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ZOO had a great start to the season finishing on top of the podium and losing only 2 games in the entire tournament.
The players from team ZOO all live in Singapore but they also fly the flags of their countries of birth when they play at the World Cup Asia.
ZOO dominates the inaugural Singapore Paintball Series to be crowned champions in the Open Division.
ZOO were crowned Champions in the Open Division of the inaugural Singapore Paintball Series 2010 (SPS) last weekend. Fresh from our recent overall 2nd place in the Malaysian Paintball Official Circuit series (MPOC), SPS 2010 was the first time that ZOO had competed as a team on home soil, as previous local tournaments had only ever catered for lower divisions.
ZOO finished the prelims ranked 2nd place, missing out on top spot by 1 ED point. This saw them facing in the Semi Finals SPS 2010 favorites Red West, whose team featured players from higher divisions than ZOO. In a close semi finals battle ZOO managed to narrowly defeat Red West for a spot in the finals against another local favorite Contract Killers.
The best of 3 game SPS 2010 Final was another tight battle. ZOO clean sweeped Contract Killers in their first game but found themselves facing defeat in the 2nd game, only to be let off with a draw when the opposition received a late and dubious one for one call. ZOO dug deep in the 3rd and deciding game, taking an early lead and never looking back.
ZOO's SPS team consisted of Grant Harrison (Owner/Capt), Brian Read, Allan Hernandez, Marcus Babao, Abdullah Alhadad, Chak Wong and Isk Ishak.
ZOO are now looking forward to continuing their run of podium finishes at this year's World Cup Asia 2010 to be held in KL, Malaysia in late November.
ZOO have continued to solidify their position as Singapore's No. 1 paintball team by winning the first leg of the Singapore Paintball Series 2012, played at Ferrer Park Soccer Fields.
Having fallen short of a good result in leg 2 of the 2011 SPS competitione2C the team were determined to prove their skills in 2012. Rain during the prelims on Day 1 made the field slick and muddy. With only 4 teams competing in highest Open Division of SPS, all teams were not only working out how to play the field but also how to play the competition. Two teams from Cherry Red Sevens, the Contract Killers (SG) and ZOO played a round robin Race-to-2 format, with teams playing one team twice.
Also for th% first time at SPS, ZOO would be shooting our very own Angel A1 Fly markers since the organisers had arranged with the Singapore Police Force to allow the importation of markers. This we hoped would make a big difference to the way we played.
On paper, our biggest competition of the weekend was Cherry Red Sevens 2 (the Seniors) whose team comprised of most of the players from their MPOC Division 2 Series winning team. They proved they were SPS contenders by winning all their preliminary matches and not dropping a point. ZOO finished the prelims ranked 2nd having lost a game to both Cherry Red Sevens teams, with Cherry Red Sevens 1 (the Juniors) finishing ranked 3rd and Contract Killers SG ranked 4th.
ZOO played Cherry Red Sevens 1 in the 2nd Semi Finals match. We reconfigured our break out plan from the one's we were using on Saturday to ensure we could hold or take advantage of either side of the field. Generally everything went to plan and we defeated Cherry Red Sevens 1 with a score of 2-0 to give us an SPS Finals match against their senior team.
In the battle for 3rd and 4th placings Contract Killers SG managed to step up their game against Cherry Red Sevens 1 and defeated them 2-0.
ZOO had a clear plan for controlling Cherry Red Sevens 2 and surprisingly we started off the more aggressive of the two teams, controlling both sides of the field and quickly taking the first point. Cherry Red Sevens 2 changed up their breakout in the 2nd point and sent a player straight up the middle. This caught our players off-guard and the Cheery Red Sevens 2 quickly got a player advantage. Despite the best efforts of our last 2 players to hold on, they were over-run and shot out. Unfortunately for Cherry Red Sevens 2 the player that pressed the game buzzer was deemed to have been hit but their remaining player, had already exited the field, so the game was declared a draw and a penalty awarded in Zoo's favour.
The Cherry Red Sevens 2 had to start the 3rd and final point with only 4 players, since there was no players to pull off for the previous game's penalty. With 1 minute on the game clock, we instructed our players to stay tight and control the flow of the game as much they could to run the clock down. Lucky for us we laned their snake player out off the break, giving us a 2 player advantage over our opponents. The game was over in less than a minute and ZOO had pulled off an upset by beating the tournament favourites. It was an emotional win for one of our players who had just lost his mother to cancer 2 weeks prior. We dedicated the win to her as she was always a great supporter of our team.
ZOO would like to thank the SPS organisers and SPS Referees for their ongoing support of paintball in Singapore. The events just keep getting better and better. The 2nd leg of SPS will be in October and ZOO will once again be aiming to take out the SPS series title.
PALS Bangkok 2012 was to be ZOO's second appearance at the event. Short of squad numbers this year, we again invited the Red Sevens to join us; Ben, Jane, Arthur and Jason and 2 Pandomonium players Jay and Joran. It was a last minute decision to attend but the event is always well organised and Bangkok, Thailand is such a fun place to travel to... until you get to immigration which takes over an hour of long queuing to pass through.
There were 10 teams competing in Division 2 from Thailand, Japan, Guam, Malaysia and Canada. We didn't have any dedicated dorito side front players and only 1 snake player, so we lacked the front player speed and had to rely on our laning ability. The 2 prelim days proved ok for the team but we drew a match with Siam-X in a match that we had vitually won but ran out of time to press the buzzer. This loss proved to be our nemesis as we finished the prelims in 8th position which meant our Quarter Finals match would be against the top seeded team Rockstar Canada, who hadn't lost a match all weekend. A better qualifying position could have seen us matched up against teams we had already beaten or at least had a better chance of defeating.
In our Quarter Final match up against Rockstar Canada the first point was tight but the Canadian's eventually rolled over us. In the second point we laned out 2 players off the break and won the point in less than a minute. The 3rd point was tight but we lost too many players on our dorito side and couldn't contain them pushing up the field. The 4th point was another close battle but Rockstar Canada proved too strong for us beating us 3-1. They eventually went on to win every other match of the weekend to be crowned PALS BKK champions. The Guam All Stars who we had beaten in the prelims, placed 2nd with Arowana from Thailand 3rd. With points for and against we finished 6th place overall which is a better result than our previous year's placing in Bangkok.
The first event for 2012 was MPOC (Malaysian Paintball Official Circuit) - a five event series played at venues throughout Malaysia. Having had previous success at leg 1 MPOC events, ZOO decided to participate in the revised Division 2 format, which was to be Race-to-3 (meaning the first team to win 3 points wins the match.) This time around we had to call numerous guest players as our own squad were either broke, busy or had work commitments. We invited 2 players from our rival Singapore team Red Sevens and other Malaysian friends to play with ZOO.
Day 1 was a solid day of play and we only lost 1 of our 5 matches and gave ourselves a chance at a finals spot on Sunday. Unfortunately we didn't have an answer for the well drilled Grammaton Clerics and we lost to them 2-1. In the play off for 3rd and 4th place, ZOO faced KSK Flash. We easily won the first 2 points and KSK handed us the 3rd point only coming on to the field with 4 players. A 3rd place with a ragtag assortment of players that had never played together before wasn't a bad result for ZOO.
PALS World Cup Asia 2011 was hosted on the island of Langkawi, Malaysia. ZOO's lead-up preparation for the WCA was less than satisfactory, having played the last leg of the Singapore Paintball Series and not performed as we should have. This was to be our first WCA playing Division 2 and with 140 teams from 30 countries around the world playing (40 in our division alone) we were aiming for a top 16 position. Division 2 was split into 2 groups and each team would play 5 Race-to-2 matches. Our draw proved promising, playing against some local Malaysian teams, and Australian team and an all-girls international team Ladies Weakness.
Day 1 saw us drawn against Assala from Gabon in Africa and NBK from Australia. Asala were a tough team but we managed a 2-1 win over them. NBK seemed a little easier and we almost walked off the field with a 2-0 win until the head ref called a 3 for 2 penalty on us for a "game-changing playing-on penalty" - this resulted in us going back on to the field for more games, the 3rd which ended in a draw, the 4th game ended with a win to NBK drawing the teams 1-1 and the 5th ended in a draw with time running out.
Day 2 had us matched against the Simpsons, Republic CMX and Ladies Weakness. We most likely only had to win two of them to progress to the final round of 16. We won our first match against The Simpsons quite convincingly which surprised us. Republic CMX proved as always tough to beat and with points drawn at 1-1, they got the better of us in the last point. In our last match of the day Against Ladies Weakness, our first point against them ended in a 1 on 1 and unfortunately we lost the point. We came back to win the second point but in the deciding point we lost too many players off the break on our dorito side and the ladies proved to be 'our weakness', ZOO losing 2-1.
Our inclusion to the top 16 would come down to the final group results. We were then to find out that the organisers had included 2 teams that hadn't even shown up to play the event and some teams in the other group were give automatic walkover wins, instead of the organisers revising the draws. This meant that some teams that had only 1 'real' win to their names were placed higher than ZOO on the rankings charts because they had additional walkover wins. We protested to PALS when we found out about these walkovers but as usual they claimed there was nothing they could do. We had missed out on making the Top 16 by 0.5 points and as a team, knew that the loss Ladies Weakness, a team with far less experience than us, was purely our own fault. Despite our disappointment we still walked away with the 'Best of Nation' trophy having been the highest ranked Singapore team at the event and ZOO finished 2nd overall in the PALS 2011 series standings. Hopefully in 2012 we can achieve better results.
Thank to my team mates who have sacrificed a lot of their own cash and many hours supporting the team's endeavors. You guys rock!!
Special thanks to Shameen 'Mcjester' Dahalan, Fraser Colley, Steve Ulrich, Patrick Tan, Mario Kulic, Azahari Bakar, Shamsudin Ahmad and Team SiR, Team SKIN, Matt Boynes, Moya Ezad Hariz & Nicky Lim for their support during the 2011 year.
Clark, Philippines July 10th, 2011 Angel sponsored team ZOO, based in Singapore placed 2nd in the Division 2 finals of the Paintball Asia League Series (PALS) held at Clark, Pampanga, Philippines held from July 8th-10th 2011.
Playing a race to 2 format, ZOO were undermanned after one of their players unexpectedly ended up in hospital prior to the event. Despite this set-back, the team of 5 players still had high hopes of a podium finish for the PALS event. In Division 2, teams from Singapore, Philippines and Malaysia battled for a place in the Semi Finals. ZOO started the preliminary rounds well with easy wins.
They had a tough match against CMX from Malaysia and with the game drawn at 1 point each and 50 seconds left on the game clock, ZOO's Filipino born player Allan Hernandez had his very own J-Rab moment sneaking down the field to hit the buzzer with 2 seconds left on the clock to win the match.
In another Russian Legion inspired play, ZOO captain Grant Harrison found himself in a 1 on 1 game deciding play against a player from Singaporean team Red Sevens. Low on paint, he forced his opponent waste paint while letting them get field position on him down the dorito side. Once his opponent had made it to ZOO's own 30 dorito, Grant quickly blindsided his opponent, bunkering them with the few balls he had left and winning the match.
With the Prelims over, ZOO had won enough games to make it to the Semi Finals against Malaysian team CMX. In a quick match, ZOO defeated CMX 2-0 to see them playing off for the number 1 spot against reigning 2010 PALS Philippines Champions, Xtioneers 2 from Malaysia.
In the first point ZOO fell foul of a 1 for 1 call and despite holding Xtioneers for many minutes, eventually had to concede the first point. In the second point, ZOO once again fell foul of an over-zealous 1 for 1 call in the first few seconds of the game. Another dubious hit call saw the team overwhelmed by the Xtioneers and ZOO had to settle for 2nd place in the PALS Philippines tournament.
Also playing at the event were Angel sponsored team Persian Legend from Iran. Persian Legend made it to the Semi Finals in Division 1. They lost their Semi Finals match against Australian team STK and had to play off for 3rd and 4th place against Xtioneers from Malaysia. Xtioneers proved to strong for Persian Legend but it was still a good result for the team given the experience of their opponents.
ZOO and Persian Legend both plan to play in the final round of PALS, the World Cup Asia to be held on the tropical island of Langkawi in Malaysia, November 2011.
In our first season competing in Division 2, we have decided more effort this year trying to play more PALS tournaments, rather than the usual MPOC series in which we finished second place overall last year. PALS Thailand was our first tournament outside of Singapore and Malaysia, held in Bangkok Thailand 28/29 May 2011.
It was a little bit of a struggle finding enough players from our usual squad to play so we imported some new players including Moya (Dark Knights - Malaysia) and Matt Boynes (Tension - Australia). Also playing for the team for the fist time was Moon from our sister Malaysian team SiR. Also playing for ZOO were myself, Abdullah, Boy (SiR) and Nick (Ronin). Unfortunately many of our regular players couldn't get time off for PALS Thailand or were competing with SiR at the Malaysian ISSC event which was held on the same weekend in KL.
Competing at international paintball events is a logistics nightmare and our weekend didn't start well with no less than 4 players missed their flights to Bangkok - luckily they managed to get on other flights and made it to Bangkok. In Division 2 we were competing against teams from Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Russia, France, Thailand, Japan and the United Arab Emirates and with very little information on the form of these teams, we had to treat everyone with respect.


Gerald Walter Johnson of Gardnerville, Nevada, passed away on October 7, 2016, at the age of 85, surrounded by loving family members.
He was born in Las Vegas, NV on February 9, 1931.
Known as Jerry, he was a US Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War, and worked for General Telephone of California as a PBX repairman until his retirement in 1988. He and his family lived in Long Beach, CA until settling in Gardnerville in 1994.
He is preceded in death by parents Walter Ray and Virginia Johnson and brother Don Johnson.
He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Mechele Bourbonnais Johnson; sons Mike and Victor; daughters Linda and Cheryl; daughter in law Jessie; and 6 grandchildren; brother Dennis; and nieces Terrilynne and Victorian.
A Memorial Service will be conducted at St Gaul's Catholic Church, on October 15, 2016 at 11am.


Beyond Angry Birds 2.0: Ted? Is that you?
It's June. Exams are over, marks have been updated, reports are finished, and I can finally get back to this blog. It's been a while, I know, I've missed you too. However, you can't say that I have not been busy. Over the last several weeks, aside from the usual classroom work, and reporting process, myself and a group of other teachers have embarked on a new journey (that sounds corny I know - but it is true). A group of us have begun the process of 'flipping' our classrooms. We have ratcheted up the learning, at a time in the year where most are dialled down. We have begun researching about the products and processes required to effectively 'flip', and I can honestly say it's pretty cool to see all of the tech tools out there that you can use. The one that really caught my eye recently is one that many are familiar with - TED. Only this TED is a little bit different than his more famous brother. This TED is TED-ED.
First, if you haven't checked out TED yet, then please do so. The countless hours of video lectures are amazing, and I constantly find myself watching these videos rather than TV. Below are a list of what I think may be some of the best that pertain to education.
Now that you are familiar with TED, let's meet his little brother TED-ED. Now this little brother has a pretty large mission - capturing great lessons from the world's educators. With TED-ED you can submit an idea for a lesson, have a professional animator illustrate it for video, record your own voice to it, and then have it posted on the website; where thousands of other educators can use it for their own lessons. Most videos are then accompanied with a number of questions, both simple and critical thinking, as well as extension activities. The idea that anyone, anywhere in the world can create a lesson is somewhat new, definitely amazing, and really shows how far we've come, not just with regards to technology, but collaboration. There are so many amazing teachers out there, TED has just given those teachers a new platform to share their great lessons, and we can all benefit from this. The website/project is still in its infancy, but before long I imagine it will be contain a wealth of knowledge and lessons that many educators will use on a regular basis. I for one can't wait to see where it goes from here!


GV comments: The flavor combination offered by this recipe is way beyond what you might think from reading the list of ingredients. I think the toasted sesame seeds that you sprinkle on at the end are the key to lifting the dish up to way above average. My husband is suspicious of tofu, so sometimes I leave it out. When I do use it, I prefer to bake or broil it, because it uses less oil that way and you can marinate it with flavorful ingredients as well (like miso and soy sauce). I originally found this on the Huff Post Taste website--what a great find.


Leaflet maps work by loading images at the user's X/Y/Z coordinates to render the current view. As a map is zoomed in, it requires 4x as many images to show the same area. That means 75% of a map's images are in the max rendered zoom level.
With hosting working, it's time to start making the site faster. The majority of image requests come from the first few zoom levels, representing less than 25% of a given map's images. Adding a local SSD cache on the VPS containing all except the last 1-3 zoom levels for each map reduces latency for 66% of requests. The problem with SSD storage is it's difficult to scale with ever-increasing data and is still limited to the network and CPU performance of the server it occupies.
While Google Cloud Storage is more expensive than B2, it has much lower latency to the US and worldwide destinations because of their network and multi-regional object storage. However, it's not time to move the whole site over to GCS just yet; the upload API calls alone would cost $85 for 17 million files.
Tracking request time surfaced another issue. Requests to B2 from countries outside of North America are still quite slow. Cloudflare's Argo can reduce latency by over 50%, but is too expensive to enable for the whole site. Additionally, it would be redundant to smart-route content from GCS that Google already does an excellent job of keeping latency down. Cloudflare request headers include the country of origin, making it trivial to route this subset of requests through an Argo-enabled domain.


Native Instruments has announced SYNTHSATION, offering a limited time 50% discount on MASSIVE, MONARK, RAZOR, FM8, SPARK, PRISM, SCANNER XT and ABSYNTH 5.
The offer includes MASSIVE and MONARK, which have both become widely known for their heavyweight basses and leads. Both maintain a sound character that is much sought after by producers looking for fat, searing, organic sounds. Also included in the offer are RAZOR and FM8, whose pristine quality and extensive sonic control offer users a wide palette of futuristic sounds.
The REAKTOR-based SPARK and PRISM are both lauded for their expressiveness as instruments, and are unique synthesizers built as much for live musicians as producers. ABSYNTH 5 and SKANNER XT also bring a wealth of experimental, unconventional sounds and textures to productions.
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Combating the avoidable
How Peek Retina showcases the UK's passion for supporting the needs of global health
04 May 2017 by John White
Retina,
Sight impairment,
While the trials and tribulations of the UK's exit from the European Union has rightly dominated the debate in the build-up to the General Election on 8 June, one would expect that other key issues will, in time, get a look in.
For optics, each political party's take on the future of the NHS, as well as support for UK scientific research and academia, are ones to watch out for in the soon-to-be-published manifestos. I am expecting big promises and scant detail.
One issue that made a surprise appearance in the headlines in the first week of Teresa May's election announcement was the future funding of foreign aid.
Challenged over the Government's commitment to spend 0.7% of national income a year on foreign aid, the Prime Minister quashed media speculation that the Conservatives would drop the pledge – a move greeted by Microsoft founder and passionate advocate of global health issues, Bill Gates, among others, who said any cut would cost lives and erode UK influence abroad. Concerns that the definition of what constitutes foreign aid could be watered down do persist, however.
One UK-based company with clear-cut aspirations to make a global impact is Peek, a social impact enterprise that works to give healthcare providers the tools and knowledge needed to deliver high quality, sustainable eye care.
OT has been following this inspiring story, led by co-founder Dr Andrew Bastawrous, who started Peek as a result of his experiences of transporting eye equipment to rural communities in Kenya, gathering eye health data for his PhD at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Last month saw the company launch Peek Retina, a smartphone camera adapter that enables the examination of the optic nerve and macula – watch OT's video with the Peek team for the bigger picture.
The device clips over the camera on any smartphone, enabling users to capture an image of the back of the retina and share it easily without the need for a desktop retinal camera.
Peek has big ambitions, telling OT: "We believe Peek Retina can make a significant impact on avoidable blindness by removing barriers to access and enabling new examinations to be performed." They are calling on users and supporters to give as much feedback as possible so that, as Peek puts it, Peek Retina "can be made even better."
To support Peek, visit its JustGiving page or email them.
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Super Skyscrapers
Super Skyscrapers follows the creation of four extraordinary skyscrapers showcasing how they will revolutionize the way we live, work, and how we protect ourselves from potential threats, both from the environment and terrorist attacks.
Season 1 - Super Skyscrapers
1 "One World Trade Center"
"One World Trade Center, the tallest building in the western hemisphere and a famous modern landmark, is engineered to be the safest and strongest skyscraper ever built. This episode follows the final year of exterior construction, culminating with the milestone of reaching the symbolic height of 1,776 feet. For head of construction Steve Plate, as well as scientists, engineers, ironworkers and curtain wall installers, this is a construction job suffused with the history of the site and a sense of duty to rebuild from the ashes of Ground Zero."
2 "Building the Future"
"Commonly known as \u201cthe cheese grater,\u201d the Leadenhall Building is the pinnacle of London\u2019s avant-garde architecture. Designed as a tapered tower with a steel exoskeleton, it\u2019s the tallest skyscraper in the City of London and the most innovative. The teams behind the Leadenhall project had to radically rethink every aspect of the traditional building model. This program follows the monumental challenges that come with erecting this super skyscraper: it will be constructed off-site, delivered to location, and stacked and bolted together like a giant Lego set."
3 "The Vertical City"
"Shanghai Tower isn\u2019t just a skyscraper \u2014 it\u2019s a vertical city, a collection of businesses, services and hotels all in one place, fitting a population the size of Monaco into a footprint the size of a football field. Within its walls, residents can literally work, rest, play and relax in public parks, looking up through 12 stories of clear space. Not just one, however, but eight of them, stacked on top of each other, all the way to the 120th floor. When complete, the structure will dominate Shanghai\u2019s skyline, towering over its neighbors as a testament to China\u2019s economic success and the ambitions of the city\u2019s wealthy elite."
4 "The Billionaire Building"
"Upon completion, One57, on Manhattan\u2019s 57th Street, will rise more than 1,000 feet, making it the tallest residential tower in the western hemisphere and boasting spectacular views of Central Park. \u201cOne57\u201d follows the teams tasked with creating New York\u2019s most luxurious residential skyscraper and their ambition to redefine luxury living the big city. Condominiums at One57 showcase state-of-the-art interiors \u2014 double-height ceilings, full-floor apartments, bathrooms clad in the finest Italian marble and the finest material finishes."
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Trailer: Super Skyscrapers


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Home Classic Mercedes-Benz Models 280CE
Mercedes-Benz 280 CE represents two models. One, in Mercedes-Benz Series 114 (W 114 E 28), was a "Stroke Eight" coupe; it debuted in 1972 and was offered until 1976. The other, part of Mercedes-Benz Series 123 (C 123 E 28), was also a coupe, and it released in 1977 and ran until 1985.
The former incorporated a four-stroke, six-cylinder engine with two overhead camshafts, plus Bosch D-Jetronic fuel injection. It had a choice of either a four- or a five-speed manual transmission or a four-speed automatic and produced 185 horsepower. The car was revised in 1973 to include mobile external mirrors that adjusted from the cabin, soil-repellent decorative A-pillar panels, profiled soil-repellent taillights, and a rear-window roof rail. Also, the radiator grille was made broader and set lower, the license plate panel was integrated, the trunk lid got a new handle, and the front end got redesigned.
The latter, featured a similar four-stroke, six-cylinder engine, with similar transmission options, but with Bosch K-Jetronic fuel injection and capable of 177 horsepower. The wheelbase was also reduced by 85mm, a more stable and stiffer-roofed security cell, high-strength roof pillars, and reinforced doors were added, and the front and rear deformation zones were improved significantly. Other features ranged from rectangular wide-band headlights to chromed air inlet grilles in front of the windshield.
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Hong Kong: Rates for handysizes are "horrible", a niche Hong Kong shipowner told our sister site, Maritime CEO. The sector is likely to go through its most painful year now as urgent scrapping will have to take place to get the small bulker segment back on its feet.
Oeistein Harmens Thorsen is a director and co-founder of Fenwick Shipping Services, an owner of six small handysize ships.
"There is too much supply of tonnage and too little scrapping," he said. Thorsen reckoned handysizes actually need a bad market for a while to get rid of all the overtonnage.


Today is one of those days where my emotions and thoughts are a scrambled mess.
Concepts like trust, and truth are flitting in and out of my mind, leaving a vague sense of dissatisfaction and despair in their wake.
What or whom can I trust?
Where has truth disappeared to in this world, in my life?
How can I tell who is telling the truth?
What happens if my future, and my happiness rests in the hands of those who are dishonest and untrustworthy?
I have no doubt that I am being lied to.
All I have to do is turn on the news to realize that dishonesty is both pervasive and very profitable in our society.
I am being shamelessly lied to by my government.
Benghazi, Obamacare, the IRS, the politicians, even the president himself! The list is endless!!
I've been lied to in my personal life as well.
It's an incredulous feeling to stand in front of someone and watch them lie to me knowing the whole time that what they are saying, so sincerely and so believably, is nothing but lies.
Sometimes liars are easy to spot.
Sometimes they are so freaking good at it that I begin to doubt what I know is the truth!
Sometimes I choose to believe the lies.
I want, so desperately to believe that my world is as solid and true as I need it to be more than I want to face the fact that things are really what they are. So I believe what I need to believe.
I suppose that makes me an accomplice.
Where do I begin the search for the truth?
Does anyone even care about what is true anymore, or has truth itself become a fugitive?
How do you find hope in a world that has rejected and vilified the truth, while celebrating and worshipping the lies?
I believe that I am an honest person overall, however I have told some lies in my life.
I don't know many (any) people who haven't, but I have always been real, and actually too open and honest about who I am, what I've done, and what I believe.
Facing the truth about myself is sometimes hard to handle, but I do my best to own my mistakes and my failures.
I try, in an ongoing way, to become a better person every day.
I try to learn from my mistakes, apologize to those I have hurt by my actions, and keep moving forward.
I understand why people lie. I understand that they may be unable or unwilling to face their own failures or mistakes and so they hide beneath their lies.
I understand it but cannot accept it.
I can't accept my government lying to me! The lies that are coming out are to protect criminals from prosecution, to continue to line the pockets of politicians at my expense, to advance agendas and industry at the expense of the personal freedoms guaranteed to me by the constitution.
Where do we draw the line as a nation and as individuals when it comes to the truth and how it affects our lives?
When is enough, really enough?
How do I reconcile my need for truth, with the pervasive lies swirling around me?
The Bible has a lot to say about the truth!
I want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Truth that is free of distortion or manipulation. Free of bias or personal agendas.
I CAN handle the truth!!
I want to be FREE!!!
This is actually a hard social unacceptable subject when openly asked in the eyes of many people in the public. I believe in what your saying and to some degree agree that there are some that at any rate will lie to get ahead in life and many people have their own agendas. Some even believing their own lies. Its distasteful and completely selfish. I to have lied.For personal gain, or whatever seemed to fit me at that time. I believe in learning from that which you can not change and grow all the wiser, but I also think that there are some that no matter the consequences even once presented to them makes no difference, they still choose to lie. I can forgive those that truly mean their are sorry. Its the habitual ones, that i cant look past. I enjoyed this post. Makes you take a closer look at the people your surrounded by, so as long as, you dont become to paranoid and suspicious. Much love.
Love & Peace. May you be well.
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Uzbekistan gained itsindependence in 1991, and after a decade of difficult recovery, now focuses onits extensive mineral and petroleum reserves, and the agricultural potential ofthe Fergana Valley.


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Q: If X, Z are independent, Y, Z are independent, then are XY and Z independent? If $X, Z$ are independent, $Y, Z$ are independent, then are $XY,Z$ independent?
How about:
If $X,Y,Z$ are mutually independent, then are $XY, Z$ independent?
If none of the above is true, is there any such lemma that derives the independence from that of $X,Z$ and $Y,Z$?
Please show work or refer to a link, thank you!

A: For your first question, no: let $\epsilon_1$ and $\epsilon_2$ be two i.i.d. random variables taking the values $1$ and $-1$ with probability $1/2$. Let $X=\epsilon_1$, $Y=\epsilon_2$ and $Z=\epsilon_1\epsilon_2$.
For your second question, it is a consequence of the definition of mutual independence.

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New fiction that explores the immigrant experience
By Sarah MurdochArrivals
Fri., July 14, 2017timer2 min. read
The immigrant experience in North America provides a rich canvas for storytelling, as these five new novels demonstrate.
New Boy, Tracy Chevalier
Osei, 11, the son of a Ghanaian diplomat, is the new boy at this all-white school in suburban Washington in the 1970s. Dee, the school's golden girl, makes friends with him, a gesture that bully Ian cannot tolerate. This retelling of Othello unfolds over the course of one violent day. Tracy Chevalier's inspiration for this novel was her own school days at a mostly black school in Washington, where she learned what it meant to be an outsider. She is best known for her 1999 novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring. New Boy is published by Hogarth Press in its series of novels by acclaimed writers retelling Shakespeare's plays.
The Clothesline Swing, Ahmad Danny Ramadan
The narrator of this book is a hakawati, a storyteller, and he addresses his dying partner in their home in Vancouver, where they have lived since they left a dying Syria in 2012, almost 40 years before. Like the great Persian storyteller, Scheherazade, the elderly hakawati entertains his beloved with stories of growing up in long-ago Damascus, where being gay was forbidden. This lyrical first novel situates the ancient tradition of storytelling within a decidedly modern context. Ahmad Danny Ramadan is a Syrian refugee and this is his first book in English. He was grand marshal of Vancouver's Pride Parade in 2016.
The Leavers, Lisa Ko
At 11, American-born Deming Guo loses his mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant. She simply doesn't return home one day from her job at a Manhattan nail salon. Months pass and Deming is finally adopted by a white couple who rename him Daniel and take him to live with them in upstate New York. Ten years later, Daniel receives an email that might tell him what became of his birth mother. A complex, nuanced story of the dislocation that is immigrant life, The Leavers won the most recent PEN/Bellwether Prize for Fiction.
Sun of a Distant Land, David Bouchet, translated by Claire Holden Rothman
Twelve-year-old Souleye relates his story simply, often humorously and without a scrap of self-pity, about how he and his family (Pa, Mere, little sister Lila and big brother Bibi) left Senegal and came to Montreal. He wants to assimilate as quickly as possible but there have been setbacks. Pa, unable to make his way, first retreats to the basement, then to a psychiatric ward. Souleye sprinkles his tale with astute insights about what it means to be an outsider — a Muslim from Africa — in Montreal. First published in French in 2015 as Soleil.
Marriage of a Thousand Lies, S. J. Sindu
As well as being a member of Boston's Sri Lankan Tamil community, Lakshmi is a thoroughly modern millennial: though unemployed she freelances as an artist. Her husband, Krishna, works for a greeting-card company. There are many lies in this entertaining novel, but a central one is that Lakshmi and Krishna are gay. Their marriage is a pretend union, designed to protect their family from a truth that would be regarded as shameful and humiliating throughout their community.
Sarah Murdoch, smurdoch49@gmail.com
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This letter is in response to your inquiry of April 28, 1993, on behalf of your client, Tsumura International, Inc., concerning the classification under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Annotated (HTSUSA), of floating soap dish toys (with "Batman" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" themes) and bar soap, imported from China. Sample articles were submitted with your inquiry.
The first sample article consists of an unbreakable, molded, non-toxic vinyl, floating object, which resembles the batmobile. The item measures approximately 7 inches by 3 inches by 1-1/2 inches, and has an open compartment in the rear holding 3 "mini soap" bars standing together on their ends. Each bar of soap measures approximately 2-1/4 inches by 1-1/4 inches by 1/4 inch.
ends, each having the same measurements as the bars of soap noted above. Neither of the floating objects is configured in a manner that would allow it to function as an actual soap dish since the compartments are too small to hold even a small bar of soap placed horizontally.
1) Whether the floating components of the articles should be classified as soap dishes, or as other toys.
2) Whether the individual components comprising the articles should be classified separately, or as sets.
Heading 9503, HTSUSA, applies to "other toys," i.e., all toys not specifically provided for in the other headings of chapter 95. Although the term "toy" is not defined in the tariff, the EN to chapter 95 indicates that a toy is an article designed for the amusement of children or adults. The ENs to heading 9503 indicate that certain toys may be capable of a limited "use," but are generally distinguishable from real machines, instruments, etc., by their size and limited capacity. These floating objects are distinct from utilitarian bath products. Their features are designed to amuse children. The features would be less amusing, perhaps unrecognizable (as the batmobile and a turtle-piloted dinghy), if also designed to hold bars of soap as real soap dishes do. Thus, the floating components are properly classified as toys.
The ENs also relate that certain toys are often put up in sets. In this case, the articles each consist of two components, i.e., a toy and bars of soap. Each component is classifiable in a different heading; the toy in heading 9503, HTSUSA, and the soap in heading 3401, HTSUSA, which provides for "Soap...in the form of bars, cakes, molded pieces or shapes...." While the ENs to heading 9503 indicate that toy sets may be comprised of collections of articles, the individual items of which, if presented separately, would be classified in other headings (e.g., toy chemistry and sewing sets), such items must be put up in a form which clearly indicates their use as toys. Although one of the individual components is a toy, putting up the toy and soap for sale does not indicate that the whole article is to be used as a toy. Thus, the article may not be classified pursuant to GRI 1 as toys put up in a set.
[t]he classification of goods consisting of more than one material or substance shall be according to the principles of rule 3.
[m]ixtures, composite goods consisting of different materials or made up of different components...which cannot be classified by reference to 3(a), shall be classified as if they consisted of the material or component which gives them their essential character, insofar as this criterion is applicable.
The substance of Explanatory Notes VIII, IX, and X(b) to GRI 3(b) indicates that the dissimilarity of the toy and soap components precludes either item from providing the whole article with its essential character. The components, as entered, are not mutually complementary, not adapted to one another, and are not put up to meet a particular need or carry out a specific activity. Therefore, each individual component is separately classifiable.
The floating toys (with "Batman" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" themes) are properly classified in subheading 9503.90.60, HTSUSA, the provision for "Other toys...and accessories thereof: Other: Other: Other toys (except models), not having a spring mechanism." The general column one duty rate applicable to this merchandise is 6.8 percent ad valorem.
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Veteran Wallabies lock Rob Simmons signs contract extension with Rugby Australia
MABs squad named for Fiji Next
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Wallabies lock Rob Simmons has extended his stay at the NSW Waratahs after signing a two-year extension with Rugby Australia and New South Wales Rugby Union.
Simmons has reinvigorated his career following his move south from Queensland, and enjoyed a rich vein of form during the Waratahs' 2019 Super Rugby campaign.
The 30-year old is now in line to become just the 11th Australian test centurion should he earn six more Wallabies caps.
Simmons said: "It's been a great move to Sydney, both professionally and personally. My family have really enjoyed it and The Waratahs have been good to me so hopefully I can repay them over the next two years.
"The group is very focused on what they want to achieve and I'm just trying to support Hoops (Michael Hooper) in every way possible so that we can continue to mature as a group.
"The Wallabies have been a big part of my life for nearly a decade now and I'm hugely proud whenever I get the chance to wear the Wallaby jersey. I obviously knew that I had the option to still play for Australia and be based overseas and I had interest from a few clubs but that just wasn't what I wanted to do," Simmons said.
Wallabies coach Michael Cheika said: "Rob has played some of the best rugby of his career for the Waratahs this season. He has been very consistent and very resilient."
"I still believe there is plenty of growth in Rob's game and he is primed to show that over the coming months."
The Wallabies will depart for South Africa this weekend for a week-long camp on the Highveld before their test against the Springboks on Saturday July 20 at Ellis Park in Johannesburg.


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The flick is said to be documenting the humble beginnings and rise to fame of one Terry Gene Bollea, more commonly known by his ring name Hulk Hogan.
Multi-time WWE champion "The Hulkster" is arguably one of the biggest figures not only in wrestling but in pop culture as well and was responsible for bringing mainstream attention to the sport, giving birth to the wrestling boom and the "Rock and Wrestling connection" of the 1980s. He even appeared in movies such as 1989's No Holds Barred and 1993's Mr. Nanny.
Wrestling and movie fans had mixed reactions about the said biopic and the Thor star's casting.
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No other details about the flick have been disclosed yet. All we know for now is that the film will be directed by Todd Phillips, who is currently working on Joaquin Phoenix's standalone Joker flick. Hemsworth, on the other hand is set to appear in Men In Black International and Avengers: Endgame.


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I am a Phoenicopterus ruber, a Greater Flamingo and belong to the order Phoenicopteriformes.
I can be found in shallow waters or muddy flats , using my webbed feet to stir up grub.
I will grow to be 36 to 50 inches tall.
I especially enjoy feeding and breeding in mud flats.
I worry about my sister who was captured and no longer has access to carotenoid-rich food and has lost her beautiful pink coloration.
I protect myself by staying in large flocks or colonies and find safety in numbers.
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back from holiday - Tell me again, why do I need one of these things?
Now I am back from sunny but soggy Turkey (the rainy season turned up a week early) to not sunny but still soggy Britain (where the rainy season covers most of the year). The journey back was knackering to say the least. Up at 8am Turkish time, touch down 5am the following day in my own time zone. Through a migraine in on top and I think you might get some appreciation of my spaced out qualities.
if you want to stop traffic in Turkey, the_dosk and his beard is a good way to do it.
I actually sent post cards!
There is much more where that came from!
I am so tired right now and the typing is not up to much right now, so I will hopefully start catching up with e-mail and comments tomorrow.
That said, inform me please of any awesome doing the rounds.
I am looking forward to more tour descriptions!
hopefully, my postcard had the correct postage and n0w you have a lucky card full of luck. you just like using all your smart chemistry stuff, don't you?
I got it yesterday, yey!
Thank you very much, I am still looking for its best place in my room to keep away all the potential dangers emanating from chemistry.
Evils of chemistry? :-) I suggest hiding behind your computer, unless there is Doctor Who in the vicinity then follow the traditional behind the sofa option.
It's grey, cold and unexpectedly wet. I haven't experienced it for my myself yet, I just hide under warm things.
it's nice to be back, buut it was even nicer out there and mummyfrog keeps repeating it.
welcome back!!! not too much going on.
How are things going? I miss you.
I want to go to Turkey too!
It's warm and shiny, except when it rains. We had a pool, it was nice. I did lengths but they were only 7 metres.
Hey, welcome back. It sounds like you had a good time.
Bodrum Castle is very interesting, a lot of invaders and "guests" built their own towers. The underwater archaeology museum was closed, but we did get into the glass exhibition (more roman glass than... incredibly pretty) and the construction shows a healthy "nick some rock from that old thing" ethos, so there are heads, legs and columns in the walls. There are also peacocks, hens, and sellers of tasteful souvenirs (you can get the non-tasteful option by walking out into the covered market area) including glass men with willies and gorgeous and expensive classical-style jewlery. The views everywhere are incredibly and you shouldn't visit in the rain because most of the paths are made of marble (with some anti-skid value added by a bloke with a chisel). Oh, and it's pretty and any random archaeology is stowed somewhere in the grounds.
yay! they worked! turkish post offices can get crazy.


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Italian fashion group Prada said on Friday it appointed former Luxottica chief Andrea Guerra as its new chief executive officer, taking the place of Patrizio Bertelli and Miuccia Prada as planned.
French luxury group Kering has appointed Sabato De Sarno as creative director of Gucci, it said on Saturday. He will present his debut runway collection at Milan Women's Fashion Week in September 2023.
The luxury giant's main markets levelled out last year, with Asia, the US and Europe each accounting for around 25-30%, while it is betting on a strong recovery in China in 2023.
Luxury outerwear brand Canada Goose has become the latest in-demand name to launch a rental edit with Selfridges via the department store's website and its London flagship.
Fashion weeks never seem to stop in Paris. On Friday morning, the day after the haute couture season ended, Patou unveiled its Fall/Winter 2023 ready-to-wear collection. Guillaume Henry's best for the house.
There were three different ways of representing female empowerment during the last few days of haute couture fashion shows: maximalist glamour, explosive sensuality and embracing female communities.
Paris couture week ended with a stock market display by Roman powerhouse marque Fendi, a Chinese debutant and a cinematic rockin' ready-to-wear show in a former slaughterhouse from Mugler.
Ferragamo sales grow in 2022, but China Covid curbs hit Q4
Sales at Italian luxury goods group Salvatore Ferragamo rose by 5.7% at constant exchange rates last year, with a slowdown in the fourth quarter blamed on Covid restrictions in China.
Harvey Nichols has become the latest key fashion vendor to say it will go fur-free, joining other stores and brands that have made the move as campaign groups continue working to drive fur out of the fashion industry.
Luxury giant LVMH sales rise 9% in fourth quarter
Luxury goods group LVMH posted a 9% rise in sales in the fourth quarter as shoppers in Europe and the United States splurged over the crucial holiday season, helping to partly offset Covid disruptions in China.
Thom Browne takes control of its South Korean operations
The luxury brand of the eponymous designer has reached an agreement with its partner Samsung C&T Corporation to take over direct operation of its business in South Korea through the creation of a new company.
DMIx launches photo-realistic virtual models
It's billed as "groundbreaking" in the world of digitalisation. Germany's ColorDigital is launching DMIx StudioAvatars and DMIx 3D-Studio "for a full end-to-end digital product development workflow".
Lots of Haider and not a huge quantity of Jean Paul at Jean Paul Gaultier haute couture By Haider Ackermann, the fourth edition of the project of inviting other designers to create one-off Gaultier couture collections.
Valentino's Pierpaolo Piccioli went back to the 80s for inspiration this season in couture, blending the euphoria of that decade with today's greater sense of inclusivity.
Ermenegildo Zegna's performance slows down in 2022 due to China
The Italian luxury group reached 1.49 billion euros in 2022 with an increase of 15.5%, but it sees its progress slowing down in particular in the fourth quarter (-0.5%) penalized by the anti-Covid policy in China.
Hugo Boss's youthful Boss label has returned to the slopes as Presenting Partner of the Hahnenkamm Races in Kitzbühel, Austria, and also unveiled its new collab with specialist skiwear brand Perfect Moment.


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I Finally Arrive at My Definitions of Science, Technology, and Religion
To define is to separate and, one hopes, to clarify. Sometimes, however, definitions also create problems. Do religion and science represent two clearly definable two things?
In this post, I return to those questions and offer my answers.
This post again excerpted from my book
Peter Harrison has argued that some definitions that we take for granted have only existed in the past 300 years or so. In that sense they are arguably "modern"—i.e., post-Enlightenment—concepts. For that reason he would rather talk of the "territories" of religion and science, not their definitions. Referring to the historic alterations in defining science, Harrison writes on the shift from emphasizing an approach to focusing on what it produces:
"Overstating the matter somewhat, in the Middle Ages scientific knowledge was an instrument for the inculcation of scientific habits of mind; now scientific habits of mind are cultivated primarily as an instrument for the production of scientific knowledge." Peter Harrison
Harrison then describes how views of religion have changed since the time of
Thomas Aquinas in the twelfth century:
"Between Thomas's time and our own, religio has been transformed from a human virtue into a generic something typically constituted by sets of beliefs and practices." Peter Harrison
This prodigious and erudite work, which represents Harrison's 2011 Gifford Lectures, is fundamentally discipline-changing and will influence how I describe these two terms in my reconstruction of historical American views on religion and science.
Nonetheless, Harrison repeatedly focuses on "beliefs and practices," which is inadequate for grasping contemporary definitions of religion. True, one of the greatest minds in the sociology of religion, Émile Durkheim, offered this definition in his 1912 Elementary Forms of Religious Life: "A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden—beliefs and practices which unite in one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them." But a great deal has changed in the past 100 years in the study of religion, and any number of more recent commentators such as Robert Bellah, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Huston Smith, Clifford Geertz, Robert Orsi, and Stephen Prothero do not solely emphasize beliefs and practices.
Prothero is perhaps clearest in presenting his "four Cs" of religion:
"creed, cultus, code, and community." (Stephen Prothero's four marks of a religion)
Obviously beliefs ("creeds") and practices ("cultus") can be found in this palette, but these two do not exhaust his list. Similarly, Orsi, in his ground-breaking The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith And Community In Italian Harlem, 1880–1950, coined the term lived religion as including "the work of social agents/actors themselves as narrators and interpreters (and reinterpreters) of their own experiences and histories, recognizing that the stories we tell about others exist alongside the many and varied story they tell of themselves." At this point I'll add myth or story—narratives about how the world works and our place in it—as central to what a religion does.
Religious narratives and practices form us. Or, put differently, as George Lindbeck pointed out in his brilliant The Nature of Doctrine, religious teachings do not simply express internal states of piety (the experiential-expressive model), but form how we experience life and the world. Lindbeck, appropriating the later Wittgenstein, summarized his cultural-linguistic alternative:
"a religion can be viewed as a kind of cultural and/or linguistic framework or medium that shapes the entirety of life and thought." George Lindbeck
Finally, these comments lead to two related definitions—theology, "the systematic study and development of religious beliefs and theory," and theologians, those who produce theology.
In addition, what I hope is clear then is that these scholars do not equate religion with belief in a supernatural being. Buddhism, as is commonly known, has many nontheistic forms and it is not even clear that the Buddha himself had much use for a god. Belief in God or many gods may of course be a component of religion in the sense that I'm using the word, but there's much more. The scholarly definition of religion brings us much closer to spirituality in common parlance, especially among emerging adults who play a major role in this book and my methods, which makes it difficult to interpret "I'm spiritual, but not religious." Roughly speaking, to be spiritual is to be religious in the academic study of religion.
From Harrison I've learned a sensitivity to the ways in which the terms religion (or religio) and science (or scientia) have changed during the past 300 years in the story I am telling. He thus highlights the problem of essentialism, which Joshua Reeves also raises, that there are enduring essences in religion and science, or, put another way, that these two are natural kinds; i.e., ones that exist in nature and not simply in the socially constructed world of human beings.
Related to the issue of essentialism is the question Who speaks for a particular religion? I often tell my introductory to religion students that, in a lecture on Islam, for example, I'm offering general contours for the religion as a whole, but they shouldn't think that this applies to every single 1.8 billion Muslims. If religion is a "thing," then all who participate in this "thing" ipso facto agree. But it's not that simple. Religion, like truth, resists simplicity.
Jettisoning essentialism can lead to significant problems, as Reeves admits,
"If one rejects essentialism—if one gives up the assumption that unique features unite science across time and disciplines—then there is no straightforward way to prove the 'scientific' nature of theological claims or to assert the cognitive parity of theology and science." Joshua Reeves
He's right. Although essentialism makes a scholar's life easier, it's deficient. In addition to mourning the loss of essentialism, we cannot comprehend the relationship of science and religion solely as cognitive categories. And yet, even if I don't swallow anti-essentialism whole in this book—or that we best grasp religion and science as sources of systematic knowledge (alluding to John Evans)—I note these critiques as a way to chasten any overly enthusiastic conclusions. And below I will even propose two working definitions.
Finally, before asserting that I can propose those definitions I will further complicate the binary mode of science and religion by gradually slipping in a third term (one that admittedly does not even make it into my title): technology, which is replacing elements of what has been defined as science in the minds of many. In agreement with the comments by Willem Drees, technology is increasingly central to the science and religion dialogue: "The practice of science is culturally and technologically embodied…." In studying the mindset of 18–30-year-olds, I have discovered that technology and science are closely related. That these two terms appear conjoined merits no particular power for determining their definitions. Nevertheless, we cannot comprehend Artificial Intelligence or genetic engineering, as two examples, except as both scientific and technological pursuits.
Moreover, technology and science are actually quite close, and what affected the historical interaction of "science and religion" was not only Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, but also the development of geography and shipbuilding that brought the English and Spanish to the Americas and thus Darwin to the Galapagos.
With these considerations in mind I arrive at my working definitions—or, perhaps better, as heuristics—of my key terms.
Science is "knowledge about or study of the natural world, framed in theories based on observation, which are tested through experimentation." Science studies nature.
Religion, which is an even trickier term than science, doesn't just "study God," but it can be defined as "the belief in God or in many gods or Ultimate Reality, as well as an organized system of beliefs, ceremonies, sacred stories, and ethical guidelines used to relate to God, a plurality of gods, or Ultimate Reality."
Finally I define technology as "the use of science in industry, engineering, etc. to invent useful things or to solve problems" and "a machine, piece of equipment, method, etc. that is created by the use of science."
Which leads to a question: What do you think?
Labels: George Lindbeck, Joshua Reeves, Peter Harrison, science and religion, technology
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This post excerpted from my book
To define is to separate and, one hopes, to clarify. Sometimes, however, definitions also create problems. Do religion and science represent two clearly definable two things? Lurking in this blog may lie a desire to reify science and religion as one thing each because then we would have a singular relationship between them. And who wouldn't want that? If we simply could help these two dance in a beautifully orchestrated duet, life might be beautiful. But that convenient pairing was a convenient fiction, a useful heuristic device.
Even more, I often use the terms science and religion--and even faith when I'm referring more specifically to the Christian faith--but I haven't really defined those terms, and so I decided to start to rectify the situation here... at least by noting why those definitions are problematic and complicated.
Not until 1833 did the Cambridge University historian and philosopher of science William Whewell coin the term "scientist" to replace such terms as "cultivators of science." Indeed, even today there is no one Science with a capital S. In fact—as is the case in French and other languages, but not in English—we would do better to refer to "the sciences" (or less sciences) or the "science of x," such as physics, biology, or—to follow Thomas Torrance— even the "science of theology." A.D. Ritchie offers this in his Studies in the History and Methods of Sciences,
"There is no Science in the singular, for there are only sciences."
And "There is no one scientific method that is universally applicable." A.D. Ritchie
The failure of the Logical Positivists in the 1920s to sustain their assertion of verification and then Karl Popper's later revision, also a failure, to promote falsification demonstrate that the "scientific method" of fourth grade science fairs provides no real aid in comprehending what scientists actually do. By the middle of the twentieth century Thomas Kuhn's "paradigm shifts" and Paul Feyerabend's Against Method (a book title that apply describes its ethos and tone) further solidify the chaos. For my part, I'm most convinced by Imre Lakatos's "research programme" as well as Peter Lipton's Inference to the Best Explanation as meditating theories between the putative Scientific Method and scientific anarchy, which I'll simply note for now.
Despite these challenges, defining science represents the less complicated side of the ledger. The term religion also has no single consensual definition in the academic guild, nor among its practitioners. The classic five "world religions" of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism all tolerate at best an uneasy relationship with the moniker religion. For example, Stephen Prothero has written, "One of the most common claims among Hindus in the West is that 'Hinduism is a way of life' rather than a religion … Sanatana Dharma (Eternal Law)," and many Christians will say that their faith is "a relationship, not a religion." And when one includes Native American cultures, the discussion becomes particularly intriguing. Severin M. Fowles has noted that there is no good word for "religion" among the Southeast Pueblo peoples, but instead the best rendering is "doing," and so he titles his study of their practices and beliefs, An Archaeology of Doings.
I'll stop there, but the citations could certainly be multiplied. It is no less difficult to find an accepted definition among scholars such as Alister McGrath who, in his introduction to religion and science, was provoked to concede, "there is no generally accepted definition of religion."
While I appreciate McGrath's intellectual humility, I cannot take recourse to this approach in this blog. My thoughts will await another post, but for now I leave with this question, "What do you think is the meaning of science and of religion?"
Labels: Alister McGrath, Christian faith, Negotiating Science and Religion in America, religion and science
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Barth on Beauty, A Nexus for Science and Theology (and More)
Last week I looked at beauty as a possible nexus for theology, philosophy, science, and art. But I mainly set out the problems. In this post, I set out a proposal, this one from theology.
On the way there, I submit a few preliminary clarifications. The first is my definition:
Beauty is rightness and telos. More specifically, the telos of beauty is the perception and formulation of rightness that provides a lure for theologians, philosophers, scientists, and artists.
Thus, beauty represents rightness. It arises for both theologians and scientists through rightly perceiving and theorizing about how their objects of study. It is thus a perception of truth. Beauty also provides a lure for study. In this sense, it offers telos. For theologians, it can be grasping God's true nature, God's creation, and our ethical life. For scientist, it is the rightly perceiving, and theorizing about, nature. When this perception is made, it is accompanied by a sense of completeness. So beauty is the draw for truth and goodness.
Plato noted the linguistic play between the noun kalos, beauty, and the verb kalleo, "call" or "lure." Beauty calls out to us. Sometimes beauty has been described as a criterion for truth. Here I am emphasizing that it is beauty that makes the quest for truth interesting. Without beauty, there would be no personal interesting.
Consequently, beauty in this sense is telic—it moves us toward a telos. Beauty offers telos in that beauty is motivation, fulfillment, and direction. Beauty offers direction by luring theologians and scientists in their work. Theologians might even point to a glimpse of eschatological wholeness. Something beautiful points to the One who is Beauty. This teleological element of beauty is a component of the well-known insight that beauty pleases us. Though this pleasure has often been focused on the eyes, I submit that we receive beauty through a variety of faculties, and perhaps most importantly intellectually, or through the "eyes of the mind."
In some ways—but certainly with regional variations—theology, philosophy, science, and art seek truth of expression, whether it's God's, the world's, or other forms. My definition of beauty therefore relates to both ontology and epistemology. Beauty exists outside of the knower. As well, it can be understood by the human mind. Both of these assertions are important. (Accordingly, I am committed to a critical realism, in which reality exists outside of the mind of the knower and yet the interests and limitations of the knower interact with what is known. I take this position to be the current consensus in the dialogue of theology and science.)
One main candidate for a theological articulation of beauty is Karl Barth's. Ultimately, he writes, God's glory finds its expression as beauty. Barth sets glory as a locus of theological reflection within the divine attributes—which he prefers to call "Divine Perfections." In fact, glory for Barth constitutes "the sum of the divine perfections" (Church Dogmatics II/1, trans. G.W. Bromiley [Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1957], 653. Hereafter "CD II/1"). Here, of course, Barth channels the deepest traditions of Reformed theology.
In the midst of unfolding his theology of glory, Barth offers this definition for God's beauty: To declare that God is beautiful is
To say that God has this superior force, this power of attraction, which speaks for itself, which wins and conquers, in the fact that He is beautiful, divinely beautiful …. God loves us as the One who is worthy of love as God. This is what we mean when we say that God is beautiful." Karl Barth, CD II/1, 651
Thus, for Barth, God's worthiness for human love is the basis of God's beauty. This divine perfection also draws us to God. Whereas there is a tendency in Hans Urs von Balthasar almost to equate beauty and glory, Barth subordinates it to God's glory: "We shall not presume to try to interpret God's glory from the point of view of His beauty, as if it were the essence of His glory" (CD II/1, 655).
Nonetheless, because he focuses on glory, he finds beauty within its lexical field: "We must now point to the purely philological fact that the significance of the world 'glory' and its Hebrew, Greek, Latin and even German equivalents, at least includes and expresses what we call beauty" (CD II/1, 653).
There will, however, be no easy connection of beautiful things within the world as demonstrably revealing God's nature. Barth's theology is marked by his aversion to "natural theology," and this characteristic ultimately limits his contribution to the theology-science dialogue. This fact, however, need not stop Reformed theology, which has always maintained a robust theology of creation and therefore of God's intelligible beauty in the glory of the natural world. (Here, by the way, I am simply using "nature" or "the natural world" as synonyms for "creation," though the latter has a stronger theological history.)
Finally, Barth argues, for theologians and philosophers to do their work rightly, and for the human being to live with right ethics, they are living and working beautifully. Accordingly, the Reformed tradition calls theologians to pursue their work as the quest for beauty. And since beauty pleases us, this is a joyful task.
In another post, I will reflect on the statements of scientists who describe their work as the pursuit of beauty. Similarly, Barth has spoken of theology as a "peculiarly beautiful science" (CD II/1, 656). With a perceptibly wry smile, he writes,
"The theologian who has no joy in his work is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this science" Karl Barth, (CD II/1, 656).
The object of theologians' study is the God of beauty and wonder. Therefore the form of theology ought to mirror the glory of its content. The glorious beams of this object of study—who is also Subject—infuses and illuminates theologians' work.
Labels: beauty, Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Karl Barth, science and religion
Reflections on the Challenges to the Concept of Beauty as a Nexus for Science, Philosophy, Theology, and Art
I've been there. I've been in the jazz combo, grasping for beauty, sitting and drumming while the upright bass thumps, driving the rhythm to my side, just to the left of my hi-hat. As my right hand rides the rhythm on the cymbal, the tenor sax soars and dips, improvising around the chord changes, my left hand and foot on the kick drum, alongside the piano, "comping" the soloist.
And for some moments—and sometimes longer—it is truly magical: we find a right relationship among the rhythms and chords. We feel the groove. We improv. And beauty emerges. The beauty arises from the music while it is played. Beauty has movement and narrative. Beauty has a story. It is known by its dynamism. It is hypnotic and inspiring, luring us on. Somewhere in the process we find a truth.
And without beauty, what is the worth of truth? Augustine, with his voluntarist twinges, has convinced me that rationality, and its ability to grasp truth, must be accompanied by affections of the will, which is motivated by beauty. Playing jazz drums reminds me that it is when the combo actually finds that moment of rightness—where we groove and improv together—that I am lured to continue.
In fact, I'm convinced that beauty understood as rightness and telos, as reality fitting together—is a kind of beauty that can be grasped in science, philosophy, theology, and art. The beauty is a lure for theologians, philosophers, scientists, and artists.
I've presented previously, beauty stands at the nexus of these disciplines. But here—lest these initial musings make beauty sound irresistible in its allure and unmistakable and simplistic—l'll outline a few challenges to beauty.
The first is the natural world itself. On many occasions, I walked through one of my
favorite sights, Upper Bidwell Park in Chico, California, struck by this realization: natural beauty doesn't take us into account. In fact, nature frankly disregards us.
Taking a walk on a misty, windy morning through Upper Bidwell Park's rugged, bumpy, and austere lava rock, I felt like Jonathan Edwards as I encountered both Nature and Nature's God where contemplation led him
"... into a kind of vision… of being alone in the mountains, or some solitary wilderness, far from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ, and wrapped and swallowed up in God."
As I reflected on the natural world, I felt that I was understanding a bit more about God. God for Edwards is not a cozy Friend, but a transcendent and terrible Lord. Even more, I felt a bit like Simone Weil because I was most taken by the austerity of Nature's beauty. It didn't take me into account at all. And that fact was particularly alluring. This fact would give lie to the idea that beautiful things exist merely to please us in an unambiguous way. Beauty in fact may be stern and displeasing. When we come to beauty, we will do well to dispense with all types of sentimentality.
Just as challenging is the philosophical context. Though his work is well over a hundred years old, Friedrich Nietzsche laid down the gauntlet for Christian theologians to discuss beauty. He challenged the notion that Christians, following Jesus, care a wit about beauty. Beauty ought to be connected with power and nobility. We, he opines, care about notions of weaknesses and assign those to goodness. His complaints about the Christian notions of beauty and goodness swing into the twentieth century like a large, formidable door. As he put it,
"It was the Jew [Jesus] who, with frightening consistency, dared to invert the aristocratic value equations good/noble/powerful/beautiful/happy/favored-of-the gods and maintain, with furious hatred of the underprivileged and impotent, that "only the poor, the powerless, are good; on the suffering, sick, and ugly, truly blessed. But you noble and mighty ones of the earth will be, to all eternity, the evil, the cruel, the avaricious, the godless, and thus the cursed and damned!" Friedrich Nietzsche
Nonetheless, as the century progressed, it was not Christianity, but secular thought that disentangled beauty from art. While strolling contently through at an exhibit in the stunning Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati in spring 2004, I came across a still life by the provocative twentieth century artist, Marcel Duchamp. The attached comment by The New Yorker's art critic, Peter Schjeldahl, is bombastic but not idiosyncratic. He wrote in July 1969,
"Art is not usually edible, but it is known to satisfy certain hungers. In the last century, it was thought that Beauty, that vitamin concentrate, was what we were after. More recently, Duchamp taught us that art is simply habit-forming, like salted peanuts, and that Beauty all along was the glutton's alibi…. Nothing about art has ever been honest except our hunger for it." Peter Schjeldahl
Like Schjeldahl, the twentieth century generally impugns the notion that art and beauty belong together. Beauty in fact becomes merely a lure for purchasing art.
And there are more reasons to stop now: There is the argument from neo-Darwinian science that beauty exists merely a by-product of what creates fitness for survival. To this contention, I propose that pursuing beauty is central and definitive and that it solves the problem of good more effectively than a pure survival of the fittest. Just as there is the problem of theodicy, there exists the less discussed, but no less tenacious, problem of good: Why is there good in the world? The classic atheistic evolutionary perspective subordinates the elements of good and beauty to the ability to survive. Thus, for example, beauty in human beings must always relate to survival through fertility, strength, etc. But why then the purely creative elements of colored leaves in fall, the spectrum of the rainbow, the sound of the whales' call? Hardcore evolutionary science must see this as a by-product. Instead, my research program sets beauty at the core of reality.
For these reasons and more, many think that beauty seems like it's a far cry from being a viable candidate for bringing together theology, philosophy, science, and art. But, as I wrote above, I think it's a viable nexus. More on that next week.
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The Shady Bunch✡
Jiangsu TV Singing Competition
Starry, Starry Night (IC, guitar)
Interview with Mr. Dongfang
2012/03/25: Added video embeds of my TV appearances as a page, added beta versions of mrtao.com in italiano and Esperanto
2011/12/15: The Epu Conference in Shenzhen, China (Beta)
2011/12/1: More laughing about MGM. A German-Irish (un)Mormon Katherine Heigl plays in a comedy about a woman who castrates dogs and wishes to castrate men. Created by jewfag Calvin Klein and 911 criminal Ronald S. Lauder.
What if the gender roles were reversed?
2011/11: Made a Chinese song and several graphics, which combined form a video protest against human trafficking. An explanatory page (in English) details the multiple meanings in the lyrics, which started out as a cryptic poem.
The producers of MTV are heavily involved in human trafficking, and perhaps through their intimate knowledge of the problem, they've produced quite an interesting piece on the theme.
2011/04: Made a humor page about the International Commonwealth Games, Delhi, India, which concern the fake economic miracle of India
2011/03: Starting to get recognition for translation work done on "Karamay": "Any future book on documentary film history will have to mark a place of honor for Karamay… an astonishing achievement on every level." – Variety [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
2010/12: Published an article on New Dynasty, Fake Fakeness. Started translation on my second movie, "Pathway." Founded a Hick, bluegrass meditation cult thekbh.org. Merry Christmas, all!
2010/06: Expanded the page concerning infant penlie cutting and its effect on America. Also see this page and this one which talk about the connection between genital mutilation and serial killers.
2010/05: Wrote a scientific article on the living fossil, the danielian maximus. Updated dead links on the yoga articles page. Added graphic at bottom for my new book, "Quest for Chinese Culture", written by Yu Qiuyu and translated by moi. You can see it featured in the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair here.
2009/12: Wrote an article on the problem of international English, which includes an expose of the pedophile Wesley Hoyle Lowe.
2009/11: Did an interview for NEW DYNASTY Magazine, Xi'an. Have new article on MSN Bubblmen.
2009/04: Added a new page about the flying pig virus of Mexico®. Added the spiritual diary, a corrected and annotated version of that from the great Swami SivAnanda and the Divine Life Society (plue, unu esperanta versio)
2009/02: Made a page about the foreign experts exam now required by the Nanjing gov't. Made a page about weird food in China.
2008/12: Made a page about smoking. Made a page (in Esperanto) concerning tantric Tibetan "Buddhism".
2008/4: Made a page about Chinglish.
2008/2: Made a series of music shorts with my bromie Che Leon. Completed Chinese subtitles EH's videos "Sex Slaves" and "Japanese 911" and translated "Alaskism" - a parody of racial ignorance/blindness in the USA. All Chinese translations on EH's page (formerly "The French Connection") are by yours truly and can be accessed here.
2008/1: Completed the five-part short video documentary "Holy India". Made translations for Eric Hufschmid, demolitions expert and a 9.11, Apollo and halocaust investigator. "Why We Believe Zionists are the Masterminds of the 9.11 Attack" and the video "False Flags" now have Chinese versions - article video. The first version was embedded on this page with a translation and linked from the original "Why" article and got 100,000 views in under two weeks. As of now, there are already a half million hits. Are some Chinese wising up to the zionist mafia?
2007/12: Worked on cleaning up the site, clearing references to unclean things. Went to India to hail KaruNAmayI.
2007/11: Made the yoga videos "Turn Around", "Christ Has No Body" and "Wheels".. Made an introduction to Chinese Cheerios.
2007/9: Made the yoga video "Smells and Bells".
2oo7/7: Moved the music videos to the "Concert Hall". Made the slideshow "American Cats".
2007/6: Made the above videos: Revolution, Fandangos de Huelva (flamenco), Tianlu [Skyway] au naturale, Tianlu (with solo), The Gift of Time (celibacy promotion video), and an interview on Chinese TV. The translation is available at the Youtube link in the video summary. Please remember to rate, comment and/or subscribe to my videos as there will be more in the future.
2007/5: Made several inspirational auidos at Celibacy.info, one of which, The Homecoming, is archived here.
2007/4: Added a Hawai'i page, a page about barehandedness, a page about machines, a smoke nazi page, and a prose piece called Spirit is Sweet. A reminder to all friends to check back frequently to my Spiritual Brother Julian Lee's page - where I am now a contributor and webmaster - and my blog which maintains a large stock of recent photos and Chinese language blog entries. Anyone who still thinks I'm lazy can check out my new book which is an original work written entirely in Chinese. It was published nationwide in China and officially began distribution in March [first printing sold out November 23rd].
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Mimi Elashiry (Australian model, dancer, traveler + creator) and Paul Kaufman's friendship began over boots and a love of the style-soaked vintage American western clothing they both collected. Drawing on their shared obsession for vintage western boots, passion for the environment and a love for well-made, functional products, it was inevitable that Mimi and Paul would conjure something magical together.
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