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Lawyers Claim CDC Cooked Books on Mercury: Secret Report Reveals
April 7, 2009 By Vaccine Choice Canada
A leading vaccine injury law group announced today that their firm is now in possession of an unreleased confidential report authored by Centers for Disease Control scientists which studied autism as a potential neurological injury caused by mercury in children's vaccines. An announcement was made by the law firm of Waters & Kraus, the firm that filed the first known lawsuit alleging that a mercury preservative in children's vaccines caused neurological damage to an infant ultimately diagnosed with autism.
Andy Waters, the lead attorney in the firm, warned that a different version of the report was eventually made public and has been cited by the recent Institute of Medicine study as inconclusive on the issue of whether the mercury-based vaccine preservative known as thimerosal has contributed to cause a nationwide epidemic of regressive autism and other neurological disorders in small children. The confidential version of the study, however, clearly demonstrated that an exposure to more than 62.5 micrograms of mercury within the first three months of life significantly increased a child's risk of developing autism. Specifically, the study found a 2.48 times increased risk of autism – that is to say, children with the exposure were more than twice as likely to develop autism as children not exposed. In the United States, courts of law have generally held that a relative increased risk of 2.0 or higher is sufficient to substantiate that a given exposure causes disease. As but one example, in the case of Cook v. United States, 545 F.Supp. 306, at 308 (Northern District – California 1982) the Court stated that, "in a vaccine case, a relative risk greater than 2.0 establishes that there is a greater than 50% chance that the injury was caused by the vaccine."
Waters indicated that, in many of the cases his firm has evaluated, including the case filed in a Texas state court on behalf of the Counter family, the affected child received more than 62.5 micrograms of mercury through pediatric vaccines in the first three months of life.
The confidential report, which was obtained by the SAFEMINDS support and advocacy group, states: "As for the exposure evaluated at 3 months of age, we found increasing risks of 'neurological developmental disorders' with increasing cumulative exposure to thimerosal … within the group of 'developmental disorders'… for the sub-group called 'specific delays,' and within this sub-group for the specific disorder 'developmental speech disorder,' and for 'autism,' 'stuttering' and 'attention deficit disorder.'" The report also contained the graph depicted below which illustrated the report's findings of a child's increasing risk of developing the neurological symptoms of autism Waters pointed out that the confidential study's lead author, Thomas Verstraeten, has since left the Centers for Disease Control and is now employed by GlaxoSmithKline, a manufacturer of thimerosal-containing vaccines for many years that is a defendant in numerous suits pending nationwide. "We have asked GlaxoSmithKline to provide Mr. Verstraeten's deposition in order to understand if conflict of interest issues may have played a role in the CDC's decision to keep this report confidential, and specifically, their failure to reveal it to the Institute of Medicine." Waters called the report's contents and the fact that it was kept from the public as "shocking, but unfortunately not surprising, given the political influence of pharmaceutical companies and the tremendous liability they face if they are forced to compensate thousands of families for the costs of care that these children require."
Waters added that "no amount of money can give these children back the potential that they were born with, and no amount of money will comfort the parents that watched The purpose of the lawsuits his firm is currently prosecuting, said Waters, is "to bring to the surface the truth on this issue, a truth that government agencies seem unwilling to admit, perhaps for fear that parents will stop vaccinating their children, and to force the companies that profited from this disastrous mistake to shoulder the responsibility that so many families now bear on their own, often without even the aid of health insurance benefits."
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from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse

from django.views.generic import DetailView, ListView

from launch.models import Launch, LaunchConfig
from enterprise.views import EnterpriseContextMixin
from enterprise.models import ActionRecord, Transaction
from django.http import Http404, HttpResponseRedirect
import random

class AvailableLaunchesList(EnterpriseContextMixin, ListView):
    context_object_name = 'launches'
    template_name = 'launch/availablelaunches_list.html'

    def get_queryset(self):
        universe = self.enterprise.universe
        return Launch.objects.filter(universe=universe, when_igt__gt=universe.current_time).all()

class PurchasedLaunchConfigsList(EnterpriseContextMixin, ListView):
    context_object_name = 'launchconfigs'
    template_name = 'launch/purchasedlaunches_list.html'

    def get_queryset(self):
        return LaunchConfig.objects.filter(purchaser=self.enterprise).all()

class PurchaseLaunchConfig(EnterpriseContextMixin, DetailView):
    context_object_name = 'launchconfig'
    template_name = 'launch/config_purchase.html'

    def get_object(self, queryset=None):
        lcobj = get_object_or_404(LaunchConfig, launch__universe=self.enterprise.universe,
                                 id=int(self.kwargs['lcid']), sold=False)
        if not lcobj.launch.can_purchase_config(lcobj):
            raise Http404()

        return lcobj

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        self.object = self.get_object()

        self.object.sold = True
        self.object.purchaser = self.enterprise
        self.object.save()

        action = ActionRecord(enterprise=self.enterprise, when_igt=self.enterprise.universe.current_time,
                              description='Purchased launch of %s kg to %s on a %s %s at %s for %s' % (
                                                        self.object.max_mass, self.object.destination,
                                                        self.object.launch.company,
                                                        self.object.launch.product,
                                                        self.object.launch.when_igt, self.object.price))
        action.save()
        self.enterprise.add_transaction(details='Purchase of launch on %s' % self.object.launch.when_igt,
                                  acc_type='Expense', amount=-self.object.price)

        return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('launch_purchasedconfigs',
                                            kwargs={'enterprise': self.enterprise.slug}))

class SellLaunchConfig(EnterpriseContextMixin, DetailView):
    context_object_name = 'launchconfig'
    template_name = 'launch/config_sell.html'

    def get_object(self, queryset=None):
        lcobj = get_object_or_404(LaunchConfig, launch__universe=self.enterprise.universe,
                                 id=int(self.kwargs['lcid']), sold=True, purchaser=self.enterprise)
        if not lcobj.launch.can_purchase_config(lcobj):
            raise Http404()

        return lcobj

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        context = EnterpriseContextMixin.get_context_data(self, **kwargs)

        price = int(self.object.price * (0.6
                                         + 0.1 * random.random()
                                         + 0.035 * min(10, (self.object.launch.when_igt - self.enterprise.universe.current_time).days)
                                         + 0.25 * random.random() * max(0, 2 - (self.object.launch.when_igt - self.enterprise.universe.current_time).days)))
        context['price'] = price
        price_name = 'launchconfig-%s-offer' % self.object.id
        self.request.session[price_name] = price

        return context

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        self.object = self.get_object()

        price_name = 'launchconfig-%s-offer' % self.object.id
        price = int(request.session.get(price_name, 1))

        self.object.sold = True
        self.object.purchaser = None
        self.object.save()

        action = ActionRecord(enterprise=self.enterprise, when_igt=self.enterprise.universe.current_time,
                              description='Sold launch of %s kg to %s on a %s %s at %s for %s' % (
                                                        self.object.max_mass, self.object.destination,
                                                        self.object.launch.company,
                                                        self.object.launch.product,
                                                        self.object.launch.when_igt, price))
        action.save()
        self.enterprise.add_transaction(details='Sale of launch on %s' % self.object.launch.when_igt,
                                  acc_type='Sale', amount=price)

        return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('launch_purchasedconfigs',
                                            kwargs={'enterprise': self.enterprise.slug}))

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Darwin's men still evading the Cambrian explosion after, what, 150 years?
Posted on June 16, 2013 Author NewsComments(13)
How are people allowed to go on evading an obvious problem for 150 years?
Over at Creation-Evolution Headlines, we learn,
Stephen Meyer's new book, Darwin's Doubt, is officially released next week. Chapter 4 will tell about the uproar caused at the University of Oklahoma in 2009 when Meyer and Wells scheduled a panel discussion after a showing of Illustra's film Darwin's Dilemma about the Cambrian fossil record.
Darwinists at the university attempted a pre-emptive strike by issuing announcements that the event was religiously motivated. In the Q&A, though, the university's professors and museum curators could not produce any unambiguous fossil as a credible ancestor to any of the Cambrian animals. Meyer's book, updated with the latest findings since then, examines all the putative fossil ancestors and evolutionary exlanations for the Cambrian explosion, and assesses the issue's relevance to the Darwin-ID debate.
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13 Replies to "Darwin's men still evading the Cambrian explosion after, what, 150 years?"
bornagain77 says:
For a small preview of Stephen Meyer's new book 'Darwin's Doubt', out this week, here is the movie Darwin's Dilemma which was released a few years ago:
Darwin's Dilemma – Excellent Cambrian Explosion Movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWEsW7bO8P4
It should be noted that one major clarification in the fossil record that has come about, since the release of the movie Darwin's Dilemma a few years ago, is the finding that the Ediacaran biota, which preceded the Cambrian animals, were not sea creatures as is portrayed in the movie, but are now thought to have lived on land:
Ediacarans Not Related to Cambrian Animals – December 16, 2012
Excerpt: "These fossils have been a first-class scientific mystery," he said. "They are the oldest large multicellular fossils. They lived immediately before the Cambrian evolutionary explosion that gave rise to familiar modern groups of animals.",,
If not sea creatures, what are they? Retallack suggested they could be "lichens, other microbial consortia, fungal fruiting bodies, slime molds, flanged pedestals of biological soil crusts, and even casts of needle ice." In the paper and the press release, he had very little to say about evolution, except that the Ediacarans represent "an independent evolutionary radiation of life on land that preceded by at least 20 million years the Cambrian evolutionary explosion of animals in the sea."
http://crev.info/2012/12/ediac.....n-animals/
Australian Multicellular Fossils Point to Life On Land, Not at Sea, Geologist Proposes – Dec. 12, 2012
Excerpt: Ediacaran fossils, he said, represent "an independent evolutionary radiation of life on land that preceded by at least 20 million years the Cambrian evolutionary explosion of animals in the sea." Increased chemical weathering by large organisms on land may have been needed to fuel the demand of nutrient elements by Cambrian animals.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/re.....134050.htm
Ediacaran embryos in retrospect – David Tyler – January 28, 2013
Excerpt: "there is currently no convincing evidence for advanced animals with bilateral symmetry in the Doushantuo biota". This particular quest for animals preceding the Cambrian Explosion has drawn a blank. Needless to say, Darwin's dilemma remains in full force.
http://www.arn.org/blogs/index.....retrospect
When Nature Resists: Explaining the Origin of the Animal Phyla – Paul Nelson – April 5, 2013
Excerpt: ,,,lately, I've run across something related to ontogenetic depth that is, well, mind-blowing.
Since 1859, the origin of not a single bilaterian phylum (animal body plan) has been explained in a step-by-step (neo-Darwinian) fashion, where random mutation and natural selection were, as textbooks assert, the primary causal mechanisms. Take your pick of the phyla: Mollusca, Brachiopoda, Chordata, Arthropoda, you name it — and go looking in the scientific literature for the incremental pathway, via mutation and selection, showing how that body plan was assembled from its putative bilaterian Last Common Ancestor.
You'll be looking a long time.,,,
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2.....70871.html
Darwin's Dilemma – The Cambrian Explosion – In Darwin's Own Words
Excerpt: Consequently, if the theory be true, it is indisputable that, before the lowest Silurian or Cambrian stratum was deposited long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably far longer than, the whole interval from the Cambrian age to the present day; and that during these vast periods the world swarmed with living creatures…
To the question why we do not find rich fossiliferous deposits belonging to these assumed earliest periods, I can give no satisfactory answer…
The case at present must remain inexplicable; and may be truly urged as a valid argument against the views here entertained. [emphasis added]
—Chapter IX, "On the Imperfection of the Geological Record," On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin – fifth edition (1869), pp. 378-381.
http://indigosociety.com/showt.....-Explosion
Fossil Gallery – Burgess Shale – images of species from Cambrian period – Main Gallery
The Main Gallery is a comprehensive source of information based on the latest scientific research covering the majority of species so far described from the Burgess Shale. It contains a growing collection of over 500 high resolution images representing 184 species in 135 genera. In addition, dozens of scientifically accurate drawings and breathtaking digital animations will allow you to visualize these organisms in three dimensions and see how they lived.
http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca.....pecies.php
Myself, seeing as the entire universe is now known to have instantaneously come into to being at the Big Bang, I don't know why anybody would dogmatically try to claim, against such persistent and resolute evidence, that such a amazing thing is not also possible in the Cambrian explosion.
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How do advocates of evolution explain the actual origin of life? They say that some billions of years ago the ocean surrounding the earth may have become an "organic soup," though still lifeless. Then, they explain, 'a particularly remarkable molecule was formed by a most improbable accident.' Miraculously, this reproduced itself to form other molecules that clustered together to form a living cell. Could anything sound more fantastic? The writer who gave this description stated in his foreword: "This book should be read almost as though it were science fiction." Yes, fiction, but hardly science!
Could it not be that, given the existence of life, different species of living things might progressively evolve into other species? Well, if that took place, the fossil record of past ages would show this. But does it? Consider the so-called Cambrian period. Here fossils of the major groups of invertebrates first appear together in a spectacular "explosion" of living things. If these vastly differing groups all exploded into life at the one time, how could they possibly have evolved from one another? Darwin himself frankly admitted: "If numerous species . . . have really started into life at once, the fact would be fatal to the theory of evolution." Fatal indeed!—1 Corinthians 3:19, 20.
The fossil record reveals that different and very complex life forms appeared suddenly and fully developed. As one professor of natural science commented: "Whales, bats, horses, primates, elephants, hares, squirrels, etc., all are as distinct at their first appearance as they are now. There is not a trace of a common ancestor, much less a link with any reptile, the supposed progenitor." Are there any fossils of giraffes with necks two thirds or three quarters the accepted length? No, there are not. The truth of the matter is as stated at Genesis 1:25: "God proceeded to make the wild beast of the earth according to its kind and the domestic animal according to its kind and every moving animal of the ground according to its kind. And God got to see that it was good."
Paleontologist Mark McMenamin on Darwin's Doubt – David Klinghoffer June 17, 2013
Excerpt: "It is hard for us paleontologists, steeped as we are in a tradition of Darwinian analysis, to admit that neo-Darwinian explanations for the Cambrian Explosion have failed miserably. New data acquired in recent years, instead of solving Darwin's dilemma, have rather made it worse. Meyer describes the dimensions of the problem with clarity and precision. His book is a game changer for the study of evolution and evolutionary biology. Stephen Meyer points us in the right direction as we seek a new theory for the origin of Cambrian animal phyla."
– Mark McMenamin – paleontologist at Mt. Holyoke College
JLAfan2001 says:
What I can't understand, and I've asked this a few times with no response, if one doesn't accept common ancestry then where did the sudden life forms come from? How did the Jurassic explosion, Triassic explosion occur? How did all the reptiles, mammals and birds suddenly appear out of nowhere in the fossil record? If Myers has a probelm with the Cambrian, how he is going to explain everything else? Maybe a book should be written called Myers' Mystery.
JLAfan2001, seeing as the entire universe is now known to have instantaneously come into to being at the Big Bang, then 'scientifically' there is no hard and fast reason to presuppose that it is impossible for anything within the universe to come into being instantaneously. In fact, Eugene Koonin's invoking of 'many worlds' to try the 'explain away' the OOL comes to mind:
The cosmological model of eternal inflation and the transition from chance to biological evolution in the history of life – Eugene V Koonin – 2007
The plausibility of different models for the origin of life on earth directly depends on the adopted cosmological scenario. In an infinite universe (multiverse), emergence of highly complex systems by chance is inevitable. Therefore, under this cosmology, an entity as complex as a coupled translation-replication system should be considered a viable breakthrough stage for the onset of biological evolution.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm.....MC1892545/
Biological Big Bangs – Origin Of Life and Cambrian – Dr. Fazale Rana – video
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/4284466
Though Eugene Koonin is correct to recognize that the infinite probabilistic resource postulated in 'Many Worlds' does not preclude the sudden appearance of massive amounts of functional information on the earth, at any time or at any place on Earth (or anywhere else in the universe for that matter), he is very incorrect to disregard the 'Logos' of John 1:1 needed to correctly specify the 'precisely controlled mechanism of implementation' for the massive amounts of complex functional information witnessed abruptly and mysteriously appearing in the first life on earth, nor for the mysterious appearing of any of the subsequent 'sudden' appearances of life on earth. i.e. Koonin must sufficiently account for the 'cause' for the 'effect' he wants to explain. Invoking 'infinite pure chance', as he does with 'many worlds' as the cause for life suddenly appearing on earth is, in reality, no explanation at all. And as has been noted previously, Stephen Meyer clearly points out that the only known cause now in operation, sufficient to explain the sudden origination of the massive amounts of functional information needed for life, or new life forms in the Cambrian explosions (or subsequently), is intelligence:
Stephen C. Meyer – What is the origin of the digital information found in DNA? – August 2010 – video
"JLAfan2001, seeing as the entire universe is now known to have instantaneously come into to being at the Big Bang, then 'scientifically' there is no hard and fast reason to presuppose that it is impossible for anything within the universe to come into being instantaneously."
If this is the case, then you just solved the big bang, the origin of life, the cambrian explosion and consiousness. Ita ll "poofed" into existence.
JLAfan2001, actually, as I was careful to point out in my post, it is the materialistic multiverse (many worlds) where things just can be "poofed" into existence for no reason at all. In Theism there is always a reason for why things happen, for why the universe was created and for why life on earth was created, although we may not always understand the reason why.,,, In fact so bad is the situation with materialism and 'infinite chance' that it results in the epistemological failure of science itself (Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism and Boltzmann's Brain; Bruce Gordon),,,
But JLAfan2001, instead of just pointing to the epistemological failure that results for the entire enterprise of science with the materialist's appeal to unbounded 'infinite chance' at the origin of the universe,,
The Absurdity of Inflation, String Theory and The Multiverse – Dr. Bruce Gordon – video
Here is the last power-point slide of the preceding video:
The End Of Materialism?
* In the multiverse, anything can happen for no reason at all.
* In other words, the materialist is forced to believe in random miracles as a explanatory principle.
* In a Theistic universe, nothing happens without a reason. Miracles are therefore intelligently directed deviations from divinely maintained regularities, and are thus expressions of rational purpose.
* Scientific materialism is (therefore) epistemically self defeating: it makes scientific rationality impossible.
Instead of just stopping there JLAfan2001, and just pointing out the unrestrained insanity that results when a purely materialistic worldview it is pushed to the extreme of accounting for the origin of the universe itself with 'infinite chance', let's go one step further JLAfan2001, and let's allow that, by some unknown mechanism, the only random chance allowed in the universe, since the creation of the universe, is the 'bounded entropic chance' associated with Boltzmann's equation:
It is interesting to note that Ludwig Boltzmann, an atheist, when he linked entropy and probability, did not, as Max Planck a Christian Theist points out in the following link, think to look for a constant to entropy:
The Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann first linked entropy and probability in 1877. However, the equation as shown, involving a specific constant, was first written down by Max Planck, the father of quantum mechanics in 1900. In his 1918 Nobel Prize lecture, Planck said: "This constant is often referred to as Boltzmann's constant, although, to my knowledge, Boltzmann himself never introduced it – a peculiar state of affairs, which can be explained by the fact that Boltzmann, as appears from his occasional utterances, never gave thought to the possibility of carrying out an exact measurement of the constant."
http://www.daviddarling.info/e.....ation.html
I hold that the primary reason why Boltzmann, an atheist, never thought to carry out, or even propose, a precise measurement for the constant on entropy is that he, as an atheist, had thought he had arrived at the ultimate explanation for how everything in the universe operates when he had link probability with entropy. i.e. In linking entropy with probability, Boltzmann, again an atheist, thought he had explained everything that happens in the universe to a 'random chance' basis. To him, as an atheist, it would simply be unfathomable that the 'random chance' (probabilistic) events of entropy in the universe should ever be bounded by a constant that would limit them. Whereas on the contrary, to a Christian Theist, it is expected that even the seemingly random chance events of entropy in the universe should be bounded by a constant:
'Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator. In most modern scientists this belief has died: it will be interesting to see how long their confidence in uniformity survives it. Two significant developments have already appeared—the hypothesis of a lawless sub-nature, and the surrender of the claim that science is true.'
Lewis, C.S., Miracles: a preliminary study, Collins, London, p. 110, 1947.
For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
Yet JLAfan2001, Entropy (random chance), though bounded by a constant, is pervasive in its explanatory power for events that happen within the universe,,
Shining Light on Dark Energy – October 21, 2012
Excerpt: It (Entropy) explains time; it explains every possible action in the universe;,,
Even gravity, Vedral argued, can be expressed as a consequence of the law of entropy. ,,,
The principles of thermodynamics are at their roots all to do with information theory. Information theory is simply an embodiment of how we interact with the universe —,,,
http://crev.info/2012/10/shini.....rk-energy/
Yet JLAfan2001, this bounded entropy ('random chance' as is denoted in Boltzmann's equation) that happens within the universe, and that is so pervasive in its explanatory power within science, is always found to be destructive to information rather than constructive to information.,,, For a little background,,, Researchers have long suspected a connection between information and the entropic processes of the universe:
"Is there a real connection between entropy in physics and the entropy of information? …. The equations of information theory and the second law are the same, suggesting that the idea of entropy is something fundamental…"
Tom Siegfried, Dallas Morning News, 5/14/90 – Quotes attributed to Robert W. Lucky, Ex. Director of Research, AT&T, Bell Laboratories & John A. Wheeler, of Princeton & Univ. of TX, Austin in the article
And finally, a few years ago, a direct connection between entropy and information was finally made:
Maxwell's demon demonstration (knowledge of a particle's position) turns information into energy – November 2010
Excerpt: Until now, demonstrating the conversion of information to energy has been elusive, but University of Tokyo physicist Masaki Sano and colleagues have succeeded in demonstrating it in a nano-scale experiment. In a paper published in Nature Physics they describe how they coaxed a Brownian particle to travel upwards on a "spiral-staircase-like" potential energy created by an electric field solely on the basis of information on its location. As the particle traveled up the staircase it gained energy from moving to an area of higher potential, and the team was able to measure precisely how much energy had been converted from information.
http://www.physorg.com/news/20.....nergy.html
Demonic device converts information to energy – 2010
Excerpt: "This is a beautiful experimental demonstration that information has a thermodynamic content," says Christopher Jarzynski, a statistical chemist at the University of Maryland in College Park. In 1997, Jarzynski formulated an equation to define the amount of energy that could theoretically be converted from a unit of information2; the work by Sano and his team has now confirmed this equation. "This tells us something new about how the laws of thermodynamics work on the microscopic scale," says Jarzynski.
http://www.scientificamerican......rts-inform
Now JLAfan2001, finally having a empirically demonstrated direct connection between entropy and the information inherent within a cell is extremely problematic for Darwinists because entropic processes are found to always destroy information,,,
"Bertalanffy (1968) called the relation between irreversible thermodynamics and information theory one of the most fundamental unsolved problems in biology."
Charles J. Smith – Biosystems, Vol.1, p259.
"Gain in entropy always means loss of information, and nothing more."
Gilbert Newton Lewis – preeminent Chemist of the first half of last century
"The First Rule of Adaptive Evolution": Break or blunt any functional coded element whose loss would yield a net fitness gain – Michael Behe – December 2010
Excerpt: In its most recent issue The Quarterly Review of Biology has published a review by myself of laboratory evolution experiments of microbes going back four decades.,,, The gist of the paper is that so far the overwhelming number of adaptive (that is, helpful) mutations seen in laboratory evolution experiments are either loss or modification of function. Of course we had already known that the great majority of mutations that have a visible effect on an organism are deleterious. Now, surprisingly, it seems that even the great majority of helpful mutations degrade the genome to a greater or lesser extent.,,, I dub it "The First Rule of Adaptive Evolution": Break or blunt any functional coded element whose loss would yield a net fitness gain.
http://behe.uncommondescent.co.....evolution/
Thus, Darwinists are found to be postulating that entropic events, which consistently destroy information, are what are creating information in the cell. ,,, It is the equivalent in science of someone claiming that Gravity makes things fall up instead of down, and that is not overstating the situation in the least.
Verse and Music
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.
Third Day – Creed – Live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riseOj_1Tn4
Blue_Savannah says:
Can't wait to read Meyer's new book. I pre-ordered it last week from Chapters. (I live in Canada)
tjguy says:
JLA says:
Just because ID has a difficult time explaining this does not mean that the evolutionary explanation is correct. This is actually a show stopper for evolution.
Perhaps Myers will have some helpful things to say about this from an ID perspective in his book.
YECs use the global flood to explain these events, but the flood is very difficult to study because we can't observe it, repeat it, or verify our ideas about it. Much interpretation is involved because this is historical science so it will never be as precise as observational/operational science that uses the scientific method. Evolution suffers from this same problem.
There are various flood models put forth by YEC scientists, but I'm not sure we will ever really be able to solve the problem authoritatively. The global flood is a very active area of research among YEC scientists and progress will certainly be made.
Just because we don't have the full answer yet does not mean the evolutionary explanation is right or that we need to hold that position.
A more accurate and honest position would be to say that "We have some ideas, but we don't know for sure. We hope that we will be able to solve this in the future."
A little honesty would be quite refreshing, but that seems to be quite rare these days. I think all sides in this debate have areas for which their theory doesn't quite answer all the questions.
However, as it stands now, the evidence we have does not support common descent. It is pretty devastating for evolution. Will that change? We don't think so, but I'm sure you are hoping it will. It shows that evolution is no where near as factual as often claimed.
Today Dr. Meyer is on the Dennis Miller Show at 9:15 AM Pacific Time, Dennis Prager at 11 AM Pacific, Janet Parshall at 2 PM, among other things. – See more at: http://www.evolutionnews.org/2.....73421.html
http://www.dennismillerradio.com/
http://www.dennisprager.com/
http://www.moodyradio.org/inth.....tparshall/
Timaeus says:
jlafan2001 (re 5 above):
Are you incapable of spelling "Meyer" correctly, even when it it appears three times in the column above?
zweston WJM, for sake of argument, let's just grant you your characterization of God. Let's test your claim that the God... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
ET So that this is clear: The immune system contains the complex specified information that needs to be explained in the... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
dogdoc ET: There isn't any scientific theory of materialism. This is of course true. "Materialism" is the name of a philosophical... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
ET Dogdoc: And as we've seen, ID can explain any possible observation. Only if you IGNORE everything IDists have said. Obviously,... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
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dogdoc PaV: Regarding junk DNA you say: ID theory would say that ANY such possibility would be minimal, to almost non-existent.... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?


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Q: JFXtras - How to add Change Listener to CalendarTextField? how can I listen to a change in the CalendarTextField in JFXtras? For example a new choosen date from the picker-menu or a typed-in date?
    date.addEventFilter(MouseEvent.ANY, new EventHandler<Event>() {

        @Override
        public void handle(Event arg0) {
            System.out.println("EVENT");

        }
    });

gives me every movement of the mouse within the field. I didn't find another eventType that makes sense.
I also thought about adding this event filter in the window and check the selected date at every click in the window. But that can't be the right way.

A: Alright, found it here:
    date.valueProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<Calendar>() {
        @Override
        public void changed(
                ObservableValue<? extends Calendar> observableValue,
                Calendar oldValue, Calendar newValue) {
            System.out.println(oldValue + " -> " + newValue);
        }
    });

I didn't realize that in FX a listener has to be set to the property, not to the component like in Swing.

A: I have redesigned a calendar component in a control with FXML, for the picker-menu I use the XCalendarPicker and I add a changelistener to it calendar() (who is a property). And when a date is changed I update my textfield with the new Date
final XCalendarPicker calendarPicker = new XCalendarPicker();

final ChangeListener<Calendar> calendarListener = new ChangeListener<Calendar>() {

            @Override
            public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends Calendar> observable, Calendar oldValue, Calendar newValue) {
                Date date = newValue.getTime();
                setDate(date);
            }
        };

        calendarPicker.calendar().addListener(calendarListener);

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Hi. A quick, dumb question. Are uploads counted in one's monthly bandwidth quota?
Newer plans only, the details should be in your members area.
Thanks for the tip. May I ask exactly where in the members' area I can find this information.
Also, what happens if one exceeds one's monthly NBN bandwidth? Shaping? Excess charging? Chinese wrist burn?
3. Select "Usage" tab and from there you can select a date range and view the uploads and downloads count in separate.
4. Total count of uploads and downloads will indicate and match the total usage.
4. Select " View Service details"
For plans with a combined data allowance it will say "Upload and download limit", for old plans it will just say "download limit" under "view service details in your members area.
Thanks for the assistance. It does seem like uploads are metered, unlike my previous ADSL.
That will affect the NBN plan I settle on. I may have to move from 500GB to Unlimited.
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Q: Change the config values in Phalcon I have Config.ini file with the content
[episode]
unlock = false;

I want to change the value from the controller like
$this->config['episode'] = array('unlock' => true);

OR
$this->config->episode->unlock = true;

I have this on my loader file
$di->set('config', function() use($config){
   return $config;
});

A: You'll have to get the config from your DI container first, then you can change values as much as you like.
$config = $this->di->get('config');
$config['episode'] = array('unlock' => true);

As mentioned in the comments, this works, but doesn't make that much sense, because the new value will not persist between requests.


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FLAIR wide-field multi-object spectroscopy system
F. G. Watson*, A. P. Oates, P. M. Gray
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution
Although the 1.2-metre United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope (UKST) was built exclusively for the purpose of taking photographic plates, it became apparent in 1982 that the telescope's enormous field of view could be further exploited by carrying out multi-object spectroscopy using a floor-mounted long-slit spectrograph fed by low-loss optical fibres. In such an arrangement, the merits of the 40 deg2 field could be combined with those of the most sensitive electronic detectors to offer the promise of large-scale intermediate-dispersion spectroscopic surveys for objects brighter than about 18th magnitude, a task not practicable on conventional telescopes even of considerably larger aperture. To this end, a multi-object feed system known as the Fibre-Linked Array-Image Reformatter (FLAIR) has been developed for the UKST. An early prototype, completed in 1985, was substantially improved in 1988 and now provides an effective and unique wide-field CCD spectroscopy service on a common-user basis. Target objects are typically galaxies with B ≤ to 17.5 for redshift determination, but stars, too are commonly observed. A feature of the spectra is their very high wavelength stability. Time-resolved multi-object photometry of variable objects has also been successfully carried out. Work has recently begun on a second-generation system, FLAIR II. With improved front-end arrangements and a new spectrograph, FLAIR II is expected to produce further substantial gains in efficiency and performance.
Instrumentation in Astronomy VII
David L. Crawford
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.19137
Instrumentation in Astronomy VII - Tucson, AZ, USA
Proc. SPIE
10.1117/12.19137
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Watson, F. G., Oates, A. P., & Gray, P. M. (1990). FLAIR wide-field multi-object spectroscopy system. In D. L. Crawford (Ed.), Instrumentation in Astronomy VII (pp. 736-746). (Proc. SPIE; Vol. 1235). Bellingham, WA: SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.19137
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If you are frequently on the run and need a breakfast that is healthy and quick, this recipe is a great solution. You actually don't have to cook the oatmeal. Instead the oatmeal softens in the yogurt and milk mixture overnight. All that is left for you to do in the morning is add the toppings. I suggested fresh berries and walnuts in this recipe. I also sometimes add sliced bananas. You can use your favorite fruit combination. The drizzled honey is a must. It's not the hot oatmeal breakfast that you are used to but this cold version makes a delicious oatmeal parfait to get your morning off to a healthy start!
Stir together oats, yogurt and milk until combined. Store in an airtight container and refrigerate overnight.
Remove from refrigerator. Dollop in serving cups and top with fresh berries, chopped walnuts and drizzle with honey.
Note: If mixture is too thick, add a little milk for desired consistency.


This post is a bit ironic, because all I've done today is eat junk food.
In my defense- it's been rainy and just sad, so comfort food is a must.
Yesterday I saw a video from Blogilates (I've talked about Cassey and all of her awesomeness before here) and I just had to share.
As much as I love pizza... and brownies... and grilled cheese, nothing beats roasted veggies and that's exactly why I need to share this video with you all.
Are macrobiotic bowls becoming a thing? I need to try this ASAP. Have you seen any yummy recipes or videos lately? Let me know!


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With MYX, ASAP XV, and Pilipinas Got Talent among the many things keeping Luis Manzano busy nowadays, he still manages to squeeze in things he really loves doing.
Like working out, doing Muay Thai and hanging around with friends.
But yesterday, Luis posted in his Facebook that he injured himself.
"I have a pulled hamstring," Luis said in his FB chat with PEP (Philippine Entertainment Portal). "I got it from doing a very high roundhouse kick."
Although Luis has not yet paid the doctor a visit, he said his injury might just be a Stage I [Grade I] tear, and that his work will not be affected by this injury. "Not naman, just limping."
PILIPINAS GOT TALENT. Luis and buddy Billy Crawford are doing a good job spicing up Pilipinas Got Talent with their funny antics and hosting. PEP asked Luis if he has any favorite or unforgettable contestant in the show.
"Di puwede. Objective dapat," Luis answered. "Each contestant has a different story. So far, all are special."
The 28-year-old actor and TV host is happy with the good ratings the show has been enjoying.
"We are happy it's well-received. But we believe that we shouldn't be greedy. There's still more talent to discover," Luis said.
Tomorrow, April 21, will be Luis's 29th birthday, but Gov. Vilma Santos-Recto and Edu Manzano's only son said he's not sure he will be celebrating tomorrow, especially, now with his injury.
"Wala siguro... Parang, never wanted to throw parties..."
Since Luis doesn't intend to celebrate, PEP asked for his birthday wish instead.
"Wala... Whatever God deems worthy," Luis briefly replied.


In honor of the NFL Draft, here is the entertaining 'Call Me Maybe' video, sung by Carly Rae Jepsen, featuring the dancing of the Miami Dolphin Cheerleaders and U.S. military troops in Afghanistan.
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We support troops from all 50 States! We have even shipped Pittsburgh Steeler items along with Dallas Cowboys items, so we understand the need to support all our troops overseas. If you can donate such sporting good items for our care packages, please let us know. Thanks.


Second Reading on Ordinance No. 04-2016 – An ordinance to repeal Article II. Business Licenses, Town of Due West, S.C., 2012.
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(2399) Terradas est un astéroïde de la ceinture principale.

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(2399) Terradas est un astéroïde de la ceinture principale. Il fut découvert le  à El Leoncito par Carlos Ulrrico Cesco. Il présente une orbite caractérisée par un demi-grand axe de 2,24 UA, une excentricité de 0,17 et une inclinaison de 5,1° par rapport à l'écliptique.

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October 6 th 2022 Comment
Competition, Solicitation and Medication… but No More Injunction
This is a complex Alberta case: 2022 ABQB 58 (CanLII)-both for its facts, and the law the court applies. At its heart, it's an employment case because it deals squarely with an employer's access to certain revenue, without which it can't operate. Essentially, it's about whether an interim injunction cutting a Calgary pharmacy off from a major segment of its client base should be allowed to stand. These clients, formerly the applicants, started buying their drugs across the street at a pharmacy run by some of its former employees. One gets the impression in reading the case that the heaping record would take weeks to read, but the court does a remarkable job distilling the tangled web of a past employment relationship and the parties' subsequent business ventures and client bases, along with allegations of illegal competition and solicitation, breach of fiduciary duty, civil conspiracy, among other issues. Through the lens of the law, it ultimately became clear to Justice James Eamon that the injunction could no longer stand.
Getting to that finding was anything but simple.
After evidentiary admissibility rulings on secret video recordings and intercepted phone calls, the court focused on the heart of the matter: the tri-partite test for injunctions. Briefly, to get an injunction, a party first needs to show that it has a "strong prima facie case." The judge agreed this elevated standard applies in Alberta by virtue of past decisions involving enforcement of restrictive covenants, but also, the judge offered, because the injunction impinged on the respondent pharmacists' livelihoods and their networks of family, friends and other people. Perhaps by recognizing the importance of one's employment and social network, the judge intended to foreshadow his eventual decision that it wasn't appropriate to "burden the respondents in the pursuits of their livelihood before trial."
In part of the ruling, the court rejects the past employer's allegation that the new pharmacy's principals had breached a fiduciary obligation. That would require a finding that these were "key employees'," one the court refused to make. The court rationalized the departing pharmacists' knowledge of and access to the clients' patient information as "unavoidable," something that commonly arises from an employee's rapport with customers. The finding against a fiduciary relationship also meant a failure for the applicants past employer on the "serious issue to be tried" branch of the test.
The applicants other arguments on the competing pharmacy's use of what it called confidential information were systematically rebuffed by the court. These concerning allegations of breach of confidence, breach of fidelity and conspiracy.
The court said there was a difference between working from memory and working from a stolen customer list. In this case, it was clear the new pharmacy communicated with the customers with whom it had relationships; the problem was there was no evidence that confidential information was discussed or otherwise misused. As for conspiracy to injure the victim, the court said the evidence did not rise above "speculation," falling far short of the "strong prima facie case" standard that applies.
In addition to a strong case, the person asking for the injunction must be at risk of suffering irreparable harm. Here, the former employer was disadvantaged by its failure to establish that confidential information was abused. If proven, the court would have found that irreparable harm resulted from the loss of customer referrals, it said.
Finally, the person asking for the injunction must be favoured in the "balance of convenience" test. In other words, the court assesses which party stands to suffer the most if they lose. Here, the court noted that a relatively small proportion of the former employer's overall client base was impacted, and there was no evidence about the amount of revenue it represented. It contrasted this with the drastic effect the injunction had on the new pharmacy's ability to carry on. It would not even permit soliciting business based on relationships that arose after the pharmacists quit. In addition to other weaknesses in the case, the judgment also mentions the public interest in having open access to health services, particularly during the pandemic.
For those reasons, the court set the interim injunction aside, allowing the new pharmacy to carry on "at its peril."
The key takeaways from this case could be many, depending on the topic of interest. Perhaps the primary lesson is to be slow to conclude that a breach of confidentiality has occurred. Just because the information is obtained through a person's employment does not mean it is confidential (unless a contract states otherwise). It could simply be the inevitable by-product of a worker's interactions with customers.
Similarly clear in this case is the stringent test that applies to interlocutory injunctions. The test is only satisfied using good evidence, and courts appear reluctant to decide such matters if they are left to speculate on key points.
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Q: Manage memory C++ I have create these simple function.
char* tmp = new char[len];
strncpy(tmp,str+start,len);
int ret = atoi(tmp);
delete []tmp;
return ret;

I have a problem with memory managment.
When I read ret variable, the value is null. If I remove the instruction "delete []tmp;" the value is correct but the memory fast increase (because I don't release the memory).
Any ideas?
Thanks

A: From man strncpy: The strncpy() function is similar than strcpy, except that at most n bytes of src are copied. Warning: If there is no null byte among the first n bytes of src, the string placed in dest will not be null-terminated.
Check your str variable length and verify this null terminating condicion on strncpy

A: There are a few problems with atoi, one of them is that it doesn't have any kind of validation that the string you pass is really a number. Instead you might want to use strtol instead.
Also note that strncpy might not terminate the string in some cases. And that you might want to allocate one extra character (len + 1) for the terminator.

A: strncpy fills up the target array with '\0's once the end of the source is reached.
atoi expects a null terminated c-string, means an array of characters that ends with a '\0'.
Therefore you have to create an array with a size of len + 1, the strncpy function will the automatically null-terminate your target array.

A: What you could do is have the buffer be allocated from outside the function, and pass the tmp argument as an array. A better approach though, is to allocate an object. These get destructed as long as you don't use the new keyword. std::string would be perfect in this scenario.

A: Make sure tmp is terminated with a '\0'

A: Hard to tell what's wrong since str and len are not shown.
This function could be a lot simpler:
int ret = atoi(str + start);
return ret;

BTW, ret is an int and NULL is usually referred to pointers.


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1991 French Open final: Jim Courier defeats Andre Agassi
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One year after his surprising defeat to Andres Gomez, Andre Agassi was back in Roland Garros final, trying to capture his first Grand Slam title. His opponent in final: Jim Courier, a guy he grew up with at the Bolletieri academy.
Extract of Andre Agassi's autobiography Open:
"At the 1991 French Open I batter my way through six rounds and reach the final. My third slam final. I'm facing Courier and I'm favored. Everyone says I'll beat him. I need to beat him. I can't imagine what it would feel like to make three slam finals in a row and not win.
The good news is I know how to beat Courier. I beat him just last year at this same tournament. The bad news is, it's personal, which makes me tight. We began in the same place, in the same barracks at the Bolletieri Academy, our bunk beds a feet apart. I was so much better than Courier, so much more favored by Nick, that losing to him in the final of a slam will feel like the hare losing to the tortoise. Bad enough that Chang has won a slam before me. And Pete. But Courier too? I can't let that happen.
I come out playing to win. I've learned from my mistakes at the last two slams. I cruise through the first set, winning 6-3, and in the second set, leading 3-1, I have break point. If I win this point I'll have a choke hold on the set and match. Suddenly the rain starts to fall. Fans cover themselves and run for shelter. Courier and I retreat to the locker room, where we both pace like caged lions. Nick comes in and I look to him for advice, encouragement, but he says nothing. Nothing. I've known for some time that I continue with Nick out of habit and loyalty, and not for real coaching. Still, in this moment, it's not coaching I need but a show of humanity, which is one of the duties of any coach. I need some recognition of the adrenaline-charged moment in which I find myself. Is that too much to ask?
After the rain delay, Courier stations himself farther behind the baseline, hoping to take some of the steam off my shots. He's had time to rest, and reflect, and recharge, and he storms back to keep me from breaking, then wins the second set. now I'm angry. Furious. I win the third set 6-2.
I establish in Courier's mind, and in my own, that the second set was a fluke. Up two sets to one, I can feel the finish line pulling me. My first slam. Six little games away.
As the fourth set opens, I lose twelve of the first thirteen points. Am I unraveling or is Courier playing better? I don't know. I'll never know. But I do know that this feeling is familiar. Hauntingly familiar. This sense of inevitability. This weightlessness ad momentum slips away. Courier wins the set 6-1.
In the fifth set, tied 4-4, he breaks me. Now, all at once, I just want to lose.
I can't explain it any other way. In the fourth set I lost the will, but now I've lost the desire. As certain as I felt about victory at the start of this match, that's how certain I am now of defeat. And I want it. I long for it. I say under my breath: Let it be fast. Since losing is death, I'd rather it be fast than slow.
I no longer hear the crowd. I no longer hear my own thoughts, only a white noise between my ears. I can't hear or feel anything except my desire to lose. I drop the tenth and decisive game of the fifth set, and congratulate Courier. Friends tell me it's the most desolate look they've ever seen on my face.
Afterward, I don't scold myself. I coolly explain it to myself this way: You don't have what it takes to get over the line. You just quit on yourself – You need to quit the game".
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New insights into the effects of the herbicide imazethapyr on Cu(II) ecotoxicity to the aquatic unicellular alga Scenedesmus obliquus
Chen, Hui; Sheng, Xiaolin; Wen, Yuezhong; Zhang, Lijuan; Bao, Hongliang; Li, Lina; Liu, Weiping
Source Publication AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY
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Abstract Interactions between heavy metals and organic contaminants can result in speciation changes of heavy metals. Therefore, it is unknown whether organic contaminants in aquatic environments act as selective agents to mediate the toxicity of heavy metals. To elucidate these interactions, the effects of the herbicide imazethapyr (IM) on Cu(II) ecotoxicity to the aquatic unicellular alga Scenedesmus obliquus were investigated. It was found that the toxicity of Cu could be mediated by IM. To explore the mechanisms involved, complex formation, the catalytic activity of the complex, the Cu species and the distribution of Cu and Fe in the algal cell were characterized. The results showed that Cu(II) and IM formed an octahedral complex with an IM:Cu molar ratio of 2:1. These complexes also catalyzed the disproportionation of hydrogen peroxide. Analysis of the K-edge of Cu using XAFS spectroscopy indicated that when treated with Cu, the Cu was bound to polygalacturonic acid (on the cell wall), and once inside the cell, Cu may complex with the reduced glutathione (GSH) (in the cell). When the cell is treated with IM and Cu simultaneously, IM-Cu may be the primary complex formed. Once Cu combines with IM, it is difficult for it to interact with the cell wall. In addition, using scanning transmission soft X-ray microscopy, it was found that Cu could induce changes in the distribution of the essential trace element Fe, whereas IM-Cu cannot. This finding demonstrates the importance of interactions between heavy metals and organic contaminants, which are able to mediate the toxicity of heavy metals and should be considered in future risk assessments. (C) 2013 Published by Elsevier B.V.
GB/T 7714 Chen, Hui,Sheng, Xiaolin,Wen, Yuezhong,et al. New insights into the effects of the herbicide imazethapyr on Cu(II) ecotoxicity to the aquatic unicellular alga Scenedesmus obliquus[J]. AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY,2013,140:CONCATENATE(Sheet1!I230,-Sheet1!J230).
APA Chen, Hui.,Sheng, Xiaolin.,Wen, Yuezhong.,Zhang, Lijuan.,Bao, Hongliang.,...&Liu, Weiping.(2013).New insights into the effects of the herbicide imazethapyr on Cu(II) ecotoxicity to the aquatic unicellular alga Scenedesmus obliquus.AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY,140,CONCATENATE(Sheet1!I230,-Sheet1!J230).
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Aviation /
A celebration every time
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Winter is a great time to travel: to take part in a festive family gathering, return to one's roots or get together with friends. Our author, a frequent flyer, describes what he loves most about flying
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For my first flight, my father insisted I wear my confirmation suit – along with matching tie, a spotless white shirt and beautifully polished shoes. Roughly 1000 flights later, I never board a plane in anything but a jogging suit because it is roughly 1000 times more comfortable. But I have to agree with my father that for the first time, it was important for my clothes to fit the occasion. The first time, the airplane picked up speed, the wheels lifted off, and Hanover shrank to the size of a Lego town. For the first time, I suddenly found myself high above the clouds. To me, even a stroll on the moon could not have been more electrifying. Below me, an unbroken blanket of cotton candy stretched away into the distance, strange formations protruding from its surface, snow-white and dazzling. Above me was an endless expanse of blue sky, endless light and an endless visibility. The first time I flew, I was in heaven.
That was in the early 1960s, and I flew from Hanover to Berlin, in a turboprop plane, naturally. Turboprops still rattled and wobbled when the wind changed back then, and they were unable to ignore air pockets with the same panache as the jet airplanes that came later. Still, as hard as I try, I cannot find a vestige of negative emotion in my memory – nothing of the kind comes back to me. I was no more scared of flying than a kitten in the bosom of Abraham. For the first time, I was 10 000 meters above the earth, and for the first time, 10 000 meters away from the earth's problems. At that distance, they all shrank to minute proportions – if not invisibility.
My first time, I was no more scared of flying than a kitten in the bosom
Radical changes of perspective frequently produce a phenomenon well known to extreme athletes, Formula 1 drivers, war correspondents and other adventurers. In psychology, it's known as the "high peak," in other words, the moment in which our attention is totally frozen in the present. You don't have to be a mountain climber, hang glider, racing driver or cliff diver to experience the sensation because a first flight is high peak enough. Outside, the colors of the setting sun, inside the flight attendants' catwalk. And best of all, the first time is repeated, again and again. The first crescent moon, the first half-moon, the first full moon over the Alps, the Andes or the Himalayas, when you feel you could reach out and touch the peaks beneath you. The first time you fly over the ocean with its tiny toy ships, the first time you pass Rio's Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio, the first time you approach Hong Kong, which was so spectacular that for me, even the second, third and fourth time felt like the first.
A thousand times? Five thousand times? Have I really flown 10 000 times? I stopped counting at some point, or maybe I never even started. In the 1960s, I flew just that once; in the 1970s more frequently, and in the 1980s, air travel became second nature to me, like riding the subway. So it would be a miracle if this piece were entirely devoid of negative impressions. And yet it is. I cannot think of one. The things we take for granted are what do occur to me. Obviously no one enjoys sitting still for ten hours. And I cannot say that every stranger who sat beside me was a bundle of laughs, nor was I so much fun for my neighbors. That's normal and anyone inclined to complain about that would be best advised never to walk out their door again. What's more, we can also view our temporary, disagreeable airplane neighbors as partners in adversity. We are both victims of chance, and victims should identify with each other. I immediately identified with Africa, when dry-as-dust cookies were all we were served in Business Class (!) on Ethiopian Airlines, as I did with Cuba, when the only thing to drink on board Cubana was rum. And I didn't even grumble when, on a runway skirting a deep abyss 2200 meters above sea level in Nepal, Shangri-La Air's twin-engine turboprop airplane failed to pick up enough speed during takeoff and was forced to drop like a hang glider in order to gain enough impetus to keep us in the air. Instead, I simply affirmed my solidarity with my own lust for adventure and with the remarkable pilot.
© Ulrich C. Beinert
As for the rest of the crew, I can only cite the old proverb: "Treat the stewardess as you would be treated by her." The same applies to the stewards – or flight attendants, as they are all known today. Should one of them prove less than remarkably pleasant, very helpful or extremely attentive, it's not the end of the world. You don't have to marry him or her! Not that I have ever had such an experience with Lufthansa. And I'm not saying that to ingratiate myself. I would write the same in any magazine that didn't have "Lufthansa" printed on the front. No matter how worn out, exhausted or at the end of my wits I emerged from some jungle, desert or truly awful city, I always felt better the moment I spotted a Lufthansa flight attendant. Her smile does not look painted on, but still it endures; her friendliness is professional and therefore not false, her helpfulness is competent. I don't think it's just a matter of character, but of training, too. Be neither subservient nor arrogant, neither flirtatious nor cool, neither bunny nor dragon. Just be a decent angel and wear your uniform with casual elegance.
My eulogy could easily degenerate into a continuous loop, but there's one thing I haven't touched on yet. Were things better in the past? Was flying more enjoyable, more exciting, more romantic? I'm a great one for romance, but only as long as it is painless. Did we arrive faster? Certainly not. Was flying more comfortable? No. Safer? No. Cheaper? Hah! More exclusive? Yes. When you walked into an airport, everyone knew you were wealthy. Today, everyone flies. Equal treatment above the clouds leads to crowding down on earth. But that doesn't mean there's more reason to complain about our unromantic times: Flying gets better all the time.
And if Lufthansa adds the moon to its route network in my lifetime, I can safely say that I am already looking forward to that next first time with childish delight.
Our columnist, Helge Timmerberg, an irrepressible globetrotter since 1969, writes travel books and contributes monthly to our magazine.
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