YouTube continues to undergo changes with each new version of the application, the most recent being the inclusion of ad-free playback of videos for a monthly fee. While YouTube has gotten better and better over the years since Google had purchased the company, one thing it has always lacked is a set of proper controls to manage the fast forward and rewind capabilities for videos. In the latest version of YouTube for Android it appears that Google is going to be adding these controls in, although it's worth noting that this version of the app doesn't have the controls enabled just yet so Google will likely have to turn things on from their end.
With YouTube version 10.43, fast forward and rewind options are obviously the biggest change of note that users will eventually have access to, seeing as how it should make it much easier to move forward and backward within videos than before. rewinding and fast forwarding has always technically been a capability, but you had to use the slider bar to get the video to where you wanted it which didn't always result in precision. Now with proper control buttons for this function, if you miss anything important in a video you can more accurately get right to the spot that you missed instead of having to simply drag the slider to some point before that specific moment just to see it.
Also new in this latest version of YouTube it seems there have been some revisions to the visual appearance of some icons, specifically the button for transitioning a video into fullscreen view and the button layout for adding to your favorites and watch later lists. Google is no stranger to changing up the look of simple things like icons within apps, and YouTube is no exception to the rule. The new fullscreen button now resembles the icon used on the YouTube website, while the "add to" button has been changed from the "+" symbol to a "+" with a stack next to it. Users will also notice that the pages for playlists and the list of watch later videos are no longer a monochrome gray, black, and white color scheme, but instead have taken on the traditional red and white YouTube color scheme. These are of course relatively minor visual tweaks, but they are changes nonetheless and worth mentioning. You can wait for the latest version of YouTube to hit the Play Store updates list, or you can grab the apk from here and install it if you wish to do so.


image by David Goehring (lic)What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - ADHD?
Adrian is a 7-year-old boy. He is making his second attempt to pass the first grade. He is halfway through the school year, but still hasn't improved very much. His teacher, Ms. Carter, taught Adrian in her classroom last year and now again this year. Ms. Carter is a young, enthusiastic teacher. She has actively worked with Adrian to improve his ability to pay attention in class. However, she is now asking for help because she has seen little progress for her efforts.
Adrian is an energetic boy who talks almost constantly. He talks over other children. He forgets to raise his hand. He interrupts his teachers during classroom lessons. He has trouble sitting in his seat and frequently wanders around the classroom. He is unable to read or to complete his math problems. These difficulties occur because he can't stay on task long enough to benefit from the lesson. His unruly behavior is taking a great deal of Ms. Carter's time. Meanwhile, his need for extra attention is interfering with other students' learning opportunities. Adrian is a kind boy, who often engages other children in a friendly manner. However, Ms. Carter has noticed the other children are becoming annoyed by his disruptive behavior. They have begun to avoid him. Ms. Carter is deeply concerned about Adrian. She knows that if these behaviors continue, Adrian's self-image will plummet as the other children reject him, and school failure continues.
Adrian's parents are similarly discouraged. They have two other children at home who don't get into trouble and make good grades at school. His parents work hard to provide a supportive environment for Adrian and try to help him with his homework. They have tried many different strategies. However, nothing seems to work. They are becoming increasingly frustrated and worried. They care deeply about Adrian and want him to succeed. Unfortunately, his out-of-control behavior and his inability to pay attention, have created a chaotic home life that is disruptive and unpleasant for the entire family. Both parents acknowledge that at times the situation seems hopeless. Although they feel protective of Adrian, they are also desperate to find help for him.
As a result of Ms. Carter's request, the school called a meeting to bring all the adults together to discuss Adrian's situation. They agreed to ask a psychologist to conduct an evaluation of Adrian and discussed the need for an Individual Education Plan. The psychologist met with Adrian, his parents, his teachers, and his physician. Adrian was evaluated in each of his typical environments. During this process, the psychologist worked diligently to obtain input from the adults involved with Adrian's education and care. The purpose of this thorough evaluation was to obtain as much information as possible from many different perspectives (caregivers, teachers, doctors, etc.). This enabled the psychologist to develop a diagnosis and a comprehensive treatment plan. Based on this evaluation, Adrian was diagnosed with ADHD. Then, the psychologist helped the adults work together to develop an individualized plan to meet Adrian's special needs. This type of plan is commonly called an Individual Educational Plan (IEP).
The IEP had many different elements. The parents took Adrian to his pediatrician. Adrian's doctor prescribed stimulant medication to help improve his attention skills. Adrian's parents were initially reluctant to use medication. However, the situation had deteriorated so much they were willing to give it a try. They also took a parenting class to learn behavior management skills. These new skills enabled them to create a more structured and consistent home environment. Furthermore, these skills allowed Adrian's parents to work more calmly with him. They learned to reward positive behaviors, while attempting to ignore (not reward) the negative ones.
Adrian did his part as well. He participated in group therapy with other kids who had similar problems. Adrian and the other children in his therapy group learned about ADHD and how it affects them. They also learned new skills. Some of these skills helped Adrian to develop greater self-regulation. Adrian also learned social skills so he could enjoy more rewarding relationships with his peers.
As part of the IEP, the psychologist developed a plan for Adrian's teachers. This plan helped to create a more structured classroom environment for Adrian. This structured approach made classroom expectations clear, and rewarded positive behavior. The IEP stipulated the teacher should be provided an additional classroom aide. The specially trained aide worked with Adrian to help him learn new skills while limiting behaviors that interfered with other children's learning experiences. The overall goal of the IEP was to provide Adrian the support he needed to develop important academic skills. It also helped him to use greater self-control at home, and in the classroom.
Working together, Adrian's team helped him to improve his behavior so he could succeed in school and enjoy rewarding relationships. It was a challenging process that required the commitment of many people. At first it was difficult. Nonetheless, with perseverance, the coordinated efforts of everyone involved allowed Adrian to gradually improve.
Adrian may continue to face challenges related to ADHD for most of his life. Nonetheless, his ability to function well in different environments enabled him to adopt a positive outlook. This increased his confidence in his ability to overcome challenges. The success of this case study highlights the importance of early diagnosis and treatment with a team approach. Early diagnosis is made possible by recognizing the signs and symptoms. This is covered in the next section.


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The chance of earthquake damage in Belfonte is lower than Oklahoma average and is much lower than the national average. The risk of tornado damage in Belfonte is much lower than Oklahoma average and is much higher than the national average.
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Belfonte, OK
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Other Weather Extremes Events
A total of 5,200 other weather extremes events within 50 miles of Belfonte, OK were recorded from 1950 to 2010. The following is a break down of these events:
Type Count Type Count Type Count Type Count Type Count
Avalanche: 0 Blizzard: 0 Cold: 10 Dense Fog: 0 Drought: 4
Dust Storm: 0 Flood: 473 Hail: 2,352 Heat: 13 Heavy Snow: 14
High Surf: 0 Hurricane: 0 Ice Storm: 14 Landslide: 0 Strong Wind: 17
Thunderstorm Winds: 2,165 Tropical Storm: 2 Wildfire: 7 Winter Storm: 25 Winter Weather: 32
Other: 72
Volcanos Nearby
No volcano is found in or near Belfonte, OK.
Historical Earthquake Events
No historical earthquake events that had recorded magnitudes of 3.5 or above found in or near Belfonte, OK.
No historical earthquake events found in or near Belfonte, OK.
Historical Tornado Events
A total of 100 historical tornado events that had recorded magnitude of 2 or above found in or near Belfonte, OK.
Distance (miles) Date Magnitude Start Lat/Log End Lat/Log Length Width Fatalities Injuries Property Damage Crop Damage Affected County
4.4 1999-05-04 3 35°34'N / 94°33'W 35°38'N / 94°29'W 6.50 Miles 175 Yards 0 0 7K 0 Sequoyah
Brief Description: A significant long-track tornado first touched down in Sequoyah County 4 miles west of Short, travelling northeast for 39 miles to a point about 7 miles southwest of Fayetteville, AR. This tornado eventually reached its peak as an F3 tornado in extreme southeast Adair County. In Sequoyah County, this tornado travelled across a sparsely-populated part of the county, causing mostly tree damage. Property damage listed with this entry is just for the portion of the tornado in Sequoyah County, while the F-rating reflects the peak strength of the tornado in Adair County. Summary of events for May 3-4 1999: Following a week-long blocking weather pattern, a strong upper level trough finally moved out of the southwestern U.S. Interactions with a dryline in western Oklahoma and a slow-moving cold front brought the largest tornado outbreak in Oklahoma history from the afternoon of May 3 through the afternoon of May 4. Most notable was the F5 tornado that moved through southern parts of the Oklahoma City metro area. While the loss of life and the heaviest property damage was limited to central Oklahoma, eastern Oklahoma got into the act with a significant number of tornadoes. While there were dozens of individual storms on May 3 and 4, there are two storms in eastern Oklahoma that stand out as outstanding. The first outstanding storm moved northeast along the I-44 corridor on the evening of May 3, causing F3 damage to Stroud in Lincoln County. The storm went on to cause significant F1 damage in Sapulpa and southwestern portions of the city of Tulsa and millions of dollars in damage. The second outstanding storm got its start in southeast Oklahoma well south of McAlester. This storm moved northeast across Pushmataha, Latimer, Haskell, LeFlore and Sequoyah Counties, producing several damaging tornadoes along the way. The final tornado touched down in Sequoyah County and tracked 39 miles to near Fayetteville, AR, producing F3 damage in an unpopulated forest in Adair County. Following a very wet April that saturated area grounds, another slow-moving weather system made flash flooding another serious problem to deal with as most rainfall quickly ran off into creeks, streams and mainstem rivers. One flash flood in Vinita caused millions of dollars in damage following the flooding of dozens of homes.
8.9 1960-05-05 4 35°23'N / 94°33'W 35°27'N / 94°30'W 5.40 Miles 33 Yards 5 13 250K 0 Sequoyah
9.0 1984-10-16 2 35°25'N / 94°31'W 0.10 Mile 3 Yards 0 0 25K 0 Sequoyah
9.2 1976-02-20 2 35°31'N / 94°45'W 35°33'N / 94°41'W 4.50 Miles 30 Yards 0 0 25K 0 Sequoyah
9.8 1999-05-04 3 35°39'N / 94°33'W 35°43'N / 94°30'W 7.00 Miles 175 Yards 0 0 7K 0 Adair
Brief Description: A significant long-track tornado first touched down in Sequoyah County 4 miles west of Short, moving northeast for 39 miles to a point about 7 miles southwest of Fayetteville, AR. This tornado clipped the extreme southeast portion of Adair County as the tornado reached its peak strength as an F3 tornado. Fortunately, the tornado travelled across an unpopulated portion of Adair County. However, an aerial survey by NWS personnel over extreme southeast Adair County revealed that every tree in a hardwood forest was completely leveled. Summary of events for May 3-4 1999: Following a week-long blocking weather pattern, a strong upper level trough finally moved out of the southwestern U.S. Interactions with a dryline in western Oklahoma and a slow-moving cold front brought the largest tornado outbreak in Oklahoma history from the afternoon of May 3 through the afternoon of May 4. Most notable was the F5 tornado that moved through southern parts of the Oklahoma City metro area. While the loss of life and the heaviest property damage was limited to central Oklahoma, eastern Oklahoma got into the act with a significant number of tornadoes. While there were dozens of individual storms on May 3 and 4, there are two storms in eastern Oklahoma that stand out as outstanding. The first outstanding storm moved northeast along the I-44 corridor on the evening of May 3, causing F3 damage to Stroud in Lincoln County. The storm went on to cause significant F1 damage in Sapulpa and southwestern portions of the city of Tulsa and millions of dollars in damage. The second outstanding storm got its start in southeast Oklahoma well south of McAlester. This storm moved northeast across Pushmataha, Latimer, Haskell, LeFlore and Sequoyah Counties, producing several damaging tornadoes along the way. The final tornado touched down in Sequoyah County and tracked 39 miles to near Fayetteville, AR, producing F3 damage in an unpopulated forest in Adair County. Following a very wet April that saturated area grounds, another slow-moving weather system made flash flooding another serious problem to deal with as most rainfall quickly ran off into creeks, streams and mainstem rivers. One flash flood in Vinita caused millions of dollars in damage following the flooding of dozens of homes.
10.1 1960-05-05 3 35°24'N / 94°42'W 35°31'N / 94°42'W 8.00 Miles 33 Yards 0 0 250K 0 Sequoyah
10.3 1984-10-16 2 35°38'N / 94°24'W 35°34'N / 94°22'W 8.00 Miles 50 Yards 0 2 2.5M 0 Crawford
10.7 1960-05-05 3 35°23'N / 94°29'W 35°26'N / 94°26'W 4.50 Miles 33 Yards 1 0 25K 0 Sequoyah
12.3 1957-01-22 4 35°24'N / 94°41'W 10 20 250K 0 Sequoyah
12.6 1989-05-18 2 35°28'N / 94°21'W 0.70 Mile 120 Yards 0 0 250K 0 Crawford
12.7 1959-05-10 2 35°29'N / 94°46'W 1.50 Miles 50 Yards 0 1 3K 0 Sequoyah
13.5 1996-04-21 2 35°23'N / 94°25'W 35°23'N / 94°25'W 4.00 Miles 1050 Yards 2 40 150.0M 0 Sebastian
13.6 1982-05-28 2 35°27'N / 94°46'W 0.50 Mile 50 Yards 0 0 250K 0 Sequoyah
14.0 1999-05-04 3 35°43'N / 94°29'W 35°45'N / 94°27'W 3.00 Miles 175 Yards 0 0 3K 0 Crawford
Brief Description: A significant long-track tornado first developed 4 miles west of Short, OK, moving northeast to about 7 miles southwest of Fayetteville, AR. This tornado reached its peak strength as an F3 tornado as it clipped extreme southeast Adair County, OK. This tornado then clipped extreme northwest Crawford County, passing through an unpopulated, forested area in the Ozark National Forest. An aerial survey by NWS personnel just west of the Oklahoma/Arkansas state line west of Natural Dam revealed that every tree in a hardwood forest was completely leveled. Property damage listed with this entry reflects tree damage sustained in Crawford County, while the F-rating reflects the tornado's peak strength in Adair County, OK. Summary of events for May 4 1999: Following a record tornado outbreak in Oklahoma on May 3-4, a significant severe weather outbreak affected northwest Arkansas on the morning and afternoon of May 4 as a vigorous upper level system continued to move slowly east. While there were many individual storms in the area on May 4, the most outstanding storm of the day was a supercell thunderstorm that spawned a tornado in Sequoyah County, OK, which then moved northeast for 39 miles to near Fayetteville. Other storms produced damaging winds and large hail.
14.1 1996-04-21 3 35°26'N / 94°21'W 35°31'N / 94°17'W 6.00 Miles 1050 Yards 0 49 150.0M 0 Crawford
14.9 1965-06-22 2 35°28'N / 94°48'W 1.00 Mile 33 Yards 0 0 25K 0 Sequoyah
15.0 1954-04-30 3 35°38'N / 94°24'W 35°45'N / 94°19'W 9.20 Miles 440 Yards 0 0 250K 0 Crawford
15.0 1965-05-08 2 35°21'N / 94°25'W 35°24'N / 94°21'W 5.10 Miles 100 Yards 0 8 250K 0 Sebastian
15.3 1968-05-25 2 35°27'N / 94°48'W 2.00 Miles 33 Yards 0 1 25K 0 Sequoyah
15.8 1967-12-21 2 35°21'N / 94°24'W 35°23'N / 94°21'W 3.80 Miles 833 Yards 0 6 25K 0 Sebastian
17.7 1984-10-16 2 35°34'N / 94°22'W 35°44'N / 94°10'W 14.00 Miles 50 Yards 0 1 2.5M 0 Crawford
17.7 1961-05-08 2 35°48'N / 94°33'W 0 0 25K 0 Adair
17.8 2008-04-10 2 35°47'N / 94°32'W 35°49'N / 94°30'W 4.00 Miles 400 Yards 0 0 50K 0K Adair
Brief Description: EVENT NARRATIVE: An NWS storm survey determined that a strong tornado destroyed a mobile home, caused extensive tree damage, and snapped power poles. This tornado continued into Washington County Arkansas, lifting about 4 miles southwest of Lincoln. EPISODE NARRATIVE: Severe thunderstorms occurred across eastern Oklahoma from the evening of the 9th into the morning of the 10th.
18.0 1960-05-05 4 35°23'N / 94°51'W 35°27'N / 94°49'W 4.90 Miles 200 Yards 0 0 2.5M 0 Sequoyah
19.0 1970-06-11 3 35°41'N / 94°46'W 35°56'N / 94°31'W 22.20 Miles 33 Yards 0 1 0K 0 Adair
19.3 1958-05-02 2 35°16'N / 94°30'W 0.30 Mile 100 Yards 0 0 25K 0 Le Flore
19.4 1953-04-23 3 35°29'N / 94°13'W 0 0 3K 0 Crawford
19.7 2008-04-10 2 35°45'N / 94°48'W 35°46'N / 94°46'W 3.00 Miles 300 Yards 0 0 100K 0K Adair
Brief Description: EVENT NARRATIVE: An NWS storm survey determined that a strong tornado destroyed several mobile homes, caused extensive tree damage, destroyed barns and other outbuildings, and snapped power poles. EPISODE NARRATIVE: Severe thunderstorms occurred across eastern Oklahoma from the evening of the 9th into the morning of the 10th.
19.9 1957-05-20 3 35°23'N / 95°00'W 35°28'N / 94°45'W 15.20 Miles 200 Yards 0 0 3K 0 Delaware
21.5 1973-05-26 3 35°34'N / 95°06'W 35°36'N / 94°46'W 18.70 Miles 250 Yards 0 6 250K 0 Sequoyah
22.0 1960-04-14 3 35°28'N / 94°17'W 35°31'N / 94°03'W 13.60 Miles 833 Yards 0 3 250K 0 Crawford
22.1 2008-04-10 2 35°49'N / 94°30'W 35°54'N / 94°28'W 6.00 Miles 400 Yards 0 0 75K 0K Washington
Brief Description: EVENT NARRATIVE: The strong tornado that began 5.5 miles east-southeast of Stillwell in Adair County Oklahoma moved into Washington County. The tornado destroyed a mobile home, destroyed a barn, rolled a vehicle, caused extensive tree damage, and snapped power poles. EPISODE NARRATIVE: Severe thunderstorms occurred across Northwest Arkansas during the evening and early morning hours on the 9th and 10th.
22.1 1960-05-05 3 35°11'N / 94°47'W 35°21'N / 94°43'W 12.10 Miles 33 Yards 0 0 250K 0 Le Flore
22.1 1976-03-26 5 35°12'N / 94°42'W 35°15'N / 94°30'W 11.90 Miles 440 Yards 2 64 2.5M 0 Le Flore
23.6 1976-03-26 2 35°52'N / 94°25'W 2.00 Miles 77 Yards 0 0 250K 0 Washington
23.8 1981-07-21 2 35°12'N / 94°31'W 0.50 Mile 30 Yards 0 0 25K 0 Kiowa
24.3 1960-11-15 2 35°48'N / 94°51'W 1.00 Mile 50 Yards 0 0 25K 0 Cherokee
25.4 1999-05-04 3 35°45'N / 94°28'W 36°00'N / 94°15'W 22.00 Miles 175 Yards 0 0 80K 0 Washington
Brief Description: A significant long-track tornado first touched down 4 miles west of Short, OK, and tracked 39 miles to a point about 7 miles southwest of Fayetteville, AR. Along the way, this tornado passed through portions of four counties but mainly affected sparsely-populated areas. It reached its peak strength as an F3 tornado in extreme southeast Adair County, OK, but mainly caused F2 damage in Washington County, AR. Fortunately, this tornado lifted before it reached heavily-populated Fayetteville. The tornado's first real property damage took place at a property between the Hogeye and Strickland communities, where the tornado peeled off the roof to a home, shattered windows, uprooted trees, destroyed two barns, and wiped a porch off of its stone foundation. Numerous trees were blown down along County Roads 212 and 214. Only a few miles away in the Cove Creek community, south of Prarie Grove, the tornado blew off a home's roof, demolished an enclosed garage, and destroyed a barn. A flagpole was bent almost in half, and a road sign ended up wrapped around a mailbox. The tornado uprooted a 200-year old walnut tree which then fell onto a pickup truck. About a half-dozen other oak and cedar trees on one property dating back at least 150 years were snapped or uprooted. The Washington County Judge's Office supplied a picture of a church near Cove Creek that was moved off of its foundation. Several poultry buildings along the tornado's path were also damaged. The property damage listed in this entry is for just that damage sustained in Washington County, while the F-rating reflects the tornado's peak strength in Adair County, OK. Summary of events for May 4 1999: Following a record tornado outbreak in Oklahoma on May 3-4, a significant severe weather outbreak affected northwest Arkansas on the morning and afternoon of May 4 as a vigorous upper level system continued to move slowly east. While there were many individual storms in the area on May 4, the most outstanding storm of the day was a supercell thunderstorm that spawned a tornado in Sequoyah County, OK, which then moved northeast for 39 miles to near Fayetteville. Other storms produced damaging winds and large hail.
27.6 1979-04-11 2 35°50'N / 94°23'W 35°59'N / 94°19'W 11.10 Miles 200 Yards 0 4 250K 0 Washington
28.3 1954-02-19 2 35°13'N / 94°15'W 1.00 Mile 33 Yards 0 0 0K 0 Sebastian
28.3 1980-04-07 3 35°08'N / 94°33'W 0.50 Mile 127 Yards 0 9 2.5M 0 Le Flore
28.7 1968-04-19 4 35°12'N / 94°16'W 2.00 Miles 300 Yards 14 270 2.5M 0 Sebastian
29.0 1983-11-22 3 35°51'N / 94°45'W 36°04'N / 94°31'W 19.00 Miles 100 Yards 0 0 250K 0 Le Flore
30.1 1957-05-20 3 35°21'N / 95°05'W 35°23'N / 95°00'W 5.20 Miles 200 Yards 0 1 3K 0 Mayes
30.5 1983-11-22 3 35°53'N / 94°48'W 36°03'N / 94°37'W 16.00 Miles 100 Yards 0 6 2.5M 0 Le Flore
30.7 1996-04-21 2 35°37'N / 94°02'W 35°39'N / 94°00'W 3.00 Miles 400 Yards 0 2 500K 0 Franklin
Brief Description: The tornado touched down just to the southwest of Fern. It moved northeastward, through the town of Fern, where 7 homes were destroyed and a number of other buildings were damaged. The tornado continued moving northeastward and lifted 3 miles northeast of Fern. A number of trees were blown down along the tornado's path. 2 people sustained minor injuries from the storm. Initial estimates place the amount of damage at around $500,000.
31.3 1960-05-05 4 35°04'N / 95°03'W 35°23'N / 94°51'W 24.60 Miles 200 Yards 3 6 2.5M 0 Haskell
31.5 1964-05-10 3 35°52'N / 94°57'W 2.00 Miles 440 Yards 0 0 25K 0 Cherokee
Brief Description: EVENT NARRATIVE: This segment is the first of six segments of this long-track tornado. A tornado developed just northeast of Westville and moved rapidly northeastward damaging a home, tossing or rolling four vehicles, snapping at least 13 large power poles, and snapping or uprooting large trees. Estimated maximum wind based on this damage was 125 mph. This tornado continued into Washington County, Arkansas. EPISODE NARRATIVE: Unseasonably warm and moist air spread into eastern Oklahoma ahead of a cold front. Scattered thunderstorms developed in the late evening and early morning hours ahead of the cold front as a weak upper level disturbance passed through the region. Large hail and damaging wind gusts occurred with some of these storms. Another round of storms developed on the cold front as it moved into eastern Oklahoma a few hours before sunrise. Weak to moderate instability combined with very strong low level wind shear created an environment that supported supercell thunderstorm structures. Several supercells developed resulting in large hail and damaging wind gusts in the hours just before and after sunrise on the 31st. One of these supercells produced a long-track, strong tornado that began in Adair County, Oklahoma, and moved into Washington County, Arkansas, where it killed four people in and near the town of Cincinnati.
34.8 1981-05-17 2 35°37'N / 95°10'W 0 0 0K 0 Muskogee
35.8 1960-05-05 2 35°49'N / 94°12'W 36°00'N / 94°00'W 16.90 Miles 33 Yards 0 1 250K 0 Washington
35.8 2010-12-31 3 36°01'N / 94°32'W 36°06'N / 94°25'W 9.00 Miles 500 Yards 4 7 1.5M 0K Washington
Brief Description: EVENT NARRATIVE: This segment is the second of six segments of this long-track tornado. The tornado moved into Washington County snapping numerous trees as it approached the town of Cincinnati. In Cincinnati, the tornado destroyed several permanent homes, destroyed the volunteer fire station, destroyed a mobile home, damaged several other permanent homes, snapped or uprooted numerous trees, snapped numerous power poles, and destroyed barns and outbuildings. Two people were killed in the mobile home that was destroyed and a third person was killed either in or near a barn while he was tending to his cattle. At least seven injuries also occurred. The tornado was about 300 yards wide when it went through town. The maximum estimated wind speed in the tornado based on this damage was 140 mph. The tornado continued to move rapidly northeastward and widened to about 500 yards northeast of Cincinnati. Several permanent homes were severely damaged, several mobile homes were destroyed, at least four chicken houses were destroyed, outbuildings were destroyed, numerous trees were snapped or uprooted, and power poles were snapped. A woman in one of the mobile homes that was destroyed was transported to a hospital with serious injuries. She later died from those injuries on January 4th. The tornado continued into Benton County, Arkansas. EPISODE NARRATIVE: Unseasonably warm and moist air spread into northwestern Arkansas ahead of a cold front. Scattered thunderstorms developed in the late evening and early morning hours ahead of the cold front as a weak upper level disturbance passed through the region. Large hail and damaging wind gusts occurred with some of those storms. Another round of storms developed on the cold front over eastern Oklahoma as it pushed into the area. Weak to moderate instability combined with very strong low level wind shear created an environment that supported supercell thunderstorm structures. Several supercells developed resulting in large hail and damaging wind gusts in the hours just before and after sunrise on the 31st. One of these supercells produced a long-track, strong tornado that killed four people in and near the town of Cincinnati in Washington County. Debris was transported by the tornado into northern Benton County and was reported in Bella Vista and Pea Ridge. The Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) was closed for three hours to remove the debris from the flight line. Another supercell produced a short-lived, weak tornado in Carroll County that moved into Missouri.
36.9 1956-11-20 2 35°42'N / 95°12'W 35°44'N / 95°09'W 3.60 Miles 150 Yards 0 0 3K 0 Muskogee
37.5 1953-03-13 2 35°00'N / 94°32'W 0 0 3K 0 Le Flore
38.6 1970-06-11 3 35°56'N / 94°31'W 36°12'N / 94°06'W 29.60 Miles 250 Yards 1 44 2.5M 0 Washington
39.0 1981-04-19 3 35°55'N / 95°06'W 35°55'N / 95°03'W 3.00 Miles 100 Yards 0 0 3K 0 Creek
39.3 1957-04-02 2 35°03'N / 95°01'W 35°09'N / 94°58'W 7.60 Miles 880 Yards 0 2 25K 0 Haskell
39.6 1968-06-01 2 36°06'N / 94°36'W 36°08'N / 94°33'W 3.60 Miles 200 Yards 0 0 25K 0 Adair
39.9 2010-12-31 2 36°06'N / 94°25'W 36°07'N / 94°23'W 2.00 Miles 400 Yards 0 2 200K 0K Benton
Brief Description: EVENT NARRATIVE: This segment is the third of six segments of this long-track tornado. The tornado severely damaged a couple permanent homes, destroyed a mobile home, destroyed barns, snapped or uprooted numerous trees, and snapped power poles in this portion of Benton County. Two injuries occurred in the mobile home that was destroyed on Winwood Ranch Road. The maximum estimated wind speed based on this damage was 130 mph. The tornado continued into Washington County, Arkansas. EPISODE NARRATIVE: Unseasonably warm and moist air spread into northwestern Arkansas ahead of a cold front. Scattered thunderstorms developed in the late evening and early morning hours ahead of the cold front as a weak upper level disturbance passed through the region. Large hail and damaging wind gusts occurred with some of those storms. Another round of storms developed on the cold front over eastern Oklahoma as it pushed into the area. Weak to moderate instability combined with very strong low level wind shear created an environment that supported supercell thunderstorm structures. Several supercells developed resulting in large hail and damaging wind gusts in the hours just before and after sunrise on the 31st. One of these supercells produced a long-track, strong tornado that killed four people in and near the town of Cincinnati in Washington County. Debris was transported by the tornado into northern Benton County and was reported in Bella Vista and Pea Ridge. The Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) was closed for three hours to remove the debris from the flight line. Another supercell produced a short-lived, weak tornado in Carroll County that moved into Missouri.
41.1 1954-04-30 3 36°00'N / 94°10'W 36°02'N / 94°03'W 6.90 Miles 33 Yards 0 0 250K 0 Washington
41.4 2008-04-10 2 36°00'N / 94°06'W 36°02'N / 94°06'W 3.00 Miles 600 Yards 0 0 125K 0K Washington
Brief Description: EVENT NARRATIVE: An NWS storm survey determined that a strong tornado caused major damage to a permanent home, damaged several other homes, caused extensive tree damage, and snapped power poles. EPISODE NARRATIVE: Severe thunderstorms occurred across Northwest Arkansas during the evening and early morning hours on the 9th and 10th.
41.4 1966-04-11 2 35°52'N / 95°14'W 35°52'N / 95°07'W 6.50 Miles 20 Yards 0 0 250K 0 Cherokee
41.5 2010-12-31 2 36°07'N / 94°23'W 36°08'N / 94°21'W 2.00 Miles 300 Yards 0 0 0K 0K Washington
Brief Description: EVENT NARRATIVE: This segment is the fourth of six segments of this long-track tornado. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted in this segment. Estimated maximum wind speed based on this damage was 125 mph. The tornado moved northeastward and crossed back into Benton County, Arkansas. EPISODE NARRATIVE: Unseasonably warm and moist air spread into northwestern Arkansas ahead of a cold front. Scattered thunderstorms developed in the late evening and early morning hours ahead of the cold front as a weak upper level disturbance passed through the region. Large hail and damaging wind gusts occurred with some of those storms. Another round of storms developed on the cold front over eastern Oklahoma as it pushed into the area. Weak to moderate instability combined with very strong low level wind shear created an environment that supported supercell thunderstorm structures. Several supercells developed resulting in large hail and damaging wind gusts in the hours just before and after sunrise on the 31st. One of these supercells produced a long-track, strong tornado that killed four people in and near the town of Cincinnati in Washington County. Debris was transported by the tornado into northern Benton County and was reported in Bella Vista and Pea Ridge. The Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) was closed for three hours to remove the debris from the flight line. Another supercell produced a short-lived, weak tornado in Carroll County that moved into Missouri.
41.5 1973-05-26 4 35°33'N / 95°19'W 35°35'N / 95°16'W 3.60 Miles 500 Yards 5 25 250K 0 Muskogee
41.8 1973-05-26 2 34°57'N / 94°42'W 1.50 Miles 33 Yards 0 0 25K 0 Le Flore
42.3 1981-04-19 2 35°58'N / 95°08'W 35°58'N / 95°04'W 3.60 Miles 600 Yards 0 0 2.5M 0 Creek
42.6 1968-06-01 2 36°08'N / 94°33'W 36°11'N / 94°27'W 6.50 Miles 500 Yards 0 0 3K 0 Benton
43.0 2010-12-31 2 36°08'N / 94°21'W 36°09'N / 94°20'W 2.00 Miles 300 Yards 0 0 75K 0K Benton
Brief Description: EVENT NARRATIVE: This segment is the fifth of six segments of this long-track tornado. The tornado severely damaged a permanent home, destroyed a barn, snapped or uprooted numerous trees, and snapped power poles. The maximum estimated wind speed in this segment of the tornado based on this damage was 125 mph. The tornado moved northeast and back into Washington County, Arkansas. EPISODE NARRATIVE: Unseasonably warm and moist air spread into northwestern Arkansas ahead of a cold front. Scattered thunderstorms developed in the late evening and early morning hours ahead of the cold front as a weak upper level disturbance passed through the region. Large hail and damaging wind gusts occurred with some of those storms. Another round of storms developed on the cold front over eastern Oklahoma as it pushed into the area. Weak to moderate instability combined with very strong low level wind shear created an environment that supported supercell thunderstorm structures. Several supercells developed resulting in large hail and damaging wind gusts in the hours just before and after sunrise on the 31st. One of these supercells produced a long-track, strong tornado that killed four people in and near the town of Cincinnati in Washington County. Debris was transported by the tornado into northern Benton County and was reported in Bella Vista and Pea Ridge. The Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) was closed for three hours to remove the debris from the flight line. Another supercell produced a short-lived, weak tornado in Carroll County that moved into Missouri.
43.0 1970-11-19 2 36°10'N / 94°32'W 2.50 Miles 100 Yards 0 0 25K 0 Benton
43.6 1957-01-22 2 35°15'N / 95°18'W 35°17'N / 95°12'W 6.10 Miles 50 Yards 0 0 3K 0 Haskell
44.9 1967-03-25 2 35°08'N / 93°56'W 1.00 Mile 33 Yards 0 5 0K 0 Logan
45.1 1995-04-17 2 35°51'N / 95°18'W 35°52'N / 95°13'W 4.50 Miles 125 Yards 0 0 500K 0 Wagoner
45.4 1973-05-01 2 36°11'N / 94°33'W 36°13'N / 94°30'W 3.80 Miles 150 Yards 0 4 250K 0 Benton
Brief Description: EVENT NARRATIVE: This segment is the sixth of six segments of this long-track tornado. The tornado overturned a box truck on Highway 412, injuring its driver, severely damaged a couple permanent homes, severely damaged a mobile home, snapped or uprooted numerous trees, and snapped numerous power poles. The maximum estimated wind speed in this segment of the tornado based on this damage was 125 mph. EPISODE NARRATIVE: Unseasonably warm and moist air spread into northwestern Arkansas ahead of a cold front. Scattered thunderstorms developed in the late evening and early morning hours ahead of the cold front as a weak upper level disturbance passed through the region. Large hail and damaging wind gusts occurred with some of those storms. Another round of storms developed on the cold front over eastern Oklahoma as it pushed into the area. Weak to moderate instability combined with very strong low level wind shear created an environment that supported supercell thunderstorm structures. Several supercells developed resulting in large hail and damaging wind gusts in the hours just before and after sunrise on the 31st. One of these supercells produced a long-track, strong tornado that killed four people in and near the town of Cincinnati in Washington County. Debris was transported by the tornado into northern Benton County and was reported in Bella Vista and Pea Ridge. The Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) was closed for three hours to remove the debris from the flight line. Another supercell produced a short-lived, weak tornado in Carroll County that moved into Missouri.
46.4 1961-03-12 2 35°27'N / 93°45'W 35°28'N / 93°43'W 1.90 Miles 17 Yards 0 4 250K 0 Franklin
46.8 1989-05-08 2 36°15'N / 94°39'W 36°11'N / 94°39'W 5.00 Miles 50 Yards 0 1 250K 0 Delaware
47.3 1965-04-08 2 35°46'N / 95°21'W 0.30 Mile 100 Yards 0 0 25K 0 Muskogee
47.4 1999-06-01 3 35°58'N / 95°15'W 35°54'N / 95°15'W 2.00 Miles 350 Yards 2 5 1.5M 0 Cherokee
Brief Description: A strong tornado, rated an F3, touched down in far western Cherokee County, possibly as a waterspout on Fort Gibson Lake. The tornado moved south onshore and through the rural Amber Hills housing area, crossing OK Hwy 51, and lifting after tracking through much of the Sequoyah State Park. In the Amber Hills and Hammer Hill Road areas, a total of 68 homes sustained some form of damage. Of that, 17 single family dwellings and 13 mobile homes were destroyed. Eight single family dwellings sustained major damage and 11 others had minor damage. One mobile home sustained minor damage. Fourteen other single family dwellings and four other mobile homes were affected. In one of the destroyed mobile homes, an elderly man and woman were inside. The woman was killed immediately, and the man was seriously injured, dying one week later in a hospital of tornado-related complications. This becomes eastern Oklahoma's first killer tornado since the April 1994 Catoosa tornado. Across OK Hwy 51 in Sequoyah State Park, between 400 and 500 trees were lost to the tornado. The carport at the park manager's residence was destroyed, and an RV was turned on its side. Fortunately, most Memorial Day campers had cleared out, therefore there were no injuries in the park. F69MH, M69MH Summary of events for the afternoon and evening of June 1 1999: A cold front moving in from the northwest moved into an extremely unstable air mass on the afternoon of June 1. Along the front, an isolated supercell thunderstorm developed around the Pryor/Locust Grove area and then moved in a slow and unusual south-southwest direction. This storm produced very large hail in addition to several strong tornadoes. This storm also produced eastern Oklahoma's first killer tornado in at least half of a decade.
47.6 1977-07-25 2 35°37'N / 95°25'W 35°40'N / 95°22'W 4.50 Miles 100 Yards 0 0 25K 0 Muskogee
48.2 1959-03-31 3 35°18'N / 93°45'W 2.00 Miles 300 Yards 0 0 25K 0 Logan
48.7 1982-12-23 2 35°19'N / 93°44'W 0.60 Mile 80 Yards 0 0 250K 0 Logan
49.2 2000-03-26 2 34°51'N / 94°38'W 34°49'N / 94°36'W 4.00 Miles 300 Yards 0 0 1.2M 0 Le Flore
Brief Description: A tornado touched down 1.5 miles northwest of Hodgen and moved southeast passing near the town of Hodgen before lifting 2 miles southeast of Hodgen. Three mobile homes were destroyed and as many as eight others were damaged. In addition, two broiler houses were destroyed, killing all the chickens inside. A few other agriculture structures were damaged and a few power lines were blown down.
49.2 2006-03-12 3 36°10'N / 94°55'W 36°18'N / 94°38'W 17.00 Miles 440 Yards 0 8 3.0M 0 Delaware
Brief Description: The first tornado, which touched down in northwestern Cherokee County, continued into southern Delaware County. Damage suggested the tornado widened and strengthened as it moved through southern Delaware County reaching a maximum width of around 1/4 of a mile. The tornado damaged 95 homes, destroying 42 of those homes. Five businesses were also damaged. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted and about 100 power poles were downed, which resulted in more than 5000 people losing power as a result of the storm. The worst damage from this tornado was found from near Twin Oaks to about 4 miles west-southwest of Colcord. The tornado injured eight people.
49.6 1982-12-23 2 35°19'N / 93°43'W 0.50 Mile 100 Yards 0 0 250K 0 Logan
49.7 1980-04-07 2 35°02'N / 94°03'W 35°08'N / 93°42'W 20.90 Miles 200 Yards 0 1 250K 0 Logan
49.8 1998-06-08 2 35°05'N / 95°14'W 35°05'N / 95°14'W 0.50 Mile 50 Yards 0 0 60K 0 Haskell
Brief Description: An F2 tornado destroyed one single family dwelling, while another single family dwelling received major damage. Summary of events for the evening of June 8 and the early morning of June 9 1998: A classic southern plains severe weather event shaped up on the afternoon and evening of June 8 as a number of isolated severe thunderstorms developed over central Oklahoma to the east of a dryline. The first severe thunderstorm to affect eastern Oklahoma scraped the northwestern part of Osage County, causing a report of a severe thunderstorm gust. This storm quickly died as it entered Kansas. A second more serious severe thunderstorm formed west of Oklahoma City and tracked all the way to the Arkansas state line south of Fort Smith, traversing Pittsburg, Haskell, and Le Flore Counties. This storm travelled east along an instability axis and a warm front. From a radar perspective, this storm was impressive in that it kept a classic, well-defined hook on its entire journey across southeast Oklahoma. From a human perspective, this storm was impressive in that it produced ten tornadoes in southeast Oklahoma, hail as large as golfballs, damaging thunderstorm winds, and torrential flooding rains. A third cluster of severe thunderstorms developed over Creek County and moved east across Okmulgee, Muskogee, Cherokee, and Adair Counties before weakening as it entered Arkansas. These storms slowed their movement across Muskogee County and regeneration along the southwest flank of the storms caused torrential rainfalls that dumped nearly three inches of rain in northern Muskogee, southern Cherokee, southern Adair, and northern Sequoyah Counties. In addition to flooding rains, these storms produced hail as large as nickels and damaging thunderstorm winds.
* The information on this page is based on the global volcano database, the U.S. earthquake database of 1638-1985, and the U.S. Tornado and Weather Extremes database of 1950-2010.

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Date Published: 02 September 2019
Rutland County Council has welcomed a report from the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee into local government finance.
The Committee has produced a hard-hitting report that concludes that the government has been "derelict in its duty to local authorities" by failing to set out a funding settlement that addresses immediate service pressures or plan for future challenges.
The report explains that local authorities have coped with significant real-terms spending cuts, primarily caused by very significant cuts in central government grants at a time when the demand for costly and essential services such as adult and children's social care has rocketed. The National Living Wage and other new responsibilities for employers, such as the Apprenticeship Levy and Pension Auto-Enrolment, have also resulted in significant cost increases for local government.
The Committee now describes this position as untenable and calls for government to increase funding, to review how local government is funded and to provide certainty of funding over the medium term.
"With the government set to complete its spending review in the autumn, this report is timely and we welcome its findings. We have been lobbying for a better deal for Rutland for some time and are pleased that the Committee recognises robust action is needed."
Councillor Gordon Brown, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance
Rutland has seen its core funding reduce by 46% since 2015/16, while the Council receives £117 less funding per head than other unitary authorities.
"After making savings in excess of £11m over the last 10 years, the Council faces the risk of having to look at rationalising services if it receives no additional funding. One of the key points we were pleased to see reported was the issue of the unfairness of Council Tax. The report quotes Oldham, but it could equally have been Rutland. How is it justifiable that Band D Council Tax in the prosperous London Borough of Westminster is £753.85 compared to Rutland where, due to long-standing disparities in the assessment of spending need, it is £1,995? We look forward to seeing how the Government responds".
Councillor Gordon Brown
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This Band Went to a Brewery to Release Their Album and Created a Beer to Go With It
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Would you want a beer tailored to the album you're listening to? What if that beer was, say an imperial session ale, and was made for an album about parallel realities?
A brewer just outside of Boston, Aeronaut Brewing, collaborated with a rock band, The Lights Out, to do just that. The co-branded beer, deemed "T.R.I.P.," which is short for "The Reckonings in Pandimensionality," is packaged with instructions for drinkers to tweet #TRIPME to @TheLightsOut and @AeronautBrewing to listen to the album, which is out today.
"The Lights Out wrote an album about parallel realities, and instead of taking it to a record label, we brought it to a brewery instead," said Adam Ritchie, guitarist for The Lights Out. "It's the first time in either beer or music that a new studio album is being released on a craft beer can."
The album's hashtag "triggers a message that tells the drinker what an alternate reflection of them is doing right now in a parallel universe, along with a link to the album," explained Ritchie. "The beer fuels a drinker's trip through the multiverse, and the album is the soundtrack to that journey. The reason we're releasing T.R.I.P. on a beer is to create a full sensory experience."
To create the beer, the band gave Aeronaut a rough cut of the album. From there, "we set out to create a beer that would be adventure fuel, and match the themes of the record," said Ben Holmes, Aeronaut CEO. "A project like this required the creative conceptualization, design and construction of new kind of beer, which would be adequately powerful in flavor and aroma to awe the senses even as they were overwhelmed by the certain rigors of traveling between universes."
Added Ritchie: "You're [experiencing the] sound from the album, visual from our wearable light show and taste from the beer. We also wanted to reintroduce a physical aspect to the discovery of new music. Beer fans are explorers, and while people may not be going to the record store as much to learn about new bands, they're going to the beer store to get turned on to new beers every weekend. We're creating a mini-quest, and the prize at the end is something you can hold, hear and drink."
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Timeless Albums
By Batman,
July 18, 2005 in Music Discussion
What albums do you think are the most timeless, meaning they sound as if they could have been made in any decade?
Two that come to mind are Queen II and Dark Side of the Moon
InsaneTim
Pretty much any AC/DC album could make it now I think. And to cross into the realm of country, Johnny Cash is timeless.
Led Zeppelin IV - Zep
Who's Next - The Who
Brain Salad Surgery - ELP
RonJonSurfer
The Beatles White Album
Aunt_Acid
Dark Side of The Moon isn't Timeless. Track 3 man.
ryansgirl319
A Hard Day's Night
Sargeant Pepper
The White Album
Oh yeah, I forgot about Time, which is funny, as it's my favorite song on the album. A lot of the album is timeless though.
Tommy. A different style of concept albums than Pink Floyd, but I love it.
Oh wait a minute, I just got Chris's joke. But I replied a post too late. Now I feel stupid!
Ain't it funny how opinions change? Just six months ago in this old thread, it was
Tommy is overrated.
My opinion hasn't changed. It is still overrated. I just like it a lot though. It's not the best album ever, which is what all of my friends that are huge Who fans think. But that doesn't mean I don't like it.
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Timeless:
Yes-Fragile
Yes-Close To The Edge
I remember one summer when we had the record player in the living room, I used to put on Fragile all the time and play along. It's full of gems. And Close To The Edge is amazing musically.
I think anyone could relate to Springsteen's "Born to Run" at one point in their life, no matter what generation they belong to.
On a Springsteen note, how about Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ?
'For You' is my favorite Springsteen song! !
I listen to side one the most on that album.
[*] Abraxas by Santana
A Yes album that is overlooked on these boards. I love it. Every song on there is bursting with flavor.
Sticky Fingers- Rolling Stones.
Greatest Hits - Otis Redding.
Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd
Rubber Soul- Beatles
I guess every album full of songs that remind you of something or makes you enjoy while you listen is a timeless album.
I disagree, while it's a great album, I couldn't imagine it in any decade but the 70's.
MarcM
My Aim Is True- Elvis Costello
Willie Nelson's "Red Headed Stranger"
[*] Dire Straits albums in general.
What is the album where the guy is standing in like a Hacienda and I think he has a guitar?


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What is Natural Selection?
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Hurray! There is another video in the "Stated Clearly" collaboration with Bird and Moon Comics explaining evolution!
You might also like their earlier video, What is Evolution?
evolution natural selection video
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emilkarlsson says:
P. Z. Myers wrote an excellent refutation of this oversimplified-to-the-point-of-misleading description of natural selection: It's more than genes, it's networks and systems.
bug_girl says:
Well, by it's very nature, an introduction to natural selection will have to cut some corners. It's an introduction to an incredibly complex topic that we still aren't done understanding. Also, I would like to hear from PZ himself if that 2010 post applies to this particular bit of work.
This video focuses on observable changes as documented facts in our biological history. Personally, I am in favor of getting people *close* to reality, but I don't have a problem cutting a few corners in order to capture someone's interest online. We have just a few seconds of attention to work with. Cuteness sells. And isn't as threatening as Evilution.
I would rather have someone discussing evolution than discussing creationism, UFOs, or boobs. PZ and I don't agree on that, either because I am a damn accommodationist :)
kagehi says:
Hmm. Can't say what exactly you might have done to be declared an accomodationist, but.. I would say that the two most common things I have seen that would cause me to call someone such a thing, using "other" examples, is:
1. Insisting that we should bring someone to the table when talking about food safety, that, for example, might be pro-FDA, but thinks the invisible hand of the market will "fix" the existence of poverty wages, if we just deregulated the markets. In other words, that, somehow who supports a single idea, which we value, isn't still a serious danger to everything else, due to the fact that, while they may agree on, say, evolution, they are not, at the same time, half way to deciding to deny it, if it should suddenly, in some manner, conflict with other delusions. I.e., suddenly becoming Anti-FDA, if the FDA came out with a study suggesting that poor pay levels was causing poor food safety in grocery stores, and restaurants, so pay should also be "regulated". And, this is my big problem. The enemy of my enemy may be an ally, in the temporary sense, but still and *enemy*.
2. The suggestion that, when the primary source of opposition to an idea comes from a particular group, there shouldn't be at least some additional level of care taken, when someone from that group shows up and starts claiming they actually changed their minds (instead of, for example, going out of their way to get a science degree, so they can appose science, or, dog forbid, join a science conference, on evolution, as a means to water down evolution, or even undermine it behind the conferences back). And, that one happens as well.
Its not just important if someone supports, on the surface, some general shared principle. Libertarians, as another example, support a lot of the same principles as I do. I would not, however, trust them to so much as offer to hold my watch, never mind my wallet, or for one minute presume that their definition of how to get from principle to actual reality is not, more often than not, scary, underhanded, inhumane, unjust, or just outright delusional, self serving, and/or naive. Not one of those attribute of which help anyone to actually achieve a real change, instead of engendering more chaos. Many of those would would "ally" with us on one subject, would undermine us in a long list of other ways. And, in many cases, perhaps without even being aware of it, by supporting causes, and people, who they **also** argue have a few dozen good ideas, and thus willingly support, but for which the net result is – supporting things that undermine/contradict, and/or appose, the very things that we are both fighting for.
I suppose there is a sort of twisted symmetry to that.. but, for some reason I think, and I tend to suspect PZ would agree, that we would be, overall, better off to not have such a symmetry of mutually destructive support going on, especially where our "allies" don't even have a clue that they are directly, or indirectly, supporting our opposition, or worse, not caring (and, for the precise same reason those called accomidationist so often argue we need such allies, "They might not support everything I believe, but they support one thing I find important.")
Oh, PZ and I get along just fine! I am a self declared accommodationist. We just have agreed to disagree about how to deal with people who are religious and also accept the reality of evolution. There is room for lots of different approaches.
Mine tends to be:
"Hi! I'm an evolutionary biologist. I made some cookies. Want one?"
I go for the happy friendly Really-I'm-Harmless approach. :)
criticaldragon1177 says:
That was a great science video. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Speaking of science videos, what do you think of this?
Neil deGrasse Tyson's remake of Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' headed to Fox in 2014
http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/13/4328390/neil-degrasse-tyson-remake-carl-sagan-cosmos-headed-to-fox-in-2014
timmyson says:
"It's almost as if these island creatures have been perfectly sculpted to survive within their unique environments."
I don't like the use of "perfectly". There's a general tone of nature worship here that chafes a little. But it's not a bad.
That critique I agree with!
Norrey says:
I am constantly trying to get the point across that Evolution is *complicated*. As an undergrad, I had to take 5 pre-requisite courses just to qualify for a semester on Evolution, and even that was still a pretty introductory discussion.
pzmyers says:
An ACCOMMODATIONIST? We shall wage war at CONvergence. And because I'm both militant AND rabid, I shall win.
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You speak like a sir.
I believe you are forgetting about the billions of insect minions that will be backing me up, PZ. I sent an advance team over to demolish some of your sweaters.
Yes! A PZ/Bug Girl LARPing battle.
knitty says:
Sometimes I wish there was a 'like' option for these comments, because I would thumbs up Melanie's response!
I do like the simplified explanations to help give laypeople a general understanding of a very complex topic. Most people just want a general overview without the need to get a science degree. It's the explainer's duty to ensure that there is no way the explanation does not end up becoming misleading.
LarknessMonster says:
Evolution is complex, but the basic mechanism is not difficult to understand if we can show people that it is happening and that it works. I agree with Bug, you have to start where people are. They need to understand the fundamental concepts (e.g., what is a random mutation, and how does it lead to variation in a population? And what does the environment have to do with which variants are successful? etc.) before they can get into the more complicated stuff.
And as a self-proclaimed bug_girl minion (though the kind without wings and antennae), I am with her on the "honey over vinegar" approach. I mean, who doesn't like cookies, amirite?
You say "the basic mechanism is not difficult to understand," but there is not just one basic mechanism. Perhaps you did not mean to imply that there is only one mechanism, but language is important. When you say something like "evolution is complex, but the mechanism is not," that seems contradictory to me. Evolution is complex for many reasons, including that there are multiple mechanisms behind it. The concept of natural selection is not necessarily difficult to understand (which I think is what you're getting at?), but it's not the only thing one needs to grasp in order to understand how evolution occurs.
stcordova says:
Real evolution is complex, but one thing is obvious it doesn't follow the Darwinian model. The video was incorrect on several points.
Natural Selection was conceived by creationist Blyth, Darwin plagiarized the idea as documented by University Pennsylvania Provost Loren Eisley.
Nature frequently kills off the fittest as well as the weakest since the fossil record shows extinction is rampant and not the result of competition for survival (see Bad Genes of Bad Luck by Paleontologist David Raup). Hence, the notion "survival of the fittest" is not exactly right since the presumption is there is survival to begin with. The rapid extinction of insect species today is a powerful testament of this.
Furthermore, for weakly selectable traits, the fittest may not be selected, and for nearly neutral defects, the bad may not get weeded out. In fact, if there is sufficiently high rate of random variation that is bad, the bad will NEVER get weeded out. For example if we have 100 organisms, and each has 3 unique bad mutations, the next generation is guaranteed to have on average to 3 bad mutations which the ancestors did not have. Hence, selection in principle won't select the fittest (as in the ancestral parents) since the fittest died of old age! Some have named the problem for humans as Nachman's Paradox. Kondrashov wrote a paper on why we should be dead 100 times over…obviously something other than Darwinian selection is why we're still alive.
Natural selection actually has to be absent for evolutionary innovation to happen in many cases because intermediate forms would be selected against not for, Gould put it well, "what good is half a wing". Lynch's recent book on Genome architecture says as much.
What is often swept under the rug is how natural selection has selected against biological innovation (such as blindness in cave fish or gammarus minus).
Selection could work to build large scale complex biological systems if the each component of a complex system is individually advantageous, but this is the exception, not the rule, and hence, in the wild selection selects against complexity, not for it.
If one wishes to argue Natural Selection creates biological diversity, this is problematic, because Natural Selection, according to Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection, succeeds by removing biological diversity. Hence the notion that Natural Selection creates biological diversity by removing biological diversity is a contradiction.
Most evolution is neutral, and in principle would have to be independent of selection. To illustrate, the human genome is 3 billion base pairs or so. If human populations were at times as small as a few hundred thousand, there is no way selection could be evolving things at the individual nucleotide level for most of the nucleotides, and if even .40% of the genome is found to be functional, that means the functioning evolved outside of the influence of selection. Kimura successfully demonstrated most evolution is free of selection at the molecular level. Some will argue Kimura dealt with molecular evolution not adaptation, well, that is flawed since molecular evolution dictates the ability to adapt, Nei of the National Academy has finally come out and said as much.
Finally Pagel makes a good case that the origin of species is not by natural selection but by accident, hence, again, Darwin was wrong.
Natural selection happens, but it doesn't do what most think it does.
Other than that, that was an entertaining video. Thanks for the link.
Failure to understand online communication to non-specialists. Exhibit A.
My biggest criticism of this video? It runs too long. To work well on the internet, you need a video no longer than 4 minutes.
And if this video were even shorter, it would have MORE stuff wrong with it.
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Bug, can you tell me, are the views expressed by stcordova now mainstream or is that a niche view? I mean, I know a lot has happened to the theory since Darwin, but as an undergraduate 40 years ago the line was pushed very strongly that every variation was significant. I always thought privately that no, some of this stuff could be just random and of no consequence, so this now makes a lot of sense. My own work touches on this area sometimes, but I am pretty much isolated from the broad theoretical academic overview.
That is an excellent question, Jack. Much variation *is* probably just random noise in the genetic background. It's only when conditions are right that they become important.
An example would be insecticide resistance. Insects have a wide variation (via mutation) of different enzymes in their bodies. Because of that variation, when a pesticide is sprayed, some of them are able to survive. And bugs with a particular enzyme variation that detoxifies the pesticide are now selected for and more "fit" (have more babies).
But most of the time, in the absence of pesticides, the variations are just random changes in amino acids leading to slightly different enzymes. And the enzyme variation doesn't do anything much at all, or has a very tiny effect on the insect that is counterbalanced by a different random enzyme variation.
Did that make sense?
Absolutely. but do you think the game (i.e. understanding of evolution) has changed that much over the last 40 years or was it perhaps just that I was being fed simplified undergraduate material? Because really, this kind of nuance is perfectly easy to understand and makes a lot more sense. Not that I disagree with your point about the video, but I mean for undergraduates.
Oh, yes, huge changes in the last 40 years. Think about all that the genomics revolution and new molecular tools has brought us! PCR is still a relatively new innovation–it's not 30 yrs old yet. Now we can look at organisms on a very broad or narrow spectrum!
I think our understanding of evolution has changed massively, and will continue to change as we learn more.
Thinking about the protein I deal with quite a lot, alpha-1 antitrypsin, – there are over 100 variants described but only a handful of clinical importance and only the latter are usually studied in any detail (the Z variant among others causes emphysema and liver cirrhosis). I suppose the proteins are very different in bugs.
It's interesting to meditate on all those enigmatic silent variants sitting there, quietly waiting for the continents to collide or the asteroid to fall – or the maximum summertime temperature to rise above 50 degrees Centigrade!
There is no consensus about the mechanisms of evolution.
There is a public feud between Jerry Coyne and a fellow scientist at the same university by the name of James Shapiro. Shapiro thinks natural selection has a very small role in evolution. One of the most respected evolutionary biologists believe evolution at the molecular level isn't influenced very much by natural selection. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_theory_of_molecular_evolution
And there was another school of evolutionary thought that was supposedly destroyed by neo-Darwinism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutationism
But I just saw a paper that said neo-Darwinism has been destroyed:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/expphysiol.2012.071134/abstract
Mark Pagel thinks Darwin was wrong:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527511.400-accidental-origins-where-species-come-from.html
Bottom line: there is not much of a consensus, it depends on which evolutionary biologist you talk to
stcordova, thanks very much for those links (I was thinking of asking), I really appreciate your taking the effort.
and hey, some cool natural selection news! http://io9.com/how-pesticides-pushed-cockroaches-into-rapid-evolution-509398746


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Plants exposed to the frost could be lost in coming days or weeks if repairs are not done soon. Pictures: MIKAYLA VAN LOON.
Yarra View Nursery supports so many in the local community and now they are asking for a little bit of help themselves after last month's wild storms.
The wind and rain meant many of the nursery's crop houses lost roofs and a fallen tree has damaged three structures.
Not only has it been the physical damage but Knoxbrooke's executive general manager of the social enterprise, Scott Buckland, said it has been the loss of trade, production and stock, as well as a number of compromised trees that have added up to a big cost.
Infrastructure damage and the clean up is estimated to total $150,000, while the cost of lost trade, production and stock is estimated at $50,000.
"As a not for profit and a charity providing employment opportunities to people with disability, we don't have a lot of cash in the bank to buffer these sorts of things and it is an unusual situation," Mr Buckland said.
That is why Yarra View Nursery is asking for help, something they have never really done before, to bridge the gap between what insurance will cover and the cost of recovery.
"It's very, very rare that we have done something like this. A good amount of the infrastructure damage will be covered," Mr Buckland said.
"We're not sure about all the clean up costs, we're still waiting on insurance but we don't think that will be fully covered and certainly the stock loss and production loss and loss of trade, it's not significant enough to be claimed."
Mr Buckland is hoping the nursery can fundraise $50,000 to put towards expenses not covered by insurance.
And while the damage may be done to the structures, the risk of losing plants to frost is the next challenge over the coming weeks.
"Certainly on those tunnels where the stock is completely exposed, we're getting frosty mornings now, so if we get multiple frosty mornings there's potential for some fairly significant stock damage."
Another major challenge is the loss of production days and facilities, which may mean some of the plant supply contracts Yarra View Nursery has with the rail projects and freeway projects may be delayed.
"I'm hoping it doesn't impact on the ability to deliver on those contracts but if we don't get these repairs done fairly soon then there will certainly be some impact on our ability to supply in the future."
Although unfortunate, Mr Buckland said it could have been a lot worse had the storms happened during the day.
"We were lucky, at the end of the day, given what's been happening up in the mountains."
Nonetheless, Mr Buckland said many of his staff were shaken from being unable to get to work after the storms because of fallen trees.
"That's certainly created a lot of anxiety with our staff and then obviously coming to work and seeing the significant damage here," Mr Buckland said.
"So we've been helping people through that. We've got an amazing support team and a support focus in our business.
"We've been helping out wherever we can to try and manage and help people through the situation but it's certainly impacted our staff but we may not see the full effect of that for months yet."
Even though Mr Buckland said storms have happened previously and damage may have occurred, it's never been to the extent of what happened in early June.
"It's something we've never seen before, it's certainly a freak event but we're resilient, we've been around a long time and it's just another hurdle we need to get over and hopefully we can get over it fairly quickly and get back on track and keep things going."
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Home Culture History Legal matters: The Wallace Wood Estate suing Tatjana Wood for Wally Wood...
Legal matters: The Wallace Wood Estate suing Tatjana Wood for Wally Wood artwork
Heidi MacDonald
EDITED: The above has been corrected to reflect that it is the Wallace Wood Estate in the form of WWP, LLC which is suing, and not the individual, J. David SPurlock.
Here's one of those matters where there are really no winners. The Wallce Wood Estate, which is administered by J. David Spurlock, the publisher of Vanguard Publishing, is suing Wood's ex-wife Tatjana Wood, for the possession some of 150-200 pages of Wood art. According to the complaint, the pages are worth between $2000-25,000 each.
Wood is of course the much beloved artist of many EC, MAD and Marvel comics, including Daredevil, and then Witzend Cannon, Sally Forth. He took his own life in 1981, embittered by failing health and career setbacks. Despite that his imaginative and finely rendered art continues to be among the most iconic (overused word I know but it really fits) in the comic book world. He's also the creator of the"22 Panels that Always Work" piece which is widely copies and referred to.
Wood left a will leaving his money to Tatjana, but his possessions—including artwork and publishing interests—to his friend John H. Robinson. In 2012 Robinson assigned all his interest in Wood's estate to Wallace Wood Properties, LLC, a company run by by Spurlock, whose interest in Wood includes co-authoring the book Wally's World: The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Wally Wood, the World's 2nd Best Comic Book Artist
In court documents, Spurlock says he and his lawyers made many attempts in person and by letter to get Tatjana Wood to give them the artwork, which court documents say was erroneously returned to Tatjana's home by Marvel, who thought her address was the proper one for returns. (Wally Wood died in LA.)
The court documents, shown below with addresses redacted, lays out a paper trail suggesting that remaining Wood artwork should go Robinson/WWP.
Wally Wood was married three times, and he and Tatjana divorced in the 60s. She continued to work in comics as a colorist for years, however, and back when I worked for Vertigo she would still come into the office. It was always a pleasure to talk to her and learn a bit of comics history.
I'm no expert in Wally Wood, but I'm sure some of you comics historians out there will have some ideas about all of this. And then a little more Wally Wood art to remind you why he's so revered.
Click to access Wallace-Wood-Properties-LLC-v-.pdf
J. David Spurlock
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Richard Greene 10/30/2014 9:07 pm At 9:07 pm
At least Wood had the good sense to have a will. It's a shame ex'es can pop up long after the fact to try and loot the estate.
Ray Cornwall 10/31/2014 12:33 pm At 12:33 pm
I am not a lawyer. I am not interested in taking sides.
But having read the suit, I'm not 100% sure that the estate can win this suit. The artwork probably wasn't covered in the original estate calculations because it was done as work-for-hire. And while the will called for everything that wasn't related to WW's finances to go to John Robinson, the wording specifically mentions royalties, not the physical art that he created and then sold. Is that art part of his estate?
Marvel may have erred in giving Tatjana the artwork, but once it did, I don't know if that retroactively becomes part of the Wally Wood estate, rather than a gift to Tatjana herself. Marvel's intent might have been to give it to Tatjana because she was believed (erroneously) to be in charge of the estate, but if they gave it to her- if the package has her name on it and not the Wally Wood estate, and Wood never had a legal claim to it while he was alive, is it now really part of the estate?
This would be very different if this was creator-owned artwork. But it isn't- it's WFH art pages. As such, at the time of sale, it was assumed Marvel owned the physical artwork. Only later was it realized that Marvel only owned publication rights, and not the physical artwork itself. It's very curious that they made an effort to return it in 2005, decades after Wood's death, with no known legal action pending from Wood's estate against Marvel.
It's going to be very interesting to see how the court ends up ruling on this. If this was about any intellectual property that Wood created at Marvel, the estate would (IMHO) be 100% in the right. But this is about the physical artwork that was given to Tatjana, even erroneously. I hope a settlement comes out of this that leaves both parties in good shape, but who knows.
Also- that's a LOT of artwork. Wood at most only worked on 30 Marvel/Timely/Atlas books, according to Wikipedia, and a lot of that was as inker only. Compare that to when Kirby tried to get his art back- despite creating thousands of pages for Marvel, he might have gotten back even less that Wood did! (I know the initial offer was only for 8 books worth of material from Marvel, but I'm betting that grew later.)
This is a very curious story.
BobH 11/01/2014 12:32 am At 12:32 am
Man, Marvel's art return must have been more messed up than we knew. In addition to the lax security that allowed the most valuable pieces to be stolen or destroyed, in addition to trying to use the promise of the return of a fraction of his artwork to coerce Kirby into signing away his right, now we find out that they held on to Wood's artwork until 2005? And from prior court cases we know that they were still "finding" Kirby artwork as late as 2010 (at least 60 pages). I wonder what other stories there are (I remember hearing once that a large amount of artwork from one deceased creator was just dumped rather than trying to find the appropriate heir).
Knut Robert Knutsen 11/01/2014 3:15 am At 3:15 am
Spurlock's claim sounds a bit iffy to me.
First, he mixes up supposed (though not documented) recent art returns with "old art" that Tatjana Wood MUST have received from Wallace Wood BEFORE he died. That means he has no specific knowledge of what was supposedly returned in 2005.
For all we know there might be a misunderstanding where Marvel had pages owned by Tatjana Wood on loan for some other reason.
He also fails to acknowledge that there is a difference between Wallace Wood assigning rights in his will and John H. Robinson signing over rights while alive in return for a specific "amount" (even if it's just copies of future books by Spurlock about Wallace Wood).
Robinson could only sign over rights to things he KNEW that he owned. For anything beyond that there would be no proper meeting of the mind. It is possible that Robinson might have had a claim, both as executor and as beneficiary, to have a say in the disposition of newly discovered assets.
It is not, however, a given that Spurlocks rights would be the same.
If Spurlock also took over the responsibility of executor of the estate (which appears to be the case), his responsibility might actually be to determine what, if anything, was returned in 2005 (which information he as executor has legal standing to secure from Marvel directly, so that the complaint could be specific and not overreaching as it appears to have been here).
Once secured, however, Spurlock might be in the position where his duty as an executor would be to hand the pages over to John H. Robinson, not himself. Because Robinson as beneficiary did not know that those pages were a part of the estate when he signed his interests over, and there could be no meeting of the minds as to whether those physical pages were included in the sale/transaction.
This even moreso as Spurlock estimates THE value of the (150-200) pages at 2 to 25 thousand dollars each (perhaps not unrealistically so). This translates to a value of between 300 thousand and 5 million dollars, that Robinson supposedly signed over to Spurlock in return for copies of a few 50 dollar comics biographies?
As executor of the estate, Spurlock would be bound to protest that an unexpected valuation of unknown assets of in such amounts would require a judgement call by the executor not just to safeguard the interests of the beneficiary Robinson, but also to determine how Wallace Wood might have disposed of his assets differently between Robinbson and Tatjana Wood if he had known of values between 300 thousand and 5 million.
Would he still have awarded Robinson all artwork or would he have divided it between the two if he viewed the artwork as valuables in their own right? A look at the original will would suggest that monetarily the bequeaths were similar, and that assignment of publishing rights and artwork was more intended for keeping his creator owned work in print than for enormous profit, and that sale of other possessions could be part of that.
It appears at least that Spurlock is mixing roles here, and I think that if this actually goes to court then the court might appoint a different interim executor (or the judge act as de-facto executor himself) to review the "newly discovered assets" and dispose of them according to the intent of the will.
Which might not go in Spurlock's favor at all.
And it may not even go that far as Robinson might still be the interested party as orginal beneficiary here, and Spurlock is suing as if he's the beneficiary, not the executor.
Inheritance is messy.
600dpi 11/02/2014 5:54 am At 5:54 am
So (quoting from the court document above) John Robinson signed over all "interest in the work, property, copyrights, trademark rights and royalties" to Spurlock's company. He was paid with the promise to receive "duplicate copies of any publications made" by Spurlock's company WWP "subsequent to the date of this assignment". That is, he was not paid at all, and at best (at some undetermined point in the future) with perhaps $100 worth of hypothetical merchandise which at the time did not exist.
This looks bad even before the lawsuit against Tatjana Wood for original art worth several hundred thousand dollars, which Spurlock now claims is included in the assignment.
Spurlock says (in the document) that he "became aware" of the 150-200 pages of Wood artwork in possession of Tatjana Wood "while working on a biography of the life of Wallace Wood called 'Wally's World'". The book was published in 2005. WWP was established in 2011. The Robinson assignment was executed on February 23, 2012. At this point, Spurlock was aware of the potential value ("between $2,000 and $35,000 per page") of the artwork in Tatjana Wood's possession. Yet Robinson was paid, in essence, nothing.
This is just from reading the court document, which may not reflect the entirety of the business proceedings.
But the assignment and the consideration given according to the court document appears to be so obviously one-sided that in some jurisdictions its legality would be open to question.
It would be worth some research to find out more about how this deal was made, and if Robinson was aware of what he was signing over.
Odkin 02/22/2015 1:13 pm At 1:13 pm
Spurlock is a skunk, He swindled the estate from Jack Robinson for nothing, then screwed Bill Pearson out of his decades-long job of administering it. He apparently got tired of strip-mining and re-packaging public domain material (cheaply and badly) and figured Robinson to be a ripe pigeon he could use to get his hands on the good stuff. He has relentlessly and brazenly attempted to monetize anything and everything of Wood's that he can exhume. He's a grave robber.
Jack Sampas 05/15/2015 11:40 am At 11:40 am
Odkin is on the mark.
Ronnie 06/01/2015 1:00 pm At 1:00 pm
"The above has been corrected to reflect that it is the Wallace Wood Estate in the form of WWP, LLC which is suing, and not the individual, J. David SPurlock."
Since the "Wallace Wood Estate" consists of Spurlock and only Spurlock, it comes out to the same thing.
Ken Gerber 07/22/2015 6:15 pm At 6:15 pm
This story bothers me to no end. It takes me right back to the frustration I had when Koch stole all of the ket Kirby and Ditko stuff from the Marvel Warehouse. Every Ditko Spiderman page out in the marketplace was stolen by Pete Koch. And so on. I consider Pete's theft of the Marvel art the biggest art theft in American history. I am not joking. As an example, what will pages from the first four Spiderman books bring when he finally does find a weasel to start leaking out pages from them one at a time? And to Tatjana goes my sympathies. She is in her 80's now. Leave her be. Spurlock should try to make money in other ways. He is the estate and if he is able to get his greedy hands on this art he will immediately start selling it. Daredevil 7 pages will start showing up for 50K each. When will the comic greats and their families finally be protected from the Spurlocks and Kochs of the world?? Ken Gerber
Jeff Trexler 10/22/2015 12:57 pm At 12:57 pm
When was the artwork in question made? If it was when they were married, Tatjana might arguably have a claim to it as marital property – in other words, she would have been the co-owner with Wally. A policy question that should come into play: should the estate get all the benefit of Wally's and Tatjana's not being aware that Marvel held original art that should have been given to them when it was made?
And yes, the original will was badly worded.
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Q: MS Office SaveAs type FileDialog with a filter in vb I want to create a 'save as' file dialog with a filter, but this doesn't seem possible using the FileDialog class (Microsoft Office 12.0 Object Library). The documentation actually mentions this here, see last paragraph, but gives no reason as to why? Is there another way of achieving this in vb?
I find it strange that the FileDialog class doesn't allow this because Word, Excel and Access all have this exact SaveAs feature built-in.
I realise that the FileDialog can created as a FilePicker (msoFileDialogFilePicker) which does allow filters, but then this doesn't allow a file to be selected that doesn't yet exist, which defeats the whole point.

A: That appears to be a restriction of that particular class for some reason, so how about;
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A: As @AlexK mentioned the only way to do this is using a windows API call. See here


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Numerous COOLING AND HEATING business in Norman Park only service or install one brand because it is easier on their team to just learn about one system. This implies that you can select between upgrading older systems that are working fine or letting your existing system go without maintenance until a serious trouble develops. Luckily for you, we service and repair most brand names so you can give us a call no matter what your trouble is.
Our fast solution is what we are known for, and our professional, lasting results are what keep our clients coming back. We believe in making your HVAC system function the way it should with little work on your part.
Our service technicians have years of experience in the market and also successfully done countless a/c service Norman Park for commercial, industrial and domestic units. We provide unbiased advice for free that would save you money and reduce your down time. You can be sure that your a/c systems are running at their best with us on the job.