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IZMIR, TURKEY — Blinding white cobblestones cut a line across the landscape and toward a couple of construction cranes on the horizon. They're sure signs of a stampede of tourists yet to come.
But for now, the stones sparkle and the cranes sway only for a lucky few.
It was almost noon when my wife and I arrived at Laodicea, a nearly deserted archeological site in western Turkey. Along with Ephesus, its more-famous counterpart, Laodicea is one of seven cities mentioned in the last book of the Bible — The Book of Revelation (also known as The Apocalypse to John).
Jesus's rebuke to members of the church in Laodicea — that they were lukewarm — has had remarkable staying power: After two millennia the criticism of being "lukewarm" is still part of our modern-day idiom.
Long before the present-day clamour that a Mayan calendar signals the end of the world on Dec. 21, 2012, our notions of the apocalypse and Armageddon were drawn from Revelation.
So with my curiosity for religion and culture piqued, we embarked on a mission to find the old hometowns of those Christians who were praised and rebuked in the pages of Revelation.
And not a moment too soon: Although we met busloads of fellow tourists overrunning some of those ancient cities, we wandered through most of them in solitude.
Believed by many to have been written on the Greek island of Patmos around the end of the first century, The Book of Revelation includes messages from Jesus to the early churches in Ephesus (known in modern Turkey as Efes), Smyrna (Izmir), Pergamum (Bergama), Thyatira (Akhisar), Sardis (Sart), Philadelphia (Alasehir) and Laodicea (Laodikia).
Today, all of them are archeological sites restored to varying degrees.
We decided to make the city of Izmir, site of ancient Smyrna, our first stop.
The excavation of Roman-era Smyrna, in the centre of the modern city, is lined with sun-bleached stone columns. As with many archeological sites, Greek and Roman ruins there rub shoulders with remnants of later Byzantine churches.
Staffers at local hotels are happy to recommend tour companies that will lead you through Revelation's seven cities. We hired a professional driver and car. Ahmet spoke almost no English, but he was quick to quip "no problem" and flash his broad smile. And his rate, about $400 for 600 kilometres of driving over two days, was more than reasonable.
Ahmet picked us up in his air-conditioned van and drove 90 minutes from central Izmir to Pergamum (Bergama) where the ancient site sprawls across a high acropolis. The grounds feature a placid sanctuary of Athena, the remnants of a grand Roman temple and a vertigo-inducing theatre (giving us another modern-day expression: "nosebleed section") from where we watched workaday life unfold far below.
At our next stop, Thyatira, Pergamum's grandeur sadly gave way to garbage. Contained within a downtown city block, the site was littered with rubbish and graffiti defaced its Byzantine-era walls. Nevertheless, it was worth wandering around that sorry specimen, if only to have visited all seven cities.
The next morning Ahmet chauffeured us to rural Sardis where a partly reconstructed Temple of Artemis was almost as striking as the temple in Pergamum, but thankfully free of tourist hordes and souvenir stalls. Unhindered, I also explored the stately remains of a Roman bath-gymnasium complex and the intricate mosaic floors of the largest ancient synagogue discovered outside the Holy Land.
Another sprint down the highway brought us to Philadelphia. Mercifully, its manicured grounds, also located in the city's centre, were hidden behind high walls and a locked gate. But time hasn't been a friend to Philadelphia: only three tattered Byzantine church pillars bear witness to the city's ancient Christian community.
A few hours later Ahmet dropped us off in Pamukkale, famous for its breathtaking cliffside travertine terraces, a short taxi ride from the site of Laodicea. We taxied, toward the archeological site, down a gleaming white cobblestone road to a spotless and empty parking lot.
Clearly, the Turks were gearing up for waves of tourists. But they hadn't arrived just yet.
I strolled down the deserted main street raked with shallow grooves, likely carved by chariot wheels, and paused to watch labourers reconstructing an ancient temple.
And I followed a dusty trail to a derelict water tower baking under the midday sun. There I inspected a set of badly calcified clay pipes — evidence of the water source that, some scholars suggest, might have been the reason for ancient Laodicea's lukewarm reputation.
A few hours on a small bus brought us back to the Turkish coast and into Ephesus.
Four cruise ships were docked at the nearby port of Kusadasi and it felt as though most of their passengers had descended on the archeological site. Being lumped in with the hordes gave me some idea of what navigating the crowded streets of Ephesus — population 200,000 or more in ancient times — might have felt like.
But gazing at the magnificent Library of Celcus, swarmed with fellow tourists, left me with a revelation of my own. The beauty and tranquillity of Sardis and Laodicea were every bit as grand — at least for the time being.
If you go . . .
•Arriving in Izmir: Adnan Menderes Airport, 18 kilometres southeast of the city, offers frequent bus and train service into the city. A taxi ride to central Izmir should cost about $25 to $30.
•In Izmir: The Deniz Restaurant, at the waterfront's Izmir Palas Otel (www.izmirpalas.com.tr), is known for its seafood. Dinner for two will cost about $50.
•In Selcuk (near Ephesus): The Amazon restaurant, around the corner from the Ephesus Museum in the city centre, offers kebabs and steaks for around $7.
•In Izmir: The 30-room Otel Antikhan (www.otelantikhan.com) is a renovated mansion 200 metres from the excavation site. Free parking and Wi-Fi. The rate for a double room is about $75, ; •In Selcuk (near Ephesus): The Homeros Pension (http://homerospension.net) offers a great location near Ephesus Museum. It has a cozy open-air lounge, good views from roof and there is a free shuttle to the excavation site. A double room will cost $30 to $50. The pension offers a delicious traditional dinner for around $12.
•In Pamukkale, climb the travertine terraces.
•In Selcuk, visit the Ephesus Museum, Church of St. John the Theologian and the double-domed Isa Bey Mosque.
•Other excavations to explore include Hierapolis (at Pamukkale) and Aphrodisias (between Pamukkale and Ephesus).
Online information
•Izmir company offering package or custom tours to the seven cities: Pacolini Tours (www.pacolinitours.com.tr).
•Canadian companies running Bible-themed tours include MennoJerusalem (www.mennojerusalem.org) and TourMagination (www.tourmagination.com).
I should have realized, sooner than I did, that a fist fight could erupt outside my hotel room door in the night.
A couple of days earlier my wife and I checked into the little pension in Pamukkale, Turkey, famous for its slopes glazed with cascading, calcified white terraces.
The family-run hotel was going to be our little oasis after days of tramping around dusty archeological sites under a punishing Mediterranean sun.
The bed linens were threadbare. But the owners were friendly, the air conditioner worked and the price was right.
It was a place where fond memories could be made: our breakfast table was nestled on a shaded patio beside an azure pool brimming with spring water; the grandmother served fresh fruit and vegetables; roses and tall grape vines formed a four-storey hanging garden.
But I didn't realize our tiny patch of paradise was a little bit of Babylon.
I had missed a few clues. Guests at small hotels usually give each other a nod whenever they pass each other in the common areas. But the young couples strolling by our table weren't interested in exchanging pleasantries.
The evening before we checked out, the parade on the patio moved into full swing.
A procession of women in slinky dresses and sexpot stockings led men up the only staircase to the rooms. I tried to catch their eyes to nod a friendly hello, but the men looked straight ahead, like catatonic zombies on invisible leashes.
It eventually dawned on me the type of business being plied around us — then I quickly got worried. Where there are prostitutes, I figured, there are drugs and thieves. We had been sitting on the patio with our cameras and laptop in plain sight. I grew even more nervous when grandma asked how much we paid for our computer.
My wife and I soon retired to our room and my spinning imagination predicted that pimps and drug-addled hookers would create a commotion in the middle of the night, prompting us to open our door and let them strip us of every valuable in sight.
Thankfully, the scenario forecast by my overactive imagination never materialized. The next morning I told my wife about the previous night's parade on the terrace. She had been sitting with her back to the show all evening, so had not figured out we had checked into a cheap brothel.
"Ick," she winced, while standing over our threadbare sheets.
And the fond memories we had wished for vanished as we realized, albeit at different moments, that our little oasis had turned out to be a mirage.
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The National Museum of Arts is the country's largest archeological and cultural history museum. It enables you to have a glimpse into the cultural side of Cambodian history dating back to the 4th century. Inaugurated in 1920 as the Musée Albert Sarraut during the French colonial period, its opening was initiated by George Groslier – a famed author and historian – and architect as well as the first curator of the museum.
In 1951, the French conceded the control of the museum to the Cambodians when it came be known as Musée National de Phnom Penh. Later in 1966, Chea Thay Seng became the museum's first Cambodian director. It barely survived serious damage during the devastating Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979, and the museum and its precincts underwent a major refurbishment in the 1990s with contributions from the Australian Government and other patrons.
Backed by the Cambodian Department of Museums, the museum's role is now not just confined to preserving its exhibits that include one of the largest collections of Khmer artifacts in the world, but also to oversee other museums in the country.
Housed within an impressive red sandstone structure, The National Museum of Art stands out as a fine illustration of the traditional Khmer architecture. With over 14,000 interesting exhibits to its credit, the museum is truly a treasure trove of artifacts portraying Khmer or Angkorian culture and history.
Its exhibits comprising bronze/wood sculptures, ceramic items, ethnographic items and stone articles are categorized into four brackets: prehistoric, pre-Angkor, Angkor and post-Angkor exhibits. One of its most spectacular exhibits is the eight-armed statue of Lord Vishnu that dates back to the 6th century. Another remarkable attraction is the image of King Jayavarman VII in a meditation posture that can be seen in the West Gallery displaying art works from Angkor Wat.
Visit the museum's Bronze Gallery to take a peep into bronze-casting methods practiced during the Angkorian period from the 6th to 13th centuries. Found next to the Bronze Gallery is a rare repository of post-Angkorian era Buddha images. There is also a gallery that exhibits a selection of sandstone sculptures dating back to the 6th century.
The museum is equally noteworthy for its impeccable, verdant garden courtyard with four lotus pools. In the centre of the courtyards is a renowned statue of the Leper King or Lord Yama – the Deity of Death according to Hindu mythology. Further, the porticos that bound the garden courtyard is notable for its stone works, bas reliefs, ornamental door lintels and significant stele containing old Khmer as well as Sanskrit inscriptions – most dating from between the 6th and 11th centuries.
Adjacent to the museum is the Royal University of Fine Arts whose origins trace back to the École des Arts Cambodgiens that was founded in 1918 under the supervision of George Groslier to train students in the art of bronze casting, traditional drawing, furniture making and sculpture modeling, which is still continued here.
Located a few blocks away from the Royal Palace on Street 13 in Phnom Penh, the museum is open from 08:00 to 17:00. Admission charge is nominal and entry is free for children and school groups. The museum does not permit photography within the galleries. However, visitors are allowed to take pictures of the courtyard and exterior.
The services of French and English speaking guides are available. Alternatively, you can purchase a booklet that provides relevant info on locations of the museum's most prominent exhibits. Items such as postcards, replica sculptures and books on art and culture can be bought from the store found at the main entrance.
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ADHD in Boys
Who diagnosed your child?
My son (age 7) has always demonstrated symptoms of ADHD. I remember saying when he was 2 or 3, "Yep, there is ADHD in our future!!!" We completed the checklists for his pediatrician last year, and they showed him as having a tendency toward ADHD. We decided to wait and see at that point, because it was not affecting his learning. He has gotten worse this year, not better.
He also has always displayed some sensory issues, but he never had enough symptoms for me to seriously consider autism or Asperger's. We had him evaluated by an occupational therapist this fall, and she said he likely has Sensory Processing Disorder - Sensation-Seeking Type. In other words, he seeks out movement and motion. Hmmm, easily confused with ADHD? Yep.
I am fairly confident that he does have ADHD. He has considerable difficulty staying focused on a task. He is careless. He is sloppy. He is easily distracted. He is in constant motion.
I am just not 100% confident in the ADHD diagnosis. No one has ever "screened him" other than the checklists that we filled out over a year ago. I want someone to monitor him and work with him, not just medicate him.
Did a regular doctor, a psychologist, or a psychiatrist diagnose your child? What was the process?
I used a child psychologist and we they gave him many tests. Originally a pediatrician said he had ADHD but I had many more questions that quite frankly he did not not know anything about. So I then took him to psychologist with a PhD. He has a severe learning disability. I believe his behavior in the classroom are to escape/avoid academic tasks. His IQ is superior but he is many levels behind in reading. Handwriting ugh!!!
Your instincts are right. You do need more than a checklist from you to diagnose ADHD. Typically you need to get information from a parent, teacher, and an evaluation/observation from a professional. The professional could be a pediatrician, psychologist, psychiatrist, or licensed social worker. Whichever professional you choose, they should have experience with mostly children. There also needs to be impairment which could take place at home, school or with peers. You mentioned SPD. This is why you need a professional to evaluate and gather a lot of information. Coexisting conditions such as SPD can mimic ADHD. It's really important to tease this out before you start medicating a child in my opinion.
-Katherine Price
Coaching Parents of Kids
with Special Needs.
Pediatric Neuropsychologist it was a two day testing and discussion. One day was six hours and the other day was three hours. For younger children they break it up more and will even go to the childs day car or school.
Contact your local teaching hospital for information.
Our family physician initially diagnosed him and the dignosis was confirmed and expanded by an approximately 3 hour testing done by a clinical child psychologist. The advantage of this testing was the specific recommendations made to help him succeed in school.
Good luck
I'm so glad to be able to post this! I took my 8yo to a psychiatrist, who talked with me for 20 minutes, explained that testing is expensive and the insurance won't cover it, and showed me out the door. Of course, she kept my co-pay!
The next psychiatrist asked me questions for 15 mintues (asked my son one) and gave me a prescription slip. Boy was I mad!
I ended up with a child psychologist who's been seeing him just about every week for a year. After the first visit, she said it sounded more like depression than ADHD! But after 8 months, we both came to the conclusion that I should think about medicating. He's not hyper, but the attention span is almost nil.
I saw another new psychiatrist who spoke with BOTH of us for a while and said he'd recommend Zoloft but I wanted to think about it and research why he'd use Zoloft. The next visit he agreed to let us try Vyvanse. It worked great for a few days but there was a wild depression that set in and we had to stop.
He's now been on Zoloft for 2-1/2 months and it's working out well. He's not doing perfectly but it's much better. He has a great teacher who's willing to do a "star" chart in 1 hour increments with 4 goals for each hour. This teacher is amazing! So different from the dragon breather from last year.
My best advice, after all that, is don't just accept the medication until YOU are comfortable. Good luck!
In addition to my previous post, I wanted to mention that one of my son's classmates has sensory issues. He had to wear a weighted backpack until 3rd grade. I can't remember exactly what it helped him with. The school has a lot of good ideas for both of the boys! Check with your school social worker and OT if you have them.
Other ideas for my son, which didn't work for him:
A pillow ring to sit on
A strip of fur on the desk to stroke
A lap board of some kind..can't remember why
My friend uses a rubber band or hair tie around her son's wrist
My son's psychologist has been the biggest help though. She pulled out her Asperger's book and looked through it with me. She meets with him almost every week.
The psychiatrist prescribes meds. The psychologist takes the time to talk to him and teach him. The pediatrician wants nothing to do with it. And the school also works with him in a lunch group and sometimes individually.
It also came out that my son has a writing disability (dysgraphia) and finding out about THAT has been an eye opener. The school has made accomodations for that as well. He'd trigger every time it came to written work. It looked a lot like ADHD but he just felt a lot of pressure from not being able to write.
Good luck!
I am an Grandparent of a now seven year old boy, whom was diagnosed with ADHD in Kindergarten by a psychologist. One of the teachers at that time asked was he Autistic, because he fidget in his chair. which lead to having him assessed by a psychologist.
His parents struggled through his Kindergarten school year, since they were not ready to place him on medication.
At the time and now according to his teachers he still exhibits ADHD behavior, but its sporadic according to their daily reports.
He does not qualify for an IEP and at the time we knew little about 504 accomodations.
I was/am not convinced that he has ADHD.
He has an eye condition since birth where eyedrops, patching, eye surgery and glasses was done to correct the condition all by the age of three or four. The surgery which was to relax the eye muscle, worked for about an year to keep his eyes aligned. In May of 2012, I learned about vision therapy and read some research, he began vision therapy one day a week for 30 minutes. His teachers were notified about the condition and the vision therapy, provided them with documented information on how vision related problems mimic ADHD symptoms in children. However based on the psychologist report, the teacher checklist, his physician concluded and agreed that he has ADHD.
His parents finally agree to put him on ADHD medication and had three to choose from due to their insurance and they chose Vyvanse. After reading posts concerning that drug. I am not convinced that may be the correct ADHD medication or to medicate him at all. We live in a small community in West Virginia, where some of the professionals mention are lacking to non-existant. I will certainly share your comments with his parents before they begin medication this weekend. Thank You
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Deluge of Information,
This review is from: Case For A Creator (Hardcover)
The author presents a lot of evidence for the creator. He interviews many specialists and I enjoy the format of the presentation. I have a degree in physics earned many years ago so the astronomical and astrophysical evidence interested me the most. He also presents evidence in biology, genetics, and geology. The book's main focus is intelligent design, but the book presents other evidence as well. The evidence presented is hit and miss, but so much evidence is presented, I think there are some solid hits.
The material is not always easy, I am still mulling over the William Craig Lane chapter. He disagrees with the Hawkins's model for the start of the Big Bang. Lane's mix of Aristotelean philosophy and modern physics to me has always been uneasy mix. His other books to me are more personal and perhaps a more useful apologetic, but this book is more fun to me. The amount of information he doles out in sundry branches of science gives me at least some tools to talk to my scientific minded friends. I am knocking off a couple stars because some of the writing and some of the interviews seem clumsy. I would give it another 1/2 star if I could.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dishonesty, dishonesty...,
By Richard Poulin (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Case For A Creator (Paperback)
Notice all the five stars this book is getting? And there are a few one-star ratings, which all talk about how dishonest he is for getting all his data from the same side of the question.
Even though it's true that he strictly interviews people who believe in intelligent design, he has done a lot of research, and he throws a lot of question at them, playing "devil's advocate", if you will. And we already know most of the stuff from the naturalist side, since it's been the prevailing voice of science for so long! But my main problem with those who gave him a one-star rating is that they never take the arguments head-on, to counter-argue. They attack the integrity of the author. But if his integrity was so lousy, his arguments would be easy to dismiss, with evidence from the other side. My guess is that it's hard to oppose such a solid case. A very good book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
solid, and convincing evidence for The Creator,
This review is from: Case For A Creator (Hardcover)
This book is a really engaging, and informative work, which gives people multiple avenues of evidence to point them to the Creator.
Lee Strobel takes each line of evidence from cosmology, biochemistry, etc. and interviews different experts who give reasoned responses to some of the tough questions. Some reviewers have objected that Strobel only interviews Christian apologists to make his case. To this I respond that Strobel's point is not to see whether naturalism/atheism has merit, he already passed that point in his life, and saw the convincing eveidence against that empty worldview. He is in fact making what his book says "THE CASE FOR A CREATOR", so obviously he is calling for witnesses to the evidence for that Creator God. Where is he going to get that evidence- from an Atheist? Of course not. And he DOES test his interviewees with hard questions, and skepticism. They manage to give good answers to the tough questions. In so doing, one is given ample good reason to consider the truth that God exists and is the Creator. I particularly liked William Lane Craig's response to the idea that Quantum particles come into and out of nothing. He explains why this is a false view, and that these particles, if real, are actually caused by fluctuations in a a vast field of energy. This is just one of many fine examples of atheist/agnostic type reasoning that Lee Strobel attempts to knock down. I really reccomend this book if you want a something that is easy to read, but has some depth. Happy reading.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fair and thorough,
This review is from: Case For A Creator (Hardcover)
Lee has told a captivating and compelling case for the existence of a supernatural Creator. He interviews a topnotch list of experts on the issue of science and faith and poses the tough questions that we all ask from time to time.
Having said that i wonder why William Lane Craig was interviewed on the cosmological argument (big bang theory) and not astrophysicist Hugh Ross? Ross has been one of the pioneers for using the big bang to prove the existence of God and has written some ground breaking books on the topic such as The Creator and the Cosmos and The Fingerprint of God. The book is superbly written, covering all the objections fairly and writing in a way that keeps the reader interested. He is sure to stay clear of the young/old earth controversy which i don't think is wise since it is a major stumbling block to non-believers. The 6-10,000 yr old universe/Earth proposed by groups like Institute for Creation Research and Answers in Genesis is so scientifically implausable that it is making a laughing stock of the Christian faith. This is the reason that many atheists/skeptics won't accept Christ since they think that Christianity must be false since it is pushing an absurd doctrine. The Christian should work hard to counter the misconception that to believe in the Biblical world view is to swallow the nonsense of a 10,000 yr old Earth.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great read and summary for scientific evidence for Creator,
By Ryan Huxley (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Case For A Creator (Hardcover)
Is the case for evolution clearly a shut case? Are all the basic aspects of evolutionary theory known to be correct? Can the entire universe be explained simply in terms of matter and energy? Do science and religion conflict? Do people who believe in a Creator suffer from an inability to rationally comprehend the brute facts of the world around them? If you've ever pondered these questions, then this book is for you. If you are looking for a summary book with highlights of intelligent design, along with several key evidential problems with evolutionary theory, this is it. In a wonderfully engaging style, Lee Strobel takes you through his investigation for the scientific evidence for a Creator. But do not feel like you need to be scientifically sophisticated to follow the extremely informative interviews with leading academics - the down-to-earth and always practical approach exemplified in Strobel's first two books (The Case for Christ and The Case for Faith) is refined further in this work. Tough, contemporary questions, the hallmark of Strobel's investigative approach, are ever present and address conundrums from eminent skeptics.
The framework for this book follows a logical and well-thought-out progression. Strobel poses the questions hard skeptics ask on such broad topics as: evolution, faith and science, the Big Bang, fine-tuning of the universe, Earth's privileged place in the cosmos, biochemical complexity, the origin of life, DNA and, finally, the mind. He interviews many of the top minds in each of these topics, including many prominent ID personalities, such as Michael Behe, Jonathan Wells, Stephen Meyer, Jay Richards, Guillermo Gonzalez, and J. P. Moreland. The material in his interviews often covers very recent work, such as Richards' and Gonzalez's Privileged Planet, which came out approximately the same time as The Case for a Creator. Strobel gets at the heart of the scientific issues for the various topics, even such esoteric concepts as superstring theory and Stephen Hawking's supposedly "non-singularity" universe. Though reading those words may cause your eyes to cross, the book provides easy to follow examples, analogies, and explanations to drive home the basic ideas. For example, when considering Hawking's "non-singularity" universe (that is, a universe without a beginning) interviewee William Lane Craig, Ph.D., shows how Hawking attempts to deny a beginning point for the universe. However, to do so, Hawking has to employ an imaginary number (i.e. the square root of negative one), which appears to mathematically address the issue, but cannot be valid for the real world - in reality, the beginning has just been masked behind a mathematical model. Craig exposes Hawking's mathematical slight of hand for what it is. Reflections, anecdotes and big picture summaries are interspersed throughout the book along with the engaging interviews. One noteworthy story is from Strobel's own life, where he recalls his early days as a reporter at the Chicago Tribune. He was a self-proclaimed atheist at the time and was assigned to cover a local dispute over the teaching of evolution in West Virginia. Various Christians opposed the teaching of evolution, and at the time, Strobel wondered, "Why couldn't these people get their heads out of the sand and admit the obvious: science had put their God out of a job!" 30 years later, Strobel gives a compelling account of how the scientific evidence does not support the naturalist worldview, and points out that ironically, "My road to atheism was paved by science ... but, ironically, so was my later journey to God." Similar to Strobel's past works, this book is very well referenced and provides great information for further reading after each chapter. In fact, there's even a website specifically aimed at helping people to learn more about and promote intelligent design: [...] The website includes highlights from the book and an entertaining audio program online, complete with sound effects to help visualize Strobel's personal recollections of events past.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Reads like a Novel,
By A Customer
This review is from: Case For A Creator (Hardcover)
This book is one of the growing number of books on Intelligent Design. It is different from the rest in that it consists of a series of interviews with scientists. Lee Strobel, a graduate of Yale Law school and legal editor of the Chicago Tribune, applies his considerable writing skills to tackle one of the most explosive movements of the last decade. I especially liked the personal information about the scientists interviewed, including their motivations for accepting ID. The book reads like a novel, not a book about science, but is very informative even for those who teach science as I do. Strobel interviews those on both sides, and covers astronomy, biochemistry, and even theology. The book also covers some of the controversies surrounding ID. This is the first book on this topic one should read, but even veteran scientists can learn much from the book. This book is a must, especially for critics of ID. Teachers will find it an important resource when the topic comes up in class (which it most certainly will)
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Useful Summaries of Arguments in Favor of a Creator by Believing Scientists,
By Donald Mitchell "Jesus Loves You!" (Thanks for Providing My Reviews over 127,000 Helpful Votes Globally) - See all my reviews (#1 HALL OF FAME) (TOP 50 REVIEWER)
This review is from: Case For A Creator (Paperback)
"I am the LORD, your Holy One, The Creator of Israel, your King." -- Isaiah 43:15 (NKJV)
I was attracted to this book after feeling called to begin putting together a bibliography of books that would help someone who wanted to consider whether God exists from considering secular evidence. That calling was reinforced when a cousin shared with me that she had lost her faith while in college because she felt overwhelmed by the anti-God arguments her professors advanced. Had I known about this book at the time, I would have recommended that she read it. I have read some of the authors and books cited here, and I felt that Mr. Strobel did a credible job of using his interviews to encapsulate what they expressed. I suspect that the other authors and their materials are also reasonably well summarized, as well. When you read the book, take careful note of the sources. In many cases, you'll want to dig into those on your own to gain a fuller understanding of the scientific evidence for a creator of the universe. If you have read The Case for Christ or The Case for Faith, the format of this book will come as no surprise. Mr. Strobel relates his skeptical past as a journalist and how he came to seek answers to his faith questions in the same way that he performed his day job, finding knowledgeable people and interviewing them. In this book, the arguments he asks the scientists and scientifically trained people about relate to factors that affected his faith while studying science when he was much younger. That perspective is both the book's strength and its weakness. The touchstone makes the book less abstract. It also makes it more elementary. As with his other books, there's no supervised debate here between pros and cons. So this book is really an advocate's case, drawn from believers who know something about science. As such, the book's value is higher for believers who want to know a little more about science rather than for those who have no faith. Much of the content deals with Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, biology, biochemistry, astronomy, cosmology, and physics. If you already know a lot about these fields, you'll probably find the material here quite simple. But that's okay. Most people don't follow science very much. Those who believe in a young Earth will probably be annoyed that Mr. Strobel agrees with the view of a very old Earth. In terms of science raising fundamental questions about whether the world is created ... or just happened, the most persuasive evidence for me comes from considering the immense complexity of biological systems and the genetic coding that underlies much of that functioning. The probability that such complexity could have developed one random mutation at a time is too slight to be considered possible. That's not Darwin's fault. We didn't know how complex our bodies are until quite recently. I suspect we have many more complexities to learn. Praise God for this book!
5.0 out of 5 stars
An outstanding overview of the scientific evidence for God,
By Michael Erisman (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Case For A Creator (Hardcover)
This book is an introduction into the various areas of scientific study where a true search for truth includes not arbitrarily self limiting to a naturalistic or materialistic philosophy to explain the universe and life as we know it.
The book starts with Lee Strobel describing his own journey to atheism through his love for Darwinism and science, coupled with a journalistic obsession with always digging deeper. Despite the fact that this book had the potential to be dry and overly academic, it never is. From the opening personal background, to the depiction of his journalistic assignment to cover a debate on school textbooks in rural West Virginia, to the "conversational" tone to his presentation of scientific evidence from the experts, the book is always readable and engaging. This is a well written overview to the fact that science and faith are not as mutually exclusive as we have been led to believe. In fact, much scientific evidence clearly points to a Creator. Whether it is big-bang cosmology, or the complexity of the bio-chemical process, design is everywhere. However, this is only part of the story. The book starts with first punching holes in most of the famous Darwin and Evolution "icons" which prompted Lee to abandon a belief in God to begin with. That the famous "Haeckel" embryo drawings are faked and have been known as such for decades, has not kept them from being included in modern textbooks to show evidence for Darwin's theories. The amount of liberty that has been taken with weak arguments for macro-evolution points to a naturalistic philosophy, not scientific evidence, which is driving much of what passes for scientific study in the area of origins of life. See the book "Icons of Evolution" for a deeper look. The chapter on "the Evidence of Consciousness" is in itself worth buying the book. J.P. Moreland and others discuss whether a computer will someday have "spiritual" experiences, and look into the scientific origins of philosophy made famous by Rene Decartes. The debate as to whether our consciousness is a result of mere physical brain activity which reaches a certain level, or is evidence of something beyond the physical, is a fascinating discussion. I highly recommend this book. It is a wonderful introduction to scientific evidence from renowned scientists with impeccable credentials that align science with faith in a way that is both logically and rationally sound. While I agree that he could have interviewed a wider range of people, the theories and works from non-theists like Robert Gould, Richard Dawkins, and others are well presented. It is also a great place to start research on the subject, as there are dozens of works sited and noted from William Demski, Michael Behe, William Lane Craig, Stephen Hawking, and others. Start here, and then read deeper. The result will be the same as there truly is a scientific "case for a Creator".
5.0 out of 5 stars
A cogent case for intelligent design,
This review is from: Case For A Creator (Hardcover)
In this particular work, Christian apologist Lee Strobel attempts to point the reader towards the evidence that implies a Creator was responsible for creating the universe and life as we know it. First, let me quickly mention the one problem I had with this book. In the opening chapter Strobel states that he is on a mission to investigate the evidence for and against a cosmic creator, yet the entire book is filled with interviews from scientists and philosophers who are stalwart theists. To be fair, Strobel should have interviewed some naturalist proponents and maybe a few creation scientists as well. The only reason I can think of to explain Strobel's one sided approach is that he was attempting to argue as the skeptic he once was. As an adolescent and young adult Strobel was convinced of evolution and atheism on account of his science education and I believe he was attempting to play the role of the skeptic arguing as he was once taught. Although this may be unfair since he is now a theist, it still allows for both sides to express their views.
Of all the chapters I enjoyed the most, Jonathan Wells' chapter on the icons of evolution was the best. Wells' evidence is simply too strong to be ignored and illustrates how dishonest and shrewd the academic community is in dissemenating false evidence. From the Miller-Urey experiement to Haeckel's drawing of various embryos, Wells' marshals too much evidence to show that the scientific community is being dishonest when in the evidence it produces in favor of evolution. Another chapter of particular interest is William Lane Craig's arguments that cosmology and astronomy point to a Creator. Relying on the Kalam cosmological argument Craig convincingly argues that everything that began to exist has a cause and since the universe is not eternal but began at the big bang, then the universe must have a creator. Then, Craig proceeds to show why every rival to the big bang is inadequate or doesn't fit the observed evidence. Particularly interesting is his critique of Hawking's model in which Hawking substitutes imaginary numbers into his equation to end up with an eternal universe. The problem with this model is that it assumes there is such a thing as imaginary time which is somewhat contradictory. Furthermore, a majority of the scientific community rejects Hawking's imaginary time approach. Regardless of Hawking's stature within the scientific community, a model that relies on imaginary time and unobservable phenomena is not scientific. If it comes down to choosing between an eternal universe and an eternal God, I will choose an eternal God. Other chapters include two interviews with Stephen Meyer who argues that the fine tuning of the universe implies a Creator and also that the information inherent in DNA also speaks of intelligent design. Once again, if I must choose between infinite universes that can't be proved or studied to account for life's existence or an infinite Creator, then I will choose to believe in an infinite Creator. Behe's chapter contains arguments against evolution based on irreducible complexity. Much of what is stated here can be found in Behe's book, Darwin's Black Box. Finally, J.P. Moreland argues in favor of dualism and offers several scientific and philosophical reasons for believing in the correctness of the dualist position. All in all, this book contains some of the most powerful and convincing arguments in favor of a Creator and against materialism and darwinism. Hopefully this will serve as a springboard to further validate Intelligent Design as an authentic scientific rival to the materialism of our times.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Solid arguments against 'evolution of the gaps',
By A Customer
This review is from: Case For A Creator (Hardcover)
I just finished this book. I would have to say on the whole that it is a strong case that the evolution/materialist school of thought is starting to crumble (or at least show cracks). This book serves as equal time for scientists from a multitude of disciplines to have a voice. Just this afternoon picked up a skeptic magazine with an article on intelligent design (ID). It implies that almost all ID proponents are theologians/philosophers and not scientists (not true) Michael Behee is the only real credible scientist to believe in intelligent design and publish (not true). Further it paints ID as simply say that 'things are too complex to happen randomly, so therefore there's a God' (not true). It's no wonder that ID gets so trashed since people are beginning from such a misinformed starting place.
What we learn from this book is that the quantity and quality of scientists that have concluded intelligent design is much larger and more fortified that this. There are stories of scientists who completely changed directions on evolution based upon recent scientific findings (including one who wrote a book on evolutionary beginning of life). Plus, ID goes much beyond complexity issues. It talks about what evidence shows us, or doesn't show us to support differing points of view. So here are common criticisms of this book and books like it: First, people complain that he 'doesn't interview people with opposing viewpoints'. This is quite a curious requirement from a community that doesn't do the same (read: hypocritical). How many texts for evolution provide opposing viewpoints from ID scientists? Lee brings up numerous objections to points being made from the interviewees (the very points coming from skeptics) and presses them to a point. He is not qualified to have an exhautive scientific debate with either side, but that isn't the purpose of this book. He is building a case for intelligent design and has given a collective voice to a growing moving of scientists that support this case. Someone else is fully free to write a book opposing this. Second, 'Science cannot prove or disprove God'. How useful is it to say that a method that assumes God doesn't exist cannot prove/disprove God? This book challenges people to lay out all the evidence and draw the best conclusions (get it? The CASE for a Creator). It describes attributes of things we know are designed, attributes we things we know are random. Then, compared these attributes to things like DNA, the structure of the universe, etc. Further it references history, fossil records, etc. to support the position. It draws into serious question whether the 19th century theory of evolution has really been substantiated or refuted by what we've discovered over the last century. I think this is perhaps Lee's best book. Although many scientists have put out books refuting evolution and supporting intelligent design, this book was a nice cross section of different disciplines and makes a cogent set of arguments. |
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The Telegraph newspaper has criticised Chancellor George Osborne's recent intervention on equal marriage and has accused him of playing a "dangerous game" over the issue.
In an editorial published on Wednesday, the paper said Mr Osborne's claim that if the Tories dropped the policy it could cost them the next general election, based upon last week's defeat of the Republicans in the US, was "dangerously misleading".
However, the Telegraph has dismissed the chancellor's arguments, saying: "Leaving aside the fact that it was probably the Republicans' anti-abortion stance that proved a more salient issue for women than gay marriage, such a literal read-across to British politics is dangerously misleading. In the United States, same-sex couples have far fewer legal rights than married couples.
"In this country, the Civil Partnership Act passed by the Blair government in 2004 removed any such distinctions. Mr Osborne is perfectly aware of this fact. He is also aware that there is little popular pressure in favour of gay marriage – on the contrary, there is widespread opposition – but that, too, is deemed irrelevant".
The Telegraph, which previously signalled its opposition to the government's marriage reforms in an editorial published in March of this year, also mentioned C4M's controversial anti-marriage equality petition in Wednesday's editorial.
The paper said: "Six hundred thousand people have signed a petition opposing same-sex marriage. All faiths will mobilise against it because church leaders are unconvinced by the government's promise that they will not be allowed to conduct such ceremonies in any case".
The Telegraph added: "Ed Miliband has already said that they should and human rights legislation would certainly ensure that test cases would swiftly be brought before the courts, both here and in Europe, raising the prospect of churches being forced by law to conduct marriage ceremonies they do not recognise. Is that really what Mr Osborne wants?"


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Unformatted text preview: EEE 350, Fall 2009 Homework #2 Due Tuesday, 09/15/2009
Problem 1. We roll two fair 6-sided dice. Each one of the 36 possible outcomes is assumed to be equally likely. (a) Find the probability that doubles were rolled. (b) Given that the roll resulted in a sum of 4 or less, find the conditional probability that doubles were rolled. (c) Find the probability that at least one die is a 6. (d) Given that the two dice land on different numbers, find the conditional probability that at least one die is a 6. Problem 2. The disk containing the only copy of your thesis just got corrupted, and the disk got mixed up with three other corrupted disks that were lying around. It is equally likely that any of the four disks holds the corrupted remains of your thesis. Your computer expert friend offers to have a look, and you know from past experience that his probability of finding your thesis from any disc is 0.4 (assuming the thesis is there). Given that he searches on disk 1 but cannot find your thesis, what is the probability that your thesis is on disk i, for i = 1, 2, 3, 4? Problem 3. A new test has been developed to determine whether a given student is overstressed. This test is 95% accurate if the student is not overstressed, but only 85% accurate if the student is in fact overstressed. It is known that 99.5% of all students are overstressed. Given that a particular student tests negative for stress, what is the probability that the test results are correct, and that this student is not overstressed? Problem 4. A magnetic tape storing information in binary form has been corrupted, so it can only be read with bit errors. The probability that you correctly detect a 0 is 0.9, while the probability that you correctly detect a 1 is 0.85. Each digit is a 1 or a 0 with equal probability. Given that you read a 1, what is the probability that this is a correct reading?
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(Jan. 2 - By the Editorial Board)
President George W. Bush signed legislation in 2007 forcing a phase-out of 40- and 60-watt incandescent bulbs starting this month in states not named California.
California forced the issue a year ahead of the rest of the nation. Now, California ought to lead again by coming up with ways to recycle one alternative - compact fluorescent bulbs.
California authorities started encouraging the use of compact fluorescents during the energy crisis in 2000. Fluorescent bulbs last longer than old-style bulbs and use much less energy.
But they've never lived up to their promise. They take too long to get bright. Worse, they contain hazardous mercury. When they burn out - and they do, sooner than producers claim - people have no easy way of tossing them, short of dumping them along with the rest of their household garbage.
A few hardware stores take back burned-out bulbs. But many don't. That leaves people not wanting to spread mercury in the environment with having to drive to landfills, which of course adds to our collective carbon footprint.
There have been legislative attempts over the years to limit hazardous material used in their manufacture and to streamline recycling of fluorescent bulbs and other electronic waste. Not surprisingly, major producers have hired lobbyists to defeat such efforts.
As incandescent light goes the way of the horse and buggy, compact fluorescent bulbs will remain an alternative. LED bulbs are another, one preferred by many experts. Light-emitting-diode bulbs are pricier than fluorescents, but theoretically they will last as long as 25 years and evidently don't contain hazardous material.
No matter what bulbs consumers buy, California still will have a mixed-up approach to electronic waste recycling.
Legislation by Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman, D-Stockton, would expand the authority of the Department of Toxic Substances Control to intervene to require more recycling of hazardous household electronics.
The bill stalled in the Senate last year. Although Assembly Bill 1022 doesn't directly apply to mercury-containing fluorescent bulbs, Eggman's bill warrants a second look as lawmakers return this month.


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WebCite | |
Web address | www.webcitation.org |
Slogan | Preserving for posterity |
Commercial? | No |
Available in | English |
Owner | Unknown |
Created by | Gunther Eysenbach |
Launched | 1997 |
Alexa rank
70,577 (April 2014[update])[1] |
Current status | Online |
WebCite is an on-demand archiving service, designed to digitally preserve scientific and educationally important material on the web by making snapshots of Internet contents as they existed at the time when a blogger, or a scholar or a Wikipedia editor cited or quoted from it. The preservation service enables verifiability of claims supported by the cited sources even when the original web pages are being revised, removed, or disappear for other reasons, an effect known as link rot.
Comparison to other services[edit]
The service differs from the short time Google Cache copies by having indefinite archiving, and WebCite also offers on-the-fly archiving. The Internet Archive, since 2013,[2] also offers immediate archiving, however, WebCite has some advantages:
- pages cached by WebCite also capture several layers of underlying links while Internet Archive only captures the top page chosen for archiving. The accuracy with which formatting and functionality is preserved also varies greatly between Internet Archive and WebCite.
- WebCite checks robots.txt only at the time of archiving, Internet Archive checks robots.txt occasionally so changes in robots.txt (which can be caused by change the ownership of the domain name) can result in removing the cached pages from the Internet Archive.
WebCite is a non-profit consortium supported by publishers and editors, and it can be used by individuals without charge. Rather than relying on a web crawler which archives pages in a "random" fashion, authors who want to cite web pages in a scholarly article can initiate the archiving process. They then cite – instead of or in addition to the original URL – the snapshot address archived by WebCite, with an identifier that specifies the cited source.
It can be used to preserve cited Internet content, such as the archived web pages through WebCite, in addition to citing the original URL of the Internet content. All types of web content, including HTML web pages, PDF files, style sheets, JavaScript and digital images can be preserved. It also archives metadata about the collected resources such as access time, MIME type, and content length.
Conceived in 1997 by Gunther Eysenbach, WebCite was publicly described the following year when an article on Internet quality control declared that such a service could also measure the citation impact of web pages.[3] In the next year, a pilot service was set up at the address webcite.net (see archived screenshots of that service at the Wayback Machine (archived February 3, 1999)). Although it seemed that the need for WebCite decreased when Google's short term copies of web pages begun to be offered by Google Cache and the Internet Archive expanded their crawling (which started in 1996[2]), WebCite was the only one allowing "on-demand" archiving by users. WebCite also offers interfaces to scholarly journals and publishers to automate the archiving of cited links. By 2008, over 200 journals had begun routinely using WebCite.[4]
WebCite used to be, but is no longer, a member of the International Internet Preservation Consortium.[5] In a 2012 message on Twitter, Eysenbach commented that "WebCite has no funding, and IIPC charges 4000 Euro/yr in membership fees."[6]
WebCite "feeds its content" to other digital preservation projects, including the Internet Archive.[5] Lawrence Lessig, an American academic who writes extensively on copyright and technology, used WebCite in his amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court case of MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd.[7]
WebCite has been running a fund-raising campaign using FundRazr since January 2013 with a target of $22,500, a sum which its operators have stated is needed to maintain and modernize the service beyond the end of 2013.[8] This includes relocating the service to Amazon EC2 cloud hosting and legal support. It is currently undecided if WebCite will continue as a non-profit or as a for-profit entity.[9]
WebCite allows on-demand prospective archiving. It is not crawler-based; pages are only archived if the citing author or publisher requests it. No cached copy will appear in a WebCite search unless the author or another person has specifically cached it beforehand.
To initiate the caching and archiving of a page, an author may use WebCite's "archive" menu option or create a WebCite bookmarklet that will allow web surfers to cache pages just by clicking a button in their bookmarks folder.
One can retrieve or cite archived pages through a transparent format such as
where URL
is the URL that was archived, and DATE
indicates the caching date. For example,
or the alternate short form http://webcitation.org/5W56XTY5h
retrieves an archived copy of the URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
that is closest to the date of March 4, 2008.
It is important to note that WebCite does not work for pages which contain a no-cache tag. WebCite respects the author's request to not have their web page cached.
One can archive a page by simply navigating in their browser to a link formatted like this:
replacing urltoarchive
with the full URL of the page to be archived, and youremail
with their e-mail address. This is how the WebCite bookmarklet works.[10]
Business model[edit]
The term "WebCite" is a registered trademark.[11] WebCite does not charge individual users, journal editors and publishers[12] any fee to use their service. WebCite earns revenue from publishers who want to "have their publications analyzed and cited webreferences archived",[13] and accepts donations. Early support was from the University of Toronto.[14]
Copyright issues[edit]
WebCite maintains the legal position that its archiving activities[4] are allowed by the copyright doctrines of fair use and implied license.[5] To support the fair use argument, WebCite notes that its archived copies are transformative, socially valuable for academic research, and not harmful to the market value of any copyrighted work.[5] WebCite argues that caching and archiving web pages is not considered a copyright infringement when the archiver offers the copyright owner an opportunity to "opt-out" of the archive system, thus creating an implied license.[5] To that end, WebCite will not archive in violation of Web site "do-not-cache" and "no-archive" metadata, as well as robot exclusion standards, the absence of which creates an "implied license" for web archive services to preserve the content.[5]
In a similar case involving Google's web caching activities, on January 19, 2006, the United States District Court for the District of Nevada agreed with that argument in the case of Field v. Google (CV-S-04-0413-RCJ-LRL), holding that fair use and an "implied license" meant that Google's caching of Web pages did not constitute copyright violation.[5] The "implied license" referred to general Internet standards.[5]
Reliability and outages[edit]
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The service is not always available due to outages caused by hardware failures, maintenance and other reasons. However, it has always returned and there are no reports of previously cached pages being permanently lost.
See also[edit]
- ^ "Webcitation.org Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
- ^ a b Fixing Broken Links on the Internet, Internet Archive blog, October 25, 2013.
- ^ Eysenbach, Gunther; Diepgen, Thomas L. (November 28, 1998). "Towards quality management of medical information on the internet: evaluation, labelling, and filtering of information". British Medical Journal (London: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd) 317 (7171): 1496–1502. doi:10.1136/bmj.317.7171.1496. ISSN 0959-8146. OCLC 206118688. PMC 1114339. PMID 9831581. BL Shelfmark 2330.000000. Retrieved 2008-02-27.
- ^ a b Eysenbach, Gunther; Trudel, Mathieu (2005). "Going, Going, Still There: Using the WebCite Service to Permanently Archive Cited Web Pages". Journal of Medical Internet Research (Toronto: Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at the University Health Network) 7 (5): e60. doi:10.2196/jmir.7.5.e60. ISSN 1438-8871. OCLC 107198227. PMC 1550686. PMID 16403724. Retrieved 2008-02-27.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "WebCite Consortium FAQ". webcitation.org. WebCite.
- ^ "Twitter post". June 11, 2012. Archived from the original on March 10, 2013. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
- ^ Cohen, Norm (January 29, 2007). "Courts Turn to Wikipedia, but Selectively". New York Times.
- ^ "Fund WebCite (http://www.webcitation.org)". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 2013-12-06.
- ^ "Conversation between GiveWell and Webcite on 4/10/13" (PDF). GiveWell. Retrieved 2009-10-18.
Dr. Eysenbach is trying to decide whether Webcite should continue as a non-profit project or a business with revenue streams built into the system.
- ^ "WebCite Bookmarklet".
- ^ "WebCite Legal and Copyright Information". WebCite Consortium. Retrieved 2009-06-16.
- ^ "WebCite Member List". WebCite Consortium. Retrieved 2009-06-16.
Membership is currently free
- ^ "WebCite Frequently Asked Questions". WebCite Consortium. Retrieved 2009-06-16.
- ^ "WebCite Frequently Asked Questions – Who owns and runs WebCite at the moment?". WebCite Consortium. Retrieved 2009-06-16.
WebCite has been incubated and is still hosted at the University of Toronto / University Health Network's Centre for Global eHealth Innovation.


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More Arrests In Lindsay Burglary; Cross Snorted Coke In Front Of Obama
- The LAPD has arrested four women in connection with break-ins at Lindsay Lohan and Audrina Patridge's homes.
Rosie & Wife Split; Randy & Al Claim Michael's Will Is Fake
- Rosie O'Donnell has confirmed the rumors that her five-year marriage to Kelli Carpenter is on the rocks. She said: "Kelli and I love each other very much and we are working on our issues..."


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Diode Laser Platform
Friday, 01 September 2006
Spectra-Physics, a Division of Newport Corp. (Tucson, AZ), has released a 900- to 980-nm
diode laser platform based on epitaxial design. The diode laser platform provides CW power conversion
efficiency to 71% for 940-nm single emitters (15°C case temperature). More than 68.5%
peak PCE at 25°C may be achieved from 100-μm-wide, 3-mm-long single emitters designed for 8-W
output power applications.
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Diaphragm Pumps
Tuesday, 01 August 2006
Thomas Products Div. (Sheboygan, WI) offers the Series
5002 miniature diaphragm liquid pumps, designed for all-liquid
or mixed wet/dry pumping applications. Model 5002F
pumps are single-head and measure 1.99 × 1.18 × 3.19". Model
5002FZ pumps are 1.99 × 1.18 × 4.88" and have twin heads.
Both are oil-less. Standard materials include thermoplastic housings
with ethylene propylene diene monomer diaphragms. Optional
housing and diaphragm materials are available for use with aggressive
media. Open flow is rated at 400 ml/min for single-head, and 850 ml/min for twin-head.
Maximum pressure is rated at 40 m H2O, and maximum dry suction is 6 m H2O. Both 12 VDC
and 24 VDC versions are available, with electromechanical compatibility protection included.
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Motor Driver
Tuesday, 01 August 2006
Allegro MicroSystems (Worcester, MA) has introduced the A3901 dual H-bridge low-voltage
motor driver. Capable of operating one stepper motor or two DC motors, the unit is designed
for portable applications with a power-off current of 50 nA and
an operating voltage range of 2.5 V to 5.5 V. MOSFET output
stages reduce voltage drop and power dissipation of the outputs.
Internal circuit protection includes thermal shut down and hysteresis,
transient-suppression diodes, and crossover current protection.
The device is supplied in a lead-free, ten-lead MLP
power package (3 × 3 × 0.75 mm) with an exposed thermal pad.
Both H-bridges can be paralleled for higher current operation.
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Servo Drive Module
Tuesday, 01 August 2006
National Instruments (Austin, TX) has announced the NI 9505, a
field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based, H-bridge servo drive
module for the NI CompactRIO embedded platform. The module
offers direct connectivity to actuators such as fractional-horsepower
brushed DC servo motors, relays, solenoids, lamps, and valves. A continuous
current of up to 8 A at 40°C (or 2 A at 70°C) can be delivered, with
a peak current of 12 A at 30 V, it can be used with NI's LabVIEW graphical
system design platform to create intelligent control systems.
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Motor Controller
Tuesday, 01 August 2006
New Scale Technologies (Victor, NY) offers the SQ-2300 series benchtop
motor controller for computer control of the company's SQUIGGLE motors
and closed-loop linear nanopositioning stages. Using the controller, SQUIGGLE
motor speed can vary continuously from micrometers per second to
millimeters per second with better than 20-nanometer position resolution.
Multiple controllers can be connected to one PC and driven simultaneously
from a single screen, enabling multi-axis set and hold positioning. The
unit comes with an ActiveX command library and USB connection, and
can also be controlled by an analog input (0 to 3.3 volt) or optional manual handset.
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Anti-Backlash Nut
Tuesday, 01 August 2006
Haydon Switch & Instrument (Waterbury, CT) has released the "W" series
of anti-backlash nuts, designed to minimize backlash between the leadscrew
and nut interface. A blend of self-lubricating polyacetal and stainless steel
screw material compensates for wear to avoid lock-ups. Available in a range of
diameters and leads for applications requiring precise positioning, the nuts
provide long operational life and a system that augments system stiffness
while reducing drag torque. It can be used as a standalone product.
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Distance Measurement
Tuesday, 01 August 2006
The Acam-Messelectronic TDC-GPX chip
from Transducers Direct (Miamiville, OH),
allows distance measuring of ±1 mm rms to a
range of 1,500 meters. The chip has four selectable
operating modes: I-mode provides eight
LVTTL input channels, a resolution of 81
picoseconds (ps), infinite measurement
range, and 5.5 nanosecond (ns) pulse-pair resolution.
G-mode has a 40-ps resolution, a
measurement range of 65 μsec, and a minimum
pulse-width measurement of 1.5 ns. In R
mode, the resolution is 27 ps, the measurement
range is 40 μsec, and the pulse-pair resolution
is 5.5 ns. In M-mode, the resolution is
10 ps rms with a peak-to-peak of 10 ps, and a
measurement range of 10 μsec. Power consumption
ranges from 39 to 45 mA.
Applications include navigation systems,
speed measurement devices, frequency
and phase measurement, and medical imaging
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Holes in leaves and tiny elongated eggs left by 8mm-long green beetles with purple stripes.
Purple-striped green beetles, 8mm long, congregate among the leaves, which they feed on. The beetles lay elongated eggs beneath the leaves from September and continue to do so on warm days right through winter. These hatch after a couple of weeks and the larvae feed on the plants for about three weeks before entering the soil to pupate. Two weeks later the adults emerge and continue munching through the leaves and laying their eggs.
Pick off the adult beetles and larvae by hand and destroy.
Spray with an insecticide, thiocloprid, between late summer and spring. Avoid using insecticide when the plants are in flower as bees may also be killed.
kaycurtis 24/11/2011 at 15:27
never ending battle all these bugs, need more of the good guys
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Before using thiacloprid, imidacloprid, acetamocloprid or any other neonicotinoid pesticide, I recommed visiting the Buglife website, to read their report summarising independent research on neonicotinoids. They kill bees & other non-target insects - eg. butterflies etc. Miniscule amounts impair the ability of insect to function resulting inevitably in death. Also, seek out the fact sheets from the US environment agency -you may get a shock! We used to manage without them & can now.
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I have just found these beetles on my lavender bush. I have never seen them before. are they new to this area (East Yorkshire) and what should I do about them?


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Block Scheduling
Class scheduling is an expression of the relationship between learning and time. Traditionally, schools schedule six or seven 40- to 55- minute classes per day. These classes usually meet for 180 school days per school year.
Block scheduling differs from traditional scheduling in that fewer class sessions are scheduled for larger blocks of time over fewer days. For example, in block scheduling, a course might meet for 90 minutes a day for 90 days, or half a school year. Does this type of scheduling have any advantage over more traditional scheduling methods? Those schools that have tried it believe it does.
For the schools themselves, the greatest advantage of block scheduling is a better use of resources. The schedule change does not require additional teachers or classrooms. It eliminates half of the time needed for class changes, which results in fewer discipline problems. Results from several high schools indicate significantly fewer suspensions and student dropouts due to improved student-teacher relationships. Schools also report an increase in the overall quality of teacher instruction and student time on task.
The advantages for teachers in schools that use block scheduling are many. These advantages fall into several categories.
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Some schools use a modified form of block scheduling that combines two core classes. Under this system, students might study social studies for 90 minutes each day during the first semester and science during the second semester. Another modification has students taking English and social studies blocks in one semester and science and mathematics blocks in the second. Such scheduling encourages the teachers to institute team teaching or similar interdisciplinary approaches.
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are particles of the bodies of saints, or things that have touched their bodies
or the body of Christ or Mary. Normally,
indulgences are "attached" to the relics and can be gained by anyone
possessing them, venerating them or kissing them.
all this was insignificant compared with the discovery-officially endorsed by
the Church-of the foreskin or prepuce of Jesus in
of these were even revealed by Christ, Mary or the saints.
Thus Mary taught St. Dominic how to say the rosary and
recent generations the accent in indulgenced articles has been on medals.
The two most popular have been the scapular and the miraculous medals.
They replace the clumsy cloth scapulars which would be disconcerting when
worn with a low-cut sexy evening gown but as a medal can be carried
unobtrusively in a purse or billfold and still give a beautiful girl an
indulgence from the sin she is committing by tempting a willing young swain to
evil thoughts.
water is one of the oldest and most widely used blessed objects.
Its use not only conveys indulgences when entering church, but it keeps
lightning out of the house and drives away devils.
An ancient proverb depicts aversion: "Like the devil loves holy
list of these superstitious objects and their blessings could fill a book, and
indeed it has-the Rituale Romanum recently endorsed by the
these blessed things become channels of God's grace, and when indulgenced join
the vast panoply of animate and inanimate objects conscripted to substitute for
personal spiritual effort in the avoidance of or atonement for crime and sin.
foundations of superstition are laid in the Roman Catholic classroom.
Little children are taught not only about God, the Trinity, Mary and the
saints. Their childish imaginations
revel in a whole fairyland of spirits as fantastic in their deeds and worlds as
the land of Oz or the Arabian Nights or the kingdoms of Hans Christian Andersen.
There are angels and archangels, cherubim and seraphim, thrones and
learn of the crisis in paradise before the beginning of the world when the great
angelic leader, Michael, squared off against the most brilliant creature below
the throne of God Himself, Lucifer, and in the titanic struggle that rocked the
universe, swept Lucifer and his proud minions into the depths of bell.
The nuns keep repeating to their believing pupils that those fallen
angels are the devils who roam the earth unseen while whispering in unwary
little ears constant temptations to sin.
enemy of the devil is the guardian angel, assigned to "love us, pray for
us, encourage us to good and protect us from harm in soul and body."
common portrait framed on parochial classroom walls shows a beautiful child
about to wander off a cliff restrained by the hand of a colorful angel.
In lieu of the Protestant child's prayer, "Now I lay me down to
sleep,"' the Catholic youngster learns to recite at nighttime:
whom His love commits me here,
this day be at my side,
light and guard, to rule and guide.
satirical circus-like scene of the apparition of the Virgin Mary to the devilish
little children in "La Dolce Vita" was to me the most delightful gem
in the film, because the superstitious reaction of the faithful, including
priests, was so typical and so historically true.
spite of Catholic verbal denial of superstition, its own official
over-preoccupation with spirits, good and bad, fosters superstition in its less
discerning members. They are only
too prone to blame the devil's temptations for their lapses and condone their
own moral weaknesses. They are
inclined also to expect the guardian angel and the magical power of St.
Christopher to protect them on highways without constant reliance on human
wars Catholic servicemen are encouraged to wear blessed medals over their hearts
to ward off deadly bullets. Water
from the Shrine of Lourdes becomes a better cure for a varicose ulcer than a
saphenous vein ligation. Viewers of
television sports events can see Catholic boxers and wrestlers making the sign
of the cross before attempting mayhem, and Catholic football squads slipping to
their knees in huddles asking God to favor them over any heretical-or opposing
Catholic adversaries.
the most sheltered spot of all, Padre Junipero Serra, the founder of the
California Mission chain, built his favorite church.
It was dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
It became his chosen retreat, and here the saintly colonizer died and is
the Mexicans chased out the Spaniards, and the Americans under Colonel Fremont
conquered the California Mexicans, all the missions came upon evil days.
Some were gradually returned to Catholic use, but the original
Franciscans had died, and
priest lived out his years in a semblance of sanctity with a full measure of
comfort, and was gathered to his fathers.
faithful of the area began to see strange things.
As they walked through the mission garden of an evening after the
recitation of the rosary, they heard spectral wails in a key different from that
of the winds that whipped through the beaten cypress.
They saw a wraith of a figure in the black robes of a secular priest with
a long beard concealing any possibility of recognition.
A bold soul approached him one night and asked why he trod the earth in
restless anguish. He replied that
many years before he bad taken money, given him for holy Masses, and had spent
it for his own pleasure and had not recited the Masses for the intention of the
giver. His punishment was to walk
the hills and beaches of
faithful could not identify the spectral priest.
Their late pastor had been clean-shaven.
But an aged Indian, whose life had bridged the realms of the Spanish, the
Mexicans and the Americans, produced a faded picture of the Irish priest as a
younger man adorned with a full beard. The
kindly people gathered a substantial sum and gave it to the pastor of Carmel
Mission with the stipulation that Masses be recited to pay off the spiritual
debt of his predecessor. The ghost
of the bearded priest was never seen again.
story was told us at Santa Barbara Mission to emphasize the consequences of
neglect or malice in handling of Mass offerings.
We believed it! Not as a symbolic myth, but as literal truth, as fact!
Archbishop of San Francisco is a very powerful man.
His jurisdiction covers several hundred thousand Catholics, and his
authority over his hundreds of priests is absolute.
story goes that one of his priests in the city of
diocesan officials ordered his body brought back to
his former parish church, strange things began to happen.
At midnight lights would go on, invisible hands would light the altar
candles, a casket would float up the aisle toward the altar while the organ
pealed out the "dies irae, dies illa" (O that day, that day of wrath).
Neighboring parishioners noticed the church lights and informed the
pastor. He hid in one of the
confessionals and saw the eerie ceremony. Controlling
his own fear he stepped out, approached the floating coffin and recognized the
spectral body of the exiled parish priest. The
next day he learned that the dead priest had stipulated in his will that he
should be buried from that particular church.
pastor called his two assistant parish priests, his organist and his choir
director. He swore them to secrecy
and told them the story. That night
when the corpse arrived they stood in full funeral vestments and chanted the
solemn requiem
Archbishop of San Francisco heard of the incident, rumor had it, and called in
all the principals. If e swore
everybody to secrecy. Even the
priests of the area were forbidden to discuss the apparition.
As usual, censorship failed. We
heard the story in
school children are constantly reminded of the Church's missionary work.
As seminarians we were encouraged to volunteer for service in the two
pagan fields assigned to our Province of the Franciscan Order.
One was a section of
catechism classes children are taught that God permits the devil to
"possess" souls, to take possession of their faculties.
We were told also that possession was more frequent in those pagan areas
not yet thoroughly Christianized.
devout missionary priest was making laudable progress among the devil
worshippers in the Apache tribe on the
evening, after the sun had set, the padre drove his car around a mountain curve,
and his eye caught the figure of a black stallion poised on a ledge some forty
feet above the road. When he was
directly below the spot the horse jumped. It
landed a straddle the engine hood, the face looking at him through the
windshield. The eyes glowed with the
satanic fire of a possessing devil, and the mouth was twisted into a hellish
leer. As the frightened priest
jammed on the brakes, the horse leaped into the canyon on the other side of the
road, and echoes of demoniac laughter warned the man of God that Lucifer would
not give up his Apache kingdom without a struggle.
Protestants bring fantastic tales of this nature to the attention of the Roman
Catholic clergy, they are told that such stories represent the mental
aberrations of the small Roman Catholic illiterate fringe.
But St. Michael's Church in
Catholic Church teaches that every unbaptized baby is possessed by the devil. In
the baptismal ceremony before the water is poured, the priest must drive out
that devil:
the latest official Roman Ritual (Rituale Ronwnum) embellished with the coat of
arms and an introductory letter of Francis Cardinal Spellman,
5: Be cautious of the arts and deceptions that the devils use to disconcert the
exorcist (the priest); they usually lie, and make things so difficult that the
priest gets tired, or the patient appears not to be possessed at all.
9: Sometimes the devil will leave the patient and permit him to receive the Holy
Eucharist. There are innumerable
tricks and frauds that the devil will use to deceive.
The priest-exorcist must be cautious.
13: Let the priest-exorcist keep the crucifix in his band or at least in sight.
Relies of the saints, if available, should be carefully touched to the
head and breast of the possessed but let him beware lest these sacred objects be
abused or in any way damaged by the
19: When exorcising a woman let the priest always have responsible people,
preferably relatives, to bold down the woman while the devil is agitating her
and let him be careful not to say or do anything that might provoke obscene
thoughts either in himself or in others.
20: The priest should ask the devil if be was forced into the body of the
possessed person by some trick or magic (ob aliquam,
operam magicam) or an evil spell, or potion, which if the possessed has
taken by mouth he should be made to vomit up.
The devil must be forced to reveal any such physical evil things
(potions, charms, fetishes, etc.) still outside the body, and these must be
vile dragon, in the name of the Immaculate Lamb, who trod upon the asp and the
basilisk, who conquered the lion and the dragon, I command you to get out of
this man, to get out of the
have been perusing with deep interest your volume People's
Padre. It brings back a flood of
poignant memories. I am now an old
man, just past eighty. I joined the
Dominicans as a mere boy of seventeen back in the nineties.
I entered the novitiate at
detail of your life story struck a sympathetic chord and made me live again
those experiences which have left an unhealed heart wound.
Across the miles that separate us, I extend to you the hand of spiritual
fellowship. There is a bond between
such as we are, though we do stand isolated and alone.
We have left many behind, still hiding under the shadow of an imposing
organization, who envy us in the decision we have made.
They fear to leave the protecting walls of the cloister to go forth as
single individuals pitted against a powerful institution.
If the defenses of the Church are ever destined to fall, you will behold
an exodus from the fold, not merely individually, but en masse.
/1' There are many half-hearted priests with little conviction of their own;
they hardly dare to breathe their doubts except by way of innuendo.
They have social and financial security assured them and lack the courage
to face the big outside world on their own.
claims of the Church are becoming more preposterous every day.
She has used her hypnotism over those born in the fold. She
keeps captive the minds of her faithful and would even imprison Christ in her
claim to monopolize God is as pretentious as a monopoly of sunshine and fresh
air. She continues to dominate by
threats and fear and has deprived God of his sanctions.
whole system is a fabric of magic formula and taboos.
Her sacraments are rites of magic and incantation.
Her devotions seem to ignore God Himself and leave Him enveloped in the
shadow of the saints. Divinity goes
begging while relies are made objects of veneration.
may seem strange, but ever since I left the Church, nearly fifty years ago, I
have never felt the faintest qualm or experienced the slightest desire for
reconciliation. I went forth deeply
disillusioned and thoroughly at odds with the Church's claims and this frame of
mind has only strengthened with the passing years.
is shocking when you consider how little genuine thinking is done by the
Catholic laity and even by the priesthood. Very
few Catholics ever realize that they have never enjoyed the privilege of
choosing their own religion; from the cradle on, religion is imposed upon
everyone born in the Church. Any
Catholic who feels a misgiving and entertains a questioning mind commits a
mortal sin. He is told to make the
sign of the cross against even the shadow of a doubt.
have been astounded at the utter ignorance of priests with regard to early
Church history and their absolute indifference to exegetical study of the
scriptures. The old stereotyped
proofs of the faith taught in the theological curriculum are as obsolete as
medieval breastplates in modern warfare. Complacency
in satisfied ignorance is the bane of the Church today.
She is still fighting Luther and the presbyter of the sixteenth century,
and fails to realize that they are but windmills and phantoms.
has not made a dent in her beliefs because she blandly ignores science and calls
it "pride of intellect." She closes her eyes and stops her ears
against persuasion and refuses to own that there is anything wrong with herself.
ever to the sunnier side of doubt,
cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith."


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Peace: How Realistic Is It?
Views from Abroad: Tricycle asks four Buddhists—in Croatia, Israel, Britain, and Japan—to weigh in on war and the possibility of peace.
Peace Koan
British Ch"an Buddhist John Crook asks us who the enemy really is.
Is there such a thing as a just war? This is a koan.
Does it make sense to say that violence of any type is unjustified? One-sidedness is never wise.
Some say Buddhism is unrealistic with regard to the realities and necessity of war. Is war inevitable? No, except when stupidity rules.
Is the loss of life, what we call "collateral damage,"' acceptable in order to defend oneself when under attack? Not if it is driven solely by self-concern and neglects reflection on why the enemy is an enemy and who exactly the enemy is. Could it be oneself? Who is the danger to world peacel Do you think any of us are clear about thatl
How realistic is peace? I can only tell you what I think and feel as a practicing Buddhist. Peace can be realistic given the will, insight into an opponent's view, patience, and the power to seek reconciliation. Sadly, I do not believe we are on a path to peace. We seem to have entered a period of cultural decadence not unlike that of the closing years of the Roman Empire, with unrivaled military power concentrated in the hands of one superpower whose shaky economics link to expansionist politics of global domination. This superpower is now faced by a profound resentment, usually political but sometimes violent. Further, among the resentful, there are some now capable of using weapons of mass destruction.
The root source of international anger is the profound hypocrisy of the present U.S. government: Iraq is a rogue state but Israel is not, while both are in contravention of UN resolutions; failure to appreciate the Islamic world's feeling of long-term disrespect while the monstrous actions of Sharon are tolerated; contrasting policies with regard to Iraq and North Korea; the willingness to ignore the delicate structure of the UN, which is the only legitimate authority for a remotely "just" war; and, no doubt, the prevalence of adolescent gestures of imperial exasperation from the White House.
What might be a proper response to all this? The Buddhist response must be one of reflection, not reaction, Reflection looks at process, not the iniquities of others, be they individuals or states. The Middle Eastern process pivots on how the legitimate need for an Israeli state can be balanced against the imposition of an essentially colonial regime in the Arab world.
A Buddhist would tackle the roots of this process by a radical reframing, requiring multilateral understanding, confrontation with prejudice, and a lengthy, patient, and persistent practice of negotiation based not on recrimination but on reconciliation. British experience in northern Ireland is instructive here. Israeli and Western thinkers need to transcend the repeating echoes of the Holocaust. Middle Eastern peace is the key to solving many current problems, possibly that ofIslamic terrorism itself.
There is a story in which a bodhisattva is traveling on a sailing craft from India to Java. One day, far from land, a passenger goes berserk and starts killing people with a great sword. Only the bodhisattva can stop him, but to do so he must kill, a violation of the first precept. Yet it seems he must act if the murderer is not to kill everyone. So he acts: he kills the killer.
It is said the bodhisattva will suffer karmic retribution for this killing, yet because the precept of compassion can outweigh the precept of not killing, the question arises as to whether he was" just" in his response or not. Maybe there were other means available that he did not use? Here lie the roots of a profound koan.
President Bush and Prime Minister Blair claim to be, in a sense, "bodhisattvas" in their expressed desire for peace through war, bur neither one exhausted the means of peacemaking or foresaw that this enemy is hydraheaded, before they acted in contravention of international understanding: the problems can only proliferate.
How would you suggest peace be achieved, then? All of us are forced to contemplate this koan. The unease of the world reveals the inadequacy with which we attempt to answer it and provides one measure of our shameful ignorance.
Originally a biologist, John Crook now studies village and monastic life in the Himalayas and Tibet. He is the first Western dharma heir to Master Sheng-yen.


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Our Agriculture, Food + Natural Resources courses are about the production, processing, marketing, distribution, financing and development of agricultural commodities and resources including food, fiber, wood products, natural resources, horticulture, and other plant and animal products/resources.
The RCC Workforce and Community Development Center offers a non- credit certificate program in the art of cultivating grapes for the production of fine wine – VITICULTURE.
Through classroom instruction and hands-on experiences, you will learn about soil quality, choosing the right grapevines for our area, growing and harvesting grapes, controlling pests and diseases, and much more. You will spend quality time with our instructors in area vineyards learning the skills necessary to start and operate your own successful vineyard.
The Viticulture certificate can be earned in one calendar year by completing nine Saturday classes. And, because all classes in the RCC Viticulture program are repeated annually, you can start the RCC Viticulture program with any class, and take as long as you desire to complete it!
HORT 1114 Dormant Pruning |
This course provides the student with in-class and field experience on the basics of grapevine pruning both for quality and quantity production. Attention will be given to various trellis systems used by Virginia vineyard managers. The student will be introduced to proper pruning tools and specific pruning techniques used to manage vitus vinifera and hybrid vines. Instructor: M. Hollingsworth |
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Saturday | Jan. 10 | 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. | KL + Vineyard | $129 |
HORT 5000 Enology: What Is Wine? |
Wine has been enjoyed for thousands of years. Evidence exists that the Egyptians made wine as early as 2500 B.C., and there are hundreds of references to wine in the Bible. In addition to it being a pleasurable drink in today's society, its significance has been noted throughout the course of human history. Instructor: M. Hollingsworth |
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ServSafe is an industry-recognized program for food service workers. Participants will learn about basic food safety, personal hygiene, cross contamination, allergens, time, temperature, cleaning, sanitation, and more. Instructor: Chef Bright |