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AWN to host free spouse events at Fort Meade
Resident Movie Night
Back-to-School safety tips
Corvias Foundation Awards 2014 Educational Grants to Military Spouses
Oven cleaning tip
Conquer your laundry heap
Utility upgrades and what to do when the lights go out
Army Wife Network to host free spouse events at Fort Meade September 18-19
An event filled with friendship, laughter, prizes, advice and self-discovery is coming September 18-19 to Fort Meade. Corvias Military Living is proud to partner with Army Wife Network, a multi-media resource site for Army spouses, to bring the Field Exercise: Battle Buddies to Fort Meade's military spouses.
The Field Exercise: Battle Buddies is a networking and military appreciation event for spouses. Army Wife Network's Tara Crooks, Janet MacIntosh and Paula Swanson will host two, free sessions from 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday, September 18 and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, September 19. Both sessions of the Field Exercise are free and focus on creating a personal support network to help navigate Army life.
"Our Field Exercise will have a room full of talking and laughing spouses engaged with each other and recharging their spirits by putting themselves first," said Crooks, co-founder of Army Wife Network and 2013 Armed Forces Insurance Army Spouse of the Year. "This is the first time the Army Wife Network team has visited Fort Meade, and we could not be more excited."
The two four-hour sessions are identical and will feature a full lunch or dinner, door prizes and giveaways. A limited number of free childcare spots will be available through CYSS as part of Corvias's sponsorship of this event. To register for this childcare, please call Corvias at (410) 672-4033 and ask for Camille Torres.
Registration for these events will open September 1 at www.armywifenetwork.com under the events section. Space is limited and a ticket will be required for event entry. Remember, only register for one of the two sessions and watch for more details and information from Corvias and Army Wife Network as the registration date approaches.
Please join us for our Resident Appreciation Movie Night on Friday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. Come enjoy snacks and an outdoor movie on the big screen at the Parade Field. Don't forget to bring your blankets and chairs. The movie will begin at dusk. We look forward to seeing you there!
The end of the summer is here and it's once again time to get ready for school. With that in mind, residents should be mindful of increased vehicle, bike and pedestrian traffic during peak school hours. Below are the top Back-to-School safety tips from safekids.org:
Reminders for drivers:
Slow down and be especially alert in residential areas and school zones.
Take extra time to look for kids at intersections, on medians and on curbs.
Watch for children on and near the road in the morning and after school hours.
Reduce any distractions inside your car so you can concentrate on the road and your surroundings.
When parking vehicles in driveways, do not block sidewalks.
Reminders for school children:
For their safety, children should cross the street with an adult until they are at least 10 years old.
Never run out into the streets or cross in between parked cars.
Make sure they always walk in front of the bus where the driver can see them.
Wear a helmet when riding a bicycle.
Walk in groups of three or more.
We wish you a safe and fun school year!
Want to buy locally grown produce? Come to the Farmers Market where local farmers sell their locally grown fresh fruit, vegetables, plants, meats and other fresh produce. The market is held every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Smallwood Hall parking lot from now until Nov. 12. Grilled lunch is available on site for sale. For more information contact 301-252-8688 or 301-677-3981.
Since 2006, John G. Picerne's foundation, Corvias Foundation, has awarded over $5 million in scholarships and educational grants to children and spouses of active-duty service members. This year, the Foundation awarded $100,000 in educational grants to spouses of active-duty service members, including the following:
Jannette Martinez is a freshman pursuing a Certificate in Medical Billing from the U.S. Career Institute. Mrs. Martinez enjoys the medical field and looks forward to pursuing a career in medical billing. Her husband is Staff Sgt. Marcos Martinez of the 412 AMXS/MXAJ of the U.S. Air Force.
Eielson Air Force Base, AK
Latisha Davis is a sophomore pursuing an Associate's degree in Nursing from the University of Alaska Anchorage. Mrs. Davis has worked in healthcare for 20 years, and looks forward to continuing her education to eventually become a Registered Nurse. Her husband is Tech. Sgt. Charles Clinton Davis of the Command/PACAF Unit 354 MXG of the U.S. Air Force.
Amanda Bechtel is a senior pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Fayetteville State University. Mrs. Bechtel would eventually like to work with Soldiers with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Her husband is Spc. Benjamin W. Bechtel of the 108 ADA 1-7 BN of the U.S. Army.
Cindy Himmelhaver is a sophomore pursuing an Associate's degree in Biology from Fayetteville Technical Community College. Mrs. Himmelhaver currently has a 4.0 GPA and ultimately wants to work for the VA as a Physician's Assistant. Her husband is Spc. Noah Himmelhaver of the 36th Army Support Medical Company, 261st Multifunctional Medical Battalion, 44th Medical Brigade of the U.S. Army.
Tiffani James is pursuing a Master's in Social Work at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Mrs. James recently completed a victim-advocate internship and has volunteered many hours at the schools in her community. Her husband is Sgt. 1st Class Dustin S. James of the U.S. Army.
Tiffany Streeter is pursuing an Associate's degree in Dental Hygiene at Central Carolina Community College. Mrs. Streeter currently has a 4.0 GPA and is an active volunteer in her community. Her husband is Staff Sgt. David T. Streeter of the 82nd Airborne Division, 82nd CAV, 1st Squadron 17th Calvary Regiment, E Troop 1-17th CAV of the U.S. Army.
Fabersha Flynt is pursuing a Doctorate in Education from Northeastern University. Her husband was stationed out of Fort Polk when he was killed by an improvised explosive device in Iraq in 2006. Mrs. Flynt's goal is to educate minority males in higher education. Her husband was Staff Sgt. Bryan Anthony Lewis of the 258th Military Police Co., 519th Military Police Battalion, Warrior Brigade of the U.S. Army.
Kathrine Garcia is a junior pursing a Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from Upper Iowa University. The first in her family to attend college, Mrs. Garcia has an Associate's degree in Paralegal Studies, and eventually wants to attend law school. Her husband is Spc. Richmond Rieza of the 2-4 Infantry of the U.S. Army.
Amanda Harrison is pursuing a Certificate in Legal Assisting from Auburn University, on her path towards a Master's in Addiction Therapy. Mrs. Harrison is passionate about her studies and has volunteered many hours in her community. Her husband is Sgt. Jeffery A. Harrison of the Alpha Company 5th Aviation Battalion of the U.S. Army.
Fort Riley, KS
Sara Devine is pursuing a Master's degree in Special Education with a certification in Secondary Education at Kansas State University. Mrs. Devine currently works as a para-educator in a middle school special education classroom and looks forward to eventually having her own classroom. Her husband is Sgt. John Devine of the Charlie Company, 1-1 Brigade Special Troops Battalion of the U.S. Army.
Jenna Osterman is pursuing a Master's degree in Social Work from Washburn University. Mrs. Osterman is dedicated to helping others and wants to be a family advocate for the Army. She currently works at a non-profit homeless shelter. Her husband is 2nd Lt. William Jordan of the 1st Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st ABCT, 1 ID of the U.S. Army.
Wendy Therkelsen is a sophomore pursuing an Associate's degree in Veterinary Technology at Brown Mackie College-Salina. Mrs. Osterman has worked in a veterinary office for the past 9 years and looks forward to expanding her career. Her husband is Master Sgt. Jason Therkelsen of the OPS Company, DHHB of the U.S. Army.
Leslie Valencia is a senior pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Nursing from Wichita State University. Mrs. Valencia will be the first in her family to graduate from college and she looks forward to starting her nursing career. Her husband is Spc. Edgar E. Valencia Jr. of the HHC 1st Engineer Battalion of the U.S. Army.
Anne Combs is pursuing a Master's degree in Education from Grand Canyon University. Mrs. Combs has volunteered many hours in her community and aspires to work in adult education, inspiring others as a teacher. Her husband is Sgt. Derek S. Combs of the B-Co 1/223 AVN of the U.S. Army.
Fort Sill, OK
Amber Abernathy is a junior pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Forensic Science from Everest College-Phoenix. Mrs. Abernathy has volunteered many hours in her community and wants to work for the Department of Defense Criminal Investigation Division. Her husband is Staff Sgt. Adam Abernathy of the 428 Fires Brigade, 1/78 FA, B Battery of U.S. Army.
Amber McGuire is a freshman pursuing an Associate's degree in Human Services Management from the University of Phoenix. Mrs. McGuire currently works as a job coach for individuals with special needs and wants to also help others as an addictions counselor. Her husband is Pfc. Daniel McGuire of the Alpha 313 75th FIRES Brigade of the U.S. Army.
Aimee Burnett is pursuing an Associate's degree in Nursing from Northwest Florida State College. Mrs. Burnett currently has a 4.0 GPA and is studying to become a Certified Nurse-Midwife. Her husband is Capt. James Talon Burnett of the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron of the U.S. Air Force.
Sarah Bondarev is a junior pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from Wichita State University. Mrs. Bondarev enjoys accounting and wants to be a Certified Public Accountant. Her husband is Airman 1st Class Pavel Bondarev of the 22 Mission Support Group, 22 Communication Squadron of the U.S. Air Force.
Ashley LaMothe is pursuing a Master's degree in Forensic Science from Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences. Mrs. LaMothe wants to work in a medical examiner's or coroner's office as a death investigator. Her husband is Senior Airman Stephan LaMothe of the Air Mobility Command (AMC) in the 22nd Logistics Readiness Squadron (LRS) of the U.S. Air Force.
Alexandra Thomas is pursuing a Master's in Physician Assistant Studies from Wichita State University. Mrs. Thomas is passionate about healthcare and has volunteered many hours at her local hospital. She also volunteers many hours with the Key Spouse Program. Her husband is Senior Airman Joshua Thomas of the 22nd AMXS Squadron of the U.S. Air Force.
Leave the racks in while running the self-clean cycle on your oven. When the cycle is complete all the baked on grease and grime should wipe right off your oven racks.
Do you sometimes feel that no matter how many loads of laundry you do, more piles of clothes keep appearing even before you're finished? Try this system to make laundry more efficient and less time-consuming.
If you wash fewer than five loads per week, select one day to finish the entire process: sorting, laundering, folding, ironing, and storing.
If you have several loads, try a daily system, strictly adhering to a morning or evening routine and doing one or two loads per day.
Keep all products you will need close at hand.
Set aside space for a "repair center" for clothes that need new buttons, alterations, or mending. Then make all the fixes in one sitting.
Keep a small dish nearby to collect coins, buttons, and other items found in pockets.
Go to the dry cleaner on the same day each week to cut down on multiple trips.
Find a comfortable area to fold clothes.
Recruit family members to help. (And good luck with that.)
There have been several power outages at Fort Meade this summer and we know that it can be frustrating when the lights go out. The good news is that the installation is working to upgrade existing gas and electric lines on post. This process will end with new underground infrastructure, which will improve the utility service to homes that have not yet received utility upgrades.
Upgrades have been completed in Heritage Park and Constellation Energy and Baltimore Gas Electric (BGE) are currently upgrading infrastructure to areas in Patriot Ridge, Potomac Place and Meuse Forest. This effort will continue through Spring 2015 for these areas. Those affected will be notified in advance to prepare, as workers will need to enter homes several times to install infrastructure. Upgrades for Midway Common and Normandy Bluffs are scheduled to begin next year.
In the meantime, storms, aged infrastructure and the utility line upgrade project may lead to outages. If you experience an outage here are some tips to follow:
If you have access to a smartphone, monitor the Fort Meade Facebook page for updates from the Directorate of Public Works.
You may go to your local Community Office, using your key fob after business hours, for WiFi service or to charge your devices.
Your renters insurance and the Fort Meade Claims Division can assist with losses of personal property and food.
Please report any outages to your neighborhood office.
The Fort Meade upgrade project of electricity and gas lines will solve a large portion of current outage issues when it is complete. We thank you for your patience as the installation continues this project.
The Corvias Military Living annual resident satisfaction survey will begin in October and will continue into November. Surveys are conducted by SatisFacts, an independent property management research firm.
How can you save energy and keep your clothes wrinkle-free? Iron fabrics that require a cooler iron first and work up to those requiring higher heat. An iron heats faster than it cools, so it's quicker to go from low to high than the reverse. You'll use less energy.
Sept. 1: Community Offices open 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Sept. 11: 9/11 Remembrance
Sept. 12: Installation Run
Sept. 17: Community Job Fair
Sept. 18: Air Force Birthday
Sept. 20: Run Series: Football Fanfare, Constitution Park, 8 a.m.
Sept. 25: Community Council
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The 4 new Netflix original movies and TV shows released this weekend
Travis Clark
"The Perfect Date"
Netflix is releasing four new original movies and TV shows this weekend.
They include the new romantic comedy, "The Perfect Date," and new series "Special."
Netflix usually releases its new original content on Fridays, just in time for subscribers to binge-watch them the entire weekend.
This Friday, Netflix dropped its new original series, "Special," about a young gay man with cerebral palsy, and a new romantic comedy film called "The Perfect Date," starring Noah Centineo of Netflix's "To All the Boys I've Loved Before."
Below are more details on the four original movies and TV shows Netflix released for this weekend.
Description: "To earn money for college, a high schooler launches an app offering his services as a fake date. But when real feelings emerge, things get complicated."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: N/A
"Special"
Description: "A young gay man with cerebral palsy branches out from his insular existence in hopes of finally going after the life he wants."
What critics said: "In the ways that truly count, 'Special' tackles timeless issues with equal parts compassion and wit." — Caroline Framke, Variety
"Huge In France"
Description: "Eager to reconnect with his son, French comedy star Gad Elmaleh moves to LA, only to discover that he's left all his fame and celebrity perks behind."
What critics said: "Just because something sounds like a TV show doesn't mean it should be one. In fact, if something sounds like a TV show we've seen dozens of time before, it might be best to go back to the drawing board." — Brenden Gallagher, Daily Dot
"Who Would You Take to a Deserted Island? (¿A quién te llevarías a una isla desierta?)"
Description: "On their last night together, four longtime flatmates' lives are suddenly upended when a secret is revealed during the course of an evening celebration."
SEE ALSO: How much money 'Game of Thrones' episodes cost to make in the final season, and throughout the series
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Q: SuperWebSocket ClearIdleSessionInterval vs IdleSessionTimeout So Im not sure I understand the difference between these to confi-options in SuberWebSocket.
Is the ClearIdleSessionInterval only an option of how often superwebsocket checks for timed out sessions or what?
If I set the ClearIdleSession = false would that let my session live forever (assuming theyre not forcefully closed) no mather what the ClearIdleSessionInterval or IdleSessionTimeout is set to?
Grateful for any insight or help anyone can provide since googling and checking the docs doesnt give me anything.
Only docs on it on SuperWebSockets hompepage:
clearIdleSession: true or false, whether clear idle sessions. Default value is false.

clearIdleSessionInterval: the clearing timeout idle session interval. Default value is 120, in seconds.

idleSessionTimeOut: The session timeout period. Default value is 300, in seconds.

A: We have to use clearidlesession with idlesessiontimeout. If we don't use both together it will clear the session even though it is not idle. So make sure you use both together if you want to clear idle session.
I was facing the same issue and clearing out the active sessions too.
Example:
IdleSessionTimeOut = 35,
ClearIdleSession = true,
ClearIdleSessionInterval = 35

Thanks,
Veena

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Pea Fritters with Fresh Mint Sauce Recipe & Instructions | Del Monte Foods, Inc.
Peas and mint, a classic flavor pairing, star in this side dish that easily dress up the table at weekend dinners or family gatherings.
For fritters, whisk egg whites in a medium bowl. Add 1 can of peas; mash with a fork. Stir in remaining can of peas and remaining ingredients except oil.
Heat 1 Tbsp. oil in a large non-stick skillet over medium heat. Working in batches, spoon 1/4-cup mounds of pea mixture in the skillet; flatten mounds slightly with a spatula and cook about 3 minutes on each side or until golden. Place on a serving platter and repeat with remaining oil and pea mixture.
Meanwhile, stir together sauce ingredients. Serve fritters with sauce.


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Elections Are Only the Beginning
By Jonathan Bernstein
There are two types of explanations for what happens in elections. One is an honest attempt to figure out exactly why elections turned out as they did. For those, there's no need to rush to judgment. I'll refer you to Brendan Nyhan's quick analysis, but with all due respect to Brendan, we're going to learn more as we go forward. There are lots of important questions to answer, but don't expect good answers right away.
Then there's the other type of explanation: the spin. Tea Partiers are going to have their version of why the GOP won, regular Republicans will have their own slightly different version, Democrats will have their own version. Liberal Dems will say it proves that Democrats aren't liberal enough; moderate Dems will say it proves Democrats were too far to the left. Then there's the issue groups: whether it's climate, or health care, or foreign policy, or social issues, or whatever, each group is going to claim a mandate that the new Congress and the continuing president should immediately drop everything and do whatever it is that they want.
Which one should prevail?
The spin!
Now, obviously, it's important to also find out why what happened did happen, and not just for curiousity's sake. But, no, politicians and other political actors shouldn't limit themselves to the actual, factual reasons. That's not how the system works.
The way it really works is by everyone involved fighting for what they want, and claiming that The People are behind them. Of coursethey're all lying spinning. Of course they're all claiming mandates that are phony. Everyone knows (or should know) that.
So if it's all phony, where's the democracy? In winning. The spin that House Republicans use is going to count for more than the spin that House Democrats use not because they're interpretation of voter intentions is (closer to) the truth, but because they have way more seats in the House now. Barack Obama's spin counts for plenty, too, because he's still going to be in the White House for the next two years. That's true whether they really believe it, or whether they're just posing for what they think they want their voters to hear.
Of course, just who wins is only the start of it. The spin is also contested. The pro-lifers are going to be doing their best to convince Senate Republicans -- and everyone else in Washington -- that what The People were really saying was that every Obama judicial nominee should be filibustered, no question about it. In this, groups are not equal. The groups with the strongest ties to the parties, with the strongest relationships, the groups that have convinced politicians over time that they can deliver: those groups will have more weight than others, and that's democratic, too.
It's not just numbers, either; they're going to put together whatever evidence they can, from polling numbers to individual "representative" election contests, to fragments of campaign rhetoric, to try to convince everyone that they're right. Because the politicians themselves can sometimes be convinced. Hey, sometimes the quality of the evidence actually counts. That, too, is democratic.
I should be clear: this isn't, for the most part, about winning the spin war in simple partisan terms. Indeed, the Obama crowd is correct that most of the short-term spin cycle isn't really very important.
I was watching the president's press conference today, and the cable news yakkers were going on beforehand about whether Obama would accept responsibility, and whether he would act sufficiently chastened, and some other junk like that...that's all going to be forgotten in a week or two, or maybe in a day or two.
No, I'm talking about more long-term effects. How do the pols themselves, and other political actors, understand what happened? That's what really matters. That question might be affected to some extent by what pundits say, but it's also going to be affected by the experiences candidates have on the campaign trail, and what political elites say to each other, and what the leaders of various organized constituencies say.
So as important it will be down the road to figure out why the 2010 elections actually ended up as they did, the effects of those elections aren't really going to depend on that. The effects are going to depend, first, on the actual numbers (and every seat counts, especially in the Senate); and, second, on how the politicians and political actors interpret what's going on.
In other words, what's happening today, and tomorrow, and over the next few weeks, as everyone continues to fight the 2010 elections...well, that's the reality of democracy. Elections, as important as they are, are only the very beginning.
Jonathan Cohn, Politics, Barack Obama, Brendan Nyhan, Republican Party, Congress, Tea Partiers


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'I couldn't breathe and they just laughed': Woman says extreme US 'haunted house' experience left her with horror injuries after she was beaten, tortured and waterboarded in ordeal they recorded and shared online
Amy Milligan says she was traumatized after visiting McKamey Manor
The haunted house requires visitors to sign a waiver before their tour
Milligan gave a good exit interview so a video would be made of her visit
That video shows Milligan looking terrified and being slapped around
She claims worst parts were edited out of the video posted on YouTube
Owner Russ McKamey denied that any waterboarding took place and says experience is psychological
By Khaleda Rahman For Dailymail.com
Published: 00:01 EDT, 26 October 2016 | Updated: 03:31 EDT, 26 October 2016
A California woman says she was waterboarded and feared she was going to die after a visit to a haunted house dubbed the world's scariest.
Amy Milligan, of East County, said she was left traumatized after going through McKamey Manor in San Diego.
The exclusive attraction, which has a waiting list of thousands, only accommodates a few visitors at a time – who are background checked by founder Russ McKamey first.
Milligan gave a positive exit interview about the experience because she wanted them to make a video of her tour – so she would have evidence of what happened to her, she told the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Amy Milligan (pictured) says she was waterboarded and feared she was going to die after a visit to a haunted house dubbed the world's scariest
That video, which was posted on YouTube, shows her being pushed to the ground, slapped around and pulled around by her hair.
But the footage is edited – with subtitles telling viewers 'I cannot show you what takes place.'
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When the film resumes, Milligan is seen lying in a freezer in a few inches of dirty water – and the haunted house's actors pour water over her head.
Another section is edited out, and when the video again resumes, she appears terrified and is soaking wet.
Milligan says the video was edited to cut out the worst parts of the experience. It didn't show the part where she was forced to lie down in a shallow pool of water with her hands tied and a cage over it, she said.
A video made by McKamey Manor shows Milligan's experience through the haunted house
She said the actors pushed her head underwater again and again while she begged them to stop.
'I'm going to die here, I'm going to drown,' Milligan says she remembers thinking.
'My hair is wrapping around my neck and I start freaking out. I'm telling them I can't breathe and they're just laughing and doing it more,' she told the Union-Tribune.
She said the experience left her with physical and emotional scars.
'I cry over every little thing. If I hear about McKamey Manor, I freak out.
The video showed Milligan lying in a coffin while cockroaches crawled over her face
But she said that the video, which was posted on YouTube, edited the worst parts out
'You give them so much trust and they just break it by waterboarding you and slapping you,' she added.
She went to police with her concerns about the manor, she said, but didn't file a report.
But McKamey insisted that participants are aware what they are getting into – but denied that anyone is waterboarded.
He wouldn't confirm if the cage Milligan mentioned existed but said people will feel like they are drowning during the haunt.
'We do not waterboard, we do not even kind of waterboard,' he told the Union-Tribune.
'You give them so much trust and they just break it by waterboarding you and slapping you,' she added
Milligan said she was left with physical (above) and emotional scars after her experience
He added: 'It's psychological what we're doing. They're safe all the time.'
McKamey described Milligan as one of the 'haters.'
He explained that a minority of participants who pursue an invitation, ignore the warnings and sign a waiver then accuse the haunted house of torture and assault.
McKamey spent more than $500,000 to make McKamey Manor the terrifying experience it is, according to the New York Daily News.
He described it in 2014 as PG-13, family-friendly and like 'Indiana Jones on steroids.'
However, visitors are also required to be over 21 and have no potentially deadly medical conditions.
McKamey reportedly spent more than $500,000 to turn his house into McKamey Manor
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McKamey Manor 'victim' speaks out - The San Diego Union-Tribune
California woman claims she was waterboarded at world's most 'extreme' haunted house


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Essays & PapersExamine the Challenges the Virginians Faced and the Ways in Which Their Efforts Changed the Colony Essay
Examine the Challenges the Virginians Faced and the Ways in Which Their Efforts Changed the Colony Essay
Examine the challenges the virginians faced and the ways in which their efforts changed the colony socially and economically over the century. DBQ #1 The Virginian people faced many challenges throughout the 17th century, and their efforts changed the colony both socially and economically. Economically, the Virginians had a lot of land to farm and even needed a cheap work source. Socially, they lived in a cruel environment full of diseases and low reproduction rate.
The Virginians had economical challenges and economical efforts that changed and effected them.
Examine the Challenges the Virginians Faced and the Ways in Which Their Efforts Changed the Colony
The economical challenges involved men dieing because of illness or wars. Document A] There was no money because of the ongoing war with the Indians, so the farm owners had to look for a cheap source who could work their land, known as indentured servants. There was a contract binding a servant to a land owner in the colonies, allowing him to come to the new world if he worked a certain amount of years, and in return the servant would receive land of his own.
[Document C] This effort was made a lot of farm owners tons of money, even though they had to pay for the passage of their indentured servants, they acquired fifty acres of land for every servant and it was a cheap labor source.
There were social challenges and social efforts the Virginias had to face or come up with. There were little food to go around, because the plantation is full of disease and the indentured servants where full of diseases. [Document B] This challenges they face of food shortage and disease made it hard for an indentured servant to live in the colonies, some wanted to go back to Britain but couldn't because of their contract binding. An effort the Virginians faced to help get an even cheaper and less rebellious type of work source were to bring in slaves from Africa.
In these ships Africans were treated like animals chains up one to another treated like animals and had to lay on a ship crowded next to each other till they arrived in colonies. [Document F] There was little money the farm owners had so the African slaves were sent to the colonies to take the place of the indentured servants. African slaves were a cheaper work labor, and they didn't have to treat them fairly, which they didn't do either way. Bacon's Rebellion took place when the indentured servants revolted because of harsh living environments, and they were not receiving their promised land.
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Large Crack Found in Dam Supporting Quincy Data Center Cluster
A large crack has been detected in a dam on the Columbia River that is the largest source of hydro-electric power for a major cluster of data centers in Quincy, Washington.
Rich Miller | Mar 01, 2014
A crack has been found in the Wanapum Dame (pictured above) in Grant County, Washington, which supports the utility power supply to a major cluster of data centers in central Washington. (Photo by williamborg via Wikimedia Commons)
A large crack has been detected in a dam on the Columbia River that is the largest source of hydro-electric power for a major cluster of data centers in Quincy, Washington. Officials at the Grant County Public Utility District say the crack does not present any immediate risk to public safety or local power supply, but have begun lowering the water level to reduce pressure on the damaged area of the structure.
The Wanapum Dam generates more than 1,000 megawatts of electricity for the Grant County PUD, the utility that provides electricity to major data centers operated by Microsoft, Yahoo, Dell, Sabey Data Centers and Vantage Data Centers. The dam is about 25 miles south of Quincy in a rural location, and represents no flooding risk to any of the data center facilities.
On Tuesday, dam officials noticed an irregular bowing of the dam near a section of a spillgate pier along the mile-long structure. Divers examined the area Thursday and discovered a two-inch wide crack running horizontally, located about 75 feet below the water's surface. It runs the entire width of the 65-foot-wide pier.
The risk of a failure of the dam is high enough that the county has initiated an emergency plan. To relieve pressure on the dam, the water level is being lowered by 20 feet.
The dam is currently generating enough electricity, along with the PUD's other power plants, to cover county demand for electricity, local officials told the Wenatchee World. If generation is reduced at the dam, the Grant PUD will buy the power it needs on the regional wholesale power market, and customers should not see any interruption in service, the utility said.
"Catastrophic failure is very unlikely," PUD assistant general manager Chuck Berry told the Wenatchee paper on Friday. "We're generating now. We're not anticipating a huge amount of water coming. In a worst-case scenario and that piece of the spillway would fail, the flows that would move into the river below would not exceed the regular flow of the Columbia River."
Quincy, a town of 6,000 residents in central Washington state whose cheap power and cool climate has attracted major data center. The dams on the Columbia River allow the Grant County PUD to offer hydroelectric power at rates below 3 cents per kilowatt hour, rates far cheaper than most major data center markets. The cool climate in Quincy allows data centers tp use outside air to cool servers. Quincy is the home to major cloud facilities for Microsoft and Yahoo that are among the most efficient data centers in the world.
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Why Does Drew Barrymore Stomach Look Pregnant On The Saniclare Diet Series
Throughout her career, Drew Blythe Barrymore has been the recipient of various awards and accolades. She is not just an actress, but she is likewise a producer, author, and director. She also acts as a talk show host.
2 Early Career
3 Television Career
5 Addiction to Drugs and Alcohol
Despite a career that has actually earned her countless fans, Drew Barrymore's youth was one of pain and tragedy. Her parents divorced when she was nine years of ages. She was exposed to a rough way of life of partying and party drugs at an early age.
The troubled relationship between Drew and her mom is something that she discussed in her narrative Wildflower. She explained her youth as a time where she was "hedonistic," "over-indulgent," and "unreliable." She was not allowed to go to school and worked routine tasks while fraternizing older males.
When Drew was 13, her mom checked her into a psychiatric hospital for addiction treatment. She remained in the health center for a year and a half. She was treated for alcohol and drug abuse.
Drew also suffered from physical abuse from her father. She has given that forgiven her daddy, but her youth was a dark one.
Drew has been through lots of trials and tribulations, but she is now a mother of 2 children. She has attempted to provide her children a steady house environment. She also has worked to break the cycle of poverty her parents struggled with.
She has actually defended her rights and for her kids. She has likewise worked behind the scenes as a producer and director. In addition to her operate in the film and television industry, she has actually also composed a variety of books, including a narrative. She is likewise a supporter for the Simply Say No campaign.
Drew has had a long and effective profession She has starred in movies such as E.T. and Charlie's Angels, and has made many accolades. She has actually likewise gotten 2 Golden World nominations.
Throughout her early career, Drew Barrymore played roles in a wide range of films, from cult B-movies to major Hollywood blockbusters. She likewise turned into one of the most famous child stars in Hollywood. The starlet has earned a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame. She is likewise known for her work as an author and a talk show host.
Drew Barrymore landed her first significant function at age seven in the film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. Her performance earned her a Golden World Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In addition, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
As a teenager, Barrymore combated dependency to alcohol and drugs. She likewise battled with prestige. She was briefly married to a bar owner named Jeremy Thomas when she was 19 years old. Their marriage ended after only three months. However, Barrymore later on married Tom Green in July 2000. They separated in October 2002.
In 2009, Drew Barrymore made her directorial launching with the film Whip It. She likewise costarred in the film The Wedding event Singer, along with Adam Sandler. She went on to co-star with Whoopi Goldberg in Boys on the Side. The motion picture was a box office success, making over $80 million.
Barrymore also appeared in several films, including Guncrazy, The Amy Fisher Story and Grey Gardens. Her efficiencies in these films made her the Golden World Award for Finest Efficiency by an Actress in a Supporting Function in a Motion Picture. She also won the award for her efficiency as Edith Bouvier Beale in the HBO film Grey Gardens.
Barrymore likewise earned a role in the Netflix series Santa Clarita Diet plan. She appeared as a realtor. She was also an executive producer for the film.
Television Career
Whether she was hosting Saturday Night Live or hosting a syndicated talk show, Drew Barrymore has made her mark on tv. In fact, she has won a Golden World, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a nomination for an Emmy Award.
In spite of the many high-profile movies she's appeared in, Drew Barrymore's tv profession started when she was simply 11 months old. She appeared in a dog food commercial, and by the time she was 6 years old, she had actually ended up being the youngest host on Saturday Night Live.
Barrymore was born to star moms and dads John Drew Barrymore and Jaid Barrymore. She was the daughter of a well-established Hollywood household. Nevertheless, her moms and dads had a struggling relationship, and Drew was subjected to alcohol and drug reliance. She hung out in rehabilitation as a teen. By the time she was thirteen, she was seeking treatment for substance abuse.
In 2005, Drew Barrymore began voicing Jillian on Household Person. She also co-hosted Turner Classic Movies' The Basics with Robert Osborne. She was named People magazine's 2007 list of the world's most beautiful people.
Drew Barrymore's acting career has seen her carry out in numerous high-profile films, including E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982 ), Kids on the Side (1995 ), Guncrazy (1992 ), and Toxin Ivy (1992 ). She likewise co-starred in Scream (1996 ), Woody Allen's musical Everyone Says I Love You (1996 ), Music and Lyrics (2007 ), and Blended (2014 ).
As an actress, Barrymore has likewise had a different profession, including low-profile films, such as The Stand In (1980 ), and The Amy Fisher Story (1993 ). She likewise won a Golden World for her performance in Grey Gardens.
Barrymore is likewise known for her functions in Charlie's Angels, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, The Stand In, Music and Lyrics, The Amy Fisher Story, and Firestarter. In addition to her acting profession, she likewise has a production business, Flower Films, and has written books.
During her teenage years, Drew Barrymore starred in a string of forgettable movies. She made a Golden Globe election for her supporting role in Difference of opinions. Her performance likewise garnered some blended evaluations.
She eventually went on to star in Grey Gardens, a film based on a 1975 documentary about the Maysles household, which won numerous awards. She also starred in numerous other movies, including Guncrazy and Poison Ivy. She was also a director and author of numerous non-fiction works, including Rebel Housewife: Food, Household, and Life (2001 ). She later founded a cosmetics business called Flower Charm, which has actually been partnered with Walmart.
She likewise starred in the Netflix series The Santa Clarita Diet. She is likewise a manufacturer and director of films. She has actually a child called Carson.
In spite of her success, Drew Barrymore has been known to have a rough childhood. She struggled with substance abuse at age 13 and looked for treatment. She likewise had two divorces. The resulting book, Drew Barrymore's Wallflower: Life, Love, and Loss, weaves together her life story, including the battles of growing up with a single mom.
The book likewise discuss her teen years, as she describes the problems of growing up with a hectic family. The book also discusses the benefits of having a profession.
Drew Barrymore's book likewise reaches into the future, explaining her efforts to stabilize her profession and her household. She has established a cosmetics company and a white wine label. She has actually also photographed heart-shaped things in daily circumstances. She just recently launched a new line of lipsticks called Flower, which is readily available at Walmart. Among her other awards are the Screen Casts Guild Award for her function in Grey Gardens, and the Golden World Award for her performance in the same movie.
Several years ago, Drew Barrymore was an alcoholic and druggie. She spent about 18 months in a rehab facility. Although she was in and out of rehabilitation a number of times, she finally discovered a life that worked. She has actually been sober for 2 and a half years.
Drew Barrymore's addiction began when she was a child. She started smoking cannabis at age 10 and began drinking alcohol at age 9. In her teenagers, she went to drug rehab a number of times. She was likewise placed in a mental hospital.
Drew Barrymore's mother, Jaid Barrymore, was born in a displaced people's camp in Germany during the second world war. Her paternal grandfather, John Barrymore, had a career in acting, but was also an alcoholic and suffered from dependency.
Drew Barrymore's daddy, John Barrymore, likewise had a substance abuse problem. She has given that carried on to a career in the movie market. In fact, she has won a Screen Actors Guild award for her role in Grey Gardens.
Drew Barrymore has honestly discussed her addiction and how it impacted her. She states that it assisted her to develop a sense of balance in her life. She believes that adversity makes people stronger. She hopes that her child will gain from her experience.
When Drew was 13, she was sent out to a mental health facility. She later pleaded with the juvenile court to be emancipated from her mother. After a duration of sobriety, Drew resumed her performing profession. She later on formed her own production company.
Drew has been sober for 2 and a quarter years. She has actually also prevented relapsing. In fact, she recently appeared on the US chat show Oprah. She recommends children on how to remain safe.
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Serono's Siren Song
A number of Big Pharma suitors might find the Swiss biotech company hard to resist.
Robert Steyer
The biggest name in biotechnology these days has one big product, one big settlement with the U.S. government and, perhaps, several Big Pharma suitors.
The company is
Serono
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, which hired an investment banker in November to explore strategic options and whose stock has been rising along with takeover speculation.
The Swiss biotech company's stock closed at $20.97 on Thursday, well up from the $16.44 closing on Nov. 7, the day before Serono confirmed a
report that it had hired Goldman Sachs to help plan its future.
Although a top Serono executive declined as late as Tuesday to comment on his company's plans, there's enough speculation to suggest that something could happen this month.
Medically, Serono is best known for Rebif, a $1 billion-plus treatment for multiple sclerosis that accounted for 44% of its 2004 revenue. Serono's U.S. marketing partner is
Legally, Serono is best known for its October settlement of a
U.S. government investigation into the marketing of Serostim, a treatment for AIDS wasting. This is a metabolic disorder among AIDS patients in which the body consumes muscle and organ tissue for energy rather than using the body's stored fat.
Serono paid $704 million to settle civil allegations and criminal charges. The Justice Department says the payment was the third-largest health care fraud outlay in the U.S.
The Three-Quarters Rule
Strategically, Serono is "an attractive acquisition candidate" for a Big Pharma company "seeking an expanded presence in biopharmaceuticals," says Geoffrey Porges, of Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., in a research report issued this week.
However, Porges warns investors that trying to play Serono now for a big gain via a takeover could backfire. The stock's recent run-up, "disappointing" U.S. results for Rebif in the past few months and the slowing growth of key products indicate that the company's stock doesn't have much more upward mobility, he says.
Porges cut his rating to market perform from outperform, and his target price is $24.
If Serono's asking price is so high that potential suitors walk away, shareholders could be stuck with a stock in the mid to high teens rather than the $20s, says Porges, who doesn't own shares and whose firm doesn't have an investment banking relationship.
Three-fourths of Serono's voting shares are controlled by the Bertarelli family, including CEO Ernesto Bertarelli. If he can orchestrate a bidding war, maybe Serono can get a better price.
The names of potential suitors being bandied about on Wall Street are those that are big enough to buy a company that had $2.46 billion in sales in 2004 and should produce more than $2.6 billion in 2005. In addition to Pfizer, likely suspects include
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The most immediate lure of Serono is Rebif, which the company says is the bestselling multiple sclerosis drug outside the U.S. Last year, it produced $1.1 billion in worldwide sales, including $296 million in the U.S.
By acquiring Serono, Pfizer would instantly get a new MS market as well as access to Serono's work with
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, the developer of an experimental oral MS drug called Mylinax. Existing MS drugs must be injected.
Mylinax is in late-stage clinical testing, and results should be available in 2007. In addition, Serono markets the MS drug Novantrone.
Although Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline aren't in the MS market, each is collaborating with separate Japanese companies to develop oral MS drugs. The drumbeat of speculation about Novartis increased earlier this week after it decided against making a hostile offer for another Swiss drug company,
Berna Biotech
, which has received a buyout bid from the Dutch drugmaker
Crucell
(CRXL)
Because so much MS research is in progress, other big drugmakers might find Serono attractive. Sagient Research Systems, which monitors biotechnology drugs, says clinical trials are ongoing for more than three dozen MS drugs -- either new compounds or expanded uses for drugs approved for other diseases.
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On Rebif's horizon, however, are some potential drawbacks, including the possible resurrection of Tysabri from
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. They pulled the drug from the market 11 months ago after having received reports that two patients in MS clinical trials suffered a rare, often fatal brain disease.
Eventually, they detected a third case of this disease in a person participating in a clinical trial for Crohn's disease, a severe gastrointestinal ailment. The companies have reviewed the records of all clinical trial patients and have resubmitted an MS application to the Food and Drug Administration.
The impact of a revived Tysabri will depend heavily on restrictions placed by regulators and physicians' willingness to prescribe it. Porges says Rebif scored big gains in the U.S. during last year's second quarter, but by the fourth quarter "these share gains have actually reversed." If this trend continues, Porges worries that his 2006 Rebif sales predictions will be unreachable.
Serono's other major product is Gonal-F, a fertility treatment that recorded sales of $573 million in 2004 and accounted for 23% of corporate sales. Despite ongoing research in several areas, including cancer and inflammatory diseases, Serono lacks big prospects for at least the next few years.
Serono is typical of biotech companies "that face slowing growth from their initial wave of innovation and lack the critical mass to maximize the profitability of existing products," Porges says. A bigger company could do a better job, he says.
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Idiocy from The American Thinker
With a name as pretentious as The American Thinker, you just know it has to be the product of right-wing cranks. You can check out their archives here.
They recently published this ridiculous essay by Jonah Avriel Cohen, entitled "Why Intelligent Design Ought to be Taught."
Of the many reasons why intelligent design – an argument I reject – ought to be taught alongside evolution in our public schools, perhaps none is more compelling than the ignorance and demagoguery which is evident in our current national debate over the issue. Below are four myths you frequently come across while reading the political literature on the subject, followed by the facts.
It's always suspicious when a writer begins by disavowing the viewpoint he is about to defend. But let's leave that aside and consider his supposed myths:
Myth: The theory of intelligent design is a modern version of Creationism.
As examples of people perpetuating this myth, Cohen offers quotes from Charles Krauthammer, Jerry Coyne and Richard Dawkins. Then he writes:
Fact: The theory of intelligent design goes back at least as far as classical Greece and it has been debated in nearly every century since then.
Our century is no different. Those who advocate intelligent design are not "disguising" anything; they are not furtive men. They are offering for your consideration an idea that has intrigued the minds of everyone from Plato to Kant, an idea that possibly began when Socrates asked:
"With such signs of forethought in the design of living creatures, can you doubt they are the work of choice or design?"
Now, because the design argument can be found in Plato's dialogues, we can deduce that the theory not only predates the theory of creationism – which was but one religious response to Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) – it is also not wedded to Judeo-Christian scripture.
Krauthammer, Coyne and Dawkins are wrong here.
Certainly, there have been updated versions of the intelligent design theory – see, for example, Oxford professor Richard Swinburne's article, "The Argument from Design" in Philosophy, vol. 43 (1968) – but the design hypothesis is no more modern than the Epicurean hypothesis that the universe consists solely of particles in random motion.
Let's begin with the obvious: The Old Testament, which is, after all, the founding document of creationism, came well before Plato's dialogues. See what I mean about idiocy?
More to the point, of course people throughout history have wondered whether there is a designer behind the workings of nature. But some generic design hypothesis is not what anyone is talking about in the current debate, such as it is. People who advocate teaching ID are not saying we need more discussion of Plato's philosophy. What they have in mind is a specific set of scientific assertions intended to discredit evolution and show that design is by far the most likely explanation for the complexity of the living world. And if you believe ID's leading practitioners, the arguments they have in mind are not only new, but will revolutionize science in the very near future.
As it happens, however, anyone familiar with the literature of "Scientific Creationism" will recognize that the arguments of ID's are different only in style, not in substance, from those of the YEC's. Furthermore, ID hit the scene shortly after YEC suffered several court defeats during the eighties. And considering the copious writings from the Discovery Institute and leading ID proponents about wanting to destroy naturalism and restore their version of a Christian worldview to intellectual respectability, it is not at all unfair to describe ID as a form of creationism.
Here's Cohen's second myth:
Myth: The theory of intelligent design claims that the designer is the God described in the Bible.
Actually, I don't know anyone on my side who makes this claim. Everyone agrees that as a matter of logic the designer suggested by ID could be any one of a number of entities. The claim that is made by people on my side is that ID folks are just being coy when they leave open the possibility of super-intelligent aliens and the like. This reticence to identify the designer is born out of political necessity, not scientific open-mindedness. The quote Cohen provides backs up my claim:
ID advocates are also coy about the identity of the designer, claiming that it doesn't have to be God. But, token allusions to the possibility of extraterrestrial or time-traveling biochemists notwithstanding, no one is fooled into thinking that the designer is not the Designer: God.
This is from a recent op-ed by Eugenie Scott and Glenn Branch. They are perfectly clear that ID makes no necessary claim about the identity of the designer, but the fact remains that everyone knows who they have in mind.
Cohen's subsequent analysis adds nothing to this point.
His third "myth" is the most ridiculous of them all:
Myth: Conservatives and Christians necessarily accept the intelligent design argument.
The quote Cohen uses to back up this "myth" comes from blogger Jean Chen. Prepare to snicker:
Intelligent design is just another strategy from conservative Christians to ban evolution.
Yes, you read that right. The "conservative Christians" of Chen's quote became the "Conservatives and Christians" of Cohen's myth.
And just in case you think I am being unfair to Cohen, he makes things explicit in his next paragraph:
Fact: You can consistently be a political conservative or a devout Christian and still totally reject the argument from intelligent design.
Indeed. Many people describing themselves as conservative come from the libertarian side of things, and many of them reject ID. Likewise, there are a great many Christians who have no problem with evolution. Absolutely no one is confused on this point.
But what you will almost never find are people who describe themselves as conservative Christians who accept evolution. I have no doubt that such people exist, but they are a tiny minority. There's a reason that every single school board dust-up on this subject is instigated by religious right organizations and supported by the Republican politicans who pander to them.
We could stop there, but Cohen's next paragraph is so delightfully condescending that we ought to look at it:
How many are aware that, of the many critics of the design argument,
none were more formidable than a political conservative, on the one
hand, and a Christian fundamentalist, on the other?
He's about to lecture us about David Hume and Soren Kierkegaard, but that's beside the point. I have often said that frequently you can spot a crank even if you know very little about the subject in question. And the line above could only have been written by a major league crank.
You see, to the crank the really important thing is not discerning the truth of a situation. It is not weighing the evidence in a sensible way to arrive at a correct conclusion. No. The important thing is establishing the crank's intellectual superiority over anyone who takes a different view. That is why debating a crank is usually a very frustrating experience. While you are busy trying to conjure up sound arguments and clear logic, the crank is going through his aresenal of obscure, out-of context facts, looking for one he can use to shut you up.
That is why Cohen expresses his point in the tone of a teacher lecturing a small child. It is why he begins by announcing to the world that he is in possession of an obscure fact that refutes some bit of conventional wisdom held by the masses.
Incidentally, applying modern labels to people like Hume and Kierkegaard is a highly dubious proposition. Kierkegaard's religious views were far more nuanced and subtle than what we nowadays refer to as "fundamentalism" And it has little meaning to apply the modern label "conservative" to someone like Hume.
Cohen's fourth myth is a change of pace. He gets this one right:
Myth: The theory of evolution and monotheism are logically at odds or, at least, inimical.
This one I agree with. Cohen backs it up with a quote from the Jacob Weisberg essay I skewered in this previous post.
Cohen begins his conclusion as follows:
The dispute between intelligent design versus a randomly ordered cosmos is age-old and fascinating and still unresolved. That smart and honest writers are now busy promulgating sheer fictions about this debate suggests that we are indeed in need of education on this topic. And that is a sufficient reason, in my opinion, for it to be taught in our schools, perhaps not in biology classes, but at least in mandatory philosophy classes, something our school systems do not demand to our national shame. (Emphasis Added)
Now he tells us. Sadly, the whole argument is about what to teach in science classes. That's what all the school board flare-ups are about. That's what all of the recent and pending legal activity is all about. Yes, of course, you should teach such things in philosophy classes. Who has ever said otherwise?
As I said, standard crank. In his attempt to show how clear-headed and above it all he is, Cohen has merely demonstrated that he has no understanding of what people are arguing about.
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O'Reilly Just Keeps Topping Himself
FOX News blowhard Bill O'Reilly had Rick Sternberg on as a guest last night. Sternberg, you will recall, is the disgraced former editor of the Procedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Disgraced because he abused his position as editor to circumvent the journal's normal procedures to publish this piece of worthless anti-scientific garbage, by the Discovery Institute's Stephen Meyer.
A partial transcript of the segment is available here. Let's consider it in full:
BILL O'REILLY: In the "'Factor' follow-up" segment tonight. As you may know, there's a bitter debate over whether public schools should be allowed to teach students an alternative to Darwin's theory of evolution, a concept called Intelligent Design.
That concept puts forth that a higher power oversaw the evolutionary process. And that's why man will never completely understand it.
One year ago, the editor of a scientific journal called Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington ran an article by Dr. Stephen Meyer of Cambridge University in England that stated intelligent design should be taken seriously as a theory. Well, since that time, Dr. Richard Sternberg's life has been hell. He joins us now from Washington.
Well, I just want to tell everybody that, you know, the federal government investigated your situation and found that you had been harassed because you allowed this article to be printed. I want to know what happened to you? What form did the Harris men take?
Note: That's exactly how things appear in the posted transcript, but I'm sure "Harris men" is supposed to be harassment.
O'Reilly was rather impressed by Cambridge University. Later he said:
O'REILLY: But the bottom line is they wanted to ruin you for simply running an article by a scholar. I mean, Cambridge University is one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
In light of this, someone ought to point out that Stephen Meyer is not "of Cambridge University." He holds a PhD in the history and philosophy of science from Cambridge, but his current academic affiliation is with the evangelical Palm Beach Atlantic University. He is also the director of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.
That's a big difference, wouldn't you say? Not quite so prestigious after all. But if O'Reilly were to pay attention to so simple a fact he would not be able to bloviate with quite as much enthusiasm.
Likewise, O'Reilly can not afford to mention that the peer-review process used to support the publication of the Meyer paper was almost certainly corrupt.
And the real story of what "the federal government" (in this case the highly politicized Office of Special Counsel) found is substantially different from what O'Reilly describes. Over at The Panda's Thumb, Nick Matzke has a good summary of some of the odd points in the OSC's finding:
In essence, the OSC opinion, authored by Bush appointee James McVey, seems designed to give the religious right another talking point about how any criticism of ID or the ID movement's actions amounts to religious discrimination by the evil secular scientific establishment, even though ID is allegedly science, not religion. Somehow, it manages to do this (1) while telling Sternberg that OSC doesn't have jurisdiction, (2) without any contrasting opinion from the accused parties, and (3) without documenting any actual injury to Sternberg, who still has his unpaid research position, an office, keys, and access to the collections. The opinion is therefore a pretty strange document to read.
Let's return to the transcript. So what form did the harassment take?
RICHARD STEINBERG, FEDERAL SCIENTIST AND EDITOR: Well, it took a number of forms, Bill. First of all, immediately after the article was published, there was a very tepid reaction with a museum.
However, a number of outside groups and individuals began writing e- mails, letters of protests, phoning the museum, phoning my employer, demanding my ouster for this. Apparently, there was an unstated rule that you do not accept a manuscript for per review that counters Darwinism, or seriously counters Darwinism.
And furthermore, I was a gatekeeper. I allowed the paper to be peer reviewed and furthermore, I committed the terribly sin of allowing it to be published.
And so the retaliation that followed took the form of the spreading of misinformation, such that, you know, my degrees were in religion and philosophy, not in science, that there was actually no per review, that I had accepted money under the table. That I...
Apparently what happened is that many people, angered by Sternberg's obvious abuse of power, contacted the Smithsonian to protest. That's not harassment. In response to this we are expected to believe that the Smithsonian engaged in a systematic campaign of misinformation concerning points that are easily checked. That's ridiculous on its face.
No doubt what we are really talking about here are a handful of e-mails from his colleagues wondering how such an intellectually corrupt gentleman ever managed to emerge as the editor of their journal.
O'Reilly then summed it up for us:
O'REILLY: So they came after you viciously. And I know how that is; they do that to me every day. But who is behind this?
STERNBERG: Well, it was...
O'REILLY: Go ahead.
STERNBERG: It was a concerted — it was — the retaliation occurred in concert. It was between the officials of the Smithsonian Institution, curators, various administrators and the National Center for Science and Education, based in Oakland, California.
They — they orchestrated, for example, at least the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) orchestrated a repudiation of the article, actually helped the repudiation to be drafted. That is a statement of retraction. And then turned around and cited it on their web site as evidence, not so much evidence, but allowed them to strongly insinuate editorial malfeasance on my part.
They aided in drafting, for example, a statement by the council that oversees publication of the journal to suggest that somehow I had broken the rules.
STERNBERG: Yes.
Sternberg surely knows that Meyer is not affiliated with Cambridge University, but he happily ignores that fact here.
Meanwhile, we now have the National Center for Science Education implicated in the conspiracy. Their crime? They helped the editorial board draft the statement condemning the publication of the article. When the editorial board subsequently adopted a modified version of the statement, it was apparently unscrupulous in some way for the NCSE to make note of the fact. The horror of it all!
Of course, the only really important issue here is whether Sternberg did indeed violate the procedures of the journal, and whether the article he published was any good. He did, and it wasn't. Everything else is just politics and PR. O'Reilly's suggestion that Sternberg's critics came after him just for publishing a paper by a scholar is a bit rich coming from someone who boasts of running a no-spin zone.
We continue:
O'REILLY: They said look, you ought — you ought to take a look at this intelligent design and not just throw it out in the garbage.
STERNBERG: Right.
O'REILLY: So they tried to ruin you for doing that. And I'm not — I'm not quite understanding, is this an anti-religion movement? I mean, what are they afraid of here? What's the bottom line on it?
STERNBERG: Well, it was — it's an attempt, I think, to suppress scientific dissent.
O'REILLY: Why, though? Why? Why? What is it in for these people who would be to brutal toward anyone who might want to just take a look at intelligent design?
O'Reilly's working real hard here, but, doggone it, he just can't figure out why the thinking world was so upset by the publication of Meyer's paper. What could it be? What possible reason could they have for being angered by the publication of a paper whose arguments are complete worthless garbage? Better get Woodward and Bernstein on this one.
And we may as well state for the record that no one objects to anyone looking at anything. The issue is having the basic scientific competence to know a bad argument when you see one; a skill Meyer and Steinberg apparently lack.
O'Reilly wraps things up by explaining the real reason people got so angry with Sternberg:
STERNBERG: There — there is a — I think it's religiously and politically motivated. It's a form of projection. You have groups like the NCSE and others who argue that the intelligent design advocates, the creationists, etc., are trying to suppress information, trying to hinder science. And — and ironically, quite the opposite appears to have occurred in this situation.
They felt that, you know, if, for example, the pros and the cons of the issue are placed on the scientific table, then essentially the whole edifice is going to unravel, and that simply cannot be allowed.
O'REILLY: Well, I think it's more than that. I think this is a concerted effort in a fascist way to punish anyone who might want to inject the higher power into any scientific discussion.
I mean, this is a real — let's get religion out of it completely and never deal with that aspect of it again.
Doctor, thanks so much. We're sorry you had to go through what you went through.
Fascist. Lovely.
O'Reilly started his program last night with his usual "Talking Points Memo." For those who don't watch the show, this is where O'Reilly lays down the law, talks straight talk, explains what all right-thinking Americans should believe, cuts through all the bull, and tells it like it is. The title of the memo last night was: Are You an Extremist?. Here's part of what he said:
But I think we can safely establish some rules for the road here. An extremist is someone who rejects facts and holds on to opinions no matter what.
In my opinion, extremists have a neurosis. They really don't want to hear anything other than the conclusion they've arrived at, no matter what the evidence suggests.
That's how he started the show. About a half hour later he does a segment with Mr. Sternberg in which he omits every relevant fact that runs counter to his preferred narrative. It is almost a sure thing that he understands none of the scientific issues involved in the evolution/ID dust-up, but he is quite sure that scientific opposition to ID stems from religious bigotry and fascistic tendencies. The irony of his memo giving an almost perfect description of the ID folks is apparently lost him.
By his own definition, O'Reilly is an extremist. Even worse, he is a dishonest charlatan more interested in promoting his blinkered view of things than in getting at the truth. Worse still, millions of people not only watch him every night, but take him seriously as well.
Hitchens on Teaching the Controversy
Over at Slate, Christopher Hitchens has posted this essay facetiously supporting a "Teach the Controversy" approach to evolution and ID:
We do not and we should not teach rubbish and superstition alongside science. "Intelligent design" is not even a theory. It is more like a mentality. It admits of no verification or falsity and does not deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as a series of hypotheses and experiments that have served us well in analyzing the fossil record, the record of molecular biology, and—through the unraveling of the DNA strings—our kinship with other species. And this is to say nothing of the possibility of medical advances that may astonish us in our own lifetimes. To put astrology on the same blackboard as the Hubble telescope would be an approximate analogy. I was sent, this week, an article on "Intelligent Falling," wherein certain advocates of "intelligent design" said that gravity was not a natural law because it did not explain matters such as angel flight or the fall of Satan from heaven, the latter of which was mandated rather than gravitational. As is so often the case with pieces that appear in the Onion, I honestly could not decide whether this was a clever hoax or not—the arguments were almost exactly as stupid as the real thing.
See the original for links.
Well said! Later he writes:
To my point, then. Why not make schoolchildren study the history of the argument? It would show them how to weigh and balance evidence, and it would remind them of the scarcely believable idiocy of the ancestors of "intelligent design." The tale is both amusing and instructive, and it is a vital part of the history of the 19th and 20th centuries. How could intelligent scientific secularism lose if this were part of the curriculum? (Emphasis in Original).
Of course, if "Teaching the Controversy" meant presenting various discredited design arguments for the purpose of showing how science continually progresses towards better explanations for natural phenomena, then I would be all for it. What I oppose is any presenatation of ID as if it were a scientfic theory with any merit at all, much less a legitimate rival for modern evolutionary biology. Hitchens, obviously, opposes that as well.
He concludes with this:
If we take the president up on his deceptively fair-minded idea of "teaching the argument," I think we could advance the ball a little further in other directions also. Houses of worship that do not provide space for leaflets and pamphlets favoring evolution (not necessarily Darwinism, which is only one of the theories of evolution and thus another proof of its scientific status) should be denied tax-exempt status and any access to public funding originating in the White House's "faith-based" initiative. Congress should restore its past practice of giving a copy of Thomas Jefferson's expurgated Bible—free of all incredible or supernatural claims—to each newly elected member. The same version of the Bible should be obligatory for study in all classes that affect to teach "divinity."
Hitchens' writing has been very uneven over the last few years, to put it mildly. But on these sorts of issues he is always spot on.
Serves Me Right For Praising a Republican
In this post from last Thursday I praised Republican senator John McCain for accepting the scientific consensus on global warming.
And this is how he thanks me:
On Tuesday, though, he sided with the president on two issues that have made headlines recently: teaching intelligent design in schools and Cindy Sheehan, the grieving mother who has come to personify the anti-war movement.
McCain told the Star that, like Bush, he believes "all points of view" should be available to students studying the origins of mankind.
The theory of intelligent design says life is too complex to have developed through evolution, and that a higher power must have had a hand in guiding it.
That's it. He just lost my vote!
Chang's Article
As I mentioned yesterday, Kenneth Chang of The New York Times wrote this lengthy article for yesterday's edition. My side of the blogosphere was not amused. P.Z. Myers weighs in here (be sure to go well into the comments to see Chang's response), Chris Mooney offers his thoughts here, and Arthur Silber weighs in here.
Now, I hate the fact that the Times is covering this at all. In a better world cranks and charlatans would simply be ignored. But the fact is that numerous state school boards have had to deal with this over the last few years, and that fact makes it news.
Given that the Times is covering it, I would prefer an outright hatchet job on the ID folks. But that is likewise not realistic. Journalistically it would reflect badly on the reporter to present such an obviously biased account, and politically the Times is very touchy about being perceived as a left-wing organ.
So I think Chang did a reasonable job given the constraints he was working under. What I liked about the article was that in every case real scientists were given the last word. Many of the commenters to P.Z. Myers' blog entry on the article complained that it was standard he said-she said journalism, which in this case accords too much respect to the ID folks. I didn't read it that way. To me it looked more like, "ID folks claim X, but here's why they're wrong."
I also liked the fact that Chang makes it perfectly clear that the restriction of science to natural causes is purely practical, and that evolution is accepted because it consistently produces results:
"One of the rules of science is, no miracles allowed," said Douglas H. Erwin, a paleobiologist at the Smithsonian Institution. "That's a fundamental presumption of what we do."
That does not mean that scientists do not believe in God. Many do. But they see science as an effort to find out how the material world works, with nothing to say about why we are here or how we should live.
And in that quest, they say, there is no need to resort to otherworldly explanations. So much evidence has been provided by evolutionary studies that biologists are able to explain even the most complex natural phenomena and to fill in whatever blanks remain with solid theories.
It's not all good news; there's certainly ample fodder for complaints:
Mainstream scientists say that intelligent design represents a more sophisticated - and thus more seductive - attack on evolution. Unlike creationists, design proponents accept many of the conclusions of modern science. They agree with cosmologists that the age of the universe is 13.6 billion years, not fewer than 10,000 years, as a literal reading of the Bible would suggest. They accept that mutation and natural selection, the central mechanisms of evolution, have acted on the natural world in small ways, for example, leading to the decay of eyes in certain salamanders that live underground.
That's totally wrong, I'm afraid. Officially ID folks take no stand on the age of the Earth. Many ID proponents accept it, but others, like Paul Nelson, are traditional YEC's. The fact that ID refuses to take a stand on this fundamental issue is highly significant, since it helps make obvious the fact that ID is nothing but a big-tent for creationists of all stripes, as opposed to a serious attempt to understand the world.
Furthermore, a willingness to accept "microevolution" in no way distinguishes the ID folks from the young-Earthers. YEC's also accept that mutation and narual selection can lead to evolutionary change.
But for all of that I don't see how anyone could come away from the article thinking that ID has any scientific merit at all. That's especially true of people who, unlike readers of this blog, are not completely immersed in this issue. Most people reading the article will not be familiar with the minutiae of the debate. They will come away from this article seeing the ID folks as the ones wanting to give up on, and attribute to God, any remorely puzzling aspect of natural history. In Chang's article the ID folks come off as the religiously motivated simpletons, while real scientists come off as the ones genuinely trying to solve problems.
If I had written the article it would have looked much different. It would have been far more condemnatory of the ID folks, and much of the scientific discussion would have been phrased much differently. But I also think people on my side of this are being too hasty in dumping on Mr. Chang.
From the other side of things, you can find ID proponent Jonathan Witt weighing in here. In the course of trying to persuade people that Chang's article is somehow helpful to them he writes:
Despite getting plenty of ink, the Darwinists don't come off looking so well in Kenneth Chang's story about intelligent design in the Science section of today's New York Times.
Imagine intelligent design is an elephant in the next room. A cat lies crushed on the floor before us, with the clear mark of an elephant's toe imprinted on his poor, flat, fuzzy body.
You say, "I hear and smell an elephant in the next room. I say the most likely culprit is the elephant."
But then some guy who hates cats almost as much as he hates elephants--and therefore doesn't want to give the elephant credit for killing the cat--insists there is no elephant. When it's finally clear that the empirical evidence for the elephant can no longer be ignored or denied, the elephant denier disappears and comes back with a large stuffed elephant and begins literally beating the straw out of it. He's trying to tell you the elephant isn't worth bothering with, isn't up to snuff.
If you desperately want to ignore the real elephant, then you'll find this ridiculous display quite convincing. Everyone else will know immediately that the man hasn't torn the real elephant to shreds but only a straw mock-up of the creature. This is what we find the Darwinists doing in the Kenneth Chang article. They set up strawmen of several intelligent design arguments, then dismember them most effectively.
Of course, this is a ludicrous presentation of what the article says. Consider what Chang actually wrote:
He began by describing Behe's hand-waving argument about the irreducible complexity of the blood clotting cascade. This is followed by a fairly detailed description of a possible scenario for blood-clotting coupled with a quote from Russell Doolittle about the evidence for this scenario being rock-solid.
In the next section he quotes several design proponents in ways that make it perfectly clear that they are motivated by religious considerations, and have concerns that go far beyond science. This is followed up by making it clear that science has the far more mundane goal of explaining the natural world, and that design hypotheses are rejected simply for lack of evidence.
Next comes Meyer's bloviations about the Cambrain explosion. Chang makes it perfectly clear that since the fossil record is inevitably imperfect, it's rather poor form to base an argument entirely on missing fossils. He also mentions some recent discoveries in genetics and paloentology that shed light on the problem. Once again, it's the design proponents throwing up their hands in the face of something mysterious, and real scientists doing the hard work of figuring out what is going on.
I could continue in this way, but I think the point is made. Who's going to read this and come away thinking that it's the evolutionists who are responding to straw men, while the ID folks are interested in evidence?
Witt goes on to cite two examples of evolutionists refuting straw men from the article. Here's one of those examples:
I'll offer just two of several instances here. A brief summary of Stephen Meyer's argument for design as the best explanation for the Cambrian explosion of animal forms some 530 million years ago is rebutted by this passage:
But molecular biologists have found genes that control the function of other genes, switching them on and off. Small mutations in these controller genes could produce new species. In addition, new fossils are being found and scientists now know that many changes occurred in the era before the Cambrian - a period that may have lasted 100 million years - providing more time for change.
However, Meyer's argument takes both these points into account, and his rebuttals are based on well-established evidence in the peer-reviewed literature. One of his articles on the subject was edited by a biologist with two Ph.D.s in evolutionary biology, and peer-reviewed by three scientists with relevant Ph.D.s from well-respected institutions here and in Europe. If Meyer had not addressed those points, they no doubt would have insisted that he do so.
Of course, Witt is vamping here. Anyone who actually follows these things knows that the Meyer article being referred to above was worthless garbage regardless of how many PhD's the editor of the journal had. And the legitimacy of the peer-review process that led to the article being published is very much in question, to put it mildly. Meyer's arguments about the Cambrian, expressed in that paper, were wrong as a simple matter of fact.
But more to the point, the only people who are going to react the way Witt suggests are those who are already firmly on the ID side. Normal people will know nothing about Meyer's silly paper, or much about the Cambrain explosion at all for that matter. All they will see is Meyer waving his hands in a desperate attempt to find someplace to insert God into our understanding of natural history, while real scientists produce the evidence that can provide real resolutions to such mysteries as exist.
In fact, that all sounds so convincing that I'm feeling better about Chang's article now than I did when I started this blog entry!
Casserley on Creationism
While in Washington this weekend I took a browse through Second Story Books in Dupont Circle. I came across a book entitled The Christian in Philosophy by J. V. Langmead Casserley, identified on the book flap as "Rector of Manhead, near Exeter, and also Lecturer in Sociology at University College, Exeter." If I have interpreted the Roman numerals correctly, the book was published in 1949.
It didn't look like my kind of book, but on a whim I decided to look up "Darwin" in the index. I quickly came across the following quote:
Not until Darwin and the triumph of the new evolutionary biology was it possible to fulfil the intellectual expectations aroused by the theological idea of the Divine Agent of creation who is `always being begotten' in the scientific picture of an `open' creation which is always being created. It is true that evolutionary biology was not accepted with proper and becoming gratitude by theologians who seemed more concerned to uphold the preposterous, and superfluous, hypothesis of the historicity of biblical myth than to illustrate and verify the truth of Christian dogma in new fields of inquiry, but we should not allow their ineptitude to conceal from us the real ancestry and theological affinities of the idea of evolution. (Emphasis in Original)
Damn straight. I don't see those theological affinties myself, but I have no objection to others seeing things this way.
I bought the book.
Safire Weighs In
William Safire has devoted his most recent language column to the history of the word creationism. Unlike his political columns, his language columns are nearly always interesting and worth reading. This one is no exception. Here's an excerpt:
The word creationism, coined in 1868 in opposition to what was then called Darwinism or evolutionism, had fallen on hard times. The proponents of a theory faithfully attributing the origin of matter to God, "the creator," were seemingly overwhelmed by the theory put forward by Charles Darwin and bolstered with much evidence by 20th century scientists. As a result, the noun creationism (like its predecessor, teleology, the study of purposeful design in nature) gained a musty connotation while evolutionism modishly lost its -ism.
Then along came the phrase intelligent design, and evolution had fresh linguistic competition. Though the phrase can be found in an 1847 issue of Scientific American and in an 1868 book, it was probably coined in its present sense in "Humanism," a 1903 book by Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller: "It will not be possible to rule out the supposition that the process of evolution may be guided by an intelligent design." (Emphasis in Original)
The article ends with a quote from Nobel Laureate Leon Cooper, of the Brown University Dept. of Physics:
I will leave the last word on this old controversy with its new phraseology to the neuroscientist Leon Cooper, a Nobel laureate at Brown University. He tells all of today's red-faced disputants: "If we could all lighten up a bit perhaps, we could have some fun in the classroom discussing the evidence and the proposed explanations -- just as we do at scientific conferences."
Ugh. What's especially annoying about this is that I'm sure Cooper sees himself as the clear-thinking moderate surrounded by extremists of both sides. I suspect he has not read much of the ID literature, and has little sense of just how brain-dead ID's scientific assertions really are. I further suspect he has spent little time investigating the political dimensions of the issue, since he seems to think that treating a science classroom like a small scientific conference will settle the problem.
It's standard appeasement. Give a little ground to the crazy people and everything will be all right. But it's not as if the Discovery Institute would pack up and go away if we introduced "Teach the Controversy" into every science classroom in the country. They would simply use that as the first step in their broader campaign to use the tools of government to promote their religious views.
Those NYT Articles
The New York Times has now published two major articles on ID, available here and here. The first one is by Jodi Wilgoren, the second by Kenneth Chang.
I'll post more detailed comments later in the week, but here's the short version: I agree with P.Z. Myers on the Wilgoren article (not a bad article but could have been better), but I disagree with him on the Chang article (Myers hated it, I would do a lot of nitpicking, but overall I think it was a better article than some on my side have suggested).
I should point out, however, that I was one of the sources on Chang's article, so I'm slightly biased.
I'll comment further later in the week.
Chess Sucks
It doesn't look too bad on paper: I broke even with two wins, two losses and one draw. After the tiebreaks were calculated I actually emerged in 15th place out of 49 players. But the two losses were probably the most frustrating tournament games I've played in a long time, while one of the wins came against a little kid who was eye-level with the pieces (which didn't stop me from pounding him mercilessly, over the board that is). One of these days I'm really going to have to figure out how to play this game.
Final results avaiable here. I was in the under 2000 section.
So, did anything evolution related happen this weekend?


Vital Lacerda's On Mars gets a Kickstarter date, Evolution takes to the seas, and the makers of Dragoon launch their newest game.
From the designer of Lisboa, CO2, and The Gallerist comes a new game of settling the red planet.
What we know of the game so far: players can choose their goals each time, there will be construction, resource management, and actions will be taken using cards. The YouTube teaser from publisher Eagle Gryphon says there's less than three weeks to the Kickstarter launch; we'll keep you up to date on that.
Easily one of the slickest Kickstarter campaigns I've ever seen, Life Siphon comes from the creators of Dragoon and is loosely set in the same universe.
Players must fight each other (although you can't choose who to fight) in order to shake off a curse. Play slow cards or fast cards, lose life to use powerful abilities, summon minions to your cause, and be the last cursed one standing!
The next game in the Evolution series, Oceans has been in development for absolutely forever and is finally on Kickstarter.
Like its predecessor games, you'll create species with unique traits, starting with a simple plankton feeder and possibly progressing to dangerous carnivores.
You'll be able to go to The Deep in order to get incredibly powerful traits to add to your species, lending the game more depth (ehehe) than previous titles. Check it out!
Handsome is a word game using only 18 cards in which characters must make sets of necklaces, bow ties, or bolos in order to gain a majority and score a point. Accessible, wallet-sized, and with plenty of ways to try and score, Handsome is worth checking.
Folklore: The Fall of the Spire is the next game in the very popular Folklore line of dungeon crawler, a co-op adventure of mystery and dark fantasy. Fall of the Spire is both an expansion and an standalone title that continues the story, and I've been a big fan of Greenbrier's narrative games in the past.
From the makers of one of our picks for last year's game of 2018, Giant Killer Robots comes District 9: The Board Game. It's got a ton of miniatures and four distinct factions each trying to perform their own goals. I'm just about to hit the back button on this one myself.


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Cardinals' Lars Nootbaar comes home to build a memory, spoil some others
October 6, 2021 Rachael Escamilla SPORTS
If Lars Nootbaar does something heroic in Dodger Stadium on Wednesday night, the crowd won't yell "Noooot," as the St. Louis crowd does.
It will boo.
Nootbaar, who played at El Segundo High and USC, is here as an invading force, to stop a Dodger postseason run before it leaves the gate.
Every come-from-behind club in a pennant race needs a little prod from someone unforeseen. Nootbaar leaped to catch Pete Alonso's aspiring home run on Sept. 15, keeping the New York Mets from slicing a four-run lead to one, and the Cardinals' winning streak continued, all the way to 17.
It carried them to this National League wild-card playoff game against a club that won 106 games and has gone 18-3 since its last two-game losing streak, which was in St. Louis.
The Dodgers rank third in baseball in all-time win percentage and the Cardinals fourth. The Dodgers have won more league pennants (25-23) but the Cardinals have won more World Series titles (11-7).
Nootbar hasn't yet joined the saga. In 2020 he wasn't deemed good enough to join the Cardinals' developmental camp, with the players who spent the COVID-19 season waiting for a roster spot to open up.
Instead, Nootbaar spent time carrying around equipment for an aerospace company near LAX, reporting to work before 5 a.m.
This year he came up in June, went back down, came back up and hit .318 in August with a .979 OPS. The average slowed in September, but the Cardinals know they have a 24-year-old outfielder who has figured out things, hiking his career minor league slugging percentage of .334 to .442 with the varsity.
"When he did have to make a diving catch he'd pop right back up and immediately throw to the right base," said Billy Traber, Nootbaar's El Segundo High coach. "So much of what he did was instinctual."
He played for three years at USC and signed after the Cardinals drafted him in the eighth round.
"He started pressing because he had to carry us offensively," said Gabe Alvarez, then a USC assistant coach, now with the Detroit organization. "It hurt him in the draft, but he changed his swing and unlocked the power that was in there.
"But I don't think of the plays when I think of Lars. I think of what a great, positive guy he is. He's not shy. He makes friends with everybody, everywhere he goes. Everybody in that organization has been pulling for him."
And those USC years remind Lars of the man who would be yelling "Nooot" loudest of all.
Herbert Nootbaar was Lars' great grandfather. He contributed to the Trojans' new baseball offices, and they are named after him. There aren't that many Nootbaars.
"People thought it was a strange name for so long, but now they're talking about finding a candy bar to name it after, having some fun with it," said Charlie Nootbaar, Lars' dad.
Herbert Nootbaar gave a lot of money to a lot of causes. He invested in a study institute at the Pepperdine Law School, and he contributed to the library of his friend Ronald Reagan. He was already established in agribusiness when he married Dorothy, in 1930, the daughter of a grain producer. Eventually, Herbert became the co-CEO of Ralston Purina.
Dorothy passed away in 1982. Herbert later married Elinor, an employee of his company, and that lasted 27 years until her death.
Have you ever driven south on PCH through Laguna Beach, and noticed a house just on the edge of a cliff over Three Arch Bay, close enough to the sea to catch a wayward dolphin? That's where Herbert lived and lived and lived. Herbert passed away a week before Christmas in 2016, five weeks after his 108th birthday. Lars is one of his 28 great-grandchildren.
If you're scoring, Herbert's life began, in Chicago, in November of 1908 and ended in 2016. He came within about a month, on the front end, of spanning two Cubs' world championships.
"He was pretty cogent, well into his 100s," Charlie said. "He was quite a storyteller. He loved to go to USC games early and greet people. I can't imagine how excited he would be to watch Lars in a game like this."
To get here, of course, Nootbaar and the Cardinals had to win a month of games like this.
The St. Louis Cardinals' Lars Nootbaar, center, celebrates with teammates after defeating the Milwaukee Brewers late last month to clinch a playoff spot. The former El Segundo High and USC standout will help the Cardinals try to topple the Dodgers in Wednesday's NL wild-card game at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Thunderstorms dump nearly a half-inch of rain on parts of Southern California
Dodgers' repeat bid begins with win-or-go-home wild-card game


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We have two service opportunities coming up for the scouts to participate in. The first is this Friday, Oct. 21st at 7pm at City Hall. We will be helping out the Yellow Ribbon Network by packing care packages for military personnel overseas. If you would like to help with this, please email me at pack9151@gmail.com by Wednesday, Oct. 19th.
The second opportunity is for Bears and Webelos. We will be collecting shoeboxes down at KTIS in Roseville again this year. The date is Saturday, Nov. 19th, and we will have 2 shifts (9-11am, 11am-1pm). If you have a Webelo or Bear that is interested, please let me know by Nov. 1st. We are hoping to have 4-5 scouts & parents per shift if possible.


Zippy Ninja must defend his temple from the enemy. Control: use the arrow keys to move and jump, press Q, W, E to finish enemies, throw shurikens and arrows. Use 1, 2, y 3 (numerical keys), to activate health, shield and lighting power-ups and press P to pause the game.