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April 24, 2013: Afternoon News In 90
By Grier Ferguson on April 24th, 2013 | Last updated: April 24, 2013 at 4:08 pm
A video round-up of local, state and national stories for readers in North Central Florida.
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By Leah Harding on April 19th, 2013 | Last updated: April 19, 2013 at 6:29 pm
Officials are searching for the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings that took place earlier this week. The two brothers, one dead, who are suspected of the crime are said to be from Chechnya, a controlled state of Russia. Two experts from the University of Florida discuss what this background means to the investigation.


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Your guide to the best winter gloves for cycling to keep your hands warm and dry
If it's cold out your fingers will feel it first. Here's what to look for in a winter glove + 10 of the best
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Hands have a hard time on winter rides. They're stuck out in front of you with nothing much to do beyond braking and shifting, spending long periods of time largely still but bearing the brunt of cold winds, not to mention rain and spray. It's no wonder that they tend to get cold. Good gloves are a must for comfortable winter riding – here's what to look for.
What to look for
The goal of winter gloves is to keep your hands warm. Fighting back against the cold is a two-pronged attack. First your gloves need to keep potentially chilling outside factors out, which essentially means wind and rain. Second they need to prevent heat escaping.
You'll find the usual range of wind- and waterproof fabrics on offer in the glove market, including Gore-Tex and other waterproof/breathable fabrics. Much as with jackets, windproof fabrics with water-resistant coatings are becoming more popular thanks to lower bulk and a softer feel. Gloves often have reinforced areas of heavier-duty fabric at key points – between thumb and forefinger, on the palm, at the fingertips. Inside, some form of synthetic insulating fabric is the norm, although you'll also find natural materials like Merino wool and silk.
Winter gloves present a particular challenge to designers. Layers of insulation and heavy-duty waterproof fabrics tend to be bulky, but gloves have to permit you enough finger mobility to shift and change gear. These demands mean that glove shape is more critical on a winter glove – there's more fabric to potentially bunch up.
Full winter gloves generally have long cuffs to make sure there are no gaps before your jersey or jacket sleeves arrive. Have a think about how well these are going to work with the tops you're likely to be wearing – ideally they'll be generous enough to fit over snug-fitting jersey sleeves but sufficiently low-profile to tuck neatly inside jacket sleeves.
Many winter gloves have insulated liners that are only stitched in at the cuff. This is handy when you want to turn them inside out to dry but can be annoying when the whole thing prolapses out of the glove when you take your hand out and then has to be persuaded back in – potentially tricky if it stuck to your hand enough to come out in the first place.
Adjustable Velcro cuffs are pretty much de rigeur with gloves, and full-on long-cuffed winter gloves will often have adjustable drawcords at the base of the cuffs too. These can be useful (pull in for extra snugness, let out for ventilation) but can get tangled up with jacket sleeves. You'll often find gloves that concentrate insulation and weatherproofing on the back and keep the palm thin.
This works well for dexterity. Most manufacturers have their own variant on ergonomically-designed padding, with pads positioned to align with common pressure points. Watch out for gloves designed for flat bars, though – different bits of your hands take the weight on drops and you can find that what would be a useful pad on flats becomes a slightly annoying lump on drops.
Choosing gloves: Things to consider
How wintery is my winter?
Even if we're just looking at the UK, winter varies quite a lot. On any given day the weather in Banff is likely to be somewhat different to that in Bournemouth. But even in one place the British winter is not a consistent beast. While some parts of the world will reliably deliver many weeks of sub-zero temperatures, in the UK it could be wind and driving rain, or precipitation-free but frosty, or actually quite moderate. Have a good think about the conditions that you're going to be riding in – across a lot of the country you can get away with surprisingly lightly-insulated gloves for quite a lot of the winter.
How warm are my hands?
Not all extremities are created equal. Some people are naturally warmer than others and this is particularly noticeable when it comes to hands and feet. For a given ambient temperature and degree of exertion one rider might be happy in thin, lightly-insulated full finger gloves while another is going numb in thick Arctic explorer gauntlets.
Only you know how much the cold gets to you, and this will inform your glove choice. If you run hot then you'll be wanting to go for less insulation and better breathability, while the cold-fingered will be able to sacrifice breathability for the sake of warmth. Keeping the wind out is always a good idea, though.
How many gloves am I willing to buy?
Given the huge variation in what constitutes "winter", it's easy to end up with a whole bunch of slightly different gloves and the associated decision-making headache every time you want to go for a ride. Some people revel in having just the right bit of kit for all occasions – if that's you then feel free to go crazy. If you prefer to keep your gear cupboard under some sort of control, though, then think carefully about the range of conditions that you're actually going to be riding in, look at what you've already got and then see what's out there that'll cover the rest. There's a fair chance that a single pair of gloves will do the job.
A feast of fingers
There's a lot of choice in gloves. Here's a look at the full spectrum:
Thin or liner gloves
If it's merely a bit chilly out, you may need no more than a full-fingered summer-weight glove – it's amazing how much difference just covering your fingertips can make. Moving a step beyond that is a whole range of thin, lightweight insulated gloves that typically lack much in the way of weatherproofing but will keep fingers warmer than summer gloves in autumn or spring conditions.
While some thin gloves feature closely-woven fabric and a water-resistant coating to extend their capabilities, usually they're overfaced by strong winds and proper rain. But they're useful things to have in your glove armoury for less chilly days. Some gloves can double as (or are marketed specifically as) an extra insulating layer under a wind- or waterproof pair. If you're looking for gloves to do only this job, the thinner the better – silk is a good option.
Windproof gloves
The advantage of windproof gloves over fully waterproof ones is that they usually breathe a bit better, keeping your hands from getting all clammy. They're also often less bulky and with a softer feel than full waterproof gloves.
The obvious disadvantage is that rain can get in, although most windproof gloves have a water-resistant coating that keeps rain at bay up to a point. A good choice for cold but dry days, and the naturally warm-handed will benefit from the better breathability.
Waterproof gloves
Waterproof gloves come with varying amounts of insulation, with that being a trade-off between warmth and bulk.
Many riders will find that keeping wind and water out means that they can get away with less insulation, while others will need all the help they can get. Bear in mind that you can always boost the warmth of gloves by adding liners, but it's usually trickier to cool them down.
Two-part gloves
Two-part gloves are exactly what they sound like, with an outer shell glove to ward off wind and rain and an inner liner glove contributing thermal insulation.
You can of course assemble a glove "system" like this from separate bits, but an off-the-shelf two-part glove will have components that are designed to work together – you can be sure that there'll be enough room inside the shell for the liner and that the shapes of the two layers are complementary.
Two-part gloves are a great, versatile choice but if you're a warm-handed person then you may be paying for extra insulation that you'll rarely need.
10 gloves from the road.cc review archives
Now you know what to look for, and hopefully you have a clearer idea of what type of glove is right for you, here are 10 gloves from the reviews archive.
DeFeet Duragloves £13.99
DeFeet's Duragloves are simple, hardwearing gloves with a good amount of grip, for those days when it's not cold enough to need a windproof option.
Galibier Roubaix Vision Gloves £14.00
The Galibier Roubaix Vision gloves fill that gap in your cycling wardrobe between winter gloves and short fingered mitts, around the 8-15°C range for me.
Giro DND Junior Gloves £14.99
These bright and cheery DND Junior full finger gloves from Giro are super-comfy and as technically competent as their adult parents. Read the full review here.
BTwin Warm Gloves 5 £19.99
Sport superstore chain Decathlon – B'Twin is a Decathlon brand – has a big range of cycling gloves, available in store or on line. The 'Warm Gloves 5' are cold weather gloves are good for cold days but not full-on-winter as, which for a lot of the time is perfect.
Altura Thermastretch gloves £24.99
Altura's Thermostretch gloves take a simplified approach to winter hand protection. Made from a single material - neoprene - and with no layering, they a worthy addition to your wardrobe.
Castelli Prima Gloves £25.00
Castelli's Prima gloves are a grippy option for spring/autumn and you can operate all kinds of touchscreen with them.The gloves are made from Coolmax polyester with long cuffs to keep your wrists draught-free. They're fairly warm but not windproof.
Craft Siberian glove £34.00
The Craft Siberians are well-made mid-weight gloves that provide decent warmth without being too bulky. Read the full review here.
GripGrab Urban Softshell Gloves £39.95
Very warm and very well made winter gloves from a company specialising in cold weather clothing, and these are ideal for daily commuting as they're hard-wearing and very comfortable, with good warmth for the coldest winter mornings. Read the review here.
Gore Bike Wear Women's Power Windstopper Softshell Gloves £39.99
These female specific cool weather gloves are aimed squarely at demanding women riders looking for long ride comfort in inclement conditions, but the Gore Bike Wear Power Windstopper Softshell Lady Gloves come without the full-on weather protection of the Countdown Gore-Tex or the extra warmth of some of the higher end unisex/men's gloves. Read the full review here.
Showers Pass Men's Crosspoint Softshell WP gloves £58.00
Showers Pass Crosspoint Softshell WP gloves will keep your hands dry and toasty even in a hard winter, but if it's mild they might be a shade too warm.


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If your skin is oily, go with a powder blush formula. And in terms of how to apply it, a good old-fashioned blush brush is the way to go.
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"If you want it to really have staying power, I suggest wearing a cream and a powder," McCarthy says. "That's a really great tip for brides." But to avoid caking or blotching, just be sure to layer in this order: cream (or stain) first and powder second.
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Matt's Favorites: More Mars Water Discoveries, Another Retail Data Breach, And Much More
So how's everybody doing in the snow globe that is Michigan on this fine frigid Monday? Another polar vortex headed our way, so warm up with these fascinating bits of technology and science…
* NASA's decade-old Mars rover, Opportunity, has found evidence that life-friendly fresh water once pooled on the red planet's surface, reinforcing similar discoveries made by newcomer Curiosity on the other side of the planet, scientists said last week. Opportunity, along with its now-defunct twin, Spirit, landed 10 years ago for concurrent 90-day missions to look for clues of the past existence of water.
* If you plopped down the plastic at arts and crafts store Michaels recently, you might want to check your statement. The company said Saturday that it was investigating a potential payment-card security breach, a la those that affected Target and Neiman Marcus.
* The New Madrid fault zone in the nation's midsection is active and could spawn future large earthquakes, scientists reported last week. It's "not dead yet," said U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Susan Hough, who was part of the study published online by the journal Science. (Although thankfully, it's far enough from Michigan that the effects here probably wouldn't be serious.)
* A man in Olathe, Kan. can't bear the thought of living without his Xbox, so he risked his life to run back into his burning home to retrieve it.
* Apple already lets users buy music, books, and apps through an iTunes account. But the tech giant has plans to expand its mobile-payment efforts, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Citing anonymous sources, the report says Apple is exploring moving beyond the realm of digital goods and letting users pay for physical goods and services — such as clothes or a taxi ride — with an iTunes account.
* Gmail experienced a brief outage on Friday. Service for the social network Google+, including Hangouts, were also affected. According to Reuters, the services were unavailable in India, Britain and the United States. Users attempting to sign into Gmail were greeted with an error message.
* Also, Google has repaired a bug that automatically filled in an e-mail address in Gmail when accessed from the Google Search results page. The bug had been plaguing the unlucky e-mail account owners since at least Monday, when the bug was first reported.
* Kids who regularly plugged into social networking sites before bedtime reported sleeping nearly an hour less on school nights than those who rarely connected online, a new study shows. "Using technology in the bedroom may result in sleep loss, delays in initiating sleep, daytime sleepiness and more," the study's lead author, Teresa Arora, told Reuters Health in an email.
* Google and Samsung on Sunday unveiled a broad, long-term cross-licensing deal that will cover their existing patents as well as those filed over the next 10 years. The two companies provided essentially no details about the terms of the deal or what patents and technologies its covers, only saying that it's "mutually beneficial." However, they did take veiled shots at Apple, stressing how two big companies can work together to avoid litigation.
* Any negotiations with Edward Snowden regarding his return to the US would require guarantees of amnesty, his legal adviser said Sunday. Jesselyn Radack told NBC's "Meet The Press" that the former NSA contractor would be willing to enter negotiations with Attorney General Eric Holder about returning to the US but would need assurances that he would not face prosecution for leaking confidential documents detailing the NSA's surveillance programs. Holder said Thursday that the US would be open to negotiations but that granting amnesty "would be going too far."
* A proposal from San Jose, Calif., City Councilman San Liccardo asks for citizens to donate their own home security systems for the greater good. As the San Jose Mercury News reports, all the citizens would have to do is to register their home security cameras with the local police. In the event of a local incident of any kind, the police would be able to remotely access the video feed and view everything the home security camera captured.
* Like the millions of people tuning in during the Super Bowl, Michele White will be glued to her monitor. But unlike everyone else, the big game won't be on her screen. Instead, White, the head of network operations and engineering in the New York metropolitan region for Verizon Wireless, will be staring at and stressing over something else altogether: the status of her network's ability to handle the estimated 82,000 people who will be in attendance at the game.
* During the recent cold snap, New England utilities turned to an unconventional fuel to generate electricity: jet fuel. Guess that means they were just sort of indirectly running the world's largest kerosene heater?
* Here's a look at some of the technology you can use to track flu season. Including the unfortunate fact that thousands of Americans each year indeed die of it.
* A team of researchers at Virginia Tech University have developed a battery with energy density an order of magnitude higher than lithium-ion batteries, while being almost endlessly rechargeable and biodegradable as well – because it's made of sugar.
* Tell me again how great "free trade" with China is. The Tesla Model S just went on sale there, but at a price of $121,000, not the $79,000 it sells for in the United States, mostly because of duties China imposes on imported cars to protect its auto industry. Hmmmmm.


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This sack ditches the doodads in favor of simplicity.
Air valves make a compression sack bulky and hard to handle, so the geniuses at Outdoor Research came up with a better way. Instead of valves, the AirPurge Dry Compression Sack uses a section of air-permeable fabric that allows air to evacuate from the inside out without letting water from the outside in. All you have to do is fill this compression sack with gear, close it, and cinch it down until all the air escapes from inside. Your gear takes on a nice, compact form and it's protected from rain at camp or a torrential downpour on the trail.
- Nylon shell is durable and lightweight
- Air-permeable nylon band at the bottom of the pack allows air to escape from inside so you can get full compression, but it doesn't allow water from the outside to sneak in
- Full seam-taping ensures that water can't leak in where two materials come together
- Top closure rolls down and clips together forming a waterproof seal that's secure and dead simple to achieve
- Four compression sacks help you fully evacuate air from inside this sack and get the compression sack down to its most compact form
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good compression sack
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I use this for my 4 part sleep system mummy bag. It works great, doesnt add a lot of weight and has held up well.
Compression Strap Tore in the Field
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Was looking to save some room in my pack by compressing my sleeping bag, but when I went to sinch the straps, the bag tore at the seams. Will stick with sea-to-summit here on out. I should have never strayed. I was a little suspect of the durability of the product before use...light weight but cheap! Mouth was plenty wide for a down sleeping bag.
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That is unfortunate. Send it back for another, it sounds to me like a rare defect. I have used one of these for years and never had anything rip or tear. Super water proof for a compression sac
I love technology like this.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Air goes out and water stays out. Awesome stuff. I've got a slew of different sizes used to stuff sleeping bags and some clothes just in case. Take your time working the compression straps and it works perfectly. Act a fool and pull on them all crazy without doing a nice job and I can see why some could become frustrate. Do it right the first time. Didn't the teacher with the paste say that?
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Tough to Stuff the L and XL
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
We brought these on a trip this spring and the small opening at the top of the stuff sack makes it very difficult to stuff larger items in there such as a tent fly, even though we had the xl size. Compared to my Sea To Summit eVent sack this gave us trouble every time we had to use it. Definitely waterproof and durable just wish the opening at the top was wider and the bag itself . It did work out awesome in the S size for extra layers just would not try to get an XL again and put big items like a sleeping bag in it.
I've used both the sea-to-summit sack and also this OR sack. I have the XL and i have no problems stuffing my 0 degree mummy long in there. I honestly didn't notice if the opening was smaller, it didn't seem to be an issue.
Great stuff sack performance
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I have used this in various ways since i bought it a little over a month ago it has been in a kayak,backpack, trunk of a car and roof box. The material seems thin and easily ripable but it hasn't yet and if it was going to it would have with my abuse. really light great compression whats not to love. I have both this and the Sea to Summit e-vent and both are good however the Sea to Summit is easier to use in the beginning with compression system around the outside however I found that I haven't touched it in over a month
I never used the air tight compression sacks, I always used just a "how tight can you pull the straps?" sack. I borrowed a buddies Sea to Summit sack and I was sold on that style, when I went to purchase it, it wasnt available in the size i needed for my 0degree mummy. Purchased the OR sack instead and I couldn't be happier. from now on, its the only way to pack my sleeping bags. you will be amazed at the compression ability of these sacks. They squeeze out all the air, then you roll and buckle the top to basically vacuum seal your sleeping bag. it seriously cut my stuff sack size by at least 25% over my old slumber jack stuff sack.


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Faith without Caricature?
Reviewed by Raymond Takashi Swenson
Mormon America seeks to be a general introduction to all aspects of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the perspective of two "conventional Protestants":
A candid but nonpolemical overview written for non-Mormons and Mormons alike, focusing on what is distinctive and culturally significant about this growing American movement. If we have succeeded, the outsiders will find some fascinating information and want to learn even more. And the insiders will see themselves portrayed fairly while learning some things they would not have known otherwise. (p. xi)
In other words, the authors believe they know more than most members of the Church of Jesus Christ do about certain aspects of the church, particularly its governance, its history, and its doctrines. This "more intellectual than thou" attitude is pervasive throughout the body of this work.
Richard Ostling is currently a religion writer for the Associated Press; he was writing for Time when he coauthored the 4 August 1997 cover story "Mormons, Inc.," in which he tried to estimate the church's revenues. That analysis is updated here in a chapter of the same title (p. 113). He holds master's degrees in both journalism and religion. His wife, Joan Ostling, is the author of a comprehensive bibliography of books by and about C. S. Lewis, has master's degrees in English and political science, and has also worked as a journalist. Although this fact does not appear in their book, a review essay by Richard John Neuhaus, editor in chief of the journal First Things, notes that his good friends the Ostlings are evangelical Christians.[1]
Mormon America is very much like two books in one. The first depicts individual Latter-day Saints "as a model minority, a hardworking people with more education than the American average, deeply committed to church and family" (p. xxiv). When the authors describe ordinary living Latter-day Saints, the picture comes across as factual, reportorial, and free of polemical bias, although their portrayal does not provide any deep insight into the personal beliefs of their subjects or the role that scripture study, prayer, and the witness of the Holy Ghost have had in establishing their convictions. The Saints are portrayed as people who would be good neighbors to anyone. The writing in these parts of the book (such as "Some Latter-day Stars," p. 130) is chatty, witty, and superficial, in the style of an article from (surprise!) Time, but the Ostlings give no explanation for the reason Latter-day Saints like to hear all those general conference talks that are "routine, even banal" (p. 202) and all the sacrament meeting talks that are so bad that "even a mediocre Protestant preacher is bound to present better Sunday sermons than the ward talks from Mormonism's lay amateurs" (p. 384), presumably including bishops and high councilors.
Yet in the second part, when the Ostlings begin to discuss the church's doctrines, its history, and its leaders, they paint a landscape that, to a knowledgeable Latter-day Saint, is selective with a bias toward the sensational.
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It is clear that the authors' views on religion led them to rely extensively on D. Michael Quinn and his writings for their understanding of Latter-day Saint issues and history, a choice that will likely be viewed as unfortunate by many readers of the Review.[2] Their citations of Quinn and his works appear throughout their book. They load praise on him as their ideal of what a Mormon intellectual should be. "D. Michael Quinn would be an example of a 'new Mormon history' scholar who attempts to combine the goal of objective scholarship and candor with taking faith claims seriously" (p. 416). Quinn is one of the "best and brightest, . . . a brilliant analyst" (p. 383), a "male sympathizer" of feminists (p. 364), and "the most important scholar" among six excommunicated in 1993 (p. 357); they even award him the alliterative title of "the historian of the hierarchy" (p. 381).
The Ostlings use Quinn to chastise "traditional Mormon apologists" for not recognizing that "there is . . . such a thing as simple honesty among scholars" (p. 251). A persistent reader would therefore be surprised to find the Ostlings' uncomfortable and tardy acknowledgment in an endnote at the very end of their book that they have failed to tell us up front that their star witness, Quinn, has been openly homosexual since 1996, "but that issue played no part in his years of difficulty with LDS officials. He took no leadership role in the Mormon homosexual movement, but has published a book about the history of same-sex behavior among Mormons" (p. 427). One wonders how the Ostlings determined that Quinn's previously hidden homosexuality played no role in his attitude toward the church and its leaders, or how it is not "taking a leadership role" to write a book that claims that homosexuality was previously accepted among Latter-day Saints. Certainly they must know that this fact will undercut Quinn's credibility as an objective scholar of religion among many of their readers, both members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and nonmembers who take seriously biblical teachings on sexual morality. The Ostlings clearly identify themselves as scholars, but where is that "simple honesty"?
The Ostlings follow Quinn's lead in chapters on polygamy ("Polygamy Then and Now," p. 56), temple rituals ("Rituals Sacred and Secret," p. 184), the Church Educational System ("Saintly Indoctrination," p. 220), church history ("Faithful History,"p. 238), the Book of Mormon ("The Gold Bible," p. 259), the Pearl of Great Price ("Discovering 'Plain and Precious Things,'"p. 278), and Mormon intellectuals ("Dissenters and Exiles, "p. 351). Repeatedly the Ostlings accuse the church "hierarchy" of a strong anti-intellectual bias and active suppression of information about the church's history, its leaders (especially Joseph Smith), and its distinctive books of scripture. The real bogeyman of Mormon America is Boyd K. Packer, Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, "the most doctrinaire of today's apostles and the most likely to enforce an even harder party line" (p. 381), whose position as second in line to become president of the church is cited with foreboding.
Most of the apostles are only mentioned in the very last endnote of the book (pp. 430-31), with one-sentence biographies. Somewhat more attention is given to Elder Dallin Oaks, "a true intellectual, a rarity among the Apostles" (p. 231). One wonders what the Ostlings' definition of an "intellectual" is, in view of the fact that they themselves report that Russell Nelson has a Ph.D. as well as an M.D.; that Jeffrey Holland has a Ph.D. from Yale, and Henry Eyring a Ph.D. from Harvard; that Neal Maxwell was a professor of political science; that Robert Hales earned a Harvard MBA, Richard Scott an engineering degree emphasizing nuclear reactors, and James Faust a J.D. The authors disparagingly note that President Packer has only a "less academically rigorous Ed.D." degree instead of a Ph.D. (p. 381). Since Elder Maxwell's many books occupy shelf space in every Deseret Book outlet, one wonders how the Ostlings missed his status as an articulate and educated author, which resulted in his being interviewed for the PBS television series Searching for God in America. But such inconvenient facts would undercut their thesis of an innate anti-intellectualism and narrow worldview among the church's leaders.
In their introduction, the Ostlings claim, "This is a real faith and must be understood in those terms, without caricature" (p. xxvi). Despite these stated good intentions, like most modern American journalism, Mormon America uses the reportorial shorthand of stereotypes to tell its readers how they should view the subjects of its presentation. Like a Japanese Kabuki play or a B-grade Hollywood Western movie, the Ostlings tell us clearly who are the dupes, villains, and heroes of their story. The ordinary, unquestioning Latter-day Saint is fed strange doctrinal teachings that have never been properly tested through examination by credentialed theological scholars. They get this feeding through their weekly Sunday meetings and through Brigham Young University and the Church Educational System's seminaries and institutes of religion. True information about the doctrines and history of the church, as well as its financial activities, is actively censored by a hierarchy made up of business men, whose goal is to ensure that the church is a growing and financially strong institution. The intellectuals who are in, or who have been excommunicated from, the church are fighting a constant battle against the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles to get the truth out to the members at large.
If this assessment of the Ostlings' thesis seems harsh, I would cite in my defense the conclusions drawn from their book by Father Richard John Neuhaus, who was prompted to feature Mormon America in his monthly "Continuing Survey of Religion and Public Life" in First Things, a journal that advocates the propriety of religious voices being heard on issues of public policy. His essay was entitled "Is Mormonism Christian?" following the Ostlings' chapter, "Are Mormons Christian? Are Non-Mormons Christian?" (p. 315). Unsurprisingly, following the lead of the Ostlings, Neuhaus answers no. He says that
In the conventional version controlled by LDS authorities, [the church] is true if you believe it is true. Thus is the back door shut against potentially subversive reason. . . .
There is, moreover, a corrosive tradition of make-believe in the LDS, such as the claim that Joseph Smith translated the Book of Abraham. . . . The sanitized story of Mormonism promoted by the LDS tries to hide so much that cannot be hidden. . . . And how, except by a practiced schizophrenia, can LDS biblical scholars engage with other scholars if they are required to give credence to . . . Smith's "translation" (i.e., rewriting) of the King James Bible? There is a . . . history of LDS leadership in backstopping secretiveness with mendacity.[3]
While these words are grating to church members' ears, they are the perceptions by a distinguished Catholic scholar of the message triumphantly announced in Mormon America.
Recognizing the harshness of his critique, Neuhaus justifies himself by asserting that the Latter-day Saints "are no longer an exotic minority that is, by virtue of minority status, exempt from critical examination and challenge,"[4] paraphrasing the Ostlings, who cite Jan Shipps's statement that "Mormonism can no longer employ special pleading for itself as a protected minority" (p. xxvi) and that "a church that has millions of adherents loses 'the protection of minority religious status.'[5] But the thin-skinned and image-conscious Mormons can still display some immature, isolationist, and defensive reactions to outsiders, perhaps because there is no substantive debate and no 'loyal opposition' within their kingdom" (p. 376). Neither Neuhaus nor the Ostlings identify when this golden age of "no piling on the Mormons" occurred (perhaps I missed it when I was on my mission in Japan and couldn't read Time magazine), but they make it clear that it is now open season on Latter-day Saints and their beliefs. We Latter-day Saints just don't know how to take constructive criticism. "The FARMS team is particularly shrill in its rhetoric, an odd pose for an organization that seeks to win intellectual respectability for the church" (p. 376).
Intellectuals, Arise!
Both the Ostlings and Neuhaus find the only hope for truth and enlightenment in Mormonism among the intellectuals, who are all critical of the church and live under constant threat of excommunication for applying scholarly methods to their study of Latter-day Saint history and doctrine ("Dissenters and Exiles," p. 351). "Over the next century and more, those who are now the 'dissidents and exiles' may become the leaders in forging, despite the formidable obstacles, a rapprochement with historic Christianity."[6]
Neuhaus's essay prompted a strong reaction from many Latter-day Saint readers of First Things,[7] nine of whose letters were published in the June/July 2000 issue. He responded, "I am now inclined to think that my essay, like the Ostling book (Mormon America) that I cited favorably, overestimated the degree to which Mormon intellectuals who explore difficult and sometimes embarrassing questions are viewed by the LDS as 'dissenters and exiles.' There are academics and others in very good standing who are wrestling with these questions and are eager for dialogue with (other?) Christians."[8]
In fact, the Ostlings almost ignore the existence of qualified scholars at Brigham Young University and FARMS. "Very few Mormons are fully credentialed in scriptural studies, ancient languages, and related critical studies. . . .When Mormons step outside [their] enclosure, they tread on thin ice" (p. 268). In the chapter on the Book of Mormon, virtually the only products of pro-Latter-day Saint scholarship that are mentioned appear in a single paragraph that reads, in its entirety, as follows:
Emphasis is currently being placed on studies that attempt to show that the Book of Mormon had many writers rather than just one (that is, Joseph Smith). The work includes word print analysis, which aims to show that different patterns of word usage prove different authors. Another approach is the study of chiasmus by John W. Welch, a BYU law professor [his other credentials are omitted] who is on the board of FARMS and is editor-in-chief of BYU Studies. Chiasmus is the use of parallel phrases repeated with some reversals, seen frequently in the Bible. Welch argues that these complexities [found in the Book of Mormon] imply ancient authorship. The extensive scholarship of BYU's Hugh Nibley over the years has emphasized parallels between the Book of Mormon and ancient Near Eastern culture and language. The aim of Nibley's work is to provide evidence for Book of Mormon cultural materials that were not known in Joseph Smith's time. His extensive scholarship has included study of the Book of Mormon in relation to ancient names, geographic detail, and military, social, and political institutions. (pp. 274-75, emphasis added)
Note that the Ostlings repeatedly talk about "attempts" and "aims" and "study," without admitting that either Welch or Nibley ever asserts that he has reached any conclusions after undertaking his "studies." The fact that chiasmus actually appears in the Book of Mormon, or that some names in the Book of Mormon have Egyptian cognates, is not even mentioned. The picture drawn is of a couple of Latter-day Saint scholars valiantly but hopelessly straining to find some evidence to support the Book of Mormon, without success. The only books the Ostlings cite that have been produced in the last fifty years by any pro-church scholars on the Book of Mormon are Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited: The Evidence for Ancient Origins,[9] An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon,[10] and Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion.[11] This level of omission, when a visit to any Deseret Book outlet could find most of FARMS's published books, is a deliberate distortion of the facts.
This is the Ostlings' pattern throughout their book. They cite only Latter-day Saint doctrines and beliefs sufficiently to create a straw man for their non-Latter-day Saint critics to shoot at, at length. Hardly any quotations from the Book of Mormon itself appear, except for passages that mention polygamy (p. 66); even there the Ostlings quote the rule in Jacob 2:27 but pointedly omit the exception in verse 30. All the reader hears from the Book of Mormon is a paraphrase of the most basic outlines of the story, without any sense of the strong message of Christ and his atonement. They quote the testimony of Daniel Peterson of the Book of Mormon (p. 277) without anywhere quoting Moroni 10:3-5 or noting its importance to Latter-day Saint conversion.
The Ostlings show no awareness of the facts reported by evangelical scholars Carl Mosser and Paul Owen in their article "Mormon Scholarship, Apologetics, and Evangelical Neglect: Losing the Battle and Not Knowing It?"[12] Mosser and Owen note that the hope of critics of the church that liberal Mormon intellectuals will alter the church's distinctive doctrines through exposing their unscholarly underpinnings is a myth, and that "Currently there are . . . no books from an evangelical perspective that responsibly interact with contemporary LDS scholarly and apologetic writings. . . . Many of the authors promote criticisms that have long been refuted."[13] That accurately describes Mormon America as well.
Manipulating the Truth
Given the Ostlings' call for the honest treatment of church history and doctrine, I hope it is not discourteous to point out their shortcomings in this regard. A knowledgeable Latter-day Saint reader will note some obvious errors and distortions. Lucy Mack Smith's account of how Joseph Smith Jr. would discuss with his family the Nephites and Lamanites is transposed backward in time by the Ostlings, from after Moroni's visit to a time before the first vision (p. 24) in an effort to show that Joseph was speculating wildly about Indian origins before he got the idea for the Book of Mormon. The authors first observe "Joseph Jr.'s youthful fascination with Indians" and that "Joseph was also obviously a highly imaginative and intelligent young boy, interested in the Indian culture hinted at by the burial mounds in the area" (p. 23). Then they quote Lucy's story and then discuss Joseph's first vision at age fourteen and his vision of Moroni at age seventeen. Yet the full text of Lucy's account makes clear that the "family home evening" took place when Joseph was "eighteen years of age," after seeing the record and meeting with Moroni.[14] According to the Ostlings, the Book of Mormon "tells about the Lamanites, Native Americans who are considered by Mormons to be part of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel" (p. xix).
The Ostlings seem to be particularly confused about the witnesses to the Book of Mormon. They first declare that "Of the eleven official witnesses who testified that they saw the Book of Mormon's golden plates . . .[o]nly Smith's own father and two brothers remained steadfast in their commitment" (p. 12). Later, in contrast, they claim that "to the end of their lives, none of them [the witnesses to the Book of Mormon] disavowed their written testimonies even though most broke with Smith's church" (p. 266). But then they cite "conflicting reports" that the witnesses never saw the actual plates (p. 267) before admitting that David Whitmer "always maintained his Book of Mormon testimony" (p. 288). The Ostlings quote neither the official testimonies nor any of the later affirmations of the witnesses (lest they be too unequivocal?).
The authors' attempts to show church manipulation of history go to ridiculous lengths. They claim that the text for a BYU church history course, Religion 341-43, "devotes four pages to the Haun's Mill Massacre of 1838," while "by contrast, the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857" is only "described in two pages" (p. 230). Even if we were to agree with the Ostlings' belief that the length of each passage has any relationship to its assigned significance in church history, the actual textbook reveals that the Haun's Mill discussion pages have photographs, but the material contains only about twenty-one column inches of text[15] versus approximately fifteen column inches used to describe the Mountain Meadows Massacre.[16] The Ostlings maintain that the text omits the fact that John D. Lee, "executed twenty years later for the crime . . . , was made the scapegoat" (p. 230), while in actuality the text says, "John D. Lee, a key participant, but certainly not the only officer responsible for the deed, was the only Latter-day Saint indicted. . . . Lee was finally convicted in September 1876 and a year later was taken by federal officials to the area of Mountain Meadows and executed."[17] Since the authors claim to have made a close reading of the textbook, these sensationalized misrepresentations can only be intentional.
In their discussion of distinctive Latter-day Saint doctrines on the nature of God and the meaning of salvation, they deliberately devalue the argument made by Stephen Robinson in Are Mormons Christians?[18] that the doctrine of theosis—that full salvation consists of men becoming godlike—is a recognized part of both Mormonism and orthodox Christianity. The Ostlings fail to quote any of the passages cited at length by Robinson[19] and instead quote orthodox and other scholars on the difference between the orthodox and Latter-day Saint concepts of God (p. 310). They change the subject because here, in this instance, clear traditional Christian teachings (albeit not Catholic or Protestant) uphold a Latter-day Saint doctrine they want to criticize.
The Ostlings have a hard time giving credence to the term anti-Mormon as applied to professional critics of the church (pp. 345-50); they have almost nothing negative to say about them, their tactics, and their distortions. In fact, they have high praise for Jerald and Sandra Tanner, claiming that they "gained credibility in 1984 by early proclaiming Mark Hofmann's Martin Harris 'salamander letter' to be a phony. . . . Jerald astutely spotted the fraud, even as the LDS Church's experts were judging the document to be genuine. The Tanners were bold and honest enough to expose Hofmann's forgery immediately" (p. 348). However, a check of the record in Linda Sillitoe and Allen Roberts's Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders, clarifies that the Tanners were at first supportive of Hofmann's supposed recovery of various historical documents,[20] that Jerald "expressed doubts about the letter's authenticity" because of its close parallels to E. D. Howe's Mormonism Unvailed,[21] and that Hofmann told Sandra Tanner that "You, of all people, should not be attacking this letter."[22] The Ostlings have, 1984-like, transformed the Tanners' suspicion that some unknown person had forged the letter, possibly at an indeterminate time in the past consistent with the apparent age of the document and based solely on textual comparisons, into an unequivocal proclamation that the letter was a modern forgery created by Hofmann himself. The Ostlings omit any mention of efforts by Latter-day Saint historians to authenticate the document; neither do they credit the church for being "bold and honest enough" to publish in its own periodicals a document that could be used to criticize its official history.[23]
This Is as Good as It Gets
Mormon America can be read to provide insight into how even well-educated and well-meaning Christians can deceive themselves into believing that they are being objective when they report on the church and its beliefs. The fact that the book is displayed prominently at the downtown Salt Lake City Deseret Book undercuts the Ostlings' central thesis, alleging that the church and its institutions try to suppress criticism and questions. The book is not an accurate summary of Mormonism for Latter-day Saints, and it will seriously mislead non-Latter-day Saints. If Mormon America "is probably as thorough and fair a treatment of the LDS by outsiders as they are likely to get,"[24] we Latter-day Saints can only depend on ourselves to get the truth out about the church, its doctrines, and the scholarly evidence supporting our faith.
[1] Richard J. Neuhaus, "Is Mormonism Christian?" First Things (March 2000): 97-102.
[2] See, for example, Klaus J. Hansen, and George L. Mitton and Rhett S. James, reviews of Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example, by D. Michael Quinn, FARMS Review of Books 10/1 (1998): 132-263; and John Gee, William J. Hamblin, and Rhett S. James, reviews of Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, rev. ed., by D. Michael Quinn, FARMS Review of Books 12/2 (2000): 185-414.
[3] Neuhaus, "Is Mormonism Christian?" 99-100.
[4] Ibid., 99.
[5] Jan Shipps, "The Mormon Image since 1960," paper presented at the Sunstone Symposium, 1 August 1998.
[6] Neuhaus, "Is Mormonism Christian?" 102.
[7] Including myself, since I subscribe to First Things.
[8] Richard J. Neuhaus, "Mormons and (Other?) Christians," First Things (June/July 2000): 2-12.
[9] Noel B. Reynolds, ed., Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited: The Evidence for Ancient Origins (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1997), described as "conservative scholarly essays" (p. 419) and as "written for a faithful Mormon audience" (p. 274).
[10] John Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1985; reprint, 1996).
[11] Philip L. Barlow, Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
[12] Carl Mosser and Paul Owen, "Mormon Scholarship, Apologetics, and Evangelical Neglect: Losing the Battle and Not Knowing It?" Trinity Journal 19/2 (1998): 179-205 (available as a FARMS reprint).
[13] Ibid., 181.
[14] Compare with the more complete excerpt from Lucy's account in Milton V. Backman Jr., Eyewitness Accounts of the Restoration (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1986), 50-51.
[15] Church History in the Fulness of Times (Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1989), 201-4.
[16] Ibid., 371-73.
[17] Ibid., 372-73.
[18] Stephen E. Robinson, Are Mormons Christians? (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1991), 60-65.
[19] See, for example, the article on deification from The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology excerpted at Robinson, Are Mormons Christians? 62.
[20] Linda Sillitoe and Allen Roberts, Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1988), 233, 243, 254.
[21] Ibid., 287-88.
[22] Ibid., 288.
[23] For example, "Ron Walker and Dean Jessee were still pressing for provenance and authentication before publishing anything." Ibid., 287.
[24] Neuhaus, "Is Mormonism Christian?" 97.


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Campus Crime Alerts may be e-mailed, text (e2campus) message, bulletin boards or other available means, as reasonably and timely as possible to faculty, staff, and students, distributed throughout campus, provided to campus media, posted on the SWOSU Campus Police website and, if appropriate, posted in off-campus areas frequented by students.
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The snow and freezing temperatures have lasted nearly a month now. Jolly jaunts into Ashbourne or carefree walks to local pubs are distant memories, trapped as we are by the external conditions and my being 'legless'. Not so trapped that we haven't enjoyed two lovely evenings recently with local friends…
Our guests are coping far better than us. All so far have made it, all so far have been able to leave at the appropriate time, all appear to have thoroughly enjoyed the Alpine conditions. Two of the last three have not made it – or only made it with help – up the final hill to Orchard Farm. Fortunately it is possible to leave the car safely at the bottom of the slope, and trudge up with all the belongings. Having promised help with a sledge we couldn't find ours, but have been promised the loan of another so Friday's arrivals and departures may be easier.
Or perhaps by then it will have thawed?
The leg by the way is coming on fine. I am becoming reasonably agile on crutches, and pretty deft at steering the wheelchair about the house.
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Review: 'Signals Now' at RoCo
05:00 AM, Oct 26, 2013
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If you go
What: Signals Now.
When: Through Nov. 17, with a First Friday reception from 6 to 10 p.m. this week.
Where: Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Ave.
Cost: $1.
For more information: (585) 461-2222 or rochestercontemporary.org.
"Signals Now," an installation exhibit featuring the work of four internationally known new media artists at Rochester Contemporary Art Center, is an obscure inquiry into the relationship we have developed with electronic media.
The exhibit, which runs through Nov. 17, features the first exhibit by Signal Culture, a new group headquartered in Owego, Tioga County. With grant money from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the group hopes to advance new media work and to provide residencies, resources and exhibition space.
The grant, $10,000 each of the next three years, will provide unrestricted capital to the group to build programming in Rochester and central New York.
Debora Bernagozzi, executive director of Signal Culture, says the plan is to build an experimental media studio with real-time analog and digital-image processing equipment with an on-site research center to document the history of experimental media art.
Bernagozzi stresses the new group's work is relevant and cutting-edge. Unfortunately, the exhibit itself presents minimally developed concepts, ambigious and devoid of content. The viewer is left to wonder, if any honest inquiry has taken place here.
When I stepped inside RoCo, I was looking for a reason to recommend the exhibit. RoCo director Bleu Cease says the public response to Signals Now has been positive, with brisk traffic since it opened.
" 'Signals Now' has seen a steady stream of visitors," he says. "For October's First Friday, the gallery was packed with people curious about this new work."
"Signals Now" begs one question: Have we forfeited human experience and interaction for electronic dependence and a new, impersonal virtual world. I think most Americans agree, computers have cost us: our privacy, our time, our freedom, our intimacy.
Philip Stearns' Heliocentrism is a sound and projection installation, "a comment about techno-media-centrism." This piece is created by single channel video with stereo sound and low-frequency reinforcements. Stearns considers his medium to be electricity and "explores the circuit as a means for sculpting electricity."
His Fragmented Memory, a triptych of woven tapestries using snapshots of his computer's physical memory and selections of binary data, explores how information translates into form. Tapestries are woven on a computerized industrial Jacquard loom.
Kristin Lucas focuses on transformation and portraiture in her work. Her ETC Mix combines analog-processed stock video, stock sound and animated GIFs mixed to tape to show a graphically-modified image of a woman speaking.
Joe McKay's Tweetagraph (2) is wired to send Twitter messages instead of telegraphs using an old-fashioned telegraph machine. A key with corresponding letters and a wall-mounted screen that shows the feed is part of the installation.
The most obscure examples in the exhibit are those of Peer Bode. His works, including Intermodulations #1, a black and white large-scale print project, are about "electronic time, actions and events," his description says. Neither beauty nor aesthetics is the subject or the object in contemporary arts today.
Cease believes RoCo has a responsibility to emerging forms of art and to put the city on the map as a destination for people interested in art that's current. As part of RoCo's mission, each year, the gallery is committed to a digital arts exhibit.
Unfortunately, "Signals Now" is a self-conscious attempt and lacking in outward passion. The medium may be the message, but it just isn't enough for us to care about what these artists are saying about our modern world.


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We reported yesterday that Torchlight's developer Runic Game confirmed Steam Autumn sale would kick off this week, though no exact date has been provided.
Today, Indie dev Artery Studios revealed its Secrets of the Magic Crystals will be part of the upcoming Steam sale, which are set to begin tomorrow, November 21.
The promotional deals on Steam games will run for almost a week until November 27, so gamers might want to take this into consideration before throwing all their money in the first few days of sale.
Steam Autumn sales started on November 23 last year, but this year Valve wants to get a head start on Black Friday sale this year.
In the same piece of news, Tamas Bako, CEO of Artery Studios, also confirmed Steam Winter sale would kick off on December 20 and will run through January 4. Stay tuned for more updates on the matter.


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Posted 29 July 2013 - 09:36 AM
SHALOM my friends !
Posted 14 November 2013 - 09:19 AM
There are several sites that have plans and schematics of portable devices that I might pursue if this side venture is not well explored. If anything resembling a real pattern can be captured, it may assist in choosing a direction for further research.
Can't Fall Off the Floor
Posted 14 November 2013 - 09:25 AM
Can't Fall Off the Floor
Posted 15 November 2013 - 01:58 PM
Actually current work now is pointing toward EVP being a form of EMF plus an audible component. The issue is becoming though just how does a spirit create an EMF representation of speech, and how it can "hear" our audible sounds since it lacks the physical body to react to the changing air pressure which is sound as we know it. This research is pointing toward invalidating virtually all EVP captured using conventional recorders unless an inductive pickup was employed. And that rules out all voice recorders since I know of none which don't use an electret mic. None use inductive mics......
Posted 17 November 2013 - 01:11 AM
Can't Fall Off the Floor
Posted 28 July 2014 - 06:14 PM
My question is can a living human manipulate these popular devices used in paranormal research? If so... how do they do it ..........what is the science behind that..........science does not even understand all that the human mind can do.......much less whoever and whatever lurks beyond the living....figure that out and the rest might not be so mysterious......premonitions are fairly hard to fake if they come true...where does that information come from...how do we tap into that fluidity? It's there......something allows the ability......it is like a hidden stream of information that at times , certain people can tap into....wherever that layer of consciousness lies.......that is where the answers are. Maybe it's in junk D.N.A. or in the recesses of all that gray matter we do not use.... but it is there.
Posted 30 July 2014 - 07:48 PM
I would sooner believe in ESP than I would a spirit box. Why? Because as you know we don't understand how ESP might work and how the mind could generate and receive such signals. At this point it is still an unknown.
But when it comes to electrnics we have a very good handle on that and what would be required to interact with it. It has been attempted to utilize common EMF equipment to interface with the mind directly and except for very limited applications. (EEG machines for example) we have found no correlation between EMF and ESP / psychic activity. Thus I discount things like spirit boxes and similar devices. But as for one mind directly receiving from another the jury is still out on that one.
Posted 01 August 2014 - 12:53 PM
I am not sure what I can input specifically into the topic, except to say that we are in agreement that some new methodology needs to be applied to standard investigation formats. Our leadership team thought about this question for quite a while after years of "Wash, Rinse, Repeat" investigations. Our response was to basically strip everything down and start from scratch. Trying to remove bias and conditioned response from our observations and take each bit of data on its own merit in hopes that the collected information would lead us to a testable hypothesis.
-Stephen G.
Co-founder of Fly By Night Paranormal Investigations.
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I can agree with that approach. Much oif what has been claimed has been proven to be mis-identification, artifacts created by the equipment and lack of proper use, and just outright wishful thinking on the part of those who want to believe. Which isn't to say ALL old results are false.
We need to apply logic and science to the methods we use. Use existing equipment, asuming it is scientific and not just some scam, to detect what it was designed for. Even KII meters can detect EM Fields (Although the issue of false positives may be problematic!)
But things like spirit boxes, Oviluses, and other so-called investigative devices are pointless. We know how they work, and also that what causes them to react is natural. So let's relegate them to the same areas as the Magic 8 Ball and similar party games. They might be fun to play with at times but are of no value as research tools.
Instead, use what does work, and along the way develop new methods / equipment. Not saying all the new methods will work either. We test them, and based on findings either retire them as well or adapt them to our use if they pan out.
Posted 05 August 2014 - 12:11 PM
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Posted 17 September 2014 - 02:25 PM
Wipsi posted a link about using REG's (random event generators) used by the Paranormal Research Group in investigating haunted houses and poltergist activity. The extensive report summarizes eight years of research using a specialized RNG (random number generator) to provide data for probablity analysis. As with most scientific papers, unless you have a good statistical background, this probably didn't mean much. However, the results show promising evience that there was indeed some strange happenings in the 15 locations they tested.
As I've used the identical equipment and actually have 5 different REG's I can tell you right now that if they really knew how to use these devices, they would have gotten superior results. For one thing, these devices are very small and their range of detection of a person or something that goes bump in the night, seems to work much better on a fast sampling rate. This group used a rate of 1 reading a second. That sampling rate should have been much higher, like 500 to 1000 samples per second. Why? Imagine you are recording bird songs. If you ran your recording at 1cps, what do you think you would get? Anything sounding like a bird song at all? Sound waves are much higher and therefore need a higher response rate. At such a poor sampling rate, it was surprising they got any results at all!
Another thing you need to realize is that when you are recording the output of a REG or RNG you are actually measuring distortions of randomness. Ideally, with no outiside influences, you should have even amounts of the digits 0 or 1, Think about coin flipping. If you flip a coin enough times, it should be a 50/50 relationship between heads and tails. So, an RNG is a very fast coin flipper and measures randomness in a small area.
What is really interesting is that when there are no people involved in coin flipping, you have very small changes in randomness. Yet when people literally or are mentally trying to influence coin flips, there is about a 2% variation in chance. It is not just coin flipping either. It is well documented that REG's are easily influenced by human attention. Check out the extensive testing and documentation done by the Global Conciousness Project if you find this of interest.
Back to finding a better way to use REG's to produce evidence for your research.
1. Use a customized REG that translates greater changes in randomness by changing both the intensity and colors of a visual display. Think of a portable lamp you can place anywhere you want and it only changes in brightness and colors that match the size of the disturbance. For example, if the randomness in your hardware driven RNG equals 1 chance in 300, you get a dim yellow light. It increases in brightness until it gets to be a chance ratio of 1 to 5000 and then it switches colors to orange, and progresses up the scale until the odds are millions to 1 that you have a very amazing response.
2. You space the lamps out throughout the test area. You of course record the whole scene with a high quality video camera.
3. Alternatively, you could use low cost PC's and a REG that uses a gieger counter to detect randomness. The advantage here is that you have an audio reading and digital reading. It might be possible to use ewer devices than the lighting devices.
In any case, you might be able to get a visual or audio record of movement by a person or paranormal source.
I have some of the lamps but they are the first generation and require AC power and a little on the expensive side. I'm hoping to design and develop more inexpensive battery powered lamps. I don't use my devices for ghost hunting but rater conciousness research, so I'm not sure what effect, if any, a spirit would have on them.
Posted 19 September 2014 - 07:39 AM
Thank you for your comments. Here are a few comments to your points:
A) Sampling Rate
1. The sampling rate of 1/sec and 5/sec have been used in recent studies done by Caswell et al.
Caswell et al (2014) JCER 5(3) 195-214
Caswell et al (2014) JCER 5(4) 309-330
So, I am not to concerned about the sample rate. Yes, 5/sec would have been better. But 1/sec has been used in published papers. Also, please note that we started this work in 2006 as exploratory work and will certainly continue the study and refine the methods.
2. Higher sampling rates have been published in previous literature and have shown mixed results. Such as in:
Bierman (1996) JSE 10(3) 363-373
Blasband (2000) JSE 14(2) 195-216
Gerding et al (2002) JSE 17 3-16
3. The calculation of the Stouffer Z is sum of z divided by square root N (number of REG runs). So, even if you used the higher sampling rate and found a higher deviation the high number of REG runs (N) would 'adjust' for this. Also, effect sizes and measurements of uncertainty are calculated and based on N.
4. I would certainly be interested in seeing the data you have collected. Perhaps we could collaborate on a project using your data and our data?
In regards to not knowing how to use these devices...
I think your comment of us not knowing how to use these devices is unfair. We are very familiar on how to use them. We are currently collaborating with some of the top researchers in the field. In addition, we have data from running two of the same devices at the same time. Additionally we have started running two of the same devices plus a photon based REG.
C) How REGs work.
Your basic explanation is correct. To take it a step further, the Psyleron REG 1s work via electron tunneling effects within two field effect transistors (FETs). The resultant voltage is then converted into digital data and goes through a XOR process.
D) REGs Influenced by Attention.
This is correct. However, they seem to also be influenced when people don't pay attention as has also been shown by the Global Consciousness Project team as well as some of the studies I have already referenced above and the following:
Nelson et al (1996) JSE 10(1) 111-143
Nelson et al (1998) JSE 12(3) 424-454
Emotion has also been shown to influence them with and without attention (some references above) and:
Lumsden-Cook (2005) JSPR 69 1-17
We also have a paper in review for publication that show focused attention followed by non-focused attention plays a role in influencing REGs by Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis (RSPK) agents, otherwise known as poltergeist agents.
E) Better ways to use REGs to produce evidence
I am always looking to find better ways to gather data to evaluate it appropriately. I am curious on how you would critically and statistically evaluate what you proposed in #1 and #2?
We also have a RAD-10 Geiger counter and data logging software, which has been used on investigations. I also have the software to generate random numbers with this device. However, using just background radiation produces a low number of counts per minute and thereby a low sampling rate. I think you may have to use a low level radiation output device (such as a fire/smoke alarm) to get enough cpms to make this useful. It is interesting you brought this up because we have seen correlations between with either very high and/or very low background cpm counts when people have had experiences and/or other significant readings on other equipment.
Again, thanks for your comments and perhaps we could collaborate on a project. I would also be very interested in reviewing any of the data you have collected.
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