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As somebody who is hip-deep in the google ecosystem but prefers iOS to Android, this is good news. From early testing, the search and voice processing crushes Siri, but the lack of system integration hurts it. It is going to take a few days to see how useful the predictive features are and what, if any, impact on the battery they have. Looking forward to a full imore review in a week.
Google Search for iOS gets Google Now! All the great features of Android... locked in one little app
Google Search has just been updated and the big news is, it now includes Google Now! Yes, the card-style informational service, which includes traffic and weather updates, as well as information about sports teams and breaking news. That means iPhone and iPad owners get a taste of the same features Android users having been enjoying in Jelly Bean for almost a year.
Voice remains one of the core elements of Google Search, and works with the new Google Now features so, when Google isn't already serving up what you want, you can simply ask for it. For example, the traffic condition update can give you information on how long your commute will be before you leave for the day.
Unlike stock Android, where Google Now is a core service, on iOS it's locked inside the Google Search app, which limits its scope and convenience. Lack of Push Notification support makes that worse than it might otherwise be.
And, of course, you have to be willing to log into your Google account and give them access to location and other forms of data. That's the price of the virtual assistant. It knows all about you. If you don't want that, you don't get that.
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Google Search for iOS gets Google Now! All the great features of Android... locked in one little app
It's sad that Apple won't allow third-party apps to replace or otherwise seamlessly integrate with system apps. Besides the crowd that fears all things Google, I honestly don't know anyone who would stick with Siri and Apple Maps if they had the ability to fully integrate Google's full suite instead...
I just switched from Android to iOS and those are the two things that frustrate me the most. Siri doesn't do anything for me and Apple Maps sucks. I always have to switch out of Apple Maps and go back to Google.
I'm loving most of iOS, but Apple isn't making it easy to switch.
Google's voice search is faster than Siri since it doesn't poll a remote server for processing, but I personally really like Apple Maps and don't even bother keeping Google Maps on my phone anymore because I like it so much.
but that's what matters to them and that's all they should be concerned about!
I use SIRI for a lot of tasks on my phone (notes, alarms, appointments, reminders, etc. I don´t see how Google Now would help me out there. Apple Maps works fine where I live and it is what I use. It doesn´t have the transit directions so many complain about, but I live outside of the US so there wasn´t any transit directions to be lost anyhow. I actually prefer how Apple Maps works, so for me it is fundamentally better.
SIRI vs Google Now. These services are SO different. Why can´t people see that? They compare only with Web Searches and in that respect Google is superior.
My email is no longer with Google, so Google Now is even less useful.
Re: reminders et al - that is all I use Siri for as well, and that, more than the Home Button shortcut, is more what i meant by lack of system integration hurting Now.
Google Now can set reminders and alarms similar to Siri, at least in Android. Google now has a lot of neat features, but I don't think it's the gigantic thing benefit for Android that everyone makes it out to be. It is neat that it really integrates a lot of Google services, but if you don't use Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Maps, etc, it won't do much for you.
You may not know me personally, but I am not in the "fears all things Google" camp, and, even given a choice, would stick with Siri/Apple Maps. IMO, Apple Maps far outclasses Google Maps, and have had zero complaints with it. To be honest, Apple Maps knows some roads better than Google, in my usage. Roads that have a stream cutting them, that there is no bridge, so unless you have a General Lee, can not get to an address the way Google tells me to. I know other have similar experiences on Apple Maps, so it is up to the individual user.
As far as Siri vs Google Now? I view them as two different approaches. Siri is much more useful, meant to do more for you, vs Google Now being more about Search. I would love for Siri to be better on the search side. For instance, I would prefer to be able to set Siri so that she automatically searches the web if she doesn't have a hook into what I said vs asking me if I would like her to search the web. That bugs me.
And, yes, Google Now voice search is a little snappier than Siri, but I feel that is going straight to one service (Google) to do the parsing and searching vs parsing out the query and then going to the appropriate service.
It is a misconception to say Google goes to one service, one bucket. It is tying together different datasources, just as Siri is; the difference is that it performs its aggregating & dispatching earlier in the chain, so that it is transparent to the user.
True, I have no inside knowledge. I would just assume that Google Now uses Google's indexing, in concert with parsing the voice, vs a more two step process Apple does where it goes to NC, Oregon, etc, then out to Wolfram Alpha, Yelp, etc...
I think we are saying the same thing. Google is speedier due to how it is implemented, and taking advantage of a service it offers that Apple does not.
I think we are too. Google/Now goes to different sources, and aggregates them, for lack of a better term, at compile time, whereas Apple/Siri does it at request time. It's an implementation detail, really, that users should neither know nor care about.
Google's way is undeniably faster; Apple may have chosen late binding because it was the quickest way to market, or maybe Apple has future plans that need the flexibility such an approach could afford, and we (as iOS users) have just not seen that payoff quite yet.
As long as they both keep nipping at each other's heels to improve, I'm ok either way :)
I don't think Apple fears Google, I think lots of people who don't understand how info is gathered DOES - but to be fair, if Google services could replace system services on iPhones, I think 15% would convert. The same amount of people who care on other platforms. Don't forget mom and grandma still use Internet Explorer. It has incredible use for a reason. Most people are too ... unaware, to change. Even my cousin, an intelligent woman of the same age as me couldn't install an app on her iphone because unlike users on here - she cares when it works. And that's all she cares about.
It's actually Google's way of making all of the mined data much more useful for US, not just them.
In exchange for providing Google with marketing data, we now have the ability to use that data to make our own lives easier and more efficient. For those of us who don't live in fear of Google destroying our lives, Google Now is our reward for providing Google with all of our data over the years.
To me, it has become a fair trade. They get random data, and we get the Google Now services. Win-win.
Beginner-tip: You put your information out there, someone is going to use it in a way you disagree with.
I think you have to see what the individual's motivation is as they are using you. Apple is to sell you a thing and google's is to sell you stuff and use you to sell stuff to others. There is a difference. I would say facebook is more trustworthy that Google as I don't have to use facebook at all. It is totally optional. Google search on the other hand is almost an essential service for everyone who uses the internet.
This is actually untrue. Apple uses the data just like Google; to sell advertising.
iAd, has been active and data mining since 2009, and for use by developers since it debuted in 2010. They also collect your data and relay it back to your carrier. There have been numerous articles on here about this and how to disable tracking.
Life-tip: Shouldn't trust any publicly traded company. There goal is to make money. Nothing else.
Buy the product that suits your needs best, but always be skeptical.
Yeah.. And i'm simply saying "not" to trust them. I understood your comment fine.
It does not use geofencing, but it does appear to use location services aggressively enough to affect battery life. Exactly how much - if it is substantial and/or if it is worth the trade-off - is difficult to determine in a couple hours of use, but we can expect lots of comments/reviews in the next week or so.
Between you and Cult of Mac, what give with not having service on the iPhone in the photo in the ariticle? BTW I would like to know how much battery Google Now eats up on Android devices on a daily basis. The location icon is perminate on my iPhone 5 since I turned on location services for Google Search.
Just a hunch, but I would imagine they have phones they use for product testing and things of the like so all of that stuff isn't cluttering up their personal phones.
I'm on android. I use the widget and notifications. I have not noticed it affect my battery negatively at all.
I laugh when I hear people complain about Google mining are data when in fact Apple is doing the exact same thing with IOS and Mac OSX and this is coming from someone that uses both before anyone decides to attack calling me Google fanboy and what not. They both do the same thing neither is less guilty.
It is pretty funny to read these comments and they act like Apple is the poster child lol.. Apple is still a major corp that only cares about making money... Its ignorant to think either company isnt doing it... I dont care if either company looks at my stuff cause I dont keep anything important on here for that reason...
Part of what Google Now does (or should do, not sure how well it works on iOS) is it looks at where you are and brings up useful location based information. This may be restaurants, shows, or nearby public transit routes and departure times. This means that location services will ALWAYS be on. How much this will effect your battery is going to vary on a case by case basis. I saw little to no effect on mine, my girlfriend saw a significant change.
I saw a TON of settings. Went in and shut some things off (Calendar, since I don't use Google Calendar, Transit, since there really isn't much around me).
45 minutes since I was last in the app. iPhone 5 mostly sitting on my desk. Still 100% (on wifi). So the doing nothing test shows no noticeable impact. Out in the wild may be different, since it will be discovering more often, but that is to be expected.
Yes -- mine too. A reboot fixes, however as soon as you go into Google Search it will freeze on again. Really annoying. It seems like locations services are a key part of the Google Now experience, however, if the apps not running, I would think that location services would time out after a while like in other apps. Hopefully there's a new version to fix cuz my battery can't handle always location services always being on!
Well, I just went through all the things you can disable in Google Now on my iPhone and ended up switching off Now. I just realized that either iOS does what I need or my life is too boring for Google Now, lol.
What's with the headline "All the great features of Android... locked in one little app" except that it's not all the features of GoogleNow on Android and is stated right in the article as such. Love iMore but it's just a bit misleading and happens more often than it should.
I'm seeing the GPS arrow not turning off either, which I guess makes sense because otherwise the app can't refresh a location after 10 minutes of inactivity, thereby making the cards stale and in need of refreshing when the app is launched.
Bummer, but I guess I should have expected this had I thought about it beforehand.
The battery life hit won't be inconsequential and it won't be like it was before the app was updated, as the previous version of the app didn't need to use locations services contantly. Another app I installed before, RetailMeKnot, did this also and the battery hit was relevant. Oh well. I will be turning off location based alerts or disabling GoogleNow completely. It's not the same without the persistent alert in the notification bar anyway.
Android is just better for this type of application. That's allowed.
If it can only refresh when you open the app, it defeats the purpose of pushing information to you before you know to ask for it. Of course, since it lacks push notifications on iOS, that part is missing anyways...
Significantly hurt my battery life and with no notifications...not so useful. I entered a few calendar entries to test things out, and there weren't even any in-app notifications letting me know my "meeting" was coming up and I needed to get there asap...I'll try it out the rest of the day, but it looks useless for me.
I use iCloud religiously, for email, calendar entries, contacts etc. for somebody who would have no use for a google account, are their alternatives like google now available for iOS? Or is there a way to sync iCloud with google?
The BEST part of this update: Now you can open the Google Maps APP from Google Search!!!! So I can use a voice search for a place and immediately start navigation. (It used to only open the web app for maps). This is something Siri can do in theory, but it rarely works. Google voice search seems to find places / popular names much better than Siri.
One less thing to miss about Android IMO.
This I exactly one of the reasons why I love my iPhone and the apple ecosystem. Although there are a lot of things which iOS is lacking features wise, or it may not receive other companies still try their darnedest to put their apps and creations onto the iOS ecosystem which only helps to improve it and further it in the long run.
"An app for that" your damn right I have one!!!
Not sure what all the hype is with Google Now. Once you use it you will see it doesn't do anything that special. Everything it does, except those pointless cards is available elsewhere in Android.
Check the weather? Type or speak weather into Google search = Same results, Calender appointments? they pop up in notification bar automatically. Directions and commute info - same results in Google maps. What it does do is Drain the crap put of your battery! and slow down the Google Search app. It probably should be implemented as a separate Launcher app or home screen function, Meaning you unlock the phone and it opens to that, if you want it. When i push Google search , I don't want or need to see all those bothersome useless cards. Yes, you can disable the ones you don't want, but even disabling all but weather and Calender and unchecking the biggest drain (Location info) in Google maps still drains your battery. Google's biggest problem is redundancy, everything Google now does Android already does with or with out it
You're obviously not that mobile with your phone. I've found GN invaluable for travelling anywhere in my car. It tracks both my home and work address from wherever I am and anytime I've run into road problems or found that I had to reroute somewhere I'm not sure about, activating GN was far more convenient for last second route changes or plan changes or a last minute need to know a location on my route than going through maps. Searching and navigating are all integrated in GN much quicker than using one to get to the other.
I am mobile with it everyday. I also know where I live, where I work and where I am at. So having Google now reminding me I am (x) miles from home is pointless. The traffic info is a guesstimate at best and far from real time. You probably don;t like Google Maps / Navigation for the same reason everyone does - It's the same app made difficult by separating it. Which is probably why they kept in one app on iOS. Besides, everything you described happens in Maps / Navigation, Google Now is not re-routing you!. Its a major battery drain on Android and on a phone that avg's 2 to 2.5 hours of actual screen on time (Galaxy Nexus) along with a drain of 5%+/- per hour while in standby, I cant afford to lose anymore Battery life. With that said, I'm sure Apple forced Google into making the app battery neutral before allowing it to be put on the app store.
If you are traveling to new addresses all the time, like visiting new customers, Now is very useful. I also like that when I receive an email with tracking information, Now automatically knows that and provides daily updates on the package tracking. Very slick on Android, very dumbed-down on iOS.
So the email popup you got with the tracking label and a link to USPS etc. wasn't enough notification? As far as the "Going to new addresses all the time" the only way Google now knows this is if you had previously input it into Google maps! Therein lies the problem, Google Now is just a Redundant information source. All Google now is giving you is a notification for info you previously input. Calender, Gmail etc. already do this. With the Google now card, you then have to re-open Maps or navigation to do anything with it. Which is another problem on Android, since they are two separate programs. The route often given is not the route you might want to take. To change this you have to be in navigation, Not Maps, and dig down into the menu. If it was a combined Maps / Navigation Like Google Maps is for iOS. the choice for alternate routes is right on the screen after you input an address. Google Now is nothing more then a redundant, Battery depleting app.
It will also pull an address from a calendar event and tell you ahead of time that you should get going based on expected travel tines, while taking into account current traffic conditions. The tracking card updates itself as new tracking scans happen so I don't have to keep hitting the tracking link and viewing on the shipping website.
As for being a single app, the choice for alternate routes is available in one click. What's the issue? Are you trying to say it's better on ios?
"Are you trying to say it's better on ios?" That's exactly what I am saying, is that unclear?
And No, Alternate routes are not One click. If you are in Navigation already, it is three clicks to see the list of three route options. the first and Two aditional. It you want to avoid highways or Tolls, that's another few clicks. If you are in maps, depending at what page you are at , it is several clicks to get back to navigation to change routes. With in maps all you can do is check or uncheck Tolls or Highways, after a few clicks and it still only gives you ONE route. Enter an address on iOS and you are immediately presented with three routes because Maps and Navigation on iOS are combined. Test it yourself.
PS the traffic is not current on Google maps and getting yet another notification of an upcoming appointment is just redundant as i have said, Calender already does this along with a link to maps if an address is present. I guess I am not as uptight about when a trinket i've ordered is going to be there. When i order something they tell you it will be there in (x) days and it always is. If it isn't an updating tracking label wont correct that, it will just tell you ( approxamately ) where it is. The only thing that will get it to you sooner is the driver delivering it. Which means it will get there when it gets there.
Just a nitpick but I think in the title you probably meant to say "all the great features of Google" instead.
This is amazing on my galaxy note, it tells me everything even if i running late it knows, warns me of traffic jams and weather situations. It tells me when i wake up to take an umbrella. I dont ask one thing to google now, it knows now thats a real assistant not some half baked app assistant we see so often!


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I thought I would share some pics of AK conversions I have done in the past. The SOCOM's were done back in 2002 or so.
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Cobbled up #1 prototype .458 SOCOM.
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I thought I would share some pics of AK conversions I have done in the past. The SOCOM's were done back in 2002 or so.
Tony Rumore
Cobbled up #1 prototype .458 SOCOM.
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nice work. just a small "Q" if you please. what mag and folower (.223/ x39, biy folower) did you use on the .480 socom? I have given a thought or to two on making/converting an ak over to .45 bushmaster or .458 socom but the mag issue keeps getting in the way.
thanks muttman
I just used a standard .223 Bulgarian waffle mag as shown in the pics. I don't recall, but I may have had to lower the very front edge a bit to allow the big-ass bullets to clear as they were stripped out.
Both receivers were milled Firing Line units.
Regarding the .450 Bushmaster, that may prove more difficult to do, since the smaller diameter cartridge body is going to want to stack-and-a-half in a .223 AK magazine. That will side-load the mag body, swell it, and the rounds may bind up after inserting more than a few.
I have plans to build a 50AE AK, but just haven't made time to get it done.
Thanks. I assumed that the .45 bush. Using the ar mag would still work with an ak mag, but all is not lost if the .458 will fit in a .223 ak mag with no mod's. Now all I need is a barrel.
Tony great to see you here. I emailed about 5 years ago about details on the SOCOM. I hope you stick around. I find it weird to see you as a Rookie here when you have done more than most with these. I have followed your work on other sites.
In your opinon what pressures and bolt thrust will the AK handel??? have you ever had one loaded up to the point were the head space ever changed??
I actualy went out and bought a 410 to convert into a 444 thinking it had not been done and was linked to your sight when I propsed it as you had already been there done that. I still plan on one as well a a .41 version. I plan on using rimless case by cutting down 30-06. Im hoping to avoid having to use a shrouded barrel any thought on going away from the shrouded barrel?? Im planing on a 308 style mag instead of a 410 Saiga mag.
Again thanks for posting the picks Id love to hear some performance details of the 375/444 and were did you get dies?? I might go that route instead of a 41/444
there is a link here to a 50 AE BTW done by Willie check it out he did a great job on it.
I am not sure what kind of bolt thrust a standard AK bolt can take, since I have never broken one, but I have tested AR bolts to the breaking point. I built Tromix AR's from 1998 - 2005 in 17 Mach IV, 17 Tactical, 17 Rem, 20 Tactical, 204 Ruger, 223, 6x45, 6PPC, 30/221, 338x39, 357 Automag, 44 Automag, 44 Rem Mag, 440 Corbon Mag, .458 SOCOM, .475 Tremor, and 50AE. I have also done caliber conversions on the Mini-14 .458 SOCOM, Sig 556 .458 SOCOM, AK's in .458 SOCOM, and M1 carbines in both 10mm Magnum and .502 Thunder Sabre. What really elevates the rearward bolt thrust is necking down a cartridge. The more shoulder you have, the more back thrust you are going to get. At one time I had a weak batch of AR bolts and opened four of them up to fit the 50AE case head. I then chambered two uppers in .440 CorBon mag and two in 50AE using those bolts. The two 50AE uppers ran about 400 rounds before the lugs sheared off the bolts. The .440 CB Mag uppers sheared the bolts at round count #1 and #3.
So.....if you take something like a .308 Saiga, you should have no trouble running it in .338 Federal, .358 Winchester, etc, but it may not handle being necked down to 17 caliber or something. Then again, it's all just speculation until you actually pull the trigger on it.
Considering that, if the Saiga .410 bolt can handle the .375/.444, then it should have no trouble with the .41/444. I bought the RCBS .375/.444 dies off a dealer that had them up on E-bay.
Anyone considering a caliber conversion on ANY magazine fed gun, should sort out the magazine FIRST, then work on the rest of the gun.
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P.S. I have a .458 Win Mag Browning BAR Sporter conversion in work now. Should be done shortly.
Thanks for the kudos 1BG. Actually the conversion is in 500 S&W. There are several posts out there on the web. Just search "Saiga 500 S&W conversion". I'm at work now but am packed to go deer/hog hunting directly from work today. I try to take a pic of the "500 & Me" with the Blackberry at lunch and post it this afternoon. Deer season opens tomorrow! Tony you do fantastic work.


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Both heavyweights entered on losing streaks, and both were rumored to be on the proverbial hot seat if either of their losing ways were to continue. Overeem, currently the number nine-ranked heavyweight, nearly finished the 12-year veteran in the first round, but Mir managed to survive the onslaught and regain his bearings.
Already the owner of the most submission victories in the history of the heavyweight division, Mir almost added Overeem's neck to his mantle (next to Big Nog's arm and Brock Lesnar's leg) after nearly locking in a guillotine attempt, but the Dutch fighter was able to escape. After that, Overeem dished out some heavy damage and went on to a unanimous decision, handing Mir his fourth straight defeat.
UFC President Dana White was not impressed.
The former two-time UFC heavyweight champion has been with the promotion since UFC 34, which took place back in 2001. He will turn 35 in May and no matter how you spin it, four losses is four losses, and three is usually the barometer to which the pink slip in the UFC is measured.
Could this loss mean it's the end of the road for Mir?
As far as many being surprised at the fight going the distance, White was among them saying:"It's not a decision we will make tonight," White told MMAmania.com at the post-fight presser (watch it here). "We will get together next week and we will figure out what we want to do."
Mir may get one more chance due to his long-term relationship with the promotion, and the overall lack of depth in the heavyweight division. He can safely be placed on any fight card and garner interest from fans and media for any of his match-ups."It wasn't the fight I expected to see."
Of course, after seeing some of the notable names who have been let go by the UFC this past year, his chances of remaining on the roster seem to be completely up in the air after his UFC 169 loss.


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text: PAINTSVILLE, Ky. A Ridgeview man facing a felony charge after allegedly picking up a 14-year-old girl from a school in Paintsville, Kentucky and bringing her to his home in Boone County appeared in a Kentucky courtroom last week.Robert W. Stringer, 25, from Ridgeview, appeared at the Johnson County Judicial Center in Paintsville, Ky., facing a felony charge of Custodial Interference.Johnson County Circuit Court Judge John Kevin Holbrook set a preliminary hearing date for Stringer for 11 a.m., Wednesday, March 13. Stringer is being represented by a court appointed attorney after posting a $10,000 cash only bond.Stringer was arrested last month by deputies from the Boone County Sheriffs Department after information was received from authorities in the state of Kentucky, according to Boone County Sheriff Randall White.Deputies reported that Stringer was found to be in the company of a 14-year old-female from Paintsville, Ky.Initial investigations point to an online relationship between Stringer and the juvenile female, police said, which resulted in Stringer allegedly traveling to the victim's school and picking her up when school was dismissed without permission of the teen girls parents. The pair then traveled back to Stringer's residence in Ridgeview, according to the police report.Sheriff's Deputies D.J. Cottrell and A.M. Cook are handling the initial investigation in Boone Countys juristdiction. Boone County Chief Deputy Chad White said the department was waiting on the results forensic tests before filing any West Virginia charges against Stringer.It is a very real possibility that we will have criminal charges filed in Boone County in the coming days on Mr. Stringer, said Boone County Sheriff Randall White. The investigation is continuing and we are looking into what sort of violations of the law have been committed here in our county.


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Passmore led the Mocs defense with 42 digs while Melissa Green (Boca Raton, Fla.) collected 32 and Bridget Camacho (Cumming, Ga.) tallied 23. The Chattanooga offense was headed by Lauren Gainer (Boca Raton, Fla.) who gained 17 kills and Julimar Alvarado (San Juan, Puerto Rico) spiked 13 attacks. Both Briana Reid (Houston, Texas) and Kasey Talley (Boiling Springs, S.C.) collected double-digit kills with 11 and 10, respectively.
The Mocs jumped out and shocked the Terriers 25-13 in the first set, recording a match-best 20 kills. UTC hit a match-best .381 hitting percentage in the first frame. Wofford hit just .119 during the first frame. The Terriers pieced together a three-point run near the end of the set, but the Mocs took advantage of a Sarah Batterton (Colbert, Wash.) kill to end the frame.
Chattanooga took a 9-0 lead to begin the second set behind the service of Alvarado. Wofford put together two three-point runs, but the Mocs bested the Terriers with a 25-14 score. Wofford committed a match-worst 11 errors during the frame.
The Terriers fought back after the intermission with back-to-back set wins, 25-19 and 26-24, to force the match to a fifth frame. The Terriers pulled with two points of the Mocs, 8-6, but Chattanooga was able to pull away with two four-point runs to claim the fifth set 15-7 and the match 3-2.
"Our girls executed the game plan to a tee tonight," Head Coach Travis Filar said. "We came out hot and faltered in the second half. Wofford is a great team and they proved it with two set wins after the intermission. Our girls did a great job of holding them off and getting an important win at home."
The Mocs travel to Elon and UNCG next weekend as Southern Conference play continues.


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Now that it's finally 2012, a slew of jokes are sweeping their way across the Internet about the Mayan apocalypse that's supposedly awaiting us at the Winter Solstice of this year. There's just one problem – the Mayans didn't actually predict the end of the world in 2012 at all.
Anthropologist John W. Hoopes, who specializes in the history of the Mesoamerican peoples, has an extensive FAQ about the 2012 myth. I'd encourage you to read it in full, because it's a fascinating account of how some archaeological speculation combined with Western crackpottery to produce a full blown myth about Mayan beliefs that has virtually no evidence to support it.
As Hoopes writes:
There is no clear "prophecy" in the records of the ancient Maya. There is only one known ancient inscription, Monument 6 from the ruined site of Tortuguero (Chiapas, Mexico), that makes reference to the date of 220.127.116.11.0 4 Ajaw 3 K'ank'in, but the text is not very clear because the monument has been damaged. Epigraphers Sven Groenmeyer and Barbara MacLeod think it refers to a future ceremony in which a specific deity would be honored by dressing him in special clothes and perhaps carrying him in a procession. However, this remains a subject of debate. The other Maya "doomsday" prophecies that do exist in documents such as the 18th century Books of Chilam Balam, are difficult to interpret and do not specify 2012. These accounts, as well as the Popol Vuh ("Council Book"), a traditional Creation story of the Maya that refers to the destruction of subsequent worlds, were collected after the Spanish Conquest and may have been influenced by the end-of-the-world beliefs of Franciscan missionaries to the Maya. That is, the "2012 doomsday" beliefs attributed to the Maya are actually Western ideas, not ones that come from ancient Maya beliefs. [...]
Promoters of the 2012 mythology tend to ignore current academic scholarship and the opinions of professional Mayanists (archaeologists, epigraphers, art historians, linguists, etc.) about what ancient Maya people actually believed. Their interpretations are based on outdated and antiquated ideas of the late 19th and early 20th century, ideas that are useful for the construction of mythology and ideology but do not reflect contemporary academic knowledge.
In case this doesn't quite reassure you, I'd also encourage you to check out NASA's FAQ about 2012, which goes into detail explaining why some of the apocalyptic scenarios that have become attached to the year 2012 either (a) won't come to pass or (b) won't have any devastating consequences if they do. The article about fears of a magnetic polar shift, in particular, is really well done. Even if you have no fears of the world ending in 2012, you should check out the NASA FAQ anyway because it has some great scientific info in it.
Probably the most common joke I've seen on Twitter about 2012 is "If the Mayans were good at predicting the future there would still be Mayans." This goes hand in hand with the other myths of the Mayan apocalypse. There are tons of Mayans – about 6 million Mayan speakers – living today. Which is more than probably lived at any other single point in history.
And they are taking full advantage of 2012 to separate clueless Western tourists from their money this year. Good for them!
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Well then, this fight just increased in its interest value.
War Diego!
Well then, this fight just increased in its interest value.
War Diego!
He must have gone 70 % on the weight cut.......
I hope the extra 1.5 lbs does not take a toll on him in the fight. I have been at wrestling matches and I was 2 lbs over and it drained me during my matches.
As much as I would like to see Lawler win the title, I don't want to see this give Hendricks major health problems. There may be only so many times a fighter can cut so much weight to make a certain weight class.
Wow. This is a game changer. Good thing I didnt do my pick ems yet. Hopefully he hydrates and gets over this come fight time
I watched the weigh ins earlier, seen Hendricks miss weight and looked off so I put down $25 on Lawler.
Also put $20 on Deigo just for the hell of it.
No major money down but they are both underdogs.
Lol. He should have shaved that beard.Originally Posted by Qball1974
He looked really rough. Before the GSP fight, I believe he said he walks around at almost 210 - that's a BIG cut, ~19% of your mass. Robbie, on the other hand, looked in great shape and has a very relaxed, positive attitude going in. My money is on Robbie.
I wonder if Johnny was dealing with an injury? He doesn't strike me as the lazy type, and wrestlers usually aren't.
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Light Up Night and Open House in Historic Downtown Elkin was held on Friday outside the Reeves Theatre.
Adults and children alike welcomed the holiday season as a horse-drawn carriage carried passengers on rides, the street buzzed with excitement, children gearing up for their moment with Santa, residents sipping on a cup of hot chocolate.
However, Friday night was about a special moment, the lighting of a tree — a tree that serves as a beacon of hope — and connecting the community together.
Lestine Hutchens, Mayor of Elkin, dazzled the crowd of a couple hundred as she shifted the circuit giving power to the Christmas tree that now illuminates on the theatre.
"This is a joyous occasion for Elkin," said Hutchens. "The street looks beautiful. The support from the community is a reflection of the greatness that lies within Elkin."
The bubbly and popular mayor was seen navigating through the crowd saying hello to everyone. She expressed a unique sentiment for families struggling in tough economic times.
"We know it's tough and not the happiest times for every family, but we're in this together; it's going to be a great new year, and that's my hope," Hutchens told The Tribune.
The event was a significant draw for Elkin on a Friday night with lots of new spectators attending.
"This is my first time ever attending Light Up," said 11-year-old Harper Lee Libbert gleefully.
The Elkin Elementary student was joined by her two friends, Leira Riddle, 10, and Beth Russell, 10. The girls were excited about seeing this year's Light Up buzz, and they were also out to see the dancers.
Santa Claus, played by Dave George of Dave Antiques, was a perfect fit for the Light Up night.
Santa called the children over besides him and led them all in a synchronized rendition of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Some may have thought it was rehearsed, but it wasn't. The children were captivated by George's interpretation of Christmas that even Santa may study George's performance.
During the festivities, residents were treated to a show by the Pam Wurdeman Academy of Dance Arts and Performance dancers, cloggers by Footloose Express. Even Elvis was in the crowd, played by Michael Jones.
Also seen at the event were cheerleaders, and they were pleasantly noisy, and rightfully pointing out that they recently won two competitions earning their way to nationals.
The children were raising funds for the Elk Legacy Cheer team.
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text: Holy moly! Just watched a long highlights video on Jake showing him playing O, D and long snapping. Thought to myself, hell yeah...kid is a lean mean machine out there. Then got to the end of the vid and found out it was his SOPH season. Guy is gonna be a monster for us! Welcome to the 40 acres Jake.


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anyone use the angel monitor thing?
when you swaddle are you supposed to keep their arms in? Carter always gets his out!


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The Social Weapon: Darwinism
The "Evolutionary Psychology" Error
In the wake of The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man, a great many evolutionists began speculating how human social behavior, emotions, judgments and ideas—all attributes of the human spirit—might have been shaped by evolution. According to the most widespread error, if our bodies' appearance and functioning were shaped by evolution, then the behavior our bodies exhibit must have been shaped by evolution, too. Evolutionists, unable to account for how the biological structures in living things came into being, now began inventing tales regarding the so-called evolution of the human soul.
E. O. Wilson and his book Sociobiolo-gy: A New Synthesis
In The Descent of Man Darwin claimed that in the future, evolution would constitute the foundation of psychology, and expressed his illusory claim in these terms:
The first comprehensive initiative to account for the origins of human and animal behavior in evolutionary terms came from Harvard entomologist Edward O. Wilson. Despite the complete failure of Wilson's initiative, it came to be known as "sociobiology."
In Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, published in 1975, Wilson maintained that animal behavior had a completely biological foundation. Basing his error on biological evolution, he thought that particular genes controlled human and animal behavior. His true field of expertise was insects, which he referred to in the first 26 chapters of his book. In the 27th chapter, he attempted to adapt these claims to human beings. His 1978 book Human Nature speculated that human genes were responsible for such behavior as hatred, aggression, xenophobia, amicability, homosexuality and characteristic differences between men and women. None of Wilson's claims went any further than conjecture.
None of the claims made by him and his supporters have ever been backed up by scientific findings. On the contrary, all scientific data have shown that his ideas are utterly mistaken.
Another of Wilson's unscientific claims is that living things are nothing more than gene carriers, and that their most important responsibility is to transmit those genes to subsequent generations. In his view, evolution is actually the evolution of genes. In his book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, he expresses this unscientific claim thus:
Wilson's claims were solely the result of evolutionist preconceptions. Even among evolutionists, some objected to Wilson's conjecture. One of them was Stephen Jay Gould:
With the evolutionist zoologist Richard Dawkins, evolutionist speculation concerning human behavior that began with Wilson reached an unbelievable and illogical peak.
Dawkins and Selfish-Gene Bearing Robots
As a result of the unscientific claims made about genes by sociobiology and its extension, evolutionary psychology, the "selfish gene" deception was put forward and popularized by Richard Dawkins.
According to him, a living thing's most important objective is survival and reproduction—in short, protecting its genes and passing them on to subsequent generations. This claim is entirely speculation.
Violence and aggression are not a legacy inherited from man's alleged animal ancestors and encoded in our genes. Rather, they are results of the poor moral
According to this conjecture of the theory of evolution, inanimate chemical substances at one time organized themselves (however that actually happened), and established a DNA-based system capable of reproducing itself. The first organism to emerge from this imaginary chemical soup was a gene with no purpose other than to multiply. Somehow, it "decided" to copy itself, and began doing so, producing new genes. As a result of errors during this copying process, genes with different features emerged. Later, these genetic materials "learned" in some way how to constitute various bodies and thus reproduce these genetic materials more effectively. The genes that encoded the best body were thus copied more effectively than others. Evolutionists maintain that as a result of this, the how and why of which they can't account for, bodies gradually developed in terms of form and function. This story, which could not possibly have taken place, constitutes one of the fundamental claims of modern Darwinism. Yet evolutionists are also perfectly well aware that it is impossible for the human body, any organ in it, the cells that comprise such organs, or even a single component of these cells to have brought itself into being.
Dawkins, however, took this myth as his starting point and claimed that there is "competition" between genes. He set out his distorted view of humanity in his book The Selfish Gene:
According to Dawkins' illogical claim, a human being is simply a gene-bearing robot. Its only reason for existence is to multiply the genes it bears, support them in competition with other genes, and to pass them on to subsequent generations. It is evident that this claim, ignoring the existence of the soul and regarding the human being as a mechanical device, lacks any realistic aspect.
Nonetheless, the majority of evolutionists seeking a materialist explanation have supported this unscientific theory of Dawkins'. In his book Human Nature, Wilson maintains that human beings acquire importance and purpose only through their genes:
According to this materialistic belief with no scientific foundation, if the continuation of genes is the only aim, then the human beings responsible for protecting them must be as selfish and ruthless as possible in the interests of their genes. According to Dawkins and his supporters, "selfish" genes will be victorious in that competition. In The Selfish Gene, Dawkins summarizes this perverted Darwinist viewpoint:
Nature does not consist solely of a fight to the death. Many living things display exceedingly altruistic behavior, both towards their own young and towards others.
According to Dawkins' ignorance, since the genes borne by human beings are selfish, man must be selfish, too. That being so, "selfish robots" can be expected to resort to any measures in order to protect and preserve their genes. There is no longer any reason not to commit murder, theft or rape. One cannot expect "selfish machines" to obey any moral law, or to behave in a conscientious, ethical way. Under these circumstances, the killing of one human being is not a crime or immoral, but a genetic compulsion to further one's own interests. Since genes are selfish, so is their behavior. Dawkins' view of human beings is exceptionally dangerous and implies the fragmentation of social morality.
In fact, however, the selfish gene claim is illogical and nonsensical, since Dawkins and others like him describe genes as entities with consciousness and willpower. Yet genes are long chains of DNA—spiral ladders of nucleic acids held together by sugar and phosphate strands. In the same way that H2O (water)or H2SO4 (sulfuric acid) are molecules, so is DNA a molecule. In the same way that it is impossible to speak of "selfish water," "selfish salt" or "jealous sulfuric acid," neither can one speak of "selfish genes."
Evolutionists depict human beings as collections of matter, and somehow try to ascribe reasoning somewhere within that assortment. That they can ascribe reasoning and consciousness to genes shows how inconsistent the theory of evolution has become. Today, Darwinism maintains that there is reason and consciousness in molecules, and in the inanimate atoms that comprise these molecules, and has replaced the paganism that ascribed reason and consciousness to idols of stone or wood.
Another Dilemma for Evolution: Altruistic "Genes"
According to the theory of evolution, in nature there is a struggle to death in which only the strong survive. However, it can be observed that living things generally help one another, make sacrifices for each other, and even risk their lives for the benefit of others. To account for this fact, which is totally at odds with the theory of evolution's basic claim, Wilson proposed a number of groundless hypotheses which statements went on to form the basis of sociobiology. Wilson based his explanations on another deception: W. D. Hamilton's "kin selection," according to which a living thing protecting its young or another member of the group is not engaging in altruistic behavior, but is actually protecting its own "selfish genes." Since the objective is to pass on its genes to subsequent generations, and since a mother's genes exist in her offspring, then a mother defending her offspring at the cost of her own life is effectively defending her own genes. In other words, selfishness actually underpins her self-sacrifice!
Mothers make sacrifices for their children not, as evolutionists would have us believe, to protect their genes, but out of feelings of love, affection and protectiveness.
This is a most nonsensical claim! First and foremost, no animal in nature possesses awareness of its own genes, and therefore can't feel motivated to protect them. In addition, it can't know that its genes are also present in its offspring or cousins, and so it has no reason to sacrifice its life for them. It is impossible for genes—unconscious chains of molecules—to direct a living thing in this way.
Moreover, there are many instances in nature of animals assisting not just those of their own species that bear their own genes, but others as well. Evolutionists cannot explain this, because the idea that a creature engaging in altruistic behavior is actually protecting its own genes is totally nonsensical.
Neither is the evolutionists' quandary resolved by claiming that the urge to protect its young is encoded in the genetic structure of living things, because then the question arises of how such complex behavior was encoded in the genes in the first place. The theory of evolution can't explain how even a single gene might have come into existence through coincidences, so it's impossible for it to explain how information encoded in the genes could have come into being by chance. Every piece of information encoded in the genes is the creation of God, the Lord of infinite knowledge and wisdom.
Sociobiologists seek to apply the same claim about animals' altruistic behavior to human beings. In other words, when a mother protects her child from danger without a moment's hesitation, she is actually concerned over protecting her genes. Evolutionists' rejection of attributes belonging to the human soul and their attempts to account for such phenomena in terms of evolution are based on no scientific evidence whatsoever. With their illogical claims, evolutionists disregard the human consciousness and conscience. The fact remains that a human being is possessed of a soul and the capacities for reasoned thought and judgment, and can distinguish between right and wrong. When a mother makes a sacrifice for her child, she does so because she loves that child, feels affection and compassion for him, and makes that sacrifice because she sees him as weak and assumes the responsibility of protecting him. When her child is in pain, for instance, she puts herself in the child's position and will be prepared to make any sacrifice to relieve his pain. These are attributes that a robot or "gene bearing machine," so beloved of evolutionists, can never possess.
In fact, evolutionists are well aware that evolution can never account for attributes belonging to the human soul. For example, the evolutionist Robert Wallace says the following in his book The Genesis Factor:
Wallace stresses a point of the greatest importance. According to evolutionists' unrealistic definition, a human being is merely a machine bearing genes. It's thus impossible for such an entity to take pleasure from music, enjoy watching a film or even to produce one, to read or write books, to learn what has been read, or to exchange ideas. Human beings are clearly very different from how evolutionists portray them, and everyone can see the proof of this in themselves. Evolutionists' unscientific claims can never answer the questions of how a human being, with a capacity for deep thought and feeling emotions and enjoyment, came into being, and what was the origin of those characteristics.
Baby Killings: A Barbarity Supported By Evolutionary Psychology
In 1996-1997 the newspapers reported two shocking cases of baby killings. In the first, two 18-year-old college students brought a child into the world in a hotel room, killed it, and threw the body into a dumpster. In the other, an 18-year-old girl left her school prom and gave birth in a bathroom stall, left the dead child in a garbage can and returned to the dance hall. Both cases resulted in murder charges.
While most people ascribed these events to moral collapse or mental disturbance, Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, offered a terrifying explanation: genetic compulsion. In his article published in the New York Times, Pinker claimed that killing a baby on the day it was born did not represent a mental illness because this had been an accepted practice in many cultures throughout history:
The most striking part of Pinker's quotation is the expression "but normal human motives are not always moral." This reveals an abnormality in his way of looking at things. In other words, even if some behavior is immoral, it can still be regarded as legitimate because it is part of "normal" motives particular to human beings. According to Pinker, the killing of a newborn baby when circumstances make that necessary is allegedly "normal" behavior. According to evolutionists' fictitious claims, mothers under primitive conditions need to make a difficult choice between caring for their already existing offspring and feeding newborn ones. Therefore, if a baby is born sick or is unlikely to survive, then she may prefer to try again by eliminating that individual. This assumption is neither scientific nor true, of course. Nevertheless, a Darwinist mindset propels Pinker to endorse this savagery.
This claim proposed by Pinker and others like him will do obvious damage to society. When the concept of genetic compulsion is advanced in moral choices, then someone who commits murder can say, "I had to do it—my genes made me." In such a case, since genes cannot be punished, there is no crime and no criminal. In his claims, Pinker is discounting human reason and conscience, imagining that everything can be explained in terms of genes. Encountering a reaction from society, he makes a few changes to his terminology, but this time finds himself in an internal inconsistency.
Pinker is able to defend the claims in question despite their resting on absolutely no scientific evidence. One of the criticisms of Pinker's claims is that they consist of nothing more than conjecture based on evolutionists' illusory world views. Ferguson, for example, criticized Pinker's logic and stated that he offered no evidence for his claims. The fact is, all of evolutionary psychology is based on proofless conjecture and the power of the imagination. In his book The Wedge of Truth, Phillip Johnson says:
Ferguson makes this diagnosis on the subject in his criticism:
1. Steven Pinker, "Why They Kill Their Newborns," New York Times, 2 November 1997.
2. Andrew Ferguson, "How Steven Pinker's Mind Works", The Weekly Standard, January 12, 1998, p. 16.
3. Philip Johnson, The Wedge of Truth, Intervarsity Press, Illinois, 2000, p. 113.
4. Andrew Ferguson, "How Steven Pinker's Mind Works," The Weekly Standard, p. 16.
The Collapse of Genetic Determinism
... the handiwork of God Who perfects all things... (Surat an-Naml, 88)
With the sequencing and analysis of the human genome, the view became widespread that DNA possessed tremendous power and that genes played an enormous role in determining who we really are. Almost every day, newspapers featured articles suggesting that we are under the control of our own genes: "Scientists Target Genius Gene," "Kennedy Tragedies Put Down to Risk Taking Gene," "Scientists Say Research on Male Siblings Proves the Existence of a 'Homosexual Gene.'" Reports about genes controlling everything from schizophrenia to jealousy, from alcoholism to television watching habits, appeared in scientific and non-scientific journals.
People reading all these headlines thought that all kinds of attributes, from intelligence to character, from success to failure, were encoded in the human genome; and some people began believing, erroneously, that our lives could be boiled down to a formula.
Research into the human genome is exceedingly valuable, and studies on human genetic structure have yielded important information about a number of diseases. However, as those running the Human Genome Project and scientists involved in the field have clearly stated, this in no way justifies loading unrealistic functions onto the genes. Research reveals that human genes play so small a role in character, behavior and thinking as to be insignificant. In an article titled, "The Human Genome Map: The Death of Genetic Determinism and Beyond," Mae-Wan Ho of the Institute of Science in Society, says the following:
Francis S. Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, makes it clear that genes are not what makes human beings human. In an article titled "Heredity and Humanity:Have No Fear. Genes Aren't Everything," Collins says:
You who believe! Enter Islam totally... (Surat al-Baqara, 208)
In the same article, Collins states that genes have no major effect on human behavior. He explains how looking at a criminal's genes to see if this person has a genetic predisposition to crime and determining a punishment in that light could lead to unjust outcomes:
In his article, Collins describes the illogicality of claiming that behavior is encoded in the genes with a quotation from the biologist Johnjoe McFadden:
They will ask you about the Spirit. Say: "The Spirit is by command of my Lord. You have only been given a little knowledge." (Surat al-Isra', 85)
Collins devotes the end of his article to illuminating another reason why human attributes cannot stem from their DNA, and draws attention to God's superior creation:
God does not forgive anything being associated with Him but He forgives whoever He wills for anything other than that. Anyone who associates something with God has gone very far astray. (Surat an-Nisa', 116)
As Collins noted, chains of molecules consisting of carbon-hydrogen-nitrogen-oxygen compounds cannot possibly endow a person with such feelings as love, devotion, taking pleasure from art, rejoicing, maternal emotions, desire or self-sacrifice. If the soul is discounted, a human being is nothing more than flesh and bone. The genes, which are themselves material entities, do not permit this assembly of flesh and bone to think, make mathematical calculations, enjoy the food it consumes, miss a friend it has not seen for a long time, or take pleasure in something beautiful. A human being is an entity created by God, very different and separate from the body, its brain and cells and genes. It is revealed in the Qur'an that a human being is an entity with a soul given by God:
He Who has created all things in the best possible way. He commenced the creation of man from clay; then produced his seed from an extract of base fluid; then formed him and breathed His Spirit into him and gave you hearing, sight and hearts. What little thanks you show! (Surat as- Sajda, 7-9)
The human soul is breathed into man by God. Evolutionist materialists, unwilling to accept the existence of God and that human beings possess metaphysical characteristics, seek to keep spreading the lie that everything is encoded in the genes—which obviously cannot create the human soul, though evolutionists blindly ignore this.
Actually, this distorted belief is by no means new. Throughout history, it has been known under the name of paganism. In the same way that the ancients made idols out of wood and then claimed that these were their deities, the theory of evolution maintains that genes are the purpose and creator of everything. (Surely God is beyond that!) This primitive and dogmatic point of view, which was hoped to provide a basis for the theory of evolution, has been invalidated by scientific findings. Even Collins, who led the historic research into genes, openly states that genes actually have no power, and that human beings are metaphysical entities.
Paganism, ascribing divine status to material entities with no power of their own, is a tradition that has persisted down the ages and, in the present day, is maintained by the evolutionist mindset. In the Qur'an, God reveals this about those who ascribe divine status to entities devoid of any power:
But they have adopted deities apart from Him which do not create anything but are themselves created. They have no power to harm or help themselves. They have no power over death or life or resurrection. (Surat al-Furqan, 3)
In another verse, God reveals the following regarding this belief's perverted nature:
Say: "Call on those you make claims for apart from Him. They possess no power to remove any harm from you or to change anything." (Surat al-Isra', 56)
God's commandment to anyone of reason is this:
Do not call on something besides God which can neither help nor harm you. If you do, you will then be wrongdoers. (Surah Yunus, 106)
180. Barbara Burke, "Infanticide," Science 84, May 1984, p. 29.


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