Why do some some people say that evolution promotes..?
Racism and gender inequality? I've noticed it's only a few Christians who think this. I have absolutely no idea where they got this from. Could anyone please explain?
I don't mean any disrespect to Christians, and if you do believe this, could you please tell me why?
Update: They actually think evolution and eugenics are the same thing?
Update 2: Like Half Man: Could you please provide proof?
Update 3: Great Gig in the Sky: What does his cousin have to do with him? If your cousin was a murderer, would you automatically be pro murder?
Update 4: Saying Darwin is the cause for Eugenics is like saying Jesus is to blame for the Westboro baptist Church. Where is the logic?
Update 6: Exiled in the Midlands: I mentioned that it was only a few Christians. I'm sorry if you think I was attacking all Christians, I just wanted to understand why some said this.
you know, the general christian logic jump.
i'm sorry, I scanned the creationwiki website and perchance I ignored it, yet could not locate any info interior of it that evolution promotes racism, different than the blatant falsehood that: "it somewhat is a actuality that not all races (as is often defined) are equivalent. using fact they are unequal, some ought to be greater suitable to others. organic determination will favour some over others, protecting people who're greater suitable and people who're inferior would be wiped out. it somewhat is the adjustments between races that make one race greater powerful suited for survival than yet another". Who says this could nicely be a actuality? Who says that some races are greater suitable to others? in view that while does any evolutionary scientist make a value judgement in accordance with a species' greater healthful interior of its ecosystem? Who says one "inferior" race ought to be wiped out? If that have been how evolution worked, there could basically be one species left. the the remainder of it form of feels to be refuting an evolution theory spokesman's clarification of why evolution isn't racist, yet whether all of those responses are the excellent option, that doesn't practice evolution IS racist.
They look at the pseudoscience that fueled racial animosity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Then they claim that the entire theory of evolution must be morally wrong. There is nothing in evolution that implies that any group is "superior" or "inferior" to another; it merely requires adaptation to an environment.
One might as well say that Astronomy is wrong because a few Aztec nuts sacrificed people to make the sun "rise."
Eugenics is completely different from science and contemporary theories. Science is not about defining morals but expanding facts through observation.
"Saying Darwin is the cause for Eugenics is like saying Jesus is to blame for the Westboro baptist Church. Where is the logic?"
The radical fundamentalists of each and every Religion are never bound by logic.
"Search the scientific journal for proof of positive mutation, there is none."
nonsense the last positive mutation humans had was the ability to digest cows milk. Only about 25% of the world is " lactose tolerant" the other 75% is the norm not the exception.
It stems from Eugenics which itself is based upon evolutionary theories and is considered extreme.
The Nazis believed in Eugenics.
Simply put, it is the belief that the natural order is for the strongest to survive and that humans should deliberately select by breeding between themselves for the strongest characteristics.
The nazis used this to bolster up their views on race and used it extensively in propaganda, saying that the German race was "the master race". They also extended this belief into euthanising/murdering disabled people in order to "strengthen their race" as well as the systematic extermination policy of the holocaust.
As for gender inequality, i have never heard of that argument.
Hello and assalamualaikum to you and peace be upon good fellows readers. lol I bet you rare to hear that kind of greeting in here aint ya?..;) lol I am a muslim, 16 years old and dont worry I am not an imposter.
Well..from an Islamic perspective I'd say that we can evolve such as evolution in terms of technologies and our way of lives etc etc.
There are always 3 opinions in every debate that is you me and truth. The truth can be found oneself or can be told by other but humans are deceptive creature in fact. They don't even know their wrong but they look at themseves as right. Thats why we should always investigate ourself in certain matter.
the evolution theory seems to have some flaws...If we were evolved from monkeys then why aren't there monkeys half way turning like us? hahaha. But since its in my science books I guess I just have to pretend to believe :P eheh.
Actually...Its not the evolution that promotes inequality and rascism...its ourselves. Our hatred toward each other is what makes this issue. So all of us play an important roles in making each race to look good to each other to minimized hatred thus reducing rascism and inequality. Inequality are feelings of being left out this are also cause by hatred category which is jealousy toward other happiness.
"look first before you leap".
The documentary "No Intelligence Allowed" tries to promote that. Basically, at the end, it just reaffirms my stance on the Republican Party.
great gig: He implied that, for most species, it is the male that is physically stronger then its' female counter-part. Are you seriously denying that?
Because they are backwards. Anyone who disagrees with them is wrong. Their the ones who said eve came from adam, and eve's all evil, and gods a man. But a few annoying people doesn't make all people bad.
Because they like to demonize anything they don't believe in. That's why Satan has Pan's horns and Neptune's trident (to demonize those pagan gods by associating them with evil).
I once debated this with my Philosophy professor (specifically) epistemology.
But not that a species changes into another one (lol makes me laugh even thinking about it) since the biological concept of species is so vague (I using new knowledge of genomic things that their should be a genomic definition of species based on the physical characteristics of the genome, and all possible variations within it). I could write a book on the subject, maybe one day I will, "Darwin's Mistake: What is a species and why God us made us"
Search the scientific journal for proof of positive mutation, there is none.
Essentially, when you remove God from the equation, than what stops one from saying he has evolved superior to other's and then can come to dominate them?
What If I say I have evolved to be smarter, and stronger so now I can eliminate those who I deem are weak?
The Professor pretty much agreed with me like I had discovered something, but thank God I am a Muslim, and not a hitler.
It's just more propaganda and outright lies created by creationists.
To half man, all idiot (or whatever your name is). Before commenting on racism and sexism from Darwin's perspective perhaps you want to look up the same things in your "holy" book.
And, just a reminder, Hitler and the Nazis were CHRISTIANS!
People who think evolution promotes racism...?
How could evolution promote eugenics?
The theory of evolution promotes racism?


In Dead Poets’ Society, teacher John Keating (Robin Williams) is the romantic-heroic rebel who inspires his scions of ruling-class wealth to throw off the shackles of noblesse oblige. In Educating Rita, professor Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine), cynical and alcoholic, is restored momentarily to life when challenged by Rita (Julie Walters), a bright, working-class self-starter and good-looker, in a kind of Pygmalion set in the classroom. What Half Nelson, written by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden and directed by Fleck, has most in common with these antecedents is an unwavering faith in transformative change through education.
In the age of a politically numbed out America, where the machinery of power relentlessly dumbs down the public and erodes public education, Half Nelson offers a sensible, wise, charming, cunning, sobering object lesson in what is going on in the world–both how people actually live their lives and why change must be embraced and not merely endured. Think Film Company’s new release tackles thorny philosophical questions head-on, confidently demonstrating that complicated philosophy is within the reach of everyone.
Idealistic, white, middle-class Dan Dunne (Ryan Gosling) is a seventh-grade history teacher at a mostly Black public school in contemporary Brooklyn. He coaches girls’ basketball after-hours. He has a serious and growing drug addiction problem. He also happens to believe that understanding history is important, life-alteringly important, and that even most thirteen-year-olds can grasp and appreciate Hegelian dialectics.
Indeed, director Fleck lays bare the principle of dialectical change by incorporating directly into the plot Dunne’s classroom lectures, slightly paraphrased from Fleck’s own father’s web site (the senior Fleck is a "dialectics autodidact") on Hegel and the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. Lest this be mistaken for preachy theorizing, the plot structure itself embodies some of the very dialectical tensions shaping American society today. Dan Dunne is not just white and middle-class, but the child of Nixon-era anti-war activist parents, who have resigned themselves, drifting into alcoholism and cynical disillusionment with American politics.
Dan himself is unable to rise above the tension between his faith in democratic egalitarianism and his own lack of faith in himself (he is a drug rehab drop-out). As he acts out his romantic-heroic rebellion against authority and its public school-mandated history curriculum, he drifts into the infantilizing fog of addiction. It becomes difficult to say at what point principled protest becomes reactive acting out, the (self) oppressed merely lashing out impotently against authority. In the midst of his private despair, Dunne befriends one of his students, bright, thoughtful, vulnerable, thirteen-year-old Drey (Shareeka Epps). Drey’s mother is a member of the working poor, an EMS attendant. Drey has a brother in prison. And her father figure, Frank (Anthony Mackie), is drawing her professionally into his world of drug dealing. Seeking an alternative father figure, Drew is at first powerfully drawn to Dunne, her teacher and coach. But she soon becomes caught between attraction and repulsion as she witnesses Dunne’s addiction and becomes pulled closer into his addict’s life against her will.
Rather than sinking into sentimental cliches, both Dan’s and Drey’s characters are intelligently drawn. Realistic emotion, quirky wit, penetrating political insight, and frequent improvised acting provide for dynamic performances from both Gosling and Epps, who play off each other as naturals. Each character in this film and each narrative thread manifests the dialectics of change, whether Hegel’s historical dialectic or Marx’s economic dialectic. Rather than moralizing about systemic or individual failures, Half Nelson asks the viewer to consider America’s history anew, and try again. Philosophically sound, dramatically absorbing, highly entertaining and highly instructive, Half Nelson is hands down one of the best films of the year.


FIRST-PERSON: Who really was the first U.S. missionary?
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- Earlier this year Jeremy Webber at Christianity Today asked: Was the first U.S. missionary black, not white? Referencing the little-known George Liele (1750-1820), Webber rightly questioned whether this freed slave should supplant Adoniram Judson as the first Protestant missionary from America.
Not only was George Liele the first Protestant missionary from America, but his departure for Jamaica in 1782 actually puts him ahead of the widely recognized progenitor of the modern missions era, the British Baptist, William Carey. The right ordering of these pioneers of Gospel advance has been noted in recent years by Danny Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, first in a biographical sermon on Liele and then in various publications, most recently in his book "Ten Who Changed the World." Akin writes, "[Liele] was the first Baptist to leave his homeland and take the Gospel to foreign soil."
As early as 1964, E. A. Holmes, then-professor of church history at Stetson University, noted in an essay on Liele that clarified the matter: "Though supported by no church or denominational agency, [Liele] became the first Protestant missionary to go out from America to establish a foreign mission, ten years before William Carey set out from England" (source: biblicalstudies.org.uk).
Discovering this important corrective in recent years has been one of the most instructive things for me as one who loves the rich historical and theological heritage of the Baptists. As I teach students, the pursuit of every fact and detail in the spirit of careful and colorblind scholarship often leads to new discoveries of monumental significance. As I have researched the life of Adoniram Judson over the last few years for a collaborative book project that seeks to honor the bicentennial celebration of his departure from America in 1812, I was faced with the very task of how to classify Judson's work.
After originally categorizing Judson, as most have throughout history, as the first American missionary, it was Dr. Akin who shared with me the life and ministry of George Liele. Delighted to learn of Liele's proper place in history, I gladly changed the subtitle of the volume of Judson from "A Bicentennial Celebration of America's First Missionary," to "A Bicentennial Celebration of the Pioneer American Missionary."
In the volume, Akin and I are joined by Paige Patterson, Nathan A. Finn, Robert Caldwell, Gregory A. Wills, Keith Eitel, Candi Finch, and Michael A. G. Haykin. With regard to the proper ordering of Liele, Carey and Judson we make the distinction that George Liele is properly the first missionary in the modern era. Carey, in England in 1792, is the second chronologically, though the first to create a missions-sending agency and to be sent in an organized and formal manner. Judson, then in 1812, is third overall, the second American, and the first to organize and receive the commission of an American board for the sending of missionaries.
While all three men are pioneers in their own settings and all overcame significant opposition and obstacles to take the good news about Jesus to those who had yet to hear -- even at great cost -- George Liele is worthy of particular commendation in our day as he advanced the Gospel while this nation still gripped tightly to the constrictive fetters of slavery.
This column first appeared at TheologicalMatters.com, a blog of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Jason G. Duesing serves as vice president for strategic initiatives and assistant professor of historical theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Fort Worth, Texas) and is the editor of the forthcoming book, "Adoniram Judson: A Bicentennial Appreciation of the Pioneer American Missionary" (B&H Academic, 2012). Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress ) and in your email ( baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp).


Does iTunes Radio Increase Music Sales?
Back in 2009, my band the Layaways released a digital-only holiday album. While we sell some tracks from the album every year, 2013 was, by far, our best season ever for download sales. I was stumped -- we always get some holiday airplay on Internet stations like Soma FM and the occasional spin of a few tracks on terrestrial college radio stations, but there was no evidence of increased airplay in 2013 and we hadn't made any additional promotional efforts for the album.
It seems very likely that the large increase in sales of our song (relative to previous years) was a direct result of the iTunes Radio spins it received. The big question, of course, is does this single anecdotal example represent an overall trend -- is iTunes Radio increasing the sales of music downloads?
It seems intuitive that ease of purchase -- you're already in iTunes and you can click to buy right there, as opposed to being directed from another website or interface to iTunes or Amazon MP3 -- might boost sales. Yet that doesn't appear to be the case. As Glenn Peoples reported in Billboard last year, the introduction of iTunes Radio did nothing to halt a year-long trend of declining download sales in 2013.
In addition to the download sales, we also received a payout from Apple for each spin of the song. As reported last year by the Future of Music Coalition and Digital Music News, Apple opted to make a direct payment to artists/labels for digital performance royalties instead of taking the compulsory path and making payments to SoundExchange.
For 103,874 spins of "O Christmas Tree" on iTunes Radio, we received $114.99 (before the deduction for CD Baby's commission). That translates to a little more than 0.11 cents per play. That's slightly less than the "$0.0013 per song plus 15% of net advertising revenue for the first year" spelled out by Apple's contract with indie labels, though I'm uncertain if that rate also includes payments Apple makes to music publishers. After I receive my BMI statement for the quarter, I can calculate the total payment we received for each iTunes Radio play.


(CNN) - They might have legions of adoring fans, but seven famous K-Pop stars have fallen foul of South Korea's Ministry of Education.
The popular entertainers, who are all male, have officially had their college diplomas revoked because they were busy rehearsing and performing when they should have been in class.
Education bosses discovered that the individuals in question, folk singer-songwriter Chu Ga-yeol, three members of the boy band Highlight -- Lee Gi-kwang, Yong Jun-hyung, Yoon Doo-joon -- as well as their former bandmate Jang Hyun-seung, and Seo Eun-kwang and Yook Sung-jae from boy group BTOB, had not attended enough classes to fulfill the requirements for graduation.
Their identities were reported by the Korea Times and confirmed to CNN by a South Korean official. CNN has requested comment from their representatives.
An inspection by the Ministry of Education revealed that the celebrities were signed up to the broadcasting and entertainment department of Dongshin University, situated approximately 190 miles from the South Korean capital, Seoul. According to a ministry press release, this meant the entertainers "could not have normally attended the classes," due to their TV and entertainment schedules.
The statement adds that professors within the department accepted TV activity as course attendance, "as per school department policy." However, the policy was only introduced in 2015, after the stars had left Dongshin.
The ministry therefore found that the policy is "null and void." The statement said: "During 2010 to 2013, when the students were in attendance, there was no written rule nor a rule that allows the departments to have a separate policy on attendance."
Furthermore, one of the individuals concerned, referred only as Student A by the Ministry of Education, was enrolled simultaneously as both a student and member of staff in the applied music department.
The statement read: "The time spent as instructor and the student were overlapping so it would have been impossible to attend normally."
The ministry has therefore, it said, "demanded cancellation and rescinding of degree and school credit from seven students who are professional entertainers." It also said it had issued a formal warning to the university and urged management to reprimand the staff involved.
"Without recovery of trust in education, no education policy can succeed," said Yoo Eun-hae, South Korea's minister of education.
The university acknowledged that there had been "shortcoming in certain rules" and said in a written statement: "We will closely review the measures to protect as much as possible those alumni who had received credits and degrees according to the above rule. And will set up the complementary measures including reorganization of the policy for a thorough operation of the school."
CNN has requested further comment from Dongshin University.


With the fate of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee suddenly uncertain, emboldened Democrats clashed with cautious Republicans on Monday as both parties grappled with an increasingly messy nomination fight weeks before the pivotal midterm elections.
The political implications were still being sorted out. But with control of Congress at stake this fall, there were tremendous risks for both sides.
The GOP risked further alienating female voters — particularly in the nation's suburbs — by embracing Trump's hand-picked Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, after an allegation surfaced over the weekend of decades-old sexual misconduct. Democrats, who seized on the development as justification to delay the high-stakes nomination, could energize complacent Republican voters if they're viewed as playing politics with the sensitive allegation.
Amid the chaos, a key question quietly emerged among some political operatives: Would Republicans force through the Kavanaugh nomination even if it jeopardizes their control of Congress? For some, the short-term political pain might be an acceptable tradeoff for a generation of conservative control on the nation's high court.
President Donald Trump said Monday that the vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court may take longer than expected following a woman's claim that the judge sexually assaulted her at a party when they were both in high school.
The situation is fluid to say the least.
"At this very moment, the issue is moving so fast that accurate predictions are difficult to make," said Steven Law, who leads the super PAC aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. "I think it's likely this will inflame partisan energy on both sides."
Christine Blasey Ford, now a clinical psychology professor at Palo Alto University in California, told The Washington Post that a drunken Kavanaugh groped her and tried to take off her clothes at a party when both were teenagers at high schools in suburban Maryland.
Ford's attorney said Monday her client was willing to testify publicly about the allegations on Capitol Hill, where a key Kavanaugh confirmation vote was scheduled this week.
Kavanaugh, now 53, called the allegation "completely false" in a statement, adding that he "had no idea who was making this accusation until she identified herself" to the Post.
"I am willing to talk to the Senate Judiciary Committee in any way the committee deems appropriate to refute this false allegation, from 36 years ago, and defend my integrity," Kavanaugh said.
The developing situation threatens to exacerbate the GOP's rocky Trump-era relationship with suburban women, who are poised to play an outsized role in the districts that will largely decide the House majority this fall. Election Day isn't until Nov. 6, but early voting begins Friday in Minnesota and in roughly three weeks across several more states.
Vulnerable Republican House incumbents have largely avoided the issue, which flared Monday in northern Virginia's suburbs, where GOP Rep. Barbara Comstock is fighting for her political survival.
In a written statement, Comstock said Kavanaugh and Ford "should both testify under oath before the Judiciary Committee." The reaction came as her Democratic challenger, Jennifer Wexton, tweeted: "This is bigger than our politics and will impact whether victims can trust Congress."
In suburban Denver, vulnerable Republican Rep. Mike Coffman was more cautious. A spokesman said the five-term congressman "believes the committee and full Senate should thoroughly evaluate the claims and Judge Kavanaugh should address them."
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said his panel will hold a hearing next Monday with Kavanaugh and Ford. Republicans were eager to avoid images of Ford facing tough questioning from the all-male Republican membership of the Senate panel.
The situation could draw parallels with Justice Clarence Thomas' 1991 confirmation hearings when he faced allegations of sexual harassment from Anita Hill. The Senate ultimately confirmed Thomas, though public acceptance of sexual misconduct has shifted dramatically over the last three decades.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, then the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a potential contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, has been criticized for his handling of Hill's allegations. On Monday, his spokesman, Bill Russo, said Biden "believes Professor Ford deserves a fair and respectful hearing of her allegations, and that the Committee should undertake a thorough and non-partisan effort to get to the truth, wherever it leads."
Some Democrats are using the development to go on offense.
In Nevada, where Republican Sen. Dean Heller is in a difficult fight for re-election, his Democratic challenger, Rep. Jacky Rosen, used the allegation against Kavanaugh to stoke doubt about Heller's judgment.
Heller said last week he had "no reservations" about voting to confirm Kavanaugh. Rosen was quick to suggest in July that Kavanaugh would pose a threat to abortion rights were he to be confirmed.
"If Sen. Heller still has no reservations about confirming Judge Kavanaugh to a lifetime appointment on the nation's highest court, then he isn't listening to Nevadans," Rosen said in a statement Monday.
And in Tennessee, where Democrat Phil Bredesen is trying to knock off Republican incumbent Sen. Marsha Blackburn, the Democrat insisted that Ford "should be heard."
"If U.S senators are not going to give a careful and thorough consideration of Supreme Court nominees, then I don't know what they think their job is," Bredesen said on Twitter.
Democrats — and some Republicans — have called for a delay in the nomination process until Ford's allegation could be investigated further. The development offered some respite to several vulnerable Democrats who are facing re-election in Republican-leaning states and who had avoided taking a firm position on Kavanaugh's nomination.
At the same time, Democrats also worked to avoid the perception they were politicizing the situation.
A cautious Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly, one of the nation's most endangered Senate Democrats, said the allegations "merit further review."
"Given the nature of these allegations, and the number of outstanding questions, I believe the Judiciary Committee should hold off on Thursday's scheduled vote," he said in a written statement.
While his Republican challenger had little to say about the new allegations, West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin said both Ford and Kavanaugh should have an opportunity to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee "as quickly as possible."
"Professor Christine Blasey Ford deserves to be heard and Judge Kavanaugh deserves a chance to clear his name," Manchin said.
Associated Press writers Brian Slodysko, Juana Summers, Nicholas Riccardi and Bill Barrow contributed to this report.


World Sailing and the Yacht Racing Forum are delighted to announce a long term partnership. Involved alongside the Yacht Racing Forum since its debut in 2008 in Monaco, the sports' governing body recently embarked on an ambitious new growth strategy through to 2020.
The new partnership with the Forum is part of this strategy, aimed at further strengthening the ties between World Sailing and all key stakeholders of the sport.
"The Yacht Racing Forum is important for the international yacht racing community and we are delighted to increase our involvement", said World Sailing CEO Andy Hunt. "The Forum is a perfect meeting point for the key people in sailing from all around the world. It gives us the opportunity to meet people and organisations such as event organisers, sponsors, pro sailors, designers and venues."
Held every year at the end of November, the Yacht Racing Forum is the leading annual conference for the global yacht racing industry. The two-day event gathers the sport's key personalities and industry experts to discuss the business of the sport and key issues such as sponsorship, television, media, sustainability issues, new markets, host cities and much more.
"We have been working hard at further developing the Yacht Racing Forum, with a new team of dedicated people, exciting venues, long term partners and an exciting programme ", said Bernard Schopfer, the event's CEO. "We regard this support from World Sailing as a strong mark of confidence, which we are proud of."
Whilst keeping its editorial independence, the Yacht Racing Forum will benefit from World Sailing's network and prestige. The sports' governing body recently invited Host Cities to bid for the 2017 and 2018 editions of its annual conference, the most important gathering of World Sailing's decision makers. Whilst the venue for the Yacht Racing Forum 2016 and 2017 have already been disclosed (Malta in 2016, Aarhus, Denmark in 2017), the common objective of YRF and WS is to organise a joint conference in 2018 and onwards, with the Yacht Racing Forum opening up the seven days WS annual conference.
"This will bring an added value to everyone," says Andy Hunt. "Commercial partners will benefit from a better visibility, whilst attendance to both conferences will increase significantly. This joint-event will combine the institutional side of the sport with its business and commercial side. It will generate debates, networking and business ahead of World Sailing's decision making conference."
The Yacht Racing Forum 2016 will take place on November 28 - 29 in Malta; it will be co-hosted by Yachting Malta and Yachting / Events. The event will attract some 300 people, including a strong delegation from World Sailing, in one place at one time to do business and meet future clients: yacht clubs, athletes, sponsors, event organisers, designers, technical suppliers and anyone involved or just interested in yacht racing. On top of its institutional support, World Sailing will organise a pre-event informal welcome drink on Sunday night at the Hotel Excelsior.
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Before 2000, most would have thought George Clooney a victim of his good looks. However, more challenging roles have revealed his true talents. Today, Hollywood honors Clooney's abilities as an actor, writer, producer and director. He has also established himself as a devoted advocate for Darfur.
George Timothy Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Ky., to a family already familiar with the limelight: George's mother Nina was a former beauty queen, his father Nick was a Cincinnati newscaster and talk show host, his aunt was famed singer Rosemary Clooney, and his uncle was actor Jose Ferrer. As a child, he would often join his father on set, dressing up in various costumes for the show, according to Tiscali.
Clooney was a star on his high school baseball team, and even tried out for the Cincinnati Reds before attending Northern Kentucky University. George's actor cousin Miguel Ferrer got him a small role in a film, and with that, sealed Clooney's future. In 1982, Clooney left Kentucky for Hollywood with $300 to his name.
In a 1996 interview with the New York Daily News, Clooney said he was much more successful than he ever dreamed, but admitted that his hectic work schedule made it difficult to maintain his personal life. On “ER,” Clooney made the ladies swoon over his rugged good looks and also earned two Emmy nominations for his performance.
The lead role of Everett showcased Clooney's skills as an actor and won him his first Golden Globe. In 2001, a remake of the Sinatra classic “Ocean's Eleven” paired Clooney with a star-studded cast that included Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts. A hit at the box office, the film spawned two sequels.
In 2006, Clooney was immensely successful. He was nominated for three Oscar awards: one for “Syriana” and two for “Good Night, and Good Luck,” a retelling of TV journalist Edward R. Murrow's battle with Senator Joseph McCarthy, which Clooney wrote, directed and acted in. Clooney won Best Supporting Actor for the political thriller, “Syriana,” which also earned him a Golden Globe.
Watch the Biography Channel profile of George Clooney on Hulu.
His roles in these two films and his public stand against various aspects of America's foreign policy have caused some to dub him one of Hollywood's most prominent “actor-vists,” explains a 2005 article from the British newspaper The Observer.
Clooney has become an outspoken advocate of Darfur, traveling to the troubled area in an attempt to draw both media and government attention. In March 2009, he traveled in Darfur with NBC journalist Ann Curry, and discussed his role as a United Nations Messenger of Peace. “I come back … for the same reason I think you come back. If there is any chance you can shine a light on it, and if you don't, it's irresponsible,” he told Curry.
In February, Clooney visited with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden to discuss bringing peace to the Darfur region. Clooney said troops and money were not what was needed. “It's about needing what we do best—what we have done best since the start of this country—which is good, robust diplomacy all across the world,” he told the press.


Do the laws of nature scale?
I would like to share with you some thoughts on the question of scale invariance of the laws of nature.
In the paper Newtonian mechanics: An implication of extended relativity (the paper is attached below for your convenience; if you have trouble retrieving the attachment, try here) I entertain a seemingly preposterous idea that Newtonian mechanics in its entirety can be inductively derived from a single principle which I call extended relativity. By employing the notion of inductive implication (as opposed to deductive one) I want to emphasize that my derivation relies on assumptions induced by common sense and everyday experience (like additivity of inertial mass, for example, or the simple observation that kinetic energy grows monotonically with both mass and velocity).
(2) inverse square law is not merely a geometrical law from which it follows that the intensity of emanation must decay as inverse square of the distance from a point source - inverse square law is an inductive implication of relativity of scale.
Suppose that we ask: ‘Are the physical laws symmetrical under a change of scale?’ Suppose we build a certain piece of apparatus, and then build another apparatus five times bigger in every part, will it work exactly the same way? The answer is, in this case, no! The wavelength of light emitted, for example, by the atoms inside one box of sodium atoms and the wavelength of light emitted by a gas of sodium atoms five times in volume is not five times longer, but is in fact exactly the same as the other. So the ratio of the wavelength to the size of the emitter will change... Today, of course, we understand the fact that phenomena depend on the scale on the grounds that matter is atomic in nature, and certainly if we built an apparatus that was so small there were only five atoms in it, it would clearly be something we could not scale up and down arbitrarily. The scale of an individual atom is not at all arbitrary – it is quite definite.
From the logical perspective, Feynman’s reasoning is not much better than Galileo’s. Indeed, how does Feynman know that “the wavelength of light emitted, for example, by the atoms inside one box of sodium atoms and the wavelength of light emitted by a gas of sodium atoms five times in volume is not five times longer, but is in fact exactly the same as the other”? Did he, or someone else for that matter, conduct an experiment with enlarged five times atoms? He says: “matter is atomic in nature” and “scale of an individual atom is not at all arbitrary – it is quite definite”. How so? All our experience suggests otherwise. First we have discovered molecules, then atoms, then nucleus, then quarks (not entirely sure about quarks though - this could be a bogus theoretical construct). On what grounds is based Feynman’s belief that there is an end to that process? Does not Feynman know that the hypothesis of ‘elementary’ particles that occupy mere mathematical points in space without extended structures of any kind invariably leads to all kinds of nonsense and irreconcilable contradictions? It seems logically more consistent to conjecture that there is no such thing as ‘elementary’ particle in nature at all, that the distribution of matter is inherently fractal both up and down.
The next step after Richardson was taken in Kolmogorov 1941. In a class only with Lévy, Kolmogorov (1903 – 1987) was the greatest probabilist of this century. I barely knew him personally, but greatly admired his extraordinary range of achievement. At the mathematical end of his range of interest in probability theory, Kolmogorov 1933 seemed to me too close to comfort to the work of the ultimate decorator who rearranges existing material. But Kolmogorov’s papers on turbulence were filled with novelty and daring.
Now, it is not enough to throw in some crazy idea and leave it at that. One has to deal with the multitude of logical consequences of the novel idea. While contemplating the idea of scaling invariance of the laws of nature, the inevitable and seemingly insurmountable objection is as follows. We are all accustomed to the paradigm that at small scales the nature is administered by the laws of quantum mechanics and at large scales the laws of Newton rule. But what does small scale mean? Small compared to what? And what does large scale mean? One obvious answer that pops up in mind almost automatically is this: If the object is discernible by unaided human perception then it is a large object, if not – then it is a small object. But this is an anthropological principle – a principle that we are trying very hard to get rid of in science! How come the laws of nature are tied so intimately with the size of human body and its abilities? Why are we so special?
If the laws of nature are the same at all scales, than an inescapable logical conclusion follows: Quantum effects should manifest themselves at the level of human scale, as well as at the level of Kolmogorov’s cigar-smoking businessman and, in fact, at any other scale. Evidently we don’t have much of empirical data to talk seriously about quantum effects in Kolmogorov’s unimaginably slow and big world. Such empirical data is simply impossible: long before Kolmogorov's imaginary businessman even contemplates making the next puff, the human kind will disappear without a trace as far as that businessman's perception goes. But why don’t we observe quantum effects in our own macro world, like the Solar system? My answer to that is: Maybe because we are not looking, or looking in the wrong places.
It is quite reasonable to think of the empirical Titius-Bode law as a manifestation of quantization of planetary orbits in the Solar system . Quantization is the final result of the drive to acquire more or less long lasting stable orbits via chaotic transition which is so short (relatively, of course) as to appear as a jump. The mechanism behind this quantum “jump” is the non-linear effects of orbital resonance that exist on the scale of atoms as well as on the scale of Solar system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_resonance).
One could object to this line of reasoning by saying that it is highly speculative. True, but so is the theoretical speculations about big bang, black holes, dark matter and other highly exotic and doubtful things. For example, what is the basis for expecting that the speed of gravitational waves is the same as that of electromagnetic waves? If anything, common sense suggests quite the opposite. Indeed, all of human experience tells us that the speed of wave propagation is a function of the properties of the medium in which it propagates. The speed of sound is not the same as the speed of waves in a liquid water, or in a bar of steel. Call it ether, or whatever you like, but electromagnetic wave also needs some medium to propagate in. So does the gravitational wave (assuming its existence to begin with). Taking into account enormous differences between gravitational and electromagnetic phenomena, it doesn't seem reasonable at all to believe that the speed of wave propagation in two such different mediums as gravitational and electromagnetic fields would be the same. In matters like this, it is preferable to rely on common sense judgments rather than on mathematical implications of highly speculative theories like the general relativity.
We have no method of measuring the length of time in which gravity is propagated, because the action of the Sun having once attained the planets, it continues to act on them as if the attractive force was communicated instantaneously to the extremities of the system; we cannot therefore ascertain in how long a time it is transmitted to the Earth, no more than we could measure the velocity of light, were it not for the aberration and eclipses of Jupiter's satellites. But it it not the same with the small difference that may exist in the action of gravity upon bodies, according to the direction and quantity of their velocity. Analysis has shewn me, that there should result an acceleration in the mean motions of the planets round the Sun, and in the mean motions of the satellites about their planets. I had imagined this method of explaining the secular equation of the Moon, when I believed with other geometricians that it was inexplicable on the principle of universal gravitation. I found that if it arose from this cause, we must suppose in the Moon, in order to release it entirely from its gravity towards the Earth, a velocity in the centre of this planet, at least six million times greater than that of light; the true cause of this equation being now known, we are certain that the activity of gravity is much greater than this. This force therefore acts with a velocity which we may consider as infinite, and we may conclude that the action of the Sun is transmitted in an indivisible instant to the extremities of the planetary system.
The System of the World by P.S. Laplace translated by J. Pond, London, 1809. Vol II, p.233.
That’s what I call common sense.
We have seen in the First Chapter with what precision the almost absolute state of repose of the perihelia of the planetary orbits, indicate that the force of gravity varies according to the inverse square of the distance, and now that we know the cause of the motions of these perihelia, we may regard this law as rigorously exact. It is the same with all emanations which proceed from a center, such as light; it seems as if all forces whose action is perceived at sensible distances follow this law. It has lately been observed, that the attractions and repulsions of electricity and magnetism decrease in proportion to the squares of the distances. A remarkable property of this law is, that if the dimensions of all the bodies of the universe, their mutual distances and velocities, were to be augmented or diminished proportionally, they would describe curves entirely similar to those described at present, and their appearances would be entirely the same. For the forces which animate them, being the result of attractions, proportional to the masses divided by the squares of the distances, they would augment and diminish proportionally as the dimensions of this imaginary universe. It may be remarked at the same time that this property can only belong to the law of nature. Thus the appearances of the motions of the universe are independent of its absolute dimensions, as they are likewise of the absolute motion it may have in space, and we can only observe and recognize relative phenomena.
The System of the World by P.S. Laplace translated by J. Pond, London, 1809. Vol II, p.231-232.
The trite principle of continuity strikes me as ill defined. I would say instead: All this follows from the principle of scale invariance.
Long ago it had been pointed out by Olbers and others, that if the stars be infinite in numbers, and be distributed with anything roughly approximating to an average density through infinite space, the sky ought, night and day, to be all over of a brightness of the same order as that of the sun. Is the number of stars, then, finite; or does the ether absorb their light?
The Unseen Universe by B. Stewart and P.G. Tait, pp. 113.
Authors fail to mention that there is a third hypothesis (which is the most credible, in my view) that dissolves the paradox: If the distribution of matter is fractal in the universe, then average density through infinite space is meaningless, i.e. the premise of the paradox is void.
The scale invariance of nature is fundamentally a human perception . For me The fractal paradigm came alive when I realised that logic and other cultural thought systems were merely the limiting man made rules for shaping the mind of the young. The older wiser mind comes to realise that it's perception rests on what I call the principle of acceptance. Change what one( specifically you as an individual ) accept and you change everything that depends on what you accept!
But what you accept shapes what and how,when and where you perceive. It shapes who you perceive, but says nothing about why you perceive. This is because why is a mystical hypnogogic trigger in every language system. . The question why is the last language control any person can impose on another or on oneself. "Why" in this regard becomes the way we can shift between paradigms or free ourselves from sets or systems of acceptance. "Why" enables us to choose or others to choose for us without us ever realising quite how!!
The child's question" who made god?" is fundamentally the key that reveals the scale invariance that we naturally assume. That natural thought process is driven out of some of us by social and religious pressure or adaptation, but in terms of evolution, it is absolutely vital that one can adapt to changes of scale implied in that mental process.
Where do we stop? The principle of exhaustion is the only acceptable answer. This gives each individual the choice. Most stop way too short. A few are burned out because they cannot stop! The way of all is freedom to know one can stop whenever one chooses. The consequence of stopping is the simple acceptance of where your limitations are and then the rigorous synthesis of a connection between your perceptions and the consensus of others around you( providing you accept the independent existence of others).
Once again I lose a piece to the aether! Well never mind , it is not time to set it down here in this thread!
I will pass on its message when it comes again to be written. But almost self similarity is the key constraint Mandelbrot introduced into what is an ancient conception of scale invariance.
Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful that when we grasp it – in a decade, a century, or a millennium – we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid for so long?
I can't help but think that the idea of the universe where scale has no fundamental role to play is simple yet powerful enough to answer John Wheeler's longing for revelation provided that this idea's rich and far-reaching implications are thoroughly grasped and fearlessly followed wherever they may lead without any reservations period.
All that is required for quantitative realization of this qualitative program is the extension of the Newtonian concept of material point (which is characterized fully by its mass and its translational mode of motion) by supplementing it with attributes that would properly characterize the spinning mode of motion of material point.
... celestial mechanics does not conflict with cosmic catastrophism. I must admit, however, that in searching for the causes of the great upheavals of the past and in considering their effects, I became skeptical of the great theories concerning the celestial motions that were formulated when the historical facts described here were not known to science. The subject deserves to be discussed in detail and quantitatively. All that I would venture to say at this time and in this place is the following: The accepted celestial mechanics, notwithstanding the many calculations that have been carried out to many decimal places, or verified by celestial motions, stands only if the sun, the source of light, warmth, and other radiation produced by fusion and fission of atoms, is as a whole an electrically neutral body, and also if the planets, in their usual orbits, are neutral bodies.
Fundamental principles in celestial mechanics including the law of gravitation, must come into question if the sun possesses a charge sufficient to influence the planets in their orbits or the comets in theirs. In the Newtonian celestial mechanics, based on the theory of gravitation, electricity and magnetism play no role. When physicists came upon the idea that the atom is built like a solar system, the atoms of various chemical elements differing in the mass of their suns (nuclei) and the number of their planets (electrons), the notion was looked upon with much favor. But it was stressed that "an atom differs from the solar system by the fact that it is not gravitation that makes the electrons go round the nucleus, but electricity" (H. N. Russell).
Besides this, another difference was found: an electron in an atom, on absorbing the energy of a photon (light), jumps to another orbit, and again to another when it emits light and releases the energy of a photon. Because of this phenomenon, comparison with the solar system no longer seemed valid. "We do not read in the morning newspapers that Mars leaped to the orbit of Saturn, or Saturn to the orbit of Mars," wrote a critic. True, we do not read it in the morning papers; but in ancient records we have found similar events described in detail, and we have tried to reconstruct the facts by comparing many ancient records. The solar system is actually built like an atom; only, in keeping with the smallness of the atom, the jumping of electrons from one orbit to another, when hit by the energy of a photon, takes place many times a second, whereas in accord with the vastness of the solar system, a similar phenomenon occurs there once in hundreds or thousands of years. In the middle of the second millennium before the present era, the terrestrial globe experienced two displacements; and in the eighth or seventh century before the present era, it experienced three or four more. In the period between, Mars and Venus, and the moon also, shifted.
This is absolutely fascinating! And I'll tell you why. Stay tuned.
I'm looking forward to your addition.
I too am curious about universal scalability and have a similar intuition that it must be infinite it both directions. Further, along these lines I'm interested in spin effects that are, apparently, perpetual at quantum and cosmic scale and how they may me harnessed.
I am pleased to report that the concept of scale invariance of the laws of nature - notwithstanding it is not phrased in those precise terms - is slowly but surely getting foothold: The Long Path to Understanding Gravity by Wallace Thornhill, a champion of Velikovsky views, at EU2015 conference Paths of Discovery.
True, we do not read it in the morning papers; but in ancient records we have found similar events described in detail, and we have tried to reconstruct the facts by comparing many ancient records. The solar system is actually built like an atom; only, in keeping with the smallness of the atom, the jumping of electrons from one orbit to another, when hit by the energy of a photon, takes place many times a second, whereas in accord with the vastness of the solar system, a similar phenomenon occurs there once in hundreds or thousands of years.
Following Velikovsky's suggestion ("The subject deserves to be discussed in detail and quantitatively"), let us run some detailed, albeit rough, estimates using the principle of scale invariance of the laws of nature.
v = e√[k/(rm)] ~ 1000000 m/s, i.e. around one thousand kilometers per second.
Therefore the electron rotates around the proton with a frequency, v/(2πr), in the order of 10^15 per second.
... the jumping of electrons from one orbit to another, when hit by the energy of a photon, takes place many times a second.
Then the Earth will, before it makes the next jump, circle the Sun one million times.
Is it any wonder now that "we do not read in the morning newspapers that Mars leaped to the orbit of Saturn, or Saturn to the orbit of Mars". From the perspective of an "atom" in the scale of solar system, humans - and all other species on Earth for that matter - are creatures with unimaginably short lifespan. We are mayflies, at best, brothers and sisters. That's why it seems to us that our solar system is rock-solid stable structure - an illusion that goes back to Laplace.
Tell me about bogus, inherently acausal Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics now. Absolutely fascinating!
I would like to accept this analogy, or rather example of scale invariance but it has some flaws. In particular with respect to physical chemistry theory which allows for multiple electrons per valence shell and the theory of electron orbitals.
This is irreconcilable with patterns we see in our solar system. Perhaps there is more to understand in the way of universal fraciticality or atom and cosmic theory.
For example, we can apply this idea to us as creatures. We're made of organs, which are made of cells, which are made of molecules, etc. And in the opposite direction organs make people, which make families and companies, which make neighborhoods, communities, cities, states, etc. Any one of these levels represents a different order of magnitude with the same general pattern (albeit this is very crude). As in the atom/solar system analogy they are not quite identical in their physical manifestation from level to level (they perform very different functions for example, RNA transcription is very different from going to work and typing on a computer) but perhaps on some other level of abstraction these patterns are not all that different.
My point is perhaps it doesn't make sense to say that an atom is a solar system or vice verse, especially since we know they behave differently in the physical sense. But in an abstract way are similar. I believe these lines of thought will bring us close to a sound magnetic base.
I dream of a new science coming into view. A science in which there is the very real prospect of understanding the universal laws of conservation of order and disorder that manifest themselves in the abundance and dazzling variety of life forms – all around us – subjected to never ending transformations through the death-doorway to other, up and down, fractal dimensions of the universe.
I see life as organized and ordered form of energy, while death – as disorganized and disordered form of it. I imagine that there is a certain amount of both at every given moment, both being strictly conserved across the borders of the fractal layers of the universe.
Life must be eternal – just like the energy is. Life cannot be created and it cannot be destroyed – just like the energy is. And – just like the energy – life can only be transformed from one form to another, the transition taking place across different scales of the hierarchical structure of the universe.
Death, i.e. the disorganized and disordered form of energy, is nothing but a transient state of energy undergoing a transition from one form of life to another across the embedded fractal layers of the universe.
I cannot stress enough the importance of the so-called law of equipartition or, to be more precise, the importance of the violations of this law, which is everywhere we look. It is everywhere where there is an ordered, organized, harmonious interplay of matter.
The law of equipartition has no place in life forms of matter, which is almost everywhere. And by life forms I do not necessarily mean biological forms. The Earth taken as a whole – with its intricate interplay with the surrounding medium in the framework of the solar system – is clearly a life form.
The law of equipartition can hold true only in conditions of thermal equilibrium which is basically impossible in a structure which is fractal in nature, i.e. composed of imbedded layers of vastly different scales.
Look at the life span of a fly, compared to the life span of a elephant. Which lives longer, a horse or a cat? Granted no predator or sickness. Humming bird compared to a eagle, which lives longer? How many heart beats a day? This number changes.the heart beat of a humming bird heart is high frequency, the beat of the elephant heart is low frequency. How many heart beats per life time? Average is close enough.


The Tyrannosaurus Rex, or commonly called the T. Rex, is often the creature that comes to mind when most people think of dinosaurs. The reasons for this are simple, it is an iconic creature whose image and reputation allows it to be recognized long after its time on Earth has ended. What makes the animal so easily recognizable is its great size, and ferocious appearance.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex could measure up to 40 feet long, and estimates for its weight vary between 4.5 to 7.2 metric tons. This makes this fearsome predator one of the largest carnivores to have ever walked the Earth, and has ensured its continued presence in popular culture. Despite having been extinct for many millions of years modern science has allowed us the ability to learn quite a bit about the Tyrannosaurus Rex. When you look at all that has been discovered about its size, appearance, eating habits, and overall behavior it quickly becomes apparent that the Tyrannosaurus Rex was easily one of the most fearsome predators of all time.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex belonged to a super class of Dinosaurs called Tyrannosauroidea, in fact when Paleontologists are deciding if a Dinosaur belongs in this class they most often use the Tyrannosaurus Rex as the model to compare it to. Historically the Tyrannosaurus Rex was often depicted as standing upright, however we can now say with relative certainty that this was an animal that had a very pronounced forward leaning posture. It had a massive skull giving it incredible bite power, and in order to counter balance the weight of its skull it leaned forward and used its tail as a counter weight.
One of the most easily recognizable features of the Tyrannosaurus Rex were its incredibly small arms. When compared to the rest of its body its arms were very small. However despite their small size they were very strong and were most likely used to help the animal rise when resting, and also to grasp onto prey. There is an ongoing debate as to whether or not the Tyrannosaurus Rex had feathers as many of its relatives did, sadly there is no evidence to support either side of the debate. Perhaps the most hotly contested subject about the Tyrannosaurus Rex was its life style.
Was this great animal a predator, or a scavenger? Traditionally it was assumed that given its appearance it was most certainly an apex predator. However many scientists question whether it could have been a successful hunter given its size and body type. The Tyrannosaurus Rex was most likely not the fastest of animals, however its huge size and highly developed sense of smell would allow it to be an effective scavenger that could have chased off most of its possible competition.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex was a fearsome and powerful dinosaur lived and thrived during the Cretaceous Period. Its skeletal remains have been found all across North America helping to paint a picture of an animal that was highly successful. Having firmly established itself as one of the largest and most successful carnivores of all time, the Tyrannosaurus Rex will surely continue to be a subject of awe and admiration for years to come.


“Stay hungry” or “Keep hungry”?
If I had two choices, either to "Eat something" or "Stay/Keep hungry", when food is offered to me when I was in a state of hunger.
I want the phrase to be in the same format as "Eat something", I mean two words and in an order(verb) form.
To remain determined, competitive, motivated, and active in one's hopes, ambitions, or goals; to keep oneself from becoming complacent or self-satisfied with less than one might potentially achieve.
Also, I don't find that "Keep hungry" makes a good fit.
So, what should I say?
I suppose your "idiomatic" meaning of stay hungry comes from this page: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/hungry. I think this is not really an idiom but rather a logical construction from one of the alternative meanings of hungry listed at the bottom of the same page: "ambitious." In other words, in order to tell someone not to lose their sense of ambition, one could say "stay ambitious" or "stay hungry."
I would further consider this meaning of "hungry" to be a metaphor, that is, it represents a metaphorical hunger for success rather than a hunger for food.
In fact, just about any such phrase using the word "hungry" could have the same metaphorical meaning: in a context where "stay hungry" means "stay ambitious," telling a person to "remain hungry" or "keep yourself hungry" would have the same meaning.
The phrase keep hungry does not ring true to my ear. The word keep has various idiomatic uses, such as "keep calm", that have the form keep + (adjective), but this does not seem to be one of them.
If people go hungry, they do not have enough food to eat.
This does not seem to apply when food is available but one chooses not to eat it. The definition of the phrase varies from source to source, however: according to https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go%20hungry, going hungry is a chronic condition, but https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/go+hungry defines it as missing a single meal.
to mean if you do not eat food now, while it is available, you will suffer from not having enough food to eat in the near future.
is the natural way to utter the thought desired in the context specified.
Eat some food or else continue being so determined.
The word "eat" would indicate unambiguously that the word "hungry" is to be interpreted in its literal sense rather than a figurative sense.
Another option would be remain: "eat something or remain hungry."
I'm not a native speaker, but I'd rather use "stay hungry". I think the proper usage of keep might be when you leave something in a state, so technically (I guess) you can say like "keep myself hungry", but I've never seen any usage that uses the verb keep to leave the speaker itself in a state, rather leave another object in it.
"If you refuse to eat anything, you'll go hungry."
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How do I make my wedges go nice and crispy in the oven?
I usually season them with a cajun mix, add a tiny bit of oil, and cook them in the oven on fan-bake at about 200 degrees (celcius). They come out okay, but not amazing.
What can I do to make them come out a lot crispier, while still using a normal household oven? Would more oil improve their texture, or do I need to crumb them maybe?
You could put them in a pan of boiling water for 3 or 4 minutes (not so to they're cooked through) before putting them in the oven. The potato on the outside of the wedges will soften and cook a little bit which will help the outsides crisp up a little. Make sure you allow them to drain completely before you put them in the oven.
After boiling for a few minutes in water, drain, put the lid on and shake (but gently so the wedges don't break). This will rough up the surface. The resulting bumps can heat through more fully and lose more moisture, leading to crisp.
I would also agree with other people's suggestions of par-boiling for 7-10 mins, followed by a shake. In addition I would get the oil hot before adding the potato. Either put the tray with the oil in the oven a few minutes before cooking or pre-heat the tray & oil on top of the hob before transferring to the oven (make sure your baking tray can withstand hob temperatures).
I usually par-microwave the whole potatoes, then cut them into wedges and let them steam out for a good few minutes. You can actually see the potato going whiter and drier near the edges. Microwaving seems to me highly preferrable to boiling at this stage to minimise water. Then I shake them in a bag with some olive oil to coat, then sprinkle with Caribbean seasoning. Then bake. Baking long and lower works better than too high a heat, too. I've had them get so crispy before, they are almost like shards of glass, it's awesome!
Cook them hotter. I cook mine at 425 or 450 F, which is 220 or 230 C. It makes a difference. I toss them in oil, sometimes with salt and rosemary, and put them on a silpat baking sheet. I keep them a little apart, trying not to have any touching, so the steam can get out. They get browned, even blistered, and crunchy, like roasted potatoes do.
To be clear: I don't parboil, I don't coat them in anything other than oil. The oven temperature and the rubbery sheet on the baking pan do the trick.
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Do flower essences work with the lack of libido many menopausal women experience, and how is this issue generally approached in flower essence therapy?
Flower essences have been very helpful for women in menopause, including the issue of changing sexual response and desire levels.
However, from the point of view of flower essence therapy, practitioners have found that each woman's resolution of this issue differs. This resonates with Dr. Bach's central belief that flower essences work best when chosen specifically for the individual, not the outer condition or external disease.
Consequently, the question of libido cannot be measured by a statistical norm, or one "right" answer, but rather helping each woman to determine what is appropriate for her own soul expression and evolution. Some woman have found that flower essence therapy has brought an enhanced or renewed expression of sexual response, once a new level of hormonal balance is achieved. Others have who felt guilty or inferior that sexual desire has diminished, have realized that the same level of sexual activity that took place in another life cycle is no longer what the soul is seeking.
Alpine Lily Lilium parvum - Helps women to integrate the bodily experience of menopause; to move through physical sensations of pain or discomfort toward a deeper sense of the feminine.
Angelica Angelica archangelica - The herbal Angelica (called Dong Quai) is a classic women's remedy. However this form of Angelica brings an even deeper sense of expansiveness and spiritual relatedness. It helps to relieve the sense of compression or diminishment many women experience during menopause. Instead, one can re-discover a larger sense of self and soul purpose.
Black Cohosh Cimicifuga racemosa - This herb is well know for its estrogen-balancing qualities, but when used as a flower essence it works more energetically to open up blocked energy in the entire pelvic region. It is especially important for women who feel intense feelings of anger, rage or violence during the menopausal transition. It is also helpful for painful and debilitating menstrual cycles.
California Wild Rose Rosa californica - Helps women who feel drained or exhausted during menopause, or who tend to look back to a past life phase rather than forward to their future.
Fairy Lantern Calochortus albus - For women who resist the developmental phase of menopause, especially a psychological need to remain young in an inappropriate way. For a deep fear of aging, or of being seen as "mature."
Hibiscus Hibiscus rosa-sinensis - For physical or emotional "dryness," reduced sexual response or sensation. For helping to re-define one's sense of sexuality and integrating soul warmth with physical desire.
Mariposa Lily Calochortus leichtlinii - For completing the mothering phase of life, or for the empty-nest syndrome. Also for helping to transform deep-seated beliefs or superstitions about menopause internalized from one's mother/grandmother.
Pomegranate Punica granatum - A major flower essence for menopause, helping women re-direct the psychic and physical forces of procreativity and reproduction to soul creativity. An important essence for experiencing menopause as a positive and natural outcome of the feminine identity.
Quince Chaenomeles speciosa - Helping women to combine the softer, more feminine and yielding aspects of their identity with emergent feelings of strength and power associated with the inner masculine of each women's soul.
Sage Salvia officinalis - Helps to refine the over-abundance of watery emotions into calmer, more objective feelings. Instills the ability to reflect on life experience and see the movements of one's life from a larger perspective. One of the flower essences which can be very helpful for "water" problems during menopause: increased sweating and frequent urination.
Sagebrush Artemisia tridentata - Addresses the emptiness many women feel during menopause, as a positive experience. Helps to bring a sense of inner stillness, or "pause." Also a deeply cleansing remedy to release accumulated physical and psychic toxins which must be cleared before a new life phase can begin.
Scarlet Monkeyflower Mimulus cardinalis - Very helpful flower essence for helping to see hot flashes and other fire manifestations during menopause at a deeper emotional level. This flower essence especially addresses repressed emotional material, such as anger, which may be blocking the vitality and physical energy.
Tiger Lily Lilium humboldtii - To help integrate and balance many energetic fluctuations during menopause, especially helping the masculine forces to remain integrated with the deep feminine.
Walnut Juglans regia - An excellent stabilizing remedy during menopause, helping women to break old links or dysfunctional identities and move forward with a renewed sense of soul purpose and identity.
Yarrow Achillea millefolium - For women who become over-sensitive during menopause and too emotionally expanded. Also for many physical symptoms such as prolonged menstrual bleeding or "flooding."
Lady's Mantle Alchemilla vulgaris - An excellent all purpose flower essence during menopause, helping women to find a larger, positive feminine identity, especially an ability to sense one's physical body as being nurtured by the larger physical matrix of Nature, or "Mother Earth."


All humans, animals and even plants possess an electrical aura around them. This aura is actually an electrical cloud or field.
Some people seem to be able to sense such an aura in others.
How is sensing an aura explained?
One aspect of life is electrical. Your muscles contract as a result of electrical impulses. Your heart gives off electrical signals that doctors can measure with an electrocardiogram. Your brain also gives off electrical signals that doctors can measure with an electroencephalogram.
The electrical signals that come from your muscles, heart, brain and other parts of your body result in an electrical field—somewhat like a cloud of electrical charges—that surrounds you.
One interesting theory about a person's electrical signals is that if your mind and heart are in harmony, their electrical signals are in synch. This results in a stronger aura and apparently better health.
Some people claim that they can visibly see this aura around other people. Others claim to be able to sense another's presence in the dark. Although many scientists scoff at this as a person's imagination, it is possible that these people are actually using a sense that is very weak in most people. And that would be the ability to sense an electrical field.
Sharks and eels detect their prey, as well as other members of their species, through sensing electrical signals transmitted through the water. It is not certain how many other animals have this sense.
Humans may also be able to detect electrical signals, but since that sense is so weak in most people, it is not really noticeable or useful.
If people can sense electrical fields, it is also possible that those people who claim to be able to sense the aura of another person may have this electrical sense more sensitive than most everyone else. This is similar to how some people seem to be able to sense future events through the use of their 6th sense more than others can.
But also, people who claim to be able to sense the aura of another person should also be able to sense the aura of a plant or animal on occasion.
All living beings have a weak electrical cloud surrounding them. Some animals, such as sharks, are able to sense the electrical fields in other animals. Humans may also have that sense, but it is too weak to notice. Some people may have the sense strong enough for them to see or feel the aura of other people.
Use your special senses to improve the world.


Washington (CNN) - White House adviser Stephen Miller is pushing to expedite a policy that could penalize legal immigrants whose families receive public benefits and make it more difficult to get citizenship, three sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.
The White House has been reviewing the proposal since March at the Office of Management and Budget, which is the last stop for regulations before they are final. But concerns over potential lawsuits have delayed the final rule, and the draft has undergone numerous revisions, multiple sources say.
The crux of the proposal would penalize legal immigrants if they or their family members have used government benefits -- defined widely in previous drafts of the policy.
The law has long allowed authorities to reject immigrants if they are likely to become a "public charge" -- or dependent on government. But the draft rule in its recent forms would include programs as expansive as health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, as well as some forms of Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, food stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit.
The rule would not explicitly prohibit immigrants or their families from accepting benefits. Rather, it authorizes the officers who evaluate their applications for things like green cards and residency visas to count the use of these programs against applicants and gives them authority to deny visas on these grounds -- even if the program was used by a family member.
Two non-administration sources close to US Citizenship and Immigration Services, which would publish and enforce the proposal, say that Miller has been unhappy by the delay and has pushed the agency to finish it quickly. The sources say Miller even instructed the agency to prioritize finalizing the rule over other efforts a few weeks ago.
Miller is an immigration hardliner within the administration, a veteran of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' Senate office who has been at President Donald Trump's side since the early stages of his presidential campaign.
But two other administration sources downplayed the idea of any instructions to defer other policies until it's done, though they acknowledged Miller is keenly interested in the rule.
The White House and Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment.
Earlier this year, DHS spokesman Tyler Houlton said the administration is concerned about taxpayer dollars.
"The administration is committed to enforcing existing immigration law, which is clearly intended to protect the American taxpayer," Houlton said. "Any potential changes to the rule would be in keeping with the letter and spirit of the law -- as well as the reasonable expectations of the American people for the government to be good stewards of taxpayer funds."
In one illustration of how many avenues there may be to challenge the complex rule, it was sent over to the Office of Management and Budget designated as not "economically significant" despite the possible impact to millions of immigrants and federal spending.
Executive director of the pro-immigration group America's Voice Frank Sharry alleged that Trump and Miller are using a "deeply cynical and cruel strategy" and accused Republicans of "race-baiting."
"Trump and Miller have concluded that the best 2018 political strategy is a divisive and desperate three-step: 1) do something cruel to immigrants; 2) sit back as Democrats, the fact-based media and the majority of Americans denounce the cruelty; 3) step in and claim that the President is standing up for his white base and against 'the other' while working to define Democrats as doing the opposite," Sharry said. "They did this on DACA. They did this on family separation. Now they are planning to do the same on public charge."


How much water is there in magma?
There were two aspects of geology that really appealed to me. First, I fell in love with the detective work that one can do by looking at rocks. Being able to read the history off a rock is very exciting and rewarding. Secondly, the enthusiasm of every geology professor I've had was infectious. Every geology professor was as enthusiastic about rocks as they were in teaching the new generation of geologists.
I remembered the enthusiasm all my professors had, and I tried to emulate them. Also, I remembered back to the days that my father would tell me exciting bed time stories. I would be honored if I can be half the story teller he is.
One of the ways I find myself reacting to complicated science talks is by daydreaming and not paying attention, and I worked hard to try and avoid inducing this same behavior in others. The first couple drafts of my talk definitely would have had people nodding off or at least checking their phones. I just kept rewriting my talk over and over again, all while trying to imagine myself in the audience. Would my own talk make my mind wander?
In today's mind-numbingly fast paced world, we are constantly bombarded with distractions. In our own pockets, we carry a device that is probably the worst offender. When I present my work, I try to tell a story. I try to immerse my listeners and convince them to leave their cell phones alone for a moment. No slides, no distractions, just story.


The science of biotechnology, DNA, the underpinnings of life, as well as all scriptural references, documents, artwork, and history depicted in this novel are factual.
So why make it fiction? I found that it was much more powerful to incorporate a cast of fictional characters who interpret and debate the revealed pattern, each coming from a distinctively different backgound.
While it is my belief that the theories discussed by these characters have merit, each individual reader must explore these viewpoints and come to his or her own conclusion. The reader may relate to the views of a specific character, whether it is Dan, agnostic about religion, Shannon, a biotechnologist and evolutionist, or John, a practicing Christian with an unexpected past.
After considering the various viewpoints, you may in fact be uncertain of your beliefs, and that may be a very healthy outcome. Some people may be quite disturbed by what they learn. However, my hope in writing this novel is that the story will serve as a catalyst and a springboard for people to discuss the important topics of science, faith, religion, and history.
I actually started my research on this topic with the assumption that I would not find the pattern within the Bible, but I surprised even myself. Some theologians may find the pattern match convincing authentication of those passages, while at the same time, perhaps uncomfortable that the traditional interpretation of the story has changed.
In the end, the book is not anti-anything, but instead an attempt to square the historic discovery of biotechnology in scriptural texts with the traditions of evolutionists and Christians.
This is a common question because people want to know from what belief system the novel was written. Indeed, this book does challenge some of the traditional interpretations and doctrines of the church. The question is perhaps less important when you consider that whole topic of belief systems is explored by the characters, and the characters clearly come from differing points of view.
Because the book develops a unified and consistent philosophy that includes both scientific and religious experiences, it does not fit within the existing domains of belief systems available today. Indeed, no one will be completely happy with the facts that are exposed.
To be specific, however, I consider myself a student of many religions, and indeed, a follower of Jesus. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
HOW DO EVOLUTIONISTS FEEL ABOUT YOUR NOVEL?
I worked very hard to create an accurate depiction of Darwin's original theory and attempted to square this with the surprising evidence that ancient scripture describes DNA and the detailed processes of life. Some evolutionists may be offended by the portrayal, as the patterns discovered in Genesis tend to put Darwin’s theories into question. By the same token, I expect that some theologians will be upset about the affect that the discovery of the patterns has on key doctrines of the church, such as the doctrine of original sin and the history of Christ.
DOES Coils of the Serpent SUPPORT INTELLIGENT DESIGN?
The popular debate posits a dichotomy with creationism, also known as intelligent design, as one option, and Darwinian evolution as the other. This novel tends to cast doubt on both popular alternatives while suggesting another set of possibilities as being more likely, especially given scriptural evidence. If you find the scriptural evidence attractive, you may have to reconsider some of your beliefs no matter what camp you are in.
DO YOU USE A LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE?
When people talk about a literal interpretation, they usually imply that they adopt the traditional literal interpretation of passages which are considered allegorical in nature. You will likely find that the methods used in Coils of the Serpent are actually more literal than traditional interpretations and that the pattern match is much more than random coincidence.
The question the reader will have to face is whether it is appropriate to consider alternative interpretations to passages which have had accepted meanings for centuries. If you allow such consideration, then the approach used in the book will probably be very convincing.


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