Casa Mercybedbreakfast in Vedado, Havana rent two apartment houses from the fifties, one next to the other, with access through elevators and stairs. Four spacious and airy rooms and lounges with stylish furniture, terraces adorned with tropical plants. It is located in a central area Vedado, just a few meters from the beautiful Avenida de Los Presidentes, five minutes walking from the Malecon Habanero Its location is privileged, you can walk to the Historic Center of Old Havana in just 25 minutes, other places of interest can be reached in a few minutes walking as are La Rampa, the famous bar La Torre, the famous ice cream Coppelia, hotels nightclubs, art galleries, museums, cinemas, theaters, banks, restaurants and more. The University of Havana and La Plaza de la Revolucion are just a few blocks away. The owners speak English, Dr. in Economics and Professor of The University of Havana.
Street 21 # 360, Floor 2nd-A, / Av. de Los Presidentes & H, Vedado, Plaza, Havana.
Nous avons passé 2 nuits dans cette casa. Nous nous sommes sentis comme chez nous puisque nous avions l'appartement pour nous ! Les chambres sont très belles, grandes et propres. Le seul petit bémol que je donnerai c'est qu'il n'y a pas de vitres à la porte fenêtre qui donne sur le petit balcon, et compte tenu du trafic sur l'avenue des Présidentes, ce fut assez difficile de s'endormir. Le petit-déjeuner était très copieux et très bon. Je recommande bien volontiers cette casa.
We spent only one day at this casa because we flew back to Germany the next day. The room is near President Avenue, which makes it a place with a great view. Everything is very clean and well organised. Mercedes is a lovely person that helps you with everything you need. Her Englisch is very good so non spanish speaking people will have no problem at all. Breakfast was awesome as well, because you will eat at Mercedes` balcony with a great view and Wifi access.


Toss the beef into a small mixing bowl. Toss in the onion and season with the soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce and pepper. Gently toss everything together until well combined.
Form into 4 evenly shaped burgers no more than 1 inch thick. Form a shallow hollow with your fingers in the centre of each burger. This will help each burger cook evenly, and the hollow will eventually disappear as the meat cooks through.
Cook for about 4 minutes per side. Resist the urge to press on the burgers with your spatula; this just encourages it to release valuable moisture and flavour. Flip and continue cooking until the burger is cooked through to your liking.
After you flip the burgers add a few pieces of crisp bacon and thinly sliced cheddar cheese to each one. For a pizza burger twist, add a spoonful of pizza sauce and some shredded mozzarella cheese. Sautéed mushrooms and blue cheese are also great. There are also many masterpieces to be built with lettuce, tomato, thinly sliced red onion, other cheeses, ketchup, mustard, BBQ sauce and your other favourite toppings.
Cooks all over the world rely on the simplicity of gently simmering and transforming tough, flavorful cuts of meat into tender meals. Here's how to create your own tender stew and add some of your own personality while you're at it!


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The text of the bill below is as of Mar 12, 2013 (Introduced). The bill was not enacted into law.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Ms. Speier (for herself, Mr. Meehan, Mr. Braley of Iowa, Ms. Pingree of Maine, Ms. Kuster, Ms. Edwards, and Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services
A BILL
To amend the Uniform Code of Military Justice to eliminate the authority of the convening authority to modify the findings and sentence of a court-martial as a matter of command prerogative involving the sole discretion of the convening authority.
This Act may be cited as the Military Judicial Reform Act of 2013 .
Elimination of convening authority discretion to modify the findings and sentence of courts-martial
Required action by convening authority upon receipt of court-Martial findings and sentence
Section 860 of title 10, United States Code (article 60 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice) is amended by striking subsections (c) through (e) and inserting the following new subsection (c):
As soon as practicable after the receipt of the findings and sentence of a court-martial by the convening authority, the convening authority shall approve of the sentence in whole. Except as provided in section 858b(b) of this title (article 58b(b)), the convening authority shall have no authority whatsoever to modify the findings or sentence of the court-martial.
Under regulations of the Secretary concerned, a commissioned officer commanding for the time being, a successor in command, or any person exercising general court-martial jurisdiction may act under paragraph (1) in place of the convening authority.
Submission of matters by the accused; Treatment
Subsection (b) of such section and article is amended to read as follows:
The accused may submit to the convening authority matters for inclusion in the final record of trial. Any such submission shall be in writing. Except in a summary court-martial case, such a submission shall be made within 10 days after the accused has been given an authenticated record of trial. In a summary court-martial case, such a submission shall be made within seven days after the sentence is announced.
If the accused shows that additional time is required for the accused to submit such matters, the convening authority or other person taking action under this section, for good cause, may extend the applicable period under paragraph (1) for not more than an additional 20 days.
In a summary court-martial case, the accused shall be promptly provided a copy of the record of trial for use in preparing a submission authorized by paragraph (1).
The accused may waive the right to make a submission under paragraph (1). Such a waiver may not be revoked.
Repeal of other authority for convening authority To suspend sentence
Section 871 of such title (article 71 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice) is amended by striking subsection (d).
Conforming amendments
UCMJ
Section 856a(b) of such title (article 56a(b) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice) is amended by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following new paragraph:
the sentence is set aside or otherwise modified as a result of any action authorized to be taken during post-trial procedure and review under subchapter IX;
Transitional compensation for dependents of members separated for dependent abuse
Section 1059(e) of such title is amended by striking paragraph (3).
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Kim Kardashian West was very mad on Tuesday, taking to Twitter to dispel rumors about the upcoming Yeezy Season 7 line and push back at haters.
Kim let loose on Twitter, however, saying their information was false and hinting that she "made calls" in response to the tweet.
The 37-year-old reality star followed up explaining the showroom incident and showing off several Season 7 looks.
The tweetstorm worked, as Yeezy Mafia apologized and deleted the original tweet.
Kim showed off many of the looks she was referring to on a recent trip to Japan with sisters Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian. She has been a vocal supporter and defender of husband Kanye West's fashion line, unafraid to promote Yeezy outfits or put critics on blast.
In fact, she posted several Season 7 looks on Instagram this week, mostly from her trip to Japan.
And if you had any doubts about her thoughts on Yeezy Season 7, she finished her Twitter tirade with some good old-fashioned Kanye-style hyperbole.
"YEEZY HAS ITS OWN UNIVERSE #SEASON7," she wrote.
To see Kim and her sisters sparkle in Tokyo, watch the video below.
Kim Kardashian Teases Kanye West's New Yeezy Collection — Check Out the Looks!


One of the ways that we celebrate Christmas is by giving gifts. Showing our family and friends that we love them by giving them something they'll cherish is a privilege, and few things are more exciting than Christmas morning for a child! But sometimes, we can't find a gift that truly accomplishes what we're hoping for–and when that happens, an alternative Christmas gift may be just the ticket.
For those looking to do something a little extraordinary this Christmas, there are plenty of gift options with lasting Kingdom impact–and each one fits a specific budget. Let's take a look at the various ways you could bless the life of someone else this year by giving an alternative Christmas gift.
$35 – Purchase a blanket to be used to help open a door for a conversation about the gospel with refugees.
$50 – Support a church planter for a month, or support the work of Global Refugee Outreach.
$600 – Support a church planter for a year.
The options above certainly aren't the limit! Any gift at any level will help us reach the maximum number of people, in the shortest amount of time, in the most cost-effective way with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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One of the many opportunities for Intel leaders to answer questions from press, bloggers — anyone, really — is the popular panel q&a, "Shoptalk." This time, Intel Fellows including Matthew Adiletta, Ajay Bhatt, Richard Lee Coulson, John Crawford, Vivek De, Kevin Kahn, P. Geoffrey Lowney, Eugene S. Meieran, Thomas A. Piazza and Raj Yavatkar fielded questions about Intel, the future of technology, the speed of developing platforms and processors, memory, voice recognition, Intel's strategies in planning for the future, and those blue aprons.
What comes after silicon-based technology? How is Intel addressing growing concerns about the environmental impacts of technology? What about scaling for nanotechnology? The future of DRAM?
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Warren Spahn, in full Warren Edward Spahn, (born April 23, 1921, Buffalo, New York, U.S.—died November 24, 2003, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma), American professional baseball player whose total of 363 major-league victories established a record for left-handed pitchers. His feat of winning 20 or more games in each of 13 seasons also was a record for left-handers. He set still another mark by striking out at least 100 batters each year for 17 consecutive seasons (1947–63). At the time of his retirement, in 1965, his career total of 2,583 strikeouts was the third highest in baseball history.
Spahn, the son of a former semiprofessional baseball player, signed with the Boston Braves (later the Milwaukee Braves) of the National League (NL) in 1940 and pitched his first major league game in 1942. Drafted into the army the following year, he saw extensive combat service during World War II and received a Bronze Star and Purple Heart. In 1946 Spahn returned to professional baseball, and his fluid, high-kick delivery and pinpoint accuracy soon established him as one of the game's leading pitchers. In 1957 he helped the Braves win the World Series. A wiry, finely conditioned athlete, Spahn pitched two no-hit games at age 39 and 40. He was also one of the best hitters among pitchers, and his 35 career home runs set a record for pitchers in the NL. In 1965, his last season, he played for the New York Mets and the San Francisco Giants. Spahn was a 14-time All-Star and the recipient of the Cy Young Award (1957). In 1973 he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Australia vs India 2016
Aussie skipper Steven Smith, Aaron Finch defend 'milestone-driven' Virat Kohli
Citing Kohli's name, Maxwell had said that some Indians are milestone-driven.
New Delhi: Following Glenn Maxwell's "milestone-driven" comment against Virat Kohli, Australian skipper Steven Smith defended the Indian vice-captain saying it's only natural for a batsman to slow down when approaching a milestone.
"I think that can be natural for anyone around the world. When you see that sort of milestone coming, in the back of your mind you might slow down a little bit. I think Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are quality players and they're batting beautifully and I don't see any problem with any selfishness there," Smith said.
Earlier, ahead of Saturday's fifth and final One-Day International, Maxwell had said that "They (Indians) were, probably, just making sure they got to a milestone. Some people are milestone-driven, some people aren't."
And referring to Kohli, who has hit back-to-back hundreds in two previous matches, the Aussie said, "I think, if you look back at it. I was sent a photo the other day. It said — Virat was 84 off 63 (factually, he was 84 off 61), and then 100 off 89 (100 off 84) or something like that. He got his last 11 runs off 22 (21) balls to get his hundred."
Joining Smith in defence of Indian batsmen is Aussie opener Aaron Finch.
"The talk of Indian players being selfish was obviously Glenn's view; that's not my personal view," Finch said.
"Virat Kohli got a 100 off 80-odd balls the other day — there was nothing selfish about that innings. That was an extraordinary, extraordinary innings. Shikhar Dhawan got it off about 95 balls, I think. He took the game on at the start for India along with Rohit (Sharma) and got them off to an absolute flyer. Gee! There are some seriously good players in India. Virat — 25 ODI hundreds now. That's an unbelievable achievement," he added.
The five-match ODI series concludes tomorrow in Sydney with Australia having already won the first four matches.
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What is the animals like in the temperate rainforest?
What are some fun facts about forest animals?
How do animals adapt in the temperate rainforest?
What vegetation grows in temperate rainforests?
What was the most interesting fact of temperate forest?
Which of these are animal adaptations that help animals live in the deciduous forest biome?
Are there more plants or animals in the temperate forest?
What are the different types of animals in temperate woodlands?
What are four animal adaptation in the temperate rain forest?
In North America, animals of the temperate rainforest include invertebrates like banana slugs and thousands of species of insects and spiders. Small mammals like voles, flying squirrels, mice and chipmunks provide food for spotted owls, great horned owls, hawks and eagles.
The forest provides a habitat for many animals….Forest Facts.
Species living in the Forest
ca. 6,700 animal species, ca. 4,700 species of plants
The forest offers animals spots for breeding and nesting protection against the weather and animals of prey food ambush for animals of prey
How do animals survive in the temperate forest?
Some animals hibernate or migrate during the winter to escape the cold. Others grow thick fur and/or layers of fat to help make it through the winter months. Without the protection of leaves, animals have a more difficult time hiding from predators in the winter.
Most of the animals in temperate rainforests live on or near the ground. Hibernation and migration are the most prominent rainforest animal adaptations that are seen in temperate rainforests. Black bears spend the entire winter hibernating, thus ensuring they don't exert too much energy.
Mosses, spike mosses, ferns and lichens festoon tree trunks and branches, giving the forest a "jungle-like" feel. Large, old trees. The dominant species are Sitka spruce and western hemlock, but other conifers and several deciduous species grow as well.
What are 3 interesting facts about the forest?
In recognition of the designation, below are ten facts about forests.
Forests cover around 4 billion hectares or 30 percent of Earth's land surface.
Forests are storehouses of biodiversity.
Forests have hundreds of billions of trees.
Interesting Temperate Deciduous Forest Biome Facts: The temperate deciduous forest gets its name because the temperatures are temperate meaning they are not extreme. Temperate deciduous forests receive 30 – 60 inches of rain each year and are ranked second only to the rainforest as the rainiest biome.
Animal Adaptations in the Deciduous Forest Biome Migration and hibernation are two adaptations that many of the Deciduous Forest animals have. Animals that hibernate will eat heavily before the winter and their coats will grow in quite thick to keep them warm through the winter hibernation period.
What type of animals live in the temperate deciduous forest?
Insects, spiders, slugs, frogs, turtles and salamanders are common. In North America, birds like broad-winged hawks, cardinals, snowy owls, and pileated woodpeckers are found in this biome. Mammals in North American temperate deciduous forests include white-tailed deer, raccoons, opossums, porcupines and red foxes.
This allows plenty of sunlight to penetrate the foliage and create wide biodiversity in the forest. In fact, there is more biodiversity in the animal and plant kingdom in deciduous temperate forests than in tropical deciduous forests. Deciduous forests in some countries are home to exotic animals such as leopards, pandas, tigers, and monkeys.
Tropical rainforests are found in South America,Central Africa,and Southeast Asia.
Temperate forests are generally found in North America,Europe,and East Asia.
The Boreal forest is also called the taiga and stretches across the cold regions of northern Russia,Scandinavia,and Canada.
What animals live in the temperate woodland?
What animals live in a temperate woodland? Wildlife in temperate woodlands and shrublands include herbivores like blacktail deer and rabbits, carnivores like foxes and coyotes, reptiles like snakes and lizards, and all kinds of birds.
Adaptation 1- Camouflage The brown fur of the deer helps camouflage against the undergrowth in the forest. However, these animals are not the type to sit and hide, they will normally run for their lives at the first sight of danger. Adaptation 2- Observant Animals Deers have very good senses to protect them from predators.
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Life in Richmond is west coast living in a unique style of vitality and diversity. At the heart of it all is Concord Gateway, a new Concord Pacific community of 1,000 stylish residences and on-site amenities including a swimming pool, fitness centre and theatre. Here you have 360˚ access to everything, without the traffic. You're just 5 minutes from the airport and Vancouver, and right outside your door you'll find park space, shops, restaurants, the new Canada Line and the 2010 Olympic skating venue. Everyday life in Concord Gateway is dynamic and the quality of living is a tribute to Concord Pacific's award-winning, master-planned communities.


Spunky and sweet, this little guy is to adorable to be nutz… so we nicknamed him Cashew! A medium sized fella with full size fun…Cashew smiles, prances and wow, does he like to play. Smart, easy and handsome, he seems to have no problem entertaining himself and feeling joyful. One can't help but grin when playing with him, the white on his snout, his white socks, and that little tip on his tail make him delightful to look at. His personality is just endearing!
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The Larder Cafe has opened opposite Preston Town Hall, February 2019. It's a social enterprise comprising a food academy and catering business, and is connected to a network of local farms.
Live Magazine said: It is a social enterprise which provides accredited and bespoke food and health related training to a range of organisations. This not for profit organisation has opened its first café and food academy in a bid to share the food hub's message about healthy, local and seasonal and waste-free food.
"We'll cater for different dietary requirements but keep everything inclusive, so for instance we'll always have a vegan option but we'll call it 'meat and dairy free'. Food will also be seasonal so salads at this time of year will feature things like beetroot and carrot but no tomatoes.
Parts of the Preston were in the bottom 20% of the country in the multiple indices of deprivation report in 2015, and almost a third of children in the city live below the poverty line, according to End Child Poverty. More on Food Poverty on this site.
A major aim for the cafe is to run 'Food Champion' courses to encourage and educate people into healthier - and cheaper - eating.


Christmas. . . is coming.
But that's nothing new. We know exactly when it happens every year.
And yet, sometimes it takes a moment of sheer panic to realize that we should've started saving way earlier in the year. Instead of opening a store credit card for that sneaky 10% off, why not just start a Christmas sinking fund?
There's no reason to risk busting your budget this Christmas—or to fill everyone's stockings with coal! Neither extreme's necessary because making a sinking fund isn't complicated, and you can start saving up right away. The You of Christmas Future will be so grateful you did.
With a sinking fund, you save up a small amount each month for a certain block of time before you spend. To determine how much you save, take the total amount to be spent and divide it by the number of months or weeks you have left until you need to make the purchase.
Let's say you want to spend $1,000 on Christmas and it's September: That leaves you about three months to save. Which means you'll see a line item in your budget reminding you to stash away about $330 every month until December.
Of course, it doesn't have to be just Christmas—you can use a sinking fund for any major purchase or bill as well. Just save up a little bit over time so the expense doesn't blindside you all at once.
Sinking Fund vs. Savings Account: What's the Difference?
The answer is, not all that much. A sinking fund is usually more specific than a savings account since you know exactly how much you'll put in and when you'll use it.
It all comes down to being intentional. If you're saving for a new car, next year's vacation, your anniversary gifts, your son's retainer, and your Christmas presents all in the same savings account—chances are, sooner or later, the lines will start to blur.
If you do open another savings account for your Christmas sinking fund, make sure the account doesn't have a minimum balance to maintain (like a money market). You don't want your money eaten away by fees like mice nibbling on Santa's cookies.
A sinking fund is also different from an emergency fund. Much different. An emergency fund is money set aside for the unknown. With a fully funded emergency fund, you should have 3–6 months of expenses saved for any and all possible emergencies. Sometimes we call this preparing for a visit from Murphy—you know, like Murphy's Law: anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
If your air conditioner burns out and you have to replace it, it won't feel like an emergency—only an inconvenience. Why? Because you're prepared with your emergency fund. You have no way of knowing these things are coming or when they'll happen, but you do know that life happens, so you have the money set aside and ready.
With a Christmas sinking fund, you know exactly what the money's for and you know (about) when you'll use it. Sometime before December 25, right?
The sinking fund is for the known; the emergency fund is for the unknown.
Yay! You've got a sinking fund! Now you can get started entering the balance of how much you've already saved, the amount you plan to save each month, and your long-term goal!
To recap: Once you've figured out the total you want to spend on Christmas, divide it by the number of months or weeks left until Christmas gets here. For example, if your goal is $1,000 and there are only three months left until Christmas, then you know you better get to saving $330 a month or about $85 a week.
EveryDollar keeps track of how much you're saving and how much more you need to save to meet your goal in time. In December, your Christmas savings will be fully funded, and you can savor the season instead of feeling like a Grinch, heart two sizes too small because you're feeling pinched for extra money.
Okay, one last thing about your Christmas sinking fund—we wouldn't recommend you keep all that money under your mattress. Since you're saving for the most wonderful time of the year and could have hundreds or even thousands of dollars lying around, a simple savings account at the bank is probably a better idea. You can get to it easily, and you won't have a pile of cash lying around if The Wet Bandits (Home Alone, anyone?) break into the house.
All this sounds easy, doesn't it? That's because it is. But it does take patience. We live in a culture where we buy now. We bring an item home today. It's not enough to wait for standard shipping, so we opt for express and pay extra.
If you have patience and a plan, then a lot of the cost and worry associated with the season won't be there. You won't find yourself tempted to glue together a credit card from the shards of the shred pile. You sliced that sucker up for good because you know there's a better way! Saving up ahead of time prevents stress, so start that Christmas sinking fund and make worry a thing of Christmas past!
Download EveryDollar today and get started making your Christmas sinking fund as you save up for the holliest and jolliest of days! Did you know you can even get transactions from your bank account linked directly to EveryDollar? Sign up today for EveryDollar Plus and make tracking your Christmas budget even easier.


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Shenatal-e Olya (, also Romanized as Shenātāl-e 'Olyā; also known as Shenātāl) is a village in Chahriq Rural District, Kuhsar District, Salmas County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 359, in 67 families.

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I hold a MSc in Urban and Regional Planning (2006) from the Vienna University of Technology, and worked in extenstion to that at the Centre of Regional Science on the benchmarking of Smart Cities. Since December 2007 I work at the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (former 'Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning'). From 2008 to 2012 I worked on my PhD project called "Urbanisation, urban growth and planning", dealing with urbanisation of rural areas, its spatial characteristics and impacts like e.g. urban sprawl and the use of urban growth management strategies. The project was supervised by Gertrud Jørgensen, Thomas Sick Nielsen and Stephan Pauleit.
Land use scenarios for Greater Copenhagen (Centre for Strategic Urban Research, 2011).
I teach in the Landscape Architecture and Geography programmes. From 2008 to 2014 I was co-responsible for the bachelor course "Bypolitik" (Urban policies). Since 2016 I am co-responsible for the "Byplan Studio" (Urban Planning Studio). I also supervise bachelor and master students. Here you can find a list of potential topics for master theses within our research group.
Feel free to contact me. I speak German, English and Danish. You can also find me on LinkedIn and ResearchGate or pass by my blog on landblend.wordpress.com.
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Are poinsettias, mistletoe, or holly plants dangerous?
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Last winter, my wife shooed the dog and visiting toddlers away from our poinsettia plants, saying "they're poisonous, you know."
I did not know. But it turns out that the belief that poinsettias are deadly is widespread. The same could be said for mistletoe and holly. But are their reputations for danger well-deserved? Since these plants are especially popular to brighten up homes or give as gifts during the holidays, I decided to look into it.
The risks of poinsettia
Could a plant so common and so well-liked in the winter holidays also be so dangerous? If it is dangerous, what problems does it cause? Must it be eaten to cause problems, or is it harmful to just be nearby? And if it's not dangerous, why does the myth live on?
The answers to these questions are not easy to find. In fact, the bad reputation may have started in 1919, when an army officer's child reportedly died after eating part of a poinsettia plant. It is unclear if the plant was responsible, though: many other reports describe mild symptoms, such as nausea or vomiting, but no deaths.
Decades ago, a study in the American Journal of Emergency Medicineanalyzed nearly 23,000 cases of people eating poinsettia and found
no fatalities
nearly all cases (96%) required no treatment outside the home
most cases (92%) developed no symptoms at all.
According to one estimate, a 50-pound child would have to eat more than 500 poinsettia leaves to approach a dose that could cause trouble. Similarly, pets may develop gastrointestinal symptoms after eating poinsettia, but these plants pose no major threat to animals.
The risks of mistletoe
The story is much the same for mistletoe. It's not particularly dangerous, but may cause an upset stomach if eaten. In fact, mistletoe has been used for centuries as a remedy for arthritis, high blood pressure, infertility, and headache. The evidence isn't high-quality for any of these uses, though.
Interest also centers on this plant's potential as an anticancer treatment. Some extracts of mistletoe contain chemicals shown to kill cancer cells in the laboratory and to stimulate human immune cells. For example, a substance called alkaloids has similar properties as certain chemotherapy drugs used in the past to fight leukemia and other forms of cancer. However, a two-part 2019 review found that adding mistletoe extracts to conventional cancer treatments did not improve survival or quality of life.
No one suggests it's a good idea to eat this plant, accidentally or otherwise. But eating one to three berries or one or two leaves is unlikely to cause serious illness, according to the authors of a 1986 review of multiple studies. And no significant symptoms or deaths were described in one report of more than 300 cases of eating mistletoe. However, some sources warn that serious problems or even death may occur if enough is ingested. The specific dose required to cause death is unknown but, fortunately, it appears to be so high that consuming enough to be lethal is extremely rare.
The risks of holly
This plant can be dangerous to people and pets. The berries of holly plants are poisonous. If eaten, they may cause crampy abdominal pain, drowsiness, vomiting, and diarrhea. While no one would recommend eating holly, it is unlikely to cause death. And for at least one type of holly, knowing the Latin name would be enough to discourage ingestion: the yaupon holly is also called Ilex vomitoria.
No one should eat poinsettias, mistletoe, and holly, but if small amounts are consumed, they are unlikely to cause serious illness. It seems to me that the dangers of these plants appear to be vastly overestimated.
Perhaps the most dangerous thing about mistletoe and poinsettias is the choking hazard the berries pose for young kids, although that risk is not unique to plants: any small object poses similar risks. Try to keep holiday plants out of the reach of small children and pets. And keep in mind that berries may fall from these plants and wind up on the floor.
If a child or pet eats leaves or berries from these holiday plants, or any other plants, check in with poison control, your pediatrician, or your veterinarian. But unless a particularly large "dose" is consumed, don't be surprised if the recommendation is to simply watch and wait.
Still concerned even if you know the risks are low? You can always regift holiday plants you receive to friends with no children or pets, or find other ways to decorate your home for the holidays.
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Grant Palmer '86, an economics major at Bucknell, was recently named managing partner and CEO of the law firm Blank Rome LLP, which has 13 offices and more than 600 attorneys and principals who provide comprehensive legal and advocacy services to clients operating in the United States and around the world. Based in Philadelphia, Palmer is nationally recognized for his pro bono activities — using his knowledge and time to help others in need and ensuring that everyone has equal access to legal representation.
1. How did Bucknell shape your career?
Bucknell challenged me academically and taught me that success requires hard work.
2. What class opened your eyes the most?
Economics with Professor Stephen Stamos opened my eyes and my mind to the excitement of learning new things. In addition, electives like acting, music and dance expanded my view of the world by exposing me to new concepts and experiences.
3. If you could go back to college, what would you do differently?
Slow down and truly soak up every moment and experience. College and life go way too fast.
4. What fun moment at Bucknell is the most memorable for you?
Hours spent around the piano singing badly and listening to Chuck Johnson '86, a member of the Bucknell Jazz and Rock Ensemble, entertaining us all.
5. What lesson did you learn at Bucknell that you still carry with you?
Anything can be accomplished with confidence and a positive attitude.


UPS just dropped off a package at the shop. It is a print by David Ruimveld. So what does this have to do with conservation. Well allow me to explain. I am speaking and doing a fundraising auction for Woodcock Limited this weekend in PA. This is their annual meeting and fundraising event. I mentioned this in passing to David and he generously sent me a piece of art to donate on his behalf to support their cause. David and Ginny support many conservation causes with their artwork donations. So where am I headed with this ramble. Spring is banquet season for many conservation groups. There are many Trout Unlimited banquets across Michigan this spring, as other conservation groups. I urge you to support as best you can, be a volunteer, attend an event, buy raffle tickets, bid on an auction item, how you support doesn't matter. It is the fact that you do, is what is important. All of these organizations have strong missions and seem to be doing more with less. Conservation is now more important than ever, whether a trout stream, the Great Lakes or our public lands.


PHILADELPHIA (September 4, 2014) - Scientists have discovered and described a new supermassive dinosaur species with the most complete skeleton ever found of its type. At 85 feet (26 m) long and weighing about 65 tons (59,300 kg) in life, Dreadnoughtus schrani is the largest land animal for which a body mass can be accurately calculated. Its skeleton is exceptionally complete, with over 70 percent of the bones, excluding the head, represented. Because all previously discovered supermassive dinosaurs are known only from relatively fragmentary remains, Dreadnoughtus offers an unprecedented window into the anatomy and biomechanics of the largest animals to ever walk the Earth.
"Dreadnoughtus schrani was astoundingly huge," said Kenneth Lacovara, PhD, an associate professor in Drexel University's College of Arts and Sciences, who discovered the Dreadnoughtus fossil skeleton in southern Patagonia in Argentina and led the excavation and analysis. "It weighed as much as a dozen African elephants or more than seven T. rex. Shockingly, skeletal evidence shows that when this 65-ton specimen died, it was not yet full grown. It is by far the best example we have of any of the most giant creatures to ever walk the planet."
Lacovara and colleagues published the detailed description of their discovery, defining the genus and species Dreadnoughtus schrani, in the journal Scientific Reports from the Nature Publishing Group today. The new dinosaur belongs to a group of large plant eaters known as titanosaurs. The fossil was unearthed over four field seasons from 2005 through 2009 by Lacovara and a team including Lucio M. Ibiricu, PhD, of the Centro Nacional Patagonico in Chubut, Argentina, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's Matthew Lamanna, PhD, and Jason Poole of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, as well as many current and former Drexel students and other collaborators.
Over 100 elements of the Dreadnoughtus skeleton are represented from the type specimen, including most of the vertebrae from the 30-foot-long tail, a neck vertebra with a diameter of over a yard, scapula, numerous ribs, toes, a claw, a small section of jaw and a single tooth, and, most notably for calculating the animal's mass, nearly all the bones from both forelimbs and hindlimbs including a femur over 6 feet tall and a humerus. A smaller individual with a less-complete skeleton was also unearthed at the site.
The 'gold standard' for calculating the mass of quadrupeds (four-legged animals) is based on measurements taken from the femur (thigh bone) and humerus (upper arm bone). Because the Dreadnoughtus type specimen includes both these bones, its weight can be estimated with confidence. Prior to the description of the 65-ton Dreadnoughtus schrani specimen, another Patagonian giant, Elaltitan, held the title of dinosaur with the greatest calculable weight at 47 tons, based on a recent study.
Overall, the Dreadnoughtus schrani type specimen's bones represent approximately 45.3 percent of the dinosaur's total skeleton, or up to 70.4 percent of the types of bones in its body, excluding the skull bones. This is far more complete than all previously discovered giant titanosaurian dinosaurs.
"Titanosaurs are a remarkable group of dinosaurs, with species ranging from the weight of a cow to the weight of a sperm whale or more. But the biggest titanosaurs have remained a mystery, because, in almost all cases, their fossils are very incomplete," said Matthew Lamanna.
To better visualize the skeletal structure of Dreadnoughtus, Lacovara's team digitally scanned all of the bones from both dinosaur specimens. They have made a "virtual mount" of the skeleton that is now publicly available for download from the paper's open-access online supplement as a three-dimensional digital reconstruction.
"This has the advantage that it doesn't take physical space," Lacovara said. "These images can be ported around the world to other scientists and museums. The fidelity is perfect. It doesn't decay over time like bones do in a collection."
"Digital modeling is the wave of the future. It's only going to become more common in paleontology, especially for studies of giant dinosaurs such as Dreadnoughtus, where a single bone can weigh hundreds of pounds," said Lamanna.
The 3D laser scans of Dreadnoughtus show the deep, exquisitely preserved muscle attachment scars that can provide a wealth of information about the function and force of muscles that the animal had and where they attached to the skeleton - information that is lacking in many sauropods. Efforts to understand this dinosaur's body structure, growth rate, and biomechanics are ongoing areas of research within Lacovara's lab.
"With a body the size of a house, the weight of a herd of elephants, and a weaponized tail, Dreadnoughtus would have feared nothing," Lacovara said. "That evokes to me a class of turn-of-the-last century battleships called the dreadnoughts, which were huge, thickly clad and virtually impervious."
As a result, Lacovara chose the name "Dreadnoughtus," meaning "fears nothing." "I think it's time the herbivores get their due for being the toughest creatures in an environment," he said. The species name, "schrani," was chosen in honor of American entrepreneur Adam Schran, who provided support for the research.
To grow as large as Dreadnoughtus, a dinosaur would have to eat massive quantities of plants. "Imagine a life-long obsession with eating," Lacovara said, describing the potential lifestyle of Dreadnoughtus, which lived approximately 77 million years ago in a temperate forest at the southern tip of South America.
"Every day is about taking in enough calories to nourish this house-sized body. I imagine their day consists largely of standing in one place," Lacovara said. "You have this 37-foot-long neck balanced by a 30-foot-long tail in the back. Without moving your legs, you have access to a giant feeding envelope of trees and fern leaves. You spend an hour or so clearing out this patch that has thousands of calories in it, and then you take three steps over to the right and spend the next hour clearing out that patch."
An adult Dreadnoughtus was likely too large to fear any predators, but it would have still been a target for scavengers after dying of natural causes or environmental disasters. Lacovara's team discovered a few teeth from theropods - smaller predatory and scavenging dinosaurs- among the Dreadnoughtus fossils. However, the completeness and articulated nature of the two skeletons are evidence that these individuals were buried in sediments rapidly before their bodies fully decomposed. Based on the sedimentary deposits at the site, Lacovara said "these two animals were buried quickly after a river flooded and broke through its natural levee, turning the ground into something like quicksand. The rapid and deep burial of the Dreadnoughtus type specimen accounts for its extraordinary completeness. Its misfortune was our luck."
Primary collaborators on the study with Lacovara were Matthew C. Lamanna, PhD of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and Lucio M. Ibiricu, PhD of the Centro Nacional Patagonico in Chubut, Argentina, who began working with Lacovara as an undergraduate volunteer during the Dreadnoughtus excavation and went on to earn his doctoral degree at Drexel University. Lamanna was first author on a recent paper describing the dinosaur Anzu wyliei, popularly known as the "chicken from Hell."
Additional co-authors are: Jason C. Poole, Dinosaur Hall Coordinator at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University; Elena R. Schroeter, PhD, who recently earned her doctoral degree for her work on Dreadnoughtus in Lacovara's lab at Drexel; Paul V. Ullmann, Kristyn K. Voegele and Zachary M. Boles, doctoral candidates in Lacovara's lab at Drexel; Aja M. Carter, a 2014 Drexel environmental science alumna who contributed to Dreadnoughtus preparation as an undergraduate; Emma K. Fowler, an undergraduate Drexel student; Victoria M. Egerton, PhD of the University of Manchester, who earned her doctoral degree in Lacovara's lab; Alison E. Moyer, a 2008 Drexel alumna who was part of the Dreadnoughtus excavation in Argentina as an undergraduate and is now a doctoral candidate in paleontology at North Carolina State University; Christopher L. Coughenour, PhD, who earned his doctoral degree in Lacovara's lab at Drexel and is now at the University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, PA. campus; Jason P. Schein of the New Jersey State Museum; Jerald D. Harris, PhD, of Dixie State College in St. George, Utah; Ruben D. Martínez, PhD of the Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco in Chubut, Argentina; and Fernando E. Novas, PhD, of the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales in Buenos Aires.
Lacovara, Lamanna and Poole were previously among the co-authors describing Paralititan stromeri, a large titanosaur which they excavated from the Egyptian Sahara.
Under Argentinian law, the Dreadnoughtus fossils are the property of the federal government in Argentina and are to be retained permanently in the province where they were discovered, Santa Cruz. The fossils were transported to Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in 2009 for scientific preparation and analysis under a research loan agreement. Fossil preparation and analysis occurred at Drexel University, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. All Dreadnoughtus fossils are currently at Drexel University and will be returned to their permanent repository at the Museo Padre Molina in Rio Gallegos, Argentina, in 2015.
Funding sources for the study of Dreadnoughtus include the National Science Foundation (EAR Award 0603805 and three Graduate Research Fellowships [DGE Award 1002809]), the Jurassic Foundation, R. Seidel, Drexel University, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and supporting donor Adam Schran.


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Constraint costs could rise to £2.5bn by mid-2020s
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Is the scientific method viable in a world with a god that can and does bend reality by will?
Consider our world at 18-19 centuries. Our civilization knows how to print books, build steam machines, we have made first experiments on electricity. And one day the Mad God Sheogorath is emerged. He can bend the reality by his will.
For example, he can violate the principles of conservation of energy - build Perpetuum Mobile just to irritate scientists.
He can convert Darwin back into the monkey just to help him prove his theory.
He can make forgery of dinosaur skeletons, so we have found caterpillar riding tankosaurus instead of diplodocus.
He can resurrect people. And, do a lot of things we are not aware.
So, in potential he can spoil every scientific acquired experiments result in a way, that is hard to see.
So, the question is: is scientific method still possible in this world?
UPD: after 20 years Sheogorath have just vanished. Can we undo his trickery and restore science methods?
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$\begingroup$ its very likely that he will end up dinning with some of the greatest dead squid-minds of earth history for the next centuries (if not someone shows up and tell him that his servants wait for him)... At least, you would get a Wabberjack this way. Do I have to be afraid that I will get an oblivion-gate in my garden at one day, or is he the only one who shows up? $\endgroup$ – Confused Merlin Jan 21 '16 at 7:03
$\begingroup$ Um, if he "can and does" bend reality, how do you into he hasn't been doing this since the beginning? Maybe he made all dinosaur skeletons and put them in the ground. Maybe he made your steam technology viable. Maybe... The point is if you know that at least one God is real, and can change reality, then you must face the fact that most, if not all things are attributed to him. Maybe he's just doing those things to show you that he did it all in the first place. $\endgroup$ – Xandar The Zenon Jan 21 '16 at 14:24
$\begingroup$ I can just see the statistics textbooks being updated now: "In addition to the assumption of homogeneity of variance, this test also assumes no interaction on the part of Daedric Princes, or any other dark lord." $\endgroup$ – BrianH Jan 21 '16 at 15:39
$\begingroup$ @emory I would think it would just be a more extreme version of it, and not easily controlled. If such a god's interference was not particularly common in the affairs of scientists, then you can just assume it isn't present - and if found to be present then the usual statistical methods would be found to be inappropriate. If the god's interference could be classified in some way, such as whether or not the effect was normally distributed, then it could be partitioned into a new form of variance and form a new part of the error term. New tests could potentially be designed to account for it. $\endgroup$ – BrianH Jan 21 '16 at 15:53
$\begingroup$ @emory I know only because the OP said Sheogorath just appeared, not that he'd been messing with us all along. I personally think a "Mad god is why stuff in the world is weird and messed up" hypothesis is perfectly believable, and only discarded in practice because it's unnecessary (Occam's razor). If it turned out to be true, I don't think I'd be all that surprised. And on the upside, we could leave our statistical methods alone and get some more interesting results sections. "We must fail to reject the null, as we cannot conclude that god wasn't just screwing with us." $\endgroup$ – BrianH Jan 21 '16 at 16:03
I think you're vastly underestimating just how different a truly non-deterministic universe would be.
Case A
If the god's influence is sporadic enough that you can still discern a "default" set of laws that nature follows most of the time, then scientists would simply study those laws.
Case B
If the god's influence is so omnipresent that you can't discern any underlying patterns at all, then frankly good luck with your story. I don't think the human mind is really capable of imagining a completely non-deterministic universe. Everything we take for granted would be gone - things like "objects fall when dropped" and "solid objects can't pass through each other". It's not just that things would have to occasionally behave differently to how we expect them to behave, it's that there could be no trends whatsoever. The very notion of causality would be effectively meaningless. And how could life even arise in such a world? In order to justify the existence of humanoid life, you need to assume that on most days, the skeleton can support the muscles, things move when tendons pull them, blood moves when the heart contracts, and so on. But if you assume all that, you're basically already in Case A.
You mention, for instance, that he can resurrect people. But the very fact that this is worthy of mention implies that you're assuming dead people still stay dead most of the time. So you're already implicitly in Case A. In order to truly be in Case B, you'd need to be assuming that basically, the concept of death doesn't exist, because "life forms tend to die after a while" is already enough of a pattern to place our universe squarely in Case A.
In conclusion: either you assume this god's influence is small enough that yes, the scientific method would still apply, or you set yourself the task of writing a story taking place in a universe so incomprehensibly different to our own that I'm not sure any human reader will be able to follow the thread of the plot. You'd essentially be writing a work of highly experimental surrealist sci-fi.
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$\begingroup$ Jack, there's a bit more background in the link in the question regarding the nature of the god in question - he's essentially an insane nutcase who (in this case) randomly appears during the 18th/19th centuries - so effectively, straight into late/post-napoleonic era Europe and a budding United States. He is by nature fickle, so no "rule" he changes will stay the same for long, he'll change one thing, then change it to something else, or make two different people observe different results for the same experiment. There would be trends up until the point he appeared, and then none whatsoever. $\endgroup$ – Ieuan Stanley Jan 21 '16 at 11:10
$\begingroup$ @IStanley You say there would be no trends whatsoever after he appears, but what I'm saying is that you don't really mean that. Whatever you're imagining the universe would be like after he appears, there are trends - because otherwise you wouldn't be able to imagine it (more or less). My point is that the OP is underestimating just how monumentally different a truly "trendless" universe would be. $\endgroup$ – Jack M Jan 21 '16 at 11:50
$\begingroup$ If you're imagining people walking around, if you're imagining buildings, in short, if you're imagining a universe where it's possible for anyone to exist long enough to do experiments, then you're already imagining a primarily deterministic universe. $\endgroup$ – Jack M Jan 21 '16 at 11:53
$\begingroup$ Oh Sure, but that's that the OP is asking - life effectively goes on, just with an effective omnipotent being randomly poking a stick between the spokes of your scientific wheels whenever he feels like it. No trend could be trusted, as one couldn't guarantee that it wasn't the god playing around with you. You're right, I guess it would be better to say that there would be no statistically significant trends that could be trusted enough to confirm a scientific truth. $\endgroup$ – Ieuan Stanley Jan 21 '16 at 12:05
$\begingroup$ The point I'm making is that there is a large middle ground that you have denied in your answer: the God leaves critical things alone - enough stability to support life - but messes with physics and experimental results enough and in random enough a pattern that I have no idea whether, if I repeat my experiment, I will even get a result I've seen before, let alone a consistent set of outcomes. Even if I get a set of consistent results (I drop an coin, it always lands heads because of the god), I don't know whether this is going to continue the next time I do it. $\endgroup$ – Ieuan Stanley Jan 21 '16 at 12:09
Caveat: I've made some assumptions in order to make this work as a potential world. Like many have pointed out, a truly mad god acting without care would probably manage to kill off the human race pretty quickly if they acted often enough to have a tangible effect on the world (by triggering a catastrophic imbalance in the environment). The only way to make this really work as an interesting world would be if Sheogorath was particularly careful in what he did, and only set out to mess with the experiments of scientists and their inventions, and changing the laws of physics/reality over very focused areas, rather than screwing with reality at random.
Scientific method relies on consistent results, and to a large extent on statistical modelling and probabilities; if I perform 1,000,000 tests of a hypothesis and all come out true, I can say with pretty reasonably probability that it is correct.
If Sheogorath's influence is obvious, or at least discernable without too much effort (As in, I can tell when something was caused by him rather than being natural), then it would make scientific advancement (or indeed pretty much anything relying on facts) cripplingly slow - I would have to double and triple check every experiment to ensure that no "spoiled" data made it into the calculations, and I'd have to ensure that the calculations themselves weren't spoiled, and every time I read a book I'd have to ensure that the words/results hadn't been changed since they were written down. In other words, everything would take forever. In this case, scientific method would be possible, but very, very slow.
If his influence is impossible to distinguish from "reality", then all scientific research would be virtually impossible — whenever I get a result, I have no idea whether it's real or Sheogorath is screwing with me. All you could do is note hypotheses and keep as much data as possible, hoping that some day it might be useful. In this case, Scientific Method would be impossible.
The damage on society is hard to predict. There's a chance that society would fall apart completely depending on whether people are aware that it is the Mad God's doing, or whether they think reality is ending. Then there's the Monotheistic religious crisis, the fact that noone can trust anything they see... theoretically all of civilisation could fall apart if critical things are warped. If he's just messing with science however, and we ignore the other effects on society he would have, then yes, science would recover, probably.
20 years isn't that long a time - people would still be alive that remembered how the methods worked. It's long enough to give up, but not long enough to have forgotten. So long as it is obvious that he is gone, Scientific Method would pick up again. Of course, you'd have to contend with the thought of whether he'd be back. Some people would probably give up saying that there isn't a point, maybe all of them, but I would think that it's likely that at least SOME people would take the risk.
EDIT: The point of Scientific Study would depend largely on the level of change being effected by Sheogorath:
If major changes were made to reality constantly, society would effectively collapse for those 20 years, if it survived at all. Daily life would be hard enough to predict, let alone finding the time to perform and log scientific experiments.
If minor/minimal changes were made, reality would be deterministic enough that scientific development could probably still be deemed worthwhile. If enough people repeat the experiment, the chances are that eventually there will be enough data to make a probable correct statement. It might be wrong, but it's worth a try... provided Sheogorath doesn't then on a whim decide to make it the opposite just because you've made the discovery.
In an increasing range between the two extremes, Scientific discoveries would be increasingly more unlikely, because everything would be increasingly untrustworthy.
Ieuan StanleyIeuan Stanley
$\begingroup$ Pointless? Not really. It would just mean you'd have lower confidence. The internal combustion engine depends on thermodynamics, and yet thermodynamics is inherently statistical in nature. If you have a truly mad/random god (i.e. he is destroying your stuff because he feels like it, not because he doesn't like your technology or something), it doesn't really change much - you'll just have to live with things blowing up in your face once in a while even when you did nothing wrong. Maybe you'll focus more on redundancy (if it helps with your particular mad god), but that's about it. $\endgroup$ – Luaan Jan 21 '16 at 12:26
$\begingroup$ Think about it like this: when Shaggy says your plow explodes, it explodes. When Shaggy says your tractor explodes, it explodes. Does that mean that tractors are "pointless"? Of course not - they still allow you to do more work in the time they are not exploding. And Shaggy could say you explode one day anyway. In a way, it's like government regulators - they could say your business is illegal one day. How do you fight that? Well, you just accept it as part of the cost of having your own business. $\endgroup$ – Luaan Jan 21 '16 at 12:28
$\begingroup$ Hmm, ok, I get your point. There's no point in arguing "Who would drive a car if it could blow up in your face at any time?" because it's effectively the same as "Who would go outside if they could fall into the sky?" Society would fall apart if it was bad enough that you couldn't make developments. $\endgroup$ – Ieuan Stanley Jan 21 '16 at 12:30
$\begingroup$ "I have no idea whether it's real or Sheogorath is screwing with me" - that sounds exactly like research on human participants now :) $\endgroup$ – BrianH Jan 21 '16 at 15:54
To quote some mouseover text from a certain webcomic: 'We don't use science to prove we're right. We use science to become right'. The scientific method is just as valid in your crazy mixed up world as it is now, and will remain so unless the world becomes so crazy that no logical sense can be made of it at all. This is because science isn't something that we use to show a particular result, it's the way we can explore the world around us.
If, suddenly, the rules don't seem to apply because a mad god is messing with us, then the scientific method can still be used to tell us whether or not there is something messing with us. Then it can be used to explore the limits of this entity, and even it's psychology. This then forms a new paradigm of the world, and new theories start to form around that, bolstered by the scientific explorations mankind is making into the nature of our environment with the mad god in it.
The only way in which this doesn't work is if the mad god is randomly changing everything, all the time, to the point where everything that humanity could possibly know breaks down. At that point it's a somewhat moot point, because the universe will have become a tumultuous maelstrom summoned from the fever dreams of a crazed god.
As an example: The mad god has decided to break all experiments that require electrical measurements. Scientists notice that while all their lab equipment is broken, the lights are still on. A simple experiment therefore becomes: when I turn the light switch: do the lights turn on and off? My hypothesis is that the light switch controls the flow of electricity to the light. Now the mad god has a choice. Either the lights continue to work as normal (hooray, the scientific method worked!) or he chooses to change how lightswitches work. If he goes for completely random on-off for lights and light switches, either the world now works in a different way, namely, nobody can control the lights, or it's just our scientists that are affected. Either way we then know more about the world around us, either something powerful is messing about with rigorous scientific experiments, or that lights now turn on and off at random, and nothing can stop it.
TL:DR: The scientific method is used to figure out how the world works. If the way the world works is that we're captive to the whim of a god who doesn't like science, that's what we'll find out using it. From that point on it's one for the theopsychologists.
Joe BloggsJoe Bloggs
It very much depends on your god's sense of humour.
If he's decided for example that da red wunz go fasta and anything blue can fly then you've pretty much had it. All the rules that you come up with are going to be wrong.
If his logic has an internal consistency and lasting effect even after he's gone, messing with the fossil records etc, then the damage is done and you can never get a right and proper answer. If there's no consistency and he's just randomly poking experiments and giggling then it's all about spotting and excluding the results that don't fit.
If on the other hand, the red ones continue to go faster even after he's gone and you can ignore aerodynamic lift and just paint it blue instead, perhaps the scientific method remains valid. You just won't get the answers that maybe you did before he came along.
SeparatrixSeparatrix
Is the scientific method still possible in this world?
More or less.
The scientific method depends heavily on being able to prove things are either true or false (at least it used to) with as many few "maybe" in between as possible. Those "maybe" being mostly regarded as proof of falsehood.
Simply put, it depends on what has the Mad God touched.
If all it does is punctually changing one thing, then scientific method can still be applied to everything else, with the warning that this all powerful being can have messed with it for fun and giggles.
So the scientific method would take exceptions into account and distrusts single fact as proof - one way of another - even more than today.
The problem would come if the mad god changed some fundamental things so that they permanently gave random results. If she made it so that light passing through a prism changed color randomly, all science related to this particular field would be devastated.
After 20 years Sheogorath have just vanished. Can we undo his trickery and restore scientific methods?
It depend directly on the permanence of the effects : killing zombies, deciding that once occurring tankosaurus are proof of nothing is easy.
Restoring laws of physics bent by the will of a god is another matter.
A short conclusion :
All in all it could be regarded as pranks from a couple ten year old mischievous, all powerful kids.
Fear and annoyment would be the main feelings toward the results.
Oh, and hate of those responsible. If it's linked to a scientific group, then the whole scientific community could be seen as responsible, thus creating a huge problem.
MakorDalMakorDal
I don't think this would devastate or invalidate the scientific method. It may well keep it from becoming popular.
We live in a semi non-deterministic world now. But there is a clear distinction between the deterministic parts and non-deterministic parts. We expect a rock to be a rock. But we expect people to be moody.
In a world like you describe, physics may have less to do with Newton's laws and more to do with Sigmund Freud's. If you want a rock to be a rock you may first have to spend some time listening to it talk about the day it's had.
So science wouldn't be dead. But it would sure be different.
If this god keeps screwing around eventually he'll get caught and a theory about him will be born. You're describing a case where he's leaving indirect evidence behind. Sometimes that's enough. We make have discovered a new 9th planet just by looking at how the orbits of other objects have been arranged.
candied_orangecandied_orange
This is actually a very common misconception about the scientific method that we seem to teach in schools. The scientific method is not just about identifying the "right" laws governing the universe. It is also about building useful models of the universe. In fact, if you are willing to sit down with any real scientist, and use the right philosophical buzz words, you can even get them to admit that they can never provably achieve the former. So let's start to play with some of those philosophical terms!
Philosophers call the study of reality "ontology." The word "reality" gets treated many different ways, but intuitively, ontology is looking for what is actually real, not just what appears to be real. Epistemology, on the other hand, is the study of knowledge. Empiricism, a word you may have heard with reference to science, is a branch of epistemology. It studies what we can know through observation of the world around us.
The line between these can be seen several ways, but I find the most impressive of them to be the brain-in-a-vat thought experiment. Consider the possibility that you are actually just a brain, sitting in a vat somewhere, being fed neural stimulus like you were part of the Matrix. Ontology would be very interested in the "real world" where you are a brain in a vat, and would call the neural stimulus you are receiving a "simulation." However, just as we saw in the The Matrix, it is remarkably hard to make definitive statements about this reality while you're still jacked into the matrix, and have never observed the outside world. This is the epistomological side: how can one know the state of reality? An empirical approach would focus entirely on what can be observed, the stimulus. A 100% empirical scientist would actually not really care whether they are a brain in a vat or not until they identify an observation to defend it (although, in reality, no human is ever 100% anything!)
How do we get confused? There are three major categories of thought in logical philosophy. You're almost certainly familiar with deduction and induction. Deduction is going from the general to the specific (all swans are white, so this swan must be white too). Induction is going from the specific to the general (these swans are white, so perhaps all swans are white). There is a third you hear very little about: abduction. Abduction is the ability to infer the best explanation is true. In many discourses, such as science, you end up with many explanations. Maybe your empirical results line up with your theory because your theory is ontologically right, or maybe someone is cleverly massaging the world behind the scenes to fool you. At some point, you may decide the best explanation is that you've found something useful, so you infer your theory to be correct. This mode of logic is a fascinating little puzzle because the term "best explanation" leaves so much room for alternatives (read the SEP link above if you're interested). However, any claim of an empirical method, such as science, yielding an ontological truth must go through this abductive step.
So where does that leave us for the scientific method in the presence of your Mad God Shegorath? Well, from an abductive perspective, the alternative explanations of "Shegorath is just fooling us" starts to become a better explaination, so it becomes harder to use abduction to claim you have arrived at the only worthwhile best possible explanation. You would see additional questioning of scientific results.
Enter the Engineer.
Engineering and science are tied together intimately, like husband and wife, or perhaps even like conjoined twins. While science provides epistemological ways to "know" things, engineering uses that knowledge to build up the world around us. Of course, science never feeds us perfect knowledge. Only recently did we find out that all of our equations of motions we've been using for a long time get gummed up by relativity. Only recently did we find out that much of the world is non-deterministic thanks to quantum mechanics. Yet what we created from that era is still useful. How?
Engineers have a phrase, which I commit to my heart: "All models are wrong, some are useful." We can assume that every model we come up with can be ontologically wrong, because the track record of scientific "knowledge" being revised as new data comes along is 100%. That's not a shortcoming of science, that's actually its strong point: it always tries to incorporate the new observations, no matter how undesirable they might be. However, it turns out that for almost everything you or I could want to do, it doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be close enough to be worth doing.
Take teflon, PTFE. Science can develop the molecular structure of PTFE, and say "this is how PTFE works." However, never once will we create a magical perfect PTFE molecule. Every process to make it is slightly flawed. The engineering side is worried about how to use what the science knew about PTFE to coat a non-stick pot. If the science is a little wrong, that's okay. We'll do a test run first, to make sure the pots are useful, before selling them! The science is just treated as a guideline -- what really matters is whether the process works or not, not whether it matches exactly the predictions of science. If the science turns out to not be useful for engineering, it will just sit on the shelf until it becomes useful, or dispelled.
This is, for example, how we managed to make electronics work for hundreds of years, despite getting the flow of current backwards the entire time. Ben Franklin had to make a guess as to which way the charge was flowing. He guessed wrong, so technically everything we've done with electronics is incorrect. However, his model of electricity was useful enough that there was no need to correct it, until the semiconductor era, where paying attention to what is an electron vs a hole can actually matter.
So the scientific method would still be viable in this world with a Mad God. It would simply gravitate towards applications where behaviors are still relatively predictable, even after the Mad God. Consider the fact that you're looking at a computer screen right now. If the Mad God were to make the laws of physics too unpredictable, photons would not go in straight lines, and you couldn't read.
Of course, it's possible the Mad God decides to only screw with science. He might decide that every science experiment is going to go awry. In this case, he creates all sorts of interesting looping structures as we try to define what a scientific experiment "is." He may actually disappear in a poof of logic, akin to Douglas Adam's god in Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy! Or he might form a strange loop a. la. Douglas Hofstadter, where he controls the universe, and the universe decides what he will do.
If you're going down this path, you're going to have to describe what "viable" means in the question "is the scientific method viable...." If you are presuming an ontological world with such a crazy powerful entity, you are going to have to define your term "viable" in a way which makes sense in their presence. There may also be the question of whether the viability, once defined, can be known by a mere mortal. These questions oft leave philosophers awake at night.
As a final fun tidbit, what's to say he hasn't already acted? The ultimate observation, in philosophy, is one done by a being that can think. The ability to do this is called perception. As silly as it may sound, philosophers do not have a clear sense of what perception is, nor how it behaves. Maybe we are just a brain in the jar. Could we perceive it?
Cort AmmonCort Ammon
As a writer and reader, if I'm dealing with a being with what we might call "godlike powers", they still have to operate within a larger reality. For example in your setup, Sheogorath builds a tiny "Perpetual Motion Machine" but is actually cheating because in some mysterious god power way, it is perfectly converting a few molecules of MysteriousInvisibleSubstance to Energy at the nano-level. Maybe there's even enough MysteriousInvisibleSubstance to last a thousand years and it's really really hard to detect. MysteriousInvisibleSubstance can also alter visible reality so that Darwin is now stuck in what appears to be a monkey body. Sheogorath can also in some odd way travel in time and use his nifty MysteriousInvisibleSubstance powered MatterReasssembler to screw with the fossils just to screw with the human's of the future's heads. Then Sheogorath disappears.
Until the sentients are clever enough to figure out how to detect and then use MysteriousInvisibleSubstance at the molecular level, no "laws of reality" in that fictional world disturbed. That said, for the WorldBuilding exercise to be any fun to read, etc. When the sentients or others of Sheogorath's species figure out what he's been up to and how, Sheogorath is going to be in BIG BIG trouble, right?
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Put the mixture through a mincer.
Mix in the oats, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, salt and pepper.
Add the egg, and up to 150ml of beef stock, to make a firm paste.
Leave to settle in the fridge until needed.
Heat the oven to 180C. Grease a loaf tin, and press the mixture in. Cover with foil.
Put the tin into a roasting dish, and fill with hot water.
Put the dish into the oven and bake for 2 hours.
Turn the roll out into a serving dish. Be careful: there will be some delicious liquor, so do not turn out onto a chopping board or there will be a mess.
Slice and serve with mashed potatoes, fried onions and vegetables.
This is also delicious cold.


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Crescita Therapeutics™ Reports Positive Topline Results of Phase 2 Clinical Trial for the Treatment of Plaque Psoriasis
MISSISSAUGA, ON, Sept. 18, 2017 /CNW/ - Crescita Therapeutics Inc. (TSX: CTX) (Crescita or the Company), a Canadian commercial dermatology company with a portfolio of non-prescription skincare products and prescription drug products today announced that it has received positive topline results from a Phase 2 clinical trial (the Trial) in patients with plaque psoriasis (MiCal 1) conducted by its partner, Ferndale Laboratories, Inc. (Ferndale), in conjunction with a leading U.S. Contract Research Organization (CRO). The Trial demonstrated statistical significance in the achievement of its primary endpoint.
MiCal 1 is the first of two dermatological products being developed in collaboration with our partner. Under the terms of the collaboration, Crescita utilized its proprietary Multiplexed Molecular Penetration Enhancer Technology (MMPE™) to formulate two patented topical dermatology product candidates. It is anticipated that the product candidates will be made available for out-licensing at or before the completion of development. Licensing revenues would be shared between the parties, where Crescita's share would reflect its contribution of the patented formulations.
"We are excited by the positive results of this Phase 2 trial which studied the first developed formulation," said Serge Verreault, Crescita's President. "We believe that MiCal 1 can have a clinically meaningful benefit for the treatment of patients suffering from moderate to severe plaque psoriasis."
The multi-centre, randomized, vehicle-controlled, double-blind, parallel group Phase 2 trial was conducted to determine and compare the efficacy and safety of MiCal 1 in the treatment of moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. The Trial was conducted at multiple U.S. study sites and enrolled 89 patients. The patients were randomly assigned on a double-blind basis to receive active or vehicle (the Control) formulations to treat their psoriasis in the designated treatment area twice daily for up to 28 days.
Primary Endpoint
The primary efficacy endpoint of the Trial was the proportion of patients with Investigator's Global Assessment (IGA's) "treatment success" at the end of study after 28 days of treatment. The IGA score is a static evaluation by the investigator of the overall assessment of the patient's disease status within the designated treatment area. Successful achievement of the primary endpoint was defined as achieving an IGA score of 0 or 1 and a two-point move from their baseline assessment. The successful outcome was achieved in 17/89 (37.8%) of subjects in the active group compared to 3/89 (6.8%) of subjects in the vehicle group. This outcome was statistically significant. In addition, no unanticipated safety signals were noted in this Trial.
The Trial results will be evaluated in more detail to plan next steps in anticipation of an End-of-Phase 2 meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to further discuss the development of the product regarding advancement to Phase 3 as well as requirements for future FDA approval to market the product.
About Multiplexed Molecular Penetration Enhancer Technology
The MMPE technology uses synergistic combinations of pharmaceutical excipients included in the FDA's Inactive Ingredient Database for improved topical delivery of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) into or through the skin. The benefits of this technology include the potential for increased penetration of APIs with the possibility of improved efficacy, lower API concentration and/or reduced dosing. Issued U.S. patents provide intellectual property protection through March 6, 2027.
About Ferndale Laboratories
Ferndale Laboratories Inc., is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Ferndale Pharma Group (the Group). The Group comprises several independent subsidiary business units that are involved in researching, developing and delivering unique, value added skin care products designed to protect, heal, rejuvenate and beautify the skin.
Ferndale's business unit specializes in pharmaceutical development and manufacturing of topically administered prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs, medical devices and cosmetics, including several New Drug Application (NDA) and Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) products. Ferndale's full-service Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) facility performs analytical method and formulation development along with production scale-up for clinical trial supplies through to commercial batch manufacture, filling, packaging and distribution.
About Crescita Therapeutics Inc.
Crescita (TSX:CTX) is a publicly traded, Canadian commercial dermatology company with a portfolio of non-prescription skincare products for the treatment and care of skin conditions and diseases and their symptoms and prescription drug products for the treatment of pain. Crescita owns multiple proprietary drug delivery platforms that support the development of patented formulations that can facilitate the delivery of active drugs into or through the skin. For additional information, please visit www.crescitatherapeutics.com.
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