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Nyctereutes lockwoodi
Back in December, I noted the announcement of a new species of raccoon dog (Nyctereutes lockwoodi). The paper is now online and, as we suspected, the species is "[n]amed after the late Charles Lockwood, for his contribution to our knowledge of the genus Australopithecus in South and East Africa as well as his role in the exploration of the morphological temporal trends of A. afarensis in the Hadar Formation." As it happens, Bill Kimbel and I are currently putting the finishing touches to our final manuscript with Charlie. More of that later, no doubt.
Ref: Gerrads et al., (2010) "Nyctereutes lockwoodi, n. sp., a New Canid (Carnivora: Mammalia) from the Middle Pliocene of Dikika, Lower Awash, Ethiopia." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(3):981-987. doi: 10.1080/02724631003758326
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Those of you who can remember high-school physics will know that kinetic energy is the energy a body has due to its motion, or the work needed to accelerate a body of a given mass from rest to its current velocity. Not according to "psychic" and convicted fraud, Sylvia Browne, who defines it thusly in her latest book :
Kinetic energy is the unintentional, spontaneous manipulation of inanimate objects through no obvious physical means, causing its possessor to become kind of a hapless walking force field. There are several theories about what creates kinetic energy. And, of course, there are just as many skeptics who will swear it doesn't exist at all, which I'd be happy to consider if I hadn't witnessed it with my own eyes a few thousand times.
What? You see, Browne believes that your "kinetic energy" can can cause inanimate objects to be spontaneously manipulated without your volition.
(Hat tip to J-Walk Blog)
[Review] 99% Ape: How Evolution Adds Up.
The following review first appeared in Journal of the History of Biology (2009).
To historians, textbooks can be useful data. Because of their very nature that can act as time capsules for "consensus science" during the period of their publication: cutting-edge science is usually omitted and students are usually only exposed to what is accepted by the majority of the scientific community. This is particularly true of textbooks aimed at secondary-level students. Yet textbooks – due to their pedagogical role – never fully disentangle themselves with the socio-political milieu from which they emerge. A classic example of this is George William Hunter's Civic Biology (1914) which – along with the accepted science of the day – discussed eugenics, the perceived negative implications of "parasitic" families, and the hoped for future improvement of the human race. Textbooks, in short, can be more than just collections of scientific facts and theories; they are also embedded (and can function) within a socio-political matrix. I will return to this issue presently.
The work under review is the textbook for an entry-level Open University (UK) course titled Darwin and Evolution and as such is aimed at readers with no previous background in the biological sciences. As such, it offers an entry into the current state of evolutionary biology and sacrifices breadth for depth. Throughout the reader is presented with the evidence for evolution as fact (change over time within populations in both the neontological and paleontological realms) and as pathway (hypotheses about what changes into what through deep time). In addition various mechanisms for evolution are briefly discussed, with pride of place being given to Charles Darwin's two mechanisms of natural and sexual selection. The examples will be familiar to many readers: Galapagos finches, East African cichlids, Hawaiian picture wing flies, the evolution of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) from simian viruses, the transition to land, the evolution of birds and feathered dinosaurs, the evolution of whales, industrial melanism in peppered moths, and of course, human evolution. All are covered relatively briefly using clear text and often stunning illustrations.
Throughout the work genetic and morphological studies unite to offer explanations of organic diversity. Data from fossils are united with genetic studies (both phylogenetic and within the field of evolutionary developmental biology) to present our current understanding of a particular phenomenon. Often these investigations are put with an historical context. A good example of this is the chapter devoted to Darwin's finches. Beginning with an account of Darwin's own engagement with the group (and after tipping the hat to the pioneering work of David Lack) the chapter discusses the long-term studies of Peter and Rosemary Grant before culminating in a brief discussion of how the proteins calmodulin (CaM) and bone-modulating protein 4 (bmp4) control beak size and shape, illuminating how changes in the activation of genes controlling the production of these proteins could account for aspects of speciation within Geospiza. These findings are then integrated into a discussion of the geological and environmental history of the Galapagos archipelago. All of this occurs in eleven pages with twelve figures.
Historians of evolutionary biology are not likely to learn much new from this work and its value will be to us as teachers, providing as it does a brief and visually appealing introduction to modern evolutionary biology, one which can be recommended to students with little or no background in the sciences. That said the seven co-authors, all biologists, work hard to include historical information within the individual chapters. The work is richly illustrated with many images that historians will recognize and quotes abound from Darwin's notebooks, Origin, and the Journal of Researches. Yet Darwin is not the only historical figure one encounters – Thomas Henry Huxley, William Paley, Samuel Wilberforce, and Louis Agassiz are (somewhat predictably) mentioned. There are however some surprises. The chapter on whale evolution introduces the reader to the relatively little known anatomist, William H. Flower, who in 1883 proposed – based on multiple lines of evidence – that whales evolved from artiodactyls. This idea received little support until the late 1980's when new fossil finds and genetic studies overthrew the prevailing view that whales were related to a carnivorous group known as mesonychids. In time it has become clear that the closest living relative to whales are in fact hippopotami. The book commemorates Flower's bold claim with a full-page picture and an extensive quotation that is worth repeating here (in an abbreviated form):
"We may conclude by picturing to ourselves some primitive generalized, marsh-haunting animals with scanty covering of hair like the modern hippopotamus, but with broad swimming tails and short limbs, omnivorous in their mode of feeding … gradually becoming more and more adapted to fill the void place ready for them on the aquatic side of the borderland on which they dwelt, and so by degrees being modified into dolphin-like creatures inhabiting lakes and rivers and ultimately finding their way into the ocean." (p. 93).
As I mentioned above, textbooks function within a socio-political matrix. Here in the United States that matrix is distinguished by the fact that over 50% of the population apparently believes that "the development of life was guided by intelligent design" (Zogby Poll, June 2009) and while traditionally an American problem, such anti-evolutionism has manifested itself in Europe and Australia. Chapter 18 distinguishes the "science of evolution" from the non-science of creationism and rightly identifies the modern Intelligent Design (ID) movement as a manifestation of the latter. Indeed, much of the evidence discussed in 99% Ape is precisely that dismissed by proponents of ID (such as Jonathan Wells) as flawed "icons of evolution". Perusal of this book will show how strong the evidence for evolution (as fact, pathway & mechanism) is. Noting that there are no constitutional barriers (as there are in the US) to the teaching of creationism in British schools, the authors implicitly set their volume as a bulwark against future creationist incursions. For all of us – whether British or not – the book can serve as a primer of forceful examples to use whenever one needs to illustrate the evidence for evolution to a skeptical audience.
Jonathan Silverton, ed., "99% Ape: How Evolution Adds Up" (London, Natural History Museum, 2008; Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2009), 224 pp., £14.99, $26.00 (paper).
R.B. and the Volcano
The Arizona Republic is running a story about Robert "R.B." Trombley, head of the International Volcano Research Center (INTLVRC). Trombley has appeared in a number of media outlets as an expert on volcanos after the recent Icelandic eruption.
Now it turns out that the media were using a definite non-expert in their rush to generate opinion. Trombley's "PhD" came from Dallas State College, a degree-mill in Texas that has been defunct since 1975. This didn't stop Trombley claiming credentials in astronomy, expertise in volcanology, and a record of peer-review:
Trombley said his work has been peer-reviewed and told The Republic he was published in Eos, a publication of the American Geophysical Union. No work bearing Trombley's name could be found in a search of AGU's archives.
But my favorite bit has to be this claim by R.B.:
"I don't have a degree in geophysics or geology, per se, but it's like I'm so close … I've worked in the field so long and been to so many different volcanoes and stuff, that, you know, I haven't found one thing I've said yet that hasn't been true."
The INTLVRC is run out of Trombley's home – a pink trailer in Apache Junction. One look at the INTLVRC website would have indicated that a certain professionalism was missing. It seems that journalists at CNN and the WSJ need to learn how to do basic research.
A YEC take on anthropogenic global warming
I was browsing Answers Research Journal today and noticed the following contribution by Rod J. Martin – "A Proposed Bible-Science Perspective on Global Warming." The abstract – somewhat predictably – reads:
Media coverage of global warming has been increasing for over twenty years. Major proponents include the United Nations, politicians, environmentalists, and celebrities. Oddly, the church has had little to say on the issue and has made scant use of Scripture to evaluate the alleged problem. This paper will identify the major goals of global warming advocates, propose a biblical (young-earth creationist) framework for evaluating the issue, and highlight basic scientific data related to the alleged claims. It will be shown that the Bible provides sufficient counsel to enable Christians to evaluate the claims of global warming and arrive at a confident position that is in accord with real science. The contention that man's activities are causing global warming, as described in the media and by its advocates, is a myth. There is no reason either biblically or scientifically to fear the exaggerated and misguided claims of catastrophe as a result of increasing levels of man-made carbon dioxide (CO2[sic]).
As an insight to the standards of ARJ, I'll just note that that CO2 typo occurs throughout the article, as is O2, though in fairness, the PDF of the article has the correct subscripts.
Here's the end of the paper:
Why there is no reason for alarm
- O2 and CO2 in the atmosphere were created, they did not evolve.
- Today's atmosphere likely contains significantly less CO2 than before the Flood.
- CO2 is necessary for life, and was created prior to plants and animals.
- CO2 is not a pollutant.
- Increasing levels of CO2 are beneficial for plants.
- Decreasing levels of CO2 could be a serious problem.
- Burning fossil fuels simply returns CO2 to the air, from which it originated, in the pre-Flood atmosphere. Increasing CO2 in the atmosphere does not reverse a billion year old evolutionary trend and upset the delicate balance of nature.
- The present levels of oxygen in the air are adequate without any unusual efforts to plant trees or to further limit the forestry industry.
- Plants were created as food for humans and animals. They are not necessary for storing carbon or for generating O2.
- Glaciers have been retreating for thousands of years since the Flood. Most of the glacial melt occurred before man began burning fossil fuels.
- Ice age glaciers melted due to cooling seas, not warming seas.
- Climates have been constantly changing since the Flood. Consider all the major climate changes since the Flood and initiated by the Flood.
- Plants, animals and mankind have been adapting to climate for thousands of years.
- Recent global temperature histories are insufficient for developing reliable conclusions about trends or impending catastrophes.
- Increasing the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere will continue to improve crop production around the world, benefiting mankind.
- Neither melting glaciers, increasing CO2, changing climates, nor earth's surface temperature history are proof of global warming.
- God is in control of history and the earth's climates, not man.
I haven't encountered Martin (an "independent researcher" in Santa Clarita CA) before and the googles are doing nothing. Any reader know anything about him?
[Review] The Evolution-Creation Struggle
[The following appeared in Nature Reviews Genetics in 2005 under the title "The Secular Religion of Evolution(ism)". As such it appeared before the tendency of New Atheists to throw out the epithet "appeaser" or "accomodationist" (and their general vehement detestation of Ruse). While in a different venue (or indeed five years later), I may have written a different review of the book, here is what I wrote back then.]
As an undergraduate in Ireland in the mid-80's I ran across a copy of Ashley Montagu's book Science and Creationism. Frankly, I felt that I was reading some kind of parody – could there actually be people in a technologically literate country like the United States who denied both the fact of evolution and the hypothesis that natural selection was a mechanism for such change? Such opposition was not an issue in Ireland and I could not see why it should be in America. Subsequent experience has taught me that this is sadly the case, and indeed that anti-evolutionists often have understandable reasons for their opposition to Darwinian evolution.
The Montagu volume contained an article by the philosopher and historian Michael Ruse describing his experiences during the 1981 Arkansas "Scopes II" trial in which he provided Judge William Overton with a somewhat controversial definition of "science" and thus the basis of the decision to ban "creation science" from Arkansas public schools. This decision, along with the 1987 Supreme Court ruling in Edwards v Aguilard, marked a sea-change for the anti-evolution movement in America. As a result, creationism itself was forced to evolve and indeed, the resurgence of intelligent design (ID) is a clear indication that anti-evolutionism has not died in the United States. With ongoing creationist action at the state and local level in many states in America, the struggle between supporters of evolution and creation is not likely to disappear soon, and indeed ID appears to be making some inroads into Europe.
In this relatively short and readable book, The Evolution-Creation Struggle, Ruse sets out his vision of this ongoing struggle between evolution and creation. Following a broad historical narrative beginning with the Enlightenment and discussing the development of evolutionary biology as a fully-fledged professional science, Ruse is careful to distinguish between evolution and evolutionism. The former is a professionalized field within biology that deals with facts and observations, the latter, a secular religion of evolutionary philosophical naturalism that smuggles values into evolution. Ruse notes that evolutionism is practiced – if not preached – by many of the most skillful popularizers of evolutionary biology; Richard Dawkins, E.O. Wilson, William D. Hamilton, Jerry Coyne, and William Provine are all offered as exemplars. These supporters of evolutionism, Ruse claims, exhibit a worldview that is ultimately optimistic and supports progress. In fact, he sees such individuals as essentially post-millennial, that is believing that humans can work towards a better future. This is in opposition to pre-millennialists (including advocates of creationism and intelligent design) who, believing in Christian providentialism, hold that human action alone cannot and will not make the world a better place. Ruse thus shifts the "struggle" from (the traditionally accepted) one of evolution versus creation to one of differing visions of the future of humanity.
It would be tempting – and easy – to misread Ruse as saying that evolution is a religion, and I expect creationists will, if past history is any guide, misquote portions of this work. Ruse clearly states that evolution is a mature, professional science exhibiting "[p]rediction, consilience, consistency, and fertility". Indeed, Ruse denies these very characteristics to intelligent design, stating "we find no empirical or conceptual reason whatsoever to think of intelligent design theory as genuine science … [T]here are no results. And there are no new predictions leading to new and unexpected discoveries". On this point, I wholeheartedly agree with Ruse.
He also believes that Darwinism – or any other form of evolution – does not entail the secular theology of evolutionism, and that Christianity itself does not entail any form of anti-evolutionism. In short, one can be a Darwinian and a Christian – an observation backed up in the writings of theologian John F. Haught or biologist Kenneth R. Miller. Thus, Ruse sees it as a fatal flaw for supporters of evolution not to realize that there are deeply religious individuals who support evolution yet dismiss evolutionism, and he states that evolutionists need to "start thinking about working together … rather than apart" with such individuals .
Ruse's point is clear; "Those of us who love science must do more than simply restate our positions or criticize the opposition. We must understand our own assumptions and, equally, find out why others have (often) legitimate concerns. This is not a plea for weak-kneed compromise but a more informed and self-aware approach to the issues. First understanding, and then some strategic moves". The evolution-creation struggle has generated more heat than light in the quarter century since the Arkansas trial, and it shows no sign of letting up. Whether Ruse's analysis is ultimately accurate or not, he is correct in claiming that, as educators and evolutionists, we need to be aware of the potential perils of evolutionism.
Michael Ruse, The Evolution-Creation Struggle, Harvard University Press, 2005


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Unique baby girl bibs are so easy to make! This Catch All Baby Bib from Lelanie Denso, complete with a little crumb pocket, is great for your little princess. This modern baby bib can also be adopted to fit your little prince, too!
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Nice bib tutorial. I love tutorial with pictures on them, it makes it easy to follow. I just would like to suggest that instead of using a velcro maybe use the snap buttons instead. They are much more secure and like a velcro can also be easily attached and detached. http//ghcbibs.com
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Sen. Mary Landrieu discussed the housing and education needs of families at Barksdale Air Force Base during her latest visit there.
Landrieu's visit on Thursday was one of several she's made to military installations in the state. The Times of Shreveport reports that Landrieu said the base needs to be made as accommodating as possible for the personnel assigned there and their families, as well as the families of those deployed to war zones.
Landrieu, who chairs a Senate subcommittee on homeland security, said she's pushing state and federal officials to push up financing for a planned east gate at the base. The base has built hundreds of units of modern housing on its East Reservation and Landrieu said the gate and a road that will connect to Interstates 20 and 220 are badly needed.
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text: It's nice to see there are still some gentlemen out there who have "libraries". . . <JC> From: chugalug-bounces at chugalug.org [mailto:chugalug-bounces at chugalug.org] On Behalf Of Mike Robinson Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 9:14 AM To: chugalug at chugalug.org Subject: [Chugalug] "Supplying the Mining World" -- Re: ButterFly ASIC Single On Sep 2, 2013, at 7:00 AM, chugalug-request at chugalug.org wrote: Re: ButterFly ASIC Single In my library I have an excellent book, "Supplying the Mining World." which to me neatly sums-up how "Bit-con" actually works. The people who really made a fortune during the California Gold Rush days were hardware-store proprietors, like Leland Stanford and Mark Crocker (who went on to do quite well with the transcontinental railroad), and photographers. Nearly all of the hopefuls never made a dime, but they all bought shovels and sluice-pans in the big city, and they all wanted to have their pictures taken. As long as this device works as advertised ... it will accelerate the task of solving this computationally-difficult yet-solvable problem ... then it is in the eyes of the law as legitimate a thing to sell as any one of P. T. Barnum's tickets to see "the amazing egress." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://chugalug.org/pipermail/chugalug/attachments/20130902/0d5804d6/attachment.html>


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Thank you Melissa for being as drop dead gorgeous on the inside as you are on the outside.
We have a ton more from this wedding but you will have to be patient!
In truth,
Robyn and Maria
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Snoring and Sleep Apnea: Notes for a Partner
Snoring and Sleep Apnea: Notes for a Partner
Snoring and sleep apnea affect your life, as well as your partner's. You can help in the treatment of the problem. Be supportive. Encourage your partner both to get treatment and to make the adjustments needed to follow through.
Adjusting to Changes
Your partner's treatment may involve making changes to certain life habits. You can help your partner make and stick with these changes. For example:
Support and even join your partner's exercise program.
Be supportive if your partner gets CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure). He or she may feel self-conscious at first. Remind your partner to expect adjustments to CPAP before it feels just right.
Consider joining a snoring and sleep apnea support group.
Go Along to See the Doctor
You can give the doctor the best account of your partner's nighttime breathing and snoring patterns. Try to go along to doctor's appointments. If you can't go, write notes for your partner to give to the doctor. Describe your partner's snoring and sleep breathing patterns in detail.
Tips for Sleeping with a Snorer
Until treatment takes care of your partner's snoring:


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Easy Bananas Foster Ingredients: 4 ripe bananas (ripe meaning not green, but not blackened) 55 g vegan margarine 70 g brown sugar 60 mL dark rum (lightly spiced and preferably Caribbean)
Easy Bananas Foster
Easy Bananas Foster
Bananas Foster is one of those recipes that is remarkably easy yet makes a great show in preparation. It's one of the few ways I enjoy the subtile flavor of rum. While on a trip to the Caymans, where rum is everywhere, I picked up this recipe. If you have an electric stove, where the instructions say tip toward the flame and shake, simply light the rum in the skillet with a long stick camp lighter. The flame subsides as soon as the rum cooks off leaving behind a delicious caramelized flavor and scent. This can also be made with apples or even cherries, but for starters, try the banana.
4 ripe bananas (ripe meaning not green, but not blackened)
1/2 stick vegan margarine
1/3 c. packed brown sugar
1/4 c. dark rum (lightly spiced and preferably Caribbean)
To prepare:
Melt the margarine in a sauce pan or skillet. Peel and cut the bananas in half across, then in half again lengthwise. Add the sugar to the pan and stir into the margarine until everything just begins to bubble. Add the bananas and shake the pan or stir gently – the bananas are fragile. When the bananas are heated through, about 3 minutes, add the rum and tip the skillet away from you toward the flame (or away from you) and light the liquid. The rum with fire up or flambé. As soon as the alcohal cooks off and the flame subsides the bananas are done and you have a mighty fine dessert.
Serve over your favorite frozen dessert or on toasted frozen waffles.
Additional topping options include toasted coconut flakes, nuts, or even a sprinkle of granola.
Yummy! .-). Thank you for the share


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"I know that there are people out there who say that there is nothing sexy about being pregnant," says Tia Mowry. "Then there are some people who embrace the sexuality."
The Game star, 32, decidedly falls in the latter category, having recently posed for a revealing belly photo.
"I feel empowered; I feel sexy," says Mowry, who's expecting a baby boy on July 3.
Inspired to pose for the photo by her mother – who regrets not having taken such a shot herself – the actress admits that she's a little "obsessed" with her glammed-up pregnancy pic.
But this third trimester's not all smiles for the camera. Mowry, who is married to actor Cory Hardrict, admits that sleeping is not easy.
"I have sciatica so I've gotten those pregnancy pillows," says Mowry. "That doesn't seem to be working for me."
Add some jitters to the mix: "They say that the baby should kick 10 times every two hours," says the nervous mom-to-be. "I'm obsessed with counting how many times the baby's kicking. So around one o'clock in the morning I'm counting in my head, not sleeping!"
Her pregnancy will be televised when the Mowry twins return to the airwaves later this summer on their new reality show, Tia & Tamera Take 2, premiering on the Style Network.
PHOTO: Tia Mowry 'Embraces the Sexuality' of Pregnancy
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For a lovely, lovely blog experience go to What Feeds My Soul: http://whatfeedsmysoul-aha.blogspot.com/. Amy Hermes Anderson writes eloquently about many soulful things including glassybaby. She is a glassybaby friend, evangelist and collector. As you scroll through her many posts, glassybaby imagery surfaces...signature Amy (and she is apparently a professional photgrapher as well.)
What is better than a photograph of, bursting with pink, peonies in new fern (I think) glassybaby...bathed in ambient day light? operatic beauty. Amy's post entitled: "The Power of Flowers" articulates a floral sensibility...
"For as long as I can remember from my childhood my mom loved flowers. In fact, yesterday she sent me an email with the subject line "Sun and flowers- two of my favorite things!" Well, the sum is not shining in Seattle today, so I bought myself flowers for a little pick-me-up. It is so simple, but flowers truly have all kinds of power- the power to lift my spirits, to heal, to show gratitude, to connect generations, to brighten dark, cold, winter days."
Another photograph (see above) posted on December 25th gives us a glance to Amy's holiday dinner table...with both literal joy (red glassybaby) and metaphoric joy emanating. Thanks Amy for letting glassybaby feed your soul.
If there is a harbinger story that anticipates the arrival of Valentine's Day...this is it...a true story from last week with distinct red overtones and love swirling all around. Marty called our Madrona Store to hatch a surprise plan for his, beloved, Molly. Here is the time line that unfolded:
- the local Volvo dealership delivered a brand new, red hot, Volvo to our Madrona neighborhood
- the keys were dropped to Annjette...our, poker faced, Marty co-conspirator
- Marty and Molly arrived to shop for glassybaby
- Molly chose a hudson and a big apple glassybaby
- as Marty distracted Molly...Anjette,ringing up the sale, dropped the Volvo keys and a note into the big apple glassybaby
- in an Academy Award worthy performance...Annjette said quizically to Molly: "There is something in your glassybaby..."
- the rest is history...see Molly receiving her Volvo above...so 'Valentinian'
Marty took the time to scribe an email of gratitude to us...in part, he said: "She has 7 babies now...dolphin, blue eyes, necklace, root beer, angel,...now joined by big apple and hudson. She also has a fiery little red Volvo that burns with as much spirit, intensity and beauty as the babies. Your work through the amazing glass, to touch people's lives as you did ours...and all the giving back to the community that you do...is truly something that humbles us, and something we are thrilled to be a small part of."
Thanks Marty. We like your style...and we like Molly's style too.
More Soon, Nicola


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Gentrification: The Start Or The End Of A Neighborhood?
This fight was the most tumultuous fight we ever had. A community in mid-gentrification came to Fight Club to battle it out after many years of political gridlock. They let it allllll out.....
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Humans By Design: Arch Rivals Duke It Out
"No jaws were broken, no eyes blackened, but a few stridently held ideas about the farming of human genes took a beating. As did everyone's eardrums." -Bradford McKee of the New York Times - "In This Ring, A Designer Slugfest"...
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Consumerism: To Buy Or Not To Buy
Is the US economy completely reliant on high consumption? Shorter product lives and the increase in landfill-destined products have created an environmental and social problem.
To buy or not to buy, that is truly the question raised by this televised debate....
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Censorship: Sex And Violence
Censorship, Internet pornography, nudity, prime time violence.
This was the second ever Fight Club, and proved to be even more heated than the first.
Most of Europe and Canada have less than 100 mortalities per year through violence, whereas the US averages around 11,000 through guns alone....
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Legalize Marijuana: A Televised Debate
Drugs for sale- Should marijuana be made legal?
This fight was recorded to create a Pilot TV show and featured ABC's Lou Canellis as the Ring Leader....
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Vogue documentary secures pickup
NEW YORK — "The September Issue," R.J. Cutler's documentary about Vogue editor Anna Wintour, has secured a pickup from Roadside Attractions.
The distrib took domestic theatrical and homevid rights on the A&E IndieFilms-produced doc, which had a strong preem in competition at Sundance. A&E will have the TV debut after theatrical and homevid windows.
Cutler adapted tactics he used on Bill Clinton docu "The War Room" to depict Wintour and the fashion world's intrigue-heavy process of pulling together Vogue's September issue. He secured significant cooperation from the famously secretive Wintour.
Reviews of Cutler's pic were largely positive, and Wintour even hit Utah to appear at a Q&A. Once it unspooled at the fest, several buyers circled the pic. It won a cinematography prize from the jury.
Roadside is a regular player in the doc world, having released pics including "I.O.U.S.A." and "Super Size Me."
"Because R.J. turns the process of assembling a high-profile magazine into a kind of suspense thriller, we think this film is such a great bet for theatrical," said Roadside co-president Howard Cohen. "Fashion lovers all want to know what the legendary Anna Wintour is really like."


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Hey all,
I just started cloth diapering about 3 weeks ago. Expecting my number 2 next month and wanted to cloth diaper #2...and well why not both kids?!
I attempted to get a diaper sprayer but cant hook it up due to a fixed line (were renting and about to move soon) and i have tried a few things for the poopy diapers. some better than others. i havent found somethign that really has worked.
However, there are some that are just well....explosive, especially now that hes cutting teeth. eveything from hard, to penut butter to runny to diarrhea.
How to any of you experienced cloth diapering mommas deal with the array of poopy diapers. any advice will help.


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INWOOD - Coming into Saturday's games, the Musselman Applemen softball team was working on a string of three straight shutouts.
The streak continued to six straight against Parkersburg and Frankfort as Musselman won all three of its games by a combined score of 22-0. The Applemen (17-3) defeated the Big Reds 5-0 and 9-0 and beat Frankfort 8-0.
The wins over Parkersburg, a strong Class AAA team, were particularly important for the Applemen, who have played a few of the top teams in the state of late.
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Sabrina Shroades of Musselman rounds second base during Saturday's game against Parkersburg. Shroades was also the winning pitcher. (Journal photo by Eric Jones)
"It's very important," said Musselman coach Shannon DeMasi of those games. "Down the stretch, you're trying to cover all the aspects of what could happen when it comes to playoff time - how to come back if you're down, how to stay ahead, how to get that last run in the seventh inning if you need it. I think playing all those other teams in the other areas has really allowed us to cover those aspects heading in."
In the third and final game of the day, not originally on Musselman's schedule, the Applemen bats came alive late to knock off Parkersburg 9-0 in five innings.
Through the first two innings, Musselman was in pretty good shape with a three-run lead, but it was a six-run fourth inning that gave the Applemen a comfortable lead. In that inning, Musselman batted around, collecting seven hits off Parkersburg starter Cassidy Newbrough.
"She's a good pitcher. That was their No. 1 pitcher," Musselman coach Shannon DeMasi said. "The girls were just seeing the ball all the way into the bat. They had a lot of confidence and a lot of fun today."
The first three Applemen hitters reached in the fourth inning. Brittney DeMarco and Bethany Jenkins singled to start the inning, then Tori Butler doubled to bring in the first run of the inning.
After a popout by Haley Fischer, Musselman got going again. Taylor Stocks singled, scoring Jenkins. Sabrina Shroades followed with a sharp single that scored Butler and Stocks to put the Applemen up 7-0.
Later in the inning, Brittany Ingram's RBI double scored Shroades, and Kelcie Jenkins' single scored Ingram to give Musselman a 9-0 lead.
On the mound, Shroades had another strong performance, shutting down Parkersburg. She allowed just two hits and struck out six batters, including the side in the second inning.
"She was out for that two-week span, and it's been really good for her," DeMasi said. "She's got a drive to compete."
Shroades, Stocks and Butler finished with a team-high two hits for the Applemen, with Stocks and Shroades driving two runs each. Ashley Bentley had a hit and two RBI, including a bases-clearing triple in the third inning.
Emmalee Alatorre and Taylor Beckley accounted for Parkersburg's two hits.