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Twitter is the "web20" death knell.
Buckets of VC money being poured into a company that isn't profitable and has no practical business model? Why does that sound so familiar?
Even their Fail Whale is ironically symbolic. It represents social network bloat, and the crushing weight of having more users than you can develop for or afford.
Don't get me wrong, just like with the web 1.0 bubble burst, some websites will survive, and the technologies and patterns developed in this era will endure into the next, albeit refined.
But the bubble burst is coming, and I don't think it'll wait much longer than until 2011.
All the industry people I've talked to are not only living in Egypt -- with river front property -- but the things coming out of their mouths are the exact same things that caused the web 1.0 collapse. It amazes me.
The recent Higher Ed obsession with social networks and "web20" also serves as a reminder that the end is nigh. As soon as Higher Ed starts doing anything, it is already on the way out.
On the other hand, if we see Government spending big bucks on social networking and "web20" projects then we'll know it is already dead.
So what's this Chicken Little think we should all do then, you ask?
Pick out the real best practices from web20, and ignore the hype. Trust your gut. Get yourself a stable job for a company with a real business model before 2011. And, start looking beyond web20 towards The Next Big Thing (hint hint: Mobile Web).
I'll see you all in the unemployment lines in 2012, and then again at the top of the web 3-point-naught bubble in 2020.
Technology is nothing if not predictable.
You won't see them in the unemployment lines because you'll still have your University job--albeit underpaid and not as interesting as private sector, but relatively secure nonetheless.


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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
There was another little period of time there that I'd just as soon forget. The next days passed, but they took a long time doing it. Pirraghiz clucked over me and tried to cheer me up. She proposed entertainments, promised that Beert would soon come back with good news, produced tasty new meals-she did everything she could to cheer me, but I didn't cheer. I was trying to adjust to the fact that I was marooned in this place for the rest of my life, while my world was going to hell… and there was nothing I could do about it.
I think I was a big frustration to Pirraghiz. She deserved better. She was my maid, valet, cook, and washerwoman and all-day-long companion. Life with her around was like living in a five-star luxury hotel, with my personal Jeeves to care for all my needs. If she had a life of her own, she didn't let it interfere with her total attendance on me. She washed and mended my ragged clothes. She tended my chamber pot, whisking it away to be sterilized and cleaned before I had to use it again. She fed me about as well as I had ever been fed in my life-found new ways to improve the preserved swill from Starlab and added to it actual fresh vegetables, salads, soups, little cakes dripping with something like fruit-flavored honey. There was even milk. It didn't come from an actual cow, of course, because there weren't any of those within many light-years, but it was a sweetish, butterscotch-colored fluid that came, Pirraghiz said, from the females of one of the other captive species.
That startled me. "Don't they object when you take their milk away from them?"
She wagged her great head reprovingly. "Don't be foolish, Dannerman. It is not 'taken.' It is bartered. They give us things we do not have, and we give them things of ours in return. These females are well repaid for what they have in plenty to spare."
I looked again at what was in my cup. But it still tasted good, and while I was checking it out Pirraghiz saw an opportunity. "I am glad that you are taking an interest in this, Dannerman. Would you like to know more about the other captive species?"
I considered that for a moment, then shrugged. "Why not?" I said, meaning, since I was going to be stuck here for the rest of my life, why not find out what that life was going to be like?
Pirraghiz beamed. "That is good, Dannerman. I thought you might feel so, and so I have prepared something for you. Wait one moment." She disappeared into her own room, and when she came back she was carrying the familiar helmet.
It wasn't what I had expected. I protested, "I've already seen all I need to see of what's happening back home."
"Oh, Dannerman," she sighed. "Do you think it was only your people who were bugged? That is not so. Sentient beings of many, many different species have worn the transmitters, species you have never seen, of kinds you cannot imagine, including some of those who shared captivity with you. I could not find all of those in the records," she said apologetically, "but I have selected a single individual from eight different species. Some of the species are here, some are not. Later on I can add others if you wish."
She waited for me to make up my mind. I hefted the helmet for a moment, indecisively. Curiosity won. Gingerly I put it on and pulled down the flaps. I heard Pirraghiz's voice giving last-minute instructions-"Simply say 'next' when you want to go to another subject, Dannerman, and I will make the change for you." And then the helmet took over.
I was no longer myself. I wasn't in my chamber in the Horch nest.
I was surrounded by total blackness. There was nothing to be seen, smelled or felt, except that there before me, not two meters away, was an image of a creature that looked like a frog with the mouth of an alligator. Its skin was as fuzzy as a peach, and more or less the same color. On one bony arm it wore a thing like a wristwatch, but that was glowing with a pale blue light, and there were three golden bracelets on the other. It was dressed in tunic and leggings of a shimmery, silky material. It had four large ears on each side of its elongated head, and a cluster of bright pink feathers topping it off-probably a hat or a decoration, I thought, since the feathers didn't seem to be growing out of the creature's skull.
It wasn't moving at all. I figured that out easily enough; what I was looking at was just a picture, showing me what the first species Pirraghiz had selected for my viewing pleasure looked like; and in a moment the blackness winked away.
Now I wasn't looking at the creature anymore. Now I was that creature. What I was looking at-and smelling and hearing and feeling-was a warm, sunny seaside. Gentle ocean waves were breaking on a pebbly beach, where two or three ungainly-looking catamarans were drawn up. I was sitting-squatting, actually- on the side of another catamaran, eating something that crunched in my jaws and tasted richly of blood. I was not alone. There were two other alligator-frogs just below me on the beach, doing something or other with large nets-repairing them, I supposed. I was looking particularly at one of them, and it was giving me occasional sidelong glances in return. I was conscious of a kind of warm stirring that felt like sexual tension as I looked at-I guess, at her. Unless, of course, that one was male and the body I was inhabiting was female, but I could think of no good way of checking that.
People talk wistfully about wanting a change in their lives, generally meaning something like a better job, a new boyfriend, a week on some island resort-anything at all, as long as it is different. I know the sovereign recipe for that. Just slip one of the helmets on your head and tap into the mind of a truly alien being, and you'll never find anything more different as long as you live. It wasn't just the sights and smells that were different. My borrowed body interpreted them in ways that were completely foreign to me. There was a pervading stink of rotten fish in the air, powerful enough to make me hold my nose if I'd had one to hold. But I wasn't disliking it. It was actually making me hungry. My hearing was far better than ever before. Not only could I hear the distant sounds of insects and the lapping of the waves on the shore, I could hear precisely where they were; the frog's multiple ears were as directional as sonar. I could hear the other alligator-frogs calling to each other-deep baritone hissing, like a dragon's voice-but that was where the helmet's capacities ran out. I couldn't understand a word they said.
Then, flick, the scene changed. I was still in the creature's body, or in the body of one just like him, but I was in a series of different places, doing a variety of different things. Once my host was teamed with another frog, both of them wearing a kind of harness and pulling something that was heavy-but I couldn't see what it was-along a marshy dirt road between stands of head-high rushes. Once he and a couple of others were making a lot of noise-singing together or making threats, I couldn't tell which. Once he was asleep. None of it was very intelligible.
So I called, "Next!"
Frog gone away, blackness all around me. I was looking at another picture. This one was a fat, tentacle-nosed thing the general shape of a hippopotamus, and I knew what it was at once.
I was looking at a Wet One, one of the amphibians that had killed Patrice.
Perhaps, in the interests of scientific curiosity, I should have made the effort to understand what life was like for a Wet One. I didn't. I wasn't ready for going into that particular mind. As soon as I saw it I yelled, "Next!"
It took a moment for Pirraghiz to react-surprised, I guess, that I wanted to cut that one so short. But then I felt the faint scrabbling of her talons as she poked at the controller on the side of the helmet, and I had a new bizarre creature to look at.
I kept going through the roster of diverse, but all nonhuman, beings that Pirraghiz had accessed for me. There was a Shelled Person, like the one I had seen in the compound. Very strange, that experience was, because the Shelled Person seemed to see other living things, like the Docs, as luminous, and it had two distinct ranges of odor-detecting senses, one for in the water and one for on land. I tried a thing that looked like a feathered gorilla, with batlike membranes that joined its arms to its body and let it leap and glide for short distances-on, I guess, a planet with a lesser gravity, because I did not think that would work on Earth. Number Five was a four-legged furry thing that made its home in a cave, with its mate and half a dozen young; why the Beloved Leaders had bothered to bug it, I didn't know, because it certainly didn't look very civilized to me. Number Six-
Number Six I knew very well.
Bewildered, I took the helmet off my head. It was unexpectedly dark in the room-evidently the sun had set while I was in the helmet-but I could see Pirraghiz. She wasn't hovering nearby, as I expected; she was over by the window, pulling the drapes back from the light-givers. She turned around questioningly. "I've just seen Dopey!" I told her. "The one who died."
She said comfortably, "Yes, of course. The talker. Did you simply see his image, Dannerman, or did you go on to experience him?"
"Seeing the image was plenty! He was just the way I saw him last, all tattered and beaten up, with that big turkey-gobbler thing of his drooping and all the colors gone. He's about to die, Pirraghiz, and I don't want to 'experience' any of that!"
"Dannerman, I would not ask you to. I chose that view of the talker on purpose so that it would be easy for you to recognize him. The tapes, however, are from other parts of his life."
I scowled at her. "What parts?"
"Oh, Dannerman. They are parts that I think will interest you. Why do you not put the helmet on and see?"
So there I was in Dopey's body. I knew it was so, because his head, the little cathead, was bent to look at the familiar, golden-mesh belly bag he wore. I could feel his little fingers, inside the muff, fiddling with what might have been a kind of keypad.
I wasn't comfortable in Dopey's body. His range of vision must have been different from mine, because the colors were odd. I felt odd, too. There was a sort of slow, rhythmic, muscle-flexing sensation at the base of my spine, but in my own body I don't have any muscles there. Perhaps it had something to do with that scaly peacock plume he carried, I thought, and then he looked up.
I caught my breath. What he was looking at was a screen, and on it were four or five figures-human figures-and the nearest of them was me.
It was something from my own life that I was seeing. There were the five of us-Pat and Rosaleen Artzybachova, Jimmy Lin, General Delasquez and myself, when we had first arrived in Star-lab. We had come there-God, it seemed a century ago-in the hope of finding some kind of extraterrestrial technology that would make us rich, and what we were doing was squabbling over the division of the Beloved Leaders stuff we saw all around us. I remembered it well. I saw us yelling at each other, and I saw Jimmy Lin get hit on the head.
And then I felt Dopey's little hands scrabbling in his belly bag. There was a bluish flash on the screen. At once, all five of us stopped cold in the middle of the argument. We didn't fall down. We couldn't, being in Starlab's microgravity. But we went limp. We didn't speak anymore. We began to drift around the space in the orbiter.
Dopey had, somehow, put us all to sleep.
Then he got to work. He glanced back over his shoulder. For the first time I saw that there were two Docs standing immobile behind him, in a cramped little space I had never seen before. They began to move at once.
One of them pushed at a section of wall, which opened before him. The other picked Dopey up and carried him through that hidden door. Dopey's body felt pleased with itself; I could feel the warmth and sensual pleasure that emanated from the great peacock fan that my own body didn't have, but Dopey's did. As we glided down a passage, one mystery was solved. I caught a glimpse of the stenciled sign on the wall we had just come through. It was supposed to be a fuel tank. Dopey had emptied it out and made it into a hidey-hole so he could watch us without being seen.
I think I was in a kind of shock again. What happened next wasn't entirely comprehensible, but I couldn't stop watching. Dopey's Docs methodically lifted all five of us, one by one, and put us into the transit machine. Then, each time, without pause, they lifted us out again and went on to the next one. When we had all been transmitted-and copied!-they went to work on the next stage. One of the Docs held Rosaleen's unconscious form while the other opened a cupboard on the wall. He took out a coppery object the size and shape of an almond, while the first Doc, talons extended, slashed a litde gash in the back of Rosaleen's neck.
I had never seen an implant put in before.
I saw it happen to Rosaleen. I saw it happen to Delasquez and Jimmy Lin, and I saw it happen to me.
And I saw it happen to Pat Adcock, the woman I loved. I could see her, unconscious and limp. I could almost touch her, I yearned for her. And when it was all over I took the helmet off my head and stared blindly at the room around me.
Pirraghiz said something to me, but I wasn't listening. I got up and walked over to the balcony door, slid it open and stepped outside.
It was full night now, and overhead was that spectacular, star-swarming sky. I wasn't looking at that, either. All I was seeing was Pat, once abandoned to Dopey and his Docs on the orbiter, now abandoned, with the rest of the human race, to whatever the Beloved Leaders chose to do with them.
I had never felt more helpless-and hopeless and useless- in my life.
A moment later I felt the wicker floor move in protest, and Pirraghiz stepped out beside me. I wondered for a moment if it would hold her great weight. Then I wondered whether that mattered at all. She said tentatively, "Dannerman? Was I wrong to show you what Dopey did to you on your Starlab?"
I thought that over for a moment, then I shook my head. "It isn't you who are wrong, Pirraghiz. What's wrong is that everything is going to hell and I can't do anything about it."
She said softly, "Yes. I know what you are going through."
That made me turn and stare at her. "Do you? Do you know what it feels like to see everyone I love about to be turned into robots, and to be able to do nothing about it?"
"Of course I do, Dannerman! I knew that for a very long time, for all the time I wore the Others' controller. I was even more helpless than you are now. I did their bidding! I had no hope at all-but then, you see, suddenly the Horch cousins came and I was free!"
"Oh? And do you think there's any chance that somebody will come charging along to help me?"
She looked at me for a long moment. I could see the struggle going on in her mind over what answer to give me.
Honesty won out over compassion. She said somberly, "No. In truth, Dannerman, I do not."
CHAPTER TWENTY | The Far Shore of Time | CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

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Just a few years ago, the prize purse and Kona points were much smaller than they are today for the U.S. Professional 70.3 Championship at St. George, Utah. But this time around, the $75,000 prize purse and the 1,500 Ironman qualifying points have attracted a pro field deep in quality and quantity.
For starters, there are two Olympic medalists, nine ITU World Championship medal winners, eight Ironman 70.3 world championship podium placers, three Ironman World Championship medalists and two XTERRA World Champions in this star studded field.
An aggressive driver ran several cyclists and pedestrians off of Great Northern Boulevard on Saturday. The incident occurred at about 5:20 p.m., when a white, newer model Dodge Challenger or Charger with a black section on its hood made three passes down the street, swerving across the center lane of the road and into the bike lane toward riders and pedestrians, witnesses said.
Matt Tynan, an attorney who often works with injured bicyclists, was bicycling along Great Northern when the incident occurred. He'd just ridden under the Far West overpass when he heard an engine revving behind him.
Coates, who has made six trips to Brazil as part of the IOC's coordination commission for Rio, said the Brazilians are behind "in many, many ways" and are in worse shape than Greek organizers were in preparing for the 2004 Olympics.
USATF, the same organization who couldn't figure out how exactly Dropbox works, is in charge of the governance and administration of the sport in the U.S. It facilitates the meets that select Olympic and world championship teams, and it contracts with sponsors. What it does not do very well is listen to the crescendo of athletes and fans that hate its guts.
All good things must come to an end and this Saturday (May 3) will mark the end of one of the iconic races in Austin. On Saturday morning, Chuy's will host its final Hot to Trot 5-K. Sadly, it's true that after 31 straight years and several venues, this great race will be no more as Chuy's has decided to focus its fund-raising efforts in other ways.
Which is a shame as the current Hot to Trot course is one of the best in town. Located in the land of the Big Box Boonies of South Austin which just so happens to be the home of the popular, incredibly busy Chuy's Arbor Trails, located on the west side of the MoPac frontage road, just south of William Cannon.
What I wanted was to find him slumped in his uneasy chair, naked nails on the wall, haircut in his hands, not even a poodle by his side. I wanted someone who was sorry — sorry for what he'd done, sorry for what was next, sorry to be stuck in his new, sorry life. But that's not what I found.
Lance Armstrong is happy. In fact, he looks better at 42 than I've ever seen him, less gaunt in the face, thicker in the chest, bluer in the eyes. I found a man sitting in his den, surrounded by his seven Tour de France chalices, his 3-year-old, Olivia, on his lap, kissing him and laughing. Really pissed me off.


Since the Golf R will be coming with the same motor as the Audi TTS, do you expect that APR's stage 1 software will produce the same numbers?
Is the TTS AWD too?
Its an Audi, so AWD is pretty much guaranteed.
Especially since its the S version.
What is the purpose of even posting this?
I think he's trying to get his post count up There's +1 for me!
2011 CSG GTI w/ Sunroof & Navi - Stage 2 APR, Custom VMR 710 Wheels, BSH Race Intake, UR Downpipe, New South Boost Gauge, 3M Tint, Lamin-X Markers, Hoen H8 HID Match Fogs, Hatch Lift Kit, LED Interior Lighting.
More like what is the point in posting OP's post when he could just e-mail/calling APR themselves instead of asking for their input here.
If anything the gains would be more than the FSI engine as the TFSI/TSI engine's are more superior.


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05.05.1941 No. 58 O.T.U. Master I T8780 Sgt. Dunmore / P/O. Arnold
Operation: Training
Date: 5th May 1941 (Monday)
Unit: No. 58 Operational Training Unit
Type: Miles Master I
Serial: T8780
Base: RAF Grangemouth, Scotland
Location: Falkirk, Stirlingshire.
Pilot Inst: Sgt. Jack Townley Dunmore 741448 RAFVR Age 24. Survived/Injured
Pilot U/T: P/O. Victor Charles Arnold J/4253 RCAF Age 20. Killed
During a training flight the aircraft dived into the ground, killing pilot U/T P/O. Arnold instantly. The instructor, Sgt. Dunmore was taken to Larbert Military hospital suffering from serious multiple injures. Sadly he succumbed to these on the 17th May 1941 at 07:15 hrs.
Cockpit of the trainer version of the Miles Master I
Sgt. Dunmore had previously seen service during the Battle of Britain with 222 Squadron and earlier with 266 Squadron. He had been credited with a share in an Me109 on the 15th October 1940.
Sgt. Jack Townley Dunmore. Chislehurst Churchyard. Son of Frederick Townley Dunmore and Edith Dunmore; husband of Gladys Muriel Dunmore, of Englefield Green, Egham, Surrey, England.
P/O. Victor Charles Arnold. Grangemouth Cemetery. Sec 1. Grave 13. Son of Harry Watson Arnold, and of Eva Mary Arnold, of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Further information: His brother, Fl/Lt. Keith Fergus Arnold D.F.C., also died on service just a few weeks later whilst serving with O.A.D.F. (1) Lockheed Hudson III AE640 crashing on the Mull of Kintyre 25th July 1941. His crew, 24 year old Sgt. Percy Keast from Cornwall and a 24 year old civilian attached from the Civilian Technical Corps Mr. Wilfred Bratherton from British Columbia, Canada were also killed. Full story as researched by Linda Ibrom here.
(1) O.A.D.F. Overseas Aircraft Delivery Flight.
Researched for relatives of the crew/s with thanks to the following for additional information Alan Clark a fellow member of the B.A.A.C. 58 OTU, ORB's. Other sources as quoted.
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About that cell video in Expelled… » « I'm supposed to sit down and shut up?
Funny…he's not shutting up!
Hmmm. I should have thought the powerful voices of communications experts shrieking at Richard Dawkins to hide under his bed would have had some effect, but no…he's gone ahead and written his review of Expelled. And lo, in the camp of the Framers, there was much wailing and weeping and grinding of teeth, and rending of garments, and epic despair, because surely this will cause the destruction of Science.
And lo, in the camp of the Framers, there was much wailing and weeping and grinding of teeth, and rending of garments, and epic despair, because surely this will cause the destruction of Science.
Seeing as how Dawkins' article is titled "Lying for Jesus?" you'll hear no "Weh is mir" from me.
Wrought says
"shot himself in the foot"? Let's hope he amputated both his legs.
Phoenix Woman says
Nisbet's "concern" is duly noted.
All I have to say to you, my dear Professor Sabot, is this:
D-VON! GET– the TABLE!
Glen Davidson says
Cross-posting from Dawkins' site:
The truth is that you could not sign up for the "private screenings" at the regular Expelled or Getexpelled websites. The site you got to at the latter was:
rsvp.getexpelled.com/events/movies/expelled
But that only had events up into January.
The "private screenings" website is this one:
rsvp.getexpelled.com/events/special/expelled
It used to have the remaining screenings. It is most likely the one that PZ Myers used, and it was not easy to find (I found it and put it onto Pharyngula, AtBC, Atheistnetwork, FCS, PT, and Talkorigins). But in any case, it was out on the web and the search engines, only not so easy to find as to merely go to the Expelled website.
Glen Davidson
http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7
Trent1492 says
I think the site has been Slash Dotted.
Lee Brimmicombe-Wood says
Darn that Dawkins and his ill-communicatin', ridculin' ways!
Nurse! Sackcloth and ashes, stat!
Bad Gnus says
http://dododreams.blogspot.com/
Here's a good site well worth more visitors.
No, it's not mine.
What they did was to take off all of the screenings that remained after the brouhaha at the Bloomington mall.
Oh, and at #7, the dododreams blog is quite good, I'll add. It's John Pieret's site, and he's sharpened his claws at Talkorigins.
Glen D
Ian Robinson says
Sean Carroll has a well reasoned post on the kerfuffle over at Cosmic Variance:
http://cosmicvariance.com/2008/03/23/politicians-and-critics/
Mike Haubrich, FCD says
While waiting for access to Richard Dawkins dot net, we can find out who the true winner is regarding this event.
Google Fight!
woody, tokin librul says
i can't get to the Dawkins piece. the little connection indicator just spins and spins and spins (not unlike the counter-evolutionists)…izzit slash-dotted, too?
Sastra says
Richard Dawkins writes:
Seemingly oblivious to the irony, Mathis instructed some uniformed goon to evict Myers while he was standing in line with his family to enter the theatre, and threaten him with arrest if he didn't immediately leave the premises… did he not know that PZ is one of the country's most popular bloggers, with a notoriously caustic wit, perfectly placed to set the whole internet roaring with delighted and mocking laughter?
You know, as I read this, something occurred to me regarding the reasoning behind Mathis' "bungling incompetence," as Dawkins calls it. I wonder if Mathis made a serious blunder in his assumptions on what PZ's reaction to being thrown out of the theater would be.
He just made a film where all the academics are whining and looking pathetic about being rejected, humiliated, and tossed unceremoniously out of academia and the Halls of Science. He has been surrounding himself with people playing the poor-me victim card, claiming ignominous oppression and unfair suppression.
What then if Mathis assumed that PZ Myer's reaction would not be "delighted and mocking laughter," but what he was used to — whimpering bellyaching. And then he could use that to make a point.
PZ was to have gone to Phayngula to lick his wounds. "People, I have sad news. I am so ashamed and humiliated. I was kicked out of the theater when I went to see Expelled. I have never heard of someone doing something like that to an academic like me. It felt awful."
And then Mathis and his publicists would go in for the kill:
Ah-ha! Now the scientist knows JUST HOW IT FEELS! What has been done to other academics was done to him! And he complains, too. How ironic is THAT??"
Instead, PZ reacts with amusement. Extreme amusement. And, worse, there is the Dawkins angle, which no, Mathis had not been expecting when he decided to play a game and toss PZ out. If PZ whines, he wins on tit for tat. If PZ creates a nasty, messy scene, he wins on 'look at the immoral fascist-like atheist temper.' But instead, PZ laughs and laughs, and with Dawkins in the theater Mathis just looks like a fool.
More I think about it, the more I think Mathis underestimated PZ's sense of humor about things, and how he would not be mortified by the incident, but jubilant. He's been around too many pretentious professorial sob-sisters. He thought they were all like that.
waldteufel says
Dawkins' review was nothing less than exquisite!
Lurky says
Wonderful hypothesis Sastra!
Sure, it's pretty good.
But I think he might be agreeing too much with Mooney. This incident is virtually an earthquake on these blogs, with barely a ripple beyond. I think that's good, because if they were getting a lot of free publicity from this I would not be happy.
And anyway, why have they guarded their boring movie from competent critics? It's because it is boring (seriously, does anyone think that Dawkins and Myers being interviewed about science and God is going to appeal to the general public? No matter that people here are interested…), it's dishonest, and it's largely an incoherent and unevidenced attack on evolution. Dawkins rips the lid off of their carefully-orchestrated PR campaign, and as the film is increasingly advertised this fact will filter out to potential viewers.
The hoped-for appeal beyond the ignorant and the hopelessly religiously biased types is that there is this "new science" of ID which is being "suppressed." Any questioning of "Darwinism" is supposedly "suppressed," indeed. As it happens, Dawkins, one of the best-known scientists of our time, now can directly respond to a movie that he has seen, and point out exactly where they are wrong.
They didn't want that. Between Dawkins and NYT, much of the media will tend to follow the points that the film is utter bilge and boring, and that they are trying to suppress criticisms in the bargain. Let Mathis and other liars crow about the "free publicity," the fact is that this publicity undercuts the appeal that this movie is supposed to have.
No, it won't stop church groups from busing in to the theaters. But the "mystery" of this dreck is being exposed, and I suspect that rather fewer fence-sitters are going to think that there is something interesting in this movie.
QrazyQat says
You're confusing framing with the argument as to whether or not one should do anything to draw notice to creationists. But then you're confused about framing (everybody does it, whether it's called "baggage" or "connotation" or "framing" — it's just how people perceive your work, and how you can improve that). As for drawing attention to creationists, that should be, I would think obviously, depend on the circumstances and the abilities of the folks involved. In this case, I think it's a very good idea.
Brownian, OM says
Sastra @#12, I'd been wondering the same about Mathis' motivation, and I think you've provided a good hypothesis for what he might have been thinking.
But that's what makes Mathis' blunder even more delicious! I certainly don't know PZ except for what I glean from his writing, but I can't imagine him doing anything other than what he did: run to the nearest internet access, chuckling in amused bewilderment all the way, because if he'd waited until he got back to his hotel to share this hilarious event with his readers his head would've positively a'sploded!
Davis says
"Lying for Jesus". Perfect. My guess is that they think their cause is so important that lying is justified.
Andrew says
Sastra @#12
While I have no proof that your hypothesis is completely accurate, I want to go out on a limb and say I think you probably hit the nail so hard on the head that it split the board in two, shot through six more feet of plywood and got lodged in the foreman's hardhat. Thankfully the foreman is ok.
Mister DNA says
He might not have shut up, but I'll bet Dawkins had to sit down to write that review.
The Science Pundit says
Richard Dawkins said:
So all that stuff about allowing me to attend because I have handled myself fairly honourably is almost certainly dishonourable spinning.
dishonourable spinning: What a great euphemism for lying!
Hexxenhammer says
I'm still getting over the thought of Richard Dawkins in the Mall of America.
I'm embarrassed he had to see that AND Expelled.
Hopefully they went to Legoland to clear the palate.
danley says
But it's much worse, he's lying for Nixon's fat sycophant. One with tube socks.
Michael X says
Wow, Dawkins positively thrashes Mathis and the movie. So much for the statement that Dawkins is "well behaved" thus ok'd to see the movie. No, I'm afraid Dawkins isn't refered to "Darwins Rottweiler" because he plays fetch and rolls over for religion and intelligent design proponents.
Stuart Dryer says
I just went to my lab to look at some data, and the whole thing had VANISHED!!!
I am sure it is because Dawkins wrote a bad review of this movie, and now science is DEAD FOREVER! Oh woe, woe, woe….
Bad says
Dawkins' description of Stein putting his head in his hands when being told about the Holocaust, as if he just found out about it, is pretty mean… and pretty darn well deserved.
I second Carrol's post. Really solid thinking on this issue, and an insight that Mooney and Nisbet really seem to be missing.
Tessa says
Yikes! That film sounds even worse than I imagined. I definitely won't be going to see it if it ever comes out.
I don't think people are going to forget the "Good Friday Massacre of Mark Mathis' Reputation" when the internet roared with "delighted and mocking laughter" any time soon. Quite the public relations debacle!
roddg says
I'm having problems getting onto Dawkins website. Apparently PZed's minions are viewing the review enmasse.
Owlmirror says
This is sort of tangental to the whole ExpectoratedExpelled debacle, but:
One of the things that Dawkins mentions is Crick's idea of Directed Panspermia. I hadn't heard of Directed Panspermia until a creationist first claimed that Crick had asserted that evolution on Earth was impossible. Since I was naturally sceptical and curious about this assertion, I did some research.
Well, the original paper (Crick and Orgel (1972)) is online, and can be read here (only 6 pages, too):
http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/SC/B/C/C/P/_/scbccp.pdf
It is, as it ought to be, a very tentative and highly qualified hypothesis. Note that it makes suggestions on experiments that might be done.
Were they in fact only semi-serious in proposing the idea? I dunno — but I think both would agree that there are probably more useful research plans for discovering the evidence for the origins of life.
Colugo says
SciBlogs is getting a little self-referential with the cycles of Nisbet vs Everybody grudge matches.
New fuel for the fire: Jon Marks (Yale, book: Human Biodiversity)
Jon Marks:
"So here is my proposition. Scientific racism is worse than un-scientific creationism. After all, nobody was ever killed or maimed or sterilized in the name of creationism.
So as we look towards the upcoming Darwin anniversary (bicentennial of birth, 150 years since the Origin) maybe we need to think less about the creationists – the external enemies – and think more about the erosion from within. The creationists can't embarrass science; only scientists can do that."
http://savageminds.org/2008/03/21/ventriloquists-for-darwin/
(I have to have to wonder if Larry Moran would want to weigh in. Razib? Anyone?)
JohnnieCanuck, FCD says
A vast conspiracy by evil scientists? To suppress scientific evidence that god_did_it?
Just imagine the scope of the international effort to co-ordinate such nefarious plans, all over a time span of centuries. There's only one possible explanation.
Satanic Forces. In the guise of mild mannered professors, these soul thieves are indoctrinating our youth and enrolling them in the fight against Truth & Light Inc.
I draw your attention to Hex genes. That's right, HomEoboX genes. These are used in morphogenesis and control whether an experimental animal grows up to be a frog or a monkey in a suit. Witchcraft, by any other name.
Premise Media Corp,
a division of Truth & Light Inc.
woody says
Dawkins' link here doesn't wanna load, and i canna get the dawkins.net page to open either…anybody got a working link?
Stuart Ritchie says
A blinding review by Dawkins!
I find the whole 'Lord Privy Seal' thing very, very funny indeed, it brings to mind loads of shoddy documentaries I've seen over the years. I'll know how to describe this 'trick' in future – see, it's not just science you learn from these guys!
I'm another one who thinks Sastra has got it spot-on. Not only are they incapable of making a half-decent documentary or doing a vague amount of research, they can't even glean a moderately accurate character assessment from one of the most prolific bloggers on the net. What a terrible shame…
Sastra = one smart cookie.
I had a hard time getting in as well. Is it kosher to publish it on another host so people can read it? I've copied it on a page on my server that I will gladly share with others, but only if it's OK to do so. I imagine that in a few days the Dawkins site will be back up, but right now they are likely having bandwidth issues.
Sastra is "sharp as a tack" as my grandmother would say.
It is awfully funny how Dawkins was once the frothing beast of anti-religion, and now all the sudden they're saying he's the nice, reasonable one and that's why they let him in.
Wankers.
Torbjörn Larsson, OM says
Sean Carroll writes a reasoned post, but I think he makes several mistakes along the lines that Glen comments on. Mooney referring to the crocumentary writer's blog isn't very convincing – how does he expect Miller to croc (frame) it? And who knows what Randy Olson says on this – at least his list of ten things to improve communication doesn't list controversy as a promotional tool. It does list quality control, concision, prioritization, humor and sincerity, all things that Mathis forget to bring to Mooney's "controversy".
Instead I think Phil Plait has nailed this:
For the producers of this movie to continue this Big Lie tying evolution and Nazis together is an irony almost too big to comprehend, given that this is precisely how Nazi propaganda worked. In a rich field of creationist ironies, this may be the elephant in the room. They are projecting onto their enemies the very thing they are guilty of. […]
We must continue to discuss this, to air it out, to show these people for what they are. Like any noisome and foul thing you find under a rock, exposure to sunlight is the best cure.
Precisely this movie and its argumentum ad Hitlerum is such a foul thing that no Neville Chamberlain school of evolutionists' politician appeasement will suffice. It is much more hurt by being dragged out into the light.
And then stomped on. Repeatedly.
John Pieret says
Wait a minute:
By way of example, Ruse could have chosen any of a number of current theories. He chose just one (it would have taken too long to explain them all) purely as an illustration of the kind of properties such a theory must have. He happened to choose the theory proposed by the Scottish chemist Graham Cairns-Smith, that organic life was preceded by a strange and intriguing world of replicating patterns on the surfaces of crystals in inorganic clays. … Stein just loved it. Mud! MUD! The sarcasm in his grating, nasal voice was palpable. Maybe this was when Ruse realised that he had been had. Certainly it was at this point that he started to show signs of exasperation, although he may still have thought that Stein was merely stupid, rather than pursuing a malevolent and clandestine agenda. Stein kept returning, throughout the film, to the phrase "on the backs of crystals", and the sycophantic audience in the Minneapolis cinema dutifully tittered every time.
But … but …
Genesis 2: 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
2: 7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
… watered dust is …
Is there some correlation between fundamentalism and irony impairment?
Bad Gnus:
Why, thank you.
Great response by Dawkins about the movie! I guess I'm not the only one who finds Stein's voice annoying.
We really should get the word out about the post at the Dawkins site. If anyone is interested, they can digg it by going to http://richarddawkins.net/article,2394,Lying-for-Jesus,Richard-Dawkins .
Kevin Miller says
I don't get it: If "Expelled" is so dull, artless, and amateurish," why devote a 3500-word review to it (Much less a video on Youtube)? Sounds to me like damage control on an epic scale.
I don't get it: If "Expelled" is so dull, artless, and amateurish," why devote a 3500-word review to it (Much less a video on Youtube)?
Have you watched American TV lately? Dull, artless and amateurish doesn't mean people won't watch it and, if advertizing revenues are any guide, swallow just about anything. That doesn't mean we shouldn't warn about the dangers of cigarette smoke or shoddy and dangerous cars.
Sounds to me like damage control on an epic scale.
Well, yes. But, unfortunately, it may be too late to save the brains damaged by dreck like Expelled.
Azkyroth says
I don't get it
You wouldn't.
Jason Black says
Love it. Richard was the first; I wonder who the next contestant is on "pwn Ben Stein's Movie"….
Hank Fox says
I posted a comment to Dawkins' review, mainly critiquing those who carped at Dawkins' use of certain words. It's taking a while to appear over there, so I'm cross-posting it here, in case I did something wrong in my attempt to comment:
Dr. Dawkins:
This was all well said, and all well worth saying.
To the critics here:
Sure, take your shots at Richard Dawkins, and feel like you're accomplishing something. Join right in with those who find this sedate British academic, practically the living definition of civilized, as some sort of violent radical, too strident for the field of public discourse.
But realize that by so doing you're joining in with the Destroyers, the people who profit from lies, and take pleasure in keeping the lot of us ignorant and confused.
They sit up there, anti-freedom, anti-mind, anti-civilization, and all too often even anti-life – for the sake of MONEY – and you can't even manage to notice them.
You set these killers of mind – Ben Stein and his lying cronies – and Dr. Dawkins on opposite pans of the scale, and you leap to see DAWKINS' side weighed down with mistakes, failing to notice the vast murderous mass that sits on the other pan.
If the first thought to pop into your head in cases like this is that you think Dawkins wasn't POLITE ENOUGH, you've basically surrendered to them.
It's like you'd see that brave Chinese kid stand in front of those tanks in Tianmen Square … you'd look at the ominous line of tanks, and then you'd look at the kid, and you'd see that he looked clumsy or dorky, and you'd leap to criticize him for that, missing the point that there is no set protocol for facing the machinery of death with nothing more than individual guts.
FIRST, these things have to be fought. The lies, the death, the exploitation, and the people who shepherd them all into our lives.
We can worry about assigning scores to each individual performance much, much later. If Dawkins occasionally fumbles – IF IF IF – I see it as eminently excusable. If he does it a thousand times, but continues to make an honest effort, I'm willing to make allowances. Because I know what he faces; I know what we all face:
This is not some little tea party gaffe on the part of the people who made this film. Stein and cronies are doing this in full knowledge that they're lying. They just happen to care more about the money they hope to make from pulling their little con than they do about the malignant side effects the film will have – a stab to the heart of truth and understanding, a stab at human knowledge itself.
I couldn't do a tenth of Dr. Dawkins is doing, and I suspect few of the critics here are any more accomplished than me.
If you can't care enough to join in the fight, sit back and watch. But don't go armchair-quarterbacking someone who's devoting his life to the hugely important endeavor of winkling out the truth, and then defending it, every day of his life, against those who hate it and want it gone because it's not profitable to them personally.
I couldn't be more pleased with Dr. Dawkins than if I'd invented him myself. He and PZ Myers are heroes, far as I'm concerned.
[Okay, PZ, I'm done. You may now blush modestly.]
That was so beautiful Hank. Thanks for posting it in both places. I wish I would have thought of something like that to write. I also have been annoyed at the commenters on Dawkins' site who are armchair quarterbacks.
This should make Nisbet proud. The creationist screen writer of Expelled totally agrees with Nisbet:
http://kevinwrites.typepad.com/otherwise_known_as_kevin_/2008/03/move-on-over-pz.html
The creationist screen writer of Expelled totally agrees with Nisbet
Well, it should make Chris Mooney happy.
Fred says
Hank— I hope Mooney and Nesbet read your comment and see how they are contributing to the problem.
Kevin Miller seems hurt over Dawkins' review.
I hope the rest of the Evil Liberal Atheist Conspiracy-run media is kinder to his writing.
I want to be Sastra when I grow up.
Nonetheless, I suspect the reality is slightly less complicated. IMO, Sastra's assessment of Mathis's baseline mindset is accurate, but I doubt Mathis thought (or cared) much about what PZ's reaction would be. He assumed that any reaction of any kind would benefit the Expelled!* PR campaign (which is why they're all claiming that it has). I think he simply didn't want PZ in the theatre with his ID-sympathetic audience and, more importantly, he didn't want PZ to be the fly in the post-viewing Q&A ointment. I also believe Kristine's claim that Mathis appeared to be very surprised to see Dr. Dawkins at the Q&A, and that he is trying to conceal the egg on his face by lying about having intentionally let RD in despite the "do not admit" order next to his name.
That's just my opinion; I could be wrong (and it wouldn't be the first time).
Lessee, what else… Oh yeah:
Crick had asserted that evolution on Earth was impossible.
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." ~ Clarke. :-)
* jazz hands
But Kseniya, those were clearly 'Spirit Fingers', not
'Jazz Hands'.
I think there may be a line.
I think Glen D has the right of this situation. Sometimes we all embrace the false dichotomy . . . on the right, PZ and the defenders of truth — on the left, the Liars for Jesus.
But there is a huge middle out there, what Glen calls the "fencesitters" and I call the pewsitters, who don't have a strong opinion either way. It's hard for me to imagine it, but those folks don't know much about the issue . . . whereas we're all passionate about it. (The other side, of course, is just crazy.)
The folks in the middle are vulnerable to the "teach the controversy" lie because they're basically fair-minded — but they don't want to be associated with dolts. Anything that works to expose the lyin', cheatin', delusional, and incompetent DI and all its damned works is a WIN for us. And "Expelled from EXPELLED" does that in spades.
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." ~ Clarke
Heh. Well, yes.
But the point, which I perhaps did not make clear, was that Francis Crick had actually said no such thing, but merely speculated scientifically — much as did Richard Dawkins. And Crick's speculation was twisted into something it wasn't, much as Dawkins' speculation was by Ben Stein.
"When a Creationist says anything at all about science, he is almost certainly wrong. The only questions that remain is whether he is deliberately lying or merely confused, and whether the false statement is original to him, or instead mindlessly repeated from another Creationist source." ~ Owlmirror
Cheezits says
Because it's an offensive, bigoted pack of lies. And it's being marketed to people who don't know better.
You Canadians may not have seen this American program called Will and Grace, but one of the characters–somewhat flamboyant, it's safe to say–used to do the *jazz hands* when announcing his one-man shows "Just Jack!" and "Jack 2000!"
*Jazz hands* is the appropriate move in this circumstance.
Here is another way to "frame" this bit of controversy:
"Shorter Matt Nisbet: 'Go drink bleach.'"
MAJeff, have you ever seen male dancers? Those guys are buff and built–real manly men. Since when do 'flamboyant' men know anything about the performing arts?
At any rate, this video should clear up your confusion.
PS: Of course we watched that show. Eric McCormack, like all of the best of American film and television comedians, is Canadian.
If "Expelled" is so dull, artless, and amateurish," why devote a 3500-word review to it (Much less a video on Youtube)? Sounds to me like damage control on an epic scale.
Epic scale? Have you visited Youtube? People create videos to celebrate the exceptionally good hamburger they ate that day.
And Dawkins is a professional writer. 3400 words to review the most ambitious creationist movie in the last decade, as well as to point out the buffoonery of its creators, is hardly excessive. He can probably bang that out in an hour or so.
Torbjörn (@38) observes:
And who knows what Randy Olson says on this – at least his list of ten things to improve communication doesn't list controversy as a promotional tool. It does list quality control, concision, prioritization, humor and sincerity, all things that Mathis forget to bring to Mooney's "controversy".
Over on the original The Intersection thread, Randy Olson is agreeing with Chris Mooney. Olson's made several comments, the first of which starts out:
Did any of you ever hear about something called the Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth? Do you recall the John Kerry election campaign staff saying, "When the American public hears the truth about John Kerry's war record …" Do you really think the American public every really heard the truth? Do you really think the American public is going to hear the truth about this film? Sorry, folks, I'm with Chris. …
Last I checked that thread, he's continued to make additional comments supporting Chris' position.
Sili says
Once again Sastra shows why she's been Mollyfied.
Loki says
I want to be both Hank and Sastra when I grow up…help!
Richard Morgan says
I don't write words too well, so here's my "musical" comment on this whole affair.
It lasts just 4 minutes and the title is : EXPELLED – another hole in their socks.
http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes
The version in the official Myspace player is of even poorer quality than the original (sorry about that) which you can find in the other standalone player by scrolling don the same page.
The least complicated explanation would be that Mathis just hates PZ's guts and kicked him out on impulse not thinking about the PR aspect at all.
Eric says
I've had troubles loading pages at the richarddawkins.net ever since this review was posted? Is their server getting hammered by requests? Is god orchestrating a HDoS attack (Heavenly Denial of Service)?
Well, poop. My comment on Professor Dawkins' site somehow didn't make it in, and now I can't even seem to get signed on over there.
If anyone talks to him, let him know that his server is letting him down.
Harald Hanche-Olsen says
Good one, #67 – HDoS indeed – i like it! But it may just be an overloaded server. I finally got the article just now, on my sixth or seventh attempt. Just keep trying until you succeed, but let some time pass between attempts, or all the people stampeding to get the article will just stomp on each others' toes. Now I'll settle down and enjoy what is bound to be a good read.
I do get it, you're trying to keep out competent critics who will tell it like it is, while you try to sell this pile of dung to the rubes. You've gotten much mindless praise from the believers you're out to shear yet again, and now you're trying for damage control when a real review gets out.
We remember the squalling from your shill Ben Stein when an actual movie critic, Roger Moore, also got in after being disinvited.
Christ, Kevin, you are one dishonest jerk from beginning to end.
Rupert says
It's great fun being a propagandist. If people kick back against your output, you can say that they're taking it seriously so it must be true. If they don't, you can say that they've got no answer to it, that's how true it is. Can't lose!
Except, that is, when you actually have to deal with the consequences of some of the things you say and do – then it gets a bit harder.
Has anyone seen that statement the producers promised on why they kicked PZ out of the showing?
Just a minor caveat to what I posted @#4, which was:
The first site has listings up through February, not stopping January as I had said. Which doesn't change anything, really. I just want the information to be right.
dwarf zebu says
I read RD's review and:
OMFSM!! You gotta love the English and their way with the language; I'm getting over a chest cold and had a laughing/coughing fit at this bon mot about Ben Stein:
"…his speaking voice is an irritating, nasal drawl, innocent of charm and of consonants."
Well, shoot, I was right the first time about my link.
It's another page that goes up through February:
rsvp.getexpelled.com/events/events/list
They have a bewildering proliferation of pages, and I don't really know why. Apparently, though the "private screenings" site was meant to be more exclusive. But if so, they oughtn't be putting it on the web for anyone to use.
@ Kseniya:
But your devoted public wants both. Can't you just all agree to be friends instead?
@ blf:
Over on the original The Intersection thread, Randy Olson is agreeing with Chris Mooney.
Good catch, thanks.
Seems Randy is saying that when you don't care for the truth you can use controversy, so IDC is an exception from his main rules. But his support is an anecdote, plural of anecdotes isn't data.
And later on he discusses another anecdote on a social documentary on religion (Jesus Camp) that could have used some controversy on "the other side".
Reactions comes from several commentators. Dan points out that the problem in Randy's example is just that the public hasn't heard the truth, so this give little support to not say it now. Melusine points out that the camp was shut down as a result of publicity from the movie Jesus Camp – which of course is just trading an anecdote for another.
So yeah, while I like the fact that Randy presents a flexible approach, but I'm not sure any longer how much his experience is worth considering he seems to rely on singular examples, he is definitely with Mooney on this.
themadlolscientist says
Latest Google Fight numbers:
Dawkins: 2,970,000
Stein: 990,000
I'm ROFLingMAO here. I mentioned Expelledgate a couple of days ago to my good friend, a nonscientist and "recovering Catholic," and pointed him to a few links on the subject. Since then he's been giving me infinite grief for having gotten him so fascinated by the whole business that he hasn't gotten anything done since. Now mind you, this is a guy who almost never spends any significant time on line unless he's looking for a new video game.
One of his latest comments to me: "I had no idea just how scary those Fundamentalists really are!"
Score another one for the Good Guys.


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BOOL Connect(string address, short port, vector<CSocket*> &sockets, int id) {
	int nNumConnections;

	BOOL bFail = FALSE;
	LONG lTO = CONNECT_TIMEO_MILISEC;
	//cout << "Connecting" << endl;
	ostringstream os;
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	cout << "Connecting party "<< id <<": " << address << ", " << port << endl;
#endif

	for (int j = 0; j < sockets.size(); j++) {
		for (int i = 0; i < RETRY_CONNECT; i++) {
			if (!sockets[j]->Socket())
				goto connect_failure;
			if (sockets[j]->Connect(address, port, lTO)) {
				// send pid when connected
				sockets[j]->Send(&id, sizeof(int));
				sockets[j]->Send(&j, sizeof(int));
#ifndef BATCH
				os.str("");
				os << " (" << id << ") (" << j << ") connected" << endl;
				cout << os.str() << flush;
#endif
				if (j == sockets.size() - 1) {
					return TRUE;
				} else {
					break;
				}
			}
			SleepMiliSec(10);
			sockets[j]->Close();
		}
	}

	connect_failure:

	os.str("");
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}

BOOL Listen(string address, short port, vector<vector<CSocket*> > &sockets, int numConnections, int myID) {
	// everybody except the last thread listenes
	ostringstream os;

#ifndef BATCH
	cout << "Listening: " << address << ":" << port << endl;
#endif
	if (!sockets[myID][0]->Socket()) {
		cerr << "Error: a socket could not be created " << endl;
		goto listen_failure;
	}
	if (!sockets[myID][0]->Bind(port, address)) {
		cerr << "Error: a socket could not be bound" << endl;
		goto listen_failure;
	}
	if (!sockets[myID][0]->Listen()) {
		cerr << "Error: could not listen on the socket " << endl;
		goto listen_failure;
	}

	for (int i = 0; i < numConnections; i++) //twice the actual number, due to double sockets for OT
			{
		CSocket sock;
		if (!sockets[myID][0]->Accept(sock)) {
			cerr << "Error: could not accept connection" << endl;
			goto listen_failure;
		}
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		UINT nID;
		UINT conID; //a mix of threadID and role - depends on the application
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				{
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			i--;
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		}
		if (conID >= sockets[myID].size()) {
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			i--;
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		}

#ifndef BATCH
		os.str("");
		os << " (" << conID <<") (" << conID << ") connection accepted" << endl;

		cout << os.str() << flush;
#endif
		// locate the socket appropriately
		sockets[nID][conID]->AttachFrom(sock);
		sock.Detach();
	}

#ifndef BATCH
	cout << "Listening finished" << endl;
#endif
	return TRUE;

	listen_failure: cout << "Listen failed" << endl;
	return FALSE;
}


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GC/MS Application: Identifying Dangerous Mosquitoes
Threatening about half of the global population and causing over 660,000 deaths per year, mainly of young children in Africa, malaria is an infamous mosquito-borne disease. However, there are many other species of mosquito which can be equally as deadly at transmitting diseases like West Nile virus, Rift Valley fever virus and Dengue fever.
Fortunately, gas chromatography/mass spectrometry or GC/MS analysis is now being used to distinguish dangerous species of mosquitoes. Researchers were able to classify the chemical "fingerprint" of the mosquitoes in order to identify species in Saudi Arabia, which has implications for population health worldwide.
The kingdom of Saudi Arabia currently carries out mosquito control programs, but they wanted to target dangerous species while saving time and money. The problem, however, is that it's difficult to tell one species of mosquito from another using physical examination alone. That's where GC/MS analysis comes into play.
GC/MS Analysis of Mosquito Chemicals
According to a new article, scientists at King Saud University in Riyadh suggested that GC/MS analysis of the pheromones, the chemical secreted by the mosquitoes, could help scientists classify mosquito species. Pheromones are present in the outermost layer of the insects, known as the cuticle.
In a report published in the Journal of Mass Spectrometry, principal author Mohamed Sallam described how the research team collected larvae of eight species of mosquito and raised them in the lab. Newly emerged unfed female adults were selected and pinned down under desiccation and dried out thoroughly. Three specimens of each species were individually extracted with hexane. They then examined the cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of these mosquitoes using GC/MS analysis. A total of 146–160 peaks were detected by gas chromatography.
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Of the eight species examined, five species representing three genera could be distinguished: Culex pipiens, Culex quinquefasciatus, Culex tritaeniorhynchus, Stegomyia aegyptii and Anopheles stephensi. All five species are vectors of Rift Valley fever virus. Researchers concluded that the ease and speed of the GC/MS analysis lends itself to routine testing which allows a wide range of adult collected material to be identified with high accuracy. This helps public health officials identify mosquito populations and act accordingly.
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Spin-Off	Technology Transfer	Technology innovation	Knowledge transfer
Lourenço Santos Dantas Gomes
Federal Technological University of Paraná
Pedro Paulo Andrade Junior
João Luiz Kovaleski
This article aims to present a theoretical review of the process of technology transfer between universities and companies, focusing on the technology-based companies, specifically academic spin-offs as one of the main tools for technology transfer. It then made a presentation on the importance of factors such as skilled human resources, encouraging the government as an agent, technological innovation, and Innovation Act (2004) for the transferring. The methodological approach of this paper is characterized as a basic research, qualitative, exploratory and technical procedures as a literature search. The research resulted in the realization that the technological development model based on cooperation between universities and companies has been consolidated as one of the strategies of technological and economic development of the country, as seeking to bring differential factors of competitiveness in the market.
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Trading opportunities on the currency pair: Trading on the dollar closed down on Friday. This fall was brought about by the closing of long positions before the weekend (French elections) and by appreciating oil (technical rebound).
Friday's candlestick engulfs the previous three daily candlesticks. A pin bar with a long shadow has formed on the weekly timeframe. Everything is pointing to the start of a correctional phase. A sharp drop against the trend always raises suspicion, so my forecast is predicting a drop for the dollar through a double top formation. The target is 1.3476. Traders should look to sell at around 1.3777/1.38 and to set stop levels above 1.3865.
Cyclical wave analysis rules in favour of selling dollars. The first swing from 1.2968 to 1.3535 ( 567) is roughly equal to the second swing from 1.3223 to 1.3793 ( 570).
The previous trading idea on the Canadian dollar came out on the 16th of January 2017. At the time, one US dollar was worth 1.3108 Canadian. At the time of writing that review, a breakout of the trend line had been confirmed. Despite the hammer formation, I was expecting the USD/CAD rate to fall to 1.2815/20 by the 8th of February 2017.
Given that there was a risk of exiting this hammer formation on the candlestick upwards, I suggested waiting for the Stochastic indicator to return to the sell zone. The Stochastic oscillator returned to the sell zone as the dollar restored to 1.3388. In the end, the hammer formation completed, and the breakout of the trend line was shown to be false After rising to 1.3388, the rate to 1.2948, failing to reach the target zone of 1.2815/20.
On the back of a drop in oil and the general rise of the dollar, the Canadian fell against the US dollar in March to 1.3535. After a 25-day correctional rally, the dollar continued towards 1.3793.
Now let's talk about why this currency pair has attracted my interest. On Friday, trading on the dollar closed down. Even a weak jobs report from the US couldn't have changed this. Employment figures beat market expectations and unemployment fell. Average hourly earnings were in line with expectations.
The US created 211,000 new jobs outside the agricultural sector in April against a forecast of 190,000 and a previous reading of 79,000. The figure for February was revised upwards from 219,000 to 232,000, while March's was revised downwards from 98,000 to 79,000. The aggregate revision comes to -6,000.
Unemployment fell to 4.4% (forecast: 4.6%, previous reading: 4.5%). Average hourly earnings rose by 0.3% MoM, in line with expectations, against a previous reading of 0.1% (downgraded from 0.2%). The participation rate came to 62.9% against a previous reading of 63.0%.
The dollar strengthened in response to the NFP report, but this bullish impulse was quickly extinguished. This had something to do with the closing of long positions before the weekend as well as rising oil quotes. Oil appreciated by 5.8% to 49.36 USD per barrel. Below 47 USD, there were more willing buyers. The fundamental factors are still against oil, but one technical factor has worked in its favour; a rebound from the support line.
Friday's candlestick engulfs the three previous ones. Coincidentally, the dollar started to weaken as the upwards waves came into sync. The first swing from 1.2968 to 1.3535 ( 567) is roughly equal to the second swing from 1.3223 to 1.3793 ( 570).
On the weekly timeframe, a pin bar with a long shadow has formed. Everything is pointing towards the start of a correctional phase. A sharp drop against the trend always raises suspicion, so I'm forecasting a weakening of the US dollar through a double top model. The target is 1.3476. Traders should look to start selling at around 1.3777/1.38 and to put stop levels above 1.3865.
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Gyllenhaal: Heath Ledger was extremely passionate about gay rights
"He was extraordinarily serious about the political issues surrounding the movie," Jake Gyllenhaal told Out magazine.
By LGBTQ Nation Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary.
"While there are many parts of the real story that are sad, one of the saddest things is that I won't be able to exchange ideas creatively with Heath again, because that was one of the most beautiful things to come out of that… He was extraordinarily sensitive about the political issues surrounding [Brokeback Mountain] when it came out. A lot of times, people would want to have fun and joke about it, and he was vehement about being serious, to the point where he didn't really want to hear about anything that was being made fun of."
— Jake Gyllenhaal talks with Out magazine about the filming of Brokeback Mountain, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.
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Barb, thank goodness for your DH, let him keep holding you and cry that pain away, my heart is breaking for you babe xoxoxo Its just not kosher for comments like that- do they not THINK before they open their mouths?? I have had a fair share of similar comments. my fave was my dad at a big dinner- we had just lost Zahra and there were a few ppl there with kids who were busy feeding them and sortin gthem their dinner while the mums and dads dinners were sitting there going cold-My Dad looked me straight in the eye and said "isnt it great not to have to worry about feeding kids, we just get to eat our dinner hot" i could have punched him, instead i took myslef far far away and left him wondering what he had said to upset me....... to this day he still hasnt figured out why i was upset.


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This London Road Is Set to Become the UK's First Zero-Emission Street
Petrol and diesel cars will be banned for 18 months on the street in a bid to improve air quality.
Air pollution is an urgent public health crisis that demands immediate action from governments. This decision is a step towards taking action on London's pollution but there is still a long way to go. The United Nations' Global Goal 11 works to achieve cities and communities that are sustainable, while Goal 13 calls for urgent climate action. You can join us in taking action on to help protect the environment here.
A street in the Barbican area of central London is set to become the UK's first zero-emission street, the City of London Corporation has announced this week.
From Spring 2020 the road is expected to only be open to zero-emission vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians through Beech Street, one of the area's main thoroughfares.
The street normally experiences a high level of air pollution because it is mostly enclosed in a tunnel running under the Barbican Estate. Cyclists and pedestrians travel alongside cars through the tunnel, breathing in fumes.
Working with Transport for London, the City said a temporary traffic order will be placed and the impact of the decision on air quality will be monitored, adding that it expects to see "a significant improvement on air quality" resulting in health benefits for those who use the street.
Emergency vehicles, refuse collection, and delivery vehicles will still be able to drive through as an exception.
The City of London Corporation – not to be confused with the government of the whole of London, but a district within the wider metropolitan area – also said it hopes the effect of the ban will improve the quality of the air around nearby schools. If successful it may become a permanent ban.
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"These measures are another important step towards cleaner air in the City. Drastically reducing air pollution requires radical actions, and these plans will help us eliminate toxic air on our streets," the chair of the environmental committee of the City of London Corporation, Jeremy Simons, said.
He added: "Nobody should have to breathe in dirty air, and we will continue to take bold and ambitious steps to ensure that the health of Londoners is protected."
The scheme is to bring nitrogen dioxide levels on Beech Street in line with air quality guidelines set out by the European Union and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Related Stories March 13, 2019 Air Pollution Is Killing More People Than Previously Thought: Study
The UK capital has struggled to keep in line with the recommended acceptable levels of air pollution for some time.
In 2017, London breached annual air pollution limits within just five days of the new year. Since then, action has improved things a bit, but 2 million people are still living with pollution above legal limits, the Guardian reported in April this year.
Meanwhile, it was announced on Tuesday that a fresh inquest would be launched to determine the role of air pollution and monitoring in the death of 9-year-old Londoner Ella Kissi-Debrah in 2013, who suffered a fatal asthma attack.
A 2018 report by Prof. Stephen Holgate found air pollution levels at the Catford monitoring station — one mile from Ella's home — "consistently" exceeded lawful EU limits during the three years prior to her death.
TopicsEnvironmentUKBritainLondonClimate ChangeAir PollutionCarbon EmissionsGlobal WarmingZero EmissionsClimate CrisisAir Quality


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How to Change Notification Panel Background in Android?
If you're an Android user then you may bored with Stock Notification Panel.
Actually we can't change its color, We can't change it's background image & we can't Customizd it as we want.
What is XQS Background Module?
XQS Background is a module for AOSP devices running Android JellyBean (4.1) to Android Marshmallow (6.0.x) that allows you to add a background image to Quick Settings panel (Notification panel on devices below Lollipop).
With this module you can change easily the transparency of the image and the transparency of the panel .
• That's it. Now check your notification panel you have successfully changed background of your notification panel.
• You can also Change the Transparency level of panel & more from XQS Background module.


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