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The Black Keys "Turn Blue" Nonesuch Records
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Well, it doesn't look like those boys in the Black Keys are going anywhere any time soon, huh? My Guy in Nashville got to see them play a small club show last week as part of their promotions for Turn Blue. He forwarded me a review of the show that let me know that the record is Number One on some sort of Chart. This is great if you're in the band. Or if you work at Nonesuch. For the fans, I don't quite know what that means any more. What's the point of having Album Charts if no one is being Albums? I just know that this is my favorite Black Keys record to date that I am aware of. It feels like a bit of a departure. It also feels right at home. That's what I like about it most, I think. The whole thing feels like a delicately balanced high wire act. Without a net. These guys are going for it, now. The proverbial wind is at their backs, the sun on their collective Black Key face. And, presumably, a wad of cash in their pockets. They couldn't be more deserving. No matter what Jack White says.
In case you missed it, White seems to think that the Keys stole his gig. I've never thought that their sounds were particularly similar, always felt like the two-player configuration was the only real thing that the groups had in common. And a love of the Blues, obviously. But they always purveyed different types of Blues based material. The Keys seemed to be much more immersed in the North Mississippi Hill Country tradition whereas the White Stripes worked the fertile Delta territory. Turn Blue is a horse of another color. Danger Mouse is back behind the boards, and that's usually a seller for me, as is. The guy's taken Turn Blue into outer space. Like Pink Floyd space. And I like to imagine that Dan Auerbach's contributions lend Turn Blue it's rawer Crazy Horse vibe. The two go together like peanut butter and chocolate. Gone are the El Camino Arena Rock choruses. Mostly. Gone also is the stripped down, two-man, guitar/drum attack that lent such an earthy feel to the group's earliest efforts. There are lots of sounds in these grooves, not all of them easily identifiable. Both members of the duo are credited as keyboard players in the liners as is Danger Mouse so that might account for a bunch of the more "exploratory" sounds. But really, the beauty of this record is in that aforementioned balance between the spacey textures, the raunchy rockers, and the slightly-less-radio-ready melodies that keep your head bobbing along throughout this relatively brief record's run time. The two songs those bookends the work offer a fair sampling of all of the above. "Weight of Love" starts things off in outer orbit while "Gotta Get Away" ends the party with a lighter, loopier party vibe. The record as a whole suggests that the Black Keys have reached the place where they can translate their wildest inclinations into a cohesive whole. And people will buy it. Hats off, boys.
Nonesuch typically does my favorite new vinyl releases, but this one isn't quite as breath taking as others have been. That's mostly because the packaging is a little flimsier than what I'm accustomed to from them. You still get a fine pressing & an included CD. And, in this instance, you get a poster too. More importantly, you get a bunch of well recorded, great songs to listen to on vinyl. What else is there?
(This record was purchased at MusicDirect.com.)
The White Stripes "Vault Package #19" Third Man Records
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Speaking of Jack White… I'm still in his record club so Third Man is still sending me Vault Packages quarterly. You never know quite what you're going to get from this gang, and Package 19 was a bit of a departure. Factually, it was a really, really big departure. Usually, you get a full-length record (sometimes a double full-length), a 7-inch single (although the Willie package's single was a six-inch), and some type of ephemera (DVD, T-shirt, poster, book, whatever). This time, you did not. None of it. This time, you got four 7-inch singles. In a box. For $60. People got mad. I got excited. Then, mad. Then, appeased. Let's see…
Here's a bit of the press from the Third Man Records site, a little "straight from the horse's mouth" action for you: "This package will consist of limited colored vinyl pressings of all of the White Stripes singles from their album Elephant." The songs, in case you're wondering were "Seven Nation Army," "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself," "The Hardest Button To Button," and " There's No Home For You Here." I think that's mostly where the "people got mad" part started. You see, these songs are all readily available for White Stripes fans. On vinyl. On Elephant. Which Third Man reissued last year, for crying out loud! So, really, for that $60, you got the B-sides of the singles (mostly covers of Big Jack's fave Detroit bands of the era) and the box that the records came in. It was a custom made box, specifically for this occasion. But Vault members weren't expressing much enthusiasm about it in the comments section; I can tell you that much right now. Then, there was this (and I quote): "Each record will be pressed on clear vinyl with an added vinyl highlight color insertion of either red, black or white." But that didn't really happen. The records were clear enough, but the "highlights" were more like "middle of the road lights" as the colors don't really show up. I thought I might have gotten hold of a defective set, but a quick glance in the Vault comments cleared that right up for me. It was across the board. Oh, well, I don't care much about colored vinyl anyway. No big deal. But my copy of "The Hardest Button" was most definitely defective. It was scratchy and not playable. I was mad. So, I contacted customer service. They advised me that they'd gotten all of two complaints about the sonics in this package, and then gave me instructions to return the record for replacement. So, that happened. Then, I was appeased, but the Vault comments also suggested that I was not alone. Maybe I was one of only two folks with enough time on their hands to contact customer service about the issue. Doesn't seem probable, but okay. Finally, each record was housed in a "soft touch" coated sleeve. Which means that they feel weird. Sweet.
Now, here's the part that will really make your head itch: "Later in 2014 each of the singles will be available individually, on black vinyl, with no box, to the general public." So, that $60 didn't really get you much in the way of exclusives unless you're really into vinyl that was supposed to be colored that really was not. And the box. By golly, I got that box. And here's the crazy thing about me: I'm glad.
Neil Young "A Letter Home: Deluxe Edition" Third Man Records/Reprise Records
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Speaking of Jack White… he has a refurbished 1947 recording booth in his Nashville store. You can go in there, give him some American dollars, and record yourself playing a tune (or talking, I guess) in it. By the time you're done, you have a 6-inch single to show off which comes in a mailing sleeve so that you can send it to someone somewhere if you don't want to keep it yourself. The records sound like ass. This is decidedly beside the point. As I alluded to in this month's Vault review, Willie Nelson released a recording booth version of "Red Headed Stranger" as part of his Third Man Vault release. Good enough for Willie, good enough for me. But are we ready for a whole record with this swirling, warbling, and metal sound of 1940's vintage? Neil Young thinks so. Beyond that, Neil thought it was a good idea to put out a box set in addition to the standard single album version of A Letter Home. The box includes an "audiophile" version of the album which was recorded via direct feed from the booth. It also includes the standard, scratchy version of the album. And seven of those little 6-inch discs. And a full-sized booklet. And a DVD, and a CD. All for the low, low price of about $100. American.
Here's the deal: Neil starts both sides off with spoken letters (home) to his deceased mom. It's kinda touching in a strange way. It's made stranger if you watch the DVD footage of him saying how "fortunate" he is to be able to talk to his mom this way. He talks to her about a weatherman. No kidding. Anyway, from there, you get a bunch of Neil playing covers in the booth. Predictably, there's a Dylan song and a couple of Willie songs in there. I've enjoyed making fun of Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind" tune for years. Neil does that one too. He also does "My Hometown" by The Boss. And it ain't so great. I like all of the other performances very much. The term "audiophile" as applied to the second record is misleading. A true audiophile would turn his/her nose up at the very idea, and then describe the record in angry tones using words that I don't understand. But all of that metallic scratch is taken out. You still get the distant, 1940's; off-mic sound, but you can still hear the notes and nuances. I'll actually listen to this version for fun. I'll probably only play the "standard" version as a demo for all two friends that I have who may be curious about this type of thing. We'll see.
So much of this set is tied up with the presentation that I thought we should spend some extra time on that. At first glance, it looks like you're getting a ton of material in this package. In fact, you get eleven songs and two "letters home." Those same songs populate every format included in the box (singles, both records, the DVD, and the CD). The booklet is a total whiff. It has a couple of cool photos of Neil and Jack (Young and White, not Cassady and Kerouac), and lyric sheets. The artwork on the box's outer cover is super cool as the masking tape is really holding a fake Polaroid of Neil in place. The lettering was done by hand. The record pressings look terrible and they have some noise, but it's hard to tell whether it's coming from the recording or the wax. This set is in no way comparable to any of Neil's top shelf "archive" releases. But it's fun, and I'm glad I have it. Just know what you're getting into before you shell out any dough. It ain't for everyone. Neil doesn't care.
Neil Young "Live At The Cellar Door" Reprise Records
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Speaking of Neil Young and his archive releases… he hit us with one a while back called Live At The Cellar Door. The venue was a small one that operated between 1965 to 1981 in Washington D.C. The album is a great one that operates on a really intimate level, perhaps more so than A Letter Home which was designed to be ultra-personal. The Cellar Door show was recorded November 30 – December 2, 1970 which means that it's only about a month removed from the show that Neil documented on Massey Hall 1971. Consequently, the two sets share a fair amount of songs. And both shows were played in support of After The Gold Rush which had been released about three months previous to the Cellar show. Got it? Now, we have some historical context to work with. And some of the most compelling and warmest material from Uncle Neil's singular career.
As I understand it, there were about a hundred folks in attendance for the Cellar Door recordings. You couldn't prove it by the applause between songs. Sounds like about half that many. Neil's acoustic guitar sounds like its mic'd directly rather than run through the house P.A. or an amplifier. He tinkers a lot on the piano throughout the performance, and he banters at some point about how he'd only picked the instrument up about a year prior to the show. And it shows. This is a typical "warts and all" Neil offering. When he flubs a note on the piano, you hear it. There do not appear to have been any attempts at masking or softening any of it. Hell, I guess he could have just left those performances off the record entirely if he'd wanted to hide anything. The fact that he didn't just confirms Neil's place in my opinion as perhaps the most honest popular musician… ever? I get the impression that Neil's making music for Neil and that the rest of us are welcome to listen in if we'd like. Or not. A Letter Home was clearly a project close to Neil's heart. He almost certainly saw the slings and arrows coming before they arrived. They haven't exactly blotted out the sun, but folks have been confused, even angry. How could Neil, who has been all over the media touting his new high-def digital music player as a savior for all that is wrong in the world of portable audio, foist this seemingly inferior recording on his adoring public? He wanted to. He found a sound that spoke to him, and he offered it for our consideration. I like old things. I'm in. But there are few things in the world that I love more than hearing my favorite musicians playing informally without the soul sucking trappings of modern day technology to get in the way. And there is absolutely nothing to get between you and Neil when listening to Live At the Cellar Door. By the time it was recorded, Neil had two legitimately great solo records to pull material from (he offers a piano/vocal version of "Cinnamon Girl" on Cellar and says it's the first time he'd played it that way) plus his work with Buffalo Springfield and a less-than-great solo debut. Pretty soon, he'd throw his audience another curve by playing a bunch of unfamiliar songs on a concert tour to promote his most successful album yet. But the Cellar Door record finds Neil giving the people what they want. Get it while you can.
If you're unfamiliar with Neil's archive releases, you should fix that ASAP. The pressings are amongst the cleanest I've found. The material, so far, has been fascinating. From electric Crazy Horse shows to 1980's country material to these acoustic recordings. And the studio reissues are superior to the originals in my opinion. If you like Acoustic Neil, you need Cellar Door. You can shut your eyes and pretend that you were the one hundred and first audience member. Or don't. Neil doesn't care.
(This record was purchased at MusicDirect.com.)
Jerry Garcia and David Grisman "Jerry Garcia / David Grisman" Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs
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Speaking of Jerry Garcia… wait, we haven't done that, huh? Hold on.
Speaking of intimate recordings… Mobile Fidelity released one of my favorite records from my youth last month. I mean, the record was released last month. My youth expired a long time ago. It's by Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, and carries the far-out, psychedelic '60's inspired title of… Jerry Garcia / David Grisman. This makes sense when you hear the record. There's nothing around to muddle up the sounds or performances on this disc. No fluff, no, sir. Just some sparsely recorded acoustic music with Garcia handling the guitar in his most inimitable fashion while Grisman wrestles with his mandolin. This type of performance is right in MoFi's wheelhouse, if you ask me. I had high hopes when I saw that it was in the pipeline a while back. No matter how excited I got, it exceeded expectations. You gotta be thankful when that happens. This one's an instant classic.
I bought it on cassette when I was around 16 years old. This is the first time it's been released on vinyl so it doesn't count for a reissue. I'd forgotten about this one for years. I haven't had a tape deck in as long as I can remember as my deck was for playing bootlegs of live shows that I'd attended. Those have been digitized now like everything else. So it goes. There's nothing digital about this record, gang. Much like Neil's Cellar Door set; this is Garcia at his most transparent. Especially vocally. His voice is amongst the most recognizable in music, but I've never heard it transcribed in such detail. The grit and the grain is most obvious in "Two Soldiers" which is listed as a "traditional arranged by Garcia / Grisman." I'm unfamiliar with the tune outside of the record's context, but it feels like a lot of the tunes on here in that the whole affair is outside of time. And it challenges Garcia to reach and hold notes that I'd not heard him attempt before. The duo is accompanied by a bassist and a percussionist with a little fiddle thrown in here and there for good measure. Much like MoFi's version of Beck's Sea Change (which is the record I use to impress upon captive audiences the sonic superiority of vinyl versus all else), a lot of the fun is in the location of the percussive sounds. Those sounds are what really show up the soundstage for the party that it is. Meanwhile, Grisman's mandolin playing has such striking clarity that you feel like you ought to be able to absorb his abilities via osmosis. (I got out my mandolin to test this truth, but was disappointed to find that it was all an acoustic dream.) Dead fans will thrill to the seven minute strains of "Friend of the Devil" while Blues fans may find more pleasure in the group's take on "The Thrill Is Gone" or "Walkin' Boss" which is particularly catchy and fun. I wouldn't hesitate for one second to play this disc proudly in front of my grandmother or my best friend or my six year old nephew. It's a truly universal piece of work. The sixteen minute "Arabia" had the universal bit covered on its own. In fact, the universe is a little happier for having this work within it. The world's a better place.
This is as fine a release as any I've heard from Mobile Fidelity, and I'm really looking forward to what comes next. I feel like MoFi does its best work with quieter, cleaner material and this certainly fits the bill. If you're a Jerry Garcia fan, you need this record. If you're a fan of worldly acoustic music with rich harmonics and unparalleled detail, you'll need an extra copy for when you wear the first one out. Get moving.
(This record was purchased at MusicDirect.com.)


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Pretty Enough to Display: Organized Cosmetics in the Bathroom
My bathroom is organized now, but before, I was never able to find anything and it was one big, cluttered mess. The key to good organization can be summed up by the saying "a place for everything and everything in its place." Sometimes, once you get the right containers and everything has a home, it's easy to get organized — and stay that way.
Before I got it together and bought small clear boxes with separators, my cosmetics were jumbled together in a drawer, which was stressful and made it impossible to find what I was looking for.
So I made some measurements of my shelf in the bathroom and made my way to Muji to purchase containers that would fit perfectly. They had boxes with little drawers that were meant to be used as jewelry boxes, but I had other plans.
First I emptied my drawer and separated out my makeup by color, putting half into one mini drawer and the other half into the other.
The drawers are easier to find things in, and they can be pulled out entirely for easy access. It also gave me an opportunity to throw out anything that was out of date or that I no longer used.
Once the majority of my mess was cleaned up, I was able to see what else needed a new place. I dug out some decorative boxes I had in a junk drawer and found that they worked perfectly for housing some of the extra things I use less often but don't want to forget I have. Now that I have a place for everything, I can actually stay organized… provided I continue to put everything back in its place!
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Why doesn't junk DNA behave like junk?
|August 1, 2014
|Posted by News under 'Junk DNA', News
From Jonathan Wells at Evolution News & Views
According to a recent Science Daily news item, Oxford University researchers say that only 8.2% of our DNA is likely to be functional. The rest is "junk."
The 8.2% figure contradicts the conclusions of the ENCODE Project (for "Encyclopedia of DNA Elements"), which was established after the Human Genome Project to make sense of our newly sequenced DNA. In September 2012, the results from over a thousand experiments — involving dozens of laboratories and hundreds of scientists on three continents, published almost simultaneously in dozens of articles in five different journals — provided evidence that 80% or more of our DNA is functional.
It might have to do with who the DNA works for:
A clue might be found in a presentation given by Dan Graur at the 2013 meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution in Chicago. As Graur — a vocal, even nasty, opponent of ENCODE — reasoned in his presentation:
If the human genome is indeed devoid of junk DNA as implied by the ENCODE project, then a long, undirected evolutionary process cannot explain the human genome. If, on the other hand, organisms are designed, then all DNA, or as much as possible, is expected to exhibit function. If ENCODE is right, then Evolution is wrong.
So while the definition of "function" is close to the heart of the controversy, adherence to Darwinian evolution is even closer.
So DNA doesn't behave like junk because it isn't working for the Darwin lobby?
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As soon as I read the study I saw their severe bias.
DNA mostly 'junk?' Only 8.2 percent of human DNA is 'functional', study finds – July 24, 2014
Excerpt: To reach their (8.2%) figure, the Oxford University group took advantage of the ability of evolution to discern which activities matter and which do not. They identified how much of our genome has avoided accumulating changes over 100 million years of mammalian evolution — a clear indication that this DNA matters, it has some important function that needs to be retained.
i.e. So according to these Darwinian critics of the ENCODE study which found widespread functionality for 'junk' DNA, in their scheme of things functionality does not determine if a sequence is actually functional, only 'conservation of sequence' determines what is functional in their scheme???, So basically, only if Darwinian evolution is assumed as true will Darwinists accept that a given sequence of 'junk' DNA may be functional!,, That is called 'assuming your conclusion into you premise' and is horrible science!
It should also be noted that these two following studies came out at about the same time as the severely biased 8.2% study from Darwinists. Studies that had drastically different conclusions as to the functionality of the supposed 'junk' DNA.
Junk DNA not as worthless as once thought – 07/24/2014
Excerpt: As early as 2007,, Hackermüller, together with a number of colleagues, was able to demonstrate,, practically the entire genome (is transcribed into RNA—a template which normally serves the production of proteins), even those areas which are completely neglected when looking at blueprints for proteins. Hackermüller: "This finding gave rise to a lively discussion as to whether this could be caused by chance events or mistakes in the regulation of cellular processes. However, I doubt that nature is so wasteful with resources that it would produce such masses of RNA for no specific reason."
In their latest study,, Hackermüller and his team,, were able to bridge yet another knowledge gap. The transcription of non-coding regions in the genome is precisely regulated by cellular signaling pathways—and on a grand scale: up to 80% of the RNA copies were non-coding. "We did not expect such a magnitude," says Hackermüller. "This is not indicative of a chance product—it is highly likely that the non-coding RNAs perform a similarly important functions to that of protein-coding RNA."
Illuminating the dark side of the genome – July 29, 2014
Excerpt: "Almost 50 percent of our genome is made up of highly repetitive DNA, which makes it very difficult to be analysed. In fact, repeats are discarded in most genome-wide studies and thus, insights into this part of the genome remained limited. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (MPI-IE) in Freiburg now succeeded in examining this dark side of the genome. Their analyses revealed that repeat-associated heterochromatin is essential to repress retrotransposons and thereby protects the genomic integrity of stem cells. This work opens the way for future genome-wide analyses of repetitive regions in the genome and is in line with newly emerging functions for heterochromatin."
In pointing out how far off base Darwinists are in their insistence that most of the sequences in DNA are junk, it is good to reflect on just how little we know.,,,
One Body – animation – video
As to how a single cell of a billion protein molecules turns into a human of trillions of cells, at roughly a billion trillion molecules total, nobody, and I repeat NOBODY, has a solid clue as to how this 'miracle', (and I don't use that word lightly), is pulled off.
HOW BIOLOGISTS LOST SIGHT OF THE MEANING OF LIFE — AND ARE NOW STARING IT IN THE FACE – Stephen L. Talbott – May 2012
Excerpt: "If you think air traffic controllers have a tough job guiding planes into major airports or across a crowded continental airspace, consider the challenge facing a human cell trying to position its proteins". A given cell, he notes, may make more than 10,000 different proteins, and typically contains more than a billion protein molecules at any one time. "Somehow a cell must get all its proteins to their correct destinations — and equally important, keep these molecules out of the wrong places". And further: "It's almost as if every mRNA [an intermediate between a gene and a corresponding protein] coming out of the nucleus knows where it's going" (Travis 2011),,,
Further, the billion protein molecules in a cell are virtually all capable of interacting with each other to one degree or another; they are subject to getting misfolded or "all balled up with one another"; they are critically modified through the attachment or detachment of molecular subunits, often in rapid order and with immediate implications for changing function; they can wind up inside large-capacity "transport vehicles" headed in any number of directions; they can be sidetracked by diverse processes of degradation and recycling… and so on without end. Yet the coherence of the whole is maintained.
The question is indeed, then, "How does the organism meaningfully dispose of all its molecules, getting them to the right places and into the right interactions?"
The same sort of question can be asked of cells, for example in the growing embryo, where literal streams of cells are flowing to their appointed places, differentiating themselves into different types as they go, and adjusting themselves to all sorts of unpredictable perturbations — even to the degree of responding appropriately when a lab technician excises a clump of them from one location in a young embryo and puts them in another, where they may proceed to adapt themselves in an entirely different and proper way to the new environment. It is hard to quibble with the immediate impression that form (which is more idea-like than thing-like) is primary, and the material particulars subsidiary.
Two systems biologists, one from the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Germany and one from Harvard Medical School, frame one part of the problem this way:
"The human body is formed by trillions of individual cells. These cells work together with remarkable precision, first forming an adult organism out of a single fertilized egg, and then keeping the organism alive and functional for decades. To achieve this precision, one would assume that each individual cell reacts in a reliable, reproducible way to a given input, faithfully executing the required task. However, a growing number of studies investigating cellular processes on the level of single cells revealed large heterogeneity even among genetically identical cells of the same cell type. (Loewer and Lahav 2011)",,,
And then we hear that all this meaningful activity is, somehow, meaningless or a product of meaninglessness. This, I believe, is the real issue troubling the majority of the American populace when they are asked about their belief in evolution. They see one thing and then are told, more or less directly, that they are really seeing its denial. Yet no one has ever explained to them how you get meaning from meaninglessness — a difficult enough task once you realize that we cannot articulate any knowledge of the world at all except in the language of meaning.,,,
Talbott is certainly not alone in his assessment;
Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to birth — visualized – video
Mathematician Alexander Tsiaras on Human Development: "It's a Mystery, It's Magic, It's Divinity" – March 2012
Excerpt: 'The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go, the complexity of these, the mathematical models on how these things are indeed done, are beyond human comprehension. Even though I am a mathematician, I look at this with the marvel of how do these instruction sets not make these mistakes as they build what is us. It's a mystery, it's magic, it's divinity.'
Alexander Tsiaras is not exaggerating in the least:
"Complexity Brake" Defies Evolution – August 2012
Excerpt: "This is bad news. Consider a neuronal synapse — the presynaptic terminal has an estimated 1000 distinct proteins. Fully analyzing their possible interactions would take about 2000 years. Or consider the task of fully characterizing the visual cortex of the mouse — about 2 million neurons. Under the extreme assumption that the neurons in these systems can all interact with each other, analyzing the various combinations will take about 10 million years…, even though it is assumed that the underlying technology speeds up by an order of magnitude each year.",,,
Even with shortcuts like averaging, "any possible technological advance is overwhelmed by the relentless growth of interactions among all components of the system," Koch said. "It is not feasible to understand evolved organisms by exhaustively cataloging all interactions in a comprehensive, bottom-up manner." He described the concept of the Complexity Brake:,,,
"Allen and Greaves recently introduced the metaphor of a "complexity brake" for the observation that fields as diverse as neuroscience and cancer biology have proven resistant to facile predictions about imminent practical applications. Improved technologies for observing and probing biological systems has only led to discoveries of further levels of complexity that need to be dealt with. This process has not yet run its course. We are far away from understanding cell biology, genomes, or brains, and turning this understanding into practical knowledge.",,,
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Thus, despite the sheer hubris of Darwinists to declare the vast majority of our DNA junk before we have even had a chance to study it in any meaningful way, the fact of the matter is that the complexity being dealt with in molecular biology is far, far, beyond anything man has ever encountered before, and certainly far from being understood,,,, much less are Darwinists anywhere close to giving a rational explanation as to how that unfathomable complexity, of how a single cell turns into trillions of cells functioning as a whole, came about.
Despite what Darwinists dogmatically claim to the contrary, the plain truth of the matter is that everyone of you are fearfully and wonderfully made:
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I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
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3Acartia_bogartAugust 1, 2014 at 8:10 pm
JW, this is one of the most blatant examples of taking a statement out of context. Why don't you be honest and provide details on what Dan Graur said before and after the couple sentences that you present here?
JW isn't like to be lurking here.
If you can point me to the source of the quote I'd be happy to provide the full context.
5SebestyenAugust 2, 2014 at 2:12 am
Why don't you be honest and provide details on what Dan Graur said before and after the couple sentences that you present here?
Why don't you just bring in the details and call his bluff?
Acartia_bogart, if the genome is as useless as Darwinists insist it is, (since, of course, God would never design junky genomes! 🙂 ), why in blue blazes is so much effort extended by the rest of the cell towards repairing these vast, useless, stretches of junk DNA instead of the cell allowing natural selection to do its job and get rid of all that excess baggage? Excess baggage that would be, apparently, slowing down successful reproduction???
Quantum Dots Spotlight DNA-Repair Proteins in Motion – March 2010
Excerpt: "How this system works is an important unanswered question in this field," he said. "It has to be able to identify very small mistakes in a 3-dimensional morass of gene strands. It's akin to spotting potholes on every street all over the country and getting them fixed before the next rush hour." Dr. Bennett Van Houten – of note: A bacterium has about 40 team members on its pothole crew. That allows its entire genome to be scanned for errors in 20 minutes, the typical doubling time.,, These smart machines can apparently also interact with other damage control teams if they cannot fix the problem on the spot.
A Look at the Quality Control System in the Protein Factory – JonathanM – March 2012
Excerpt: The DNA damage response (DDR) system is like a cellular special ops force. The moment such damage is detected, an intricate network of communication and recruitment launches into action. If the cellular process for making proteins were a factory, this would be the most advanced quality-control system ever designed.
The Evolutionary Dynamics of Digital and Nucleotide Codes: A Mutation Protection Perspective – February 2011
Excerpt: "Unbounded random change of nucleotide codes through the accumulation of irreparable, advantageous, code-expanding, inheritable mutations at the level of individual nucleotides, as proposed by evolutionary theory, requires the mutation protection at the level of the individual nucleotides and at the higher levels of the code to be switched off or at least to dysfunction. Dysfunctioning mutation protection, however, is the origin of cancer and hereditary diseases, which reduce the capacity to live and to reproduce. Our mutation protection perspective of the evolutionary dynamics of digital and nucleotide codes thus reveals the presence of a paradox in evolutionary theory between the necessity and the disadvantage of dysfunctioning mutation protection. This mutation protection paradox, which is closely related with the paradox between evolvability and mutational robustness, needs further investigation." http://www.arn.org/blogs/index....._contradic
Contradiction in evolutionary theory – video – (The contradiction between extensive DNA repair mechanisms and the necessity of 'random mutations/errors' for Darwinian evolution)
The Darwinism contradiction of repair systems
Excerpt: The bottom line is that repair mechanisms are incompatible with Darwinism in principle. Since sophisticated repair mechanisms do exist in the cell after all, then the thing to discard in the dilemma to avoid the contradiction necessarily is the Darwinist dogma.
Of note:
Richard Dawkins interview with a 'Darwinian' physician goes off track – video
Excerpt: "I am amazed, Richard, that what we call metazoans, multi-celled organisms, have actually been able to evolve, and the reason [for amazement] is that bacteria and viruses replicate so quickly — a few hours sometimes, they can reproduce themselves — that they can evolve very, very quickly. And we're stuck with twenty years at least between generations. How is it that we resist infection when they can evolve so quickly to find ways around our defenses?" http://www.evolutionnews.org/2.....62031.html
i.e. Since successful reproduction is all that really matters on a neo-Darwinian view of things, how can anything but successful reproduction be realistically 'selected' for? Any other function besides reproduction, such as sight, hearing, thinking, (DNA REPAIR) etc.., would be highly superfluous to the primary criteria of successfully reproducing, and should, on a Darwinian view, be discarded as so much excess baggage since it would, eventually, be seen to slow down successful reproduction???
"The First Rule of Adaptive Evolution": Break or blunt any functional coded element whose loss would yield a net fitness gain – Michael Behe – December 2010
Excerpt: In its most recent issue The Quarterly Review of Biology has published a review by myself of laboratory evolution experiments of microbes going back four decades.,,, The gist of the paper is that so far the overwhelming number of adaptive (that is, helpful) mutations seen in laboratory evolution experiments are either loss or modification of function. Of course we had already known that the great majority of mutations that have a visible effect on an organism are deleterious. Now, surprisingly, it seems that even the great majority of helpful mutations degrade the genome to a greater or lesser extent.,,, I dub it "The First Rule of Adaptive Evolution": Break or blunt any functional coded element whose loss would yield a net fitness gain.
A few notes that contradict the notion that junk DNA will accumulate over time:
Experimental Evolution of Gene Duplicates in a Bacterial Plasmid Model
Excerpt: In a striking contradiction to our model, no such conditions were found. The fitness cost of carrying both plasmids increased dramatically as antibiotic levels were raised, and either the wild-type plasmid was lost or the cells did not grow. This study highlights the importance of the cost of duplicate genes and the quantitative nature of the tradeoff in the evolution of gene duplication through functional divergence.
Michael Behe finds Loss of Function Mutations Challenge the Darwinian Model – Casey Luskin – August 24, 2013
Excerpt: "Because of the many ways in which a gene can be altered to lose function, the LOF mutation would have a rate several orders of magnitude greater than that of the GOF mutation for the duplicated gene."
Douglas Axe and Ann Gauger Argue that Design Best Explains New Biological Information – Casey Luskin August 26, 2013
Excerpt: Axe and Gauger observe that "The most widely accepted explanation for the origin of new enzymes is gene duplication and recruitment." However, they cite experimental work showing that a duplicate gene is much more likely to be silenced (because of the costly resources expended in transcribing and translating it) than it is to acquire a new function.
The regulatory utilization of genetic redundancy through responsive backup circuits – 2006
Excerpt: many such backed-up genes were shown to be transcriptionally responsive to the intactness of their redundant partner and are up-regulated if the latter is mutationally inactivated. … We thus challenge the view that such redundancies are simply leftovers of ancient duplications and suggest they are an additional component to the sophisticated machinery of cellular regulation.
The regulatory utilization of genetic redundancy through responsive backup circuits – 2006
Excerpt: Duplicate genes and paralogous gene families long have been perceived as genomic sources of genetics robustness (1–5). The assumption is that a functional overlap of these genes acts to compensate against mutations. Yet, this very fact also renders redundancy evolutionarily instable (5, 6), and functional overlaps, typically, are rapidly lost because of divergence (7).
Nevertheless, numerous examples of paralogs retaining their functional overlap for extended evolutionary periods (for examples, see refs. 6 and 8–12) suggest that, at least for a fraction of gene pairs, redundancies are conserved throughout evolution despite their predicted instability.,,, In fact, although retention of redundancy is much less frequent than its loss, its widespread existence is nontrivial and cannot (6) be dismissed as leftovers of recent duplication events.,,,
the paradigm that has emerged is that genes that are functionally redundant are not often independently controlled but rather they are regulated by a system that both monitors and responds to their intactness.
A_B so LA Moran can use that quote but Wells cannot? See July 15 comment half way down in above link. It would seem Graur agreed with its use.
why don't you go over and correct them as well eh?
9QueriusAugust 2, 2014 at 5:36 pm
Dr. JDD,
why don't you go over and correct them as well eh?
Perhaps the moral paralysis is due to severe ideological contamination. Or perhaps there's differential application of intellectual indulgences based on what the other person believes in.
BTW, nicely articulated, bornagain77.
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Greece WILL leave the eurozone on January 1, 2013′: Citigroup boss predicts exit date and warns of 'massive wave of contagion across Europe'
- Currency trading bank says Greece's new currency would fall by 60%
- European markets relatively stable today despite the dire warning
- FTSE-100 up 1.18%; CAC 40 up by 0.85%; DAX up 0.39%
- Had plunged yesterday after Bundesbank said Grexit would be better
- France and Germany disagree over Eurobonds at six-hour crisis summit
- Officials say growth-led French gaining ground on austere-Germans
- Nick Clegg to take swipe at those urging for Greece to quit the euro
The euro crashed to a 22-month low yesterday as the European economy took another dramatic turn for the worse.
Figures showed the biggest slump in private sector business across Europe this month for nearly three years.
The dire news sent the euro tumbling against the dollar to $1.25 – its lowest level since July 2010. Against the pound it was worth little more than 80p.
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Rift: French President Francois Hollande (left) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (right), pictured at the EU summit yesterday, have differing views on how the debt crisis should be tackled
The latest gloom came against a backdrop of a continuing sense of crisis over Greece as Berlin and
Paris remained at loggerheads on what to do, despite the emergency Brussels summit that ended in the early hours of yesterday morning.
This comes as a senior economist at the world's second-largest currency trading bank claims Greece will leave the single currency eurozone on January 1, 2013.
Citigroup's Michael Saunders said Greece's new currency would fall in value immediately by 60 per cent – and unleash a massive, yet manageable, wave of contagion across Europe.
In a note to clients, he said the likelihood of Greece leaving the euro in the next 12 to 24 months was now between 50 to 75 per cent – and assumed there would be a 'Grexit' at the start of next year.
The firm based its case on the belief that Greece would fail to form a government capable of implementing austerity measures after its next set of elections on June 17.
This would 'accentuate' the stalemate between the nation and its creditors.
Mr Saunders said: 'We assume Grexit occurs on January 1, 2013, with Greece staying in the EU and receiving external loan support [to mitigate risks of social unrest and collapse of civil society].
'We expect that Grexit will be followed by a series of policy responses aiming to prevent a domino-style collapse of the banking system and escalating economic disruption.'
The claim came as stock markets across Europe remained stable today despite increased fears of Greece's chaotic exit – and a growing rift between France and Germany on plans to save the single currency.
Markets plunged yesterday after the mighty German Bundesbank warned it would be better to let Greece leave the euro than give its crippled economy any more cash.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2149193/Greece-WILL-leave-eurozone-January-1-2013-Citigroup-boss-predicts-exit-date-warns-massive-wave-contagion-Europe.html#ixzz21m5G8l51
Before we all join together to kick the Greeks when they are down, let us be clear why the country has kept missing the targets.
The Troika originally said that Greece' economy would contract by 2.6pc in 2010 under the austerity regime, before recovering with growth of 1.1pc in 2011, and 2.1pc in 2012.
In fact, Greek GDP has been in an unbroken free-fall. It did not grow last year. It contracted a further 6.9pc, and is now expected to shrink 6.7pc this year.
This was entirely predictable – and was predicted by many critics – since Greece faced an IMF-style austerity package without the usual IMF cure of devaluation. The Troika's ideology of "expansionary fiscal contraction" – which the IMF has to its credit since abjured, but the fanatics in charge still swear by – is breaking a whole society on the wheel.


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Party Recap
Oliver for his 5th birthday wished to have a robot party - FINALLY ! We had a beautiful day, so even thought we didn't plan that ahead, we moved party to out backyard. I hang up Oliver's birthday banner, one of my first designs for Stitchinnetka http://www.etsy.com/shop/stitchinnetka?ref=si_shop , put flowers and decor on the table. I made lots of lunch type food salads, tarts, bean loaf, lots of fruit and cheese on platters .And of course we had pizza for kids. Everyone had to be well fed for a big project. Fantastic Robot Extravaganza was about using our creative powers to make unique and funky robot creatures. For that reason I was saving boxes from mail packages, plastic containers etc. and any recyclable goods that can be transformed into robots. Once everyone was at the party kids did a little bit of coloring/ painting pages with different robot designs, to get familiar with different types of robots.After that we had a lunch, lots of running around backyard, and robot project. Kids and grown ups alike had a blast coming up with robot designs. Once robots were all ready, we had a robot parade and a robot dance party . Of course, for a big finale there was one big robot cake ! to read more check my blog http://stitchinnetka.blogspot.com/
Party Highlights
hummingbird cake ( banana, pineapple, pecans) with cheese cream frosting
Activities / Games
diy robots out of recycling materials and cardboard boxes , coloring pages with robots
Party Favors
robot stickers booklet
Best Moment
robot project, robot parade
What People Ate
mushroom tart, bean loaf, succotash, beet/ spinach/ goat cheese salad, barley salad, cabbage/walnut salad, samosas, pizza, cheese and fruit platter
What People Drank
lemonade, apple juice, water
Most Touching Moment
Funniest Moment
robot parade


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Re: [Distillers] Re: Flash Distillation
Here's another use for flash evaporation : removal of dissolved and suspended water from oils, particularly waste vege oil for use as fuel. In these instances the oil has no appreciable vapour pressure. FE can be used to remove excess methanol from newly-formed biodiesel, which is an ester - the condensation of an organic (fatty in this case) acid and an alkali hydroxide say NaOH.
To me the key factors affecting Robert's proposal are - pressure in the receiving vessel, discharge pressure, temperature of the fluid being evaporated, rate of heat input, and latent heat of vaporization. Azeotrope at this point plays no part.
What Robert is suggesting is that these factors be arranged in such a way that only a portion of the sprayed wash evaporates, and he believes that in accordance with Bob's graph the portion that will be most likely to evaporate is the ethanol thus a purifying process occurs.
I'm not backing Robert in this, but it sounds technically possible. I was just trying to get back to sleep and had these ideas bouncing around in my skull and had to get them out :D.
--- On Sun, 10/3/13, tgfoitwoods <zymurgybob@...> wrote:
From: tgfoitwoods <zymurgybob@...>
Subject: [Distillers] Re: Flash Distillation
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Date: Sunday, 10, March, 2013, 9:02 PM
Ok, I had to read up on flash distillation to be certain that I understood it, but mostly what I found was flash evaporation of a mixture of a volatile liquid and a non-volatile solid, as in a water desalinization plant. In that case all of the volatile liquid is vaporized and re-condensed as product, while the non-volatile dissolved solids remain in the flash chamber.
As beverage distillers, we are trying to change the relative concentration of a mixture of volatile liquids, especially to increase the concentration of ethanol, and only incidentally leaving the solids behind.
Unless I'm terribly mistaken, when you "flash" a quantity of a mixture of volatile liquids, you vaporize all of that quantity, and aside from some loss of solids, the concentrations of the volatile liquids going out to be condensed should be identical to the concentrations going in, which would be useless to us as beverage distiller.
Robert, it sounds like you are saying that so long as you hold the flash temperature below the boiling point of water at that pressure, the ethanol will vaporize and the water won't, and that puts us back in the realm of believing that a mixture of volatile liquids has multiple boiling points, that by controlling temperature we can control which volatile liquids vaporize, and which don't. That's just not true and never has been, although it's often cherished by new distillers.
The simple immutable truth is that such a mixture has one single boiling point at a specific pressure. If you hold the temperature below that, you'll get relatively slow evaporation of ALL volatile compounds, in a ratio determined by Roualt's law of partial vapor presures. If you get the temperature to that single boiling point, and keep inputting the latent heat of evaporation, you'll get relatively quick evaporationf all volatile compounds, again in that same ratio determined by Roualt's law of partial vapor pressures.
I don't see any method utilizing flash evaporation that lets us increase the the ethanol concentration, even though it's great for de-salinization of sea water. Am I missing something?
Zymurgy Bob, a simple potstiller Making Fine Spirits
--- In firstname.lastname@example.com, Jan Ooms <jkooms@....> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> As a small hobby distiller I certainly am interested in your flash distillation. It certainly would not make me change my distilling habits at the moment.
> I always have an open mind to people that experiment to improve anything and everything. If your experiment doesn't work out, you have learned something, kept your brain active and lost sweet buggar all. The small amount of money you mentioned is of no importance at all.
> I just hope that you will let us know how it all worked out, good or bad.
> Good Luck My friend.
> Jan.
> Brisbane. OZ
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> From: RLB last2blast@...
> To: "firstname.lastname@example.com" firstname.lastname@example.com
> Sent: Sunday, 10 March 2013 2:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [Distillers] Flash Distillation
> Actually, there are many forms of flash distillation and ways of doing flash distillation (pot still like or reflex) First and foremost is that it can be used to strip wash very quickly as in 1 gal per min. All you need is a Stainless Steel barrel with drain, outlet pipe (for vapor), heat source, compressor, pipe to hold nozzle in center of drum , and a spray nozzle. Heat drum to 204 F (In my area my area boiling is 206 F) As long as I keep interior of drum 204 F and drained of water, Ethanol will turn to gas before the water hits the bottom of the barrel. Yes, some water will turn into gas too but this is a stripping run. Compressed air should help to force vapor out the top and water out of the bottom of barrel, and compressed air should also provide an inversion layer that keeps lighter ethanol vapor going up and heavier water droplets fall to the bottom to drain.  If you are just after high proof ethanol then set it up like a reflex
> flash still. From what I have read so far, the process is simple even for someone with my experience. If I were to set up several barrels in series (with different temperatures), there is a good chance that cuts can be made without too much of a problem. Temperature setting will be the most difficult to determine.As for your engineer friend, my bet is that he set it up as a pot flash still, but expected reflux results. 65% abv is almost what I (55% to 65% abv) achieve from my pot still during a stripping runs. The science for alcohol flash distillation is well established, but I have not heard of anyone actually using it for ethanol. This is totally amazing to me.Robert
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> From: "self.adhesive@..." self.adhesive@...
> To: email@example.com
> Sent: Saturday, March 9, 2013 8:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [Distillers] Flash Distillation
> A guy I know here, who has been stilling for 10 years and is an engineer, built a continuous fermenter and distiller as one unit. It produced so much 65% alcohol - 6.5 litres a day he said - that he had to turn it off and he went back to the old ways.
> Flash evaporation is nothing new, but if you read up on refluxing at homedistiller.org you will find putting it into practise with ethanol will be pretty tricky. In refluxing the ethanol is evaporated and condensed over and over as it rises up the column, each time evaporating off in a purer and purer form. Flash evaporators as far as I am aware do it just the once. The graph that ZB refers to often pertains here. Of course you could feed the distillate through again and again, but that's what happens in refluxing anyway. It would probably work satisfactorily with pot stilling.
> To be quite
> honest Robert, I think at your level of expertise, experience and understanding making a miracle breakthrough will be pure serendipity. Kind of like winning a lottery...simply luck and it doesn't happen very often at all.
> Paul
> --- On Sun, 10/3/13, last2blast last2blast@... wrote:
> >From: last2blast last2blast@...
> >Subject: [Distillers] Flash Distillation
> >To: firstname.lastname@example.com
> >Date: Sunday, 10, March, 2013, 10:45 AM
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> >
> >If I had known about Flash Distillation months ago, I would have my still built for me rather than wasting these many months on current stone age home distilling technology and techniques. Flash Distillation has been around for more than 100 years, and no one mentioned it in my reading, homedistiller.org, Artisans, new distillers, or distillers.. It does raise a few interesting questions as to why the experts are still using this old technology. I guess it was a good that my idea was researched even further..
- I just wanted to tell someone since I dropped the flash distillation subject on Distillers.
I figured out how to use it for stripping, and how to use it for making cuts. It will cost around $1,000 to build though. Now the subject is officially dead for me.
From: "email@example.com" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
To: email@example.com
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 9:40 PM
Subject: [Distillers] Re: Flash Distillation
Message from Management to "last2blast"
Your posting privileges have been demoted to "moderated".Reason:
Due to excessive badgering by you of both the Y!D forums, re your "new distilling idea".Whether it works or not, isn't the issue.
Harassment is the issue. Harping on unfounded and untested notions is the issue.You've had more than a fair hearing in BOTH groups. Now it's time for you to "put up, or shut up". When you are ready with the results, post 'em. Mods will see if you're contributing to the distilling topic, or just continuing to blow steam. Your post will be dealt with on that score.Footnote:Part of The Charter for this group states..."It is a 'given' that you are familiar with basic distilling."I strongly urge you to get educated re Distillation before you continue. Else you're gonna do yourself a mischief.
The ManagementPS for other posters.
Kindly trim out all the unnecessary previous posts when sending messages to these Distilling groups. Help us to help you.


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Test Bench: KEF Reference 207/2 Speaker System
In the lab
Frequency response (at 2 meters) front left/right 33 Hz to 17.5 kHz ±4.7 dB Sensitivity (SPL at 1 meter with 2.8 volts of pink-noise input) front left/right 93 dB Impedance (minimum/nominal) front left/right 3.5/6 ohms Bass limits (lowest frequency and maximum SPL with limit of 10% distortion at 2 meters in a large room) front left/right 20 Hz at 82 dB 94 dB average SPL from 25 to 62 Hz 102 dB maximum SPL at 50 Hz bandwidth uniformity 92%
The curve in the frequency-response graph are weighted to reflect how sound arrives at a listener's ears with normal speaker placement. The curve for the 207/2 reflects response with the speaker standing on the floor averaged over a ±30° window. All measurements are taken at a full 2 meters, which emulates a typical listening distance, allows the speaker to fully integrate acoustically, and, unlike near-field measurements, fully includes front-panel reflections and cabinet diffraction.
The 207/2 has unusually extended low frequency response and dynamic capability for a tower speaker. Therefore, I also measured bass limits as if the speaker were a subwoofer, and discovered that each tower performs about as well as a small 10-inch sub. The overall response displays a 3-dB wideband elevation above about 300 Hz, along with a series of small, narrow irregularities throughout the remainder of its' operating range. There is also a 4-dB floor bounce notch centered at 160 Hz, and the curve shows that response above 10 kHz fades quickly.
The speaker's LF Adjustment control reduces output below 80 Hz by a maximum 6 dB. The HF Adjustment matched its markings at the +0.75 dB position but only provides about half the specified cut at the -0.75 and -1.5 dB positions.
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text: Hey guys...just in case you didn't know, the Mickey hand on the side of the Epcot globe was coming down last week while we were there. Every CM we spoke to was quite upset about it. It was there at our dessert party tuesday night (the 17th) and by the time we returned thursday the wand was already down. At least I got an Epcot ornament that has the hand on the side and we got some pictures!


text: BANGKOK, July 21 (Reuters) - Most Southeast Asian stock markets rebounded on Tuesday with investors picking select shares in the reporting season while Thai stocks fell to seven-month lows on selling in large-cap banks. Bangkok's SET index eased 0.9 percent to 1,453.79, its lowest since Dec. 16. Shares of Kasikornbank, the most actively traded by turnover, dropped 3.2 percent, followed by a 1 percent decline in Siam Commercial Bank. Most banks reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings but investors were wary of the possible impact of an economic slowdown on non-performing loans in coming quarters, brokers said. Technical indicators pointed to near-term market weaknesses. SCB Securities said the SET index broke below a key support level. "The breakdown of the critical 1,457 support level now makes the technical picture look very weak. Short-term supports sit at 1,426 and 1,403 ... Overall, direction for the index trend is still bearish. Time frame is 1-3 weeks," it said. In Singapore, shares of CapitaLand Mall Trust climbed 1.4 percent, the second biggest percentage gainer on the key Straits Times Index, ahead of its second-quarter earnings release expected on Wednesday. The Philippine index climbed almost 1 percent after a fall on Monday while Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur Composite Index edged up 0.2 percent at 1,726.64. Broker Citi in a report dated July 16 had a target of 1,850 for the KLCI. Vietnam was slightly lower while Indonesia remained closed through July 21 for Eid al-Fitr, reopening on Wednesday. For Asian Companies click; SOUTHEAST ASIAN STOCK MARKETS Change at 0641 GMT Market Current Prev Close Pct Move Singapore 3375.23 3373.48 +0.05 Kuala Lumpur 1726.64 1724.13 +0.15 Bangkok 1453.79 1466.71 -0.88 Manila 7607.52 7541.17 +0.88 Ho Chi Minh 618.48 620.54 -0.33 (Reporting by Viparat Jantraprap; Editing by Sunil Nair)


text: Washington - McDonald's, the world's largest restaurant chain, and Chinese economic data that beat estimates bolstered US stocks on Monday as all three major indices finished in positive territory. McDonald's share price added 1.1% to $89.41, after the company said its November sales rose 2.4% globally. Traders were encouraged by a report that Chinese factory output and retail sales data beat economists' estimates. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 14.75 points, to 13,169.88. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 0.48 points, to 1,418.55. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index was unchanged at 2,986.96. The US currency was lower at 77.31 euro cents from 77.35 euro cents on Friday. The dollar was off against the Japanese currency to ¥82.37 from ¥82.49.


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Today, Governor Bobby Jindal and Oceaneering International Inc. announced the 30,000-square-foot expansion of the company's Morgan City facilities, a $5 million capital investment that will support the creation of 200 new direct jobs and the retention of 1,700 existing jobs. The 200 new jobs -- which will average $60,000 a year, plus benefits -- will result in another 407 indirect jobs, Louisiana Economic Development estimates.
Fully 120 of the new employees will be trained for production and performance of the company's core product: remotely operated vehicles, or ROVs, that perform technical tasks and inspections at up to two miles below the surface of the sea. Another 80 new employees will provide broad support for Oceaneering in St. Mary Parish, where operations also include diving, rigging, inspection, inventory, administration and other units.
Governor Jindal said, "In a couple weeks, we will mark the second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill that took eleven lives, devastated our coastline and threatened thousands of oil and gas industry jobs in our state. Two years later, I'm proud to note that we are coming back from the oil spill and the moratorium even stronger and better than before. Today's announcement is a sign of the progress we are making to get our people back to work so we can fuel the nation. Oceaneering's expansion is a testament to the hardworking people of Louisiana and yet another sign that Louisiana's business climate is one of the best in the country."
Hiring has begun and will continue through 2012. The manufacturing expansion, which joins an existing building of approximately 100,000 square feet, will be completed in November. Altogether, Oceaneering will operate more than 200,000 square feet of facilities in Morgan City upon completion of the current expansion.
"The $5 million facility expansion illustrates the commitment Oceaneering has to its Morgan City, Louisiana-based business," said Pat Mannina, Oceaneering's vice president and general manager for the Americas Region. "It will also allow us to improve operational efficiencies between several service lines and further improve the quality of services we provide to our customers operating in the Gulf of Mexico as well as worldwide."
LED FastStart began working with Oceaneering earlier this year and will assist the company in screening, hiring and training new employees. Founded in Morgan City in 1964, Oceaneering initially operated as a diving company specializing in offshore oil and gas services. Now headquartered in Houston, the company operates 267 ROVs, with 70 at work in the Gulf of Mexico. Morgan City provides global ROV production for Oceaneering, and the company will continue to build ROVs in 2012.
Source: http://www.gov.state.la.us/index.cfm?md=newsroom&tmp=detail&catID=2&articleID=3370&navID=12


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Roundup: Fast USB 2.0 Flash And "Smart" Drives; We Test The Compact Storage Devices With Great Speed/Capacity. Does This Mean The End Of The Memory Card Reader?
Smaller than a pack of Wrigley's gum--or a mini Bic lighter in some
cases--a USB flash memory drive can be a useful device. Its primary purpose
is for transferring data from one computer to another: from a laptop used when
traveling to your home desktop, for example. A USB flash drive simply plugs
into a Mac or Windows computer's USB port where it's recognized
as another drive. No driver software is required, except with older operating
systems. While the earlier USB 1.1 flash drives were extremely slow, the latest
devices--with the USB 2.0 Hi-Speed logo--are remarkably fast.
Hence, they're ideal for transferring numerous high-resolution image files from one computer to another.
Similar to a memory card in solid-state technology, a USB flash drive is larger and less likely to get lost. (Hang it on a keychain or around your neck on a lanyard cord.) Sure, you could use a memory card for data transfer instead, but the USB devices are more convenient: they do not require that you connect a memory card reader to your computer. While a CD can also be used for the same purpose, a USB flash drive is quicker and more convenient for temporary storage. As a bonus, even the affordable ($55) 1GB models hold more image files than a CD, and they can be reused 50,000 times. You can also find 2GB devices (for about $129) and 4GB flash drives ($299); Pretec markets an 8GB i-Disk II model that's just as small, but it's pricey at about $599.
New "Smart" Drives
The USB 2.0 flash drives have been available for a couple of years, with few cool features except one: fingerprint biometrics security, available with the Pretec "i-Disk Touch" series. But there's another development that's even more interesting. Some of the latest flash drives are available with an entirely new feature that converts the basic devices into smart drives for truly "mobile computing." Called U3, the technology is somewhat complicated to explain, but is easy to use, as discussed later in this report.
For now, I'll just provide an overview of the benefits offered by devices that bear the U3 Smart logo.
The U3 features are available only with computers running Windows XP 2000
(SP 4 or later) and Windows XP. It is not available for Mac OS or PCs with older
versions of Windows. With those operating systems, a U3 device will work only
as a
conventional USB 2.0 flash drive without the extra features.
In a nutshell, the U3 technology converts a USB flash drive from a simple storage device into a "smart" drive. The small accessory then becomes a password-protected "personal work space" for files, software programs, and user preferences. The actual software that's pre-loaded varies from one manufacturer to another. A few applications are available as soon as you plug in a U3 smart drive. Others must be downloaded from the www.u3.com Software Central catalog where some are free of charge. The most sophisticated programs for U3 smart drives require you to pay a fee however, often between $20 and $30. Many Free Trials are available and it's easy to uninstall any software that does not meet your needs.
"That's cool," you may be thinking, "but what's the point of all this extra stuff?" The primary benefits are mobility and security. With a U3 smart drive you get a private and personalized computing work space that's available when using publicly accessible PCs. In other words, you can use a password-protected smart drive in any computer, working with your own familiar U3 software and leaving no information behind. As discussed later, that can be useful when visiting friends and when using a PC at an office or an Internet café.
Note: A few conventional USB 2.0 flash drives--with the Migo designation--are also "smart" drives but not U3 drives. For example, the (password-protected) Kingston DataTraveler II Plus Migo Edition allows you to work on multiple PCs using your own Microsoft Outlook e-mail contents, Internet Explorer settings, favorites, cookies, and history, plus your files, folders, and icons. After you're finished, there will be no trace of your personal data in the computer. This feature is made possible by Migo software that works with any Windows XP or Server 2003 system. However, Migo for USB 2.0 is not as simple/convenient as the U3 platform; also, it includes few applications and offers no imaging software. The many programs available from www.u3.com cannot be used with Migo USB drives that do not include the U3 Smart logo.
How We Tested
All flash drives are said to be fast, but it's likely that some are faster than others. In order to determine relative speed, we asked several manufacturers to provide samples of their latest USB 2.0 Hi-Speed flash drives, including some U3 models. All are much faster than devices certified for the other standards: USB 1.1, USB 2.0 Full Speed, and USB 2.0 Low Speed. Naturally, a computer with a USB 2.0 port is required to take advantage of the Hi-Speed connectivity. Older computers can be upgraded by installing a device such as the Adaptec 4-Port USB 2.0 Card Kit ($40).
Full scientific testing--using a vast range of different computers and image files--would have required a well staffed computer lab, but that was beyond our resources. Consequently, I conducted practical testing: transferring image data to and from a computer that's roughly "average" in speed and RAM memory. The PC used was a Compaq Pentium 4 2.8GHz laptop with a 4200 RPM hard drive, USB 2.0 ports, 512MB of RAM, and Windows XP Home OS. In order to assess the read/write speed of the various flash drives, I copied numerous Nikon D50 image files (JPEG and raw) to each device and later, back to the computer.
Note: The actual speed would differ depending on the exact computer and the mix of image files that were used. Consequently, the results of my tests should be viewed only as an indicator as to which products may be very fast and which may work at a snail's pace. Still, it's likely that the relative performance of a device would be similar under other circumstances: a super-fast model is unlikely to be slow with other test standards. Even so, a difference of less than 10 percent in speed should not be considered significant.
Working With A Smart Drive
While it includes complex technology, a U3 smart drive is simple to use after a single viewing of the tutorial or Help file that's included with most devices. Here's a brief summary of my experience with a Kingston U3 DataTraveler. All other brands work in the same manner because all employ the same basic U3 operating software. They do differ in terms of the software programs that are pre-loaded by each manufacturer but it's easy to add extra applications.
After inserting the smart drive, clicking on the U3 icon (at the bottom of
the Windows screen) produced a pop-up of the Launchpad screen for access to
pre-loaded applications. This also provides access to the feature for downloading
extra programs at the touch of a button (from the U3.com website), for setting
security passwords, for selecting a tutorial or helpful hints, etc.
By the time you read this, many more U3 "smart" applications should be available. The list will include software for Internet chat and voice capabilities (Skype, etc.), anti-virus options, various business programs, entertainment, photo, and design software as well as security features. During the test period, some of the most advanced programs were not yet available but I did try several of the more basic free applications.
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"With no end in sight to tuition and fee increases at California's higher education institutions, it is refreshing to see an innovative solution on the table. The legislation will provide immediate financial relief to California's working and middle class families and is a step in the right direction," CCD President Paul Murre said.
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SEATTLE -- A defiant Bobby Valentine, hours after a contentious interivew on WEEI Wednesday, took issue with any suggestion that he "checked out'' on the season and insisted he had a good reason for arriving at the Oakland Coliseum less than three hours before gametime last Friday.
"If anyone in this room or any other room I've ever been in in my life wants to question my integrity,'' said Valentine, "I will ask someone to referee that situation.''
Valentine told WEEI host Glenn Ordway that he would like to "punch him in the mouth'' for asking whether the manager had "checked out,'' but maintained that he was doing so jokingly.
"(It's) entertainment,'' said Valentine. "Didn't I go 'ha-ha?' I don't think physical violence is necessary for 60-year-old people. I think it made the point, that there are lines that should be drawn in the sand when someone's trying to be professional and sounding unprofessional. Sometimes, it's better to be abrupt and then let everyone know (you're) kidding.''
Ordway had cited multiple reports that Valentine had arrived at the Coliseum after 4 p.m. Valentine was late because he had gone to pick up his son at San Francisco International Airport and the flight was delayed. Valentine then made a stop back at the team's hotel in San Francisco before traveling across the Bay Bridge to the Coliseum in Oakland.
Traffic and an accident on the highway leading to the Coliseum further delayed his arrival.
"When you talk about someone's family,'' said Valentine, "and you talk about someone's integrity, you draw the line of what should be done in the workplace. That's where I draw the line. And if on that radio show, I falsely accused anyone of being either unprofessional or disregarding the truth or the facts of the matter, my total apologies are out there. I did not mean to offend anyone.''
Valentine emphasized that he had already forwarded his lineup for Friday's game to the coaching staff -- as is his custom -- and had checked in by phone with the training staff to determine player availabilty.
"(I) got the stadium a little later than normal,'' said Valentine. "To see my son for a couple hours more, I think is more than worth the tradeoff of sitting around in my underwear in the clubhouse for two hours.''
He then recounted his schedule since being hired last December, noting that he'd had "two off-days that I've taken for myself,'' and adding he was dedicated to his job "every day, all day.''
Valentine also took issue with reports that highlighted his rambling at times non-sensical answer when asked about hitting Scott Podsednik third the day after Valentine's arrival was delayed.
"If I say I must have made a mistake by batting Podsednik third,'' said Valentine, "why wouldn't you say: 'What do you mean by that?' C'mon. I don't make mistakes putting out the lineup. The guy's hitting .345 and I'm going hit him at the top of the lineup. And there's two other guys who are going to hit at the top of the lineup; he's one of them. Just ask me the question.''
During the original radio interview, Valentine noted that he was often "miserable'' during his first season managing the Red Sox. Later, meeting with reporters, he softened his language only somewhat.
"It's been very trying,'' he said of the experience. "There's been a lot of obstacles in my way. I think I've jumped them and sometimes I've been knocked down by them. Just doing as good as I can do... all day long.''
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Valentine: I've been dedicated to my job 'every day, all day'
SEATTLE -- A defiant Bobby Valentine, hours after a contentious interivew on WEEI Wednesday, took issue with any suggestion that he "checked out'' on the season and insisted he had a good reason for arriving at the Oakland Coliseum less than three hours before gametime last Friday.


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After a full fledged on-stage brawl at Bring Me the Horizon's show in Salt Lake City this week, A man impersonating singer Oli Sykes allegedly lured a girl from America to Britain and then tried to kill her.
There's an old saying in the entertainment business – "There's no such thing as bad publicity." In the case of the latest events associated with the band Bring Me the Horizon, we'd have to disagree with the outdated adage.
According to UK newspaper 'Daily Mail', David Russell has been jailed for life after attempting to murder a 19-year old Maricar Benedicto. Russell met the American teen on Facebook last year, claiming that he was BMTH vocalist Oli Sykes.
After ongoing communication via the internet, Benedicto flew from California to the UK to see him. Shortly after she arrived, Russell took her to a forest and convinced her to wear a blindfold claiming he had a gift for her. "Gift" must carry a different meaning overseas — Russell then slit her throat, stabbed her in the back four times, headbutted and hit her in the face with a log.
Benedicto miraculously survived the attack by running away and telling him that she had given his name to immigration upon arrival in the country. Russell ran home and allegedly overdosed on an unspecified substance, while the brutally wounded Benedicto staggered to a nearby residence for help.
During the trial it was discovered that Russell searched "how to kill someone with bare hands", "how to cut skin with a knife" and "the best knife to kill" a day prior to Maricar's arrival. David Russell was deemed "exceptionally dangerous" by the judge and sentenced to life in jail with no chance of parole for the first 17 years of his sentence.
NME reports that Sykes himself issued the following statement regarding the case:
"Woke up to the news in LA, and didn't really believe it at first. It's very unsettling. I'm aware that people have used my identity for pranks and whatever, which has always been something that's been uncomfortable for me, but for something like this to happen is terrifying. My heart goes out to Maricar and hope she recovers soon. would also urge anyone using social networking sites about a really great foundation called the Carly Ryan foundation. Carly suffered a fate worse even worse than this case but the story isn't worlds apart. The foundation was set up to raise awareness and educate people on the risks of meeting people online. Stay safe and be careful."


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Thanks purchased my sky cruiser today at hobby people can't wait to fly her.
Picked up this today $7.30 shipped
Center gravity. It's the point of balance u find the center of gravity on your plane and it makes flying a breeze
I bought this plane and I've flown it many times now with no serious crashes or anything. With this plane I ran clear packing tape along the bottom of the fuselage to make it slippy on landing and to give it some strength on a crash. I also taped up the nose a bit and over top of the battery compartment foam section.
I'm running 350mah lipos since finding anything similar to the originals and I balanced to to the CG of 35mm behind the leading edge with a coin on the tail section.
Generally speaking this plane flies great. Gliding leaves a little to be desired since it drops fairly fast unless you're at a slope in which case it does OK. when it's balanced if flies really nice!
I learned on this plane and it's a great flier under the right conditions. I wouldn't take it out in winds higher than 5 mph. It becomes a real handful in anything over that because it's so light (3.9 oz with battery).
One thing that happened to me today; I switched it to high rates while flying. It worked great. My loops were tighter and it turned a little sharper. However, at about 60-70 yards out, well within sight range, I lost control of it. My last input was stick down getting ready for another loop, and then it went dead. It smacked into a backstop at full throttle despite my efforts to turn it towards me.
I suppose I was at fault for this because I never I did a range check. Lesson learned. But just beware of this. Other than that, it's been a great plane. I have, however, snapped the nose off several times. It glues back easily and keeps flying.
With regards to CG, I will have to say that it can be a little difficult to dial in at first. I prefer moving the battery far forward because I like to fly with the throttle off. With the battery forward, it glides fast enough that you won't stall your turns. However, the tradeoff it during launch. It will nose down, so I have to be quick on the elevator. It also won't climb as quickly. But, I still prefer my plane setup this way.
I like that parts are readily available for this plane.
I never got mine in the air. Sits in my plane room all in one est two of them. more money in it than any other plane I got its the only one never flow.
My cox sky cruiser experience.
Purchased on aug 15th from tower hobbies.
Received on aug 19th.
Maiden flight aug 20th, first launch nose dive, ok moved the battery back a tad.
2nd launch, have it in the air for about 4 minutes, did a few loops, was so exciting, flew nicely, until I lost rudder control and ended up in a tree.
Went home, got a ladder and a pole, climbed tree, recovered plane.
Upon inspecting it I notice the white gear had fallen off the rod on the pcb and was lost.
Tried to find a new gear, was told I had to buy a new pcb @ 40 something dollars, that is half the cost of the whole plane.
I sent tower a nice email about how that is rediculous to say the least.
they sent me a whole new sky cruiser, WOW awesome CS.
2nd plane has alot of chatter when I plugged in the battery, and rudder went one way but seemed to bind the other way, has not been flown.
I returned the first one for a refund, esentially getting it for free since I still have the 2nd one they sent me, it sits in the box, I might try this deoxit I read about to see if the servo chatter goes away, but I am certianly not buying another pcb after having 2 bad ones, maybe if they were $20, but at half the cost of the plane its just not worth the risk of getting another bad one, having to return it and repeating that cycle until I get one that works.
Something I find odd is when I plug in the battery the servo spins and does not stop, with the white gear off
Anyone have a link to cheaper receiver units for the sky cruiser?
I tried to search nine eagles parts but I found units that don't exactly look the same
hobbyking had some nine eagles units for 20-24 dollars, just not sure what one
It was my first RC plane. I found it a nightmare to fly. I didn't like the nylon "gear" servo's either. I can't believe I made it past that model and moved on, instead of ditching the whole concept of flying RC's.
Having said that, it was my first, but still......
am a novice, not a beginner, (have an Ember 2 I got the hang of,) i got a hold of one of these used along with a Champ for $20 from a guy who basically threw it in, sans battery, for free. both a couple of beaters that still flew - good learners, in a way. (he'd snapped the nose off it and fashioned a new one out of foam and glued magnets on it, using them to attach the nose. sort of a break-away, so to speak. pretty clever.) i had trouble at first - using too much throttle at launch and kind of overflying. i discovered the half rate on the TX, and learned to use lower throttle...half or so cruising around. was having servo problems - the elevator would stick in full up position. discovered the wires from the battery were pushing against the end of the servo that spins. i think the battery wires were also creating interfearence with the brick. i reversed the battery, top facing forward, so the wires are more taught, and there's no more servo chatter or interfearance since. and i finally got the hang of this thing! so...
I hand launch at about half throttle, holding the elevator stick down half way or so with my chin. lol. she dips like all pushers do, and then makes her way up. climb out is pretty good! once on her way up, i release and start flying...with both thumbs. she flies and cruises pretty well. wind below 5mph like everyone said is key. make sure your TX is on the half rate by pushing down the right stick. a little graphic on the LED screen shows as half a circle. I ran tape along the bottom and extended the rudder 1/2 an inch to increase response. (I'd use full rates, but like the elevator responding as it is.) I just used a piece of cardboard i traced the outline of the rudder on, cut to shape, and just taped it on there. it extends 1/2 inch over the rudder and 1/2 inch off the end...works fine! responds better with motor off, but still not great. but give it a little bit of throttle and hit rudder, she'll respond.
glide isn't great, but it glides. it does have that porpoise tendency when flying. you have to make her sort of nose heavy so she doesn't do that, which makes her glide lousy, but whatever. truth is? this is my new goto. i stuck lights on it and fly her at night a lot which is when it's most calm. i think it's a good first plane - a Night Vapor could be better because of the speed of this thing. but it's the kinda plane you can crash, glue or tape it up, crash, glue or tape it up. this thing is beat to heck and it still flies! (some use Deoxit on the servos when giving trouble.) but having the TX you can use on Nine Eagles bnf's - not a bad thing! and one thing....WRITE YOUR PHONE NUMBER ON A PIECE OF PAPER AND TAPE IT ON THERE. lol. the range is pretty good, but it can get away from you or land in a tree. if it comes down and is found, you'll get a phone call. it's kind of a good, general RC Airplane practice.
happy flying.
Love my cox sky cruiser! Got it a week and a half ago. Got to terms with flying it on the third try after three horrible crashes and an impatient attempt to fly in high wind, which ended up in crashes again. I have glue from those plastic models you assemble, the glue has made wonders.
Needless to say, like most here, it is incredibly rewarding to fly this plane! Its just strong enough to still function 100% after a beginner has been through all the no no's and worst case scenario crashes.
I have no benchmark to compare this to but I can tell you I'm pretty darn happy!
My question is, cg is 35mm and I am placing my battery like shown, but my cg shifts to about 37-39mm. I made sure canopy is on. Makes it lean towards the tail at 35mm. Is that acceptable? It flies straight, able to make loops and all. Am I missing greater flying experience if I'm not at 35mm?
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