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This Just In — Latest Cambrian Explosion Excuses
When evolutionists deny design, but admit that nature looks designed, they often wind up attributing the skills of a designer to inanimate matter. This is absurd, but what else is available in their explanatory toolkit?
Here's an example. A headline by Amanda Doyle at NASA's Astrobiology Magazine reads, "Microbes set the stage for the first animals." How is this to be understood? Are animals waiting offstage for their debut? Are microbes arranging the props, clearing pathways, and turning on the lights? Surely she cannot mean that. So how can it be understood without personification? Assuming the prior existence of microbes, perhaps she means that their collective behavior resulted in changes in the balances of gases in the atmosphere, or the pH of seawater, or some other unplanned consequence. Does that help?
Doyle focuses on evidence dating from the Ediacaran Period, just prior to the Cambrian explosion. She weaves her plot around the story of a team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison working in Siberia. Photos show their tools beside unusual limestone rocks containing stromatolites and algal impressions. The photos don't appear to show any Ediacaran creatures themselves. Indeed, those creatures play no role in her play, so they exit stage right: "The remains of these odd creatures, most of which have no evidence of a circulatory or digestive system, largely vanished from the rock record at the start of the Cambrian Period," she admits [emphasis added], essentially agreeing with the scientists whom Stephen Meyer quotes in Chapter 4 of Darwin's Doubt.
According to Doyle's headline, microbes were recruited as the explanatory heroes in her play. Microbes altered the sediments, leaving records of levels of oxygen and sulfur at the time. The UW team found a stratum where "environmental conditions apparently changed," going from euxinic (sulfidic) conditions that favored microbe growth to oxygenic conditions that would have favored animals.
The change from euxinic to non-euxinic conditions at the end of the Ediacaran Period allowed the Ediacaran animals to colonise the now more oxidized and habitable ocean, despite an overall oxygen level in the atmosphere and oceans that was far less than today's.
We need go no further. This is a rehash of the Oxygen Theory we have dealt with over and over (for the latest, see here and here). It makes no sense; oxygen has no power to create animal body plans, nor can it "allow" the animals to create themselves. Mr. Oxygen can cry out, "Bring forth! I allow you to evolve!" all he wants on the stage, but nothing will happen. Can't someone answer the real argument of Darwin's Doubt, that the abrupt increase in functional information in the Cambrian animals requires a cause that is capable of producing it? The only such cause we know from uniform experience is intelligence. Oxygen has no such power.
We learn at the end of the article that "The research was supported by the Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology element of the NASA Astrobiology Program." But Darwin's Doubt came out four years ago, and Debating Darwin's Doubt two years later. Is NASA really unaware of the challenge?
Let's keep looking for an explanation that's new and different. Here's one: in Science Advances, the open-access journal of the AAAS, a team of six from four American universities spices up the story of the Cambrian.
Several positive carbon isotope excursions in Lower Paleozoic rocks, including the prominent Upper Cambrian Steptoean Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion (SPICE), are thought to reflect intermittent perturbations in the hydrosphere-biosphere system. Models explaining these secular changes are abundant, but the synchronicity and regional variation of the isotope signals are not well understood. Examination of cores across a paleodepth gradient in the Upper Cambrian central Missouri intrashelf basin (United States) reveals a time-transgressive, facies-dependent nature of the SPICE. Although the SPICE event may be a global signal, the manner in which it is recorded in rocks should and does vary as a function of facies and carbonate platform geometry. We call for a paradigm shift to better constrain facies, stratigraphic, and biostratigraphic architecture and to apply these observations to the variability in magnitude, stratigraphic extent, and timing of the SPICE signal, as well as other biogeochemical perturbations, to elucidate the complex processes driving the ocean-carbonate system.
Further reading doesn't help. The authors know that "The Early Paleozoic era … encompasses an important time frame in metazoan evolution, including the Cambrian Explosion," but their research only focuses on correlation, not causation. They mention the same "increase in atmospheric oxygen, possibly associated with an oceanic anoxic/euxinic event" that Amanda Doyle focused on.
Conceptual models have been constructed to explain the causes and effects of these sundry secular changes, including ocean anoxia/euxinia driving trilobite turnover, associated enhancement of organic carbon and pyrite burial forcing changes in atmospheric oxygen levels, and oxygenated coastal waters driving the diversification of plankton and perhaps the resulting Ordovician biodiversification.
The changes could well be consequences, not causes, of the Cambrian explosion. And whether the element is oxygen, sulfur, carbon, or anything else, it doesn't matter. They're inert. They're dumb. None of them has creative powers to design new body plans, cell types, and organs, even if they were to "allow" such things to "emerge" onstage.
We'll try one more. In Geology, the Ediacaran animal Cloudina is mentioned in a paper by seven researchers from Scotland, Russia, and Namibia. Do they describe a sufficient cause for the Cambrian animals?
The Ediacaran skeletal tubular putative metazoan Cloudina occurs globally in carbonate settings, which both provided lithified substrates and minimized the cost of skeletonization. Habitat and substrate preferences and the relationship of Cloudina to other metazoans have not been fully documented, so we know little as to its ecological demands or community dynamics. In situ Cloudina from the Nama Group, Namibia (ca. 550–541 Ma), formed mutually attached reefs composed of successive assemblages in shallow, high-energy environments, and also communities attached to either stromatolites in storm-influenced deep inner-ramp settings or thin microbial mats in lower-energy habitats. Each assemblage shows statistically distinct tube diameter cohorts, but in sum, Cloudina shows an exponential frequency distribution of diameter size.
Meyer doesn't mention Cloudina, but it's not much to look at. Visualize a stack of cups forming a tube. The Virtual Fossil Museum says, "The Cloudinids lived during the late Ediacaran, and became extinct at the base of the Cambrian." Categorized with the "small shelly fossils" that preceded the explosion, they can't have contributed to the Cambrian animal body plans, accordingly (see Chapters 13 and 14 in Debating Darwin's Doubt). We read on, hoping.
In reefs, we document a periodicity of size variation, where mean, minimum, and maximum tube diameters vary together and show a systematic increase toward the top of each assemblage. We conclude that most Nama Group Cloudina represent one ecologically generalist taxon with highly variable size, that size was environmentally mediated, and that Cloudina could respond rapidly to periodic environmental changes. While Nama Group skeletal metazoans coexisted with soft-bodied biota, there was no apparent ecological interaction, as they were segregated into lithified carbonate and non-lithified clastic microbial mat communities, respectively. We infer that ecological flexibility allowed Cloudina to form varied communities that colonized diverse carbonate substrates under low levels of interspecific substrate competition. This is in notable contrast to the earliest Cambrian skeletal epibenthos that formed biodiverse reef communities with specialist niche occupancy.
So that's it? Tube diameters increased or decreased according to environmental conditions? If they grew articulated legs, eyes and digestive systems, we might be impressed.
Ho-hum. Evolutionists are not responding to Meyer's challenge. Looks like a forfeit.
Image: Ediacaran creatures, by Ryan Somma [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
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A family member sits beside the coffin of Rakesh Talreja (24) whose body arrived in Mumbai. (Photo: Mrugesh Bandiwadekar)
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"The government should take cognisance of such a serious matter. Why has no one been nabbed till now? We urge the government to make some effort and nab the culprits," he said.
Rakesh's neighbour, Rajan Hatkar, said, "Rakesh had lucky escapes twice: once, when he was injured in a railway accident and the second time when, as a child, he got lost and could not be located for eight hours at a stretch. Sadly, this time, he ended up losing his life."
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I've sent an email query or two today. This is after receiving an email rejection from an agent. As much as this isn't what I wanted, I am glad that the literary agent in question got back to me as quickly as she did. In fact, I'm just glad that she got back to me. I appreciate that agents are busy people and that they might not be able to get back to everyone, but sometimes just the impersonal rejection letters are appreciated. After all, that means they've definitely looked at it and that it hasn't somehow been missed and overlooked. That's perhaps one of the things I worry about most. I also feel bad for those people who are rejected just because they have no idea how to write a proper query letter. I admit that I was one of them and without joining twitter and following agents and writers I would still have absolutely no idea. I also admit that I'm terrible at writing letters. I always spend time worrying how I come across in them. With snail mail, this worrying is prolonged. At least with email, I have the chance to redeem myself quickly with a response and an apology for my cackhanded (this means dreadful and is probably a colloquialism) approach.
On another note, the computer mouse is aptly named. One of my cats, Baby (he's a boy despite his name), enjoys watching the mouse on the screen. It's quite amusing. He likes to follow it with his eyes. He's very much a laptop cat. Sometimes he even sits with his paws on the touch pad and watches the mouse move as he moves his paws. He also likes youtube videos of other cats.
I must also apologise to the readers of this blog. I am aware that I have gotten slightly carried away with the political things going on in the country at the moment. That's mostly because nobody seems to know what the hell is going on. Even the politicians are stumped. Still, I promised a new flash fiction piece and I shall certainly be writing one soon. My intentions were to write one before now, but I have regrettably been quite busy. I started writing Absolute Power and I am getting rather excited about it. Absolute Power is a critical book in regards to the series. Lots of things are due to happen in this book and I am going to relish them all.
Hope everyone enjoyed the flash fiction. It's nice to hear feedback on it, especially as it was a piece I wrote for my friend and I had no real direction except that it was to be about water.
Happy holidays to everyone, by the way.
I'm not Christian, but I will enjoy any chocolate sent my way. I really shouldn't because it's giving me an awful complexion right now. Luckily, no one seems in a hurry to give me any more, though, so maybe my complexion will be saved. Do I care? No. I'd just like to stuff my face and get fat. My cats would take advantage if I was fat, though. They'd use me like a big beanbag to sit on. They sit on my shoulders and back already when I'm stood up.
In general, INFPs focus deeply on their values, and they devote their lives to pursuing the ideal. They often draw people together around a common purpose and work to find a place for each person within the group. They are creative, and they seek new ideas and possibilities. They quietly push for what is important to them, and they rarely give up. While they have a gentleness about them, and a delightful sense of humor, they may be somewhat difficult to get to know and may be overlooked by others. They are at their best making their world more in line with their internal vision of perfection.
You scored 54% in the direction of Introversion, which means you are clearly an Introvert. People who are clearly Introverts are reserved, quiet, and contemplative. They dislike the social pressures of large groups and being the center of attention, but are not necessarily shy. They frequently spend time alone in order to reflect and "recharge".
You scored 11% in the direction of iNtuition, which means you are an iNtuitive. iNtuitives like to discuss ideas and tend to approach new information intuitively, focusing on the "big picture" rather than specific details. They find the future more interesting than the past, because they can shape it. While they recognize the value of down-to-earth practicality and concrete experience, they tend to emphasize the importance of imagination and inspiration.
You scored 16% in the direction of Feeling, which means you are a Feeler. Feelers are caring, supportive, and appreciative. They naturally reach out to other people, preferring to cooperate and agree rather than argue over who is right. They are comfortable with emotions, both their own and those of others.
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Which reminds me that I need to have a conversation with my mother. It's not so much that it reminded me, but I do need to have the conversation with her. It's going to be awkward, but I don't know what else to do. I also desperately need to get a job. There's a lot of stress on my mind at the moment, suffice to say, and I'm not sure how everything is going to work.
In other news, I finished editing Dark Side of the Moon. I've asked a friend to proof read it just in case there are any mistakes that either I or Andrew have missed out. I've been looking up literary agents in my copy of '2010 Writer's Market: UK & Ireland' (which has a web address of http://writersmarket.co.uk if you want to go look it up). The book also has plenty of helpful tips about submitting synopses and queries, so it's well worth buying.
Today, every attempt to write more of Chapter 23 of Secrets has been thwarted by interruptions.
Secondly, I've had lots of people trying to talk to me about various things… which is fine… but I don't need the distractions right now. I want to get Secrets finished instead of getting sidetracked (you could probably argue that this is sidetracking me, but I wanted to mention all the stuff I needed to mention so I could continue on with Secrets). I know people don't mean to distract me, but they always seem to know when I'm on a roll with whatever I'm writing and they just barge in with their hellos. I'm maybe being a little dramatic, but you have to admit that it is frustrating. Other people might say that I should just ignore whoever they are. I would do, but then I feel inordinately mean by not speaking to them. Dreadful, isn't it?
Nevertheless, a friend instant messaged me and he's started doing some writing of his own. His introduction to his piece can be found here and I'm sure that if any of you can provide him with feedback, then he'd be really appreciative. Personally, I think it's an excellent start. His narrative voice is really strong and it draws you in and interests you straight away. To say that it's not something I would normally pick to read, I'm glad I did. The title doesn't really make me jump at it, but the actual writing of the piece is engaging and does make me want to read more. The writing is humorous, too, as if you're listening to your friend describe something that has happened to him or her whilst you wait for the bus to arrive. My point is, I enjoyed it.
He's also told me that he uses some freeware especially for writers to type in. I'm reliably informed that it's a useful tool… and also that, if you want it to, you can set it so that it makes typewriter noises whilst you write. I think he finds this particular feature the best. Personally, I wouldn't use it, but that's because I'm rather set in the system I have for my writing. Nevertheless, it seems like something that could work for a lot of people so I thought I'd give it a quick mention. It's called Q10. At first, I thought Didrik was trying to say I needed some skin care for wrinkles (I should hope I don't have wrinkles. I'm only twenty!), but I had a look for it on the 'net and it seems to have a number of good features. Despite this, I still don't want to swap MS Word for it, but everybody is comfortable with different things. I've linked to it, anyway, so you can have a gander for yourself. It may or may not suit you. If you're like my friend Didrik, though, you'll love it just for the typewriter noises. It seems to work for him anyway.
Something else that I want to mention is my friend's online magazine. I've mentioned it before, but this is Greyson's second issue of OverByte and it still seems to be doing really well. It looks a lot more professional now and he's had a lot more support getting the latest issue sorted. It's primary audience are independent game makers on the internet. I'm not a game maker but I did skim it for the jokes and the ending comic, which were all thoroughly enjoyable. Plus, it's nice to see how far he's come along with it. On a private note, I think it's helped build his confidence a lot too. In a weird way that makes me really proud of him. So, in support of my friend, you can find OverByte at its own site and, if you're an indie game maker and you'd like to write articles for the next issue, you can register to audition.


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"The most significant recycling effort can be made in plastic"
His motivation? Building a business that expands successfully with innovative technology and good vibes, while making the world a better place. And that is exactly what CEO Jaap Vandehoek does with his company: recycling plastic with the Magnetic Density Separation technology developed by the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft).
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The separation channel was first industrially scaled up from a laboratory setting in a pilot plant.
The pilot proved to be very successful, which is why we have now built a factory in Amsterdam." But to be able to really make a difference with the plastic problem and meet international environmental targets, a lot of additional capacity needs to be created. For this reason, Umincorp is currently comparing suitable locations for a second factory.
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That is where Vandehoek's idealistic principles collide with economic laws. "I am an entrepreneur and need to make some profit. It is therefore important to make it as easy as possible for the major corporations to switch to using more recycled raw materials in their chains. We have to show them that this switch does not have to be more expensive. Especially when you take the environmental damage into account when virgin plastic is simply incinerated after use. Because it is possible to mechanically recycle plastic several times before it becomes unusable. When the quality is no longer satisfactory, you can always chemically recycle the plastic, returning it again to its new condition. That is how you bring about a closed - circular- system. Moreover, the price of virgin plastic - about 1,200 tot 1,400 euro per ton - fluctuates with the price of oil and shows an upward trend over the years. The cost of recycled plastic is constant. In that regard brand owners hold the key. It is high time for companies like Proctor & Gamble, Nestlé and Unilever, as well as for IKEA for example, take responsibility erasing their footprint."
European regulations
Vandehoek believes that while the pressure to recycle plastic is increasing from all directions, it could simply be stepped up. "You notice, for instance, that consumers are more insistent on reducing carbon emissions. However, they have to be willing to choose the possibly paler looking recycled version of their shampoo bottle, instead of the brilliant white one. Additionally European legislation can help considerably. "Currently it is to easy to use virgin plastic. Brussels could for instance introduce an ordinance requiring producers to bring ten percent recycled plastic into the chain. That would be a great start. The percentage should subsequently gradually increase. Furthermore, the chain needs to be more transparent. At present, the number of tons of plastic that go into the recycling units everywhere is being recorded, but not how much new product it produces. And that is because after all the recycled plastic is still being incinerated. I assume the estimates are approximately thirty percent too high."
Meanwhile technological developments continue. "We have been working for several years on a prototype that can separate plastic by color. The next step is to be able to separate plastics by product category or even brand, so that a polymer can be used again in exactly the same packaging."
Jaap Vandehoek, CEO of Umincorp
In early February Umincorp and Bilfinger announced that they will work collectively to build more plastic recycling plants. Bilfinger Tebodin supports the engineering, construction and procurement components for the MDS facilities. They also help with the plant automation and the implementation of the technology. Vandehoek: "Bilfinger is extremely hands-on in the race, they are able to take on large projects and do what is required. They are 'fit for purpose'. In addition, the company is a great sparring partner when it comes to construction, planning, engineering and the desired performance."
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In the church today, our motivations towards holiness fall somewhere between two extremes.
On one side, we have the "your ticket is punched, do whatever you want" camp which receives labels such as cheap grace and sloppy agape.
On theother side, we have a controlling, law-oriented, manipulation-based "scare them into the kingdom and keep them there" approach. This view turns to legalism and works.
In my personal experience in both life and ministry, I've seen more approaches on the later, rule oriented side. While not as extreme as detailed above, they can be dangerous.
Cloud and Townsend, in their book How People Grow: What the Bible Reveals About Personal Growth, list three common forms of law which lead to failure.
Hoping these methods will change hearts is a fallacy. There is something human about wanting to do the forbidden. Our sin nature wants to do something when we are told we cannot.
None of these forms of law have ability to work, although they do contain elements of truth. In other words, they all can come accompanied by Scripture verses; getting the letter of the Law but missing its Spirit.
The only way to make good choices is to live by the Spirit. Paul gives the Galatians believers the secret to the Christian life in Galatians 5:16.
What? That's it? No twelve step formula or 3 spiritual laws?
Instead, Paul challenges the Galatians to a life lived in trust and dependence on the Spirit of God who dwells in them.
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Even as edgy as Paul was, I struggle to see him preaching the law in any of the methods I've listed above. Paul knew the sinfulness of man and he knew the need we have to rely on the Spirit daily.
When we admonish our people towards holiness, let's do so as a response to grace not as a condition to receive it.
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There's an education revolution brewing right in the middle of the nation's capital: The Washington Post reports that , once derided as "an academic dumping ground" and then closed all together, has been reborn as a high school specializing in architecture, construction and engineering — and attracting new students.
"Today's Phelps has modern technical classrooms where students get hands-on experience in distinct areas: carpentry, engineering, architecture, electrical, sheet metal and welding, HVAC and refrigeration, and Cisco networking. (Plumbing is on tap for next year.) Kids also take typical high school classes such as English, math and social studies," says a piece by local columnist John Kelly.
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From the morning you will enjoy the city tour unravels HCMC ( former Saigon) 's turbulent past and also provides a glimpse into the fascinating variety the city has to offer. This city tour includes The Reunification Palace, Notre Dame Cathedral and Old Post Office, Remnant War Museum, Giac Lam Pagoda, Chinatown with ancient pagodas and temples, and bustling Binh Tay Market. Transfer to airport for a short flight to Nha Trang. You are greeted and transferred to hotel. Overnight in Nha Trang.
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Today you leave Nha Trang for Hanoi capital. Pick-up and transfer to Cam Ranh airport for flight to Ha Noi. After check-in hotel you are transferred out for welcome dinner at a super restaurant in the French Quarter. In the evening enjoy the famous traditional Vietnamese water puppet show. Overnight in Hanoi .
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Luxury Travelers Seek Winter Alternatives to Hard-Hit Caribbean Destinations
- Oct 03, 2017 11:00 am
No doubt destinations are hoping that visitors will return when islands have a chance to recover and clean up. Old habits and geography are in their favor.
In the wake of a violent hurricane season, luxury travelers are starting to re-book their long-planned winter trips.
A new survey by Virtuoso, a network of top-tier travel agencies, notes that as of late September, 28 percent of advisors are reporting an uptick in bookings to unaffected Caribbean islands such as St. Lucia, Aruba, Barbados, Jamaica, and Grand Cayman. However, 25 percent report that clients are not requesting Caribbean nor Florida for the next one to six months.
Melissa Biggs Bradley, founder and CEO of New York-based Indagare, says "We have definitely seen a big impact from the hurricane on our members' winter travel plans. The devastation on certain islands like Puerto Rico and St. Barth's has caused many travelers who had booked there to seek alternatives. These have ranged from nearby resorts on islands like St. Lucia, Antigua, Nevis, and the Dominican Republic, which had limited damage, and to ones with none at all ,like Barbados, Canouan and Mustique." Bradley's clients are also looking to beach locations in Mexico and Hawaii or Central America, such as Nicaragua and Belize.
That said, Bradley says, "we have also had conversations with members who are weighing whether to return to favorite islands like Anguilla and St. Barth's, traditionally Indagare's top Caribbean destination. She says that while top hotels on these islands, "have had significant damage, many house rentals are fine. [Clients] understand that the mood and offerings will be impacted, but they also want to support the locals and their economies."
Island nations that are much farther afield may also see an increase in American visitors this winter. Victoria Boomgarden, owner of Direct Travel Luxe in Naperville, Illinois, notes that several of her clients, despite the travel time needed, are looking as far away as Seychelles and Mauritius. Judy Stein, president of Ovation Vacations-The Stein Collection, says some of her clients are asking about the Maldives.
More frequently, however, Stein reports that " the usual suspects such as Hawaii and Mexico have come into play. That said, we are opening up our client's eyes to alternate destinations that are different than what they would normally consider — not only warm weather and resort-oriented. This is the perfect winter to think about heading up north to experience the Northern Lights in one of the Nordic countries, If warm weather is a must, we are redirecting clients to Central and South America including Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Cartagena, Colombia, and Uruguay."
Biggs Bradley also has clients thinking outside the box. "We have seen families switch their thinking altogether and decide to use the time to do something more adventurous than just escaping to a beach vacation. They are going instead to New Zealand, South Africa, or Southeast Asia or deciding to swap their yearly traditions and going skiing in December and then planning to head to the Caribbean in March."
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Photo Credit: Many luxury travelers traditionally head to the Caribbean during the winter. With large swaths of the region devastated by recent hurricanes, this group has started to seek out alternatives including the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. Sarah Ackerman / Flickr
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With Mother's Day passed, and Father's Day still ahead, I'd like to take this time in between to remember my parents and thank them for something very specific they did for me: they provided books. Lots and lots of books. What my life would have been like if they didn't do this, I do not want to imagine.
In our house, we had dime store novels, mysteries, classics and poetry collections. Will Durant's complete The Story of Civilization took up an entire bookcase. Earl Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason series–my father's favorite—lined several shelves with their tan, textured hardback covers. My mother liked science books and atlases. We had an amazing boxed set of pamphlets that explained scientific concepts to children, and another containing facts about and photographs of far-away lands.
A huge dictionary sat near the dining room table, and my mother was known to heave it off the shelf and onto her lap during dinner when there were differing opinions about the meaning or origin of a word.
They told us stories, read us stories and gave us stories. We read books in bed and while eating breakfast cereal. We read books in the car and in motel rooms. We read books in trees, even on swings.
The beautiful thing to me is my parents were not scholars. They weren't teachers or librarians. They were simple people who just loved to learn. They demonstrated that love to their children, and gave us the tools to carry it on ourselves. Other than love, shelter and sustenance, I can't think of a more important gift.
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What are the pros and cons of a career an art appraiser? Get a real job description and information about career prospects to see if becoming an art appraiser is right for you.
Art appraisers determine the fair market value of paintings, sculptures, textiles and other related items. If you like the idea of becoming an 'art detective' and have been wondering what you might do with a degree in fine arts or art history, take a look at some of the following pros and cons to see if a career as an art appraiser might be right for you.
Sources: *University of Notre Dame (Alternatives for Art Historians), **Appraisers Association of America, ***U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, ****Internal Revenue Service.
Art appraisers conduct and write formal evaluations that document the authenticity and fair market value of fine or decorative objects. Fair market value is the price that would most likely be agreed upon by a buyer and seller or what an item would probably sell for at an auction house. To determine a price, appraisers use price checking - the process by which items are compared to the recent purchase price of comparable objects. An art appraiser may also take into consideration the replacement value of an object or what it would cost to replace it with one that is similar in appearance, age, condition and quality. Some art appraisers choose to specialize in particular types of art and sculpture, rendering their opinions of the legitimacy and marketability of an object significantly more valuable than those of general appraisers, according to the IRS.
Art appraisers must have a strong sense of personal integrity and high ethical standards, especially since appraisals are classified as legal documents and fall under the scrutiny of the IRS. They must also have excellent interpersonal skills and be diplomatic and sensitive when dealing with antique dealers, trust officers and families coping with death and divorce. Art appraisers can conduct assessments for a variety of different purposes, including charitable contributions, damage claims, estate taxes, insurance coverage, liquidations and sales.
Art appraisers can be self-employed or work on staff for appraisal companies and auction houses. Furthermore, you might find work with estate liquidators, museums and art dealers. While not all professionals may be fortunate enough to appear on Antiques Roadshow, some offer their expertise to 'what it's worth' events and speak at public gatherings. While the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) does not provide specific job growth data for art appraisers, they do expect employment of claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners and investigators to increase by three percent from 2012 to 2022, which is slower than the average for all other occupations.
Unlike the business of real estate where an appraiser's qualifications can be confirmed by a government-issued license, the art appraisal industry is self-regulating. The IRS denotes a qualified appraiser to be someone who has completed college or professional-level coursework and acquired experience relevant to the type and price range of an item being sold or who has met the credentialing requirements of a recognized appraisal organization in the field.
In the U.S., the IRS has approved the following three associations: the International Society of Appraisers, the Appraisers Association of America and the American Society of Appraisers. To join, art appraisers must meet an association's requirements for formal study and professional experience and submit a designated number of appraisal reports.
Some colleges and universities offer appraisal studies certificate programs in conjunction with one of the three IRS-approved organizations. For example, newcomers with less than five years of experience may find an appraisal studies program that allows them to join the Appraisers Association of America as an associate upon program completion. A similar arrangement also exists between the American Society of Appraisers and some appraisal studies programs. Some of the topics covered by association and school-based programs include personal property valuation, fine arts appraisal and Uniform Standards of Professional Practice (USAP). A membership in any one of these three organizations is the equivalent of a professional license.
Aside from the referral services offered by professional associations, you may be able to find appraisal-related opportunities through museums, auction houses and reputable job boards.
A membership in one of the three major appraisal organizations can help you develop your skills, build relationships with more senior appraisers and gain public recognition. Appraisals are a critical part of the accreditation process, and as a candidate for membership, you must be able to demonstrate your ability to complete complex reports. An appraisal report is like a resume, and the IRS looks to these documents for evidence of an art appraiser's education and experience.
In addition to learning how to properly prepare an appraisal, you might want to consider a position at an auction house. In a profile for Smithsonian Magazine, art appraiser Nan Chisholm compares working at an auction house to getting a degree. According to Chisholm, cataloging at an auction house will give you an opportunity to work with high-volume inventories and get first-hand (rather than slide) views of catalog items. And while the art inventory at an auction house will be much different from what you might find in a museum, it'll give you the chance to meet new artists and understand what drives the market.
A curator's work is similar to that of an art appraiser. Job duties include authenticating, appraising and classifying items in a museum or other institution as well as negotiating and authorizing the purchase, sale, exchange or loan of collections. Although a small museum may hire a candidate with a bachelor's degree in art, history or a related major, most require applicants to have a master's or even a doctoral degree. The BLS projected a faster-than-average growth in employment of 25% for curators from 2010 to 2020. As of May 2011, the median annual salary for a curator was $49,000.
Real estate appraisers and assessors estimate the value of buildings and property before they are developed, sold, mortgaged or insured. An associate's degree is the minimum requirement necessary for working as an appraiser of residential property, and commercial real estate appraisers might be required to have a bachelor's degree. According to the BLS, in May 2011, appraisers and assessors of real estate earned a median annual salary of $49,000.
If you find automobiles more interesting than art, you might want to consider a career as an appraiser for an insurance or independent adjusting firm. A high school diploma is the minimum requirement for obtaining a position, although auto damage appraisers usually have a 2-year degree or relevant work experience in an auto repair shop. As of May 2011, auto damage insurance appraisers earned a median annual salary of $57,000, as reported by the BLS.


My Facebook friend, Raymond Chang, posted a piece on a friend's experience with campus diversity. He is granting me permission to repost it (below). The post brings to fore some of the problems we face on college and university campuses with moving forward on racial diversity and the lingering problems of racial and ethnic insensitivity.
On Christians campuses, the struggle to achieve a diverse campus at all levels of the institution can be as challenging as attempts to do so on non-Christian campuses. The intent to please Christ by the cultivation of a diverse campus life reflects the Savior's love for "people for God from every tribe and language and peoples and nation" (Rev. 5:9). But good intentions require yeoman efforts and changes of hearts and minds at all levels in order for conversations on diversity to find welcoming atmospheres, and for diversity to be viewed as a magnolia planted in good soil rather than as a briar patch for only the bravest to traverse.
Duke University has been leading the charge in the fight for campus diversity for over 30 years. By their own admittance, Duke stills lacks success at some levels, as a recent controversy at their divinity school might also reveal. Maybe Duke's efforts (and failures) can help all of us think through the ways forward—ways, on Christian campuses, that will honor the Lord and help us reach 6.5 billion lost people with the gospel.
A friend is at a large state school in a medical program with 450 students. Each class is comprised of a little over 100 students.
One of his classmates posted a "disrespectful and dignity stripping" rant on their class' Facebook page making fun of a professor's accent from an Asian country. This classmate clearly didn't take into consideration that this professor was teaching at a graduate level in a language that wasn't his mother tongue.
Of all the comments, the one that stuck out to him most was one by another student of color who thought the post was hilarious. He saw how other people of color who weren't aware of the racial dynamics made it difficult for p.o.c's who were trying to bring about the change the institution needed.
In response to the post, my friend wrote, "Who's next?" Then, he listed the other faculty of color one by one who had accents or cultural differences other than the ones white people considered normal.
One by one, the likes went from 30 down to 10. The comments also disappeared one after another. Eventually, the O.P. was deleted too. The original poster found my friend's phone number and asked to talk, realizing his act was racist without realizing it himself.
My friend has observed the institution carefully over the last three years and now that he is in his fourth year, he wants to leave the place better than he found it. As my friend is nearing the end of his program he is asking me what he can do. I look forward to helping him bring about change before he graduates.
During his time as a student, he regularly heard off handed comments that were clearly rooted in prejudice and feels like he needs to do something before it's too late (its already too late – he institution, like every higher education institution, is now playing catch up).
He expressed his frustration with the ways Asians are perceived as docile and black people are seen as angry. He also mentioned how he doesn't want to be seen as an angry Asian because that is not who he really is. As his friend, I can attest to this.
He mentioned how students are doing things that only benefit themselves. He noted that they are operating out of a marginalized instinct and instead of advocating for systemic change, they huddle together to care for one another, which has its merits, but is doing nothing in the long run.
The faculty is very diverse, but to his surprise, it doesn't make much difference because the administration isn't. He noted that the faculty of color can't stand up for students because they are concerned about their own tenure and promotions (which he understands). But he also notices how white faculty are fine challenging the institution on things that matter to them because their concerns are easier to digest for their superiors. He doesn't know what to do about this because the people who can represent people like him don't feel like they have the agency to because their livelihoods would be on the line.
He is frustrated with the diversity officer who doesn't do anything except get people into the school. Once students and faculty walk in the door, they realize the institution is not what they expected it to be. The diversity officer is a very nice Christian woman who doesn't do much except fill the quota of international and American people of color. The most she has done was facilitate conversations among people of color over meals. From what he's observed, the diversity officer doesn't do much to raise awareness about the communities the institution serves. The institution has a diversity officer for each major program – which means their program of 450 has its own designated diversity worker.
My friend feels a responsibility to talk with the student affairs office, the diversity officer, admissions, and if possible, the administration (who is all white) to address the issues at hand.
All these are things any institution can learn from. May we have the humility to learn from others.


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Each user or device maintains repositories of claims regarding their own key material, and their beliefs about public keys and, generally, state of other users of the system. High integrity of the repositories is maintained by virtue of storing claims on authenticated data structures, namely hash chains and Merkle trees, and their authenticity and non-repudiation by the use of digital signatures.
Cross-referencing of hash chains is a way to efficiently and verifiably vouch about states of other users. This allows to detect chain compromises, manifested as forks of hash chains, and to implement various social policies for deriving decisions about the latest state of users in the system.
The claims about keys of other people can reveal the social graph. To solve this, we use cryptographic verifiable random functions to derive private identifiers that are re-randomized on each chain update. This allows to openly and verifiably publish claims that can only be read by the authorized users, ensuring privacy of the social graph. Moreover, the specific construction of Merkle trees, along with the usage of verifiable random functions, ensures users can not equivocate about the state of other people.
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EEOC Enforcements Efforts Focus on Sexual Harassment [Update]
By Robert Sheen | December 4, 2018
Fiscal year 2018 saw the most enforcement litigation activity by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) than any year in the agency's history since it was formed as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Those organizations that thought the level of EEOC enforcement activity would be slowing down under a Trump Administration may need to rethink that perspective.
For FY 2018, the EEOC filed 217 actions, 197 merit lawsuits, and 20 subpoena enforcement actions. Enforcement of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (which prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, and religion) accounted for 55% of the filings, a slight increase over FY 2017. The area with the second most filings involved enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
An area receiving increased attention from the EEOC was workplace harassment. The EEOC reported that it filed 66 lawsuits challenging workplace harassment, 41 of which alleged sexual harassment. This is more than a 50 percent increase in suits challenging sexual harassment from FY 2017.
The EEOC experienced a significant increase this past fiscal year in calls, emails, and online inquiries concerning potential discrimination claims and high demand for its new Respectful Workplaces Training Program as it ramps up its outreach and enforcement for 2018 to address workplace discrimination. The EEOC said it received more than 554,000 calls and emails and more than 200,000 inquiries concerning potential discrimination claims. The launch of a nationwide online inquiry and appointment system as part of the EEOC's Public Portal resulted in a 30% increase in inquiries and over 40,000 intake interviews, according to the agency.
The EEOC said its lawsuits sought to protect a wide-range of employees across the entire country, including servers, nurses, administrative assistants, customer service staff, truck drivers, welders, and other workers at cleaners and country clubs, sports bars and airlines, in factories, health care and grocery stores. Charges filed with the EEOC alleging sexual harassment increased by more than 12% as compared to FY 2017, the agency reported. Hits on the sexual harassment page of the EEOC's website more than doubled this past year, as many individuals and employers sought information to deal with workplace harassment.
As part of the initiative to end discrimination in the workplace, the EEOC launched a training program in October 2017 called "Respectful Workplaces." Over 9,800 employees and supervisors in the private, public and federal sector work forces participated in Respectful Workplaces trainings this past fiscal year to learn skills related to help employees and respect and acceptable workplace conduct. An additional 13,000 employees participated in the EEOC's anti-harassment compliance trainings.
The EEOC secured approximately $505 million and other relief for more than 67,860 victims of workplace discrimination. This includes $354 million in monetary relief for those who work in the private sector and state and local government workplaces through mediation, conciliation and other administrative enforcement. The agency also recovered $98.6 million in monetary relief for federal employees and applicants. The EEOC continued to achieve success in its conciliation of private sector charges, with 41% of conciliations successfully resolved, and 45% of systemic investigations resulting in voluntary resolutions.
The EEOC's legal staff resolved 141 merit lawsuits, filed 199 more in FY 2018, and filed 29 amicus curiae briefs on significant legal issues in employment discrimination cases.
The EEOC recovered almost $70 million in FY 2018 for victims of sexual harassment, as compared to the recovery of $47.5 million in FY 2017. The uptick in secured damages for victims of sexual harassment is directly tied to the #MeToo movement. "I am so proud of the EEOC staff who stepped up to the heightened demand of the #MeToo movement to make clear that workplace harassment is not only unlawful, it is simply not acceptable, Acting EEOC Chair Victoria A. Lipnic stated in a recent press release. "As the agency with expertise, as the enforcer of the law, and as an educator, the EEOC has continued to lead the way to achieve the goal of reducing the level of harassment and to promote harassment-free workplaces."
More details can be found in the EEOC's fiscal year 2018 Performance and Accountability Report.
In the EEOC's revised Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP) for FY 2017-2021, "preventing systematic harassment," was one of six focus areas. Based on the recent press release, it appears that the EEOC will be continuing its focus on workplace discrimination in the next fiscal year.
As the EEOC continues to identify employers violating equal employment opportunities in the workplace, here are some tips to help stay out of the spotlight:
Stay up to date on changing legislation in states.
Train HR supervisors on the federal EEO laws relevant to the state they are operating in. Educate them on the state laws as well.
Educate employees on anti-harassment practices and be sure policies are being adopted across your entire organization.
Ensure that you have data processes in place that will provide accurate data to address any EEOC enforcement actions.
Employers should review their policies on processes to ensure they do not discriminate against people with disabilities and other protected classes. They should consider reviewing the processes they have in place to defend themselves against an EEOC investigation.
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Clancy Rofique (born 22 July 1998) is a Mauritian international footballer who plays as a forward for the Mauritius national football team.

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