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At least 13 killed in Uzbekistan quake
A major 6.2 quake in Uzbekistan killed at least 13 people and injured 86 others when it struck on the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border in the remote Fergana Valley region, Uzbek officials said.
The quake struck at 1:35am local time on Wednesday with the epicentre just inside neighbouring Kyrgyzstan but 42 kilometres south-west of the Uzbek city of Fergana, the US Geological Survey said.
"As a result of the earthquake, some old buildings were destroyed in the Fergana region," the Uzbek emergencies ministry said in a statement.
"According to initial information, 13 people were killed as a result of the damage to the houses," it added.
"The emergency services provided medical assistance to 86 people and 35 people were taken to nearest hospitals," the statement said.
It said that the quake registered 5.0 even in the capital Tashkent, some 235 kilometres away from the epicentre.
Uzbek president Islam Karimov has ordered officials to tackle the aftermath.
Kyrgyzstan has so far reported no casualties but the full extent of the damage in the remote region may only become apparent later when a special team dispatched by the Kyrgyz authorities finishes its work.
"It's clear that there will be damage, the earthquake was just too strong," said the head of the seismological institute at the Kyrgyz academy of sciences, Kanat Abdrakhmatov.
The Fergana Valley is an area shared uneasily by Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and populated by complex tapestry of ethnic groups. It has been the scene of periodic violence and unrest since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
The quake struck the border region at a depth of just 9.2 kilometres, rocking Fergana, a city of some 200,000 residents.
The quake was also registered at 6.0 in Tajikistan's second city of Khujand which has a population of 150,000 people, Tajik officials said.
In Khunjad, a 43-year-old man threw himself out of a second-floor window, killing himself, the Tajik interior ministry said.
"Maybe he was sleepy, maybe he figured 'if everything collapses, I will remain under ruins,' and so he jumped out and died," a source in the interior ministry said.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Tons of U.S. processed grains are going into food aid for malnutritioned and starving populations around the world. That message became clear during the three days of the USDA & USAID International Food Aid and Development Conference in Kansas City. The conference wrapped up Wednesday.
Accepted as fact during the conference was that 33 percent of child mortality in the world is related to malnutrition. Additionally, an uncounted number of moderately malnutritioned children are developmentally stunted.
As the fact sheet handed out during the conference noted, USAID is in the process of initiating improvements to "the timeliness and appropriateness of food assistance." In general terms, it was noted that the changes "include advanced and ever improving early warning systems, new and more nutritious food aid products, state of the art preposition of commodities for timeliness of delivery, significant cash programming and new programming approaches." All this sounds like a lot of beauracratic paperwork to accomplish feeding the hungry, and attending the conference probably wouldn't dispel that thought by the average American.
It was professed by a Bread for the World Institute spokesperson that $11.8 billion in aid is needed each year in a total of 36 countries to counter 90 percent of the world's malnutrition.
As for meeting a portion of the goals outlined by the USAID fact sheet, Paul Alberghine, program specialist (health and nutrition), Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) of the USDA, gave an overview and update of the Micronutrient-Fortified Food Aid Products Pilot (MFFAPP) program funded by Congress in fiscal year 2010. The $14 million funding was to develop more nutritious and micronutrient-fortified food aid products. In 2011 FAS funded six projects for $8 million out of the original funding.
FAS expects to identify new products that can be used in USDA's Food for Progress and McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition programs. This is where U.S. grains become important and new markets are being established.
The products being developed are classified in four general categories—emergency food products, ready-to-use foods, general food basket products and fortified blended foods. The emergency food products are meal replacement products for use at the onset of emergencies until traditional humanitarian food assistance can be provided. The ready-to-use foods are the biggest variety of products from ones that are nutritionally dense, highly fortified products for treating severe acute malnutrition to supplements or complementary foods. The general food basket reference is to processes and end products with vitamin and micronutrient fortification to conventional foods such as vegetable oil or milled flours. Fortified blended foods in general are ones that can be used as a basic food, often when cooked as a type of porridge, and in most cases, these contain blends of corn, soy and dairy protein.
Alberghine outlined the six projects funded in 2011. Some are multi-year projects that could rely on continued funding from Congress, which worries many of those involved in the programs, because of the budget cutting under way.
Kansas State University is working in Tanzania working with three fortified blended foods—sorghum and soy blend, sorghum and cowpea blend and corn-soy blend.
Joint Aid Management is working in Mozambique developing a soy-based vanilla flavored powder for mixing with water.
The organization of Meds & Food for Kids, associated with the University of Illinois, is working in Haiti to test Mamba Lespri, which translates from Creole as "smart peanut butter," to provide supplemental food for school children.
The International Partnership for Human Development is proceeding with a dairy-based micronutrient fortified supplementary dairy paste in Guinea and Bissau.
The Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) is working in Cambodia to gain acceptance of an "enhanced strain of ultra rice" with high levels of iron and Vitamin A.
Hormel Foods is working in Guatamala with its product "Spammy," which is a canned poultry-based supplemental spread that can be flavored to the taste of different countries' population preference, and is curry flavored in the initial stages of development.
All the products have to meet three main goals, cost effectiveness, nutritional value and quality assurance. Another factor to any product is the ability to assure its stability in the conditions of storage available within undeveloped countries. But the biggest end goal also has to be acceptance by the undernourished population.
The ultra rice project is an example of trying to gain acceptance by the public. Ultra rice actually is rice ground into powder, fortified with iron and Vitamin A, made into a paste, extruded into the shape of rice kernels and dried. The fortified ultra rice is then mixed with conventional white rice in a one to 100 kernel ratio. Until cooked, the ultra rice has a slightly different appearance, and the concern has been that people who only eat white rice, but need more vitamins and minerals, have been known to pick the ultra rice out of the mix.
The cost of feeding the hungry has to be a major consideration in any program because of the limited resources and the large malnourished population. Again ultra rice is an example, in the small scale operations of today the cost to fortify rice is about $15 to $20 per metric ton, and the project director for the ultra rice project with PATH, Dipika Matthias, said the process has to be less than $10 per metric ton to be a competitive food source.
With the fortified blended foods, which are cooked into a porridge, an early product that has recently been improved is the corn-soy blend plus plus (CSB++) product, it is in a category of foods that can feed the moderately acute malnutritioned for 16 cents to 38 cents per day, according to presentations at the conference.
It was obvious from most of the presentations that processed foods and supplements are necessary and that whole grains or unprocessed commodities are not the most successful approach to treating extreme malnutrition.

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3 Reasons Why Making Your Own Vitamin C Serum Isn't Safe or EffectiveSkin Care
28 Oct
Home made vitamin c toners; normally including vitamin c crystals or powder in a solvent such as tea or distilled water that you use for a week and discard. Trick or treat? Is this receipe worth a go?
My Dear Readers (And Noella),
Imagine walking into a Michelin three-star restaurant run by a superiorly educated chef, barging back into the kitchen, and saying, "Oh, chocolate soufflé? Well, I've got an oven and a bar of chocolate right here, I don't need your fancy kitchen shenanigans." Sure, you can make a chocolate soufflé on your own, and, sure, you don't need to go get it from a Michelin three-star restaurant to get good soufflé, but it's a bit insulting to suggest that you're going to out-cook someone who's devoted years of their life to training to make the perfect chocolate soufflé.
So it goes for beauty products, my dears. Cosmetic chemists go to school for years so that they can make expert products that are effective, safe, and long-lasting. They work day-in and day-out to make even better versions of products you're using. They keep up on the latest in the scientific journals so they're a wealth of knowledge about pH, preservatives, and penetration enhancers. They're really, really devoted to making awesome products for you. That's their job. That's what they trained for. That's what they're good at.
Reading this article, I was a little shocked. Example: "Because of vitamin C's unstable nature, cosmetic companies simply avoid using it and instead opt for vitamin E, vitamin A (retinoids) or other scientifically manufactured anti-aging ingredients that are more costly and typically not as effective." This sentence alone is rife with inaccuracy. Retinoids and vitamin E have both been found effective, and I can promise you many companies still manufacture vitamin C.
So, I'm going to answer with a resounding "NO," when asked if homemade products are worth it. In the case of vitamin C, I've got a few good reasons why. I'll primarily talk about serums, because I can discuss our formulation more in depth, but this all goes for toners too.
Reason #1: The Wrong pH
The skin is slightly acidic, with a pH around 5.5 or 6.5, so mildly acidic products are the most beneficial (Journal of Investigative Dermatology). Vitamin C, like the L-ascorbic acid used in this recipe, penetrates the skin best at an acidic pH. In order to effectively enter the skin, it must be formulated at a pH lower than 3.5 (Dermatologic Surgery). Here's the catch though, going too low is likely to cause irritation, sun sensitization, and dry skin. The pH of L-ascorbic acid is somewhere around 2.2 to 2.5 when mixed with water at a 5% concentration, which is going dangerously into the territory of being too low. In fact, this is similar to the pH of lemon juice, which we're pretty adament that you don't rub on your skin.
It's a pretty narrow window of being acidic, yet mild, and homemade products probably won't fall into the appropriate pH, low enough so that the L-ascorbic acid penetrates the skin, but not so low that it causes irritation and breakouts. In all likelihood, you won't be making a product that's an acceptable pH and are likely to end up with something irritating or ineffective.
Reason #2: Instability
One thing this article does get right is that L-ascorbic acid is very unstable. It's one of the most effective forms of vitamin C, but it degrades in heat, light, and air (Die Pharmazie). Temperature is one of the most important factors in how long L-ascorbic acid lasts, and lower temperatures are better for keeping it, so you'd definitely want to keep the vitamin C in a dark bottle in the refrigerator, not simply "in a dark cupboard" as the author of this article suggests (International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition; IOSR Journal of Applied Chemistry). When vitamin C products do oxidize or degrade, they change color — usually to something brownish or yellowish. And this doesn't even consider how long it might take green tea to oxidize.
There are a few ways that vitamin C can be stabilized. Most products use ferulic acid because the antioxidant has been shown to have a stabilizing effect. We use microencapsulated L-ascorbic acid (8%), along with tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate (8%) in our FutureDerm Vitamin CE Caffeic Silk Serum. The L-ascorbic acid is actually mechanically microencapsulated, covered in a protective coating. Research (and our own testing) has shown that such protective coatings protect from oxidation and heat (International Journal of Food & Science Technology; Journal of Microencapsulation).
Reason #3: Missing Benefits
Perhaps the author of this article thinks that vitamin E is ineffective, but readers of FutureDerm might know that vitamin C and vitamin E are actually synergystic vitamins. Basically, much like the ideal relationship, they're worth more than the sum of their parts, they're better together than they are separate, they're a dynamic duo that just go together like chocolate and romantic comedies. When one antioxidant is "depleted," it can borrow an electron from the other, allowing the pair to work for longer (Cosmetic Dermatology). And while vitamin C is better for enhancing the UVA protection of sunscreen, vitamin E is better for enhancing the UVB protection (Acta Dermato Venereologica).
And vitamin C products generally have more than just vitamin C. As I mentioned before, many benefit from ferulic acid, which is a powerful antioxidant. We use an even more powerful antioxidant, caffeic acid, which we're able to do because we microencapsulate our FutureDerm Vitamin CE Caffeic Silk Serum.
Bottom Line
As we've said many times, products are formulated by professionals who spend their lives coming up with the most effective formulations. While something in your kitchen might not be dangerous, it's still not likely to work as well as something professionally made; in the case of homemade vitamin C products, irritation and ineffectiveness will probably be the biggest issue, but even if those aren't issues, without the right pH, formulation, and additional ingredients, it probably won't do a lot for you. My advice? Skip the home remedy, and stick to professionally formulated products that are almost always going to do way more for your skin than something you make at home (unless, of course, you're a cosmetic chemist with your own lab!).
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We drive as we live
Kevin Berger, Salon
No wonder traffic will never improve. We are doomed by our behavior, as a drive in New York with "Traffic" author Tom Vanderbilt reveals.
… Vanderbilt emerged from his road trips with the world's arcane professors of traffic with a narrative humming with vigorous facts. Did you know more people travel on Saturday at 1 p.m. than during typical rush hours? That only 16 percent of daily trips are to work? Where's everybody going? Given that Americans spend all the money they make, and bury their credit cards in debt to buy more things, "it should come as little surprise," Vanderbilt writes, "that much of our increase in driving stems from trips to the mall."
Perhaps most eye-opening is Vanderbilt's declaration that "the way we drive is responsible for a good part of our traffic problems." That's right, it's not what urban philosophers Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, James Howard Kunstler and, well, my brother and I, in our 1993 book, "Where the Road and the Sky Collide: America Through the Eyes of Its Drivers," have been saying all along — we are burning in traffic hell for our greedy sins of rampant urban sprawl.
No, what's gumming up the highways are hideously self-absorbed drivers who weave in and out of lanes — creating a chain reaction of people stepping on the brakes — desperate to get to some utterly inane appointment for which they think they can't be late. It's not that America has too many people and too few highways. Nearly 90 percent of our roads are not congested 90 percent of the time. Look at it this way: If one-fifth of solo drivers hitched a ride with neighbors or friends to the business park or mall, we'd be sailing along Happy Highway every day.
The tall and slender Vanderbilt, a rather soft-spoken scholar himself, doesn't resort to loud adverbs to make his points about congestion. In his book, he gives way to traffic behaviorist Alan Pisarski, who blames affluence for cities jammed with narcissists in BMWs. Congestion, Pisarski says, is "people with the economic means to act on their social and economic interests getting in the way of other people with the means to act on theirs."
(27 August 2008)
It is time for the US to sell its highways?
Matt Maye, Groovy Green
It's difficult to imagine a person not having heard the old axiom "Buy low, sell high", and it is prudent advice when you are making financial decisions. It's the second part of that adage that might warrant a look at our strategy for infrastructure improvement in this country. If you are looking to make the maximum amount of money by selling something you want to sell that something when it's at its highest value. I wonder then, is it time for our government to sell its infrastructure? You know, since the effects of Peak Oil are beginning to make themselves felt, the value of the infrastructure developed to serve cars running on cheap oil will decline each year into the future; starting soon. Selling high might mean selling soon.
Now, I don't think we should sell all of it, by any means. We should keep the ports and the train lines, but is now a good time to start selling our roads, highways and airports? There has been news recently of other governments selling their infrastructure (check here for one opinion or here for a story about Pennsylvania, and this guy has the same idea I do, although he doesn't tie it to Peak Oil), and considering the value of these items in an energy scarce future I would contend that their value will never be higher.
(28 August 2008)
Interesting concept. The comments at the original point out why it may not be such a great idea. -BA
As Americans fill trains, frustration grows
Reuters via MSNBC
Amtrak commuters grow weary of increasing crowds, slow speeds
Looking up at a list of delayed trains at Boston's crowded South Station on a summer afternoon, Peter Pesis asks why passenger trains in the United States are so slow, so crowded and so prone to delays.
"This is not like Europe," sighed the 38-year-old Greek native who has lived in New York 15 years and often rides the nation's only high-speed train, Amtrak's Acela Express, between midtown Manhattan and Boston.
Rising costs of traveling by air and car, brought on by record oil prices, drew a record 2.8 million people onto America's cash-strapped passenger railway network in July, the largest of any single month in Amtrak's 37-year history and up nearly 14 percent from a year earlier.
(27 August 2008)


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The Venus of Willendorf was one of three such figurines recovered from Palaeolithic archaeological sites at Willendorf in Austria, which were temporary settlements of the Gravettian culture. A characteristic of the Paleolithic "Venus" figurines exhibited by the Willendorf figurine is the lack of any detail of a face and the lack of feet below the ankle.
She was carved from a fine porous oolitic limestone, not locally found and therefore must have been imported to the area. It is impossible to determine if the carving was local to the area or not. The Venus was originally painted with red ochre and is sometimes described as a Mother Goddess. There is some debate regarding decoration on the figurines head, as to whether it is a basketwork or woven headress or an elaborate braided hairstyle.
(© Libor Balák, Antropark - with kind permission)
She was unearthed by worker Johann Veran, about 30m above the River Danube, during the Wachau railway construction in 1908, then identified by Austrian archaeologist Josef Szombathy. Wilendorf had already been known as a Palaeolithic site for over 20 years before systematic excavations by Josef Szombathy, Josef Bayer and Hugo Obermaier began.
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Photography Floor Lamp: Love It or Leave It?
The glamour of an old-timey movie set or photography shoot can now be yours! CB2's Photography Floor Lamp ($100) has succeeded in making something very industrial blend right into modern decor. Though I hope the light from this lamp isn't as white and bright as what they need for shoots, I think I could see this in my living room.
On the other hand, its look may not translate and be too tech-y, to the point where your guests are wondering where the guy with the boom mike is. What do you think of it?


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Married Mary Margaret Duncan of Little Piney MO; she died 6 months later and he never remarried.
William T. Freeman was Administrator of the Estate of Thomas Fleming Jones. 12 Jun 1862. Inventory was taken 8 May 1862. Heirs were listed as: Robert Jones, Richard P. Jones, Z. Wright Jones, and Dorothy Jones of Phelps Co., Thos. Flemin Dabbs residence unknown, and a sister whose name is unknown living in St. Francois Co. [Sister Rebekah living in McDonald Co was not named? Maybe they didn't know about her.]
Thomas Fleming JONES and Mary Margret DUNCAN were married about January 1855.2,356 Mary Margret DUNCAN, daughter of John DUNCAN and Nancy [DUNCAN], was born on 26 August 1838.356 She died on 8 July 1855 at the age of 16.356
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Hong Kong: Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited (BOCHK) and FTSE Group (FTSE) have announced a partnership to develop a new "FTSE-BOCHK Offshore RMB Bond Index Series" (New Indices).
It was said that the partnership brings together BOCHK's unique competitive position in the offshore RMB business, as well as FTSE's leading indexing expertise and global network, to provide the market with an industry-standard benchmark. It is hoped that the New Indices will "help global investors to capture better opportunities in the offshore RMB fixed income as an investable asset class."
Under the partnership, BOCHK Asset Management Limited is the adviser of the New Indices, while FTSE will offer calculation and management services with respect to the existing Offshore RMB Bond Indices provided by BOCHK. FTSE will also conduct the licensing procedures of the New Indices globally upon completion of the transition details.
Mark Makepeace, FTSE's Chief Executive, said: "We are delighted to be working with BOCHK to develop the offshore RMB bond indices offering. There is increasing demand for access to RMB fixed income products, and FTSE's global brand combined with BOCHK's track record in RMB indices will enable us to accelerate the development of a global investor offering in this area."
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Wow! This is an amazing Serviced video, with two guys who are totally into sucking and pleasing each other's cocks!
You can see a Bossy Top vibe that Atticus has when he takes control of Noah from the outset. He is all about toying and teasing his new buddy. Noah was dripping precum the whole time!
The verbal on this video is really hot. You might have to turn your speakers up as Atticus whispers some amazingly hot things to Noah!
The two also clearly love to kiss each other!
They also rim each other, but pay close attention to Atticus as he plays with Noah's boy hole! Yep, that looks like a natural Top to me! Sucking and licking his hole while also making sure his cock is teased really showcases the skills Atticus has in bed!
Noah didn't miss out on rimming Atticus either. He has such a massive frame that we got him upright so Noah could plunge his tongue deep.
They get in a 69 position with Noah on bottom. Atticus keeps his cock planted in Noah's mouth while working his cock extra hard.
That makes Noah cum, and he is left gasping for air with Atticus mass practically suffocating him!
They swap places so Atticus can rim and play with his Noah's hole. That gets Atticus hard again, so Noah moves in between his legs to get into a Full Servicing position!
Noah makes Atticus cum and it mirrors perfectly his own cum shot. They both lap up the oozing seed from each other's cock!
Noah finishes it off by sharing Atticus's load with a nice cummy kiss!
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Custom Home Tour provides ideas for homes
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Perhaps the calendar says the first day of spring isn't until March 20, but folks in the Grand Valley know that spring unofficially starts with the HBA's Home Improvement and Remodeling Expo at Two Rivers Convention Center next weekend, March 7 - 9. Even if it's windy and rainy outside, the show is a good way to kick start those home improvement projects that have been on the back burner all winter.
Those who are tired of trying to keep a 40-year old home in tip-top shape and those who don't want their first experiences as homeowners to start with paintbrushes and hammers should check out the custom home tour, featuring nine brand-new homes.
Most of the homes in the custom home tour are in various subdivisions across the Grand Valley, with the exception of the custom Zag Built home north of town. The Zag Built home is a typical Zag home, which means there's nothing typical about the home.
From the arched, eight-foot alder exterior front door leading through the grand entry with the high barreled ceiling and two-inch travertine floor to the custom coat rack, the custom metal work and travertine stone in the kitchen and the custom dog room, there are very few standard finishes or architectural details in this Zag Built home. It's also the largest home on the tour, with 2,760 square feet on the main floor and more than 2,600 square feet on the lower floor. As always in a Zag Built home, it's Energy Star-certified and constructed with the latest proven scientific building practices.
Copper Creek Builders, a company that's been working on the remodeling side of the home construction business for several years, is entering the new construction market in a big way, with a 25-home subdivision, Copper Creek, off 25 Road south of G Road.
"We're trying to build a better product," said Silas Colman with Copper Creek Builders, which has made a commitment to build Energy Star-certified homes. "We don't feel good about building as cheap as possible."
The home at 2497 Waite Avenue has 2 X 6 construction, with blown-in cellulose in the walls and R-40 in the ceiling. Interior walls are also insulated to reduce noise. Unique architectural details both inside and out make the homes at Copper Creek stand out. Buyers who are looking for a sense of community will appreciate the large, covered front porches on the homes at Copper Creek.
Davidson Homes also has a home in the north area at Garfield Estates. The four-bedroom, three-bath home has 2,076 square feet and has the upscale finishes like granite, tile and hardwood.
Homeowners who want to embrace the lock and leave lifestyle should stop by the G.J. Gardner home in the Orchard subdivision off 25 1/2 north of Patterson. All the homes come with front and backyard landscaping, which the HOA maintains. There are only five lots remaining at that particular subdivision, although G.J. Gardner is also building at Spyglass Ridge on Orchard Mesa and at Redlands Mesa Golf Course.
In the Redlands, there is a home at Red Rocks Valley that will be open during the custom home tour, built by the Pauls Corporation. On Track Builders will also have a home in the Redlands at Fairway Villas near Tiara Rado. The architectural details in the On Track Builders home, like the raised granite bar area, the stone floors, the ceiling detail and the unique colors make this home worth a visit.
Senergy Builders will have two homes in the custom home tour. One will be at K.C. Farms, near E Road and 31 1/2 Road, where Senergy has just a few remaining lots, and the other will be at River Trail near D Road and 32 Road.
All of the homes built by Senergy Builders are Energy Star-certified and the homes at River Trail all have 3-KW solar panel on the roof with a 20-year lease.
"Over a 20-year period, they'll see $24,000 in energy savings," said Joan Lowe with Senergy Builders.
The custom home tour is free and will have the same hours as the home expo at Two Rivers, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, March 7 and 8, and 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 9.


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?uestlove - "Ludwiggy" [Free Breakbeat] by okayplayer published on 2012-06-07T20:46:58Z We got a rare treat (hell, a unique treat--far as we know) of the kind which only Okayplayer is um, equipped to deliver. To wit, our benevolent afro-lord ?uestlove has decided to drop his first "free breakbeat" on his new Ludwig drums. ?uesto sheds a little light on the story behind this fit of generosity below but in short, if you are not a fan of huge drum sounds laid down in ?uesto's signature DJ-ready, deep-pockets style--blame it on D'Angelo:
i made the decision to go full fledge back to my "roots." dec 25th 1979 i got my very first "real" drum set (Blue Vistalites like Bonzo from Zep) then i went through a Tama phase (well...lol my parents were like "here") but all my professional career i was a Yamaha head. which bent over backwards for me. but at the end of the day I'm a "breakbeat"-based drummer and i've never gotten better "grit" than i did with Ludwig. actually on D'angelo's "yes we're still waiting" new album i played on a blue & cream vistalite just like when i was a kid. the sound was so raw i was like "i GOTTA go back."
 http://www.okayplayer.com/ FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/okayplayer YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/user/okayplayer TWITTER: http://twitter.com/okayplayer Genre Breakbeats Comment by MC Freeflow get in there 2017/01/30 22:52:05 +0000 Comment by Giorgio Cesaroni https://soundcloud.com/giorgiocesaroni/lsd Just a quick rendering of this. Thank you ?uest and Okayplayer :) 2016/06/08 10:00:55 +0000 Comment by Ernie G! of FORT WORTH KILLIN AS USUAL!! 2015/08/05 02:39:41 +0000 Comment by Orlando Watson ILL 2014/11/23 07:25:03 +0000 Comment by LRLRLL Danny yo how'd you get them fucking cameos!? 2013/12/23 20:51:28 +0000 Comment by Jim Noland thanks 2013/12/16 23:40:10 +0000 Comment by H3Productions Atlanta LLC Heaven must be like this 2013/04/13 19:33:51 +0000 Comment by ChromadaData woooo xtra sauce 2013/02/04 20:48:40 +0000 Comment by calvizio craaaaaash!!!! awesome 2013/01/31 14:21:26 +0000 Comment by MattStone22 Kissin' my love -Bill Withers 2013/01/31 05:37:17 +0000 Comment by VirginCavalier Great 2012/10/31 01:18:37 +0000 Comment by Dan Rivers love the breakbeat Q, just heard it recently! did a lil' something with it, snippet here: http://soundcloud.com/dans-pies/240912-2-no-vox-snippet-rough 2012/09/26 23:04:11 +0000 Comment by Train Tracks Records our favorite drummer 2012/08/01 20:56:22 +0000 Comment by Capadose This is what i did with the Break: http://soundcloud.com/theprinceofbeatz/one2three 2012/07/25 17:28:21 +0000 Comment by C R A N O OOOO SHIT!! This is one of the hardest breakbeats ever. Quest should come out with some sample packs or even a drum only record. 2012/07/06 10:12:15 +0000 Comment by Khryo cot damn :p 2012/06/26 21:51:09 +0000 Comment by MUMP Thanks, ?uesto! MUMP 2012/06/25 12:16:14 +0000 Comment by nulnul Ultra hi-hat good 2012/06/22 07:53:01 +0000 Comment by nulnul Ultra hi-hat good 2012/06/22 07:52:56 +0000 Comment by nulnul I like the use of the kick of this person! 2012/06/22 07:50:49 +0000 Comment by Es-K @lightningclap: oh, and the roots? 2012/06/18 02:33:44 +0000 Comment by Beatfire Very generous of the man, much appreciation. 2012/06/16 06:28:32 +0000 Comment by PrecipitateRecords thank you!! 2012/06/14 15:40:13 +0000 Comment by cesarcesar il defonce ! 2012/06/14 09:48:14 +0000 Comment by Q Saint Jones WOW 2012/06/13 22:46:00 +0000 Comment by Willi Dudat @nasty-nef: "THAT'S MY SLAVE SONG!!!!" LOL! RIP #JDilla 2012/06/12 13:43:39 +0000 Comment by Willi Dudat i haz!!!! 2012/06/12 13:37:01 +0000 Comment by T Bone Tommy Tempo thats a treat comin up jeez! Is there any way to download this as a wav or aif? 2012/06/12 11:17:35 +0000 Comment by Triple1 thanx 2012/06/12 08:57:56 +0000 Comment by Redefinition Records K-Def got busy: http://soundcloud.com/kdef/messin-wit-questlove-drums 2012/06/12 06:01:26 +0000


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Whiteboards Engage Autistic Students in Social Learning
Since the launch of the Apple iPad, educators have touted the tool's ability to engage special education students with autism spectrum disorder through unique, customizable applications and stimulating touchscreen technology. Many still feel, however, that although touchscreen tablets work well as personalized tools, they cannot be a replacement for interactive whiteboards, which help autistic students with social learning in a group setting.
Whiteboards began making headway in the K12 arena in 2006, and their presence in classrooms has increased exponentially ever since.
"The boards, when combined with pedagogy, improve student behavior and engagement and reduce teacher stress," says Lisa DeRoy, education advocate with SMART Technologies. Although there are more than a dozen whiteboard manufacturers that cater to schools in the United States—such as SMART, Luidia, eInstruction, InFocus, DYMO/ Mimio and Promethean—many offer similar features to supplement analytical classroom discussion, including graphics, audio, visual support, linguistic tools, drawing capabilities and speech bubbles. Students are engaged in what they're learning, rather than just watching.
While they also serve general education students, interactive whiteboards can captivate autistic students, who struggle with attention deficit disorder and reciprocal relationships on varying scales. "Interactive whiteboards' multisensory tools allow students to attend through visual means," says Kathleen McClaskey, president of EdTech Associates and a member at large of ISTE SETSIG, a special interest group on special education technology.
Whiteboards also aid in mainstreaming special education students in general education classrooms. "Sadly, students with special needs often become isolated from their peers," says DeRoy. "Mainstream teachers are also special needs teachers. They have a classroom with a smorgasbord of student needs they have to accommodate." McClaskey believes that the iPad works well as a personal tool but that it doesn't further the fundamental goals of learning in a group as whiteboards do. "Kids develop a respect for each other," says McClaskey. "They take turns and increase their attention span by nearly an hour through the visual components."


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The clock on my 2004 R1150R (10,800 miles) continues to be possessed by demons who elude the pursuit of my local BMW dealer. It intermittently and randomly stops working. The dealer replaced it once, after which it did the same thing. Last time, I put it in the shop where I suppose they wiggled some wires and gave it back to me working but with no idea of the problem. Yesterday, it quit working again after I washed the bike. (This may be a clue.) They insist that it is not a bad ground, as someone here proposed when I last posted about this problem. Shortly after I bought the bike I had the dealer install a factory BMW aux LED taillight. They said it required no wire cutting and could not possibly be the problem. Otherwise, the bike is completely original.
Does anyone have any suggestions that I could pass along to my dealer's service department? It's a great bike but this is actually driving me to the point of considering trading it on a new one just to have a 100% functional bike. Apparently, with all the mighty BMW Motorrad technical resources at its disposal, the dealer can't fix a !@#$ clock.
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A Fun Evening, Oct 30, 2009
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An "Old Fashion" musical with spirit, energy, and fine old standards of song provide a fun evening, all delivered by Great performers! The magic onstage flows over the footlights into the audience and leaves you smiling and humming. Leave your problems at the St. James doors and sit back and be entertained.
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Best Musical on Broadway!, Oct 29, 2009
from NY, NY
Finian's Rainbow is sure to delight people of all ages. The terrific cast act sing and dance their hearts out to some of the loveliest tunes from the Golden Age of Broadway Musicals. Run to see this show and you will float out of the theater singing these great songs!
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Slow, Oct 21, 2009
from Florida USA
It is an average play--slow in pace. The characters were not
very memorable. See something else!
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Showtimes, Sep 17, 2009
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6 Films Based on Classic Literature
Joffrey is probably the most hated character on TV, ever. He doesn't have a single redeeming quality. But he is the King. That has to count for something, right? Social climbing ladies that don't care if your head is attached to your body, here's your man. Just don't say we didn't warn you.
Quiet and unassuming, you're probably wondering why Podrick is even worth mentioning. His claim to fame is that he leaves the brothel ladies speechless and begging for more. That is enough to pique our curiosity. Hmm.
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The following is published in accordance with the Faculty Senate Rules. Among other purposes, the publication of SEC actions is intended to stimulate discussion among the constituencies and their representatives. Please communicate your comments to Kristine Kelly, either by telephone at (215) 898-6943 or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Chair's Report. Faculty Senate Chair Charles Mooney informed the Executive Committee that the School of Medicine's research faculty track proposal would be coming to SEC in May, rather than in April as he mentioned last month. Also on May's SEC agenda would be the Senate Committee Rule Changes.
Professor Mooney updated SEC on the Retiree Benefits Task Force Report, which was published in Almanac March 15, 2005. The Senate Chairs will be asking for an extension of the "For Comment" period, which is due to expire on April 15. The Senate Chairs also encouraged SEC members to contact the interim provost to voice their concern over the report, and to extend the "For Comment" period. Professor Mooney also stated that he would send a note to the president and provost as well.
Senate Committee on the Faculty Report on School of Nursing Academic Tracks. Senate Committee Chair Don Voet briefly introduced the School of Nursing's Proposed Policy for Teaching Appointments and turned the presentation over to Afaf Meleis, Dean of the School of Nursing. Dean Meleis provided background information to the Committee on why these faculty appointments were necessary for the School of Nursing's academic mission, and they would serve as a mechanism for rewarding dedicated academic support staff and associated faculty. Dean Meleis explained that the School would like to create a Practice Faculty track, which would not exceed 20 percent of the standing faculty. This appointment would provide strong clinical education for the School's students. The Committee then reviewed the appointment, reappointment and promotion process for the Practice Professorship. The other proposed track is within the academic support staff category. The School would like to create a mechanism to reward and retain full- and part-time lecturers. Proposed tracks included Senior Lecturers and Advanced Senior Lecturers. SEC also discussed the promotion and reappointment process for the lecturers.
SEC voted to approve the teaching appointments.
USCAR Follow Up. Senate Chair Mooney presented the revised University Council Resolution on USCAR that the Council Committee approved last week. The Committee acknowledged the hard work of both the students who created the proposal and the Pluralism Committee, who reviewed the proposal for University Council. SEC recommended that the resolution be edited to state that SEC may, from time to time, request information from Schools on their continuing efforts to meet the goals of the USCAR proposal. The Resolution was approved.
Senate Committee on Administration: Reports on Revisions to the Policy on Extension of Probationary Periods and Revisions to the Procedure Governing Sanctions Taken Against Members of the Faculty. Mark Tykocinski, Chair of the Senate Committee on Administration (SCA), presented the revisions to the Handbook Policy on the Extension of Probationary Periods and the Procedures Governing Sanctions Taken Against Members of the Faculty ("Just Cause").
Professor Tykocinski reminded SEC that the probationary period policy went before the Executive Committee last May, and SEC recommended that SCA further review the policy and address issues of adoption and domestic partnership. After a discussion to ensure that all possible parties were adequately covered by the policy, and that the policy was consistent with other policies, SEC approved the revision and recommended that SCA review any other related policy in the Handbook to make sure they are all consistent.
The "Just Cause" policy was then discussed. It was made clear that this policy was only up for discussion, not approval and that it would be sent to SEC again in May for further review. It was also recommended that the Academic Freedom Committee should review the policy in the fall before final approval by SEC.
The Senate Chairs discussed the background for their decision to revise the policy. SEC was informed that this grievance mechanism was actually applied for the first time, and the time lines were unworkable. Therefore, the Senate Chairs charged SCA with the redrafting of the policy. SCA then approached the General Counsel and enlisted their expertise with drafting a revised policy, which SCA then reviewed and approved.
Professor Tykocinski then reviewed the substantive changes within the policy, and SEC agreed that it would further review the draft and continue their discussions at the May meeting.
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Burma democracy advocate
Ms Suu Kyi took an oath required for lawmakers in the capital of Naypyidaw after dropping a demand that officials change its wording. Her National League for Democracy, which won 43 of 45 seats up for grabs in April 1 by-elections, had earlier objected to language supporting the military-drafted constitution.
"This is a historic moment," said Thaung Tun, a retired Burma diplomat who is a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. "Now you have a formal opposition in Burma. It's a good beginning for the democratic process."
Ms Suu Kyi's participation in Parliament adds to a political opening over the past year that has put the nation of 64 million people back on the map for investors. The US said this month it would lift economic and financial restrictions on certain sectors of Burma's economy, Japan forgave about $US3.7 billion of debt and the European Union has suspended sanctions.
Following the NLD's wins in by-elections, where it took control of less than 10 per cent of the 664-member body, members wanted the oath for parliamentarians changed to say they would "respect" rather than "safeguard" the constitution. Ms Suu Kyi dropped the demand two days ago "because of the people's desire", spokesman Nyan Win said by phone.
The country's transition to democracy required "flexibility in the political process", Ms Suu Kyi told reporters on Tuesday in Rangoon in an appearance with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who visited Burma earlier this week, told reporters in Bangkok that she was "delighted" Ms Suu Kyi's party would enter Parliament.
The US saw the opposition's move as a "hopeful sign", State Department spokesman Mark Toner said. "We would look for them to work together with the government and to keep the momentum on democratic process," he said.
Since taking office in March 2011, President Thein Sein has freed political prisoners, sought peace deals with ethnic armies, dismantled a fixed exchange rate that distorted government revenue and halted the construction of a $3.6 billion Chinese-backed hydropower project.
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Seems like AA and frat boys aren't the only ones to objectify women. Women, even yoga practitioners, do it to themselves!
Yoga: a spiritual path focused on the development of a perfect outward physical appearance.
Seems like AA and frat boys aren't the only ones to objectify women. Women, even yoga practitioners, do it to themselves!
Yoga: a spiritual path focused on the development of a perfect outward physical appearance.
Dude, C'mon. You are making some SERIOUS generalizations about groups. The mindful life? How is stereotyping people being mindful or "conscious?"
I think this post could have been done with more intelligence, fairness, openness and invited an important conversation. Instead you openly discriminate against two groups and piss on what could have been a mindful topic of conversation.
that photo is entirely about boobs. is she selling budweiser?
So because a woman has boobs she can't appear in her own avatar? GTFOOHWTBS.
zen and pretty! nothin wrong with that.
Yea, it's tricky. Many kapha women I know love yoga, but don't practice, and I wonder if it is due to feeling like they don't have a "yoga body" as appears in most yoga ads. Some have indicated that they can't keep up in high-powered 90-minute yoga classes, which seem to be the norm in Boulder at least. I don't go to yoga classes for that reason, but practice nightly on my own for 20-30 minutes (at least when I have the discipline to do so).
Some yoga ads are more objectifying than others, but it somewhat depends on the eye of the beholder too. This one seems pretty "Sports Illustrated," with the whole sitting in the water looking hot thing. I'd place it as not as objectifying as the Hard Tail ads which seem specifically about attaining "yoga booty."
In general, yoga ads feature slim women, and asana in the West seems oriented towards developing a sleek, muscular body. This tendency does play a part in the overall objectifying of women as sexual objects, and even at times could be said to spiritualize the objectification of women. But putting pudgy Indian dudes in short shorts in yoga ads doesn't seem to sell as many short shorts, so the pressure is to put the sexiest, raciest pictures possible in your ad.
Oh, I should also add that it is commonly pointed out that women often embrace their objectification (not all women of course). Porn actresses speak of "empowerment" through being abused by men in the porn industry, etc. Objectification is a matter for both men and women to reflect upon.
I didn't realize some people think yoga is too easy! Perhaps that's a sign of how out of shape I am. 🙂
Keep on spreading the anti-materialist yoga gospel,
wait a second. why are we judging this woman? lets go back into our own inner peace. om.
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I think she's beautiful and looks very peaceful. Maybe images like this will make other women try yoga who wouldn't otherwise, in striving for outer beauty, they just may stumble upon inner peace/awakening. Why must a tasteful and beautiful photo bring condemnation?
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This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of Darrell's Wharf and Hamilton Ferry Dock.
Make yourself at home in one of the 60 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and LCD televisions. Rooms have private balconies. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming provides entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature jetted bathtubs and complimentary toiletries.
Pamper yourself with a visit to the spa, which offers massages, body treatments, and facials. After practicing your swing on the golf course, you can enjoy other recreational amenities including an outdoor pool and a spa tub. This hotel also features complimentary wireless Internet access, babysitting/childcare (surcharge), and gift shops/newsstands.
Grab a bite at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants, or stay in and take advantage of room service (during limited hours). Relax with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge or a poolside bar. Full breakfasts are available daily for a fee.
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Beau Rivage - Overlooking the pool, this restaurant serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). Reservations are required. Open select days.
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Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Start your morning with a full breakfast, available each day from 7 AM to 10:30 AM for a surcharge. Room service is available during limited hours.
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Guests can play rounds at the 18-hole golf course. An outdoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a steam room and a 24-hour fitness center.
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Book a stay in any room or rate category and receive 1 round of golf for all guests in the room.
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Science in Christian Perspective
Department of Physics
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso, Indiana
From: JASA 35 (March 1983): 8-11.
The cosmos appears incredibly harmonious to me as a physicist, exhibiting a deep unity among its structures within its various domains. At least such a coherence appears authentic when we view the world through our conceptual apparatus of ideas, and of course we cannot easily lay aside this apparatus. We are quite naturally led to ask whether or not this appearance of unity is a false impression, or perhaps wrongly formulated. What, in fact, shapes what we find? Will our unifying perspective of today escape a demise similar to that of the adamantly affirmed ones of past ages?
To get at these questions I wish briefly to consider what has shaped past unifying perspectives, what might be called world views on the grand scale, and to discuss what factors led to their reformulation or abandonment. My purpose is to clarify what, in fact, it means to have a unified viewpoint, and to understand better the factors that have shaped it. We should then be more sensitive to the strengths as well as the limitations of a unifying perspective. Finally I suggest a direction for future unifying efforts. In this short essay I cannot thoroughly consider the full historical support for my premises, but I tentatively put them forth for discussion.
From historical studies it becomes clear that the nature of the unity or unifying perspective that a scientific community adopts is strongly shaped by the community's accepted aim or goal for the scientific endeavor. Furthermore, whether explicitly or tacitly, this adopted aim then influences the choice of scientific procedure to be adopted and, most importantly, it sets the stage for what the community means by explanation. The particular explanatory perspective adopted may in turn influence the perceived aim-but the point is that the interaction of both sets the course in the search for unity. (Naturally this is true only if the aim adopted judges the search for unity as a potentially rewarding endeavor. I assume that it does).
An outstanding illustration of such influences can be seen in the important squabble between Galileo and his contemporary Aristotelians. The Aristotelians can be criticized for their narrow mindedness but not for their lack of a unified system. Their scheme was highly rational and systematic and even led to "deep" explanations. It provided a common-sense way of studying nature, and suggested appropriate questions, even appropriate experiments, while judging others to be improper or irrelevant. But Galileo broke with the Aristotelian perspective when he redefined the aim of science; he formulated a different aim for science, and with it, a new notion of what was meant by explaining something. This new focus led to a new methodology. Science became a search for the quantitative (such as size, weight and number) instead of for qualities (such as color and taste). The task became one of explaining nature by reducing it to a new conceptual set, the mathematical. So while an Aristotelian "explained" motion by identifying certain qualitative aspects and relating such to essential properties, Galileo searched out quantitative relationships and "explained" the phenomena in terms of mathematical relations. These new relations became the real essence of nature. And of course, neither was happy with the other's scientific aim or categories of explanation.
Certainly Galileo is not the only illustration of such influences. Issac Newton also introduced a significant shift in aim and explanatory concepts, as he sketched in the Principia and in Opticks. The search for a scientific understanding became a new search for a unified perspective, and this was to be gained by first investigating the phenomena using analysis. Analysis, for example, isolated the crucial forces behind the phenomena and also aided in formulating a theory relating the forces to phenomena. The success of this endeavor was to be demonstrated by then applying the theory and forces to new phenomena. If success were then achieved, Newton claimed a new unification that could be put forth as an explanation of the phenomena. Nature's secrets had been laid bare, or at least more bare. Certainly in this Newton marvelously succeeded although it must be said that, in fact, he was not completely satisfied with the completeness nor finality of such an explanation. But the initial goal was to have ended here. A new category of explanation-that of force-was introduced. Of course Newton's contemporaries were not all happy either with his aim or his category of explanation. Leibniz thought it akin to re-introducing occult causes; the Cartesians thought it to be lacking the real and essential mechanisms and in violation of indubitable maxims as well.
The important thing for us to note is the central controlling influence that the different aims exerted in shaping the nature of the perceived unity and the character of explanation as well. Galileo's aim differed from that of the Aristotelians, and Newton's from the Cartesians. Each shift in aim modified the nature of the unity expected and accepted.
Now when reviewing such historical struggles, it is tempting to conclude that the essential feature evident is the maturation of science. Science has matured-that I do not wish to deny. However, it is not always clear that a particular shift in scientific aim or in the criteria for what constitutes a good or a complete explanation, is in fact, progressive. Maybe progress was made; or maybe something (not necessarily everything) was lost. But what is clear is that one's judgment is shaped to some extent by his perceived aim for the endeavor. In any case, maturation and progress often come about by adopting a new aim.
Thus historical and philosophical enquiries have led us to recognize the existence of a very complicated situation. We cannot hope to get at nature at a deep level without using theoretical structures to help us define, develop and interpret the needed conceptual ideas. And of course the accepted aim for this endeavor influences our choices of theories and guides our thinking about what we expect to learn about nature from such theoretical /conceptual structures as well. However it is
Robert W. Manweiler majored in physics at the University of Kansas where he received his bachelor's degree, He then pursued graduate study in physics at Cornell University. After growing weary of the "dirty work" associated with electron accelerators, he took the easy road and went into theoretical nuclear physics. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1972, he went to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. However desiring both to work with university students and to more substantially challenge them in the Christian faith, Bob left ORNL and attended Biblical Theological Seminary and Westminster Theological Seminary near Philadelphia. He received the M. Div. degree from the latter institution. He then went to Calvin College to teach in the physics department, and for one year he was a fellow of the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship. The topic Of the CCCS team was "Faith and Reason". Bob is presently in the physics department at Valparaiso University, and in addition to the more traditional physics responsibilities, he regularly teaches a Philosophy of Science course. He and his wife actively work with IVCF at Valpo, and are members of a PCA church.
hard to escape the fact that, to some extent, concepts and theories interact, and meaning and explanation emerge within the context of the theory. Such rational schemes can powerfully extend our probings into the deep structure of nature and therefore help us carry out the perceived aim. But of course their adoption also brings a certain degree of tunnel vision or blindness.
When we attempt to get at the essence of nature, we, at least in the physical sciences, must rely upon these theoretical-conceptual schemes. We use them to identify and analyze phenomena, to formulate our questions. And if we are "lucky" (as were Newton and Einstein) we can formulate more universal, more profound and deeper unified theories. We then hope that these theoretical schemes capture the deep relations of nature.
Since God created man and the cosmos together, should we not expect a complex interaction to exist between the perceiving subject and creation, which also must be rejected within an overall unifying perspective?
But then what happens? These formulations are often turned around to interpret what nature is like! Thus while Newton interprets some of nature's characteristics using his mechanics, Laplace extended its applicability to more dogmatically tell us what nature is really like-it then became mechanistically deterministic because theory said it was so. But was it not the aim of the scientific endeavor to do just this, to formulate theories that then can be used to get at nature at a deeper level? I think so. We still do it today. Indeed, some would argue that such Laplacian naivete has been displaced after the advent of quantum theory, because quantum physics now tells us what nature is really like. Our aim, you see, is the same-to get at nature at an ever deeper and deeper level. But obviously there are pitfalls there, for we so easily absolutize our present conceptual theoretical perspective.
Where do we end up? The aims of the scientific endeavor, carried out by means of concepts and theoretical structures and networks of such all come to shape what we accept as explanatory. Thus the unity that one finds is determined, at least in part, and limited by this aim. Is this subjectivism? Need we therefore become skeptics, plunged into total subjectivism or into an extreme idealism in which our perceptions are so distorted by our minds and by our aim that we learn nothing of the real world?
Certainly historical investigations that bring to light the great distortions of the past may indeed make one skeptical of the present scientific endeavor, leading one to believe that its trustworthiness is no greater than those of yesteryear. But while I think that this critical attitude offers an important corrective to an overly naive confidence in our own conceptual perspective that is only too easily absolutized, I still think that it is much too pessimistic. Yet it does seem hard to find the narrow way between skepticism and a naive view of science. But where do we turn? Need we give up even a modest realism?
Some have tried to resolve the dilemma by arguing that the aim of science should not be one of getting at the deep levels of nature. They suggest that our aim should be to economically organize phenomena in an instrumental sense. In this view of science such claims to knowledge are so weak that one simply lives with a great deal of relativism. But it seems to me that such an extreme instrumental portrayal of science, even though more sophisticated than that of the positivists, still misses the very heart of what we have hoped for in the doing of science. For example, it does not harmonize with Einstein's central motivating drive to get to the essence of nature. I think that we must be slow in accepting an instrumental view. We must resolve the subjectivity problem by another road.
Furthermore, if there is to be any convergence, any progress to the endeavor, and there certainly seems to be such, this must mean that in part the initially adopted aim itself must be shaped and not arbitrary. But by what? It would seem that such guidance must come not only from our own conceptual choices and rational thought as we wrestle to make sense of the phenomena, but it must also come somehow from nature itself. Yet at any present moment one cannot forget the importance of the guidance provided by one's aim.
I think that we can learn something from this complicated picture that too often leads to skepticism. Indeed I think that our Christian perspective can give us an important directive. We should perceive a yet different aim for the endeavor. If so, of what sort? If we accept as a tentative goal the search for unity, should not this unity be one including both creation and its perceiving rational creatures? Since God created man and the cosmos together, should we not expect a complex interaction to exist between the perceiving subject and creation, which also must be reflected within an overall unifying perspective? (And such interaction need not be limited to that proposed by Niels Bohr.)
The existence of such an interaction would not necessarily make our task more futile or radically subjective, but more challenging. It warns us that when we study and theorize about nature, our categories of conceptualization cannot help but have some effect upon what unities we perceive-and so we must work hard also to discern, but not necessarily eliminate, the correlations between creation and our conceptualization of it. This added dimensionality perhaps helps us understand why there are so many different vantage points from which to stand and analyze. Furthermore, the challenge is to relate these different vantage points, perhaps as different levels of explanation. The nature of the unity we might expect should be sought in a likely complicated, multidimensional set of conceptualizations and theoretical structures-all of which organize not just creation, but creation and the rational creatures that perceive it. And when we examine the broad perspective from multiple vantage points, are we not seeing cross-sections of such a complex unity like projections of a multi-dimensional function?
Of course one may argue that we have lost the objectivity of science. But if we wish to maintain a modest realism as our aim, then I see no clear alternative. But of course we have transformed the focus of science from an isolated study of "objective phenomena" to one that acknowledges that the full story is to be found in integrating the complete set composed of rational observer and his conceptualizations with the phenomena. It can then be our hope to really get at nature. And this hope, as Kepler and Galileo recognized, is ultimately based upon the reality that God has created ourselves and nature in unity.
We can likely make some progress in focusing upon only part of this total. But to push forward toward a deeper unity, we need to seek a unity of the whole. This then becomes our higher aim for the scientific endeavor, and we should seek unified perspectives that converge to this whole.


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Bennett pointed out the latest accolades compliment Harmon's National Blue Ribbon School award and No. 8 Performance Index rating in Ohio, plus the high school's recent high rating in U.S. News & World Report magazine, a No. 6 PI rating in Ohio and Advanced Placement Honor Roll status for four years.
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Abteilung Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der Universität Ulm, Albert Einstein Allee 11 N26 428, D 89069, Ulm, Germany
Mutat Res 514:133-46. 2002..On account of these data and because of the widespread use of these two compounds in various products used in daily life, a reevaluation of the risk associated with these compounds seems to be necessary...
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Martek Biosciences Corp., which makes nutritional oils for baby formula, significantly cut revenue projections yesterday evening after discovering that its largest customers had overstocked its product in response to previous supply shortages.
Trading of the Columbia biotech's shares on the Nasdaq Stock Market was briefly halted. In after-hours trading the shares plunged $23.82, or 40 percent, to $36.26. The shares had closed at $60.08, down 5 cents.
In a news release, Martek cut its fiscal 2005 revenue estimate to between $220 million and $240 million. Earlier this year, the firm had forecast revenue of up to $310 million.
Martek, which employs 600 people, including 115 in the Washington region, also said it will delay its international expansion plans.
Company officials declined to discuss the announcement.
Martek produces the nutritional oils from microalgae, then sells the oils to U.S. infant formula manufacturers. Numerous studies have shown the oils have cardiovascular, mental and other health benefits for newborns.
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The company does not believe the projected decrease in sales is an indication of reduced demand from consumers.
Earlier this year, Martek signed an agreement with Kellogg Co. to provide the consumer foods company with nutritional oils to use in food. Kellogg can begin selling food with Martek's oils next year.


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A genetic quirk could help cheating athletes beat drug tests and could unfairly taint fair players.
The genetic variation affects an enzyme that processes testosterone. Testosterone is naturally made in the body by both men and women, although it is primarily known as a male sex hormone. In order to distinguish between naturally present hormone and synthetic testosterone from steroid use, drug tests measure a ratio of two chemicals found in urine.
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