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Happy Valentine's Day: Affairs of the Heart….And Stomach!
by Brenda Alesii
posted Feb 12 2014 11:25AM
What do lentils, honey, oysters, bananas, and chocolate have in common? According to legend, they are
culinary aphrodisiacs
, perfect for
Valentine's Day
, which falls on a Friday this year. Some of these have actually been verified by science:
Both Hippocrates and ancient Egyptians thought
would aid in male potency. No wonder those
little legumes
are still popular.
Along the same lines,
, the Greek goddess of love, popped out of the water on an oyster shell.
also rank high in zinc, a key element in testosterone production.
Would you believe that even nutrient-rich
are among the foods offered to fertility gods in India? I just thought they were a great fit with peanut butter and hot fudge sundaes.
Montezuma is said to have imbibed in 50 cups of chocolate a day so he could take care of his harem.
Guess Monty wasn't concerned about calories, fat grams, or sexting.
When it comes to the restaurant industry, many capitalize on one of the biggest
annual dining-out occasions
in the U.S. Industry analysts
say this year should be particularly beneficial since V. Day falls on a Friday and President's Day occurs on the next Monday.
Many love-themed offers abound at this time of year. Carvel is offering a heart-shaped Chocolate Decadence cake, while Baskin-Robbins will sell Conversation Heart cakes in two sizes. Dunkin' Donuts and Tim Hortons have sprinkle-heart shaped donuts and chocolate-iced goodies in their lineup.
Salvatore's Italian Gardens
created a
Chocolate Brunch
menu, which they're rolling out for the second Valentine's Day in a row. Russell Salvatore, general manager of the venerable restaurant, said he and his sister Josette came up with the idea and figured it would be something "different and fun" for the dining public.
It's a veritable feast with a chocolate twist:
French Toast with a Chocolate Maple Sauce,
pastries with chocolate chips, and even a tossed
Salad with Blackberry-Chocolate Vinaigrette and Chocolate Bliss Waldorf Salad, just to name a few
. Other standard brunch dishes will be there for the taking too.
"The chefs all came up with the menu and added chocolate with all that we thought could work," Russell explained.
Table for two, please!
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Tip of the Week: Apples
by Brenda Alesii
posted Aug 29 2011 12:00AM
Apple skins contain vitamins and antioxidants that can improve your overall health, lower your cholesterol and even reduce your risk of serious diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, asthma, and diabetes. The chemical behind the apple skin's waxy shine is being credited with a host of health benefits from building and maintaining muscle to keeping the lid on your weight by keeping your blood sugar stabilized.
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Do You Recognize These Annoying Food Habits?
by Brenda Alesii
posted Aug 26 2011 12:00AM
I had the "Today Show" on as I was getting ready for work the other day. My ears perked up when I heard them talking about annoying lunch habits of co-workers.
It got me thinking about places I've worked and the irritating things that some of us do on a regular basis. Hmmm, it also has me wondering if I am guilty of some of the most common infractions as well.
For the past few weeks, I have been eating an apple every afternoon at my desk. Do my robust, crunchy bites annoy the other people around me in cube city? I tend to time my bites when it's noisy in the office so as not to disturb anyone. I am cognizant of any noise and gross sounds but have been in situations in previous work places where the habits of others are sometimes cringe-inducing and downright disgusting.
Some of the examples cited in the show and in blogs include noisy eaters who insist on chewing and talking with their mouths full. Thanks, but I'd rather not see your masticated lunch flailing around in your mouth. Lip smackers are a close relative of this gross custom.
Have you run into people who insist on re-heating seafood, popcorn, cabbage, and spicy aromatic foods in the microwave? At another workplace, I remember smelling salmon from morning to night one week as the odor permeated the entire first floor. In another situation, the whole office had to evacuate the building after someone insisted on burning popcorn yet again.
Another habit that drives me up the wall? The slurpers, who noisily consume their liquids, whether it's soup, coffee, pop, water or whatever beverage they're loudly swallowing. A little decorum here, please.
Leaving food, crumbs and wrappers and boxes for others to clean up is another pet peeve, but that is a column unto itself. Same goes for dry food left in dishes in cups in the sink.
What a way to lose an appetite!
Tip of the Week: Calories
by Brenda Alesii
posted Aug 22 2011 12:00AM
Ever since we learned what a calorie was we have been told they are all alike but that's not true at all.
I was told whether you eat 500 calories worth of celery stalks or tiramisu, your body will burn or store them equally. Right?
Wrong. New science shows that when it comes to weight loss, calories are nowhere near alike; it's about the way food impacts your body. Plus some foods like vegetables, fruits and whole grains require more energy to eat and burn more calories while you're digesting them – you can burn up to 30% more calories!
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A Few Things Simmering on the Front & Back Burners
by Brenda Alesii
posted Aug 15 2011 12:00AM
For the second year in a row, the weather was rainy for part of the day at the Taste of Williamsville, held Sunday, August 7 at Island Park in the village. The skies were threatening when we arrived in the late afternoon, but it didn't deter a good-sized crowd from sampling some terrific food from 20 local eateries. Kudos to Al Yates and the other organizers who added new restaurants, a classic car show, and a seating area under the pavilion, which proved to be a good move given the intermittent showers. I also liked how many of the vendors had delicious choices that weren't necessarily gut-busting. I loved the Caprese Salad on a skewer from 800 Maple, the refreshing Mango Lassi from Kabab & Curry, and the peanut butter gelato from Sweet Melody's. If I were designating an overall winner, I would agree with the judges, who awarded Milo's Rookie-of-the Year. I had a sampler of their fresh and fabulous dips and pita, spinach pies, rice pudding and grape leaves. Outstanding! Can't wait for next year's edition, the 24th annual, under sunny skies for a change.
Have you been to Thursday in the Tent at the Ramada Hotel on N. Forest in Getzville? My hubby and I met another couple there last week; we enjoyed a wonderful picnic menu and free music courtesy of Soul Providers, a live band rocking hard under a large tent in the park-like setting outside the hotel. I ordered off the Embers menu (the restaurant inside the hotel) while my dining mates all enjoyed picnic fare and great appetizers like veggie empanadas and cheeseburgers from the barbecue menu, cooked outdoors by the patio. Drink specials are available and the festivities run from 6 – 9 pm each Thursday through Sept. 1st. With the proliferation of outdoor seating and patios, it's a wonder more businesses don't do what Rick DiVita and his company have done at the Ramada. We had a terrific time dining al fresco and soaking up every bit of summer weather.
Heads up on the upcoming Local Restaurant Week. Dry clean your bib and enjoy the fall edition of Western New York Restaurant Week, running from September 26 through October 2.
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Tip of the Week: Why Organic?
by Brenda Alesii
posted Aug 15 2011 12:00AM
While organic foods are often more expensive, they could be worth the extra bucks. Here's a list of the "dirty dozen," which may make you want to reach for the organic alternatives:
– 97.3% of nectarines sampled were found to contain pesticides.
– 94.5% of celery sampled were found to contain pesticides.
– 94.4% of pears sampled were found to contain pesticides.
– 93.7% of peaches sampled were found to contain pesticides.
– 91% of apples sampled were found to contain pesticides.
– 91% of cherries sampled were found to contain pesticides.
– 90% of strawberries sampled were found to contain pesticides.
Imported Grapes
– 86% of imported grapes (i.e. Chile) sampled were found to contain pesticides.
– 83.4% of spinach sampled were found to contain pesticides.
– 79.3% of potatoes sampled were found to contain pesticides.
Bell Peppers
– 68% of bell peppers sampled were found to contain pesticides.
Red Raspberries
– 59% of red raspberries.
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Tip of the Week: An Alternative to Potato Chips
by Brenda Alesii
posted Aug 8 2011 12:00AM
We all know potato chips are fattening and who can eat just one? If you want a crunchy, albeit unconventional alternative, try kale chips.
Here's the recipe:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Remove kale from stalk, leaving the greens in large pieces. Place a little olive oil in a bowl, dip your fingers and rub a very light coat of oil over the kale. Lay kale out on a baking sheet and bake for 5 minutes or until it starts to turn a bit brown. Keep an eye on the kale, it can burn quickly. You can sprinkle with a little salt or spice such as curry or cumin after rubbing on olive oil for a little added flavor.
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Tip of the Week: Fad Diets
by Brenda Alesii
posted Aug 1 2011 12:00AM
There are so many diets: Atkins, high carb, low carb, Transitions, etc. Many have opposite philosophies, but one thing is for sure - diets don't work and you shouldn't restrict calories. Bottom line - eat often, don't eliminate any food groups. We need good sources of protein with every meal, with lots of veggies and fruit and the good low glycemic carbs high in fiber and low in fat. Try lean protein like chicken, fish, tofu, hot nuts. Get plenty of veggies, fruit, good grains for carbs, and don't skip meals!
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Tip of the Week: Good Breakfast Choices
by Brenda Alesii
posted Jul 25 2011 12:00AM
Although I like to indulge in omelets and pancakes, better breakfast choices that are not high glycemic and create a feeling of satiety our as follows: Steel cut oats, Greek yogurt with fresh fruit, Ezekiel cereal and muffins,egg bake and lean protein. Break that fast in a healthy and delicious way!
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Here's a Fish Tale: Peace…Love….Crabs
by Brenda Alesii
posted Jul 20 2011 12:00AM
July 11, or 7/11, turned out to be a lucky date for seafood lovers in Western New York as Joe's Crab Shack opened its first area restaurant on Maple Road in Amherst. The former Pizzeria Uno has been transformed into a bright, lively, rollicking eatery whose motto is "
Peace, Love, Crabs.
Joe's made quite a splash when they opened on the 11th. You may have seen people camped out
near the restaurant on the night before the grand opening. They wanted to be among the first 100 lucky customers to be awarded a voucher for a free Snow Crab bucket for a year, one of the most popular choices on the large menu.
When I arrived just before noon, the place was jammed with a line out the door for most of the afternoon. Savannah Broce, Joe's field marketing coordinator, said the Amherst opening was their biggest opening to date.
My husband and I thought it only right to do our due diligence so we ordered some cold drinks from our friendly and efficient server, who was decked out in Joe's tie-dyed uniform. We started with some of the signature dishes: a rich and flavorful order of Crab Nachos, a colorful array of fresh chips surrounding crab dip, pico de gallo, cheese and a delicious black bean corn relish (pictured above).
I ordered
Mussels Diablo (left)
, a huge serving replete with a garlicky tomato sauce with cilantro, smoked sausage slices and garlic toast. What a treat they were!
As if that wasn't enough, we dove into a
Classic Steampot
, chock full of Dungeness and Snow Crab, shrimp, corn and potatoes. Absolutely outstanding flavor and more than enough food to feed a family armed with hearty appetites like ours.
Good thing we took our server's advice and strapped on bibs as we cracked and picked our way through a memorable meal. It's no coincidence that each table comes with a spool of paper towels and wet naps. If I wasn't headed back to the office, I would have washed our feast down with a Shark Bite or Southern Spiked Tea, served up in a to-go Mason jar. Believe it or not, we said no to dessert, but I am heading back soon to try the Key Lime Pie and Crabby Apple Crumble, which I hear rivals my granny's version.
Here are a few other Joe's Crab Shack tasty tidbits:
25 differen crab items are on the menu
A fun atmosphere prevails--the kind of place you can chow down with your hands and boogie with the staff to some cool tunes
The full-service bar has a system that ensures that your beer is cold every time your brewski is served
Joe's makes charitable donations in July & August to "No Kid Hungry – Share our Strength Campaign," helping to alleviate childhood hunger.
Joe's Amherst location accommodates up to 400 diners and employs 250 fun-loving, hard working men and women
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1. FOX News: "Walking Fish Prompts Evolution Rethink"
Lungfish lurch and shimmy to show the way up the evolutionary ladder.
This week:
Lungfish—lobe-finned air-breathing fish—are considered by evolutionists to be the closest living relatives of the ancestral creatures they think evolved to bring vertebrate life to land. Fossils don't walk or swim, so evolutionary biologists at the University of Chicago designed a specialized tank to film lungfish locomotion. They analyzed the video hoping to learn how ancestors of terrestrial vertebrates evolved the ability to walk.
The lungfish species they examined has particularly slender spindly lobed fins containing no long bones but only the segmented bones normally found in these fish. It has no sacrum to allow stabilization of the bones in the pelvic fins, nor does it have any structures resembling feet. Thus this fish is equipped with no appendage adaptations that could be construed as terrestrial preparations. Researcher Neil Shubin says, "If you showed me the skeleton of this creature and asked me to make a bet on whether it walks or not, I would have bet it couldn't. Their fins seem like the furthest thing from walking appendages possible."
Nevertheless, the lungfish pushed off the bottom of the tank with their pelvic fins, lifting themselves up as they moved forward. They sometimes used their pectoral fins for balance but not for locomotion, so the researchers refer to their "gait" as "bipedal." At times they used an "alternate-gait, walking/running" type of motion, shimmying their way across the tank. At other times they used their pelvic fins synchronously to "bound/hop" along the bottom. And at other times they "used a wide range of asymmetrical gaits."1 "I find it exciting and surprising that even with such small fins, this lungfish is able to not only propel itself, but lift its body clear off the bottom as well," says researcher Heather King. "If you were to look at just the skeleton of the lungfish, you might never guess that it was capable of this behavior, especially since they don't have feet!" Although lungfish lack feet, the team noticed the pelvic fins pushing against the bottom were able to bend at many locations to form the shape of a foot for pushing off.1 The researchers expressed astonishment at the fish's ability to "lift" itself off the bottom even though the buoyant density of the fish would make such a movement nearly effortless, requiring little muscular effort or bony support.
Thus, the researchers claim lungfish and our aquatic ancestors could have evolved the motor skills required for an evolutionarily advanced "bipedal gait" while still living in water. Shubin explains, "This shows us — pardon the pun — the steps that are involved in the origin of walking. What we're seeing in lungfish is a very nice example of how bottom-walking in fish living in water can easily come about in a very tetrapod-like pattern."
The team concludes that lungfish "relatives," the supposed ancestors of terrestrial vertebrates, did not have to evolve feet or toes or a skeleton able to bear weight before learning how to walk. "It shows what's possible in an aquatic medium where you don't have to support yourself," says Shubin. The team then suggests fossil trackways consistent with locomotion like a lungfish "bipedal gait"1 could belong to our aquatic ancestors. Those ancestors could have spent millions of years on their stepwise march up the evolutionary ladder underwater before taking the leap to land. The evolutionary "rethink" referred to in the media is merely the idea that toes and leg-bones-connected-to-hip-bones did not have to evolve before fish learned to walk.
The Chicago team has done a marvelous job of demonstrating the way lungfish move along underwater. The ability to lift itself up is particularly useful as a lungfish must pop its mouth above water to breath. But such a motion is practically effortless thanks to the fish's buoyancy and overcomes none of the anatomical obstacles to terrestrial ambulation. The team has not shown us anything demonstrating evolution in the past or present. Indeed, anything seems "possible in an aquatic medium where you don't have to support yourself"! But gravity is the hurdle an evolving terrestrial would have to conquer, and practicing walking motions for millions of years wouldn't overcome any of the mechanical challenges demanded for transition to terrestrial life.
The lungfish is not a transitional form; it is a fish designed to breath air. (Incidentally, there are other fish that breath air and other fish that scoot across land.) As the team points out, everything about the lungfish skeleton screams fish. The coelacanth—another lobe-finned fish—swims and uses gills; the lobe-finned lungfish scoots/walks/hops across the bottom and grabs air—both are fully functional and adapted for their environments. Neither demonstrates anything about "our aquatic ancestors," since we have none.
God created all kinds of fish on the fifth day of Creation week, each able to reproduce after its kind. Just one day later, He created land animals and man. He did this about 6,000 years ago, not millions of years ago. He did not require evolutionary processes to produce terrestrial vertebrates but only His Word. Christians must not compromise and try to stuff evolutionary thinking into the biblical history given to us by God. And as we look at research like this, we should see an interesting kind of fish designed to live in shallow aquatic environments and not its imaginary family tree with non-existent cousins crawling out onto land.
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2. Yahoo News: "NASA Telescope Confirms Alien Planet in Habitable Zone"
Looking for life in all the right places
NASA's extrasolar planet-hunter, the $600-million Kepler space telescope, has "confirmed the discovery of its first alien world in its host star's habitable zone."2 Over the past 16 months, Kepler has discovered 2,326 "potential planets" beyond our solar system. Kepler-22b is the first of these to be confirmed "in the habitable zone." To be in the "habitable zone," an exoplanet must appear to be neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist and have the potential for holding onto an atmosphere. From an evolutionary point of view, where there is water, life as we know it could have evolved.
Exoplanets like Kepler-22b are first spotted by the "transit method." In other words, because a planet orbiting its star should appear to fractionally dim the star's light during its transit, anything that makes a star fade could be a planet. If the "candidate" continues to dim the light during successive orbits, it is classified as a full–fledged planet. The time required for the exoplanet to orbit its star indicates its distance from the star. And that information, combined with an estimate of the star's energy output, is used to determine whether the exoplanet is in the habitable zone. In the case of Kepler-22b, the planet's orbit is considerably closer to its sun than Earth's to ours, but Kepler-22b's sun is not as hot as ours. (There have also been at least two giant "habitable zone" planets discovered to date among the over 700 known exoplanets.)3
Kepler-22b was one of the first exoplanets spotted by the space telescope; therefore, it is the first to be confirmed to be in a "habitable zone." The presence of an atmosphere cannot yet be determined for exoplanets, and the atmosphere's components would be a key factor in maintaining Earth-like temperatures. An exoplanet's size—in this case only 2.4 times the radius of Earth—is compared to estimates of its mass to determine whether the planet is primarily solid, liquid, or gaseous. That information is also not yet known for Kepler-22b. Thus headlines referring to Kepler-22b as "Earth's twin" may be a bit premature.
So why all the excitement? Why the 600-million-dollar interest in identifying planets in the "habitable zone" when planets 600 light years away cannot be reached for manned exploration except in science fiction? The reason boils down to evolution. Evolutionary scientists believe life evolved by random interaction of water and chemicals on Earth and therefore assume the same may well have happened anywhere conditions are similarly amenable.
The Bible does not say that God didn't create life elsewhere, but the Bible does tell us God created all life on Earth during the first six days of Creation week about 6,000 years ago. God spent that week preparing a place for Adam and Eve, and He created them in His image. Despite the fun of sci-fi and the delightful discoveries in the heavens that "declare the glory of God," (Psalm 19:1) neither mankind nor the universe evolved, and there is no reason to believe life evolved elsewhere.
Scientists have never observed life evolve from non-living components. Thus, finding the right chemicals and the right conditions for life to exist elsewhere should not suggest to us that it has. And yet, even if life were to be indisputably found on another world, its existence would not prove molecules-to-man evolution ever occurred. Such life would simply be another demonstration of God's creative power to create life where He chooses. Meanwhile, recognizing the whole of creation was corrupted due to man's sin (Romans 8:21–22), we continue to doubt the existence of sentient life elsewhere, despite the exultation expressed by SETI director Jill Tarter: "For the first time, we can point our telescopes at stars, and know that those stars actually host planetary systems - including at least one that begins to approximate an Earth analogue in the habitable zone around its host star."4 The discovery is fascinating, but if we wish to know we are not alone, we'll get more reliable results by getting to know the God of the Bible.
For more information:
- News to Note, December 19, 2009
- News to Note, October 8, 2011
- Don't Alienate the Aliens
- "I'd Love to Baptise an Alien"
- The existence and origin of extrasolar planets
3. NY Times: "Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely, With Wit"
The Passing of a Well-Known Atheist
An atheist of many striking contradictions and ironies passed away on Thursday. Christopher Hitchens, the acerbic author of God is not Great—How Religion Poisons Everything, was known as one of the "new angry atheists."5 His public lectures/debates, frequent appearances on TV, and countless articles and books gave him a large following even beyond the intelligentsia. He died of cancer-related causes at the age of 62.
At one moment, Hitchens could use his considerable wit and mastery of the English language to skewer politicians (e.g., President Bill Clinton) and religious leaders (Mother Teresa, even), and at another moment, he could use his tongue to be disarmingly polite and charming. It's the latter that was on display when he toured the Creation Museum in 20106; his celebrated caustic side seemed to be more on display when he had an audience to play to.
As a young man, Hitchens was a radical socialist. Through the influence of the writings of George Orwell and others, Hitchens' youthful exuberance for leftist beliefs moderated over time and he came to distrust big government. Hitchens even backed a Republican president's war in Iraq this past decade, although his support of President Bush's action was motivated more by his antipathy towards the Abrahamic monotheistic religions than anything, in this case extremist Islam in the Middle East.7 He was not easily pigeonholed in other ways. Hitchens' unpredictability was manifested when he became one of the rare secular humanists who believed that human life begins at conception. Additionally, there were surprises within his family: his brother Peter is a well-known Christian writer in England, and one parent was a Christian and the other had a Jewish heritage. Also, we note with irony that Christ was in this atheist's name, for Christopher means "Christ-bearer."
Hitchens was largely unashamed of his licentious life, unrepentant even in his final months (e.g., when interviewed for a Charlie Rose PBS-TV program). His "wild side" somewhat lessened his reputation as an intellectual. Nevertheless, his considerable intellect and language skills garnered many opportunities for him to challenge what he considered to be stupid (such as biblical creation) and nefarious (especially Christianity and Islam). While Hitchens often marched to the beat of his own drummer and could confound friends with his unexpected views, one thing did not moderate in his life: he was in an ongoing crusade against the "evils" of the three major monotheistic religions. But without an absolute standard other than a trust in his own reasoning, it was still merely his opinion when he issued his moral pronouncements, including what he determined was evil.
As we have written many times on this website, the Bible tells us that God is the Creator of everything and, therefore, all things belong to Him; thus He is the One to define absolute standards of behavior, which He has written down in His Bible. Atheists may label actions as good or evil, but in their meaningless, purposeless, and evolution-formed universe, they do not have an ultimate foundation for defining what is good and evil. But God's Word does.
Furthermore, God gave us the answer in the Bible as to why there are diseases like the cancer that struck Hitchens and the death it can cause (as taught in Genesis 3; see the PDF of our booklet Why Is There Death and Suffering), but He also offered a solution: eternal life through Christ.
The use of logic and language (Hitchens mastered the latter with his rapier-like wit) only makes sense in an ordered universe made by the omnipotent God who created everything. Furthermore, the apostle Paul taught that people are without excuse if they reject a belief in God, for they "suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools . . . ."
Hitchens is no longer shaking a fist at his Creator. The ultimate and saddest contradiction of his life (unless we become aware of a deathbed conversion) was that at the end, he repudiated God's Word and God Himself.
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4. Yahoo News: "Atheist messages displace CA park nativity scenes"
Locals lose in lottery to atheist outsiders
Santa Monica's churches and local police officers for almost six decades have blessed their community by providing a massive nativity scene utilizing 14 of the 21 vandal-proof fenced display areas in the city's Palisades Park. Now atheists led by a non-resident, Damon Vix, have pushed the city to allot the spaces by lottery and then outbid the churches and police officers for the spaces. Eighteen spaces went to atheists in the lottery. Their displays include a "Happy Solstice" sign, a Thomas Jefferson quotation, and signage asserting that Jesus Christ, Satan, Santa, and King Neptune are mythological.
City attorney Marsha Moutrie points out, "Though the City can designate particular space . . . for winter displays and prohibit displays in other park space, it cannot favor one speaker or message over another."8 She also writes, "Everyone has equal rights to use the streets and parks for expressive activities, irrespective of residency."
Hunter Jameson, representing churches that normally work together to provide the nativity display, says the City policy has been manipulated by outsiders to deprive passersby of "a month long, time-honored tradition supported by 14 Santa Monica-based organizations representing thousands of local residents."8
He says,"These new groups applying for permits aren't even Santa Monica residents." Jameson urges local residents to petition their City Council to rectify the situation next year by granting local preference in allotting spaces.
The Santa Monica Nativity Scenes Committee is thus asking the taxpayers of the community—the people whose funds paid for the construction and maintenance of the vandal-proof display areas—to let their representatives in city government know their will regarding allocation of those spaces. If Moutrie's interpretation of the law prevails, the opinions of the taxpayers and voters will not matter, as any outside organization whatsoever would be able to outnumber and outbid the people of the community and tell them how their public property is to be used. This may prove an interesting test case to watch, given its implications for local autonomy in the rest of the country.
Meanwhile, as Vix vies to influence public opinion by Jeffersonianisms, another Jefferson quotation, for which the context and source—the Declaration of Independence—is widely known, deserves an airing:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Though Jefferson was a deist and employed his own form of amateur textual criticism in compiling The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, he did not eliminate Christ's references to Noah's Flood, Satan, or His own second coming from his manuscript, nor did he remove the account of Christ's birth—the event Vix is so opposed to publicly honoring. Jefferson had a particular abhorrence for the idea of a government-selected state religion, which many of the original states and European countries had. During his presidency, Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Association that, under the Constitution, Congress should "'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."9
Many who loudly point to Jefferson when denying the constitutionality of allowing Christians rights of free expression and religious practice ignore the context of Jefferson's statement. They often suggest he meant the people involved in government are constitutionally prohibited from following or discussing biblical principles. They also ignore his assertion in the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom that truth has nothing to fear from open expression and discussion of ideas. And they likewise ignore his bold declaration, echoed by all the signers of our country's founding document, that the Creator God is the source of all our human rights.
Indeed, Scripture tells us God is the source of every good and every perfect gift (James 1:17). This truth was recognized by the Founding Fathers who understood God—man's Creator—is the one from whom all man's rights come—rights a just government must protect. John Quincy Adams even explained in an 1837 speech that "the birthday of the Savior of the world"—that event Vix finds offensive—is "indissolubly linked" to the birth of our nation. How? Because, he said, the birth of the United States of America is "a leading event in the progress of the Gospel." And he added that the Declaration of Independence—which Jefferson penned—"laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity."10 Thus, as Vix and his followers demand their rights even at the expense of the rights of others, perhaps they should ponder the divine source of all human rights and the biblical basis by which our Founding Fathers understood government's role in protecting them.
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5. LA Times: "Spreading the global warming gospel: A climatologist in West Texas takes on skeptics with scientific data — and her own faith as an evangelical Christian "
The global warming gospel or the green dragon?
Texas Tech climatologist, Katharine Hayhoe, a professing evangelical Christian, speaks to politically and theologically conservative groups to convince them that climate change is not only real but caused by human activity. She presents data and her interpretation of it to encourage Christians in particular to be good stewards of the earth. Hayhoe says, "People ask me if I believe in global warming. I tell them, 'No, I don't,' because belief is faith; faith is the evidence of things not seen. Science is evidence of things seen. To have an open mind, we have to use the brains that God gave us to look at the science."
Aside from the question of whether global climate change is a natural or manmade phenomenon—which is explored elsewhere (see links below) on our website—we'd like here to note a couple of things about Hayhoe's statement. Hebrews 11:1 does tell us faith is "the evidence of things not seen," and observational science does examine evidence. Yet evidence is gathered and observed and tested and interpreted by human beings. And all human beings—lacking omniscience—view evidence through their own presuppositions. Scientists design tests based on their hypotheses, essentially educated guesses. If an educated guess misses the mark, chances are the scientific experiments designed to gather data will miss the evidence needed or the scientist may even misinterpret the data gathered.
Scientific models are judged to be useful if they accurately describe what happens and predict future occurrences. Models that fail to do so should be replaced. But science is rarely so simple. Models of complex phenomena may have some merits and still have shortcomings. Models are based on the data available and the human imagination interpreting it. As more data becomes available, many models get replaced, but some do not because they come to represent the agendas of certain individuals, political points of view, or worldviews. As long as human beings lack omniscience, scientific conclusions will remain mutable and fallible.
Furthermore, origins science requires the scientist to make inferences about evidence that cannot be subjected to repeatable tests. Origins science is intimately entangled with faith—either faith that there is a supernatural cause for our origins or faith that there is not. And if we believe there is supernatural cause for our origins, we must decide whether we believe the eyewitness account God gave in the Bible or not. If not, what alternative will we choose? Whatever version of origins science we espouse, we choose it on the basis of faith, and then we examine the evidence of science through the lens of that worldview. And since contradictory claims cannot be simultaneously true, only one account of our origins can actually be true.
Hayhoe makes the demarcation between faith and science sound so neat and tidy, but scientists make their human judgments in accordance with their biases and presuppositions. We are supposed to use the brains that God gave us. But those brains are always biased, and we would be wise to recognize our own biases and those of policy-makers and scientists. Particularly when it comes to origins science, all parties examine the evidence with a faith-based bias. Untestable assumptions about the past are best evaluated through eyewitness accounts, and we find in the Bible God's eyewitness account of the origin of the universe, the earth, and all life itself. The Bible also provides the history of the global Flood from which creationist derive a platform by which to correctly interpret the geologic record of catastrophic changes on earth. When choosing which views of origins to accept, we will make the right choices when we take God at His Word.
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- Higgs boson is back in the news: same song, next verse. The Higgs boson is a tiny particle that, if it exists, imparts mass to matter. Its existence was proposed to explain why some subatomic particles have mass but photons—which make up light—do not. As the "giver of mass to all matter," the particle has been nicknamed "the god particle." Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) smash protons together and examine the debris for a Higgs presence. Recent experiments have produced results within the predicted range of mass expected for the particle. Physicists are not suggesting they have found the particle but acknowledge the "blips" could just be background noise. When working with huge quantities of data, initial results can easily appear significant merely as a result of statistical artifact. Yet the media is abuzz with the news. The suggestion someone is zeroing in on the "god particle" gets attention. Why? Not because anyone suggests they've found God or even a non-supernatural substitute for God's creative power but rather because some people think the LHC reproduces conditions present at the big bang. Thus, they think that if under those conditions the source of all matter is discovered, evidence for the big bang as the originator of the universe would be incontrovertible. However, the ability to create a situation in a present-day laboratory does not prove the situation ever came about naturally. Furthermore, big bang cosmology not only violates the Word of God (see Chapter 10: Does the Big Bang Fit with the Bible?) but some laws of physics as well. Finally, a discovery that deepens our understanding of the nature of matter and energy does not rule out a supernatural created origin for that matter and energy. On the contrary, whenever that discovery actually does get made, we will have simply learned more about the complexities of the universe God created. Read more about the "god particle" at News to Note, August 6, 2011, Beams Collide Today in Expensive Hadron Collider, and In Search of God.
- Drug resistance may linger longer than expected—perhaps indefinitely—even on antibiotic-free farms, according to a study soon to be published in Microbial Ecology. Researchers monitored for resistance to two antibiotics on a pig farm known to be antibiotic free for two-and-a-half years. Seventy to one-hundred percent of the gut bacteria in pig waste samples remained resistant. The researchers had hypothesized resistance would disappear when antibiotics were withdrawn. Genes that convey antibiotic resistance often reside on plasmids, outside the bacterial genome, and plasmids can be easily gained or lost through horizontal transfer. Persistent resistance, they suspect, may arise from linkage of the resistance genes to other essential genes. The article states that when faced with antibiotics, "Wily bacteria soon evolve resistance." However, antibiotic resistance—which can be acquired via horizontal gene transfer between microorganisms—does not involve evolution of new kinds. Antibiotic resistance is a matter of natural selection and survival of those bacteria that already possess resistance. The article's contention that resistance should be lost in the absence of an antibiotic challenge mistakenly supposes that antibiotic resistance develops as a response to antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance does not demonstrate evolution of new kinds of life, only natural selection of old ones. See also Antibiotic Resistance of Bacteria: An Example of Evolution in Action?, News to Note, September 10, 2011, Antibiotic Resistance as "Evidence" for Evolution, and Evolution and Medicine.
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The internet and the truth, oh well! Sharks swimming in hurricane Sandy´s flood waters at somebody´s backyard. Wow! Olympus E-PL5 having one stop more dynamic range than OM-D. Wow! Olympus E-PL5 having no low-pass filter. Wow! I´m really not speaking here about hurricane damages and some digital cameras in the same context but wondering about the dynamics of the internet. How one post in the internet can cumulate into something big, worldwide and very true. There were sharks swimming in many places, like in flood water among running cars, already during hurricane Irene. So, it is only natural that from now on we see sharks swimming in peculiar places when ever there is a flood.
Blatant faking of reality is of course one thing and honest (miss-)drawing of conclusions is another. Which leads into these two cameras. E-PL5 is the newest in PEN series from Olympus. According to Olympus it has same sensor and same processor and same image quality as their flag ship mirrorless, the OM-D. But, as you know, camera factories simply are not reliable. We have already one test showing that E-PL5 has one stop better dynamic range than OM-D. Also we have now information that E-PL5 has no low-pass filter (while OM-D has). And both facts are circulating the internet as - yes, as facts.
Olympus (like others) has been developing their anti-moiré algorithms all the time to make ever thinner low-pass filters possible. That´s good for image sharpness. Already OM-D has a relatively thin low-pass filter and the importance of algorithms is easy to see if you convert an OM-D RAW file in Olympus Viewer 2 or Adobe Lightroom 4. Viewer 2 software removes moiré nicely while in Lightroom you need to do manual corrections quite often. Viewer 2 gives also an option to leave anti-moiré off. Also all the other parameters can be set exactly the same. This gives us a great possibility to compare these two cameras which have same sensors but the other is with low-pass filter and the other with none, presumably. The difference should be obvious and it is seen below.
Doing tests is difficult because you have to be sure that what you get is what you were after. That´s why I usually even do not show those vertical lines in my reviews . They are more sensitive to the slightest differencies in camera or sensor angles than anything else. Here I know the slight difference we see in them comes from changing the camera, or maybe the sensors in these two individual camera bodies are not absolutely perfectly aligned when compared with each other. Other than that, the only thing we can see in these two images is that there really is no difference at all. Yes, there are very, very slight differencies but they can come from so many little deviations. What I can say is that there is a similar low-pass filter in BOTH cameras or in neither. The former is true here. Actually it is quite amazing that these two camera bodies, one OM-D and one E-PL5, produce such outstandingly similar results! And that is the only thing which surprised me. Tolerancies in making these cameras must be very small.
Okay we have now busted one myth, unless I faked these test target images, of course ;-)
The other claim was that E-PL5 has a one stop advancement in dynamic range over OM-D. I shot this same test target to see dynamic range over a range of 14 stops. Neither of these cameras do not have such a range, of course. I only wanted to be sure. Again, the results were just alike as above. Every pair of similarly exposed images is just as close to each other as above. There is no difference in dynamic ranges between these two cameras. And that´s it!


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HTC One X vs. One X wifi &, multi tasking
Does anyone know if the htc one + has the same interment wifi issues like the One X when putting the screen into sleep mode?
How about multi tasking does it have the typical Android true multi tasking or fake multi tasking like One X when you switch apps after a while it just auto refreshes the app rather then loading the app on the current state it was left on.
Sent from my HTC One X using Android Central Forums - 01-05-2013, 05:37 PM #2
Re: HTC One X vs. One X wifi &, multi tasking
Unfortunately it has the fake multitasking. I purchased and returned a One X for this reason. I picked up a One X+ thinking for sure that this issue would be solved, but it wasn't. So I will be returning the One X+ as well. Facebook, web pages, Twitter, etc. all refresh from the start whenever you leave it. It is unbelievable that they didnt fix it.
As for the WiFi, it doesn't go into sleep mode if you turn off the Power Saver. - 01-07-2013, 08:31 PM #3
Re: HTC One X vs. One X wifi &, multi tasking
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HTC One X+ (HOX+) - 01-16-2013, 12:44 AM #4
HTC One X vs. One X wifi &, multi tasking
If you open just 3 apps, any browser, Twitter and Facebook and scroll down a few screen lengths in each. Then go to a 4th app of any kind for, say 3-5 minutes. When you go back, all three of those apps will refresh and take you back to the top. Not where you were previously reading. Then you have to scroll back down the continue where you left off. It's very annoying if you are reading an article on a browser and then get a text or email or phone call, you lose your place because the phone is designed this way for whatever reason. If you just have a game or something, it might hold your place, but any of the common apps I mentioned can't have their places held as they do on all other phones.
No other phone has this quirk. With any other Android, iPhone, etc. it keeps your place. - 01-16-2013, 09:08 AM #5
Re: HTC One X vs. One X wifi &, multi tasking
Depending on your usage patterns, it could drive you crazy or you might not notice it at all.
If you jump around between apps that require internet content like a browser and you don't finish what you were doing and try to go back, it will be a big problem. If you mostly play games and text, or read all of your Facebook posts and expect that when you return 10 minutes later that there will be new stuff, you might think the multitasking works perfectly.
I'm trying to stop a discussion of "yes or no". Definitely, yes, there is a multitasking issue that operates differently than any other phone. The usage pattern of any given individual will determine whether they notice it or consider it problematic.
Sent from my HTC One X+ using Tapatalk 2 - 01-17-2013, 10:23 PM #6
Re: HTC One X vs. One X wifi &, multi tasking
I agree with you orange-man, it would drive me crazy too. It's definitely a usage style issue, but if it doesn't happen with other devices, then it could be some bug in the ROM. Hopefully it would get fixed in the next update, but only if HTC gets enough harrassment over it.
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HTC One X+ (HOX+) - 01-17-2013, 10:38 PM #7
Re: HTC One X vs. One X wifi &, multi tasking
Pazzo, I read enough about this subject and it is not a bug. HTC did it intentionally to keep the phone running smoothly. I'm no expert, but I've read posts where people say that Sense takes up a lot of memory and if the phone had more RAM it wouldn't be a problem. It's like the free space isn't enough so they have to do tricks like this. It was this way on the One X, and I was sure they would fix it on the One X+, but they didn't.
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Now I'm not saying you should go out and rob a bank, but I am saying I have a birthday coming up in seven months and money is always the right size. Interpret as you will (at least get a payday loan, cheapskate). Made by Sugarcoatidli3z, the same creator as this Pikachu ski mask (you have washed that sweathshirt, right?), Cthulhu here is sure to haunt your dreams and make children cry hysterically with equal dexterity. Which, provided it chase the naked mermen out of my dreams in the process, is a win-win situation. Haha, not you, King Triton, you and I have some unfinished business to attend to. So, Ariel's like, what, 37 now? I'll give you six dolphins for her.
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