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CanWest Interactive operates Canada.com, Canada's full service portal for personalized information and services including travel, autos, careers, finance, free e-mail, news, shopping, sports, a business and people directory, and more. It has an average of 103 million page impressions and over 2 million unique users per month.
Exploiting any of three vulnerabilities at Canada.com websites exist could enable an attacker to access the e-mail account or financial portfolio of a targeted Canada.com user.
Cross Site Scripting at http://finance.canada.com
Canada.com's finance site, located at http://finance.canada.com allows users to track financial portfolios. Users enter individual stock symbols along with the quantity of shares purchased, date purchased and commission paid. The site will then track the gains and losses for the portfolio.
The finance site uses session cookies to maintain state. The cookie expires when the user either closes the browser window or logs out of the site. A cross- site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists that would allow an attacker to access the session cookies of an authenticated user. It is important to note that because session cookies are used,
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The following URL provides a proof of concept for the attack. If an authenticated user were to click on the URL, their session cookies would be displayed in an alert window:
< script >alert(document.cookie)< /script >&x=35&y=9
Weak Session IDs at http://finance.canada.com
While the aforementioned vulnerability details how an attacker can steal session cookies via an XSS attack, this is not necessary if the attacker knows the username of the victim. The finance site uses the following session cookie to maintain state for a logged in user:
CBUSER=[username]:canada; expires=; path=/;
Simply by accessing the finance page using this cookie with an established username in the CBUSER field, it is possible to view and edit the financial portfolio set up by a legitimate user. The user does not need to be logged in at the time of the attack.
Cross Site Scripting at http://mail.canada.com
Like many web portals, Canada.com offers free e-mail accounts. Canada.com users can read and send e-mail messages via a web browser by accessing the http://mail.canada.com web site.
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists that would allow an attacker to access the session cookies of an authenticated user. It is important to note that because session cookies are used, the victim would need to be logged into his e-mail account at the time of the attack.
The following web page provides a proof of concept for the attack. If an authenticated user were to view the web page, their session cookies would be displayed in an alert window:
<body ONLOAD="document.forms(0).submit()">
<form method=post
<input type=hidden name="create_name"
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The XSS exploits provide a proof of concept, but could easily be modified to redirect the captured session IDs to a web server controlled by the attacker. Once the attacker obtained the session IDs they could then hijack the victim's session and access either their financial portfolio or email account. Both attacks require an element of social engineering, as the victim would need to click on the URL or view the web page. This could be accomplished by sending the URL or web page to the user via e-mail. The weak session IDs used by the finance site make it trivial for an attacker to access financial portfolios
established by legitimate users.
The financial portfolios are not linked to brokerages and an attacker would not therefore be able to cause financial harm to the victim. However, this does present a privacy risk due to the fact that many people use this site to track established portfolios. An attacker could therefore use this attack to gain detailed financial information.
By using the XSS attack for the mail site, an attacker could access the e-mail account of a legitimate user. Once the account is accessed, the attacker could view the victim's e-mail messages or send messages from their account. This attack presents privacy and non- repudiation risks.
All users that have established financial portfolios or e-mail accounts at Canada.com are vulnerable.
No workaround is available as of this writing.
Numerous attempts were made to contact the web site administrator(s) to inform them of the vulnerabilities, however no response has been received as of this writing.
The Mitre Corp.'s Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Project did not assign identification numbers for these issues.
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In its opener Saturday against Napa, Reed took a 1-0 lead with a run in the third. Hannah Martini walked with two outs, moved to second on a wild pitch and scored on a Megan Dettling single.
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•At the same preseason tournament, Spanish Springs was saddled with a loss and picked up a win on the final day of action at the three-day event.
The Cougars dropped their first game Saturday, getting shut out by Rancho Cordova, Calif., 3-0. SSHS coach Jeff Davidson said his club actually outhit its opponent and hit the ball hard time and again. but did not have much to show for its efforts.
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Sophomore Brett Lawrence went the distance in the circle for Spanish Springs and picked up the win.
"Everybody contributed in the lineup got hits," Davidson said of the win over the Grizz. "I feel pretty good about the weekend. We went 3-2. We got to see live pitching and good pitching. Overall, I felt it was very positive ... We're a young team. We got a chance to se what we had. Now that the tournament's over, it's time to get back home and get to work again."
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so i have two blends in one document. when i export to swf, there doesn't seem to be a way to get them to play concurrently in the file - they play consecutively. is there a way to get around this?
also, i have a path set to multiply, but when blended it seems to go to normal. does the blend tool not support layer (blending modes) modes?
You can blend between Groups. So instead of making two blends like this:
You can make one blend like this:
GroupA(Object1, Object3)>>>GroupB(Object2, Object4).
This may or may not be suitable for your artwork. If it doesn't, the thing to do would be to create two separate animations as Flash Symbols, and then use Flash to put them in the same movie and have them start at the same time.
It makes sense that Blends would convert to frames that play in sequence, because each blend can have a different number of steps. Otherwise, the interface would have to provide means by which you specify how the steps of the different Blends synchronize.
What I believe you have to do is actually manually take eacch path of the second segment of the blend and place them in the corresponding layer of the path of the first section layered build and then export as a swf so that the paths are playing at the same time.
So you release the first section as a layer build then manually or perhaps with the script populate the corresponding layer in that build.
Or do this in with flash or after effects
thanks guys. so here are a few notes:
JETaImage > i tried grouping before but it was essentially getting rid of my transparency (i have the items set to multiply). so i tried flattening the transparency but then it started changing my shapes. i've included diagrams of the 3 approaches i've taken.
Wade > i'm actually not sure what you mean. i've tried keeping all objects in the same layer but they still play consecutively. i also don't have flash or aftereffects on this machine.
my diagram:
1. i tried doing in groups. ended up canceling my "multiply".
3. flattened transparency. gave me wonky tween images (as seen in the bottom row). bottom row consists of 3rd tween in series pulled from blend.
2. nothing is grouped. i have the brown line blended and the orange block blended individually.
NB: as a side note, why does my orange block change shape in 1 and 2? i just want it to curve slightly, and not turn into an entirely new polygon.
Can you post a screen shot of waaht you want the first frame and the last frame to look like?
Ok so this is what I did I made
1. one path with two strokes
2 made the top stroke orange and gave it a transparency
3. increase the stroke
4. gave it dash settings so I only had a portion showing ( yopu hight be able to do this actually by using the transform effect and using the scaling feature decrease the length
5. then copied and pasted in front and curved the path and adjusted the transform and the dash (as I worte before you might not need to make a dash line but just scale the width of that stroke.
6. Then made the blend
7. This is important I then released to layers sequence
and I got this (I don't know why it is so big from my server?)
I checked it out you can do it without the dash line bu that requires a warp effect as well as a transform for the curved path. I can post screen shots if you want to try that approach.
>...i tried flattening the transparency but then it started changing my shapes...
Flattening transparency performs Boolean operations (add, subtract, intersect, etc,) on the original objects to create a new set of objects which only appear to be translucent. So you are dealing with a different set of paths after flattening transparency. The result of a Blend is very dependent upon number of objects involved, object stacking order, number of anchorPoints in each path involved, and winding direction of those paths. That's why predictable Blends are constructed from carefully-drawn paths, keeping those factors in mind; not from the results of automated "shortcut" features like autotracing, flattening, etc.
(...as a side note, why does my orange block change shape in 1 and 2?)
I don't know what the bottom row of images is supposed to depict. But it will have to do with one of the factors mentioned above (winding direction, etc.)
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thanks very much guys. give these a try. next time i'll probably use a different program though...
BTW someone else asked if you can if you can make a movie out of the swf file and the answer is yes both in After Effects and Preneire Pro excellent results.


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Cheesy bean burgers
Cooking timePrep: 15 mins Cook: 25 mins Plus chilling
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 2
This super-satisfying, vegetarian bean burger makes a cheap and easy after-work meal for all the family
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- 400g can butter beans, drained and rinsed
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
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- 1 tbsp plain flour
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- Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Tip the butter beans into a bowl and mash with a fork to form a rough purée. Set aside. Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a small frying pan and add the onion and garlic. Cook over a gentle heat for 3-4 mins, until softened.
- Stir the onion mixture into the butter beans, along with the cheese, then season. Shape the mixture into 4 patties, cover and chill for 10 mins.
- Put the cherry tomatoes in a small roasting tin and season with salt and pepper. Roast for 10-15 mins, until tender.
- Tip the flour, egg and breadcrumbs onto three separate plates. Roll each patty in the flour, dusting off any excess, carefully roll in the egg, then finally coat in the breadcrumbs.
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Just made for my 19 month old twins. Used mix of cheddar and gruyere cheese and added some herbs and sweet paprika to the seasoning. Kids really enjoyed them. Would either try a stronger cheddar or other stronger cheese in future, or add more spices to give a bit more punch. Pretty good though and the best thing is there are some in the freezer for a future meal as well. Quick easy and cheap!
These are an absolute staple in our house for my 14yr old vegetarian (and we carnivores alike!) ALWAYS use mature cheddar, and they are consistently wonderful - moist, tasty filling combines so well with crunchy outer. Am about to make a huge batch for the freezer, and use up of loaf of brown bread for outer crumbs.


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Dinner rides include your choice of taking a 30-minute horseback or horse-drawn wagon ride to the Double Dollar Lodge. When you arrive at the lodge you will be welcomed with cold drinks and given a chance to take in the scenery before dinner. After dinner, head outside and let us teach you how to calf rope. At the end of the evening you will enjoy a ride back to edge of the property while viewing the beautiful Colorado sunset from the wagon or on horseback.
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Water Forms
by Jean Cutler Prior
With the puddling of raindrops, water gathers for its innumerable journeys throughout Iowa. As it moves along, water may become part of a kettlehole, a marsh, a farm pond, a river, a flood, an aquifer, a fen, a cave, a spring, or a waterfall. In all of its aspects, water adds fluid beauty to the landscape. Both above and below ground, water is an ever-present geologic force as well as a vital natural resource, and the focus of environmental protection and natural resource issues.
Thousands of years ago, water in its crystalline form of ice carried the raw building materials of much of Iowas present landscape into the state within the grasp of massive glaciers. In turn, the melting of these glaciers laid the course of most rivers seen on todays maps of Iowa. Even the states bedrock foundation, whose picturesque ledges and bluffs outcrop along some of these river valleys, originated as layers of sediment settling out of water on ancient sea floors, along coastlines, and in stream channels millions of years ago.
Iowas past geological environments supplied the earth materials that contain our present surface and groundwater resources. These materials shape the forms that water takes on the land surface, and they also determine how fast and how far water moves underground and where it can be tapped for wells. They affect groundwaters natural quality, as well as its vulnerability to contamination introduced from the land surface.
Photo by Photographic Services, The University of Iowa.
The water in these poorly drained kettleholes accumulates from rainfall and snowmelt as well as groundwater seepage. The wetland features are a legacy of melting glacial ice 13,000 to 11,000 years ago. (Left) Freda Haffner Kettlehole State Preserve, Dickinson County. (Right) Bjorkboda Marsh, Hamilton County.
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In a few words we could say that MB6 are playing deeeep Jazz with a deeeeep bass line, scratch as a part of a rhythm section and a mad, mad sax. 'Favourite Tongues' is probably one of the best versions ever of "My Favourite Things" (due respect to Coltrane). Although being very Jazzy and quite heavy in sound it is a floor filler. I've tried it and it works. ZK.
Funky jamband grooves from Yugoslavia! The Menson Benson Sextet is a group headed up by tenorist Dusan Petrovic -- also in the related group Coxless Pair -- and the oddly-named four piece lineup features searing solos by Petrovic, plus work on bass, drums, and turntables, which adds some scratching into an otherwise straight-ahead funky mix of styles. The group feel a bit like one of those New York combos -- Soulive or Topaz -- mixed with turtablist tricks to give the sound a slightly hip hop groove.


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Running season is under way as one of America's most popular marathons, the Chicago Marathon, opens registration for the annual 26.2 mile race. If finishing a marathon is on your bucket list, then you can look to these five celebrities for inspiration. You might be surprised at some names that made the list.
Alanis Morissette
Runner's World just featured the "Ironic" singer again in their March 2013 issue. Back in 2009, Alanis set her sights on the New York City Marathon, and began training for the race, along along with sticking to a healthy vegan lifestyle to support the National Eating Disorders Association. She completed the race at an impressive pace of just over four hours.
Ryan Reynolds
He's known as a heartthrob, and his physique isn't just for show. Ryan ran and completed the New York City Marathon in November 2008 with one of the fastest celebrity times of 3:50 and some change. This race made him a superhero before he ever got paid to wear the costume.
Will Ferrell
Many people are almost shocked when they hear that the "Anchorman" star has been a competitive runner for years. The Boston Marathon is the gauntlet for many runners, because you have to qualify in order to participate, and Ferrell ran the storied race in a more than respectful time of 3:58:12.
Katie Holmes
Slow and steady was just fine for the former "Dawson's Creek" star. She ran and finished the New York City Marathon clocking just over 12.5 minute miles to cross the finish line in 5:29:58. What's impressive about Holmes' time is that she didn't train all that long before the race. Basically just got up and ran it even as other runners balked that her entry was unfair because she didn't have a qualifying time.
Sarah Palin
Whether or not she can see Russia from her house, or you agree with her politics, the former Governor of Alaska is fast! Back in 2005 she ran the Humpy's Marathon, and easily finished in under four hours. A long time fitness buff, she proved she could run and run well...in a road race anyway. She even found herself in the middle of Paul Ryan's fudged marathon time, actually finishing two minutes faster than him.
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A new Wisconsin Historical Society website is coming mid-May 2014! See a preview >>
Author Q&AWisconsin Historical Society Press: What motivated you to write about odd Wisconsin stories?
Erika Janik: Oddity is often a great way to get people who think they don't like history, to like history. Odd stories catch you off guard and make you rethink what you thought you knew. The project began on the Wisconsin Historical Society website as a way to potentially reach new audiences through a blog and it just grew from there.
WHS Press: How did you go about doing your research for this project?
EJ: Amazingly, these stories are just sitting out there in the Historical Society's online collections. You start reading a few old newspaper articles, looking at a few old photos, and the oddballs start popping out all around you.
WHS Press: Who do you hope reads "Odd Wisconsin?"
EJ: Anyone who likes a good story. History is really about stories too many people were taught that history is a collection of names and dates. Sure, names and dates matter but the stories are what make history fun, important, and relevant. I don't think you need to be from Wisconsin, either, to find someone or something in this book that you can connect with on some level. Everyone has a crazy relative.
WHS Press: What about Wisconsin history did you find most surprising?
EJ: That so many interesting people and things happened here! I didn't grow up in Wisconsin but I am constantly amazed by what and who have come out of this place. The Gideons? Everyone has seen those Bibles in the hotel drawer but who knew that the idea was hatched in Wisconsin? I love, too, that someone thought to record it even the strange stuff like the woman who lived alone among the rattlesnakes.
WHS Press: Which of the stories was the most interesting to you? What about it fascinated you?
EJ: It's hard to pick one. I think what I found most interesting were all of the spiritualists and healers. Or really anyone with a fantastical idea. Why not sell parcels of land in northern Wisconsin that come complete with a house, barn, and animals? Why not be healed by the waters of Waukesha?
WHS Press: What's your favorite image in the book? Where did it come from?
EJ: The anti-woman suffrage poster is my favorite image. It came from the Wisconsin Historical Society's image database, Wisconsin Historical Images. As a woman, I know I feel like a menace to "the home, men's employment and all business" every time I vote.
WHS Press: How do these odd stories help us understand more about the culture of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest?
EJ: I think these stories remind us that our history is more than what we read in a standard textbook. That it is about more than politics, rich white men and women, and war. Culture is an intangible thing but something you can begin to get at through stories. Odd stories tell us something about the time, the place and the people involved what they believed in, what they thought about, what they feared. I think these odd stories also help to debunk the stereotype of the plain, stern Midwesterner. Wisconsin is a colorful place.


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Neil Young Talks Upcoming Hurricane Sandy Benefit Show in Atlantic City, NJ
Neil Young & Crazy Horse's current North American tour originally was scheduled to wrap up Tuesday in Bridgeport, Connecticut, but the band has added a special benefit show this Thursday in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to raise money for a very worthy cause. The concert, which will take place at the Borgata Casino Hotel's ballroom, will raise money for the American Red Cross' efforts to aid the many people affected by Hurricane Sandy. Speaking with ABC News Radio about the event, Young explains that he chose Atlantic City as the location of the show because it was among the areas hit hardest by the storm.
He says, "I've been watching what's happened [with] superstorm Sandy, and I decided that it'd be a good idea to just tag an event on the end of the tour that was down…very close to where you can see all the damage that was done."
The folk-rock legend also notes that, because the media had "moved on to other stories," he wanted to "try to remind people that there's still a lot of suffering going on here and that it's not too late to contribute to the Red Cross."
Young reveals that the concert will be general admission and there won't be seats in the area in front of the stage, "so it'll be more like an old rock 'n' roll show." He adds that "special T-shirts" and other "pretty cool" merchandise will be sold to commemorate the event and "to raise extra money all around."
Tickets for the concert cost $75 and $150, and are available now at Borgata.com. Young warns fans not to "buy any secondhand tickets [or] tickets from scalpers, because the money you pay won't go to the cause."
Reflecting on the storm, Young suggests that, as catastrophic as it's been, perhaps something positive will come out of it by prompting people to pay more attention to environmental issues.
"If there's any silver lining in it, it's that awareness that's coming with climate change," he says. "People are starting to understand what this means, and the predictions that Al Gore made five years ago that so many people didn't believe are obviously starting to come true."
Young adds that he hopes, in addition to contributing money to the Red Cross to help Sandy's victims, that people will consider changing their habits with regard to global warming.
"Even if you don't believe in climate change," says Neil, "[it's] really not a good idea to not try to live a cleaner life, and to try to make the planet cleaner."
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CHICAGO, July 2, 2010—In light of recent developments at the Missouri VA Medical Center in St. Louis, the American Dental Association (ADA) understands that there may be heightened interest in infection control procedures in dental settings.
The ADA has long recommended that all practicing dentists, dental auxiliaries and dental laboratories employ standard precautions as described in the 2003 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Infection Control in Dental Health Care Settings guidelines. Infection control procedures are designed to protect patients and health care workers by preventing the spread of diseases like hepatitis and HIV. Examples of infection control in the dental office include the use of masks, gloves, surface disinfectants and sterilizing reusable dental devices. In addition, dental health care providers are expected to follow procedures as required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
The ADA urges its members to keep up to date as scientific information leads to improvements in infection control, risk assessment and disease management in oral health care.
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April 1942. "Aircraft construction class. The flame of welding torches has replaced the soft lights of a nightclub in Daytona Beach, which has been taken over for a vocational school to train war workers for Florida's pooling program. Pictured above is instructor C.C. Gravelge showing one of his classes the difficult art of overhead welding in preparation for their initiation into aircraft welding jobs on the De Land pool's war contract."
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OpenSource Projects based on GrailsLearning a new framework like grails it is very useful to browse code (and eventually use it) of projects based on Grails. This page provides links to open source projects with grails as a foundation.
Please feel free to edit this page (using the Edit button at the top of the page) and link to further Grails projects! You can also use the Grails User List to announce new projects!
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Resources to find such projects
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The literalizing of Ivan Locke's hidden self and his inability to master it ultimately exposes the film as the squarest kind of theater: drama therapy.
By reducing its principals to stock figures in an extended chess game, it ends up providing steady, neatly staged thrills, but little else of substance.
Charlie Paul isn't content to let his stock footage and interviewees lead for him, driven as he is to "make something out of a frame of mind," though to needlessly busy effect.
The film's increasingly unnerving story mostly unfolds with minimal flair, intensely focused as it is on its steely and enigmatic protagonist.
Marc Silver's documentary is ultimately hampered by a level of self-congratulation that nearly undoes its effectiveness as an activist polemic.
If you programmed an algorithm to figure out how Lawnmower Man might be retold by Snake Plissken at the end of Escape from L.A., you'd still wind up with something more human.
Heaven Is for Real is by Christians, for Christians, and deliberately, if subtly, antagonistic toward everyone else.
Filmmakers Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez insist that altered spectatorship, particularly patience and duration, is the foundation of cinematic edification.
It transforms from a meek lo-fi indie stalker thriller in the key of May to a hysterically sexist and homophobic revenge film.
The question of why one should actually work up any emotional investment in what happens to these people is never really answered, much less asked in the first place.
Daniel Stamm's film is solidly helmed, if expectedly over-reliant on unnecessarily grisly comeuppances that leave nothing to the imagination.
It takes the easiest approach to every scene, haphazardly juggling different tones without integrating them into a cohesive and consistent thematic identity.
A potential barroom joke blossoms into a surprisingly poignant portrait of three aging men wrestling with how to shed their mortal coil.
Nathan Silver captures the young-adult experience, particularly the agony of first sexual pangs, in films that deftly mix beguilement and repulsion.
There's a sinister, even insidious quality to a film that insists upon using incessant food montages not as a source of passion, but fodder for class-based self-congratulation.
It rarely feels like anything more than an effort to pander to the kind of audiences that enjoy Quentin Tarantino's films for all the wrong reasons.
Patrice Leconte struggles to find a coherent rhythm, a problem exacerbated by a hurried running time that compresses some of the novella's more interesting socio-political nuances.
The film works best when it shows Jonathan Daniel Brown's drug kingpin at his most inept and incapable, rather than elevating him to a pothead martyr.
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God in ProofDecember 10th, 2013
I hadn't really been planning to read 'God in Proof' but this excerpt has me sufficiently engaged that I might actually do so.
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I hadn't really been planning to read 'God in Proof' but this excerpt has me sufficiently engaged that I might actually do so.
In a post called A Refutation of the Undergraduate Atheists, David V. Johnson's use of the silly undergraduate-level technique of mockingly mislabeling the contrary position has distracted many of his commenters from what could have been the start of a fruitful discussion (about the appropriateness of vigorously promoting atheism).
The interesting question that Johnson reminds us of is what it means to claim that humanity would be "better off" without religion.
This raises at least two major sub-questions. One is what it means for humanity as a whole to be "better off" and the other is what is meant by the word "religion".
Many people do claim that religion has caused more violence and immediate pain than it has prevented, but that claim is virtually impossible to verify. It is also similarly impossible to verify whether or not people would really be happier with or without the "consolations" of religion. But even if they would be, the question remains as to whether the comfort that might be provided by religion to its adherents is sufficient to justify the corresponding costs to themselves and others. Perhaps there are values higher than happiness, but who am I to judge this for others and to deny a drug that gives ignorant bliss to those who choose it. But what of those to whom it is administered without choice? and what if in addition to creating bliss for its users it also causes them to do harm to others?
Here, by "causing harm to others" I am referring less to the possible (but far from established) effect of augmenting the human tendency to tribal violence than to the effect of continuing to cloud the minds of future generations with pleasant fuzz which prevents them from achieving the possibly painful joy of a clearer enlightenment.
And then the other question is whether it is possible to have "religion" without insisting on counterfactual beliefs and without increasing our susceptibility to demagoguery. Does religion necessarily lead us to be less resistant to accepting the words of authority figures for example?
These questions all seem open to me but I have no wish for counter-rational comfort and prefer to rely on my own moral judgement rather than some external authority. So of course I prefer a society in which these tendencies are not put at a disadvantage. It would be nice to have rational arguments "proving" that such a society would be "better" but my guess is that they do not and will not exist - and that the best I can do is encourage progress towards the world I prefer in the hope (but not faith!) that it will in fact not be more hurtful to others than I can in good conscience accept. To that end, I am inclined to cheer on the atheist evangelists, but only somewhat weakly as there are other issues I consider more important.
Newt Gingrich deserves applause for standing up to some of his co-ideologues in defense of the strategy and tactics of Nelson Mandela and the ANC, both now and in the past. He, along with Brian Mulroney and others, is among the minority of right wingers who resisted the pressure from those like Reagan and Thatcher who refused to properly oppose apartheid. It is worth remembering that not everyone on the right shares the shame of those who chose to keep people in slavery for fear of the political choices that they might make in freedom.
The main problem with Philosophy as a distinct academic discipline is not that it is stupid, but that its advocates *are* often "stupid" in that they badly misidentify its value with claims like the following:
Philosophy answers questions like...
"Who am I?"
"What should I do with my life? How can I be happy?"
"Do I have the right friends? Are these bad friends?"
"Am I a bad person? Should I be living my life differently?"
"What's worth making sacrifices for? How much sacrifice?"
"Am I in love? What is love?"
"Is there a god / afterlife / cosmic plan?"
No, it does not answer such questions, and the claim that it does that impossible task drives people like me close to madness in frustration. (Religion makes the same claim but is less irritating in doing so because in that case it's clearly out of some kind of desperation for an answer rather than with the smug assumption of academic rigor.)
What academic Philosophy does do very well is provide one (but not the only) source of experience and tools which help us to analyse reasoning about those and any other questions. It does not provide answers, but a trained philosopher may well be useful in helping people at an impasse to look more deeply at the assumptions and mental processes of their interlocutors in a way that may help to resolve differences or at least to increase mutual understanding and empathy.
Sad to have him gone but glad for the end of his final illness. The man's infectious smile radiated a sincerity that I don't think anyone has ever denied, and I am thankful that that sincerity included an unwavering commitment to principles that I am proud to share (but ashamed not to have done much to advance).
This article in The Atlantic points to research on people who can remember what they ate for breakfast on a specific day 10 years ago (and are found to be accurate a high percentage of the time when tested) but it turns out that even these people often have completely convincing memories of "facts" that turn out to be false.
According to this report in Vice-Canada, David Suzuki has claimed that "If, in fact, the fourth plant goes under an earthquake, and those rods are exposed, it's bye-bye Japan, and everybody on the west coast of North America should evacuate. Now if that isn't terrifying, I don't know what is." And if that isn't in fact complete nonsense, then I don't know what is.
In the course of checking whether Ramez Naam's GDP figures (in Decoupling Growth From Energy and Carbon) were inflation adjusted, I came across nice looking site about visualizing economics. The graph there matches Naam's and is clearly identified as illustrating an inflation-adjusted real per-capita GDP growth rate of about 2% per year (pretty consistently over about 150 years). This led me to wonder if I am really twice as materially "well off" as I (or rather the social peer of my presentself) was in 1970. The quality of my life as a whole is hard to compare but that of my communications and entertainment infrastructure is certainly well beyond the purchasing power of any normal member of society at that time, and it is indeed of real value to be able to easily and freely connect by video link with children half a world away. Then I had about a dozen or so close friends who I engaged with regularly in person and now I have about half of that; but also, through this website, I have an audience of as many thousands of eager readers. Yeah right! Actually 5994 of those readers are spambots and the half dozen real people who have ever commented here may barely make up for the less close half dozen of my more local friends.
David Brin cheers on The Coming Transparent World while Jaron Lanier is decidedly less enthusiastic.
Lanier's solution is to implement ownership of personal data with the right to deny access and charge whatever price we want for such access. Of course, although that might be built in to the protocols for transfer of digital information, it could never be made effective for traditional means of communication. Or can you envisage a way of preventing me from telling someone else your phone number that I just purchased?
Ophelia Benson picks up on an interesting minor point in an essay by Conor Friedesrorf where he attributes some of the goodness of his friend to the influence of religion: "Nick happens to be one of the best people I know. Even though I don't have faith in the same things that he does, I see how his faith makes him a better person. I see how he makes the world a better place, and how his belief system drives him to do it. And whenever I think about Nick, I think to myself, you know, I disagree with the Catholic faith on a lot of particulars, but there must be nuggets of truth within it if it inspires people like Nick to be this good."
At first it seems odd that Mr Friedersorf does not give his friend full credit for his own goodness. Does he really suspect that it's only the benign influence of the church that gives us Saint Nicholas instead of Old Nick? But actually that's not so impossible. The same religions that enable some people to be far more evil than they would otherwise have been may also support increased goodness in others. There's really no contradiction in that and it's not obvious where the overall balance lies. (It may also be true that religion played an essentially positive role at some stages in our cultural development but that it no longer does so. )
The "Dear Muslimo" scorn being heaped on Richard Dawkins over his lost honey would be undeserved were it not for his own earlier mockery of Rebecca Watson's mild complaint on behalf of women who feel uncomfortable as a result of unwanted attention at a convention. Dawkins' sarcastic "Dear Muslima" letter implying that Watson and her ilk should shut up about their little issues because they're not the biggest issues was offensive at the time, but his blindness to the parallel is quite amazing.
In Why Falsifiability, Though Flawed, Is Alluring: Part I , William M. Briggs argues that "most theories scientists hold are not falsifiable" because "if the predictions derived from a theory are probabilistic then the theory can never be falsified. This is so even if the predictions have very, very small probabilities. If the prediction (given the theory) is that X will only happen with probability ε (for those less mathematically inclined, ε is as small as you like but always > 0);, and X happens, then the theory is not falsified. Period. Practically false is (as I like to say) logically equivalent to practically a virgin."
I think he's right - at least if "falsifiable" means "provable to be false". But I don't think most scientists really demand scientific theories to be falsifiable in that sense. And many don't even try to use that word any more; they are more inclined to use a less binding word like "testable".
A theory might then be considered adequately testable if it can be used to predict that in some repeatable experiment there are outcomes of very low probability. If we see such outcomes we say that the theory fails the test (though it could in principle still be true) and we reject it (ie strongly doubt it) - at least until the relative frequency of failure events in repeated experiments falls to somewhere near the predicted probability.
There has been a lot of heated reaction recently to a couple of incidents in which people have apparently denied the sincerity of others' statements of belief.
Oprah Winfrey responded to atheist swimmer Diana Nyad's expression of wonder and awe at the universe with "Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is. It's not a bearded guy in the sky." And Richard Dawkins, in conversation with Bill Maher, declared that Barack Obama and Pope Francis must really be atheists.
Most of the commentary has been outrage expressed with less restraint than by Paul Brandeis Raushenbush in How Not to Talk About the Beliefs of Others where he at least acknowledges a positive aspect in both cases. "Oprah and Dawkins/Maher are being simultaneously arrogant and complimentary. Arrogant, in that they assume that anyone who has a similar world view as they do is secretly 'one of them'; and complimentary, in that they are saying I admire you enough to claim you for my own belief system." And "What we can learn from these two vivid examples is that we all have the right to decide how to identify ourselves in terms of religion or lack thereof. It is not for others to affix their identity upon us, or strip ours from us."
But rather than interpret these two events as someone claiming to know the content of another's mind better than they do themselves, it may be more charitable to interpret both as explaining that their own professed label is actually more inclusive than perceived by the other.
With this interpretation it is not denial or stripping of identity but just a clarification that the speaker's own identity label is intended to be more encompassing than may have been thought.
The downside, which is there of course, is that defining one's own view as a 'Big Tent' is often used as a strategy for discouraging self-identification with the alternative label. Oprah discouraging self-declared atheism, and Dawkins discouraging self-declared religious feeling, may not be denying the actual beliefs of the other but are threatening them with censure for their choice of label.. You may not be a bad kid, but if you dare to wear the wrong colours then you belong with the gang from the other side of the street.
What Is Bjørn Lomborg Trying to Achieve? - asks Keith Kloor in his blog at DiscoverMagazine.com, and with reference to his recent profile in Cosmos.
Kloor says "it's worth asking at this stage in his career if Lomborg is a voice of reason, a professional pot stirrer, or a trollish ankle-biter. The answer probably depends on where you sit in these debates." I suspect from his tone in Cosmos that Kloor sees it as maybe an 80,20,0 mix, but for my part I would put it as more like 30,50,20.
Maybe I should revisit the 2002 controversy in more detail to see if a deeper look would change my view.
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Newcomb's paradoxis the name usually given to the following problem. You are playing a game against another player, often called Omega, who claims to be omniscient; in particular, Omega claims to be able to predict how you will play in the game. Assume that Omega has convinced you in some way that it is, if not omniscient, at least remarkably accurate: for example, perhaps it has accurately predicted your behavior many times in the past.
Omega places before you two opaque boxes. Box A, it informs you, contains $1,000. Box B, it informs you, contains either $1,000,000 or nothing. You must decide whether to take only Box B or to take both Box A and Box B, with the following caveat: Omega filled Box B with $1,000,000 if and only if it predicted that you would take only Box B.
What do you do?
(If you haven't heard this problem before, give it some thought first and maybe read the post linked to above before going on to my own thoughts on the matter)
To follow up on my previous post: since the occurrence of an event having low probability according to some model is not always reason to doubt the model, it becomes natural to ask what would be reason to doubt the model. And for this, some of the negative examples from last time may help to bring things into focus.
In the case of a continuously distributed variable (with absolutely continuous probability density) the probability of any particular value is zero, so whatever we observe is a case of something that had low probability in the model. (And the same applies in the case of a discrete variable with a large number of equally likely values.)
When we throw an icosahedral die, whatever face we see on top has a probability of only 1/20 of being there, but we don't take that as evidence that the die is not a fair one. However, if someone specific had correctly predicted the result then we might be more suspicious - and that is the key to how p-values work. (By "someone specific" here I mean specified in advance - not the same as having 20 people place bets and being surprised to see one of them get it right.)
Similarly, in my silly example from last time, although a value very close to the predicted mean should not cause us to doubt that that predicted mean is correct, it may well cause us to doubt that the variance is as large as proposed in the model. (And in fact there are several historical examples where data clustered too close to the predicted mean has been taken as convincing evidence of experimental malfeasance.)
So in order to be made suspicious by a low p-value it seems to be important that we know in advance what statistic we will be interested in and what kind of results we will consider significant.
This does not answer the question of exactly what that significance means or how we quantify it, but I think it does suggest that there is a valid intuition behind the idea that seeing something actually occur right after asking whether it will happen makes us doubt the claim that it actually had very low probability.
Now when I buy a lottery ticket I do wonder if I will actually win. So if I do win the jackpot I will be faced with something that to me would be a significant indication that there was more than chance involved. Of course in that case I will probably be wrong, but the probability of my being forced into that error is so small as to be of little worry to me.
Similarly, if I reject a null hypothesis model on seeing a pre-described outcome to which the model assigns a probability of p (whether it's an extreme value of some statistic or just a value very close to some specific target) then if the hypothesis is actually true I have a probability p of being wrong.
That's what the p-value really is. It's the probability that the model predicts for whatever outcome we choose to specify in advance of checking the data. Period. If we decide to reject the model on seeing that outcome then we can expect to be wrong in the fraction p of cases where the model is true.
Of course if we just choose a low probability event at random we probably won't see it and so will have nothing to conclude, so it is important to pick as our test event something that we suspect will happen more frequently than the model predicts. (This doesn't require that we necessarily have any specific alternative model in mind, but if we do then there may be more powerful methods of analysis which allow us to determine the relative likelihoods of the various models.)
Note: None of this tells us anything about the "probability that the model is true" or the "probability that our rejection is wrong" after the fact. (Noone but an extremely deluded appropriator of the label "Bayesian" would attempt to assign a probability to something that had already happened or which actually is either true or false.)
To repeat: What the p-value is is the frequency with which you can expect to be wrong (if you reject at level p) in cases where the null hypothesis is true. This is higher than the frequency with which you will actually be wrong among all the times you apply that rule, because the null hypothesis may not actually be true and none of those cases will count against you (since failure to reject something is not the same as actually accepting it and it is never factually wrong to withhold judgement - though I suppose it may often be morally wrong!).
P.S. Significance should not be confused with importance! Anyone who speaks English correctly should understand that significance refers to strength of signification - ie to the relative certainty of a conclusion - not to the importance of that conclusion. So it is possible to have a highly significant indication of a very small or unimportant effect and estimating the "size" of whatever effect is confounding the null hypothesis is something that cannot be done with the p-value alone.
P.P.S. There is of course a
significant quite large non-zero probability that a randomly chosen pronouncement from my repertoire may be flawed. So if you find something to object to here you could get lucky.
UPDATE7:45pm Oct22: See the end of my long comment below re the common practice of computing a "p-value" after the fact from an actual observation rather than from a target event specified in advance.
One of my favourite betes noires claims to have put everything wrong with P-Values under one roof.
My response started with "There's nothing wrong with p-values any more than with Popeye. They is what they is and that's that. To blame them for their own abuse is just a pale version of blaming any other victim."
Briggs replied saying "This odd because there are several proofs showing there just are many things wrong with them. Particularly that their use is always fallacious." which is odd itself as it seems to be just a reworking of exactly what I said, namely that what is "wrong" with them is just the (allegedly) fallacious uses that are made of them.
My comment continued with the following example:
"But if you are the kind of pervert who really enjoys abuse here goes:
Let H0 be the claim that z=N(0,1) and let r=1/z.
Then P(|r|>20)=P(|z|<.05)=approx.04<.05
So if z is within .05 of 0 then the p-value for r is less than .05 and so at the 95% confidence level we must reject the hypothesis that mean(z)=0."
Now the joke here is really based on Briggs mis-statement of what a p-value is. Not that there would be anything wrong with the thing he defined but it just wouldn't be properly called a p-value. And in order to criticize something (or even just the use of that thing) you need to know what it actually is. So for the enlightenment of Mr Briggs, let me explore what a p-value actually is.
What Briggs defined as a p-value is as follows: "Given the model used and the test statistic dependent on that model and given the data seen and assuming the null hypothesis (tied to a parameter) is true, the p-value is the probability of seeing a test statistic larger (in absolute value) than the one actually seen if the experiment which generated the data were run an indefinite number of future times and where the milieu of the experiment is precisely the same except where it is "randomly" different." This has a number of oddities (excessive and redundant uses of the word "given" and the inclusion of an inappropriate repetition condition being among them) but the most significant thing wrong with it is that it only applies to certain kinds of test statistic - as demonstrated by my silly example above.
A better definition might be: Given a stochastic model (which we call the null hypothesis) and a test statistic defined in terms of that model, the p-value of an observed value of that statistic is the probability in the model of having a value of the statistic which is further from the predicted mean than the observed value.
With this definition, it becomes clear that if the null hypothesis is true (ie if the model does accurately predict probabilities) then the occurrence of a low P-value implies the occurrence of an improbable event and so the logical disjunction that Briggs quotes from R A Fisher, namely "Either the null hypothesis is false, or the p-value has attained by chance an exceptionally low value" is indeed correct.
Briggs claim that this is "not a logical disjunction" is of course nonsense (any statement of the form "Either A or B" is a logical disjunction), and this one has the added virtue of being true. Of course if the observed statistic has a low p-value then the disjunction is essentially tautological, but then really so is anything else that we can be convinced of by logic.
But Briggs is right to wonder if it has any significance - or at least, if it does then what is the reason for that.
Why do
we some people consider the occurrence of a low p-value to be significant (in the common language sense rather than just by definition)? In other words, why and how should it reduce our faith in the null hypothesis?
The first thing to note is that the disjunction "Either the null hypothesis is false, or something very improbable has happened" should NOT actually do anything to reduce our faith in the null hypothesis. It certainly matters what kind of improbable thing we have seen happen. For example a meteor strike destroying New York should not cause us to doubt the hypothesis that sex and gender are not correlated - so clearly the improbable observed thing must be something that is predicted to be improbable by the null hypothesis model. But in fact, in any model with continuously distributed variables the occurrence of ANY particular exact observed value is an event of zero probability. One might hope to talk in such cases of the probability density instead, but the probability density can be changed just by re-scaling the variable, so that won't do either.
What is it about the special case of a low p-value, ie an improbably large deviation from the expected value of a variable, that reduces our faith in the null hypothesis?
...to be continued
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My husband and I have somewhat different parenting methods. I tend to do more explaining and talking out of behaviors while my husband sets more boundaries and asks my son to make good choices or he will receive a punishment. There is some merit in both but it drives my husband crazy when I correct him in front of our son if I feel he is being harsh. I know I shouldn't correct him but I feel bad for my boy...am I wrong? - Julie, StrongMoms Facilitator
I don't think you are wrong for correcting him if you feel it is justified, however i do feel it should be done in private and especially not in front of the children. My reasoning behind this is because if you undermine his authority in front of your child then he will start to see and understand that you aren't on the same page which will cause a rift in his behavior and how well he listens to the both of you. You really need to come up with a plan on parenting that will suit the both of you. I have kind of noticed that women tend to be much softer in their parenting than men as well.
You shouldn't correct him infront of your son, bc that's undermining his authority. Also your son will see it as you're the alpha and he doesn't have to listen to your husband. It will also make your husband feel like he has no say, and that might make him angry. Best to do that in private, or at least talk to him about your concerns.
Children aren't stupid, if you both have different parenting styles that's ok. Your son will learn what to expect from you, and what to expect from your husband. Your parenting style will most likely change a bit as you all get older, more kids, experience, etc. No parenting style is 100% for everyone, maybe you both having diffeerent styles is what your son needs. I wouldn't worry unless you see your son spiral out of control. But don't correct him infront of your son,
I'd have to agree with the others-both parents need to give the same message. This demonstrates consistency which helps the child build confidence in your parenting style and in his/her own safety within the family. Talk with dad when the kids aren't around and come up with a compromise.
Okay, I really need to change this. I don't do it all the time but I do it often enough that my son sometimes runs to me to see if I'll get him out of a situation where he is in trouble with my husband. NOT GOOD. Thanks for helping me see what I need to change, ladies. :-)
It is hard though when you think your husband is being overly harsh or too strict. I am guilty of it too. I try to break my husband's attention and talk to him in private, but if I think he is being too harsh on one of the children or expecting too much, then I do step in on rare occasions. Sometimes I think that you have to....and if this is a once in a while situation then it won't undermine your husband's authority. If you are doing it all the time, however, then you and your hubby need to sit down and discuss how you can maintain a unified front.
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