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MUMBAI: The world's largest technology giant �Apple' has lost its smartphone market to Blackberry makers Research in Motion (RIM).
Apple faces problems to sell iPhone with 602 million active subscribers in the Indian market. The company has shipped 62,043 iPhone to India in the quarter ending 30 June, whereas, RIM and Nokia has sold more handsets due to the right product, timing and app, according to research estimated by IDC.
Apple detailed for 2.6 percent of India's smartphone shipments in the quarter end dragging RIM's 15 percent, Samsung Electronics' 21 percent and Nokia's 46 percent.
Toronto Scotia Capital analyst Gus Papageorgiou said, Sales for Apple by market value was blocked as Indian wireless carriers, which started third-generation networks (3G) this year, have yet to offer nationwide services fast enough to take advantage of iPhone features....
RIM's BlackBerry Messenger instant-messaging service is popular because it was one of the first, and it functions well on networks generation behind the speeds offered in the US and Europe,... he stated.
RIM India marketing director Krishnadeep Baruah said, RIM, which entered India in 2004, plans to extend its lead over Apple after expanding distribution to 80 cities from 15 starting last year. We want to ride this wave. This is really the time to expand into the emerging towns and cities....
The smartphone shipments in India are forecasted to grow almost 70 percent a year until 2015, aiding to ease their market- share losses in US and Europe. According to IDC, Apple the world's largest maker of tablet computers also shipped about 21,150 iPads to India in the same period, or 0.2 percent of its global total.

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This is the excellent foppery of the world
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical pre-dominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's Tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. Fut! I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.
I ii 58
King Lear
Thou, Nature, art my goddess, to thy law
Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law
My services are bound. Wherefore should I
Stand in the plague of custom, and permit
The curiosity of nations to deprive me,
For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines
Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base?
When my dimensions are as well compact,
My mind as generous, and my shape as true,
As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us
With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?
Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take
More composition and fierce quality
Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,
Go to th' creating a whole tribe of fops
Got 'tween asleep and wake? Well then,
Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land.
Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund
As to th' legitimate. Fine word- 'legitimate'!
Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,
And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
Shall top th' legitimate. I grow; I prosper.
Now, gods, stand up for bastards!
I ii 1
King Lear
I heard myself proclaim'd
I heard myself proclaim'd,
And by the happy hollow of a tree
Escap'd the hunt. No port is free, no place
That guard and most unusual vigilance
Does not attend my taking. Whiles I may scape,
I will preserve myself; and am bethought
To take the basest and most poorest shape
That ever penury, in contempt of man,
Brought near to beast. My face I'll grime with filth,
Blanket my loins, elf all my hair in knots,
And with presented nakedness outface
The winds and persecutions of the sky.
The country gives me proof and precedent
Of Bedlam beggars, who, with roaring voices,
Strike in their numb'd and mortified bare arms
Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary;
And with this horrible object, from low farms,
Poor pelting villages, sheepcotes, and mills,
Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers,
Enforce their charity. 'Poor Turlygod! poor Tom!'
That's something yet! Edgar I nothing am.
II iii 1
Verse & Prose
King Lear
We'll set thee to school to an ant
We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no labouring i' th' winter. All that follow their noses are led by their eyes but blind men, and there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking. Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following it; but the great one that goes upward, let him draw thee after. When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. I would have none but knaves follow it, since a fool gives it.
That sir which serves and seeks for gain,
And follows but for form,
Will pack when it begins to rain
And leave thee in the storm.
But I will tarry; the fool will stay,
And let the wise man fly.
The knave turns fool that runs away;
The fool no knave, perdy.
II iv 68
King Lear
O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars
O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady:
If only to go warm were gorgeous,
Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st
Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need-
You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!
You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,
As full of grief as age; wretched in both.
If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts
Against their father, fool me not so much
To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,
And let not women's weapons, water drops,
Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags!
I will have such revenges on you both
That all the world shall- I will do such things-
What they are yet, I know not; but they shall be
The terrors of the earth! You think I'll weep.
No, I'll not weep.
I have full cause of weeping, but this heart
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws
Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!
II iv 274
King Lear
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!
You sulph'rous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o' th' world,
Crack Nature's moulds, all germains spill at once,
That makes ingrateful man!
O nuncle, court holy water in a dry house is better than this
rain water out o' door. Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters
blessing! Here's a night pities nether wise men nor fools.
Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!
Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire are my daughters.
I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness.
I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children,
You owe me no subscription. Then let fall
Your horrible pleasure. Here I stand your slave,
A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
But yet I call you servile ministers,
That will with two pernicious daughters join
Your high-engender'd battles 'gainst a head
So old and white as this! O! O! 'tis foul!
III ii 1
King Lear
A servingman, proud in heart and mind
vingman, proud in heart and mind; that curl'd my hair, wore gloves in my cap; serv'd the lust of my mistress' heart and did the act of darkness with her; swore as many oaths as I spake words, and broke them in the sweet face of heaven; one that slept in the contriving of lust, and wak'd to do it. Wine lov'd I deeply, dice dearly; and in woman out-paramour'd the Turk. False of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey. Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks betray thy poor heart to woman. Keep thy foot out of brothel, thy hand out of placket, thy pen from lender's book, and defy the foul fiend. Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind; says suum, mun, hey, no, nonny. Dolphin my boy, my boy, sessa! let him trot by.
III iv 73
King Lear
By nursing them, my lord. List a brief tale
By nursing them, my lord. List a brief tale;
And when 'tis told, O that my heart would burst!
The bloody proclamation to escape
That follow'd me so near (O, our lives' sweetness!
That with the pain of death would hourly die
Rather than die at once!) taught me to shift
Into a madman's rags, t' assume a semblance
That very dogs disdain'd; and in this habit
Met I my father with his bleeding rings,
Their precious stones new lost; became his guide,
Led him, begg'd for him, sav'd him from despair;
Never (O fault!) reveal'd myself unto him
Until some half hour past, when I was arm'd,
Not sure, though hoping of this good success,
I ask'd his blessing, and from first to last
Told him my pilgrimage. But his flaw'd heart
(Alack, too weak the conflict to support!)
'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief,
Burst smilingly.
V iii 210
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7 comments:
- sealaura said...
how pretty! i love that first one. So a little request for you dear Erin. B and I are trying to make a little outdoor retreat out in our little apt. patio. any beautiful images in your vault?? I don't have too much space but i want a cozy cabanaesque vibe. thanks erin!
- August 18, 2009 at 10:46 AM
- travelingmama said...
I love the first photo too! That chair and those pillows are SO cute!
- August 18, 2009 at 11:10 AM
- Yansy said...
His work is fantastic! I love the pillows on the first pic as well.
- August 18, 2009 at 11:22 AM
- Berry said...
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous! I love it all! =) Especially the chandelier in the third photo!
- August 18, 2009 at 2:02 PM
- kathi said...
Oh my goodness! That bedroom! It's gorgeous!! I want that!!
- August 18, 2009 at 9:09 PM
- Down Pillow said...
I'm intrigued by the egg-shaped pillows in the first photo - never seen anything quite like them :)
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- 4 Tbsp. (1/2 stick) butter, melted and divided
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The high capacity HC-3315 Rainbow chemical feeder is very durable and highly reliable. Intended for 1-inch hard plumbing installations. High capacity automatic chemical feeders work best with commercial applications.
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"Signed, Sealed and Delivered" is about team of post office employees who work in the dead letter office. The become postal detectives, looking for the recipients of the long-delayed letters and often delivering them just in time.
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Last week this writer went to see the movie "God's Not Dead," at Cobb's Theater in Merritt Island, Fla. They left the theater feeling good about it. Then they went online and read what others thought. The comments were overwhelmingly negative. In trying to reconcile this seeming disconnect between their reaction and that of others, some patterns emerged which we will attempt to address.
Most of the negative comments stemmed from a central premise – that the various scenarios depicted in the movie were making general statements. Whether it was religious intolerance, non-believers actions, or the behavior of college philosophy professors, those who hated "God's Not Dead" appeared to assume that the movie was making a sweeping statement about everyone who fit in those categories. We beg to differ.
One negative comment centered on the assumption in the movie that something bad had to happen in their lives to turn former believers away from God. Again, it may be the case for some, but not all.
Making assumptions in general is in itself dangerous. If one can take a step back from these generalities, and focus specifically on the characters in the movie, then the story telling is an accurate depiction of what can happen when one takes a stand for Jesus. It is a portrayal of how some, not all, people have historically responded to a believer being vocal about their faith.
Other comments centered on how the movie offends non-believers. Rather than drawing them to faith, it pushes them away with the above mentioned negative depictions and it's so-called lack of choice about whether one should believe God's alive or not. This writer's first reaction was that one should not invite non-believers to see "God's Not Dead" for that very reason. The movie isn't about evangelism, but about standing up for what you believe in the face of overwhelming opposition. A choice all believers must make at some point in their lives. And the main character did state that God allows each person to choose for themselves whether to believe He's alive or not.
Finally, and this is a spoiler alert, critics of "God's Not Dead" didn't like the "acceptance of Jesus conversions" experienced by those who suddenly came face-to-face with their own death. But doesn't that portray God's mercy when He extends another chance to choose to those who once opposed Him?
What this writer came away with about "God's Not Dead" is that it is a movie of hope. Someone even asked a non-believing character, "What are you hoping for?" Also, it is a movie filled with subtle truth. If you go see the movie, watch and listen for it whispering out from the actors portrayals of those who already know that God's not dead.
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Oregon State is now 10-6 overall and 2-2 in Pac-12 play. Just 48 hours after guiding her team to an 88-80 win in Eugene on Saturday with a 27-point, 16-rebound effort, Hamblin was even more of a menace in front of the home crowd tonight. OSU had previously had only two triple-doubles in the nearly 38-year history of the program. Lisa Channel was the last to accomplish the feat when she scored 16, had 10 rebounds and handed out 10 assists in an 84-62 Beaver win over California in Gill Coliseum on Feb. 11, 1984. Judy Spoelstra was the first to do it when she had 10 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists against Illinois State on Jan. 7, 1983, an 89-57 OSU win. "It's an honor and very humbling," Hamblin said. "I'm just excited I was able to bring that for my team." Hamblin's performance was only the 14th triple-double in the NCAA this season and the first by a Pac-12 player. Oregon (9-6, 0-4) went up early, 16-15, on a Jillian Alleyne jumper with 13:38 in the clock in the first half. Jamie Weisner hit back-to-back three-pointers and was followed by a bomb from deep off the lefty hand of Sydney Wiese and the Beavers were off and running to the tune of a 20-4 run over the next 5:24. Freshman Gabriella Hanson had seven points during the spurt as part of her best game in a Beaver uniform. The Troy HS product scored a career-high 19 on a nearly perfect 8-for-9 shooting. It was her three-pointer from the far corner with 4:14 left that put the proverbial nail in the coffin, putting her team up 76-63 and sealing the OSU win. "I guess you could say something kind of came over me, I don't know," Hanson said. "It's nothing that I'm not confident in. I felt like the shot was open so I took it. I had the open drive and I took it. Nothing felt like it was out of my range." After Oregon State's early run, the Beavers wouldn't lead by less than 10 points throughout the remainder of the first half. But Oregon made a run in the second and was able to cut its deficit all the way down to just a single point, 62-61 with 8:55 to go. A Lexi Petersen layup pulled the Ducks as close as they'd been since early in the first half, but Oregon couldn't get over the hump and reclaim the lead. Hanson answered the pressure-packed situation with a three-pointer and then traded baskets with her teammate down low. Hamblin made a layup. Then Hanson knocked down a mid-range jumper. Hamblin banked another two off the glass and was followed by a finish at the rim from Hanson before the freshman drained the back-breaking three-pointer. After Oregon got within one, Hanson and Hamblin combined to go on a 14-2 run and ensure the Beavers' win streak would continue. "There were some hard lessons against Notre Dame and Penn State," Hamblin added. "We couldn't finish them off in the last four minutes. But it's been coming together for us, and these (wins vs. Oregon) have been good for our confidence." Jamie Weisner scored 17 and tallied seven rebounds for the Beavers, her 13th consecutive game in double figures. Deven Hunter put up totals of 11 points and eight rebounds. Hamblin's 10 blocks came just two weeks after she tied the previous school record with nine against No. 2 Notre Dame on Dec. 29. She came into the game seventh in the country in rejections per game and will surely shoot up the rankings after leaving Gill swatting 3.9 per contest. Hamblin has 63 blocks this season and is on pace to finish with an astounding 122, which would set both Oregon State and Pac-12 records. Oregon State will hit the road again for conference road games at USC and UCLA this Friday and Monday. Both will be televised on the Pac-12 Networks. 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The Alleged "Weaknesses" or "Critiques" of "Darwinism"
by Steven Schafersman
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2008 February 6
What Critiques of Darwin?
Op-ed columnist Fred Cutting (link no longer available, but reprinted below), who is also a member of the Framers' Committee that is writing Florida's proposed new science standards, makes what appears to be a reasonable suggestion: students should learn about the "scientific critiques of standard models of neo-Darwinian evolution or models of the chemical origin of life" so that "alternative scientific explanations to explain all the data" can be actively considered. Unfortunately, Mr. Cutting's proposal in his minority report (reprinted below) to the Florida State Board of Education is not reasonable. In fact, he is a stealth Creationist who is attempting to promote the strategy of the Discovery Institute (DI) of Seattle, WA, which is trying to force alleged but bogus weaknesses of evolution into new state science standards (the DI is especially active in Texas, which has great influence on science standards and textbooks). It is illegal to teach either Young Earth Creationism or Intelligent Design Creationism in public schools (because courts have recognized that these are religious doctrines, and requiring them would violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the Constitution), so the DI is instead trying to weaken and corrupt science standards by asking malleable and complicit state education officials to get the appropriate pseudoscientific language into science standards that discuss two topics: evolution and the origin of life. The DI hopes thereby to confuse students and make them uncertain and suspicious of the high reliability and acceptance by scientists of evolution and abiogenetic origin of life. This, in turn, will make them more receptive to Creationist proselytization that they receive in churches, Sunday schools, and by Creationist marketing campaigns.
Mr. Cutting obviously doesn't understand biological evolution. He claims that the standards as written "dramatically overstate the degree of proof supporting Neo-Darwinian evolution and theories of chemical evolution." Nonsense. Evolution by natural selection (what Creationists term "Darwinism" or "Darwinian evolution" or "Neo-Darwinian evolution," not terms that biologists often use today*) and the abiogenetic chemical origin of life are both firmly established explanations in science since early in the previous century, about 100 years ago. There has not been any legitimate scientific objection to these explanations since then and there is none now. Only Creationists think there is. It should be emphasized that modern biological evolution has much greater explanatory content than any explanation of the origin of life. The Florida standards state that, "Evolution is the fundamental concept underlying all of biology and is supported by multiple forms of scientific evidence." That is an accurate statement, but a similar statement would not be true about any explanation of biogenesis, and the Florida standards do not make one, contrary to the assertion of Mr. Cutting. There is no governing theory of the origin of life today, only a consensus that non-living prebiotic chemicals became living biological chemicals by natural processes approximately 3.8 billion years ago. The Florida standards also don't claim or imply that any single explanation of abiogenesis is correct, only that the process was fully natural, a statement sufficient to cause Creationists to object.
[*Readers may wonder why Creationists and anti-evolutionists never use the terms biological evolution or evolutionary biology or the Synthetic Theory of Evolution or even just the theory of evolution. Instead, they always refer to the evolutionary explanation or process as Darwinism or Neo-Darwinism or Darwinian evolution or Neo-Darwinian evolution. Modern biologists try to minimize using terms that use Darwin's name, although there are occasional lapses. Creationists personalize evolution for several reasons. First, "Darwinism" is used to suggest that evolution equates with Freudianism, Marxism, Trotskyism, Leninism, Stalinism, and other failed nineteenth and early twentieth century ideologies, some of which were quite immoral. By naming the natural process after a person, they attempt to suggest it is controversial and thus demonize it (regardless of the fact that Darwin's reputation among scientists is unparalleled).
Second, they try to confuse the theory of evolution with the many evolutionary processes (natural selection, genetic drift, sexual selection, species selection, gene selection, neutral evolution, group selection, etc.) that have been discovered to be important, but several of which are still being debated and thus subject to exploitation by Creationist quote mongering. The most important of these specific processes is natural selection, the process actually discovered and promoted by Darwin and the single process that makes evolution Darwinian. Creationists frequently use language or quotes of legitimate scientists that criticize some aspect of evolutionary theory to suggest that the evolutionary process itself is being criticized, when this is not the case. Calling every evolutionary process Darwinism or Darwinian is an attempt to confuse readers.
Third, Creationists want to confound the fact of evolution (an ongoing and historical natural process) with the scientific theory of evolution (the full explanation of the mechanism of evolution and all its elements), so they often term both "Darwinism" to conflate them and promote confusion. Just confusing a reader or listener about evolution, rather than convincing them that evolution is false and Creationism is true, is often victory enough, since the ultimate Creationist goal is to cause ordinary students and citizens to lose their confidence and trust in science and thus in methodological naturalism and materialism. This, they feel, will promote belief in supernaturalism and religion.
Fourth, evolution had a scientific literature and history before Darwin wrote anything. Evolution was accepted as true by many European scientists long before Darwin, although the hypothetical explanations of evolution were primitive and now known to be wrong. Darwin's original theory, in fact--the true "Darwinism"--contained many errors. For example, Darwin believed and wrote that Lamarckism, the inheritance of acquired characteristics, was as important as natural selection (the process is known today to not occur). Darwin believed that inheritance was a blending process, which he termed pangenesis, not a particulate or Mendelian process as we know today. Pangenesis holds that body cells shed gemmules, which collect in the reproductive organs prior to fertilization. Thus, every cell in the body has a 'vote' in the constitution of the offspring. Pangenesis is now seen as a deeply flawed hypothesis that with no supporting evidence. Darwin largely did not believe that evolution occurred in rapid spurts or punctuations, but was always gradational and usually slow, while today we know that both occur. Neo-Darwinism is often defined as the combination of Darwin's natural selection with modern population genetics that became the scientific consensus early in the twentieth century. But evolutionary biology today is much more than just those two concepts. So the various personalized terms using the name Darwin should frankly be abandoned, and evolutionary scientists today do this.]
Mr. Cutting objects to the statement that "Evolution is the fundamental concept underlying all of biology and is supported by multiple forms of scientific evidence." This statement is perfectly true and would be non-controversial to all scientists. His reasoning that the statement is true for microevolution (what he terms "micro-evolution") but not macroevolution (what he terms the "origination of organismal forms") is nonsense. These words are technical terms biologists use to distinguish and describe levels on which evolution is operating. The natural process of evolution itself does not distinguish between microevolution and macroevolution. In nature, microevolution grades seamlessly into macroevolution without human input or distinction. There is no biological disjunction, only an explanatory disjunction created for the convenience of evolutionary theorists. Only Creationists make the scientifically-meaningless claim that microevolution is acceptable but macroevolution is not.
What about "alternative scientific explanations" to explain data. Historically, in the nineteenth century, there were plenty of alternative scientific explanations for evolution and the origin of life. But by scientific testing using experiments and repeated observations, scientists were able to accept natural selection and natural abiogenesis as both reliable and accurate explanations for the biological processes they explain. Of course, many secondary or auxiliary processes (such as the origin of eukaryotes by endosymbiosis, the dominant role of genetic drift rather than selection in small populations, the idea that molecular evolution is dominated by selectively neutral evolution, and many others) have been added to the primary explanations over the decades, and more will in the future, but these don't mitigate the fundamental concepts that all scientists accept. Scientists would be willing to consider "alternative scientific explanations" to evolution, natural selection, and abiogenesis, such as Intelligent Design or Special Creation, if these new explanations were truly scientific and had evidence to support them, but they are not and they don't.
Finally, let's look at the so-called "weaknesses" of evolution that the DI and other Creationists allege exist and should be addressed in science standards. Mr. Cutting refers to evolutionary "weaknesses" as "scientific critiques," and this term mirrors the other DI marketing slogans, "critical analysis" of evolution and "teach the controversy" about evolution. The DI thinks that if they repeat their marketing slogans enough, people will begin to think their product really exists. And the DI is right about people, since their advertising has been remarkable successful among the scientifically illiterate, which also happens to be the vast majority of citizens. But in fact, there is no controversy about evolution among scientists or science teachers. There are no Creationist-alleged "weaknesses" or "scientific critiques" about evolution. The reason the DI and Mr. Cutting can get away with claiming that there are is because they indulge in a duplicitous sleight-of-hand: they comb the scientific literature and find useful quotes that make it appear that scientists have problems with some aspect of an auxiliary evolutionary explanation, then they use those quotes to try to make it appear that the problems are with the basic framework of evolution itself. In short, Creationists misrepresent the evidence and confidence that scientists have in modern evolutionary biology.
Because the Creationists never define exactly what they mean by "weaknesses" or "critiques," they are able to deceptively use legitimate scientific research to cast doubt upon the main ideas of evolution and origin of life that are universally accepted. No scientific explanation is complete or in final form; scientists still have gaps in their knowledge and they do argue about details of many aspects of evolution and natural abiogenesis. But these are not weaknesses or critiques of the topics as they would be presented in public school biology classes. To achieve their goal of injuring science standards, Creationists try to make it appear that legitimate scientific unknowns or disagreements actually represent serious scientific uncertainty or weaknesses about the most basic natural processes that are well understood. This Creationist activity is a program of deception, antithetical to real science.
If you turn to the lists and descriptions of the "weaknesses" and "critiques" that Creationists claim exist, the full mendacity of their strategy becomes apparent. You discover that their so-called weaknesses and critiques of biological and chemical evolution are bogus. They are phony. They involve things such as Cambrian fossils, vertebrate embryos, moths and finches undergoing natural selection, complex organic molecules and structures, anatomical homology, vestigial organs, patterns of fossil succession, genetic mutations, and a host of other examples. In every case, the Creationists twist the facts using a series of specious arguments, misrepresented evidence, and quotes out of context to create a misleading case to convince the reader that their examples document the serious difficulties scientists have with the basic framework of evolution. All of these sophistic tactics have been documented by science defenders. DI's goal is to cast doubt upon the accuracy and reliability of evolution and abiogenesis as legitimate scientific explanations, but they can only do this by fooling the very individuals they are trying to convince.
The suggestion to require "weaknesses" or "scientific critiques" of biological and chemical evolution in state science standards is therefore a sham: it is a tactic that Creationists use in their stealth marketing campaign to corrupt and damage science in our country. If they really had evidence for their weaknesses and critiques, they should publish it in scientific journals and convince the real scientists of its validity. But they never do that because they know their evidence and arguments are bogus. And let's not try to deny that this effort isn't ultimately religious. Of course it is. The proponents of perverting science standards by inserting phony weaknesses or critiques of evolution and abiogenesis are all religious Creationists of either the Young Earth or Intelligent Design variety. They mask their religiosity by only using scientific language, but they can't mask the fact that they are using the political process and the power of state agencies to achieve their goals, rather than the patient, legitimate scientific process of demonstrating their case using the scientific method in the scientific literature.
In short, Fred Cutting and the Discovery Institute are using a deceptive, religiously-inspired political program to promote their Creationist goals. They rely totally on marketing and the power of state officials to achieve their aims, not on real science. This is really a shameful activity.
I wrote the above--linking Fred Cutting and the Discovery Institute in their joint effort to undermine science education by trying to get "weaknesses" or "critiques" of evolution reflected in Florida's science standards-- on February 5 without realizing that the two were linked by something more than sharing the same idea. The next day I discovered in a Discovery Institute news blog that Mr. Cutting contacted the Discovery Institute before he wrote his minority report and inquired about how to address the new Florida evolution requirement and draft his report in a way that would best undermine the new science standard. The DI was naturally happy to help. The author of the DI news blog, Casey Luskin, is highly complimentary of Mr. Cutting's minority report, calling it an "excellent proposal." From the DI's point of view, it certainly is, especially since they helped to write it and it follows the DI party line. I next discovered on the Florida Citizens for Sciences website, after a search, that Mr. Cutting has a long history as an active creationist, so he really wasn't a very stealthy Creationist after all. Why wasn't his long Creationist affiliation mentioned in his personal description at the conclusion of his column (no longer available on the Web, but reprinted below)?
Casey Luskin points out that the proposed Florida standards creditably asks students to "use critical and logical thinking, and the active consideration of alternative scientific explanations to explain all the data presented." No scientist would object to this science standard requirement. But then Mr. Luskin quotes Mr. Cutting's minority report: "Somewhat inexplicably, there is no indicator in the proposed standards that applies this philosophy of science education to biological origins." This kind of statement sort of gives the story away, since only a Creationist would make such an misleading statement.
Here are the reasons why applying the "consideration of alternative scientific explanations" to evolution won't work. First, applying any specific obligatory standard, such as "consideration of alternative scientific explanations," only to the topic of "biological origins" is illegal, because the sectarian anti-evolution intent is obvious and would quickly be recognized as a violation of the Establishment Clause by any federal court. I thought that Creationists knew not to do this anymore. The "consider alternatives" standard only works legally when it is applied to all scientific disciplines, not just evolution (aka "biological origins").
Second, the creditable proposed Florida Nature of Science section benchmark or standard has that one problematic word that keeps tripping up Creationist efforts to undermine science education. You know the word: scientific. Here's the full standard:
Benchmark SC.912.N.2.4: The learner will recognize that the strength or usefulness of a scientific claim is established through scientific argumentation, which depends on the use of critical and logical thinking, and the active consideration of alternative scientific explanations to explain all the data presented.
Yes, the proposed standard says it's important--students "will recognize"--that scientific claims should be examined and active consideration given to "alternative scientific explanations to explain all the data presented." I have italicized the Creationist problem word. For this standard to work, there first have to exist alternative scientific explanations to evolution, and there just aren't any. But wait a minute...what about Intelligent Design Creationism? Isn't that an "alternative scientific explanation"? No, it is not. IDC is not scientific, as every legitimate scientist will testify and a federal district court judge recently ruled. There now exist dozens of books and hundreds of papers written by scientists describing in magnificent detail why Young Earth Creationism, Intelligent Design Creationism, Scientific Creationism, and all other forms of Creationism are not real science. So Mr. Cutting's and the DI's proposal to require in the standards that students learn the "scientific critiques of standard models of neo-Darwinian evolution or models of the chemical origin of life" is just not going to be acceptable for substantive logical, scientific, educational, and legal reasons.
Another similar problem for organized Creationism is that the proposed Florida nature of science benchmark is that the standard says that scientific claims depend on the "use of critical and logical thinking." Creationists love to ask that science standards, curricula, and textbooks use "critical analysis" in any discussion of biological origins. There is no question that critical thinking--which can be defined as the use of logical, empirical, and skeptical thinking--is a foundational skill of scientists and an underpinning of the scientific method. There is nothing wrong with asking students to learn critical thinking skills and engage in critical thinking, despite the fact that these are usually ignored by textbooks, teachers, and students in the actual practice of K-12 education. But how does the standard apply to Creationism or "critiques" and "weaknesses" of evolution? If taught and followed correctly, a critical thinking standard will inevitably lead students to acceptance of evolution as the correct explanation of biologic origins. After all, this critical process led every life scientist to this conclusion 150 years ago when they scientifically analyzed and rejected the traditional creationist explanation for the existence and diversity of life. And this process continued to reject Creationism and support evolution for the subsequent 150 years, and continues to do so today.
The same problematic word and critical thinking standard has been tripping up Creationists in Texas for over 20 years. The equivalent Texas process of science standard--the notorious Rule 3A--is as follows:
The student uses critical thinking and scientific problem solving to make informed decisions. The student is expected to analyze, review, and critique scientific explanations, including hypotheses and theories, as to their strengths and weaknesses using scientific evidence and information.
In 2003 in Texas, Creationists emphasized trying to "critique scientific explanations" of biological origins by invoking their alleged "weaknesses" of evolution, the very same ones listed above, and asked that these bogus weaknesses be inserted into biology textbooks. In 2008, their stated intention is to insert some of these same specific but phony "weaknesses" of evolution directly into the revised science standards. But the Creationists have always failed, because the rule clearly says that only "scientific evidence and information" can be used to "critique scientific explanations," and they have never been able to convince a majority of State Board of Education members that genuine scientific critiques or problems of evolution exist. That's a good thing, too, since scientific objections to evolution do not exist in the real world, but only in the minds of Creationists and other anti-evolutionists. Rule 3A requires that students use "critical thinking and scientific problem solving to make informed decisions." This is completely laudable. Unfortunately, however, the actual practice of applying critical thinking and scientific problem solving skills is usually lacking in Texas biology classrooms, because information about evolution is usually diminished or omitted. It is impossible to use critical thinking and problem solving skills when students are not first given the correct information about which to think. In Texas biology classrooms, willful ignorance about evolution is more common than "critical thinking and scientific problem solving" about it.
The controversy has certainly intimidated teachers from instructing many Texas students about the true nature of biology, so student science education significantly suffers in Texas, which is the real goal of anti-evolutionists, because they are fundamentally anti-science. The ultimate cause of this problem is the poor leadership of members of the Texas State Board of Education, which not only passively allows evolution to be euphemized, avoided, and omitted in Texas, but actively encourages this by their constant efforts to censor the topic. Texas public officials talk about wanting good science and technology education in Texas, but when it comes to evolution and the origin of life, they are unwilling to match their words with deeds.
Minority Report
Florida Science Standards
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In the May [2007] framers� meeting, a major concern from the consultants, Dr. Jean Slattery, Ted Willard, and Bill Schmidt was that in the US we are teaching science �a mile wide and an inch deep.� American students are each a walking encyclopedia of facts without sufficient depth of understanding of the underlying concepts in science. In order to remedy this problem, the Proposed Florida Science Standards include the following requirement:
Benchmark SC.912.N.2.4: (As released to the public) The learner will recognize that the strength or usefulness of a scientific claim is established through scientific argumentation, which depends on the use critical and logical thinking, and the active consideration of alternative scientific explanations to explain all the data presented.
Somewhat inexplicably, there is no indicator in the proposed standards that applies this philosophy of science education to biological origins. We do not advance science by canonizing our predecessors but by challenging our successors. What challenge is there if we tell students �this is the only way to look at this issue�? Thus, in order to increase the effectiveness of Florida�s Science Standards by helping students to develop critical thinking skills and better understand life-sciences, we propose that the language stated in the SC.912 standards below be adopted into the proposed standards as a benchmark under the section �Evolution and Diversity�:
�Students should learn why some scientists give scientific critiques of standard models of neo-Darwinian evolution or models of the chemical origin of life.�
It is a great improvement that the proposed standards teach students more about evolution. But as currently written the following proposed standards and benchmarks take a dogmatic tone that do not reflect the true nature of science, and dramatically overstate the degree of proof supporting Neo-Darwinian evolution and theories of chemical evolution. For example in the Life Science Evolution and Diversity �Body of Knowledge� starts with the statement �Evolution is the fundamental concept underlying all of biology and is supported by multiple forms of scientific evidence� This is true for micro-evolution but not so for origination of organismal forms or the origination of life it�s self. We thus recommend the following changes:
SC.912.L.1.5 Origination of Eukaryotic Cells
Explain the extent of the evolutionary proof as demonstrated by the fossil record, comparative anatomy, comparative embryology, biogeography, molecular biology of the origin of the eukaryotic cells (endosymbiosis).� (Please note the leading nature, implied conclusion, and overstatement of data available.)
Change to: �Use critical and logical thinking to explain and analyze the origin of eukaryotic cells (endosymbiosis).�
SC.912.L.2.7 Evolution
Explain the extent of the evolutionary proof as demonstrated by the fossil record, comparative anatomy, comparative embryology, biogeography, molecular biology.
Change to: �Use critical and logical thinking to analyze and explain the extent of the evolutionary proof as demonstrated by the fossil record, comparative anatomy, comparative embryology, biogeography, molecular biology.�
SC.912.L.2.9 Origins of Life
Express scientific explanations of the origins of life on earth.
Change to: �Use critical and logical thinking to explain and assess scientific hypotheses for the origin of life on earth. Explain the solved problems, and the unsolved problems in origin of life research.�
SC.912.L.2.12 Human Evolution
Identify basic trends in hominid evolution from early ancestors six million years ago to modern humans.
Change to: �Identify the types of fossil hominids species and use critical and logical thinking to explain aspects of human origins that are documented, and those that are not documented by the fossil evidence.�
If Florida students are to remain competitive in science, students need to see how scientists debate important topics, such as Darwinian evolution or the chemical origin of life. We sincerely hope that those approving the writing in our standards will remain open to these requests for the sake of our students and the excellence of Florida�s science education.
Fred Cutting
Science Framer Committee Member
Teach critiques of Darwin, too
Fred Cutting
My View [Op-Ed]
Tallahassee Democrat
February 4, 2008
http://tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080204/OPINION05/802040304/1006/NEWS17 [no longer available]
As a retired engineer and a member of the Framers' Committee for Florida's new science standards, I must express a deep concern about part of the proposed standards.
At our May framers' meeting, a major concern from the experts brought in was that in the United States we are teaching science "a mile wide and an inch deep." American students are each a walking encyclopedia of facts without sufficient depth of understanding of the underlying concepts in science.
In order to remedy this problem, the Proposed Florida Science Standards included a requirement that students must "recognize that the strength and usefulness of a scientific claim is established through scientific argumentation, which depends on the use of critical and logical thinking, and the active consideration of alternative scientific explanations to explain all the data presented."
This is a good approach to science education. Somewhat inexplicably, however, there is no indicator in the proposed standards that applies this philosophy of science education to the teaching of evolution.
We do not advance science by canonizing our predecessors but by challenging our successors. What challenge is there if we tell students "this is the only way to look at this issue"? As a member of the Framers' Committee, I am submitting a minority report suggesting that the following language be adopted into Florida's science standards:
"Students should learn why some scientists give scientific critiques of standard models of neo-Darwinian evolution or models of the chemical origin of life."
I oppose including religion in the science classroom, and this proposal in no way brings religion into the science classroom. There are serious scientific critiques of neo-Darwinism that deserve to be heard by students. This is a scientific debate, not a religious one.
It is a great improvement that the proposed standards teach students more about evolution. But as currently written, four of the proposed standards take a dogmatic tone that does not reflect the true nature of science and dramatically overstates the degree of proof supporting Neo-Darwinian evolution and theories of chemical evolution.
For example, the proposed Florida science standards claim that, "Evolution is the fundamental concept underlying all of biology and is supported by multiple forms of scientific evidence." This is true for micro-evolution but not so for origination of organismal forms or the origination of life itself (i.e. macro-evolution).
If Florida students are to remain competitive in science, students need to see how scientists debate important topics, such as Darwinian evolution or the chemical origin of life. We sincerely hope that the Florida State Board of Education will remain open to these requests for the sake of our students and the excellence of Florida's science education.
Fred Cutting is a retired aerospace engineer living in the Tampa Bay area. Contact him at email@example.com.
Texas Citizens for Science Last updated: 2008 May 24


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Published: Friday, January 17, 2003 at 12:03 p.m.
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Elisha Spotts, 32, a native of Terrebonne Parish and resident of Atlanta, died Sat., Jan. 11, 2003.
Visitation will be held from 9 a.m. to funeral time at Plymouth Rock Baptist Church in Houma. Religious services will be held at the church at 11 a.m., with burial following at St. Luke Cemetery in Waterproof.
She is survived by her husband, Charles Spotts; parents, Glenda C. and Ray N. James Sr.; her grandparents, Vivian Charles and Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert James; two daughters, Ashton Charles and Jaidyn A. Spotts; a brother, Ray N. James Jr.; and a sister, Kristi K. James.
She was Baptist and served in the U.S. Army.
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2009-10: Cross Country Recorded a personal-best five-kilometer time of 19:05 at the Illinois Intercollegiate(9/18) ... set a career-best six-kilometer time of 22:58.9 at the Tori Neubauer Race (10/17) ... took home second place for the Huskies in every meet in which she competed ... ran a 6k time of 23:54.8 at the MAC Championships to finish second for the Huskies, taking home 34th overall.
2008-09: Indoor - Won the 3,000m run in consecutive meets... took first at the Illinois Intercollegiate (1/31) in 10:25.97, and set a personal record of 10:22.27 to win gold at the CMU Quadrangular (2/6)... debuted for NIU with a second-place 3,000 (10:45.72) at the Panther Open (1/17)... placed fourth with a 3:09.20 in the 1,000m run at the Carle/Health Alliance Invite (1/24)... finished sixth with a personal record 5:15.90 mile at the BSU Quadrangular (2/6). Outdoor- Recorded personal-bests times in the 800m run (2:25.36) and the 3000m run (10:16.05) at the Northridge Invitational (3/14) ... achieved a personal-best time of 17:39 in the 5000m run at the Ben Brown Invitational (3/7).
Missouri State: Competed for one season as a Bear before transferring to Northern Illinois.
High School: Earned all-state honors three times, for track as a freshman and sophomore and in cross country as a junior... did not compete as a senior... ran a career-best two-mile time of 11:02.
Personal: Daughter of Maria and Jorge Nieto... born Sept. 7, 1988... majoring in pre-nursing.


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The satellites had diverse applications.
Northrop Systems Laboratories developed and produced the OV2 satellites for the USAF Office of Aerospace Research. The satellite was a secondary payload for the Titan III-C test flights. Three of the satellites were designed by Northrop, each with diverse applications. The first two OV2 satellites failed to orbit, due to a Titan transtage malfunction. Northrop designed, fabricated, integrated, assembled and tested the OV2 vehicles for the Air Force. On-board experimentation was provided by Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (AFCRL), Air Force Weapons Laboratory (AFWL), and the Air Force Space Systems Division, Aerospace Corporation (SSD/Aerospace). Most subsystem equipment used on the OV2 spacecraft had been demonstrated on previous programs and was readily available for other experiment applications, The spacecraft series was powered by solar energy collected by 4 paddles which extend when the vehicle was in orbit. Span of the basic satellite with paddles extended was approximately 3.7 m. The OV2-5 was a low cost, near-earth space research satellite. It was designed for solar, magnetic, and cosmic ray research in space. On September 28, 1968, it was boosted from the ground by a Titan III launch vehicle into a circular equatorial orbit at an altitude of 22,000 miles above the Earth. It was designed with an operating life in space of at least one year.
Gross mass: 189 kg (416 lb).
First Launch: 1965.10.15.
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UPDATED FEBURARY 9, 2014: RETRACTION-According to Prince William authorities, Devon was never in danger of being euthanized. Please see new article here.
This article is a plea for help to save a dog from being euthanized, Todd Williams posted on Facebook February 7. A temporary home is all that's needed to save this dog, who has once again found himself in a bad situation.
Devon is in the Prince William County Animal Shelter, located in Manassas, Virginia. How he ended up there is a crazy turn of events, leaving the man who saved him before to come to his rescue again.
That man is Todd Williams, whose photography and love of dogs is legend in upstate South Carolina. Todd is the face behind many rescues in his community, and he's determined to save Devon-again.
Todd has spoken with the shelter, and was told Sunday, Feburary 9, is his deadline. Devon is at risk of being euthanized, even with the guarantee of being rescued on February 11, which is the earliest Todd can drive from Greenville, South Carolina to Manassas.
This is a guaranteed short-term foster situation. Todd has been in contact with a transporter and is paying for the transport himself. At the moment, a go-between is needed to get Devon out of the shelter. Anyone who can help is asked to contact Todd at email@example.com, or on his Facebook page above.
Please share this article with friends in the Manassas, Virginia area. Devon has help coming. Don't let him down when rescue is so close at hand.


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An illustrious lineup of international carmakers – Mercedes … Honda … Hyundai … Toyota – gives instant credibility to Alabama's rapid emergence as one of the nation's major automotive manufacturing centers.
In 1993, not a single automobile was made in Alabama. Then, Mercedes selected Alabama to build its first passenger vehicle factory outside Germany. The $400 million plant in Tuscaloosa County produced only one model when it began production in 1997 – the M-class SUV.
By 2000, Mercedes had doubled the plant size with an additional $600 million investment. The Tuscaloosa plant now produces M-class, R-class and GL-class SUVs. Mercedes began production of the C-class in Tuscaloosa County in 2014, which will be the first sedan produced at the site. The addition resulted in $2 billion spent to expand capacity for the C-class and other models.
"Tuscaloosa was the first production location of Mercedes-Benz cars ever outside of Germany, and today it is among our best," said Dieter Zetsche, chairman of Daimler AG. "As our pioneering plant, it is also the blueprint for our new operations in emerging markets."
Mercedes' Tuscaloosa plant produces about 185,000 cars per year. The facility has announced that a new Mercedes-Benz model is set for debut in 2015, totaling five products at the Tuscaloosa plant.
In 1999, Honda chose the east Alabama town of Lincoln to build a new automotive and engine operation that today employs more than 4,000 associates. The $2 billion, 3.5 million-square-foot facility is Honda's sole production source of Odyssey minivan, The Pilot sport utility vehicle, the Acura MDX luxury sport utility vehicle and the V-6 engines to power them.
The facility's annual production capacity stands at 340,000 vehicles and engines. In 2013, total production reached 3 million vehicles and engines at Honda Manufacturing of Alabama. In 2014, the facility plans to add 50 production jobs and invest $71.8 million.
Korean automaker Hyundai in 2001 announced plans to employ 3,000 at a $1.7 billion plant near Alabama's capital city of Montgomery. Today the facility makes the Sonata and Elantra sedans; 60 percent of Hyundai sales in the U.S. market.
During 2012, Hyundai Motor America had a record year selling 703,007 vehicles, a 9 percent increase from 2011. The game-changing Sonata led the way with more than 230,000 units sold. These results show how well consumers have responded to Hyundai's high-tech 4-cylinder lineup, dynamic new design and the mid-size segment's first five-star National Highway Traffic Safety Administration crash-test result.
The Elantra, delivering 38 miles per gallon, continued to dominate the compact segment with sales exceeding 202,000 units during 2012.
In March 2012, Montgomery's Hyundai facility began producing Theta 4-cylinder gasoline-injection engines and Nu 4-cylinder engines, supplying the nearby Hyundai subsidiary, KIA, just across the state line in West Point, Ga.
The Montgomery plant continues to run a three-shift, 24-hour-a-day operating pattern to meet consumer demand for both the Sonata and Elantra sedans and boost manufacturing capacity to more than 388,000 vehicles per year.
Updated: July 21, 2014
Location: Montgomery County (Central Alabama)
Announced: 2002
Opened: 2005
Capital Investment: $1.7 billion
Employment: 3,100
Annual Production: 385,000 vehicles and 630,000 engines annually
Plant Size: 3.2 million square feet
Products: Sonata sedan, Elantra sedan, Theta 4-cylinder gasoline injection engines, Nu 4-cylinder engines
Photo of 2011 Sonata courtesy of Hyundai Motor America
Location: Tuscaloosa County
Announced: 1993
Opened: 1997
Capital Investment: $4 billion
Employment: 3,300
Annual Production: 174,000 vehicles annually (projected)
Plant Size: More than 4 million square feet-plus
Products: M-class, R-class, GL-class luxury SUV, C-class and new vehicle in 2015
Photo courtesy of Mercedes Benz U.S. International (2011 M-Class)
Location: Talladega County
Announced: 1999
Opened: 2001
Capital Investment: $2 billion
Employment: 4,000
Annual production: 340,000 vehicles and V6 engines
Plant Size: 3.7 million square feet
Products: Odyssey minivan; Pilot SUV; Ridgeline pickup; Acura MDX luxury SUV and V6 engines.
Photo of 2011 Ridgeline courtesy of Honda Manufacturing of Alabama