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Last week I got some brilliant news, ATOS said they would record my disability assessment! Up until my interview I was nervous that it was too good to be true, but for once, they were true to their word. Thanks so much for helping me stand up to ATOS - the success of my petition shows that when we speak out together, we can change things for the better. As a disabled person, I'm not against having assessments - but I want them to be fair and I want to be shown respect.
I became too ill to work two years ago after a 30+ year career as a community development worker; I have, among other health problems, both Fibromyalgia and Sjorgens Syndrome. This leaves me unable to do most things people take for granted, such as make myself a hot drink or a sandwich.
In April this year, I was called for a regular disability assessment with ATOS to see whether I am still eligible for Employment Support Allowance (ESA). In-line with the Government's new policy, I asked my assessment to be recorded. ATOS told me that assessments are no longer available; when I asked the reason I was told that there are only 11 pieces of recording equipment in the country and all of them are broken. ATOS said they would not be repaired or replaced, and that the DWP has instructed them to cease the recordings.
ATOS assessments have a profound significance for me; if they say I am no longer entitled to Employment Support Allowance (ESA) then I will have no money to live. Unfortunately my experience teaches me that there are often problems with ATOS assessments; not only are they an inaccurate reflection of what was said and carried out, but they also get basic things such as your name wrong.
It is terrible mistakes such as these that resulted in the Harrington Report November 2010 which recommended that everyone should have the right to have assessments recorded, so there is a record of what was said. The Government responded to the report by purchasing 11 Neal 9102 dual CD interview recorders so that people could request from ATOS that their assessment is recorded. And in a private members debate on 1st February 2012, Employment Minister Chris Grayling stated: "On audio recording, we will offer everyone who wants it the opportunity to have their session recorded."
This sums up the reason for my petition, I do not accept that all machines are broken beyond repair and I do not understand what has changed since the Government announced that everyone has the option to have their assessment recorded.
I am calling on DWP to protect my right to have my disability assessment recorded, and to ensure that ATOS has enough working recording equipment to make this possible.
More information: ATOS is the company which holds the contracts with the DWP to carry out all Disability assessments, and decides whether you will be given Government support. The assessment itself consists of a medical professional asking lots of often strange questions such as "do you watch Eastenders", and then a limited test of movement.
Background to arranging my recorded assessment: In April this year, I was called for an assessment and in-line with the new policy, I requested that it was recorded. I was told my appointment needed to be rearranged to allow for this, which was done for April 30th. I was contacted by phone, 2 days before my assessment and told the equipment would not be available and another appointment would be sent out; it was, and the next appointment duly arrived but when I called to check it would be recorded again I was told no. This situation rolled along through May and most of June and my eighth appointment arrived for July 2nd yet when I made the obligatory call I was told assessments were no longer available; when I asked the reason I was told all 11 pieces of equipment were broken and would not be repaired or replaced, and that the DWP has instructed ATOS to cease the recordings.
ATOS should replace or repair the recording equipment used in Health assessments.
Claimants of ESA have the right to request their 'fit for work' assessments are recorded to ensure accuracy. The DWP purchased 11 Neal 9102 dual CD interview recorders for this purpose, all of which are now...
ATOS should replace or repair the recording equipment used in Health assessments.
Claimants of ESA have the right to request their 'fit for work' assessments are recorded to ensure accuracy. The DWP purchased 11 Neal 9102 dual CD interview recorders for this purpose, all of which are now apparently broken.
We believe it is right that ATOS replace/repair this equipment as a matter of urgency.
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manus mcdaid ST LEONARDS-ON-SEA, UNITED KINGDOM
- over 2 years ago
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Sue Rees EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM
- over 2 years ago
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Carer for Dyslexic son who needs an accurate and accessible record of assessments that HE can understand.REPORT THIS COMMENT:
Sue Howley LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
- over 2 years ago
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C'mon ATOS, it won't hurt you to use some of those millions you are making out of us to pay for a few recording machines. If I had had to attend an assessment, I would have needed recording equipment because cognitive issues, worsened by stress, would have made it impossible for me to have decent recall of the interview, and with all the stories coming out about falsified responses, recording is the only way to ensure the veracity of what took place.REPORT THIS COMMENT:
Steph Miller HULL, UNITED KINGDOM
- over 2 years ago
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Because I don't trust Atos to write down the truth about my condition.REPORT THIS COMMENT:
R Campbell FEERING, UNITED KINGDOM
- over 2 years ago
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would be better to have video of our assessments to be honestREPORT THIS COMMENT:
Stephen Carr SPILSBY, UNITED KINGDOM
- about 2 years ago
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I too have had assessments by atos, the first one was great the doctor was very nice and my assessment took well over an hour. I had one in April and it was a nurse she told us she was behind and she would tick boxes I was in for five minutes I mainly only confirmed my name address and my meds she couldn't even say there names and didn't know what they were for. I had no assessment at all and was turned down for ESA even though I have even more health issues now. It's a joke how one person can play with your life and finances. I appealed in april and I'm still waiting for an answer and we were told fifty days but that's a joke too were almost at the end of August also I wasn't aware I could have the assessment recorded. If I'd known I would have asked. I feel that the government has told atos they will get big bonuses if they can cut the amount of ESA awards. We won't find out though. There's no chance I could work its not just that who would employ us????REPORT THIS COMMENT:
jeffrey davies NEATH, UNITED KINGDOM
- about 2 years ago
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because they dont tell the truth they lie big timeREPORT THIS COMMENT:
Rawle Price LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
- about 2 years ago
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yes i too am a victim of these people from ATOS because i wanted my interview recorded due to previous lying & made up infomation by the interviewer i took my own recorder which they refused me i went along to their offices seven times (7) in Balham for appointments , each one cancelled siting they did not have a recording equipment in placeREPORT THIS COMMENT:
Linda Turner LOCKING, UNITED KINGDOM
- about 2 years ago
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we have to prove we are ill and prove our assessment did just that... if we can fit in the tick boxes of course. I was told my GP and consultants opinion was irrelevant!!!... The whole thing is about getting people off benefits and if they die because ATOS/DWP got it wrong? Well it saves them money so job done. we need our assesments recording, at the very least. Terrifying times to be unlucky enough to be sick and disabled.REPORT THIS COMMENT:
Peter Mackie EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM
- about 2 years ago
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I have been on DLA for several years with mental health problems and worry about possibly having to go to an ATOS assessment soon.REPORT THIS COMMENT:


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B-Town stars excited to witness Modi's swearing-in
Bollywood celebrities Anupam Kher, Hema Malini, Madhur Bhandarkar and Vivek Oberoi will be among those who will attend the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi and his cabinet at Rashtrapati Bhavan Monday. They are thrilled about getting to watch the historic moment.
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Anupam Kher: On my way to Delhi. Looking forward to the beginning of a new era. Jai Ho.
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Madhur Bhandarkar: Delhi beckons! Feel privileged, honoured and proud that I'll be able to witness in person the historic moment of swearing-in of Modiji today (Monday).
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okay yeah so this is me having fun with my senior picture in photoshop alright okay whatever I'll stop now
I have class in 6 hours. I need to sleep but I can't until I finish my homework and instead of doing homework I'm doing this.
Curse you, tumblr.
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Sometimes you write something. An idea. Not sure about it. Bit outside your academic field. Given it a lot of thought, but hey. Probably being stupid.
And then, hey presto, you were probably right.
What a life eh?
Sometimes you write something. An idea. Not sure about it. Bit outside your academic field. Given it a lot of thought, but hey. Probably being stupid.
And then, hey presto, you were probably right.
What a life eh?
I've been watching, at long last, the three Star Wars prequel movies (yes, yes, I know how truly awful the first two are NOW, but you didn't warn me, did you?). Something struck me as I watched the endless computer graphics supplying background to the endless special effect fight scenes.
It has long been a commonplace that the representation of "alien races" in science fiction always gets it wrong. In brief, for this is totally irrelevant to the essay, natural selection will work exactly the same way wherever life appears in the universe. And we know that physics and chemistry is uniform. So alien body forms can't be just random collections of unconnected exotic features, and bodies are limited by physical and chemical laws. So Wookies, possible, Jar Jar Binks, not so much.
Where was I? Oh yes. Aliens are wrong, but so, generally, are the planets they are portrayed as living on. Many Star Wars planets are portrayed as having surfaces totally covered by cities composed of huge skyscrapers and clearly intended to indicate populations of billions of beings. It is an old concept in science fiction. I guess based on the ideas of inevitable massive population growth, endless technological innovation, and cities as the ultimate expression of human evolution and civilisation.
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In the mid-1970s I received an unexpected phone call – could I come and check out a museum display. The unexpected part was not the checking out, but the nature of the display I was to check.
In those distant times the only "museum" in Canberra (leaving aside the War Memorial) was the "Institute of Anatomy". I don't now remember its history, but it had been established early in Canberra's history in a splendid Art Deco style building. I presume they funded research, conferences etc, maintained collections of anatomical specimens, but the main function by 1976 was their display area which was like a Dickensian museum of glass display cases full of all sorts of bits and pieces of flora and fauna and rocks and humans.
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Look, there's a lot of different careers I could have had. Hell, had three different ones, three and a half, as it was. But if I ever manage to decide what I want to do with my life (and yes, that is a winged chariot you hear), astronomy is right up there as a possibility.
Oh, not really a possibility, with my lack of physics and mathematics abilities. I suppose my wishful thinking was always based on Herschel, hell Galileo, staring at the mysterious skies through a telescope and seeing, things never seen before, heavenly messengers.
We are of course, long past the time when amateurs could point a telescope from their backyard and make discoveries in the cosmos. Although, that said, it is from a backyard not a million parsecs from mine that a chap does keep making discoveries, most recently of bits of a comet crashing into Jupiter.
But my old eyes are too old anyway, these days, astronomy a young person's game, these days. Besides, had my academic careers, working in zoology and archaeology. But it's all the same thing, really, archaeology being part of zoology, and zoology a subsection of astronomy.
What was the question? Oh, you think I need to defend those suggestions? Well, if I must, it's your blog.
"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff." Carl Sagan of course, in a rather wonderful thought. We don't need to go out to the stars, they have come to us. And not just to humans, but every living being on the planet, and the very structure of the planet we live on.
The other rather wonderful thought is that we, you and I dear reader, are related to every other human being currently on the planet, and all those who came before. And if that isn't a wonderful enough thought, we, you and I, are also related to every other living being, animal and plant, on the planet. How good is that eh?
And not just related in the literal, direct genetic sense, but in an ecological one. As the first of the apes that would become human walked across the African savannah they began to adapt to different habitats to their nearest relatives, and to make use of different plants and animals in their diet. Their hunting will have subtly altered species compositions among their prey and plant foods. And eventually, as some groups shifted towards agriculture or pastoralism, their interactions with other species actually affected evolution, in a process we call domestication.
We study early humans in exactly the same way we study their relatives, through palaeontology, studying not only their bony remains, but, where possible, diet and behaviour. As we reach the creation of stone and other tools we call this branch of palaeontology "archaeology", but it's all one thing. And palaeontology is of course just one aspect of zoology.
Convinced yet?
But wait, there's more. For a long time another branch of zoology (well, biochemistry, but really I'm in an imperial mood) has investigated the origins of life. Plenty of ideas, successful experiments in forming organic molecules in conditions approximating early Earth in terms of water, heat, electrical discharge, low oxygen, clay minerals etc. But all with the deliberately built-in, assumed requirement that organic had to come from an original inorganic chemistry on Earth. [This is, was, a necessary assumption. The nonsense from Hoyle and Wickramasinghe about life forms arriving on Earth from comet tails or whatever was not only mad-brained, but didn't affect the study of the origin of life, merely shifted the location to somewhere else where, obviously, organic must have still been derived from inorganic, and on a surface of some kind].
But the young lads and lasses of modern astronomy have shown in effect (and I never thought I'd find myself writing this phrase) that Fred and Chandra were sort of right. No, no, not in the sense of showers of frogs or beetles or bacteria from outer space, I haven't lost my wits totally (nor my sarcasm). But what recent years of observation have shown us is that organic molecules of various kinds are common in space. Are produced, as I understand it, from dust clouds and the radiation from evolving and exploding stars. That it isn't necessary to start from scratch to form life on this planet (and quite possibly also on Mars and moons like Titan and Enceladus), but that various organic molecules will provide a kind of kick start for electrical discharges, water, heat, clay substrates to go to work and develop the kind of self-reproducing complex organic molecules we call "life". [This also, incidentally, makes it absolutely certain that many other millions of the planets the young astronomers are now also able to observe will also have life].
So, not just star stuff to build bones etc, but the very materials that can, in the right conditions, form life, come from out there. There is no gap between us and all the other life forms on this planet, and none between our organics and those spread throughout this awfully big universe. Another rather wonderful thought.
Oh, and of course no longer any need to distinguish between astronomy, zoology, and archaeology. And no need for me to plan (thank goodness) another end of life career – I always was an astronomer really, it turns out, just one studying the bits of the universe that happened to sit on this planet.
Not now, sadly though, a young astronomer but an old astronomer. Almost as old as the universe, I can feel it in my bones.
*see poem "The Old Astronomer" by Sarah Williams about a third of the way through my "Values" section, click tag above or http://davidhortonsblog.com/values/.
I often think it's comical
How Nature always does contrive
That every boy and every gal,
That's born into the world alive,
Is either a little Liberal,
Or else a little Conservative!
(WS Gilbert "Iolanthe")
When I, aged 30, first met my Father we didn't discuss cricket, and I have no idea whether he was a fan or not. But then I had no idea he was a Shakespeare fan until I learned he had somehow carried a volume of the Collected Works in his army kitbag all through the Middle East and New Guinea in World War 2, so perhaps he did love cricket.
My grandfather (yes, the one in the photo top right) certainly did play, and love, cricket, and was, apparently, a very handy fast bowler, even up to being in his Forties. I once proudly owned, and wore, his cricket cap from when he played in the County Durham competition, 100 years ago, but lost it in circumstances which remain painful.
He died not long after I turned seven. Before I was old enough to seriously appreciate cricket, and long before television, let alone direct tv broadcasts of Test Matches, came to Perth. Cricket could be followed, from England, on the radio in the early 1950s, and that was that. One of my many regrets about his early death was never being able to watch cricket with him. Both of us would have relished the experience.
But with no direct transmission from either father or grandfather, how did I get my love of cricket?
What used to be called the "lower vertebrates", fish, amphibians, reptiles, generally speaking, fertilise eggs, lay them somewhere appropriate, and then piss off. Consequently the young, when born, are equipped to completely fend for themselves. All of their behaviour patterns are encoded in their DNA, and on hatching they simply seek shelter, food, and eventually mates in ways that were innate, not learned. [It's worth noting though that some species in all these groups have separately evolved live births, and others, after laying eggs, guard them until hatching, and then guard the young for a while. In such species it is possible the young do learn some behaviour associated with, say, feeding, from the male or female parent].
The "higher vertebrates", birds and mammals, show considerable variation. All the birds (and three of the mammals) lay eggs of course. But there are some, the cuckoo species, that dump their eggs into the nests of other species to raise. There are some, all ground living types (emus, chickens, ducks etc), who have "precocial" young, with down cover, born ready to move off with their mother. Most others have young born naked and totally helpless, needing total care in nest from parents until their feathers develop and they can fly (and even then care continues). They therefore have a mixture of innate behaviours and learned (or at least modified) behaviours
Mammals also vary. Some, notably the herd/flock species, are up and moving within a few hours of birth and following the mother in the rest of the mob. Others are born completely helpless, and remain so for long periods, weeks, months, even years. The ones who develop quickly have less chance (and need) to learn from parents (though they will learn a great deal), those (notably the apes, including us, learn a great deal from the parents and have fewer purely innate components (though far more than we realise).
Well, in brief, we are into the nitty gritty of the "nature-nurture" debate – what part of a species, say Homo sapiens sapiens, behaviours are genetic, inherited, what part are learnt? Not simple, as the evolutionary history above shows. Certainly there are fundamental things – eating, drinking, danger, comfort, athleticism – that are strongly genetically based. Then there are superficial things – religion, taste in music and art, social unit structures, political beliefs, and, yes, sport preferences – that are strongly based on the context in which you are raised.
But, on the one hand the genetic ones are modified by upbringing (eg particular food preferences, response to dangers, how fit you are), and on the other, even some of the superficial socio-culturally-based ones have some genetic basis it has been found. Studies of twins raised separately for example show some tendency for them to be similar in their strength of religious belief (though the form strictly related to household raised in). Musical abilities are well-known to often "run in families". And more recently (for example) studies show tendency towards respectively right and left-wing political beliefs have some genetic component (though again, the particular form this might take being related to up-bringing). Wonder if the otherwise inexplicable gun love in the US is part of this inheritance?
Interestingly, though not surprisingly perhaps, both the religious and political tendencies are related to serotonin production and the brain's response, and since music also causes serotonin reactions, it may well be that is also related to the abilities of, say, the sons of JS Bach.
Anyway, all of that may help to explain (though of course there would be many other factors), why a religious believer might suddenly appear from an atheist household, or a fervent Young Republican from a Democratic one, or a genius musician from a non-musical family. May also explain why musical ability is rare, why the irrational belief in religion persists to damage societies, and why roughly half of the voters in most countries keep voting for conservative parties that will damage their interests.
Oh, and it might just explain why I am watching a cricket match on tv while I write this! There being more things in heaven an earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy, or made a fault in our stars.
When theocracy comes back to western civilisation it might begin with three young women protesting in a church and being jailed for two years. Or it will ride in on a wagon outlawing same-sex marriage. Perhaps it will come from small fundamentalist religious schools keeping their students isolated from any other thoughts, including Darwin's dangerous idea. Or maybe it will come from leaders who pray to an imaginary being for guidance before making decisions on war.
Maybe "witches" being burnt will provide a spark. Or the loud voices demanding that women cover up their bodies, and art work be destroyed which depicts nakedness. Could it be hiding under the cloak of those who called a young Olympic runner a "prostitute"? Or of those who are certain that women must never be allowed to preach to men?
Perhaps it's coming in that mob of wild-eyed young men brandishing AK 47s in the air and screaming "god is great" in triumph at having slaughtered other young men. Or in the ones screaming abuse about homosexuality at people attending soldier's funerals. Or in the hands of the ones screaming at young women attending family planning clinics, or blowing them up or shooting "abortion doctors". Or maybe it'll be riding in a plane being flown into a tall building, or a truckload of explosives smashing into a girl's school.
Maybe theocracy will begin on old battlefield sites being labelled as "sacred ground". Or on pieces of burnt toast with an imaginary face. Or in a row of fence posts imagined as a woman's figure. Or in the ancient monuments blown up as impure. Or perhaps in those places where gullible sick people are prayed upon and preyed upon by those promising miracle cures in return for a little money.
Its arrival will be speeded up by those determined to smash science. By those who preach the dominion of man over nature. By the tax exemptions for religious institutions. By the prayers at the start of parliamentary sessions. By the growing role of religious cadres in schools, in hospitals, in military memorial ceremonies, in political lobby groups. By the politicians flaunting their religious beliefs as an incentive to vote for them. By the preachers blaming a drought or a tornado on people behaving "sinfully".
It will come from the children indoctrinated, and sometimes mutilated, at ages far too young to give consent. It will come from cults shielded from scrutiny by threats of legal action, shielded from criticism by laws limiting free speech. Will come from the poor devils refusing medical treatment in favour of prayer. Will come from big businesses with religious fundamentalist owners using their power. Will come from fearful people, made afraid by shock jocks serving political masters. Will come from the deliberate conflating of religion and race by unscrupulous leaders. Will come from words written by deluded people hundreds, thousands of years ago, believed by deluded people now to have come from one imaginary being or another.
It is enabled every time the media calls it a "miracle" when someone is saved by the full application of five centuries of western science and medicine. Every time tv channels run "serious" programs about "psychics" or "near death experiences" or "ghosts". Every time someone is said to have "passed" instead of died. Every time someone says they will "pray for you to get better" and you don't say "how about donating to medical research instead?" Every time someone wears a "power band" or a "healing crystal", or recommends homeopathy.
Brought nearer every time someone says "Oh, those New Atheists, so aggressive and rude, they really should respect the beliefs of religious people".
The bible will arrive, everywhere, wrapped in the flag and carrying a gun. Theocracy is coming to a country near you, soon, and it will take you back to the Dark Ages. The only thing needed for religion to triumph is for good people to do nothing.
"Things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade the sphere of private life" (William Lamb, on hearing an evangelical sermon)
Questions for creationists:
1. Given anoxic conditions, water, variety of chemicals, electrical discharges, complex organic molecules arriving from space, how did/does "god" STOP life emerging on planets all over the universe?
2. Since all species are variable, how does "god" STOP evolution happening?
3. Since populations of species constantly become isolated geographically, how does "god" STOP speciation occurring?
4. Given two extreme genetic bottlenecks for humans – Adam and Eve (the latter being cloned from the former!), then "Noah's family" – how do you imagine the human race became so diverse, and abundant, in just a few hundred years?
5. If "all the animals" were each represented by a single pair on the Ark, how did they all become so abundant and diverse in a few hundred years
6. How did "Noah" collect animals from the then unknown continents of Australia, Americas, Asia, southern Africa, northern Europe?
7. Why did Noah have an inordinate fondness for beetles?
8. If the whole earth was covered with water of sufficient depth to cover mountains, how did any plant species survive?
9. If any plant species did somehow survive, how did they reform complex ecosystems all over the world in a few hundred years?
10. Given that all the other people of the world had different ideas how they came to exist, and that none of them "remember" the Flood, what makes you think … oh, forget it, I know your answer to that one.
And here's a bonus question, if you finish the others early:
11. Name any two of the hundreds of thousands of biological scientists who have worked on aspects of evolution since Charles Darwin. To make it easier you can include geologists and physicists. Struggling? OK, I'll give you a start, Alfred Russell Wallace. Over to you.
When the bible was written humans* didn't know:
About bacteria and viruses and parasites
Blood circulation
Earth going around sun
More than 5 planets
About galaxies
There was a southern hemisphere
Earth round
What lightning is
That whales aren't fish
What mental illness involves
About genes and inheritance
About Chinese, Aztecs, Zulus, Aborigines, Navaho, Japanese, Papuans, Bushmen, Mayans, Eskimo, Indonesians, West Africans, Britons
Composition of matter
Any history
Composition of moon
About fossils
There was a western hemisphere
The age of the Earth
About the great apes
About continental drift
About kangaroos, lemurs, opossums, emus, iguanas, alpacas, platypus, kiwi, gila lizards, sloths, tree frogs, humming birds, horseshoe crabs, peripatus, tasmanian tigers, rhinoceros
When bible written humans had never:
Travelled faster than a horse can run
Communicated except by speaking directly
Elected a government
Swum under the ocean
Read books
Looked through a telescope
Looked through a microscope
Warmed themselves by anything except wood fires
Been cured by antibiotics
Had a surgical operation
Seen a hospital, school or factory
Seen a town of more than few thousand people
When bible written humans were happy about:
Women as chattels
Divine kings
Child marriage
Destruction of environment
Gods living on mountains
Child labour
Human sacrifice
And yet there are people in 2012 who believe everything written in the bible. There are people who use it to determine who to vote for, where to send their children to school, how they feel about burning environmental and social and economic and cultural issues. And if that wasn't bad enough, incredible enough, we can't just smile wisely and say "there there, one day you will grow up" as we might to a child who tries to live their life by, say, the Harry Potter books, because there are people who want to insist that the rest of the world obey these silly old books as well. There are people making all kinds of pronouncements about the environment, about bringing up children, about justice, about science, about art and literature, based not on some independent and rational analysis of an issue, but on what they think is said in the bible about it. And in turn appearing in the media, influencing politicians about it, indeed running for political office themselves. Some countries, notably Iran, Saudi Arabia, and America, are now theocracies run by people who know nothing except what someone has told them an old book says.
Angry? You betcha. The modern world is difficult enough, will become more difficult in the future, without the drag on political life from people living in the past. Can't laugh at these people any more, this is serious.
*By "humans" in what follows I sometimes mean "the whole human race" and sometimes "the humans who wrote the bits and pieces of old manuscript that got collected together and called 'the bible'", which is which will be obvious and not of much importance anyway.
[Note this was written to follow on from discussions which began in comments on post "When you wish" below and continued into those of "Extraordinary". One of my most regular commenters on this blog, Eric, is trying to understand evolution. I, we, are trying to help him. This post arose from Eric's comment that "I don't get the 'every generation' being a transition between the species at all." So, Eric, let's try it like this.*]
I don't know if you are interested in your family history, but let's assume you are. And let's assume that you know all your ancestors, way way back (will come to how way back soon). And let's imagine that not only do you have photographs of your ancestors going back 150 years (when the camera was actually invented) but there was a previously unknown mechanism which enabled photos of all your ancestors going way way back.
So you start to arrange the photos on your table. Parents first, then grandparents, great grandparents and so on, back through the generations. And let's assume (last assumption, promise) that you have not only told your immediate family what you are doing, but have told your more distant family of cousins etc, your community, and, through the internet, the whole world.
OK, with me? Right. You are putting your great grandparent's photos on the table, your children remarking how much you look like them and you not being sure if it is a compliment, when in walks your second cousin and says, hey, they are my great grandparents. You chat for a while and keep working. Down go the photos generation after generation.
Back to six generations and a previously unknown cousin from Germany drops in and points out you share a great great great great great grandparent. He still lives in the same village your ancestors migrated to America from (I have a real example of that, a sixth cousin living just a few miles from the village in England my six times removed grandparents lived in).
I don't really know your background so I will switch to me now. I keep adding more and more generations (roughly 4 per hundred years). Back a thousand years. All those people, all 45 generations look much like me – variation in hair colour here, different height there, shorter nose over this way – all residents of the English Midlands.
About a thousand years ago a bit of a change – more men and women seem to be of strapping solid build with red or yellow hair. Just as I am putting their photos out, trying to keep track of which generations I am up to, there is a knock at the door and a couple of strapping red haired gentlemen tell me that I have just identified some common ancestors of their's which means I now have Danish and Saxon distant cousins.
Another 500 years back and a knock at the door tells me those dark haired olive skin ancestors are the reason I have Italian cousins. And so on, back thousands of years. Little differences between generations, but all recognisably the same group. Tens of thousands of years, still the same, and if you put any of them in modern clothes they could drink in my local bar unnoticed.
Oh there are changes, as you [that is me, "I" became awkward!] realise when you look back to your recent ancestors, and when you hear knocks on the door from people from Germany, Hungary, Turkey. But still, generation to generation, no obvious change. And then as more tens of thousands of years tick over you get vists from Australian Aborigines, Asians, South Americans, and finally Africans. Still no obvious change from generation to generation, but your ancestors are now recognisably different – shorter in stature, with curly hair and darker skin – from those ten or twenty thousand years later or those today. You realise if you put the photos in a bundle and flicked them like those old children's moving picture books, you would see a gradual change over time to the present day.
And still you go back, ancestor after ancestor. You've lost all sense of time. What is it, a million years maybe, gosh, that's, um, 2500 generations. Curious, you hadn't noticed change, but these G G G G …. Grandfathers of yours are much heavier built, more muscly, bigger jaws, bigger brow ridges. Other cousins drop by from Indonesia, far east Russia. Similar but a bit different again.
And still we go on, another 2500 generations and another. Is it your imagination or do these ancestors seem shorter, darker, more, well, hairy? No it's not. You look along the table, can't see the change, until you jump forward a couple of million years (big table this) and compare. And then you get a phone call from zoo, chimpanzee there wants to tell you that you and he are 10,000th cousins, sharing a 9999 great grandparent. Seems odd, he looks quite different to you when you arrive at the zoo, but on a table he has arranged all his ancesors going back same number of generations as yours. You look at his photos and notice the same pattern. The later ones all look just like him, "typical chimpanzees", but as you get further back you notice small changes – slightly shorter arms perhaps, jaws a little larger, hair colour a little different, slightly more upright. He points at another slightly different looking chimpanzee, and you discover that when your friend got back to about a million years ago he got a visit from a Bonobo chimp who said he was his long lost cousin, just like the calls you had along the way. By the time you look at his ancestors and yours from about, say, 9000 generations ago, there's not much difference at all, and when you get back to the shared ancestor they are of course identical.
Seeing that you are a bit puzzled your Chimpanzee cousin points at you and points at the ground, then points at himself and then at a tree outside. Light dawns – your common 9999 great grandparents were mainly ground dwellers, but around 4 million years ago his direct ancestors were in a group that became separated from yours, and while your ancestors adapted more and more strongly to ground living, his were in an area where tree living was all the go. Adaptation proceeded in the two directions in different parts of Africa, and by the time conditions changed and the two groups were in contact again they had become different enough not to interbreed.
You go home, pleased to have discovered more long lost cousins, and keep working through your photos. Back to 7 million years, 17500 generations and another zoo call, this time the gorilla wants to say hullo to his cousin. Same thing. A line of photos on a table, call from a distant gorilla cousin (separated in east Africa), not much change from one photo to next, but change over longer time. Seems quite different to Humans and Chimps initially, but doesn't look that much different to the common human-chimp grandparent perhaps 5 million years ago, and as you get further and further back they converge in appearance (and genetics of course) until they look more and more like a kind of generalised ape – Australopithecus (again with various cousins).
And… Well, you get the idea. You can continue generation after generation through the other apes, then back through the early mammals, the reptiles, the amphibians and so on. Not much evident change from one generation to next but over immense time substantial change. No modern species the direct ancestor of any other modern species, just like your cousins are not your grandparents, but all are cousins to some degree.
There you are Eric, evolution over four billion years in a short post – gradual adaptive change, and equally importantly, geographic separation of different populations forming new species. What a wonderful world that has such potential in it.
* I'd love to claim the credit for this idea of how to present evolutionary change, but saw it (in the marvelous illustrations by Dave McKean) and read it originally in Richard Dawkins 2011 "The Magic of Reality" Random House, London. However I have added the calls from cousins, and the zoo, as my own piece of originality.
Once upon a time the question about life elsewhere in the universe was complicated by lack of basic information. From the time we knew that we lived in a galaxy and there were 400 billion stars in our galaxy, and that there were 200 billion other galaxies (so that's, um, 80,000 billion billion stars as far as the telescope eye can see), it seemed likely that there would be many possibilities of life elsewhere.
But the unknown part of the equation was the number of stars which had planets. Then, recently, we began finding planets around other stars, but they were all uninhabitable gas giants, like our Jupiter and Saturn. Then smaller planets began to be seen as observations improved. Then smaller planets at right distance (the Goldilocks Zone – not too hot, not too cold) from stars. Now calculations show that on average every star has one or more planets. Billions of billions of stars – billions of billions of planets.
So now, almost overnight it seems, we know there are essentially infinite numbers of planets. What percentage could life have evolved on? Half? Quarter? Even if only 1% had the kinds of conditions that enabled life to emerge here we are still talking billions of occupied planets. And once you have life the Darwinian equations – variation + selection = adaptation; adaptation + isolation = evolution – mean that all kinds of interesting organisms are out there. Chances of high intelligence evolving? Very good, it has evolved many different times here.
It's all just a matter of very high numbers and chance. Always was, but we didn't know how high the numbers were before. Now we do there is no question but that there is a lot of life out there, and a lot of intelligent beings.
So, where are they? Well, a long way away. And unless physics is a lot odder than we think there aren't going to be student exchanges or tourism between here and there and right over there. Certainly not before the dominant intelligent people here wreck this habitable planet (a long long way from the next one) by being unable to control their own CO2 emissions. I'm guessing there are other beings in the universe (Dolphin beings, or Octopus beings, or Crow beings, or Pig beings) who consider getting CO2 levels down as a definition of intelligence.
But hey – looking up at all the stars and thinking it's a big lonely universe? So 2011. Now look up and picture all shapes and sizes of intelligent beings looking back at you from all directions. There, that feels better doesn't it? But I wish there was more intelligence here too.


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St. Paul Lutheran Church: Howard Paige, 465-5682.
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It's Monday, April 14, 2008. On this date 60 years ago, Momma lay down her washboard long enough to give birth to a future keyboarder.
Apparently, a lot of other mommas across America were doing the same thing. They say some 330 of us Baby Boomers turn 60 every hour.
You may not realize how close some of us came to not being here at all.
A.C. Kinsey came out with a book, "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" in 1948. Some days I've wished it had been published in 1947, and Momma had gotten hold of a copy.
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Crain was certified on Saturday, March 22 in Lexington, from Reiki Master Samara Anjelae.
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Those wishing to help decide the next president or whether to allow Campbellsville restaurants to serve alcohol have only two more days to register to vote in the May Primary.
Voter registration books will be closed at 4:30 on Monday. Those who haven't registered to vote must do so at Taylor County Clerk Mark Carney's office by Monday. Registration cards that are mailed in must be postmarked no later than April 21.
With graduation just around the corner, many high school seniors are thinking about college and financial aid.
While there are a number of options for seniors and their parents to learn about the various forms of financial assistance available, Taylor County High School Guidance Counselor Dana Young encourages students to talk to their counselors or someone at the college of their choice.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin exploratory drilling at Green River Lake Dam this next week.
The drilling will continue throughout the spring and into the summer.
The Corps of Engineers annually inspects its reservoir dams, with a more thorough inspection occurring every five years. A recent screening of Green River Lake Dam determined that additional screening was necessary to assess the current condition of the 40-year-old dam. Soil and rock samples will be taken of the area for laboratory testing.
A Campbellsville man was arrested and charged with several traffic offenses in Hodgenville last week.
Richard K. Rakes, 18, of Fairview Drive in Campbellsville was charged with speeding, operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs and three counts of second-degree wanton endangerment.
According to police, Rakes was clocked driving 103 mph in a 55 mph zone on Lincoln Parkway on April 11. Rakes had three teenage passengers in his vehicle.
He was lodged in the LaRue County jail and will be arraigned in LaRue District Court.
William H. Turner, 62, of Coakley Street in Campbellsville, speeding, no new violations, defendant stipulated probable cause, dismissed.
Jeremy L. Vaughn, 25, of Cottage Court in Campbellsville, improper start from parked position, no new violations, defendant stipulated probable cause, dismissed.
Brian J. Vavrek, 23, of Sano Road in Columbia, speeding, no new violations, dismissed.
Sonja Annette Vitatoe, 38, of Hickory Lane in Russell Springs, speeding, no new violations, defendant stipulated probable cause, dismissed.
Two people are dead following a two-vehicle crash on KY 210 at about 2:30 on Wednesday afternoon.
According to a Taylor County Sheriff's Department report, Eddie A. Propes, 54, of Yosemite was driving a 1998 Isuzu cab and box truck east on KY 210 when his vehicle crossed the center line and struck a 1994 Peterbilt tractor trailer driven by Timothy L. Alley, 41, of Columbia. Propes' truck caught fire after the collision.
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Julie Wright will celebrate her 80th birthday with a reception given in her honor on Sunday.
Anthony Humphress has been named an admissions assistant for the 1998-1999 year at Transylvania University.
Members of the Campbellsville High School Future Homemakers of America went to Louisville for the state meeting April 6-9.
Boy Scout Troop 359 went on an Easter Bunny hike on April 11, covering 10.3 miles along with Windy Eastridge and North Loop trails at Green River Lake State Park.
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SF Civic Centre Plaza Farmers Market: worth a trip?
- grayelf Apr 10, 2008 07:34 AM
I have come across a couple of mentions of this Sunday market but not on CH. Is there a reason for that, ie. is it missable? If not, what is good? (FYI, we will be hitting the Ferry Plaza FM hard on Saturday, April 19). TIA.
The Heart of the City Farmers' Market, as it's called, is both Sundays and Wednesdays, and definitely worth going to. Wednesday is better than Sunday because there are more eats like All-Star Tamales, Art of the Falafel and the waffle truck there. It has it's share of organic vendors (and some of the same ones as the Ferry Building FM), but overall it's priced more for real people and is stronger in Asian produce. Grab a length of sugar cane from the Hmong vendor!
The best game in town, IMHO, is the Alemany Farmer's Market (it's almost as old as me), but it's a PITA to get to by public transportation.
Are you shopping or looking for a tourist destination? Civic Center is not a particularly charming area, and the farmers' market is functional, selling fresh staples rather than charcuterie or organic produce. I'd go there if I needed mushrooms or salad greens on a Sunday and had forgotten to go to Alemany.
As a visitor (I don't remember how long your trip is), I don't know that I would say it's a must. However, it does give you a different point of view of markets in this city.
I've written about this a couple of times for Bay Area Bites -- I love this market. I particularly like that Phan Farms (Asian vegetables from near Sacramento) and De Santis Farms (really great, unique citrus from the Central Valley) attend this market.
re: Fig Newton
Thanks, all. I'm going to try to fit this in, as I do enjoy FMs and it sounds like it would be an interesting counterpoint to FPFM. Too bad we're not going to be there on a Wed, XY, but will definitely get some sugar cane to gnaw on as we walk. I've heard about Alemany and it sounds great but the transpo issue has precluded a visit on our too-short (only 4 days this time) visits so far. Windy, we've been to the area before to enjoy the wares at Larkin Express Deli and ogle City Hall, so are mentally prepared :-). Great review, FN -- I've added your blog to my growing list of resources for good things in the Bay area!
re: grayelf
I agree, FN's review was very informative, though wrong on one score: the Alemany Market is much older, dating back to 1943 (as kind of a municipal "Victory Garden") and has been at its current location for more than 60 years. I posted a link above which has a fascinating account of its history.
re: Xiao Yang
Thanks XY, I wonder if the technicality about the "oldest farmers market" may be when they were certified ... I'm sure someone originally told me that fact but I'll have to check my notes.
re: grayelf
There are numerous reports on Chowhound about the Civic Center farmers market ... I know since I did a few.
That being said, Windy summed it up exactly. It is for locals to buy produce at a lower price than Ferry Plaza. However, there won't be the unique products that Ferry Plaza offers.
Since you like farmers markets then it would be worth your while. I like farmers markets so I visit them great and small. The vendor that sells almonds is both at Ferry Plaza and the Civic Center and they are very good.
Otherwise I wouldn't direct a visitor there ... or Alemany ... because how many of you folks going to buy lettuce or a live chicken.
re: rworange
rwo, clearly I need to brush up on my searching skills -- I couldn't find anything on it, doh. As for buying a live chicken, prolly not (might be construed as a weapon on flight home) but would love to see some again in a market... shades of mercados in Mexico.
re: rworange
As far as unique goes, when was the last time you bought balut at FPFM, or a length of sugar cane, or a live chicken, or a even Belgian Waffle from a truck. At HOTC you can also get three or four of All-Star's excellent tamales for the price of a plate at Primavera.
"how many of you folks going to buy lettuce or a live chicken.".
Any vendor at FPFM will tell you they also see more of their share of lookie-loos, too: "Kee-rist, Marge, would you pay $4.00 a pund for THOSE ugly tomatoes?"
At let's face it, RW, some of us have a soft spot for Farmers Markets that make a positive social contribution, and don't simply indulge gourmands.
A unique product is those almonds ... sold both at FP and HOTC.
A visitor cannot buy these online. They are not sold outside this area. No one grows a finer almond. It is something a visitor can easily bring back home.
Walk into almost any Mexican market ... US or Mexico ... and fresh sugarcane is available. Any area with a Filipino population will have balut.
This is not the only place in the country to buy live chickens ... though the thought of getting one of those by airport security to bring home does have a certain appeal to me.
There are prepared food vendors at both markets that have their pluses and minuses. I've had those waffles at the Oakland market ... they aren't all that. I'm no Primavera fan.
You know from my constant rants that I dislike FP because it no longer really accomodates the farmers like it did in its old location and is more geared to visitors.
A visitor to FP will have a larger take-home selection available of a number of local to the Bay Area products. If someone is interested in just being a lookie-loo it depends on what they are looking for. I always go to farmers markets as I said because I think they are colorful and it interests me. HOTC isn't even representative of the local farmers market scene ... which I can say having visited almost every one in the Bay Area. It is a market that caters primarily ... and thankfully ... to the lower socio-economic demographic and people living in SF looking for a bargain.
The poster in question is like me in that he/she is interested in farmers markets. I said in my other post that for that poster it seemed like a good stop. I in no way discouraged that. For other visitors I would also gage their intent to recommend or not.
re: rworange
FWIW, I loved the FPFM when we went in November as tourists, but at the time posted elsewhere that I would go every weekend for produce, fresh products, meat etc if I lived in SF. Maybe that is only because I haven't had the opportunity to check out the other FMs in town but I was very excited by the selection, quality and myriad organic options, not to mention the many things to nibble in situ. The prices didn't strike me as too crazy, perhaps because I was comparing them to our FM prices in Vancouver and they were pretty similar (random sampling). The "real" FMs here pretty much only sell organic so the costs are higher. It would be interesting to see a farmers' market that DIDN'T focus on organics, and if that means that mostly neighbours shop there, that's cool with me. It might be a chance to observe the locals in one of their natural habitats, something we often miss as visitors :-). As for uniqueness, I don't remember seeing sugar cane at FPFM, and since I haven't seen it in a FM period, for me that would be unique. So I'm thinking both FMs back to back would be great for different reasons. Now let's hope I can pull it off.... visit too short... too many things to see/eat/do...
re: grayelf
Then you should go. The FPFM is like Neiman Marcus, and the Civic Center market is like Target. There's a lot of great stuff there, just isn't the same demographic. FWIW, I used to work farmer's markets growing up in SoCal and I can tell you none of them looked like the FPFM - CC is much more representative of an "everyday" market.
I like it. Alemany's bigger, yes, but the setting at Civic Center's more majestic (and much more accessible via public transit).
I think a fine (low key) day would be to spend a sunday would be to take BART to the farmers market, walking to the blue bottle kiosk in Hayes Valley, walking back, shopping, then going north on Larkin, grabbing a banh mi, and then turning onto polk, walking out to aquatic park, and then walking back to the ferry plaza via either embarcadero or chinatown/north beach.
In other words, it's missable, but you'd be missing a part of what makes SF SF. It's worth going to for the contrast, if you like farmers markets, and if you want to see another side of the city (one less touristy).
This doesn't really answer the OP's question, but I think that even for visitors (especially chowhoundy visitors), any of the farmer's markets are worth visiting.
In the case of the Sunday Civic Center Farmer's Market, it's nothing *too* exciting, but if you go there and you get bored, you can leave! It's so accessible that you could make it a quick visit, and then when you're ready, head onward. So I think xanadude's suggested itinerary is very good.
I think that Alemany is definitely worth visiting for people visiting San Francisco - it's not super easy w/ public transit, but it's really not that far either. A taxi from 24th St. BART, or even Civic Center, would only be about 10 dollars or less, or you can easily take the 9 bus from downtown to get there. I have taken a few visitors there, and I think that for people who don't live in San Francisco, and especially for people who don't live in California, it's very impressive. There is some great food (pupusas, empanadas, tamales, baked goods) and some really great produce - it's also just fun to be there for such a lively and "real" farmer's market. So I would heartily recommend visiting Alemany Farmer's Market even to visitors.
I also recommend Ferry Building,for all the obvious reasons. Great food there too....very nice atmosphere.
So overall, you can't go wrong.
Dave MP
re: Dave MP
How late does the Civic center fm run? I sometimes go to ballet matinées on Sunday so there is some appeal to going early just to go to the FM (if I don't have to wait 4 hours inbetween).
re: estnet
I think it goes until 2 pm, though I'm not 100% sure. It definitely starts to wind down at about that time - morning is better.
re: Dave MP
It seems to me it's still going full blast at 2:00, especially on Wednesdays when they get a lot of business from office workers on breaks. I think they do start winding down earlier on Sundays.


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