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Extension keeps Featherlite hitched to NASCAR
Featherlite Trailers has been making haulers to transport stock cars to races for more than 20 years, and it is poised to do it at least six more.
The deal is a mix of cash and value-in-kind.
More than 90 percent of NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series teams use Featherlite trailers to transport vehicles from race to race. The company has been building and selling those trailers to teams since 1993, when it designed its first transporter for Richard Childress Racing. NASCAR uses 10 transporters for office and meeting space at races each weekend.
A typical NASCAR transporter costs as much as $400,000. Featherlite sells anywhere from five to 20 transporters a year based on demand. Most teams use the transporters for four or five years.
The NASCAR sponsorship allows Featherlite to bring service technicians to each race. Those technicians can work on trailers that need repairs and make sure they are operating properly during the four days the transporter is used over a long race weekend.
"That's a huge selling point for us," said Mike Galvin, specialty sales manager for Featherlite. "Having our guy in the garage area when Mr. Hendrick has a meeting in one of his transporters and for some odd reason that day the air conditioner didn't kick in is important. As many high-profile customers as are in that garage area, it's majorly beneficial for us. It's even more important for the team."
In addition to sponsoring NASCAR, Featherlite sponsors the IndyCar Series and Grand-Am Road Racing.
Humana broadens marketing partnership with PGA Tour
Humana has extended and broadened its official marketing partnership with the PGA Tour.
Humana, a tour partner since 2005, has had the designation of official health benefits company for the main tour and the Champions Tour. As part of the extension, Humana also will serve as the tour's health and well-being partner, a brand distinction it is making through its tournament in La Quinta, Calif., with the Clinton Foundation. The Humana Challenge is being held this week in conjunction with the Health Matters conference hosted by Clinton and his foundation.
Terms of the deal were not available, but official marketing deals typically go for the low to mid-seven figures.
The marketing partnership is a different deal than the title sponsorship of the tournament. Louisville, Ky.-based Humana will use it primarily to promote its health and well-being platform through initiatives such as the Walkit program and the Humana Well-Being Tour at a variety of tournaments. The company also uses the "Walk Like a Pro" advertising theme and sponsors PGA Tour player David Toms. It recently added Gary Player to the mix as well as a well-being ambassador.
Humana's activation also includes a customized 53-foot tractor trailer featuring an interactive hub to promote healthy living. Inside, it has Humana bike stations, where visitors use "pedal power" to blend their own smoothies; Humana biometrics stations, which provide noninvasive biometric screenings; and Walkit stations.
Sports Licensing show set to open in Las Vegas with new owner, bigger location
The Sports Licensing and Tailgate Show, the industry's sole remaining licensing exhibition, opens this week with a new owner in Nielsen Expositions, which purchased the show late last year. It will also be held in a bigger location at the Las Vegas Convention Center with an uptick in sales of more than 10 percent and more than 650 exhibitors.
As the licensing industry got healthier over the past several years, so has the show, which has been held at Mandalay Bay for the past several years. While the show was acquired late last year by Nielsen Expositions, it will be operated this year by past show directors Hardy Katz and Stanley Schwartz, who said revenue was up 11 percent for this year's exhibition. They said buyers from the likes of Wal-Mart and Costco were registered.
For the second consecutive year, the NBA will set up at the show two days early with its own Team Retail Expo, where licensees will display for an audience of team buyers and retailers. Other licensees at the show include CLC, MLS, NASCAR and MLB. With its lockout settled, the NHL last week was trying to find display space. Given the timing of the show, a few weeks before the Super Bowl, there is minimal NFL involvement.
Katz and Schwartz launched the licensing show six years ago from the ashes of the once-mighty Super Show, a comprehensive sporting goods exposition they once managed for the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association. The Super Show, which closed in 2006 after a 21-year run, attracted more than 90,000 attendees during its biggest years in Atlanta.
Katz and Schwartz, who will continue with the show for a year as consultants, began conversations with Nielsen Expositions five months ago. Nielsen's other sports shows include Outdoor Retailer, Interbike and Health & Fitness Business Expo.
"We have shows that are related and shows that are tangential, like the Imprinted Sportswear Shows, and there is talk about and interest in the licensing business at all of them," said Darrell Denny, senior vice president of business development at Nielsen Expositions.
Katz said their current agreement has the show committed to Las Vegas through next year. However, Denny said the future location was yet to be determined.
IMG looks for national sales heads after reassigning Logan
Lawton Logan
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Logan, a SportsBusiness Journal/Daily Forty Under 40 Hall of Famer, came to IMG during its November 2007 acquisition of Host Communications. He was later named senior vice president of business development with responsibilities for all of IMG's businesses in North America. He managed IMG's national sales offices in New York, Atlanta and Los Angeles.
> NUTS TO YOU: Looking to boost sales by borrowing equity from the Harlem Globetrotters and the tour's "healthy fun" and "good for you" positioning, Wonderful Pistachios has inked a three-year sponsorship with the Globies, which includes a uniform ad patch, something the NBA has been considering for some time. The patch on the left front chest has the nut marketer's "Get Crackin'" tag line. Uniform supplier Russell has the right side of the Globetrotters jersey.
The Harlem Globetrotters will soon feature the Wonderful Pistachios' "Get Crackin'" uniform patch.
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Leonard Armato at the Leverage Agency brought home the bacon on this one, as Leverage is the Globetrotters' sales agency of record.
The Globetrotters tipped off their current 270-show domestic tour Dec. 26. Other endorsers for Wonderful Pistachios have included Manny Pacquiao and Snoop Dogg.
> HONORABLE MENTIONS: "NFL Honors," the TV show awards ceremony the night before the Super Bowl, rolls into its second year. This year's venue is Mahalia Jackson Theater in downtown New Orleans, with a taping from 6 to 8 p.m. CT. Top-tier sponsors, which get their names on awards, include Bridgestone, Papa John's, Lenovo, SAP, Xfinity and Pepsi. Associate sponsors are Marriott, USAA, FedEx and GMC. "As you'd expect in the second year, we're seeing earlier, better and deeper integration from our partners and their award programs,'' said Renie Anderson, the NFL's vice president of business development, sponsorship and media sales. A red carpet show, titled by Xfinity, will air on NFL Network that afternoon, with the ceremonies live-to-tape on Super Bowl rights holder CBS from 9 to 11 p.m. ET. Sponsor benefits include hospitality for the show, vignettes within the show and broadcast, and access to a star-filled cocktail party before the show.
As for new business, Anderson said her department continues to chip away at the technology category. Even with Lenovo and SAP on board as league partners, there may be some opportunity in storage hardware, IT servers and other areas. Elsewhere, the league has been seeking travel dollars, as in rental cars and airlines, for some time now. The lure of a Super Bowl at MetLife Stadium next year has spurred interest in those categories, as well as with financial services brands. "Obviously, we won't do any one-offs, but there's interest because of the Super Bowl here that we're entertaining," she said.
Other categories still being mined: health care, timepiece, energy provider and some possible business-to-business plays.
> EXTRA BOWL OF SUN: The Fiesta Bowl as a basketball tournament as well as a major bowl game? That idea is quietly being floated in and around the Phoenix/Scottsdale region where one committee controls both the Tostitos-titled Fiesta Bowl and the recently renamed Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl, which began life as the Copper Bowl in 1989. While stressing that the project was not fully green-lit, nor funded, sources said the concept is to have the game played at University of Phoenix Stadium as soon as December 2014, with Arizona State, the University of Arizona and two big-name Eastern basketball schools.
An exploratory committee has been formed, including members of the Fiesta Bowl committee, NBC and Front Row Marketing, which has relationships with the two bowl games and University of Phoenix Stadium. We're told Buick has some interest in sponsoring the proposed basketball tourney.
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Persistence pays off as MLB and T-Mobile overcome complexities of partnership
Last week's announcement of T-Mobile's three-year Major League Baseball sponsorship had all the glitz, glamour and noise one expects of a news conference at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Elaborate setting featuring a prototype of T-Mobile cellphone docking stations that will be in MLB ballpark dugouts and the motorcycle from the company's TV ads? Check. Star power from NL Rookie of the Year Bryce Harper? Check. Fun bluster from new T-Mobile Chief Executive John Legere, who went on a long, entertaining rant on his intent for the country's fourth-largest wireless carrier to challenge market share leaders AT&T, Verizon and Sprint? Check.
The deal brings the advent of mobile phones in dugouts to call bullpens.
T-Mobile also will make marketing commitments and advertising buys with MLB rights holders, including a new deal for T-Mobile to become the presenting sponsor of ESPN's "Wednesday Night Baseball." The national deal will be supplemented by five or six signature-level club deals, company executives said. T-Mobile is already aligned with the Seattle Mariners and Pittsburgh Pirates.
The pact also brings the advent of mobile phones in MLB dugouts to call bullpens. Teams will have the individual choice on whether to use those mobile phones, and whether the docking stations will carry T-Mobile branding. League executives described the deal as without rival with regard to its scope covering both baseball and business operations.
Telecommunications has long been a vital category in sports marketing, often ranking in importance with the established pillars of auto, beer, soda and financial services. But in baseball, the separate operating structure of MLBAM and the importance of the wireless category to individual clubs made piecing a deal that combined marketing and technology, and that balanced the agendas among all the national and local stakeholders, extraordinarily complex.
Still, Lou Koskovolis, MLB senior vice president of sales and marketing, aggressively targeted a telecommunications deal soon after his arrival to baseball in early 2011, and the league began a long negotiation toward a deal. Genesco Sports Enterprises aided T-Mobile in the talks.
"The technological challenges on this deal were huge, but this is a story of everyone working together to deliver a new asset that would attract a new and important wireless partner after years of chasing one," said Tim Brosnan, MLB executive vice president of business. "Most of our fans are using mobile communications to connect with the game, and we developed a great platform with MLBAM to showcase that, along with a dugout [branding] presence which really works for advertisers in a space we protect zealously."
The deal also marked a union between the cultures of MLB and MLBAM, making a statement to marketers who over the years have privately been frustrated trying to make deals with baseball.
"Honestly, there's still a part of me that still can't believe the marriage worked," between Brosnan and MLBAM President Bob Bowman, said one involved marketer speaking on the condition of anonymity. "It's a testimony to persistence on many sides of the deal."
MLB had timing on its side as it sought a telecommunications deal, just as T-Mobile was looking to make a big statement of its own. After a failed merger with AT&T, a dissolution of its NBA ties after six years and a newer merger with Metro PCS, T-Mobile is aiming to use 2013 as a major corporate repositioning as the self-proclaimed "uncarrier" in which it will seek to offer cell service without many of the common industry hassles and contractual constrictions.
The MLB partnership is a major part of that plan.
"Our objective is improve perception of T-Mobile's network in the marketplace," said Mike Belcher, T-Mobile vice president of media and sponsorships. "This is a great way for us to bring the capabilities of our network and devices using MLB content. Most people only know about 5 to 10 percent of what a phone can do, so at retail it is a great way to help sell for us."
Under Armour signs new pro golfer Spieth
Under Armour has signed recently turned pro golfer Jordan Spieth, the former No. 1 ranked amateur in the world, to its first major endorsement deal for a golfer. The brand's logo will be on Spieth's golf bag and front of his headwear.
Ryan Kuehl, Under Armour senior director of pro sports, would not disclose the financial terms of the agreement, but did say it was a multiyear deal that includes financial incentives for performance.
Under Armour views Spieth as part of the "next generation" of young athletes who have signed on as endorsers in recent years, including Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton and Atlanta Falcons wide
Under Armour's logo will be on the headwear and golf bag of Spieth, who was low amateur at last year's U.S. Open.
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Spieth's accomplishments at a young age attracted Under Armour to the golfer. Spieth led the University of Texas to a 2012 NCAA championship and earned low amateur honors at last year's U.S. Open, among other achievements.
"If you dominate at that high level, at a junior level, a lot of times that translates to having a very successful career," Kuehl said.
It is not Under Armour's first golfer endorsement deal, as it has deals with PGA Tour players Hunter Mahan and Gary Woodland, but those deals are not as substantial and do not feature headwear exposure, Kuehl said. For golfers, endorsements that include logos on the front of their headwear are typically the players' primary and most lucrative endorsement.
"This is the first deal where we have front of the headwear," Kuehl said. It's also the first deal that gives Under Armour the rights to a golfer's shoes and gloves.
"We are really excited to work with them on helping to develop a golf shoe and golf glove line," said Jay Danzi, Spieth's agent and president of Forefront Sports Group, which signed Spieth in December.
Danzi said he is in talks with several golf club manufacturers about a club deal.
Spieth went through PGA qualifying school last fall but did not earn a PGA Tour card. He is scheduled to play at the AT&T Pebble Beach tournament in early February.


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Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment transaction in South Africa
SABMiller plc is pleased to announce that the High Court of Justice in England and Wales yesterday sanctioned the Scheme of Arrangement to give effect to the group's proposed broad-based black economic empowerment transaction in South Africa.
Under the transaction, which was overwhelmingly approved by shareholders at a General Meeting in January, new shares in the Company's South African subsidiary, The South African Breweries Limited ("SAB"), will be allocated to three participant groups (SAB employees, qualifying black-owned beer and soft drink retailers, and a new SAB Foundation for the benefit of the broad South African community) thereby increasing black participation in SAB and providing long-term economic benefits to a broad range of black South Africans.
It is expected that the SAB Zenzele offer to retailers will open later this month and final allocations of shares in respect of all three participant groups will be determined in May.
Full details of the transaction structure can be found in the circular issued to shareholders in December 2009, which is also available at www.sabmiller.com.
Further details of the transaction can also be found on SAB's website (www.sablimited.co.za).
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How long does a 7199 last?
Does it wear like a normal preamp tube or is it the kind that lasts forever (figuratively speaking).
If you leave it in the box, it will last very well. (Unless there's a faulty seal at the pins.)
Seriously, this is like asking, "How long is a piece of string?" In my experience, if you operate a valve at 1/3 of full dissipation it lasts so long that you don't get to find out its lifetime.
I can do better.......
If operated within recommended parameters, about 5000 to 7500 hours for quality NOS.
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In today's fast-paced business environment, our attention is continually occupied by measuring ourselves against increasing expectations. The life cycle of our skill sets grows shorter as the information age revolutionizes our workplace. We wonder if we can continue to prove our worth to the organization. This is an important question that is also asked by organizations to determine our value. Often the answers to such questions determine the fate of a career.


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BOGOTA, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Colombian state-run oil producer Ecopetrol will restart operation of its Cartagena refinery on Nov. 10, Finance Minister Mauricio Cardenas said on Thursday.
The reopening will make Colombia self-sufficient in refined oil products it has had to import in increasing quantities during the facility's refurbishment, which will more than double its capacity to 165,000 barrels per day.
Ecopetrol Chief Executive Officer Juan Carlos Echeverry said in August the refinery would be fully operational in March at the latest.
The first cargo will be of 80,000 barrels and by Jan. 15 it will move as much as 140,000 barrels, Cardenas said at an oil conference in Bogota.
The expansion, estimated to cost more than $7 billion, will enable the export-focused facility to vastly increase fuel production for the domestic market, supplementing output from the inland Barrancabermeja refinery, Colombia's biggest.
It will ease at least some of the financial strain Colombia's biggest company has faced since a plunge in crude oil prices from June last year, which cut net profit in the second quarter by 38.5 percent to $583 million. (Reporting by Helen Murphy; Editing by Dan Grebler)


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Warm days are meant for lead feet, and if you're breaking into early summer with a visit to Detroit, I'm here to offer up a few tips for making the most of your time there. In an effort to get you outside and into Motor City, here are two restaurants, two attractions, and one bar that you can hit with just a few extra hours between meetings.
While I generally try to steer people towards local cuisine when visiting a new place, there's a reason that Lafayette Coney Island is fairly well-known. Regardless of whether you're from New York City, those who'd just like to unwind at lunch with one of the best, most calorie-laden hot dogs this side of the Hudson River will find plenty to love here. It's also a place that's impossible to visit without smiling. This is the definition of comfort food. It's messy, marginally unhealthy, and completely worth enjoying at least once.
Roast is situated in the heart of downtown Detroit, and while a bit pricey, it boasts the ideal atmosphere for a client dinner. There's a private room for large parties, and an exquisite bar area for after-dinner drinks. The fare is slanted towards a chophouse, but there's a fair amount of veggie-friendly options and fish to choose from, as well. You'd be smart to load up on sides: whipped potatoes, peas and pancetta, and sweet potatoes and pecans are all musts.
Belle Isle Park is the largest island city park in the United States, and the half-mile swimming beach is quite a unique feature. And, given that warm weather seems to be settling in, you may actually be able to take advantage of it. The park is uniquely positioned on an island between the U.S. mainland and Canada, giving argonauts something to brag about. Be sure to bring your camera; in addition to great views with plenty of walking paths, there's a lot of old architecture that's worth capturing.
It may sound odd, but don't forget to bring your passport on your trip. It comes in handy when landing in a place like Detroit. Even if you only have an evening, it's worth a quick jaunt over to Windsor in Ontario, Canada. It's just a tunnel ride away, and there are a plethora of casinos waiting to be explored on the other side. Enjoy a night out on the town in Canada. The people are infectiously nice, the money looks funny, and it's pretty cool to hop from one country and back in just a few hours.
Not far from anything downtown, Motorcity Wine is a great place to blow off steam before heading home. It's a wine bar fused with a jazz club, so you're guaranteed to get a good blast of talent while enjoying a fine drink. And, if you enjoy a particular wine, you can have a bottle shipped back home.
This is a recurring feature exploring must-visit locales in a variety of cities. If you find yourself traveling to a place for business, why not venture out and enjoy your surroundings?
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Is Beyonce Pregnant Again? –Tha Wire
That's the 50 million dollar question floating around the internet these days. One things for sure, if she is, Beyonce and Jay-Z will make that announcement when they get good and ready. However,
I can't help but think….it wouldn't be a bad idea to knock out all the child baring stuff now. It would be a win, win for both her and Blue with Bey still being young and Blue gaining a sibling. But, as tantalizing as this story may be, it's a rumor for now. Scroll down and get the details as to how I happened on this story in the first place with Tha Wire.
Meanwhile, if anyone's been through it…Mary J has. This is one of the main reasons she started her wonderful charity The Mary J. Blige and Steve Stoute Foundation For Advancement of Women Now, Inc. better known as (FFAWN). Mary's charity is dedicated to helping women gain the confidence and skills necessary to reach their full individual potential. Unfortunately, when your trying to do good things, you still have to worry about people within your own camp working against you. That's kinda what
happened to her. Mary's charity has come under fire. Get all the details now with Tha Wire.
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Sony KDL-55W900A 3D LCD HDTV Triluminos A New Breakthrough?
In 2009 Sony used the term Triluminos to refer to its first red, green, and blue LED backlit displays. It dropped the term somewhere on the road to 2013 (as it minimized but did not entirely eliminate its expensive-to-produce, fullarray LED backlit designs). But now it's back, though today it refers to something quite different than mere tricolor LED backlighting.
Working with a company called QD Vision, Sony this year has incorporated that firm's trademarked term Color IQ into its premium sets. Rather than using a full array of three-color LED clusters behind the screen, it uses edge-lit LEDs of a certain bandwidth to energize elements called quantum dots (the QD in QD Vision).
What are quantum dots? According to a ScienceDaily article, "A quantum dot is a semiconductor nanostructure that confines the motion of conduction band electrons, valence band holes, or excitons (bound pairs of conduction band electrons and valence band holes) in all three spatial directions."
Got that? Neither do I. Put more simply, a quantum dot is an inorganic particle, millionths of a millimeter—or nanometers—in diameter, that emits light of a specific wavelength when energized. The actual wavelength depends on the size of the dot. In the KDL-55W900A, blue light from LEDs at the edges of the screen energizes the quantum dots, which are sized to emit either red or green light. Together with the blue LEDs, this produces the tricolored light required to illuminate the LCD panel.
While this may be a new way to generate backlighting (or more accurately in this case, edge lighting), this is still an LCD set. It's the pixels in the LCD panel, not the quantum dots, that produce the actual image.
So what is the advantage of using quantum dots instead of using a display with red, green, and blue LED back or edge lighting? According to promotional material from Sony and QD Vision, it's a wider range of colors—as much as 70 percent wider than the NTSC standard.
We've heard this song before, and most HDTV makers know the words and music by heart. But the verse they won't sing addresses the fact that the NTSC standard to which they are referring, Rec. 709 for HD, is the standard in which all consumer HD source material, apart from some content from personal video cameras, are mastered. If you reproduce current consumer sources in a wider range of colors than Rec. 709 offers, you are simply distorting the source.
Sony recently announced, however, that it plans to release new Blu-rays encoded with xvYCC, a defined color extension to the HD standard that has been languishing in the wings for nearly a decade. The added xvYCC color information will be encoded separately on the disc and will be ignored by most sets. But in a set that can respond to it—including this KDL-55W900A—you will see a wider range of color that is, in theory, still true to the studio master. Much will depend, of course, on how accurately the xvYCC disc is mastered and how precisely the set decodes this new material. These new discs were not available to us at press time, but stay tuned!—TJN


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Officers say they received a tip that led them to the home of Mary Marcum and Aaron Fitzpatrick, where they found two one-pot type containers and other items used to produce meth.
Children's Services was called to attend to two children, ages 9 and 11 who were inside the home.
Marcum and Fitzpatrick were taken to the Gallia County Jail.
Because children were present, they are charged with felony illegal manufacturing of drugs.
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The Naveen Jindal School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) invites applications for two faculty positions in Accounting, effective September 2014. Appointment at Assistant, Associate or Full Professor level will be considered.
Appointees must have a PhD in accounting or equivalent (or have a ABD status and expect to have the PhD within a year of hire date) and demonstrate the ability to conduct a nationally recognized research program.
The Naveen Jindal School of Management at UTD is a research-centered school, ranked 15th (worldwide) in the UTD database that tracks publications in leading business journals http://jindal.utdallas.edu/the-utd-top-100-business-school-research-rankings/.
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When Francisco Silva was 10 years old, he moved with his parents from Guadalajara, Mexico, to the suburbs west of Chicago. Silva's parents made the move so their son could get the kind of education they never had. Years later, Silva discovered that being the first in your family to attend college is a dream and a privilege, but it comes with its own particular challenges.
A junior at Elmhurst, Silva is an aspiring teacher, majoring in music education. Like nearly all first-generation college students, he has to work hard to finance his education. A strong student in high school, he earned a Dean's Scholarship, took out student loans and works 25 hours a week at Starbucks.
Another challenge for Silva is less tangible, and more specific to first-generation students. When the going gets tough in college, he wishes he could turn to his family for advice. But nobody in his family has ever experienced anything like what he's going through. "You're alone, basically," he says. "You face everything new."
Making the transition from high school to college is tough enough for any student, but the challenges are especially daunting for those with no family history in higher education. Like Silva, many "first-gens" face financial pressures, especially when family members lack personal experience in navigating the maze of federal, state, private and institutional financial aid options.
According to a study published in The College Student Journal, first-gens also are more likely to come from a low-income household, more likely to be a minority, and more likely to speak a language other than English at home. Some struggle to embrace their new college lives without alienating parents who never had the opportunity for a good education. Some say they feel guilty about pursuing a costly college degree while their families continue to struggle financially.
It all is enough to derail a surprising portion of first-generation students. According to the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Education, just 11 percent of first-generation students earn a bachelor's degree within six years. Among their peers, the figure is 55 percent. Bridging this gap is essential for the United States to become a more innovative, productive and equitable society.
So why is Silva thriving when so many others stumble?
He points to the support he has found at Elmhurst through programs like Direct Connect, a pre-orientation session for first-generation students that aims to link the newcomers to all the people and resources they need to succeed in undergraduate life. The students meet other first-gens, get an advance glimpse of campus life, and learn how to find the people who can answer their questions. By the time he'd begun his first term at Elmhurst, Silva says, he already felt at home. He now sings tenor in the Choral Union and is active in HABLAMOS, the Latino student group.
That's the kind of engagement the College wants to encourage, says Roger Moreano, the director of intercultural student affairs who oversees Direct Connect. A couple of decades ago, Moreano himself was a first-generation student at Northern Illinois University. He remembers feeling uneasy about entering campus life. "I knew I wanted to be involved on campus, but I didn't know who to talk to."
Pamela Silva, a sophomore first-generation student (and no relation to Francisco), credits Direct Connect with helping her make the transition to college and get involved on campus. "Direct Connect broke the ice for me. It gave me a feel for what college is about and it gave me an idea of what to expect," Silva says. "You go in saying, 'I don't know anyone' and 'I'm not sure how this works,' and you end up feeling 'Yeah, this is a good place for me.'"
Romison Saint-Louis knows the feeling. A native of Haiti, Saint-Louis moved with his family to suburban Niles, Illinois, when he was 7. Like Silva and Moreano, he became the first member of his family to attend college. The prospect was daunting. "When I saw some of the gpas and test scores of other students, I freaked out," he says. "I wasn't sure about matching up to some of the really smart kids."
Like Silva, Saint-Louis plans to become a teacher. He's now a senior majoring in elementary education. He says his own teachers and advisers helped build his confidence. "I kept hearing the faculty and staff here really care and want to help," he says. "So I went and talked to people. It made a huge difference." He played football for a while, and the team made a difference, too. These days, Saint-Louis is the president of the College chapter of Habitat for Humanity, the vice president of Lambda Chi Alpha, an active member of the Global Poverty Club, and a resident adviser in Niebuhr Hall.
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TORONTO - Heres a message that the Joe Paterno apologists might want to heed.
This is for those of you who claim college footballs all-time winningest coach was made a scapegoat in the shocking Penn State sex scandal that has created headlines throughout the world.
This is for all those misguided students who flooded the streets in and around the university campus on Wednesday night to riot and protest the firing of Paterno, a decision that was announced by the Penn State board of trustees just minutes earlier.
Get some perspective, people.
It doesnt matter that Joe Paterno has more victories (409) than any other Division I/FBS coach in history. Or that he has led Penn State to five undefeated seasons. Or that he has been a coach on the Nittany Lion staff since 1950, 45 of those as the head man.
The only thing that matters is that, for the past nine years, Joe Paterno knew.
In 2002, a graduate assistant, Mike McQueary, told Paterno that he had seen assistant Jerry Sandusky, Paternos one-time heir apparent, in the showers with a 10-year-old boy.
Paterno told his superiors. He opted not to inform police.
It was his choice. And on Wednesday night, he paid for it when he was booted out of the job he so loved.
And rightly so.
When Sandusky was charged with molesting eight boys in 15 years, including at the Penn State football complex, Paterno should have done the right thing. He should have resigned then and there.
It was the proper thing to do. It was the only thing to do.
Because for nine years, Joe Paterno knew.
Instead, earlier in the day on Wednesday, Paterno announced he would retire at the end of the 2011 season. He called the Sandusky incident a tragedy, adding that, in hindsight, I wish I had done more.
Paterno added that it was one of the greatest sorrows of my life.
To see Paterno patrolling the sidelines against Nebraska on Saturday would have been hypocritical, especially given the information that had become public this week.
Because for nine years, Joe Paterno knew.
In the wake of the firing, a group of students went to Paternos home to show their support. After urging him to come out, Paterno addressed the throng by saying that, after more than six decades of coaching football at Happy Valley, being on the outside looking in would take some getting used to.
So be it.
Because for nine years, Joe Paterno knew.
Do you think any of those kids who were allegedly molested by Sandusky care about Joe Paternos football legacy? Or what a great Xs-and-Os strategist he was? Or that there are thousands of outraged Nittany Lions fans out there who feel the board acted prematurely by giving Paterno the boot instead of allowing him to go out on his own terms?
Its a good guess that the answer is no. Nor should they. Theyre probably too busy trying to piece their lives together from these alleged heinous acts by Sandusky.
This scandal cuts far deeper than sports. It has tarnished the reputation of a school and a coach whose credo was success with honour, but showed none of those traits in this horrifying mess.
He is known as JoePa. In this case, it should stand for Joe Pa-thetic.
While Paterno was not found of any legal wrongdoings, even the state police commissioner said Paterno had suffered a lapse of moral responsibility.
Because for nine years, Joe Paterno knew.
Paterno has not yet come out and publicly admitted how much he was aware of the situation. But by saying I wish I had done more, is that not, in its own right, an admission of guilt?
In the end, good on the board for taking action. Good on them for axing university president Graham Spanier. And good on them for not being blinded by a mans accomplishments on a football field.
And now, Joe Paterno is paying the price.
As well he should.
Because for nine years, Joe Paterno knew.


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The annual award is given to the bowler with the highest season-long average.
Heading into the final match of the regular season, Garza's average of 220 was one pin better than Copperas Cove's James Norris. The two squared off Tuesday in the regular-season finale. To pull ahead of Garza and capture the MVB award, Norris needed to beat his opponent by 32 pins.
"I was a little nervous at first," Garza said. "But as we continued on, I overcame that nervousness."
Garza bowled a 275 in the first contest, while Norris rolled a 226.
"It was fun," Norris said. "Once we got to the bowling alley, I could see that this match was a bigger deal than I thought it would be. It ended up being pretty serious the whole time. There were people behind Jordan cheering him on and there were people behind me rooting for me."
Garza didn't strike in the first two frames of Game 1. Then he rattled off nine straight strikes.
"I just kept thinking to myself that I needed to keep that streak going," said Garza, a senior. "I didn't want to look back. I kept telling myself to just keep working hard."
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This content is syndicated from Agile Testing | Tester Troubles by Ray Claridge. To view the original post in full, click here.
In a previous post I've blogged about switching from waterfall to agile and how this impacts us testers.
It's true, the change can be difficult for some of us. However, fear not, somethings never change regardless of the development approach.
I've put together, what I think are the golden rules of testing that still apply. So when someone says "that's not how we do it in agile" (and believe me - they will) don't take none of it and stick with the basics.
- Start the software testing process by analysing requirements long before development.
- Integration testing (performed by IT)
- System testing (performed by professional testers)
- Acceptance testing (performed by business users)
- First let me state this : automated testing can be extremely useful and can be a real time saver. But it can also turn out to be a very expensive and invalid solution.
- If you like to be instant popular, don't become a software tester ! You 'll find out that you are going to meet a great deal of resistance... It is very likely that you will end up being the sole defender of quality at a certain point. Other participants in the project will be tempted to go for the deadline, whatever the quality of the application is.
- You should deal with this by reporting facts and figures in stead of opinions. It might take a while before your work colleagues appreciate the great job you're doing !
- Okay, you've tested your new development successfully. Great. But do the features of the application that you didn't change still work ? You really should test this before going live.
- This one is obvious but who does it ?
- You cannot beat real data.
- Critical (must have, no work around)
- High (must have, work around possible)
- Medium (not business critical, but wanted)
- Low (nice to have)
- A bit obvious, but I've seen testers make this decision and assign business statuses
- Actively use these statuses for reporting and follow up !
- You should talk about exit and entry criteria with IT. When is software good enough to deliver to a test team ? Think about server errors, certain level of IT testing achieved, when and how to build...
- Same goes for business. What quality do they expect ? Who is going to make decisions on when to go live ? Make sure it is not you. Your role should be advisory.
- There 's a lot of talking about test management software. Sure, they can be very helpful indeed. These tools probably will take a lot of work out of your hands... But don't forget : it 's you who has to define the testing process. No tool is going to do that for you ! Think thoroughly about how you 're going to organise your testing. You can be very successful by using basic tools like MS Excel.


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"Who de cap fit, let 'im wear it . . . " — a (preliminary) collection of seen-in-the-wild Darwinist fever swamp fallacies
I am thinking it is time we began a collection of Darwinist fever swamp fallacies found in the wild.
(Make sure to get your Malaria shot before going there . . . )
After the now standard "your'e a quote miner" false accusation and the "it's a Gish galloper" smear of a man not present to defend himself and associated false accusation of wholesale lying, we have been seeing a few choice ones recently.
Let's begin a collection:
The Darwinist 1984-style Orwellian doubletalk definition slip-slide trojan horse.
I think that about captures it: it's not what it seems like, and it's what's inside the wrapper that counts. often used with false accusations like you're quote mining or you're on a Gish gallop when challenged.
Then there's:
The Darwinist toxic rhetorical squid ink cloud to enable escape for oneself (maybe by handy sockpuppet . . . ) or for one's partners in crime
. . . as well as the longstanding:
Darwinist trifecta red herrings trojan horse led away from the track of truth to strawman caricatures soaked in ad hominems and set alight to cloud, confuse, poison and polarise the atmosphere for discussion
. . . and of course the even more classic:
Fallacy of the closed, hostile, question-begging, self-referentially incoherent, absurdity-clinging a priori materialist mind.
When all else fails we have:
Your'e expelled you creationist mole in the high church of Darwin
. . . and:
We're gonna out and threaten as well as stalk or harass you and your family and those you care for.
I don't doubt there are many, many more like this. Maybe it's time we started to build a collection and then a taxonomy, maybe even we can see if they fit into an evolutionary tree pattern. How about a science, Darwinismology. END
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Courtesy the various Darwinist fever swamps out there . . .
I've grown accustomed to your face.
The following scenario is familiar to most of us, particularly as we grow older:
We walk into a crowded and noisy room full of mostly strangers and unfamiliar heads bobbing up and down. Then off to the side and slightly behind we hear and recognize a familiar voice … we turn our head searching for that old friend we know is there, and after a short search … there she is, head slightly turned away from our view, but recognizable none-the-less. We are surprised and pleased to meet our old friend once more after some number of years and begin renewing the friendship.
The recognition of the voce and face is instinctive and very quick; and we take it for granted with no thoughts of anything unusual other than the mere co-incidence of the meeting.
But behind the scenes in our ears, eyes, nerves and brains is a marvelous and miraculous process called pattern recognition. A pattern recognition that is able to pick out and recognize individual faces and voices out of the billions of faces and voices surrounding us in the world. So let's take a brief tour of what's involved in meeting up with our old friend.
The hearing system that most of us have is a partnership between our ears and brain along with the connecting nerves between the two. This stereo audio system is able to sift through the many amplitudes (volumes) presented – the multitudes of widely spread and finely differentiated frequencies – the various timbres presented by the many voices surrounding us in that room full of strangers. And we are able to pick out that distinctive and familiar voice among the multitudes. And by the way, that same set of ears, in the form of the semi-circular canals, is instrumental in our balance system which keeps us from stumbling around in that crowded room.
And the eyes … my gosh what a gift … a gift of obvious design which enables us to stand in awe at the many wonders of our everyday world.
The eyes, as with the ears, are continually involved in a massive process of pattern recognition that allow us to function smoothly within our very busy, active and dangerous world. Eyes that are quick to warn us of the dangers of that car moving too close to us on the freeway. Eyes that quickly recognize that old friend even in a crowded and busy room.
In our modern technological world we have analogies to that busy room. Our Navy ships scan the depths of the ocean with sonar. The pulses transmitted from the sonar antenna bounce off; the ocean floor, schools of fish and even the surface of the ocean, returning a bewildering stream of noise that the computers of the sonar must sift through, filter and cluster to present the operators and commanders an array of potential hazards and threats to the fleet. These sophisticated sonar system require sophisticated computational systems and large amounts of memory storage to accomplish the task in real-time. But most fundamentally they require intelligent designers to create the systems required.
Pattern recognition in the visual world is no less wondrous. When you take a picture of that group at a reunion with a modern state of the art camera, have you noticed the little boxes surrounding the faces? Somehow some very smart scientists and engineers have figured out how to program a computer in your camera to recognize that human faces are part of the picture and visually highlight them for you. And after you take them you can 'tag' the individual faces with names in programs like Facebook. Again, sophisticated computational power and large amounts of memory storage are required for the job. And, as in the case of sonar processing, intelligent designers are necessary to create the systems required.
Pattern recognition is not a trivial task in the engineering world. Take the time to read about the complexities and mathematics of pattern recognition, for example a Wikipedia article on "pattern recognition."
So I ask you my friends who believe that Darwinian Evolution … a belief in unguided, unintelligent and strictly natural processes; is it reasonable and rational that such a process could guide you to that reunion in a crowded room? Can you really believe that? Can you set aside your dogmatic atheism and look at what nature presents to you?
You atheists at NCSE need to apply real science to the multitudes of designs all around us and within us. Science that takes an honest researcher to wherever the evidence leads. Evidence like I have cited above, evidence that is obvious even to a sea-going corporal. Take the leap and cast off your irrational atheism and discover the secrets of the designs you so flippantly cast aside as illusions or false appearances. Many of you have PhDs, but have not the common sense that should go with it.
And to those of you who denigrate and insult those of us who believe such natural capabilities are the result of an Intelligent Design (ID), I would ask … which of us is the IDiot?
I put this scenario up before the folks at NCSE recently, and it sparked quite an exchange between myself and NCSE friendly commenters. Interestingly, even though my post asks for Darwinian explanations and evidence for the scenario I presented (including evidence for the evolution of vision), no one stepped up to the challenge. If you read the responses you get the usual stuff about ID being religion etc.
So I continue to wonder about that "mountain of overwhelming evidence." I don't see it. What I do see is a relatively small set of bones and rocks with the supposed connecting dots of evolution.
ayearningforpublius @2:
Nice piece, even if off topic. As someone who does research in AI, especially in visual and auditory pattern recognition, I know that there is no way this capability could have evolved by chance and natural selection. One of the hardest unsolved problems in computer science is the so-called cocktail party problem, the ability to recognize and focus on a single voice or sound in a noisy environment. The brain handles it with ease. During REM sleep, there is a mechanism that goes through the brain's cortex and cleans up any bad synaptic connection that was acquired during the day. If that did not happen, we would lose our ability to see and hear within days and likely go mad. You cannot design a sophisticated pattern recognition system such as exists in the brain without knowing in advance that you will need a sleep-activated cleanup mechanism and why it is necessary.
4Piltdown2December 27, 2013 at 11:09 am
I would add to your list, directly from the Darwinian Ministry of Truth:
It's a FACT not a THEORY, and therefore not open to discussion.
Remember in the Cobb County Georgia Sticker case (http://alt.cimedia.com/ajc/pdf/evolution.pdf), Darwinists argued that
unless the atheist story of creation was taught as a fact, not a theory, it would be an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.
P2: I guess we can call it
the fact- theory/"consensus" switcheroo.
An explanatory model of the deep, unobserved past simply cannot be a fact. Never mind the claim that it is a "consensus" of the scientific community — that's a no true scotsman fallacy itself — and never mind the 1984 Orwellian double-speech games played to pretend that it is. KF
That's why I avoid swamps!
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7Piltdown2December 27, 2013 at 1:45 pm
Switcheroo it is. And looking back over some of the one-star reviews of Darwin's Doubt on Amazon, I believe another is the
Darwinist peer review paradox memory hole.
Since science must be peer reviewed and
ID isn't science,
then all peer reviewed ID research isn't really peer reviewed.
P2, how could we forget that one! After a contest, UD's Mrs O'Leary (of our News Desk) selected the name
"noviews" for hostile, alleged reviews of books or the like, intended to distort, caricature, dismiss and poison rather than honestly read and evaluate critically
what is in this case a very important book that will long outlive its critics. KF
The peer review point is also important. By imposing a priori evolutionary materialism, design and intelligence are automatically, implicitly reduced to blind chance and mechanical necessity acting over eons. So,
intelligence does not exist, and design does not exist, it is an illusion so there can be no science of design. There is nothing there to study.
Also, as the only properly scientific view is evolutionary materialist atheism — theistic evolutionists who think they can go along to get along are being what Marxists used to call useful idiots —
anyone who questions materialism must be a religious fundamentalist upstart.
So, whether they call it design theory or creation science makes no difference,
it is all that horrid fundamentalist religion that hates and attacks science that is behind it all.
We rip off the disguise of the lab coat or the teacher's pose and then we expose it as creationist moles slyly undermining science. They must be expelled.
as for the alleged peer reviewed articles, insofar as they are really science they are compatible with evolutionary materialism and insofar as they are intelligent design creationism they are not real science and we must tighten up the peer review process.
if a few innocent eggs are broken, we cannot make an omelette without cracking some eggs.
we have to guard science, and especially Evolution, it is a fact Fact FACT!
we have to be on guard against those Creationist moles, lest they ruin science and turn the clock back to the dark ages of scientists being stretched out on the racks of the inquisition.
They are so dangerous
their diabolical thought crime justifies using any means necessary, even if we are stretching the truth a bit or are being a little ruthless and cruel, or are outing them and driving them out of our colleges and institutions on less than solid evidence, or are threatening families, businesses and are busting careers.
Yes, it was a real triumph when we had that horrid article withdrawn from PBSW, and then shortly thereafter we had them properly routed at Dover. The Judge was so smart to use our post trial briefings as the basis of his judgement. And if there are a few errors, exaggerations and the like in it, it's all in service to the truth anyway, no real harm done.
That closet creationist of an editor hiding in the Smithsonian — think of it the Smithsonian! Where next will these creationist moles turn up? — should think himself lucky he was only suspected of being a thief and liar, and to have faked his degrees, and its just too bad his marriage broke under the strain of the disasters he brought on himself.
I wonder if the activists and their enablers really pause and think carefully about what they have been doing.
F/N: in case you think the just above is a grossly exaggerated caricature, observe (HT BA 77) the following live, in progress story:
>> She said she was a creationist. Then the firestorm began.
By Carol McPhail |
on December 27, 2013 at 2:00 AM, updated December 27, 2013 at 2:01 AM
The reactions came quickly, and they were harsh.
When national tech writer Virginia Heffernan wrote an article describing herself as a creationist, one tweet read: "Good luck … if she ever gets cancer. No cures based on creationism."
Heffernan, a former staff writer for the New York Times, posted an article in July entitled "Why I'm a creationist" for Yahoo! News, where she is a national correspondent. Heffernan wrote that she was "amused and bugged and uplifted and moved" by Genesis and Exodus, and "amused and moved, but considerably less amused and moved" by the Big Bang story.
The article concluded with a quote from the "Life of Pi" author: "Life is a story. 2) You can choose your story. 3) A story with God is the better story."
The critics swarmed, one calling it a "shameful confession," another "a scam," and many questioned Heffernan's credibility as a technology writer. The reaction surprised her, she says, especially that some former colleagues weren't willing to give her the benefit of the doubt . . . .
Q: What prompted you to write an essay describing yourself as a creationist?
I was frustrated with the way social science had stretched the logic of evolution to its breaking point. Evolutionary psychology especially, which has been plagued by research scandals, kept reversing its basic tenets.
I also believe in God. It struck me that while politicians are virtually obliged to profess belief in God, journalists are all but prohibited from expressing that same belief. I thought I'd chronicle, in a light way, my falling-out with popular science, and assert my faith in God as a presence.
Q: you give a quick synopsis of the article?
I describe my education, in a slightly bumbling way. I was a humanities student, and then a Ph.D. in English, and I was not primarily drawn to hard science. Then "science" in the popular press came to mean sophistry like evolutionary psychology and certain strains of neuroscience, and I began to have my doubts the way the authority of science was being deployed.
I say that I also had read "The Origins of Species," and found that it didn't address the origin of the cosmos of the origin of human consciousness—the two places that most stir the mind and heart. By contrast, I felt satisfied and inspired by the origin stories in the Bible.
Q: What adjectives would you use to describe the reaction?
Angry, defensive, fearful, histrionic, sometimes misogynistic, hazing. Something more than an academic argument about cosmology and consciousness was at stake.
I was surprised that former colleagues didn't give me, a career-long journalist with an academic background whom some of them had worked with, the benefit of the doubt. I was also surprised that many hard scientists—as opposed to science writers—liked what I wrote. The experience left me hurt and embarrassed. I thought I must have miscalculated the tone of the essay to trigger so much fury.
Q: What's your message to people who say you've gone off the deep end or that you've lost your credibility as a writer?
I haven't gone off the deep end. I've always believed in God, and ultimately I take pride having written about it. I was pleased, once the dust settled on Twitter, to enter into fascinating conversations with scientists and philosophers and religious people about cosmology, of all things. Nice to not be debating some trumped-up jive like "the mommy wars," for a change!
Credibility as a writer: that's up for readers to decide. If the fact that I have expressed a minimalist theism — God was present at the genesis of consciousness and the cosmos — means I am no longer to be trusted on the less-lofty questions of "Is DEVICE6 a good videogame?" or "What is Snapchat for?"—well, readers will have to connect those dots themselves. I don't see the connection . . . .
Q: Has this issue affected your career path at all?
Maybe. I now have a chapter on technology and religious belief in "Magic and Loss: The Pleasures of the Internet," the book I'm working on for Simon & Schuster. >>
As in,
Witch[Creationist] hunt panic reaction.
The stereotypes come trotting out all by themselves: one who does not toe the evo mat partyline "must be" ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked," and deserves bad things to happen to them, and should not have a career in any trusted area.
No, there is even a hint of: they should not eat bread until they recant their evil.
Is this where we want our civilisation to be heading, where to publicly announce belief in God and taking him seriously as Creator is to immediately attract attack, stereotyping, hostility, even hate and death wishing? (Yes, just substitute some favoured group label in that wishing Cancer death story and think about what would have happened. Or even in the presumptions that you are discredited and necessarily incompetent, etc etc. Then think about the implications of boxing bread out of people's mouths for ideological reasons. Think long and hard on relevant recent living memory history.)
Something is seriously wrong here.
Virginia Heffernan, what a courageous soul. More than I can say for 99% of all Darwinists. Gutless cowards, all of them.
12NetResearchGuyDecember 28, 2013 at 11:56 pm
The fallacy that annoys me most is
"macro evolution is just lots of micro evolution given millions or billions of years".
[–> Hey mon, ya gotta put the name off in bolded block quotes! Let's have some fun here . . . ED]
The reason this is a fallacy is it ignores that random search is an exponential complexity problem, not a linear one. For example, it's possible to break a 40 bit encryption key in a day on a modern desktop computer. Does that mean you can break a 400 bit key in 10 days? No, it would take 6.4×10^105 years, or 95 orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe.
Random key search is what is termed an NP-complete problem. It means that it is widely believed (although not yet formally proven in a mathematical sense) that no algorithm can ever be devised, even in theory, to reduce the complexity of the problem. So you can't argue that there will be future discoveries that make such problems tractable. So it's possible to exist random search problems that are theoretically unsolvable — not saying this disproves evolution, it just completely refutes the argument that because short range random searches (micro) work, longer range ones (macro) do too. It's a blatant fallacy, simple as that.
All experimental tests of evolution (Behe has a paper summarizing most of them) have produced no more than a handful of bits worth of information change, or in many cases no information change at all, just selection of existing alleles. The simplest self sufficient life needs at least 100,000 bits of information, and perhaps ten times that. Going from a handful of bits to thousands is not helped by throwing more time at the problem. Even if you assume the proteins evolved separately, each single protein by itself contains hundreds of bits of information (100 AA for a small protein = log2(20^100) = 432 bits, and that's spotting homochirality which would otherwise add nearly 100 more bits), which is far beyond any random search algorithm. Even if you assume 2/3 of the protein is garbage or filler, you are well beyond random search, so arguments that "we don't need to hit the odds for one specific version of a protein" are irrelevant — the odds are still terrible unless you allow extreme flexibility in proteins which is at odds with science.
Maybe someone can make a more clever name for my fallacy?
F/N: Over in the WJM conversation thread Querius set me to thinking:
Q, 22: >> While this comment is trivial compared to the preceding ones, I wanted to mention the old "God of the gaps" objection. To satirize it . . .
"We used to believe that gods were the cause of all phenomena, but now that we know
a) Force equals the product of mass and acceleration (and in combination with the formulas for relativistic effects on mass, that differences in energy equal the product of differences in relativistic masses and the speed of light in a vacuum squared).
b) Reactive gases combine in counting-number volumetric ratios.
c) Phenotypes from offspring are expressed also in ratios, and that genetic mutations exist.
d) 1 + 1 = 2
Therefore, everything else is interpolation, proving that
1) God does not exist (woohoo)
2)We're terribly ordinary and not at the centroid of anything (yes)
3) And, without a measurable volitional will, not culpable for our actions (yay!).
It's easy if you try." 😉 >>
KF, 23: >> The God of the gaps accusation is certainly important as is the failure to see that natural has TWO alternatives, not only "supernatural" but artificial, and where it is easily shown that the artificial can indeed be empirically studied in light of well-tested signs. This goes to the heart of the design inference issue. >>
KF, 24: >> Also, as the infamous Lewontin NYRB cite tries to say, there is a view that a world where miracles happen would be chaotic and science impossible. This fails to understand the history of the founding of science, that the Judaeo-Christian vision of God as the Creator and sustainer of a stable world — One in whom we live,. move and have our being — was the framework in which it was seen that God rules the world by impressing intelligible law on it so a lawful cosmos is expected. Second, that it is reasonable that for good reasons, such a Creator-Sustainer God may wish to act beyond the usual course of the world. Third, that to stand out as signs pointing beyond the ordinary course of the world, miracles would have to be rare so that science in an open world is a feasible project. In fact, much of the dismissal of the possibility and fact — absent a miracle I would not be here typing this — of miracles boils down to worldview preferences and that which objectors conditioned by evolutionary materialism and by influences tracing to Deism, prefer to be so. Some actually find the idea that God may have an interest in our lives and behaviour offensive, repulsive or threatening. Hence some of the vituperative tone with which they react to anything that may reflect the shadow of a very unwelcome Divine Foot in the door of their preferred God is absent or dead world-vision. Such need to seriously ask themselves whether they are living in a Plato's Cave of secularist-materialist ideological shadow-shows. >>
Food for thought.
Have you ever thought about . . . cue twilight zone music and horror movie laughter . . .
The endarkening power of secondary ignorance induced by Plato's Cave ideological shadow shows?
I think this one is in most cases worse . . . and much more dangerous . . . than primary, simple ignorance.
If somebody is primarily ignorant and knows it . . . i.e. is like a child in his attitude, then the only problem is educational, s/he needs to come up to speed.
So, while one has to be careful never to reach too far at one go, given educational theorist Vygotsky's zone of proximal development (ZPD) — cf my discussion here — the problem is a fairly straightforward one. (NB: And if you have been led to think dismissive thoughts because of a certain objector's sneering hints that I must be a bad education thinker and practitioner, have a read through the series of posts this is a part of, just click on the numbered links at the head of the post.)
However, if one has been deeply indoctrinated in some diabolically clever Plato's Cave, through artfully constructed ruthlessly manipulative ideological shadow shows, one's thinking will have been well and truly warped and twisted up, often in ways calculated to make the real truth seem like dubious and dismissible rubbish. Worse, if one has also been injected, slow-drip style with hostility against those who represent the truth, then one may be in such a red fog of rage that it is hard, hard, hard to listen. or, maybe I should change my metaphor back to a more familiar one: red herrings, led away from the path to truth and then carried away to strawman caricatures set up for a fever swamp bonfire, soaked in toxic oil of ad hominems. Then through angry or snide or even mocking and cruel words, the strawmen are set alight, setting off a spectacular fire, and giving off toxic, intoxicating, clouding, confusing, poisonous, polarising clouds of rhetorical smoke.
If you have been poisoned and intoxicated by such rhetoric or agit-prop, you will be very much hampered from thinking straight.
That is part of why, when he spoke of the three main levers of Persuasion . . . pathos, ethos, logos . . . in his The Rhetoric, Bk 1 Ch 2, Aristotle warned that our judgements when we are pained and hostile are very different from those we make when we are pleased and friendly. I have no doubt, he had the fate of Socrates at the hands of the Athenians in mind when he wrote that. (Let's not forget he fled Athens at one point, saying that he would not give Athens the ability to sin like that against philosophy a SECOND time.)
So, if you are a fairly or highly educated person and basic design concepts seem like obvious rubbish, and the people who advocate them "must be" or so blatantly, self-evidently "are" IDiots, Right Wing Christo-fascist theocratic cryptic Creationists, who are dressed up in cheap tuxedos or are moles in science and education, who must be ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked, please, think again. (As a first step in untwisting propaganda-warped minds, kindly see the UD Weak Argument Correctives here on.)
Or, to echo the tag for a certain objector blog: I beseech you in the bowels of Darwin, to consider — just simply, honestly and seriously consider — whether you may be mistaken.
As a beginning to your reflections, you may want to consider here on the history of ideas roots of modern science, here on the definition and nature of Intelligent Design (forget Wikipedia's article, that is case study no 1 on secondary ignorance), and maybe even here on on the inductive logic, scientific framework of the design inference.
let me clip the NWE article on ID:
Intelligent design (ID) is the view that it is possible to infer from empirical evidence that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection" [1] Intelligent design cannot be inferred from complexity alone, since complex patterns often happen by chance. ID focuses on just those sorts of complex patterns that in human experience are produced by a mind that conceives and executes a plan. According to adherents, intelligent design can be detected in the natural laws and structure of the cosmos; it also can be detected in at least some features of living things . . . .
ID makes no claims about biblical chronology, and technically a person does not have to believe in God to infer intelligent design in nature. As a theory, ID also does not specify the identity or nature of the designer, so it is not the same as natural theology, which reasons from nature to the existence and attributes of God. ID does not claim that all species of living things were created in their present forms, and it does not claim to provide a complete account of the history of the universe or of living things.
ID also is not considered by its theorists to be an "argument from ignorance"; that is, intelligent design is not to be inferred simply on the basis that the cause of something is unknown (any more than a person accused of willful intent can be convicted without evidence). According to various adherents, ID does not claim that design must be optimal; something may be intelligently designed even if it is flawed (as are many objects made by humans).
ID may be considered to consist only of the minimal assertion that it is possible to infer from empirical evidence that some features of the natural world are best explained by an intelligent agent. It conflicts with views claiming that there is no real design in the cosmos (e.g., materialistic philosophy) or in living things (e.g., Darwinian evolution) or that design, though real, is undetectable (e.g., some forms of theistic evolution). Because of such conflicts, ID has generated considerable controversy.
if this summary seems strange to you, you have been learning about ID from critics who are too often inclined to portray a strawman soaked in ad hominem oil, and then set it alight.
Please, please, PLEASE, think again.
The fallacy that annoys me most is "macro evolution is just lots of micro evolution given millions or billions of years". The reason this is a fallacy is it ignores that random search is an exponential complexity problem, not a linear one. For example, it's possible to break a 40 bit encryption key in a day on a modern desktop computer. Does that mean you can break a 400 bit key in 10 days? No, it would take 6.4×10^105 years, or 95 orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe . . . .
All experimental tests of evolution (Behe has a paper summarizing most of them) have produced no more than a handful of bits worth of information change, or in many cases no information change at all, just selection of existing alleles. The simplest self sufficient life needs at least 100,000 bits of information, and perhaps ten times that. Going from a handful of bits to thousands is not helped by throwing more time at the problem. Even if you assume the proteins evolved separately, each single protein by itself contains hundreds of bits of information (100 AA for a small protein = log2(20^100) = 432 bits, and that's spotting homochirality which would otherwise add nearly 100 more bits), which is far beyond any random search algorithm. Even if you assume 2/3 of the protein is garbage or filler, you are well beyond random search, so arguments that "we don't need to hit the odds for one specific version of a protein" are irrelevant — the odds are still terrible unless you allow extreme flexibility in proteins which is at odds with science.
Indeed, you are here quite close to the heart of the design inference and the logic of the explanatory filter, cf here.
Also, note no 12 from the UD Weak Argument Correctives, aka FAQ:
12] Macro-evolution is nothing but lots and lots of "micro-evolution"!
Such a point of view is simply untenable, and it denotes a complete misunderstanding of the nature of function. Macroevolution, in all its possible meanings, implies the emergence of new complex functions. A function is not the simplistic sum of a great number of "elementary" sub-functions: sub-functions have to be interfaced and coherently integrated to give a smoothly performing whole. In the same way, macroevolution is not the mere sum of elementary microevolutionary events.
A computer program, for instance, is not the sum of simple instructions. Even if it is composed ultimately of simple instructions, the information-processing capacity of the software depends on the special, complex order of those instructions. You will never obtain a complex computer program by randomly assembling elementary instructions or modules of such instructions.
In the same way, macroevolution cannot be a linear, simple or random accumulation of microevolutionary steps.
Microevolution, in all its known examples (antibiotic resistance, and similar) is made of simple variations, which are selectable for the immediate advantage connected to them. But a new functional protein cannot be built by simple selectable variations, no more than a poem can be created by random variations of single letters, or a software written by a sequence of elementary (bit-like) random variations, each of them improving the "function" of the software.
Function simply does not work that way. Function derives from higher levels of order and connection, which cannot emerge from a random accumulation of micro-variations. As the complexity (number of bits) of the functional sequence increases, the search space increases exponentially, rapidly denying any chance of random exploration of the space itself.
Worth a thought or two!
On the name game, what about:
The micro-macro evo, float like a butterfly sting like a bee moonwalk bait and switch slip-slide . . .
Or maybe a riff on that or the like or something even better?
F/N: I went back through, bold-ing and blockquote-ing what seemed to me the main fallacies of interest. KF
I just remembered the
Science Proves That . . . X
Science is incapable of actual proof.
What we actually have is organised collections of seemingly relevant observations, described, then we mix in summarising and/or explanatory models that we often call hypotheses, laws and theories depending on degree of elaboration and/or acceptance in the community of scientists, and these are always provisional, subject to onward tests of observation and analysis.
Where even what are considered "facts" of observation can be up for grabs.
But, where also, an explanation . . . even one we have high confidence in . . . as, it is an explanatory, inferential construct . . . cannot be a fact, period.
While scientific explanatory models can be very reliable, they are not ever facts, and they must always be held as provisional subject to correction in light of onward investigation and analysis.
That is where Wiki went off the rails so badly when it said in an article on Evo as theory and as fact:
. . . When scientists say "evolution is a fact" they are using one of two meanings of the word "fact". One meaning is empirical, and when this is what scientists mean, then "evolution" is used to mean observed changes in allele frequencies or traits of a population over successive generations.
Another way "fact" is used is to refer to a certain kind of theory, one that has been so powerful and productive for such a long time that it is universally accepted by scientists. When scientists say evolution is a fact in this sense, they mean it is a fact that all living organisms have descended from a common ancestor (or ancestral gene pool) [8] even though this cannot be directly observed. [["Evolution as theory and fact," Acc: Aug. 7, 2010.]
ID Thinker Philip Johnson was on target when he rebutted Lewontin's a priori evolutionary materialism as follows:
For scientific materialists the materialism comes first; the science comes thereafter. [[Emphasis original] We might more accurately term them "materialists employing science." And if materialism is true, then some materialistic theory of evolution has to be true simply as a matter of logical deduction, regardless of the evidence. That theory will necessarily be at least roughly like neo-Darwinism, in that it will have to involve some combination of random changes and law-like processes capable of producing complicated organisms that (in Dawkins' words) "give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose."
. . . . The debate about creation and evolution is not deadlocked . . . Biblical literalism is not the issue. The issue is whether materialism and rationality are the same thing. Darwinism is based on an a priori commitment to materialism, not on a philosophically neutral assessment of the evidence. Separate the philosophy from the science, and the proud tower collapses. [[Emphasis added.] [[The Unraveling of Scientific Materialism, First Things, 77 (Nov. 1997), pp. 22 – 25.]
H'mm: Is it possible to have a fever swamp in a cave, complete with vampire bats and fever-inducing mosquitoes? (What would that version of a Plato's cave look like?) KF
How can we forget the ever popular:
Carl Sagan "extraordinary claims require
extraordinary[–> actually, only: adequate or reasonable . . . ] evidence" evidentialist selectively hyperskeptical form of the subtler fallacy that "skepticism is a virtue of science."
That one merits a whole separate discussion, cf. here on in context. (It boils down to seizing the default for evolutionary materialism and question-beggingly stacking the deck by demanding unreasonable degrees of warrant for anything that does not fit in with a priori materialism.)
PS: Though it is not popular or politically correct to say so these days, NEWSFLASH:
Skepticism — contrary to what is popularly promoted (often, by skeptics) — is an intellectual vice, not a virtue, period. What is an intellectual virtue is critically aware reasonableness joined to diligent studiousness that does justice to duties of care regarding warrant. A very different thing that seeks to strike an informed balance in light of our strengths and limitations as thinkers, thus building a tenable worldview. (Cf. here on that topic.)
Dr Selensky: Season's greetings and a great new year as it comes. BTW, do Orthodox kids in the West get TWO Christmas days not just one? KF
One more for just now:
I only have a quick moment, so, here's . . .
The I only have a moment excuse to snip and snipe at a perceived weaker or less damaging point, while somehow no time will ever be found to address the main issue or the matter on balance as a whole.
This one, is of course, a subtle form of the strawman fallacy, which BTW as it is always a distraction is a sub-species of red herring fallacies.
So, if an objector keeps on having just a moment to deal with a lesser matter and somehow never gets around to the key issue, we know it is the:
"I only have a moment" slick slip-slide awaaaay to a strawman tactic . . .
PS: The IEP list of fallacies here is one of the most balanced I have found on the Internet.
PPS: Nor should we forget WJM's punch-line example,
the heads I win, tails you lose . . . you no speaka da Inglish rite triple-slick slip-slide
As he put it inimitably:
Anti-ID advocate: Shorthand isn't good enough – we must have specific uses of terms using explicitly laid-out definitions or else debate cannot go forward.
ID advocate: (insert several pages lay out specifics and definitions with citations and historical references).
ID advocate: In summary, this demonstrates that mainstream scientists have long accepted that there are qualitative difference between CSI, or organized, complimentary complexity/functionality, and what can in principle be generated via the causal categories of chance and necessity. Only intelligent or intentional agency is known to be in principle capable of generating such phenomena.
Anti-ID advocate: OMG, you can't really expect me to read and understand all of that! I don't understand the way you word things. Is English your first language? It makes my head hurt.
Just for BA77:
Slip slidin' away . . .
I find it very interesting that the usual objectors have steered clear of commenting in this thread.
A thread that identifies and addresses a range of their errors, and invites contributions towards finding out the pattern of thought, towards helping straighten out what is plainly some very crooked thinking.
(You can take it to the bank, that threads at UD are subjected to hostile scrutiny, and any number wait to pounce on perceived weak points. Failing which, we can expect that threads will get the trifecta treatment in any number of fever swamp sites.)
It seems to me that there is an underlying fallacy too often committed by Darwinist objectors to design theory,
a failure of manifest duties of intellectual care to accuracy, fairness, and truth[fulness].
I think much of that is driven by an underlying fear, anger — anger is often a reaction to a fear in light of a perceived threat or slight — and contempt that perceives design thinkers as threats and which projects hostile stereotypes, which are too often little more than ad hominem laced strawman fallacy based, ill-founded and profoundly unfair conspiracy narratives and scapegoating stereotypes, often projecting versions of faults that may actually also be present in the accuser.
You may doubt me in this, so let me give some typical patterns: Design thinkers are Creationists in cheap tuxedos. Creationists are right wing Christofascist totalitarian theocrats who hate and seek to undermine and overthrow science, and are hoping to turn the clock back on progress to return us to the inquisition etc etc etc.
(This narrative, which is often taken as gospel or self evident truth by too many design objectors, is so wrong-headed that it would be hard to be more in error. Just to start with on a relatively easy point to correct, Fascism is an ideology of the left, a form of politically messianic statism that sees a superman, nietzschean political leader who is beyond conventional limits of morality etc and has superhuman wisdom and a usually mystical aura of being an anointed leader — yes, anointed straight from Hell, as this revealing blasphemous image shows — as the vehicle of rescue of a self-identified victim group from their enemies or the "unprecedented" threats of their time, acting decisively (no silly democratic delay, bumbling and confusion . . . ) by any means necessary. Cf. 101 discussion here. Why else do you think that "nazi" actually means "National Socialist German Workers/Labour Party"? [I start from that, in hopes that we can begin to wake up and think afresh. After getting Fascism straight, maybe we can begin to read the UD Weak Argument Correctives, here on, to begin to straighten out the understanding of design thought and thinkers.])
Those who indulge such or enable such, should appreciate that when one constructs a false picture and insists on a continued misrepresenat5ion in the teeth of opportunity to do better, one is indulging in a species of willful deception, aka lying.
But of course, the hard core objectors will predictably not be able to resist the compounding twist on the trifecta fallacy:
the turnabout fault/blame projection accusation, designed to stereotype and scapegoat then blame the target as the "real" problem — which then further polarises and confuses the atmosphere (often triggering a verbal or even a physical fight)
Those who indulge such tactics, should realise that this is the exact technique Hitler and co —
How dare you raise Hitler as an example before me, that's Godwin's Law! (Ans: Sound history is a record of hard bought lessons, some of them paid for in rivers of blood. Sound History is NOT the winner's self-serving narrative. It is therefore utter folly to refuse to learn from it where it is clearly materially relevant, as here.) —
. . . used to blame the Jews for Germany's woes post WWI, and it is the technique he used to blame Poland for attacking Germany in 1939, by dressing concentration camp prisoners in Polish uniforms then murdering them in places that made it look like Polish soldiers had carried out an unsuccessful attack on a German radio station.
But, I can easily see that YOU are the one who is really doing his Mr KF!
So, there!
To which I respond in the vein of the planks and sawdust principle in the Sermon on the Mount: to be human is to struggle with moral inconsistency and intellectually self serving self deception. So Jesus counselled us to seek to fix our own problems as a context in which we can then see and empathise to help others.
On the matter of straight thinking, let the following summary of 30+ years of painful and costly struggle on my part to get my thinking straightened out suffice as a sign: here on in context.
I therefore think, as a matter of fair comment that I can speak from some experience, and from some insight, at least to those who genuinely want help.
Unfortunately, there are all too many who don't want help at all and will ruthlessly, nihilistically resort to any and all means foul to prop up their agenda and underlying ideology.
Such can only be identified through consistently abusive behaviour and then we can only mark this off by erecting justified ring fences and posting notices of warning.
Case in point analysed (in the context of a thread on another such live case).
HT, BA 77, looks like another case in point here.
Almost amusing to see how those who watch to pounce on UD are staying studiously away. More seriously, many Darwinist objectors to design thought need to do an audit on the quality of their reasoning. Given all too familiar sad patterns of behaviour, I won't hold my breath. KF
I think there is yet another fallacy of Darwinist objection to design theory:
trusting untrustworthy and sometimes ruthlessly unscrupulous critics to give a fair and accurate description of design thought, the design inference and design thinkers . . .
Wikipedia's hatchet job of an article on ID vs NWE's introductory article, is an excellent case in point. To straighten out a lot of the confusions, artfully cultivated misunderstandings and fear-induced polarisations involved, kindly do yourself a favour and go to the UD correctives on the resources tab, top of this and every UD page.
For short, trusting untrustworthy critics.
PS: And while I am at it, I think the description of what lying is as at July 23, 2011 at Wiki's article on the topic, especially the part about lying by willfully continued misrepresentation:
To lie is to state something with disregard to the truth with the intention that people will accept the statement as truth . . . . even a true statement can be used to deceive. In this situation, it is the intent of being overall untruthful rather than the truthfulness of any individual statement that is considered the lie . . . . One can state part of the truth out of context, knowing that without complete information, it gives a false impression. Likewise, one can actually state accurate facts, yet deceive with them . . . . One lies by omission when omitting an important fact, deliberately leaving another person with a misconception. Lying by omission includes failures to correct pre-existing misconceptions. Also known as a continuing misrepresentation . . . . A misleading statement is one where there is no outright lie, but still retains the purpose of getting someone to believe in an untruth . . . [Cf. essay here]
And yes, outright lying by willful and insistently continued misrepresentation is unfortunately a major Darwinist objector fallacy we are dealing with, too. Please, do not get involved in it. Carry out your duties of care to truth, fairness and accuracy.
Chirp, chirp, chirp . . .
Collecting a few more Darwinist rhetorical tactics:
UB: final stand; dismiss the evidence instead of dealing with it
UB: trying to defeat the observations by ignoring them
KF: the zero acknowledgements, zero concessions, zero apologies tactics
Seeing a pattern?
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