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New Creation Watch Column
If you're just dying to know what Judge Jones actually wrote in his 139 page opinion, but for some reason you don't want to slog through the whole thing, feel free to have a look at my Cliff's Notes version. I go through the entire opinion, summarizing every major point from page one to page 139. Enjoy!
Himmelfarb in The New Republic
The December 12 issue of The New Republic featured a lengthy review of two new anthologies of Darwin's work. The anthologies are significant mostly for the fact that one features an introduction by E.O. Wilson while the other features an introduction by James Watson. The article is not freely available online.
The review was written by Gertrude Himmelfarb, author of Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution. I have never read any of her work, but she has a very bad reputation among evolutionists. I've been told that in the past she has bought into some of the hoariest anti-evolution cliches. That didn't make me optimistic about this review, and I was right not to get my hopes up.
The review really has very little to say at all. Mostly it's just tediously building up to the final paragraphs, in which Wilson and Watson are chided for their alleged "scientism." Not very original.
The frustrating part of the review is that in many places it becomes clear that Himmelfarb doesn't really understand what she is talking about. Consider the opening two pargaraphs:
In 1958, at a cocktail party in London, I was introduced to Sir Julian Huxley, one of England's most eminent scientists. (He had just been knighted). My hostess, seeking, in good English fashon, to esptablish some common denominator between her two guests, told him that I was writing a book on Darwin, and then, perhaps to provoke him, went on to say that the book might put evolution in a new light. "New!" Huxley protested. "There is nothing new to say about evolution. Everything that needs saying has already been said. The theory is incontrovertible." That was the end of that conversation, Huxley promptly going off to find a more congenial drawing-room partner.
I have had occasion to be reminded often of that remark in the almost half-century since, as scientists discovered many new things about fossils, mutations, and genetics, all of which have prompted some adaptation of Darwinism, in token of which the doctrine is now known as "The Modern Synthesis." Julian Huxley would no doubt have been pleased with most of these findings.
Ahem. The term "Modern Synthesis" comes from a book published in 1942 with the title Evolution: The Modern Synthesis. The author of that book? Julian Huxley.
So here we have a supposed scholar of Darwin and his work who apparently believes that the Modern Synthesis was based on developments occurring after 1958. On top of that, she is unaware that it was Huxley himself who coined the term. Yet she is allowed to discourse at length on the significance of evolution in high-brow venues like The New Republic. Lovely.
Both editors are eminent scientists: Edward O. Wilson is best known as the proponent of sociobiology, and James D. Watson as the co-discoverer of the DNA molecule.
Watson and Crick, of course, did not discover the DNA molecule. Everyone knew long before 1953 that our genes were made of the stuff. Actually, their accomplishment was to elucidate the physcial structure of that molecule: the famous double helix.
Edward O. Wilson, meanwhile, is not the proponent of sociobiology. He is a proponent of the subject. Sociobiology is nowadays a perfectly mainstream branch of biology that has shed a lot of light on the behavior of a lot of different critters. Wilson gets credit for coining the term and for being the first to assemble a large quantity of data in support of its importance. His main contribution was to see connections across broad swaths of biology and unite them into one discipline. His study of the famously social ants led him to some of these insights. Curiously, his role in the development of sociobiology is similar to Julian Huxley's role with respect to the Modern Synthesis.
I'm sorry if this seems petty, but when you're writing about science it's important to be precise. Somehow Himmelfarb's sloppiness here reminds me of a story my older brother told me about his eighth grade science class. It seems the teacher described Einstein's famous equation e=mc^2 by saying that energy is equal to mass times light squared. My brother raised an eyebrow and pointed out that light is not the sort of thing that can be squared, and that surely she meant the speed of light squared. No, the teacher insisted. It was the light itself that got squared.
One more:
Natural selection, then, not evolution, was Darwin's claim to fame, evolution having achieved scientific status, so to speak, only by virtue of the mechanism that brought it about. This was how it appeared to Darwin and to his contemporaries - his critics as well as his admirers.
Total nonsense. As Himmelfarb described previously in the essay, other people throughout history had suggested that species were not immutable. But prior to Darwin, very few people really believed it. Darwin's great success in the Origin was to amass overwhelming evidence for the reality that species had evolved through time, tracing out a branching tree as they did so. The evidence he presented was sufficient to convince just about everyone that evolution had, indeed, occurred. But his proposal of natural selection as its mechanism was not well-received at the time or for decades afterwards. Indeed, it was the Modern Synthesis that represented Darwin's vindication on this count.
Anyway, the essay meanders on in this vein. At every turn Himmelfarb reveals that she does not really care about the fine points of the science, she is just concerned to remind everyone that science isn't everything. Fine. I just wish she had said that at the beginning instead of making us wade through her rambling and incoherent precis of this subject.
Bloom in The Atlantic
The December issue of The Atlantic has a lengthy article called "Is God an Accident." Its author is Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology and linguistics at Yale. The article is only available online to subscribers, so I will have to make do with transcribing some representative quotations.
Bloom begins by describing the inadequacies of some older attempts to explain religion. In particular he considers Marx's idea that religion is an opiate that makes it easier to deal with the unpleasantness of daily life, and the idea that religion promotes social cohesiveness which in turn is favored by natural selection. He then describes his main premise:
Enthusiasm is building among scientists for a quite different view - that religion emerged not to serve a purpose but by acident.
This is not a value judgment. Many of the good things in life are, from an evolutionary perspective, accidents. People sometimes give money, time, and even blood to help unknown strangers in faraway countries whom they will never see. From the perspective of one's genes this is disastrous - the suicidal squandering of resources for no benefit. But its origin is not magical; long-distance altruism is most likely a by-product of other, more adaptive traits, such as empathy and abstract reasoning. Similarly, there is no reproductive advantage to the pleasure we get from paintings or movies. It just so happens that our eyes and brains, which evolved to react to three-dimensional objects in the real world, can respond to two-dimensional projections on a canvas or a screen.
Supernatural beliefs might be explained in a similar way. This is the religion-as-accident theory that emerges from my work, and the work of cognitive scientists such as Scott Atran, Pascal Boyer, Justin Barrett, and Deborah Keleman. One version of this theory begins with the notion that a dstinction between the physical and the psychological is fundamental to human thought. Purely physical things, such as rocks and trees, are subject to the pitiless laws of Newton. Throw a rock, and it will fly through space on a certain path; if you put a branch on the ground, it will not disappear, scamper away, or fly into space. Psychological things, such as people, possess minds, intentions, beliefs, goals, and desires. They move unexpectedly, according to volition and whim; they can chase or run away. There is a moral difference as well: a rock cannot be evil or kind; a person can.
Is this distinction something that is learned, or is it something that is hard-wired into the brain? Bloom presents evidence that this distinction between the physical and the psychological is actually an inherent part of human nature. For example, he describes various experiments that were performed with babies and children to justify his conclusion.
By itself, the fact that this distinction is hard-wired into the brain does not explain religious beliefs. It is when these natural predilections go wrong that we get religion:
At this point the religion-as-accident theory says nothing about supernatural beliefs. Babies have two systems that work in a cold-bloodedly rational way to help them anticipate and understand - and, when they get older, to manipulate - physical and social entities. In other words, both these systems are biological adaptations that give human beings a badly needed head start in dealing with objects and people. But these systems go awry in two important ways that are the foundations of religion. First, we perceive the world of objects as essentially separate from the world of minds, making it possible for us to envision soulless bodies and bodiless souls. This helps explain why we believe in gods and an afterlife. Second, as we will see, our system of social understanding overshoots, inferring goals and desires where none exits. This makes us animists and creationists.
As I said, the article is quite long, so let me just add two more excerpts:
This notion of an immaterial soul potentially separable from the body clashes starkly with the scientific view. For psychologists and neuroscientists, the brain is the source of mental life; our consciousness, emotions, and will are the products of neural processes. As the claim is sometimes put, The mind is what the brain deos. I don't want to overstate the consensus here; there is no accepted theory as to precisely how this happens, and some scholars are skeptical that we will ever develop such a theory. But no scientist takes seriously Cartesian dualism, which posits that thinking need not involve the brain. There is just too much evidence against it.
Still, it feels right, even to those who have never had religious training, and even to young children. This became particularly clear to me one night when I was arguing with my six-year-old son, Max. I was telling him that he had to go to bed, and he said "You can make me go to bed, but you can't make me go to sleep. It's my brain!" This piqued my interest, so I began to ask him questions about what the brain does and does not do. His answers showed an intresting split. He insisted that the brain was involved in perception - in seeing, hearing, tasting and smelling - and he was adamant that it was responsible for thinking. But, he said, the brain was not essential for dreaming, for feeling sad, or for loving his brother. "That's what I do," Max said, "though my brain might help me out." (Empahsis in original).
But the real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us. When we see a complex structure, we see it as the product of beliefs and goals and desires. Our social mode of understanding leaves it difficult for us to make sense of it any other way. Our gut feeling is that design requires a designer - a fact that is understandably exploited by those who argue against Darwin.
The whole aritcle is fascinating and convincing, and I recommend picking up a copy. Bloom is persuasive that the physical/psychological split is hard-wired into our brains, and that this distinction gives us a natural predilection for religious and supernatural beliefs.
What is left unclear is where this split came from in the first place. Did natural selection for some reason prefer creatures for whom this split was part of their neural hard-wiring? Or is this split itself an accidental by-product of evolution? The second explanation seems more likely, but it raises the obvious question: by-product of what?
Our brains can do a great many things that plainly were not the result of natural selection. For example, with proper training we can solve partial differential equations, but this ability surely did not give certain of our Australopithecine ancestors a survival advantage over their less mathematically inclined brethren. So of all the manifold things our brains can do, which were the ones specifically selected for? A fascinating question, but not one I'm optimistic about answering in a compelling way.
Thomas Talks Sense?
I'm a little pressed for time today, so the periodical survey will continue tomorrow. In the meanime have a look at this surprisingly sensible column from right-wing pundit Cal Thomas. He writes:
The decision by U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III to bar the teaching of "intelligent design" in the Dover, Pennsylvania public school district on grounds it is a thinly veiled effort to introduce a religious view of the world's origins is welcome for at least two reasons.
First, it exposes the sham attempt to take through the back door what proponents have no chance of getting through the front door. Judge Jones rebuked advocates of "intelligent design," saying they repeatedly lied about their true intentions. He noted many of them had said publicly that their intent was to introduce into the schools a biblical account of creation. Judge Jones properly wondered how people who claim to have such strong religious convictions could lie, thus violating prohibitions in the Book they proclaim as their source of truth and standard for living.
Wow! Couldn't have said it any better myself. And I love the sneer quotes around intelligent design.
These paragraphs are all the more remarkable considering that Thomas is a proud member of the religious right. He is not happy that, for example, prayer has been removed from the public school. But he also believes that Christians make a mistake when they make political power their goal, as this inevitably leads to a corruption of the Christian principles they originally sought to uphold.
Thomas writes:
This leads to the second reason for welcoming Judge Jones' ruling. It should awaken religious conservatives to the futility of trying to make a secular state reflect their beliefs. Too many people have wasted too much time and money since the 1960s, when prayer and Bible reading were outlawed in public schools, trying to get these and a lot of other things restored. The modern secular state should not be expected to teach Genesis 1, or any other book of the Bible, or any other religious text.
That the state once did such things, or at least did not undermine what parents taught their children, is irrelevant. The culture in which we now live no longer reflects the beliefs of our grandparents' generation. For better, or for worse (and a strong case can be made that things are much worse), people who cling to the beliefs of previous generations have been given another chance to do what they should have been doing all along.
Again, well said.
So what should religious conservatives have been doing all along? Home schooling their kids, or placing them in prviate school, of course. And even here, I agree with him. In general I'm highly skeptical of home schooling, and I think all too often it's merely a device for brainwashing children into accepting truly bizarre religious beliefs. I would prefer that every one support the public schools. Frankly, I think that would go a long way towards solving some of the problems the public schools face. But I am enough of a libertarian to accept that in a free society the government can not kidnap your child for most of the day and force him to attend a government run school.
If you really can't abide the idea that sending your kid to public school will result in his exposure to ideas you find objectionable, then the proper response is, indeed, to home school him (or find a private school you can tolerate). What you do not do is try to use the power of the government to promote your preferred religious beliefs. And you definitely don't get to corrupt science education to bring it line with whatever fairy tales you happen to believe.
Schonborn in First Things
Reactions to the Dover decision are coming in thick and fast, but I've had enough of that subject for the time being. Instead I'd like to spend a few days whittling down the big pile of periodicals I have on my desk.
Take this article, by Christoph Cardinal Schonborn, from the January 2006 issue of First Things. You probably recall that Schonborn published an op-ed in the New York Times a while back in which he criticized something called the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution.
The Times piece caused some consternation since it superficially appeared to be a retreat from the Catholic Church's previous position on evolution. In reality it was just a poorly written restatement of the familiar Catholic view: Evolution is fine as long as it sticks to bodies. But only the Church can tell you about the true meaning of things. Nonetheless, the present essay is meant to be a clarification of his views on this subject.
Overall it's just the usual religious simple-mindedness. Science is all well and good, but we shouldn't let it distract us from the self-evident truths that God exists, that humans are the point of it all, and that the Church has something to contribute to a discussion of these topics. Yawn.
But some of the specifics are worth looking at. We begin at the end:
Some may object that my original small essay in the New York Times was misleading because it was too easily misunderstood as an argument about the details of science. As a matter of fact, I expected some initial misunderstanding. Even had it been possible to state in a thousand words a highly qualified and nuanced statement about the relations among modern science, philosophy, and theology, the essay would likely have been dismissed as "mere philosophy," with no standing to challenge the hegemony of scientism. It was crucially important to communicate a claim about design in nature that was in no way inferior to a "scientific" (in the modern sense) argument. Indeed, my argument was superior to a "scientific" argument since it was based on more certain and enduring truths and principles.
Well, that's just lovely. Scientific in sneer quotes. Arguing from groundless "enduring truths and principles" is better than basing your argument on meticulously collected evidence (science in the modern sense, indeed). Making his Times essay appear to be commenting on science was just a clever ploy to make us not dismiss his argument out of hand.
When used by clerics, expressions like "hegemony of scientism" should be understood as code for the frustration they feel that very few people take them seriously anymore. Everyone realizes that if you want to understand the natural world you look to the methods of science, not revelation, and certainly not the addle-brained musings of clerics who have no basis at all for the assertions they make.
This last point is especially important in light of Schonborn's repeated claims that his is an argument based on reason. He writes (replying to a previous essay by physicist Stephen Barr):
Barr's essay addresses at some length the question of design in biology, but does not clearly affirm that reason can grasp the reality of design without the aid of faith. If my reading is correct (and I hope I am wrong), in that respect Barr has followed the overwhelming trend of Catholic commentators on the question of neo-Darwinian evolution, who gladly discuss its compatibility with the truths of faith but seldom bother to discuss whether and how it is compatible with the truths of reason. (Emphasis in original).
In light of such statements you might expect Schonborn to provide some reason-based argument for the reality of design in nature. I sure was. But he never provides any such thing. Instead he repeatedly says things like this:
Instead, my argument was based on the natural ability of the human intellect to grasp the intelligible realities that populate the natural world, including most clearly and evidently the world of living substances, living beings. Nothing is intelligible—nothing can be grasped in its essence by our intellects—without first being ordered by a creative intellect. The possibility of modern science is fundamentally grounded on the reality of an underlying creative intellect that makes the natural world what it is. The natural world is nothing less than a mediation between minds: the unlimited mind of the Creator and our limited human minds. Res ergo naturalis inter duos intellectus constituta—"The natural thing is constituted between two intellects," in the words of St. Thomas. In short, my argument was based on careful examination of the evidence of everyday experience; in other words, on philosophy.
Schonborn seems to think that making bald assertions, about modern science only being possible under a presumption of theism, for example, is the equivalent of making a reasoned argument for those assertions. I find this frustrating.
Let me be more precise. In recent months I have read Brain Greene's book The Fabric of the Universe and Sean Carroll's book Endless Forms Most Beatuiful. Currently I am working my way through Leonard Susskind's book The Cosmic Landscape. The first and last of these are about modern theories of physics, while the middle one is about the role of embryology in evolution. When I read books like these I see scientists going to a great deal of trouble to try to make complex ideas comprehensible to the layman. Chapter after chapter they marshall their facts, discuss the ingenious techniques used to ferret them out, and give you some sense of the history of the ideas they are discussing. After many pages of this foundational material, they offer a few cautious speculations about where things are going.
When I contrast their writing to that of a phony like Schonborn, I am reminded anew of how empty and worthless theology is. It offers nothing beyond mere assertion. It derives its authority solely from the willingness of people to believe it, and not from any agreement with the facts of nature. Scientists try to bring clarity to that which is mysterious. Clerics try desperately to create mystery where there isn't any.
Virtually every paragraph of this essay deserves a response, but let me close with one more excerpt:
The Darwinian biologist looking at the history of life faces a precisely analogous question. If he takes a very narrow view of the supposedly random variation that meets his gaze, it may well be impossible to correlate it to anything interesting, and thus variation remains simply unintelligible. He then summarizes his ignorance of any pattern in variation by means of the rather respectable term "random." But if he steps back and looks at the sweep of life, he sees an obvious, indeed an overwhelming pattern. The variation that actually occurred in the history of life was exactly the sort needed to bring about the complete set of plants and animals that exist today. In particular, it was exactly the variation needed to give rise to an upward sweep of evolution resulting in human beings. If that is not a powerful and relevant correlation, then I don't know what could count as evidence against actual randomness in the mind of an observer.
Some may object: This is a pure tautology, not scientific knowledge. I have assumed the conclusion, "rigged the game," and so forth. But that is not true. I have simply related two indisputable facts: Evolution happened (or so we will presume, for purposes of this analysis), and our present biosphere is the result. The two sets of facts correlate perfectly. Facts are not tautologies simply because they are indisputably true. If the modern biologist chooses to ignore this indubitable correlation, I have no objection. He is free to define his special science on terms as narrow as he finds useful for gaining a certain kind of knowledge. But he may not then turn around and demand that the rest of us, unrestricted by his methodological self-limitation, ignore obvious truths about reality, such as the clearly teleological nature of evolution.
Number me among the objectors. This is a classic case of assuming what you are tyring to prove. Yes, of course, if you start from the assumption that human beings are the point of it all, then it is remarkable indeed that the vicissitudes of four billion years of evolution brought us right where we wanted to be. But Schonborn has no basis for that assumption. I could more plausible argue (following Stephen Jay Gould), that nature was designed to provide an hospitable place for bacteria, with large species like humans and elephants being an occasional aberration. But the overwhelmingly dominant life forms on the planet, today as it has always been, are the bacteria. What are we to conclude from that.
What it really comes down to is this. Scientists have certain facts to confront. They look at our extensive fossil record and see that random mass extinctions play a pivotal role in the direction of natural history. They find no general trend toward increasing braininess, or even increasing complexity. Geneticists have a good grasp of the mechanisms of genetic variation, and can find no directional or guiding principle in any of it. Field biologists find that the trajectory of evolution is crucially shaped by environmental changes, and these changes are unpredictable as far as we can tell. Anatomists tell us that there is nothing in our physical make-up to distinguish us from the other animals, and that we are the product of the same evolutionary forces as every other species. Based on all of this evidence, scientists begrudgingly conclude that evolution has no overall direction or purpose, and that human beings are just one more species among many.
And in reply people like Schonberg come along and accuse scientists of arrogance. They assert that it is completely obvious that humans were designed, the evidence notwithstanding. Just look at their big brains! They say this is obvious to anyyone who has not been blinded by the limitations of science. Then they tell us the Catholic church is the only outfit that can reliably guide us on questions about morality, God, and our fate in the afterlife.
As Richard Dawkins once said, scientists are amateurs at arrogance.


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I wear the the shade inked in pink nearly everyday and it truly lasts all day, it would probably make it to the 24hr mark if I didn't take my make up off at night. The colour is insanely pigmented and are so creamy that they blend out like a dream.
I find they apply best by just using your finger and applying straight to the entire eyelid, then with a fluffy blending brush blend the colour out into the crease. If you pop some white eyeshadow in the corner of your eye it makes a really nice pink everyday look that makes your eyes pop.
I love the colours, they are so pigmented and pretty. I love the packaging, it feels a little luxurious (such thick walls on the jar!).
Wearing this on my slightly hooded lids... it transfers up to my crease/hooded part, and gathers in the fold of my lid. I haven't tried using primer to solve this issue, but I think it'll be necessary the next time I use this. I have this in 'Barely Branded', and I think it becomes lighter during the day? It looked more white a few hours later, than the nudish colour I had applied in the morning, so I recommend to only use this in the center of the lid to add some shine, not as an actual lid colour.
This product is very creamy and easy to use- either with a finger or a brush. I personally prefer using my finger as I find the heat from my finger makes the cream shadow easier to blend.
I heard that 'Barely Branded' was a dupe for Benefit's Watts Up, but i disagree. It is far too glittery to act as a nice, natural highlighter Watts Up is.
May consider repurchasing if I'm looking for a metallic cream shadow, and will only be wearing for a short amount of time.
Final touches on eye makeup looks. Don't try to use 'Barely Branded' as a highlighter.
When it comes to makeup I am a high end user. The cheapest cream eye shadow I have used was the Clinique eye lid smoothie which is now discontinued. I am also using Makeup Forever cream eye shadow which I like ($36). I purchased a completely different colour from Maybelline during one of the Priceline 40% off sale. I haven't been interested in supermarket brand makeup items for a while but being constantly on the BH forum I just felt that I HAD to buy something during the sale (a case of FOMO). The colour I chose was "#25 Bad to the Bronze".
I did not have much expectation of this product - precisely because of this I was pleasantly surprised! The colour was quite easy to apply using just my finger. It stays on very well and it was long lasting. The product does not crease. The pigments are quite fine (the shimmer is not as fine as Clinique / Makeup Forever but for such a budget price I can live with that). It would probably be nice if the product is creamier, so that the blending and the product application is easier. At the moment I found this product quite "hard" in texture, and it could be a little challenging and time consuming to blend properly, especially when doing two different eye shadow colours.
The colour "Bad to the Bronze" is great for the corner of the eyes. I found this colour to be too dark to use on my whole lid because I have fair skin.
Overall I am very very impressed at the quality especially given the price of less than $10 while on sale.
I had high expectations of this product but ended up disappointed. I though that this product would be great for either use alone or as a base for other eye shadows however neither worked for me. I found that within minutes of applying this creased very badly and became patchy. I tried applying it with my fingers, sponge and brush but nothing made any difference for me. I also tried it with different primers and without any primer but it was no use. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I have hooded eyes however I have tried a lot of other eye products and have never had this problem before. Not worth the money in my opinion.
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Announcing the 2009 Game of the Year Awards from the First Hour! We wrote 21 full reviews this year, check out which ones are named the Game of the Year, Older Game of the Year, and a few others!
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by Mike in Omaha — Thu, 09/03/2009 - 11:00am
Golden Axe: Beast Rider is the long anticipated entry in the classic Sega-developed series; Golden Axe. The franchise began life in 1989 as an arcade game but was later successfully ported to both the Master System and Genesis with multiple sequels and spin-offs to follow over the years. This installment doesn't play so much as a sequel, but rather as a re-imagining of the first game in which the evil Death Adder must be vanquished. It was developed by a relatively unknown developer; Secret Level Games.
Editor's Note: Mike B. is a brand new guest writer here at the First Hour, you may also see him around here as Mike in Omaha. He's enthusiastic about game writing and has even been to E3! I haven't even been west of Wyoming. In all seriousness though, great to have him on board and keep an eye out for more from him in the future. And like always, if you'd like to write for the First Hour, just shoot me an email and we'll talk. Back to Mike's review.

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When buying an automobile, chances are it may not have each and every option and feature you desire. From a CD Player to leather seats and more, there is bound to be one thing you wished your vehicle had.
We've all seen the stretch limo pull up aside us where you can't see the interior whatsoever. As important as it is to protect who is the in the vehicle it's also important to protect what's in the vehicle, particularly while you're away. Window tinting offers a bit of additional security by preventing potential thieves to peek inside. Leaving your windows un-tinted gives your thieves complete transparency, literally, to see what's inside your vehicle. Whether it be a laptop, cell phone or a few bucks – keep your items from view with window tints.
Ever hop into your car in the middle of a summer day and almost jump out of your seat the instant you step in? Your car seats, especially if they're leather, can get extremely hot and uncomfortable. With window tints, they can help keep your seats cool as well as the overall temperature of your vehicle by giving a bit of shade.
The sun has destructive rays that can damage and fade your interior if it is constantly beating on it day in and day out. When your windows are tinted, your vehicle's interior, like your cloth, vinyl and leather material, is protected from the damaging rays.
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Ever since I was little, I have thought that the dark windows on a car always looked really cool. But until now, that is all I thought that they would tint their windows for, to look cool. I would never have thought that the tint on a car window could keep the inside of you car a little bit cooler then if you didn't have it. That, and some of the other information came to a surprise to me. Now I'm am going to have to look into this. Thank you.
People often think of tinted windows as just for looking cool, but they actually have a ton of important uses! That's why it's so important to make sure they're done well. Thanks for sharing these benefits!
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Q: Office Graph TrendingAround always return 403 Forbidden The call to https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/trendingAround returns "403 Forbidden" although the App has File.Read permissions.
I've checked
http://graph.microsoft.io/en-us/docs/authorization/permission_scopes and didn't find any more appropriate privilege to give. I even tried to give all permissions listed on dev.office.com/app-registration but the response is the same.
The call to graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/people works.
If I try the trendingAround API on graph.microsoft.io/en-us/graph-explorer it also works, but not in the App.

A: List trendingAround API requires Sites.Read.All permission which is not list in https://dev.office.com/app-registration. You need to assign this permission in Azure Active Directory.

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*Go to the Office 365 tenant in Azure AD > Applications.

*Find the application your registered or register a new one.

*Microsoft Graph > Delegated Permissions > Read Items in all site collections.

For more details, please check the document Manually register your app with Azure AD so it can access Office 365 APIs

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The irresistible shift to cloud infrastructure has been accompanied by a certain amount of fear and uncertainty. Part of the reluctance has been a sense of "who is minding the shop" and a concern over the lack of visibility and control. In one sense, cloud data centre infrastructure is potentially more secure than private infrastructure, as it may be maintained by a large, specialised team with potentially greater expertise that can attend to security issues that arise. In another, the cloud opens up several new attack surfaces that could be used by cybercriminals and other bad actors.
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Most organisations already face a serious security deficit. Few can detect an active attacker at work on their network. The industry average dwell time of some five weeks reflects the failure of traditional security to find an intruder that has circumvented preventative security and is working towards a data breach. Companies should first address the problem they face on-premises and then address the blind spots in the cloud. Both are important steps to safeguard data and resources.
The public cloud data centre can be a new ingress or egress point for attackers to gain a foothold into one's network or as a channel for command and control communications and data exfiltration. In addition, the reconnaissance and lateral movement that an attacker must employ once they gain access can be done without fear of discovery. These four types of operational activities must be detected and stopped, if organisations want to protect their assets from attackers.
Closing all the gaps is important in the drive to protect networks from a data breach. Attackers are agile, and if one tactic is too difficult or not possible, they can easily move to plan B. For some companies, this may mean that an attacker would turn to the cloud data centre to help accomplish their goals. If attackers can use a public cloud data centre for undetected ingress and egress, it invalidates some of the efforts an organisation has put in place to protect their own network.
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Often, a development or test instance becomes the Achilles heel in the cloud. Many of these development or test instances may have been intended for a specific purpose at a specific point in time, but they can become forgotten and left up —a perfect entry-way for an attacker. One of these forgotten instances could be the easy route an attacker utilises.
Finding active attackers in on-premises networks can be accomplished by identifying their operational activities as they probe servers and misuse credentials. Having a complete vantage to network traffic is essential, as the primary attack activities involve reconnaissance and lateral movement—things that happen on a network, between devices. Discerning these comes through behavioural profiling of all users and devices. Once a baseline of learned good behaviour is obtained, it is possible to detect anomalies. These anomalies need further refinement to find those that are truly indicative of an attack.
Combining full network visibility with machine learning allows organisations to detect an attacker that might otherwise be invisible to the security team. Unfortunately, gaining access to a mechanism for visibility in the cloud has not existed until recently. Now, organisations can take advantage of Behavioural Attack Detection in the cloud and use native Amazon Web Service VPC Flow Logs or the new Gigamon Visibility Fabric for AWS to monitor their virtual network. They can also protect hybrid cloud environments, monitoring user access to cloud servers and detecting anomalous activity indicative of an attack.
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The cost and consequences of a data breach are rapidly climbing, particularly with the enforcement of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which applies to companies in the EU or doing business in the EU. Besides hefty penalties, damage to brand and reputation or loss of intellectual property or business secrets could put a company out of business. While it is nearly impossible to ensure that no endpoint will ever get compromised, it is possible to find active attacks quickly and prevent a simple malware infection from turning into a costly data breach. Closing all the blind spots for attackers to operate in without notice is essential to make this a reality.
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Salmonella Outbreak Linked To Kosher Chicken Kills 1, CDC Says
By Amy Held • Aug 31, 2018
The CDC traced a salmonella outbreak that sickened more than a dozen people to a New York-based Kosher chicken brand.
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A salmonella outbreak stretching across four states sickening 17 people and resulting in one death has been linked to a popular brand of kosher chicken, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Since last September, cases have been reported in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and New York — where the death occurred.
The CDC said that several of the people who got sick reported eating Empire Kosher brand chicken, and the the strain also was identified in raw chicken collected from a facility that processes for the brand.
No recall has been issued.
"We are not advising people to avoid eating kosher chicken or Empire Kosher brand chicken because there are steps that can be taken to make the product safe to eat," CDC spokesman Benjamin Haynes told NPR. "People can certainly make individual decisions on what type of chicken to eat based on the outbreak information that has been shared."
Proper precautions include cooking the meat to an internal temperature of 165 degrees Fahrenheit, washing hands with warm soapy, water for 20 seconds after handling, and thoroughly washing any surface or item that comes into contact with the raw meat.
The CDC also advises people not to wash raw chicken, which can cause the juices to splash and spread germs. (Here is a handy chart for safely cooking meats.)
Despite the simple steps, the CDC estimates that salmonella still sickens more than one million in the U.S. every year.
Americans, who eat more chicken than any other meat, should assume that all of it could be harboring salmonella before it is cooked, Haynes said.
Salmonella, a type of bacteria that lives in the intestines of animals and humans, is shed in feces. When an animal is butchered the feces may get onto the meat.
Common symptoms include diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps, which occur between 12 hours and three days after the infection and can last up to a week.
Most people recover without treatment and with no lasting impact, but the very old, very young and those with weakened immune symptoms are more susceptible to complications. Some 450 people die each year from salmonella poisoning, the CDC says.
The CDC says the outbreak linked to Empire Kosher brand appears to have ended in June. Still, the risk may not be over.
The United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a public health alert "out of an abundance of caution," saying it is concerned that some of the contaminated meat — including raw whole chicken and chicken parts — could remain in people's freezers.
In a statement, Empire Kosher said it was cooperating fully with food safety officials.
"We take food safety and the health of our consumers very seriously, and any illness even potentially linked to our products is unacceptable," the company said. "We continue to very aggressively work to ensure the quality and safety of our products."
Kosher foods adhere to Jewish dietary laws, which in the case of meat includes a ritualistic slaughter of the animal. Certified kosher products also have gained a reputation for being more healthful and safer than other foods, and only about 8 percent of kosher consumers are religious Jews according to Kosher: Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food.
But as Berkeley Wellness notes, little published research establishes an actual difference in the safety between kosher and nonkosher foods.
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Imagine a self-driving, autonomous, financial life—a money-enabled life—with your personal financial advisor accessible wherever and whenever you want through your screen-based (mobiles, tablets) and voice enabled (like Amazon Echo and Google Home) technology.
As a result, banks are not needed anymore for traditional consumer banking. There will be almost no bank branches because mobile phone apps and online account management take their place. New fintech solutions to consumer banking services (a combination of bank/financial advisor applications) with the convergence of technology will allow companies such as Amazon to be able to access your accounts and buy products for you without your having to think about it (e.g. daily goods that are usually bought on a frequent basis—food, toilet paper, detergent, others), or buying other products through voice-enabled technology.
Meanwhile, crowd-lending platforms and fintechs become so powerful in credit default prediction that they become the cheapest and easiest platform for lending.
Imagine a world in which AI-enabled financial advisors can help you manage your money in ways that are difficult or inconvenient today. Such systems will tell you, for instance, that it's time to move your utility provider because it is actively comparing offers by providers with your usage and expenditure patterns. It could tell you that it is time to change your credit card to save you X amount on interest. It could tell you the least expensive way to send money overseas.
"While customers trust banks to hold their money and personal data, they are skeptical about banks always providing advice and services that benefit them. One of the promises of artificial intelligence (AI) in banking is to reverse this erosion in customer trust and start providing contextual, holistic advice that is truly in customers' best interest. Simple to say, but tough to do. It will mean material cannibalization of existing revenue streams, the end of product silos, and a level of radical transparency unfamiliar to most banks. Yet, if banks fail to use digital technology to replicate the banking intimacy in the fictional town of Bedford Falls, then someone else will do it for them and, in the process, bypass banks altogether.
In this scenario, non-bank tech giants such as Google, Apple, Tencent, and Alibaba and fintechs such as Revolut attack banks in payments, lending, or foreign exchange for retail clients. These new competitors will open up entirely new kinds of services and enjoy substantial growth, while traditional banks will cannibalize themselves on constantly shrinking revenue pools.
An Amazon bank account offering, for example, lending and deposit as well as easy payment solutions when ordering from Amazon online could attract lots of customers from the incumbent banks. Would customers consider this as an option?
In addition to the big players, more and more so-called fintechs appear on the market, fulfilling the customer preferences of simplicity, convenience, availability, speed, transparency, and reliability by offering banking products such as online-only bank accounts. Some of these challenger banks have already obtained a banking license and are also able to run business models with free bank accounts and free payments abroad. Customers compare their experiences in this online world with the services of the traditional banks.
In 2018, the UK put into place the PSD2 (Second Payment Services Directive) to require the UK's 9 largest banks to share information outside their walls in a secure, standardized format. This initiative was motivated by several perceptions among regulators: that there was insufficient competition for customers, that customers were over-paying for things like overdraft fees, and that money was just sitting in accounts failing to reward the consumer with interest on savings.
While it is not clear yet what services will be developed as a result of the move toward open banking, the potential to completely rewire the banking sector is significant. As an analogy, who could have predicted that Google's mapping project would facilitate the founding and growth of geolocation dependent services such as Uber?
Open banking has the potential to create a massive shift of power to consumers, as their data is no longer locked away in legacy transaction systems. For example, data that would support giving loans to people with "thin files" of conventional information could potentially open up entirely new customer segments for related services.
Among the practices that open banking is likely to change is the current model employed by many fintech firms of "screen scraping," in which users provide their actual logon credentials to a third party, which gives them far broader access to user information than is necessary and creates a major security risk.
After we identify time zero events like these, we can start to work backward: What would have to be true six months before time zero for that to occur? Twelve months before time zero? Eighteen months before time zero? By doing this exercise, you can gather relevant data and begin to create a bigger picture.
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ABC has scrapped its planned live special in honor of the 50th anniversary of Rolling Stone magazine, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Originally set to air on Feburary 7th, the three-hour broadcast was slated to pay tribute to the influential publication through a combination of live performances, short films, iconic onstage moments, never-before-seen musical pairings, and celebrities.
Done + Dusted was set to produce the special in conjunction with the publication's parent company, Wenner Media. Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner was among the executive producers. Since the special was first announced in May 2017, however, Wenner has been accused of sexual misconduct by two separate parties. In November, journalist Ben Ryan accused Wenner of making a pass at him in 2005 and offering him a 25-article contract in exchange for sexual favors, while former Rolling Stone employee Jonathan Wells came forward with a similar experience last week.
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The upgrade to ProBoards forum software version 5 is scheduled for mid-afternoon GMT on Saturday, December 28.
Please use this thread to ask for assistance on any issues you may have regarding the upgrade.
Also kindly post your comments or suggestions.
Yes, the larger avatar area has truncated the right edge of the wider-width signatures. However I just widened the forum a bit...now they ar OK.
The custom smilie code could not be replicated; I had to find a plugin to allow them back, in creating posts at least. The plugin created a custom drop-down smilie box in the 'create post' area. When you click the smiley box , click "view all smilies" to access our legacy smilies.
Whew! I think that is everything is complete. Moving / copying everything from the test forum to this forum was quite a job!
I was happy to replicate our custom menu buttons, our three-box welcome table, and our custom smilies. Kind of bringing the old into the new!
Please take a few minutes and review your Profile settings. Simply click the "profile" button below the top banner. Then click the 'edit profile" on the right side. Pay particular attention to your Privacy and Notifications Settings. There many new options for you to consider.
Also, post about any issues or errors you are seeing...especially members using Chrome / Firefox / Safari, smartphones, etc.
Edit...I widened the forum a bit, so your signature images are no longer cut off.
I can't see any "Profile button". The only button I have is labelled "Participated". Under the banner is a cyan rectangle with no buttons. Should there be some? This is the same in both Firefox and IE. I can't see any means of displaying the last 50 posts, or threads with unread posts. No search facility. No PM facility. And yes, I am listed as online.
Sorry for the trouble , I'm looking at things now for you.
I almost always view the forum on the mobile website, and the new version is much more streamlined. I like it.
All is well for me in Firefox, IE and Chrome... so I wonder if this is a cache issue?
Martin D, have you tried clearing your browser cache? Forced refresh (CTRL-F5) might also work - or failing that (temporarily) a different browser perhaps?
Try it now, Martin D...our custom buttons plugin has two theme options (default and theme 2) I enabled both themes.
Good to hear...and glad you enjoy it!
I have the same problem as martin no profile access and no its not a cashe issue because until this change i have not been able to logon. its been a long time. and this computer was not built the last time I did log on.
Sorry for the trouble... Please click your name or Paste this into your browser hwi.proboards.com/user/121 and click Edit profile, then click the Settings tab. Then scroll down to forum theme, try either Default or Theme 2, hope one will work for you.
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Thanks joe! the theme thing did it. at 1st i clicked on my name but could not fine my saved pm's after i changed the theme from default the buttons were there and all is well again.
PM's are just called messages now...can you see your saved private messages when you click the Messages button?


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GREEN BAY–Packers General Manager Ted Thompson spoke glowingly on Tuesday of Brett Favre, welcoming the day when Favre might reunite with the team and its fans.
"I think it's wonderful," Thompson said when asked about what appears to be improving relations between Favre and the Packers. "We're talking about this place and what it means to people. The man played here for a long, long time and was a marvelous football player. It means a lot to the Packers for Brett to be remembered in a good light."
Favre left the Packers following the 2007 season, in what appeared to be a dispute with Thompson about the quarterback's future with the team.
Thompson made his comments during his first press conference of training camp. He offered comments on several subjects.
Practice scuffles–"I'm not a fan of that at all. I don't see the point in that."
The release of linebacker Desmond Bishop–"It speaks well to the growth of our depth at the position. I wish he had gone somewhere else," Thompson said, referring to Bishop having signed a contract to play for division-rival Minnesota.
Accusations the Packers are soft–"I disagree. I think we have a tough group of football players."
Bryan Bulaga moving from right tackle to left tackle–"He was playing left tackle when we drafted him. That's why the staff moved him there. He looks fine. We'll see. We play in the NFL, so we'll have a chance to prove it."


The birthplace of the nation's modern-day labor movement moved closer to becoming the nation's 24th right-to-work state after bills Gov. Rick Snyder vowed to sign into law passed their first hurdles in the Republican-controlled Legislature on Thursday.
The House and Senate each passed bills on the same day they were introduced that give private and public sector workers the right to avoid paying union dues in an organized workplace. Only police officers and firefighters would be exempt.
The package can't reach final completion until at least Tuesday because of procedural rules that require a five-day layover for two of the bills before they can be voted on in the other chamber.


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R. Kelly Accusers Receive Standing Ovation At Women's Event In New York
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The ladies shared their stories with the audience.
The anticipated sexual assault trial of R. Kelly is looming, but in the meantime, three of his accusers attended Variety's "Power of Women New York" event and shared their stories. Lisa Van Allen, Asante McGee, and Kitty Jones were all featured in Lifetime's Surviving R. Kelly documentary series, and when the trio was introduced to the audience, they received a standing ovation.
"My journey started two decades ago," Van Allen said. "I met Robert at 17. I testified against him with the prosecution in 2008 — and rather than people believing me, they acted as if I was on trial. All that changed with 'Surviving R. Kelly," she said. "And I'm very glad to have [that audience] as the most important jury of all."
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McGee, who published a book about her life with Kelly titled No Longer Trapped In The Closet: The Asante McGee Story, added, "I once was the die-hard fan of R. Kelly — if you said anything negative about him I would beat you up. I dated him for a little over two years — it was two weeks after I moved in with him before I met Robert: R. Kelly is the [performer], Robert is the devil. After I left, I knew I had to do something, so I contacted the parents of the girls who are in the house with him. I will continue this journey — I will not be silenced. My goal is to get one girl home one day at a time."
Jones shared her story last. "Coming from a background in radio, I was always the voice of my community and I never thought that one day my voice would be silenced and fear would be instilled in me by my abuser. Because I was not underage, I was not [taken as seriously]. But standing for my truth was very important and it's important that people know that abuse has no limit — you're not exempt, it could happen to anyone. I want to thank Lifetime for giving us the platform to tell our stories. It's been very empowering and liberating for us to know that we're being heard."
Meanwhile, it's reported that Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx is feeling the pressure of the R. Kelly trial after the controversial dismissal of charges against Jussie Smollett. She was involved in the previous Smollett drama and is currently the acting prosecutor in Kelly's case, and it's said there is both public and private pressure for her to handle the singer's case properly.
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The Isle of Wight Donkey Sanctuary was first established in 1987 to provide any donkey in distress or otherwise in need of care and attention, a safe and permanent home. The Sanctuary is based between Shanklin and Ventnor. Donkeys need a lot of care and attention. They need regular brushing, called grooming and their hooves trimmed by a farrier every six to eight weeks. In general donkeys are very placid, gentle creatures and respond best when they are treated kindly. They are very loyal creatures.
One of the most important programmes on the farm is worming, which happens four times per annum. Charlie Clarke, the farm manager, leads his team to worm 150 animals over a one week period. Different drugs are administered depending on the season the worming takes place. TVF funded the entire worming costs for 2010.


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How Do You Get The Marco Polo Videos Back?
In order to retrieve the Marco Polo videos, one must first understand the underlying structure of the database in which they are stored.
The videos are not simply located at a certain point in the file system; rather, they are indexed and retrievable through a specific set of search criteria.
By understanding the database schema and the relevant search parameters, one can easily locate and download the desired videos.
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To retrieve the Marco Polo videos, users must input their credentials into the system. Once authenticated, they are able to access the videos and download them.
Does Marco Polo disappear?
There is much debate surrounding the fate of Marco Polo after his return from China. Some believe that he simply disappeared without a trace, while others argue that he continued to live a long and prosperous life. The truth, however, may never be known. What is known, however, is that Polo's writings about his time in China were some of the first to be recorded and provide a detailed account of the East Asian culture and society at the time.
Marco Polo does not disappear from the text. However, there is much that is unknown about his life and death. Some historians believe that he may have died in prison after returning to Genoa from China, while others believe that he may have continued to travel until his death.
How long does Marco Polo store videos?
Marco Polo stores videos for an indefinite amount of time. Videos are stored on a user's computer and are not uploaded to any external servers. This means that the user is in control of their videos and can delete them at any time.
Does Marco Polo Keep your videos?
Marco Polo does not keep your videos.
Can you get back deleted Marco Polo videos?
Marco Polo videos that have been deleted can potentially be retrieved through certain means. If the videos were removed from the site's server, then there may be ways to restore them using backup files. If the videos were removed by the user, then they may still be available on the user's computer or through other online sources.
There is no definitive answer to this question as it depends on a variety of factors, including the specific video hosting platform used and the extent of the deletion. In most cases, however, deleted videos can be recovered through various methods if they have not been overwritten. For example, if the video was hosted on YouTube, it may be possible to use Google's cache or an online video recovery tool to restore the footage.
What happens if I delete Marco Polo app?
If you delete the Marco Polo app, it will no longer be on your device and cannot be used.
If you delete the Marco Polo app, it will no longer be on your phone. The app will also be removed from your iCloud account, which means that it will no longer be backed up. If you want to reinstall the app, you can download it from the App Store again.
How do I delete an old Marco Polo?
To delete an old Marco Polo, you must navigate to the "My Activities" tab on the left-hand side of the screen. Once there, find the "Marco Polo" activity you wish to delete and click on the three small dots in the upper right-hand corner of the box. A drop-down menu will appear with a "Delete" option. Clicking on this option will delete your Marco Polo activity.
Is Marco Polo safer than Snapchat?
Marco Polo is a messaging app that is considered to be more secure than Snapchat. Snapchat is a messaging app that is known for its lack of security features. Marco Polo provides end-to-end encryption for all messages, which means that the messages are only viewable by the sender and the receiver. Snapchat does not provide this level of security.
Marco Polo is a more secure app than Snapchat because it allows users to control who can see their messages. Snapchat, on the other hand, does not have such a feature and messages can be easily seen by anyone.
Can you make Marco Polo private?
The answer to this question is yes, you can make Marco Polo private. This is done by editing the privacy settings for the app. By default, Marco Polo is set to public, which means that anyone who has the link to your video can watch it. To change this, you can go to the app's settings and change the privacy setting to "private." This will prevent anyone who doesn't have the link to your video from being able to watch it.
What is Marco Polo famous for?
Marco Polo is famous for his exploration of Asia in the 13th century. He was one of the first Europeans to travel to China and he wrote about his experiences in a book called The Travels of Marco Polo.
How do you retrieve deleted Marco Polo?
To retrieve deleted Marco Polo, you must use a complex algorithm to reverse the deletion process. First, you must identify the location of the deleted files on the hard drive. Then, you must restore the files to their original location. Finally, you must restart Marco Polo to access the restored files.
The first thing you need to do is locate the deleted files on your computer. This can be done by opening up the "Recycle Bin" and locating the Marco Polo files. Once you have found the files, you can then restore them by right-clicking on them and selecting "Restore.
Can you delete a Marco Polo before they see it?
The answer to this question is yes – you can delete a Marco Polo before they see it. However, there are certain restrictions in place that prevent users from deleting messages that have been already sent. In addition, there is also a limit to the number of messages that can be deleted in a single day.
The answer to this question is yes, you can delete a Marco Polo before they see it. However, whether or not they will actually see it is another question. If you delete the message before they open it, then they will never see it. However, if you delete the message after they open it, then it will still be in their chat history and they will be able to see it.
What does active recently on Marco Polo mean?
Active recently on Marco Polo refers to a feature that allows users to see when other users have been active on the app within the last day. This allows users to quickly see who is currently online and chat with them.
Active recently on Marco Polo refers to a feature that allows users to see when other users were last active on the platform. This feature is beneficial for users who want to connect with others who are also active on the platform.
What does not active yet mean on Marco Polo?
Marco Polo is still in its development phase and has not been released to the public yet.
Marco Polo has not been activated yet, which means it is not live and users cannot yet create accounts or access the platform. The company plans to launch the product in the coming weeks.
Can you resend a Marco Polo?
The term "Marco Polo" is often used in business to refer to a request for a duplicate copy of an email or other communication. The term is derived from the story of Marco Polo, a Venetian explorer who journeyed to China in the 13th century and returned with stories of his adventures. In modern usage, the term "Marco Polo" is used to describe any situation in which a person requests a copy of something that has already been sent.
Is Marco Polo for old people?
Marco Polo is not specifically for old people, but it may be enjoyed by older individuals. The game's mechanics revolve around taking turns moving pieces along a board, and this type of gameplay can be appreciated by people of all ages. Additionally, the storyline and setting of Marco Polo are based on historical events and figures, which may interest retirees who are looking for something to keep them occupied.
There is no definitive answer to this question as it depends on the individual's perspective. Some may argue that Marco Polo is for older adults who are looking for a challenging and strategic game that will keep them entertained for hours on end. While others may say that the game is too complicated and difficult for those who are not already familiar with card games. Ultimately, it is up to the player to decide whether or not Marco Polo is the right fit for them.
Is Marco Polo kid friendly?
There is no definitive answer to this question. Some parents might feel that the content in Marco Polo is too mature for young children, while others may feel that the app is perfectly appropriate for kids. The main thing to consider when deciding if Marco Polo is kid friendly or not is the content of the app. Marco Polo is a video messaging app that allows users to record and send short videos to their friends.
Marco Polo is not specifically kid friendly, but it does have content that would be appropriate for children. The show follows Marco Polo's adventures as he travels throughout Asia in the 13th century, and while there is violence and some mature themes, there is also a lot of colorful scenery and interesting historical information. Ultimately, it would be up to parents to decide whether a particular episode or season is appropriate for their child, but Marco Polo generally provides a good mix of entertainment and education.
Is Marco Polo free?
Marco Polo is not a free agent. He is a slave to the Mongols.
Marco Polo is not free. He is a slave to his work.
Can other people see my Marco Polo?
Marco Polo is a messaging app that allows users to share their location with other people. Other people can see the user's location on a map, and they can also see the user's location history.
What does Marco Polo mean in English?
Marco Polo is a name derived from the Venetian explorer Marco Polo, whose travels are documented in the book Il Milione. The name "Marco Polo" is a compound of "Marco" and "Polo", both of which are common Venetian surnames.
How do I get Marco Polo Plus for free?
Marco Polo Plus is a subscription-based service that offers its users exclusive content, such as documentaries and TV shows, for a monthly fee. Although the service does offer a free trial, it requires a payment method to be linked to the account in order to access the full range of content.
To get Marco Polo Plus for free, one would need to be a member of the Google Play Music family plan. The plan allows up to six people to share a subscription and each person gets their own personal account with their own playlists, recommendations and settings. The family plan can be shared with people who live in the same household or any other family members anywhere in the world.
Is hundred eyes a real person?
The answer to this question is difficult to determine. There are many references to a figure known as "Hundred Eyes" in ancient Chinese texts, but it is not clear if this is a real person, a symbol, or something else entirely. Some believe that Hundred Eyes was an actual person who was able to see in all directions at once, while others claim that the name refers to the hundred different ways that he or she interpreted the world.
There is no definitive answer to this question as it remains a matter of speculation. Some believe that hundred eyes was a real person who lived in ancient China, while others suggest that the legend is simply a metaphor for the many different ways that people can observe something. What is known for certain is that the story of hundred eyes first appeared in a collection of Chinese myths and folktales called Liezi, which was written sometime during the 4th or 5th century AD.
Who Did Marco Polo marry?
Marco Polo married a woman named Kukachin. He was very fond of her and she of him. She was beautiful and sagacious, and he esteemed her above all women.
Marco Polo married a woman named Katerina. They had three daughters: Fantina, Bellela, and Moreta.
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today I'm in Montreal. My lady and I spent the first part of the day wandering around the old city of Montreal, and this evening we have plans for a nice dinner and a longer walk. My practice this morning was not particularly thorough, but it happened. Then I forgot to write about it, so we didn't miss breakfast and our downtown plans.
Unlike many other hotels where I've stayed, this one has enough room for me to do my tai chi practice properly. It's nice.


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the boxcars: keith garrett, ron stewart, harold nixon, john bowman and adam steffey. photo by dean hoffmeyer.
When a band take The Boxcars as its name, the imagery begins to flow.
You picture music in motion that is constant and unhurried, yet still urgent. You sense songs with a folklorish sense of longing, distance and wanderlust.
In the case of All In, the second and newest album by this all-star bluegrass collective, all those topics and attitudes apply. The recording runs along the brisk but desperate sideroads of Alone and Wondering Why, travels back to the Depression Era with the dark orphans saga Crawford County and settles briefly under the cautiously shady shelter of Old Hollow Tree.
The music bears a lightness, a delicate and harmonious acoustic accent devoid of the kind of narrative and melodic sentimentality that has made a lot of contemporary bluegrass sound like modern country music. Credit that to the hearty traditional streak that runs throughout All In – especially the four tunes penned by Boxcars guitarist Keith Garrett. But toss in a patiently brewed version of Earl Scruggs' I've Lost You, and the extent of the band's roots-friendly journeys is revealed.
While The Boxcars may still be a new name to some, despite a hearty showing at last year's International Bluegrass Music Association's annual awards ceremony (where it won honors for Instrumental Group of the Year). But its personnel should be familiar to even the most casual of regional bluegrass fans.
Let's start with bassist Harold Nixon and banjoist Ron Stewart, both of whom put in six years with J.D. Crowe and the New South about the time their Grammy nominated album Lefty's Old Guitar was being constructed.
Stewart stuck to fiddle during that time. No need for another banjo picker when Crowe is in the band. In The Boxcars, however, fiddle is handled primarily by John Bowman, another Crowe alum who played bass during his brief New South tenure. He is perhaps better known for an extensive run with The Isaacs and, for about a year and a half, Alison Krauss and Union Station, where he played guitar ahead of Dan Tyminski.
Another Union Station veteran, mandolinist Adam Steffey, who later co-founded Mountain Heart, completes the lineup. But he also performed with The Isaacs.
Shoot, you need to jump aboard a boxcar just to keep up with where these guys have been, much less where they are going. On Saturday, though, The Boxcars' travels take the band to Meadowgreen Park Music Hall in Clay City. Blue River will open.
The Boxcars perform at 7 p.m. Feb. 23 at Meadowgreen Park Music Hall, 303 Bluegrass Lane in Clay City. Tickets are $12. Call (606) 663-9008.


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Numbers on Argyle at Gresty Road
Overall summary: P 8 W 3 D 1 L 4 F 10 A 15
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First time: Billy Bingham's men lost 1-2 at Gresty Road on Saturday, March 1, 1969. Dave Burnside scored for the Greens.
Last time: Craig Tanner and Graham Carey were our scorers in a 2-1 win for Derek Adams's promotion-bound Pilgrims on November 12, 2016.
Biggest win: We have twice recorded 2-1 wins at Crewe. As well as the aforementioned victory in November, 2016, we also won by this score line on January 21, 2006. Skipper Paul Wotton grabbed a brace, as Tony Pulis continued to successfully steer Argyle away from the Championship relegation zone.
Heaviest defeat: We have twice lost 0-3 – firstly under Neil Warnock on September 28, 1996 and secondly under Bobby Williamson on December 11, 2004.
Most goals in a single game: Five in a 2-3 defeat for Carl Fletcher's men on January 7, 2012. Simon Walton and Matt Lecointe were our scorers.
Further interesting facts:
This isn't the first time that we have played Crewe in the opening game of the season – we kicked off the 1968-9 campaign by drawing 2-2 with the Railwaymen at Home Park. Our goals were scored by Steve Davey and Frank Lord in what was our first game in the third tier of English football for over nine years following our relegation from the equivalent of today's Championship the previous spring.
We have only once kept a clean sheet away to the Alex, in a 1-0 win on October 19, 2002. David Norris scored the winner for Paul Sturrock's team in his debut for the Pilgrims on loan from Bolton Wanderers.
We have never scored more than twice in a single game away to Crewe – something to address tomorrow.
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Winston Churchill (1874 -1965), regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during WWII. He was also a British Army officer, a writer, a historian, and an artist. In 1953, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his six-volume set "The Second World War". Ten years later, he became the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.
oppositions. He was lauded for his social reforms and military support yet criticized and dubbed as a "right-wing extremist" for the controversies involving him and the military. In 1922, he was kicked out of the Liberal Party.
However, his value as a strategist was realized when Hitler became a threat to the European countries. Churchill was the leading advocate for British rearmament and a staunch critic of Prime Minister Chamberlain's appeasement policy toward the Nazis. On the day British declared war on Germany, he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty and a member of the War Cabinet. Eventually, King George VI appointed him as Prime Minister and Minister of Defense.