Neil Armstrong when I was in high school land on the moon, I would have thought we would be on Mars by now, and I am frankly I am disappointed that we are not. But of course, I like these adventures; that's why I like the story of getting to the South Pole. I like the story of humans reaching always further, and whether it be geographical places like the South Pole or the moon, or greater knowledge in science in understanding of how nature works; to me it's all tied together and that's why this was such a great story for me, and that's why I wrote this book, An Empire of Ice.
Steve: The full text of Edward Larson's article, "Greater Glory" is being made available free for a limited time to fans of Scientific American's page on Facebook. If you're not already a fan, it's easy to do. Just go to www.facebook.com/ScientificAmerican. Also check out Larson's other books, including a small volume that I have read called Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory. It's really good. Well, that's it for this episode. Get your science news at www.ScientificAmerican.com where you can check out our image gallery on the latest erupting Icelandic volcano. As somebody tweeted on Twitter the other day—well, where else are you going to tweet?—anyway, "Whenever a cat walks across a keyboard, it gives an Icelandic volcano a name." For Scientific American's Science Talk, I am Steve Mirsky. Thanks for clicking on us.


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Nah, let's not. Let's just say that I was glad for the weekend to begin. Here's our weekend:
This is Taylor with his date, Lindsay Bird, as they are leaving for the Sadie Hawkins dance. Awww...!
Here is Spencer, who used amazing talent, skill, and positive energy to create this pot for one of his teachers.
This is the view out our front door this morning.
This is what I've looked like every Sunday for three weeks (except sometimes without the smile). My cold is better, but Bri had a terrible case of the flu Thursday and Friday. The bishop invited us to keep our family home today and get better. While I'm getting lots of little projects done, it sure doesn't feel like a Sunday. *sigh*
And tomorrow I will head back to work, where I will hope that Monday the 16th is better than Friday the 13th was.


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