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Copeland's "BEN-HUR, A Tale of the Christ - MGM's silent classic film" premieres
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On April 19, composer and rock legend Stewart Copeland's BEN-HUR, A Tale of the Christ - MGM's silent classic film, an orchestral score for the 1925 MGM epic Ben Hur, receives its world premiere at the Virginia Arts Festival. The monumental, 90-minute performance features Copeland on drum set and percussion alongside the Virginia Arts Festival Orchestra conducted by Richard Kaufmann.
BEN-HUR, A Tale of the Christ
MGM's silent classic film
Orchestral score composed and performed by
STEWART COPELAND, Drums and percussion Originally composed in 2010 for the "Ben-Hur Live" arena spectacle, the Virginia Arts Festival commissioned Copeland to orchestrate and adapt his propulsive, intense score — as well as the film itself — for concert performance.
Copeland writes:
I felt strongly that the symphonic score I had composed [for "Ben-Hur Live"] deserved a life of its own. I had seen Fred Niblo's classic original version of this famous story and had been overwhelmed by its scale. Even now, almost a century after it was made the film is enormous, even to modern eyes. Watching all of those same scenes that I had scored for a different medium, I couldn't help but hear my music working with Ramon Novarro's portrayal of Judah and Fred Niblo's depiction of [Lew] Wallace's book.
A recipient of the Hollywood Film Festival's first Outstanding Music in Film Visionary Award and a 2003 inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Stewart Copeland — the former drummer and founder of The Police — has been responsible for some of the film world's most innovative and groundbreaking scores. His career includes the sale of more than 60 million records worldwide, and numerous awards, including five Grammy awards.Learn more:
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Il club del libro e della torta di bucce di patata di Guernsey (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society) è un film del 2018 diretto da Mike Newell.

Il film è l'adattamento cinematografico dell'omonimo romanzo di Mary Ann Shaffer e Annie Barrows.

Trama
Poco dopo la fine della seconda guerra mondiale, la giovane scrittrice londinese di successo Juliet Ashton è in giro nelle librerie per promuovere il suo romanzo, ultimo di una fortunata serie firmata con uno pseudonimo. Un giorno riceve una lettera da un uomo di nome Dawsey Adams che vive sull'isola di Guernsey. Nella lettera l'uomo dice di essere in possesso di un vecchio libro appartenuto a Juliet, che lei aveva venduto anni prima.

L'uomo scrive di essere membro del "Club del libro e della torta di bucce di patata di Guernsey", un piccolo club letterario nato per nascondere ai tedeschi un maiale arrosto, ma che poi ha appassionato gli amici che lo compongono. Il racconto intriga Juliet che decide di andare sull'isola per approfondire la storia. Prima di partire si fidanza con Mark, un facoltoso ufficiale americano che frequenta da alcuni mesi.

A Guernsey Juliet conosce i membri del club, trovando un ambiente a lei consono e persone affabili e gentili, a patto che non si nomini Elizabeth McKenna, la fondatrice del club, misteriosamente allontanatasi dall'isola, lasciando la piccola figlia Kit a Dawsey. La scrittrice resta più a lungo del previsto sull'isola, indagando sulla sorte di Elizabeth, fino a scoprire del suo amore per un tedesco, che la aveva messa incinta ed era poi morto in un naufragio. In seguito la donna, della quale era innamorato anche Dawsey, era stata arrestata e deportata dai tedeschi.
Con l'aiuto di Mark che, geloso, la raggiunge a Guernsey, Juliet scopre che Elizabeth è morta prigioniera in Germania, freddata dopo un atto di ribellione.

Tornata a Londra Juliet rompe con Mark, col quale capisce di non avere nulla in comune e scrive un romanzo sulla storia che ha ricostruito e lo manda al club perché lo giudichi e, eventualmente, dia il consenso a pubblicarlo. Dawsey capisce di amare Juliet e parte per Londra per dichiararsi proprio mentre lei sta andando da lui. I due si incontrano a Weymouth e tornano a Guernsey per coronare il loro amore e crescere insieme la piccola Kit.

Distribuzione
Il film è stato distribuito nelle sale cinematografiche statunitensi il 20 aprile 2018. In Italia viene distribuito attraverso Netflix dal 10 agosto 2018.

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Collegamenti esterni

Film basati su romanzi di autori statunitensi
Film ambientati negli anni 1940

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It has always been a conundrum for some to deal with, what do you do with gifts that you get from a lover after the relationship comes to an end? For some, they don't care and they just move on, but others also feel if we're not together any more then you shouldn't enjoy any fruit of my labour.
A viral post by one Nigerian guy who decided to seize his ex-girlfriend's refrigerator has caught our eye and would surely leave you in stitches.
In a post on Facebook, the guy, identified as Ini Frank, claims he visited his girlfriend only to meet her with another guy in her room.
Worst, the guy was drinking chilled water from the fridge he bought his girl, therefore he decided to carry his property and leave the room with it.
He posted a picture of himself carrying his fridge in the group.
So assuming this really happened and it's not someone taking the piss, did he act right or he's just being too petty?
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Amazon pulled a big one on me or at least tried to. Don't let Amazon take advantage of you.
Amazon claims "free shipping" this Christmas season. Let me tell how they are doing it, what Amazon is really doing.
First, Bezos is trying to keep his US government subsidized USPS rates after Trump has confronted the free ride Amazon has gotten. This is main way rich people get richer. They get a concession passed into law by Congress which gives them an unfair market advantage over all others.
Ask Warren Buffet. I doubt he'll tell you.
Then they bribe or pay off the government officials, the politicians who granted them this favorable advantage, this corrupt path to riches. An attorney wrote a book about this. I shall have to look it up for you.
Second, most of us have become accustomed to increasing prices. We are experiencing and expecting more inflation. The news media has programmed us to expect inflation.
Third, the bottom line is that Amazon and its subsidiaries for the most part increased prices in preparation for this "fake sale!" The price increases are much higher than the costs of shipping!
For example, I ordered a leather bound copy of a large print parallel Bible for a gift. It cost $38.27 plus $3.99 for shipping ($42.26 total). It was not delivered; moreover, it was coming from the very same vender with an identical shipping charge as another book I ordered at the same time. The one book arrived but the Bible did not.
I tried to get them to send me the Bible but instead was given a refund and when I went to order the same Bible again from the same vendor shipping was now "free" and the price of that particular Bible was more than $52. Today I see it is only $50.33.
So, since I know that prices have been jacked up far beyond usual, I am not buying anything during this Christmas season and I might even buy it locally. Amazon appears to have adopted artificial intelligence price manipulating in order to fool us into paying more for items Amazon knows we want. How does Amazon know we are interested? Simply, the internet informs them via cookies and tracking, probably mostly through Google. Plus, Amazon's own website tracks the hell out of us!
We are in the days of total manipulation. Under such circumstances one can only lose. My suggestion? Don't play the game.
Don't buy anything this Christmas. Instead, wait until the sale, especially after the economic depression programmed in by the banksters after the inauguration of the new Congress. The bottom is going to drop.
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Feast of St. Matthias: Called and Sent
From a homily by Saint John Chrysostom
Make known to us, Lord, the one you choose
In those days, Peter, stood up in the midst of the disciples and said… As the fiery spirit to whom the flock was entrusted by Christ and as the leader in the band of the apostles, Peter always took the initiative in speaking: My brothers, we must choose from among our number. He left the decision to the whole body, at once augmenting the honor of those elected and avoiding any suspicion of partiality. For such great occasions can easily lead to trouble.
Did not Peter then have the right to make the choice himself? Certainly he had the right, but he did not want to give the appearance of showing special favor to anyone. Besides he was not yet endowed with the Spirit.And they nominated two, we read, Joseph, who was called Barsabbas and surnamed Justus, and Matthias. He himself did not nominate them; all present did. But it was he who brought the issue forward, pointing out that it was not his own idea but had been suggested to him by a scriptural prophecy. So he was speaking not as a teacher but as an interpreter.
So, he goes on, we must choose from those men who lived in our company. Notice how insistent he is that they should be eyewitnesses. Even though the Spirit would come to ratify the choice, Peter regards this prior qualification as most important.
Those who lived in our company, to continue the passage, all through the time when the Lord Jesus came and went among us. He refers to those who had dwelt with Jesus, not just those who had been his disciples. For of course from the very beginning many had followed him. Notice how it is written that Peter himself was one of the two who had listened to John, and followed Jesus.
All through the time when the Lord Jesus came and went among us, to continue further, beginning with the baptism of John – rightly so, because no one knew what had happened before that time, although they were to know of it later through the Spirit.
Up to the day, Peter added, on which he was taken up from us – one of these must be made a witness along with us of his resurrection. He did not say "a witness of the rest of his actions" but only a witness of the resurrection. That witness would be more believable who could declare that he who ate and drank and was crucified also rose from the dead. He needed to be a witness not of the times before or after that event, and not of the signs and wonders, but only of the resurrection itself. For the rest happened by general admission, openly; but the resurrection took place secretly, and was known to these men only.
And they all prayed together, saying: You, Lord, know the hearts of men; make your choice known to us. You, not we. Appropriately they said that he knew the hearts of men, because the choice was to be made by him, not by others.
They spoke with such confidence, because someone had to be appointed. They did not say "choose" but make known to us the chosen one; the one you choose, they said, fully aware that everything was preordained by God.They then drew lots. For they did not think themselves worthy to make the choice of their own accord, and therefore they wanted some sign for their instruction.
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Now that sustainable Pacific Cod is in season, I've been renewing my love affair with this super-mild whitefish. It's fun to get fancy sometimes, but usually I try to keep things as simple as possible – and the following two recipes are VERY simple, so simple a recipes's not even needed.
Of course I was tempted to batter and deep fry my cod, I rarely do because I prefer to keep it healthy, and deep frying gets messy. Simple seasoning and searing in a pan produces a nicely textured fish that's brown on the outside, moist and delicate on the inside. A great method for almost any fish, I had never tried it with cod before, but I'll definitely do it again!
Start with a heavy skillet and preheat it over a medium high flame. Meanwhile, brush fish with oil and sprinkle with seasonings of your choice. Plain old salt and pepper will do, I blended my Tuscan Grill Rub with olive oil and spread that on.
Once the skillet is nice and hot, add fish and sear the first side until brown, about 3-4 minutes depending on conditions. Carefully turn over, turn off flame and let the residual heat finish the fish – it could also be transferred to the oven for about five minutes.
I also sautéed onions in the pan (about 10 minutes over low flame) with olive oil and Tuscan Grill Rub and served them on the side with Barley and Wild Rice Pilaf I just finished for our deli.
Everyone loves those crispy breadcrumbs! They're simple to make, start with regular or panko breadcrumbs and season to taste (Tuscan Grill Rub and Parmesan would be nice here), or use a pre seasoned crumb like our Parma Panko, Southwest Panko or Tortilla Breadcrumbs. Melt a little butter in the microwave and toss with the crumbs to moisten lightly. Olive oil would work nicely here as well.
Keep the fish as cold as possible until time to cook and preheat the oven to about 425 degrees; fish cooks fast, so these two steps will aid in quick browning without overcooking. I like to brush the fish with seasoned olive oil, but just a sprinkle of seasoning will do the trick. Place the fish in on a shallow pan lined with parchment paper and sprinkle with the buttered breadcrumbs, generally packing on all the fish will hold (they're delicious!).
Transfer pan to the top shelf of the oven (top shelf means better browning), convection fan on if available. Cook attentively until browned – but take care not to overcook! A cut like cod is usually done in less than 10 minutes. If it's not browned in 7-8 minutes, the broiler will do the trick – but stay nearby, broilers can burn in a matter of seconds.
Of course both of these techniques will work nicely on almost any fish – the keys to success are keeping the fish cold (even frozen is good), using high heat and cooking the fish quickly so it doesn't dry out. Cheers and Buon Appetito!


Ganeshotsav was celebrated with a great deal of pomp and fervor at Jubilee Hills Kindergarten School on 24th August, 2017. The atmosphere was very lively and enthusiastic with devotional songs and dances. Puja rituals were observed as a part of the festivity.
Speeches and shlokas on the significance of the festival enlightened the audience. 'Vishwa Pradakshina' skit talked about the spiritual and intellectual powers of Lord Ganesha. The whole atmosphere echoed with 'Ganapathi Bappa Moriya' and brought in the divine feel all around.
The Principal, Ms.M.Varalakshmi and the Pre-Primary and Primary Headmistress Ms.Sonia Nagpal graced the occasion.
Enriching field trips contribute to the overall development of students. To provide students an opportunity to learn from the outside world, Jubilee Hills Kindergarten School organized an educational field trip to Nehru Zoological Park for the students of LKG and UKG on 22/08/17.
This trip gave the students a chance to explore the world of animals and birds, their habitat as well as their eating habits. The open enclosures and the sheer variety of animals fascinated the students to no end.
The students had a gala time with their friends and teachers. They had their lunch at the Zoological Park and enjoyed the natural bliss.
To bring forth the different elements of Indian mythology by a myriad of dances, songs, shlokas and stories, the students of U.K.G E and F presented their Parent Day on the theme 'The Scholarly Mythos' on 19th August, 2017 at Jubilee Hills Kindergarten School.
The Chairman, Sri.A.Murali Mukund, the Principal, Ms.M.Varalakshmi, the Academic Director, Ms.G.Sree Devi, the Primary and Pre-Primary Headmistress Ms.Sonia Nagpal graced the occasion. The programme started off with a prayer song to invoke the blessings of God followed by a welcome address by Ms.Sonia Nagpal. The gathering was also welcomed by Ms.Ishita Sahu from U.K.G – E.
Welcome dance to the tune of 'Aigiri Nandini' made the traditional feel linger all around. Speeches and poems on Indian Mythology and Red Colour gave an insight into the theme. Rama Charitam, a musical dance drama was an outstanding performance which deserves a special mention. It portrayed the "Victory of good over evil". Dances to the tunes of 'Jai Ho Jai Ganesh" and 'Govinda Bolo Hare' were breath-taking. Narration of Ramayana by Hiranmayi from U.K.G – F was the highlight of the programme. The programme concluded with a vote of thanks by Akshita from U.K.G – F.
Janmastami, the birth of Lord Sri Krishna was celebrated at Jubilee Hills Kindergarten School on 11th August in the school premises.
The Principal, Ms.M.Varalakshmi and the Academic Director, Ms.G.Sreedevi graced the occasion with their presence. The programme commenced with a prayer song followed by a speech by Ms.Arnavi Pillai of U.K.G-G high lighting the childhood deeds of Sri.Krishna.
Shlokas were beautifully recited by Ms.Abhijna of L.K.G – A and a skit on 'Govardhan Giridhari' won the soul of the spectators. This skit conveyed a strong message "Never be arrogant, instead stay humble forever". The little Krishnas and Gopikas presented a beautiful dance to the tune of Govinda Bolo Hare. The programme concluded with a vote of thanks.
A healthy mind resides in a healthy body. Going for a walk, healthy diet, disciplined lifestyle and positive thinking all these are healthy habits. It is always wise to start and imbibe good habits as early as possible. Keeping this in mind, Jubilee Hills Kindergarten School celebrated "Health Week" from 7th August to 11th August, where young (LKG) children went on a school rally. They went with the slogans like- DON'T SIT TO BE FIT, EAT HEALTHY FEEL HEALTHY, EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER, SMILE AND BE HEALTHY, PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE and STAY HAPPY STAY HEALTHY etc. Students also had special talk on Wellness Bin in the assembly. On this occasion, a group of dentists had come for a dental check up to diagnose common oral problems like cavities, tooth decay and cold sores.


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Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston to discuss the Puritan Thesis and the fake history under-girding it.
Well done gents. Put me down for more neoreactionary debunking. Send an invite to Masonius Rufus too.
1600's I don't think I would have a clear understanding of the issue. The interview goes all over the board without any clear definition of just how the Puritan's came into existence.
Jan Irvin on Gnostic Media did two interviews on the subject that make a good base to understand the Puritans.
The interview was supposed to refute the Puritan thesis, that leftism comes from the Puritans. Neoreaction and History at New World Order University (http://newworldorderuniversity.com/neoreaction-and-history/) rebuts the Moldbug hypothesis and documents the spread of leftism from Illuminism via the Freemasons. The history of Illuminism and Freemasonry in early America is rarely discussed by anybody. Leftism comes from Jewish occultism inserted into Freemasonry, not Christianity in any form. Small-scale socialist utopianism is completely different from the Jewish Illuminati agenda to take over the world through revolution.
Much of the Mason narrative is also bunkum based on myths sold by charlatans to catholic readers who desperately wanted to believe an organization they were forbidden to join by their church was indeed evil. The Knights of Colombus are virtually identical to the Masons both structurally and ritually. Both are by in large prole organizations where the locals network and pursue various small time community goals.
Big to-do lodges in major urban areas are, by the nature of their upper class members, more likely to engage in broader sweep conspiracies. If there were a time in the past when such central committees were directing the actions if far flung prole gatherings it is long forgotten.
One could foil more latter day conspiracies by banning metro area golf courses than by closing every masonic lodge.


For those who know how to use it properly, access to credit can be a wealth creator. This week's Money Hack comes from Jenny, whose sister figured out a way to make her access bond work for her.
"Simon mentioned that interest on home loans is calculated daily. This reminded me of how my sister and her husband in New Zealand were able to pay off their bond super quickly.
Both of their salaries were paid directly into their bond account every month. This immediately impacted on the daily interest they were paying for the first part of the month. They would then withdraw money as and when they needed it. Everything left over at month end stayed in the bond, and so they enjoyed a double win! They saved a fortune in interest.
With a little thought, a simple solution could save you thousands. Home loans that allow you to access any funds over your monthly repayment amount could be an excellent tool for a disciplined person.
If depositing your entire salary into your bond scares you, you can still use this type of bond to save substantial amounts on interest by allocating your short-term savings and emergency fund to this account. If, for example, your home loan interest rate is 10.25% per year and your savings account only offers 5% per year, you're financially better off keeping your cash in your access bond.
Many One Lappers are strongly in favour of using access bonds as a savings vehicle.
Indeed! Same cost as a normal bond. U can't draw directly from the access dacility but can transfer to the linked account for free.
I recently found out that the bank is entitled to revoke the access facility at any point. Unlikely to happen, but just need to keep that in mind.
The risks It's important to ensure that you choose the right product. Some bonds provide access to money you deposited over and above your monthly repayments. Others offer access to additional credit from the bank. Choose a bond product that allows you to access your own money, not more credit. The difference is crucial, as the one saves interest while the other changes your principal loan amount, costing you more in interest repayments and bond repayments in the long run. It's also important to be aware that your bond provider has the right to revoke access to this service. One Lapper Eric Brown had his access revoked after a failed debit order.
I think it's important to understand, that if you living out of your access bond and all your savings/emergency funds are not risk free. A financial crises, a missed debit order can shut you out very quickly.
Craig Gradidge from Gradidge-Mahura Investments advocates caution. He says banks revoked access to clients around the time of the financial crisis.


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Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine
Princess Irene
Princess Henry of Prussia
(1866-07-11)11 July 1866
New Palace, Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse
11 November 1953(1953-11-11) (aged 87)
Schloss Hemmelmark, Barkelsby, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Prince Henry of Prussia
(m. 1888;died 1929)
Prince Waldemar of Prussia
Prince Sigismund of Prussia
Irene Luise Marie Anne
Hesse-Darmstadt
Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
Grand Ducal Family of
Hesse and by Rhine
Louis IV
Victoria, Marchioness of Milford Haven
Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna of Russia
Irene, Princess Heinrich of Prussia
Ernest Louis
Prince Friedrich
Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia
Princess Marie
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (Irene Luise Marie Anne, Princess of Hesse and by Rhine, 11 July 1866 – 11 November 1953) was the third child and third daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine. Her maternal grandparents were Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Her paternal grandparents were Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Elizabeth of Prussia. She was the wife of Prince Henry of Prussia, a younger brother of Wilhelm II, German Emperor and her first cousin. The SS Prinzessin Irene, a liner of the North German Lloyd was named after her.
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom was the Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine from 1877 to 1878. She was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Alice was the first of Queen Victoria's nine children to die, and one of three to be outlived by their mother, who died in 1901.
Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. On 1 May 1876, she adopted the additional title of Empress of India.
Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine was the second surviving son of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and Wilhelmine of Baden.
Titles, styles, and honours
Titles and styles
Her siblings included Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, wife of Prince Louis of Battenberg, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, wife of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Like her younger sister, the empress, Irene was a carrier of the hemophilia gene, and Irene would lose her sisters Alix and Elisabeth in Russia to the Bolsheviks.
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, later Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven was the eldest daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1837–1892), and his first wife Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (1843–1878), daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Admiral of the Fleet Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven,, formerly Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, was a British naval officer and German nobleman related to the British royal family.
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia was the fifth son and seventh child of Emperor Alexander II of Russia. He was an influential figure during the reigns of his brother Emperor Alexander III of Russia and his nephew Emperor Nicholas II, who was also his brother in law through Sergei's marriage to Elizabeth, the sister of Tsarina Alexandra.
Princesses Irene, Victoria, Elisabeth and Alix of Hesse in 1885.
She received her first name, which was taken from the Greek word for "peace," because she was born at the end of the Austro-Prussian War. [1] Alice considered Irene an unattractive child and once wrote to her sister Victoria that Irene was "not pretty." [2] Though not as pretty as her sister Elizabeth, Irene did have a pleasant, even disposition. Princess Alice brought up her daughters simply. An English nanny presided over the nursery and the children ate plain meals of rice puddings and baked apples and wore plain dresses. Her daughters were taught how to do housework, such as baking cakes, making their own beds, laying fires and sweeping and dusting their rooms. Princess Alice also emphasized the need to give to the poor and often took her daughters on visits to hospitals and charities. [3]
The Austro-Prussian War or Seven Weeks' War was a war fought in 1866 between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia, with each also being aided by various allies within the German Confederation. Prussia had also allied with the Kingdom of Italy, linking this conflict to the Third Independence War of Italian unification. The Austro-Prussian War was part of the wider rivalry between Austria and Prussia, and resulted in Prussian dominance over the German states.
The family was devastated in 1873 when Irene's haemophiliac younger brother Friedrich, nicknamed "Frittie," fell through an open window, struck his head on the balustrade and died hours later of a brain hemorrhage. [4] In the months following the toddler's death, Alice frequently took her children to his grave to pray and was melancholy on anniversaries associated with him. [5] In the autumn of 1878 Irene, her siblings (except for Elizabeth) and her father became ill with diphtheria. Her younger sister Princess Marie, nicknamed "May," died of the disease. Her mother, exhausted from nursing the children, also became infected. Knowing she was in danger of dying, Princess Alice dictated her will, including instructions about how to bring up her daughters and how to run the household. She died of diphtheria on 14 December 1878. [6]
Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine was the haemophiliac second son of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, one of the daughters of Queen Victoria. He was also a maternal great-uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh through his eldest sister Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine.
Diphtheria is an infection caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Signs and symptoms may vary from mild to severe. They usually start two to five days after exposure. Symptoms often come on fairly gradually, beginning with a sore throat and fever. In severe cases, a grey or white patch develops in the throat. This can block the airway and create a barking cough as in croup. The neck may swell in part due to enlarged lymph nodes. A form of diphtheria which involves the skin, eyes, or genitals also exists. Complications may include myocarditis, inflammation of nerves, kidney problems, and bleeding problems due to low levels of platelets. Myocarditis may result in an abnormal heart rate and inflammation of the nerves may result in paralysis.
Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, was a German Hessian and Rhenish child princess. She was the youngest child and fifth daughter of Ludwig IV, the Grand Duke of Hesse and his first wife Princess Alice of the United Kingdom. Her mother was the second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. She died of diphtheria at the age of four and was buried with her mother, who died a few weeks later of the same disease. She and Queen Victoria shared the same birthday.
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine, far left, with her grandmother Queen Victoria and, from left to right, her sister Elisabeth, brother Ernest Louis, sister Victoria and, kneeling, her sister Alix in February 1879, two months after the death of her mother.
Following Alice's death, Queen Victoria resolved to act as a mother to her Hessian grandchildren. Princess Irene and her surviving siblings spent annual holidays in England and their grandmother sent instructions to their governess regarding their education and approving the pattern of their dresses. [7] With her sister Alix, Irene was a bridesmaid at the 1885 wedding of their maternal aunt, Princess Beatrice to Prince Henry of Battenberg. [8]
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, was the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Beatrice was the last of Queen Victoria's children to die, 66 years after the first, her elder sister Alice.
Prince Henry of Battenberg was a morganatic descendant of the Grand Ducal House of Hesse, later becoming a member of the British Royal Family, through his marriage to Princess Beatrice.
Irene married Prince Henry of Prussia, the third child and second son of Frederick III, German Emperor and Victoria, Princess Royal on 24 May 1888 at the chapel of the Charlottenberg Palace in Berlin. As their mothers were sisters, Irene and Henry were first cousins. [9] Their marriage displeased Queen Victoria because she had not been told about the courtship until they had already decided to marry. [10] At the time of the ceremony, Irene's uncle and father-in-law, the German emperor, was dying of throat cancer, and less than a month after the ceremony, Irene's cousin and brother-in-law ascended the throne as Kaiser Wilhelm II. Heinrich's mother, Empress Victoria, was fond of Irene. However, Empress Victoria was shocked because Irene did not wear a shawl or scarf to disguise her pregnancy when she was pregnant with her first son, the haemophiliac Prince Waldemar, in 1889. Empress Victoria, who was fascinated by politics and current events, also couldn't understand why Heinrich and Irene never read a newspaper. [11] However, the couple were happily married and they were known as "The Very Amiables" by their relatives because of their pleasant natures. The marriage produced three sons.[ citation needed ]
Prince Albert William Henry of Prussia was a younger brother of German Emperor William II and a Prince of Prussia. He was also a grandson of Queen Victoria. A career naval officer, he held various commands in the Imperial German Navy, eventually rose to the rank of Grand Admiral and Generalinspekteur der Marine.
Frederick III was German Emperor and King of Prussia for ninety-nine days in 1888, the Year of the Three Emperors. Known informally as "Fritz", he was the only son of Emperor Wilhelm I and was raised in his family's tradition of military service. Although celebrated as a young man for his leadership and successes during the Second Schleswig, Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian wars, he nevertheless professed a hatred of warfare and was praised by friends and enemies alike for his humane conduct. Following the unification of Germany in 1871 his father, then King of Prussia, became the German Emperor. Upon Wilhelm's death at the age of ninety on 9 March 1888, the thrones passed to Frederick, who had by then been German Crown Prince for seventeen years and Crown Prince of Prussia for twenty-seven years. Frederick was suffering from cancer of the larynx when he died, aged fifty-six, following unsuccessful medical treatments for his condition.
Victoria, Princess Royal was German Empress and Queen of Prussia by marriage to German Emperor Frederick III. She was the eldest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and was created Princess Royal in 1841. She was the mother of Wilhelm II, German Emperor.
Prince Waldemar Wilhelm Ludwig Friedrich Viktor Heinrich of Prussia 20 March 1889 2 May 1945
Prince Wilhelm Viktor Karl August Heinrich Sigismund of Prussia 27 November 1896 14 November 1978
Prince Heinrich Viktor Ludwig Friedrich of Prussia 9 January 1900 26 February 1904
Their descendants also include two grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and six great-great grandchildren. [12]
Princess Irene of Prussia ca. 1902.
Irene transmitted the haemophilia gene to her eldest and youngest sons, Waldemar and Heinrich. Waldemar's health worried her from early childhood. [13] She was later devastated when the youngest child, four-year-old Heinrich, died after he fell and bumped his head in February 1904. [14] Six months after little Heinrich's death, Irene became an aunt to Tsarevich Alexei of Russia, son of her youngest sister, Tsarina Alexandra, who also had hemophilia. Two of her first cousins, Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain and Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, would also give birth to hemophiliac sons.[ citation needed ]
Irene, raised to believe in a proper Victorian code of behaviour, was easily shocked by what she saw as immorality. [15] In 1884, the same year that her elder sister Victoria married Prince Louis of Battenberg, another sister, Elizabeth, married Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, and when Elizabeth converted from Lutheranism to Russian Orthodoxy, in 1891, Irene was deeply upset. She wrote to her father that she "cried terribly" over Elizabeth's decision. [16] In 1892, Irene's father, Grand Duke Louis IV, died, and her brother, Ernest, succeeded him as Grand Duke of Hesse, and two years later, in May 1894, Ernest Louis was married off by Queen Victoria to a first cousin, Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. It was amidst the wedding festivities that Irene's youngest surviving sister, Alix, accepted the marriage proposal of Tsarevich Nicholas, a second cousin, and when Nicholas' father died prematurely in November 1894, Irene and her husband traveled to St. Petersburg, to be present at both the funeral and the wedding of Alix, who had taken the name Alexandra Feodorovna upon her conversion to Orthodoxy, to the new tsar, Nicholas II. Despite the disagreement that she had over the conversion of two of her sisters to Russian Orthodoxy, she remained close with all of her siblings. In 1907, Irene helped arrange what later turned out to be a disastrous marriage between Elizabeth's ward, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, to Prince Vilhelm, Duke of Södermanland. [17] Wilhelm's mother, the Queen of Sweden, was an old friend of both Irene and Elizabeth. [17] Grand Duchess Maria later wrote that Irene pressured her to go through with the marriage when she had doubts. She told Maria that ending the engagement would "kill" Elizabeth. [18] In 1912, Irene was a source of support to her sister Alix when Alexei nearly died of complications of haemophilia at the Imperial Family's hunting lodge in Poland. [19]
Prince Henry and Princess Irene of Prussia.
Irene's ties to her sisters were disrupted by the advent of World War I, which put them on opposing sides of the war. When the war ended, she received word that Alix, her husband and children and her sister Elizabeth had been killed by the Bolsheviks. Following the war and the abdication of the Kaiser, Germany was no longer ruled by the Prussian Royal Family, but Irene and her husband retained their estate, Hemmelmark, in northern Germany.[ citation needed ]
When Anna Anderson surfaced in Berlin in the early 1920s, claiming to be the surviving Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, Irene visited the woman, but decided that Anderson could not be the niece she had last seen in 1913. [20] Princess Irene was not impressed.
" I saw immediately that she could not be one of my nieces. Even though I had not seen them for nine years, the fundamental facial characteristics could not have altered to that degree, in particular the position of the eyes, the ear, etc. .. At first sight one could perhaps detect a resemblance to Grand Duchess Tatiana." [21] "
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, sister of the murdered tsar, commented on the visit of Princess Irene,
" It was an unsatisfactory meeting, but the woman's supporters said that Princess Irene had not known her niece very well and all the rest of it." [22] "
Princess Irene with her husband Prince Heinrich of Prussia and their two surviving sons, Prince Sigismund, left, and Prince Waldemar.
Irene's husband, Heinrich, said that the mention of Anderson upset Irene too much and ordered that no one was to discuss Anderson in his presence. [23] Heinrich died in 1929. Anna Anderson biographer Peter Kurth wrote that several years later, Irene's son (Prince Sigismund) posed questions to Anderson through an intermediary about their shared childhood and declared that her answers were all accurate. [24] Irene later adopted Sigismund's daughter, Barbara, born in 1920, as her heir after Sigismund left Germany to live in Costa Rica during the 1930s. Sigismund declined to return to Germany to live after World War II. [25] Irene grieved terribly when her haemophiliac eldest son, Waldemar, became ill in 1945 and died due to the lack of blood for a transfusion. Irene herself died in 1953, leaving her estate to her granddaughter. At her death, she was the last surviving child of Princess Alice and Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine.[ citation needed ]
11 July 1866 – 25 May 1888: Her Grand Ducal Highness Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine
25 May 1888 – 11 November 1953: Her Royal Highness Princess Heinrich of Prussia
Kingdom of Prussia: [26]
Dame of the Order of Louise
Dame of the Wilhelm-Orden
Gold Red Cross Medal, 1st Class
Kingdom of Bavaria: Merit Cross for Volunteer Nurses [27]
Austria-Hungary: Dame Grand Cordon of the Order of Elizabeth [27]
Russian Empire: Dame Grand Cordon of St. Catherine [27]
United Kingdom : Royal Order of Victoria and Albert, 2nd Class [28]
Ancestors of Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine [29]
8. Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse [30]
4. Prince Karl of Hesse and by Rhine [31]
9. Princess Wilhelmine of Baden [30]
2. Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
10. Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851) [32]
5. Princess Elizabeth of Prussia [31]
11. Landgravine Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg [32]
1. Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine
12. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
6. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
13. Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
3. Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
14. Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
7. Queen Victoria
15. Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Alexandra Feodorovna was Empress of Russia as the spouse of Nicholas II—the last ruler of the Russian Empire—from their marriage on 26 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917. Originally Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine at birth, she was given the name and patronymic Alexandra Feodorovna upon being received into the Russian Orthodox Church and—having been killed along with her immediate family while in Bolshevik captivity in 1918—was canonized in 2000 as Saint Alexandra the Passion Bearer.
Princess Alice of Battenberg was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II.
The Battenberg family was formally a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, rulers of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in Germany. The first member was Julia Hauke, whose brother-in-law Grand Duke Louis III of Hesse created her Countess of Battenberg with the style Illustrious Highness in 1851, at her morganatic marriage to Grand Duke Louis' brother Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, and elevated her title to Princess of Battenberg with the style Serene Highness (HSH) in 1858. The name Battenberg was last used by her youngest son, Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg, who died childless in 1924. Most members of the family, residing in the United Kingdom, had renounced their German titles in 1917, due to rising anti-German sentiment among the British public during World War I, and changed their name to Mountbatten, an anglicised version of Battenberg. The name Battenberg refers to the town of Battenberg in Hesse.
Ernest Louis Charles Albert William was the last Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, reigning from 1892 until 1918.
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, later Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia was a German Hessian and Rhenish princess of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, and the wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, the fifth son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine. She was also a maternal great-aunt of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the consort of Queen Elizabeth II.
Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark was the wife of Hereditary Grand Duke Georg Donatus of Hesse and third-eldest sister to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
The Royal Order of Victoria and Albert was a British Royal Family Order instituted on 10 February 1862 by Queen Victoria, and enlarged on 10 October 1864, 15 November 1865, and 15 March 1880. No award was made after the death of Queen Victoria.
Prince Alexander Ludwig Georg Friedrich Emil of Hesse, GCB was the third son and fourth child of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and Wilhelmina of Baden. He was a brother of Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna, wife of Tsar Alexander II. The Battenberg / Mountbatten family descends from Alexander and his wife Countess Julia von Hauke, a former lady-in-waiting to his sister.
Haemophilia figured prominently in the history of European royalty in the 19th and 20th centuries. Britain's Queen Victoria, through two of her five daughters, Princess Alice and Princess Beatrice, passed the mutation to various royal houses across the continent, including the royal families of Spain, Germany and Russia. Victoria's son Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, also suffered from the disease. For this reason, haemophilia was once popularly called "the royal disease". Tests on the remains of the Romanov imperial family show that the specific form of haemophilia passed down by Queen Victoria was probably the relatively rare Haemophilia B.
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark was the second child and daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg, and the second eldest sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
This is a list of the 42 grandchildren of the British Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert, each of whom was therefore either a sibling or a first cousin to each of the others. It also lists Victoria and Albert's 9 children and 87 great-grandchildren, as well as the spouses of those children and grandchildren who married.
The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria was celebrated on 20 June 1887 on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Queen Victoria's accession on 20 June 1837. It was celebrated with a banquet to which 50 European kings and princes were invited.
Princess Elisabeth of Prussia was the second daughter of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and Landgravine Marie Anna of Hesse-Homburg and a granddaughter of Frederick William II of Prussia. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is her great-great-grandson.
Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine was the consort and second wife of Friedrich Franz II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
The wedding of Nicholas II of Russia to Alexandra Feodorovna occurred on November 26 [O.S. November 14] 1894 at the Grand Church of the Winter Palace.
↑ Mager (1998), p. 27
↑ Pakula (1995), p. 322
↑ Mager (1998), pp. 28–29
↑ [NPG: Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg with their bridesmaids and others on their wedding day http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw145863/Prince-and-Princess-Henry-of-Battenberg-with-their-bridesmaids-and-others-on-their-wedding-day?LinkID=mp89748&role=art&rNo=2]
↑ Mager (1998), p. 111
↑ Queen Victoria (1975)
↑ Paul Theroff (2007). "Mecklenburg". An Online Gotha. Retrieved 27 March 2007.
↑ Maylunas and Mironenko (1997), pp. 239–240
↑ Massie (1995), p. 165
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1 2 Mager (1998), p. 228
↑ Grand Duchess Marie (1930)
↑ Maylunas and Mironenko (1997), p. 355
↑ Kurth (1983), p. 51
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1 2 3 Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Preußen (1908), Genealogy p. 2
↑ Joseph Whitaker (1894). An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord ... J. Whitaker. p. 112.
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Princesses of Hesse and by Rhine
1st generation
Louise, Princess Louis of Anhalt-Köthen
Princess Elizabeth
Marie, Empress of Russia
Anna, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Elizabeth Feodorovna, Grand Duchess Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia
Princess Elisabeth
Princess Johanna
Prussian princesses by marriage
Generations indicate marriage to Frederick I, the first King of Prussia, and his descendants.
Landgravine Elisabeth Henriette of Hesse-Kassel
Princess Sophia Charlotte of Hanover
Duchess Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Princess Sophia Dorothea of Hanover
Duchess Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel
Margravine Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt
Duchess Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick
Landgravine Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt
Duchess Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Duchess Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg
Princess Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Princess Marianne of the Netherlands
Princess Luise of Anhalt-Bernburg
Victoria, Princess Royal
Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau
Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg
Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein
Princess Hermine Reuss of Greiz
Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
Princess Agatha of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg
Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen
Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
Countess Ina Marie von Bassewitz
Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt
Princess Calixta of Lippe
Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg
10th generation
Dorothea von Salviati
Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia
Baroness Maria von Humboldt-Dachroeden
Princess Magdalena Reuss of Köstritz
Lady Brigid Katherine Rachel Guinness
Countess Marie Antoinette von Hoyos
Armgard Weygand
Irmgard Else von Veltheim
Princess Henriette of Schönaich-Carolath
Luise Dora Hartmann
Doña Eva Maria Herrera y Valdeavellano
Maritza Farkas
Waltraud Freytag
Ehrengard von Reden
Sibylle Kretschmer
Jutta Jorn
Brigitte von Dallwitz
Countess Donata Emma of Castell-Rüdenhausen
Countess Nina Helene Lydia Alexandra von Reventlow
Hon. Victoria Lucinda Mancroft
Alexandra Blahová
Ziba Rastegar-Javaheri
Eva Maria Kuduicke
Heide Schmidt
Hannelore Maria Kerscher
Anna Christine Soltau
Archduchess Marie Christine of Austria
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I didn't come from no monkey, updated
I was looking over the Discovery Institute's Evolution News and Views site, prior to forgetting about it. I mentioned that I am forced to revamp my email handling and was going to be blocking a lot of noise from my work address, and as I was reviewing what domains I needed to allow through, I noticed that boy-howdy, I get a lot of crappy spam from the Discovery Institute (all of which is now getting blocked). So I actually bothered to go through one of their links and see what they're babbling about now.
General impression: the Discovery Institute is really obsessed with Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. They're flailing about angrily about how it's just bad and awful and a serious threat. Good work, Neil deGrasse Tyson, you're obviously doing something right!
The other thing that has them worked up, though, surprised me a little bit: they're kind of peeved that scientists keep pointing to this evidence that humans and chimpanzees are close relatives, and they throw around a lot of sciencey words trying to cast doubt on the idea that we're related. They don't come out and openly deny it, exactly — but it's still the stupid old yokel's denial that they didn't come from no monkey, stated a little more ornately to make it sound less stupid. They failed; it still sounds stupid. But have no fear, they've put their Top Man and Chief Scienceologist, Casey Luskin, on the job.
Oh, wait. That makes it even stupider.
It should be pointed out first that ID does not have an "official" position on common descent. Guided common descent would be compatible with intelligent design. However, many ID theorists do question the evidence offered for universal shared ancestry.
Scratch an ID theorist, and what do you find? Just another dumb evolution denier. Common descent, and in particular the close relationship between humans and other apes, is not in question at all, but the Discovery Institute can't even muster an official position on it. Other basic science questions the Discovery Institute will not say a word about: the age of the earth, whether the human race was reduced to an 8 person bottleneck by a big flood 4,000 years ago, Jesus: magic man or genetic engineer?, and just how ignorant is Casey Luskin, anyway?
The way Luskin questions the shared ancestry of humans and chimpanzees is to simply dump, with virtually no explanation, lists of legitimate scientific papers that show various common genetic properties. Codon frequency can affect transcription rates, so synonymous changes in nucleotides of a sequence may have phenotypic effects; yes, this is true. Position effects can also affect phenotype; this is also true — translocations, movement of a chunk of DNA from one location to a different one, can modify gene expression. Pseudogenes aren't always free from selectional constraints, and sometimes also modulate the expression of other genes — yeppers. These are also all basic facts that we've known for decades, that have been worked out by scientists, not creationists, and that have absolutely no relevance to the question of whether chimpanzees and humans are closely related. They say that there are many complicated ways in which variation can arise in a lineage, that it's difficult to reduce the degree of difference between two species to a single number, but everyone who does any bioinformatics at all already knows that.
For instance, here are two sequences. How different are they from one another? Can you give me a simple number that summarizes the variation?
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J
1-2-3-4-A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-5-6-7-8-9-10-I-J
Biologists are already intimately familiar with the difficulty of describing the variation in sequence between species. If it were just a matter of a string of DNA accumulating point mutations, it would be relatively easy, and we could simply measure how many positions had acquired a novel nucleotide, but mutations can be all kinds of other things, like translocations or inversions or deletions or duplications. So Casey Luskin high-handedly informing us that measuring variation is more difficult than just enumerating a linear series of nucleotide changes is absolutely nothing new, and telling us that pairwise comparisons are complex, therefore we should doubt the relationship between two primates, is utterly bogus and logically fallacious.
The question should be, "if we compare the differences between chimpanzee and human genomes, messy and complicated as they are, are they less different from one another than, say, the human and gorilla genomes? Or the human and mouse genomes? Or the human and fly genomes?" Just comparing any two species can only tell you that they have differences and similarities; you need to do multiple comparisons between different species and an outgroup to get a feel for the relative magnitude of differences.
Luskin's only approach, carried to an excruciating degree, is to simply say there sure are a lot of differences between humans and chimpanzees (six million years of divergence will do that), therefore it is reasonable to question their relatedness. Yeah, and my brother is a few inches taller than I am and has red hair, therefore we can't possibly be related.
Casey Luskin isn't the only IDiot on staff at IDiot Central. They also have Ann Gauger. She does exactly the same thing, citing a Science article that discusses the difficulties of quantifying the differences between genomes. It also points out that the subtle differences can be immensely significant, which Gauger makes much of.
Here are some large-scale differences that get overlooked in the drive to assert our similarity. Our physiology differs from that of chimps. We do not get the same diseases, our brain development is different, even our reproductive processes are different. Our musculoskeletal systems are different, permitting us to run, to throw, to hold our heads erect. We have many more muscles in our hands and tongues that permit refined tool making and speech.
Golly, yes. We're different from chimpanzees. We do things they don't, and they do things we don't. My brother has red hair, and mine is brown. None of this is controversial, or in any way challenges the idea of relatedness or degree of relatedness. To do that, you have to compare multiple lineages and quantify all these variations — we go beyond simple nucleotide counts, for instance, to ask how many duplications? How many regulatory changes? How many deletions? And when we measure those, doing more than just asking how many bases are different between two different genes, we also get measures of relatedness. And they line up!
Gauger notably fails to refer to the figure in the article she cites.
Throughout evolution, the gain (+) in the number of copies of some genes and the loss (–) of others have contributed to human- chimp differences.
Why, Ann, why? Because it actually demolishes your whole argument by demonstrating degrees of similarity between different species using a different index, the number of gene duplications and deletions? If you want to question chimp/human propinquity, you don't get to simply ignore the data we use to justify that.
But of course, Gauger wants to argue that the unique attributes of humans are somehow especially special and deserve special consideration — that they completely set us apart from other animals.
Going beyond the physical, we have language and culture. We are capable of sonnets and symphonies. We engage in scientific study and paint portraits. No chimp or dolphin or elephant does these things. Humans are a quantum leap beyond even the highest of animals. Some evolutionary biologists acknowledge this, though they differ in their explanations for how it happened.
You know, I would agree that we carry out certain things to a greater degree than other animals — we do have more elaborate language, more intricate technologies, much more complex art. But other animals exhibit curiosity, playfulness, exploration, communication, and we can look at a chimpanzee, for instance, and see attributes that we've amplified and expanded. The roots of our humanity are patent in other species, and we are not qualitatively unique. Furthermore, other species have abilities we don't. Can you sing under water and have your music transmitted over hundreds of miles of ocean? Can you wash your car with your nose? Aren't you a little bit embarrassed by the puniness of your teeth?
But Gauger is oblivious to the astounding beauty of other organisms — it's all about us.
In truth, though, we are a unique, valuable, and surprising species with the power to influence our own futures by the choices we make. If we imagine ourselves to be nothing more than animals, then we will descend to the level of animalism. It is by exercising our intellects, and our capacity for generosity, foresight, and innovation, all faculties that animals lack, that we can face the challenges of modern life.
Generosity? Has Ann Gauger never had a dog?
As for innovation, yeah, I agree. Humans do have some novelties. Here's a paper about the de novo origin of human protein-coding genes, that compared those chimpanzee and human genomes looking for just the unique genes in the human lineage (this is only one measure of difference, of course; they are not looking at location or sequence comparisons, just what genes are brand spankin' new and not shared at all with chimps). They found a few.
Many new genes, generated by diverse mechanisms including gene duplication, chimeric origin, retrotransposition, and de novo origin, are specifically expressed or function in the testes. Henrik Kaessmann hypothesized that the testis is a catalyst and crucible for the birth of new genes in animals. First, the testes is the most rapidly evolving organ due in part to its roles in sperm competition, sexual conflict, and reproductive isolation. Second, Henrik Kaessmann speculated that the chromatin state in spermatocytes and spermatids should facilitate the initial transcription of newly arisen genes. The reason for this is that there is widespread demethylation of CpG enriched promoter sequences and the presence of modified histones in spermatocytes and spermatids, causing an elevation of the levels of components of the transcriptional machinery, permitting promiscuous transcription of nonfunctional sequences, including de novo originated genes.
Behold my ball sack, noble repository of all that is precious and special and extraordinary and exceptional in mankind. How come the creationists never have time to praise the mighty testicle, and are always going on and on about sonnets and symphonies and such?
I am quite comfortable with my status as an animal. I have a lot of respect for other organisms, and I can also recognize traits that are particularly human. Why this puts creationists on edge is a mystery: I just blame it on their ignorance.
SEKULOW: Atheists' dismantling of crosses dishonors the fallen - Washington Times
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SEKULOW: Atheists' dismantling of crosses dishonors the fallen
This same atheist group, the American Humanist Association, has, for the time being, obtained a court order to block construction of a war memorial inside of a city-owned baseball stadium in California, because the planned memorial includes a soldier ...
Atheists Are Not Offended by a Cross, They Are Offended by DiscriminationHuffington Post
Atheist group still battling to remove World Trade Center cross from 9/11 MemorialThe Global Dispatch
Does 'Miracle Cross' belong at 9/11 museum in New York?Los Angeles Times
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Atheist group accuses BPD Chief AC Roper of using office to 'blatantly promote ... - al.com (blog)
Atheist group accuses BPD Chief AC Roper of using office to 'blatantly promote ...
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - An atheist group is lashing out at Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper, claiming the chief is using his office to blatantly promote Christianity. The Freedom From Religion Foundation on Wednesday said it has filed a complaint and ...
Alabama Police Chief Under Fire from Atheist Activist Group for Using Prayer ...Christian News Network
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The Empty, Boring Atheism of Richard Dawkins - Catholic World Report
The Empty, Boring Atheism of Richard Dawkins
Catholic World Report
I recently interviewed American atheist leader David Silverman on my television show. He became a legend in his own lunchtime recently when his organization's booth was first accepted and then rejected by CPAC, the Conservative Political Action ...
Chaos in email land!
The combination of an attempted hack, jacking up my email security, and breaking my usual email reader have lead to a worse-than-usual mess in my email in-box, and I'm implementing a few changes that won't affect most of you who write to me, but just in case, I'm spreading the word.
You want to email me? You can still use [email protected]. That is the only valid address for most of you.
Some of you occasionally write to my umn.edu address. That one is getting thoroughly locked up: if you send email there, it will automagically be fed into a nuclear furnace and vaporized, unless you are writing to me from another umn.edu address or from a small set of authorized domains (and I won't tell you what they are). Pretend that email address doesn't even exist anymore. This has become necessary as essential work and student email has been getting buried under the noise.
I'm actually enjoying the purity and simplicity of that account right now — it's so clean and manageable!
Whoa, the Disco Institute has the Anecdote to Faulty Thinking!
Imagine that. The above is the copy I got in an email. Somebody spilled the beans, alas, and the corrected version with "antidote" has been posted. Too late, we've gotten our belly laugh! Nyah Nyah, Discovery Institute, no memory hole is big enough to make this laughable faux pas go away.... Dave Thomas http://www.nmsr.org
Atheist ad disappears from Sudbury Transit bus - NorthernLife.ca
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Atheist ad disappears from Sudbury Transit bus
An atheist-themed bus ad that ran on a Sudbury Transit bus in January has vanished, says the head of the local branch of the Centre for Inquiry. Supplied photo. Tweet. Comments | Print | Report a typo | Contact the Editor. Perhaps it was divine ...
Republicans never stray far from their racist roots
Former second place winner of the US presidency Paul Ryan reveals his understanding of poverty. It's those black people.
House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) previewed his upcoming legislative proposals for reforming America's poverty programs during an appearance on Bill Bennett's Morning in America Wednesday, hinting that he would focus on creating work requirements for men "in our inner cities" and dealing with the "real culture problem" in these communities. "We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with," he said.
Ryan also cited Charles Murray, a conservative social scientist who believes African-Americans are, as a population, less intelligent than whites due to genetic differences and that poverty remains a national problem because "a lot of poor people are born lazy."
Don't anybody tell him that he's already got the white racist vote totally locked up, he doesn't have to keep pandering to them.
An atheist can be pro-life only by lying about the science
Hemant Mehta let an anti-choice atheist romp about and make her secular pro-life argument, but since he thinks it's important to give a forum to bullshit but doesn't think it's important enough to criticize, I guess I have to. It's by Kristine Kruszelnicki, president of Pro-Life Humanist, and we've dealt with her before; she's the one who debated Matt Dillahunty in 2012, and lost miserably. She acknowledges that right at the beginning of her post, and then proceeds to make the same stupid argument.
Before we address the question of bodily autonomy in pregnancy, let's meet the second player. What does science tell us that the preborn are? To be clear, science doesn't define personhood. It never could. When I debated Matt Dillahunty on the issue of abortion at the 2012 Texas Freethought Convention, I'm afraid that as a first-time debater I really wasn't clear enough on this point — and was consequently accused of trying to obtain rights from science. Science can't tell us whether it's wrong to rape women, torture children, enslave black people, or which physical traits should or should not matter when it comes to determining personhood. Science may be able to measure suffering in living creatures, but it can't tell us why or if their suffering should matter.
Notice what she's doing here. She recognizes that she totally got skewered on her claim that Science says abortion is wrong, so she's nominally distancing herself from making moral claims with science. But guess what her very next sentence is?
However, science can tell us who among us belongs to the human species.
She's doing it again. She's claiming that science justifies her position.
She is at least aware that the right of women to autonomy is an extremely strong argument against her position — it's how Dillahunty slammed her in the debate — and the entire post is about how she gets around that tricky problem of denying women control of their own bodies. Her solution? Simply decree by fiat, with the stamp of approval of her version of science, that the fetus and the woman have fully equal status as human beings, and that all discussion has to grant the fetus every privilege we do the woman.
If the fetus is not a human being with his/her own bodily rights, it's true that infringing on a woman's body by placing restrictions on her medical options is always a gross injustice and a violation. On the other hand, if we are talking about two human beings who should each be entitled to their own bodily rights, in the unique situation that is pregnancy, we aren't justified in following the route of might-makes-right simply because we can.
At least this time, she didn't sprinkle photos of bloody fetus parts in her post, and she avoided the most egregiously absurd elements of her position. This is my summary of what she said at the debate:
She made it clear that she opposes a whole gamut of basic rights: birth control methods that prevent implantation are wrong, because that's just like strangling or starving a baby; no abortion in cases of rape or incest, because the baby doesn't deserve punishment; she did allow for abortion in cases that threaten the life of the mother at times before fetal viability, simply because in that case two fully human lives would be lost.
She sounds like a very liberal Catholic atheist.
But that's the entirety of her argument, both in that piece and on the pro-life atheist web site: the fetus is fully human from the moment of conception, and science says so.
When it comes to normal human reproduction, sperm and ovum merge to form a new whole. They cease to exist individually and become a new substance that is not the mother and not the father but a new body altogether, one that is also human and has the inherent capacity to develop through all stages of development.
When we talk about rights and personhood, we leave the realm of science for that of philosophy and ethics. History is ripe with examples of real biological human beings whose societies arbitrarily decided they didn't qualify as equals, on account of criteria deemed morally relevant. At one point (and still, in many ways, today), it was skin color, gender, and ethnic background. Now, we can add to that list consciousness, sentience, and viability. We haven't evolved so fast in 50 years as to be immune from tribalistic us vs. them thinking. If science defines a fetus as a biological member of our species, is it possible that our society is just as wrong in denying them personhood?
What happens when both a woman and her developing fetus are regarded as human beings entitled to personhood and bodily rights? Any way you cut it, their rights are always going to conflict (at least until womb transfers become a reality). So what's the reasonable response? It could start by treating both parties at conflict as if they were equal human beings.
You get the idea. If she repeats that the conceptus becomes fully human at the instant of fertilization, and that science says so, over and over, we surely must be persuaded that she's right, and we have to concede that she's making an entirely secular argument, because SCIENCE. Unfortunately for her, she's not actually using SCIENCE, but has mistaken BULLSHIT for science.
Let me tell you what science actually says about this subject.
Science has determined that development is a process of epigenesis; that is, that it involves a progressive unfolding and emergence of new attributes, not present at conception, that manifest gradually by interactions within the field of developing cells and with the external environment. The conceptus is not equal to the adult. It is not a preformed human requiring only time and growth to adulthood; developmental biologists are entirely aware of the distinction between proliferation and growth, and differentiation. So science actually says the opposite of what Kruszelnicki claims. It says that the fetus is distinct from the adult.
Of course, science also has to concede that because there is a continuum of transformation from conception to adulthood, it can't draw an arbitrary line and say that at Time Point X, the fetus has acquired enough of the properties of the adult form that it should be now regarded as having all the rights of a member of society. That's a matter for law and convention. But we already implicitly recognize that there is a pattern of change over time; children do not have all the same privileges as adults. Third trimester fetuses have fewer still. First trimester embryos? Even less. We all understand without even thinking about it that there is a progressive pattern to human development.
But what about this claim that science can tell us who among us belongs to the human species?
First question I have is…which species concept are you using? There are a lot of them, you know; I daresay we might be able to find a few, that when inappropriately and too literally applied, would define away my status as a human, which simply wouldn't do. There are also a lot of non-scientific or pseudo-scientific definitions of what constitutes a human that have been historically abused. Were the Nazis being scientific when they defined sub-species of humans and classed Jews, Gypsies, and Africans as something less than fully human? What, exactly, is Kruszelnicki's "scientific" definition of human, that she's using so definitively to declare a fetus as completely human?
She doesn't say. She can't say. She's not applying a scientific test, but a traditional and colloquial one, which she's then claiming by implication as synonymous with an unstated scientific definition. That's dishonest and more than a little annoying.
Reading between the lines on her horrible little website, I'm guessing that she's using a trivial and excessively reductive definition of human: it's human by descent. The cells come from the division of human cells, so it is by definition not a monkey or a llama or a beetle cell, it's a human cell.
Of course, that's not enough: by that definition, sperm and eggs would be fully human, and women would be committing murder every time they menstruate, and men would be committing genocide every time they ejaculate. So she has a patch to work around that:
There is no such species as "sperm" or "ovum". Sperm and ovum are not distinct unique organisms. They are in fact complex specialized cells belonging to the larger organism, namely the male and female from which they came. In other words, they are, like skin cells and blood cells, alive and bearing human DNA but nonetheless parts of another human being, even when mobile like the sperm.
There is no such species as "man" or "woman" either; we can always find some characteristic of an individual to distinguish them from a species (well hey, just the fact that they are an individual is enough). Her waffling about the status of sperm and ovum is ridiculous; I can give you species definitions that would recognize haploid gametes as fully human. If your restriction is simply that one is a complex, specialized cell belonging to the larger organism, well gosh, the zygote fits that, too! A fertilized egg is not a generic human cell: it is incredibly specialized and complex.
I can't help but notice that multicellularity isn't part of her definition of "human". Nor does it include any craniate characters, like having a notochord or a brain or branchial arches. There are a lot of scientific definitions of our species that the zygote fails!
If we're going to emphasize the "not part of a human being" aspect of her fuzzy definition, then we have another problem. If you pooped this morning, that turd contained shed human epithelial cells, now swimming free. I could actually say, with full scientific accuracy, that that was a human turd. Why aren't you giving it full legal protection?
She has an escape clause for that, too.
Sperm and ovum lose their individual identity and their function as sperm and ovum once they have merged. Instead of being parts carrying 23 chromosomes from two different human beings, the unification and merging of their chromosome pairs has now created a new whole with a new set of chromosomes and a cellular structure that now contains the inherent capacity to grow and develop itself through all stages of human development. This of course is something that neither sperm nor ovum parts had the inherent capacity to do on their own. It's something that only whole human beings can do.
Oh. So here's her full definition of a fully human being: it is a totipotent cell with the capacity to develop into a human being. Alas, her last sentence is wrong. Whole human beings cannot do that. It means I am not human, only a few small bits of me can aspire (in vain! I'm done with that) to someday fuse with another haploid cell and briefly become fully human, in the few days of happy cleavage before their cells become committed to specialized fates, which then are not fully human.
The only logical scientific conclusion one can make from Kruszelnicki's hopeless definition is that blastocysts are fully human, but people are not.
Which actually doesn't surprise me at all, and fits quite well with what I hear from the fetus-worshippers.
As I said before, there certainly are secular arguments for all kinds of nonsense — "secular" is not a synonym for "good". We have to do more than simply accept arguments because they don't mention gods, we also have to apply logical, reasonable philosophical and scientific filters to those secular arguments. The one obvious conclusion from any examination of these so-called "pro-life" arguments is that they are sloppy and dishonest, and not deserving of recognition by reasonable secular people.
Being atheist is not enough. One of the implications of an absence of gods is that revelation is invalid, and that we have to rely on reason and evidence to draw conclusions…and further, I would add, that we have to define values that we consistently and rationally apply, and we have to assess whether our methods appropriately serve those values. I choose to value the equality of a community of living, fully-born human beings, and when irrational superstitious attachment to status of a blastocyst compromises the autonomy and worth of members of that community, I choose to reject that belief. It helps quite a bit, though, that the "pro-life" position is so incoherent and anti-scientific.
Another take: even if you accept Kruszelnicki's premise that a conceptus is "fully human" (I don't), her argument doesn't work and was dismantled over 40 years ago.
A Christian's guide to empathising with atheists. - News24
A Christian's guide to empathising with atheists.
I have been wanting to tell Christians what it is like to be an atheist for some time now, but have been struggling and wrestling with the exact method to convey a mode of thinking so diametrically polar to the other without intoning an ...
My local 'atheist church' is part of the long, inglorious march of gentrification - The Guardian
My local 'atheist church' is part of the long, inglorious march of gentrification
The Sunday Assembly, an atheist church founded in London last year, has set up shop a few stops up the train line from the Oxford Tavern, in Redfern. They swap out hymns for pop songs, motivational speeches for readings, and celebrate "the one life we ...
Abraham Lincoln had no sense of humor. Well known fact.
Obama appeared on the awkward comedy show, Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, to plug the affordable care act. Fine; it's an angle.
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: President Barack Obama from President Barack Obama
The right wingers are cranky about it, as represented here by Bill O'Reilly:
Because, as a published historian like O'Reilly knows, Lincoln had no sense of humor and never told a joke.
Atheist group says 9/11 museum shouldn't display cross-shaped beams - The Catholic Sun
Atheist group says 9/11 museum shouldn't display cross-shaped beams
The Catholic Sun
A small group of agnostics, atheists and freethinkers gather for a streetside demonstration in Laguna Beach, Calif., in May last year. A small minority of Americans — 5 percent — say they do not believe in God or any universal spirit. About a quarter ...
Should the NYC 9/11 Museum include an i-beam "cross"?AMERICAblog (blog)
This War Memorial May "Shock" & "Upset" Angry Atheists, But to Tear It Down ...American Center for Law and Justice
Atheists Are Not Offended by a Cross, They Are Offended by Discrimination - Huffington Post
Atheists Are Not Offended by a Cross, They Are Offended by Discrimination
When the 9/11 Museum in New York City announced it's plans to include this cross in the museum's memorial, it should be as no surprise that American Atheists took offense and filed a lawsuit to stand up for American's First Amendment rights. Proponents ...
Atheist group says 9/11 museum shouldn't display cross-shaped beams - CatholicPhilly.com
But a group called American Atheists has sued in federal court to have the cross taken out of the exhibit and replaced with a plaque that would say "atheists died here, too," according to a Religion News Service story. American Atheists Inc. first sued ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson on Why He Doesn't Call Himself an Atheist - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Neil deGrasse Tyson on Why He Doesn't Call Himself an Atheist
Published March 9, 2014, Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson returns for this episode of Rationally Speaking, with a particular question to discuss: Should he call himself an atheist? The impetus is a recent dust-up over Neil's appearance on Big Think, ...


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The COVID-19 pandemic has seen the world of real-life events grind to a halt. Whilst sport has experienced a major downturn in participation and viewership, esports and gaming's growth has accelerated and seen huge increases in players and watchers as more people have had more free time. Indeed the world of sport and gaming/esports have come closer together as sports, and sportspeople, look to indulge their passions whilst under lockdown. Stream Hatchet's COVID-19 impact on video game streaming audiences report gives a Q1 2020 top-line overview of how game streaming platforms (e.g. Twitch) have performed, changes in audience scale, the initial impact Valorant has had (Riot Games new first-person shooter game), how Travis Scott's Fortnite: Astronomical events faired against past fusions of music and gaming, and how esports sim racing streamed hours have changed.
Key take-outs from the COVID-19 impact on video game streaming audiences report are:
Gaming live stream watch time have increased 35% year-on-year
More than 50% of all gaming content is watched on Twitch
YouTube now has 22% of the live streaming market
Facebook has experienced the fastest growth in the last year with viewership up 900% (YouTube is up 51%)
Microsoft's Mixer has seen a drop of 8%, despite signing a number of high profile streamers e.g. Ninja
Weekly game viewing is up on average 70% year-on-year
Valorant, despite still being in BETA, is breaking live streaming records. In its first 4 weeks, it amassed over 323m hours of watch time – twice as many as the second biggest launch in history (Apex Legends)
Travis Scott's Fortnite: Astronomical reached a peak audience of 2.8m people, making it the biggest music/gaming crossover event ever
Esports sim racing live hours watched is up 1000%, growing from 700k in April 2019 to 6.8m in April 2020
Whether these numbers are sustainable, and how much of the audience will be retained post-COVID once there is more competition for attention, only time will tell. Our prediction is that a decent-sized portion of the audience will remain deeply engaged, and a much larger number of people will continue to engage casually. All in all, COVID-19 will have acted as a positive catalyst for growth for both esports and gaming.
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Q: How do I adjust my suspension & driving to reduce understeer?
A: It sounds like stiffening the rear (shocks, springs, bars) would be the right direction to go. Or softening the front. I don't know what adjustments you have available to you, but that's the direction. What you're trying to do with these adjustments is to control the rear of the car so it doesn't roll over so much, keep more load on the front two tires. Or, by softening the front, you're allowing both front tires to stay on the track surface longer, giving them more grip.
If you want more information about tuning shock absorbers (dampers), I have an eBook called Shocks for Drivers, and it's available here.
But how about the driving side? Supposing you can't change anything on the setup, how would you overcome this by adjusting your driving?
To clarify, it sounds like the understeer only begins after turn-in, in the mid-corner. So it turns in well (nicely balanced with no oversteer or understeer), and as you begin to accelerate the understeer starts.
One thing to consider is to minimize the amount of time you spend turning the car. In other words, reducing the amount of mid-corner. To do that you would turn in slightly later, allowing you to begin unwinding the steering sooner. Another way of looking at that is to "square off the corner" with a later turn-in and apex. That means the first part of the corner will be a little tighter radius, but as soon as you're finished with the entry part of the corner you can begin to straighten the wheel – just at the point where the understeer would have begun. This might work in some corners (but probably not in all corners); it will depend on the radius and speed of the corner.
What you're currently doing is the right throttle approach. By easing up on the throttle you load the front of the car more, giving it grip.
In my experience racing Formula Vee the key to the handling of a properly aligned and maintained car is the droop setting of the rear suspension. A common rule of thumb is to raise the rear tires off the ground and set the rear camber to half of the camber as it sits on the ground with the drivers weight. An example would be 6 degrees negative camber (-3 per side) with driver and 3 degrees total negative camber raised with suspension in full droop. The stiffness of the droop rubber is another critical tuning tool. I would suggest experimenting with different droop settings, for my particular car I settled on 1 negative degree of rear droop Measured with one wheel set at 0 degrees of camber and the other at -1 with 4.5 degrees total of negative camber (-2.25 per side). I also would suggest experimenting with different droop rubber duro settings as this can also change the mid corner feel drastically. These are my findings with my particular car I hope my experience is a help to your situation.
A very common thing with some of my drivers is that they put in much too much steering lock to start with.IE,they tend to load the front end rather than obtain a nice equal balance front to rear.
Can you adjust tear spring rates? It sounds to me like the culprit (when you boil it down) is weight transfer from front to rear under throttle application being too quick (weight transfers off the front to the rear suddenly resulting in understeer). Options off the top of my head: stiffer rebound front shocks, stiffer compression rear shocks, stiffer rear springs, more rake. An idea for driving style change is very slow application of throttle or even some low percentage maintenance to throttle heading to the apex (the goal being to slow down the transfer of weight from from to rear). Just some thoughts. Good luck!!!
Ugh, phone typing. Multiple mistakes in there, apologies. Hope it's clear.
When I read these my practice is to ask myself what would I do and why? Since the car is fundamentally ok I would not be inclined to change the roll and would instead first go to more front shock rebound; the front is the end with the observable problem and that is the end you drive. If I liked that then I would add some rear bump, if I didn't like it then I would return the front rebound and still try the rear bump. I'm thinking these would be minimal changes not likely to cause significant changes to the entry. That great entry allows great flexibility in "race craft", fixing the understeer without compromise to the entry then really adds flexibility to choose the exit line and thus the ability to really "race" the exit.


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Mars enters your sign on a mission to get you moving and motoring. While the next six weeks could be one of the most active and "happening" periods of 2016 if you want to get a project off the ground or achieve one of your main goals the green light is on. You may have to sacrifice some fun time, and you may have to ruffle a few feathers, but this is not the time to put your ambitions on hold but to show people you mean business. The end of a chapter is approaching, first and foremost in regard to home and family life, but for some Aquarians a change of job is on the horizon. Use this week's influences to back up your position.