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We are a national network of NSI Gold (highest level) approved companies. (most others are nsi silver etc)
We offer specialise domestic (homes) only police response systems.
These are wireless based for tidy and clean installs.
We install them for a subsidised fee and rent the systems per month (varies depending on size of system currently £19.99 inc vat a month)
all systems are remotly monitored and will call the homeowner on any activation (intruder, flood, smoke, CO, gas etc (if fitted)) and the police if a confirmed intruder alarm.
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The OHL's Ottawa 67's announced Wednesday that winger and Lightning prospect Matias Sointu was traded to the Sudbury Wolves for goaltender Francis Dupuis.
According to the Orleans Star, the trade represents an opportunity to gain more playing time for Sointu.
"Here in Ottawa, we have a solid group of young forwards and with Corey Cowick coming back in the New Year it looked like Matias wasn't going to get the minutes he needs to continue his development,†67's coach Chris Byrne told the Star. "In Sudbury, I think he'll be a top-six forward and have the opportunity to develop at a faster pace. We thank him for his contribution to our team and wish him well with the Wolves.â€
Dupuis is expected to be Ottawa's third goaltender.
Sointu, a seventh round pick of the Lightning in 2008, is playing his first year in North America. He has three goals, 10 points, and a plus-7 rating in 21 games so far this season.
Sudbury is 9-14-1-2 and in fourth in the Central Division, one point ahead of last place Niagara.
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Google's recent revelation of a semantic approach to search results may mean big changes for search marketers and brands. Here's a look at what's at stake.
Via Val Melamed
Social Media On Your Brand, Your Brand On Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]...
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The Art Of Storytelling In Business Communications And Public Relations...
You could make an argument that the Infographic is the new black.
Beyond the visual appeal, Infographics push companies to communicate at the industry level.
Specifically, Lou Hoffman contends there's often a gap between the content developed by the PR function and the type of content needed by journalists, bloggers and other influencers.
This Infographic strives to capture this disconnect.
By Lou Hoffman http://bit.ly/ORK2U0
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Recently discovered in a McKinsey Global Inst Report "The Social Economy: Unlocking Value And Productivity Through Social Technologies" , Statista's Chart 'The Rapid Rise Of Social Media' shows how the pace of technological progress has changed over the past century and the time it took selected technologies and services to reach 50 million users worldwide.
It took the radio 38 years to reach 50 million users worldwide. The next revolution came around a little quicker: 13 years passed until 50 million people enjoyed moving images in their own homes.
With the arrival of the internet the pace of technological adoption really picked up: while it still took internet service providers three years to reach 50 million subscribers, the world wide web dramatically enlarged the potential audience for everyone with an innovative product or service.
Facebook, now on track to reach 1 billion users, needed just one year to reach 50 million users and Twitter was even quicker to reach that milestone.
By Statista http://bit.ly/OrtrDi
Source http://bit.ly/N4X3Hk
Download the Report The Social Economy: Unlocking Value And Productivity Through Social Technologies [PDF] http://bit.ly/MlE5Qq
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This piece and infographic is from Senay Johnson's Marketing Daily
Excerpt from this article:
"It's a business-eat-business universe and B2B marketers today must utilize social media channels if they want a chance at surviving alone in the deep recesses of space.
Businesses that understand the importance of adding social elements to their marketing campaigns empower customers and prospects to share with their networks.
**This peer-to-peer word of mouth messaging is highly trusted and very effective in amplifying the impact of your campaigns".
In the following infographic, we examine the elements of a successful B2B social marketing campaign to help you learn how to make your business move at the speed of light.
Selected by Jan Gordon covering "Curation, Social Business and Beyond"
See infographic here: [http://bit.ly/OIQf5y]
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Social media is emerging from its adolescent phase and is rapidly maturing. Facebook , Twitter, Google+, YouTube and the fast emerging Pinterest have all been embraced by the top companies as they find ways to leverage their brands globally.
Via Efraim Silver
According to new data, Google +1s have a stronger correlation to high natural search rankings than Facebook Likes, and play a bigger role in a blended natural search strategy.
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Freelance writers should try to connect in social media with editors and other prospects -- the right way. Here are 5 popular screwups...
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Robin Good: If you are looking for great examples of Facebook marketing at work, you may want to check the Facebook Studio, an official gallery/catalog of marketing campaigns using FB.
"...a place where creative agencies and marketers can deposit examples of great campaigns that leverages on the online social network to connect with audiences and have authentic conversations.
So far Facebook Studio has over 750 examples submitted and approved from around the world, and Facebook also holds the Facebook Studio Awards every year to recognize and laud the best work in the field.
Agencies can create an online profile on Facebook Studio that shows off their creative digital work, along with any of the awards accorded by Facebook.
These profiles go into a directory which is searchable and accessible, so you can preview the work.
Creatives who have worked on those projects or campaigns can be "tagged", so people know who's been involved in them. Creative individuals can also build their own profiles – which is separate from their regular Facebook profile (although they can be linked) – so that they can be tied to the work they're involved in."
Source: http://www.youngupstarts.com/2012/07/13/digital-creatives-can-build-credibility-with-facebook-studio-and-facebook-studio-edge/
Get inspired.
Check it out here: http://www.facebook-studio.com/
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Mobile has blown up–in large part to the fact that more than 50 percent of the U.S. population now owns a smart phone and the tablet market has completely took off since the iPad burst on the scene in 2010....
So, what if you want to get smarter about mobile? Where do you turn? That was my question a couple weeks ago. I even asked someone who I would consider a mobile expert, Aaron Strout, where he would look. He was kind enough to point me in a few spots. Below is a short list of 10 go-to mobile resources for you to source to starting learning more about this evolving–and important–discipline in our field...
[Great list of mobile marketing resources from Arik Hanson]
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People are watching a lot more video on connected devices these days. Why aren't advertisers paying big bucks to get in front of viewers?
Via Efraim Silver
94 percent of corporate businesses use social media, while 85 percent say that it's given their business more exposure. The infographic below shows how and why businesses are blogging and going social.
Key takeaways:
- 94% of businesses use social media
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Infographics have recently become one of the hottest trends in marketing, which is why you should be including them in your marketing content.
Via Cambridge Marketing College
You've probably been hearing more about agile marketing lately. Over the past 6 months, there has been a blossoming Renaissance of discussions, writings, and events on the subject — a number of which I summed up in a recent Search...
Via Nick Simpson
This piece is from Socialmouths, here are some interesting findings from Coupon Cabin's infographic:
Jan Gordon:
Nothing is written in stone, the research says younger people are more inclined to follow recommendations about products or services from their friends than people over 55. I personally think that is changing as social communities evolve.
"we keep trying to close the gap between discovery and recommendation through Social Media and actual sales.
**Are Likes eventually turning into Buys?
Here's one highlight that caught my attention:
The reason social media users are following brands divided by gender –
**The study by Burst Media says the #1 reason is to keep up with content. In my opinion, people follow a brand to get something in exchange, a discount or special deals. I might check out a brand to learn something about it but that doesn't mean I will "follow" that brand.
18% of social media are influenced by friends behavior – This is what we have talking about to small business, look at social media as a discovery and recommendation engine. This is the core of Earned Media.
**People are influenced by their friends much more than by any advertising.
**The "Age Factor" –
**Individuals under 35 are more likely to be influenced by their friends behavior than a 55 year-old
**There are a lot of elements to play with here but it's basically just human nature, younger people rely more on others opinions than a 55 year-old.
**Which doesn't mean you should ignore this, it is very important that you consider these things when approaching your audience.
Selected by Jan Gordon covering "Curation, Social Business and Beyond"
See article and infographic here: [http://bit.ly/MYSIZO]
Infographic courtesy of: Coupon Cabin
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18% of Social Media users are influenced by their friend's behavior when they follow and interact with brands.
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Martin (Marty) Smith's comment, August 2, 2012 7:37 AM
Mario thanks for the Resoop to a feed I relate too :). Marty
Martin (Marty) Smith's comment, August 2, 2012 7:48 AM
Tobias, thanks for the Rescoop and follows. Look forward to learning from you. Marty
Martin (Marty) Smith's comment, August 2, 2012 9:31 AM
Gunter thanks for the Rescoop to Social Media & Sustainability (both topics dear to my heart). Marty
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I selected this because as Robin Good says, it works better than Twitter lists and anything that helps manage, discover and utilize people, content, news in a more efficient way is something I need and want to share with others. Thank you Robin for another great find!
Robin Good: Slices is a news discovery app that allows you to find the news that interest you by "slicing" the Twitter timeline into topic-specific categories, making it much easier to find what you are looking for.
From Pandodaily official review: "Slices offers 21 searchable categories – humor, technology, sports, and so on – that lead you to people and lists to follow. Included among those top-level categories is the "Live Events" option, which allows you to select an event – a football match, say, or a TV show – and follow Tweets from a curated list.
...The "Timeline Slicer" also outdoes Twitter's Lists as a way to organize the people you follow into specific categories. They're easier to set up and easier to access, ..."
Source: Pandodaily
Slices is available on iOS, Android and the Web.
Find out more: https://slices.me/
Selected by Jan Gordon covering "Curation, Social Business and Beyond"
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Photography is experiencing a revolution. Sites such as Pinterest and Instagram are allowing us to share this visual art form in glorious color, creativity and ease just by pinning images with a couple of clicks.
Via Efraim Silver
* 52 percent of respondents to a SodaHead poll reported that they planned to spend less time on Facebook
* 73 percent of respondents believe a future social network will eclipse Facebook altogether.
* 72 percent of consumers were disinterested in a possible iPad mini
* 74 percent were similarly underwhelmed by the prospect of the iPhone 5.
Infographics on How and Where did Google makes most Revenue of $37.9 Billion Profit Case Study from Google Advertising in Finance & Insurance related keyword...
Via Alex Butler
Facts and stats to show your boss or client, who is reluctant about adopting a mobile strategy.
Via Miguel Rodriguez
Robin Good: Here are five fashion curation apps that can help you to create a visua inventory of your wardrobe, while helping you find new "combinations" and new cool products you want to buy.
The five apps covered are:Pose (free) Cloth (free - limited time) Netrobe (free) StyleBook ($3.99) TouchCloset ($9.99)
N.B.: Outside of Cloth which has also an Android verison, these are all iPhone/iOS apps.
Interesting. Resourceful. 8/10
Full article: http://mashable.com/2012/07/13/closet-management-apps/#view_as_one_page-gallery_box6477
Via Robin Good
Giuseppe Mauriello: Rewindy is the first visual story-sharing service. Create, personalize and share life events like travel, family or hobby events. You can share the story privately to a few friends using email or more publicly using Facebook or Twitter.
From Rewindy Blog:
"The photo doesn't often capture the thoughts or feelings of the people in the event. This is why people love stories. A story is a narrative you can relate to and it highlights thoughts, emotions, relationships and can freely go into history or speculate about the future.
Things that are at extremely difficult with photos. A photo on the other hand creates a very detailed picture of a person, scene or object in the viewers mind.
The combination of these two the photos and the story is a visual story. Bringing together the context and narrative what happened behind the photos, with the best visual images. A visual story is a much more personal and expressive way to share your photos, or a visually beautiful way to share your story..."
Rewindy is in private beta now. Request an invitation here:
Read more: http://blog.rewindy.com/post/26965288332/photosharing-versus-storysharing
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DISCLAIMERI want to begin by just touching on something that you should be mindful of before reading my Episode 6 summary. Hear me out. By now, everyone on these boards knows that I think Tom Westman is easily the greatest Survivor ever, as well as the coolest person alive. Odds are pretty high that hes never gonna read this, because hes busy catching sharks, smooching his wife, rescuing people from burning buildings, being classy, doing really cool stuff with his kids, or selflessly helping someone less fortunate. Think what you will, I think hes awesome, and he's already heard that from me.
But why the heck am I bringing this up? Because some of you remember my early Reality TV World days, where I was anything but nice when I talked about Tom. I hated the way they edited him in the seasons first half they made him look bossy, irrational, and oblivious to the game. It took awhile for things in Palau to unfold. The same goes for here in Guatemala. Opinions change. We are at the point in the season where things are uncertain. Unfortunately, in order for new winners and to be crowned, the remaining contestants in the game must be bashed, pushed to the limit and put through the gauntlet a couple of times, which allows us to appreciate those that survive these tongue-lashings all the more.
So, with that said, I have prepared a rather lengthy summary. Do yourself a favor, and grab some popcorn, a Sam Adams, a comfortable chair, and read what I have written. You will not be disappointed. Enjoy.
Previously on StephVivor: Brian wasted 3 minutes of my life biitching about Blue States vs. Red States. In doing so, he cemented his role in my memory as the most annoying person ever picked to play Survivor. Jamie couldnt cut rope. Stephenies tribe lost Reward, making her cry. Jamie rolled his eyes. For winning the Reward Challenge, Mark Burnett rewarded Yaxha with a crocodile-proof swimming pool, wooden deck, minibar, poolside furniture, stainless steel grill, slurpee machine, bumper-pool table, and regulation-size beach volleyball court. Stephenie called BobbyJon a homo. Lydia did the Pancake. Stephenies tribe won Immunity, making her cry. Blake, my pick to win this whole damn thing, spewed too much info about his girlfriends melons. Brian set out on a mission to purge Blake from the new Yaxha, and although Blake didnt think hed be heaved, he was booted. All puns intentional.
Music starts: Oy ee ah ooooh ee ah ay yah ooooh ee oh ee oh eee yaa haa, ... and so on. Flashing pictures of players I either dislike or through editing, have never seen before, as well as some animals that live about 500 miles away from the filming site. And somewhere in those opening credits, a nice sequence of Cindys wet butt... moving. Soaking wet. And so squeezable. Mmmmmm. Cindys wet butt. Mmmmmmmm...... This euphoria is ruined by images of creepy masks made out of construction paper, finger paint, and Elmers school glue. Wait a minute, Im gonna call Mark Burnetts bluff here. The Mayans were waaaay too advanced to make masks resembling pieces of garbage like that.
But as for Cindys wet butt, its moments like this that I wish I had TiVo, so I could record that 5-second sequence and replay it over and over and over. But dreams like being able to afford things like TiVo are high hopes for broke college guys like me, who financially struggle when even purchasing a $0.08 pack of beef-flavored ramen noodles from Walmart.
We are welcomed with images of a burning wood, and lots of it. Hey, did they bring Butch from the Amazon season back to burn down Yaxha? Brandon starts off by talking about how surprised he was that Blake was voted off. We see him asking BoobyJon about this down by the dock. Yes, BoobyJon. I need to explain something here. I have a condition, caused by a few recessive genes and shared by many other male members of these message boards, that causes me to type Booby instead of Bobby. You can tell whats on my mind.
So BoobyJon answers Brandon with some classic verbal diarrhea, saying he had to vote out Blake. Brandons confused. Yeah, I also fail to see his logic. In a confessional, Brian says that voting out Blake was kind of like a Get Out of Jail Free Card for him, Gary, and Amy. Damn. I hate it when people like Brian come on the show so that they can use hackneyed, non-funny catch phrases like that. Okay Brian, we get it, you pulled an upset last night. Great. If I ended up on a tribe with Brian on Survivor, my luxury item would be a phonebook of the entire New York City greater Metropolitan Area, and Id strike Brian across the face with it every time he opened his mouth.
We move over to Nakum, where in the trees we see Judd, um... I mean, a howler monkey scratching himself. Jamies rolling his eyes, and is now having his 12th consecutive day of PMS. Jamie and Judd, who we can affectionately refer to as the A-Hole Alliance, are whining about mosquitoes buzzing in their ears. Stephenie says the mosquitoes are gay and retarded. Zookeeper Cindy gives us some insight about the circadian rhythms and adult life cycle of the mosquitoes. Some Nakumers, particularly Judd, point out that Margaret has been negative and antisocial. Well, if I was stuck with the same Lionel Richie-esque hairstyle that Margaret has, Id be pretty negative and antisocial, too.
Margaret points out that she used to be much higher on the food chain than she is now after this tribal switchup. It appears food has become so scarce that theyve all resorted to cannibalism. Now this doesnt seem right to me at all. If I was on Nakum and hungry, I would put Judd at the top of that list. Just look at him theres enough beef tenderloin on Judd to feed the entire nation of Guatemala for 39 days.


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The Jets trading cornerback Darrelle Revis to the Buccaneers just got a lot more likely.
Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the Jets have granted permission for Revis to visit Tampa Bay and undergo a physical with the Buccaneers.
Obviously, there's no reason to do that except that the Jets and Bucs are planning a trade, and the Bucs want to be sure that Revis has made sufficient progress from the torn ACL that cut short his 2012 season. If the Bucs' doctors clear Revis, it's highly likely that Revis will be a Buccaneer within the next few days.
Now the biggest question is how much compensation the Bucs will give up for Revis. It's expected that the Jets will get Tampa Bay's first-round draft pick, No. 13 overall, and additional picks beyond that.
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Playing With Color
I have had an amazing year! So far, only one month has fully passed in 2012, but already I have had an amazing time meeting my new mentee, Spread The Love Graduate-Natalie Fox, and all the Salon Centric Consultants in New Orleans, hanging out with some of the greatest Matrix Artistic Educators in Irvine, California and then the rest of the greatest Matrix Artistic Educators in Tampa, Florida. We have had so much fun celebrating what we can do with haircolor and in between with some friends like Sandra Smith, Derek Rutherford and Julio from Canada, we have been working on some really cool new ideas to celebrate. So, I thought I'd share some of the things we talked about Celebrating Redheads.
Though not the most popular color when you walk down the street, redheads are so important to the success of a salon. Red may not be the color that everyone asks for, but an amazing redhead is the color that people admire, talk about and notice when they walk in or out of a salon. What are the keys to a great redhead? For me there are two that I focus on - wearability and the second/third reflect.
Salon created redheads have long suffered with the challenge of fadage, and with new technology, education and the right take home products, this is no longer a problem we hairdressers can't fix. It used to be the color and not having the right products for the guest to maintain what was beautiful in the salon from washing away. Today with new technology that allows color to "grip" hair in new ways enabling the color to become more stable in the hair and resist fading, combined with Ceramides that help improve hair quality while coloring, fadage is something that is more cause-effect (like going the beach without a hat) than washed away. I love proving to salons guests that we can create a great fade proof red with the right products - I love Matrix color, as you know, and the right professional products for at home use to maintain color, again I love Matrix. In three visits, we can create the red they always wanted. When you want to challenge a guest and show them that you can create the red they have always wanted, tell them to judge your work/their color on not just how it looks when they leave the salon (that should always be great), instead tell them to judge how great their color is by how it looks when they return for their appointment 4-6 weeks later.
The Second and Third Reflect
With redheads, the fact that the hair is red, is not really what your eye is picking up on, it is the second and third reflect that really excites our eyes. Is it red/red, red/violet, red/orange, red/copper, red/gold or red/brown? Sometimes even red/copper/copper or red/copper/gold or even red/copper/brown, but it is always the copper, copper/gold or violet that is really grabbing our attention. So, next time you want to have fun with a redhead, play with the second and third reflects - it can make a winter red have new pop for spring summer.
This year I am Celebrating Haircolor all year long and want to share ideas that will have us Celebrating Your Color that you create everyday. If you have a great tip for redheads, let me know…and the next blog will share ideas for blondes or brunettes.


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The characterization of the nonphysical follows directly from that of the definition of physical. Purely physical devices can detect neither the nonphysical nor the supernatural. I have never heard of a purely physical device that can detect souls. Therefore, souls are nonphysical. Truly, I know what life is not, but not quite what life is. Our experience is that life is accompanied by the physical; very much the same that charge is always accompanied by mass.
The notion of reality being physical/nonphysical/supernatural is very much the same as the Christian notion of body/mind/spirit.
I do not know enough of Thomism. What I know if that we begin with really existing entities and can study different aspects of them. For instance, if you throw someone out the window you will be able to study the action of gravity just as much as if you had thrown a stone. What comes into play is only the physical.
I use the term purely physical devices to exclude humans as detectors when doing science to be able to interact only with the physical and not the two other aspects of reality.
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Let me reply within the text of your comments.
My comments were made as I read them.
Hence, some may be inappropriate, but keep reading.
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> Bill,
> As I have indicated often, if one cannot define what is physical, nothing
> can be defined and thus we will be immersed in total confusion. Physical
> is anything that is composed of atoms, molecules, radiation, etc., viz.
> matter and/or energy, i.e., inorganic. In fact, the subject matter of
> physics is the physical aspect of Nature, which is also the subject matter
> of science.
I do not see how this is helpful. What you are attempting to provide is
an extensional definition of what is "physical."
However, while this tells me what is "physical," it tells me nothing, or
next to nothing, about what is not.
The list of what is "physical" has changed greatly in the past 300 years.
It seems that what is "physical" is what science can investigate,
which can only mean that it produces phenomena.
Yet God and human souls produce phenomena.
Do we want to further restrict the "physical" to what is lawful?
Yet what is "lawful."
The human soul has "lawful" aspects. There are sciences of human
sociology, etc. Does this mean that the soul is "physical"?
> Like electric charge, life is "quantized," that is, you cannot
> partition life into little pieces. You cannot have a fraction of
> "life," it is the whole without parts. Of course, a living being does
> have parts, which it can live without. However, such is not the case for
> "life."
I hear you saying that "life" is unanalyzable, which is just what Bohr
said of quanta (they make unanalyzable "quantum jumps").
Does "life" emerge from the physical parts?
If it emerges, does that mean, as emergentists mean, that "life" supervenes
on the "physical." That "life" is not a new "material" or "stuff" (I'm
trying older words to avoid ambiguity), rather that the
properties of the physical base cannot account for the properties of "life."
This is the standard nonreductionist physicalists position.
Yet, I know, you are not a physicalist. Hence, you must be saying that "life"
is a new "substance" or "stuff."
Perhaps you are saying that the physical is necessary for "life," but not
The orthodox position might be that to the physical is added a nonphysical
soul, and this "addition" creates "life."
> I agree that emergentists are physicalists, but I am not of that belief.
> Life is not part of the subject matter of science. Of course, perhaps
> one-day the definition of science can be changes so to include life as
> part of its subject matter.
> Nature has three aspects physical/nonphysical/supernatural. There are two
> sorts of detectors: Human beings and purely physical devices. The former
> detects all three aspects while the latter detects only the physical.
> Examples of nonphysical are mental concepts, mathematical notions, etc. I
> believe consciousness and reasoning are supernatural. However, not divine.
> There are levels of the supernatural and humans may be at the lowest level
> with God at the highest. Human existence is derived from that of God, the
> only self-existing being.
Yes, I've heard you say this before.
I guess I have no problem with this.
Perhaps we were talking at cross purposes.
I think what thread I was following had to do with imagining a different world
than what we normally confine it to.
> Science does not deal directly with being, the ontological, but the
> physical aspect, which is extracted from the truly existing entity. How
> can science be dealing with real being when the subject matter of science
> is based on physical records of past events?
When you say "physical aspect," are you speaking as if there was something
like "substance" or what in the long past was meant by "matter" so that
this "stuff" has various aspects, including the "physical," "nonphysical,"
and "supernatural"?
If this is the case, then is that why you speak of "pure" aspects, as in
"purely physical." Does this mean that your ontology is that being, or perhaps
better Being, can take on different aspects. Is this view similar to
some form of Thomism?
> Moorad
> ________________________________________
> From: wjp [email@example.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:23 AM
> To: "" email@example.com; Alexanian, Moorad
> Cc: Cameron Wybrow; asa
> Subject: RE: [asa] RE: (irreducible complexity and evolution) design and
> thenature of science (was: Re: [asa] Re: Gingerich on TE and ID)
> Moorad:
> Yes, I think I understood, from earlier discussions, that this is what you
> might mean.
> What you suggest of life is conventional emergence.
> One would say that "life" supervenes on the physical.
> I, however, am suggesting something more radical.
> Emergentists are physicalists.
> In trying to understand this position we need to try to understand
> what exactly they, or anyone, means by physical.
> We've been struggling with that.
> You, as I and, I think Cameron (and perhaps almost everyone on this
> list) believe there is something that is nonphysical, even though we
> apparently have trouble defining what exactly that is.
> How exactly does this nonphysical show up? Can we point to it?
> Are we Cartesians, believing that essentially only the human soul,
> angels, and God have nonphysical components, otherwise everything is
> physical?
> I have been suggesting that the term "physical" is impotent, and the
> distinction between physical and nonphysical is empty.
> The radical notion that I have been entertaining attempts to get
> at the physicalist presumptions of emergence, and to suggest
> that, yes, the whole is greater than the parts, but that, in
> addition, the whole is of a different ontological status than
> the parts.
> Is this impossible? If so, why?
> Is it conceptual or ontological (metaphysical)?
> It seems that we reject this because by reason of conception.
> This, then, gets at what we mean by physical.
> So there appears to be two distinct options:
> 1) The parts are physical, but the properties of the whole is
> "greater" than the parts in some sense.
> 2) The parts are physical, but the whole is ontologically
> "greater" than the ontological parts.
> Is this a real distinction? If not, does it start to
> get at what we mean by ontology and properties.
> When do we say that the ontology has remained constant,
> say that they have remained physical?
> thanks,
> bill
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:27:15 -0400, "Alexanian, Moorad"
> <email@example.com> wrote:
>> Bill,
>> What I had in mind was an extreme example of synergy; the whole is
> greater
>> than the sum of its parts, whereby the system cannot be subdivided. It
>> seems to me that a purely physical entity, say, DNA, can arise over time
>> from an existing soup where all the basic ingredients are present. It is
> a
>> question of probabilities and the a priori knowledge that such complex
>> molecules can exist. That is to say, just having electrons and protons
>> does not tell you that you can form neutral hydrogen atoms if the
> dynamics
>> did not exist that made that outcome possible. If the flagellum is
> purely
>> physical, then I have no qualms about it arising from simpler
> components.
>> However, I believe that is not the case with life. There are no
>> "parts" to life. That is why people use the term emergent for such
>> types of synergies.
>> Moorad
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Bill Powers [email@example.com]
>> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 6:15 PM
>> To: Alexanian, Moorad
>> Cc: Cameron Wybrow; asa
>> Subject: RE: [asa] RE: (irreducible complexity and evolution) design and
>> the nature of science (was: Re: [asa] Re: Gingerich on TE and ID)
>> Moorad:
>> IC refers to an entity that it is believed to have been constructed of
>> its parts. It is possible for the parts to exist independent of the
>> constructed entitiy. You appear to be conflating IC with what we mean
>> by the essential constitutes of an entity, that is, what semantically
>> and perhaps ontologically required for an entity to belong to a certain
>> class of entities.
>> I'm perhaps wrong about what you're saying. Got to go.
>> Bye
>> bill
>> On Mon, 15 Jun
>> 2009, Alexanian, Moorad wrote:
>>> According to this definition of irreducible complexity, an electron, as
>> currently understood, is irreducible complex. Supposedly the different
>> parts of the electron interact with each other and, in fact, owing to
> the
>> quantization of charge, no part of the electron can be removed from it
>> without violating charge quantization.
>>> Moorad
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: firstname.lastname@example.com [email@example.com] On Behalf
>> Of Cameron Wybrow [email@example.com]
>>> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 4:33 PM
>>> To: asa
>>> Subject: Re: [asa] RE: (irreducible complexity and evolution) design
> and
>> the nature of science (was: Re: [asa] Re: Gingerich on TE and ID)
>>> Bernie:
>>> Bill has partly answered your posts already, and my understanding is
>> about
>>> the same as his, but let me try to address your objections in my own
>> way.
>>> Two things must be kept distinct:
>>> 1. The nature of an irreducibly complex system
>>> 2. The question whether Darwinian evolutionary processes can produce
>>> irreducibly complex systems
>>> On point 1:
>>> "Irreducible complexity" is a non-historical, functional description of
>> a
>>> system. It indicates that all the parts are necessary for the whole to
>>> function. In an irreducibly complex system, all the parts interact in
>> such
>>> a way that the removal of one of them would cause the system to cease
>>> functioning. This is basically an engineering concept, having nothing
>>> intrinsically to do with evolution or even with biology.
>>> On point 2:
>>> We know from our experience as human beings that irreducibly complex
>> systems
>>> can be built by intelligent agents, e.g., ourselves. We do not have
>>> experience of inanimate matter building irreducibly complex systems.
>>> (Unless the inanimate matter is following a template, e.g., as in
>> embryonic
>>> development; but I am speaking of building them up from scratch, or
> from
>>> earlier systems which are quite different.) So the question is, can
>> natural
>>> processes, unguided by any intelligence, produce irreducibly complex
>>> systems, or transform one irreducibly complex system into an entirely
>>> different one?
>>> Darwinian evolution says that they can. Behe's argument is that there
>> are
>>> formidable barriers in biological systems to the production of
>> irreducibly
>>> complex systems by means of accidental mutations, even when those
>> mutations
>>> are culled by natural selection, because natural selection can't select
>> for
>>> a system which does not function. So how do you get enough mutations
>>> together to make up the new system that you want, so that "natural
>>> selection" can select it?
>>> Behe grants that in theory there might be intermediate stages between
>> two
>>> irreducibly complex systems, each of which has survival value. But he
>>> doesn't find much evidence in the Darwinian literature of these stages.
>>> Regarding Ken Miller, Miller and Behe have been at this for years.
> They
>>> have published several articles each on the irreducible complexity of
>> the
>>> flagellum. I think it is important that if you read Ken Miller's
>> criticism
>>> of Behe's argument, you read every one of Behe's rejoinders.
>>> First, Miller sometimes misrepresents Point 1 -- what Behe means by an
>>> irreducibly complex system. Whether this is out of lack of
>> understanding or
>>> out of malice, I don't know. Anyhow, Behe clarifies what he means in
>> his
>>> rejoinders. You can read them.
>>> Second, Miller has suggested as a possible intermediate the Type III
>>> secretory system. Let's say we grant this. It still doesn't do nearly
>>> enough to solve the problem that Behe is raising. There would have to
>> be a
>>> series of useful intermediates, not just one, between your basic
>> bacterium
>>> and your bacterium with a flagellum. So you still need some notion of
>> what
>>> these stages would have been, how they would have given the creature
>>> survival advantage, how they would be generated genetically, etc. 99%
>> of
>>> the story is missing. And in many cases in the animal kingdom, 100% of
>> the
>>> story is missing. What are the intermediate stages? What survival
>> value
>>> did they have? An eagle with 5% sharper eyesight has a definite
>> survival
>>> advantage. But what about a bat with half a wing, enough to impair the
>>> normal functioning of the arm, but not good enough to fly, or even
> glide
>> in
>>> a stable manner? What survival advantage would that intermediate form
>> have?
>>> Or a malfunctioning sonar, one which sometimes caught mosquitoes very
>> well,
>>> and other times let the bat crash into the cave wall? What survival
>>> advantage would that intermediate form have? If evolution had to work
>> up
>>> through such imperfect partial stages, it would certainly never get to
>> the
>>> bat. And Darwinists have yet to come up with even a single plausible
>>> sequence of intermediate forms, anywhere in the animal kingdom, that
>> could
>>> produce complex organic machinery such as the cardiovascular system.
>>> We can trace the "evolution" of the motor car. We can see
> "intermediate
>>> stages" between the Model T and modern cars. But all of those
>> intermediate
>>> stages were designed, irreducibly complex systems. They did not mutate
>> into
>>> the next phase by accident. The question is, can nature do the
>> equivalent,
>>> and manage, not just frequently but millions of times, to find its way,
>>> unguided, to useful intermediate forms? The Type III secretory system,
>> one
>>> possible intermediate in a single type of unicellular creature, is
> very
>>> thin evidence upon which to rest a mechanism which is supposed to
>> explain
>>> the entire macroevolutionary process.
>>> To bring this back to your original objection: Behe allows that
>> "evolution"
>>> (not of the Darwinian kind) might have produced irreducibly complex
>> systems.
>>> But if so, it would be "front-loaded" evolution of some kind, in which
>> the
>>> parts were, so to speak, self-assembling, almost as if they had an
>> inbuilt
>>> intelligence which told them when to appear and where to take their
>> place in
>>> the new arrangement. Needless to say, such a front-loaded evolution
>> would
>>> require a mind with an ability to handle complex interactions far
> beyond
>>> that of the greatest supercomputer, a superintelligence which could
> only
>> be
>>> divine. So if you go for front-loading, you have to believe in God.
>> Maybe
>>> not the Christian God, but some kind of God. Thus, Denton, who
> proposes
>>> such a system, speaks of God. Behe stops short of endorsing Denton's
>> view
>>> as the correct one, but allows it as a possible means of producing
>>> irreducible complexity through an evolutionary process.
>>> Once again, unless you rigorously separate "evolution" from "Darwinian
>>> evolution", as I have been begging everyone here to do, you will never
>>> understand the arguments or motivations of ID proponents. The
>> intelligent
>>> design of irreducibly complex systems is logically compatible with
>>> evolution, but not of course with Darwinian evolution.
>>> Cameron.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Dehler, Bernie" <email@example.com>
>>> Cc: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 2:18 PM
>>> Subject: RE: [asa] RE: (irreducible complexity and evolution) design
> and
>> the
>>> nature of science (was: Re: [asa] Re: Gingerich on TE and ID)
>>>> Bill said:
>>>> "The issue is the number of elements that must be simultaneously
>>>> available. If all the parts of a mouse trap are present
> simultaneously
>>>> it might even be possible for a car accident to put it together, but
>>>> highly unlikely."
>>>> As I understand irreducible complexity (IC) , it is argued that the
>> parts
>>>> can't al be around at the same time because there is no use for them
> to
>> be
>>>> around. That is the whole point of the argument- since there is no
> use
>>>> for them, they must have been created together all at once.
> Therefore-
>>>> evolution, guided or unguided, is impossible. Evolution is all about
>>>> building something more complex from more simpler building blocks. IC
>> is
>>>> all about this evolution being impossible, because there is no need
> for
>>>> the lower building blocks to be around.
>>>> ...Bernie
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Bill Powers [mailto:email@example.com]
>>>> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 10:34 AM
>>>> To: Dehler, Bernie
>>>> Cc: email@example.com
>>>> Subject: Re: [asa] RE: (irreducible complexity and evolution) design
>> and
>>>> the nature of science (was: Re: [asa] Re: Gingerich on TE and ID)
>>>> Bernie:
>>>> I'll let Cameron reply for himself.
>>>> But clearly your understanding of irreducible complexity cannot be
>>>> correct. After all, we do construct mouse traps and cars all the
> time.
>>>> The issue is the number of elements that must be simultaneously
>>>> available. If all the parts of a mouse trap are present
> simultaneously
>>>> it might even be possible for a car accident to put it together, but
>>>> highly unlikely.
>>>> It is a matter of probabalistic resources. In order to put togehter a
>>>> car, say on an assembly line, it is required that
>>>> 1) the available parts be simultaneously, or more carefully that they
>>>> would be available on the time scale much shorter than the dissipative
>>>> time scale (i.e., some measure of the effects of entropy, friction, or
>>>> chaotic mixing).
>>>> 2) That all the pieces would be put together on a time scale short
>>>> compared to the disordering time scale (e.g., the time for the parts
> to
>>>> rust, etc.).
>>>> Irreducible complexity, as I understand it, is a statement that the
>>>> joint probability of both the parts being nearly simultaneously
>>>> available, say over time DeltaT, and the probability of the parts
> being
>>>> put together over a time DeltaT is vanishingly small for a non-lawful,
>>>> non-intelligent process.
>>>> It assumes that there is no necessity in the parts coming together
>>>> (e.g., the parts of a mouse trap have not "lawful" reason to come
>>>> together, although once together they remain together, implying, it
>>>> seems short range forces). The parts must have a lifetime that is
> long
>>>> compared to the time of preparation, otherwise what is put together
>> will
>>>> not be made of the parts, although it might be possible that even a
>>>> rusty car could become a whole, or an "inferior" mousetrap.
>>>> bill
>>>> On Mon, 15 Jun
>>>> 2009, Dehler, Bernie wrote:
>>>>> Cameron quoted:
>>>>> " If the parts of the universe are so fine-tuned that they cannot
> help
>>>>> but fall together into certain biologically functional arrangements,
>> then
>>>>> irreducibly complex structures will of course form through a
>> front-loaded
>>>>> evolutionary process."
>>>>> I don't understand. I understand "irreducible complexity" to mean
>> that
>>>>> it is impossible for nature to sequentially build something complex
>>>>> because all the parts would need to appear at once (like the
> mousetrap
>>>>> needing all of it's basic parts to be present at the same time).
> This
>> is
>>>>> against evolution- guided or unguided.
>>>>> ...Bernie
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: email@example.com [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]
>> On
>>>>> Behalf Of Cameron Wybrow
>>>>> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 7:35 AM
>>>>> To: email@example.com
>>>>> Subject: Re: design and the nature of science (was: Re: [asa] Re:
>>>>> Gingerich on TE and ID)
>>>>> Actually, Bernie, that's not the case. Here are just three
> paragraphs
>>>>> for
>>>>> you:
>>>>> If the parts of the universe are so fine-tuned that they cannot help
>> but
>>>>> fall together into certain biologically functional arrangements, then
>>>>> irreducibly complex structures will of course form through a
>> front-loaded
>>>>> evolutionary process. The evolutionary process would then be
>> analogous
>>>>> to
>>>>> the embryological process, in that the outcome would be planned from
>> the
>>>>> beginning, with the changes all ready in advance. But this would be
> a
>>>>> planned evolutionary process, unlike Darwin's evolutionary process,
>> the
>>>>> essential nature of which is to be unplanned. Irreducible complexity
>>>>> does
>>>>> not clash with "evolution"; it clashes with "unplanned evolution".
>> Behe
>>>>> assumed that any careful reader of *Darwin's Black Box* would
>> understand
>>>>> that he was talking about "unplanned evolution".
>>>>> Of course, there is as yet no evidence that fine-tuning can
> accomplish
>>>>> such
>>>>> an evolutionary feat. Fine-tuning at the evolutionary level
>> essentially
>>>>> requires that the earliest DNA has the plan for the whole march of
>> life
>>>>> implicit in it, and this claim is still highly speculative, and will
>>>>> remain
>>>>> so until we understand what all the apparently unused DNA is for.
> But
>>>>> this
>>>>> view is no more speculative than Darwinism itself. Each view
> requires
>>>>> one
>>>>> seemingly incredible claim. Darwinism requires us to believe that
>> time
>>>>> after time, over the course of life, accident produces new functional
>>>>> structures, with the whole process conveniently tending upwards
> toward
>>>>> man;
>>>>> front-loading or fine-tuning requires us to believe that level after
>>>>> level
>>>>> of biological complexity is packed into the fundamental properties of
>> the
>>>>> chemical elements, and this gives to biochemical necessity the
> awesome
>>>>> power
>>>>> that Darwinism gives to chance. On the face of it, it seems
>> incredible
>>>>> that
>>>>> either chance or necessity could have such powers.
>>>>> The smart money, I would say, is on the view that the evolutionary
>>>>> process
>>>>> is in fact intelligently guided. It's a view consistent with our
>>>>> knowledge
>>>>> of integrated complex systems, and of the limited power of Darwinian
>>>>> mechanisms. It's a view in tune with common sense. It's the view
>> that
>>>>> seems to be held by Ted Davis and George Murphy and Robert Russell,
>> and
>>>>> also, I am told, by Owen Gingerich and other TEs. It is also a view
>>>>> compatible with the arguments of Behe and of many other ID
> supporters.
>>>>> But
>>>>> it is of course a view which, according to many here, is
> unscientific,
>> or
>>>>> non-scientific. I never said that intelligently guided evolution was
>>>>> "scientific" in the sense of a formal scientific hypothesis, but I
>>>>> certainly
>>>>> believe that it is compatible with the best scientific data -- more
>>>>> compatible, in fact, than pure Darwinism is. Once again, I think
> that
>>>>> when it is not afraid to say directly and without ambiguity that God
>>>>> controlled the evolutionary process to produce certain specific
>> results,
>>>>> is
>>>>> in tune with some versions of ID.
>>>>> Cameron.
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Dehler, Bernie" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
>>>>> To: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 3:19 PM
>>>>> Subject: RE: design and the nature of science (was: Re: [asa] Re:
>>>>> Gingerich
>>>>> on TE and ID)
>>>>>> I think one TE could say "yes" (fully gifted creation- Howard Van
>> Till),
>>>>>> and another might say "No" because God needs to guide it somewhat or
>> at
>>>>>> certain times.
>>>>>> Cameron said:
>>>>>> ID says, "NO -- unless the properties of the atoms and the laws of
>>>>>> nature
>>>>>> are fine-tuned, which implies design."
>>>>>> If ID says it could happen, then that blows apart Behe's mousetrap
>>>>>> example
>>>>>> (irreducible complexity), which is a pillar for ID I think ("Icons
> of
>>>>>> if you will).
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Last weekend I had the chance to take out the UK's current rock stars, Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker, to a place in the desert which boasts a very high concentration of sandstone roof crack routes and boulder problems. The climbs vary from thin fingers to massive off-widths and can be up to 50 meters long! Needless to say, they were very excited to get the tour and I was excited to take them back to my old stomping grounds and to a left over project or two.
Tom and Pete (aka the "Wideboyz") had just come off probably the best month of off-width climbing that has ever occurred and were ready for some more inverted craziness. In addition, another friend Pee Wee, (the Canadian crack climbing "manimal") was eager to send a project of mine that drive me nuts a few years back! Me, I didn't even know what kind of shape that I was in because I have been getting crushed by a local project of mine for weeks now. Fitness aside, we were all out to have a good time and do some rock climbing.
The weekend turned out to be a blast, Pee Wee was getting ever closer to unlocking the secrets of my old 27 meter overhanging nemesis. Pete and Tom took turns bashing it out upside down on yet again, another 5.13 off-width and I even managed to resend one of my favorite routes of all time, Army of Darkness. What I enjoyed the most about the weekend was learning more about how to solve problems on climbs. Each of us has our own strengths and weaknesses and we have to exploit them on routes in order to complete them without falling. One man's hand jam is another man's fist jam or one man's dyno to a finger lock is another man's "no way in hell!" I was able to see how truly differently we all climb and how it all works out in the end to get through a tough or tricky sequence.
Get outside and have an adventure!
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Outdoor Idaho "Idaho Fairways" OUTDOOR IDAHO cameras visit some of the state's golf courses that cater primarily to locals and are gathering places for the community. Some are on naturally challenging terrains, others are designed and created; some are built by farmers, others by a more formal process. From hillsides to canyons, from sharing space with an airport to links behind protective woods, Idaho's small courses offer unique experiences.G
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Remembered Earth: New Mexico's High Desert Travel a storied landscape of the American West, a land of hallowed mountains, red rock canyons and vast plateaus. Indian author N. Scott Momaday gives words to the landscape filmmaker John Grabowska captures on film. Together they present a thoughtful interpretation of land ethics. Indian actor Irene Bedard (Pocahontas) narrates.G
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Balance Disorders
Nearly 90 million Americans – more than one-third of the population –
report bouts of dizziness at some point in their lives. Of these, 76
million suffer from inner-ear disorders, which can be caused by whiplash,
blows to the head, viral infections, high doses of certain antibiotics,
strokes or degeneration of the inner ear's balance function, also known as
the vestibular system, which often deteriorates with age.
Balance disorders significantly reduce the quality of life for those
individuals affected. The brain receives signals from the eyes, muscles
and joints and from the inner ear, which contains semicircular canals
filled with moving fluid. Head movements stimulate the inner ear by
moving the fluid through the canals, thus sending messages to the brain
about the position of the head and the body. A slight malfunction in any
of these systems could cause a problem.
For the majority, an inner ear disorder is the cause of unsteadiness,
loss of balance, dizziness or that whirling sensation called "vertigo."
When the inner ear sends the brain incorrect information, or conflicting
signals, the person feels dizzy. The usual response to this sensation is
to limit movement so as to minimize the rocking or spinning sensations.
Other possible causes for problems with balance or dizziness are
metabolic inner ear or nervous system disorders, which often respond
well to prompt treatment.
Diagnosing balance disorders of the inner ear involves specialized
tests. These include:
Electronystagmography The patient is put
through a series of tests involving light and movement, and warm or cool
water is placed in the ear canals. The tests determine whether there is
a weakness on one side or the other and identifies where the weakness is.
Moving Platform Posturography The balance
system is made up of sight, the vestibular system, and the way you feel
or sense the world through your muscle and joints. Even the pressure of
the ground on the soles of your feet gives you information about
balance. The platform posturography looks at each individual system and
tries to identify where the problem is.
In this test, the patient stands on a platform and the position of the
platform is changed. The patient's head is also put into various
positions. The patient's posture is measured with his eyes open and with
his eyes closed in each position.
Evoked Potentials Patients are fitted with
headphones and given a series of sounds, such as clicks. These sounds
test the condition of the auditory system as well as the nerve
conduction to the brain.
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things are revolving). Several common medications for vertigo are
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Lea Michele Wears Mysterious Ring, Looking Skinnier Than Ever
Lea Michele's latest public appearances have prompted a lot of questions and concerns.
On Sunday (Oct. 20), the 'Glee' star was spotted at LAX wearing a never-before-seen diamond ring -- yes, on that finger. E! News has posted a photo of Lea at the airport, with a closeup look at the ring (see it here).
The singer-actress was returning from a weekend trip to San Francisco with friends Jonathan Groff and Skylar Astin. She posted a cute photo of her and the guys on Instagram yesterday (Oct. 21) with the caption, "Back from an amazing weekend in SF with these boys!"
This looks like a great time with good friends, so we don't think that the ring came from one of them. While the mystery of the ring has yet to be solved, sources have confirmed that it was not a secret engagement ring from her late boyfriend, Cory Monteith.
Meanwhile, Lea's gaunt appearance last night at Elle magazine's Women in Hollywood event has sparked fears that she hasn't been eating properly since Monteith's death in July. A source seems to confirm the speculation to HollywoodLife: "They want to make sure that she will eat, since that has rarely occurred since the news of his passing."
Lea does appear to look very thin in photos from the event, even in the ones she posted herself:
Take a look at the ones below and let us know what you think. Should we be worried about Lea's health?


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Beef Ribs From 'Pitt Cue Co.: The Cookbook'
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The four partners from the London BBQ restaurant Pitt Cue Co. are serious about their meat. In the new (to the U.S.) Pitt Cue Co.: The Cookbook, they strongly encourage home cooks to get serious, too, and for these outstanding beef ribs, they stress, "The quality of the beef here is everything". I tried to get high-quality meat, but I can't say it was the rare-breed, dry-aged beef that they extol. Nonetheless, this recipe turned out unctuous, crazy flavorful ribs. It is one of the simpler preparations in the book, requiring only the ribs and the house rub; sauce is optional and unnecessary. The rub—smoky, spicy and sweet—shows up in many of their recipes, including tomorrow's smoked roast chicken, which is good, because you end up with a lot of it. (Actually, I rubbed it over a pile of chicken wings to stretch the meal for a crowd, and lordy, they were good!) And they suggest serving these ribs with some of those dynamite pickled shiitakes that I raved about yesterday. This is a great example of how you kind of have to commit to the book as a whole, because so many of the recipes interconnect and share components.
Why I picked this recipe: Um, do you see the picture? I wanted to eat that. Also, it had minimal elements and *only* took 6 hours. And because I'm not super-skilled at the grill, I liked that they said the ribs could live through some fluctuation in temperature.
What worked: The rub was delicious. Want to rub it on everything. The fatty ribs responded so well to the long smoking, and the flavor of the meat + the rub was intense and worthwhile.
What didn't: Maybe it was the particular cut of ribs, or perhaps my grill temp dipped too low at times (I kept peeking), but the ribs could have used a little longer. They were not as tender as they could have been had the collagen in the meat been given more time to break down into gelatin (see, I learned things!). But they do say that the cooking times are very loose guides, so I'll take the fall on this one.
Suggested tweaks: If you're not terribly handy with a butcher's knife, when you buy your ribs, see if the butcher will take off the membrane for you. It really was a bit of a pain to remove, as they do forewarn. And make one of the sauces that they suggest, or buy your favorite bottle, but know that the ribs are perfectly delicious all on their own. As always with our Cook the Book feature, we have 5 copies of Pitt Cue Co.: The Cookbook, to give away this week.
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The New York Mets had planned, as they usually do when they are in Washington, to visit the Walter Reed Army Medical Center to comfort injured servicemen from Iraq and Afghanistan. This is a pet project of the Wilpons and the team knew well in advance what was to happen this week.
That night's starting pitcher, Dillon Gee, was making his major league debut and was excused. Everybody else was expected, not required, to attend. It was one of those unspoken gestures of team unity.
The firestorm is in that Carlos Beltran, Oliver Perez, and Luis Castillo, three players who have clashed with Mets' management this year and who carry heavy, yet unproductive contracts, opted not to attend without prior explanation.
Beltran said he had a meeting with his foundation to build a baseball academy in Puerto Rico; Castillo said he was uncomfortable at seeing the injuries; Perez offered no explanation.
Maybe Beltran could have rescheduled; maybe he could not have. But, it was his foundation, he knew of the conflict in advance and said nothing. He could have rescheduled. That's pretty lame. Beltran was aware of this visit to the hospital, and although he was supposedly doing charity work, it's still a weak effort on his part in communicating. Had he taken a more proactive approach, he wouldn't be lumped in with Perez and Castillo.
Still, it can't be forgotten how the Mets and Beltran clashed over surgery this spring, and if surgery had been done last summer how he might have recovered for this season. Instead, Beltran is owed $18.5 million for the final year of his contract, which the Mets would gladly unload.
Beltran's unexcused absence, regardless of the subsequent explanation, brings these other issues to light and puts him in an uncomfortable position. Beltran isn't stupid, he knows how the media operates and what would be made of this. Beltran is too smart to do something like this unless he was trying to make a statement.
Meanwhile, Castillo's comment that this would make him queasy is an insult to those who are injured. It is a high insensitive comment. It reminds me, that he didn't seem to have this reaction when he visited in the past.
You can insert your jokes about Castillo making you queasy here.
Still, the thing that sticks out with Castillo has been his disappointing, unproductive and tumultuous season and the $6 million remaining on next year's contract. He's not playing and is angry at the Mets. Was this the right way to express that anger?
Then, there is Perez, who was smart enough not to offer a lame excuse or lie. He just refused comment, which automatically makes anybody speculate what his agenda is. Perez is bitter at how he has been treated, although he brought on a lot of it himself. Perez is owed $12 million this year and next year and has refused all requests to do things that would make him better.
There's no doubting the Mets want somebody, anybody, to take these contracts off their hands, and it's no secret these guys want out. It's also no secret the Wilpons hate eating these contracts.
All what the hospital flap has done is make me wonder whether the boycotts were orchestrated as a way of forcing the team to say "enough is enough," and cut them loose with their 2011 contracts owed them. I'm thinking it is their way to force the issue on a release.
As far as conspiracy agendas go, it's a good one.
What also makes me scratch my head on this is Jerry Manuel's weak response, saying they are adults and can act they way they want. That's the way Jerry for spitting on the concepts of team and accountability and responsibility.


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Over the last few weeks I've become more and more convinced that Russell Wilson is the real deal. The biggest issue most seem to have is that we aren't averaging 225-250 yards a game. Infact Wilson is currently throwing for less yards/game than Tarvarias Jackson did last year. IIRC he averaged around 210 yards/gm. Russell is in the 180's.
When the idea of a pointguard QB was brought and further expanded by Kearly and English I immediately thought of Troy Aikman. Here's a guy who won 3 Super Bowls and was the leader of the Dynasty in the 90's. He's a hall of famer and most would consider him and "Elite QB".
So it surprised me to no end when I actually looked at his career stats. WIth Irvin, Novachek, Moose and Emmitt out of the backfield, they had a lot of good weapons that could move the chains. My dad is a Cowboys fan and I always cursed him team and the seemingly always picked up first downs when they needed them Most.
When you look at the 2 teams and QB's there are striking similarities. First the QB's
Aikman averaged just 200 yards a game throughout his career (unbeleivable right?). He had a 61.5% completion %, a 7.0 yards/Attmpt. He had just 1 season with 20+ TD's. (1992= 23). Averaging a mere 13.75 TD's/ Season.He averaged 11.75 INT's per season (He had 3 years with sub-10 INT ). Meanwhile the Cowboys had a terrific defense and an Elite OL and RB. The cowboys didn't need to throw it all over the year because they usually were able to build up a good lead by the mid-third quarter and they would rely on their "closer" Emmitt Smith to take them to the finish line.
Seattle is built much the same way a point guard QB with an elite running game supplemented by a pretty good defense that is still developing.
http://www.nfl.com/player/troyaikman/24 ... areerstats
My main point in sharing this is to say that Yards and prolific figures don't always equate to championships. The more complete teams are the one's that win. This Seattle team is much more complete than the one that began the season. The offense and defense both bring something to the table and it is evident by the play 4 of the last 5 weeks. I'm not concerned about the lack of passing yards so long as he continues to throw TD's and limits mistakes. I'm excited to see how this team grows over the next 3 weeks.


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- Radical Sheep Productions
- Animation Studio: Mercury Filmworks
- Distributed by: Family Channel, Bejuba! Entertainment
- Cartoon Characters: Stella, Sam.
- Voice Actors: Rachel Marcus, Miles Johnson.
- Directed By Raymond Jafelice.
- Produced By Michelle Melanson, John Leitch.
- Written By Sheila Dinsmore, Marie-Louise Gay.
- First Aired on January 11, 2011.
- Originally Aired on ABC Family (USA), Playhouse Disney (USA).
- Running Time: 11 minutes.
- Episode Number: 3A
- Season: 1
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AT&T*, the leader in emerging telecommunications services, today announced an agreement with Sirius XM Radio to provide mobile connectivity to support a suite of security and additional services for Nissan automobiles in North America.
SiriusXM's in-vehicle telematics solution will provide Nissan vehicle owners 24/7 emergency support for accidents, stolen vehicle tracking and roadside assistance, along with a host of additional services to be announced at a later date.
Glenn Lurie, president of AT&T Emerging Enterprises and Partnerships Organization, said:
"Your future car is going to be a smartphone with four wheels with powerful capabilities specifically built for a safe and enhanced customer experience."
"By adding fast, reliable and built-in mobile internet for SiriusXM's forthcoming in-car experience, we are powering a connected experience inside Nissan automobiles for both drivers and passengers."
"As a Connected Vehicle services provider for Nissan, we are excited to work with AT&T to deliver a world-class telematics service to Nissan vehicles," said Enrique Rodriguez, Executive Vice President, Operations and Products, SiriusXM. "SiriusXM is the leader in subscription services to the car and our network provides ubiquitous coast-to-coast delivery of our unparalleled audio entertainment and information services. Now, as we move into a connected vehicle world, SiriusXM will provide a telematics service that will offer Nissan vehicle owners a comprehensive set of telematics, information and entertainment services in their vehicle. A first for our industry."
SiriusXM will use the combination of satellite and cellular networks to expand features for customers. This combination of networks will allow SiriusXM to take advantage of both one-to-many and one-to-one network connectivity.
Telematics, Apps and Global Presence
AT&T has been an industry leader in telematics and related applications development, offering a range of connectivity and services for cars manufactured by a variety of global automotive makers. For more than a decade, AT&T has provided world-class connected and M2M device support and professional services to many of the world's largest device manufacturers and global exporters of wireless-enabled equipment. AT&T has certified and supports over 1,500 varieties of connected devices, with labs dedicated to bringing new devices to market, global roaming and integrated SIM provisioning, and billing and reporting tools.
Many of these advancements are being made possible as a result of AT&T's innovation programs, which include the AT&T Foundry, TIP (an internal innovation program) and AT&T Labs. Researchers are utilizing decades of speech recognition expertise, backed by the AT&T Watson speech engine to deliver a complete cloud-based, voice-enabled virtual assistant for use by automotive manufacturers. AT&T also provides support for hands-free speech-enabled services to prevent driver distraction, as well as remote vehicle functions such as door lock/unlock, remote start, and vehicle location services.
AT&T was also the first to enter the market with a proprietary, single global SIM platform enabling automotive, consumer and M2M equipment makers the ability to work through a single carrier to wirelessly enable and connect products. Announced last year, AT&T's single SIM platform delivers built-in access to wireless and data networks throughout most of the world, with service in more than 200 countries and access to more than 600 carriers worldwide. AT&T's platform is backed by a world-class service-management solution, AT&T Control Center powered by Jasper Wireless, and offers powerful global diagnostic, monitoring, and alert/response capabilities proven to help automate operations and reduce the total cost associated with globally connected vehicles, consumer devices and M2M deployment.
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Honored by Condé Nast Traveler as the No. 1 Western resort in 2012, The Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa is located in the heart of Vail Valley and features direct access to Beaver Creek skiing, golf, and numerous other year-round activities. The Westin Riverfront's Kids Club is a destination of discovery for guests ages 5 to 12.
The winner will stay in a spacious two-bedroom condo featuring a living area with two couches and seating for up to seven, and a balcony offering exhilarating views of Beaver Creek Mountain or Eagle River. Resort amenities include a spa, an outdoor pool, three hot tubs, Maya Athletic Club, room service, daily housekeeping and 24-hour guest service. The master bedroom and second bedroom feature Westin Heavenly Beds®, and there is a fully stocked kitchen, two full bathrooms, a gas fireplace, washer/dryer, a 42- inch flat-screen LCD TV, and complimentary wi-fi.
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NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. ODDS OF WINNING WILL DEPEND ON THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ENTRIES RECEIVED. Contest begins at 12:00 AM Pacific time on July 1, 2013 and ends at 11:59 PM Pacific time on July 31, 2013. Must be 21+ at time of entry to participate. Eligibility and other restrictions apply. ARV of Prize: $1,699. Sponsored by MiniTime, Inc. and Westin Riverfront Beaver Creek.
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NO ENTRY FEE. NO PURCHASE OR OBLIGATION NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. Entry deadline is July 31, 2013. Sweepstakes begins at 12:00 AM Pacific time on July 1, 2013 and ends at 11:59 PM Pacific time on July 31, 2013 (collectively, the "Sweepstakes Period").
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Prize includes resort fees and taxes. Subject to availability at time of booking. Blackout dates apply. The prize must be redeemed by December 12, 2013.The prize does not include airfare or transportation to the Resort. Winner is, and his or her travel companions are, solely responsible for (a) their own conduct while accepting the prize and agree to comply with all applicable laws and regulations pertaining to use and enjoyment of the prize; and (b) any and all federal, state, provincial and local taxes, if any, that apply to prizes. All other expenses not specifically mentioned herein, including applicable income taxes, are the sole responsibility of the winner.
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Use Your IRA to make
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gift to Boyce Thompson Arboretum!
Did you realize if you are 70 ½ years or older, new legislation allows you to make cash gifts totaling up to $100,000 a year from your IRA to qualified charities like Boyce Thompson Arboretum without incurring income tax on the withdrawal? Now you can make a charitable gift during your lifetime from your retirement assets and not incur income tax penalties. The provision is effective for tax years 2006 and 2007 only.
Charitable IRA Rollover Provision
The Pension Protection Act of 2006 contains a two-year IRA Charitable Rollover provision allowing people age 70 ½ or older to exclude up to $100,000 from their gross income in 2006 and 2007. The gifts are made directly to a qualified charity.
The new provision permits distributions from traditional IRAs or Roth IRAs to qualified public charities and private operating foundations as described in IRC 170 (b)(1)(A). Distributions were previously income taxable, they are now excludable from gross income, eliminating the income tax penalty for such charitable gifts.
The following limitations and restrictions apply:
- The individual for whose benefit the plan is maintained must have attained the age of 70 ½ or older at the time of gift.
- Qualified charitable distributions may not exceed $100,000 in the aggregate in any taxable year.
- The provision applies to tax years 2006 and 2007 only. Qualified distributions must be made by December 31 of each year.
- Qualified distributions must be made directly to the charity by the plan trustee. Contact your plan trustee for information on how to initiate a transfer.
- Qualified charitable distributions may be excluded from gross income for Federal Income tax purposes. However, no federal income tax deduction is available. Certain states may not exclude gift amounts withdrawn from an IRA for state income tax purposes.
- Only outright gifts are eligible. Distributions to charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder trusts, pooled income funds and other split-interest arrangements do not qualify for special tax treatment.
- Qualified contributions may be counted toward the Minimum Required Distribution
(MRD) for a donor's IRA accounts.
" Qualified contributions are not subject to the deductibility ceiling (50% of AGI) or the 2% rule that requires that itemized deductions be reduced by 2% of AGI in excess of $150,500 for tax year 2006.
- Gifts from retirement accounts other than IRAs-such as 401k, 403b, and SEP accounts-are not eligible. Donors may be able to make qualified transfers of money from other accounts to their IRA, and then make a charitable gift from their IRA. Check with your tax adviser.
- Distributions to Supporting Organizations as described in IRC 503(a)(3) and Donor Advised Funds as described in IRC 4966(d)(2) are specifically excluded.
- Donors who do not itemize their Federal income tax returns may make qualified IRA gifts and exclude such gifts from their reportable income.
Who is most likely to benefit?
- Individuals who take mandatory minimum withdrawals, but don't need additional income.
- Individuals who wish to give more than the deductibility ceiling (50% of AGI).
- Individuals who are subject to the 2% rule that reduces their itemized deductions.
- Individuals whose major assets reside in their IRAs and who wish to make a charitable gift during their lifetime.
- Individuals who intend to leave the balance of their IRA to charity at death anyway.
Consult your legal or tax advisor before making any decision based on the provided information.