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Sometimes it takes something catastrophic to change the simplest of things.
The catastrophe came in the form of a silver car. That's pretty much what I know about it, although I haven't checked with police to learn whether they have been able to learn more about the car that took out a pair of doors on our garage and pushed out one wall to the point where a corner of the roof was left dangling.
The driver must be extraordinarily lucky. The vehicle was presumably making a left turn off Stokes and on the Bellman, missed a utility pole by inches, knocked down the ornamental pole fencing of Roger and Betty Keefe's home and plowed into the garage. It was about 7 a.m. and fortunately during a lull in the usual traffic of cyclists, walkers and joggers. The driver must have been unscathed, for, according to the report of a neighbor, a silver car was spotted backing out of the debris before speeding off.
The good news, nobody was hurt.
Of course there is another side of the story; the process of putting everything back together again.
As nice as it would be to turn back the clock, that's not going to happen. But then, maybe it's better that way.
I went through the process of filing out insurance forms and then obtaining bids from at least two contractors. I'm not sure why I went through the bid thing, because the insurance company had their own contractor come up with an estimate that was in the ballpark with the others. In any event, about a month after the slam, Charles Frigon, who operates Seaside Enterprises, had a dumpster in front of the garage and the work had begun.
Order was being restored. Or was it?
A dumpster is a compelling piece of equipment, like a hungry mouth sitting outside a garage and home, to be filled with things collected over decades.
"You got anything else to go into it?" Charlie asked.
Carol and I looked at one another. There was no issue about the picnic table. It should have gone years ago. Charlie pointed out a few other things. More went into the dumpster.
And then the scope of the project expanded.
Since Charlie was here anyway, what about finally replacing the rotted lattice around the porches?
Charlie appraised the work.
"We could get started on that in a couple of days."
Somehow, I hadn't expected anything to move that fast. I brought Charlie into the house. Suddenly, other projects we had talked about but done nothing about came to mind. Charlie saw all kinds of possibilities for the kitchen. He had suggestions for the bathroom and how we might achieve Carol's dream of a hot tub.
I never imagined an empty dumpster could be such a gravitational force.
We started with the lattice, a job we should have done years ago.
Charlie and his sons didn't waste time. As the garage work neared completion, the dumpster, now full, was hauled away and a second materialized in our driveway. The framework of the former lattice quickly started filling it.
A saw was set up alongside the dumpster. The crew was now in full stride. Rapidly, the crevasses beneath our porch were closed. We realized how much better the house looked … but also that it could stand a coat of paint. The projects seemed endless.
What we didn't know at the time is how it might also change other things.
The space under the porch has been ideal for storing moorings, boards and pipes. I don't expect that to change, as Charlie arranged for an access door. But what I hadn't taken into consideration were the critters that accessed the space. Binky loved it under there on hot days and used to excavate huge holes in the sand. Since he is no longer with us, I've watched cats scamper under there. Binky would have never tolerated that.
But then there are other beasts, as Carol discovered the night after the lattice was completed.
Awake at 3:30 a.m. and unable to get back to sleep, she stepped out on the kitchen porch to get a glimpse of the stars and the moon. Instead, she found a skunk. The animal was unfazed by her presence. He didn't as much as lift his tail. Rather, with an inquiring look, he appeared to be questioning what had become of his refuge and to be looking for a handout. He was indignant.
What were we to do?
The dumpster is still there. It's only partially filled. I feel the need to fill it. Charlie is waiting for the green light on the next project. Who would have imagined an out-of-control car could have set so many things into motion.
"Skunkie" surely regrets the day, but it was the nudge we needed.


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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Local mayors, law enforcement, gun owners and victims of gun violence are calling for tighter background checks for gun buyers.
The group gathered Wednesday in Minneapolis as part of a 25-state tour organized by Mayors Against Illegal Guns. They are seeking what they say are common-sense gun laws, including background checks for all gun sales.
Rally participants also read the names of those killed by gun violence since last December's school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
The sister of a victim of that shooting attended the rally. A survivor of the Accent Signage shooting in Minneapolis and the son of a man who was killed in that incident also attended.
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The eighth annual Jeffrey M. Trent Lecture in Cancer Research was held from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 16, 2010. Presented by Charles L. Sawyers, M.D., director of the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, the lecture will be presented at Lipsett Amphitheatre, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center, Building 10 on the NIH campus.
Dr. Sawyers is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and the founding chairman of the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. At Sloan-Kettering, he is establishing a group of laboratory-based translational researchers across various clinical disciplines along with the institutional infrastructure needed to enhance the application of global genomics tools to clinical trials. Dr. Sawyers' laboratory is currently focused on characterizing signal transduction pathway abnormalities in prostate cancer, with an eye toward translational applications. The impact of his research is best demonstrated by his earlier studies of BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase function in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML); by his work with Brian Druker and Novartis in the development of the kinase inhibitor imatinib/Gleevec as primary therapy for CML ; and by his discovery that imatinib resistance is caused by BCR-ABL kinase domain mutations. This work led Dr. Sawyers to evaluate second-generation, ABL kinase inhibitors, such as the dual SRC/ABL inhibitor dasatinib, which received fast-track approval by the FDA in June 2006.
Dr. Sawyers' work in prostate cancer has helped define critical signaling pathways for disease initiation and progression through studies in mouse models and human tissues. This pre-clinical work led to the development of the novel antiandrogen MDV3100, a small-molecule inhibitor discovered in collaboration with UCLA chemist Michael Jung that targets the increased levels of androgen receptor found in hormone refractory disease. Based on impressive clinical results in a Phase I/II study, MDV3100 is currently in a Phase III registration trial.
Dr. Sawyers is past president of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and has served as a member of the National Cancer Institute's board of scientific counselors. He has won numerous honors and awards, including the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Dorothy Landon Prize from the American Association of Cancer Research; the David A. Karnofsky Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology; and the 2009 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine.
Dr. Trent was the National Human Genome Research Institute's (NHGRI) founding Scientific Director, serving in this role for more than nine years. His leadership and vision was instrumental in establishing NHGRI's Division of Intramural Research as one of the premier research programs in the world devoted to genetics and genomics. In recognition of his significant contributions to the research environment at NIH, NHGRI established the annual Jeffrey M. Trent Lecture in Cancer Research in 2003. This lecture is given by a prominent cancer researcher who brings the kind of energy, creativity and enthusiasm to cancer research that Dr. Trent has exemplified throughout his career.
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Sharp has unveiled a netbook that, it claims, features the world's first LCD touchpad, allowing for both pen and multi-touch finger operation - and providing visual feedback.
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Hot air balloon launch in France soars past record
A hot air balloon festival at a former NATO airfield in eastern France broke two records in as many days this week _ first by sending up 408 piloted balloons in an hour, then by lining up 391 balloons on the runways and sending them up together.
The sound of hundreds of gas burners blasting simultaneously is extraordinary, said Denis Martignon, a pilot who flew both days.
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The annual Lorraine Mondial Air Balloons is organized by a descendent of the 18th century aeronautics pioneer Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier who took up the family hobby. Philippe Buron Pilatre has been piloting balloons since 1979.
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Cherbourg is located off the Buyna Highway in the South Burnett region, very close to the dam wall of Bjelke-Petersen Dam. Cherbourg is home to a sizeable Aboriginal community and is the oldest and largest government settlement in Queensland. The town's main tribal groups are the 'Wakka Wakka' people and the 'gubbi gubbi' people.
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— Part Two
"Hello, this is Kevin from Company Y. I understand that you recently applied for a loan and were declined, but I'm calling today to offer you a second opportunity, an advantageous one that will put you in direct contact with our second tree of lenders, a tree that currently has over 300 additional lenders ready and willing to advance the payday finances you need."
"That's very good, Kevin," The Kingpin said, as he stood over my shoulder listening to me read the script. "People will be relieved to speak to a nice, young American boy such as yourself and not some Indian overseas. They'll trust you, mate."
It felt as if someone poured cold water down my spine. I said "Thank you" anyway.
"One thing, don't use the word 'declined.' We don't need them feeling ashamed of themselves."
"OK," I said, striking out the word with red ink.
"Claire," The Kingpin said, "think of a better way to tell these buggers they're deadbeats."
Claire swiveled around in her chair and looked The Kingpin up and down with that same quizzical look she gave to me at the interview.
"How come you can't think of it?" she said.
"Because I pay you to do that."
Claire had a good rapport with The Kingpin; as his personal assistant, she was on call 24/7 and in charge of some of the most important aspects of his life: she handled his bank accounts, paid his bills, set his meetings, had his cars washed, got his meals, washed his clothes. If she didn't have such an amicable relationship with him, she would've never been able to speak to him the way she did. No one spoke to The Kingpin like that, except his wife, who was even more abrasive than he.
"Say 'unable to procure the money you desired,'" Claire suggested. "How's that sound?"
"That's good," The Kingpin said. "Now insert it into the script, Kevin, and let's start hitting those buggers on the phone."
"Yes, sir."
I had a headache out of nowhere. I picked up the phone and looked at the list of names and numbers on my desk; it seemed endless. 500 names? 600? I was supposed to speak to 500 people in nine hours? I don't know if I've ever spoken that many words in a day.
I tucked the phone between my ear and shoulder and dialed the first number; it was disconnected. I dialed the second number; also disconnected. No one answered for the next three hours.
I spun around in my chair and faced Claire.
"Does anyone ever answer?"
"They better answer," The Kingpin said from the blackness of his office. "If they don't, both of you are cut."
I picked up the phone and kept calling. Finally, an answer.
"Who's this?" the gravely voice said.
"Hello, this is Kevin from Company Y…"
They hung up.
I dialed the next number.
Hello, this is Kevin from Company Y…"
"Don't you ever call this number again or I'll come find you; ya hear?" someone said before hanging up.
I wrote an "A" for "answered" next to their numbers and crossed their names off the list. I dialed the next number.
"Hello?" a woman said. She sounded old, maybe 85-90. We'll call her Beatrice.
"Yes, is this Beatrice?"
"Yes, may I ask who is calling?"
"Hi, this is Kevin from Company Y," I said. (I was told to rattle off the dialogue before they could tell me to go to hell.) "I understand that you recently applied for a loan and were unable to procure the money you desired, but I'm calling today to offer you a second opportunity, an advantageous one that will put you in direct contact with our second tree of lenders, a tree that currently has over 300 additional lenders ready and willing to advance the payday finances you need."
"Oh, thank God someone is calling me back," Beatrice said. "I've been trying to get in touch with you guys for so long. Can you give me the loan I need? I don't need more than $750. Can you do that?"
"Well, ma'am, we're not a lender; we just connect you to lenders in our money tree. That's what this offer is about. It puts you in contact with additional lenders."
"Sir, wait; you said your name was Kevin?"
"Yes, ma'am."
"Kevin, I really need money. My husband recently died from cancer, and now I don't know what to do," Beatrice said, stuttering. "The finances got mixed up, the life insurance is delayed, I just really, really need help right now. I have a dog to feed, phone bills, I just, listen…can you help me?"
My heart was disintegrating from the bile in my stomach.
"Ma'am, I am very sorry for your loss, but I can't guarantee you a loan. Like I said, we're just a mediator between you and the lenders. All I can do is try and help put you through to them."
"Can you contact a lender for me? Try and help me as much as possible? Vouch for me?"
I started massaging my throbbing temples.
"Ma'am, I'm afraid I can't do that. In order for you to reach the lender tree, you need to go to our website and enter your credit score, your social and other private information I am not allowed to handle."
"Beatrice," I said, my voice escalating and drawing the attention of The Kingpin, "please keep that information to yourself. That's very delicate, you shouldn't give out that number over the phone — to me, to anyone."
The Kingpin was standing over my shoulder again. He made sure I was looking at him when he slowly dragged his hand across his throat like a razor. I held the phone silent against my chest.
"If they're not going to bite after 30 seconds, hang up," he said.
"I'm sorry, Beatrice," I said. "If you decide to go through with the process, please give me a call back, and I'll assist you as best as I can."
"Kevin?" she said.
"Hang up," The Kingpin said.
The phone was sliding out of my clammy palms.
"Can you please help me? Please?"
"Hang up."
A drop of sweat was sliding down the bridge of my nose.
"I'll send you an email, and I'll call you right away…" I was saying before The Kingpin grabbed the phone out of my hand and slammed it down. Claire made a face at me as if to say, "This is what I put up with every day."
"Dammit, mate," he said. "You have hundreds of people to call. You can't waste your time or my time on one person for that long. There's not enough bloody time in the day for that nonsense. That is, of course, unless you want to spend the night here talking to those mucks, shackled to the phone."
When I shook my head, a drop of sweat slid off the tip of my nose and splashed onto the list of names. The Kingpin took a deep breath and ran his fingers through his hair. He paced back and forth for a second and then told Claire to notify him when the funds arrived from London. He put on his sunglasses and walked out the door. It slammed shut behind him.
On my walk home after work, I called Beatrice. She was ecstatic that I kept my promise. She thanked me multiple times, even told me the Lord would bless my heart. I felt uncomfortable and reminded her that I couldn't guarantee her anything. She said she didn't care; she told me she was very lonely since her husband died and that it just felt good to speak to another human being. I told her everything would be okay. I wondered why I said that; I didn't know a thing.
By the time I reached my apartment, I was still on the phone with her. I sat on the outside stoop in the sun and talked to her until she finished the application process. She thanked me and said it was great to speak to me. I told her the same.
When I got into work on Monday, I saw Beatrice's name on the list of people declined. I dialed her number to ask if a mistake had been made and to see how she was, but her number was out of service.
Kevin Dicciani is the Chestnut Hill Local's I.T. specialist.
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— New England Patriots (@Patriots) December 16, 2012
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Along with all NFL teams, we will observe a moment of silence today in honor of the victims of the Newtown tragedy. twitter.com/MiamiDolphins/…
— Miami Dolphins (@MiamiDolphins) December 16, 2012
The photo below is of a Giants' helmet -- each player will have a hand-written "SHES" across the back of his helmet Sunday:
Giants helmets honoring Sandy Hook Elementary. Sources tell me Coughlin also held a moment of silence in the team mtg twitter.com/Rachel__Nichol…
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Victor Cruz's shoes today, referencing a Newtown kid who was a big fan, and who died in the massacre: twitter.com/bruce_arthur/s…
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The Rams and Vikings came together on the field for a moment of silence in St. Louis:
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Rex Ryan and the Jets will wear the "S.H.E.S." initials for Monday night's game against Tennessee:
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A 7-0 run by the Little Giants in the final minutes of the first half helped Wabash to a 66-51 win Tuesday night over Marian University in the 2010-2011 basketball season opening game at Chadwick Court.
View photos from the Little Giants' win here and here.
Marian's Jordan Tucker had cut the Wabash lead to 24-22 with 4:20 left to play in the opening period before Wabash scored on its next three possessions to jump in front by nine. Wes Smith scored two of his team-high 18 points on a steal and finger-roll layup just ahead of a three-point basket by Aaron Zinnerman.
The Knights would draw as a close as three points in the opening moments of the second period, thanks in part to a three-pointer by Brandon Malone. Wabash responded with another big run, this time a 10-0 difference over a period of two minutes to move in front 48-35. Marian would get to within seven, but the Little Giants quickly jumped back in front by 14 thanks to a dunk and a jumper from the right baseline by Smith and a layup by Nick Curosh.
Wabash dominated the boards, grabbing 40 total rebounds with 13 offensive boards leading to 14 second-chance points. The Little Giants shot 47.3 percent from the field on 26-of-55 shooting, while Marian was 21-of-54 for 38.9 percent.
Zinnerman joined Smith in double figures, scoring 11 points including 4-for-4 shooting from the free throw line. Wabash was 11-of-14 from the stripe, while Marian went 4-of-9. The Knights hit just one free throw out of six attempts in the second period.
Smith grabbed eight boards and had five steals to pace the Little Giants. Ben Burkett scored six points and had seven rebounds. Brian Shelbourne dished out five assists and scored eight points, while freshman Pete Nicksic tossed in eight points in his Wabash debut.
Aaron Evans came off the bench to lead Marian (0-1) in scoring with 16 points. Tucker added 12 points and had seven rebounds.
Wabash (1-0) will serve as the hosts for the 2010 Little Giant Tipoff Classic this weekend. Play begins on Friday at 6 p.m. between DePauw University and Franklin College. The Little Giants will play Earlham College at 8 p.m. DePauw and Earlham square off Saturday at 1 p.m., while the Classic concludes with a 3 p.m. contest between Wabash and Franklin.
Photos - (top left) Senior Wes Smith scored a game-high 18 points in Wabash's 15-point victory over Marian University Tuesday evening.
(Bottom right) Senior Ben Burkett scored six points, grabbed seven rebounds, and made three blocked shots.


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Let's Rethink an Unethical Deer Cull
Editor's note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore's online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG.
Ever since I decided to take a gap year and defer my matriculation at Swarthmore College, I have made a point of following campus news online in order to maintain a sense of connection with the school. Over time, I've begun to take the College's evident spirit of justice, awareness, and activism—its "ethical intelligence"—for granted.
I was therefore alarmed and caught off guard when I learned of the Board of Mangers' decision to hire a sharpshooter to manage the Crum Woods deer population. The hunting was scheduled to begin this December, but it would be an ongoing process without end in sight. I recognized the "profound" threat that the deer posed to the balance of the Crum Woods ecosystem, but killing over 20 deer per square mile of forest in this year alone seemed far out of line with my own sense of morality. Concerned, I decided to investigate why my future alma mater had ruled out the non-lethal alternatives.
Perhaps the College partook in the belief that its solution was humane; I soon learned otherwise. In order to have any effect, a sharpshoot must exclusively target adult, female deer. This means mothers, and, for every doe killed, an average of one fawn is left behind. Like any other mammal, does nurse their young, and fawns count on living with their mothers for anywhere from one to two years. To call sharpshooting humane is to overlook this basic relationship, this bond that we as humans hold sacred among our own kind. An untimely death will always take its toll upon the living, especially when the victim is a parent.
For the College to reject the non-lethal alternatives to sharpshooting, these options would thus need to have drawbacks at least equivalent to the sum total of this great loss of sentient life and the suffering that it would leave in its wake. Yet my research yielded contraception as a viable, conscionable alternative lacking comparable disadvantages. According to one report,
"The small home range size and strong site fidelity of urban female deer suggest localized management using immunocontraception is theoretically possible in suburban communities, and immunocontraceptive vaccines offer significant promise for wildlife management."
The most serious problems cited are that GonaCon, a promising new immunocontraceptive, is currently available only on an experimental basis and that population reduction by attrition is slow. But the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture expects GonaCon to be commercially available in the imminent future, and if the College has already taken over five years to act, surely a short delay cannot constitute a justification for mass killing.
More to the point, the Crum Woods, as a whole, are not yet in a critical condition. Multiple times in his 2007 lecture to local community members, Bryon Schlisser of Natural Resource Consultants, Inc. commented that Swarthmore College had decided to take up deer management at a much earlier stage than most of his other clients do. Confident in the fundamental health of the forest, he went on to say, "I think you'll find recovery here may be very quick…" An independent study confirms that, "The deer population in the Crum Woods is not at levels seen in other parts of the region, but… deer are impacting the long-term health of the forest."
Sharpshooting would only deserve any serious consideration if the Crum Woods ecosystem were more immediately threatened. Contraception could admittedly take up to a decade to produce results; but, if specific floral species require fencing and other mitigation and restoration techniques in the meantime, then so be it.
The fact remains that sharpshooting is unnecessary, unwarranted, and unscrupulous, and I do not see how an institution as forward-thinking and upstanding as the Swarthmore College I thought I knew could endorse it.
There is some chance that contraception and any other non-lethal ancillary measures will collectively fail. There is some chance that lethal means will prove the only solution. But there is also some chance that sharpshooting will fail; despite their high fee, ($100-$350 per kill), professional sharpshoot contractors can and do make mistakes. A documented phenomenon called "reproductive rebound" could even lead the deer population to increase in size (see "An assessment of deer hunting in New Jersey," a 1990 paper by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Energy).
The reality is that no one knows for sure which techniques will work and which ones won't. But we do know that contraception will allow the deer to live out their full lives in peace, while sharpshooting will cut dozens of lives short and leave many others in the lurch. It is our moral obligation to make an honest effort to employ immunocontraceptive vaccines in the Crum Woods before we resign ourselves to this ghastly cull.
It's not too late to rethink and reverse this unethical decision, but the clock is ticking…


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Getting the Monkey off Darwin's Back: Four Common Myths About Evolution
Charles Sullivan and Cameron Mcpherson Smith
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
Evolution is poorly characterized by certain commonly used phrases. Properly communicating how evolution works requires careful attention to language and metaphor.
Nearly 150 years after Charles Darwin published On The Origin of Species, the theory of evolution is still widely misunderstood by the general public. Evolution isn't a fringe theory, and it's not difficult to understand, yet recent surveys reveal that roughly half of Americans believe that humans were created in their present form 10,000 years ago (Brooks 2001, CBS 2004). The same number reject the concept that humans developed from earlier species of animals (National Science Board 2000).
But the evidence is clear that no species, including humans, simply "popped up." Each life form has an evolutionary history, and those histories are intricately intertwined. If we don't understand that complex evolution, we will make poor decisions about our future and that of other species. Should we genetically modify humans? How about our food crops? What effects will global warming have on human biology? None of these questions, nor many others of immediate concern to humanity, can be usefully addressed unless we understand the evolutionary process.
In examining how evolution is portrayed in the mass media, we found many problems; chief among them was the use of inaccurate expressions. In this article we examine the commonly-used phrases "evolution is only a theory," "the ladder of progress," "missing links," and "only the strong survive."
These expressions are misleading at best, and simply wrong at worst. Most of these phrases have ancient roots, describing biology as it was understood centuries ago. They lead to a distorted picture of what evolution is and how it works.
Evolution Is Only a Theory
Have you ever heard people challenge evolution by claiming that "it's only a theory?" The Cobb County School District in Georgia did just that when it sought to put stickers on high school biology textbooks stating that, "Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origins of living things." [1] The problem with this claim rests with two different uses of the word theory. In popular usage the word refers to an unsubstantiated guess or assumption, as when someone theorizes that a light moving across the night sky must be an alien spaceship. When scientists use the word theory, however, they're referring to a logical, tested, well-supported explanation for a great variety of facts. [2] In this sense the theory of evolution is as well supported as the theory of gravitation or other explanatory models in fields such as chemistry or physics. While it's true that much of the evidence for evolution is not obtained by laboratory experiments, as in chemistry and physics, the same can also be said for geology and cosmology.
A geologist cannot travel back in time to observe first hand the formation of Earth's crust, and a cosmologist cannot witness the collapsing of a star into a black hole, but this doesn't mean that scientific theories about the nature of these phenomena are simply unsubstantiated guesses. Some scientific theories do a better job of accounting for the facts than others, and in biology there is no competing scientific theory with more explanatory power than evolution. Biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky put it best when he said, "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."
Many people confuse evolutionary theory with Lamarckism, named for the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829). In one sense Lamarck was an evolutionist in that he favored the view that new species had evolved from ancestral species, but he was mistaken about the mechanism by which species change, and about the time required for these changes. Lamarck thought that the mechanism for biological change was the transmission to the next generation of characteristics acquired during the life span of an individual. His most famous example is that of the giraffe. According to Lamarck, the giraffe's ancestors had shorter necks, and they would stretch their necks to reach higher foliage in trees. Their descendants then inherited longer necks because the characteristics of these newly stretched necks of the parents were passed down to their offspring. Moreover, Lamarck thought that the evolution of a new species could occur within a few generations or even one. His position was reasonable for its time, yet it happens to be incorrect.
But acquired characteristics are not passed on. [3] If you lose your arm in an accident, your offspring will not be born with a missing arm. If you lift weights to gain muscle mass, you will not transmit larger muscles to your offspring. Jews have been practicing circumcision for hundreds of generations, yet there is no evidence that this acquired feature is biologically inherited.
The position of modern evolutionary theory (Neo-Darwinism [4]) is that some ancestors of giraffes acquired slightly longer necks through random mutation. These animals could eat food that was a little out of reach of others of their species, and so they tended to be healthier, to live longer, and have a better chance than their fellows at mating and passing on to the next generation their genes for longer necks. Many such incremental changes over a long period of time are required for a new species-or a neck as long as a giraffe's-to arise.
The evolution of giraffes or other life forms should not be thought of as a singular process. There are at least three independent processes that, when taken together, form our idea of evolution. These are replication, variation, and selection. Replication is essentially reproduction. Variation refers to the random changes-typically mutations-arising in offspring, making them different from their parents. Selection refers to the process whereby those individuals best adapted to their environment tend to be the ones that survive, passing on their genes. These three processes occur every day in nature, and it is their cumulative effect that we call evolution.
If an entirely new scientific theory with more explanatory power is formulated, then Neo-Darwinism will have to be swept aside just as Lamarckism was. Creationism and Intelligent Design don't qualify as competing scientific theories because they're not scientific. They don't offer natural explanations for biological phenomena, but rather supernatural explanations which cannot be tested scientifically. Neo-Darwinism offers a natural explanation to account for the facts of evolution, and rejects supernatural explanations.
When discussing the theory of evolution it's important to realize why it's misleading to say that evolution is only a theory. Evolution is indeed a theory, but it's a theory with a lot of evidence on its side, and with more explanatory power than any competing theory in biology.
The Ladder of Progress
The word evolution is sometimes used to mean progress. People speak of moral evolution when discussing certain cultural changes that have been for the better, such as the increased recognition of the rights of women. Or they speak of technological evolution when comparing present-day technology with that of ancient hunter-gatherers. This sense of the word evolution implies a progressive development toward better or more advanced stages. It is this non-biological sense of evolution that influences people to think of biological evolution as involving ladder-like progress from lower to higher stages.
The idea of an evolutionary ladder of progress has its roots in Classical Greek and Medieval European concepts about the nature of the universe. The most common manifestation is known as the Great Chain of Being, which was most influential in Europe from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. The basic idea of the Great Chain of Being is that God and his creation form a hierarchy which is ordered from the least perfect things or beings at the bottom of the chain to the most perfect at the top, namely, God himself. Simply put, the ranking from bottom to top is as follows: rocks or minerals, plants, animals, man, angels, God.
The Great Chain of Being scheme wasn't designed with evolution in mind since the prevailing idea of the time was that God made all existing species, in their modern forms, long ago. The Great Chain of Being is best described as a method of classification. This idea began to lose support before the Darwinian revolution, but Darwin's ideas and their refinement ultimately broke the links of the Great Chain of Being.
The modern biological understanding of evolution does not involve progress in the sense of a natural upward goal toward which life is striving. [5] Genetic mutations arise randomly.
A study of the DNA of Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands (Petren et al. 1999) provides a good example of why the idea of progress makes no sense in evolution. The study's findings suggest that the first finches to arrive on the islands were the Warbler finches (Certhidea olivacea), whose pointy beaks made them good insect eaters. A number of other finches evolved later from the Warbler finches. One of these is the Geospiza ground finch, whose broad beak is good for crushing seeds, and another is the Camarhynchus tree finch with its blunt beak which is well adapted for tearing vegetation.
Even though the seed-eating and vegetation-eating finches evolved from insect-eating finches, the former are not "more evolved" than the latter, or "higher" on some evolutionary ladder. Since finch evolution on the Galapagos Islands was driven primarily by diet, the ground finches simply became better adapted at making a living on seeds, the tree finches on vegetation, and the Warbler finches on insects.
If seeds were to become scarce on the Galapagos Islands, it's conceivable that the seed-eating finches-which are a more recent species-could become extinct, while the insect-eating finches-which have been around much longer-would continue to thrive. The concepts of "higher" and "lower" do not apply to the Galapagos finches or anywhere else in evolution. It is fitness or adaptability relative to the environment that matters. Species cannot foretell the future in order to adapt themselves deliberately to environmental changes, and if the environment changes drastically, those adaptations that were once favorable may turn out to be unfavorable.
Even though biologists reject the Great Chain of Being or any similar ladder-of-progress explanation of evolution, the idea still persists in popular culture. A more accurate analogy would be that of a bush that branches in many directions. If we think of evolution over time in this way, we're less likely to be confused by notions of progress because the branches of a bush can grow in various directions in three dimensions, and new branches can sprout off of older branches without implying that those farther from the trunk are better or more advanced than those closer to the trunk. A more recent branch that has split off from an earlier branch-like a species that has evolved from an ancestral species-does not indicate greater progress or advancement. Rather, it is simply a new and different growth on the bush, or more specifically, a new species that is sufficiently adapted to its environment to survive.
The Missing Link
"Fossils May be Humans' Missing Link" reported the Washington Post on April 22, 1999. The story states that fossils discovered in Ethiopia ". . . may well be the long-sought immediate predecessor of human beings." But almost fifty years earlier, paleontologist Robert Broom published Finding the Missing Link (1950), about his discovery of fossil "ape men" in South African caves. And since 1950, reports of the discovery of "missing links" have been continuous. What's going on? How is it that the "missing link" has been discovered repeatedly?
The problem lies in a false metaphor. When we say "missing link," we invoke a metaphorical chain, a set of links that stretch far back in time. Each link represents a single species, a single variety of life. Because each link is connected to two other links, each is intimately connected to past and future forms. Break one link, and the pieces of the chain can be separated, and relationships lost. But find a lost link, and you can rebuild the chain, reconnect separated lengths. One potent reason for the attractiveness of this metaphor is that it allows for the drama of the quest, the search for that elusive missing link.
But the metaphor is as misleading as it is attractive. The concept that each species is a link in a great chain of life forms was largely developed in the typological age of biology, when species "fixity" (the idea that species were unchanging) was the dominant paradigm. Both John Ray (1627-1705) and Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1797), the architects of biological classification (neither of whom believed in evolution), were concerned with describing the order of living species, an order they each believed was laid out by God (Ray suggested that the divinely specified function of biting insects was to plague the wicked). But while the links of a chain are discrete, unchanging, and easily defined, groups of life forms are not. [6] We generally define a species as some interbreeding group that cannot, or does not, productively breed with another group. But since species are not fixed (they change through time), it can be difficult to be sure where one species ends and another begins. For these reasons, many modern biologists prefer a continuum metaphor, in which shades of one life form grade into another. [7] Life is not arranged as links, but as shades. The metaphorical chain is far less substantial than it sounds.
Thus the chain metaphor is wrong. It doesn't accurately represent biology as we know it today, but as it was understood over four centuries ago. The myth persists because of convenience; it is easier to think of species as types, with discrete qualities, than as grades between one species and another. In school, we learn the specific characteristics of plants and animals; this alone is not a problem, except that we are not often exposed to the main ramification of evolution: that those characteristics will change through time.
Clearly, both the Post article and Broom's book describe the discovery of australopithecenes, African hominids [8] that lived well over three million years ago. Australopithecenes walked upright, like modern humans, but they had large, chimp-like teeth, and smallish, chimp-like brains. Australopithecenes made rudimentary stone tools that are more complex than any chimpanzee's termite-mound probe stick, but far less complex than the symmetrical tools made by early members of our genus, Homo. In terms of anatomy and behavior, some australopithecenes really do appear to be "half human." Additionally, it's widely believed that early Homo descended from some variety of late australopithecene. Broom was right after all, but so was the Post; a "missing link" has indeed been found. It is Australopithecus. But there were many varieties of Australopithecus, as well as Homo, and there is no obvious place to draw a discrete line separating a shade of late Australopithecus from an early grade of Homo. Therefore, it's more accurate to say that we have found some "grade" or "shade," rather than "the missing link." [9]
We can curb the false metaphor by changing our wording. In classes, in textbooks, in discussions with our students, and in press releases (the critical connection between academia and the general public), we have to start saying that we're looking for a missing link, rather than the missing link. Better yet, we should replace the "missing link" stock phrase with something more accurate.
Only the Strong Survive
Around a million years ago, an ape so large that it's now known as Gigantopithecus roamed the bamboo forests of South Asia. Standing nine feet tall, weighing from 600 to 1,000 pounds, and with a bamboo-crushing jaw the size of a mailbox, this was a truly strong creature. But today, all that remains of Gigantopithecus are a few fossil teeth and jawbones, quietly resting in museum vaults.
If only the strong survive, how did early Homo-protohuman bipeds that were in the same area at the same time, and were less than half the size of Gigantopithecus-survive? Wouldn't any clash between these creatures result in the strapping Über-ape annihilating the competition?
Yesterday's giants can be today's museum specimens. If only the strong survive, though, how is this possible? Indeed, how is it that humans are now ascendant on Earth, but, when stripped of tools and culture, we are among the most helpless of animals?
The answer, of course, is that strength can be measured in many ways. Brawn is one measure; brain is another. But this distinction is often lost in popular culture. When we say "the strong," or even "the fittest," most people immediately think of competition between individuals. These individuals, we imagine, are pitted against one another in some evolutionary arena, where they fight for survival and mates. The strongest survive, pass on their genes, and propagate their lineage. The loser, and its entire lineage, goes extinct.
But this notion of single combat in a single arena of competition is too simple. In reality, there are dozens of arenas, dozens of problems any organism must face in life. Perhaps direct competition with other individuals is one, but every day individuals are kicked from one arena to the next. If the river dries up, you're now in the Arena of Water Conservation. If the temperature suddenly drops, you're pushed into the Arena of Heat Conservation. If the properties of the vegetation you eat begin to change, you're now in the Arena of Metabolic Versatility.
In short, survival is much more complex than is implied by the single-arena concept of combat between individuals. Life forms struggle against a wide array of factors, and often against more than one factor at a time. In biology, these factors are known as selective pressures.
Selective pressures also change. A certain selective pressure can be particularly hard-pressing for a period, shaping the course of evolution, but later that pressure may ease, and another concern becomes primary. And since the environment is always changing, no species can ever be sure what selective pressures it will have to cope with tomorrow. Indeed, such conscious anticipation of the future is precluded for most species (could deer have anticipated the invention of guns?), and evolution is entirely reactive, shaping species according to past and present environments, but never "looking" into the future. [10]
We humans, and all life forms, exist and struggle not in any single arena, but in an immense web of selective pressures that is incomprehensibly complex and ever-changing. Survival is much more involved than simply beating down your immediate peers.
Why does the single-combatant, evolutionary arena myth persist? The answer is probably deeply intertwined with renaissance values of individualism too complex to examine here [11] but it is clearly related to nineteenth-century Social Darwinism. Social Darwinists grafted Darwin's basic ideas about biological evolution to human society and economy. To them, progress could only be made by eliminating imperfections from humanity, and this was best done by competition. That competition, neatly summarized by Herbert Spencer's term "survival of the fittest," was taken to mean the competition between individuals. It is significant that today's reality-TV programs are steeped in this metaphor, in which the concept of survival via ruthless individual competition is paramount.
The best way to curb this myth is to teach that brute strength does not guarantee long-term success. In fact, no single characteristic does. More importantly, we need to describe why there is no single key to long-term success, because we never know how our selective environment is going to change. For humanity, then, the only hope for success, for survival, is in remaining flexible and adaptive. Real strength is in adaptability, which comes from genetic and cognitive variation.
A picture of evolution based on the common myths we've outlined is a mosaic of confusion. It's very important to remedy this confusion, because how we think of ourselves, and every other species on Earth, is directly related to how we understand evolution. We can either see ourselves as separated from a natural world that simply serves as a theater for our evolution,12 or as one of many coevolving species of life on Earth. The former view is more likely to persist if we continue to describe evolution using obsolete or faulty expressions. The latter view, which is accurate, will be promoted by a better use of language, and by acknowledging what we have learned about biology in the past 150 years. [13]
Solutions for conveying this accurate view must include more careful use of language and metaphor to explain exactly what evolution is, and how it happens.
- The entire disclaimer reads: "This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered." This led to a lawsuit, Selman v. Cobb County School District. On January 13, 2005, a federal judge found this policy unconstitutional.
- See, for example, "What's Wrong with 'Theory not Fact' Resolutions." National Center for Science Education. 7 December 2000. Available here.
- However, a recent study on fruitflies suggests that some genetic instructions that are not encoded in the DNA may be passed on to offspring by way of material encompassing the DNA (Lin et al. 2004).
- Developed in the 1930s, Neo-Darwinism (also called the Modern Synthesis) integrates Darwin's theory of natural selection with the theory of genetic inheritance first proposed by Gregor Mendel and subsequently refined by later biologists.
- Biologists disagree about whether there is an evolutionary tendency toward complexity, primarily because there is no consensus on how complexity should be defined and measured.
- The species concept is introduced in Strickberger (1985:747-756), but also see Mallet (1995) for the need to review how we define species.
- Lions and tigers once coexisted naturally in India, and although they are outwardly very different, they can mate to create tigons or ligers. Since such hybrids were never found in nature, however, it is known that lion and tiger did not interbreed naturally. Thus, genetically, lion and tiger can be classified as one species, but behaviorally, they differed enough to be considered separate species by biologists, and in nature this difference was maintained by the animals themselves (Wilson 1977:7).
- Hominids are large primates that walk upright. Those of the genus Australopithecus (which predate the human lineage Homo) are referred to as australopithecenes. They appear over 4 million years ago. Many hominid varieties have existed, but Homo sapiens sapiens is the only living hominid.
- The link metaphor also suggests that any given species is represented by only one chain, as when we see a diagram of hominids, first knuckle-walking, then hunched over in a half-stand, then upright as modern man. This depiction does not show several other bipedal hominid varieties to which we are related, such as the robust australopithecenes (appearing over 4 million years ago, disappearing about 1 million years ago) or the Neanderthals (who appear around 300,000 years ago and are extinct by c.30,000 years ago). The depiction suggests that there was one, unbroken chain, from quadruped to biped, but actually there have been bipeds that have gone extinct (as well as quadrupeds that exist today).
- Humanity, of course, is uniquely proactive. We can imagine the future, and we prepare for it by controlling our evolution with all sorts of social and biological methods. Social methods include complex kinship and marriage rules that ensure gene flow among different populations. Biological methods include mass vaccination programs against polio and smallpox.
- See for example Shanahan (2004), an interesting comment in Commager (1965:82-83), and Butterfield (1965:222-246).
- We suggest that this view of humanity contributes to wasteful use of resources; for example, humanity has chronically overfished nearly every fishery ever discovered; see Jackson et al. (2001).
- It's not sufficient to constantly explain away old, inaccurate expressions: we must develop new ones. What is the use in keeping old metaphors or phrases that do not point to reality? For example, we may say "The Bush of Evolution" or "The Labyrinth of Evolution,' rather than 'The Ladder of Evolution." A good way to find such new metaphors may be to create a Web site where anyone could suggest them, and, after a time, select new ones to start incorporating into our common speech. Perhaps poets, being familiar with the power of image and metaphor, could be helpful.
- Brooks, D.J. 2001. Substantial numbers of Americans continue to doubt evolution as explanation for origins of humans. The Gallup Organization. Available online here.
- Broom, R. 1950. Finding the Missing Link. London: Watts & Co.
- Butterfield, H. 1965. The Origins of Modern Science. New York: MacMillan.
- CBS News Polls. 2004. Creationism trumps evolution. CBSNEWS.com. Available online here.
- Commager, H.S. 1965. The Nature and Study of History. Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Books.
- Dobzhansky, Theodosius. 1973. Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. The American Biology Teacher 35:125-129.
- Jackson, J., M. Kirby, W. Berger, K. Bjorndal, L. Botsford, et al. 2001. Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of coastal ecosystems. Science 297:629-637.
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A Bridge Stomp. That's a tactic that I've never seen before, nor even ever entered my head! I'd love to see it.ReplyDelete
As for Ivus, I've never seen him. Didn't even know of his existence before now. I tried reading the details on wowhead for summoning him, and I've got a question for you. As I understand it, you turn in crystals to Archdruid Renferal, and then when you have enough, Renferal and three other NPC druids ride out to the Fields of Strife. How do they get past the horde? And how do ten alliance players get past them, to use the Circle of Calling that the druids summon?Replies
The druids have raid boss level health, so getting past the Horde isn't a problem. As for getting past the Horde on the bridge, you can go south over the slope from DB South's tower. It's too steep to ride up, but you can always go down. Once you get down the slope, you can cut across the harpy area and get up to the road by Icewing Bunker. The Circle of Calling is in the Field of Strife, by Stonehearth Bunker. By this time the two southern Alliance bunkers are long gone, and most of the Horde is focusing on either the bridge or defending their own mines/towers, so they can't simply converge on the summoning routine.Delete
With a stomp in progress, you don't need all 40 people defending the bridge. About 5-6 Locks and Mages can rain enough AoE hell on the bridge to cause havoc.


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I don't have the game on DVR but we had the ball at what should have been the end of the game. We took our sweet time - ran once, ran twice and then threw.
Here is my issue. If we had thrown downfield (like end of game) no issue. Instead we were slow running the ball, ran as we were running out the clock and then about 40 secs we try to suddenly pick up a first down and throw the ball instead of letting it basically run out........
I think it was poorly played. Run three times, be slow and let the clock run out or be in a hurry-up. To come up with an in-between on 3rd down just isn't smart in my mind.
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