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Vanadium The element Vanadium is the 23rd element in the periodic table of elements. It has an atomic number of 23 and an atomic mass of 50.9415. There are two isotopes of natural Vanadium, which are: 50V (.24%) and 51V (99.76%). The electron configuration is [Ar] 4sò 3dò. The symbol for Vanadium is V. Vanadium was named after the Scandinavian goddess, Vanadis. Vanadium was first discovered in by del Rio in 1801. Unfortunately, del Rio's new element was incorrectly declared impure chromium by a French chemist. Del Rio also thought that he himself was mistaken and accepted the chemist's statement. Nils Sefström later discovered the element in 1831. Also, Roscoe isolated Vanadium in nearly pure form by reducing the chloride with hydrogen in 1867. But, Vanadium was not yet produced 99.3 to 99.8% pure until 1927. The boiling point of Vanadium is 3409ðC (6168ðF) and the melting point is 1902ðC (3455ðF).
The density is 5.8 g/cmó. Other traits of pure Vanadium are that it has a bright white color and very soft and ductile. It has a good corrosion resistance to alkalis, sulfuric and hydrochloric acid, and salt water. Structurally, it is very strong and is used in nuclear applications. Uses for Vanadium include: automobile frames, rust-resistant springs, gears, and axles. Vanadium pentoxide is used in some ceramics. Vanadium is found is varies locations around the world: Peru; United States: Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico; Germany; South-West Africa and Rhodesia. Vanadium must be handled with extreme care. Ductile Vanadium is commercially available at the cost of $40/ lb (1969). Commercial Vanadium metal, 95% pure, cost about $20/lb, and commercial Vanadium metal 99.9% pure is $100/oz.
Works Citied World Book Encyclopedia. Field Enterprises Edu. Corp. 1960. pg. 213 Vol. U-V (18) Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. The Chemical Rubber Co. 1969. pg. B-56.


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"Truth or Consequences"
"Truth or Consequences: Will the real you step forward?"
Rev. Shirley Wilkins
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This sermon is a continuation of Bishop Robertson's message on Discipleship. Truth or Consequences – You can call it a choice, a fight, or even a war: the flesh vs the spirit. It's like a twin inside of each of us. That's why it says in the Bible, we must make the choice.
Romans 8:35-39 (NIV)
What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Galatians 5:16 (NIV)
So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.
The sins of the flesh are listed in Galatians 6:19 (NIV)
…sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry (anything you put before God), and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies and the like.
There are consequences for these actions.
Galatians 6: 21 (NIV)
I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
But thanks to God's grace and mercy, He forgives us.
Instead, we must strive for the. Fruits of the Spirit:
Galatians 6:22 (NIV)
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Something to think about: Temptation will come. You'll notice that especially if you're fasting or giving up something during lent (40 days prior to Easter). Remember, the devil is like a sly fox: sneaky and quick to take advantage of an opportunity. Stay prayed up and ask God to give you strength!
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Sunday, July 26, 2009
They're everywhere! Part 2
A few weeks ago, I posted a picture of a gargoyle at Denver International Airport, remarking on how gargoyles (generically speaking) seem to appear everywhere.
Guess where else they appear? How about on a mausoleum? This guy (above) is on the Massey mausoleum in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
Yes, that's the "Massey" of Massey Hall, Massey-Ferguson, Raymond Massey (the late actor) and Vincent Massey (the first Canadian-born governor general of Canada).
It's not as though the Masseys couldn't have afforded a proper gargoyle. I mean, look at this spout (below) with all the fancy detail around it. With the face on the turret, why couldn't they have sprung for a face on the spout that would turn it into an honest-to-god gargoyle?
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Poor Wal-Mart. The retailer just can't seem to master the whole Web 2.0 thing. (Though to be fair, the company is far from the only one.)
Still stinging from the negative publicity fallout of a botched blog, Wal-Mart is trying to adopt some of the same Web 2.0ish features that have been successfully employed by other companies, notably consumer product reviews and ratings, reports Reuters.
The company's chief marketing officer called such reviews (whichhave been popular on other sites) "the No. 1 customer-requested feature." Wal-Mart is hoping the feature engenders warm-and-fuzzy feelings among at least some of the approximately 130 million people who visit its stores and/or its Web site every week. In the future, it may use the reviews to help make decisions about the products it sells.
A little more than a month after the feature was added and with an admittedly fuzzy value proposition, it's too early to tell if this feature is living up to the company's expectations. A sign that Wal-Mart may still not quite "get" it: its intention to take five to seven days to review the reviews before publishing them.
Already considered a success, reports Reuters, is a feature that allows customers to order stuff online and have it shipped for free to a Wal-Mart store for pick-up. Wal-Mart says customers typically spend an additional $60 in stores during the pick-up process. Taking a cue from Amazon, it makes sense for Wal-Mart to leverage its formidable supply-chain and logistics expertise.
Less successful for the retailer was a foray into Facebook, where members of a group ostensibly created to help college students swap decorating tips for dorm rooms have been more interested in discussing controversies over Wal-Mart's treatment of its employees. Like digg.com before it, Wal-Mart has learned that it's tough to control how users behave online. According to the Washington Post, other retailers have had considerably better luck with their online marketing strategies to reach the desirable teenage demographic, many of whom spend as much time on social networking sites as they do watching TV. American Eagle Outfitters, for instance, has more than 46,000 friends on its MySpace page as well as a site called 77E that features "It's a Mall World," a series of three-minute adventures of fashion-conscious friends.
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For Immediate Release: April 23, 2010WASHINGTON – The "TV and Radio on the Web" portion of the RTDNA/Hofstra University Annual Survey found that more TV-station web sites are turning a profit in 2010 and many sites are increasing their content while eliminating site elements that may not be working well. According to the survey, TV station web sites have continued to climb in profitability – up 4.3 percent in the last year. The survey also found that web sites with bigger staffs are more likely to make a profit. Radio web sites didn't fare as well as TV. For those sites, the percentage making a profit and breaking even both fell, although modestly. The percentage losing rose. The survey found TV web sites maturing. Text, still pictures and news video are now essentially universal on all TV web sites. The use of audio, live cameras, recorded newscasts and blogs are increasingly being utilized. However, streaming audio, podcasts and assembling your own newscasts have each leveled off or declined. "These numbers suggest that, more and more, stations are deciding that certain web elements aren't working that well for them — or aren't worth the effort — and they're either scaling them back or not bothering with them at all," said survey director, Bob Papper, professor and chair of the Department of Journalism, Media Studies, and Public Relations at Hofstra University. Consistent with results from prior years, the largest stations tend to have the most complex web sites. There are no meaningful distinctions based on network affiliation or geography, according to the survey. Radio stations saw an increase in audio streaming and blogs, according to the survey. Still pictures and news video both dropped slightly this year. The complexity of the radio website had little to do with the market size. The key determinant of complexity was how many people work in news. The consistent jump in website complexity comes when a station or group has at least three people in news. Based on the survey results, Bob Papper has suggested that staffing for television web sites has gone up, on average, as much as one full-time employee and one-part time employee over the last year. The survey also found that newsroom employees "helping on the web" for television sites went up 10 percent over the last year. RTDNA Members can access the full data from the survey by clicking here. About the Survey The RTDNA/Hofstra University Survey was conducted in the fourth quarter of 2009 among all 1,770 operating, non-satellite television stations and a random sample of 4,000 radio stations. Valid responses came from 1,355 television stations (76.6 percent) and 203 radio news directors and general managers representing 301 radio stations. Some data sets (e.g. the number of TV stations originating local news, getting it from others and women TV news directors) are based on a complete census and are not projected from a smaller sample. The annual survey is conducted for RTDNA by Bob Papper, the Lawrence Stessin Distinguished Professor of Journalism and chair of the Department of Journalism, Media Studies, and Public Relations at Hofstra University. This research was supported by the School of Communication at Hofstra University and the Radio Television Digital News Association. About RTDNA RTDNA is the world's largest professional organization devoted exclusively to electronic journalism. RTDNA represents local and network news executives in broadcasting, cable and digital media in more than 20 countries.
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I'm not sure I like this new skimmed-down version of the WWE.
I can't say I disagree with WWE's decision to bring its product to the masses -- to cut down on T and A and eliminate the blood. From a business standpoint, they're looking to appeal to the masses.
But I miss the cutting edge tension. And I miss the cutting (although the crimson mask is best used in moderation).
I miss the potty humour (okay, DX still dabbles in it). I miss the possibility a diva may have a wardrobe malfunction.
I don't need lingerie pillow fights, but some of my favourite WWE moments (the diva poker game on ECW and the handprints on Sable's upper assets) involve the lovely ladies.
Wrestling is about telling stories. It's the classic good vs. evil with twists and turns. Storylines need to be cultivated, brought along at just the right pace to retain interest and make us want more.
WWE still tells those stories, some better than others. And while it's reverted to concentrating on that, WWE has decided it wants to be kid-friendly (though I suspect some kids might prefer the WWE of old).
I'm not a WWE hater. But the PG product has lost some of its immediacy, some of its sauciness. Where the hell is the original ECW when you need it?
The Rock appeared in a taped segment for Smackdown!, saying he would be back as a RAW guest host. I can definitely smell what he's cooking ... Good job by Rev. Al Sharpton as RAW host on Monday. Next up is Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.


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Reports are coming in from across the country that mass ICE raids are under way. Here's Keith Olbermann exploring what it would really mean if the Trump-thing actually tries to follow through on his promises of mass deportation.


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The-Easiest-Ever Chia Pudding with Mango & Passion Fruit
Chia is extremely healthy for us, these seeds contain Omega-3 fatty acids, which are important for our neural functioning. They also contain many fibers, manganese, Calcium, phosphorus and protein. but what the *$^& do you do with it?
When you put Chia in liquids and wait for it to soften – a gelatinous coating forms around the seeds and they absorb the liquid around it. You can use this function to make Chia water with some lemon and a sweetener, or you can make this great pudding very easily.
In my case I had a hat full of passion fruit so I decided to make this great dessert. but you could put other fruits or even granola to upgrade. I think I have to give this dessert the title "The easiest dessert I've ever made" and I'm sure that no one would realize how easy this was to make.
*Just remember to prepare a few hours prior to eating – the Chia needs to soften
- 4 tbsp chia seeds
- 1 cup non-dairy milk I used rice-almond milk. coconut milk would also be suitable.
- 1 tbsp agave nectar or other sweetener
- 1 tbsp maple syrup or other sweetener
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract of good quality
- 0.5 mango cut into cubes
- 1-2 passion fruits
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As more people have poured into the streets of Ukraine to protest, they are often depicted as angry over a long list of complaints: corruption, the abuse of power, a government that refuses to join the European Union, Russian meddling, police brutality, and lately a new law that even tries to ban the style of protests – no tent encampments and no wearing bicycle helmets, for example.
This picture, however, misses a constructive intent in the massive crowds in the capital, Kiev, and other cities. Their main motive is to expand the liberties steadily won by Ukrainians since their independence in 1991. Eventually joining the EU was to be a next step for a people who refuse to allow freedoms to be rolled back and who seek more of the social, political, and economic liberties enjoyed in the West.
What's really up for grabs in the current tense standoff is a belief that progress in individual rights is irreversible. Many a democracy has been overthrown by military force. But can a free people choose to allow their freedoms to be eroded?
"If I don't fight today," said one young demonstrator in Kiev, "the government could close the door on my rights."
President Viktor Yanukovych ignited the protests in November after he reneged on a promise to begin the process for Ukraine to join the EU. He did so after Russia, which has long regarded Ukraine as a key part of its hinterland, made threats of trade retaliation while also offering $15 billion in loans to the government. For Mr. Yanukovych, the money may be useful in his troubled bid to be reelected in 2015.
Yet since November, his brutal and authoritarian response to the protests has further exposed the need for rights and liberties to be expanded in Ukraine. He has passed antidemocratic laws that imitate those in Russia and relied on rough police tactics against demonstrators, resulting in at least four killings. And his main political opponent, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, remains in jail.
To restore democracy, the demonstrators demand that new presidential elections be held this year. And to prevent a further loss of rights, they are asking the EU and the United States to impose penalties, such as blocking bank transfers, on top Ukrainian officials involved in the violent crackdown on protesters.
With many in the crowds waving the star-studded blue flag of Europe, they are making a plea to the West not only to rescue Ukraine from tyranny but to preserve the idea of democratic progress as humanity's unchangeable future.
More than simply a piece of geography in an East-West power play, Ukraine is now a contest for a noble idea, one that cannot be ignored.


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Monday, April 30, 2012
The Purpose of Hell
Everyone agrees that criminals should be punished, but what many people don't realize is that there are several different theories about why punishing criminals is a good idea. Here I'll examine whether any of these penal theories apply to an eternal punishment in hell. I'll assume in this post, purely for the sake of argument, that unbelief is in some way a bad thing. But even granting this, what we find is that these five rationales either don't apply in the case of the Christian God punishing us in hell, or imply that some other punishment would be more just.
The first reason that one might be justified in punishing a wrongdoer is rehabilitation—punishment for the purpose of morally improving the criminal. But since people stay in hell forever, anything they might learn to better themselves could never be put to use. At most it would result in morally upright people suffering forever, which is clearly even worse than if hell was only filled with the unrepentant.
There's also restoration—punishment for the sake of repairing the damage resulting from the crime. But there's no reason to think that suffering endlessly in outer darkness would benefit God or any other possible victims in the slightest—unless we label God a sadist, who takes pleasure in our boundless pain. In fact, if we take at face value the apologist's claim that God is quite upset about having to punish us, hell seems to work against restorative justice.
The third is deterrence, which is intended to prevent crimes from being committed in the first place. Perhaps hell is a way to bully people into obedience. But there are two problems with this: First, given that 70% of people on earth are non-Christians, the threat of the Christian hell has been largely ineffective at the global scale. Second, by attempting to threaten people into genuine belief when in fact belief is not generally a choice, this form of justice would fall into the same trap as Pascal's Wager.
The fourth is incapacitation, or punishment for the sake of protecting potential victims from further harm. If believers are the victims here, hell would keep the evil heathens from corrupting them—but there are other ways to do this that don't involve excess suffering. If God is supposed to be the victim, it's unclear how hell is "protecting" him from unbelievers. Presumably he isn't so fragile that unbelief or even rebellion would cause him the slightest amount of harm. Perhaps rebellion harms God in some emotional sense. But in that case, hell is once again totally counterproductive: it's the perfect way to stir up even more resentment against him.
Finally, the crudest and most basic reason for punishing wrongdoers is retribution: the idea that evil deeds inherently deserve to be punished, apart from any tangible benefits that will result from such punishment. This may feel like an appropriate reaction, but it's really nothing more than barbaric, institutionalized revenge. What some perceive as punishment for the sake of some idealized "pure justice" is actually a combination of the other rationales listed above. Even if we accepted retribution as a legitimate penal theory, though, it still wouldn't justify hell. Retributive justice carries with it a sense of proportion: the punishment must fit the crime, and eternal punishment for even the tiniest sin certainly doesn't qualify in that sense.
There really is no justification at all for hell as a punishment. This is true because many sins are essentially victimless crimes, and because eternal punishment for sin results in no benefit to any party. However, apologists sometimes sneak around this by saying that hell is a choice: if we willfully reject God, he grants our wish by taking us to a place where we can be completely separate from him. Nonsense. He could accomplish the same thing by simply snuffing out our existence altogether, and avoid all the unnecessary suffering. This would serve as a perfect form of incapacitation (it's impossible to cause any further harm) as well as a more reasonable form of retribution (more proportionate with the perceived crime).
One last defense apologists occasionally give is to claim both that retributive justice is valid and that hell is a proportionate punishment, because our crime has somehow caused infinite offense against God's infinite dignity. Ridiculous. The relevant factor is not dignity, but actual harm. A crime against a king would deserve no more punishment than the same crime against a peasant. If the king threw a fit, demanding the culprit's execution due to some abstract violation of dignity, we would rightly label him a tyrant. If anything, the more power this king has and the more severe his demanded punishment, the more petty and unjust he becomes.
Hell is not only useless as a punishment according to most penal theories, but also highly unjust and even counterproductive. The onus is on Christians to show that this unending punishment can somehow be justified, and they certainly have their work cut out for them.
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My 5 Favorite Freethought Quotes
Now that I've done five installments of my Powerful Thoughts series, I thought it might be a good time to go back through and pick my five favorite quotes from among them. There were so many great ones that it was almost impossible to choose, so I made a Google doc for my 15 favorites. Here are the top five along with my comments:
5. "Answers are a luxury enjoyed only every now and then. So early on, learn to love the questions themselves." –Neil deGrasse Tyson
Curiosity is a great thing because it so often gives rise to discovery, but sometimes the answers elude us. It's easy to grow impatient and settle on the first convenient explanation that comes along even when the real answer is still out there. So we need to value the process of forming and testing hypotheses as much as actually arriving at conclusions—to value the journey as much as the destination. It requires us to think of unanswered questions not as obstacles to be overcome, but as invitations to explore our world.
4. "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear." –Thomas Jefferson
How wonderful it is that the same man who authored this quote was also a central Founding Father and our third president. We needed someone of his wisdom to guide this country in its formative years. During this period of American Enlightenment, intellectuals were already starting to question Christianity and embrace deism. But in a letter offering advice to his nephew, Jefferson had the audacity to suggest something that would be unthinkable to most people at the time.
This encouragement of radical, intrepid questioning should be an inspiration to skeptics everywhere. And he follows this by steamrolling the most common obstacle to investigating one's faith—the fear of divine retribution—in a way that beautifully echoes Galileo's disbelief that "the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use".
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3. "Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today." –Lawrence Krauss
Plucked from a legendary 2009 physics lecture entitled "A Universe From Nothing," this statement on our origins may at first seem shallow in its irreverence, but I don't see it that way. Too often religions like Christianity rely on the beauty of ideas rather than their truth, making reality look cold and alienating by comparison. People take solace in God's invisible guiding hand and fear that a world without him would be desolate, chaotic, meaningless.
But Krauss shows that in some ways, the natural world can beat the supernatural even at its own game. An innocent god-man being tortured and killed on our behalf is an inspiring tale (if a gruesome and illogical one), but it can't hold a candle to the breathtaking magnificence of cosmology. All the heavier atoms in your body—the oxygen and carbon, the nitrogen and calcium—had to be forged within the blazing furnaces of stars. They later became supernovae, exploding so chaotically that they briefly outshone entire galaxies, forming nebulae rich with heavy elements that then collapsed to form solar systems—and eventually, in our case, intelligent life. Here's Neil deGrasse Tyson again, describing this process:
As Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." Truth, it seems, is far more worthy than fiction of our awe and admiration.
2. "Mythology is someone else's religion, different enough from your own for its absurdity to be obvious." –Anonymous
What a perfect summary of the double standard inherent within every exclusivist religion in history. It's so easy for Christians and Buddhists and Muslims to look at each other and scoff at those other peculiar beliefs, all while retaining an intense blind spot with regard to one's own. So persistent is this bias that even I as a former Christian suffer from it, despite my deconversion.
This is why I love Daniel Dennett's suggestion that schoolchildren be taught a mandatory, neutral, fact-based class on world religions. Only the most cripplingly stubborn parents could object to an impartial presentation of alternative belief systems. Yet many students would come out with a more critically informed view of each religion—including their own. The more information kids can access about religions from all cultures, the less likely they are to succumb to the ingroup-outgroup bias that allows religious exclusivism to thrive.
1. "I had no need of that hypothesis." –Pierre-Simon Laplace
This famed quip was in reply to none other than Napoleon, who told Laplace, "They tell me you have written this large book on the system of the universe, and have never even mentioned its Creator." Laplace's response encompasses so much in just a few words: the principle of parsimony, the relentless march of science, the ever-diminishing God of the gaps. Although it was probably just an offhand remark, his calm yet firm rejection of God as explanation is emblematic of the human race's steadily increasing storehouse of knowledge.
No need of that hypothesis.
After millions of years of cowering at shadows, we have finally begun to crawl out from the darkness and into the light. We need only to let our eyes adjust to the dazzling brilliance we've discovered. It is my hope that for any incredible explanation that lacks equally incredible evidence, we, as a civilization, will soon have no need of that hypothesis.
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Saturday, April 14, 2012
The Uncertainty of Intuition
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool." —Richard FeynmanI'm only a novice when it comes to philosophy, but I think I've noticed a general trend within the field. First, someone comes up with a philosophical framework for explaining a certain phenomenon. Then someone else comes up with a counterexample that intuitively appears to falsify that framework. Philsophers are then faced with a couple of options: They can follow their intuitions and either modify the framework or reject it entirely, or they can continue to accept the framework and claim that it's in fact our intuition that's faulty.
Let me give a couple of examples, starting with one in the field of ethics. Utilitarianism, generally speaking, is the ethical theory that one ought to maximize the overall amount of happiness that exists. It seems like a perfectly sensible way of approaching the subject, but some versions of this concept are vulnerable to what Derek Parfit calls the Repugnant Conclusion. In the diagram below, each box represents a population; width measures group size and height measures average happiness. The Repugnant Conclusion is that according to some forms of utilitarianism, Z is preferable to A because Z's total area is greater than A's. In other words, having a massive number of people whose lives are barely worth living is preferable to having a (relatively) small number of people whose lives are extremely happy.
Intuitively, this conclusion does seem repugnant—but is it our ethical theory or our intuition that we should modify in response? Perhaps we look at Z and imagine throngs of people toiling away in a wretched struggle to survive, when what we should realize is that a life "barely worth living" is still worth living. If these people looked back at their lives in their golden years, they could honestly say they were glad to have lived. Hmm... maybe such a world wouldn't be as bad as we think.
In the previous case it was pretty easy to imagine our intuition being wrong. But now let's take on a tougher example, this time from philosophy of mind. The leading philosophical framework for understanding what constitutes a mind is called functionalism (see also the SEP). Basically, it says that what makes a mind is not any particular material (e.g. neurons), but a way of functioning: it must receive inputs which alter its internal state and produce outputs. It could be made of neurons, silicon or anything else as long as it's properly organized and functional.
Enter the China Brain. Ned Block asks us to imagine the entire population of China hooked up to one another in some way (walkie-talkies, for example), with each person corresponding to a neuron. The individuals then communicate in a rudimentary manner that mimics the firing of interconnected neural pathways. The result is sometimes known as a Blockhead.
|Haha. Blockhead. Because his last name's Block.
Imagine that we could somehow shrink this crowd of a billion, put them inside a human skull and attach them to the appropriate sensory inputs and motor outputs. If you had a conversation with this entity, who looks and acts exactly like a normal person, would it really be so hard to think of them as having a mind? Conversely, imagine that we could take someone's still-living brain out of their head and the stretch the neurons out across hundreds of square miles. If you walked into the middle of this silky net of microscopic axons, would it seem any more like a thinking, feeling, experiencing mind than the China brain does? Suddenly, the obvious conclusion may not be so obvious anymore.
This post is partly an excuse to share some really cool thought experiments, but I do have a point to make as well: We need to be careful about accepting intuitive philosophical arguments, because they can be engineered (intentionally or not) to push us toward an unwarranted conclusion. Daniel Dennett coined the term "intuition pump" to describe such cases. Often these arguments employ sophisticated misdirection to make us ignore factors that would dramatically change our judgment if properly understood.
Sometimes, too, an argument has at its core a subject that we as fallible humans are just flat-out bad at making judgments about, or even one that lies completely outside our realm of experience. I'm referring specifically to the cosmological argument, which I hope to eventually delve into more deeply. In arguing for Kalam, William Lane Craig proclaims that the temporal universe cannot always have existed because actual infinites cannot exist. He uses the Hilbert hotel paradox as a demonstration of this, but all he's really demonstrated is that the math of infinity is incredibly unintuitive. He also asserts that whatever begins to exist has a cause, and it again seems staggeringly unintuitive to think that the universe could have sprung up uncaused out of absolute nothingness. But a complete lack of everything—space, time, even physical laws—is in such opposition to our everyday experience that making any definitive pronouncements about its properties would be pure folly.
So here's the moral of the story: In all aspects of life, theological and ordinary alike, be skeptical about relying on intuition to solve problems. Your minds is better suited to some tasks than others, and it's beset with biases at every turn. It's easy for subtle yet crucial details to escape your notice, drastically skewing your judgment. Consider a given issue from many perspectives and try to think of what variables you may be leaving out—even when the answer seems clear-cut. Because as satisfying as it is to debunk pseudoscientists and expose charlatans, the most important part of being a skeptic isn't questioning other people. It's questioning yourself.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Born at the Wrong Time
I've had less time for writing due to longer work hours, and I'm in the process of finishing a couple of other posts, but I thought I'd quickly share a mildly interesting experience of mine from this past Sunday.
I don't go to church much anymore, but I did go to Easter service at my parents' request. It was pretty unremarkable and mediocre as far as "Sonrise" sermons go, but one thing really did stick out to me as particularly insightful—though not for the reasons it was intended to be.
The pastor's daughter made a very telling comment. She suggested that God was evident to us in the past (in the form of his interaction with the Israelites and his incarnation in Jesus) and will be in the future (in the form of the Second Coming), but that modern society is caught in a kind of "temporary atheism" because direct access to the divine is unavailable at the moment.
Well, how conveniently inconvenient.
What an odd coincidence it is that we happen to be living in the precise sliver of time during which God isn't overtly interacting with humanity. Christians who subscribe to this line of thought would have us believe that we happen to exist in a sort of divine "blind spot"—one in which God can't be empirically verified, one that looks exactly as if he was never there at all.
Do believers really find this kind of reasoning acceptable? Why doesn't it occur to them that God's "temporary" aloofness might be the rule and not the exception? And if we do reside in the one cursed era of an otherwise God-filled timeline, isn't that a needlessly cruel twist of fate? If he actually wants us to believe in him, why not give everyone the same strong evidence he supposedly gave in antiquity?
In John 20, Jesus lets Doubting Thomas put his hands in the crucifixion wounds and says, "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." It's an appalling endorsement of belief without evidence, but at least he gave evidence when asked. As for the billions of skeptics who followed in Thomas' footsteps, I guess we'll be punished eternally for the crime of being born at the wrong time.
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
Powerful Thoughts, Vol. 5
It's only been a few weeks since the previous installment of Powerful Thoughts, but what can I say? My cup of skepticism runneth over; there are just too many good quotes to choose from. So once again, here are some about God:
- "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." –Friedrich Nietzsche
- "Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone and you are a God." –Jean Rostand
- "If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts." –Bertrand Russell
- "If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has, filled with weaknesses?" –Percy Bysshe Shelley
- "You know when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you." –from The Island
On Christianity:
- "Those who defend their abusers are the most comprehensively enslaved." –QualiaSoup on rationalizing religious atrocity
- "'Oh great, you ate the apple. Now I have to kill my son.' –God" –from reddit
- "There is no such thing as a Christian child, only a child of Christian parents." –from reddit
- "Moderate Christianity seems like a contradiction because its teachings are not something to casually think about here and there." –from reddit
- "That's an awfully nice soul you've got there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it..." –reddit on Pascal's Wager
- "So far as I can remember, there's not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence." –Bertrand Russell
- "What could be more terroristic than 'Believe this or burn for an eternity'? The answer is nothing." –Brian Sapient
- "To say that God was communicating in metaphor through the Bible writers is to say that God needed communications training." –Valerie Tarico
- "If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be—a Christian." –Mark Twain
- "Religion claims to set its followers free... while insisting they kiss the hand of their jailer." –Paula Kirby
- "All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays." –Cathy Ladman
- "The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him a ride." –H.L. Mencken
- "Rooting morality in a being beyond our comprehension only pushes morality beyond our comprehension." –QualiaSoup
- "The day gay marriage is legalized, nothing will change. And that is what religions are afraid of." –from reddit
- "[Religion] is partly the terror of the unknown and partly...the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes." –Bertrand Russell
- "Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion." –Jon Stewart
On reason, science and skepticism:
- "Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences. If it ends in a belief that there is no god, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise, and the love of others which it will procure you." –Thomas Jefferson
- "I had no need of that hypothesis." –Pierre-Simon Laplace, in reply to Napoleon, who asked why he didn't include God in his calculations of planetary orbits
- "Don't think that because the light of science is dimmer today than tomorrow that you are justified to sneer in the dark." –from reddit
- "Earth is a bacteria planet with a temporary infestation of vertebrates." –from reddit
- "[W]hat is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to ideas." –Carl Sagan
- "You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it." –Carl Sagan
- "[Some] think: 'My God! How Horrible! I am only a machine!' But if I should find out I were a machine, my attitude would be totally different. I would say: 'How amazing! I never before realized that machines could be so marvelous!'" –Ray Smullyan
- "[S]cience is a form of arrogance control." –Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
- "Answers are a luxury enjoyed only every now and then. So early on, learn to love the questions themselves." –Neil deGrasse Tyson
- "The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks he has found." –Miguel de Unamuno
And a few more cringeworthy quotes from fundamentalists and other extremists:
- "Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity." –Joseph McCarthy, at the onset of McCarthyism
- "The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not." –Josh McDowell
- "[T]here's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas." –Rick Perry
- "Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. ...It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination...[m]ore terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history." –Pat Robertson
- "Just because public opinion says something doesn't mean it's right...people said blacks were less than human." –Rick Santorum on gay marriage
On a brighter note, plenty of the more clever and insightful quotes from this batch come from the younger generation—the denizens of YouTube and reddit. This dovetails nicely with Adam Lee's observation that the demographics of the recent Reason Rally skewed decidedly toward the youthful end of the spectrum. With all the bright, budding minds sprouting up, maybe there's a little hope for us after all.
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Sunday, April 1, 2012
January–March in Review
My situation has settled down considerably in contrast to the last couple months of last year. My parents tend to bring up my lack of belief only when necessary, and that's fine with me: our relationship remains more or less as healthy as ever. The biggest blog-related development of the past three months has been the creation of the 30 Questions Project website. I'm quite happy with it now that it's pretty much finished, although I haven't decided what (if anything) I'm going to do with it from here.
In any case, let's review. Here are my posts from January:
- 2011 in Review: Reflections on the year & my 18 posts from the past 2 months
- The Tree of Religion: They proliferate via cultural adaptation & vague holy texts
- 5 Things I Don't Believe About Believers: Stupid? Crazy? Hateful? I think not...
- The 40 Questions Project: Clearly & succinctly listing problems w/ Christianity
- Hitch and Fry Are Wizards: A legendary debate on Catholicism's crimes
- 40 Questions for Fundamentalist Christians: First draft of the project
- Tackling the Big Objections: Responses to "I have faith" & "can't question God"
- The World We Would Expect: The one we'd predict the Christian God to make
- The 30 Questions Project Website: It's now up; you can find it here
- A Success Story Already?!: A thank-you from a user of the 30QP website
- One Nation, Indivisible: Analyzing believers' reactions to removing "under God"
- A Look at Rick Santorum's Madness: His quotes on sex, science & Christianity
- The God We Would Expect: The one we'd predict based on our universe
- Errancy.org: A site that ranks Bible errors and responds to apologist excuses
- Through the Pearly Gates (Part 1): A story illustrating the problems with heaven
- Through the Pearly Gates (Part 2): There will be no more sorrow, they say...
- Quotable Me, Vol. 3: A third helping of thoughts on God, skepticism & more
- The Dullness: I was unhappy w/ religion growing up, but never truly questioned
- Powerful Thoughts, Vol. 4: More religion-related quotes from great minds
- The Book We Would Expect: Based on our world & the Christian God
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Bruce is Better Than Evan
After the 6 hours sleep I had last I am now totally shattered and have the worst throat ever, maybe it wasn't a good idea staying up so late. For breakfast I had the most amazing rasin bread which was so good. I think I might re stock on food when I go home its so good here! Then we traveled to the warehouse where we had various workshops and enjoyed games. We were going to have a car wash today but that has been changed till tomorrow. At 2.30 we then watched Evan Almighty which I didn't think was that good, I prefer Bruce Almighty. We finished a bit earlier today so went to the mall again where I bought loads of good stuff, clothes are really cheap here so I'm going to take lots back. I'm hoping to go to bed a bit earlier then hopefully I wont feel so bad!
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Hey its me Amber i read this and i thought that maybe i should write something since noone else did i am not a big fan of raisins so i cant agree with you there but i hope you had a good time here and bought a lot of clothes to take back with you hope you had fun at our malls and what not God Bless You bye bye
- July 19, 2007 at 12:07 PM
i saw Bruce almighty i didnt really like the main character ummm i forget his name but he bothers me every time he opens his mouth man i just want to shove a sock in it or something but i didnt get to see the other almighty movie yet but i heard that it was alright i heard that it wasnt sac religous or anything like people thought it would be so thats good so how have things been going with this silver ring issue i dont know why people have to make it sound so bad and also why they have to make a huge deal out of someone wanting to stay pure until marriage
- July 19, 2007 at 12:14 PM
I have to disagree with you as to which movie is better. I felt that Bruce had way to many "unchristian" morals that caused people to lose sight of the main focus of the movie, salvation and submission. Meanwhile, it suggested that certain blatantly "sinful" things are "okay" in the eyes of God. In contrast, Evan had far less innappropriate humor and successfully maintained the theme of giving in to and following God's will. Overall, both were hilarious, but one was truer to the message.
- July 21, 2007 at 2:13 PM
very true i never thought of theat before please escuse that other comment that i made this is amber again by the way
- August 6, 2007 at 2:52 PM


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Minister of Agriculture and the Environment of Finland Kimmo Tiilikainen, accompanied by a business delegation, will visit Japan on 8-9 March 2017. The purpose of the Team Finland visit is to give the Finnish bioeconomy and food companies the opportunity to learn about the Japanese markets and to promote trade between the two countries.
Themes to be discussed during the visit include food exports and collaboration between Finland and Japan relating to the bioeconomy and circular economy, Arctic expertise and investments. The topics also include strategic cooperation between the two countries, Paris Climate Agreement negotiations and EU-Japan free trade negotiations.
In Tokyo Minister Tiilikainen meets the Minister of the Environment of Japan Koichi Yamamoto and the State Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ken Saito. Also on the agenda is a visit to the Foodex Fair, where a seminar is organised on Finnish food. Foodex is the largest event for professionals in food and beverages sectors In Asia.
In addition, Minister Tiilikainen will meet representatives of the ITOCHU Corporation. In Finland ITOCHU Corporation has been involved, for example, in the Äänekoski bioproduct mill project.
Japan is the third largest destination for Finnish exports outside the EU and an important trade partner. The main Finnish export articles on the Japanese market are forest industry products. Now growth is also sought in high-value added foods and expertise in the bioeconomy and circular economy sectors.
The Team Finland's delegation in Japan is composed of companies processing brewery products, meat and grain products and Finnish berries and honey. Also included are startup companies in the bioeconomy sector that use forest biomass as raw material and develop and commercialise new technologies and products based on Finnish innovations.
Jukka-Pekka Kataja, Special Adviser to the Minister, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, tel. +358 50 341 9934, jukka-pekka.kataja(at)mmm.fi Jaana Husu-Kallio, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, tel. +358 40 029 1910, jaana.husu-kallio(at)mmm.fi Aulikki Hulmi, Director for International Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, tel. +358 295 162 113, aulikki.hulmi(at)mmm.fi Tita Korvenoja, Ministerial Adviser, Head of International and EU Affairs, Ministry of the Environment, tel. +358 50 301 4605, tita.korvenoja(at)ym.fi


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Read a Good Gardening Book Lately?
By Vanessa Richins
There's not much better in life than curling up with a good book….except for gardening of course!
Combine the two and it's pure magic. Here are a few of my suggestions for books that can help urban gardeners.
Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholemew
This is a standard for small space gardening. Bartholemew presents his method for laying out your vegetable gardens in square foot increments. The results are a better producing garden with less effort. A win-win situation indeed! See our Urban Garden Casual book review.
Garden Wizardry for Kids by L. Patricia Kite
Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots: Gardening Together with Children by Sharon Lovejoy
These books both describe experiments and ideas for helping your children gain a love of gardening. Who could resist planting a "Pizza Patch", as described in Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots, or growing your own peanuts, shown in Gardening Wizardry for Kids.
McGee & Stuckey's Bountiful Container: Create Container Gardens of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Edible Flowers by Rose Marie Nichols McGee and Maggie Stuckey
As we've seen on here before, containers are perfect to use when you don't have a formal plot of land. This book is 400 pages describing the many plants that will thrive in a container. There are also theme gardens suggested, and many tips and techniques for getting the most out of your container garden.
Don't Throw It, Grow It! by Deborah Peterson and Millicent Selsam
A friend suggested recently that I buy this book for review here. I am very glad he did. The authors show the methods use to grow new plants from 68 different fruits, nuts, herbs and spices. It even includes some I've never heard of – malanga (a tuber) or genip (a fruit), anyone?
What books would you suggest for an urban gardener?
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June 29th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
I too would suggest the "Square Foot Gardening" book. It is amazing!! I am planning to look into "The Backyard Homestead". It is said to have an area in the book for record keeping and provides planting dates and the methods used. The calendar log is supposed to be for an entire year. I thought this would be interesting. I also purchased: "The Self-Reliant Life and How to Live It". I got it from the library some time back and skimmed it, but felt it was one that I definitely wanted in my library. Not only for gardening but for a simple lifestyle overall.


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WASHINGTON, DC—World Wildlife Fund president Carter S. Roberts said Monday that his organization was forced to pare down the list of endangered species so that it would fit on a three-by-two-foot poster to be distributed to schools and private donors.
"If you want a poster that's going to grab an audience, you show the gray wolf instead of the Iowa Pleistocene snail," said Roberts, adding that no endangered mollusks made the final cut, and that, among insects, only butterflies would be included. "The poster is a visual medium. A large tear-jerking image of a giant panda might be redundant, considering that we have a panda in our logo, but it's not like anyone is going to be inspired to protect wildlife by a photo of a nearly extinct medicinal leech. You go with what is going to bring in the dollars."
According to Roberts, species that "realistically have absolutely no chance of surviving" were omitted so that the poster would not seem out of date in a couple of years.


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After absorbing the Ten Tails, Madara came to be known as the "Second Sage of Six Paths". His power was unmatched and no one could really touch him except Might Gai. But, still Madara won the battle. So, today I give you 7 characters who are capable of defeating Six Paths Madara Uchiha.
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We begin the list with Kinshiki, who was the partner of Momoshiki. The combined duo of him and Momoshiki was even feared by Kaguya. He had a very large body structure that gave him incredible strength to fend off several Kage. Also, Kinshiki was able to absorb chakra and thus, rendering ninjutsu useless. It's very unlikely that he'll be able to defeat Madara but he will surely give him a fight.


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Have you ever written in the small hours of the night, only to find you are so over tired that your mind comes up with all sorts of weird things. I have. This is my latest attempt at a world of total insanity. On these pages, you will find a collection of stories I have written over the years. Some meant for little kids. Others are a bit more toward an older audience. All in all, I hope you enjoy my work. Copyright 2012 Makwa Websites


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The goal is to get a very constant gold per hour ratio with gold find. This can be done as soon as you reach lev 60 with a very cheap item set. Sure you can also farm in hell, but for a fast and safe run you need much better items. If killing many monsters easily and farming for a longer period of time are fun for you, gold find runs are the right activity for you. I like it.
The strategy is to wear as much gold find as possible, find very fast 5 elite packs to stack the Nephalem Valor Buff to 75% gf and mf, and then kill many monsters for gold, elite packs and bosses for rare or better items. These items are not as valuable if you would do the same in hell or inferno, but in these areas you can wear more and cheaper gold find gear. Sometimes you will also find worthwile items for the auction house. All other items can be sold or salvaged.
One exception is an easy spot in inferno, there you don't stack any nephalem valor buff before. You will find it under part V of my guide.
In the following days I'm writing more parts of the guide.
DH Gold Find Guide Part I - Skills
DH Gold Find Guide Part I - Skills updated
DH Gold Find Guide Part II - Equipment
DH Gold Find Guide Part III - Follower
DH Gold Find Guide Part IV - Farming Area
DH Gold Find Guide Part V - Farming Area II
DH Gold Find Guide Part VI - My GF Demon Hunter


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A family-friendly bookstore in the heart of Downtown, we have been serving Cranbrook and area for over 40 years. We offer a wide selection of titles for all ages and interests, and if we don't have what you're looking for, we're happy to track it down. Special orders are always welcome, whether it's an obscure indie publication, an out-of-print title, or that book you heard about on CBC with the blue cover. Visit our online catalogue (updated nightly) to check our inventory in real time or to place an order.
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The rhino crisis is getting worse and if nothing is done rhinos will be extinct in the wild in just thirteen years' time, the chairman of South Africa's Private Rhino Owners' Association (PROA) warned this week in an exclusive interview with Project African Rhino.
Chairman of the PROA, Pelham Jones, told us his association now believes sustainable utilisation of rhinos – including allowing rhino horn to be traded legally – is the only way to prevent rhinos disappearing from the African continent completely.
'All other interventions have failed. The CITES ban has been ineffective and as a desperate measure we now believe sustainable utilization is the only solution left,' he said. 'If we continue as we are rhinos will be extinct in the wild by 2026. With demand reduction this may give another four years, but with sustainable utilization like with, for example, ostrich, crocodile and so on, rhinos can last for eternity.'
In South Africa some 28 per cent of the national rhino herd, around 5,000 rhinos, is held in private ownership. According to Pelham Jones the figure represents more animals than the rest of Africa combined. It is generally believed private ownership of rhinos has played a huge part in the success of rhino conservation in South Africa encouraging growth in rhino numbers together with the creation of welcome new rhino habitat. But the massive security bill, along with stock losses, following the recent spike in poaching is pushing many private rhino owners to the brink.
'Latest survey results show that of the original 400 private rhino reserves in South Africa about 10 per cent have now either had all, or some, of their rhino poached while the rest have sold their rhinos resulting in habitat loss for rhinos of some 480,000 hectares,' Pelham Jones told us. 'Due to a combination of reduced values, high security costs and direct asset loss, many rhino reserves have been pushed from profitable to marginal or marginal to loss which is having a negative impact on rhino conservation.'
'As private owners we receive zero support from the state yet each reserve is now required to maintain and fund a military styled APU [anti-poaching unit], ' he added. 'The facts speak volumes, the poaching crisis is worsening and not enough is being done to turn the tide in South Africa or internationally.'
How does the PROA see a legal trade in rhino horn working? 'Only horns from accredited private reserves and provincial or state reserves would be traded,' Pelham Jones explained. 'Each horn would be uniquely identified by DNA and micro chip.'
Pelham Jones told Project African Rhino that South Africa has over 20 tonnes of horn that could be sold from national stockpiles and that this revenue could go back into rhino conservation and protection. 'Why would a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine buy horn illegally and face prosecution when he could buy the same product legally at a lower price?' he asked. 'Sadly we are fighting a war on two fronts; poaching syndicates and animal rights organisations,' he explained.
'Why can the passionate animal rights organisations not ask how they can help the rhino custodians rather than justifying their anti trade position. Why not take the horn of dead rhino and sell it, saving the lives of living animals, as well as bringing desperately needed revenue back into conservation? What is not realized is that by helping enforce a trade ban the animal rights community helps keep the illegal market flourishing to the benefit of the criminal syndicates,' he said.
Finally it has emerged recently that a growing number of desperate rhino owners in South Africa have announced publicly that they have poisoned the horns of their rhinos in an attempt to deter the poachers (anyone consuming the horn risks becoming ill as a result). We asked Pelham Jones for the PROA's position on this controversial practice. 'We do not support this concept,' he told us.


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Happy Day of Archaeology, folks! Social media have brought to my attention that today is a day for archaeologists all over the world to share what it is that keeps them busy on the day-to-day. As stated on the official Day of Archaeology website: "The project asks people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate with us in a "Day of Archaeology" each year in the summer by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on this website. The resulting Day of Archaeology project demonstrates the wide variety of work our profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world."
So, fellow Southeasternists, how are you spending your Day of Archaeology? While I think it is no coincidence that this event takes place in the summertime, when many of us can report on rad, in-progress field work, such is not my luck this year. Rather, my day of archaeology this Friday, July 11, will be spent at the computer (probably with a cat, intermittently), where I hope to make some progress on a handful of projects that are no less the bread-and-butter of archaeology for a young researcher in the field. These include:
(1) Making a couple of phone calls to research collaborators, in order to close out an existing project and make plans for a new one
(2) Putting together a powerpoint presentation on Old World domestication for this fall's intro to archaeology course.
(3) Finalizing an abstract for the Cherokee Archaeology Conference in September.
(4) Tackling a nearly-due article review.
(5) Locating, reading, and taking notes on an article or two related to new project, mentioned above.
(6) Brainstorming about a blog post that explores some archaeo method/theory — taking SEAC-U back to our roots!
(7) If I'm being honest, probably heading to the bar around 5 for a beer or two. I mean, it is Friday after all, and I am an archaeologist.
In truth, if today is like most days, I will start several of these things, maybe finish one or two, and save the rest for later. My typical days of archaeology pull me in several different though not entirely unrelated directions. To date, I have enjoyed this blend of activity, since it keeps me from getting bored and often results in fresh ideas inspired from one arena (say, an email with a colleague) that I can apply to another (e.g., a lecture scheduled for the fall).
OF COURSE, I do revel in those days of archaeology when I am in the field. Are any of you folks in the field? I hope if you are (or if you aren't!), you will share what your day of archaeology looks like in the comments — or on the official Day of Archaeology website, if you are so inclined. Full disclosure: on of my main goals in posting about my fairly ho-hum day in the office is to encourage my awesome Southeastern friends and colleagues to share their summer 2014 field/lab/etc. adventures, in order that I (and other readers, including the public!) might live vicariously through you. Hopefully I can return the favor next field season!


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Franz Tech Corner News
July, 2014
In this issue
- Tech Corner Article: New Universal Date/Time Parser Facility
- Tech Corner Article: Loop Over Sequence Extension to Loop Macro
- International Lisp Conference, 2014 - August 15-17, Montreal
- Video - Gabor Melis' talk at ELS'14 - "Sending Beams into the Parallel Cube
- Free Webcast Series:
- Gruff v5.3 Now Available
- AllegroGraph 4.14 Available July 14th
- YouTube - The Allegro CL and AllegroGraph Channels
Tech Corner Article: New Universal Date/Time Parser Facility
A new universal date/time parser facility was added by a recent patch. It defines the new functions "string-to-universal-time" and "universal-time-to-string". The first function takes a string specifying a date and time in any of a variety of standard formats and returns the corresponding universal time. The second function converts a universal time to one of those formats. This new facility is separate from the existing date-time module but integrated with it.The new universal date time parser is described here.
Tech Corner Article: Loop Over Sequence Extension to Loop Macro
A new "for-as-in-sequence" subclause for the loop macro was added by a recent patch. It allows iteration over either lists or simple, general vectors. For example, the function foo defined below will take either a list or a vector as an argument:
(defun foo (x)
(loop for y in-sequence x collect (1+ y)))
(foo '(1 2 3)) => (2 3 4)
(foo #(1 2 3)) => (2 3 4)
Without this extension, foo would have to make separate loop calls with lists and vectors. Note the extension has some restrictions.
(defun foo (x)
(loop for y in-sequence x collect (1+ y)))
(foo '(1 2 3)) => (2 3 4)
(foo #(1 2 3)) => (2 3 4)
Without this extension, foo would have to make separate loop calls with lists and vectors. Note the extension has some restrictions.
See the documentation here for further details.
International Lisp Conference, 2014 - August 15-17, Montreal
The Association of Lisp Users is pleased to announce the 2014 International Lisp Conference will be held in Montreal, Canada at Universite de Montreal from August 15 to 17, 2014. This year's focus is directed towards integrated solutions and mobile computing.
The International Lisp Conference is a forum for the discussion of Lisp and, in particular, the design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp dialects. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.
This year's program consists of tutorials, an excellent technical session, and prominent invited speakers from the Lisp communities: Christian Queinnec (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie), Ambrose Bonnaise-Sergeant (Indiana University), Stefan Monnier (Universite de Montreal) and Marc Battyani (Fractal Concept).
For additional conference infomation, see here.
Video - Gabor Melis' talk at ELS'14 - "Sending Beams into the Parallel Cube"
We send probes into the topic hypercube bounded by machine learning, parallelism, software and contests, demonstrate existing and sketch future Lisp infrastructure, pin the future and foreign arrays down. We take a seemingly random walk along the different paths, watch the scenery of pairwise interactions unfold and piece a puzzle together. In the purely speculative thread, we compare models of parallel computation, keeping an eye on their applicability and lisp support. In the the Python and R envy thread, we detail why lisp could be a better vehicle for scientific programming and how high performance computing is eroding lisp's largely unrealized competitive advantages. Switching to constructive mode, a basic data structure is proposed as a first step.
To view the video, see here
Free Webcast: Graph vs. Semantic Graph Databases - Selecting the Right Database for Your Next Project
Wednesday, July 23rd, 10 AM Pacific
A frequent question for Semantic Technology vendors: "Why use an RDF triplestore, why not a general Graph database or some other NoSQL option?" This presentation discusses the criteria for selecting the appropriate database for your application.
With the surge in interest around "Graph" technologies there is a need for understanding the tradeoffs for various Graph based technologies. There is a whole set of use cases where Graph technologies make the most sense for application success. This presentation will explore the technical and business reasons to consider a Graph Database, RDF Database, or hybrid Graph/NoSQL. We will discuss a set of real world applications for Graph technologies and explore a number of criteria to consider for proper database selection, a few are noted below:
Selection criteria:
- (1) Do you need to model knowledge or assets and you literally have to deal with thousands of objects that have different feature sets?
- (2) Do you add or change object definitions on a nearly daily basis?
- (3) Do you need to do do recursive graph search on your data or you need to do complex pattern matching?
- (4) Do you have to deal with innumerable one to many or many to many relations and you need to index them all?
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Free Webcast: Discovering the Social Networks in your Customer Data
Wednesday, August 13, 10 AM Pacific
Most Enterprises have collected large bodies of data that describe interactions between their customers. Consider the graph of claims and policies for an insurance provider, telephone calls and SMS for a Telco, and links between payments by customers of financial institutions. Graph databases can be used to mine these social interactions to better understand customer patterns and opportunities.
Relational databases are fundamentally unfit to explore the graph within a social network and Big Data solutions (Hadoop, etc) are usually not meant to work with sparse graphs. The mature capabilities of Graph Databases have made them the optimal approach to mine these social networks.
During this presentation, we will discuss applications of graph mining to show the relationships discovered through "Similarity" and "Social" graphs.
To register for this webinar, see https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/252265562
Gruff v5.3 - Now Available
New Features include:
- SPARQL endpoint capabilities enhanced
- Multitude of new features and functionality
- The Netherlands Tax Authority uncovers millions of Euros in Tax Fraud using Gruff
See the full list of new features and improvements in the release notes.
AllegroGraph 4.14 Available July 14th
New features include:
- Redesigned Query Interface for AGWebView. The interface has enhanced functionality and includes a CANCEL button to easily allow user to cancel uncompleted queries. See notes in the WebView Documentation
- AGWebView's SPARQL query user interface now supports query log viewing, query plan inspection and reports additional details about query execution such as query time and warnings
- Enhanced auditing and end user security capabilities
See the full list of new features and improvements in the release notes.
YouTube - The Allegro CL and AllegroGraph Channels
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text: Did you know? The passion fruit is not named for the sensual effects its fragrant and tangy flesh may have upon the diner. Though some may indeed swoon over the fruit's flavor, it is the flower of the plant that is to blame. Named after the Passion of Christ, the bloom's different parts represent the crown of thorns, Christ's wounds and the Apostles, according to author Elizabeth Schneider of "Uncommon Fruits & Vegetables." The fruit's flavor is one of the most intense of the tropical fruits, with the tangy flavor of lemon mixed with honey and a hint of flowers. A little of the fruit goes a long way. Inside the rather ugly purple/brown shell are green seeds and yellow pulp; the seeds are edible, though many chefs strain them out. Passion fruit is native to Brazil, but today it is also grown in California and Florida and, in early spring, New Zealand. Buying tips Available almost year-round, the small, round fruit becomes wrinkled as it ripens. Buy those that feel heavy for their size. Storing hints If the fruit are smooth, take them home and ripen at room temperature for a few days until they become "dimply and sound sloshy when shaken," writes Schneider. Then store in the refrigerator for up to a week. Anthony Telford in "The Kitchen Hand" writes that the fruit pulp can be scooped out and frozen for up to six months. Or simply freeze the whole fruit. Cooking suggestions Use a serrated knife to cut the passion fruit in half, suggests Telford. Scoop out the pulp and seeds into a bowl. Stir in sugar to taste. Use to toss with other fruits in a tropical salad. Schneider suggests using the pulp as a flavoring: "There is so much perfume and so little pulp that you can think of it as you would vanilla, or Cognac, or a spoon of dense raspberry puree -- something to aromatize a dish." She freezes the pulp in ice cube trays to add to sauces, whipped cream, pudding or soufflés. Finally, for a romantic interlude, nothing is better than a blissful passion fruit and champagne cocktail.


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Killer Shark Spotted Close to Clintons' Long Island Rental
by Oleg Penkovsky on 10/06/16 at 6:25 am
Quogue, NY – (Satireworld.com)
Nicknamed locally the Whitewater Killer after Bill 'n' Hill's disastrous real estate investment punt a Great White Loan Shark was sighted this morning menacing Long Island's balmy waters near the Vince Foster Lane private beach where the former Fist Couple is vacationing come August.
Long time Quogue resident Heine Grubbovitz videoed the 30-ft, 7,500lb monster prowling the breakers from the relative safety of his shingled teardown that nets a cool $50,000 per week high season if Long Island pool sharks are to be believed.
Footage of the killer was also posted on the Hamptons Farcebook where worried Suffolk C*unty home owners are already freaking out about 'yet another Clinton vacation' dragging the upmarket area into disrepute.
"Nobody is safe until this menace is dealt with," Sagg Harbor pest control sources warned on the website, "ditto the Killer Shark."
Long Island Coast Guard meanwhile is patroling the area reportedly armed with marine-grade teasers (Tasers? – Ed) and the latest high tech laser-guided grenade luncher. Uh, launcher.
The 200-strong task force apparently eschewed an FBI offer of half a hundredweight of rat shot, two bullets of which were found inside ex-Clinton White House legal counsel Vince Foster's temple following his widely publicised 1993 'suicide'
"All Montauk National Guard leave has been cancelled," authorities told Satireworld reporters, "until the beast is brought to book."


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I love this cute little red desk. I believe the image is from Pottery Barn. Any old desk can be painted in a great Red color. I recently painted an old rocking chair that had been in my daughter's nursery (previously peeling white paint) a bright cherry red. It is great in a guest bedroom. Look around, what are you waiting for? What can you repurpose?
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Discussion in 'Android Devices' started by sonicphate, Jan 12, 2010.
Has any one got the google in car navigation working in the uk yet?
As far as I'm aware, the turn-by-turn feature is only available in the US. Same with Google Voice
how frustating! i will have to wait for a workaround to be found.. i have found a few posts from people who claim to have it working but no real proof yet!
Friend of mine had it working on the HTC magic - don't ask me how.
Not worth it though, it seemed very medicore to say the least. The voice instructions were pretty much unintelligable.
When copilot is about
below link shows how to get it on hero
Google Maps Navigation UK: Follow our tutorial! | Electricpig
I've heard that the same thing works on N1 but being new to android have not yet plucked up the courage to give it a try
Thanks CXM i will give it a try
I scanned down that article and it seems that that particular workaround might have been closed, so I would be interested to hear if it worked for you. I did see on another forum a UK nexus user saying that he had it working no problem but can't for the life of me find that post so I can ask him how he did it.. I will keep looking. Let me know how you get on..
Just checked with another user on another forum and got the following response
"Guys, this DOES work (I have it working on mine). Like @cxm says above, a little Googling will produce the answer. There is a "hacked" map out there that you can install but make sure it's version 3.3.1 brut_but_no_root_3 (this will place 2 map icons on your list but there is nothing to distinguish which one is the stock and which is the re-jigged version ), install it with ApkInstall, you also need to download SpeechSynthesis Data installer (available in the Market). When you open the newly installed map and get directions the option to navigate will appear. Click on it and it works. The one little bug that I noticed is that the 1st time you navigate you get no voice directions. By pressing the "back" key and pressing the "navigate" link a 2nd time the voice then comes on line.
Happy tinkering !"
looks like it will work albeit with the odd quirk


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Swiss tennis legend Roger Federer announced on Monday that he has pulled out of the Madrid Open Masters 1000 tournament.
The Swiss maestro, ranked third in the world and champion of the Madrid Open in 2006, 2009 and 2012, told the press that he preferred not to take the risk and revealed his withdrawal was due to a "back problem," reports Efe.
Federer explained that he has back pain and that he had to stop training on Sunday and Monday, adding that he did not want to take any risks before Wednesday when he was scheduled to start his Madrid campaign.
The Swiss added that he would prefer to prepare for the Italian Open instead.


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The D-Tap Cable (also known as P-Tap) is designed for an alternative way to power the P360/P200/P180E. A 2.5mm DC Connector plugs into the light, the opposite end features an industry standard D-Tap Connection that plugs into professional DC Broadcast Batteries. This is a coiled cable that extends to 2 ft long and allows for direct connection to a DC battery without having excess slack on set. Features


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