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How fast do f1 boats go?
F1 boats are powered by a Mercury Marine V6 two stroke that burns 100LL Avgas at a rate of 120 liters (32 gallons) per hour, generating over 400 horsepower at 10,500 rpm. This engine can propel the boats to 100 km/h ( 62 mph ) in less than four seconds and to a maximum speed of over 250 km/h (155 mph ).
How much does a racing speed boat cost?
You can purchase outboard speed boats for as little as $20,000 for a basic model. Inboard speed boats, on the other hand, are much pricier. They can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
How fast do offshore racing boats go?
Depending on the class, speeds varies from 85 mph (105 km/h) to 200 mph (321 km/h). In the USA, the premier series is Super Boat International. The other racing series are the Offshore Super Series and OPA.
What is the fastest boat ever?
Wondering what is the fastest boat in the world? Unbelievably, the Guinness World Record for the fastest boat in the world is held by the jet-powered hydroplane Spirit of Australia which reached an estimated speed of 344.86 MPH.
Why are boats slower than cars?
They go slow because they can. They do not need speed to stay afloat, and they certainly do not need speed to achieve decent miles per gallon. The amount of energy it takes to push that out of the way increases very quickly with speed. It's not economical to go very fast on a commercial ship.
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What makes boats so expensive?
The cost of actually building a boat is ultimately the main reason for their high price tags. Unlike cars, whose manufacturing process is now almost wholly automated, boats have to be built mostly by hand. Vast shipyards are required, where often just a handful of boats can be built over the course of several months.
How much does a super boat cost?
So just how much does a superyacht cost ? The reports finds that on average , a 100-meter superyacht with a top speed of 25 knots and 50 crew members should cost around $275 million.
How much did the Miss Geico boat cost?
Scott Colton, the team manager for Miss GEICO Racing, has that answer. And it's well into the seven-figure range. "If you were just to purchase the boat , the engines, drives, props and everything else you need to put it on the water — and not just race it — you're probably talking over $1.5 million," Colton said.
Is 50 mph fast on a boat?
Going fast in a boat requires extra attention to detail. The fastest I've ever gone in a boat is 116 mph . Most recreational boats have an open helm, so you can feel every bit of 50 mph (the boat -speed gold standard) on the water, while maintaining that speed in a car will get you honked at in the slow lane.
Is 35 mph fast for a boat?
317.6 mph (511 km/h) was the fastest boat speed ever recorded. Average Boat Speeds: Sailboat , Pontoon, & Cruiser.
Sailboat 8 mph 12 mph
Pontoon 15mph-30mph 35 mph
Cruiser 16mph-30mph 50 mph
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What is the fastest offshore powerboat?
Miss GEICO
Average Pontoon Boat Speeds Pontoon boat speeds can surpass 30 MPH under the right conditions, with a few pontoon boats even reaching the 35 MPH mark thanks to larger engines and great conditions. The G3 Suncatcher pontoon boat with a 90 HP motor, for example, can easily go more than 30 MPH .
It's not designed to be a rocket. 40mph on the water in plenty fast , but you may be happier with a go- fast type boat , especially if you need to travel long distances.
What is the fastest jet in the world?
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
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Are Young Black Men Rejecting Obama?
By Walter Hudson Dec 18, 2012 7:00 AM ET
The number of young black men who cast a vote for the Republican presidential candidate in 2012 tripled that of 2008. Hearing this statistic, one commenter quipped, "Is this one of those situations where three times nothing is still nothing?"
No. "Nearly 20 percent of black males under 30 voted for Romney, more than three times what McCain got." That according to Ann Coulter, who gets her information from Pew Research.
How? Why? Is there a growing number of young black conservatives?
Those stand as worthy questions. Answering them properly would require follow-up polling. Any number of factors could have informed these votes, which deviate markedly from the wider black community. At large, blacks voted 93% for Barack Obama, making it all the more fascinating to ponder why young black men trended toward the Republican candidate.
While we must wait and see if more comprehensive polling provides answers, likely influences upon the black vote hang ripe for analysis. Generally, it makes sense that the proverbial honeymoon is over. President Obama's second inauguration cannot be as historic as his first. The novelty of beholding the nation's first black president has faded over time.
Of course, there must be more to our cited trend than that. If fading novelty were the only factor, we would see the trend across the entire black electorate, and not merely among young black males. What do they see that their elders don't?
For one thing, blacks fared worse under the Obama administration than in previous years. The Wall Street Journal's Jason L. Riley confirms:
When the president assumed office, unemployment was 12.7% for blacks and 7.1% for whites. Today it is 14.3% for blacks and 7% for whites, which means that the black-white employment gap has not merely persisted under Mr. Obama but widened.
American Thinker's Chad Stafko adds:
[A report from the liberal Center for American Progress], released in April, shows more dismal economic conditions in the African-American community. It found that from 2009 through 2011, black minimum wage workers swelled 16.6%, while whites had only 5.2% more minimum wage workers. Not only, then, has there been a disproportionate increase in the number of African-Americans who are in the unemployment line, but there is also a greater number of blacks working for minimum wage. This surely wasn't the change African-Americans were looking for in Obama.
These results shouldn't surprise anyone. After all, the kind of "change" which the president and his ideological ilk continue to propose ignores the source of value, and thus the source of wealth and prosperity.
Workers of any race can earn only what they are willing to and capable of producing. The motivation and skill of the black community have not been fostered by Obama's leadership. Stafko continues:
During his nearly four years as president of the United States, Barack Obama could have used the bully pulpit of the presidency to make a real impact on the black community and address the underlying problems within it.
An order of operation leads to economic prosperity. A thriving income requires the production of abundant value, which in turn requires rational action informed by a trained mind. Opportunities for such training tend to allude children born out of wedlock with little to no paternal influence. Stafko reminds us:
Fewer than 40% of black children live with both parents.
Black children are seven times more likely to have a parent in prison.
Over 70% of black babies are born to unwed mothers.
So long as these social problems go unaddressed, truly progressive economic change will dangle beyond the black community's reach. Informed by a worldview which sees government as the fountainhead of all moral good, civil rights leaders amidst the black community continue to focus on political activism as the means toward elevating black prospects. However, as The Wall Street Journal's Jason L. Riley documents, political representation does not correlate with economic success:
Today, Asian-Americans are the nation's best-educated and highest-earning racial group. According to a Pew study released earlier this year, 49% of Asians age 25 and older hold bachelor's degrees, compared with 31% of whites and 18% of blacks. The median household income for Asians is $66,000, which is $12,000 more than white households and double that of black households. As with other groups, political clout has not been a precondition of Asian socioeconomic advancement.
The election of Barack Obama four years ago gave blacks bragging rights, but bragging rights can't close the black-white achievement gap in education or increase black labor-force participation or reduce black incarceration rates. A civil-rights leadership that encourages blacks to look to politicians to solve these problems is doing a disservice to the people they claim to represent.
Asians, for their part, can point to an out-of-wedlock birthrate of just 16%, the lowest of any major group and a significant factor in Asian success. The black illegitimacy rate last year was 72%. Might it be that having a black man in the Oval Office is less important for black advancement than having one in the home?
Whether young black males are increasingly cognizant of this reality remains unclear. However, we do know that a large segment of the overall black community self-identifies in categories which tend to advocate for strong families with both a mother and a father.
Not only has Obama failed to address the sorry state of families in the black community, his policy stances actively undermine the family and leave many blacks feeling less secure. Elizabeth Flock of U.S. News & World Report details:
A new study from Washington University in St. Louis finds that under Obama, many black Americans feel less free than whites when it comes to political participation.
The study found that while the election of Obama initially boosted feelings of political empowerment among black Americans, those sentiments significantly faded in the years that followed—especially among conservative and religious blacks.
These two groups make up a large segment of the black population, with 56 percent of blacks identifying as "born again," and 39 percent of blacks as "somewhat conservative," according to the study.
The question becomes whether it matters more that your president look like you than think like you. Perhaps such a query informed the young black male vote this year.
Regardless, the reality of the Obama presidency presents an unprecedented opportunity to engage the black community and explore the roots of its political loyalty. How many cycles must pass without marked improvement in the lot of black Americans before they question the methods which their leftist patrons propose? In fact, many minorities and first-generation immigrants do question those methods and are hungry for alternatives.
In recent years, an increasing segment of the conservative community in Minnesota has recognized the need to reach outside the traditional Republican comfort zone and start a conversation with minorities and immigrants about their principles and values. The effort began within the state's Republican Party, with the blessing and support of then chair Tony Sutton, and was led by former state representative Dan Severson.
Unrelated turmoil within the party undermined the success of that effort, and it was officially scrapped when the cost of employing the staff to support it could no longer be prioritized. Undeterred, Severson continued to develop relationships in minority and immigrant communities. His liaisons cast light upon a reality that starkly contrasts with the mainstream racial narrative. Whether talking with Somali immigrants, Hmong refugees, or multi-generational Americans of any ethnicity, Severson found a shared value of liberty and socially conservative convictions.
After integrating his outreach into a bid for the MNGOP endorsement to challenge Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar, Severson has gone on to develop the Minority Liberty Alliance, a non-profit startup poised to expand engagement in minority and immigrant communities while empowering prospective leaders with the training and support necessary to drive truly progressive change. (This author serves on the board.) While it remains a newly incorporated glimmer in its organizers' eyes, the Minority Liberty Alliance has attracted support from an impressive cross-section of diverse interests. There exists a need in these communities which has gone long unfulfilled.
For black Americans, the advent of an alternative to vampiric institutions which thrive on perpetual black poverty should be welcome news. Leftist non-profit organizations which claim to serve the black community and advocate for "progressive" change succeed only so long as their constituency continues to fail. Were blacks to meet with actual success, become better educated, deeply motivated, and increasingly wealthy, many of these left-leaning non-profits would be out of business. That truth prompts Minneapolis-based conservative activist and black commentator Don Allen to label such groups as "poverty pimps."
Perhaps further analysis of the 2012 election results will shed a brighter light on whether young black males are tired of getting slapped around by these organizations' empty promises and false premises. In the meantime, conservative and libertarian activists must dare to venture into minority domains and present a true path to prosperity.
More from Walter Hudson at PJ Lifestyle:
8 Ways Blacks Perpetuate Racism and the Only Way to Thwart It
Why You Should Take the 2012 Apocalypse Seriously
Tread Upon: What's Next for the Tea Party?
6 Green Lies Threatening to Starve You

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Q: Sequences for that $\sum_{n} \frac{1}{x_n}$ is divergent and $\sum_{n} \frac{1}{x_n \ln x_n}$ is convergent We will denote with $(x_n)$ a given sequence and we introduce the following two series.
$$S^* = \sum_{n} \frac{1}{x_n} \quad \text{and} \quad S_* = \sum_{n} \frac{1}{x_n \ln x_n}.$$
We know that if $(x_n)$ are for example the Fibonacci numbers greater then $1$, then $S^*$ and $S_*$ are convergent. If $(x_n)$ are the prime numbers then $S^*$ is divergent and $S_*$ is convergent. If $(x_n)$ are the natural numbers greater then $2$, then both series are divergent.
Question. How could we characterise the $(x_n)$ sequences, for that $S^*$ is divergent and $S_*$ is convergent. I would be also glad to see some reference in this topic. If we cannot characterise $(x_n)$ then is there any special property of such sequences?

A: I don't think you're going to find any characterization that's simpler than your definition itself. The boundary between convergence and divergence is very delicate. For example, if $x_n = n( \log n )(\log\log n) (\log\log\log n)^\alpha$, then $S_*$ converges regardless of the value of $\alpha$, but $S^*$ converges when $\alpha>1$ and diverges when $\alpha\le1$.

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Despite the theoretical importance of the Coase Theorem, scholars have given surprisingly little attention to verifying its predictions empirically. Supporters often accept the theorem as dogma, while armchair critics assail its assumptions. In an exciting series of recent articles, however, Elizabeth Hoffman and Matthew Spitzer have presented experimental evidence, as have others, that largely supports the Coasean prediction that bargainers will negotiate around inefficient property rights to reach a Pareto-optimal solution. The methodology has even gained sufficient attention to have its detractors.
The existing experiments analyze the results of bargains when one side has the power to impose unilaterally one outcome but can negotiate with others for other outcomes. As discussed below, the unilateral power of one side makes these experiments most insightful to the world of property and tort. The present article, by contrast, analyzes the efficiency and distributive effects of a contract presumption, whereby the nominal beneficiary must obtain the contractual consent from the other side before benefiting from the rule. The experiment tends to confirm the Coasean prediction that contract presumptions do not affect the efficiency of bargains. The results question, however, the Coasean wisdom that contract presumptions should not affect the distribution of wealth between the parties.
Schwab, Stewart J., "A Coasean Experiment on Contract Presumptions" (1988). Cornell Law Faculty Publications. 535.
Published in: Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 17, no. 2 (June 1988).


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Disnaka Manoj (born 13 January 1997) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club in the 2016–17 Premier League Tournament on 2 December 2016. He made his List A debut for Jaffna District in the 2016–17 Districts One Day Tournament on 25 March 2017. He made his Twenty20 debut for Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club in the 2017–18 SLC Twenty20 Tournament on 27 February 2018.

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Departure of AFC general secretary: Business as usual in a swamp of corruption allegations
By James M. Dorsey
Transparency appears nowhere on the radar of Asian soccer governors as global soccer reels from the worst crisis in the sport's history. That was evident in a terse statement issued by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) announcing the resignation of its suspended general secretary, Dato Alex Soosay.
The statement made no mention of Mr. Soosay's suspension, an investigation into the general secretary's apparent attempt to tamper or hide documents related to an audit that uncovered suspected extensive corruption but has since been buried, or the fact that the AFC was forced to relieve Mr. Soosay of his duties after this blog revealed his attempts to obstruct the audit.
It also did not explain whether it would take action against the group's finance director, Bryan Kuan Wee Hoong, who rejected Mr. Soosay's alleged attempt but in the three years since did not deem it necessary to report the incident.
Amid judicial investigations in the United States and Switzerland that have already led to indictments of 14 officials of world soccer body and regional football associations in the Americas as well as sport marketing companies and that could expand to the affairs of the Asian soccer body, the AFC limited itself to saying that it "thank(s) Dato' Alex Soosay for his commitment to Asian football during his extensive 20-year-long career at the AFC and wishes him all the best for his future career."
The AFC's effort to project Mr. Soosay's departure as a run-of-the-mill resignation rather than the tip of an iceberg of mismanagement and potentially dubious dealings follows its earlier attempt to steer attention away from the audit by falsely announcing at the time of Mr. Soosay's suspension that it was related to a FIFA investigation rather than to the audit conducted by PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC).
Similarly, at a time that the judicial investigations have focused attention on the relationships between soccer executives and sport marketing companies, the AFC has yet to disclose the status of the investigation it announced into Mr. Soosay's affairs, let alone how it intends to act on the wider ramification of the secretary general's departure that involve recommendations of the audit that it has sought to bury for the past three years. Burial of that audit is all the more conspicuous since the eruption of the FIFA scandal.
The audit documented multiple questionable payments by disgraced former AFC president and FIFA vice president Mohammed Bin Hammam. Mr. Bin Hammam is believed to be one of the unidentified co-conspirators in the US indictments. He is also central to the Swiss investigation of FIFA's awarding of the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar.
The audit also raised serious questions about the AFC's $1 billion marketing rights agreement with Singapore-based World Sport Group (WSG) and warned that the contract potentially could expose the AFC to charges of tax evasion, bribery, money laundering, and sanctions busting.
If anything, the AFC's approach suggests that it believes that despite the global soccer governance crisis it can conduct business as usual with impunity. Its approach appears to justify widespread belief that FIFA and its regional confederations are incapable of putting their own house in order and that change can only be achieved if driven by external judicial and other forces.
AFC president Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa's only known action related to the audit beyond ensuring that there would be no follow-up was the suspension and ultimate departure of Mr. Soosay.
The AFC has been similarly evasive in commenting on the crisis in global soccer governance that erupted last month on the eve of a FIFA congress with the early morning arrests of officials in Zurich, the raiding of the headquarters of FIFA in Zurich and of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) in Miami, and ultimately the resignation of FIFA president Sepp Blatter. The AFC has also yet to reveal what consequences it is drawing from the crisis in terms of reforms that would ensure good governance.
"The Asian Football Confederation confirms its position as previously outlined, namely that the AFC takes note of the FIFA president's intention to step down at an extraordinary congress scheduled to be called later this year or early 2016, which will be the subject of the upcoming FIFA Executive Committee meeting on 20 July. AFC fully respects the decision of the FIFA president to step down and is sure that it was taken after deep and careful consideration," was the sum all of what the AFC said.
James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies as Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, co-director of the Institute of Fan Culture of the University of Würzburg and the author of the blog, The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer, and a forthcoming book with the same title.
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Great post. All kids love to hang out with their parents at the workplace. It sounds like this visit was extra special.
Charlie has that little pause before answering too (it's probably a bit longer---sometimes a minute).
With this and the previous two posts, I have a plentiful share of "food for thought" for the holidays.


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— Jurak, Drago
A retired carpenter's assistant, he lived in Zagreb, where he used to work making scenery for the Croation National Theatre. He began painting his fantastic constructions in 1960, using ink and flowmaster on silk. Simple and modest, having had no schooling, he probably discerned in the backdrops for theatrical productions the contours of his future phantasmagoric buildings and towns. He uses a steep central perspective. The persons walking to the vanishing point are proportionally tiny in comparison with the huge buildings.
Asked what his pictures represent, Jurak replies: "They are old towns where modern people could live today. There are towers linked by iron, decorated with carving and built on a hill from which a majestic view may be had. Then come the streets, squares, football fields. I would like to build into such a town everything our seamen have seen as they wandered the earth and stopped at big ports of the world, things they told me about. My favorite pastime is listening to the stories of our seamen when they talk about where they have been and what they have experienced. I know that no country could build such a city, it would too expensive, but if countries would get together, then it would be possible."


A great, Springtime family tradition for parents to bring their children and grandchildren to the Alpenrose Dairy Easter Egg Hunt. With tons of prizes, including giant stuffed animals, this is one of the biggest and most anticipated Easter Egg Hunts west of the Mississippi. It will be held on Saturday, March 31 at 6149 SW. Shattuck Rd. in Portland. Go to alpenrose.com.


What is going on with the Blue Flags in Apokoronas?
The newly elected Mayor of Apokoronas Haralambos Koukianakis express his worries about the Blue Flag beaches of the municipality by writing a letter to the Mayor, Mr. Markakis.
It is needless to reiterate the importance of the blue flag beaches of Apokoronas, but the letter of the Secretariat Programme "Blue Flags" -which was sent to the municipality- with the observations of the General Inspector and all we have to do by 4th of August, concerns me a lot.
It's clearly stated in this letter that we have to proceed to any corrective actions of restoration at the Blue Flag beaches of KALIVES/Xydas, MAISTRALI, KIANI AKTI and ALMYRIDA.
It seems like we haven't done what we had to do to ensure that the blue flags will stay in our municipality.
With this letter, we urge you to act personally, immediately and responsibly and we want you to show the proper sensitivity and to act quickly & efficiently.


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Antivaxxers grow increasingly bolder
Over the last year, the anti-vaccination movement has grown more bold in their misinformation campaigns. It began Thanksgiving weekend of 2010, where they tried to advertise their propaganda in AMC movie theaters. This effort was thwarted however in no small part because of SkepChick activist Elyse Anders. Then months later, they succeeded in getting a commercial running on the Time Square CBS Jumbotron. And last month, they succeeded in getting Delta Airlines to air their propaganda on flights.
Each time Elyse Anders used a change.org petition to influence those who have agreed to work with these antivaccine groups and I discussed this during my recent SkeptiCamp talk, which was focused on promoting more skeptical activism in NYC because as great as Elyse has been for NYC, she doesn't live here and I hate needing her to fight our local battles when we have a sizable skeptical community, many of whom I suspect would be interested in skeptical activism.
Well now the inaccurately named National Vaccine Information Center is back to their old tricks and are currently, as well as during New Years, running another dishonest ad in Times Square on ABC Full Circle's 5000 square foot TSQ Digital Screen. And the ad is scheduled to run during the New Years celebration. Also, Jenny McCarthy will be part of the televised show and has promised to try to draw attention to the ad.
And again, since there's no organized NYC skeptical activism…yet (hopefully more on this soon!), New York's protector, Elyse Anders, is back with another change.org petition. Please sign this petition urging ABC to pull the ad at once.
Yay! Sweet, sweet death!
Now unfortunately, that's not the only antivaccine news story lately. The antivaccine Australian Vaccination Network is currently promoting a children's book that teaching kids that measles is awesome. I shit you not. The book is called Melanie's Marvelous Measles, and it's written by a woman named Stephanie Messenger. I'm reminded of another children's author who wrote about measles, Roald Dahl. Though he wasn't marveling at the disease so much as cursing it for having killed his kid. For more commentary on this sickening book, check out PZ Myers, Ophelia Benson and Reasonable Hank.
The other big news from Australia was that the head of the Australian Vaccination Network, Meryl Dorey was originally scheduled to give a talk at the Woodford Folk Festival about the evils of vaccines. After our friends at the Australian Skeptics campaigned against it, her talk transformed into a panel featuring Dorey and a bunch of actual qualified experts with the know-how to demolish her arguments. But the Australian Skeptics didn't stop there. They amusingly paid to have an airplane fly over the Festival with a sign reading: VACCINATION SAVES LIVES.
Bravo Australian Skeptics on a job well done. Now we just need to bring the same level of activism to NYC.
What Is an Antivaxxer? (neurologica)
Vaccinations save lives! (godless.biz)
Antivaxxers sink ever lower (cubiksrube.wordpress.com)
Jenny McCarthy plans to ring in 2012 with antivaccine propaganda on Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve (scienceblogs.com)
Ringing in 2012 with…antivaccine propaganda? (sciencebasedmedicine.org)
Ringing in 2012 with…antivaccine propaganda? – David H. Gorski – Science-Based Medicine (richarddawkins.net)
Two examples of "antivaccine" (scienceblogs.com)
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1. Anti-vax parents engaging in bioterrorism – If so-called "pox parties" weren't enough, some parents have begun literally mailing chicken pox infected items for the purpose of infecting other people's kids. And even worse, some have started mailing items infected with the far more dangerous measles. This would have made a perfect setup for the virus at the end of the recent Planet of the Apes film or for a zombie apocalypse story.
2. More anti-vaxxer propaganda – Just when I thought it was bad enough that the anti-vax propaganda film "The Greater Good" was coming to NYC's IFC Center for a week beginning November 18, now I learn Barbara Loe Fisher and her band of cranks at the misnamed "National Vaccine Information Center" has a month-long "PSA" spot playing on Delta Airlines flights that suggests washing hands alone is an adequate substitute for a flu vaccine…cause that's who you most want to go unvaccinated…people traveling from country to country. Argh! Fortunately, the wonderful Elyse Anders over at Skepchick is on the case and has begun a massive petition campaign to persuade Delta to cease this plot to kill us all. Also, she's provided a handy-dandy list of contacts at Delta Airlines and its video provider.
3. Zombie worms found in fossil –
Traces of bizarre, bone-eating 'zombie' worms have been found on a 3-million-year-old fossil whale bone from Tuscany in Italy. It is the first time the genus Osedax has been found in the Mediterranean, and suggests Osedax were widespread throughout the world's oceans 6 million years ago.
4. Simon Singh vs. fraudulent psychic Sally Morgan's lawyers: part 1 and part 2 – You might remember Singh as the UK science journalist who was sued by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) for libel over his calling their chiropractic "bogus" and his subsequent victory in the appeals process. I also recently wrote about Sally Morgan's being caught wearing an earpiece during her performance. Well, Singh's suggested she prove her powers are real, so now she's trying to intimidate the man who beat the BCA in court with lawyers. Boy, did she fuck with the wrong journalist.
Deceptive Anti-Vaccination Ad by the NVIC on Delta Airlines (skepticalteacher.wordpress.com)
A pox on antivaxxers (blogs.discovermagazine.com)
'Psychic' Sally Morgan sends the lawyers in over suggestions she might not really be talking to the dead (blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
Psychic Sally? She's no BCA (cubiksrube.wordpress.com)
Refusing to take the test: TV medium Sally Morgan involves lawyers following Simon Singh's psychic challenge (newhumanist.org.uk)
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1. God is dead – Okay, not really because there is not such entity. But Sri Satya Sai Baba, a man who millions worship like a god because he fools them into believing he can perform miracles with simple parlor tricks is dead. I must say that if not for Sam Harris, I might not have even been familiar with this shamless con artist. Good fuckin' riddance. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving individual.
2. Scientists anoint new fly queen – If your as sick of hearing about that bloody royal wedding in limey-land as I am, you'll probably enjoy this news item:
Masaki Kamakura, a biotechnology researcher in Japan, has identified the protein in royal jelly that turns female worker bees into queen bees, which are larger in size, more fertile, and live longer. So, like anyone else would do upon making this discovery, he tried to turn a regular fly into a queen fly. And it totally worked. It's a huge discovery in the study of insects:
I guess that makes it the lord of the flies. Now if only we can figure out how to turn Anne Hathoway into the Queen of England. Don't just sit there. Get on it, scientists!
3. Measles outbreak linked to one unvaccinated person –
Nine cases in the state have been linked to exposure to one unvaccinated person who contracted the disease in Poland, according to the Salt Lake Valley health department. Epidemiologists have determined that the person exposed as many as 1,000 people this month.
Measles are so contagious that if one person has it, 90 percent of those near that individual will become infected if they are not immune.
There's also a major measles outbreak in Europe:
The World Health Organization said Thursday that France had 4,937 reported cases of measles between January and March – compared with 5,090 cases during all of 2010. In all, more than 6,500 cases have been reported in 33 European nations.
Another wonderful vision of a what the world will look like if ruled by anti-vaccine nuts.
4. "New" Atheist open letter strikes a nerve – The other day, Dr. Jerry Coyne wrote an open letter to the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) and British Centre for Science Education (BCSE), criticizing them for going out of their way to criticize more confrontational atheists. This led a number of such prominent atheists to responding in favor of Coyne's position such as PZ Myers and Richard Dawkins. And now Roger Stanyard of the BCSE is firing back with a complete straw man position that just demonstrate how irrational the critics of confrontational atheists are when it comes to this one issue. His claim is that we want these organizations to embrace atheism when I don't know anyone making that claim. I, like Myers and Dawkins, just want to see these organizations to leave religion out of the discussion entirely and remain entirely neutral on the subject. That's all.
Indian guru Satya Sai Baba dies (bbc.co.uk)
Health officials try to contain measles in Utah (cbsnews.com)
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1. New BBC report shows further decline in religion – In the past few years, a number of polls have shown religion is declining as increasingly more people identify themselves as not belonging to any religion. And now yet another poll shows this trend based on the census data of nine countries.
2. 70-year-old Philadelphia man stoned to death for Jesus – The killer has directly stated that the act was inspired by the Bible:
According to this report, John Thomas, 28, of Upper Darby, a Philadelphia suburb, told police he killed Murray Seidman of nearby Lansdowne because the Bible refers to stoning homosexuals.
3. Piggyback virus could thwart HIV –
Rather than destroying HIV, a proposed treatment would embrace its infectious abilities, sending the virus into competition with a harmless, stripped-down version of itself.
Dubbed therapeutic interfering particles, or TIPs, these engineered viral scraps would ride with HIV as it spreads from person to person. By out-competing HIV for cellular resources, the TIPs might slow its progression and lower infection rates.
4. Nine cases of measles in Minneapolis –
The likely source is an infant who traveled to Kenya and returned in the beginning of February. Cases have ranged in age from 4 months to 4 years. Four of the cases were too young to receive vaccine, four were of age but were not vaccinated, and one has unknown vaccine status. There have been five hospitalizations and no deaths.
On a related note, if you happen to run into Andrew Wakefield or Jenny McCarthy, please punch them in the face for me.
5. 60 Minutes turns Catholic child rape scandal into a fluff piece – This week's 60 Minutes featured an embarrassingly piece on New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, whose making it his mission to restore the Church's reputation after that pesky mass child rape conspiracy thing. In the piece, Dolan expressed little interest in helping to bring child rapists and their accomplices to justice or declaring specific changes to ensure it never happens again, and showed that his primary purpose is spin control. And 60 Minutes, like all the mainstream media, found that entirely satisfactory. I wonder if Scott Pelley would still be satisfied if his own child were raped by priests and committed suicide because of the psychological scars while the perpetrators were given full immunity from justice because instead of working for Starbucks, the organization they happen to work for is named the Catholic Church. Though I am happy to see that the commenters on 60 Minutes webpage are really letting them have it. And here's a great piece on how out of touch with reality the Catholic Church is.
6. Nantucket child killed in exorcism –
The woman accused of killing her 3-year-old daughter earlier this week believed God had instructed her to stick a rose in the young girl's throat to ward off the devil, according to documents filed in Nantucket District Court.
So next time someone suggests religion is harmless, remind them of 3-year-old Nicole Garcia Pleitez.
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1. Bra designed to double as two emergency respiratory devices –
Caught in a disaster? You'd better hope you're wearing the Emergency Bra. Simply unsnap the bright red bra, separate the cups, and slip it over your head — one cup for you, and one for your friend.
Dr. Elena Bodnar won an Ignoble Award for the invention last year, an annual tribute to scientific research that on the surface seems goofy but is often surprisingly practical. And now Bodnar has brought the eBra to the public; purchase one online for just $29.95.
"The goal of any emergency respiratory device is to achieve tight fixation and full coverage. Luckily, the wonderful design of the bra is already in the shape of a face mask and so with the addition of a few design features, the Emergency Bra enhances the efficiency of minimizing contaminated bypass air flow," explains the eBra website.
What troubles me however is that they claim to be working on a counterpart device for men and I'm not sure I want to put something that's been sitting on my junk on my face that isn't a part of the female anatomy.
2. Saint candidate was once temporarily banished from Catholic Church – Mary MacKillop was a 19th century Australian who was being considered for sainthood. But it it seems that in 1871, she was temporarily banished by the Church and thrown out into the street. The reason why was that tried to report priests for–you guessed it–raping children! Everyone by now knows the Catholic Church hates tattletales. So they transferred the pedophile priests to a new diocese (like they always do) and kicked Ms. MacKillop out as punishment for squealing. Some things never change.
3. Texas Board of Education or Ministry of Truth? – The latest Orwellian plot being by the infamous Texas Board of Ed., who largely determine which textbooks are acceptable for use by the rest of the country, is to weed out all those textbooks promoting "pro-Islamic, anti-Christian half-truths and selective disinformation." Ugh! Fortunately, the Texas Freedom Network has documented the falsehoods in their claims, and is closely monitoring the hearings. Hopefully, they'll stop them before students are forced to learn that 2+2=5.
4. Six people arrested for burning their own Korans – From 1984 references straight to Fahrenheit 451:
In a joint statement, Northumbria Police and Gateshead Council said: "The kind of behaviour displayed in this video is not representative of our community as a whole.
"Our community is one of mutual respect and we continue to work together with community leaders, residents and people of all faiths and beliefs to maintain good community relations."
Mutual respect…except when people make demonstrations they don't like apparently. Regardless of how people might feel about book burning, it's not a crime. I've been forced to defend more assholes this year than probably any other year in my life and I'm getting sick of it. Free Speech is not open to debate. It's non-negotiable!
5. Canadian university student one-ups Leonardo Da Vinci – Da Vinci once designed a wing-flapping vehicle intended to make man airborne called an omithopter but he never actually built one, let alone flew one.
Todd Reichert, an engineering student at the University of Toronto, made history by sustaining flight in his ornithopter — named Snowbird — for 19.3 seconds and covering 475.72 feet. Snowbird is made from carbon fiber, balsa wood, and foam. The 92.59 pound vehicle maintained an average speed of 15.91 miles per hour.
Suck on that, Da Vinci!
6. 70 Zimbabwe children die within two weeks because of anti-vax religion – The children died of measles. Most the children who died belonged to this particular anti-vaccine sect. This story manages to demonstrate the dangers of possibly the two most destructive ideological forces on the planet, religion and anti-vaxxinationism. Individually, they can be quite destructive but combine the two and you end up with 70 kids dying in two weeks from completely preventable diseases.
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Are vaccine deniers shills for Big Cemetary?
Today brought two deeply disturbing news stories that seem quite related to our psychotic anti-vaccine friends. First, a new report places my home state of New Jersey (also home to massive anti-vaccine campaigns) a disgraceful #45 on the list of vaccine protected states. In the U.S., only five other states and the District of Columbia are less protected by vaccines than New Jersey.
New Jersey's immunization rate for children under 3, at 68.5 percent, is significantly lower than the national average of 76.1 percent and is woefully behind the 90 percent that public health authorities consider optimum for providing "herd immunity."
And though I'd almost rather not distract from this horrible news, I think it is worth noting that New Jersey, despite having one of the worst vaccination rates in the country, also has among the highest rates of autism in the country, yet another inconvenient fact anti-vaxxers don't want you to think about.
The other related news story is this report that hundreds of people in Tarrytown, New York have been exposed to measles, which has been tracked back to its source, a single unvaccinated person infected with the virus:
Exposure to the infected person may have occurred either Friday at a social event attended by 200 high school students from abroad at the EF International Language School on Marymount Avenue or between 5 p.m. Friday and noon Saturday at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse or Eva's Hair Salon in the Westchester Marriott Hotel on White Plains Road in Greenburgh.
More than 900 people from the East Coast are believed to have been at the hotel during the time period. The infected individual stayed at the Marriott , but did not visit Ruth's Chris Steakhouse or the hair salon. However, airborne transmissions of the measles virus could have reached the restaurant or salon due to shared ventilation systems with the hotel.
And this is only the beginning. If the anti-vaccine movement is not stopped, we'll see more outbreaks, which will inevitably lead to deaths. And if these viruses are allowed to rise again, there is no telling what level of destruction they will bring upon an unprotected populace. The power of an atomic bomb is insignificant compared to that of a well evolved virus.
Measles: Make Sure Your Child Is Fully Immunized (nlm.nih.gov)
The Vaccine War? (scienceblogs.com)
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Age of Autism takes a sledge hammer to all decency
You know, last Thanksgiving when Age of Autism posted that incredibly disgusting picture that angered so many even in their own base that they later removed it from their site, I thought they couldn't go any lower.
I was so fuckin' wrong!
This isn't like when we all thought they were exploiting Desiree Jennings (who as it turned out was exploiting them). To call this piece of garbage website sick, shameless, deplorable, disgusting, or an affront to human decency would be an insult to anyone guilty of any of that behavior.
If anyone holds any doubts that these people are psychotic and deranged, from now on I'll send them to that page.
Do these assholes really give a shit about children? Do they?
Where was their outrage over all the children injured from NOT vaccinating?
"Measles Outbreak Triggered by Unvaccinated Child" by By Serena Gordon
danamccaffery.com Website dedicated to Dana Elizabeth McCaffery who died at the age of 4 weeks from Whooping cough (Pertussis), a totally vaccine preventable disease
USA Today – Missed vaccines weaken 'herd immunity' in children By Liz Szabo
"The Worst Ideas of the Decade: Vaccine scares" by Clive Thompson
"A Pox on You: My son has cancer. He can't go into day care because of unvaccinated children." By Stephanie Tatel
"The price of anti-vaccine fanaticism: Case histories" by David Gorski
What's the harm in vaccine denial?
"Herd Immunity" by Mark Crislip
"Where's the outrage?" by John Snyder
"The price of anti-vaccine fanaticism, part 3" by Orac
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=320
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26291109/
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm57e501a1.htm
"Pockets of Vaccine Noncompliance in California" by Steve Novella
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/07/thanks_andrew_wakefield.php
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/07/thanks_jenny_mccarthy.php
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081006/NEWS07/810060395/1009/NEWS07
http://getbetterhealth.com/warning-influenza-can-be-fatal-to-children/2008.10.20#more-2211 http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/anti_vaccination_anti_feminist/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/24/an-unvaccinated-child-has-died-from-a-preventable-disease/
California schools' risks rise as vaccinations drop
http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2008/11/measles-mmr-vaccine.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026853.800-children-go-unvaccinated-as-insurers-refuse-to-pay.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/168/12/1389
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-a-offit-md/dont-risk-going-unvaccina_b_160018.html
Jenny McCarthy calls millions of potential measles casualties acceptable losses in her crusade
"Who Doesn't Vaccinate?" by Chris Mooney
In Wales: "Measles outbreak 'worst in years'
Study: "Parental Refusal of Pertussis Vaccination Is Associated With an Increased Risk of Pertussis Infection in Children"
Guardian: "MMR jab should be compulsory for all children starting school, expert says" by Jessica Shepherd
"MEASLES: A dangerous illness" by Roald Dahl (Yes, that Roald Dahl)
"Rare Hib disease increases in Minnesota: Is the anti-vaccine movement to blame?" by Erin Carlyle
"The Power of Words: A Commentary on the Delayed Vaccine Schedule" by Steve Perry
New Zealand measles rate 7-times higher in 2009 because of low immunization rates
"Refusing vaccines puts kids at risk: autism expert"
The Guardian – "Half of all pregnant women will refuse swine flu jab, poll reveals" by Sarah Boseley
What Would Happen If We Stopped Vaccinations?
"CDC: 76 children dead of swine flu as cases rise" By MIKE STOBBE
"U. researchers discover another genetic link to autism"
"Measles outbreak in Dublin, 2000"
"Pertussis returns in states with lax vaccination laws" by Orac
"Blood Mercury Concentrations in CHARGE Study Children with and without Autism"
Wired Magazine – "An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All" By Amy Wallace
"Old-fashioned mumps make comeback in Borough Park; 57 confirmed cases" BY Helen Kennedy
"Autism proceedings: End of Story" By Jonathan Rabinovitz
Science News – "From the infectious diseases meeting: What's with the vaccine-o-phobia?" By Nathan Seppa
"IACC Statement on Autism Research" By Steven Novella
"Measles" by Mark Crislip
"Mumps cases reach 152 in Monsey area as part of large U.S. outbreak" By Jane Lerner
"More evidence that anti-vaccine beliefs kill" By Orac
How Anti-Vaccine 'Science' Holds Back Credible Research
Chicago Tribune – "OSR#1: Industrial chemical or autism treatment?" By Trine Tsouderos
"Measles outbreak in German caused by anti-vaccinationists" by Kristjan Wager
"Measles Resurgence Tied To Parents' Vaccine Fears" by Richard Knox
"Religious antivax sect implicated in deaths of 100 children" by Phil Plait
"British Boy Dies After Chelation Therapy for Autism" By Katrina Woznicki
"Outbreaks" by Mark Crislip
No, they don't care about any of that. No, they don't care. They don't care about children. They don't care about suffering or injury.
All they care about is promoting fear, doubt, and confusing about vaccines. And as the website linked to above illustrates, there are no depths they won't sink to in order to in order to demonize vaccines.
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1. Single unvaccinated kid source of 2008 California measles outbreak –
The family's 7-year-old boy, who was intentionally unvaccinated against measles, was exposed to the virus while traveling in Europe. When he returned home to San Diego, he unknowingly exposed a total of 839 people, and an additional 11 unvaccinated children contracted the disease.
Three of those infected were babies, too young to have yet received the measles vaccines, and one of the babies was hospitalized for three days with a 106-degree fever, according to a report to be published in the April issue of Pediatrics.
Wow, that's one hell of a path of destruction caused by a single anti-vax family. Thanks Jenny McCarthy.
2. Magnets can almost instantly change a person's moral judgment – This would seem to pretty definitively debunk the notion of dualism and fairly conclusively show that the mind is, contrary to Deepak Chopra's claims, purely a localized phenomenon. It also further illustrates how absurd the evangelical notion of "objective morality" from "God" is.
3. Critical thinking and skepticism begins at childhood – Here's a great story of a kid scientifically investigating the Tooth Fairy and successfully debunking it
But not all kids are brought up to be such critical thinkers.
4. New Harris poll confirms most Americans are dummies –
The poll involved 2,320 adults responding to true or false questions. Among many other disturbing facts, 14% of respondents said they believed Obama could be the Antichrist.
When broken into partisan results, it seems 24% of all Republican respondents hold this view, while only 6% of Democrats are that batshit crazy. But taken as a whole, the numbers in this poll are depressing. 32% think Obama is a Muslim. 23% think Obama is a racist. And 20% say Obama is "doing many of the things Hitler did."
But I'm pretty sure Hitler didn't hold a Passover seder in the White House…or cut out the middleman in student loans…or sleep with Michelle Obama.
5. Bill Donohue continues shameless campaign defending child rapists – Now he's taken out an ad in the NY Times defending the man most responsible for ensuring the child rapists could continue to prey on more children, The Pope. Oh, and he's moved on from blaming the families of the victims to blaming the gays. It won't be long now before he blames everyone on Earth except for The Pope.
And he's not the only one defending child rapists. . .
6. The Vatican has selflessly thought up 3 reasons why they feel The Vatican is not liable – The first is that the Pope, as head of state, is immune from prosecution (aka Joey Ratz does whatever Joey Ratz wants and if you get in the way, he'll whack you or have your children horribly raped). The second excuse is that the American priests were not Vatican employees (This should go over really well with the American Catholics). And the third excuse is that they've declared by fiat that the smoking gun evidence that has been confirmed by high ranking church officials is really not smoking gun evidence at all (I call this the Jedi Mind Trick defense – these aren't the droids you're looking for. Now move along):
McMurry insisted Tuesday that Crimen is a smoking gun.
"The fact is, this document and its predecessors make it an excommunicable offense to reveal any knowledge of allegations that a priest has sexually abused," he said in an e-mail.
The existence of Crimen did not become publicly known until 2003, when a lawyer noticed a reference to the document while reading a 2001 letter written by Benedict, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. McMurry is seeking to subpoena Ratzinger's letter, which instructed all bishops to send cases of clerical sex abuse to him and to keep the proceedings secret.
As for that first excuse that a head of state can't be sued, fine, let's call it an act of war then. I hope the Vatican has a strong military.
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Happy Darwin Day everyone!
Also save the date June 21 because it will Global Atheist Solidarity Day!
1. Secular Coalition for America receives a gift of $500,000 from philanthropist Todd Stiefel
2. Need information to counter global climate change deniers in a hurry? Don't worry. There's an app for that.
3. Creation Science Fair? – It's not very fair to science.
4. Measles outbreak in South Africa –
The cause of a measles outbreak sweeping South Africa has not as yet been determined, but initial suspicions point to religious objections and unfounded fears that immunizations against the disease increase the risk of autism in children.
Thank's Jenny McCarthy!
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More anti-vaccine news and the "Age of Wakefield"
1. Autism LINKED to vaccines? Nah, just kidding. – It's just further evidence of autism's genetic roots. Researchers have discovered that unsurprisingly, advanced maternal age increases the likelihood of autism:
Advanced maternal age is linked to a significantly elevated risk of having a child with autism, regardless of the father's age, according to an exhaustive study of all births in California during the 1990s by UC Davis Health System researchers. Advanced paternal age is associated with elevated autism risk only when the father is older and the mother is under 30, the study found.
And the alleged increased rate of autism makes more sense when you consider how medical science is allowing more and more women to procreate well into their forties. Of course none of this can explain every single case of autism but it's certainly a step in the right direction. Of course J.B. Handley would rather we all stop wasting our time, money, and energy on that worthless genetic research and perpetually investigate vaccines till the end of time. Sorry J.B. but we prefer to investigate avenues that will actually result in decreasing the rate of autism.
And in a related story. . .
2. England & Wales see 36% rise in measles – That's the largest number since the monitoring scheme was introduced in 1995.
Health Protection Agency experts said most of the cases had been in children not fully vaccinated with combined MMR and so could have been prevented.
More than 600 of the 2008 measles cases occurred in London, where uptake of the vaccine for MMR – measles, mumps and rubella – is particularly low.
Public confidence in the triple MMR vaccine dipped following research – since discredited – which raised the possibility that the jab may be linked to an increased risk of autism.
Thanks Andrew Wakefield, Jenny McCarthy, J.B. Handley, et al. I hope you're proud of yourselves.
3. Age of Wakefield – As I've reported before, the Age of Autism blog seems to have completely transformed itself in the Andrew Wakefield Defense Campaign website. Ever since Wakefield's disgrace has been made official, close to 100% of the blog entries on the page are about spinning Wakefield as a persecuted martyr at the hands of the evil science mafia conspiracy. This is best illustrated by visiting their page but is also very evident when looking at the I Speak of Dreams blog, which has made a mission out of collecting blogs, both positive and negative, discussing the Wakefield scandal since his disgrace had become complete.
This blog, Skepacabra, makes at least one appearance on the list. But what's abundantly clear is that while the blogs supporting the Lancet's decision to retract the Wakefield story come from a multitude of sources spanning many backgrounds and sites including many actual medical professionals, those found in defense of Wakefield are almost exclusively from Age of Autism or at least from authors who regularly write for Age of Autism. There's AoA regulars Kim Stagliano and David Kirby posting on the Huffington Post, a Fox "News" interview with AoA editor Mark Blaxill, CNN's interview with Stagliano, well-established loony and non-doctor Mike Adams blogging over at his Natural News site. Then just a handful of obscure blogs and a whole mess of posts from Age of Autism directly.
So while this does a decent job of illustrating precisely where the campaign of misinformation spread, I do have to admit that there's one thing on the I Speak of Dreams site that bugs me. I find it somewhat disconcerting that Debbie Schlussel and I agree about something. But at least I can be slightly comforted by the fact that Schlussel's criticisms almost exclusively involve hurling sexist insults at Jenny McCarthy instead of well reasoned arguments.
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JAKARTA: Thousands of Indonesians held a rally near the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta on Wednesday to protest against the treatment of Rohingya Muslims and demand the snapping of ties between the two countries.
Indonesia has the world's largest population of Muslims and there have been several anti-Myanmar protests in Jakarta and the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur over the treatment of Buddhist-majority Myanmar's roughly 1.1 million Rohingyas.
Roads were blocked and barbed wire barriers put up around the embassy, in a leafy district of the capital, which was patrolled by police in riot gear who set up water cannons.
Some protesters chanted "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest), while others shouted slogans such as "Slaughter Myanmar" and "Burn the embassy".
Buddhists should respect Muslims in Myanmar in the same way that Muslims respected Buddhists in Indonesia, one speaker told the crowd, using a loud-hailer.
Almost 125,000 Rohingyas have been forced to flee clashes between Rohingya insurgents and the army in Myanmar's northwestern state of Rakhine. Tens of thousands have crossed the border into neighboring Bangladesh.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi met Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and top security officials this week to urge a halt to the bloodshed. Marsudi also visited Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh on Tuesday, to offer help in tackling the crisis.
Some protesters at the Jakarta rally called for the expulsion of the Myanmar ambassador over the issue, as well as for diplomatic ties between the two countries to be severed.
Myanmar embassy staff would be safe, however, said a foreign ministry spokesman, Armanatha Nasir.
At the weekend, a petrol bomb was thrown at the embassy causing a small fire.
Indonesian police have also pledged to bar Islamist groups from staging a rally on Friday at the Borobudur Buddhist temple in central Java to protest against the treatment of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims.


There are no late fees for overdue books in elementary school, and lately I've noticed that the 4th, 5th and 6th graders have been, shall we say, "extremely casual" about returning their books promptly. Three months is too long to keep others from reading a great book. I know and admire other elementary librarians who can inspire students to return books on time with just a stern look and some pointed questions. I wish I had this skill, but I have to go with my strengths.
I'm more about rewards than coercion, so when I found the glittered, flocked, and holographic chevron, leopard print, tiger stripe, sparkly, flaming card stock on clearance at Michael's for $.49, I grabbed up every 12″ X 12″ sheet and cut each one into 16 bookmarks. I'll do the math for you: that's 3 cents a bookmark.
I gave every 4th-6th grade teacher one bookmark for advertising purposes, and asked them to let their classes know that every student that did not have overdue books on their library day the following week would be given one of these bookmarks. I also gave the teachers a printed list of overdue books, instead of the usual automatic emailed list that Destiny sends. In a busy teacher's day, one more email with an attachment just doesn't always get opened.
Almost immediately, books started arriving from everywhere–closets, cars, grandma's house, under beds, in sibling's rooms, and in backpacks. It was like having a book magnet drawing them back to the library!
I was very pleased with the results, and I didn't have to give anyone the stink eye.
Leave a comment if you have a method of getting books returned on time.


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Henry II of France
Henry was born on 31 March 1519 in the Chateau de Saint Germain-en-Laye (Royal Palace) near Paris to parents King Francis I of France and Claude, Duchess of Brittany.
His father was imprisoned in Spain following the Battle of Pavia in 1525, and only obtained his own release by placing Henry and his older brother in his place, and they were to spend over four years in captivity in Spain.
On 28 October 1533, fourteen year-old Henry married Catherine de Medici, though his passion was to lie elsewhere; when he was fifteen he started an affair with Diane de Poitier, twenty years his senior, and this affair would last throughout his life.
Poitier was only his mistress but she held great influence over Henry even involving herself in political decisions and signing royal documents. His wife Catherine held no influence over him at all, her only purpose was to produce heirs, yet it was ten years until she produced her first child.
In 1536 Henry's elder brother Francis III, Duke of Brittany died, making Henry heir apparent to the throne. His father died on Henry's 28th birthday, 31 March 1547, making him King Henry II of France. He was crowned on 25 July 1547 at Reims Cathedral.
Henry was severe in his persecution of Protestants (Huguenots), even burning them at the stake or cutting out their tongues, even suspicion of being a Huguenot could result in imprisonment. In 1551 he proclaimed the Edict of Chateaubriant, severely restricting Huguenots.
In 1551 Henry declared war against Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, hoping to recapture Italy. This resulted in the Eighth Italian War (Habsburg-Valois War) of 1551 – 1559. In 1552, he signed the Treaty of Chambord, allying himself with German Protestant princes; a very hypocritical decision for someone who persecuted Protestants so badly in his own country.
Henry was successful at the Battle of Renty in 1554, but defeated at the Battle of Marciano later the same year when trying to invade Tuscany.
Following the abdication of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1556, Henry fought but was defeated at the Battle of St Quentin in 1557 by Philip II of Spain. After this, he was forced to renounce any further claims to Italian territories when he signed the Peace of Cateau-Cambresis with Elizabeth I of England and Philip II of Spain in April 1559.
At a jousting tournament on 30 June 1559 to celebrate the Peace of Cateau-Cambresis, Henry while competing was wounded in the eye by a lance and later died of Septicaemia on 10 July 1559. He was buried at the Basilica of St Denis, near Paris.
While on his deathbed he repeatedly asked to see his long-term mistress Diane de Poitiers, but his wife Catherine de Medici refused her access to him.
Henry was succeeded by his fifteen year-old son Francis, who at the age of fourteen in April 1558 had married Mary, Queen of Scots, ultimately giving France the throne of Scotland and a claim to the throne of England, however he was to die aged sixteen in December 1560 and was succeeded by his ten year-old brother, who became Charles IX.
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I am trying to have a full screen background image inside a div, and top of these div, i need Text. above is my implementation, i know i am missing something really basic, please help.
Why am i not able to see the heading over the image ?
Thanks for all your help in advance.
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The role of the div is to contain an image which fills up a window, and that div Also holds text on top of the image.

A: While I am not certain of who you intentd this to be implemented I would suggest setting the img via backround:;
and consider implementing one oth othe methods outlined in the same post you got this code from.
http://css-tricks.com/perfect-full-page-background-image/
also read:
http://css-tricks.com/forums/topic/responsive-hero-image-with-text-overlay/
I would suggest doing more research prior to bring it to this forum.
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A: I suggest setting the image as a background-image for the div (instead of adding an image tag into the main HTML section), and setting the background size to 100%.  If not that, then setting your img to a z-index of -1, or wrapping your heading in a new div, which would place the heading-containing div in view instead of behind the image.


WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A tiny monkey that was stolen from a South Florida zoo earlier this week has been found.
"Kali is home," the West Palm Beach Police Department announced Wednesday morning on Twitter.
The 12-year-old female Goeldi's monkey was stolen from a locked enclosure at the Palm Beach Zoo early Monday.
A news release from the zoo said the monkey was returned by detectives shortly before midnight.
"We are grateful for the tenacious and passionate detectives and police officers involved in our case," Margo McKnight, the zoo's president and chief executive officer, said in a statement.
Zoo officials said Kali, who suffers from inflammation, appears to be in good health.
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Surveillance video released Tuesday shows a person entering and leaving the zoo about 1 a.m. Monday. McKnight said there was forced entry into the habitat where Kali lived and the mesh on the monkey's enclosure was cut open.
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Police and zoo officials haven't said who had the monkey or if anyone is in custody in connection with the theft.


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End-Of-Life Conversations Not Easy, But Necessary A new report from the Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project shows that Americans' attitudes about medical care at the end of life are changing. And there's still widespread resistance to talking about the issue. Host Michel Martin learns more about the study's findings and how to have these conversations.
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A new report from the Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project shows that Americans' attitudes about medical care at the end of life are changing. And there's still widespread resistance to talking about the issue. Host Michel Martin learns more about the study's findings and how to have these conversations.
This is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin. The countdown to Thanksgiving is underway, so we decided to focus on what Americans should - and maybe should not - be talking about at their holiday gatherings. Later, we're going to hear from two of our etiquette experts to talk about the revelations, declarations and family secrets that somehow always seem to emerge at this time of year. And we'll talk about how to handle those with a bit more grace than is often the case. That's in just a few minutes.
But first, we want to focus on one of the difficult conversations that many health professionals wish you would have over the holidays when the family is together, but that most people probably will not have. We're talking about end-of-life care. And as the nation ages, more families will be forced to make difficult decisions about this. But according to a new study by the Pew Research Center's Religion and Public Life Project, the vast majority of families are not having these conversations.
According to a new report from the center, just 37 percent of Americans say they've given a great deal of thought to end-of-life care for themselves. Only 35 percent say they've put that information in writing. We wanted to talk more about this so we've called Cary Funk, lead researcher at the Pew Center. Also with us for additional perspective is Marion Somers, also known as Dr. Marion. She is a geriatric specialist, and she's author of the book "Eldercare Made Easier." They're both with us now. Welcome, thank you both so much for joining us.
CARY FUNK: Thanks for having me.
MARION SOMERS: Thank you.
MARTIN: So Cary Funk, as we mentioned, the vast majority of Americans just aren't talking about this and not creating plans for this. In fact, you've found that a quarter of those age 75 and up haven't given much - or any - thought to end-of-life care. Why do we think that is?
FUNK: Well, I mean, I think that's what's striking; is despite the graying of America, there's this sizable minority that says they haven't even given very much thought - I think not much thought, or not at all thought. That's very closely related to whether you've taken some kind of action, like talked about your wishes with another person or written it down. So these two things, whether you've thought about it or whether you've done something, are closely correlated.
MARTIN: One of the other things that really struck me in the study is that you found that more than 3 in 10 Americans say that medical professionals should do everything possible to save a patient's life. And that's up 9 percent in less than a decade. Any ideas about why?
FUNK: Yeah, so that's - I mean, that's, I think, a puzzle. We're looking over times since 1990 - which is, you know, 23 years, a fairly long time span. And of course, the majority position has stayed the same. About two-thirds say that they would - that they think medical staff should sometimes stop treatment. But you're seeing roughly a doubling of the share saying that they think that medical staff should do everything possible in all circumstances.
MARTIN: Do you have any clue about why that might be?
FUNK: When we look a little deeper about which groups are changing over time, the main thing that strikes me first is that it's a broad-based change. Lots of groups are changing. So it seems to be kind of across the board. There are some groups that are changing more. So you see a more pronounced change among younger adults as opposed to older adults. And in this case, most of the time through these findings, when we talk about younger, we're talking about kind of under 50. And over 50 is where you often see the big cuts. We also see a little more pronounced change among people who say they haven't really given much thought to their own wishes. So that's part of the puzzle as well.
MARTIN: Dr. Marion, one of the reasons we were glad you were able to join us is that that's one of the things that you do, is help people have these conversations. One of the things we noted in the study is that attitudes about end-of-life care can differ substantially, depending on racial and ethnic background. A majority of black Protestants and Hispanic Catholics wanted all possible care provided to prolong their lives. The majority of the whites surveyed did not. So Dr. Marion, I wanted to ask if - first, if you had any insights into why you think that might be, just based on your experience. And secondly, how could you open up these conversations if you suspect that, you know, family members don't want to talk about it?
SOMERS: It's a very difficult subject, and people do not want to talk about that. We all understand that, but the holiday season is a perfect time to bring these subjects up. You've got the family together. And I have found that when people open the discussion and they start with, have I done it for myself? It's so much easier to talk to your other family members. I have taken care of my finances. I have taken care of my - all my issues - my legal issues, my financial issues, my death and dying issues.
And when everybody knows what you want, it makes it easier, No. 1. And No. 2, if you have an elder person that you're concerned about, and if you have taken care of these issues, it's so much easier to open the discussion and say, hey Mom or Dad - or whoever - I have done X, Y and Z; and I just want you to know what my plans are. And I would just like to know what your concerns are, what your wishes are.
I have also found that when families have not done preplanning - and I always say a failure to plan is a plan to fail - if they have not done it, and something happens to the older person that everyone has been concerned about, what happens? The family gets into conflict with each other. And that conflict can be very detrimental to the family, at a time when there is a crisis dealing with an older person.
MARTIN: You know, we...
SOMERS: So I say do it now, whatever your issues are. And the holidays are a perfect time to bring the subject up.
MARTIN: Do you - why are the holidays a perfect time to bring the subject up?
SOMERS: Because one, you have the family together. So if there are differences of opinion, they can all be aired in a non-confrontational situation, a non-emergency situation because once there's an emergency, all hell breaks loose. And it's very difficult. And all the family history and former conflicts come to the surface, which is not helpful when you're dealing with an emergency. The time to do it is now, whether you're dealing with the elder care, long-term care issues; or you're dealing with them as what do they want to do if there's a health issue or a health emergency, or what are - where do they want to live as they age, or do they want to move in with you, or do they want to live independently? These are - I mean, the roster of questions is enormous, but the time to ask the questions is when you're together. Face-to-face is almost the easiest way.
MARTIN: Cary Funk, is there something that medical professionals could be doing differently to help patients and families begin these conversations; or have you found that there are other key people in people's lives who are the best drivers of these conversations?
FUNK: Right.
MARTIN: I don't know if the data sheds any light on this.
FUNK: I mean, it's - this is one of the hard topics to do a survey about because the issues are complex and, you know, they're raising difficult moral and ethical issues. So it makes sense that it's difficult to talk about it. But one of the things that really struck me is that these are issues that loom very large in the lives of many Americans. One way we got out that was just asking people, have you had a close friend or family who's been - who experienced a very serious terminal illness or been in a coma within the last five years? So kind of broad-based; but about 47 percent - so roughly half of adults - said yes. And, of course, those people run the gamut. They're older, they're younger, they're different socioeconomic classes. It's everyone these - who are touched by these kinds of experiences.
MARTIN: Dr. Marion, I wanted to ask about people who may or may not have some experience with dealing with authority figures and paperwork, and how that could play out. For example, we know that after Hurricane Katrina, for example, a lot of African-American families lost their homes, or didn't get insurance payouts that white families did, because they had never changed the titles to their property. They'd never spelled out - so there was no paper trail that they could call upon. And you could argue that, well, it's because they'd never had any experience with this. Do you have some advice about how you raise issues with people who are used to handling things informally within the family? I mean, what do you say?
SOMERS: You start with the personal pronoun "I." I am concerned. I am worried. And that opens it up; rather than say, you must do this, you must do that. When you open it up with a personal pronoun, they feel this is a personal issue; you're really concerned about them. So it's your vocabulary, and how you approach it. And if you have already done this for yourself, if all of your issues have been taken care of, you can always say, this is what I have done to protect my family, to protect myself. This is how I'm going to take care of my long-term-care issues. Can we broach this with you as well? And you say, I am concerned, I am worried, I am losing sleep over this. And then it brings it more to a personal level, but a nonthreatening personal level.
MARTIN: Cary Funk, any final thoughts about the survey, that jumped out for you? I must say, I was struck by how few people had taken any steps to think about these issues, or just share their thoughts with loved ones - even at advanced stages of life. Any final thoughts?
FUNK: Yeah, I think what's most - that's one part that I think is very interesting. And the other part is that there's more than one thing going on. There are big differences by race and ethnicity. There's also big differences by religious group. And both of those aspects of ourselves are important.
MARTIN: And finally, Dr. Marion, is there the one thing you wish people would do this holiday season, especially if they're spending time with family - the one thing?
SOMERS: Enjoy the holiday, but if you have a burning issue that is keeping you from sleeping at night, you're so worried about it, bring it up. The worst that can happen is nobody wants to deal with it. But at least you've brought it to the surface so that people know this is an issue for you, that you're concerned, and what the concerns are. And the clearer you articulate, the better.
MARTIN: Marion Somers is a geriatric specialist. She's known as Dr. Marion. She's the founder of a new campaign called LivingSafer.TV, to help seniors live more independently as they age. She's also the author, as we said, of "Elder Care Made Easier." She joined us from NPR West in Culver City, Calif. Here in Washington, D.C., Cary Funk, senior researcher at the Pew Research Center's Religion and Public Life Project. Thank you both so much for speaking with us. Happy Thanksgiving to you both.


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* Union Territory of Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir to be created, announces Amit Shah * Army and Air Force put on high alert Kashmiri politicians under house arrest New Delhi: The Narendra Modi Government has finally dropped the big Kashmir bomb this morning with Home Minister Amit Shah moving to revoke two key Constitutional provisions…
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New Delhi: Ending speculation that the party high command had differences over backing B.S. Yediyurappa to make another shot at running a coalition regime in Karnataka, the BJP Central leaders backed the new dispensation and hoped it will herald a 'new dawn' for the State. "Congrats to B.S. Yediyurappa, newly sworn in CM of Karnataka….
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Author presents book to Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa in city Title: Amit Shah and the March of BJP Authors: Anirban Ganguly and Shiwanand Dwivedi Pages: 296 Price: Rs. 399 Publisher: Bloomsbury By Prof. G. L. Shekar In Mysuru this morning, was honoured to call on the doyen of Kannada literature, philosopher, novelist and legendary public intellectual,…
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Amit is the 'Shah' of Modi's historic second term win
"Time for Congress to get an Amit Shah," tweets Mehbooba Mufti New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi might be the man of the moment for winning the historic second term but it is Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah who is being hailed, even by the rivals, as the man behind the moment. "Time…
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Yesterday Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined BJP President Amit Shah at a press conference called by the latter. Many of us hoped the journalists would ask him questions and PM Modi would destroy those questions with élan, deploying his abundance of confidence, cache of facts and inimitable sarcasm but nothing happened ! All we got…
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By Shashank Gouri from New York Rahul Gandhi must be ruing the day his party coined the phrase 'Chowkidar Chor Hai.' In a bid to counter the ruling BJP's strategy to transition Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Chaiwala to Chowkidar, the Congress might have finally met its match in Modi-Shah as they are left grappling…
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The first choice in charting in the American and Canadian financial world seems to be the bar chart. The chart is made up of vertical bars, each one representing a designated time period. The daily chart is simply a bar chart where a single bar represents one day of trading. These are the most popular type of charts used in technical analysis. One addition to bar charts is the hash mark (-) which is placed on the left side of the bar to represent the opening price for that time period and one on the right side of the bar representing the closing price for that period. The top of the bar shows the high for the period in question and the bottom of the bar represents the low for the time period. Along the right side of the bar chart is usually a price scale showing the price increments in the currency of your choice and along the bottom of the chart is a timeline which could be in minutes, hours, days, or even weeks, months, or years. The visual representation of price activity over a given period of time is used to spot trends and patterns.
Below is a typical daily bar chart with an inset showing the hash marks and what each bar represents.
Unlike bar charts, line charts show prices in a continuous line over a given period of time. Line charts do not show open, high, or low prices. The only price indicated on a line chart is the closing price. This is accomplished by constructing a chart made only with dots on each given timeframe such as a day, hour, or even a minute; these dots are then connected to form a continuous line. The chart below shows a price history based only on the closing prices for each time frame.
The candlestick charts, so named because of their candle and wick like bodies, originated in eastern Asia and were developed almost 300 years ago by a man named Homma. A trader in the futures market, Homma discovered the basis for the candlestick chart analysis, which is used to measure market emotions surrounding a stock. Originally this method of charting was used to trade rice.
This charting technique has become very popular among traders. One reason is that the charts reflect only short-term outlooks, sometimes lasting less than eight to 10 trading sessions. Candlestick charting is a very complex and sometimes difficult system to understand. As we move along in our lessons we will attempt to explore candles and how they differ from today's bar chart. We will also learn the most commonly used patterns and their unique names.
Chartist: An individual who uses charts or graphs of a security or other financial instrument's historical price patterns to forecast its future direction or trend. A chartist essentially looks for well-known patterns such as double tops, double bottoms, head-and-shoulders, or support and resistance levels in securities so as to trade them more profitably. Chartists may use their expertise in all markets where financial instruments are traded. These may include, equities, ETF's, currencies, commodities, or corporate and treasury bonds. A chartist is also known as a technical analyst due to the fact that his/her decisions are driven not by fundamentals but by chart patterns and volume data.