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Nick Shiver's decisions are purposeful, meticulous, calculated.
The hole has to be right to run through, the answer to the test question has to be the best choice, and the hat of his college choice has to bear the proper logo.
So when the Bishops football star pulled a black cap over his head Wednesday afternoon in the Bishop England library, he made sure it donned the Army Black Knights logo of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, his home for the next four years.
"I'm extremely excited," Shiver said. "Honestly, it hasn't set in quite yet but I'm sure in a couple days it will and I'm excited to get started."
Shiver was one of nearly 15 student-athletes from around the East Cooper area who participated in National Signing Day Wednesday.
The all-state back rushed for 28 touchdowns and more than 1,500 yards, while maintaining better than a 4.0 grade point average this season. The offer from West Point didn't arrive until Monday, but Shiver jumped on the opportunity continue his football career and study at one of the country's top institutions, while serving his country.
"I'm not too nervous. I'm really confident in myself and I feel it'll just be something that'll help me in the future," Shiver said. "The biggest reason I'm really interested in West Point is because you have the direct second lieutenant commission right after Army and that's the biggest thing for me."
Wando kicked off the morning with its own ceremony, celebrating four signees from its class of 12 who are moving on to college athletics next year. Logan Nelson signed with USC Upstate women's soccer, Allie Winglosky signed with Limestone women's soccer, Darby Martens signed with College of Charleston men's soccer and Alexander Bourland signed with Millsaps College men's soccer. All-American lineman Nolan Kelleher enrolled early at the University of Florida and is already working out with the football team. He was represented Wednesday with a Gators helmet in his place.
Hours later, the four were joined by Natalie Tucker, Savannah Hallman and Morgan Howard at the Charleston County School District's annual National Signing Day press conference downtown. Tucker is the Class 4A volleyball player of the year and will join Limestone next year. Hallman will play women's golf for Charleston Southern, and Howard will play softball for Spartanburg Methodist. "It feels good to have it over with and to know where I'm going so I can start preparing for next year, mentally and physically," Martens said. "I've been thinking a lot about this day. Now, I'm just excited to get there (CofC) and get to know everybody there."
Wando swimmers Megan Kingsley, Dirk Bell, Ben Hillebrand, Travis Morrin and soccer's Summer Edwards couldn't attend the conference but were recognized in the presentation. Kinglsey will swim for Georgia, Bell for Yale, Hillbrand for College of Charleston and Morrin for South Carolina, while Edwards will join College of Charleston. Forty-six student-athletes representing 10 different schools were recognized at the CCSD conference. In the six years since beginning the CCSD signing day conference, the event has seen a steady increase in the number of eligible athletes every year.
"There's no doubt about it, there's a total commitment to the student-athlete in Charleston County from top to bottom," Wando athletic director Bob Hayes said. "We are not in the business of preparing kids to get scholarships but it ends up being a byproduct because of the great job our kids, our coaches, and our teachers do. To me, it's a day you can look at the big picture and really appreciate the end result. It's a huge credit to the job that the school district is doing in terms of supporting its student athletes."
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7 Reasons Child Stars Go Crazy (An Insider's Perspective)
#3. They Need to Rebel, But Can't
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Probably one of the reasons I was never big into partying as a teen was because I was scared of the public finding out. "Friends" of mine would sometimes post things I'd said or pictures I was in on public websites, which caused rifts and some serious trust issues. Even now, I will duck out of the way at parties when someone brings out a camera -- even though I'm well over 21, I haven't been a recognizable name in years, and my parties tend to be less "coke orgy," more "board game bonanza."
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Though I do love getting Banged.
Nearly every teenager rebels. But most of them have about five people they need to answer to when they screw up: teachers, school administrators, and their parents or guardians. Maybe the police or other authorities, if they're rowdy or growing up in a rough area, or a wise neighbor if they grew up in a sitcom.
Now imagine if you, as a kid, had millions of people watching your every move. First, there's your own entourage: parents or guardians, agents, managers, producers, studio heads, executives of all kinds. And then there are the fans: kids your age who think they know you because they've seen your face on TV, parents who pray you stay squeaky clean because their children want to be you.
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"Please, God, do not let Justin Bieber be the head of a sex trafficking ring."
Having to live up to your fan base is a little like having to deal with a million strict parents who don't actually love you. They reward you for your cuteness and cleverness, but are quick to judge and punish. And they do not want you ever to grow up. How do you react? The way any sullen teenager does: You get resentful, and as soon as you have the freedom, you act out.
Look at when most teen and child stars committed crimes and had breakdowns. Most were in their late teens, or even well into their 20s. When everyone else their age was getting detention for flipping off teachers or getting grounded for breaking curfew, Disney and Viacom and Fox were doing everything they could to ensure that their adorable little props weren't causing trouble and costing them millions of dollars.
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"Shit. Hilary Duff cannibalized another PA, somebody call the Wolf."
But when they get older, they have more freedom. They also have money and little to no experience making decisions for themselves, so their rebellions are going to be on a much larger scale. The whole world will see it.
And if there's one thing the whole world loves, it's a public breakdown.
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Schadenfreude, baby.
#2. They Don't Know What Else to Do
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If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something.
But she wouldn't be likely to listen to me -- and not only because I'm younger and way less hot than her. It's because she's been acting all her life, she has little education, and in her mind, there's nothing else she could do. She's likely to keep doing it even if she's making herself -- and maybe also the people she works with -- miserable.
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"Laugh and the whole world laughs with you" swings both ways.
Everyone loves to laugh at that asshole who was smug once, and has since fallen. (I was thrilled when I saw a sitcom rerun a few years back and realized that the fellow child actor who broke my heart when I was 15 was pretty shitty at acting.) But no one wants to be that asshole. I worked several crappy jobs when I was younger, and prayed every day that no one would recognize me.
Eventually, I had to stop caring: It didn't affect my paycheck, and I liked working hard (which led to me getting a job I actually liked). But most former child stars are proud and sensitive and don't have much of an education. It's easier for them to hold onto what they did in their past and make money that way.
Hence all this crap.
Besides, everyone they know is in the business, and after having people take their money, reject them for their looks, and turn them into a sex object, they're not going to be especially trusting. The sleazy bastards you know are better than the sleazy bastards you don't.
#1. They Can't Escape It
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People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler: I'm a normal-looking woman living in a two-bedroom apartment in one of the less cool neighborhoods of New York. I write stuff and tell stories, but I'm not a celebrity and wouldn't want to be one. I'm much more "reformed drama nerd" than "former child star," and I like it that way.
One of the reasons I love living in New York is that no one gives a shit about celebrities. Susan Sarandon comes to your deli, Lou Reed's in your kickboxing class, David Mamet flips you off, whatever, most New Yorkers really don't care.
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Just make sure you put rocks on your garbage cans to keep Gary Busey from digging through them.
But even here (and even though I was never as famous as those people), I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy, and while I'm glad what I did meant something to someone, I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby. People making a big deal out of me just embarrasses me, and I'm also very camera shy.
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You would be, too, if you'd been in the public eye when you looked like this.
It's not something I'm ever going to escape. And while I'm glad for all the advantages it's given me -- I got to meet the queen of England! -- it does give me something I have to not only live up to, but surpass. A lot of child stars feel like they'll never get past what they did as a kid, that their character has taken over their life. Jake Lloyd might have been melodramatic when he said The Phantom Menace ruined his life, but it does kind of suck that years later he's still seen as a punchline.
It's a constant damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation: If former child actors bring up their past, they're washed-up opportunists shilling for attention. If they never do, they're clearly in denial. If they say it was fantastic, they're full of shit. If they acknowledge that it wasn't always fantastic, they're bitter.
There's not much to do besides accept it for what it was and move on. Child stars who are best off as adults usually do one or two projects, then get the hell out of Hollywood, at least for the next few years. They go to Harvard or Yale (or my alma mater, NYU, which has been called "Where Child Stars Come to Die") and learn to do something besides act.
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"Welcome to the wonderful world of low-paying, menial office jobs where you will work thanklessly until you die, anonymous and alone."
That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.
Additionally, movies like A Series of Unfortunate Events and, um, Twilight have used CGI rather than human babies in some scenes. Some of them looked pretty creepy, but CG technology is improving all the time. Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
When, not if.
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For more on life after hitting it big, check out The 7 Most WTF Post-Fame Celebrity Careers and The 7 Most WTF Post-Fame Careers of Famous Musicians.
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"We shot this last little section nine years ago," actress Lyndsy Fonseca tells PEOPLE. "It was so long ago, I don't really remember what I said."
Although Fonseca has appeared throughout the series in flash-forwards as the daughter of the titular Mother, all of her scenes were shot during the CBS sitcom's first season – the only way to ensure her on-screen brother, David Henrie, looked the same age for the entire series (despite the fact that he was going through puberty at the time).
"David was growing so fast. He grew like four shoe sizes and his voice dropped, so it was very apparent," says Fonseca, 27, who filmed improvised scenes and generic reaction shots with Henrie that could be used for any occasion throughout the course of the series.
"When we started, I wasn't even old enough to drive," adds Henrie, 24. "Now, I just bought my first house. I come home … and my cousins are watching the show. It is always a funny feeling. They always say, 'Baby David is on TV!' "
While Fonseca and Henrie have been frozen in time for almost a decade on How I Met Your Mother, the two actors also have been thriving as they have matured.
Fonseca – who had been a regular on Young and the Restless before HIMYM – booked arcs on Big Love and Desperate Housewives before starring of The CW's Nikita.
Henrie, meanwhile, became most known for playing Selena Gomez's brother on the hit Disney series Wizards of Waverly Place and is about to begin filming Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2.
"I still get recognized a lot from HIMYM," says Fonseca, who recently completed the new independent dramedy Moments of Clarity. "It is kind of funny because I don't feel like it is my show, but I'm really proud of to have been a part of it."
As for the finale, Henrie plans on watching with his cousins, while Fonseca has been happy to remain in the dark about how the series will end.
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Don't blame nutrition for fresh cow problems
Don't blame nutrition for fresh cow problems
Look to this list of 11 issues that derail transition cows.
by Corey Geiger, Hoard's Dairyman Assistant Managing Editor
Although they gave independent presentations at the World Holstein Conference in Toronto, Canada, both Ken Nordlund, D.V.M., and Gerard Cramer, D.V.M., agreed that the nutrition programs on most dairy farms are up to par. With that conclusion, don't blame your nutritionist for underperforming cows concluded this pair of veterinarians.
"Providing enough bunk space is more important than the ration when it comes to preventing fresh cow problems," said Nordlund, a clinical professor at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Cows are allelomimetic. They want to do things at the same time," said Nordlund. "You need to provide enough bunk space."
Transition cows: those three weeks before and after calving need the greatest attention. "About 75 percent of cow-related disease happens in the three weeks before and the three weeks after calving," Nordlund explained. "If you are having fresh cow issues, these are the top five causes based on our research:
1. Bunk space: cows need at least 30 inches
2. Use sand in free stalls
3. Use larger sized free stalls
4. Screen sick cows for appetite and attitude
5. Minimize regrouping 3 to 10 days before calving."
Nordlund went on to add that we must minimize social disruptions caused by pen movements. Also he detailed a bit more on stall size, "Length of free stall does more to reduce longevity in large-framed Holsteins than any other factor," said the Wisconsin veterinarian.
Although speaking on hoof health a few hours after Nordlund, Cramer echoed some of Nordlund's comments. "The quickest thing to improve lying time is to move to deep bedding in free stalls," said the practicing veterinarian from Ontario, Canada. "It doesn't matter on the kind, as long as it is deep bedding."
"There are six things we can do to improve foot health," Cramer told those attending the World Holstein Conference which had some 600 attendees from 40-plus countries.
1. Record and use hoof lesion data.
2. Find and treat lame cows early.
3. Create conditions for clean, dry and comfortable feet.
4. Use foot dipping or bathing.
5. Ensure proper weight bearing when trimming feet.
6. Minimize metabolic stress in transition cows.
"The term foot dipping might be foreign to some in the audience," he said. "Think about it. We dip teats. The same should be done with feet, they should be dipped or bathed when going through foot baths to be effective," he told attendees to the conference hosted by Holstein Canada just before the Royal Winter Fair.
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SAN DIEGO, Feb. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- MZ Group ("MZ"), the world's largest independent investor relations and corporate communications firm, today announced that it will be a silver sponsor of the inaugural Annual Growth Capital Expo in Las Vegas. The Growth Capital Expo will be being held at Caesars Palace from April 29th-May 1st, 2014.
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The maturation of proteomics as a separate experimental field from genomics has highlighted the importance of obtaining information concerning a given protein's activation state. This information can often be obtained by investigating the protein's post-translational modification status—in particular, its phosphorylation state. The difficulties in producing high specificity and sensitivity affinity reagents specific for phospho-epitopes in sufficient quantities is, however, limiting the scope of diagnostic and research assays, where a multitude of phosphorylation states need to be probed simultaneously.
To address this reagent shortage, a series of high-throughput methods were devised at the EMBL Monoclonal Antibody Core Facility in Montorotondo, Italy. These methods incorporated robotic liquid handlers to perform somatic cell fusions at the rate of eight reactions per week—one or two is the norm—on lymphocytes derived from antigen-primed mouse spleens to generate classical hybridomas.
These eight fusions generated a total of 15,360 different samples to be tested by an affinity capture assay such as ELISA.
Successful screening for specificity against a phospho-epitope requires probing of both the phosphorylated and unphosphorylated form of the peptide, and a third, unrelated target, which has the same phosphorylated amino acid present in a different primary sequence context. This strategy ensures that only cell lines specific for the relevant amino acids are isolated, but triples the number of capture assays required to 46,080.
Furthermore, these assays must be completed within 48 hours to enable isolation of antibody-generating cell lines before the growth medium is exhausted. These combined issues push throughput requirements beyond the capacity of a standard plate-based ELISA, as the screen would necessitate the 480 96-well plates be processed.
The most parallel assay technology to emerge in recent years is the microarray. The potential to perform a single test and yet obtain tens or hundreds of thousands of data points simultaneously, made microarrays an attractive solution to effectively manage throughput.
A novel antigen microarray assay was recently devised by EMBL in which a single peptide-coated glass microscope slide per test antigen (phosphorylated, unphosphorylated, and irrelevant peptide) would be printed with the cell culture supernatants from each fusion. At three slides per fusion, only 24 slides would be needed for eight fusions while maintaining the same level of screening complexity.
Initial screens using microarrays produced on a contact microarrayer proved problematic. Unreliable contact deposition necessitated triplicate printing of each supernatant; as the maximum spot density per slide was 17,280, only three fusions could be spotted onto each slide in a single print run (5,760 spots were required per fusion). This restriction limited print-run length and significantly decreased unattended operation time, while increasing manual intervention.
Alan Sawyer is head of the monoclonal antibody core facility, EMBL Outstation. Duncan Hall ([email protected]) is commercial director at Arrayjet.
Alan Sawyer is head of the monoclonal antibody core facility, EMBL Outstation. Duncan Hall ([email protected]) is commercial director at Arrayjet.
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Gabe Walter came up as a guard and defensive end through the Claysburg-Kimmel football program when the Bulldogs were at their height.
The school turned to him at its school board meeting on Wednesday night to try to get back there.
"Being an alumni, I always had a deep passion for Claysburg-Kimmel football. I enjoyed playing there, and, when this opportunity opened up, it was something I wanted to do," Walter said.
The 35-year-old health care professional will move up from a three-year stint as C-K's junior high defensive coordinator and varsity volunteer to take over for Joe Kitt, who stepped down after a 4-6 campaign. Walter also assisted his former Bulldog coach, Jeff Lingenfelter, in 1999 and 2000.
"He's a local boy. He went through our program," said school board member and activity committee chairman Denny Cowher. "He has limited experience, but he does have experience in our program."
All but one school board member voted in favor of hiring Walter. Vernon Walter cast the only dissenting vote.
The new coach will be paid $4,050 per year.
"He has a good, sound philosophy," Cowher said.
That philosophy is similar to the one that produced a 39-12-1 record at Claysburg from 1990-94.
"I always felt our most successful years were built on hard work and toughness, a very blue-collar approach to playing football. I feel that's the beauty of small-school football: outworking your opponent," Walter said. "We're going to return to more of a smash-mouth style of football. But we're not averse to opening it up. It's all based on personnel."
Walter said he wants his players to emulate the likes of Aaron Burket, Chad Zembower, Steve Miller and Shawn Fickes, who were the pillars of those early-90s C-K squads. The Bulldogs had a player that fit that mold last season with 1,500-yard rusher Zach Helsel, but he has graduated, along with many of Claysburg's other skill position starters.
"I think this is a good jump-off point for us," Walter said. "We definitely have to look for new ways to win. Zach Helsel was a phenomenal player. He did it as well as probably anyone we've seen in the region. We had a really good supporting cast around him - Devin Weyandt, Trey Claar - but a lot of those guys are no longer with us.
"I think where our strength is going to be is we've got a really nice line returning. Our line is going to take us as far as we're going to go."
A 2001 Mount Aloysius College graduate, Walter said he expects Zembower and Burket to be part of his staff. He'll also get to coach his 15-year-old son, Bryce, but he said that's just a perk to the job, that it wasn't his primary reason to pursue the opening.
Working with his son's friends, though, was.
"For me, it's all about the kids. It really is. I learned a lot from the school and a lot from playing in that football program. I want them to have that same experience and the same opportunities," Walter said.
"We just feel that he'll be an excellent role model," Cowher said.
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RICHMOND - Mike McKenzie's tenure as head coach of the Edison High School football team has come to an end.
McKenzie made the decision to walk away from the sidelines, but will remain in his post as vice principal at the high school.
The decision was one he was contemplating due to a workload increase in his administration position, but came about much quicker than he expected due to other influences.
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"It was something, when we lost our administrator at the school, I knew after the season I had to look at," he said. "Basically, I guess it's happening a little quicker than anticipated, though. Three board members said they wouldn't vote for me and, at this point, I think it's best I resign and move on from there.
"When we went to two administrators I knew my work would be a lot more. I knew when the season was over I'd have to make an evaluation and see if I would still have the time to coach football. It was something I wanted to sit down and think about.
"Things speeded up a little though. I decided Wednesday when I knew I didn't have support of three board members. I told the superintendent of my decision. Bill Beattie was great. He didn't ask me for anything. We talked for a while and at the end of the meeting I decided to turn in my letter of resignation."
More than wins and losses, McKenzie finds what he will miss most about the the head football coach position is the bond he formed with his players as well as the relationships he forged with supporters of the Wildcats' program.
"We had great kids through my time as coach," he said. "Also I worked with a lot of great people as coach. (Principal) Matt Morrison and Bill Beattie showed us a lot of support. We had great support in the athletic department with (Athletic Director) Joann Stagani and Ron Smyth before her. (Assistant Athletic Director) Tom Bocek was very supportive of me as well.
"Bottom line is I'm going to miss being around the kids on a day-to-day basis. I built a lot of great relationships. Football is 12-month sport with lifting and offseason workouts so you're around the kids a lot. I'm going to miss that."
McKenzie posted a 23-47 record over seven seasons with the Wildcats. The only winning season came in 2010 when Edison finished at 8-2.
"Friday nights are one thing, but I enjoy breaking down films and preparing for games. I'll miss the parents who supported our program. We had some very good parents behind us."
Three victories over the past three seasons stood out when he was asked about his teams accomplishments.
"The St. C game two years ago we won in triple overtime was pretty good and enjoyable," said McKenzie. "Beating Buckeye Local last year when they were undefeated, and this year winning at Martins Ferry with all the adversity we faced and how the kids stuck with it. Those are some of the moments that standout on the field."
But it was the off the field moments that McKenzie will truly cherish.
"There were too many moments off the field to talk about them all," he said. "I enjoyed being around the kids. I enjoyed the time with the kids back to our first group in 2006 and all the way thorough.
"Sharing those moments off the field are going to be missed."
Though he is unsure of what his future as a coach holds, he does know he enjoyed his time leading the Wildcats.
"I'm not sure I'm done coaching forever," said McKenzie. "I'm not sure what will happen. I haven't thought of what the future brings because this came about faster than anticipated. I imagine at some point I'll be coaching somewhere. I may take year off (from coaching). I haven't had a chance to think about that yet.
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Lookback - July 01, 2012
June 2012 Lookback
Wettest on record; cool and dull too
By Philip Eden
Pressure was relentlessly low over the British Isles during June, to such an extent that it was among the three most cyclonic Junes is 140 years of records. Mean sea-level pressure ranged from 2mbar below normal in the Western Isles of Scotland to 9mbar below in southwest Ireland. It came as little surprise, then, that the month turned out to be one of the wettest, dullest and coldest Junes on record.
Mean maximum temperature during June ranged from 19.3°C at St James's Park (London) to 11.2°C at Fair Isle (between Orkney and Shetland), while mean minimum temperature varied between 12.6°C at Lee-on-Solent (Hants) and 5.6°C at Loch Glascarnoch (Wester Ross). Daytime temperatures were typically 1.5-2.5 degC below the long-term average in most parts of the country, whereas night-time temperatures were close to the average. The Central England Temperature (CET) of 13.6°C was 0.9 degC below the mean for 1981-2010 - the lowest in June since 1991. In the last 100 years 18 Junes were colder, 78 were warmer, while four had the same overall temperature.
The highest maximum at a standard site (i.e excluding rooftop and mountain sites) in the UK was 28.6°C at Swanscombe (Kent) on the afternoon of the 28th, while the lowest minimum was minus 3.5°C at Loch Glascarnoch (Wester Ross) early on the 5th. The lowest daytime maximum was 6.3°C at Emley Moor (West Yorks) on the 3rd, while the warmest night was that of 26th/27th with a minimum of 17.7°C at St James's Park (London).
Rainfall averaged over England and Wales during June was 159.6mm which is 234 per cent of the average for the standard reference period 1981-2010, some 3mm more than the previous wettest June which occurred in 1860. Records started in 1727. The equivalent figures for Scotland were 104mm and 171 per cent of the normal amount, and for Northern Ireland 145mm and 224 per cent. Monthly totals at routinely-available sites varied between 344mm at Capel Curig (Caernarfon) and 38mm at Stornoway (Isle of Lewis) and Fair Isle.
Sunshine averaged over England and Wales during June was 125.9 hours which is a mere 65 per cent of the 1981-2010 mean, making this the dullest June since 1985. The equivalent figures for Scotland were 123 hours and 74 per cent, and for Northern Ireland 136 hours and 75 per cent. Largest total in the UK was 176 hours at Manston (Kent) and the smallest was just 58 hours at Eskdalemuir (Dumfriesshire). Other low aggregates were 72 hours at Durham and 73 hours at Nottingham. Such monthly totals would not have been out of place in February.
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Barriers to open science: From big business to Watson and Crick
Science can only advance when discoveries are shared, but scientists often have a disincentive to disclose their research. So says a group of researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology in their recent article on voxEU.org, Do academic scientists share information with their colleagues? Not necessarily. In fact, scientists often make complex, calculated decisions when asked to share data:
"Consider the behaviour of two scientists deciding whether to share materials (such as a cell line) or data with each other. If one scientist shares her materials, she increases the likelihood that the other scientist will solve the problem before she does. On the other hand, sharing has the potential benefit that the other scientist may share his materials in the future. This has clear elements of the well-known prisoners' dilemma; both scientists would be better off if they shared, but neither does so unless the situation is expected to arise again and often. When the prospect of sharing occurs repeatedly, the scientists weigh the current gain from refusing to share against the expected loss from the lack of access to materials or data in the future."
Nature magazine puts it more succinctly: "Sharing data is good. But sharing your own data? That can get complicated."
By far the biggest fear seems to be scooping: someone else beats you to the big discovery, using some of your shared information. In 1953, geneticist James Watson and biophysicist Francis Crick were racing against chemist Linus Pauling and X-ray crystallographers Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins to discover the structure of DNA. According to Nature's annotated version of the famous Watson and Crick paper, Linus Pauling was the first to discover the helical structure of some proteins, publishing his proposal of a triple helix model for DNA in early 1953. Though flawed, Watson and Crick found the necessary details in this model to beat Pauling to the solution:
"Pauling's proposed three-stranded helix had the bases facing out. While the model was wrong, Watson and Crick were sure Pauling would soon learn his error. They estimated that he was six weeks away from the right answer. Electrified by the urgency—and by the prospect of beating a science superstar—Watson and Crick spent four weeks obsessing about DNA in endless conversations and bouts of model-building to arrive at the correct structure.
In 1952, [the head of the King's laboratory] denied Pauling's request to view their X-ray photos of DNA—crucial evidence that inspired Watson's vision of the double helix. Pauling had to settle for inferior older photographs."
We've all heard of Watson and Crick, but who among us knows of Pauling's work? The fear of being scooped is no small paranoia, and a big barrier to information sharing. And for scientists in the business world, sharing with competitors can mean losing the advantage of being first-to-market with a new product.
Many scientists have experienced the misappropriation of their ideas, but it remains a stinging experience. So the idea of freely presenting to the scientific community the research they've spent hours preparing—perhaps even prior to publication—is daunting. Can a scientist trust his colleagues not to pocket those ideas and represent them in a self-serving manner?
Even Watson and Crick were guilty of as much. Nature details the slight to Rosalind Franklin:
"Here, Watson and Crick say that they "were not aware of the details" of the work of King's College scientist Rosalind Franklin—a statement that marks what many consider an inexcusable failure to give Franklin proper credit.
According to Lynne Elkin, a science historian at California State University, Hayward, it's true that Watson and Crick were not aware of all the details of Franklin's work, but they were aware of enough of the details to discover the structure of DNA. Yet this paper does not ever formally acknowledge her, instead concealing her significant role by saying they "were not aware" of her work."
Franklin had been working on the DNA model question using X-ray crystollography to determine the structure. Just a few months before Watson and Crick's landmark paper, Franklin came tantalizingly close to discovering the correct model, but she did not recognize it in the photographs she took. Frustrated with the attitude of her college toward women, Franklin was preparing to leave King's College when fellow scientist Maurice Wilkins, a close friend of Crick, showed Watson a critical photograph.
In his 1968 book, The Double Helix, Watson describes how he traveled to King's College to persuade Franklin and Wilkins to work with himself and Crick before Pauling discovered the error in his model. Franklin refused, but as Wilkins and Watson left, Wilkins decided to show Watson Franklin's photograph 51. "The instant I saw the picture," Watson wrote, "My mouth fell open and my pulse began to race." The photograph's cross-shaped pattern of spots clearly indicated a helical shape.
Meanwhile, Watson and Crick also obtained the bulk of Franklin's (unpublished) research, including precise DNA measurements, from a colleague who had copies of it. Franklin's work gave Crick the necessary information to determine that DNA has two chains running in opposite directions.
Despite these significant contributions, Franklin was merely listed in the acknowledgements section without any details about her work. (Check out the whole controversy, including links to more information, in the annotated Nature paper.)
So it's easy to see how someone's research can be "borrowed" without appropriate recognition. But if anything, the Franklin-Watson story illustrates how a culture that avoids systematic sharing of knowledge actually encourages this sort of poaching. When the whole world has access to your data and research, it's far more likely that an unscrupulous or careless researcher will be caught failing to acknowledge the significance of existing shared information to their own work. And having twice obtained Franklin's work through questionable means, Watson and Crick had difficulty giving her suitable credit.
Though not as professionally damaging as having your work poached or scooped, there is perhaps nothing more frustrating to a researcher than seeing it misused or misinterpreted. Whether the data is used wrongly to advance a political position or simply misinterpreted out of ignorance, the experience makes that researcher and others hesitant to share in the future.
Open science must be partnered with a strong accountability system, perhaps more formal than the "Internet-as-public-record" variety used to establish reputation in open source software development communities.
Extraordinary benefits
But if the risks to practicing open source science are great, the benefits surpass them. Harvard professor Karim R. Lakhani has said that innovation happens "at the intersection of disciplines," and the solution to one scientific field's perplexing problem can often be found by a scientist with a different discipline's perspective.
To a great degree, we have seen this with InnoCentive challenges, where organizations broadcast their tough problems and reward the submitter of the best solution—rarely a scientist from the same discipline—with hefty amounts of prize money. But InnoCentive does not release the winning solution for input, which Lakhani believes necessarily reduces the quality of the final implementation.
In addition, the Georgia Tech researchers have found that competition, especially where the commercial and intellectual value of prizes is significant, actually stifles the practice of open science. So much the same for patents and consulting opportunities. But when increased government funding relaxes the competition in a field, scientists are far more willing to share their research with each other.
Certainly prodding from funding agencies, journals, and scientific societies would help, Nature author Bryn Nelson reports. Among the disciplines that do share large amount of data, like atmospheric science or genomics, significant ground work has been done by these organizations and scientists in the field. Beyond professional expectations for sharing, centralized data repositories must be created and maintained, then standards for entering data established, which is more difficult for some disciplines than others.
But then, no one said open science would be easy. (Ok, maybe someone did. But he probably wasn't a scientist.) I'd love to read about your experiences with data sharing in science. Log in and tell your story in the Comments section below.
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The two main obstacles to Open Science (which by the way, should be simply called "Real Science"), are:
1) The current scientific publishing system
2) The tenure track system
Regarding (1), The publishing system has become a goal instead of a mean. Scientist now work for the publishing system and see papers are the actual final product of their research.
The scientific publishing system should be dismantled. In its current form it is a remnant of the industrial revolution approach to dissemination of information. (See Yochai Benkler http://www.ted.com/talks/yochai_benkler_on_the_new_open_source_economics...). It must be replaced by a system that takes advantage of modern electronic communications, and that enforces the verification of reproducibility.
The current peer-review system must be abolished as well, since currently doesn't do anything to verify reproducibility, and it is mostly based on a collection of experts providing subjective opinions, similar to what the natural sciences used to be in Aristotelian times, long before Galileo introduced the scientific method. (See Karl Popper: "The Logic of Scientific Discovery" : http://books.google.com/books?id=Yq6xeupNStMC&dq=karl%20popper&source=gb...)
Regarding (2): The tenure track system pins down researchers to "produce" papers as the only measurable outcome of scientific research, and linked that metric directly to their career development (See http://highereducationquestionmark.com/). This leads to the ironic situation in which researchers are more interested in publishing papers than in getting problems solved, and therefore, appropriating their data takes precedence over sharing their data.
Agencies that provide public funds for research must require researchers to make their data, papers and source code available as soon as acquired / developed and under licenses that allow others to make unrestricted use of these materials. Some US Federal agencies already have these requirements (for example NIH), but do not enforce them enough for researchers to take them seriously.
Although a bit late...
Let me elaborate on this:
The Original Idea:
The scientific method requires that your hypothesis must be tested in experiments; and for those experiments to be taken seriously, they must be reproducible by others.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducibility
This is how Galileo help us get rid of the three thousand years of misconceptions introduced by Aristotle.
The sin of the Greek thinkers:
They mostly "think"...
and because they lived in a society based on slavery, they despised the manual and mechanical work that would be needed to run physical experiments.
Aristotelian thinkers built mental constructs that have logical consistency. For example, the orbits of planets "must" be circular, because the circle has a large collection of elegant geometrical (and philosophical) features. No need to measure the orbits, that would have been "slave" work... undignifying for such high value philosophers. It took until Kepler to measure the orbits, and realize that the ellipse was a better description of planetary trajectories.
The Aristotelian philosophers had the arrogance to assume that their "expert judgment" was sufficient to determining the truth and that experimental verification was an "unnecessary distraction".
Galileo, a more pragmatical man, demonstrated that those little experiments actually made a big difference, and that they lead to show that Aristotle got most of physics wrong (forces, accelerations, gravity, optics, weather...). Aristotle also got many things wrong in the natural sciences and biology as well, for example, he believed that vision worked by emitting rays from our eyes, and he even got wrong the number of teeth in women (clearly, he never bother to look and count).
Galileo created the modern scientific method by making clear that philosophical preconceptions are only worth if they have experiments that back them up.
Fast forward to today.
"The scientific method requires that your hypothesis must be tested in experiments; and for those experiments to be taken seriously, must be reproducible by others."
Due to the specialization of science, we tend to assume that the "others" must be the peers of those who posted the original experiment. For example, if this is an experiment in quantum physics, then other quantum physicists are probably the best qualified to repeat the experiment correctly. That's where the "peers" come in.
So, journal and conferences today, will send your paper for review to your expert "peers" for them to review.
In a Galilean world, your peers will have the decency to follow the instructions of your paper in order to repeat your experiments, and they will report back describing whether it worked for them or not.
in today's "peer-review", your peers will skip that little detail of "repeating the experiment", and instead they supplant it with their "expert judgment" that tell them:
"Yes, this is consistent with what I know, or what I have seen... particularly with MY previous work".
In that treacherous switch, your peers have sent us back three thousand years to the pre-scientific age.
The "peer-review" process today DOES NOT enforces the verification of reproducibility. Therefore, it only provides the appearance of science, instead of delivering the real deal.
Our current expert reviewers, tend to be the head of laboratories, and/or highly visible members of a scientific field, who despise the experimental work required to verify the claims of a paper. They consider that manual work to be "graduate student work" and therefore undignifying for an "expert in the field" such as themselves. Just the same way that the Greek philosophers despised experimental work on the basis of being things that only slaves should do.
Our peer-reviewers today think:
"I'm an expert, no need to run that experiment again, I can already tell what the outcome will be"
(I'm literally citing someone here, whose name would have to remain anonymous)
Our current peer-review process take us back to the arrogance of Lord Kelvin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Kelvin, the president of the Royal Society, who in 1902 declared that:
"No balloon and no aeroplane will ever be practically successful."
One year later the Wright brothers, who owned a bicycle repair shop (they were not high ranked scientist in any university), flew an airplane in the sandy banks of North Carolina.
We should have learned by now that an "expert opinion" is worth nothing in science.
Only the experiment can be trusted, and only when it has been repeated by others.
Instead of referring to "peer-review" publications we must start demanding "reproduced" publications.
Literally meaning: publications whose experiments have been reproduced by others.
This is why the current peer-review system must be dismantled. It's hypocrisy must be exposed, and it must be replaced immediately by a system based on experimental reproducibility.
It can be done !
For example, for six years now we have hosted an Open Access, freely available journal for medical image analysis:
This is a "real scientific" journal for Galilean practitioners. The kind of people who only believe in something after they have repeated the experiment.
When submitting to this journal, you are required to provide
- Your source code (under an open source license)
- Your data (under an Open Data License)
- and parameters needed to repeat the experiment.
We must re-educate an entire generation of science workers to restore the practice of the real scientific method.
First commenter Luis has absolutely nailed it in one! The two key problems are exactly those he cites; a culture of closed-source publication which runs contrary to the open model of knowledge-sharing upon which the academy is allegedly based; and the citation-counting tenure track system which prevails in both the US and overseas and rewards quantity over quality (to a great extent) and publication in "mainstream" (read: yesterday) journals over newer open journals.
Some scientific disciplines have broken free of the publishing house stranglehold; the vast majority of knowledge-sharing in the physics discipline takes place via the open arXiv system. ArXiv, for its faults, should be broadly replicated across all major disciplines and pay-for-knowledge "mainstream" journals should be permanently sidelined. They no longer add value in the digital age.
KISS--Keep it simple, stupid. While not topping the life lessons I wish to impart upon my son, it is an adage that humanity has faithfully followed. The *whole* truth is normally complicated, convoluted, and conflicting. Most people prefer just a smidgen of truth. Nothing outright fallacious, mind you--just don't bore us with the nuances of truth or reality.
The Nobel Prizes are a prime example. If I'm the first one to tell you this I'm sorry, but the A-team will never win the Nobel Peace Prize. Well, they could if Face were to meet an untimely death, because only three individuals may win a given prize. This means that a team of four who cures AIDS are disqualified from the award. While I do not know the basis for this, I do think it expresses our society's yearning to keep it simple by requiring less names to be printed in a history textbook.
The idea to leave a roll of microfilm on the moon with the names of all the engineers, scientists, draftsmen, machinists, etc, who directly worked on the Apollo program was scraped. Instead we left a plaque with the name the three astronauts and the sitting President who lost to the President who threw down the gauntlet that spurred America to the moon.
How do we reconcile the policy of the Nobel Prize committee with the current information age? How do we present the *whole* truth to a populace that feeds on soundbites? Truth is reality, and reality is truth. A policy of transparency and openness is one where everyone truly benefits, and not in a superficial Benthamian way.
The human race may have a long of tradition of glorifying simplicity to unlearn, but the benefits are tangible and great. Otherwise 22nd century textbooks may label the 'information age' as a misnomer.
---We've all heard of Watson and Crick, but who among us knows of Pauling's work?---
Are you really unfamiliar with the work of the great Linus Pauling? He is, after all, one of the very few to ever win multiple Nobel Prizes, and only one of two people to win a Nobel Prize in more than one field (the other is Marie Curie, you've heard of her, right?). Pauling is a giant in the field of chemistry, and one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century.
Your story of the publication of the double helix also does not jibe with the historical record. Conveniently, a new set of letters recently emerged shedding further light on the cooperation between the two groups and how it was decided how the papers would be written (and simultaneously published in the same issue of Nature):
I'm a little surprised--Pauling is one of the few scientists who transcend science and became fairly well known in popular culture. If you're a biologist or a chemist, his contributions are both obvious and enormous. But for the non-scientist, he was very famous for his nuclear disarmament work, so much so that he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. There was a period where the US State Department refused to let him leave the country. He was also fairly well known for his somewhat crackpot ideas late in his life about the ability of massive doses of vitamins to promote health and cure cancer. He was also on a stamp in 2008. The Wikipedia entry on Pauling does a decent job of noting his tremendous body of work.
Sorry for the Nature link, I hadn't realized their news articles were behind their paywall. Here's the Guardian's coverage, it's not great (the author doesn't seem to realize that Nobel Prizes can't be awarded posthumously) but at least you get some idea of the content of the treasure trove of correspondence that's been found. It's a fascinating account (as told in "The Double Helix") of an era where scientists were asked not to work on a particular problem because another scientist had already claimed that area for research. Say what you will about the competitive nature of today's world, it certainly has resulted in a more productive environment than one where only one group was allowed to address a subject. That's really why Watson and Crick were seen as such "rogues" at the time, they were working on a question that someone else had claimed.
As far as the publication of the papers, from the Nature article:
"Watson and Crick announced their double-helical model in one of a group of three papers in Nature on 25 April. The other two — from Wilkins and from Franklin — presented supporting X-ray diffraction data from the King's group...Wilkins had already declined Watson and Crick's offer of co-authorship when he had visited Cambridge to view the new model on 13 March."
So rather than Franklin's work being unacknowledged, the group she worked for (run by Maurice Wilkins) was offered coauthorship on the paper and they declined. They chose instead to write their own accompanying papers, published together with Watson and Crick's. The wording and content of the set of papers published was much debated and agreed on by all involved. Franklin reportedly never held a grudge and was friendly with both Watson and Crick until her death.
While Franklin was certainly treated unfairly due to the sexism of both the time and the culture of science, I do feel she's been given the appropriate amount of credit in the story of the structure of DNA. The lesson that I take from the situation is that collecting the data is not what's important. Understanding the data is what's important. That's the difference between a technician and a scientist. Franklin was unable to make the intellectual leap that Watson and Crick made. They deserve the credit for doing so. She deserves mention for collecting a piece of data that led to their insight, but it's the insight that really matters.
And that's what people often misunderstand when they talk about open science, and getting scooped. Most open science supporters note that if your data is publicly available and timestamped, you will be given credit for collecting it. Which is true, but collecting the data is not what's important. When you release your data before you've had a chance to understand it, you run the risk of someone else understanding it first, and they'll reap the majority of the credit and reward that comes from your hard work.
I do agree that in an ideal world, open science is the way to go. But I am unsure how it can work in a world where funding and jobs are limited, and where science is done by human beings. If credit for accomplishments is how one gets a job, or tenure, or further funding, then it's in one's best interests to fully exploit one's own work before giving it away to others. And scientists are humans--they have egos and more importantly, they need to feed their families and pay their employees. Being cautious about prematurely releasing the fruits of their labors makes it much easier to do these things. It likely does slow the pace of discovery, but it also makes science a viable career.


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Observations on British and American English
by an American linguist in the UK
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
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BrE = British English
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OED=Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edn. [1989], unless otherwise noted)
Sunday, July 29, 2007
making head(s) or tail(s)
I suppose the reason I didn't write about that earlier is because there's not a lot more to say about it! It's unclear why the AmE version gained the plural markers. The phrase head or tail is defined by the OED as 'one thing or another', so etymologically speaking, the singular makes some sense. Growing up with the AmE version, I visuali{s/z}ed the things that one 'could not make heads or tails of' to be chaotic things--sort of like a Breughel painting as done by Jackson Pollock, where you wouldn't be able to find the heads or the tails of the beings in it. The BrE version lends it self to a visual that is imprecise, but not necessarily chaotic. But then, how one pictures such things must be a highly individual experience...
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I (Canadian) always thought the plural version had to do with coins. It'd be hard to tell heads from tails on a really scuffed-up coin.
Also, both versions, singular and plural, sound OK to my ear(s), but the singular sounds more highfalutin, or more British, which might be the same thing in my education.
- 30 July, 2007 01:20
- Ailsa said...
Huh. I grew up in New England (Maine, to be precise), and I learned it as "can't make head nor tail of it."
- 30 July, 2007 01:22
- zhoen said...
All over Am/E, with Canadian parents, I too always assumed it referred to coins.
- 30 July, 2007 01:26
- Bingley said...
I grew up in SE England and agree with Ailsa: "can't/couldn't make head nor tail".
- 30 July, 2007 04:20
- Runway said...
I, too, (as a Texan) heard it as "heads or tales" and assumed it had to do with old, rustic coins. To hear someone say they can't make heads or tales out of something just meant they couldn't figure it/understand it just like they couldn't figure out which side of a rustic coin was heads or tails.
But... do we say, "this is the head side of the coin" or "this is the heads side of the coin." Maybe it's the "head's side," the side belonging to the head. That's why it sounds weird in singular (or, I guess, the non possessive) form - to me anyway.
- 30 July, 2007 04:46
Tails. I should reread before I post.
- 30 July, 2007 04:47
- Ken Broadhurst said...
My North Carolina dialect says "can't make heads (n)or tails" of it.
There's a similar expression in French and it has nothing to do with coins. It says that a confusing story or explanation is "sans queue ni tête" -- without head nor tail. Queue and tête are not the terms used to describe the two sides of a coin. An equivalent expression is "without rhyme or reason."
- 30 July, 2007 08:52
- Ginger Yellow said...
Definitely 'nor' in preference to 'or'.
- 30 July, 2007 11:25
- Andy said...
Growing up in Northern England, I learned this as "can't make head or tails of it"... apparantly a mixture of the two styles.
- 30 July, 2007 11:46
- lynneguist said...
The 'nor' variation may exist within people, and may depend in part on the larger grammatical context. In general, it's less common than 'or'. The following Google figures are from the original e-mail that was sent to me by my colleague:
> 99,000 for "make head or tail" (35,900 for "make head nor tail")
> 193,000 for "make heads or tails" (12,900 for "make heads nor tails")
- 30 July, 2007 11:56
- jhm said...
I (from Western Massachusetts) would say "heads or tails," but have heard (or read) allsa's Maine version, and don't think of it as wrong.
In fact, the singular version makes much more sense as something akin to 'I don't know where to start/which end is which,' the latter forming my main visualization for the plural version (also using coins) 'can't tell up from down/obverse from reverse.'
- 30 July, 2007 13:16
Lynne, do you know whether the phrase originally had to do with coins? Or is the smimilarity just coincidental?
- 30 July, 2007 16:31
- Doug Sundseth said...
When calling a flipped coin, I (AmE) would always use the plural:
"Call it in the air!"
"Heads it is."
I've heard much the same during televised coin flips many times, so I don't think this a particularly idiosyncratic form of AmE.
Would that sequence in BrE use the singular?
- 30 July, 2007 16:37
Doug, coin TOSSING (BrE) is not yet a televised sport over here (and I must say I don't see the spectator potential) but on any coin toss it would indeed be "heads or tails," not the singular version. But in the expression Lynne is writing about-- to be a good boy and drag it back on topic-- I, brought up in Scotland but having lived in England and Germany, know it as "I can't make head nor tail of it," NEVER in plural.
- 30 July, 2007 17:38
I guess one question is whether when flipping a coin speakers of BrE say "Head or Tail" or "Heads or Tails"...that will determine what sort of head we are talking about...
- 30 July, 2007 17:50
So it looks like the difference comes from a view of the phrase itself. In AmE, the phrase referrs to not being able to tell the difference between two sides of a coin, whereas in BrE it is about not knowing the difference between the two sides of an animal...Kind of like not knowing your ass from a hole in the ground...
- 30 July, 2007 17:53
- Ginger Yellow said...
I certainly wouldn't link it (the singular version) to a coin toss, but interestingly enough Brewer's seems to:
"I can make neither head nor tail of it. I cannot understand it at all. A gambling phrase"
- 30 July, 2007 18:03
- flatlander said...
As I'm sure cameron and others are dying to know, I'll clarify doug's comment. Televised coin tosses are not programs unto themselves (although they would be more entertaining than some of the garbage on TV), but rather a way of deciding which (American-style) football team kicks off to start the first half. I believe the visiting team calls "heads or tails" in the air. Winner decides whether to kick or to receive first.
And -- to get back on topic -- I've always used the plural. I picture a catfight where the feline heads and tails are mixed up with claws and fur and spit and dust.
- 30 July, 2007 18:09
- Erin said...
It seems like the American version was influenced by the coin-related meanings of "head" and "tail" while the British version wasn't. We can back-interpret the etymology so that it relates to coins, and of course that interpretation makes sense, but it's likely that the original meaning referred to separating the head of an animal from its rear end.
- 30 July, 2007 18:25
- lynneguist said...
I don't know what the origin of the phrase is, I'm afraid. The OED considers it to have derived from head or tail to mean 'one thing or another', which goes back at least to 1651. Now that meaning is always in the phrase "not make head(s) (n)or tail(s) of", but the first quotation for that actual phrase is 1729. None of that helps us know whether it's about animals or coins, since the sense of head and tail relating to coins goes back into the 17th century too.
So, we don't know. And it could be the case that when the phrase was populari{s/z}ed, there were people then just as today who had different ideas about the underlying metaphor!
- 30 July, 2007 19:27
It appears to me, as a BrE speaker that we have two different phrases here. 'Heads or tails' as a choice between two sides of a coin. And 'I can't make head nor tail of it'. I have never considered the two phrases to be related.
In my experience, the 'I can't make head nor tail of it' always comes with the rest of the words around the outside. I can't think of any other context for that version of 'head nor tail'.
The coin version - also appears to be a stand alone phrase - never heard it applied to anything else.
There is no reason that the two different usages need to be linked at all.
And as for the folk netymology - its always amusing to see it develop. It is generally wrong of course. :)
- 30 July, 2007 19:43
Danish reference to head or tail (sg) is also unrelated to coins (the process it called "at slå plat og krone" - with and rather than or come to think of it).
The expression of bafflement is "ikke at kunne finde hoved eller hale it i noget".
Checking my dictionary (which only has sparing etymology) makes me wonder if this use is borrowed from English, because their quoted example is "Der var hverken hoved eller hale på historien" - There was neither head nor tail to the story. A far more literal interpretation.
- 31 July, 2007 02:53
Correcting myself - I think we *do* use or rather than and with cointosses. I should pay more attention ...
Checking the Danish equivalent of The Oxford Dictionary of the English Language (which is now freely available online for those curious) the expression unambiguously refers to beginning and end (like alpha and omega). E.g. Deut 28.13: "And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:" (KJV since there may be some age to it).
- 31 July, 2007 03:06
Heads or Tails is a coin-tossing game. Most coins have a side where the imprint of a person's head, such as a current or former head of state, is impressed — this side is called the "heads" side. The other side is called the "tails" side, irrespective of its design. Technically, the heads and tails sides are known as the obverse and reverse, respectively.
In 1870 Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable describes heads in a similar way and details tails as being the opposite and obvious reverse to heads. The expression 'can't make head nor tail of it' expresses this concept of opposites. Singular 'head nor tail' is the correct English form.
Plural "Heads or Tails" refers to the actual call during the tossing of a coin.
Generally, one person throws the coin up in the air, and the second person must predict which side of the coin will lay face up after it rests back on the ground. A correct prediction results in a win. Another variation has the person catch the coin in one hand and slap it on the back of their other hand. Traditionally, the second person calls out "heads" or "tails" while the coin is in the air.
- 16 February, 2009 01:00
While the meaning of the phrase is clear, it's origin is not so.
I come from an area of the US where moon shining is a popular past time and always thought the phrase "can't make heads or tails" came from the process of separating the heads (first distillate out of a still) from the tails (the last distillate out of the still). The heads and tails are undesirable because they contain chemicals other than pure alcohol.
The separating of heads and tails from a batch is as much art as science and is difficult until mastered.
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