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Kathleen Parker: Maybe Christie could use an Obama hug
WASHINGTON -- In the days since revelations surfaced about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's office orchestrating the now-infamous George Washington Bridge lane closings, I've had at least four different reactions.
�Listed in chronological order, they were: He's dead; maybe not so bad if he didn't know anything; OMG, an elderly woman died! He's gone. Latest and hardly least, Christie may emerge relatively unscathed as the media displace him as villains.
�To stipulate, we recognize that Florida Sen. Marco Rubio made the sanest observation when asked Thursday to comment.
"I think the right approach is to be a bit prudent here and not jump to conclusions," Rubio said. "I don't know anything about this. So for me to comment beyond that would just not be, you know, appropriate."
�Ahem, well, fine. There you have the difference between a senator in line to replace Christie as the leading Republican presidential candidate and—everybody else.
�On the train from New York to Washington on Thursday, two words continuously rose above the din: Chris Christie. The best summation of how the scandal is playing politically came from two high-profile consultants who happened to be on the same train—Republican Mary Matalin and Democrat James Carville.
�"BFD," said Matalin when I asked her thoughts.
�"May I quote you?"
�Carville, somewhat less concise, said he gave Christie a C-minus on his two-hour news conference, down from an initial B-plus. The lower grade followed further consideration that revealed contradictions and fuzzy details that didn't add up, he said. As just one example, also notably mentioned by Rush Limbaugh, Christie said he hadn't slept for a couple of days, but he had just found out about his staff's involvement the day before.
�Slip of the tongue, or vagueness in the service of subterfuge? Perhaps more to the point of Christie's future, Carville noted that Limbaugh and other high-profile conservatives aren't defending the governor.
�Even so, many Republicans in the Matalin camp see this as much ado about little, especially compared to, for instance, President Obama's repeated falsehoods about people keeping the health insurance they like under the Affordable Care Act. Democrats see this as the inevitable ruin of a bully run amok.
�But another consequential feature of this controversy is an emerging narrative that, barring the unforeseen, could shift focus from Christie's administration to the greater villain—the media. Judging from my overflowing inbox, there's a growing sense on the Right that Christie is being unfairly battered by a media all too eager to help defrock the Republican front-runner.
�Needless to say, one bad deed (Obama's falsehoods) does not excuse another (misusing power to punish a political foe). The bridge scandal is compelling precisely because it fits the well-documented bullying image of Christie, notwithstanding his denials during the news conference. "I am not a bully," he said, reminding us mostly of "I am not a witch." Or "I am not a crook."
�Christie's style was always going to be problematic for him in the primaries, especially in the polite South. But now he also can be viewed as a victim not only of malignant, malicious and mind-bendingly stupid staffers but also of a two-faced, pro-Democratic media.
�The media are not monolithic, as we like to remind people. But we do have a tendency to focus on the latest scandal. And it does seem that we tend to treat Republican scandals as more delicious than others. This is owing less to the sins committed than to the greater sin of hypocrisy. The higher the bar, the harder they fall.
�But Christie isn't a strong exhibit in the mean-media argument. More than a Republican, he is a colorful, larger-than-life character who speaks loudly and carries a big stick. Cameras will always find the most interesting landscape, and Christie has that turf covered. More to the salient point, as the leading Republican presidential candidate, he can hardly be ignored. Coverage of this fiasco isn't disproportionate to the man, even if it may be to the event.
�If, indeed, Christie had no knowledge of the lane closings and if, in fact, he was betrayed by idiots—even though he hired and trusted those idiots—then he could survive.
�Those are big ifs. What is certain is that the only thing the Republican base hates more than a liar and a bully is a bullying media. Once that common enemy is established, the perceived victim often becomes the victor.
Kathleen Parker is a columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group. Her email address is email@example.com.


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Study Targeting Affect Regulation (STAR)
This study has been completed.
University of California, San Francisco
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First Posted: November 9, 2010
Last Update Posted: October 27, 2014
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
University of California, San Francisco
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Detailed Description:
This Phase Ib pilot RCT will examine the safety, feasibility, and acceptability of a multi-component intervention to address traumatic stress symptoms among HIV-positive, methamphetamine-using men who have sex with men (MSM). Following a baseline assessment, 56 participants will be randomized to receive either: 1) a 7-session intervention to address traumatic stress related to living with HIV/AIDS; or 2) a 7-session, attention-control condition. Follow-up assessments will be administered at 1 and 3 months post-randomization.
|HIV AIDS Substance Use Disorders
|Behavioral: Resilient Affective Processing Therapy (RAPT)
|Phase 1 Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
|Official Title:
|A Pilot RCT of Expressive Writing With HIV-Positive Methamphetamine Users
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: HIV/AIDS MethamphetamineU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by University of California, San Francisco:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Traumatic stress symptom severity [ Time Frame: 3-month follow-up ]Our team will use the Impact of Event Scale to measure the self-reported severity of traumatic stress symptoms related to HIV/AIDS.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Psychological reactivity to expressive writing [ Time Frame: 1-month follow-up ]Participants will complete measures of subjective distress and craving of stimulants (i.e., methamphetamine, cocaine, and crack) before and after each expressive writing exercise to provide an index of habituation. Habituation is defined as a 50% reduction in the psychological reactivity to the expressive writing experience using these self-report measures.
|Study Start Date:
|September 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|May 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|January 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: Reslient Affective Processing Therapy (RAPT)
Behavioral: Resilient Affective Processing Therapy (RAPT)
Participants will be asked to complete 7 intervention sessions which include: 1) expressive writing exercises that focus on exploring thoughts and feelings surrounding a difficult life experience; and 2) stress management skills training to assist participants with managing any acute increases in distress that arise following the writing experience.
No Intervention: Attention-Control
Participants will complete 7 sessions where they will be asked to write about neutral topics and complete psychological measures for the purposes of matching for attention and reimbursement.
Detailed Description:
In the multi-component intervention protocol, participants will complete expressive writing exercises where they will be asked to write about difficult life experiences. Following expressive writing, participants will receive stress management skills training to assist them with managing any acute increases in distress that arise from the writing experience. Participants in the attention-control condition will write about neutral topics and complete psychological measures. The overarching goals of this Phase Ib RCT will be to: 1) examine the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention and attention-control; and 2) determine whether intervention participants report reductions in traumatic stress symptoms over the 3 months following randomization. Findings from this Phase Ib trial will inform our efforts to implement a more definitive RCT of this intervention with HIV-positive, methamphetamine-using MSM.
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- 18 years of age or older
- Speak English
- Self-identify as a man who has sex with men
- Have been diagnosed with HIV for at least 3 months
- Provide evidence of HIV-positive serostatus
- Report using methamphetamine during the past 30 days
Exclusion Criteria:
- Do not have the capacity to provide informed consent
Contacts and Locations
Information from the National Library of Medicine
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To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01237366
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01237366
|United States, California
|UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94105
Sponsors and Collaborators
University of California, San Francisco
|Principal Investigator:
|Adam Carrico, PhD
|University of California, San Francisco
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|Responsible Party:
|University of California, San Francisco
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01237366 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R03DA029423 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Submitted:
|November 1, 2010
|First Posted:
|November 9, 2010
|Last Update Posted:
|October 27, 2014
|Last Verified:
|October 2014
Keywords provided by University of California, San Francisco:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Substance-Related Disorders
Chemically-Induced Disorders
Mental Disorders
Central Nervous System Stimulants
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Autonomic Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Dopamine Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Adrenergic Agents
Adrenergic Uptake Inhibitors
Neurotransmitter Uptake Inhibitors
Membrane Transport Modulators
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Raltegravir And Darunavir Antiretroviral in Antiretroviral Naive Patients (RADAR)
This study has been completed.
Dallas VA Medical Center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First Posted: May 14, 2008
Last Update Posted: September 8, 2014
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
Tibotec Pharmaceutical Limited
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Roger Bedimo, M.D., Dallas VA Medical Center
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The purpose of this study is to determine whether a combination of raltegravir and darunavir is as effective as standard regimens in the treatment of HIV-infected patients who have not previously used antiretroviral drug (treatment naive)
|HIV Infections
|Drug: Raltegravir Drug: Darunavir Drug: Ritonavir Drug: Tenofovir/Emtricitabine
|Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy of Raltegravir/Darunavir Combination in Antiretroviral-Naive Patients
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: HIV/AIDSU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Roger Bedimo, M.D., Dallas VA Medical Center:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Time from randomization to virologic failure (HIV viral load of 1,000 copies/ml or greater at or after Week 16 and before Week 24, or two consecutive HIV viral load of 50 copies/ml or greater at or after Week 24) [ Time Frame: Week 24 ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Median change in CD4 count from baseline [ Time Frame: 48 Weeks ]
- Percentage of patients with treatment-emergent fasting hypertriglyceridemia (TG >400) or hypercholesterolemia (TC >240) [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- Median change in limb fat from baseline, by DEXA scan [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- Changes from baseline in insulin resistance measured by homeostasis model assessment (HOMA-IR) [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
|Study Start Date:
|January 2009
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|October 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Group A
Will receive Raltegravir (400mg twice daily) + Ritonavir-boosted (100mg once daily) Darunavir (800mg once daily)
Drug: Raltegravir
400mg P.O. (orally) twice daily for 48 weeks
Other Name: IsentrisDrug: Darunavir
800 mg P.O. (orally) once daily
Other Name: PrezistaDrug: Ritonavir
100mg once daily
Other Name: Norvir
Active Comparator: Group B
Will receive Tenofovir (300mg once daily) + Emtricitabine (200mg once daily) + Ritonavir-boosted (100mg once daily) Darunavir (800mg once daily)
Drug: Darunavir
800 mg P.O. (orally) once daily
Other Name: PrezistaDrug: Ritonavir
100mg once daily
Other Name: NorvirDrug: Tenofovir/Emtricitabine
300 mg/200 mg P.O. (orally) once daily
Other Name: Truvada
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria
- The patient has documented HIV-1 infection.
- The patient is at least 18 years of age.
- Antiretroviral naive, defined as 7 days or less of ARV treatment at any time prior to study entry. HIV viral load greater than 5,000 copies/ml within 90 days of study entry
- Willing to use acceptable forms of contraception
- Parent or guardian willing to provide informed consent, if applicable
- Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) negative at study entry
Exclusion Criteria
- Patient is current participant in a Raltegravir trial or in trials involving any of the other study medications (Darunavir, Tenofovir or Emtricitabine).
- Immunomodulators (e.g., interleukins, interferons, cyclosporine), HIV vaccine, systemic cytotoxic chemotherapy, or investigational therapy within 30 days prior to study entry. Individuals receiving either stable physiologic glucocorticoid doses, corticosteroids for acute therapy for pneumocystis pneumonia, or a short course (2 weeks or less) of pharmacologic glucocorticoid therapy will not be excluded.
- Known allergy/sensitivity to study drugs or their formulations
- Patient has a condition (including but not limited to active alcohol or drug use) that, in the opinion of the investigator, may interfere with patient adherence or safety
- Patient with acute hepatitis due to any cause or clinically significant chronic liver disease including but not limited to cirrhosis, ascites, encephalopathy, hypoalbuminemia, prolonged PT/PTT and/or esophageal varices.
- Patient has severe renal insufficiency defined as a calculated creatinine clearance at time of screening <30 mL/min, base on Cockcroft/Gault equation which is as follows (and 0.85 X this value for females):
- CrCl (mL/min) = [(140-Age) x Weight (in Kg)]/72 x Serum Creatinine (mg/mL)
- Serious illness requiring systemic treatment or hospitalization. Patients who have completed therapy or are clinically stable on therapy for at least 7 days prior to study entry are not excluded.
- Known clinically relevant cardiac conduction system disease
- Patient requires or is anticipated to require any of the prohibited medications noted in the protocol
- Current imprisonment or involuntary incarceration for psychiatric or physical (e.g., infectious disease) illness
- Pregnancy and Breastfeeding. Women who become pregnant during the study will be required to permanently discontinue their study regimens.
Contacts and Locations
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To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00677300
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00677300
|United States, Texas
|Dallas VA Medical Center
|Dallas, Texas, United States, 75216
|Parkland Health & Hospital System
|Dallas, Texas, United States, 75390
Sponsors and Collaborators
Dallas VA Medical Center
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
Tibotec Pharmaceutical Limited
|Principal Investigator:
|Roger Bedimo, M.D.
|Dallas VA Medical Center
More Information
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Keywords provided by Roger Bedimo, M.D., Dallas VA Medical Center:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Bedimo RJ, Drechsler H, Jain M, Cutrell J, Zhang S, Li X, Farukhi I, Castanon R, Tebas P, Maalouf NM. The RADAR study: week 48 safety and efficacy of RAltegravir combined with boosted DARunavir compared to tenofovir/emtricitabine combined with boosted darunavir in antiretroviral-naive patients. Impact on bone health. PLoS One. 2014 Aug 29;9(8):e106221. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106221. eCollection 2014.
|Responsible Party:
|Roger Bedimo, M.D., ID Section Chief, Dallas VA Medical Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00677300 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
Merck 072-00
|First Submitted:
|May 8, 2008
|First Posted:
|May 14, 2008
|Last Update Posted:
|September 8, 2014
|Last Verified:
|September 2014
Keywords provided by Roger Bedimo, M.D., Dallas VA Medical Center:
Treatment Naive
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Raltegravir Potassium
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
HIV Integrase Inhibitors
Integrase Inhibitors


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The first four articles in this series discussed the importance of the initial casting of the IP litigation team and the first steps in laying the groundwork to ensure that ongoing litigation expenses are controllable and predictable. This article provides some ideas for trial that can significantly reduce litigation costs.
Fewer days spent at trial means a significant reduction in attorney hours both during trial and in preparation for it. Accordingly, the most fundamental rule for saving money at trial is to shorten the trial itself. The judge and jury also will appreciate the respect of their time.
Attorneys frequently make the mistake of wanting to present every possible claim, witness and remotely relevant piece of evidence. The first step in shortening the trial is to critically assess the necessity of these elements.
Begin with a simple theme
As many trial attorneys will advise, the most effective trials are those with a clear, concise theme. Prior to trial preparation, counsel should already have a clear idea of their trial theme and begin thinking about what evidence and witnesses fit best within the theme. Keeping this theme in mind should assist in streamlining the presentation of facts and witnesses. Some common themes for intellectual property cases include "David v. Goliath" and "Thou Shalt not Steal," although many other simple themes may also work well.
Drop weak claims and defenses
Every claim and defense requires the presentation of evidence and witnesses. By minimizing the number of claims or defenses, the quantity of proof is limited and costs therefore decrease. Moreover, the existence of weak arguments could dilute the strongest argument in the eyes of the jury.
Seek bifurcation where appropriate
As fully explored in the third article in this series, bifurcation allows for the separation of the issues of liability and damages. By Fed.R.Civ.P. 42(b), courts may order such bifurcation in cases when it is "in furtherance of convenience or to avoid prejudice, or when separate trials will be conducive to expedition and economy." Damages evidence in intellectual property cases typically involves experts, numerous documents, and lots of visual aids. By eliminating testimony relating to damages, counsel should be able not only to cut several days off of a trial, but also to tack on savings relating to expert witnesses, demonstratives and attorney preparation time.
Work with opposing counsel
In the weeks prior to trial and throughout the trial itself, petty disagreements can significantly increase costs. On the other hand, if common ground can be reached, it can save the parties tremendous expense. For example, use the pretrial conference and order to find as much uncontested ground as possible. Having both parties stipulate to basic information not only will save time and money, but also will provide a clearer record on appeal. The pretrial conference is also a good time to work with opposing counsel to stipulate to the admissibility of documents, and preferably, to create a joint exhibit list that can be referenced without further thought during trial.
Drop unnecessary witnesses
Counsel should critically examine each potential witness and make lists of exactly what that witness will need to say. Counsel should absolutely avoid the urge to have multiple witnesses testify to the same facts just to emphasize a particular point. Avoiding redundant witnesses can save days of trial time, and nearly all trial experts and judges agree that juries are bored, if not outright insulted, by repetitive testimony.
In the case of corporate witnesses, there is a developing body of law that would allow for corporate representatives to testify at trial under certain circumstances, in the manner of a Fed.R.Civ.P. 30(b)(6) deponent. In those instances, look for topics where a single witness might be properly informed such that she could testify as to broader topics than her personal knowledge would dictate. For example, a company's Director of Sales might be able to competently testify regarding discrete marketing topics as well.
Give the jury credit
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Oliver "Ollie" Wendell Westby, Cedarburg, WI/formerly Janesville, WI (1917-2013)
April 22, 1917 - December 10, 2013
Oliver "Ollie" Wendell Westby died of natural causes on Dec. 10, 2013, at age 96. Ollie was born in the Town of Turtle, Rock County, WI, on April 22, 1917, to James W. and Caroline Westby. He was one of seven children, two girls and five boys. He graduated from Janesville High School in 1936, and attended the University of Wisconsin Extension and Milton College. He married Elizabeth (Betty) Mattson of Janesville, in 1940. Ollie served in the U.S. Air Force as a flight instructor and member of the Ferry Command, delivering airplanes in World War II. He graduated from Randolf Field, San Antonio, TX, and was commissioned as a flight officer. He served in China, Burma, and India. Besides his family, Ollie considered his service in the Air Force his greatest pride. When he returned from service, he was a salesman for Chamber and Owen in Janesville, WI, for 20 years. He, then, became a successful American Family Insurance agent in Janesville, for 20 years. He retired to his vacation home in Boulder Junction, WI, in 1984. He lived his last three years at Lasata Heights in Cedarburg, WI. Ollie enjoyed gardening, fishing, golfing, card-playing, and telling "Air Force" stories. Most of all he was a devoted husband, father, and grandfather. His positive attitude and joy for life was an inspiration for all who knew him.
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Theories - Origin of Life
Discussion of everything related to the Theory of Evolution.
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The thing that many seem to forget about the origens of life on earth is that it happened without any competition. It's not like these molecular oddities had to get started on the current earth. They just had to be able to get the replication/variation/selection cycle started.
DNA doesn't have to spontaneously generate. RNA seems to be able to start the process of evolution all by itself. Obviously not well by modern standards, but when there's no competition, no enzymes (RNAases) nothing to get in the way, it's not hard to imagine that those early RNAs mutated to assemble protiens to protect them, DNA to more stabily store RNA templates and cells to concentrate nutrients.
If you break it down into baby steps it becomes almost inevitable that life happened.
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I have a new theory for the Origin of Life on the earth. Life has originated from primordial membranes that have formed from hydrocarbon chains in the earth's crust about 3.7 billion years ago. These membranes developed electrical potentials resulting in the evolution of consciousness. The erosion of the hydrocarbons by the membrane potentials led to the development of various other organic molecules.
I have propounded a hypothesis with an adequte scientific ground. I have written a book titled "The Role of Cell Membrane in the Origin of Life and in Cell Biology". If you are interested you may discuss it in full detail with me.
Dr Krishnagopal
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
The processes you describe sound like excellent candidates for recreation in the lab. Do you have any simulations in the works? Repeatable evidence is the difference between "science" and "making stuff up".
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I thought When Earth was a molten surface. It was Bombarded with space objects that carried the first round of life-bearing substance and imbued the planet with its own sense of identity. Before the earth experiment began and the turning of the hardened planet surface into habitable by electrically shocking the core with a laser, and spray an oxygen shell around atmosphere with plasma ballon inflation. Then people arrived... How come there is no consensus??
Have any of you thought about the fact that the model of Evolution, is totally destroyed by the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which says that in all energy exchanges, if no energy enters or leaves the system, the potential energy of the state will always be less than that of the initial state.
"The scientific establishment bears a grisly resemblance to the Spanish Inquisition"-D. Gould
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OK I'm going to try to explain the second law of thermodynamics without resorting to math.
The basic idea is that things that are ordered will tend to become disordered. Think of a carefully stacked pyramid of cannon balls. Anything you do to the cannon balls will tend to result in thier no longer being piled up neatly in a pyramid. In fact no matter how much you randomly fiddle with them the chances of them ever being neatly piled in a pyramid again are infinitessimal.
Notice I said randomly. If, however, you decide you want them to be in a neat pyramidal pile and start restacking them you do not violate the second law (obviously it's possible I've seen it done) when you succeed in stacking them. If you only fixate on the pile of cannon balls it appears that the order has increased. The universe, and the laws of thermodynamics,take a more wholistic view. Into the entropy equation go many other things besides the cannon balls small increase in order. There is the energy used by the person doing the stacking (Millions? of molecules of chemicals converted to more random forms, Lots of just plain heat given off by doing Work that cause the molecules in the area to move faster, get farther appart and be less ordered.)
Things can become more ordered locally if the process also makes even more disorder happen elsewhere. Life and evolution are increadably good at this.
You said that it appears as if the pyramid, has become more complex, as in an optical illusion, because the really haven't become more complex, just reorganized, right?
Does that mean that you are saying that evolution just reorganized the cells in animals, so they haven't evolved, they were just reorganized?
"The scientific establishment bears a grisly resemblance to the Spanish Inquisition"-D. Gould
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My explanation was about the 2nd law, not evolution. I said the stacked balls had more order, not complexity. They are not synonymous. You need to understand these concepts without the bias of trying to prove or disprove anything. If you feel you must disprove evolution all you have do do is come up with another theory that explains how life works and is consistent with all the evidence collected by humanity.
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Many would argue that creationism isn't even a theory. I think this is wrong. Creationism is a theory and it's easily stated. God did it. Being scientists we like to check the details though. How, where, why and when did god do it? To be a good beleivable theory you must have good (prefferably logical and obvious) aswers to these questions . Let me also add that evidence can't be strictly heresay. Because Moses said so doesn't cut it.
You must also explain my favorite problem with creationism. Why is your intelligent designer so bad at designing? A couple quick examples, The lower back (lumbar vertibrae) , Why do the paths of air being breathed and food being swallowed cross each other? (serious chocking hazard). Why give the gift of flight to birds and not us? Why give a much more efficient repiratory system to birds and not us? Maybe God likes birds better. Ask any doctor for further examples of poor design.
Creationism is a theory, just a bad one that was abandonned in the 19th century for good reasons.
Believe whatever you want but if you choose to believe something stupid I reserve the right to dispute you and laugh at you if it's really dumb.
Also although you may think that Creation has been abandoned, there are thousands of people, that would disgree with you there.
I have said this many times, and I will say it again, if you go back to the very beginning of either viewpoint, you come up with an eternal Intelligent Creator (God) or eternal matter. Evolution takes more faith to beieve in, than Creation.
Also why is it that most people on this website, answer my comments with insults. Sure, I can see that none of you like what I am saying, but throwing insults rather than providing evidence, makes you sound very unintelligent, and not professional at all.
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Once upon a time, not so very long ago, cookies were a tasty treat, tracking was something hunters did in the woods, browsing meant taking a stroll through the mall, the preferred family mobile device was the station wagon, and the only threat from a cloud was a thunderstorm.
In that pre-digital age, Congress wrote most of America's federal privacy laws. Their authors could not envision technology that would allow both commercial interests and law enforcement authorities to pinpoint a person's location with geo-tracking and profile his lifestyle, financial status and health by tracking his online activities. Nor did they imagine the threat sophisticated hackers could pose to personal financial and medical information as well as corporate intellectual property and trade secrets, whether stored on a laptop, mobile device, corporate server or in the cloud.
In a May 2012 speech to D.C. Superior Court judges, Erica Newland, senior policy analyst at the Center for Democracy & Technology, argued that antiquated privacy laws leave the nation poorly equipped to preserve any measure of privacy in an age of digital ubiquity where the technology to collect data surrounds everyone and data has become a valuable commodity. "Technology and policy both play powerful roles in framing what is possible and how we live our lives, and … changes in technology must be accompanied by changes to policy," she said.
Her speech echoed calls by the Obama administration in its Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, issued early in 2012. But the appeals of both consumer privacy advocates and the administration to a bitterly divided Congress have gone unheeded. In the meantime, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is employing its authority to regulate deceptive and unfair practices to go after companies that impinge on consumer privacy.
On the following pages, InsideCounsel reviews the status of federal policy and enforcement regarding some of the key issues in consumer privacy.
Congressional Stalemate
Many Washington observers doubt there will be any substantive action from the current Congress on consumer privacy.
"I'm pessimistic," says William Baker, of counsel at Wiley Rein. "Congress has been facing these issues for more than a decade, and the issues simply get more complicated when you start introducing subjects that were not even being discussed five years ago, such as mobile applications, location tracking, Big Data and cloud computing."
Littler Mendelson Shareholder Philip Gordon is another pessimist. "There may be legislation around the edges [such as amendments to update the 1986 Stored Communications Act]," he says. "But I am skeptical because there are bigger issues on the legislative agenda and continuing concerns coming out of the recession about the economic impact of regulation."
Gordon also notes that the Obama administration is promoting a self-regulatory approach to privacy protection that could proceed without new legislation. For example, the FTC and the Department of Commerce are sponsoring multistakeholder meetings to develop a voluntary code of conduct for the mobile app industry, a process Baker says has taken longer than anyone expected with the outcome still uncertain at press time.
Baker says although there is a lot of interest in consumer privacy on Capitol Hill, rifts between and within the parties stand in the way of Congressional action.
"Democrats are more interested than Republicans, who tend to want to take a hands-off approach and see what develops," he says. "But even within the parties, there can be differences in approach." For example, he points to a split in the Democrat-controlled Senate over whether to approach the issue as a regulatory matter, vesting the FTC with more authority to regulate privacy issues, or as a criminal matter, giving the responsibility to law enforcement officials.
"It's a challenge getting to a consensus approach," Baker says. "Do you leave it to the FTC, or set a law and have it enforced on a criminal basis? That's a tough decision to make. And once you decide on approach, there can be lots of disagreements on the details—which practices you want to permit and which you want to regulate in some way."
For example, law enforcement groups oppose efforts to ban or restrict location tracking, which can be a valuable asset in finding criminals but impinges on the privacy of law-abiding citizens. "Congress has to consider what access to allow to law enforcement, and that is not an easy decision to make," Baker says.
Baker predicts Congress will hold hearings in 2013 on location tracking, Big Data and children's privacy and conduct oversight hearings on the FTC's consumer privacy activity, but no bills will pass. "There will be legislation introduced, and some will pass committee, but it's difficult to go further than that," he says.
Hogan Lovells Partner Christopher Wolf is more optimistic. He likens the status of privacy legislation to environmental legislation, which finally passed in the form of the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act in the early 1970s after more than a decade of discussion. After a similar period of debate, Wolf thinks the time may have come for a comprehensive privacy bill, such as the administration's Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, which would cover all personal data, extending federal regulation far beyond the medical, financial and children's data privacy protections now in effect. It would require notice and consent for accessing personal data and disclosure on how it would be used. And it would provide a safe harbor for companies that sign onto voluntary codes of conduct, such as the one the multistakeholder meetings on mobile apps is addressing.
"The drumbeats are getting louder," Wolf says. "Eventually we will see comprehensive privacy legislation."
Re-energized FTC
In the meantime, the FTC is using its power to regulate deceptive and unfair trade practices to go after companies it believes are unduly infringing on consumer privacy rights. The agency is also finding new ways to apply old laws to current practices.
"In the past two to three years, the FTC has been completely re-energized—it is as if they put in new batteries," says Michelle Cohen, a member at Ifrah Law. "In the absence of federal legislation, they have taken the lead on ensuring there is some privacy regulation, using their existing authority under Section 5 [of the FTC Act]. In some cases, they have reached back to 1970s laws such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and applied them to situations where people used data in ways they deemed inappropriate. These somewhat sleepy statutes are being used in creative ways."
A December 2012 FTC settlement with an online advertising company demonstrates how the agency is using its Section 5 power to extend its authority to one of the hottest privacy issues, online data tracking.
The FTC said in a press release that Epic Marketplace Inc. used "history sniffing" to secretly gather data from millions of consumers about their interest in sensitive medical and financial issues. Consumers who visited any of the 45,000 sites in the Epic network received a cookie, which stored information about the sites they visited and the ads they viewed. The cookies allowed Epic to "sniff" browsers to determine users' online practices and then send them ads targeted to their interests, a practice known as online behavioral advertising.
According to the FTC complaint, Epic assigned each consumer an interest segment based on the sites visited, including "Incontinence," "Arthritis," "Memory Improvement" and "Pregnancy-Fertility-Getting Pregnant."
Although no law prohibits this kind of online information gathering, the FTC said Epic's privacy policy was deceptive because it stated the company only collected information about visits to its site and its network, when in fact it collected data from thousands of sites. This approach is similar to an FTC "truth in advertising" enforcement action, says Charles Gardner, special counsel at Much Shelist, in that it alleges information offered to the consumer is false or misleading.
"What is interesting about Epic is that they were collecting very, very personal information," Gardner says. "According to the FTC, the sites included sites on infertility, incontinence, impotence and menopause. If you were visiting your doctor, this kind of information would be protected. Tracking really puts your information out there in a way that allows the tracker to paint a picture of your life."
The industry is aware that consumer concern over such intrusions is growing. A voluntary effort by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to develop a unified voluntary approach to Do-Not-Track browsing will resume this year with new leadership. The goal is a global standard for a computer browser setting that would allow Internet users to signal websites, advertising networks and data brokers that they do not want their browsing activities tracked for marketing purposes. The 2012 talks reportedly were acrimonious, but some think the newly appointed co-chairman, Peter Swire, an Ohio State University law professor who served as a privacy adviser to the Clinton administration, can get them back on track.
"If anyone can do it, Peter can do it," Wolf says. "He's a real diplomat and terribly knowledgeable."
Data Broker Inquiry
In another hot privacy arena, the FTC announced in December 2012 an inquiry into the practices of nine data brokers—companies that collect and resell consumer data—and issued administrative subpoenas seeking information on how the companies collect, store, analyze and share data.
"There is concern among members of Congress and the FTC about data brokers because major portions of their business are not regulated under current law," Baker says. "They have been around a long time, but now we have computers with more capacity, more sophisticated data analytics and more data. It's the sheer mass of data that is pressing the issue now."
Baker says the main concern of both regulators and legislators is that consumers don't realize their data is being collected online and sold, and they have no control over it.
"This is a coming issue and one inside counsel should watch and think about how regulation could affect their business if they are customers of these folks, either as contributors of data or consumers of it," he says.
Prior to launching the inquiry, the FTC used the FCRA to bring charges against data broker Spokeo in a case settled for $800,000 in June 2012. The FTC charged that consumer profiles compiled from online sources Spokeo sold to human resources departments and recruiters to use in employment screening were consumer reports covered by the FCRA. That law requires the seller of consumer reports to verify the purchaser has a permissible purpose for seeking them, follow procedures to assure maximum possible accuracy, and inform purchasers of their obligation to tell consumers if they take an adverse action based on information in the report. According to the FTC, Spokeo failed on all three counts.
More enforcement actions against data brokers are expected.
"As the collection of huge amounts of consumer information continues to increase, along with the proliferation of data brokers, expect to see the FTC taking action against these organizations, using the full panoply of laws and regulations at its disposal," Cohen says. "They don't necessarily seek to restrict all of that activity. They know there are good and proper uses of data collection. It comes down to [the consumer] understanding what is being collected, who it is going to and what you are consenting to."


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Robert W. Wyss, Janesville, WI, (1941-2014)
October 12, 1941 - March 7, 2014
Robert W. Wyss, 72, of Janesville, passed away Friday, March 7, 2014, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg, WI, following a brief but courageous battle with cancer. Robert was born in Janesville, on Oct. 12, 1941, the son of Walter and Elizabeth (McLean) Wyss. He married Glendeane "Pat" Laws on June 22, 1963. She preceded him in death on Jan. 5, 2003. Robert was employed by Janesville Products for 32 years prior to retiring. He was a former member of Moose Lodge # 197. Robert's enjoyed playing slot machines, bowling and watching stock car racing.
Surviving are five children: Robby Wyss of Beloit, Brian (Kari) Wyss of Janesville, Bradley Wyss of Janesville, Michelle (Robert) Wittemeyer of South Beloit, IL, Melanie (Ron) Wobig of Janesville; 10 grandchildren: Ashley (Mike), Anthony, Caleb, Danielle, Taylor, Nathan, Nolan, Addisyn, Savannah and Ayla; sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law: Patti Wyss, Richard Laws, Becky (Chuck) Hayes, Denny Laws, Rollie Laws and Sherrie (Stan) Rulestad. In addition to his wife and parents, Robert was presided in death by his brother, Richard Wyss.
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5 best proofs of evolution
Discussion of everything related to the Theory of Evolution.
Moderator: BioTeam
Jonl you are a bit confused:
- The big bang theory and the theory of evolution are not related.
- Order can arise from disorder, it happens all the time, it just requires energy. Buy a jigsaw puzzle and solve it and you just demonstrated that it can happen. Your lack of understanding of entropy is demonstration of your ignorance, not a problem with the theory of evolution.
- Yes, biologist do not have a perfect (not even close admittedly) idea of how, where and when life came from, but that is not problem in terms of evolution since:
*The theory of Evolution deals with how life adapts and change over time, and
*It does not deal with how life appears in the first place
*Hence it works also in computer simulation, and would probably be useful to understand non terrestrial life forms that have appeared and evolved independently
-The theory of evolution and all science that annoys creationist is accepted because it allows us (scientists) to make predictions and model how our world work which are grounded in facts, not myth or fictions. And it works. Religions have little (or more accurately, no) practical value.
-The fact that lawmakers panders to the stupid and uninformed and jeopardize public health making ad hoc regulations to satisfy their electors is not a scientific proof of anything. Except maybe of the trust we can put in our elected officials to put the common good before their particular interests.
-The plural of anecdote is not data. If you want to convince anyone that this diet has any value, you better provide some better proof.
-Archeological evidence are proving that the Earth is older than 6000 years old, why would you rely on them when it is confirming your fantasies and not the part were it shows that they are just that, fantasies? And they show that 6000 years ago, the life expectancy was probably not that great, and certainly not up to Bible standard (multiple of hundreds years).
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without
any proof. (Ashley Montague)
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okay, I agree I was wrong about the big bang being connected to evolution, but I do not agree with the statement that archaeology disproves the Bible.
The book of Daniel in the Bible speaks of many events, which include the battles of Antiochus Epiphanes, which happened after the time the Book of Daniel was written, that is to say the 6th century B.C. Therefore skeptics claim that it was written in the 1st century B.C., after the events it foretells, and that it was faked to have been that old, but there is one important fact that made the Book of Daniel stand out, it claimed that Belshazzar was the last Babylonian king. The historians of the 1st century and before, until recently had always claimed that Nabonidus was the last Babylonian king, and therefore they all agreed that the Book of Daniel was false. This all changed in 1854, when the Nabonidus Cylinder, and The Nabonidus Chronicle were found. The Nabonidus Cylinder, records a prayer from Nabonidus for his son Belshazzar, the Nabonidus Chronicle states that Nabonidus was in Tema with his army, while his son, Belshazzar, stayed in Babylonia as co-regent. The Book of Daniel also states that Belshazzar rewarded Daniel for a favor, by naming him 3rd in the kingdom, why name him 3rd, why not second?
Could it be because Belshazzar himself, was 2nd in the kingdom, since his father was gone? Here is a link on the subject, http://chriswatsonlee.wordpress.com/200 ... chronicle/.
There is also the story of Sennacherib, in which he came to take the city of Jerusalem. To take the city of Jerusalem, he had to also take the city of Lachish, which was nearby. There is a hexagonal prism named Sennacherib's prism, because it tells of him and his conquests, this prism tells of the siege of Lachish, but says nothing of the siege of Jerusalem, in fact it tells of Sennacherib going home after the siege of Lachish. There is even an archaeological find in the British Museum, of tons of stone panels from the South-west Palace of Sennacherib, that all depict the siege of Lachish, in great detail, and even what he did to the prisoners afterwards, but they found nothing of the siege of Jerusalem, which was his main target. What happened, why does he say nothing of the siege of Jerusalem, why do the records say he went home and never invaded Israel again? The Bible says that Sennacherib camped around Jerusalem, and in one night his whole army was destroyed by the Angel of the Lord. Since Sennacherib says nothing of this, skeptics claim that the Bible is false, but if you had just had your whole army destroyed in one night, and you think that you are the mightiest king ever,
( check what his prism says at http://www.bible-history.com/empires/prism.html)
would you put it down in the history books to be laughed at? Most people would not, they would do exactly what Sennacherib did, go home have them write down stories of the battles you did win, and blot the night that your whole army was destroyed from the history books. These stories were in the Bible before any archaeological evidence had ever surfaced. These are just two examples, but I don't have time to write down all of the archaeological finds corroborating the Bible.
Thanks for reading this, and God Bless
"The scientific establishment bears a grisly resemblance to the Spanish Inquisition"-D. Gould
You should read more carefully. I did not say that the archaeological evidences are disproving the Bible. That would be stupid and factually wrong.
But archaelogy and paleontology and geology all demonstrate clearly that if the historical framework is correct for the near past, the deep past (creation myth, the flood...) are at best poor memories of historical event (a big local flood vs a world wide event) or complete myth (the 2 accounts of creation).
What I am saying is that you are Cherry-picking facts that fit your world view, but reject the ones that do not, like an billions year old earth, fossils dating etc.
If evolution is taught in school in science class that is because it has been proved to be useful to understand the biological world again and again. The details are still not all clear, but the basic tenet explained by Darwin and Wallace, plus more than hundred year of biological sciences have clearly demonstrated that the theory of evolution is the best model to explain life as we know it and how it came to spread on our planet (lacking data on other planets). While creationism is just repeating a myth found in an old book without any proof.
As an aside, since you are obviously a christian, would you have any proof that your particular myth of creation is any more relevant, factual and real than any of the hundreds of other creation myth proposed by other religions? That the christian bible is more the true word of god than the Qur'an or the popol vuh?
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without
any proof. (Ashley Montague)
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The "facts" that you say that I am rejecting, have been disputed over and over, and that is why they have never been confirmed, because there is no proof to back them up. First of all I would have to say that the Jewish faith has been around longer than any other viewpoint or religion still standing today. I also want to say that the Jewish faith has the most split off religions(Christianity, Roman Catholicism etc..). The only difference between the Jewish faith, and Christianity, is that Christianity acknowledges Jesus Christ as the Messiah. also the Bible has the most detailed history of any other religion, and as I said had proof of historical figures, that even 1st century B.C. historians, had not heard of. The Bible also foretold events in detail before they happened. As to Christianity being a myth in an old book, it was a very active myth for at least 2-3000 yrs.
As a side note, the comment about the jigsaw puzzle earlier, doesn't fit, because it came from order, and you use order to put it together. To answer your other comment too Christianity, is not just a religion, it is based on history and science, because the Creator of the world is the Deity not some statue.
Also Jesus Christ is still living and working in the lives of people, and no other religion can claim that of the of the men who started their religions. God was alive before He formed the World and He is still alive today and loves you and I more than we can imagine! True peace and satisfaction can only be found in Him and His unconditional love! All you have to do to receive it is believe on Him for salvation! I will pray that the Lord will work in your heart and show you personally his truth. May God bless you!
"The scientific establishment bears a grisly resemblance to the Spanish Inquisition"-D. Gould
First of all, I have shown many proofs for creation, by science, but if you want more then I will post more. Second buddhism, was founded in 460 B.C. by Siddhartha Gautama, the Jewish faith started way before that, the book of Daniel was written in 6th century B.C., and the Jewish faith had been around way before that. I will give you this link on the Fibonacci numbers, so you can read about it for yourselves, http://christiannature.blogspot.com/200 ... rough.html
If you want scientific proof, think about the second law of thermodynamics, if you read anything I say read this, http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/ ... amics.html
P.S. I also should have specified the Jewish faith, instead of Christianity, because ultimately Christianity goes back to the Jewish faith, although as I said earlier the only difference, is that most people of the Jewish faith do not believe that Jesus was the Messiah.
"The scientific establishment bears a grisly resemblance to the Spanish Inquisition"-D. Gould
I fail to find them in this thread, and I have not seen them in any other. Would you care to summarize?
And so what. The Judeo christian tradition is old. So are the sumerian, greek and roman pantheon. And animism. Do that make them more true? Less true? How do you objectively measure that the "trueness" of one creation myth compared to another?
By the way the greek philosophy is still alive and kicking and discussed and fundamental to many important and current problems, such as ethics.
It does not prove anything. There is a lot of affirmation and very little data. But since I have no reason to believe that the author is a liar, I will assume that his staistics about the golden ratio are true (although it might not be, and they have at least some references) , I still do not see how that prove anything. The numbers from the golden ratio might be everywhere how is that a proof of intelligence? Or just confirmation bias and our brain finding patterns where there are not (a common occurence)?
Oh a beginning of an explanation, and some science. It is a bit sad though that they are not really good at science. The fatal blow according to them is that:
But the thing is that in fact it would if the plant was not in a dynamic state. When the energy flow is stopped, the plant start to degrade, or rather stop fixing the permanent degradative mechanisms. And if you wait too long it won't restart because it is already too damaged too. In this respect it is very similar to a nuclear reactor: if you cut all source of power for too long, you will need more than just flipping back the switch to restart the plant, because the decay and its effect will have not stop. We have a timely demonstration unforlding in Japan. But if you can prevent those degradations, or slow them enough, then the flow of energy can be stopped for a long while without ill effects. Seeds, spores and a few other similar thing are doing exactly that. And when you provide them with energy and water, they restart.
So what makes life possible is a continuous supply of energy that allow it to locally decrease entropy, at the cost of the general increase of it in the universe. I suggest that you read and understand physics before using it. And not just the pop-culture "entropy=disorder" part.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without
any proof. (Ashley Montague)
Re: 5 best proofs of evolution
This is more history than science and not very relevant to the discussion of evolution, would you say?
And as I have said the historicity of the bible is probably okayish (with the usual caveat about only one side of the story for things like battle and the size and number of horses of the king). But that does not prove that it was inspired by god, just that it was written by people who lived at that time and described the world as they understood it.
Once again what you are proving is that the story has been carried through the generation quite well. Religious veneration of the text would have helped. But I does not prove the hand of god anywhere. Other older creation myth have been recorded, like the sumerian story, which are at least as old, and they have some similarity. But the gods are not one of them. Why one would be more accurate than the other objectively? Popularity and longevity are proof of popularity and longevity, and of nothing else.
The puzzle example is just a metaphor. A shallow one I will admit, and obviously a failed one as you completely missed my point. Just trying to say that if you put the energy in something you can organize it. Order can be created, but it has a cost: increased entropy in the system (the universe in this case) because to assemble it you need someone who is burning energy to saty alive and to power neurons to recognize and assemble patterns in order. This is exactly what happens at an infinitesimal level in all living organisms. molecules are organizing and are assembling things that are more complex than themselves, and all they need is a supply of material and energy. This si only possible because energy is used in the system, with loss at many stage as heat.
And I am at a loss to see where christianity is based on science. It is based on a collection of text, thousand of year of interpretations, and very little else. (In this case history being the record of the activity of human is not relevant to the scientific basis of religion it does not prove anything, it just record.)
Well the buddhist are convinced that the Dalai lama has always been the same person periodically changing body through reincarnation. That is even better than Jesus living through other.
As for "Jesus living and working in the lives" would you care to prove how that is substantially different that if I was wacking you on the head in the name of Ughhh the prophet of the Neanderthal. People have been raised in the christian faith and analyse their actions using that particular point of view. OK, but essentially subjective. If I have been raised being told that doing good things is letting Jesus into my life, I would say that Jesus is in my life when I am doing what I believe is good. But that is just proof of your education, not that an external force acted through you.
My point being there are no external, objective proof of the action of god. This would be cool, and I might start to believe in God if there was anything new on that chapter. But I do not expect to sse my worldview changed in the near future.
And to finish. Would you finally provide anything factual that might support the contention that there is any kind of scientific support to creation. Not solely saying that evolution is wrong, but also the beginning of an inkling of a clue that facts are proving that the earth is ca. 6000 y.o. and that there was nothing, then something. Old stories and article of faith are not considered objects.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without
any proof. (Ashley Montague)
Re: 5 best proofs of evolution
Quantum Mechanics Of Life
Life's Evolution Is The Quantum Mechanics Of Biology
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2SF3CJJM5OU6T27 ... index&bb=0
From "Essence Of Quantum Mechanics"
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2SF3CJJM5OU6T27 ... ategorized
The universe, and life within it, are not just conglomerations of mechanisms. The universe, and life within it, have come into being by the nature of energy-mass dualism, and their fate, their final outcome, is governed by this dualism. The genesis and, most probable cyclic, existence of the universe are governed by the energy-mass relationship.
Energy-mass relationship governs also the routes, the mechanisms, of cosmic and life evolutions.
Mechanisms do not set/determine the classical physics fate states. Mechanisms are routes of evolution between classical physics fate states. Quantum mechanics are mechanisms, probable, possible and actual mechanisms of getting from one to other classical physics states WITHIN the expanse from cosmic singularity to the maximum expanded universe and back to singularity states.
The universe is the archetype of quantum within classical physics. This is the fractal oneness of the universe. Astronomically there are two physics. A classical Newtonian physics behaviour of and between galactic clusters, and a quantum physics behaviour WITHIN the galactic clusters.
Life's Evolution Is The Quantum Mechanics Of Biology.
UNRAVEL COMPLEXITIES OF GENETICS. Extend Evolution/Natural Selection Backward To Genes/Genomes, BOTH ARE ORGANISMS.
The origin-reason and the purpose-fate of life are mechanistic, ethically and practically valueless. Life is the cheapest commodity on Earth.
It is up to humans themselves to elect the purpose and format of their life as individuals and as group-members.
Dov Henis
(Comments From 22nd Century)
"Rethink Evolution/Natural Selection"
http://darwiniana.com/2011/03/26/in-evo ... nt-page-1/
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Re: 5 best proofs of evolution
I thought i 'd jump in here an just add something intersting to the debate.
Now, I personally dont know how old the earth is, but , if i had to make a decision I would say alot longer then 6,000 years..
but what I find intersting is that, and I havent heard this debated yet, the apparently constant decay rate of isotopes is actaully not constant at all, that was an assumption that has now been seemingly proven wrong..
It seems the rate of decay is affected and changes cyclicly with the suns rotation and with the seasons...
check out these links and tell me what you think, does this put a question mark over all dates we have ascertained?
http://news.discovery.com/space/is-the- ... ticle.html
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/augu ... 82310.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 093253.htm
Intersting eh?
I personally feel that those who believe in a literal creation are completely missing the allegory, science, and philosophy within our most ancient texts. I think they should do some real resaerch into the origins of there religion.
Not that i am convinced by evolutions mechanisms either...
but what do you guys think of this, cause for concern?
Dov you are verbose, you like big words, but you do not make sense.
Interesting. Although 2 of the links are actually the same, and sadly the 3rd one (or rather the first) do not bring much more information than the Press Release where it comes from. And following the footsteps of the numerous idiots that make a lot of science communication, the trainee that wrote this PR did not link to any primary data that would support what is presented. It is not that I suspect that this is wrong, but some of the questions that this raise are definitely not even close to be answered. The first one being, how large (or not) are those variations? We are talking about people who measure the decay of individual atoms within billions with enormous precision, and I doubt that variations are going to be massive. If they were even in the percent range I suspect that this would have already been observed and the discrepancy between the measurments noted.
Why would that be important? Simply because the confidence interval of most datation based on radioactive decay is already quite large due to other variable factor (including the exact proportion of the measured isotope at the time of formation of the experimental subject), and there is no way from what I read here to assess if that variation is going to change anything significantly or not.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without
any proof. (Ashley Montague)
To be honest i would love some primary data also, as i suspect it is true, but i also think you or anyone else cannot predict the consequences of this discovery. If its true then it should be literally on the front page of nature becuase it could be one of those major milestones in science, I personally feel this puts a question mark over our knowledge of decay rates and therefore our dating techneques.
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You know you're "addicted" to tea when ....
When you take a purse to go to a friend's house… and that purse is filled with kettle, teapot, tea, thermometer, and spoon. And nothing else.
When you have a long, involved dream about finding the perfect infuser to fit your teaware, and then you wake up and for a while can't figure out if that memory was reality or just a dream.
When you're in line at Toys R Us & the cashier talking to 2 people ahead of me says "would you like the coverage for the tea cup?", You strain your neck to see what tea cup she could possibly be talking about. Alas it was only the Fisher Price tea set for toddlers :(
When you are already about to leave the country and for the life of you could not stop swapping :P
When your worn out winter jacket needs replacement (and you live in Canada) but you feel that buying tea is more practical.
When you give your partner dirty looks when they say they feel like a coffee.
When you're often late to work because you couldn't decide which tea to have first thing in the morning (because you're no longer in the mood for the one you pre-planned the night before).
When your roommate asks you where the wine glasses are, because you've moved them to a bottom cupboard and taken over more communal cupboard space for your burgeoning tea stash.
I second the first three. lol
When having your tea and steeping equipment in a place that is NOT their "proper" place causes anxiety attacks or impedes your ability to make a decent cup.
When you lose sleep because you stay up into the wee hours of the morning designing your new tea space and figuring out how to organize your massive (yet always growing) collection.
When your pony has a hissy fit because he can smell the tea on your breath but you drank it all before you got to the barn so didn't share with him.
When you spend hours figuring out what variety of tea matches the shade of green you just painted your room so you can buy yourself some to celebrate.
When you also use figuring out the matching tea as an excuse to pretend you didn't just paint your bedroom "Appletini" and "Agave" (unintentionally too! I picked the colours before looking at their names!)
When your only motivation to get anything done is that it will kill time until your shinobi-cha steep of your favourite gyokuro is ready to sip.
When you sit in your recliner and reach down the crack on the side to look for a pen, and instead you find a tea sample. And you're not suprised.
Ha ha! Better than finding money :P
But finding money would get more tea samples.
True that :)
When you absolutely have to replace your running shoes, but as you are punching in your pin number to pay for them, you think about how much tea you could have bought for $120.
When you have to keep some of your groceries elsewhere in the house, still in their bags, because they are encroaching on your teas' space.
Ordering more Della Terra right after the first shipment came in the post.


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Death notices for Jan. 26, 2014
Audry B. Beach, 77, Orfordville, died Friday at home. Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday, at Sunset Memorial Gardens, Machesney Park, Ill. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, at the D.L. Newcomer Funeral Home, Brodhead.
Elaine R. Holliday, 87, of Janesville and Simpsonville, S.C., died Friday at Springs at Simpsonville, Simpsonville, S.C. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Cargill United Methodist Church, Janesville. Visitation will be 12:30 p.m. until the time of services Thursday at the church. Henke-Clarson Funeral Home, Janesville, is assisting the family.
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PwC, the network of member accounting firms, agreed to acquire Booz & Co. to expand its advisory business. Terms weren't disclosed.
The deal would give PwC about 3,000 added employees in 57 locations worldwide, creating a firm whose services include auditing as well as advice on risk management, deals, human resources, ethics, and information technology. Booz partners are scheduled to vote on the transaction in December, according to a statement today from the two firms.
Companies have been under pressure by regulators to employ separate auditors and consultants after the 2001 collapse of Enron Corp. The deal between PwC, overseen by Chairman Dennis Nally, and Booz, run by Chief Executive Officer Cesare Mainardi, puts the issue of independence "front and center," said former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Arthur Levitt, who pushed for rules to curb accounting firms from providing both auditing and consulting services to a client.
"We are slipping back," said Levitt, who is a member of the board of Bloomberg LP, the parent of Bloomberg News. "As the accounting profession becomes more committed to consulting, their audit activities have got to be questioned."
The accounting industry defeated the curbs proposed by Levitt, who won one concession: Auditors of public companies had to outline the potential conflict of interest by disclosing how much they earned from auditing their client and how much they were paid for consulting. Subsequently, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002 adopted much of Levitt's original proposal.
Some accounting firms "see their future in consulting rather than auditing, and that's unfortunate for America's markets," said Levitt, who is now a senior adviser to private-equity firm Carlyle Group LP.
Booz was created after Carlyle bought Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.'s government-consulting unit in 2008. Carlyle completed an initial public offering of that business, Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp., in 2010.
PwC and Booz will identify overlapping clients, review the services provided by each firm, and eliminate conflicts before the transaction is completed, said a person with direct knowledge of the matter, who requested anonymity because the information wasn't public. The deal will help PwC diversify its revenue to reinvest in its businesses, the person said.
Vote Pending
PwC will acquire Booz through a subsidiary in which the individual member firms have an equity investment, the person said.
PwC employs more than 184,000 people in 157 countries and had about $32 billion in revenue in fiscal 2013, according to its website. Its U.S. operations are based in New York. The closely held firm's competitors include KPMG LLP, Ernst & Young LLP, and Deloitte LLP.
Until the results of the Booz vote in December, "it will be business as usual, with both organizations staying fully focused on serving their stakeholders," the firms said in the statement.
Kathryn Oliver, a PwC spokeswoman, declined to comment beyond the statement, as did Margaret Kashmir, a spokeswoman for New York-based Booz.
Enron used Arthur Andersen LLP as its auditor for 16 years. The accounting firm earned more from consulting than it did from auditing Enron's books, which regulators say may have led it to ignore accounting violations.
New Code
Deloitte agreed to pay $10 million to New York state's Department of Financial Services and halt consulting services for state-regulated financial institutions for one year after officials found "misconduct, violations of law, and lack of autonomy" in Deloitte's consulting work for London-based Standard Chartered Plc, the state said in a June statement. The lender hired Deloitte in 2004 to review its anti-money laundering controls, according to the regulator.
The state regulator didn't find evidence that Deloitte concealed or was aware of any alleged violations of the law by Standard Chartered, Deloitte said in an e-mailed statement.
New York will require all consulting firms and the financial institutions that hire them to follow new conduct codes, including disclosing any past work that could create conflicts of interest, the regulator said.
The European Commission published plans in 2011 for the top four auditing companies to spin off consulting divisions and for banks and listed companies to rotate the auditors they use. The European Union proposals followed the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., which the commission said raised questions about the quality of audits.
"Mergers like this do raise a serious question: Are the auditors going to serve management, or are they going to serve the best interests of the investing public?" Lynn Turner, the former chief accountant at the SEC, said in an interview.
If the combined firm agrees not to do consulting for companies it audits, "then you eliminate the conflict," Turner said, adding that he doubts that will occur. "Do you honestly think Booz partners would turn around and vote for this deal if they gave up all of their clients that PwC audits?"


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The market for corporate borrowing through short-term IOUs contracted to the lowest level of 2013.
The seasonally adjusted amount of U.S. commercial paper fell $22.4 billion to $1.063 trillion outstanding in the week ended yesterday, the fifth straight drop, the Federal Reserve said today on its website. That's the longest stretch of declines since the period ended Oct. 24 and the least since the market touched $1.058 trillion Dec. 19.
Corporations sell commercial paper, typically maturing in 270 days or less, to fund everyday activities such as rent and salaries.
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Pfizer details bid for AstraZeneca
Drugs giant Pfizer has disclosed details of a £59 billion approach for UK rival AstraZeneca in what would be the biggest foreign takeover of a British firm.
Astra has spurned two advances from the Viagra maker since January but the American company said it remained "confident a combination is capable of being consummated", as it lifted the lid on the deal talks following a week of speculation.
Pfizer admitted it hopes to slash its tax bill as part of the deal, which would see it re-domiciled in Britain.
But Ian Read, chief executive of the Viagra maker, said there were no guarantees for manufacturing jobs staying in the country as he set out details of the approach to Astra.
Scottish-born Mr Read said it would mean one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world being based in the UK.
He also said such an offer would represent a 100 billion US dollar (£59 billion) windfall for the economy - with the proposal to Astra's shareholders comprising a significant cash sum as well as shares in the new firm.
But Pfizer said that under its proposal the new company would retain its head office in New York and be listed on Wall Street.
Mr Read said it was driven by Astra being a good fit for the company, combining to produce efficiencies and delivering earnings growth, opportunities in key drug areas and enhanced presence in developing markets.
Patients would also benefit through the companies' shared commitment to research and development in the fight against diseases such as cancer, it was claimed.
But Mr Read said that the takeover could have seen Pfizer faced with paying 38% tax on earnings from Astra compared with 21% if re-domiciled in the UK.
Chief financial officer Frank D'Amelio said: "We clearly are projecting a lower tax going forward."
Mr Read said Pfizer had "reached out" to the Government today over its proposals, which it set out for the first time in a stock exchange announcement following a week of speculation that has seen the UK firm's share price soar by a quarter.
But he said he could not make any firm commitment about keeping manufacturing in Britain or the future of the new research centre being developed by Astra in Cambridge.
However he added: "We do see the UK as an attractive place to do science and manufacturing. We do believe the UK Government has created the right incentives."
Mr Read said investment in jobs "tends to follow" such incentives.
But Pfizer first faces a major stumbling block in the shape of the AstraZeneca board, which said the initial proposal "very significantly undervalued" the company and its future prospects.
It disclosed that a proposal in January, valuing the company at £58.7 billion, representing a 30% premium to the share price at the time, had been rebuffed, and that it had again been rejected when it tried to revive discussions on Friday.
AstraZeneca admitted that after being contacted initially by Mr Read in November last year, it had agreed to meet its American suitor in New York before the initial deal was rejected.
As well as rejecting Pfizer's valuation, it said it had concerns about a deal structure containing a high proportion of shares as well as risks around re-domiciling Pfizer to the UK for tax purposes.
Astra employs more than 50,000 people around the world, including 6,700 in the UK, but numbers are being reduced as it shifts its headquarters to Cambridge, closing a research centre in Cheshire and offices in London.
The company was itself formed through the merger of Sweden's Astra and Britain's Zeneca in 1999. It is one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical firms and produces a large range of medicines including cancer and diabetes drugs.
Revenues were down 6% to 25.7 billion US dollars (£15.3 billion) last year, reflecting the loss of exclusivity on a number of drugs it had developed as patents ran out.
Pfizer employs more than 70,000 people around the world including 2,500 in the UK and 900 at its UK headquarters in Surrey.
Its revenues of 51.6 billion US dollars (£30.7 billion) for 2013 were also down 6% on the previous year. A takeover of AstraZeneca would dwarf its previous deal to buy rival Wyeth for 68 billion US dollars (£48 billion) in 2009.
Labour's shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said a takeover should be judged on whether it promoted jobs and growth, protected Britain's research and skills base and guaranteed long-tem investment needed for the UK.
He said: "We want to see Britain's research and development capabilities strengthened. This is crucial for expanding the high-skilled jobs we need to earn our way to higher living standards.
"We also want to see a long-term view taken into account when takeovers happen rather than an exclusive focus on the immediate returns for investors."
Downing Street declined to comment on the proposed deal but a spokesman for the Prime Minister said: "We will always want to work with employers and the business community to maximise prospects for jobs in the UK."


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Public record for Nov. 10, 2013
Rock County
—�BURGLARY, at 10 a.m. Friday at Dawson Field, 920 Beloit Ave., Janesville. A man reported that someone had broken into a maintenance garage, the park press box and attempted to break into a concession stand. During the burglary, someone stole a gas can, two chain saws, an air compressor, 10 urinal cakes, a lawnmower key and a lawnmower gas line. Police reported someone also sprayed a fire extinguisher all over the inside of the press box.
—�STRONG ARM ROBBERY, at 2:21 p.m. Friday at 2600 Deerfield Drive, Janesville. A Janesville man said someone hit him and took $55 from his wallet. The man was treated at a local medical clinic for a concussion.
Intoxicated driving arrests
—MARK R. KNUDSON, 44, 2608 E. Racine St., Apt. 2, Janesville, at 3 a.m. Saturday at East Memorial Drive and Harding St., Janesville after an officer saw his vehicle cross the centerline.
Green County
—SHAUN M. KELLEY, 20, Monroe, at 11:52 p.m. Friday at 7600 block of West Smock Valley Road, town of Jordan, after his vehicle went off the road, into a ditch and hit several trees. It was his second offense.
Intoxicated driving arrests
—�VICKY LYNN HAYDEN-WEST, 35 Monroe, at 11:11 a.m. Friday in Freeport, Ill., on a charge of fleeing and eluding police. Hayden-West fled Green County sheriff's deputies after they tried to stop her vehicle for running through a stop sign at 17th Street and West Fourth Avenue, Monroe. She fled south and broke numerous traffic laws, including failure to stop at a stop sign and imprudent speed. Freeport police later located her and booked her into the Stephenson County Jail pending extradition to Green County.


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Rita E. Hensel, Edgerton, WI (1936-2014)
November 1, 1936 - March 26, 2014
Rita E. Hensel, 77, of Edgerton, WI, passed away at her home on Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Rita was born in Hamburg, Germany, on Nov. 1, 1936. Her parents were Paulis and Lilli Esse. She married Leland L. Hensel on Aug. 28, 1954. They resided in Beloit until moving to the Edgerton area, over 40 years ago. Rita was formerly employed as a nurses aid at Rock Haven Nursing Home.
Surviving are four children: Steven l. (Astrid) Hensel of Huntington, IN, Diane D. (Wayne Keenlance) Champion of Edgerton, Leland P. (Cathie) Hensel of Janesville, Paul J. (Gina) Hensel of Tomahawk, WI; eight grandchildren: Jason (Jill) Dallman, Jeremy Dallman, Jeffrey Hensel, Chris (Lacey) Hensel, Angela (Shannon) Lupton, Courtney (Henry) Bearheart, Christine Hensel, Michael Hensel; six great-grandchildren; and a special friend, Richard Graf. She was preceded in death by her husband, Leland L. Hensel on June 30, 2008; and her parents.
Funeral services will be at Noon, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, at HENKE-CLARSON FUNERAL HOME with Pastor Barbara Wells officiating. Burial will be in Milton Lawns Memorial Park. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until Noon Wednesday at HENKE-CLARSON FUNERAL HOME.