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Volume 1 cover artwork by VIZ Media
The Electric Tale of Pikachu (Japanese: ポケットモンスター・電撃ピカチュウ Pocket Monsters: Dengeki Pikachu) is a four-volume Pokémon manga series made by Toshihiro Ono and serialized in CoroCoro. It is loosely based on the Pokémon anime.
The manga follows the overall plot of the Pokémon: Indigo League and Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands seasons of the anime. However, the story is not very sequential, as only a few select anime episodes were picked to be adapted into manga form. The manga concludes with Ash's victory in the Orange League.
The Pokémon illustrations in this manga are not based on the official artwork by Ken Sugimori, and so many appear to be more/less stylized in comparison.
Differences between the anime and the manga
The characters are the same as in the anime, although characters differ between versions in significant ways. Ash does a significant amount of traveling on his own, although Misty and Brock appear frequently as traveling companions.
Many main and recurring characters own Pokémon that they do not own in the anime, such as Ash's Fearow.
Occasionally, a story from the anime will be adapted to the manga, but will be altered slightly. For example, in Play Misty For Me, Ash battles Misty for the Cascade Badge just like in the anime; however, she challenges him to retrieve his hat from her rather than a traditional battle.
Sabrina is shown as a kind, caring person, unlike in other depictions where she is shown as cold and indifferent to others.
Unlike in the anime, Gary Oak is shown to have a sister named May Oak.
Jessie and James are canonically confirmed as a couple in this manga: they are shown to be married at the end of volume four.
Captured Pokémon are assigned "ranks" based on their rarity. Rank D Pokémon (such as Mankey) are the most common, while Rank A Pokémon (such as Clefairy) are the rarest.
Ash's clothes differ in this manga from time to time.
Volume 1 cover published by Chuang Yi
The Electric Tale of Pikachu has been released in English by both VIZ Media and Chuang Yi.
The Electric Tale of Pikachu was the first Pokémon manga to be translated officially into English, making its debut in sampler editions included with home video releases of the Pokémon anime and subsequently released in full as sixteen monthly issues. These sixteen monthly issues were treated as four separate series, each consisting of four issues, and ran from November 1998 through February 2000. When the issues were collected for their graphic novels, each volume was named for their four-issue arc: The Electric Tale of Pikachu, Pikachu Shocks Back, Electric Pikachu Boogaloo and Surf's Up, Pikachu. The VIZ graphic novels do not mention any volume numbers or relation to each other, as each volume is titled as though it is a separate series.
The manga was heavily promoted by VIZ Media and was featured in several commercial advertisements. Aside from the promotional home video samplers, a collection was also released featuring the first two chapters entitled the Special Signature Edition Red Version. This special edition was included with a Pokémon Video Suitcase promotional set.
Chuang Yi
The Electric Tale of Pikachu was also released by Chuang Yi in their publishing region. Since the translations were licensed from VIZ Media's version, they contain all of the same edits. Chuang Yi's volumes do not have individual titles, though they also use the same English title The Electric Tale of Pikachu.
Chuang Yi's version of Volume 2, while based on VIZ Media's translation, restored the final two pages of To Evolve or Not to Evolve, That Is the Question! which were omitted from VIZ Media's version. As VIZ Media chose to omit the pages originally, these pages are the only two of the manga which Chuang Yi translated themselves.
International versions
In Brazil, the first volume of this series was released by Conrad Editora in four monthly issues. These are direct translations of VIZ Media's monthly issues and therefore contain all of VIZ Media's edits.
In Canada, a French edition titled L'aventure électrique de Pikachu was published by Imavision Distribution, the same company that released the Pokémon anime on VHS and DVD in French-speaking regions of Canada. The French version includes the first four monthly issues and are directly based on VIZ Media's English version, including edits. The order of the issues for ET02 and ET03 is reversed in the French publication as well, just like the English.
In the Greater China region, the manga has been translated to Mandarin by Da Ran as 電擊皮卡丘 in Taiwan and to Cantonese as 電擊比卡超.
There was also a translation in Indonesian, renamed as Kisah Pikachu yang Menggetarkan.
In South Korea, all four volumes were released titled 포켓몬스터 전격피카츄, published by 대원씨아이 Daewon C.I.. The Korean versions are translations based off the original Japanese version published by Shogakukan.
Volume one published in Taiwan
All four volumes published in Hong Kong
Volume one published in Indonesia
Controversy and censorship
Comparison of several scenes between the original magazine version and the Japanese volume version
This manga is perhaps the most controversial Pokémon manga ever published, due almost entirely to the fact that the original Japanese version of the manga series had a lot of sexual content, including women such as Misty, Jessie and the Sensational Sisters given oversized busts, often accompanied by skimpy clothing or swimwear. In order to make the series marketable to younger English-speaking readers, much of this was censored during VIZ Media's translations and all of the sexual content was taken out, leading to a "cleaner" version of the manga for international readers. The Japanese volumes of the manga were also slightly censored from the original versions published in CoroCoro. According to Toshihiro Ono, these edits were done by himself.
One scene in particular that was heavily edited was when Ash battles Misty for the Cascade Badge in Play Misty For Me. In the original, Misty wears a very revealing swimsuit, which is completely redrawn as a wetsuit in the English version.
There was one scene that was removed altogether from the English version. It is the original ending of To Evolve or Not to Evolve, That Is the Question!. This scene was set in a hot spring, and it pictured a naked Misty (with Pikachu) relaxing and washing herself, making a comment about how her chest should evolve, too. All of a sudden, Ash, Mikey and Brock are seen sitting in another hot spring, and they see Misty washing herself. Misty, noticing their presence, is extremely embarrassed and feels very violated; and she runs away in anger. This scene was likely deleted due to excessive nudity and the adult nature of the scene. This scene, however, is not removed from Chuang Yi's version.
Scene removed from the North American adaptation
Page 1 of the scene that was removed by American censors.
English translation by Chuang Yi.
Chinese Cantonese 電擊比卡超 Dihngīk Béikāchīu
Mandarin 電擊皮卡丘 Diànjí Píkǎqiū
Canadian French L'aventure électrique de Pikachu
Indonesian Kisah Pikachu yang Menggetarkan
Korean 포켓몬스터 전격피카츄 Pocket Monsters: Jeongyeok Pikachu
Brazilian Portuguese As Aventuras Elétricas de Pikachu
List of Electric Tale of Pikachu chapters
List of Electric Tale of Pikachu monthly issues
List of Electric Tale of Pikachu volumes
[1] (provides a side-by-side comparison of the English and Japanese versions)
This article is part of Project Manga, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each series of Pokémon manga.
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Escondido is a city located in a shallow valley of citrus groves and avocado trees surrounded by rocky hills. Escondido is an inland city, about 18 miles from the Pacific coast, and is the second most populous community in San Diego's North County with over 150,000 residents (2014 estimate). It is 30 miles northeast of downtown San Diego and 100 miles south of Los Angeles.
The name Escondido comes from the Spanish word for 'hidden', and it is one of the oldest cities in San Diego having been incorporated in 1888. The area was part of a Mexican land grant called Rancho Rincon del Diablo in 1843, before being annexed by the United States following the Mexican-American war of 1848. Ownership of the grant changed hands several times after the US takeover and the deed ultimately wound up in the hands of the Escondido Land & Town Company in 1886. While Escondido was an agricultural community for much of its history, all that came to an end in the 1970s when most of the arable land was repurposed for housing developments.
Today most of Escondido's workforce is employed in a diverse range industry from education, healthcare, and retail to manufacturing, administration, and science. The city's top employers include Escondido Union School District, Palomar Medical Center, the City of Escondido and the Escondido Union School and High School Districts.
Escondido offers all the amenities of metropolitan living but in a quiet suburban setting – small town friendliness combined with the diversity and vibrancy one only finds in big cities. House prices are affordable too, with the median Escondido listing price being $495,000 as of July 2016 – compared to $629,000 for all of San Diego.
In 2001 Money Magazine named Escondido the Best Place in the West in which to retire and Ladies Home Journal ranked the city number eight in their Top Ten Cities for Government feature. Escondido also has a reputation of being family and kid friendly thanks to its many city-run youth programs. Escondido Union, the Escondido Union High and the San Pasqual Union school districts serve the community with 19 elementary schools, 5 middle schools and 7 high schools.
Escondido is well connected to the metropolitan San Diego, making commuting a breeze. Route 78 and Interstate 15 runs through the heart of Escondido offering on-ramp access to commuters traveling west to San Marcos, Vista, Carlsbad and Oceanside, north to Riverside and south to downtown San Diego. The local bus service is provided by the North County Transit District (NCTD). Escondido Transit Center is the hub and offers connections to both the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System and the Riverside Transit Agency.
Escondido is also linked to Southern California's light rail network via the Sprinter line which connects it to Oceanside. The city is also listed as a stop along the planned Southern to Northern California high-speed rail system.
Escondido is not only home to 15 parks and 3 lakes but is also rich in local history and culture. Attractions include the Children's Discovery Museum, California Center For The Arts, Roynon Museum of Paleontology, Escondido History Center, the 3000 acre Daley Ranch and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Also popular are tours of the local wineries and craft breweries as well as the year-round golfing, hiking, biking and fishing. Escondido's historic downtown is always worth a visit and there's always something happening!
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This planning your activities section looks at the process of putting your ideas into a coherent implementation plan and provides you with a mechanism to ensure that all activities are completed on time and within budget.
Firstly, you need to ensure your communications plan dovetails with any operational activity that is planned such as the launch of new collections. Then the plan needs to take account of any national activities with which your communications could link in order to generate added media and public interest. Once all these key dates have been timetabled you can schedule all your communication activities and tactics. At the same time you need to obtain costings for all the communications activities and materials in order to develop your budget.
In terms of the format for your plan, Excel or specialised software programmes such as Microsoft Project can be useful in developing a visual representation of activities in the form of Gantt charts.


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Pye Wacket was the codename for an experimental lenticular-form air-to-air missile developed by the Convair Division of the General Dynamics Corporation in 1957. Intended as a defensive missile for the B-70 Valkyrie Mach 3 bomber, the program saw extensive wind-tunnel testing and seemed promising; however, the cancellation of the B-70 removed the requirement for the missile, and the project was cancelled.

Genesis
Project "Pye Wacket", officially known as the Lenticular Defense Missile (LDM) Program and by the project number WS-740A, was instituted in 1958 in response to a US Air Force request for a Defensive Anti-Missile System (DAMS) to protect the proposed B-70 Valkyrie strategic bomber from high-speed, high-altitude surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) and interceptor aircraft.

The extreme speed and operating altitude of the Valkyrie was considered sufficient protection against Soviet interceptors of the time. However it was anticipated that future aircraft and missile developments would reduce the B-70's margin of superiority, especially following the SA-2 Guideline SAM being displayed during the 1957 May Day parade. Intelligence reports indicated that SAMs were being deployed in large numbers throughout Russia, and it was believed the SA-2 was capable of being fitted with a nuclear warhead. Therefore, it was decided that the B-70 would need an interceptor missile to defend itself against the perceived threat.

Design

The specifications for the proposed DAMS called for an air-launched defensive missile, capable of engaging incoming missiles at relative speeds of up to Mach 7, surviving a rate of acceleration between 60 g to 250 g, and being able to undertake rapid terminal-phase guidance changes in any direction.

Following initial studies and wind-tunnel testing at the Air Proving Ground Center and Arnold Engineering Development Center, a radically unconventional design emerged that featured a lenticular, wedge-shaped airframe. The lenticular design was considered to have the best handling characteristics at extremely high angles of attack, and would theoretically possess ideal mass distribution, giving the missile outstanding terminal agility. In addition, the lenticular design allowed for omnidirectional launching from the carrying aircraft.

Following the feasibility studies, a contract for the development of the DAMS design was awarded to the Convair division of the General Dynamics Corporation in Pomona, California in 1959. Wind tunnel testing of several options for control of the missile resulted in an arrangement of six small rocket thrusters being selected for reaction control. The airframe of the missile was constructed of magnesium alloy, and main power would be provided by three Thiokol M58A2 solid-fuel rockets.

Cancellation
Pye Wacket was planned to be tested using a rocket sled launcher, with a Mach 5 booster rocket being used later in the test program. There are unconfirmed reports that some tests were conducted in 1960. However the high cost and perceived vulnerability of the B-70 against the projected performance of Soviet air defenses, combined with the 1960 U-2 incident in which a high-flying spyplane had been shot down, led to the decision that intercontinental ballistic missiles would, in the future, be the primary nuclear delivery force of the United States, and therefore the B-70 project was cancelled in early 1961. Pye Wacket, its delivery vehicle no longer available, is believed to have been cancelled soon after, although the ultimate fate of the program remains classified.

See also
Flying saucer
Lenticular Reentry Vehicle

References

Notes

Bibliography

General Dynamics; Convair/Pomona Division (July 1961). Pye Wacket. Feasibility Test Vehicle Study. Summary. Volume 1. Reproduced by Defense Technical Information Center. Retrieved on May 22, 2009.

US Air Force (1961) History of the Arnold Engineering Development Center: July - December 1960. II-24, IL-25. Reproduced per request to Air Force Historical Research Agency. Retrieved on May 22, 2009.

External References
 Pye Wacket - The Full Story at Astronautix.com

Abandoned military rocket and missile projects of the United States
Cold War air-to-air missiles of the United States
Experimental missiles
Flying saucers
General Dynamics

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Stephen Law
My notes for the McGrath debate
Here are the notes I used for the debate with Professor Alister McGrath on the 29th October. I ended up only alluding to the second objection as I thought it too technical on the night.
Does the natural world point to God?
Cosmic fine-tuning arguments - that God provides the best, or even a half-decent, explanation of the character the natural world in which we find ourselves - face FIVE main types of objection.
I am going to briefly outline all five. But, I intend to rest my case on just the last two. So the first three will just be sketched out, and are merely for your information only.
FIRST OBJECTION. As Alister acknowledges in his book, the science on which fine-tuning arguments are based is by no means uncontroversial.
For example, some scientists believe there may well be a multiverse – a plethora of universes governed by a wide range of different physical laws. If there is a multiverse, then it's not particularly unlikely that there should happen to exist a universe that has the Goldilocks property of being "just right" for life.
Even if there's only one universe, a number of scientists in any case question whether there is only a very narrow range of physical parameters within which life can plausibly emerge.
Physicists including Victor Stenger, Anthony Aguire, and Craig Hogan have studied those universes that result when six cosmological parameters are simultaneously varied by several orders of magnitude, and have found that stars, planets and life can plausibly emerge within many of them.
According to these physicists, then, it simply is not true that there is only a very narrow set of physical parameters within which life can plausibly arise.
But still, let's concede, for the sake of argument, that Alister is correct, and these physicists incorrect, about the science on which cosmic fine-tuning arguments are based.
SECOND OBJECTION. Even if there is only a very narrow set of physical parameters within which life might plausibly emerge, it doesn't follow that the chances of the actual universe falling within these parameters is low. In fact, several philosophers reject the suggestion that we can even assign such a chance to the physical universe.
Take Professor Hugh Mellor of Cambridge University, who is an acknowledged expert on probability theory.
According to Mellor, there are two kinds of probability: epistemic probability and physical probability (or chance). Epistemic probability is, roughly speaking, the likelihood of something's being true given the evidence. Suppose I am looking at a roulette wheel on which I can see the ball has landed on slot 26. For me, the epistemic probability that the ball is in slot 26 very high – I have overwhelming evidence that's were it is because I can just see it there. On the other hand, the physical probability of the ball being there – by which I mean the chance of the ball landing there given the laws of nature and a certain specification of the conditions under which the ball was thrown into the wheel - is pretty low: only about one in 37.
Now when proponents of fine-tuning, such as Alister, insist the "probability" of the universe producing life is low, they clearly do not mean epistemic probability. The epistemic probability of life is very high – we can see it all around us. So the notion of probability proponents of fine-tuning are appealing to must, according to Mellor, be physical probability.
But then notice that if the physical universe is the only physical universe there is, it cannot have a physical probability.
The universe will only appear to have such a probability if we smuggle in a quasi-physical setting for its creation, supposing, for example, that the cosmological constants were fixed by something like the spin of a cosmic roulette wheel. So, concludes Professor Mellor, the fine-tuning arguments are just confused.
Other philosophers, such as Neil Manson, Elliot Sober, and also Timothy and Lydia McGrew (who incidentally, are religious) concur with that conclusion, for other, independent reasons.
Still, let us also concede, for the sake of argument, that Alister is correct, and these various objectors are all mistaken. Let's suppose we can talk meaningfully about the chances of the universe having a life-producing character.
THIRD OBJECTION. Even if we concede that the probability of the universe having a life-producing character by chance is otherwise low, that still does not provide any significant support for the suggestion that some intelligence designed the universe that way, if either (i) the probability of such an intelligent being is itself very low (as Richard Dawkins suggests), or (ii) if the very idea of such a being actually makes no sense (as I am about to suggest).
Suppose I claim that there exists a special sort of chair – a chair that transcends physical reality, existing in a non-spatial, non-temporal way. You would rightly be sceptical. Not just because there is no evidence for such a chair, but because the idea of such a chair is nonsensical. In order for something to be a chair, it must have arms, legs, a seat, and so on, and these are features that require spatial extension. The idea of a non-spatial chair is just confused.
But is the idea of an intelligent cosmic designer any less confused? If this designer is the creator of space and time, then he exists, or existed, non-temporally. But how can an intelligent agent exist non-temporally? The concept of an agent is the concept of someone or thing with beliefs and desires on which they might more or less rationally act.
But just as the concepts of chair arms and legs are essentially rooted in a spatial context, and make no sense when applied outside it, so the concepts of belief and desire are essentially rooted in a temporal context, and make no sense when applied outside it.
For example, beliefs and desires are psychological states, and as such necessarily have temporal duration. They are held for periods of time. The idea of a non-temporally held desire makes about as much sense as a non-spatially extended chair leg.
The concept of design is also essentially rooted in the temporal. You draw up a design, and then you subsequently realize it – a temporally ordered sequence of events. If the design does not precede the realization, then it was not designed at all.
So far as I can see, then, talk of some sort of super-agent or designer transcending time and space is just so much gibberish, like talk of a non-spatial chair.
We have taken a concept with which we are familiar – a chair, or an intelligent designer – and projected into a realm where its application no longer even makes sense. That's not profundity. That's meaningless twaddle.
But let's suppose that even this third class of objection – which includes both Dawkins's objection, and this objection concerning meaningless twaddle - and can be overcome.
Let's just sweep all three categories of objection to one side. There still remain two more. It is on these last two – the fourth and fifth objections - that I rest my argument that the natural world does not "point to" God.
FOURTH OBJECTION. It is a huge leap from the conclusion that the universe is the product of an intelligence to the conclusion that this intelligence is the all-powerful and limitlessly benevolent God of love that Christians worship.
As the Templeton-prize-winning physicist Paul Davies points out at the end of his book The Goldilocks Enigma, even setting aside all the other difficulties, (I quote)
"The other main problem with intelligent design is that identity of the designer need bear no relation at all to the God of traditional monotheism. The "designing agency" can be a committee of gods, for example. The designer can be a natural being or beings, such as an evolved super-mind or super-civilization existing in a previous universe, or in another section of our universe, which made our universe using super-technology. The designer can also be some sort of superdupercomputer simulating this universe. So invoking a super-intellect…is fraught with problems."
Davies is correct, of course.
Alister's supposedly fine-tuned features, even if they did point towards a designer, no more "point towards" the existence of the Christian God than they point towards the universe being a computer-generated Matrix-type simulation, or the creation of an earlier super-civilization.
Which of course they don't really "point to" at all.
FIFTH OBJECTION. I come now to my final, and most important, objection to the suggestion that the natural world points towards anything remotely like the Christian God.
It seems to me that, unlike the suggestions that the universe was designed by an earlier super-civilization, or superdupercomputer, the suggestion that the universe was designed by Alister's God is just straightforwardly empirically falsified.
There is abundant empirical evidence that, if even if the universe was designed, it was not designed by the particular deity Alister believes in.
I am talking of course about the evidential problem of evil.
Last week I watched an episode of the BBC TV series Life. At the end of the programme, one of the cameramen was interviewed, and I was struck that he said that, after just a few weeks on the job, he was already considering of giving up wild-life photography because it was too emotionally harrowing – he was struggling to cope with the extraordinary degree of suffering the creatures he was filming were going through. That kind of suffering – appalling suffering, on a vast, global scale – has been going on, not just for two weeks, but for many hundreds of millions of years, long, long before we humans made our very recent appearance.
And of course, we humans suffer too. Consider a not uncommon occurrence [EDITIED: I have removed this second example as touches on matter in which I have some personal involvement and do not want posted on the internet).
Perhaps the universe is the product of an intelligence. I don't think that's likely, but even if it were, surely it is pretty obvious that the intelligence in question is not the Christian God of love – in all his limitlessly powerful and benevolent glory.
If you think that's not obvious, well, consider another possible cosmic designer – suppose there is just one god – a supremely powerful and evil being. His cruelty and malice and know no bounds.
How likely is that? I am sure you will agree it is an absurd suggestion. Why – because it is straightforwardly empirically falsified by the enormous amounts of good that there are in the universe. Why would an evil God create love, laughter and rainbows? Why would he allow us to reduce suffering?
In short, just as, if you believe in a good God, you face the problem of evil, so if you believe in an evil God, you face the problem of good.
Because of the problem of good, it is clearly absurd to suggest that the natural world points towards an evil God.
But then why isn't it equally absurd to suggest that natural world points to a good God?
Alister's position, it seems to me, is like that of someone who wanders into a concentration camp, notes the stoves designed to provide meals and warmth and the mattresses designed for sleeping on, and concludes that not only was this camp designed by an intelligence with some interest in sustaining human life, it actually "points towards" a wonderfully loving and benevolent designer
The truth is, not only does the available empirically evidence not point towards the camp having such a wonderfully benevolent designer, it actually points very firmly away from the camp being the creation of any such being.
Ditto the universe.
events intelligent design
Kosh3 said…
I think you mean D H Mellor? I think the point is a bad one - if you include for epistemic probability among the background information considered by the subject the fact that life exists, then it becomes trivial that the epistemic probability of the universe supporting life is very high - but this is simply the so-called 'problem of old evidence'. You can have epistemic probability that does not include amongst background information the fact that life does already exist in our universe, and that should be how we properly treat it.
Oh they are the same person. I should have guessed the H stands for Hugh
Paul Crowley said…
Really excellent - the fine tuning argument is I think the hardest one to pick apart in debate, and this really does the job.
In the same way that God gets the credit for the good things but not the blame for bad things, God is predictable when the predictions have already come to pass but unknowable when things go the other way. So the fact that the Universe can sustain life is evidence for Him because that's what we'd expect Him to do, but the fact that nearly all of the Universe is incredibly hostile to life is not a strike against him, because he's all unknowable and we can't hope to second-guess him in this way.
The usual counter to your first objection is that multiverses violate Occam's Razor. Of course this is nonsense - Occam's Razor dictates against complexity, not size, or a theory that said that the Universe was at least billions of light years across and contained 70 billion trillion stars would not be able to get off the ground.
Kosh3: No, what you're talking about is exactly the physical probability, or as I prefer to call it the "model probability" ie the probability your model would assign it. And I can't find anything in what you say that gives me a legitimate way to assign a probability to physical law being the way it is.
"Occam's Razor dictates against complexity, not size, or a theory that said that the Universe was at least billions of light years across and contained 70 billion trillion stars would not be able to get off the ground."
Increasing the number of entities postulated by a theory increases ontological complexity, as opposed to theoretical or syntactic complexity. Simplicity is not just one thing, and we ideally want to keep it down across the board.
"Kosh3: No, what you're talking about is exactly the physical probability, or as I prefer to call it the "model probability" ie the probability your model would assign it."
Even if you're correct, we can call it Juniberry probability for all that it matters: including the fact that life exists in the universe among our background information renders the probability estimation trivial.
"And I can't find anything in what you say that gives me a legitimate way to assign a probability to physical law being the way it is."
Probably (no pun intended) precisely because I didn't say a thing about ways to assign a probability to physical laws.
There is also the biological objection against the fine tuning argument.
Life evolves based on the conditions present. The universe isn't fine-tuned for us, we are fine-tuned for the universe!
Within reason, there are other conditions where other types of life may have evolved probably using different chemistry and radically different from us.
We are the way we are because of our physical reality and evolutionary history, not because the entire universe was changed to suit these forms.
DSurber said…
One other point to add to the fine tuning argument is that the science is far from definitive. Most physicists find the fine tuning objectionable and hope for a theory that eliminates the need. This is not to say that the universe is not fine tuned, but rather that just because our current model of the universe requires it to be does not make it so. Our current model could be (and most likely is) wrong.
And I still don't find the "meaningless twaddle" argument at all convincing. A chair that exists outside of space and time makes sense if we assume that outside of our universe there exists a different UNIVERSE with its own SPACE and TIME. Just like our universe exists outside of the Asteroids video game universe and our space and time exist outside of Asteroids space and time. Real asteroids exist in our universe that transcend the space and time of the Asteroids universe. I see no problem with a chair that exists outside our universe that transcends our space and time.
This of course runs into an infinite regress problem, but then all cosmologies seem to run into either an infinite regress or something unknowable. Occam's Razor stands us in good stead here.
And you got the God of Eth in there too. Nicely done.
Martin said…
Seems like a lot of words to tackle a delusion. Are you sure you are not feeding the delusion instead?
By the way, I noticed your non-spatial chair has one leg shorter than the others. It gives it a wobble. I suggest you slide a theoretical book under there to give it some stability.
jbierly said…
Is there somewhere online where we can view this debate?
Stephen Law said…
Unfortunately permission not forthcoming...
Does that mean you won ;-)
robertslee01 said…
this article has many holes. with regard to the question of evil, it assumes that a Creator is responsible for the evil that exists in this world. Last time I checked, people are the ones doing bad things. We have been given a choice, and unfortunately some people have chosen to do evil. To blame that on God is a cop-out.
solomon said…
We cannot say 'does the natural world points to god". We should instead say "does the created world points to god". The answere is an absolute yes.
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Here's my central criticism of Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (EAAN). It's novel and was published in Analysis last year. Here's the gist. Plantinga argues that if naturalism and evolution are true, then semantic epiphenomenalism is very probably true - that's to say, the content of our beliefs does not causally impinge on our behaviour. And if semantic properties such as having such-and-such content or being true cannot causally impinge on behaviour, then they cannot be selected for by unguided evolution. Plantinga's argument requires, crucially, that there be no conceptual links between belief content and behaviour of a sort that it's actually very plausible to suppose exist (note that to suppose there are such conceptual links is not necessarily to suppose that content can be exhaustively captured in terms of behaviour or functional role, etc. in the way logical behaviourists or functionalists suppose). It turns o

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using RimWorld;

using System;

namespace MTW_AncestorSpirits
{
    public class PetitionDef : IncidentDef
    {
        public float petitionHours;
        public int magicCost;

        public int MinMagic
        {
            get
            {
                return (int)Math.Ceiling((float)this.magicCost * AncestorConstants.PETITION_SPEND_MIN_MULT);
            }
        }

        public float SuccesChance(int magicUsed)
        {
            if (magicUsed < this.MinMagic)
            {
                return 0.0f;
            }
            else
            {
                float percentUsedOverMin = ((float)magicUsed - (float)this.MinMagic) / (float)this.magicCost;
                return AncestorConstants.PETITION_BASE_SUCCESS +
                    (1.0f - AncestorConstants.PETITION_BASE_SUCCESS) * percentUsedOverMin;
            }
        }

        public int PetitionTicks
        {
            get
            {
                return AncestorUtils.HoursToTicks(this.petitionHours);
            }
        }

        public string PetitionSummary
        {
            get
            {
                return this.LabelCap + " (" + this.magicCost + " magic)";
            }
        }
    }
}


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Petra Kvitova breaks down after refelecting on her return to the top level.
Tragic tale of Kvitova's emotional 'second career'
by Leo Schlink
23rd Jan 2019 11:55 AM
PETRA Kvitova has sympathised with Ash Barty after terminating the Australian's Melbourne Park campaign as the Czech focuses on her "second career."
Told she might never play top-level tennis again after having her racquet hand severely gashed by a knife-wielding intruder in a 2016 home invasion, Kvitova is overwhelmed to be back in the hunt for a major.
The dual Wimbledon champion and former world No 2 hadn't reached a major semi since winning Wimbledon in 2014.
The long drought, and memories of the horrific stabbing, carried her to tears after eliminating Barty to reach the last four here.
"Actually, it was kind of a mix of emotions of everything I've been through," she said.
"You know, sometimes I'm not really recognising anything from the past. "But when Jim (Courier) asked that, it wasn't really easy for me to kind of see myself being in a semi-final after everything.
"I always wanted to come back and play on the highest level I can, compete with the best, play the grand slams, actually be very deep in the grand slam, which is happening.
"Yeah, it just took me a bit to the tears, but it was happy tears, for sure."
Petra Kvitova sheds a tear as she is interviewed by Jim Courier following her quarter-final victory. Picture: AP
Unsure if she could return, Kvitova is now back.
"I'm calling it as my second career," she said.
"So it's the first semi-final of the second career.
"But, yeah, it's took me while, for sure. I never really played so well on the grand slams, so I'm happy this time it's different. I'm really enjoying it."
Kvitova was injured in a home invasion in December 2016 where she was stabbed in her left hand. Picture: AP
Kvitova heaped praise on Barty.
"Ash is great in a way. She's a great person and great player, as she showed," the Czech said.
"I think it's not really easy to play quarter-final of the slams at home. I know the pressure when I'm playing home, as well. It's not easy.
"She really played unbelievable tennis today, as well.
"I mean, her slice was two centimetre under the net. It was really incredible what she been through whole tournament.
"Yeah, I'm a bit sorry for her that I beat her. But that's the tennis, unfortunately."
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Home Politics DSS Raid: Fight against corruption or attack on political foes?
DSS Raid: Fight against corruption or attack on political foes?
08:40:00 Politics
By Ehi Ekhator
I might want to first thank my readers who kept in touch with me to comment on the recent happenings in Nigeria concerning the arrest of a few judges who were claimed to have taken bribes.
I needed to take as much time as is needed to consider what to say before i am blamed again for taking a bribe from the opposition to compose the self-evident.
President Buhari administration has been adulated in a few quarters over his affirmed reality in battling corruption in the nation while others say he utilizes the DSS and other security divisions to scare his political adversaries.
The State Security Service (SSS), otherwise called the Department of State Services (DSS) employed a commando style in arresting two Supreme Court Justices, John Inyang Okoro and Sylvanus Ngwuta over petitions allegedly written against them by the people.
The DSS guaranteed that the result of its storm and search was the diverse hard currencies found in the homes of the judges which further buttressed an assertion of illegal pay-off against them.
"In one of the States where the Service operations were conducted, credible intelligence revealed that the Judge had Two Million United States Dollars ($2,000,000 USD) stashed in his house.
When he was approached for due search to be conducted, he in concert with the State Governor, mobilized thugs against the Service team.
The team restrained itself in the face of unbridled provocative activities by those brought in by the Governor. Unfortunately, the Judge and Governor also engaged the tacit support of a sister security agency.
The DSS was referring to the incident in Rivers State where Governor Nyesom Wike stepped in to prevent the SSS from arresting a judge in the middle of the night.
Justice Ngwuta had reportedly travelled to Qatar to receive bribes that he allegedly shared with Justice Okoro and other judges in order to help Wike win a case at the Supreme Court regarding his rerun election.
DSS added "SUMMARY OF RECOVERED MONEY
NAIRA – N93,558,000.00
DOLLARS – $530,087
POUNDS – £25,970
EURO – €5,680
"Other foreign currencies were also recovered. This were recovered from just three (3) of the judges.
"These in addition to other banking documents, including real estate documents have been recovered. Meanwhile preparations are ongoing to arraign them in a competent court of jurisdiction in line with the laws of the nation.
"The Service would want to clearly state that it has never invited Justice Walter NKANU ONNOGHEN for investigation, neither is he being investigated by this Service.
In addition the Service would like to put it on record, that it has tremendous respect for the Judiciary and would not do anything to undermine it or its activities.
The Service will also join hands with this noble institution in its fight to rid it of few corrupt Judges whose actions is undermining not only the Judiciary but the common bond of our national life."
Fighting corruption in Nigeria would have surely improved the lives of her citizens if the fight was genuine. The tactics employed by the current administration to stamp out corruption is a window display if you look beyond the daily headlines.
Now Why the sudden launch of assault on the judges?
I have perused numerous Nigerians communicated their backings for the arrest while some completely express concerns over the assault. Eminent Nigerians like the former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode and an Renown Senior Lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome have condemned the kidnap of the judges at their homes in the middle of the night.
As indicated by Fani-Kayode, DSS lied about the affirmed cash found in the premises of the judges. He cautioned Nigerians not to believe such, as the division is scarcely searching for a reason to legitimize its unlawful activity.
"It is in this context that one has to view the absurd claims by the DSS that massive sums of cash ranging from 2 million USD to hundreds of thousands of euros and pounds sterling were found in the homes of all the judges that were arrested in the early hours of saturday morning.
"If anyone honestly believes that such large sums of cash were found in the homes of ANY of those judges then that person needs to have his head examined.
"The DSS has to say these outrageous things and tell these shameful lies in order to attempt to justify their illegal actions before the world. It is called disinformation and misinformation and that is their stock in trade."
The Nigerian Bar Association in a statement released by the President, Abubakar Mahmoud, described the action of the DSS as abduction
Mahmoud said two Supreme Court justices, Inyang Okoro and Sylvester Ngwuta were "abducted", with their families, adding that he had yet to have the full detail of other judges who could have been involved.
The NBA President condemned what it termed the Gestapo-style operation of the DSS.
He said: "I want to emphasise again that we are not under military rule and we cannot accept this unholy event and Gestapo-style operation.
"We, therefore, call on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately caution all the state security agencies and to respect the rule of law and to respect due process.
"Any issues affecting the judicial officers, there are established procedures for handling them and we demand that this constitutional process must be obeyed.
"Given the unfolding nature of the event and the seriousness of the situation, the NBA hereby declares a state of emergency as it affects the affairs of the judiciary and I hereby constitute a crisis management team, comprising all past presidents of the association.
"I want to, on behalf of the association, make the very following clear and unequivocal demands: we demand the immediate and unconditional release of all the judges abducted from about 9pm yesterday (Friday).
"The release must be done immediately and without any conditions. Two, we demand that the Department of State Services should limit itself to its statutory and constitutional responsibilities.
"I'll be meeting with the CJN later tonight or tomorrow. There will be consequences should these demands are not met."
Similarly, Chief Mike Ozekhome described Buhari as a leopard that cannot change its spots. He said he was not surprised about the action displayed by the DSS. He reminded Nigerians that he had warned them of the implication of giving power to a dictatorial President.
"I am not surprised. I am rather surprised that some Nigerians are still surprised. Some of us warned, wrote, preached and talked. But, we were ignored due to political partisanship.
A leopard cannot change its spots. It started with political opponents and the opposition. Some of us cried out.
Then, they moved against some very senior and well-respected lawyers. Some clapped.
"They said it was anti-corruption. We cried out. It extended quickly to the National Assembly, another arm of government. Many described the government as tough, no-nonsense and anti-corruption-inclined.
Some of us warned. Now, it is the judiciary. Up to the very apex court of the land, the Supreme Court, has been targeted and is now being intimidated and humiliated.
"Virtually all the judges are southerners. My prediction is that the media will be the next.
The recent onslaught against the judiciary signals great danger to our democracy, freedom, human rights, independence of the judiciary and the doctrine of separation of powers as espoused in 1748 by the great French philosopher, Baron De Montesquieu."
Edo State Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, Frank Osa Evbuomwan, a member of the All Progressives Congress argued that the method used by the DSS was questionable, adding that if his house was broke into at the early hour, he would resist such move too.
He said "Much has written about the "sting" operation carried out by the DSS on some allegedly corrupt judges. While it is gratifying that something tangible appears to be under way in tackling corruption, one is still left with a sour taste in the mouth over the method employed.
"It is extremely difficult to justify breaking down doors and walls at an ungodly 1.00am, to arrest judges who ordinarily pose no flight or physical threats to anybody.
Indeed, some of the judges are probably qualified to be senior citizens. In truth, if anyone was to come knocking at such an hour, I too will refuse to open my door!
"The news now is that the judges have been granted administrative bail on self recognition, driving home the point that ordinarily these men pose no flight or physical threats.
"These judges could have been picked at multiple points with little or no fuss and without all these distracting drama. By all means, tackle corruption head on, by all means arrest corrupt officials, but also by all means, utilize civilized methods."
Nigerians should be aware that the current administration is not ready to fight corruption but fight anyone who stands on its way to achieving its political aim.
The reason these judges were arrested were their alleged involvement in the loot which was allegedly given to them by Wike (a PDP governor) to skew the case in his favour.
If the DSS is involved in the fight against corruption, it suddenly means that the action was ordered by someone in Presidency or the President himself since this department is solely set up by the President for intelligence gathering which means that they can only take order from and report to the Presidency.
Let us be honest with ourselves for once in our lives, President Buhari is more similar to a domineering jerk than an equitable President judging from his non-verbal communication and his disproportionate battle against corruption in Nigeria.
The former Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi was investigated and the result forwarded to the Ecomomic and Financial Crimes Commission for embezzling billions of naira and till today, the case has been shutdown, instead he was rewarded with a Ministerial position.
Recently, Buhari Chief of Staff, (COS), Abba Kyari was accused of taking N500m from operators of MTN to help the telecommunications mitigate the fine imposed on it by the Federal Government.
The report revealed that Buhari was shown the evidence which implicated his chief of staff and till today, no news and the man remained in power.
Confronted with the evidence, The COS reportedly claimed he was helping the All Progressives Congress party raise funds for gubernatorial election in Bayelsa State, to which the President is said to have asked him if he was the party chairman, but did not relieve him of his post.
The same CoS was accused of taking money from Jide Omokore, a shady businessman who was massively involved in corruption in the oil sector in the preceding administration. Mr. Kyari reportedly took Mr. Omokore twice to the President so that the business man can make promise to refund some of the funds. Mr. Omokore reportedly promised to return N500m.
The report also said that when EFCC arrested Omokore, Buhari CoS told President Buhari that it was the EFCC chair, Birahim Magu who had bungled progress concerning Omokore.
The same CoS was making plans to remove Magu from office in order to make his plans work since the Chairman was a stubborn man to control.
Other members of President Buhari circle have been accused one way or the other of engaging in massive corruption but the President has refused to act.
Members so far fingered are:
Chief of Army Staff, Yusuf Buratai who was found to have used Nigerian Army funds to purchase homes in Dubai.
The Minister of Internal Affair, Abdulrahman Dambazau who bought homes for millions of dollars in Boston in the United States. Other aides and officials within the government have been exposed for involvement in illegal employments and forgery of age and certificates.
The latest of the corruption in Buhari administration is the one raised by a federal lawmaker, Abdulmumin Jibrin who accused the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara of padding the budget.
After the outrageous issue was raised, even the president acknowledged the alarm that his budget was altered, he had a secret meeting with the whistle blower and after which an instruction was passed never to address the press on the issue anymore.
Hoping the EFCC or even the Presidency dog, DSS would take action is still a dream for many Nigerians. Meanwhile, Dogara after holding meeting with the same President came out with a hold statement that he cannot be prosecuted. Instead the whistle blower is now suspended for speaking that a member of the APC is corrupt.
The primary reason why this case is so important for the DSS now is because it has something to do with a PDP governor, Governor Wike of Rivers State.
The federal government always find Rivers State a vital state due to the state contribution to the national income, so allowing it to be in the hands of the opposition is a big setback for the ruling party, therefore, Wike may not finish his tenure before he would be impeached, a tactics that had failed so far in Ekiti State.
Is Nigeria really fighting corruption with all seriousness or this is a political war in disguise? Are Nigerians being fed with the absolute truth or the sweet coated information?
Why are the members of the oppositions and Buhari boys who have been accused of stealing still earning monthly salaries? Why do Nigerians forget so soon of other members of the APC who are still fancy-free after being accused of corruption?
The tactics of silence now employed by Buhari administration is by using the security outfit. It could be recalled that it was the same DSS who postponed Edo State election by citing security reasons, two days after President Buhari visited Benin.
The pattern of security risk was never explained but many Nigerians believed it was an avenue to have enough time in rigging the election.
The Force spokesperson claimed that the intelligence at his disposal indicated that there are plans by insurgents and extremist to attack vulnerable communities and soft targets, a statement that puzzled everyone knowing full well that Edo State had never experienced the cited reason for the election postponement.
Obviously, DSS is now being used to carry out political assignment for the ruling party rather than doing its primary assignment which is gathering intelligence regarding security for the country.
Who are the arrested Judges?
According to some findings in some quarters, Justice Liman gave judgment against Modu Sheriff and that hurt the APC.
Justice Liman also restrained INEC from announcing any results or figures howsoever generated or compiled purporting to be result of the re-run election for any or all of Khana, Bonny, Gokana, Andoni, Eleme and Tai Local Government Areas of Rivers State or any part of the re-run election scheduled for March 19, 2016 which election was subsequently suspended or postponed. Justice Liman narrowly missed been "stinged" by the DSS.
Justice Pingina insisted on due process in the Rivers State Governorship election tribunal sittings. He was removed midway during the sitting of the tribunal when APC saw that PDP was having the upper hand. The rest is history. Justice Pingina has just been "stinged" by DSS.
Justice Adeniyi Ademola, a judge, eldest grandson of a great former CJN of Nigeria, Adetokunbo Ademola was a judge who knew his onions. He came from a tradition. He could not be pushed around by powers that be. He ordered thrice that Dasuki be released.
This did not go down well with Buhari and his government. They disobeyed his orders and concocted a new offence to rearrest Dasuki. Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court in Abuja also in May 26, 2016 dismissed Buhari's preliminary objection in a suit filed by an Abuja-based legal practitioner Mr. Nnamdi Nwokocha-Ahaaiwe concerning Buhari certificate (WAEC). Justice Ademola has just been "stinged" by DSS
Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, a judge of the Federal High Court, Abuja was the judge who warned DSS to stop disobeying orders of court and told them not to come to his court again if they would not obey court orders.
DSS was angry with this. They wanted to "sting" him but got a wrong name. However, they succeeded in breaking into his house and beating up his brother only for them to look into the paper they had on them to discover that it was not his name that was on the paper. That sure hurt them.
JSCs Ngwuta and Okoro sat on appeals that gave decisions against APC interest. They have just been "stinged" by DSS.
Don't get me wrong, if the fight against corruption was genuine, the President would have my support. We all need corruption to be stamped out but being selective is another way to cause more problem than solution.
These judges may be corrupt as alleged but the reason they are being singled out for prosecution currently is to weaken their stands against the APC.
Ehi Ekhator is a Nigerian journalist based in the United Kingdom. Publisher, Naija Center News
Email: ehidan@naijacenter.com
Twitter/instagram: @ehiehidan


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Thousands of Palestinians Demonstrate to Mark 'Catastrophe'
by Naharnet Newsdesk 15 May 2019, 17:15
Palestinians protested Wednesday for the annual commemoration of what they call the Nakba, or catastrophe, when hundreds of thousands were expelled or fled during the 1948 war surrounding the creation of Israel.
Thousands gathered at various locations along the volatile border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip, while crowds also demonstrated in the occupied West Bank.
Clashes erupted along parts of the border fence, with the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza reporting 47 people wounded, but the protests were smaller and calmer than anticipated, an AFP journalist said.
The AFP journalist on the border saw a number of kites being floated across the border and a fire breaking out inside Israeli territory.
Palestinians in Gaza have regularly used kites with firebombs attached to them to set fires on the Israeli side of the fence.
Israel's military said around 10,000 "rioters and demonstrators" were along the Gaza fence.
"The rioters are setting tyres on fire and hurling rocks," it said in a statement.
"A number of explosive devices have been hurled within the Gaza Strip as well, and a number of attempts have been made to approach the security fence."
It said "troops are responding with riot dispersal means."
In the West Bank city of Ramallah, protesters held up giant paper keys to symbolise their will to return to the lands and homes they were expelled from or were forced to abandon, now located inside Israel.
Palestinians commemorate the Nakba every year.
More than 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their land during the 1948 war surrounding the creation of Israel.
Separately, there have also been regular protests and clashes along the Gaza border for more than a year.
At least 293 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza since the protests began in March 2018.
The majority died during the often-violent weekly protests, though others were killed in Israeli airstrikes or by tank fire in response to violence from Gaza.
Six Israelis have been killed in Gaza-related violence over the same time period.
phillipo 15 May 2019, 18:42 00
The picture shows the real "catastrophe" of the Palestinian people, not the independence of Israel 71 years ago.
If on 29th November 1947, the Arabs would have accepted the UN Resolution on the establishment of an independent Palestinian state at the side of Israel, just imagine how it would look today.
If the Arab States and the terrorist organisations had not instigated wars against Israel and spent that money on the development of an independent Palestinian State, just imagine how it would look today.
If Yasser Arafat and later on Mohammad Abbas had agreed to the peace offerings made by Israel, and had established an independent Palestinian State, just imagine how it would look today.
What the Palestinians want is "pieces of Israel" not "peace with Israel" and that is something they will never get.
s.o.s 15 May 2019, 21:15 00
If I'm not mistaken Philippo, catastrophe translates to Shoah in Hebrew. Have some humility please and don't mock them. Don't justify the unjustifiable. The Nazis justified the genocide using the same logic as you do, and so did the communists and the tsars in their days. You need to be fair and own your mistakes/crimes . There was nothing wrong in wanting the create a nation for Jews, it's totally different when it's done at the expense of other people who themselves defend directly from Jews who didn't chose to flee and later converted to Christianity and Islam.
You make me repeat:
on 29th November 1947, the Arabs would have accepted the UN Resolution on the establishment of an independent Palestinian state at the side of Israel, just imagine how it would look today.
You are mistaken - Catastrophe in Hebrew is Ason, Shoah in English is Holocaust. :
The original meaning of the word Shoah is calamity. Again, you're using twisted logic. Had the Jews merged in with the European society there wouldn't have been a genocide. You justify the use of brutality to achieve an objective... this isn't very peaceful at all. Has israel achieved peace with this method ? The world put puppets in Israel's neighboring countries to keep it safe, at the expense of millions of people being crushed by oppressive regimes. Do you believe this will serve Israel's interests on the long term? Who does the oppressed blame? The West, Russia and the Israelis. Peace takes courage and the Israeli government isn't courageous, it's hiding behind its huge and disproportionate arsenal. The Vics are the palos... and I'm sure you know by now that I'm not particularly fond of them for personal reasons, but they are Israel's victims before being Abbas' (one of those puppets I mentioned). Don't expect peace with puppets....


Biosecurity stakeholders please note that an important change has taken place in the import regulations housed in the Plant Biosecurity Manual Tasmania, as of 23 June 2016.
IR 8B, a post-harvest treatment option for importation of fruit into Tasmania using the insecticide fenthion directed against elimination of risk of fruit fly contamination, has been revoked. This follows the decision of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority to withdraw all labels and permits for use of the organophosphate insecticide fenthion in Australia.
This treatment option was one that very few importers or exporters elected to use when exporting fruit fly 'at risk' fruits to Tasmania. Alternative treatments exist for preventing the carriage of fruit fly in fruit.
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Two relatives of a 96-year-old McHenry County man have been accused of stealing about $140,000 from him after the man tried to withdraw money from the bank to buy hearing aids and discovered he only had $30, police said.
Timothy Zink, 59, and Rosemary Zink, 58, of the 2800 block of East Chestnut Drive in Wonder Lake, are charged with financial exploitation of an elderly person, the McHenry County sheriff's office announced Tuesday.
Authorities allege that the Zinks took the money from the man's account over the course a year. They were taken into custody Thursday and released over the weekend after separately posting $4,000 bail.
Dane Loizzo, a lawyer for Timothy Zink, said the couple are devastated by the accusations, which the attorney denied.
Loizzo said the Zinks moved their relative to McHenry County from Florida last year out of concern that he was no longer able to care for himself.
"They housed him, fed him, provided a place for him to stay, and it was a loving, caring … relationship," Loizzo said. "They are just devastated these accusations have been made against them."
Authorities said the man had been taken to the hospital in July after a fall, and doctors at that time told him he ought to be fitted for hearing aids. The man discovered the money missing when he went to the bank to withdraw funds for the hearing aid purchase.
Undersheriff Andrew Zinke said the investigation led them to the couple in part because they "had gained control over the victim's bank account."
But Loizzo contends that evidence will show that there was no way the Zinks could have removed money without their relative's permission and "that would not be something they would even consider or dream of doing. … There is definitely more to the story than what has been put out by the sheriff's office."
The Zinks are due in court next month. If convicted of the felony, they could face up to 15 years in prison, prosecutors said.
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A Boston woman whose wallet was stolen in 2009 said she was shocked to get it back -- and even more shocked to see it still contained all of her cash.
Nursing student Courtney Connolly said the wallet was taken out of her car during a summer internship in Wellfleet, Mass., in 2009, and somehow during the ensuing eight years the wallet found its way back to Boston, where it ended up in the hands of a police officer Monday.
The police officer used a pay stub in the wallet to track down Connolly's family and handed the wallet over to her sister-in-law.
Connolly said it was a shock to discover the wallet was exactly as it had been when it was taken.
"The cash was never used! The credit cards were never used! My social security number was never used!" Connolly told WFXT-TV.
"Yes, it's literally like it fell out of my pocket yesterday," she told WCVB-TV.
Connolly said the wallet even still had a fortune cookie message taped to the inside: "Soon you'll receive pleasant news."
The fortune proved true in multiple ways -- the $141 that sat untouched in the wallet for eight years is the exact amount Connolly said she needs to enter an upcoming powerlifting tournament.


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"That's A Promise" was cut at the famous R.G. Jone's studio in Morden, Surrey, U.K. where the original demo of "The London Boys" was cut (which sadly hasn't made it onto the bootleg circut).
On bootlegs there seems to be confusion regarding whether the song is called "Baby," "That's a Promise," or "Baby, That's a Promise." Has any consensus been formed?
Any reason why Ruud's otherwise-impeccable discography lists the extant copy of That's a Promise as a 1966 Bowie and the Buzz recording whilst Pegg has it as a 1965 Lower Third? Just wondering if there are any opinions as to which of them is correct.
i think it's a matter of the info just not being there, so all are reduced to educated guesses. I side with Pegg, as it sounds like a Lower Third track rather than a Buzz one, and the song's relative crudeness, composition-wise, is more '65 than '66. Also, Bowie played it in a BBC audition in November '65, which cemented my decision to put it next to "Glad I've Got Nobody" in the book.
in retrospect this is by far the most half-assed post I ever did on this blog. & man, was I in a sour mood the morning I wrote it, evidently.
Your prose is fantastic where appropriate, but these songs surely don't deserve much more. On the contrary, I would find it hilarious if you re-wrote and over-wrote this post, turning them into your another "The Motel"-length thought. Really ham it up and get as many unnecessary quotes as possible. I'm sure you could find something related to a serial-stalker in England circa 1965, and how the song reflects the time (etc.) Turn it into an hour's read!
Why is Al Gore playing with Bowie's hair?
"I'll Follow You" as a stalker pledge holds up. John Fowles wrote "The Collector" in 1963, and it was turned into a film in 1965. The book is a sensational, haunting read. It could well have influenced our man at 18.
"Glad I've got nobody". A literal reading, just of the title, if you take The Bard's play on words, has the meaning, "Glad I'm invisible to others". I know the lyric doesn't support that – he clearly means someone else. Well Atleast twice he does. But with Bowie it's good that there's atleast one other meaning.
Also on John Fowles, he wrote "The Magus" in 1965. Together with Jean Paul Satre's short story "The Childhood of a Leader", the soundtrack of the movie of the same name, based around both books, is by Scott Walker.


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a Great Plato Year or an Aeon.
was the Redeemer of the Piscean Age. The Piscean Age emphasised Faith.
Saturn. Uranus represents Independence and Saturn Universal Humanism.
Humanism will be the hallmark of the Aquarian Age.
suffering as the Planet Earth goes through a dark phase.
& Self Actualisation. Gone are the days of dogma & Blind Faith.
Personal transformation will result in Planetary Transformation !
which has the knowledge and expertise to create an ideal society\ " ).
constituted with Maurice Strong as the President.
predicted would one day take over mankind.
Wonder – the World Wide Web – is the true World Encyclopaedia !
choice. This Aquarian Manifesto protects psychics & mystics.
for the 9/11 disaster was our lack of global unity and separativeness.
and intelligence databases all around the world should be coordinated.
FEMA, UN, Secret Societies, weather control and so on and on and on.
is the New World Order.


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Iván 'Pudge' Rodríguez is one of the greatest catchers to ever play the game of baseball, He made his MLB debut at the young age of 19 in 1991. He played 21 years in the MLB and had a career batting average of .296. He was named to the Hall of Fame in 2017; he won the MVP in 1999, and also made the All-Star game 14 times, won 13 Gold Gloves, and seven Silver Slugger awards. He won the World Series with the Florida Marlins in 2003 and also holds the record for most career putouts and most games started by any MLB catcher ever. Pudge's resume is about as impressive as a baseball resume can be. Pudge also threw out 46 percent of runners who tried to steal on him(another MLB record) in his career due to having an absolute land cannon for an arm.
However, the thing Pudge is most proud of is not listed above; it is raising his son Dereck Rodríguez who is currently a starting pitcher in the San Francisco Giants Rotation. Dereck's first name is actually Iván after his father but he goes by his middle name Dereck to avoid confusion. That land cannon of an arm ended up being a hereditary trait that was passed down to the flamethrower Dereck Rodríguez. Dereck has four pitches but his 95 mph moving fastball is what he is known for.
Dereck currently has a 2.72 ERA, a 5-1 record, and 42 strikeouts as a starter with the Giants. Every time Dereck pitches you can find Pudge sitting in one of the first rows behind home plate passionately cheering his son on. It is fascinating that after watching his Dad have such an incredibly successful career as a catcher that Dereck decided to be a pitcher.
Dereck got drafted by the Minnesota Twins in 2011 as an outfielder, however, he struggled mightily at the plate in Rookie-level ball. So in 2014 the Twins organization did him a big favor and changed Dereck's primary position to pitcher. Dereck won pitcher of the year in 2015 with that same Rookie-level team for the Twins organization when he posted a 6-3 record, had a 2.85 ERA, and had 61 strikeouts. He struggled from the mound the following season in class-A advanced ball. So then Dereck decided to try to rebound playing ball in Puerto Rico and did a stellar job and was even named to the Puerto Rican national team for the World Baseball Classic much like his father was in 2006 and 2009.
Dereck had a short stint with the Chattanooga Lookouts following the World Baseball Classic where he pitched well. Before the 2018 season, Dereck was signed by the San Francisco Giants on a minor league deal to pitch for the AAA Sacramento River Cats. Due to Jeff Samardzija going down with a shoulder injury, Dereck was called up to the big leagues on May 29 to pitch against the Colorado Rockies. Although he did not get the win in his first outing he only allowed one earned run, had four strikeouts and got a no-decision. Since then Dereck has been a big-time asset to the San Francisco Giants. Dereck's most recent outing was against the Oakland Athletics on July 20th where he only gave up three hits, had one earned run, and got the win with five strikeouts. Dereck has a long way to go to even be in the same conversation as his father as far as baseball accolades go but one thing is for sure, Iván 'Pudge' Rodríguez is a tremendously proud father.
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Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Lighting
Learn about LCD lighting or liquid crystal display lighting in this informative article. Liquid crystal display, or LCD lighting, appears everywhere – from on our watches to the screens for computers. The technology behind LCD liquid crystal displays defies our understanding of typical lighting.
The first thing to recognize about liquid crystal display lighting is that LCD technology is a way of selectively blocking light, not a way of producing light. Thus, LCD technology is not truly a light source technology, but it is packaged in such a way that we often don't discern the difference.
Many Different Applications
LCD technology appears everywhere from our watches to the screens for portable computers.
In a computer screen, the light sources are actually thin fluorescent tubes coupled with various techniques to even distribute the light across the screen.
On watches, there is a reflective surface under the LCD display, and the light source is just the ambient light! Watches also have a separate light source built in so that you can, at the push of a button, read your watch in total darkness.
Affected by Temperature
"Liquid crystal" sounds like a contradiction in terms. Yet some substances at the right temperature are liquid yet still maintain numerous microscopic rod-like structural shapes. Note that this special state of matter is a function of the temperature. Thus, the screen on your portable PC may behave oddly in very cold or very warm environments.
Polarizing Filters
The orientation of these rod-like shapes is influenced by electric currents. The rods can collectively act as a polarizing filter.
Most of us are familiar with what happens when you use one or two polarizing filters. Polarized sunglasses (a single polarizing filter) significantly reduce glare. If you place two polarizing filters together (one behind the other), the amount of light that passes through depends on the alignment between the two filters.
If the two filters are aligned together, then light passes through as if there was only one filter. If you rotate the two filters so as to be 90 degrees out of alignment, then almost all of the light is blocked.
The amount of light that is blocked depends on the angle of rotation between the two filters.
Effects of the Filtering Process
An interesting effect takes place if you introduce a third polarizing filter.
Place the first and third filter so that they are at 90 degrees to each other. You would expect most of the light to be blocked. However, the amount of light that passes through now depends on the angle of rotation of the middle filter. In some positions, most of the light is blocked, and in other orientations, the light passes through.
In an LCD display, the liquid crystal material acts as the middle polarizing filter. The liquid crystal actually also possesses a complex twisting behavior (like multiple stacked polarizing filters), but the simplified description here is sufficient.
How Colors are Displayed
The various colors are made by having very tiny areas of the screen tinted red, green, and blue.
Thanks to our guest lighting expert – Lance Kaczorowski, who brings a wealth of expertise to the site:
Kaczorowski, a native of New York City, now resides in Fort Wayne, IN. Kaczorowski has a 4-year degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and also a 2-year degree in Electronics Engineering Technology from the Community College of the Air Force. Kaczorowski's broad work history includes (chronologically): Three years as a Mercedes-Benz mechanic; six years as an electronics technician with the Air Force; three years as a new product development engineer with General Electric Lighting in Cleveland; seven years as a new product development engineer and an engineering analyst with Grote Industries in Madison, IN; and currently as an engineering analyst with International Truck and Engine Corporation in Fort Wayne.
The first two years of Kaczorowski's employment with General Electric consisted of extensive training in light source sciences and engineering under GE's Edison Engineering Program. Kaczorowski's experience with lighting was broadened at Grote Industries, which is a supplier of vehicle lighting for heavy duty trucks.
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Het Heilig Hartbeeld is een standbeeld in de Nederlandse plaats Standdaarbuiten, in de provincie Noord-Brabant.

Achtergrond
Het Heilig Hartbeeld werd gemaakt door Leo Jungblut en gebakken bij het Atelier St. Joris in Beesel. Het beeld werd in 1953 geïntroniseerd. Het stond aanvankelijk bij de R.K. jongensschool op de hoek van de Dr. Poelstraat en de Sint Janstraat, het verhuisde later naar een gazon achter de Johannes de Doperkerk. Andere exemplaren van Jungbluts ontwerp werden geplaatst in Beesel, Rucphen en Ulft.

Beschrijving
Het beeld toont een Christusfiguur ten voeten uit, gekleed in een lang gewaad en met wapperende mantel. In zijn naar voren gestoken linker handpalm is de stigmata zichtbaar. Met zijn rechterhand omvat hij het vlammend Heilig Hart voor zijn borst. Het beeld is gemaakt van geglazuurd aardewerk. Het beeld staat op een lage gemetselde sokkel.

Zie ook
 Lijst van Heilig Hartbeelden in Nederland

Standdaarbuiten
Cultuur in Moerdijk


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Q: What if I delete EFI partition from my drive? I found EFI partiton on my main drive.

Probably, the presense of this partition and it's contents prevent my computer from booting Linux, resided in another partition.
If I delete this partition, will my computer turn to norlmal legacy non-UEFI boot, or it will be bricked (not boot)?

A: Without that partition your computer will almost certainly not boot. The UEFI firmware on your PC looks for a partition containing the system bootloader to execute and having deleted that partition it will simply be waiting for you to insert some kind of bootable CD-ROM or DVD that can install a bootloader and potentially an operating system.
It will not simply "fall back" to a "legacy" (BIOS based) boot, because it is not that simple.

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*UEFI expects a GPT partition format on the disk, the Windows BIOS bootloader expects an MBR partition scheme.

*as you (probably) do not have an MBR partitioned disk then you will likely not have set up a boot sector on the disk pointing to a valid bootloader that the BIOS will be able to execute.

*you need to set "legacy" boot mode in the BIOS.

Windows will also refuse to install to an MBR partitioned disk while the system firmware is set to UEFI mode, it will also refuse to install to a GPT disk on a system with a legacy BIOS setup. Microsoft has simply decided not to support these cases in their bootloaders.
Windows support for disk partitions can be found at Windows support for hard disks that are larger than 2 TB
System        BIOS + MBR   UEFI + GPT                  BIOS + GPT                   UEFI + MBR
Windows 7     Supported    Supported; (64-bit only)   Boot volume not supported     Boot volume not supported
Windows Vist  Supported    Supported; (64-bit only)   Boot volume not supported     Boot volume not supported
Windows XP    Supported    Not supported              Boot volume not supported     Boot volume not supported

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Probably, the presense of this partition and it's contents prevent my computer from booting Linux, resided in another partition.

This is incorrect. Most Linux distributions boot fine in EFI/UEFI mode, using an EFI boot loader stored on an EFI System Partition (ESP). You haven't provided much in the way of detail about your Linux boot problem, so I can't comment on it in detail, but the mere presence of an ESP is NOT the source of that problem. You may have installed in the wrong mode (BIOS/CSM/legacy rather than EFI/UEFI), a bug or user error may have caused the boot loader to not be properly installed, there might be a hardware incompatibility (especially if you've got a very new computer), etc. Deleting the ESP will just create new problems, so DON'T DO IT!
I recommend you post a new question that provides details about your problem with Linux. Include the name and version number of the Linux distribution you're trying to install and describe the symptoms you're seeing (for instance, is the installation medium not booting, is the installation failing with an error message, does the installation seem to complete but then boot straight into Windows, etc.).

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