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The Internet of Things and the Enterprise
Contributor: Christy Pettey
By leveraging the Internet of Things, enterprises will be presented with a wide range of opportunities that will result in significant benefits
The Internet of Things (IoT) has rapidly become one of the most familiar — and perhaps, most hyped — expressions across business and technology. That hype, however, is entirely justified and is backed up by the numbers.
We expect to see 25 billion Internet-connected things by 2020, and close to $2 trillion of economic benefit globally. These things are not general purpose devices, such as smartphones and PCs, but dedicated objects, such as vending machines, jet engines, connected soap dispensers and a myriad of other examples.
"The IoT will have a great impact on the economy by transforming many enterprises into digital businesses and facilitating new business models, improving efficiency, and generating new forms of revenue," said Jim Tully, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. "However, the ways in which enterprises can actualize any benefits will be diverse and, in some cases, painful."
Currently, IoT technologies — and business models that utilize IoT — are immature. Despite this immaturity, there are already sporadic examples of existing, and planned, uses across a wide range of industries. Enterprises will need to make plans and preparations now or risk being left behind by their faster-moving competitors.
The Impact of the Internet of Things
The way that the IoT is leveraged by enterprises varies substantially by industry. Retailers are incorporating RFID tags within their anti-theft tags to help manage inventory and help keep costs down. Within mining, some companies are using IoT to expand on "driverless trucks" or the autonomous haul trucks that can work round the clock, have lower costs, increased output, and reduced maintenance
It is essential for enterprises to understand how the IoT can enable transformation of their business and industry. A survey done earlier this year of business and IT executives noted manufacturing and retail are two sectors with particularly high expectations of the IoT.
Utilities, industrial sectors, connected cars, healthcare and consumers are other verticals at the forefront of IoT investment. Leveraging IoT in vertical industries will definitely revolutionize the traditional way of doing things. These changes will lead to major opportunities for providers too.
Security and Identity Issues Represent Major IoT Roadblocks
Managing identities and access is critical to the success of the IoT. However, traditional techniques cannot provide the scale or manage the complexity that the IoT requires from the enterprise.
At the heart of security solutions is the concept of identity. We are familiar with the need for identities associated with people. This concept must now be extended to things. Identities are then used to define relationships between a thing and a human, a thing and another thing, a thing and an application/service, and so on.
Business and technology leaders must reconsider how traditional approaches to cybersecurity and identity and access management work in an environment involving vast numbers of connected devices. When devices and services are so abundant, in so many different forms, and beyond the scope of any single organization, new rules must be created.
While security may be a roadblock, the lack of a compelling business case is a major impediment to IoT growth for enterprises. The business justifications almost certainly exist, but they have not yet been articulated and quantified by most enterprises. For those struggling to find their place in the IoT-enabled landscape, a compelling business case must be developed before large-scale deployment can happen.
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One Step from ETF, One Step from Bitcoin!
Following the extension of the period for examination of the proposed amendment to exchange law 6, the committee expressed its opinion on the issue of ETFs, underlining that its disapproval is not due to a negative evaluation of bitcoin and blockchain technology, but rather the failure to meet the requirements for the securities exchange.
What is this new market?
"Bitcoin Futures Contracts are a new type of futures contract to be traded on the CFE and CME or other U.S. exchanges (if available). Unlike the established futures markets for traditional physical commodities, the market for Bitcoin Futures Contracts is in the development stage and has very limited trading and operational history. As such, the liquidity of the market for Bitcoin Futures Contracts will depend on, among other things, the supply and demand for Bitcoin Futures Contracts, the adoption of bitcoin and the commercial and speculative interest in the market for Bitcoin Futures Contracts and the potential ability to hedge against the price of bitcoin with exchange-traded Bitcoin Futures Contracts.
For this market proposal, the SEC has highlighted the importance of two fundamental and indispensable requirements.
The first is market security, the second is belonging to a market of significant size, and of course, the two are closely related to each other.
Market security consists of all the operations carried out in order to prevent fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices, in order to safeguard the interests of investors along with the public interest.
How will the commission be able to make sure that safeguards are effectively applied and that they are consistent with the law 6 on trade?
An optimal solution would be an agreement to share surveillance with a regulated market of significant size, and it is precisely here that the second requirement comes into play: in fact, as the SEC explains, in a "significant market" there is a reasonable probability that a person will attempt to manipulate the performance of the ETP and thus perform a series of fraudulent and manipulative acts, while in a "market of significant dimensions," this will not happen, as this market is regulated and has the data series necessary to investigate a case in which some manipulative action should occur.
Returning to the initial concept of correlation between the two requirements required by the SEC, it certainly follows that Bitcoin is a young market and as such, is subject to manipulation that negatively affects the growth factor of trading activities, thus preventing the development of the market itself.
Would it be wrong to think that with appropriate market regulation, the latter would expand into a market of significant size?
How long can the power and all the benefits that the bitcoin market could bring and make be suppressed?
Roisman, Hester Peirce and Jay Clayton are the three commissioners in favor of bitcoin ETFs; they are particularly in favor of the VanEck and SolidX ETFs proposed by the CBOE. The final decision for the proposal has till September 30, 2018, but the decision could be postponed for up to 180 days, when considering the SEC document from September 20, 2018, which lays out the procedure and verification to approve the ETF according to the federal securities guidelines. The SEC has to date received over 1400 documents on the proposed change of law.
The VanEck and Solidx ETFs are likely to be approved thanks to three main factors, the first being the support from the BBOX Equities Exchange (CBOE) of the Chicago Stock Exchange, which has already created a solid infrastructure and has experience in institutional exchanges, which should solve the problems of manipulation of the SEC market.
Secondly, the ETFs are backed by an actual bitcoin.
The third factor is that VanEck began in 1995 and has an excellent reputation in the investment sector today, so combined with the Crypto Start-up, SolidX they create a winning pair.
There's also another piece of news that could completely escalate the situation, which is the resignation of Commissioner Kara M. Stein due to the expiry of her mandate, who has always been against the world of bitcoin ETFs.
So from five, the commissioners would become four and as said before three out of four are already in favor.
Will President Trump decide to appoint a new commissioner, perhaps a democratic reformist more open to innovation?
If this happens for bitcoin ETFs, the possibility for approval by the SEC will greatly increase.
The future of the economic world is changing and as in every change, there are phases of decline, recovery and stabilization.
It is up to us to decide whether to stay in the past or touch and glimpse the beauty of the future.
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a newbie question … does bitcoin need SEC? if Satoshi nakamoto didn't disappear how would he react about this …? feel happy or disappointed ??
Great article! The Bitcoin ETF is right up VanEck's alley.
Very insightful post. I think ETF approval is inevitable.
Complimenti Gugliemo, un esordio coi fiocchi! Un articolo molto interessante, ben scritto e ricco di contenuti. Bravo!
@guglielmocapone , thank for the information about the ETFs on bitcoin. Nice article!
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Great article. I'll keep an eye on your blog.
Thank you for detailed post about Bitcoin ETF, I think it has to be next huge step in life of BTC and it is inevitable.
Quality post @guglielmocapone, drawing together the many strands of ETF approval and the factors weighing against it. Look forward to more of your articles.
You got it right! Lets see if Bakkt can do the same as ETF.
Thank you for joining us at TRYBE! Great article by @guglielmocapone! Bravo!
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The Scot completed his run from Sgùrr nan Gillean to Gars Bheinn in 4 hours, 57 minutes and 7 seconds, knocking more than an hour and a quarter off the previous joint record. The journey along the ridge line involves taking in 11 munros — mountains over 3,000ft.
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Ramya Krishnan is a staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute and a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School. Her litigation focuses on issues related to government transparency, protest, privacy, and social media. She also supervises the Knight Institute's externship program with Columbia Law School.
Krishnan has been at the forefront of litigation challenging "prepublication review," a far-reaching censorship system that prohibits millions of former public servants from writing or speaking about their government service without first obtaining the government's approval. She is lead counsel on National Association of Immigration Judges v. McHenry, a lawsuit challenging government policies gagging the nation's immigration judges. She has helped steer advocacy efforts calling on Facebook to create a "safe harbor" for digital journalism and research focused on its platform. She has also authored amicus briefs defending state privacy laws from First Amendment challenge, challenging retaliatory deportations against immigrant activists, and supporting the right of state contractors to engage in BDS boycotts.
Krishnan joined the Knight Institute as its inaugural legal fellow. She previously worked at Australia's Attorney-General's Department, where she litigated several high-profile constitutional and administrative law cases, including in the High Court of Australia. From 2013-2014, she served as law clerk for the Hon. Robert Beech Jones of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
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NEW YORK (AP) ? The Kindle was always an odd product name. Amazon used a verb to name a thing, raising the question: Kindle what? Now we have the answer: Kindle Fire.
The Kindle Fire is the first full-color, touch-screen Kindle. It's available in the U.S. starting Tuesday for $199.
A price like that for what's essentially a small iPad is bound to light the flames of desire this holiday season. I want to cool those down a bit, or some of you will buy the Fire and feel burned.
The Fire is the best Kindle yet, no doubt about it. It's amazing that it costs half of what the first Kindle cost, just four years ago, yet does so much more than display books.
It's more of an all-purpose computer than an e-reader. It shows movies, TV shows and Web pages. It does email and lets you play games. You'll be lucky to get any reading done, with so many other things to do.
But it has to be weighed against the competition. When you do that, it becomes apparent just how spare Amazon had to keep the device to limbo under that $200 price level.
The Kindle's design is even starker than the iPad's. It's a black monolith with only one button ? the power switch ? and two jacks, for headphones and power. All the controls are on the screen.
The screen measures 7 inches diagonally, a bit larger than the monochrome Kindles and a bit less than half the size of the iPad's. The smaller size does make the Fire more portable than an iPad; it will fit nicely into a handbag, for instance.
The size of the screen wasn't much of an issue on the monochrome Kindles because they were mainly good for showing text anyway. But the responsive color screen of the Fire opens up a lot of possibilities, such as showing magazine and comic-book pages.
Here, the small size of the screen gets in the way. It's just too far from standard page sizes to do them justice. Magazine pages look tiny. Amazon has to jump through some hoops to make them readable, like including a mode that shows just the text. But flicking through a magazine is still a lot of work ? and that's one thing that should not be like work.
Barnes & Noble's Nook Color, launched last year, has the same problem ? a nice color screen that's too small. The iPad gets it right, for a few hundred dollars more.
While we're on the subject of "too small," let's talk about the Fire's memory. It has 8 gigabytes of storage. That's enough for more books than you'll ever read, but ten movies will eat up the whole thing.
The cheapest iPad, which costs $499, has twice as much memory. The Nook Color, which costs $199, also has 8 gigabytes, but it comes with a slot for memory expansion with cheap cards. I don't understand why the Fire doesn't have a slot like that. The very first Kindle did. There's no step-up model of the Fire with more memory.
Amazon says the Fire doesn't need more memory because the company provides an online storage locker, where you can stuff all your music and other content. That works when you have Wi-Fi coverage, but not otherwise ? the Fire doesn't have the ability to use cellular networks, as some of the monochrome models do.
The Fire also lacks a camera and a microphone. Those aren't things you'd expect in an e-reader (the Nook also lacks them). But they are standard features on tablets and are quite useful, particularly for videoconferencing. Their absence is forgivable at $199.
The color screen means, inevitably, that battery life suffers compared with e-readers that use power-sipping monochrome screens. Amazon puts the reading time at eight hours, compared with about 30 hours for the new $99 Kindle Touch, which has a monochrome, touch-sensitive screen and is designed just for reading.
The Fire's software is based on Google Inc.'s Android software, used in smartphones and a bevy of tablets that compete with the iPad. None has really caught on, except to some extent the Nook Color. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says this because the other tablets lack an ecosystem of the kind Apple provides in iTunes: an integrated market for books, movies, music and applications.
Amazon has done a good job of setting up its own store. Buying and downloading books and movies is a quick process ? as long as you're buying them from Amazon.
People complain about how Apple dictates the terms of access to the iPhone and iPad, but Amazon's Kindles have always been more restrictive, and the Fire is only a slight departure from that strategy.
You can't buy copy-protected books from anyone but Amazon and expect to read them on the Fire, as you can on the iPad. Even the Nooks allow third-party books. Amazon achieves this control by operating its own app store, separate from the Android Market run by Google. Clever people will figure out a way to bypass this and install any app they want, but most people won't want to bother.
To Amazon's credit, it's allowing the excellent Comixology comics app onto the Fire. That means you don't have to buy your comics from Amazon, and you aren't restricted to the Fire's built-in (and inferior) comics browser. It's also letting the apps for the Netflix and Hulu streaming services onto the device, in competition with Amazon's own streaming service.
So the Fire does justice to fiction and movies, but the iPad does better in almost every way, particularly in the selection of apps, which is about 50 times greater than the Fire's.
If the step up to $499 is too much, you might want to consider the Nook Tablet, which comes out Friday. At $249, it will be the same size as the Fire, but with twice the memory, plus a memory expansion slot. It won't access all of Amazon's goodies and apps, but it will have Netflix and Hulu. Take a look at it before jumping to the Fire.
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One of the first settlers, Samuel M. Williams, was granted this land by Stephan F. Austin in 1823. Williams first referred to this land as "Oakland Plantation" due to the wide variety of oaks. Sugar became a part of the region when a small freight captain delivered canes from Cuba to Williams. It quickly grew and become a primary industry for the area. Years later, it was renamed "Sugar Land".
gIn 1853, two brothers, who made their fortune from gold in California, purchased the land. They were active in growing their investments by extending the railroads. They built the railroad from Stafford through Richmond to Sugar Land in order to transport product. These railroads exist today.
In 1908, the refinery was purchased and later renamed Imperial Sugar Company. This company helped develop the town by modernizing the sugar refinery and build houses for their employees. They also constructed schools and hospitals to meet workers' essential needs. As the company grew, so did the city.
The present refinery is located on the spot where the first mill was built.
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-Sugar Land was a company town for more than 50 years before it integrated in 1959 -The total area of Sugar Land is 24.9 square miles. Of that, more than 560 acres is developed park land -Sugar Land Imperial Refinery closed in 2002 -The fossil collection at the Houston museum of natural science at Sugar Land ranks among the top 5 in the United States -The band Sugarland was named after the city by former band member, Kristen Hall
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Hare Krishna to all my matajis and prabhujis. There is a question, it may not make sense, but has kept me disturbing since, last two days. And the question is if a person believes in karma only, and whenever he suffers or gain something he thinks that it is because of his past karma for which he is either suffering or enjoying, but doesn't believe in Lord, then what will happen to such soul, how will he or she able to attain Krishna Consciousness?
Never ending bad or good karma, that keeps us go in circles in the material world.
Only way to escape this is by surrendering to Krishna.
"Now, in summarizing Bhagavad-gita, the Lord says that Arjuna should give up all the processes that have been explained to him; he should simply surrender to Krsna. That surrender will save him from all kinds of sinful reactions, for the Lord personally promises to protect him.
In the Eighth Chapter it was said that only one who has become free from all sinful reactions can take to the worship of Lord Krsna. Thus one may think that unless he is free from all sinful reactions he cannot take to the surrendering process. To such doubts it is here said that even if one is not free from all sinful reactions, simply by the process of surrendering to Sri Krsna he is automatically freed. There is no need of strenuous effort to free oneself from sinful reactions. One should unhesitatingly accept Krsna as the supreme savior of all living entities. With faith and love, one should surrender unto Him."
what will happen to such soul, how will he or she able to attain Krishna Consciousness?
one who is not sincere?
he wont reach Krishna ever?
then no need of believe in god?
First thing is.. Without Lord's intervention there nothing is going to happen!!! Even you cannot lift a dry leaf up with your own strength. becoz Lord Himself says in Bhagwad gita Chapt. 15 text 14.
So, To say I believe in only karma and not God is absurd thing!!!..
Whatever I am facing today good or bad is all becoz of my past deeds...Is right to an extent.. But realize there is a superior power Of Lord who is always sanctioning your works...right or wrong..He is giving your necessary resources to do the work.
SO how will you say You only believe in Karma and not God?
Who is providing you oxygen, food, sunlight , water, energy to do this work??? Lord gives you he sanctions your work. SO only you are able to do the work?? RIGHT???
or are you doing with our own sunlight , water food?? NO YOu dont have anything. SO those who just believe in Karma and say I don't believe in God are really big fools.
Ya, Lord is pleased with those who perform nishkama karam yoga.
What is Nishkama karama yoga?
Working selflessly for someone.. without having personal self interst.. ( like a mother serves her son without expecting anything from him..she wont serve her baby thinking that this baby will in future give her some gold chain or big gift in return). This type of service Lord loves. This is the karma that lord is pleased with.
becoz without Krishna you cannot perform any work at all.!!!!
Can you lift a dry grass without energy within you? who is providing you energy in the form of food , air , water, sunlight?? are you self generating?? NO NO .. ONlY lord is the main reason behind all work done also. So thinking foolishly that all whatever i am suffering/gaining is due to my past deeds.. and I don't believe in Krishna is completely absurd theory.
Believe in Karma theroy + believe in Lord.. Is a perfect Way to reach Supreme personality of Godhead.
Thank you! Mataji for such a beautiful reply. Hari bol! Do accept my pranam.
But doesn't believe in Lord, then what will happen to such soul, how will he or she able to attain Krishna Consciousness ?
To attain to Krsna consciousness a person needs to have faith in something more than karma.
Karma is simply the mechanism of approving the good deeds and punishing bad. When a person seriously realizes this about karma, one naturally becomes curious who put this flawless mechanism in the first place. At that point they have opportunity to turn towards Krsna. Or they could use the mechanism of karma to get higher births and other material benefits. Eventually they will have opportunity to understand Krsna and devotion etc.
But whatever happens a person must at some point needs to make a choice of putting faith in Krsna/devotee/scriptures to attain Krsna consciousness.
Thank you! Prabhuji for replying. Hari Bol! Please accept my pranam.
The theory that by Karma alone one can enjoy or suffer the results of one's activities is very old. It was expounded by the sage Jaimini and it is known as the karma mimamsa philosophy.
We should not be misled by this philosophy since there is no guarantee that the results will come automatically, since the results ultimately depend upon the sweet will of Krsna.
Karmany evadhikaras te ma phalesu kadacana, you have a right to perform your prescribed duty but you are not entitled to the fruits of action.
Therefore one should fully depend on Krsna for the result of the activities.


Though late, as the saying goes better late than never.
According to the villagers, this stone image is from the buried Ranganatha Temple in our village Thiruvarangam, Paramakudi. Portions of it were damaged after it was unearthed, by the children while they were playing with it.
me: what?! how ridiculous. don't they have any archeo dept out there?! these are relics, our history. it should have been protected!! by good lord, so much for such dept!!
if you have more of such snaps do post it... at least, you know there is somebody here (in me) who is interested in such stuffs.
Very sad indeed, to read about children being allowed to play with it.. no wonder there is so much in our history that has gone unprotected.. anyway thanks for the pics, it looks like the face of the diety Narasimhar..Where is it now?


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The preparatory stage
JULIANNE LABRECHE March 21 1977
The preparatory stage JULIANNE LABRECHE March 21 1977
It was an opening fraught with false starts. The rookie Parti Québécois Speaker, Clement Richard, almost adjourned the new session of the Quebec National Assembly by mistake in his first sentence, and his mix-up in terminology had to be corrected by PQ House Leader Robert Burns. The opposition Liberals immediately challenged a ruling by the Speaker, delaying Premier René Lévesque's inaugural address with a procedural wrangle. But the second session of the 31st Legislature eventually got underway on March 8 with a speech by Lévesque that set the tone for the months to come.
The speech was unmistakably written by Lévesque himself, full of the striking turns of phrase and idealistic ambitions that to some eyes give him an aura of political freshness, even after 17 years as a politician. He spoke solely of the nitty-gritty of provincial government. Chock-full of references to forthcoming legislation, special programs, modifications and reforms, the speech ranged from plans to provide free milk to schoolchildren to aid for housing and improved consumer protection: a total of 45 legislative and administrative measures. The word "independence" was never used.
It seems clear that Lévesque's strategy in his push toward independence is to maintain a cyclical rhythm, reassuring the party of that long-term goal while strengthening the support of his government by its concrete measures and reforms. In doing this, he hopes to maintain what he obviously feels is an irreversible momentum. Lévesque did not back away from the subject of independence when asked about it at a press conference, saying the objective of the government was "self-government. . . to take back, as we've always said, control of our taxes, control of ourjurisdictions, so as to administer ourselves, at home, freely, like a people that has a home." As for the much discussed "association" with the rest of Canada that the party program suggests, he compared it to the links among the nine members of the European Common Market.
But recent comments by other PQ members have made it clear that some would be satisfied with a negotiated settlement well short of total independence. Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Claude Morin telephoned The Toronto Star to complain about a headline that said he stood for "total separation." Economic Development Minister Bernard Landry told a Winnipeg audience, "We don't want
to destroy or fracture Canada—we want a new agreement." Natural Resources Minister Yves Bérubé referred to the promised referendum on independence as a "strike vote," in other words designed to give the PQ a mandate to bargain with Ottawa. In the capital, Prime Minister Trudeau said he was "suspicious" of reports of a change of tone in Quebec City on the question of independence. "I'm very happy to hear that," he said to a reporter who suggested Lévesque is prepared to consider staying in Canada with a new constitution. "But, I submit, to my knowledge he has not said that yet... I would be afraid of a bear trap ... If the Parti Québécois says clearly that they don't need independence, I would be very happy to hear that and would probably support that line." In New York, Finance Minister Donald Macdonald told an audience of financiers that the Péquistes, in raising hopes of an economic union with Canada after separation, "are just plain kidding their electorate."
The Liberals in Quebec have caught the drift of Lévesque's rhythm of alternately emphasizing and playing down the longterm goal of the party. In his reply to the inaugural address, interim Liberal leader Gérard D. Lévesque noted the Premier's avoidance of the term "independence" and commented: "How long will this game of hide-and-seek go on? From 1970 to 1976, it was independence. Between October 18 and November 15 [during the election campaign]. the question of independence was dimmed. Suddenly in New York [Lévesque's January address to the Economic Club],independence again became
the raison d'être of the government... In the inaugural address, again silence."
The present focus on details of automobile insurance, class action legislation, day-care centres, free dental care for children, control of the asbestos industry and the proposed fight against unemployment will enable Lévesque to avoid clarifying the ambiguities of his long-term objectives. His galaxy of plans was greeted with cautious optimism by a variety of representatives of business and industry. The biggest problem was seen as financing what Banque Provinciale President Michel Belanger called "a pile of good things." Muttered Liberal Bryce Mackasey after the inaugural address, "We have to wait until they bring a budget down before we know what this government's really about—they haven't any money!"
In New York, the Quebec government got some good news. Moody's, the influential credit rating agency, decided after a lengthy reappraisal of the provincial government's financial situation that its rating should remain "double A,''the same as it was before the PQ election win. The vote of confidence from Moody's should not only make it easier for Quebec to resume borrowing in New York but also calm investors who were unnerved by Lévesque when
he made his January speech in that city.
But even before its budget, the government will face a major test—a white paper on language that will be the basis of a law to replace Bill 22. It will include regulations on the language of instruction, a question that has vexed every government since Union Nationale Premier JeanJacques Bertrand introduced Bill 63 in 1969 permitting free choice. Equally controversial was the Liberals' 1974 Bill 22, which required language tests to establish admissibility of immigrant children to English schools.
Lévesque's speech promised "a clear, vigorous and straightforward proclamation of the absolutely normal primacy of the French language on the territory of Quebec." But for the minorities "who come from other lands and who have kept or adopted English as their main language, the law must allow them, with serenity— and why not with generosity too—to maintain their own identity at school and elsewhere." But he acknowledged to reporters that his cabinet is divided over language of instruction. Leaks in recent weeks suggest one faction, led apparently by Minister of State for Cultural Development Camille Laurin, argues that English schools should be restricted to children whose parents attended English schools in Quebec. Another, apparently led by Lévesque, supports a broader approach to include children who have at least one parent educated in English anywhere in Canada. How the PQ government deals with this question, which contributed to the defeat not only of Bourassa's government but Bertrand's before it, will be as important to its future as how it tries to pay for its more concrete promises. GRAHAM FRASER
Keepers of the faith
In Ottawa, plans were afoot for a "unity train" to crisscross the country promoting Canadian solidarity and opposing separation by Quebec; in Edmonton preparations were underway for a big, pro-Canada "talk-out" early next month and in Aylmer, Quebec, a handful of committed federalists mushroomed weeks after it was founded into a movement of more than 10,000 devoted to keeping Quebec in Confederation.
Across most of Canada, in the months since the Parti Québécois November election victory, pro-federalist groups of all forms and sizes have suddenly begun springing up, forming alliances and searching for strategies with astonishing speed and regularity. By far the largest and most vocal of the organizations is the Aylmer-based Quebec-Canada Movement, headed by Michel C. Gratton, a Liberal member of the Quebec N ational Assembly and an ardent anti-separatist. Claiming to have distributed some 50,000 membership cards since its official launching early in February, Quebec-Canada—which contains roughly 60% French-speaking Cana-
dians—now is recruiting about 400 people daily in the Montreal area alone, with Gratton's office getting 60 to 70 inquiries a day. He says the majority of his QuebecCanada movement is francophone and that people at all levels, from intense-looking matrons to highly successful lawyers, are involved.
Says Gratton: "Even I, for a long time, thought that (Premier René) Lévesque would sacrifice his independence issue for the sake of getting power. His New York speech convinced me that he's dead serious about making Quebec independent and he would do so at the risk of losing power." Recently, Quebec-Canada embraced another, similar group, Team Canada, headed by Westmount MNAGeorge Springate, giving the organization a unified province-wide status.
But if the groups are remarkable for their numbers and enthusiasm, they are less notable for being precise about the methods they will employ to achieve their federalist goals. One of the more imaginative, if still somewhat hazy, projects is the unity train, a program being organized by two Ottawa couples with the aim of sending a train back and forth across Canada from July through September, carrying more than $500,000 worth of mobile exhibits celebrating Canada's heritage and cultural integrity. In British Columbia, a core group of 15 professionals has been formed under the leadership of Chuck Connaghan, vice-president of administrative services at the University of British Columbia, to ensure the province has a full role in the debate over separatism. But exactly how this is to be accomplished remains to be seen. Says Connaghan: "None of us sees ourselves as riding white chargers and going off into the sunset, but we are concerned about the role of BC in the upcoming debate."
Only the Atlantic provinces seem to have missed the wave of national fervor. A few Acadian groups in the east have made attempts at organizing campaigns to promote unity, but in other areas there has been little or no overt activity.
In Alberta, a group of 32 people has formed the Unified Canada Movement, aimed at organizing western Canadians into a single, strong voice promoting unity, with a series of talk-ins planned for this spring in Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Regina, Winnipeg and Lethbridge. Says free-lance journalist Grant Kennedy, chairman of the movement: "The francophones hear about the vocal minority [in the west] that says 'let them go,' but they never hear that most western Canadians value them and respect their province as a keystone of Confederation."
At the University of Toronto, a club of futurologists has decided to play a part by forgoing its academic crystal-ball gazing to study alternative directions for the country instead. Says a brief prepared for the federal government by two members, Robert Logan, professor of physics at the university and a leading Liberal, and Stephen Berkowitz, professor of sociology and a
New Democrat: "It is time, we think, for all Canadians to stop trying to refight battles on the Plains of Abraham and confront the issues that lie ahead."
On a broader scale, 10 national voluntary organizations met with Science and Technology Minister Hugh Faulkner last month to try to initiate more coordinated cross-country support for a united Canada -and Secretary of State John Roberts announced funding for a nationwide exchange of 30,000 students this year to enable them to see and live briefly in other parts of the country. Prime Minister Trudeau, meanwhile, has been restrained in his reaction to the new groups. "At some point," he says, "I may want to ask them to do certain things. For the time being, however, there has been no contact between us."
While the pro-Canada groups seem to have the overall objective of creating a new sense of nationalism, which might cut across existing language and regional barriers, the absence of specific plans and programs to promote unity has frequently led to criticism (Health Minister Marc Lalonde said, without qualification, in a recent Toronto speech that he disagrees with the depth of this newfound nationalism: "Token goodwill is simply not enough.") But members contend that if they succeed in alerting all Canadians to the dangers of separatism and to the benefits of continued unity, it will more than justify their existence. JULIANNE LABRECHE
Closeup/Prisons
The halls of anger
March 1977 By Michael Enright
Just when everything was going along so nicely, too
Closeup/Politics
The Turner campaign
March 1977 By Robert Lewis
Closeup/Show Business
March 1977 By Michael Posner
Margaret in Wonderland
March 1977 By David Cobb
Caught in the cross-fire
March 1987 By MADELAINE DROHAN
The return of Billy Joe MacLean
March 1987 By CHRIS WOOD
Alberta's part-time premier
March 1987 By JOHN HOWSE
Cerebral palsy: can the incurable be made less unbearable?
August 1977 By JULIANNE LABRECHE
Very troubled waters
MAY 16,1977 1977 By JULIANNE LABRECHE
Be sure your SIN will find you out
November 1978 By Julianne Labreche


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Tim Hortons falls 25 spots in annual reputation ranking amid franchisee troubles
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A new survey suggests Tim Hortons has fallen out of favour with Canadians, plummeting 25 spots in an annual corporate reputation ranking.
The coffee-and-doughnut chain moved from fourth place to 50th on a ranking of 100 companies Canadians most admire in a study conducted by Leger and National Public Relations.
National's managing partner Rick Murray says in the report that Tim Hortons was "a perennial top five brand that we've previously believed impervious to issue, but has fallen mightily in the court of public opinion."
Tim Hortons recently faced an onslaught of negative publicity as some of its Ontario franchisees clawed back employee benefits, like paid breaks, to help offset the province's minimum wage hike, claiming their corporate parent did not provide assistance. The move sparked nationwide protests and prompted some consumers to boycott the chain.
However, the survey shows it's possible for Tim Hortons to move back up in the standings next year. Samsung went from 24th place to fifth this year after fixing issues with some of its smartphones overheating and catching fire.
About 2,100 respondents 18 years and older assessed each company in the online study between Dec. 19, 2017 and Jan. 29, 2018.
The polling industry's professional body, the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error because they do not randomly sample the population.


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Adrian Marcel (A.M.)
Being a newcomer to the music scene can be overwhelming for most, but for an artist like Adrian Marcel/A.M. (formerly known as Marcel Williams), the obstacles and occurrences already accomplished only continue to drive his determination on becoming an appreciated entertainer. Hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area, Adrian Marcel separates himself from what RandB has become and strives to bring back what traditional rhythm and blues is. His goal is to inspire today's youth to know and experience what true R&B sounds like. Adrian feels like vocalists back in the day had only their voices, no outlandish tricks or antics, just themselves and a microphone. Thus, he is looking to bring class back to RandB music. A.M. is like no other when he performs. On stage he makes the audience understand that they are listening to a story, a plot, a time-line or a specific moment in his life, not just a song. He truly puts on a full fledged show. Being a singer, songwriter, composer, performer and natural comedian helps him incorporate different dynamics into his shows. A.M. draws his influence from the likes of Jackie Wilson, Frankie Lyman, David Ruffin, Carl Thomas, Tank, and Maxwell.
The true beginning of the musical aspect in his life was when he got accepted into the Oakland school of the Arts in 2003. There he studied vocal, piano and drama. He stared in the schools leading plays, The Wiz, Footloose and The Wild Party. In 2006 Adrian toured with the school concert choir to Italy. There they performed for 2 weeks at different venues in Florence and Venice for crowds of 700 people. During the years 2005-2007 he studied at the University of California in the Young Musicians Program (YMP) with a full scholarship. During his junior year of high school he was given a 1 year scholarship to Berkelee College of Music in Boston upon his high school graduation. His high school years clearly solidifies his love and commitment to music. In 2006 A.M. opened at the Concord Pavilion in Concord California for Tina Marie's tour and in 2008 A.M. opened for Patrice Rushen and Roberta Flack at the Oakland Museum "Experience on the Green". This was the start of Adrian Marcel's solo career as he would soon team with Jaime Hawkins to begin work on his debut album. He most recently teamed with ready artist and blood brother Dahrio Wonder on their musical production called "The Pleasures of Love Show" which successfully enjoyed a sellout of 2 shows at Yoshi's in Oakland California; As well as the Oakland Metro Theater and Q's Lounge.
On his debut album entitled "Music & Moon Trips Vol.1-A Lover's Welcome" A.M. introduces a work that showcases someone beyond his years. Simply put, Ad loves the thought of Love and expresses that in every song he writes and performs. His lyrics are uniquely different, not the same words you hear everyday on the radio. He sings about situations that you feel, understand and can relate to. He loves where creating wonderful melodies can take him. "A Lover's Welcome" is the journey from the preparation of loving someone, the vulnerable stage of loving them, trials, change, and the growth of love all delivered on tracks that captivate every emotion you can think of. A.M. does music with a passion. It's what he is, what makes him and how he makes his best decisions. Sparking an emotion in him causes him to share this in his writing, and his composing.
A.M.'s music is tasteful and sweet, ready for anyone to listen to. The richness of his voice makes it easy for him to comfortably blend with any genre of music or track he sings on. A.M. is a go-getter, the live-wire with a confident seductiveness, a role player and does not want to put a stamp on his music to a specific audience. Adrian is embarking on a journey that he is humbly and fully prepared to take on, appreciate and welcome. Adrian Marcel promises to take and deepen his audiences understanding of great R&B music.
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Co Tyrone boxer sheds over 4 stone to get career back on track
Tiernan Bradley tipped the scales at 95kg back in December 2019 but is now fighting fit
Gareth Fullerton
Tiernan Bradley shed the weight in 12 months (Image: Tiernan Bradley Facebook)
Tiernan Bradley says some soul searching and harsh words from pals helped turn his life and boxing career around.
Back in December 2019 the welterweight prospect tipped the scales at 95kg and was working as a nightclub doorman to keep him "off the drink" during Christmas.
A brief flirtation with veganism at the start of 2020 helped him shed 15kg, but the onset of coronavirus in March saw the Co Tyrone boxer slip back into his old ways.
"I went vegan and my weight dropped from 95kg to 80kg in about two-and-a-half months," Bradley recalls.
"I had a wee lifestyle change and loved it for the two months. I eventually broke it at my brother-in-law's stag party in Galway.
"I had a few drinks and ended up with a takeaway on the way home. I woke up the next morning and looked at my bedside table and there was the takeaway carton sitting there.
"I just thought 'ah, for frig sake I've broken it'.
"It was more of a routine when I turned vegan. I cut out the crap I was eating. I was getting my protein in through things like soya, tofu. I was experimenting with my cooking as well.
"As soon as I went back to eating meat, I couldn't stop it. I missed it too much. I don't think I will be going back."
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When lockdown arrived, Bradley's health journey swerved into regular servings of Zoom quiz nights, late night drinking and even a drunken head shave.
"During lockdown everyone took their foot off the pedal," he added.
"By mid-April everyone was down in the dumps. Me and my mates were doing Zoom calls and drinking, playing quizzes.
"We were doing that five nights a week, and one night we got drunk and I got my little brother to shave my head on the Zoom call.
"My ma came down the next day and absolutely tore into me. She hated me for it.
"I also grew this mad moustache and went on this interview and ended up calling out Belfast boxer Owen O'Neill. Everyone was calling me Charles Bronson."
From his brother-in-law's stag party in February to the end of April, Bradley managed to put on about two stone.
"Again, it was drinking and eating, and then when lockdown hit things just escalate. Eating takeaways and not getting out much," he said.
"A few of my mates just grabbed me and said I needed to f****** wise up.
"So we went on forest runs every day, and I was training in my back yard."
With gyms closed during lockdown, Bradley channeled his inner Rocky Balboa to get in shape, adopting a primitive approach to strength and cardio training.
"We were doing old school circuits, things shoulder raises with a wheelbarrow and pressing logs and trees," he recalls.
"It was proper Rocky stuff.
Tiernan Bradley in the gym (Image: Tiernan Bradley Facebook)
"I went from about 95kg to 84kg and it got me in the zone."
And when the gyms started reopening again, that's when Bradley ramped up his training.
"I pushed my weight down to about 78kg for the end of September," he added.
"I was meant to fight in Spain at 70kg, but the fight didn't happen. Then we had a show in Poland on October 10 and I boxed there at 68kg for my pro debut."
Bradley says he became obsessed with his approach to training and nutrition as he transformed his life, in and outside of the ring.
"I lost a lot of weight. It was tough. I remember thinking that if I don't do this now I will never do it," he said.
"It changed my mindset. I was borderline insane with my training. There were days I was training four times a day to get the weight off.
"I was doing four sessions twice a week, and then two sessions on the other days. I had to or I wouldn't have lost the weight.
"My nutrition was on point, just through years of studying it."
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He added: "The entire time I was at my heaviest weight, I kept saying I needed to change. But I couldn't get out of the rut.
"When I moved to New York three years ago, I did a lot of drinking and partying over there. I was living the high life.
"And when I came home I was still in that mode, but I didn't have the money to do it.
"I was just lying about and being lazy. I couldn't get out of my old routine. My whole lifestyle was wrong.
"My mind wasn't in boxing at that point. I couldn't even look at myself in the mirror.
"My girlfriend was constantly on my case, asking if I was going to train today. And I was making excuses and pushing people away who were my family.
Tiernan Bradley is planning a busy 2021 (Image: albertorocha_photography Instagram)
"That Christmas of 2019 I had to change my mindset for good, and that's what I did.
"I needed to get off the sofa and get out of the dark room I was living in. There were times when I was spending three or four days sitting in my bed with the blinds closed.
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"My girlfriend would be at work and call me, asking if I had been for a run. I would have said yes, but all I had done was put my trainers on and walk to the shop.
"That was where I was at. I didn't want to let anyone down, but I was fooling nobody for the size that I was."
As well as piling on weight, Bradley says his appearance and lack of motivation impacted on his mental health.
"I was in a dark hole. I never considered suicide or anything like that. I was never at that point. But I was always asking myself 'why bother?'," he added.
"In saying that, I never contemplated retiring from boxing completely. Even when I was that heavy, I always thought I was going to be a world champion.
"I always had the mindset of 'one day I will be world champion', and people probably think you're a lunatic!
"People probably think certain things are unreachable, but I have no doubt in my mind I will become world champion."
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Bradley made his pro debut with a first-round stoppage win in Poland last October, before following that up with another impressive display against Nicaraguan Arnoldo Solano in Spain last month.
It has added more impetus into his drive to become world champion, and he hopes to continue building momentum with a bust 2020.
It is expected that the Omagh man's next fight will be on February 20 in Alicante, Spain.
"I feel so fit at the minute. I am flying," the O'Rourke's Gym fighter said from his Dublin home.
"Earlier in the week we sparred 10 straight rounds, and yesterday I did eight rounds. We have done sprint sessions this week.
"Tough, tough, tough training, and I am flying. We did a bags session this morning and I feel fitter than I have ever done.
"I am sore, but I am as fit as hell.
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"We sat down and planned the way forward. We might look at a six rounder in my next fight and then step up to eight rounds. We are learning all the time.
"It is learning how to do the eight rounds.
"I want to have six fights this year. I want to be busy, and if that means travelling to Spain, America or wherever, then so be it."
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Desperately Evading the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design: A Review of Dembski's The Design Revolution
By Jeffrey Shallit
William Dembski's latest book, The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions About Intelligent Design consists of 44 questions about intelligent design with short answers by Dembski -- each answer takes about 6 or 7 pages, on average. Critics of Dembski -- such as Mark Perakh -- who were looking forward to having their objections addressed will be disappointed. The Design Revolution is even more intellectually dishonest than I thought possible. The easy questions Dembski actually addresses are answered disingenuously; the really hard questions he avoids entirely. This book should have been titled Desperately Evading the Toughest Questions About Intelligent Design.
So many of Dembski's answers consist of evasion or dissembling that it would take a book as long as Dembski's own to catalogue them all. In this short essay I'll just list a few.
Consider chapter 5, "Religious motivation". Dembski says "let's be clear that design theorists oppose Darwinian theory on strictly scientific grounds". With nearly every prominent intelligent design supporter a conservative Christian, this isn't even remotely plausible. Consider three of the leaders of the ID movement:
Phillip Johnson converted to fundamentalist Christianity after a mid-life crisis and made "Defeating Darwinism" (part of the title of one of his books) his new mission.
Jonathan Wells candidly admitted that "Father's [Rev. Sun Myung Moon's] words, my studies, and my prayers convinced me that I should devote my life to destroying Darwinism..."
Dembski himself, in a March 7, 2004 talk at the Fellowship Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, admitted his own motivation is religious. He said, "I think at a fundamental level, in terms of what drives me in this, is that I think God's glory is being robbed by these naturalistic approaches to biological evolution, creation, the origin of the world, the origin of biological complexity and diversity. When you are attributing the wonder of nature to these mindless material mechanisms, God's glory is getting robbed."
These do not sound like scientific grounds for opposing "Darwinian theory".
In a previous article in this blog, I showed how Dembski has a history of incorrect citation of quotations -- even when previously informed of his errors. Here's another example. On page 52, Dembski writes "Nor does philosopher Daniel Dennett help matters when, in Darwin's Dangerous Idea, he recommends quarantining religious parents who object to their children being taught evolutionary theory."
The only problem is that Dennett wrote no such thing. Dennett actually wrote, on page 519, "...those whose visions dictate that they cannot peacefully coexist with the rest of us we will have to quarantine as best we can, minimizing the pain and damage..." To find the people Dennett is actually referring to, one has to read the quotation in the context of the entire chapter. It is those (listed on pages 516-517) who insist on slavery, child abuse, discrimination, and fatwas on their opponents, all in the name of their religion. Dennett has informed Dembski that he did not say what Dembski attributes to him, and Dembski even sort-of retracted his bogus claim in 2000. Neverthless, it appears again in The Design Revolution with no indication of the controversy. This is the height of intellectual dishonesty.
On page 159, Dembski contrasts the information in one copy of a text with that in two copies. He writes "Nor for that matter do both copies together contain more information than any one copy individually. The mathematics justifying these claims is straightforward." However, using the definition of information most commonly used in computer science -- that is, Kolmogorov complexity -- Dembski's claim is incorrect. In fact, it can easily be proved (and I have assigned it in my undergraduate course on computation) that there exist infinitely many strings x for which there exists more Kolmogorov information in xx than x. Dembski was informed of this in December 2002, but he persists in making this bogus claim.
Any theory of information in which n copies of a text have no more information than a single copy is obviously wrong, because one can clearly store an arbitrary amount of extra information encoded in the number n which specifies the number of copies.
Here's another example of Dembski's disingenuous answers: On page 303, Dembski refers to some unnamed articles in scientific journals. He claims "They are all written by design theorists and are listed in the ISCID bibliography." Unfortunately for anyone who wants to check Dembski's claims, the URL provided is not available to just anyone -- only to paying members of Dembski's own society, the International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design. What has Dembski got to hide? Maybe those papers don't say anything about design at all, but how could we know?
Now let's turn to the questions that Dembski refused to address.
Let's start with the most obvious question: what, exactly, is design? You'd think this would be a basic question Dembski would have to address in a book about "intelligent design" -- and Del Ratzsch, an ID-friendly philosopher at Calvin College has taken the ID movement to task for this omission -- but he doesn't. Does design just mean pattern? Or is it necessarily teleological? Neither this book, nor previous books such as No Free Lunch, address this question.
Here are a few more questions Dembski doesn't address in The Design Revolution:
When estimating the probability of events, why do you use two different and incompatible methods, depending on whether the event was human-caused or not?
As Wesley Elsberry and I have previously pointed out, when Dembski analyzes events that are clearly the result of human agency, such as the Caputo case, he estimates probability by assuming that events are independent and equally likely -- he ignores the known causal history of the events. However, when he analyzes other kinds of events, such as the generation of the protein URF13, his analysis is based on some hypothesized causal history. In one case in No Free Lunch, he even uses two different methods in analyzing the same example!
Why have you never acknowledged that a crucial calculation on page 249 of No Free Lunch is off by about 65 orders of magnitude, even though you were informed of this in 2002?
Dembski has a curious history of ignoring corrections. In a previous article on this blog, I showed how he continued to use a quotation of Schopenhauer, even after he was informed of its very questionable provenance.
Nearly two years ago, I told Dembski that his calculation on page 297 of No Free Lunch (estimating the centered formula about a third of the way down the page) was wrong. The very same calculation is also used on page 299 to estimate the "perturbation probability for the [sic] bacterial flagellum" -- which is the centerpiece of the book. Now, this calculation isn't rocket science; the formula just involves multiplying and dividing some binomial coefficients and powers. Even an undergraduate should be able to perform it correctly. But Dembski didn't. He said this formula evaluates to approximately 10-288, whereas it's actually about 10-223.
Now it's true that nearly every biologist who has read Dembski's computation of the probability of "the [sic] bacterial flagellum" has rejected it as specious nonsense, because the formula is based on a random assembly scenario that is wildly unrealistic. But in addition to that, Dembski's calculation error makes a flagellum 1065 times less likely than the result of his own his bogus scenario.
Even stranger for someone who has Ph. D. in mathematics, Dembski claims his calculation is based on "Stirling's formula". Now Stirling's formula is a classical approximation for the factorial function, and factorials are one way to evaluate binomial coefficients. Indeed, Stirling's formula would be good for a back-of-the-envelope calculation. But there's no need to rely on approximations for doing Dembski's calculation. Any decent computer algebra system, such as Maple or Mathematica, can compute the exact value of the formula on page 297 -- or for that matter, the exact value of the quotient of sums that the formula is based on -- in a matter of microseconds.
The point isn't the sloppy calculation. The point is that Dembski was informed of this error nearly two years ago, but he has never acknowledged it or corrected it in any way. Why not? You'd think that an error of 65 orders of magnitude in the centerpiece calculation of the book would merit a correction somewhere. For that matter, why is there no errata page for No Free Lunch?
Maybe Dembski should take his own advice, given on page 51 of The Design Revolution. There he wrote: "How can a scientist keep from descending into dogmatism? The only way I know is to look oneself squarely in the mirror and continually affirm, I am a fallible human being. I may be wrong. I may be massively wrong. I may be hopelessly and irretrievably wrong--and mean it!" [emphasis in original]
Why have you not acknowledged that your mathematical "proof" on pages 152-154 of No Free Lunch that "natural causes cannot generate CSI" is flawed, since (among other errors) it claims it applies to all functions f, but actually it assumes that the function f is known to the intelligent agent in question?
This "proof" is crucial to Dembski's grandiose "Law of Conservation of Information". But it's not a proof at all. As Elsberry and I showed in our paper, the "proof" contains several errors. Another error is the conflation of "information" with Dembski's CSI and the blithe assertion that the pair (i,f) contains at least as much "information" as j, if f(i) = j. Dembski has known of these criticisms for nearly two years, but he has never addressed them.
Why have you never seriously addressed the work of artificial life researchers, who routinely find in their simulations the kinds of novelties you claim are impossible?
Artificial life researchers such as Karl Sims and Thomas Ray carry out simulations of evolution on computers, using tools such as mutation, natural selection, and recombination. They routinely find the kinds of innovations that Dembski claims are impossible. Sims, for example, in his paper "Evolving 3D Morphology and Behavior by Competition", published in Artificial Life IV, showed how simple 3-D robots could evolve very interesting and novel strategies for locomotion and fighting, even though those strategies were not programmed in by the programmers.
But Dembski never seriously addresses these findings. In The Design Revolution, the index contains an entry for Thomas Ray, but but when one looks at the indicated page (page 67), there is a discussion of John Ray, but nothing about Thomas Ray. Karl Sims is nowhere to be discussed.
Why do you continue to conflate your term "specified complexity" with Davies' use of the term, when Davies is clearly referring to events with high Kolmogorov complexity, whereas you are referring to events with low Kolmogorov complexity?
This is one of Dembski's rhetorical tricks. He sometimes calls his main concept "specified complexity" and sometimes calls it "complex specified information". He then exploits his own confusing terminology by conflating his own terms of art with well-known uses of the terms "complexity" and "information" when it is useful.
In particular, Dembski has located other occurrences of the term "specified complexity" in the literature, and then implies that his concept is the same as these other uses. But it is not. In Davies The Fifth Miracle, for example, he makes it clear on page 116 that by "complexity" he means high Kolmogorov complexity (although he attributes it to Chaitin). (What precisely Davies means by "specified" is less clear.) But for Dembski, specified complexity corresponds to low Kolmogorov complexity (see, for example, No Free Lunch, p. 144). Pretending these are synonyms when in fact they are antonyms is deceptive.
The bottom line is that The Design Revolution has little that is new. Much of the content has been lifted, in some cases word-for-word, from Dembski's previous work. His answers to questions are a masterpiece of evasion and misdirection. And he refuses to answer the really tough questions about intelligent design. The folks who endorsed this book -- from Rick Santorum to Robert George to David Berlinski -- should be ashamed of themselves.
Originally posted at The Panda's Thumb.


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Nancy grew up in Janesville, a town that was comprised of a bar, a church, a hardware store, a mom n pop grocery store, an elementary and middle school (the high schoolers were bused to the county high school in Lodi) – and a dance studio. Both of Nancy's parents worked and so were able to give her dance lessons. Nancy had a natural athleticism and free spirit, that, when cultivated, blossomed her into a first class dancer. By the time Nancy graduated from high school, she was ready to move to a place that could take her to the next level.
Nancy was accepted into a prestigious fine arts academy in Chicago. Although she did not have any scholarships, her parents had saved enough to pay 50% of tuition for the first two years. Nancy was able to afford a small seasonal rental cottage out near Lake MI by working as a waitress at a fine dining establishment part time and through an agreement with the cottage owner that Nancy would work all summer doing housekeeping for the other cottages there.
Nancy's classes were M-W-F mornings, a total of 12 hours a week. She was expected to join a troupe (traveling team) at the nearby civic theater and rehearsed for productions three nights a week. The academy had a 24/7 open gymnasium, studio, gym, and pool, which meant Nancy could practice whenever it was convenient for her. Nancy had her life organized and she was living her passion and her dream. Life couldn't have been better.
The civic theater liked to do avant garde productions. The current one, called Glowing Griffin, was about Keily Griffin, the scientist who was able to discover deposits of uranium by studying moss at night. Nancy had been chosen to play Keily, which had her rehearsing at the theater extra on the weekends.
Harold Jenkins, age 42, had been the operations manager of the civic theater for over 11 years. A small man with a meticulous way about him, he was not well-liked by many of his staff due to his often-demanding nature. As he was not part of the office culture, sometimes Harold would sit at the back of the theater, in the shadows, and watch the performers rehearse. One day he watched Nancy practice and a funny feeling came over him. He'd never seen a dancer as graceful and precise as Nancy. He was mesmerized and began to watch her every time she was there. Not a shy man, Harold determined to speak to Nancy and tell her how much he enjoyed her dancing.
One Sunday afternoon, Nancy was practicing by herself for the very demanding role of Keily, who was expected to leap from moss clump to moss clump, then do back flips and land in the mining cart. She was so focused she didn't see Harold standing near the curtain watching her. Suddenly she heard a man's voice say, "You are a marvel of skill, Nancy!" Startled by the stranger lurking in the shadows of the giant velvet curtain, Nancy backed away.
Something clicked in Harold. He saw Nancy's backing up as a sign of rejection. He moved toward her. As Nancy turned to run, Harold, who once upon a time was a dancer himself, moved with surprising quickness and tackled Nancy. His hands almost instinctively went for her throat. In a matter of heartbeats, Nancy was without one. Harold then meticulously positioned Nancy's body under where one of the very heavy lights above the stage was about to accidentally fall upon her. What police would see was a most unfortunate victim of stage equipment failure.
A very dark tale, Li. I liked it!
Sometimes you just never know where the story will take you. I certainly did not plan it to end that way!
Somehow I don't think that Nancy was the only girl killed by Harold. I hope the law catches up with him.
You could always write how the police catch him for a prompt challenge. You do have to get your daily words in….


Cleveland Race Week is part of the Cleveland Sailing Association summer series.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Want to prove yourself the fastest sailor in Northeast Ohio?
Join the Cleveland Sailing Association's summer regatta series to race from June through September.
The season kicks off with a breakfast, at 8:30 a.m. April 7 at Lakeside Yacht Club. The $10 meal includes a talk by Lake Erie Marine Trades Association President Michelle Burke.
The public is welcome. And sailors looking to crew on a race boat this year are welcome to come meet skippers and boat owners, said association member Lee Karns.
"There's room to grow, room for new boats," Karns said.
The association has six member yacht clubs, from Rocky River to Grand River.
The association was established in 1996 to promote sailboat racing and foster cooperation among Cleveland's yacht clubs, sailors and marine businesses. The association coordinates regatta dates, hosts the Cleveland Cup invitational and tallies up wins from its series races. The winningest boat wins Boat of the Year.
Throughout the race series, sailors can compete in several classes: PHRF (with spinnakers), JAM (Jib and main sail only), women's, under 35 and doublehanded (two-person team). There are traditional mark courses and longer cruising races. Some are seriously competitive, some family friendly fun and some, like the Leukemia Cup, big fundraisers.
Over the years, up to 40 boats participated in the season. But now the series gets about 20. It takes commitment from a boat and crew to travel for a race almost every weekend.
Still, Karns and Treasurer Bron Toarus believe the series is on the upswing. They're working to attract more boats and entice younger sailors to compete. One way: they hope members of the Foundry community sailing center will enter a Tartan 10 in races.
This story has been updated to change the speaker at the April 7 breakfast.


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Cambodia Travel Guide
Battambang, a must-visit destination in Cambodia
Cambodia's second largest city lies in the heart of the Northwest and until the war years was the leading rice-producing province of the country. Battambang did not give way to the Khmer Rouge movement until after the fall of Phnom Penh, but it's been in the center of the ongoing government Khmer Rouge conflict ever since the Vietnamese invasion in 1979 pushed the genocidal regime out of Phnom Penh and to the Northwest.
Cambodia's second largest city lies in the heart of the Northwest and until the war years was the leading rice-producing province of the country. Battambang did not give way to the Khmer Rouge movement until after the fall of Phnom Penh, but it's been in the center of the ongoing government Khmer Rouge conflict ever since the Vietnamese invasion in 1979 pushed the genocidal regime out of Phnom Penh and to the Northwest. Until the surrender deal of Ieng Sary (Khmer Rouge number three man based in Pailin),Battambang was the Khmer Rouge in the region. Earlier history saw Battambang flip-flopping back and forth between Thailand (called Siam before their 20th-century renaming) and Cambodia.
Battambang is the main hub of the Northwest connecting the entire region with Phnom Penh and Thailand
Battambang is the main hub of the Northwest connecting the entire region with Phnom Penh and Thailand, and as such it's a vital link for Cambodia. Battambang city is a peaceful and pleasant place these days. The main parts of the city are situated closed to the Sangker River, a tranquil, small body of water that winds its way through Battambang Province. It is a nice, picturesque setting. As with much of Cambodia, the French architecture is an attractive bonus of the city.
Tourist attraction in Battabang
Barseat Temple
Barseat Templewas built during the reign of King, Soriyak Varman I (1002-1050) and located on a hill at Ba Set village, Ta Pun commune in 15 kilometer distance from the provincial town. Ba Set temple adapts the architecture of 11th century and built in 1036 and 1042. Next to the temple, there is a pond having 20 meter length 12 meter width and 10 meter depth. The pond is never dried, though in the dry season. In rainy season, the water level is higher than usual.
Barseat Temple
was built during the reign of King, Soriyak Varman I
Wat Ek Temple
Adapts the architecture of 11th century and built in 1027 during the reign of King, Sorayak Varman I (1002-1050). It is located at Piem Ek commune in 14 kilometer from the provincial town.
Ba Nan Temple
Adapts the architecture of mid 11th century and the end of 12th century the temple was first built by King, Ut Tak Yea Tit Tya Varman II (1050-1066) and was built finally built by the king, Jarvarman VII (1181-1219). The temple is located on the top of approximate 400 meter heighten mountain at Koh Tey 2 commune, Ba Nan District in 15 kilometer distance from the provincial town by the provincial Road No 155 parallel to Sang Ke River. At the mountain's valley, there are Ku Teuk and two main natural well, namely: Bit Meas and Chhung or Chhung Achey.
The road to Banan temple
Prasat Snung
Characterizes as three separated stupas made of brick, located on a hill having 30 meter length and 20 meter width, in Snung pagoda's area, Snung commune, Ba Nan District in 22 kilometer distance from the provincial town. According to the style at the gate, the temple is similar to other temples in 12thcentury. Behind the temple, there is another new constructing temple.
Phnom Sam Pov Resort
Phnom Sam Pov Resort is the natural resort located along the National Road No 57 (the former National Road No10) at Sam Puoy commune (the high land having more than 100 meter height) in 12 kilometer distance from the provincial town of Battambang. On the top of Sam Puoy mountain, there are temple and three natural wells, namely Pkar Slar, Lo Khuon and Ak So Pheak. Next to Sam Puoy mountain, there are some main mountains, the natural site like Phnom Trung Moan, Phnom Trung Tea and Phnom Neang Rum Say Sork. These mountains related to the Cambodia folk legend of Reach Kol Neang Rum Say Sork.
Phnom Sam Pov Resort is the natural resort located along the National Road No 57 (
Sek Sak Resort
Sek Sak Resort
is the natural resort, which has been popular since before the civil war time. Sek Sak stretches along the river bank full of plant, trees and bamboo-green nature in 500 meter length. As long as visiting Sek Sak, tourists can also visit other attractive sites like Po Pus Pich Chen Da Dong Tong and Sa Ang speak, the pre-history site in five kilometer to six kilometer distance from each other. Sek Sak located Treng commune, Rotanak Mondul District in 50 kilometer distance from the provincial town of Battambang along the National Road No 57, the former National Road No 10.
Sek Sak
Visiting Roluos Group Temples, Siem Reap - A place of monuments in Cambodia
Roluos is a Cambodian modern small town and the site of an ancient center of Khmer civilization known as Hariharalaya (the abode of Hari-hara). The archeological site is about 13 km east of Siem Reap along NH6. It is known to be the first capital of Khmer Empire north of Tonle Sap.
Tonle Sap Lake - The great lake in Siem Reap, Cambodia
Tonle Sap lake is one of the most unique ecological water wonders in the world. The Lake is the largest fresh water in South East Asia. Its dimension changes depending on the monsoon and dry season. During raining season from June to October, the lake is filled by water flowing from the Mekong with 14 meters in depth and expands the surface of 10,000 square Kilometers. In dry season from November to May its size 3,000 square kilometers with two meters in depth and water flows out from the Lake to the Mekong, in and out flowing is the natural phenomenon occurrences.
Top 5 attractions must - see in Siem Reap, Cambodia
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Angkor Thom - Acient capital of the Khmer empire, Cambodia
Angkor Thom is a laterite coumpound of temples which is the last the most enduring capital of Khmer Empire. It was established in the late 12th century by King Jayavarman VII after driving out the Chams, who destroyed the old capital Yasodharapura. He fortified the city by building a high wall around it, in turn enclosed by a 100 meter wide moat. Therefore, it is an almost square city surrounded by 8 meter high walls a little over 12 kilometers long with five impressive gopura gates providing access to the city. The city's name translates to "large city" or "great city".
General information for traveling to Angkor Wat
When talking about Cambodia, surely almost tourists will think to Angkor Wat the first. It is the reason why will introduce about tour guide Angkor Wat to help you have fun and safe trip in there.
Phnom Penh Postal Code
If you are sending mail or packages to anywhere in Phnom Penh City, you can ensure faster and more reliable delivery by using the official area code.
Useful Contacts in Cambodia
Find out Useful Contacts, Public Services, Emergency Contact Numbers, Tourist office, Police, Fire, Ambulance, Traffic, Airports, Country Code, Local Area Access, Public Institutions when travelling in Cambodia.
Foreign Embassy in Cambodia
All foreign embassies in Cambodia are located in the country's capital, Phnom Penh. Siem Reap has no foreign embassies. But some countries, for example France and South Korea, are represented by a consulate in Siem Reap, offering limited diplomatic and consular services. The following list gives an overview of all foreign embassies and consulates in Cambodia.
Health Care in Cambodia
Health insurance, including emergency evacuation, is absolutely essential. Doctors and hospitals expect cash payments for any medical treatment. The cost of medical evacuation is high. The hospital in Phnom Penh is reliable.
Cambodia Currency & Money
Things to see and do in Cambodia
Angkor, the former capital of the ancient Khmer Empire, is one of the greatest and most spectacular Hindu religious sites in the world. Construction of this elaborate temple complex - built in honour of the god Vishnu - began in AD 879 during the reign of King Suryavarman II and was completed in 1191
Shopping & Nightlife in Cambodia
Visitors to Cambodia have a tendency to leave with bulkier luggage than on arrival: the country's markets are heavy with potential souvenirs, ranging from silks, textiles and statues to carvings, silverwork and Buddhist artworks.