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Just had VERY EXPENSIVE candlelight cabinets installed. 14 cabinets ($16,000.)Love the cabinet look though we have some issues and Candlelight has basically dropped the ball. The paint job on the panels is all bubbled in between the beads. I was told by Candlelight that it should be a rustic look???? yet it wasn't rustic in the showroom. There are nails sticking out under the bottom of the hanging cabinets and there are beads of glue inside the cabinets. (makes ikea furniture look like top of the line). See photos. Our cabinet dealer keeps saying they are going to send someone out to fix the issues but Candlelight says that's how the cabinets should look. Still waitingâ¦
The cabinets and end panel, which runs all around the bottom island part of the kitchen and on one side wall is snowflake white. It is not glazed. I've already pointed out the issue in the showroom, but the one in the showroom is beige and not white. I was told the white one should look like that. The cabinet style is shaker and in no way rustic.
I sometimes wonder if the word "rustic" is used as an excuse for shoddy workmanship. I wouldn't be happy about those paint bubbles in between the beadboard slats. Is it like that around the shaker doors as well? Can you post another picture or two? Did your showroom have a sample of the beadboard end panels? Surely they weren't bubbled like that ... ? Did you not notice these imperfections before the cabinets were installed?
If you're not getting satisfaction it's time to contact the President or Marketing Director, etc. of the company. I had an antique table shipped to me that had the leg broken off, and contacted Fed Ex to no avail. A letter to the Marketing Director solved that with an overnighted check to cover cost of repair.
To answer all your questions: Here is a close up of one of the nails that run all along the bottom of the cabinets. I'll post the glue in the next reply. The cabinets came this way. Had nothing to do with the contractor. The contractor, also put up the beadboard after calling Candlelight which ensured him that the boards were not defective and were supposed to look "rustic".
So sorry to hear how poorly finished your Candlelight cabs are. From what I can see in your photos, you surely have a right to complain loudly! I thought Candlelight was one of the better mid-price brands, but these issues show that they're not! Thank you for sharing this so those of us still shopping can avoid them! Best of Luck getting new cabs and panels everywhere you need them. Those nails are just inexcusable, no "rustic" dodge will work there.
I think this is a case where you tell them to stop the job so the cabinets do not even get installed. You need to return them! Full refund!!!
Posters in another thread show how in a short time they can start to deteriorate.
Those cabinets are a joke! No self-respecting craftsman or company would let them leave their shop.
Here is a link that might be useful: Bad cabinetry
This post was edited by snookums2 on Tue, Apr 30, 13 at 19:10
The weird thing about my little milk table, from my great grandfather's farm In Iowa, it also had some rain damage and I had sent it to a woodworker in my town; I sent FedEx the bill, just asked them to replace the damage to the leg, NOT the finish, but the check they sent covered it all. It took MONTHS to get that final finish and leg (the wood was from Europe), but wow, what a beautiful piece of furniture. Wish they were still here, the owner was an executive that had retired and went into this out of love of good woods. I just love artisans who love their work!


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Posted: 10/31/2014 - Transylvania University is the latest school to join the Kentucky Agriculture Department's Farm to Campus Program.
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Updated: 10/31/2014 - How safe are the helmets worn by Kentucky high school football players? WKYT contacted every school system in the viewing area to find out and then got reaction from the KHSAA.
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Dec. 6 By now, everyone knows it's there, and it's real. Alex Rodriguez, the best player in the game, has made it clear to Red Sox owner John Henry that he would move deferred money around in his contract and would love to play in Boston. Manny Ramirez, the best right-handed hitter in the American League, wouldn't mind going to Texas, although he's recently told his agents that he wouldn't mind staying in Boston if he can't play for the Yankees.


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The Cupertino-based tech giant's acquisition of "Beats," the popularly loved bass-loud headphones, will be Apple's biggest acquisition to date.
Compared to the past acquisitions, Apple has bought Beats for $ 3.2 billion. Tech watchers, pundits and "experts" were quick to look down on Apple's latest business move, while others said it will truly benefit the company in the long run.
Beat's Founder De Dre will be the first person to benefit in the acquisition, making him hiphop's first billionaire. With Dre already having a net worth of $550 million, "this means that Dre would need only an additional $450 to make it into the billionaire boys club (sic) a sum that's roughly equal to a 15 per cent stake in Beats Electronics if the $3.2 billion valuation holds true," The Independent reported.
When it comes to what Apple will gain, its new feat with Beats won't just gain them new headphone technology. It gives them a chance to dominate a larger market, which the Beats brand was estimated to sell half of all premium headphones in the world. Combine Apple's existing market hold in "iTunes" with the Beat's influence, and in a few years time Apple will surely gain more for what the $3.2 billion it paid for. Though Apple hasn't expressed what its plans are in the new acquisition, pro- and anti-Apple industry watchers can never be too sure what Apple's future will be with the Beats brand.
What Apple buys here is a brand. This is also the first time for Apple buying a huge brand that is already in the consciousness of the public. From there, Apple already has something to start with in promoting its Apple-Beats partnership.
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Top 25 playoff teams: Louisville
Will Petrino find similar success in his second go-round as Cardinals coach?
From May 27 to July 3, Insider's college football experts will preview the season for the 25 teams with the best chances to make the inaugural College Football Playoff, based on Brian Fremeau's post-spring projections. This is the entry for the Louisville Cardinals.
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Fremeau's Projection
Projected finish: 9-3 (6-2)
Chance to make playoff: 6 percent
Chance to win ACC: 7 percent
Toughest games: Oct. 11 at Clemson (38 percent chance of winning), Oct. 30 vs. Florida State (26 percent), Nov. 22 at Notre Dame (35 percent)
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1. Bobby's back!
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Jeff Goldblum Stars in Weird Tim & Erik Directed Lightbulb Ad
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Jeff Goldblum stars and Tim and Eric directed the campy and slightly creepy ad for GE Lightbulbs seen above. Besides having had produced several TV shows for the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim line up, Tim and Eric have also directed ads for Old Spice and Absolute Vodka.
Great job!
Bodybuilding Christian Swingers Launch Spouse-swapping Website
Love thy neighbor as yourself. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Do not covet thy neighbor's ass. These are the ethical foundations of any good swinger's lifestyle.
If you like Jesus, pumping iron and pumping/getting pumped by acquaintances bound by holy matrimony, there's a website just for you.
It's called Fitness Swingers, and it's the brainchild of Cristy Parave and her husband, Dean, who dreamed up the site after reportedly having a threesome with this wife and her female friend. Apparently, the sex was just heavenly.
Dean Parave told Barcroft Media that he doesn't think that his swinger lifestyle conflicts with his Christian beliefs. In fact, he considers it a kind of ministry.
"So far today, God hasn't told me, 'Dean stop that, it's a sin. I don't want you to do that.' Until he does that, I'm going to keep trying to help as many people as I can," he told Barcroft.
Christy said she needed a little convincing that it was moral at first, but now she's totally convinced that god is on their side.
"God put people on the Earth to breed and enjoy each other," she told Barcroft. "I feel God is always with me and he has put us here for a reason."
Their daughter told the outlet that she thinks that helping run her parents' website is definitely "different."
Pink Floyd Release Trailer for Upcoming Album
Pink Floyd released a 30 second trailer for their upcoming album, "The Endless River" which comes out on November 10th. The trailer was posted on the band's social media sites, and features a guitar-heavy snippet.
The album is a tribute to musician Richard Wright who died in 2008. Wright's work on the keyboard will be featured on the record.
However the album will not feature the band's original bassist, Robert Waters who left the group in 1985.
"The Endless River" will be the band's first album in 20 years.
Video: Dude Overinflates Basketball and it EXPLODES
I've always been afraid of doing this. This is also a good way to weaponize a basketball. You know, in case you ever need to do that.
What Your Drink Choice Says About You
According to this fun vid from College Humor, I guess I'm usually just a nice lady trying to get drunk. – Dan
Texas High School Player Has Super Motivational Speech
This kid has to be really high on life after winning the big game. But if it had been any other setting, we'd guess he was high on adderall. Damn kids. Either way, this will do a better job than coffee getting you ready to take on the day.
The Trailer for 'The Interview' Starring Seth Rogen and James Franco is On Point
We're hoping they didn't save all the funniest scenes for the trailer, because this looks really funny!
Watch Chong's Debut on Dancing With the Stars
Not bad, Chong. Not bad. He brought Cheech! You know where our votes are going!
Bat Attacks Guitar Playing Camper
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Sorry - I should have included this -- I know that you can buy mothers to make vinegar (or kombucha, etc), but I'm wondering specifically about this process (adding conventional red wine vinegar to leftover red wine). Does it work?
I made my own mother by leaving apple cider vinegar , covered with cheesecloth for a couple weeks, first it turned cloudy, then a mass started growing and that was the mother. I poured some leftover red wine (!) into a large jar and scooped the mother into the jar. I continued to feed the mother for about another month and voila...I had vinegar. Once you make your own , you will fall in love with the taste. Once you make your own mother you can give it away or start more jars of vinegar.
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People have to realize that this war is not about Christians against Muslims or corporate America against the working man. The war is pure good against pure evil. We as individuals are the instruments used to fight this war between pure good and pure evil.
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In case you were worried:
That appeared in the Lexington Dispatch, in Lexington, North Carolina. Wish they had that paper at my newsstand.
In case you were worried:
That appeared in the Lexington Dispatch, in Lexington, North Carolina. Wish they had that paper at my newsstand.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in the Sun, it's so.'"
Do we, you and I in 2014, stand as witnesses to the end of newspapers in America? In recent months we've seen body blows to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the San Diego Union, and The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and others.
It's been a grand history. Newspapering gave us great leaders like Benjamin Franklin. Newspapering gave us wars, like the Spanish-American War. Newspapering gave us Charlie Brown, Ann Landers, the Yellow Kid, Jim Murray, Red Smith, Thomas Nast (and Santa Claus), the Federalist Papers, Watergate, Herblock, news of Vietnam and Pearl Harbor, Neil Armstrong on the Moon, the Pentagon Papers, and coupons to save money on laundry soap.
It's been a curious history, too. An 1897 editorial vouching for Santa Claus rates as the most popular editorial of all time, according to the Newseum in Washington, D.C. That's 115 years ago, and that's quite some staying power.
In autumn, 1897, 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon of 115 West 95th Street in New York, wrote to the New York Sun with this simple question:
"Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?"
In the age of Yellow Journalism, the fiercely competitive Sun's editors turned the letter to Francis Pharcellus. He responded to little Virginia on September 21, 1897:
Church's brother, William Conant Church, owned and published the newspaper. Both had followed their father into the news business. They co-founded The Army-Navy Journal in 1863, and went on to a series of journalistic collaborations. Francis was 58 years old when he answered Virginia's letter. (He died at age 67, in 1906.)
The New York Sun held down the conservative corner in New York journalism at the time, versus the New York Times and the New York Herald-Tribune. But it also had an interesting history, to a blogger intrigued by hoaxes. In 1835 the paper published a series of six newspaper stories falsely attributed to Sir John Herschel, a well-known astronomer, claiming to describe a civilization on the Moon — the Great Moon Hoax. The discovery was credited to a new, very powerful telescope.
In 1844 the paper published a hoax written by Edgar Allen Poe, the Balloon Hoax. Under a pseudonym, Poe wrote that a gas balloon had crossed the Atlantic in three days.
The Sun also featured outstanding reporting. A 1947 and 1948 series about crime on the docks of New York City won a Pulitzer Prize for writer Malcolm Johnson. That series inspired Elia Kazan's 1954 movie On the Waterfront starring Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden and Lee J. Cobb.
The New York Sun ceased publication in 1950.
For all of its history, the Sun and the Churches are most remembered for that defense of belief in Santa Claus.
Virginia O'Hanlon grew up, graduated from Hunter College, got a masters at Columbia, and earned a Ph.D. from Fordham Univeresity. She taught in the New York City Public School system, from which she retired in 1959. She died in 1971.
Birth of tradition
Columbia University was Church's alma mater, as well as O'Hanlon's. Her letter and his response get a reading each year at the Yule Log Ceremony at Columbia College, along with the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas." Animated, live-acting, and other television productions have been mounted in 1974, 1991, and 2009.
Is there a Santa Claus? Did Church write a credible defense? The text of the letter and answer, below the fold.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency did not start a "worldwide ban" on using DDT to fight malaria. EPA instead lifted a court imposed ban on use of the pesticide to fight disease.
At least a couple of times a week I run into someone who claims that environmentalists are evil people, led by Rachel Carson (who, they say, may be as evil as Stalin, Hitler and Mao put together), and that their hysteria-and-n0t-fact-based "worldwide ban" on DDT use led to tens of millions of people dying from malaria.
Each point of the rant is false.
But lack of truth to claims doesn't stop them from being made.
Serious students of history know better, of course. Federal agencies, like EPA, cannot issue orders on science-based topics, without enough hard science behind the order to justify it. That's the rule given by courts, inscribed in law for all agencies in the Administrative Procedure Act (5 USC Chapter 5), and required of EPA specifically in the various laws delegating authority to EPA for clean air, clean water, toxics clean up, pesticides, etc. Were an agency to issue a rule based on whim, the courts overturn it on the basis that it is "arbitrary and capricious." EPA's 1972 ban on DDT use on certain crops was challenged in court, in fact — and the courts said the science behind the ban is sufficient. None of that science has been found faulty, or the DDT manufacturers and users would have been back in court to get the EPA order overturned.
Reading the actual documents, you may discover something else, too: Not only did the EPA order apply only to certain crop uses, not only was the order restricted to the jurisdiction of the EPA (which is to say, the U.S., and not Africa, Asia, nor any area outside U.S. jurisdiction), but the order in fact specifically overturned a previously-imposed court ruling that stopped DDT use to fight malaria.
That's right: Bill Ruckelshaus ordered that use of DDT fight malaria is okay, in the U.S., or anywhere else in the world.
Quite the opposite of the claimed "worldwide ban on DDT to fight malaria," it was, and is, an order to allow DDT to be used in any disease vector tussle.
How did the ranters miss that?
Here are the relevant clauses from the 1972 order, from a short order following a few pages of explanation and justification:
Administrator's Order Regarding DDT
Order. Before the Environmental Protection Agency. In regard: Stevens Industries, Inc., et al. (Consolidated DDT Hearings). I.F.&R. Docket No. 83 et al.
In accordance with the foregoing opinion, findings and conclusions of law, use of DDT on cotton, beans (snap, lima and dry), peanuts, cabbage, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, tomatoes, fresh market corn, garlic, pimentos, in commercial greenhouses, for moth-proofing and control of bats and rodents are hereby canceled as of December 31, 1972.
Use of DDT for control of weevils on stored sweet potatoes, green peppers in the Del Marva Peninsula and cutworms on onions are canceled unless without 30 days users or registrants move to supplement the record in accordance with Part V of my opinion of today. In such event the order shall be stayed, pending the completion of the record, on terms and conditions set by the Hearing Examiner: Provided, That this stay may be dissolved if interested users or registrants do not present the required evidence in an expeditious fashion. At the conclusion of such proceedings, the issue of cancellation shall be resolved in accordance with my opinion today.
Cancellation for uses of DDT by public health officials in disease control programs and by USDA and the military for health quarantine and use in prescription drugs is lifted. [emphasis added]
In order to implement this decision no DDT shall be shipped in interstate commerce or within the District of Columbia or any American territory after December 31, 1972, unless its label bears in a prominent fashion in bold type and capital letters, in a manner satisfactory to the Pesticides Regulation Division, the following language:
- For use by and distribution to only U.S. Public Health Service Officials or for distribution by or on approval by the U.S. Public Health Service to other Health Service Officials for control of vector diseases;
- For use by and distribution to the USDA or Military for Health Quarantine Use;
- For use in the formulation for prescription drugs for controlling body lice;
- Or in drug; for use in controlling body lice – to be dispensed only by physicians. [emphasis added]
Use by or distribution to unauthorized users or use for a purpose not specified hereon or not in accordance with directions is disapproved by the Federal Government; This substance is harmful to the environment.
The Pesticides Regulation Division may require such other language as it considers appropriate.
This label may be adjusted to reflect the terms and conditions for shipment for use on green peppers in Del Marva, cutworms on onions, and weevils on sweet potatoes if a stay is in effect.
Dated: June 2, 1972
William D. Ruckelshaus
[FR Doc.72-10340 Filed 7-6-72; 8:50 am]
Federal Register, Vol. 37, No. 131 – Friday, July 7, 1972 pp. 13375-13376
Here is the entire order, in an image .pdf format.
Among creationists, in the past decade or so it has become popular to claim that much of evolution is less than sound science. In order to support that claim, specific points of evolution theory are often distorted, and specific evidence that strongly supports the theory are questioned and denied.
In a famous hoax, Jonathan Wells wrote a book, Icons of Evolution, in which he claimed ten popular stories about evolution were false.
Wells spent a chapter denying the work of H. B. Kettlewell — the famous peppered moth research, in which Kettlewell discovered a classic case of natural selection at work over a 150-year period in England. When air pollution darkened the bark of trees, peppered moths in industrialized areas with the darkened trunks, also darkened. Kettlewell ran several experiments to see whether predation by birds might be a driver of this selection event, and concluded that the lighter moths stood out on darkened tree bark, and that it was likely that predation by birds or other moth predators pushed the rise of the darker moths.
Kettlewell's conclusions were spectacularly borne out when cleaner air lightened the trunks of the trees, and lighter moths reappeared. The selective pressure ran back toward lighter moths.
Kettlewell's research was groundbreaking in its pioneering of new ways to study evolution in the wild. But because he was at the cutting edge, questions arose about the exact nature of his conclusions. Kettlewell tried several different methods to count moth predation, finally settling on a system of release and recapture, and counting the moths that were not recaptured as casualties to the predator. Kettlewell released moths in the presence of English titmice, who promptly found moths colored wrongly to hide, and ate them. Tits are not the chief predators of these moths, some argue, and critics wondered whether Kettlewell could accurately conclude what the predator was. Ultimately, it has become clear that Kettlewell's conclusions are accurate regardless the predator. Scientists like Majerus and Jerry Coyne — fierce rivals now, showing the unanimity of science support for Kettlewell's conclusions across the spectrum of science views — urge more research to refine what we know about the moths.
Critics claimed some of the steps in some of the experiments as faulty, and extrapolated that the entire conclusions are faulty. In reality, because Kettlewell got similar results with different methods, his conclusions are more robust.
When I took Wells' chapter on moths and tracked down the citations, I discovered that each person he cited disputed Wells' conclusions — some quite violently. The hoax, it turns out, is Wells's claim that the story is false.
Over the past decade, while Wells and the Discovery Institute have continued their assault on science, some of the refutations of his work have fallen by the wayside.
In this page, I hope to preserve the arguments showing Wells' work's problems, and preserve some of the publications that have become difficult to find.
In 1999 the school board in Pratt, Kansas, considered biology curriculum and book changes. In what now appears to be practice for future fights, the Discovery Institute of Seattle, Washington, descended on Pratt with Jonathan Wells and others , urging the school board to dilute evolution in the curriculum or eliminate it, and using a variety of unusual arguments on the science to buttress their claims that the science of evolution was somehow in question.
Specifically, Wells introduced his claims on Kettlewell's work. When they heard of the incident, some researchers scrambled to present the view of science. Bruce Grant of William and Mary College, and Jerry Coyne of the University of Chicago, wrote letters to the local newspaper, The Pratt Tribune, defending Kettlewell's work and questioning Wells' tactics and conclusions. Evolution is solid science, they said, and should be taught undiluted to students.
These letters were available on the internet at the time, but have recently become difficult to find. I reproduce them here:
Dr. Jerry Coyne is professor of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago.
The Pratt Tribune, December 06, 2000
http://www.pratttribune.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2000/December/06-663-news91.txt Accessed in 2003
Jerry A. Coyne: Criticism of moth study no challenge to evolution
I have learned that the Pratt school board, apparently responding to creationist pressure, has recently revised its tenth-grade biology curriculum to include material that encourages students to question the theory of evolution. In reading the standards, I see that one of my articles – an article constantly misrepresented by creationists – is included as a supplementary reading used to cast doubt on evolution.
Except for a few creationist dissenters, the community of professional biologists has long accepted evolution as an essential theory supported by innumerable pieces of evidence. To make students think otherwise is as harmful as urging them to question the value of antibiotics because there are a few people who believe in spiritual healing.
My article appended to the Pratt standards is a re-evaluation of a classic evolutionary story in which rapid changes in the proportions of color forms of peppered moths occurred in only about 100 years. This evolutionary change is thought to be a response to air pollution, changes in the colors of trees, and increased bird predation. My only problem with the peppered-moth story is that I am not certain whether scientists have identified the precise agent causing the natural selection and evolutionary change. It may well be bird predators, but the experiments leave room for doubt.
Creationists such as Jonathan Wells claim that my criticism of these experiments casts strong doubt on Darwinism. But this characterization is false. All of us in the peppered moth debate agree that the moth story is a sound example of evolution produced by natural selection. My call for additional research on the moths has been wrongly characterized by creationists as revealing some fatal flaw in the theory of evolution.
In reality, the debate over what causes natural selection on moths is absolutely normal in our field. It is not uncommon for scientists to reexamine previous work and find it incomplete, or even wrong. This is the normal self-correcting mechanism of science. Textbook examples may be altered as additional data are found. Creationists, on the other hand, neither air their disagreements in public or admit that they were wrong. This is because their goal is not to achieve scientific truth, but to expel evolution from the public schools.
It is a classic creationist tactic (as exemplified in Wells' book, "Icons of Evolution") to assert that healthy scientific debate is really a sign that evolutionists are either committing fraud or buttressing a crumbling theory. In reality, evolution and natural selection are alive and well, with new supporting evidence arriving daily.
I strongly object to the use of my article by the Pratt school board to cast doubt on Darwinism. And I feel sorry for the students who are being misled by creationists into doubting one of the most vigorous and well-supported theories in biology.
Jerry A. Coyne
Professor of Ecology & Evolution
The University of Chicago
Dr. Bruce Grant was professor of biology at William and Mary University, now emeritus.
The Pratt Tribune, December 13, 2000
Accessed 2003
Bruce Grant: Charges of fraud misleading
In recent weeks your newspaper has printed letters debating revisions in high school biology curricula. Some of the correspondents have leveled charges of fraud directed at evolutionists for attributing changes in the colors of peppered moths to natural selection. As I am one of the evolutionary biologists who study peppered moths, I feel obliged to comment. Charges of fraud cannot be left unchallenged.
Some background about peppered moths is necessary. The common form of this moth species is pale gray. About 150 years ago, a black specimen was discovered near an industrial city in England. Over the years, the black (melanic) form became ever more common as the pale form became rare. By 1900 the black form exceeded 90 percent in peppered moth populations throughout the industrialized regions of England. The phenomenon was dubbed industrial melanism.
Because people knew that birds eat insects, scientists as early as 1896 suspected that birds were eating the different color forms of peppered moths selectively based on their degree of conspicuousness in habitats variously blackened by industrial soot. Extensive experimental work supports this view, although questions remain. Other scientists proposed that moths responded to the presence of pollutants by developing darker body colors. We now know from genetic analysis that the colors of adult peppered moths are determined by genes; thus, the changes in the percentages of pale to black moths over generations reflect changes in the genetic makeup of moth populations.
As industrial practices have changed in many regions, we have observed black moths plummet from 90 percent to 10 percent in the just the past few decades. Once again, we have observed significant genetic changes occur in moth populations. Evolution is defined at the operational level as genetic change over time, so this is evolution. Of the several factors known to produce evolutionary change, only natural selection is consistent with the patterns of the changes we see occurring in moth populations. Evolution examined at this level is as well established as any fact in science.
We still have work to do. We do not all agree about the relative roles of contributing factors, such as the flow of genes between moth populations in different regions, the importance of lichens on trees, where on trees moths might hide from predators, how important is differential predation, and so on. As in any branch of science, participants endlessly debate interpretations. Such wrangling is the norm, and it stimulates additional research. That is how we make progress.
Our debates have never been secret. For recent overviews of the controversies, please see http://www.wm.edu/biology/melanism.pdf [now at http://bsgran.people.wm.edu/melanism.pdf] or www.els.net/elsonline/html/A0001788.html [ now http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/emrw/9780470015902/els/article/a0001788/current/abstract, subscription required]. Yet, unwarranted charges of fraud, fakery and cover-ups repeatedly appear in letters printed in newspapers. In your paper, Ms. Katrina Rider "asserts" the peppered moth story is a hoax. She conveys the impression that dead moths were glued to trees as part of a conspiracy of deception. She seems unaware that moths were glued to trees in an experiment to assess the effect of the density (numbers) of moths on the foraging practices of birds. Taken out of the context of the purpose of the experiment, the procedure does sound ludicrous.
But, should we blame Ms. Rider for her outrage upon learning that moths were glued to trees? No. Instead, I blame Dr. Jonathan Wells, who wrote the article she cites as her source of information. While he has done no work on industrial melanism, he has written opinion about the work. To one outside the field, he passes as a scholar, complete with Ph.D. Unfortunately, Dr. Wells is intellectually dishonest. When I first encountered his attempts at journalism, I thought he might be a woefully deficient scholar because his critiques about peppered moth research were full of errors, but soon it became clear that he was intentionally distorting the literature in my field. He lavishly dresses his essays in quotations from experts (including some from me) which are generally taken out of context, and he systematically omits relevant details to make our conclusions seem ill founded, flawed, or fraudulent. Why does he do this? Is his goal to correct science through constructive criticism, or does he a have a different agenda? He never mentions creationism in any form. To be sure, he sticks to the scientific literature, but he misrepresents it. Perhaps it might be kinder to suggest that Wells is simply incompetent, but I think his errors are by intelligent design.
Bruce Grant
Professor of Biology
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia
Update, September 2012: Creationists appear never to learn. The hoaxed "controversy" on peppered moths continued well after these exchanges back in 2000, which I collected when creationists tried to block science in textbooks in the great Texas State Board of Education Wars of 2003. Even after losing that fight, creationists continued to carp.
Publication of Of Moths and Men, nominally a history of Kettlewell and his experiments, revived the creationist claims of error — without evidence, as the author of the book noted, but since when have creationists ever changed course because of evidence?
In the midst of the flap, Michael Majerus went back to basics. He re-ran Kettlewell's experiments, essentially. Of course, he discovered Kettlewell was right. I blogged about it earlier, but I failed to update this post. See these other posts at Millard Fillmore's Bathtub:
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Santayana said it: Those who don't remember history, yada, yada, yada.
It almost turned Dada-esque over the weekend, when a Syrian television editor mistook a "history-as-it-happened" Twitter feed for actual events.
One reason to learn history, I tell students, is so that you cannot be jived by politicians and others who wish to persuade you falsely. Add to that: So you won't be suckered by false news reports when you're at the editor's desk.
I wonder how many hoaxes get started this way?
You could write it off to pareidolia, once. Like faces in clouds, some people claimed to see a link. The first Earth Day, on April 22, 1970, coincided with Lenin's birthday. There was no link — Earth Day was scheduled for a spring Wednesday. Now, years later, with almost-annual repeats of the claim from the braying right wing, it's just a cruel hoax.
No, there's no link between Earth Day and the birthday of V. I. Lenin:
One surefire way to tell an Earth Day post is done by an Earth Day denialist: They'll note that the first Earth Day, on April 22, 1970, was an anniversary of the birth of Lenin.
Coincidentally, yes, Lenin was born on April 22 (new style calendar; it was April 10 on the calendar when he was born — one might accurately note that Lenin's mother always said he was born on April 10).
It's a hoax. There is no meaning to the first Earth Day's falling on Lenin's birthday — Lenin was not prescient enough to plan his birthday to fall in the middle of Earth Week, a hundred years before Earth Week was even planned.
About.com explains why the idea of a link between Earth Day and Lenin is silly:
Does Earth Day Promote Communism?
Earth Day 1970 was initially conceived as a teach-in, modeled on the teach-ins used successfully by Vietnam War protesters to spread their message and generate support on U.S. college campuses. It is generally believed that April 22 was chosen for Earth Day because it was a Wednesday that fell between spring break and final exams—a day when a majority of college students would be able to participate.
U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson, the guy who dreamed up the nationwide teach-in that became Earth Day, once tried to put the whole "Earth Day as communist plot" idea into perspective.
"On any given day, a lot of both good and bad people were born," Nelson said. "A person many consider the world's first environmentalist, Saint Francis of Assisi, was born on April 22. So was Queen Isabella. More importantly, so was my Aunt Tillie."
April 22 is also the birthday of J. Sterling Morton, the Nebraska newspaper editor who founded Arbor Day (a national holiday devoted to planting trees) on April 22, 1872, when Lenin was still in diapers. Maybe April 22 was chosen to honor Morton and nobody knew. Maybe environmentalists were trying to send a subliminal message to the national subconscious that would transform people into tree-planting zombies. One birthday "plot" seems just about as likely as the other. What's the chance that one person in a thousand could tell you when either of these guys were born.
My guess is that only a few really wacko conservatives know that April 22 is Lenin's birthday (was it ever celebrated in the Soviet Union?). No one else bothers to think about it, or say anything about it, nor especially, to celebrate it.
Wisconsin's U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson, usually recognized as the founder and father of Earth Day, told how and why the organizers came to pick April 22:
Senator Nelson chose the date in order to maximize participation on college campuses for what he conceived as an "environmental teach-in." He determined the week of April 19–25 was the best bet; it did not fall during exams or spring breaks, did not conflict with religious holidays such as Easter or Passover, and was late enough in spring to have decent weather. More students were likely to be in class, and there would be less competition with other mid-week events—so he chose Wednesday, April 22.
In his own words, Nelson spoke of what he was trying to do:
After President Kennedy's [conservation] tour, I still hoped for some idea that would thrust the environment into the political mainstream. Six years would pass before the idea that became Earth Day occurred to me while on a conservation speaking tour out West in the summer of 1969. At the time, anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, called "teach-ins," had spread to college campuses all across the nation. Suddenly, the idea occurred to me – why not organize a huge grassroots protest over what was happening to our environment?
I was satisfied that if we could tap into the environmental concerns of the general public and infuse the student anti-war energy into the environmental cause, we could generate a demonstration that would force this issue onto the political agenda. It was a big gamble, but worth a try.
At a conference in Seattle in September 1969, I announced that in the spring of 1970 there would be a nationwide grassroots demonstration on behalf of the environment and invited everyone to participate. The wire services carried the story from coast to coast. The response was electric. It took off like gangbusters. Telegrams, letters, and telephone inquiries poured in from all across the country. The American people finally had a forum to express its concern about what was happening to the land, rivers, lakes, and air – and they did so with spectacular exuberance. For the next four months, two members of my Senate staff, Linda Billings and John Heritage, managed Earth Day affairs out of my Senate office.
Five months before Earth Day, on Sunday, November 30, 1969, The New York Times carried a lengthy article by Gladwin Hill reporting on the astonishing proliferation of environmental events:
"Rising concern about the environmental crisis is sweeping the nation's campuses with an intensity that may be on its way to eclipsing student discontent over the war in Vietnam…a national day of observance of environmental problems…is being planned for next spring…when a nationwide environmental 'teach-in'…coordinated from the office of Senator Gaylord Nelson is planned…."
Nelson, a veteran of the U.S. armed services (Okinawa campaign), flag-waving ex-governor of Wisconsin (Sen. Joe McCarthy's home state, but also the home of Aldo Leopold and birthplace of John Muir), was working to raise America's consciousness and conscience about environmental issues.
Lenin on the environment? Think of the Aral Sea disaster, the horrible pollution from Soviet mines and mills, and the dreadful record of the Soviet Union on protecting any resource. Lenin believed in exploiting resources, not conservation.
So, why are all these conservative denialists claiming, against history and politics, that Lenin's birthday has anything to do with Earth Day?
Can you say "propaganda?" Can you say "political smear?"
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No, Volkswagen did not announce that it will pull out of Tennessee and close its billion-dollar automaking plant in Chattanooga. Those reports are based on a hoax.
Most people understand anything that comes from The Onion is parody at best, bad hoax at worst. It took me a while to catch on to The Daily Currant, another hoax site on the internet.
How long will it take others to catch on to the fact that "National Report" is a nasty hoax site, and nothing reported there can be taken at face value, since most of it is completely false?
National Report put up a parody post, quoting real statements from real people, but with a lead claiming Volkswagen decided to close down the Chattanooga plant. Within a week or so, it had 63,000 shares on Facebook.
I started seeing the reports on Twitter last week, but they've been buzzing around for a few a while, since the union vote at the Chattanooga VW plant. Here's the earliest I found:
Union leaders in Europe, accustomed to good relationships with management and looking out for workers, announced they might oppose further expansion of VW in the American south without unionization — but that's the closest real news comes to what "National Report" claims.
"Unfair labor praxis?" What sorts of clues must a parody site drop before people start seeing through the hoax? Check out the author's bio-line, while you're at it.
Could we hope for a little bit of skepticism? After the contentious, national headline-making union vote at the Chattanooga plant, wouldn't it make sense that an announcement the plant would close, would also make headlines? But check the Chattanooga News-Free Press. Stories there are about moving on, in Chattanooga, after the VW vote.
Nothing about closing the plant, from the newspaper that would surely be all over such a story. Or, check Volkswagen's corporate website in the U.S. — closing their only U.S. plant would merit some mention there, don't you think? What do we see:
Feb 21, 2014 VOLKSWAGEN GROUP SEEKS TO ACQUIRE ALL SHARES OF SCANIA
- Volkswagen Group today resolved to make a voluntary tender offer of SEK 200 (approx. €22.26) per share to the shareholders of Scania Aktiebolag ("Scania") for all Scania A and Scania B shares
Feb 21, 2014 ANDREAS RENSCHLER NAMED BOARD OF MANAGEMENT MEMBER FOR COMMERCIAL VEHICLES AT VOLKSWAGEN GROUP
- At its meeting today, the Supervisory Board of Volkswagen Group appointed Andreas Renschler (55) as member of the Board of Management with responsibility for Commercial Vehicles effective February…
Feb 21, 2014 VOLKSWAGEN REPORTS SUCCESSFUL FISCAL YEAR 2013
- With sales revenue of EUR 197.0 billion (previous year: EUR 192.7 billion), the Group's operating profit of EUR 11.7 billion (EUR 11.5 billion) exceeded the record prior-year figure.
Feb 14, 2014 VOLKSWAGEN CHATTANOOGA EMPLOYEES VOTE AGAINST UNION REPRESENTATION
- Volkswagen Chattanooga employees have voted in a secret ballot election against United Auto Workers (UAW) representation.
Nothing there. Google it, Bing! it, Yahoo! it, search on Twitter or Facebook, you'll find repeats of the hoax story, but zero confirmation from any authoritative or official source, and no mentions on mainstream media who don't deal in hoaxes. So, can we knock off the harmful hoax recirculation?
VW is in Chattanooga to stay. VW built a $1 billion dollar, energy-efficient, state-of-the-car-making-art plant to use U.S. parts to make Volkswagens for sale in the Americas. VW is proud of it: "First and only LEED Platinum certified Auto Plant worldwide. LEED Platinum certified Volkswagen Academy." That's not the sort of investment a company walks away from unless in extremis — and VW is doing okay.
VW may be troubled. Their kanben manufacturing methods require active participation of the workers, and generally such a system works better when the workers are organized. The Washington Post noted shortly before the vote:
If a majority of Volkswagen's 1,570 hourly workers vote yes, it would mark the first time in nearly three decades of trying that the UAW has successfully organized a plant for a foreign brand in the United States. This time, the union has a powerful ally: Volkswagen itself, which is hoping the union will collaborate in a German-style "works council" and help manage plant operations.
Voting against a union, then, was a bit of a poke in the eye of management of Volkswagen in Chattanooga. But it was also a poke in the eye the United Auto Workers and unions in the U.S., and conservatives are not disinclined to take a shot at friends, or work against the interests of the U.S., if they can take a shot at unions. Tennessee conservatives like Sen. Bob Corker have sworn allegiance away from the U.S. already, promising never to increase taxes regardless how badly the nation might need it (consider how such a pledge would have crippled the U.S. in fighting either of the two world wars). So Republican elected officials let their hatred of unions overcome their love of economic development, Tennessee and the U.S. — and they interfered in the election trying to tilt it against the union, Volkswagen be damned.
But close the plant? No.
Where does such a wild, and inflammatory story come from?
We've discussed "National Report" hoaxes here at Millard Fillmore's Bathtub before.
This is just one more complete falsehood, designed to get people worked up unnecessarily and snare the unwary. National Report created the hoax almost whole cloth, duping many by offering real quotes from real people, which do not say what the headline claims.
Do false reports cause any damage? Sometimes. Consider this: Tennessee U.S. Sen. Bob Corker promised VW would announce plant expansion in Tennessee almost immediately, if the workers rejected the union. Oops. Hasn't happened.
What else did Corker fib about? Why are so many people giving credence to National Report, an admitted fib site?


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I....I just can't do it.
I don't know what I'm personally doing wrong, but every time I'm involved in a team fight I get utterly WRECKED.
I can usually surive AoE damage long enough to remain useful, but even then if there's just too much magic damage I still drop like a rock.
When I'm focused, forget about it. Might as well be teemo or something.
I've tried stacking defensive stats, even with 21 in defense. I've tried lifesteal. I've tried a mix of both. Nothing is working, and I'm getting really distraught.
Combined with the fact that there is ALWAYS A MINION IN THE WAY OF MY Q, even in the jungle, and it's really trying my patience with this camp.
I want to be good with him, I really do. Monks have been my shindig, ever since D&D. What am I doing wrong? What am I NOT doing right?
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Sorry you don't quite give enough details on Lee Sin or your team comps to give you any specific tips, but in general, Lee Sin is a very hit-and-run oriented champ. In anything larger than a 2v2 you should not be the one to initiate a fight. Ideally you will be with a partner so you can q+q+w in and out to land your damage and back out quickly. If you have an ally you can rely on, they can initiate so you can w right on top of them then throw your q from that position at the enemy.
For landing q, you should always be on the edge of the battle trying to flank the enemy from the side and leading your shot to where they will be running to. Or using your q after your initiator/tank has drawn aggro from the creeps--which is why you don't initiate first. If you find yourself at the front of the battle and are starting to get focused then use w to jump to an ally who is further back. Think of him as Katarina in terms of blinking ability and toughness--better than her even.
Also, you didn't mention your skill order, but what works for me is r > q > w > e. In terms of items, I grab wriggles as a first then go either last whisper or BV depending on if the other team is focusing on me. Wriggles + lifesteal/spellvamp helps sustain some hp in fights and when recovering in the jungle. If they are REALLY focusing the hell out of you then grab a GA.
I hope one of these tips helps. Good Luck.
yeah, sounds like you're just getting targetted by a nuker and not getting out. He's not a full tank, and if you're not building tank on him at all, yeah, he'll go down hella fast if their nuker decides your priority one and you don't get out.
So, learn to hit and run, and let your tank take the hits to the face. Alternatively, have you considdered building a bit of magic resist and armor on him?
How are you at Ezreal? If you can't hit his Q consistently you're not gonna do any better with Lee Sin.
In team fights, you might want to press R and click on the hero nearest too you.
Just build him like a tank Sunfire and Banshee's and spam E and W during teamfights. If you are playing him as AD Nuke you need to wait for your teammates to iniate in and approach from a flanking angle so you can bypass enemy tanks.
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Q: According to a recent Morning Call article, temporary traffic lights will be installed on Route 222 where it meets Schantz Road, and where it meets Route 863 just to the east. Why would the lights be temporary? There is no doubt that a safety upgrade is appropriate at this challenging set of intersections. Also, why the sense of urgency now? Schantz Road is closed for the next 12 to 18 months for a bridge replacement, severely restricting traffic. Is there a final design for the configuration of these roads?
— Dale Heffelfinger, Whitehall Township
A: "Temporary" maybe isn't the best description of the traffic signals to be added at these two dangerous intersections, Dale, in the sense that in this context, it seems to suggest a duration of a year or so. Temporary signals normally provide traffic control on detour routes or at intersections where the flow is disrupted by construction work. Often they're used for only weeks or months.
In this instance, "interim" might be a better word, PennDOT engineer Dennis Toomey suggested, as the signals will be in use for a number of years.
A permanent solution — possibly a roundabout at routes 222 and 863 — is expected to follow, according to plans, though the exact nature of the design and the timing of the work are unknowns, Toomey said.
PennDOT is on a roundabout kick these days, and a roundabout at 222 and 863 (the local name of which is Independent Road to the north of 222 and Farmington Road to the south) has been in consideration since at least 2011. Many other approaches have been considered, including a plan that would eliminate the 222/Schantz juncture altogether, though I'd bet the keys to a Porsche 911 that the roundabout concept has the inside track, heading for the final straightaway.
Proponents point out that roundabouts differ from traffic circles, which many motorists detest, in that vehicles entering a roundabout yield to those already on the roundabout. Traffic circles, at least as defined by PennDOT, throw that rule into reverse. This and other design differences put roundabouts in the passing lane in locations where conditions warrant them. They're considered safer than traditional signalized intersections, primarily because they force motorists to slow down (but not necessarily stop), and they eliminate directly opposing vehicle pathways, thus avoiding the horrific high-speed "T-bone" crashes that can result in serious injury or worse.
The two sets of signals to be installed beginning this year are intended to bridge the gap, as it were, until a more permanent improvement is determined for the complex series of three intersections in this area just east of the Berks County border. The Route 222/Schantz intersection is particularly hazardous, mostly because of left turns from northbound 222 to Schantz at the oddly angled crossing. The junctures of Route 863 with Schantz Road, and with 222, are not much more than 300 feet apart, and lie just east of 222/Schantz.
"It's really a difficult triangle [of intersections]," Toomey said. It makes it difficult to design an effective road realignment there. The signals will be a big improvement though until the roundabout or whatever else they come up with gets in gear.
The two signals will be coordinated such that southbound (westbound geographically) traffic will have to stop at only one or the other, not both, Toomey said. "If you're coming southbound and you get stopped at 863, we will time it so that you will not get stopped at the second signal at Schantz," he said. Northbound through traffic will get a green light always; there's no need for those cars to stop because no conflicting traffic is possible.
The left-turn green-arrow phase for those dangerous northbound lefts onto Schantz will provide the biggest safety improvement, in the view through my windshield. Left turners will have to stop whenever opposing vehicles have a green light. In addition, the stop bar will be moved to the north, accomplishing two things: gaining a bit of stacking room in the turn lane, and shortening the length of the left turn itself. Currently, the odd skew of the roads keeps left turners in the opposing lane for a slightly longer distance than usual. Again, not by much, but it makes a difference. With the signal, the turn angle will be tighter, and the distance shorter, moving left-turners across the southbound lane more quickly. The juncture will be slightly reconfigured to help accommodate the sharper turn. Excellent safety improvements overall.
Work on the signals is expected to begin later this year, PennDOT spokesman Sean Brown said. My only caveat is that, for an interim improvement, the cost estimate is something of a sticker shocker at $7.55 million. Makes you wonder what the tab might be for the permanent improvement, whenever it pulls into construction mode.
Meanwhile, PennDOT is replacing the Schantz Road Bridge over Breinig Run 2 miles to the east, shutting down most of Schantz Road, a favored shortcut for Lehigh Valley motorists between Route 22 and Kutztown and other points west since I went to college there starting in the fall of 1969. (The left from 222 onto Schantz Road was treacherous even back then, by the way.)
Schantz is closed between Adams/Tillage and Twin Ponds roads; the recommended detour is 222 to the 222 Bypass to Route 100 back to Schantz — a 5.6-mile trip. Locals might find alternates tailored to their particular journeys, but for most of us, this will serve as a slow leak in a tire for more than a year to come. Work on the $1.66 million bridge project, which includes softening of the curves just east of the bridge, began in early April and is scheduled for completion in July 2015.
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