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I know i can just turn this feature off in the Media Service GUI but I prefer to have it running as it's cacheing speeds up folder browsing.
Just that i prefer to keep the PS3 XMB view as clean as possible so it's easier for the wife and kids to find their stuff

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A glorious design that sparkles with crisp and fresh hues. Crafted with polished sterling silver and palladium with 18K yellow gold embraced™ accents, this lovely ring showcases one oval cut 9 x 7mm peridot in a claw setting. This showpiece is accented with two pear cut 5 x 3mm chrome diopsides, four round cut 1.75mm tsavorites and ten round cut 1.5mm white sapphires, all in claw and bead settings.
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The "vermeil" technique of plating sterling silver with gold originated in France in the 1750s. It differs from "gold filled" or "gold plated" in terms of the thickness or thinness of the microns over sterling silver. "Gold filled" pieces have a much thicker layer, between 15 and 45 microns, which is mechanically bonded to the base metal with heat and pressure. Vermeil is a more expensive version of "gold plated". It does not wear off as quickly as gold plating does. However, over time, vermeil wears off and therefore will require re-plating.
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Peridot features a lively yellow-green color that is transparent with an oily luster. The iron that creates peridot's color is an integral part of its structure, so the gem is only found in various shades of green. It is most prized in lime hues, but Italian peridot is a rich olive color and popular American peridot is a beautiful light yellow-green. The Romans called peridot "evening emerald" because its exquisite green color was said to glow at night. This is perhaps because the stone exhibits double refraction, meaning that when looking through the stone, objects appear double. So when looking into a faceted peridot, the number of bottom facets appears to be double the actual number, creating a glittering sensation.
Pronounced PEAR-A-DOE, the word "peridot" comes from the French word meaning "gem." It is the gem variety of the mineral olivine and ranks a 6.5-7.0 on the Mohs Scale.
Born in cauldrons of fire, peridot is considered the "volcanic gem," since small crystals of it are often found in the rocks created by volcanoes. In fact, Hawaiian legend called peridot the divine tears wept by Pele, goddess of the volcano. The island of Oahu even has beaches made out of olivine grains, but they are much too small to cut into peridot. Samples of the gem also have been discovered in meteorites that have fallen to Earth, many of which are more than a billion years old.
Peridot traces its jewelry roots to 3,500 years ago. The stone was first mined by the ancient Egyptians on the volcanic island of Zebargad in the Red Sea. Known as the "serpent isle," it was infested with poisonous snakes that interfered with mining activity until one Pharaoh had them all driven into the sea. Today, Native Americans mine most peridot on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona. Interestingly, almost all peridot sold in Hawaii is from Arizona, despite the fact that peridot is produced by Hawaii's volcanoes. The gemstone is also found in Norway, Brazil, China, Egypt, Italy, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. An exciting new deposit was discovered in Pakistan in 1994, yielding some of the finest peridot ever seen, including one stone that weighed more than 300.00ct.
Peridot is among the oldest known stones and has been mined as a gem for thousands of years. As early as 1575 to 1350 B.C., the ancient Egyptians used peridot beads in their ceremonial jewelry. In fact, it is believed the stone was one of the favorite gems of Cleopatra and that some of the "emeralds" she wore were actually peridot.
Ancient Egyptians also carved small drinking vessels out of large chunks of peridot. Priests would drink soma from them in rituals, believing the soma would put them in touch with the nature goddess, Isis. Legend has it that King Soloman traded cedar trees from Lebanon for 12 soma drinking cups and 144 liters of soma. The Egyptians made this trade for ramp logs to build their pyramids at Gisa, while King Soloman was said to have been enlightened by drinking soma from the peridot cups. Today, Mexican hill tribes still drink soma from green glazed cups to put them in touch with nature and their ancestors' spirits. Additionally, some Native American Indians in Arizona use tea made from peyote ground with peridot crystals in their rituals.
Peridot has also been important to other cultures throughout history. Late in the Ottoman Empire (1300 to 1900), peridot was a highly prized gem and Turkish Sultans amassed some of the world's largest collections of the gemstone. It is mentioned in the Bible under the name of "chrysolite," and was used to decorate medieval churches with samples that were most likely carried back to Europe by the Crusaders. Large stones weighing more than 200.00ct adorn the Shrine of the Three Magi at the Cologne Cathedral in Germany.
Throughout the ages, peridot has been believed to hold mystical powers of protection and healing. The ancients regarded the stone as a symbol of the sun and wore it in amulets to prevent nightmares and drive away evil spirits. It was even favored by pirates to protect them against evil. Peridot was said to be useful for calming raging angers, curing nervous afflictions and promoting quiet sleep. It was also used as a medical remedy to treat asthma and ward off fevers. Peridot was also believed to strengthen any medicine drunk from goblets carved from the stone. South American Shamans use peridot to ward off snakebites and the evil spirits who have taken the form of mosquitoes who bring the sleeping sickness. They also say the heating of magic mushroom tea by peridot takes them on trips to the ancestor heavens.
Today, peridot is believed to bring the wearer success, peace and good luck. To be most powerful, it is said that the stone should be mounted in gold and surrounded with small diamonds. With powers that are thought to bring protection and health, modern folklore also says it can be used to attract love and calm anger while soothing nerves and dispelling negative emotions. The gem is believed to protect the wearer from bad dreams when set in gold.
Peridot is considered the birthstone of August. Given as a symbol of fame, dignity and protection, this gem is also traditionally given to couples celebrating their 16th wedding anniversaries.
An ancient Persian legend states the Earth rests on a gigantic sapphire that gives its blue reflection to the sky. The most popular colors for sapphires range from light blue to a blue that appears black. Hence, the name was derived from the Latin form of the Greek word for blue, "sapphirus." Bright daylight makes most sapphires shine more vividly than the somewhat muted artificial light. So the most highly cherished color for blue sapphires is not the darkest blue, but a deep and satiated blue, which even in dim, artificial light remains to appear blue.
While sapphires are best known for being velvety blue, it was decided long ago to consider all gemstones of the mineral family corundum to be sapphires. Non-blue sapphires are termed "fancy" and can be nearly any color, including yellow, green, white/colorless, pink, orange, brown, purple, golden and even black. Red corundum is the exception, however, and was given the special name of "ruby." Since pink is really just a light red, the International Colored Gemstone Association has resolved to consider light shades of the red hue to be included in the category ruby, as it is too difficult to legislate where red ends and pink begins. In practice, however, pink shades of corundum are known as either pink ruby or pink sapphire. All sapphires rank a 9.0 on the Mohs Scale, second only to diamonds in hardness.
There are a great number of varieties of sapphire, many of which are quite rare and highly sought-after in the gemstone market. A rare orange-pink variety, known as padparadscha, can be even more valuable than blue sapphire. Pronounced PAD-PA-RAD-SHAH, the name comes from the Sinhalese word for lotus blossom. Endowed with both pink and orange color components, its hues range from pastels to fiery shades. Padparadscha sapphires are usually heat treated to improve and intensify their color, while the color of untreated stones will fade over time. An untreated padparadscha sapphire that has faded will return to its original pinkish-orange color, however, if exposed to sunlight for about an hour.
Another rare variety of sapphire is known as the color-changing sapphire. This stone exhibits different colors in different light. In natural light, color-changing sapphire is blue, but in artificial light, it is violet.
For experts and connoisseurs, the Kashmir-color is considered the most beautiful and valuable shade. It features a pure and intensive blue, which is enhanced by a fine, silky gloss. Its color does not change in artificial light, but remains intense with a deep, velvety sheen. Setting the standard for the color of top-quality sapphires, Kashmir sapphires were found in 1880 after an avalanche. They were intensely mined for only eight years until the source was depleted. The Burma-color is also considered especially valuable, ranging from rich royal blue to deep cornflower blue. Ceylon sapphires are prized as well for the luminosity and brilliance of their light to medium blue color.
There is a translucent variety of sapphire, called star sapphire, which displays a six-point star when cut into a smooth domed cabochon. The mineral rutile is embedded in an asterisk-shape within the stone, causing light to reflect in a phenomenon called "asterism." Six- or twelve-ray stars appear to magically glide across the surface of the stones as they are moved. Star sapphires and rubies are expensive rarities and should always display the stars exactly in the center of the gem. Value is influenced by the intensity of the body color and the strength and sharpness of the star. The star stone is said to be the home of each person's angel, who lives there in contentment with the sapphire's spirit.
The stone is mined in many parts of the world. The oldest sapphire mines are situated in Ceylon, today called Sri Lanka, where gemstones were mined in ancient times. Most blue sapphires today come from Thailand or Australia, but sapphires from Kashmir and Myanmar (formerly Burma) are considered the most rare and highly prized. Sapphires are readily available in sizes of up to 2.00ct, but gems weighing 5.00-10.00ct are not unusual. The cushion-cut Logan Sapphire from Sri Lanka weighs an astounding 423.00ct and can be seen at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. There is also a 258.00ct stone set in the Russian crown, which is kept in the Diamond Fund in Moscow.
Because the gem has long symbolized sincere love and enduring faithfulness, blue sapphires are often given in engagement rings to express commitment and loyalty. Many women throughout the world decide on the blue stone for their engagement rings, as the gem also represents truth, friendship, harmony and consistency. Sapphire blue has become a color related to anything permanent and reliable, making it an ideal stone to symbolize the promise of marriage.
Often referred to as "Gem of the Heavens," sapphire also symbolizes a noble soul. It is September's birthstone and is traditionally given as 5th and 45th wedding anniversary gifts. Star sapphires are given for the 65th anniversary. The color sapphire-blue is known for representing clarity and competence. In fact, the first computer to ever declare victory over a chess grandmaster and world champion was named "Deep Blue."
Sapphires have been associated with magical powers throughout the ages. The Greeks identified white sapphires with Apollo and the oracles at Delphi used them to tap into the subconscious and super conscious. During the Middle Ages, sapphires symbolized the tranquility of the heavens and wearing them was thought to bring peace, happiness and purity of the soul. The color blue became the symbol of the union between a priest and the heavens, so sapphires came to be adorned on the rings of bishops. Soldiers wore them to prevent capture by enemies and kings wore the gemstone to defend against harm and put themselves in divine favor. This supposed "divine favor" is why sapphires were often the gemstone of choice for high priests and royalty throughout history. In fact, the British Crown Jewels contain a number of notable sapphires.
Today, sapphires are still believed to hold special powers. The stone is said to provide healing properties for mental illness and depression. It can be considered an aid to psycho kinesis, telepathy and clairvoyance, while providing spiritual enlightenment and inner peace. White sapphires, like diamonds, are considered the guardians of love, enhancing it and ensuring fidelity in marriage. The most powerful type of the gem is said to be the star sapphire. They are believed to protect against negative energy and have a calming effect that allows the mind to experience tranquility, joy and clear thinking.
Pronounced SAV-OH-RITE, the tsavorite gemstone features an intense green color that ranges from a vivid light hue to a deep, velvety forest shade. It is a member of the garnet family and is often referred to as a green grossularite. Like other garnets, tsavorite is naturally pristine with no treatments and features a strikingly high brilliance.
In 1967, British geologist Campbell R. Brides discovered tsavorite in Tanzania. He found strange, potato-shaped rocks that had breathtakingly beautiful green grains and crystals inside them. In 1971, he discovered the same gemstone vein extended into Kenya, where he could officially start exploiting the occurrence.
Henry Platt, the former president of Tiffany & Co in New York, named the stone after its occurrence near the famous game frontier, Tsavo-National Park. In 1974, Tiffany's started a special promotion campaign to make tsavorite well known throughout the United States. Campaigns in other countries followed, and tsavorite soon became sought-after everywhere.
Tsavorite is quite rare and can cost several thousand dollars per carat depending on size and quality. Larger stones are exceedingly scarce. Only occasionally is a rough crystal more than 5.00ct found, making tsavorites weighing 2.00ct or more quite valuable. Fortunately, the brilliance and luminosity of these gems are displayed even in smaller sizes. They rank a hardness of 7.5 on the Mohs Scale and enjoy an especially high light-refraction index.
Too new to have folklore of its own, tsavorite is believed to hold the mystical powers of garnet, including protection and healing. Garnets also symbolize loyalty and can be exchanged between friends to ensure they meet again.
Chrome Diopside:
Chrome diopside, also called Russian diopside, offers an intense forest green color. Because it is the most affordable gemstone with a pure, rich green color, many jewelry designers predict chrome diopside will be the world's leading emerald substitute by the end of the decade. It is mostly available in smaller sizes, with the rare larger sizes becoming much more expensive and too dark. A 26.17ct oval cut chrome diopside may be the largest known example of the faceted stone, but there is also a 25.33ct stone that is brighter and more intense in color.
Chrome diopside is relatively soft, with a hardness of 5.5 on the Mohs Scale. Mostly mined in Yakutia and Siberia, the liberalization of the former Soviet Union's economy has made chrome diopside more available, and more popular, than ever before.
A selection of our jewelry is made of sterling palladium alloy. Palladium is a member of the platinum group of precious metals. By replacing a portion of the copper content used in standard sterling silver with palladium, this proprietary formula renders a precious metal with superior performance attributes. Sterling palladium is five times more tarnish-resistant than standard sterling silver and has strength similar to that of 14K gold.
Palladium has been used as a precious metal in jewelry since 1939, originally as an alternative to platinum for making white gold. Its naturally white color requires no rhodium plating. Additionally, palladium is proportionally much lighter than platinum and is ideal for use in heavier gemstone jewelry. It is a more expensive alloy than nickel, but it seldom causes the allergic reactions that nickel alloy can.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- When underdog Dan Skuta broke into the NFL in 2009, one teammate who took a shine to him was the Cincinnati Bengals' star quarterback, Carson Palmer.
"He was always rooting for me, even though I was a defensive guy and he had no reason," recalled Skuta about his days as an undrafted rookie out of Division II Grand Valley State.
Skuta's job Sunday at Candlestick Park will be to defend against Palmer and the Arizona Cardinals while starting a third straight game for the 49ers in place of sack leader Aldon Smith (personal leave).
"Dan Skuta has come in and done a phenomenal job," Palmer said of his former Bengals teammate from 2009-10.
Skuta, after four years with the Bengals, moved from inside linebacker to outside linebacker upon joining the 49ers this year. Still a special-teams ace, Skuta is showing why the 49ers opted to keep him and rookie Corey Lemonier as their reserves while trading away Parys Haralson before the season.
Coach Jim Harbaugh drew on Skuta's roots in hailing his new starter: "He's just a good, Flint, Michigan, guy. He's like Joe Staley, like me; we're Michigan guys. Just something blue-collar, something gritty, determination about those guys."
Palmer said the Bengals played Skuta "out of position" at inside linebacker, noting now: "He's playing the position he was built for. ... Dan's on the cusp of thriving, playing the spot he's got the athletic ability to play, and the size and frame to play."
Skuta isn't the only ex-Bengals teammate Palmer will encounter against the 49ers, nor is Skuta's position switch the only one hailed by Palmer. After seven seasons with the Bengals, Justin Smith indeed looks at home in his sixth year with the 49ers.
"Same thing with Justin Smith, (who) for four or five years was playing out of position and being used improperly," Palmer said. "Now he's thrived since he's been there."
When Skuta hasn't lined up next to Smith the past two games, it's typically been Lemonier on passing downs or Ahmad Brooks coming over from the left side. Tony Jerod-Eddie and Demarcus Dobbs also have helped fill in on the defensive line.
"There's good players at backup spots all over the place," Palmer said. "It's a very well built roster."
Skuta was the second free agent the 49ers signed in the past offseason, behind nose tackle Glenn Dorsey. Skuta's special-teams prowess figured to earn him a roster spot. His hustle at outside linebacker solidified it, and that's shown up the past two games. Not bad for someone who's first NFL paycheck came on the 2009 Bengals practice squad.
"Just a great combination of size, athletic ability and speed," Palmer raved. "He moves all of the field very well, he rushes the passer well, he plays the run extremely well and really sets the edge."
Skuta returned that praise and painted Palmer in a favorable light, even though he's lugging around the NFL's 30th-ranked passer rating (67.0).
"He seems to be very similar to how he was in Cincinnati," Skuta of Palmer. "He has great control of the offense, and he's really smart, he's going to put the ball in the right places. That all looks the same to me."
Looks can be deceiving: Palmer has thrown as many interceptions (nine) as Houston's Matt Schaub, whom the 49ers pounced on with three interceptions in last Sunday's 34-3 rout.
The NFL's second-best pass defense now belongs to the 49ers, a ranking that's climbed in recent weeks despite the absence of Aldon Smith. That said, Skuta is still looking for the first full sack of his career. So is Lemonier, whom Palmer described as: "No. 96, the rookie, a really, really good pass rusher."
Skuta isn't seeking his first interception against Palmer, however, not if he's willing to count a couple of practice-field thefts when they were teammates.
Said Skuta: "I have lined up a lot against him. If anything, it can't hurt."
For more on the 49ers, see Cam Inman's Hot Read blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/49ers.


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Sunday is one of the busiest and deadliest traveling days of the year as many return home from the holiday weekend and head back to work. Both Georgia and South Carolina state troopers have stepped up patrols to prevent more roadside fatalities.
About 30 million Americans are hitting the roads this weekend and eight million of those are from the southeast alone. Which is why state troopers in both South Carolina and Georgia are stepping up their patrol.
"Out in increased numbers trying to slow down traffic and do DUI enforcement," said Trooper Lamkin.
Despite their efforts, the state of Georgia has already had 14 deaths this weekend while South Carolina has had seven. So what's the common killer behind the fatalities?
"A lot of speeders and people not wearing seatbelts," Trooper Lamkin said.
All reasons we've heard before, but to Joy Batchelor, mother of three, it's advice motorists need to hear as often as they can.
"This is Ashton's room, I keep it set up just the way he had it before he died," said Batchelor said.
More than three years have passed since all three of her sons were tragically killed in a car accident less than a mile away from her home.
"It's hard to come in here a lot of times," Batchelor said.
None of them were wearing their seatbelts.
"I can't say if my boys had their seatbelts on they'd be with me today, but I have a strong belief they would've," Batchelor said.
Georgia State Trooper Amelio Lamkin has already issued 20 tickets in less than three hours, hoping to prevent another parent from losing a child.
"Kids not being buckled in, letting them ride around in the car," Lamkin said.
Combine that with holiday festivities and you've got one of the deadliest times of the year for state troopers.
"People drink a little more on the holidays," Lamkin said.
Hoping motorists will remember to buckle up so they won't have to spend the holidays alone.


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Topic: A bit off topic but made me think
I watched a programme last night about a little girl who's suffering from a disease that ages her fast. She wasn't supposed to still be here as they only gave her a few years when born. Through courage and determination and medical progress she is now at secondary school.
One of the things she said last night put it into words about the so called experts, who at times are less then positive.
"They said the Titanic was unsinkable!!"
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Richard Lewontin
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Richard C. Lewontin (born 29 March 1929) is an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and social commentator. He pioneered the application of techniques from molecular biology, such as gel electrophoresis, to questions of genetic variation and evolution, and is considered a leader in developing the mathematical basis of population genetics and evolutionary theory.
- As working scientists in the field of evolutionary genetics and ecology, we have been attempting with some success to guide our own research by a conscious application of Marxist philosophy. We therefore cannot accept the view that philosophy must (or can) be excluded from science, and deplore the anti-ideological technocratic ideology of Soviet liberals. At the same time, we cannot dismiss the obviously pernicious use of philosophy by Lysenko and his supporters simply as an aberration, a misapplication, or a distortion dating from the era that is often brushed aside as 'the cult of personality' (with or without naming the personage in question). Nor is it sufficient to note that Marxism has had its signal successes despite Lysenko, with its pioneering work in the origin of life among its achievements. Unless Marxism examines its failures, they will be repeated.
- "The Problem of Lysenkoism" by Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins, in Hilary and Steven Rose (eds.), The Radicalisation of Science, Macmillan, 1976, p. 34.
- It is time for students of the evolutionary process, especially those who have been misquoted and used by the creationists, to state clearly that evolution is a fact, not theory, and that what is at issue within biology are questions of details of the process and the relative importance of different mechanisms of evolution. It is a fact that the earth, with liquid water, is more than 3.6 billion years old. It is a fact that cellular life has been around for at least half of that period and that organized multicellular life is at least 800 million years old. It is a fact that major life forms now on earth were not at all represented in the past. There were no birds or mammals 250 million years ago. It is a fact that major life forms of the past are no longer living. There used to be dinosaurs and Pithecanthropus, and there are none now. It is a fact that all living forms come from previous living forms. Therefore, all present forms of life arose from ancestral forms that were different. Birds arose from nonbirds and humans from nonhumans. No person who pretends to any understanding of the natural world can deny these facts any more than she or he can deny that the earth is round, rotates on its axis, and revolves around the sun. The controversies about evolution lie in the realm of the relative importance of various forces in molding evolution.
- "Evolution/Creation Debate: A Time for Truth", BioScience volume 31 (1981), p. 559; Reprinted in J. Peter Zetterberg, editor, Evolution versus Creationism, Oryx Press, Phoenix, Arizona, 1983.
- Parts and wholes evolve in consequence of their relationship, and the relationship itself evolves. These are the properties of things that we call dialectical: that one thing cannot exist without the other, that one acquires its properties from its relation to the other, that the properties of both evolve as a consequence of their interpenetration.
- The Dialectical Biologist (1985), co-written with Richard Levins, Introduction, p. 3.
- The great attraction of cultural anthropology in the past was precisely that it seemed to offer such a richness of independent natural experiments; but unfortunately it is now clear that there has been a great deal of historical continuity and exchange among those "independent" experiments, most of which have felt the strong effect of contact with societies organized as modern states. More important, there has never been a human society with unlimited resources, of three sexes, or the power to read other people's minds, or to be transported great distances at the speed of light. How then are we to know the effect on human social organization and history of the need to scrabble for a living, or of the existence of males and females, or of the power to make our tongues drop manna and so to make the worse appear the better reason? A solution to the epistemological impotence of social theory has been to create a literature of imagination and logic in which the consequences of radical alterations in the conditions of human existence are deduced. It is the literature of science fiction. … [S]cience fiction is the laboratory in which extraordinary social conditions, never possible in actuality, are used to illumine the social and historical norm. … Science fiction stories are the Gedanken experiments of social science.
- "The Last of the Nasties?," The New York Review of Books, 29 February 1996;
- Review of The Lost World by Michael Crichton
- Many of the most fundamental claims of science are against common sense and seem absurd on their face. Do physicists really expect me to accept without serious qualms that the pungent cheese that I had for lunch is really made up of tiny, tasteless, odorless, colorless packets of energy with nothing but empty space between them? Astronomers tell us without apparent embarrassment that they can see stellar events that occurred millions of years ago, whereas we all know that we see things as they happen. … Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door. The eminent Kant scholar Lewis Beck used to say that anyone who could believe in God could believe in anything. To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.
- "Billions and Billions of Demons" in: The New York Review of Books, 9 January 1997, p. 31
- Review of The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
- Quote often taken out of context, see Lewontin on materialism on evolutionwiki.org, and for example this example at Watchtower Online Library.
- The fallacy of genetic determinism is to suppose that the genes "make" the organism. It is a basic principle of developmental biology that organisms undergo a continuous development from conception to death, a development that is the unique consequence of the interaction of the genes in their cells, the temporal sequence of environments through which the organisms pass, and random cellular processes that determine the life, death, and transformation of cells. As a result, even the fingerprints of identical twins are not identical. Their temperaments, mental processes, abilities, life choices, disease histories, and death certainly differ despite the determined efforts of many parents to enforce as great a similarity as possible.
- "The Confusion over Cloning," The New York Review of Books, 23 October 1997.
- Review of Cloning Human Beings: Report and Recommendations of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission by the National Bioethics Advisory Commission.
- The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply ignores the large body of evidence about the actual complexity of the relationship between organisms and their resources.
- "It's Even Less in Your Genes," The New York Review of Books, 26 May 2011
- Review of The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture by Evelyn Fox Keller.
Sex, Lies, and Social Science (1995)[edit]
- "Sex, Lies, and Social Science" in The New York Review of Books, 20 April 1995.
- The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society as one's autobiography writ large, surely not the path to general truth. On the other, there is the attempt to be general and objective by pretending that one knows nothing about the experience of being human, forcing the investigator to pretend that people usually know and tell the truth about important issues, when we all know from our lives how impossible that is. How, then, can there be a "social science"? The answer, surely, is to be less ambitious and stop trying to make sociology into a natural science although it is, indeed, the study of natural objects. There are some things in the world that we will never know and many that we will never know exactly. Each domain of phenomena has its characteristic grain of knowability. Biology is not physics, because organisms are such complex physical objects, and sociology is not biology because human societies are made by self-conscious organisms. By pretending to a kind of knowledge that it cannot achieve, social science can only engender the scorn of natural scientists and the cynicism of the humanists.
- It is characteristic of the design of scientific research that exquisite attention is devoted to methodological problems that can be solved, while the pretense is made that the ones that cannot be solved are really nothing to worry about. On the one hand, biologists will apply the most critical and demanding canons of evidence in the design of measuring instruments or in the procedure for taking an unbiased samples of organisms to be tested, but when asked whether the conditions in the laboratory are likely to be relevant to the situation in nature, they will provide a hand-waving intuitive argument filled with unsubstantiated guesses and prejudices because, in the end, that is all they can do.
- The division between those who try to learn about the world by manipulating it and those who can only observe it had led, in natural science, to a struggle for legitimacy. The experimentalists look down on the observers as merely telling uncheckable just-so stories, while the observers scorn the experimentalists for their cheap victories over excessively simple phenomena. In biology the two camps are now generally segregated in separate academic departments where they can go about their business unhassled by their unbelievers. But the battle is unequal because the observers' consciousness of what it is to do "real" science has been formed in a world dominated by the manipulators of nature. The observers then pretend to an exactness that they cannot achieve and they attempt to objectify a part of nature that is completely accessible only with the air of subjective tools.
- a reply to critical comments on his article "Sex, Lies and Social Science" in New York Review of Books (4/20/95)].
Genes and Sexuality: An Exchange (1995)[edit]
- "Genes and Sexuality: An Exchange," letter to the editor in The New York Review of Books, 2 November 1995.
- [T]he psychic and physical characteristics of human beings, and the differences between individuals, are the consequence of an interaction between the genes that are present in the fertilized egg and the sequence of environmental circumstances that the developing organism experiences during its entire life history. With a few exceptions, like cystic fibrosis where possession of the defective genotype leads ineluctably to the disease, or language acquisition where the language spoken depends only on experience and not at all on genotype, human characteristics are all subject to this interaction of forces. There are, moreover, random events in cell growth and differentiation that are neither genetic nor environmental in the usual sense, and which play an extremely important part in development, especially in behavioral traits.
- An important consequence of the unique interaction between internal and external forces … is that knowledge of genetic differences contains no information at all about whether a characteristic can be changed by environmental and social arrangements. The most elementary error about genetics and development is to suppose that "genetic" is the opposite of "changeable" and that an answer to the question "how much can a trait be changed by social, historical, and individual circumstances" is given by an answer to the question "how important are genes."
- Genetics is the study of similarity between relatives, and the problem of human genetics is that, in a species with a family and social structure and a taboo against manipulating individual life histories experimentally, there is a confounding between the similarity of relatives that arises from biological causes and the similarity that arise from social causes.
- To say that genetic differences are relevant to hetero- and homosexuality is not, however, to say that there are "genes for homosexuality" or even that there is a "genetic tendency to homosexuality." This critical point can be illustrated by an example I owe to the philosopher of science, Elliott Sober. If we look at the chromosomes of people who knit and those who do not, we will find that with few exceptions, knitters have two X chromosomes, while people with one X and one Y chromosome almost never knit. Yet it would be absurd to say that we had discovered genes for knitting. The possession of two X chromosomes causes an embryo, with rare exceptions, to develop into an anatomical and physiological female, while the possession of a Y chromosome leads almost always to male development, and in our culture women are taught to knit while men are not. The beauty of this example is its historical (and geographical) contingency. Had we made the observations before the end of the eighteenth century (or even now in a few Irish, Scottish and Newfoundland communities), the result would have been reversed. Hand knitting was men's work before the introduction of knitting machines around 1790, and was turned into a female domestic occupation only when mechanization made it economically marginal.
Quotes about Lewontin[edit]
- Lewontin visited an economics class... a few years ago to talk to the students. In a kind of neo-Darwinian jockeying, he said that evolutionary changes are due to the Fisher-Haldane mechanisms: mutation, emigration, immigration, and the like. ...His elaborate cost-benefit mathematical treatment was devoid of chemistry and biology. I asked him why... when he himself was pointing to serious flaws related to the fundamental assumptions, did he teach such nonsense? ...His response was that there were two reasons: the first was "P.E." …I asked. What is "P.E." …he replied, "P.E. is 'physics envy,'"… His second reason was even more insidious: if he didn't couch his studies in neo-Darwinian style... he wouldn't be able to obtain grant money that was set up to support this kind of work.
- Lynn Margulis, The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution ed. John Brockman (1995).


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6.8-1 Criminal Violation of a Protective Order -- § 53a-223
Revised to December 1, 2007 (modified November 6, 2014)
The defendant is charged [in count ___] with criminal violation of a protective order. The statute defining this offense reads in pertinent part as follows:
a person is guilty of criminal violation of a protective order when an order1 has been issued against such person, and such person violates such order.
For you to find the defendant guilty of this charge, the state must prove the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
Element 1 - Protective order
The first element is that a court issued a protective order against the defendant. <Review evidence of order.>
Element 2 - Violation
The second element is that the defendant violated a condition of the protective order. To violate a condition means to act in disregard of or to go against the condition. <Insert specific condition that the defendant is charged with violating.> A person acts "intentionally" with respect to conduct when (his/her) conscious objective is to engage in such conduct. <See Intent: General, Instruction 2.3-1.>
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If you unanimously find that the state
has proved beyond a reasonable doubt each of the elements of the crime of
criminal violation of a protective order, then you shall find the defendant
guilty. On the other hand, if you unanimously find that the state has failed to
prove beyond a reasonable doubt any of the elements, you shall then find the
defendant not guilty.
1 Issued pursuant to General Statutes §§ 46b-38c (e), 53a- 28 (f), 54-1k, or 54-82r.
Violation of a protective order is a general intent crime. "[T]he intent required to prove a violation of § 53a-223 (a) is only that the defendant intended to perform the activities that constituted the violation of the protective order." State v. Fagan, 280 Conn. 69, 77 (2006), cert. denied, __ U.S. __, 127 S.Ct. 1491, 167 L.Ed.2d 236 (2007); see also State v. Charles, 78 Conn. App. 125, 130-31, cert. denied, 266 Conn. 908 (2003); State v. Hersey, 78 Conn. App. 141, 162, cert. denied, 266 Conn. 903 (2003).
The validity of the underlying order is not a necessary element of the offense. State v. Wright, 273 Conn. 418, 432 (2005); State v. Manns, 91 Conn. App. 827, 834, cert. denied, 276 Conn. 927 (2005).
Double jeopardy
Although violation of a protective order and criminal trespass constitute the same offense under the Blockburger test, "the legislature intended multiple punishments for the offense of trespassing in violation of a protective order." State v. Quint, 97 Conn. App. 72, 80, cert. denied, 280 Conn. 924 (2006).
Conviction of both criminal violation of a protective order and harassment in the second degree does not violate the prohibition against double jeopardy. State v. Martino, 61 Conn. App. 118, 128 (2000).
It was not double jeopardy to punish the defendant for both violation of a protective order, stemming from his possession of firearms in violation of that order, and criminal possession of a firearm while subject to a protective order. State v. Bernacki, 307 Conn. 1 (2012). In Bernacki, the Supreme Court held that in deciding a double jeopardy claim involving the violation of a court order, the "same offense" prong of the Blockburger test looks only at the statutes and the charging documents and not the specific terms of the court order that was violated.
Sentence Enhancer
Effective January 1, 2015, the statute provides for an enhanced sentence if the violation of this offense involves either imposing any restraint upon the person or liberty of a person in violation of the protective order or threatening, harassing, assaulting, molesting, sexually assaulting or attacking a person in violation of the protective order. The jury must find this fact proved beyond a reasonable doubt. See Sentence Enhancers, Instruction 2.11-4 and the definition of serious physical injury.


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News 12 at 6 o'clock / Thursday, April 25, 2013
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- We got our hands on a recording incriminating a city councilman in Waynesboro. The recording is a formal police interview with a witness who claims to have firsthand knowledge of some shady dealings with Councilman Herman Brown.
Chris Shaw went to the Waynesboro Police Department last May. That's when this interview was recorded.
Shaw: "I was talking with Brenda Lewis, and I told her I thought there was a lot of crooked stuff going on with the council with several members, but I thought for sure one of them might of been out of compliance for sure."
Shaw says he was approached by Brown about removing some trees at the Brier Creek apartment complex Brown oversees in Millen. Shaw says he submitted a bid on the work, and this is what he says Brown told him.
Shaw: "You're leaving a lot of money on the table, and I said, well can I redo my bid? And I said it kind of jokingly, and he said yeah, if you want to, and so, I did."
Briar Creek apartments are owned by Boyd Management out of Columbia. They receive tax credits and federal funding for the apartments, meaning your tax dollars help foot the bill for projects like tree removal.
Shaw: "That was the second bid I gave him, but then about a week later, he calls me on the phone and asks me to submit another one and add $1,000 to it, for him. And so, I did."
On the recording, Shaw tells the Waynesboro police chief, chief deputy, city manager and city attorney of three bids submitted for one project, each one higher than the last. We caught up with Shaw to see what the extra $1,000 was for.
"I told him I could make money at this number right here. He wanted to know what was in it for him," Shaw said.
Shaw says after he removed the trees, Brown started calling and harassing him about the extra money.
Shaw: "I come to a council meeting down here, and I saw Herman, and I said, Julie, that's the man that's been asking me about his $1,000. I said, write him a check right now."
Shaw claims he didn't realize Brown was a Waynesboro City Council member until he went to a meeting to complain about the bid process.
News 12's Laura Warren asked Shaw, "What made you decide to go to police in the first place?"
He responded, "Because I went in there to negotiate and he wouldn't even talk to me. He wouldn't even ... it was like nah nah nah, we going to do this, we going to do that."
So, one year later, where is the investigation now? The Waynesboro police chief at the time, Alfonzo Williams, says he turned the case over to Millen since the bid was for work in Millen. But the Millen chief told News 12 he's never heard anything about the case.
We called the GBI, and this area's lead investigator says he hasn't heard about the case either. Above the GBI is the FBI, but a spokesperson told News 12 that they can't make a comment on whether or not they are looking into the bribery allegations against Brown.
We also reached out to Brown, who simply said it was not bribery, and he didn't wish to comment any further.


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Dec. 11, 2012 -- Smoking cigarettes may more than double a woman's risk of sudden cardiac death. But quitting can reduce that risk significantly over time, according to a new study.
Sudden cardiac death is a sudden, unexpected death caused by loss of heart function. It is the leading cause of heart-related deaths in the U.S. and is responsible for up to 400,000 deaths per year.
Researchers found that women who were current smokers were two-and-a-half times more likely to suffer sudden cardiac death than nonsmokers. The risk of sudden cardiac death was even higher among heavy and lifetime smokers.
"We found the more that you smoke, the higher the risk of sudden cardiac death," says researcher Roopinder Sandhu, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada. "But the important thing is that this risk can be eliminated after smoking cessation."
The study showed that quitting smoking had an almost immediate effect in reducing the risk of sudden cardiac death within five years among women without any symptoms of heart disease.
For women already diagnosed with heart disease, the benefits of quitting smoking took much longer to take effect.
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Researchers say for many women, sudden cardiac death is the first sign of heart disease.
Although smoking is a known risk factor for sudden cardiac death, researchers say few studies have looked at the nature of this relationship in a large number of women both with and without heart disease.
This study looked at the impact of smoking and smoking cessation on the risk of sudden cardiac death among 101,018 women who took part in the Nurses' Health Study. The results appear in Circulation: Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology.
During 30 years of follow-up, 351 cases of sudden cardiac death were reported.
Researchers found the amount and duration of cigarette smoking was strongly associated with the women's risk of sudden cardiac death.
"Even with a very small amount, one to 14 cigarettes per day, women's risk of sudden cardiac death was almost two-fold higher compared to women who did not smoke," says Sandhu, who conducted the study as a visiting scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.


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During Career and Technical Education Month®, 77 schools and institutions were awarded the 2013 Achieve 100 Award by the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE).
Gordon Cooper Technology Center, was honored as an Achieve 100 school by ACTE
The Achieve 100 Award is presented during CTE Month® in recognition of superior dedication to those who have helped raise the level of excellence in CTE. The award recognizes schools and institutions that have 100 percent ACTE membership participation from each and every member of their career and technical staff.
Achieve 100 schools demonstrate a high level of commitment to professional growth and maintaining the relevance of instruction to the evolving workplace. ACTE provides career and technical education professionals with professional development opportunities and other learning opportunities as a benefit of membership in the association.
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Denison University student Jaime Weinfeld, of Navarre, served as costume designer for the college's production of "Much Ado About Nothing."
The production was performed in October at Denison's Burke Black Box Theatre. "Much Ado About Nothing," performed as one of "Shakespeare's Comedic Couples," was part of Denison University Department of Theatre's Fall Festival.
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Christie, Cuomo Will Wait Longer For Port Authority Plan
The governors of New York and New Jersey will have to wait longer for new recommendations on reforming the agency at the center of last year's apparently politically motivated closure of lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge.
In early May, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Gov. Chris Christie launched a new panel to examine the governance and operations of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the bistate agency that runs the region's airports, ports and key bridge and tunnel crossings.
On Thursday, the Special Panel on the Future of the Port Authority released a letter to Messrs. Cuomo and Christie updating them on its progress. While the letter offers no concrete steps for fixing an agency plagued by infighting and scandals, it outlines its agenda for examining how the Port could better focus on its core mission of bolstering the region's transportation infrastructure and commerce.
The letter recaps steps already taken by the agency following a 2012 review, as well as changes prescribed by the Port's Special Oversight Committee that was put in place earlier this year.
And while it doesn't directly confront the question of whether dismantling the Port Authority is practical—or a worthy idea—the letter said the panel would examine whether certain assets or operations within one state should remain under the agency's control. In late March, Mr. Christie suggested splitting the agency in two "may have some merit."
The panel is composed of five members, including current Port Authority commissioners Richard Bagger and Scott Rechler, as well as Mr. Christie's nominee for Port Authority chairman, John Degnan.
In the letter, the panel said it would look into whether changing its governance structure might reduce "inherent friction resulting from the agency's bistate status." As the panel completes a more comprehensive review and reform plan within six months, it said it would consult with an ethics expert it said it was in the process of retaining.


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STATELINE, Nev. - After playing for the Green Bay Packers for seven years, Sterling Sharpe knows how to compete in bad weather. And while no snow will fall during the American Century Championship - hopefully - Sharpe said the wind was something he wasn't expecting at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course on Tuesday.
"It's more windy than I remember and it was a lot stronger than I remember. It actually moved tee shots. I wasn't usef to it, but the course is in great shape," he said. "I know how to play in the wind, and we all have to play in it. It's one of those things that caught me off-gaurd 'cause I wasn't use to it being this strong, especially as early as we teed off; but it was blowing pretty good."
The former wide receiver ended the day working on his short game on the putting green practice area, telling fans that he lost his feel. Nonetheless, he's fairly confident about his golf game going into the tournament Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
"I think I'm playing as best as I've ever played," Sharpe said. "I'm just looking forward to playing and seeing how my game stacks up. I've been hitting it good all around the country, I'm just hoping I can get my yardage - the ball flies forever out here - get those down and be able to get the ball in the hole."
Most celebrities find themselves in the middle of a swarm of fans looking for autographs at each hole. Sharpe acknowledged, "you kind of know what you're getting into." While that can be tiring at times, there is a lot he enjoys.
"First and foremost, seeing old friends that are athletes, actors, entertainers. Getting a chance to make some new ones that are athletes, actors and entertainers," Sharpe said. "And a lot of times you'll see a lot of guys and gals at the same holes. They're a lot of fun to be around and see.
"People are really nice here and they look forward to us being here every year."


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Starting off the telemark ski World Cup season in Slovenia on Saturday, Tommy Gogolen of Summit County finished in the middle of the field, an accomplishment for a skier who has undergone two knee surgeries in two years.
"Forty-two races started. I skied to a fair 26th (maybe 25th - the results are not out yet)," Gogolen said by way of the U.S. Telemark Ski Association website. "Although it is just one day, it has been a long time of preparing for this day. Lots and lots of physical therapy, countless days in the gym and plenty of training over the past seven months to get to actually just be able to race. ... I am pleased to say it feels great just to be able to compete at this high level. Just a few months ago, I could not even run. Today, all the hard work paid off as I had the opportunity to ski against the best telemark skiers in the world. The knee did great."
Gogolen has said his biggest challenge this season is overcoming the mental challenges surrounding a second ACL tear in the same knee - the one that he rehabbed last year to put him 10th in World Cup rankings last season.
"Training (went) really well. We took it really easy with my knee, not pushing it," Gogolen said before he set off for Slovenia. He'd been in the gym daily for three weeks before he got on the snow just weeks before the World Cup race. Last season, he was rehabbing up until the start of the season, so Gogolen is hopeful he'll have a leg up this time around.
"Mentally, I feel a lot better, too. ... My knee is strong. I'm jumping, I'm pounding on it and it's good," Gogolen said.
He's in the middle of the field now, but he's hopeful he'll bump up to the top 20 in the classic races.
"I hope to have an advantage over those guys, living at altitude," Gogolen said, adding that he'd been studying the Norwegians and French to learn what the top athletes in the field are doing to win.
Now that the races are under way, Gogolen sees his closest and toughest competition as fellow American Cory Snyder, who was skiing well in training. The first day in Slovenia, Snyder didn't have as good a showing as Gogolen, falling just before the jump in the first run and just after it in the second. The second fall was enough to earn a DNF after he slid on his stomach through a gate, the U.S. Telemark Ski Association reported.
Gogolen is only looking to improve as the season goes on.


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The first weight was designed by Ernst Friz in 1965 and was among the 15 award winning type face designs in a competition sponsored by Visual Graphics Corporation, who released it in 1966. Victor Caruso added a bold weight for ITC in 1973. Finally, in 1994 [MyFonts: 1992], Thierry Puyfoulhoux designed italic weights for both the original and bold weights. [Reichardt]
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Building Non-Profits from the Ground Up
This course will cover the basic elements of building and growing a non-profit organization, including the development of the mission and the board; needs assessment, program design, development, and management; financial management, contract compliance and understanding an audit; fundraising, public, foundation, corporate, and individual; communication and marketing; organizational administration (including staff and volunteer selection, management and development); public policy, research and advocacy. Students will engage in field assignments and role play, in addition to research and writing.
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Promising year for TB patients
07.01.2013 - The new year could be particularly beneficial for tuberculosis patients. Two new drugs are expected to be approved by the EMA.
After almost 50 years without new treatments against tuberculosis, 2013 might give patients better options. Both Otsuka Pharma from Japan, as well as Johnson & Johnson's German affiliate Janssen-Cilag GmbH, have ongoing approval procedures for the drugs Delamanid and Bedaquilin, respectively. Bedaquilin was approved by the US regulatory authority FDA at the beginning of the new year. The expected European approvals of both medicines by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) are based on Phase II clinical data with Phase III trials continuing in parallel.
Also in Phase II, are another two drugs against TB developed by Bayer from Germany and Sanofi from France. However, both substances – Moxifloxacin (yet approved for other indications) and Rifapentin (also already approved by the FDA) – have not entered European approval procedures yet.
Tuberculosis is mainly spread in Eastern Europe and developing countries but it is also considered an recurring threat for Western Europe. The German Association for Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies, VFA, estimates that about one third of the earth's population carries the pathogen. Disease outbreaks normally only occur in vulnerable patients following infections by, for example, HIV. Although in general curable, TB has its caveats when compared with other infections of the respiratory tract. Killing mycobacteria without any resistances takes about half a year and comes with nasty side effects. Additionally, many strains have acquired multiple resistances which makes new and better treatment options desirable. That's why the Innovative Medicines Initiative has launched a R&D programme aimed to find better treatments last summer. According to the VFA, some of the upcoming drugs have new modes of actions which makes them especially valuable when mixing different substances for combination therapies. Bedaquilin is the first substance to interfere with energy production of the mycobacteria, while Moxifloxacin is the first to inhibit DNA replication.
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