A new viewing platform for the Gorham's Cave complex was inaugurated on Wednesday by the Minister for Heritage, Professor John Cortes.
Gorham's Cave is the last known home of the Neanderthals and it was classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016.
The new viewing platform offers unique perspectives of the whole site, which covers 280,000 square metres, or three per cent of Gibraltar's land area, from the sea all the way up to the highest point of the Rock at O'Hara's Battery (which is 426 metres above sea level) and including the famous Mediterranean Steps.
Visits to the cave complex have to be restricted because they are archaeologically so sensitive, so the viewing platform and information panels have been planned as a way of enabling people to learn more about this important part of Gibraltar's history without causing any damage to the site.
The viewing platform will be managed by the Gibraltar Museum, which also runs the UNESCO World Heritage Office on behalf of the Gibraltar government's Ministry for Heritage.
The new facility will initially be open from Mondays to Fridays between 10am and 2pm. Access is free of charge to holders of Gibraltar identity cards, if these are shown at the ticket office, as part of the authorities' commitment to make the heritage of Gibraltar freely available to local people.
It is possible for the facility to be opened at other times for group visits, if this is arranged in advance.
As well as the information panels, visitors to the viewing platform will also find specialist staff on site to explain exactly what they are seeing from this unique location.
Further improvements are currently being prepared and will be announced in the New Year. Work at Gorham's and Vanguard Caves is also set to continue in 2018, with two months of excavations planned during the summer.
The Neanderthals are known to have been in Gibraltar for a very long time, between 127,000 and 32,000 years ago, and the Gorham's Cave complex has proven to be of major significance in understanding the global story of human evolution and adaptation.
Excavations which have been carried out in the caves over the past 26 years have revealed invaluable information about how the Neanderthals and early humans lived and behaved, what they ate, what they wore, their social behaviour and the tools and materials they used. They have also provided a wealth of information about the wildlife of Gibraltar at that time.


Hazardous materials don't always seem hazardous. Sometimes they can be simple household items, like batteries, paint, or sunscreen.
So what's the best way to ship these items?
It depends on what you're shipping and how fast you need it to get to the recipient.
In this guide, we'll take a closer look at the process involved when you ship hazardous materials. So let's dive in.
There are several agencies in the United States that regulate hazardous material laws (including OSHA, NRC, DOT, and EPA). Each of these agencies has their own definition of what constitutes a hazardous material.
But for the most part, hazardous materials can be a variety of chemical, biological, radiological, or physical substances. If the substance has the potential to harm living things or the environment, it is considered a hazardous material.
Sometimes hazardous materials aren't necessarily dangerous on their own, but if they interact with other factors, they can become harmful.
There are many other types of hazardous materials. If you think the item you're shipping might be hazardous, you should talk to your courier service before you package it.
You can't ship any type of hazardous materials without being approved to do so first. To get approved, you must complete a training course that teaches you how to handle, package, and label these materials.
You can find these training courses at postal services various postal services, such as FedEx.
Once you complete the necessary training, you can start shipping your hazardous materials. But you must package and label the hazardous material to meet specific regulations.
Here's a quick rundown of what you need to know when packaging and labeling hazardous materials.
You can't use traditional boxes when you're packaging your hazardous materials. Items containing your hazardous material, like cylinders, must have an outer package marked as an overpack.
If you aren't sure how you should package your hazardous material, you should reach out to your courier service provider. They'll be able to give you the proper instructions.
Along with your address and the recipient's address, you need to provide the proper shipping name of the hazardous item (given by DOT). You'll also need to include the UN/NA identification number.
Your package should have at least one diamond hazard label. This label will describe the class and division of the hazardous material inside.
Some materials are hazardous in more than one way. These materials will need multiple hazard labels. Make sure any subsidiary labels are no more than 6 inches away from the main label.
Anyone handling this package must be able to see these hazard labels clearly. Before you put a label on your package, make sure it is a contrasting color to ensure it stands out.
What's the Safest Way to Transport Hazardous Materials?
There are several different ways to transport your hazardous materials, but again, they must meet specific regulations. This is to ensure the materials (and anyone around them) make it from point A to point B safely.
The right option for you depends on your circumstances.
Let's take a closer look at the different ways to transport hazardous goods so you have a better understanding of which option works for you.
Ground transportation is the cheapest and most popular way to ship hazardous materials. But there are two ways to ship hazardous materials by land: on the highways or on the railways.
The company shipping your hazardous materials must have the right documentation on them at all times. This documentation should say what type of material is in the package, it's hazard class, it's identification number, it's weight, it's package type, and it's package group.
While this shipping method is convenient, it is more dangerous than rail freight.
There's a higher risk of an accident on the highways, and in the case of an accident, the hazardous material can harm more people.
The regulations for railways are similar to highway regulations because they're both ground transport.
Rail freight is the safest way to move any type of hazardous materials over long distances. It is also one of the most cost-effective options.
Not all hazardous materials can be shipped by air. Many shipping companies won't fly lithium batteries or medications. The temperature and elevation change can cause the batteries to explode and the medication to sustain damage.
Because of this, air freight has extra temperature control regulations ground freight doesn't have. It also has additional requirements for temperature-sensitive labeling.
Air freight is the most expensive way to ship hazardous materials, but it is also the fastest. If you need something transported quickly, this is the best choice for you.
Shipping hazardous materials by sea is safe, but it takes a long time. Because of this, some materials might degrade before they reach their final destination.
Most of the time, sea freight are used for international shipping. But it is the most cost-effective and environmentally-friendly option out there.
Before you can ship hazardous materials, you have to get the right training. After that, you have to package your material in the correct packaging. You also have to include proper labels and hazard signs.
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Cody Smith 6'4 290lb OT from Eagan.
Really excited for Austin Winfield. He's a heat-seeking missile.
Thanks AtTheLibrary. OT - a position of need.
Thanks PharmacyGopher. It looks like two teammates committed to the Gophers today.
Who will be the next Blak Cashman or Sam Renner?
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Smith played for Eagan. Wright is from Eastview.
Last edited by hungan1; 12-22-2018 at 06:29 PM.
Cody Smith & Larry Wright III look like a couple of pretty solid PWO gets.
The Gophers PWO program seem to be getting a lot of attention. They are going to need it in order to build good team depth. It helps that recruits see kids that earned scholarships like Blake Cashman and Sam Renner achieve success.
In a lot of ways, kids that weren't offered by P5 programs who have the confidence and the talent have an ideal situation by walking on. They don't necessarily have the pressures of a big time recruit to show the goods sooner than later. They develop through hard work and sheer determination. IMHO, that is the Blake Cashman story. Now, he may have a shot at making an NFL roster.
One more thing - If we look at Gopher recruiting classes from prior years, how many kids are still with program two, three, or four years down the road? That is one more reason to develop a rewards based PWO program. You reward a scholarship to a proven commodity.
Last edited by hungan1; 12-16-2018 at 04:48 AM.
We are building a nice group of pwos. Kids that we have lost to the Dakota schools in the past. Fleck deserves a lot of credit here.
I know little about Benilde SM football, but it is likely that Matt Guggemos, who apparently ran a 4.48 40 is the son of Neil Guggemos who played CB and WR at St. Thomas in the mid 80s. Neil was played at Winsted MN Holy Trinity in HS, and was a free agent who spent a little time on NFL camps and was very fast.
Last edited by oak_street1981; 12-22-2018 at 08:43 PM.
Thanks Hungan for doing this. The total at the top is 10 versus 8 or no?
Thanks 60's Guy for the correction.
Many of the kids that we usually lose to FCS programs like NDSU choose to walk-on at the U. We may have the next Blake Cashman or Sam Renner in the pipeline. The nice thing if they can afford to walk-on is that they are not under the spotlight and don't have the heavy pressure/expectations that a scholarship player has. Through hard work, they can focus, earn valuable playing time, and even earn a scholarship. This is good for team depth.
I am glad that PJ Fleck awards scholies on a regular basis.
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John Buckley (born 1953) is an Irish former hurler. He played with club side Newtownshandrum, divisional side Avondhu and at inter-county level with the Cork senior hurling team.

Career

Buckley first played hurling at juvenile and underage levels with Newtownshandrum. After winning the inaugural Cork U21HC title with the club in 1973, he progressed to adult level. Buckley was part of the Newton intermediate teams that won the Cork IHC titles in 1976 and as team captain in 1981. His performances at club level also saw him line out for the Avondhu divisional team.

Buckley first played for Cork during a three-year stint with the minor team. He won his first All-Ireland MHC medal after coming on as a substitute in the 1969 final before winning a second from centre-back the following year. Buckley captained the team to a third successive title in 1971 and became the first played since Jimmy Doyle to claim three successive winners' medals. He was immediately drafted onto the under-21 team and won an All-Ireland U21HC medal in 1973. Buckley later spent two years with the senior team and won a National League medal in 1974.

Honours

Newtownshandrum
Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship: 1976, 1981 (c)
Cork Under-21 Hurling Championship: 1973

Cork
National Hurling League: 1973-74
All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship: 1973
Munster Under-21 Hurling Championship: 1973
All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship: 1969, 1970, 1971 (c)
Munster Minor Hurling Championship: 1969, 1970, 1971

References

1953 births
Living people
Newtownshandrum hurlers
Cork inter-county hurlers

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695 F. 2d 1208 - Ramirez-Gonzalez v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
695 F2d 1208 Ramirez-Gonzalez v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
695 F.2d 1208
Pedro Efrain RAMIREZ-GONZALEZ & Martha Ardon De Ramirez, Petitioners,
IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.
Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Sept. 9, 1982.
Decided Jan. 7, 1983.
Mathew Millen, Compton, Cal., for petitioners.
Katherine V. Tooks, Asst. U.S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for respondent.
Petition for Review of the Board of Immigration Appeal's Denial of Application for Suspension of Deportation.
Before CHAMBERS and CHOY, Circuit Judges, and EAST,* District Judge.
EAST, Senior District Judge:
Petitioners Pedro Efrain Ramirez-Gonzalez and his wife Martha Ardon de Ramirez appeal the Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) denial of Mr. Ramirez's application for suspension of deportation. We note jurisdiction and deny the petition for review.
I. FACTS
Mr. and Mrs. Ramirez, natives and citizens of Guatemala, were arrested by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for violations of immigration laws. Mr. Ramirez was charged with having entered the country illegally in August 1970 without inspection. Mrs. Ramirez was charged with having entered the country illegally in November 1974 without a valid visa or valid entry document. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ramirez admitted the charges filed against them and conceded deportability.
Mr. Ramirez then applied for suspension of deportation under Sec. 244(a)(1). This section grants the Attorney General discretion to suspend deportation of an alien if the alien can establish (1) a seven-year residence in the United States; (2) good moral character during that time; and (3) that deportation would result in extreme hardship to the alien or the alien's spouse, parents or child who is a citizen or permanent resident of the United States. Mr. Ramirez's satisfaction of the seven-year residency and good moral character requirements are conceded; only his establishment of extreme hardship is in dispute. Mr. Ramirez attempted to establish extreme hardship by claiming that (1) he would have difficulty finding employment in Guatemala; (2) he and his family would be separated from close relatives residing in the United States; (3) his five children, the youngest of whom is a United States citizen, would have difficulty adjusting to Guatemala because they have become accustomed to life in the United States; and (4) life for him and his family would be difficult in Guatemala because of the political problems existing there.
After a hearing, an immigration judge denied Mr. Ramirez's application for suspension, finding that he failed to show extreme hardship. The immigration judge found that Mr. Ramirez had not established that he would have any difficulty obtaining employment and that Mr. Ramirez's three-year-old child, who is a United States citizen, was of such a tender age that she would not suffer much economically or otherwise if sent to Guatemala. The judge concluded that the only hardship resulting from deportation would be an economic hardship, which is insufficient to establish the extreme hardship required under Sec. 244(a)(1) of the Act.
The immigration judge also concluded that Mr. Ramirez's application for relief should be denied on the alternative ground that Mr. Ramirez had failed to establish that he was entitled to relief as a matter of administrative discretion. Even when eligibility for suspension of deportation under Sec. 244(a)(1) of the Act has been demonstrated, the BIA still possesses the discretion to grant or deny relief. The judge based his conclusion on his finding that Mr. Ramirez had received welfare assistance, food stamps, and medical aid for a one-year period during his residence in the United States.
The BIA, in a per curiam order, affirmed the immigration judge's denial of relief. The BIA agreed that Mr. Ramirez failed to establish extreme hardship, and also agreed that he failed to demonstrate his entitlement to the favorable exercise of administrative discretion. This appeal followed.
II. ALLEGED ERRORS DURING HEARING AND IN DECISION
Petitioners first allege that the immigration judge and the BIA committed errors which require a remand. Specifically, petitioners claim: (1) that the BIA abused its discretion in making its extreme-hardship determination by failing to consider several relevant facts and by considering irrelevant factors; (2) that the immigration judge failed to advise them of their right to seek withholding of deportation on political persecution grounds; and (3) that the BIA failed to state in its decision any reasons for its conclusion that Mr. Ramirez's citizen child would not suffer extreme hardship.
Section 244(a)(1) of the Act grants the Attorney General the discretion to suspend deportation of certain deportable aliens. The exercise of his discretion, however, may not be arbitrary, irrational or contrary to law. Santana-Figueroa v. INS, 644 F.2d 1354, 1355 (9th Cir.1981). This discretion cannot be properly exercised unless the specific circumstances of a hardship claim are considered. "When important aspects of the individual claim are distorted or disregarded, denial of relief is arbitrary ... [and] we must remand such cases for proper consideration." Id. at 1356. Petitioners allege that the BIA abused its discretion in making its extreme hardship determination by failing to consider several relevant factors: (1) the hardship that results from the separation of close family ties; (2) the personal hardship that flows from economic detriment; and (3) the hardship that results from the political turmoil in Guatemala.
The breakup of family ties is a relevant factor to consider in determining hardship. Mejia-Carrillo v. INS, 656 F.2d 520, 522 (9th Cir.1981). Neither the BIA nor the immigration judge discussed the hardship that would result from the separation of Mr. Ramirez or his citizen child from their relatives in the United States. The BIA thus erred by failing to consider and address this claimed hardship. However, we believe the error is harmless. The record shows that at the time of the deportation hearing, Mr. Ramirez's parents and one sister were living in Guatemala. Deportation will reunite Mr. Ramirez with his parents. Moreover, Mr. Ramirez's citizen child would probably have the closest ties to her parents, brothers, and sisters; these ties will remain if her father and the rest of the family are deported.
Although economic detriment, without more, does not amount to extreme hardship, the personal hardships that flow from the economic detriment may be a relevant factor for the BIA to consider in determining extreme hardship. Santana-Figueroa v. INS, 644 F.2d at 1356-57. The BIA found that Mr. Ramirez failed to establish that he would be unable to find a job in Guatemala. Mr. Ramirez's testimony and unsupported allegations are insufficient to establish his inability to find employment if returned to Guatemala. He thus failed to demonstrate the severe economic detriment necessary to trigger the BIA's consideration of the personal hardships that he claims. Therefore, the BIA cannot be faulted for failing to consider the personal hardships that are claimed to flow from the alleged economic detriment.
Mr. Ramirez next contends that the BIA failed to consider the hardships that result from the political instability in Guatemala. However, Mr. Ramirez did not raise the claim, nor produce any evidence to support it before the immigration judge or the BIA. Therefore, the BIA did not err by failing to consider this claimed hardship.
Mr. Ramirez also argues that the BIA abused its discretion in determining his hardship claim by improperly considering his prior dependence on welfare, his inability to maintain a job with the same employer, and the illegal manner in which he brought four of his children into the country. However, the immigration judge considered Mr. Ramirez's receipt of welfare and the BIA considered the illegal manner in which his children were brought into the country, not in determining extreme hardship, but in determining whether Mr. Ramirez was entitled to relief as a matter of administrative discretion. For these purposes, the consideration of these factors is proper. Wong v. INS, 550 F.2d 521, 524 (9th Cir.1977).
Petitioners next contend that the immigration judge's failure to inform them of their right to seek withholding of deportation on a political persecution ground under 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1253(h) requires this court to remand the case to allow them to apply for such relief. Petitioners rely on 8 C.F.R. Sec. 242.17(a) and (c).
Petitioners' reliance on Sec. 242.17(a) is misplaced. This section provides that the special inquiry officer shall inform aliens of their apparent eligibility to apply for certain relief from deportation and afford them an opportunity to make an application for such relief. Petitioners did not meaningfully raise the issue before the immigration judge; thus, it was not "apparent" from the petitioners' testimony or evidence that they might be eligible for such relief. Therefore, the judge had no duty to advise them of the availability of such relief. United States v. Barraza-Leon, 575 F.2d 218, 222 (9th Cir.1978).
Petitioners' reliance on Sec. 242.17(c) is also misplaced. This section provides that after an alien designates a country to which he or she prefers to be deported, the special inquiry officer will specify another country for deportation purposes should the designated country be unwilling to accept the alien.1 The officer must then inform the alien that he or she may apply for withholding of deportation to the country specified by the officer on political persecution grounds. We read the officer's duty established by this regulation to go to only the country specified by the officer, not to the country voluntarily designated by the alien. Petitioners voluntarily requested (i.e., designated) Guatemala as their country of deportation. Moreover, we find nothing in the record to suggest that petitioners feared that they would be persecuted because of their political beliefs.
Petitioners also claim that the BIA failed to state any reasons for its conclusion that the citizen child would not suffer extreme hardship. The BIA's regulation requires that whenever an application for suspension of deportation is denied, the applicant shall be given written notice setting forth the specific reasons for the denial. 8 C.F.R. Sec. 103.3(a). Mr. Ramirez argues that since the BIA failed to state any reasons regarding his citizen child's hardship, the case must be remanded. See Perez v. INS, 643 F.2d 640, 641 (9th Cir.1981). We find no merit in this claim. The immigration judge found that Mr. Ramirez's citizen child was of such tender age that she would not suffer much economically or have other difficulties if she went to Guatemala. The BIA affirmed the decision of the immigration judge, and we are satisfied that that decision supplies the reasons required by the regulation.
III. NEW EVIDENCE
Relying on 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2347(c), petitioners also request that this court issue an order requiring the BIA to reopen the deportation hearing to consider new evidence2 in support of their extreme-hardship claim. Section 2347(c) authorizes a court of appeals to remand a case to an agency with orders to consider additional evidence where it is shown that (1) the additional evidence is material and (2) there were reasonable grounds for failure to adduce the evidence before the agency.3 Although other circuits have held this section applicable to appellate court review of INS deportation decisions (see Martinez de Mendoza v. INS, 567 F.2d 1222, 1225-26 (3d Cir.1977); Coriolan v. INS, 559 F.2d 993, 1003-04 (5th Cir.1977)), we decline to do so given the circumstances of this case.
The INS regulations provide for reopening deportation hearings. Petitioners must submit motions to reopen to the BIA and state the new facts to be proved at the reopened hearing. 8 C.F.R. Sec. 3.8(a). A motion to reopen will not be granted unless it appears to the BIA that the evidence sought to be offered is material and was not available at the former hearing. 8 C.F.R. Sec. 3.2. The Supreme Court recently observed that this regulation grants the BIA discretion to determine when a hearing should be reopened:
The present regulation [8 C.F.R. Sec. 3.2] is framed negatively; it directs the Board that it may not reopen unless certain showings are made. It does not affirmatively require the Board to reopen the proceedings under any particular condition. Thus, the regulations may be construed to provide the Board with discretion in determining under what circumstances proceedings should be reopened.
INS v. Wang, 450 U.S. 139, 143 n. 5, 101 S.Ct. 1027, 1031 n. 5, 67 L.Ed.2d 123 (1981). In line with INS v. Wang, we have previously suggested that we would not compel the BIA to reopen deportation hearings. Sida v. INS, 665 F.2d 851, 854 (9th Cir.1981). In Sida, this court held that the BIA abused its discretion in denying a motion to reopen by ignoring evidence presented in the motion to reopen. Id. Our remedy, however, was not to compel the BIA to reopen the hearing, but instead, to consider the new evidence and rule on the merits:
Requiring the BIA to address and rule on new evidence presented in a motion to reopen is not at odds with the Supreme Court's decision in INS v. Wang. This approach does not compel the BIA to grant motions to reopen where a prima facie case is established. Rather, this approach compels the BIA to address the evidence presented, and state the reasons why, for example, the evidence is not sufficient under the applicable regulations; why a prima facie case has not been made out; or why, if a prima facie case is made out, a reopening is not warranted.
Id. at 854-55 (emphasis in original). Similarly, here, we will not compel the BIA to reopen Mr. Ramirez's hearing on the basis of the new evidence he wishes to present. He must follow the INS regulations and file a motion to reopen with the BIA.
Finally, petitioners request that we remand Mr. Ramirez's application for suspension so that it can be considered with Mrs. Ramirez's application. Mrs. Ramirez was not eligible to apply for suspension of deportation at the time Mr. Ramirez's application was being decided by the BIA because she had not met the seven-year residency requirement. Mrs. Ramirez has since met this requirement. Petitioners claim that judicial economy demands that Mr. Ramirez's case be remanded to the BIA so that Mrs. Ramirez's application can be considered.
We find this claim to be without merit. The fact that Mrs. Ramirez has become eligible to apply for suspension of deportation should have no bearing on whether Mr. Ramirez's case should be remanded. The BIA has already heard the merits of Mr. Ramirez's case. Judicial economy will not be advanced by requiring the BIA to rehear his case simply because Mrs. Ramirez wishes to apply for relief.
Accordingly, the petition for review is denied. DENIED.
Honorable William G. East, Senior United States District Judge for the District of Oregon, sitting by designation
Section 242.17(c) states that the respondent (i.e., the alien) shall designate a country to which his deportation will be directed
The special inquiry officer shall then specify ... the country ... to which respondent's deportation will be directed ... if the country of his designation will not accept him into its territory ... The respondent shall be advised that ... he may apply for temporary withholding of deportation to the country or countries specified by the special inquiry officer ....
(Emphasis supplied).
Petitioners' new evidence consists of an Amnesty International Report, a U.S. State Department Advisory, and Periodical articles concerning the political turmoil in Guatemala
Although petitioners' evidence is material, it is questionable whether there are reasonable grounds for petitioners' failure to adduce the evidence before the agency. Petitioners could not have presented the evidence during the original hearing since the new evidence was not available at that time. However, petitioners could have filed a motion to reopen the hearing with the BIA and presented the new evidence at that time. We need not decide this issue, however, because we will not invoke Sec. 2347(c) given the circumstances of this case

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Kurieuo, thanks for your contentious answer. It will take me some time to answer.
I made a few edits to be more clear. I wanted to add on the back of my final remarks in my last post, that is, with Materialism needing be rationally justified itself and not being a default position -- what I find contemptuous, rationally so, isn't that Materialists may believe in their view of the world without rational justifications, but that they go much further and often stand over beliefs of other people as judge of what is/isn't rational given their apparently more enlightened state.
Generally, I'd say such is the hallmark of Atheists, but really, as you pointed out, by such we might say Materialism right? And indeed, such pompous attitudes are rife in the sciences, wherein materialists can be quite adament in thinking they have some cornerstone on science. Indeed, any who dissent from their materialistic philosophy, and who do science, especially if they're submitting papers, are kind of inquisitioned today to try safeguard against any opposing philosophy seeping in. Dawkins, Krauss, and many others come to mind, and they seem to vehemently try defend physical sciences against those who might introduce God (even though ironically much of modern science rests upon the shoulders of many who believed in God and were Christian). Yet, today, for the past century or so, noone scientific should dare believe in God, and if they do then they should be ashamed and remain in the closet.
It reminds me of an exchange I shared between Tolkien and CS Lewis, which is what I wanted to add in here. I refer you to the thread: Are All Myths Fiction including the Christian Myth?
PaulSacramento wrote: If we can't trust or senses and our ability to reason it means that any statement is void, including the one that says you can't trust your senses or reasoning obviously.
BUT we also know that there is more to the universe than what can be perceived solely by our senses.
We can't see/hear/taste and touch anything immaterial or anything outside our ability to see or hear YET we know that things do exist beyond these sense, correct?
Yes, we have good reasons to say that we know some things exist beyond our senses but only if we can get evidence of these things. To do that we have to build a model (or law) from our direct sense observations using the methods of natural science.
Other things that we can not get evidence of we have good reasons not to believe in. How could it be possible to get reliable knowledge from our intuitions, feelings or introspection? There is no way to test such information.
Any yet, that is how science discovers things.
If we "settled" on only what can be observed or "touched", science would never progress and never find the "undiscoverable".
I am not certain whether you agree with me or not. Science builds on evidence, the "toched" if you want, but can build laws and models of the "undiscoverable", if you by this term mean what is not directly sensed but can be verified or falsified using scientific methods. OK?
Science is what is done.
With the scientific method we test hypothesis and formulate theories and discover laws.
Thing is, much of it comes from what is NOT observable and not "touchable".
Materialism unnecessarily curtails science and that is why some of the greatest discoveries of science were done by religious men.
There was no reason to thing we could fly, but we did, no reason to think we could travel through space, but we do.
No reason to think we can travel under water, but we do, etc, etc.
We may uses are senses to tray and confirm things but many of the things we try and confirm have nothing to do with them.
Think about it, there was no real reason for Galileo to come up with heliocentrism since geocentrism was working just fine.
But "something" just drove him to it.
Kurieuo wrote: We cannot directly sense in the manner a bat senses the world around them. I wonder if your views on reliable knowledge, shared experience, testing and the like isn't too simple. Further to this, the premises that your senses are reliable and you can in fact test this, is well, quite rather a circular argument in that your testing depends upon your senses being reliable.
As for my response to you, I actually spent much time generating one before noticing that you didn't really take up the challenge. Then the boredom I spoke of kind of set in, and I have better things to do. Sorry, I don't mean to offend. It's just the way I feel after 20 years of the the same 'ol stuff (really, not much has really changed in arguments). So I prefer to dedicated my time to more productive things, get annoyed when I waste time responding to something for the nnnth time (not your fault, sometimes I can't help myself). For example, I was frustrated that I ended up spending time responding to certain challenges made with multiverse and first causes (same 'ol stuff to me), before realising that you basically brush away needing to have anything underpinning your materialistic beliefs. It seems to me you think that you can just assume without offering anything for them, except to reason through some pushbacks against assuming God. Nonetheless, despite this, I'll see where I was at and try finish it off, maybe open a different thread because multiverse/first cause stuff veers off more towards debating theism as I see.
So then, I found some of your response was generally already covered in my original post (e.g., see below "Now, regarding the last part of your post..."), other parts of your post did make me tire. Why? Well it seemed to me throughout much of your response that you are simply turning the tables with this is what you believe and justifying such by pushing against what you see as theistic arguments (rather than putting something on the table via making positive arguments for your beliefs).
What is wrong with that? Well, besides being a rather typical Atheist tact, even if "no God" was a logical possibility (understand I see God as a logically necessary being) and the world around us just was as Materialists believe, such doesn't rationally justify your beliefs. So I'd be interested in you putting justifications for your beliefs on the table, giving your reasons for them, rather than simply presenting a materialistic conception of the world and then swiping theistic views of reality off.
Perhaps you see no onus to do so, for you say there is a stalemate in the discussion. We really can't know either way. So, you end with "this is metaphysics and probably we will never get any evidence about which solution is correct." Yet, you're not being entirely honest here. You don't believe there is a stalemate at all, because you quite passionately believe in your Materialism. And, for me, I don't believe there is a stalemate at all. I see God as a logically necessary being in many ways that go beyond your simplistic summary of some first cause argument.
So then, given you clearly believe in your Materialism, put something on the damn table and stop simply pushing back on theistic logic like all you need to do is remove such arguments and you're rationally justified by default. You may want to rest upon fideism with your Materialism, however so long as we're clear this doesn't make you rationally justified, I can accept this. But, I don't buy that Materialism is the default rational position at all. There are many things that are more than meets the eye, and often taking things at first glance leads us to rather primitive and simplistic conclusions that actually don't represent the truth at all.
Now, regarding the last part of your post, this gets to the heart of the matter as I see which I'm also trying to get at above. For, it seems my opening post was somewhat prophetic of what your response would be regarding dead people coming back to life. Understand though, the questions are intended to more get people thinking about the nature of reality and other possibilities, and to really justify their world ontology. I feel you left the question open as to whether someone comes back from the dead depending upon what one believes. So you seem to again want to leave it in a stalemate, yet such belies your strong Materialistic beliefs which you so laid out for us. You don't believe it is a stalemate, so then put your reasons on the table for your beliefs, rather than merely stating what they are.
There is a last question in your OP: "Q: How is it possible for someone to come back from the dead?"
In my materialistic view there has never been any living thing that has come back from the dead, by definition. But if I am mistaken and there is a God that created the universe and the laws I can't see any problem for him to wake somebody up from the dead or doing any miracle he wants.
Kurieuo wrote: For example, consider the movie The Matrix. Everyone in the "normal" world is hooked up to a machine and experiencing a type of virtual reality. The experiences are just as real as ours in life. And yet, people "could" potentially come back from the dead in this world, as long as the software is tweaked. People can perform what appears to be "magic" by zipping through the air -- suspending the "natural laws" which are really being largely maintained by a software program that runs the virtual world. Heck, Jesus Chris could actually even rise from the dead in such a world!
Yes, it's just a movie. But here is the thing. Who's to say that the life we experience isn't in some way similar--some form of Idealism. Perhaps the machine and software on which we're running is just God. And yet, the Atheist confidently asserts that it is impossible for someone to rise from the dead -- because dead people don't come back to life -- because they ignore any questions to do with the nature of reality while assuming to know how reality works!
Atheism presumes to know reality without giving it any foundation. The world just is. It just runs. It is stable. It is predictable. It's finely tuned for life? "Well, duh--we wouldn't be here otherwise!" We just are. What we hear, see, feel, taste and smell is a true representation of the world. It is just NATURAL. Dead people don't rise from the dead.
An Atheistic reality precludes any questions about how reality might be. There is no "more than meets the eye". Is this not a shallow worldview? A kind of "putting on the blinders" or "burying one's head in the sand"? Some deep-seated faith in ignorance? Let's not ask questions about how reality works and just accept what seems apparent, because to ponder such questions is what? Scarey? Would it burst your bubble?
So as I said, you seem to want to leave this question as a stalemate like: "Why, if God exists, then yes, Jesus can be risen; if God doesn't, then no." And yet, you very much passionately believe in your materialistic view of the world. You presume you know what the world really is and where it ends. Which is why something like Jesus' resurrection is just not on your table of beliefs you are able to choose to believe in, perhaps no more than pink unicorns flying around the sky.
In summary, clearly you don't believe there is a stalemate at all. You seem content with your Materialism and you appear to accept it as default without requiring much if any justification. Rationally, such is no better than Christians raised Christian who believe in their default position in life without justification. It doesn't mean you or they are wrong, but it "passes the buck" so-to-speak. Getting back to what I said earlier, I don't buy that Materialism is the default rational position (there are really zero neutral positions as I see) and think only someone being rationally superficial, even gullible, would take the world at face value without looking more carefully at the face they see and pondering more deeply about it.
There are lot of things to comment in your post and I'll try to cover them.
When I was talking about "stalemate" I only referred to the specific question about what created the universe, God or a multiverse. If you put aside all other arguments pro and con God I don't find that the question about the creation of the universe supports any belief in God or no God. Hence the stalemate here. I don't argue that the question of materialism versus God is in stalemate, not at all. (You call me a "passionate" materialist, I am glad to hear that, I hear too seldom anyone calling me "passionate").
You ask me to put my arguments on the table. " put your reasons on the table for your beliefs, rather than merely stating what they are." That is fair but I thought that you primarily wanted to find out what my worldview waw, if it was consistent or not. My reasons will take time to write and my post was already long as it was. To write about even a single argument in depth requires a lot of effort, at least to me.
Besides when I in one of my first posts here on the forum mentioned my old list of 28 arguments (it is longer now) you didn't seem interested. You only joked that they were probably not new. Now I have an argument that I haven't seen discussed before but I will come back to it later.
In the OP you talk about the dullness of the materialistic view. I understand you, certainly persons that convert from some religion to atheism have a problem. Missing someone that really cares about you. Leaving some kind of community of persons that have the same worldview and rituals etc.
You write: "For example, I was frustrated that I ended up spending time responding to certain challenges made with multiverse and first causes (same 'ol stuff to me), before realising that you basically brush away needing to have anything underpinning your materialistic beliefs. It seems to me you think that you can just assume without offering anything for them, except to reason through some pushbacks against assuming God. "
Concerning the default rational position (materialism) I think there are some arguments for claiming that materialism is the default position and that the burden of proof lies on those who wants to add to the simplest worldview (mainly referring to Occam). On the other hand there are arguments in the other direction (mainly noting that the majority of mankind is religious and many of these are Christians). So I agree that it is not possible to stick to a "default" position but that is not obvious. If some persons argue for A and others don't have any arguments for not A but only think that the arguments for A are bad. Do the others really have to adopt A?
Regarding your question "Q: How is it possible for someone to come back from the dead?", I am sorry, I don't understand why you bring up this question. I read and reread and don't get anywhere. I understand your basic question, how can a materialist justify her view, but why exemplify it by the raising from the dead. If you are a materialist then of course you don't think that anyone can come back from the dead. You say " Atheist confidently asserts that it is impossible for someone to rise from the dead -- because dead people don't come back to life -- because they ignore any questions to do with the nature of reality while assuming to know how reality works!" If you complain that the materialist ignores the possibility that her worldview is wrong, I can follow you. But when you complain that she concluded what follows from materialism, I can't.
Much more could be written about the issues above but I have to keep it short to be able to come to the important issue.
So finally to the topic of this thread. How can a materialist support her worldview that there is nothing more than the physical. Or as you and others state it: How can the mind of men be rational if there is no God the guarantees the rationality.
Plantinga thinks that "evolution is interested (so to speak) only in adaptive behavior, not in true belief....We can [write the] claim as P(R/N&E) is low, where 'R' is the proposition that our cognitive faculties are reliable, 'N' the proposition that naturalism is true, and 'E' the proposition that we have evolved according to the suggestions of contemporary evolutionary theory [and P is a probability]....If, for example, behavior isn't caused or governed by belief, the latter would be, so to speak, invisible to natural selection; in that case it would be unlikely that most of our beliefs are true, and unlikely that our cognitive faculties are for the most part reliable." Plantinga then argues that the probability P(R/N&E) is low. As an example he takes Paul, a prehistoric hominid that meets a hungry tiger. Fleeing is then perhaps the most appropriate behaviour but this behaviour could be produced by a large number of different belief-desire pairs. Perhaps Paul very much likes the idea of being eaten, but when he sees a tiger, always runs off looking for a better prospect, because he thinks it unlikely that the tiger he sees will eat him.
With this and similar examples Plantinga thinks he has shown that P(R/N&E) is low. The rest of his treatise discusses the consequences of that and the conclusion is that naturalism and evolution both can't be true at the same time - that it would give the naturalist-evolutionist a defeater for R.
It is always interesting to read Plantinga but he is as usual, IMO, wrong. He argues forcefully and in depth that a low P(R/N&E) is a problem for the rationality of a materialist. But the argument for P(R/N&E) being low is very weak. Plantinga probably uses an example with a tiger because the tiger is one of the most dangerous animals a man can meet. But he misses that there is a far more dangerous enemy namely another man. The early hominids were hunter gathers and lived in small groups that constantly were in low intensity war with other groups. It must have been of uttermost interest to have reliable perception of the circumstances, supporting some internal map of the landscape, understanding where it is possible to move fast or to hide , and having a good idea of how the enemy thinks to be able to be cleverer than he, etc. Very complex properties indeed. I find it totally improbable that men that didn't have a mainly reliable perception could survive in competition with others that have a more reliable perception. Evolution would favour the fittest, the one that has the most reliable mind.
Plantinga also discuss the possibility that believes are epiphenomenal i.e. do not influence the actions. This seems to be improbable because evolution suppresses features that have no value for fitness. This is about economy of energy. Besides there are lot of examples where believes do influence how we act.
Nowadays we have another method to check the rationality. With the scientific method we can make predictions based on our understanding of the world. If these predictions are met they are indications of that our thinking is rational. For instance the theory of general relativity is far from intuitive but it is verified all the time.
So, I don't see any reason why my understanding of the reality would be deluded. But I am not certain whether you think that the discussion above is to " really take up the challenge." Here I only answer your challenge that my experiences are reliable. If you ask for positive arguments that atheism is true there are, as I said earlier, only one or two as far as I know but I have started to write about them and I think that I'll start a new thread about them.
In an earlier post you referred to the thread "Is being an atheist irrational" to find out your arguments against atheism. I have now read it and I think that I have a rather clear understanding of your arguments. It will probably not astonish you but I don't find any of the arguments convincing but that is a long story.
Q: What caused the "big bang" that brought our universe (time, space, energy, matter) into existence?
A: No simple answer. Has to be discussed. You said you would open a new thread. God idea.
Q: How do you know what you experience is true?
Q: How do the physical laws hold together?
Q: How is it possible for someone to come back from the dead?
You end by saying that you " think only someone being rationally superficial, even gullible, would take the world at face value without looking more carefully at the face they see and pondering more deeply about it."
Agree! That's why I am here on this forum.


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HRC will march with the community to demand justice for Sam Dubose and his family while speaking out against the police violence that has affected our inextricably-woven communities. The LGBTQ community is as diverse as the fabric of our nation. We are Black, Latinx, women, Christians, Jews and Muslims -- and so many more identities -- and we must stand together against violence that targets any portion of our community.


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Get to Know Who's Running: Andy Andrzej Gudanowski (Ward Dene)
There happens to be a Municipal Election coming up in Edmonton on Monday, October 18, 2021, and I think it's important for locals to get to know the City Council candidates running for their particular ward (as well as their Mayoral candidates, of course). I chose to get more involved in the election this year and so wanted to give each candidate a chance to tell us a little about themselves, their vision, and why you should vote for them. I have sent a 10-question questionnaire to each of the 2021 Edmonton Municipal Election candidates and will post their responses (100% as written) here as they come in. With that said, let's get to know...
Andy Andrzej Gudanowski
Ward Dene
"Andrzej Andy Gudanowski Intend to RUN for Federal MP Edmonton Griesbach Election 2019 October 21. INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE. Moderate Conservative Views. Andrzej Gudanowski already twice run as a candidate for the Edmonton city council and the third time He runs for Alberta MLA. He is and has always been devoted to the people. That's what being a Political Candidate is all about. Conscientiousness, Courage, Responsibility. After years of experience, he created a political 500 pages program, with 31 chapters to make a positive change in the lives of Alberta and Canadian people, families, women, seniors & disabled-people and young generation of Alberta and Canada. Andrzej Gudanowski is now taking it to politics again. It's this intense dedication, passion, and devotion that fuels their fight for change. To harness the collective strength of all Alberta and to ensure everyone has the support they need to achieve their dreams. Explore and learn more about the issues that Andrzej Gudanowski Intend to introduce to the people of Alberta and Canada. The entire program of 500 pages for Alberta and Canadian people will be published one month before the election. REMEMBER, He is for you, he is for your Family."
*The Questions:
I♥E/ Why do you want to run for City Council?
Andy Andrzej Gudanowski/ I'm just fulfilling my civic duty, duty to God, People and the Country. Every Christian who has reached the age of 45 should do the same. Should be devoted himself to the local community, city or country. The Canadian constitutional law also expresses the obligations of the citizen. Therefore, every adult citizen of Canada should take an active part in the social and political activities of the country.
I♥E/ Can you tell us about your past or current experiences that you think could possibly benefit/ translate to your position as a member of City Council?
AAG/ This is not my first election in Canada. For the first time, I took part in the 2013 Edmonton City Council elections. Unfortunately, I was not lucky. As a candidate, I ran again in the 2017 Edmonton City Council elections. Unfortunately, this time the voters thought otherwise. I fulfilled a similar civic duty twice in 2019 in the provincial elections and a few months later in the federal elections.
The current Edmonton City Council election is my 5th election in Canada. Throughout this period, between 2010 and 2021, I created 81 projects for citizens. Unfortunately, these projects never saw the light of day, because that was the will of voters and elected politicians.
For years I have been practicing natural medicine. I think that my medical knowledge will be very useful and help my community, especially now during the epidemic (COVID - 19) I also have a lot of knowledge in the field of food, hospitality, and the Roman Catholic religion. I am interested in music, singing and martial arts.
I♥E/ What do you think are the 4 or 5 biggest issues facing Edmonton right now that you want to focus on most?
AAG/ COVID - 19, Crime, Homelessness, High Prices, Lack of Motivation and Responsibility among Citizens, New Emigrants.
I♥E/ What do you think are some of the issues/struggles affecting your particular ward that you would like to focus on most?
AAG/ COVID – 19, Crime, Unemployment, Lots of low-income families, High Prices (Rent, Food, Utility, Taxes, fuel, family expenses), Citizens Passivity.
I♥E/ What are some of the city/community initiatives that you loved and would like to expand upon?
AAG/ To further modernize public transport, Establish Edmonton as a university and academic city. Establish a special economic zone for the city of Edmonton.
Some Edmonton communities need to be rebuilt immediately and some communities only need to be just improved. I noticed a clear lack of social structures, no civic cooperation, no mutual assistance, and no contacts between neighbors.
I wish I could have closer contact with citizens. Now it is not enough.
I♥E/ What are some of the city/community initiatives that you are/were against, and what would you do differently?
AAG/ Colosseum - The building is empty. It costs around $5 million in public money a year to maintain.
Ideas for using the building: Establishment of an international shopping gallery, adopting a building for Edmonton senior center. (Flats, shops, sports center, clubs of various interests). Designate the building for the Citizen Forum. Build a botanical garden, or convert to a new large planetarium. But most of all turn it into a residential building.
Public Transport: Too little underground, too much above ground. In some places in Edmonton, badly placed railroads paralyze traffic. Public transport in Edmonton is not profitable.
There are cities in the world where public transport is profitable. There are cities in the world where public transport is free.
Edmonton residents pay high prices for water, garbage and sewage? Low-income families pay high rents. We have High taxes on private property. There are no parks for seniors.
Establishing new names for electoral districts by councilors was only a waste of time. This act did not improve the lives of citizens, did not bring any economic benefits for the city, and did not bring any financial or moral benefits for the citizens.
I♥E/ Do you think elected officials, such as City Councillors, should be able to block people on social media sites like Twitter?
AAG/ How could that make any sense? Of course not! Councilors already have many duties, and they do not fulfill many of them. Granting a decision to the city council to block people on social media only can make their daily work for the city even more difficult and complicated.
In our country we already have enough institutions and agencies that already carry out this work, let's give them a chance and let them do their job. I have nothing against the city councilors being an advisory body on this matter for these important institutions: (Governmental national security agencies, judiciary, police etc., etc.).
I♥E/ When it comes to COVID-19 restrictions, what do you think we got wrong (if anything) as a city or province, and is there anything you would want to do differently (municipally OR provincially)?
AAG/ COVID-19 is a humanitarian catastrophe, an epidemic, I don't see the difference between war, great fires or great floods.
I have prepared enough projects to satisfy not only our city, but also provincial and federal authorities.
I will present my COVID-19 program to the City Council. The main idea of the program is to create some kind of civic discipline, and to educate citizens to build a strong immune system.
I will appeal to the city council to establish civic centers where citizens will be able to obtain medical, psychological and legal help for free in one place.
As the father of communities, I will help them rebuild their social structures, and elect people to the community council.
I would like the public to be informed on an ongoing basis about how people get infected, where they get infected and when they get infected. The media do not give this information at all, and they are very helpful in our everyday life. Of course, the privacy principle will still apply.
I♥E/ What is your favourite thing about living in Edmonton?
AAG/ I've been living here for 13 years. Here is my life and my heart. I am the father and the husband of a family of six. Here I am involved in social and political activity, here I practice natural medicine, and here I have participated many times as a candidate in city council elections, provincial and federal elections.
Whenever I look at the city from my car window, I feel satisfied that I so often wanted to be one of the fathers of this city. And although I never became one, I never gave up hope. I have the feeling that I am always the father of this city.
I♥E/ Can you describe yourself in 5 words or less?
AAG/ Justice, Faith, Healing, Courage.
Thank you, Andy!
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Semley School Pupil Sorts Out Shaftesbury Litter Spot
17th August 2018 Community
Any Shaftesbury resident can help make our town a better place to live, whatever their age. That's Aoife Henty's experience. The 9-year old Semley School pupil wrote to Shaftesbury Town Council with her concerns over the amount of litter piling up in foliage behind the Tesco car park recycling bins.
"It is a hedge, not a bin," Aoife wrote in her letter. "Near Tesco, there was a pile of rubbish that I didn't really like. It was in the hedge and it could have stopped all of the plants growing," Aoife explained to ThisIsAlfred.com.
Aoife described the rubbish pile as being similar to the height of a dog. "It was plastic bags and old towels. Every week it got a little bit bigger," she said.
Aoife Henty with Shaftesbury Mayor Piers Brown
Aoife shared her concerns about the litter with her mother. "I told her that's not very nice. And she said, 'Why don't you write a letter about it?' So I did." Aoife wrote to Shaftesbury Town Council outlining her worry. "I wrote about how it could pollute," she said.
The volunteer Hilltop Litter Pickers had previously expressed concern about the rubbish that was collecting behind the recycling bins. And when the Town Council received Aoife's note, they contacted the County Council. The staff in Dorchester asked the Environmental Health team to speak with Tesco. The supermarket agreed to meet Aoife's request to clear the rubbish as part of their community programme.
Aoife says that she is 'really proud' that the six foot high fence is in now in place, screening off the area behind the recycling bins and preventing more littering – all because she wrote her letter. And she says that her school friends thought that the result of her letter was 'really good'.
So what does Aoife do when she spots litter now? "If it is safe, I try and pick it up," she said.
Earlier this week, Shaftesbury Mayor, Piers Brown, met Aoife to thank her and inspect the new fence. Aoife's mum, Katie Penman, said that she is proud of her daughter. Aoife has always been an independent thinker and often enters writing competitions, Katie said.
Aoife doesn't always receive a reply so Katie was delighted when the Town Council acknowledged her daughter's request. Katie hopes that the experience has empowered Aoife, now she knows how taking action can bring about a positive change.


Patience is a virtue, I keep telling myself. If that is the case, I expect that people who do block-sanding and priming for a living are among the saints of the world. At least they are among the most virtuous, since it seems you can't rush priming and blocking.
The weather over the holidays here in North Carolina has been uncharacteristically warm, with temperatures reaching into the 60s (Fahrenheit, or about 15 Celsius). The garage has been nice and warm, and I have been able to do some more priming in shirt sleeves. As a result, the entire exterior and the body shell underside is primed. (Actually, there are small portions of the underside that need some primer — the front portion of the footwells that sit on the crude frame I made to hold the body.) On New Year's Day 2003, we had just finished sealing the truck floor, and the car was still inverted. So, there has been progress.
Anyway, the jacking opened up most of the space along the beams and all of the trunk floor for priming. As I mentioned, only the front footwells still need priming. So, after I'm done with the trunk floor, I'll get those primed. I figure that I'll get the "Rock Schutz" rocker guard on the edge of the trunk before I lower it, though.
All of these theatrics with the jacks could have been avoided, I know, if I had built or invested in an honest-to-goodness car "rotisserie." Live and learn. If I ever restore another Jag, I'll know better.
The front bulkhead (or firewall) is now completely assembled and ready for a final sprayed coat of primer and then some color. The picture shows the area partially blocked, since you can still see areas with the marker coat of spray paint. I put the marker coat on quite lightly. The footwell parts of the bulkhead came out quite well. I had to repair both of them last November. Check out the pictures of the footwell repairs and the front bulkhead as it was being dismantled. Since the bulkhead has many curved indentations and smaller flat areas, I had to abandon the block for the most part. Even my four-incher wouldn't work very well in the constrained space. I'm not too worried about the smoothness of the finish on the bulkhead. I have concentrated on areas that are less obscured by parts either affixed to the bulkhead or by hoses and such. This section of the car body will just get a once over with sanding. I'll do a spray of primer on the surface, followed by color.
The plan for spraying color is a little clearer to me now. I'm now planning on spraying color on the underside of the car and the front bulkhead first, perhaps with the interior and inside the trunk, too. My main interest is getting the body to a point where I can begin to reassemble sections like the independent rear suspension and the front end. It also seems prudent to hold off on spraying color on any exterior section until all the exterior is ready to accept color — including the bonnet.
That bonnet is now in a corner of the garage. When I need to clean excess primer off a brush, I smear it on the bonnet. That's all I'm willing to do on the bonnet at this point. It can wait until I have a rolling body.
The right door has required a lot of work, and I ran into a troublesome high spot that needed some hammer work and some additional body filler to remove a dip. The location is right in the vicinity of the "A" post, and it looks like one of those unfortunate dings that comes from a tree branch or something dropped.
It seems a good occasion to go through the whole process of fixing the small ding at this stage in the priming and blocking process.
Although this dent was big enough to notice with the fingertips and from sand-through and left over "guide" spray paint, it's good to see why light is your friend. The top photograph shows the "light line" that falls over the problem area. Of course, I didn't need to see the line to see (or, rather, feel) the problem, but the line illustrates what happens when light hits a bump. You can set up a flourescent light to serve as a light source, but this often isn't necessary. Most of the reflection comes from lights on my garage ceiling. For areas that are "below the curve" and therefore where I can't use ceiling lights, I use a pair of halogen lights on a stand. I picked them up at the lumber yard for about $25 (USD) — a pair of 1000 watt halogens have come in handy.
Anyway, look for an interruption in the light line. You can usually get the feel for where the line ought to go with practice. If you are in doubt, use the vehicle's symmetry to your advantage. Take a look at the light line on the corresponding section on the other side of the car.
It's said that Sir William Lyons wanted to see an example of a pre-production car sprayed in black gloss so that he could look at the "light lines" of the design. In a sense, that's what you do as you take in the light lines while block-sanding the primer. You look for the consistencies, or, rather, you look for the inconsistent in order to find the problems.
Lots of times block-sanding an area will show you where the bumps and the dents are located. The dents or impressions keep the color of the guide coat that you lightly spray over the primed surface before blocking. They keep the color because the impression protects the paint from being sanded. High spots, the bumps, often appear because the primer below or even the base metal appears after block-sanding. I've heard to people using different colors of buildable primer simply to help identify high spots in this way. I suspect that using contrasting colored primers might make sense if there was great need to smooth a pretty rough area, but the project doesn't seem to warrant that treatment.
Handling the high spots is easy. You tap them down. Do this gently and use lots of light taps on the high spot and in the vicinity. Stop frequently to see if you've tapped the spot enough. You should be able to tap a high spot down almost to the point where it is in line with the desired surface. If you overdo it, you'll be able to handle the dent with filler. But remember that doing too much hammering has a tendency to stretch metal. And, at this point, you really shouldn't be doing any but very minor adjustments. The majority of the body work should be behind you.
After the tapping is done, I use some 60 grit sandpaper to rough up the surface quite well, so that it accepts the body filler well.
The filler I've used for this final work is "Easy Sand" by Evercoat. Bill McKenna mentions it on his '63 E-type FHC restoration website, and I found it at the local auto parts and body shop supply. The chain automotive stores, around here at least, don't have it in stock. It is very good stuff. The filler comes in a tube-like bottle (see the picture), so dispensing it is easy and creates no mess at all. Like other fillers, Easy Sand is a two-part product, so it should be durable. The filler itself is very fine and goes on very smoothly — it's more a cream than a putty. The manufacturers say it bonds well to metal, plastic, and primers.
The best thing about it for this kind of work is that it sands so nicely. When I've used other filler to bring up low spots in primer coats, I've always doubted whether the stuff would stick to primer, so I've ended up sanding right to the metal again. Also other fillers often sand badly when they are adjacent to buildable primer. The stuff usually is slightly harder than the primer, and so you have to be careful about outlining your filled area with a low spot in the primer. (Good blocking usually makes this less likely, though.) The Easy Sand product blocks very nicely.
I mix the filler on cardboard from soft drink containers or cereal boxes. I also use the cardboard to create a straightedge filler "knife." These are probably not professional grade tools to use, but they have the advantage of being easy to clean up — you just throw them away. The downside of the cardboard filler knife is that it often doesn't apply the filler smoothly. The third picture from the top shows the freshly applied filler, and it does have some troughs.
Block the area after the filler has cured. The area should be noticably better, though it might have a few imperfections. I noticed on this repair that I missed a small tap dent that I created while tapping down one of the high spots. It was not a particularly big dent, so I figured that the buildable primer would take care of it You can see the effect of the 60-grit sandpaper on the area. The two original high spots have merged to become one elongated spot, now flat from sanding. Flanking low spots have been filled with the filler. There isn't very much filler left in the area, which is as it should be.
After the filler is blocked, it's time to reprime the area. I use a paint brush to apply the primer, and that works quite well in small areas like this. After the primer is dry, block it again. This should bring the area to where you need it to be. I did this small repair after the second primer coat was blocked, and the problem was apparent. (This door has been a real job, and this little fix was nothing compared to the rest of the smoothing that was required. The big work was the result of many minor ripples all over the mid section of the door. That work was tedious mainly because getting the lines straight was complicated by the large surface area.) Any imperfections in the primed surface of the repair will get a at least one more going over before the surface is ready for color. I check the light line of the repaired area to see where it needs more attention. As you can see in the bottom picture, it's in pretty decent shape, though it has some slight indentation yet. This will be taken care of in the next round of primer coat and blocking.
There is no doubt that these small repairs and the multi-staged priming and blocking is a time consuming process. But it's also indispensible, unless you're willing to settle for a less than acceptable finish.


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There are hundreds of jobs within the healthcare industry, making it one of the largest and fastest growing industries around. In 2008, healthcare provided over 14 million jobs in the U.S., according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. While different jobs in the field have different job responsibilities and descriptions, salaries, and educational and training requirements, the responsibilities of most that work in healthcare are related to the health and wellness of people in our society. The role of the nurse practitioner is no different- as their job is to care for the ill and provide patients with primary care and health services.
A nurse practitioner is a registered nurse with advanced training. Most have completed graduate level education, with at least a master degree, and have been trained in diagnosing and caring for patients with medical conditions and chronic illnesses. To become licensed to practice as a nurse practitioner, they must have a national certification and be licensed through nursing boards. Nurse practitioners also focus on preventative measures such as educating their patients, their families, and the general public on the importance of their health and making healthy choices that promote wellness. They may also assist in minor surgeries and procedures under the care of a physician, provide specialty care for patients, and conduct annual physicals.
Nurse practitioners have some of the same job responsibilities as physicians and may serve as a health provider for their patients. They see patients of all ages and also focus on how their patients illnesses affect the lives of their family members. As the matter of fact, their role also includes informing family members on how to deal with illness, and on patient advocacy. In addition, some nurse practitioners also conduct research, often prescribe medication for illnesses, and prescribe rehabilitative treatments and physical therapy. They also order, perform, and evaluate studies or tests, such a lab tests and x-rays.
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Ralph McTell is an English singer/songwriter and acoustic guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk scene since the 1960s. Ralph McTell is probably best known for the song Streets of London which has been covered by over a hundred artists around the world. From Clare to Here has proved almost as popular, during a long and continuing recording and performing career.
Although he's best-known for his classic folk song staple "Streets of London," which first appeared on his 'Spiral Staircase' album in 1969, Ralph McTell is a multi-dimensional guitarist and singer/songwriter who's influenced hundreds of folk singers in Great Britain, Europe, and the . Fortunately, people in the .
While Ralph McTell is best known for his classic folk song of the down-and-out, "Streets of London," it's far from being the only string to his guitar. Hesitation Blues," "Spiral Staircase," and the very dark "Michael in the Garden" all came from the same late-'60s period, and deserve equal stature as thoughtful, literate pieces in a time before it became truly fashionable. And they were just the beginning
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***STATEMENT*** PROTECT OUR DEFENDERS RESPONDS TO PENTAGON REPORT ON SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE MILITARY
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PROTECT OUR DEFENDERS RESPONDS TO PENTAGON REPORT ON SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE MILITARY
#MeToo movement encourages more survivors to report but Pentagon remains slow to react; Despite decades of promises, prosecution rates are plummeting — continuing a trend of a lack of accountability
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) released its Annual Report on Sexual Violence and Harassment at the Military Service Academies. The Pentagon's findings show that despite being the world's largest employer, leadership within the United States military continues to fail to address the crisis in our armed forces. In the midst of the #MeToo Movement, the new report shows that sexual assault reports increased by 10% yet prosecution rates are plummeting. Military leadership has been promising change within a misogynistic work culture for over 25 years and yet, there seems to be very little progress. Even now, as the #MeToo Movement heats up and divides into others like #IWasWrong and #notinmymarines, military leaders are slow to hold their guilty counterparts accountable.
The new Pentagon report states that of the 5,110 unrestricted reports of sexual assault, only 406 actually went to court-martial resulting in only 166 convictions. Despite decades of promises of "Zero Tolerance" assailants are not being prosecuted. In 2013, 39% of cases sent to commanders for action resulted in charges being initiated; however, the percentage dropped sharply to 22% in 2017. Moreover, survivors are sending a clear message they do not trust the commander controlled justice system. Barely 50% of survivors said they were satisfied with the chain of command and the percentage of survivors refusing to participate after making an unrestricted report leapt from 9% in 2016 to 14% in 2017 which is the highest rate since 2010.
Col. Don Christensen (ret.), the former Chief Prosecutor of the United State Air Force and President of Protect Our Defenders, released the following statement:
"This is not a good news story. Reports of sexual assaults jumped by 10%, and we do not know if this is a result of an increase in sexual assaults or an increase in victims to report or a combination of both. What we do know, the numbers are part of a continuing trend of a lack of accountability. Prosecution rates continue to plummet despite an ever-increasing number of reports. Moreover, actual convictions remain abysmally low."
"Is it any wonder survivors drop out of the process when 73% of their retaliation reports are against someone in the chain of command. Increased reports should be leading to a corresponding increase in prosecutions and convictions. Sadly, that is not the case. The hostile and ineffective military justice system is failing to deliver for the brave survivors who step forward. Instead of justice, survivors are facing an ever-increasing accountability gap created by increased reporting yet plunging prosecution rates."
About Protect Our Defenders: Protect Our Defenders (POD) is a human rights organization. We are the only national organization solely dedicated to addressing the epidemic of rape and sexual assault in the military and to combating a culture of pervasive sexual harassment and retribution against victims. We honor, support and give voice to survivors of military sexual assault – including both service members and civilians assaulted by members of the military. We seek reform to ensure all survivors have access to a fair, impartially administered system of justice. Learn more about Protect Our Defenders at www.protectourdefenders.com or on Facebook at http://facebook.com/ProtectOurDefenders or follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ProtectRDfnders.
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Huntsville Center ends munitions disposal mission in Iraq
By Debra Valine
Published Dec. 2, 2011
At one time, it would have been easy to call Iraq the most dangerous place on Earth. Years of war and slipshod munitions accountability during the Saddam Hussein regime had turned the country into a thicket of unexploded ordnance.
But that danger has ended, thanks to an ordnance disposal program that has now itself ended. Nearly nine years after the U.S. Army requested ordnance support, the Ordnance and Explosives Directorate in the Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville ended its munitions disposal mission in Iraq.
The coalition munitions disposal (CMD) mission was completed Nov. 12, at the direction of the Army. CMD stood up Nov. 21, 2008, replacing the coalition munitions clearance (CMC) mission that had mobile teams conducting ordnance clearance and disposal missions all over Iraq.
"The CMD mission was a static operation, in that all munitions were delivered to a centralized disposal point at forward operating base (FOB) Hammer where the actual disposal occurred," said Bill Sargent, chief of the International Operations Division. "Complete demobilization from the site was completed Nov. 12, however, the last demolition shot was executed Oct. 24."
A "shot" is a controlled demolition where explosives are rigged to destroy a parcel of unexploded ordnance.
Preliminary numbers show that 3,731 tons of unserviceable ammunition, 479 tons of enemy remnants of war and 214 tons of munitions belonging to the United Kingdom were destroyed, totaling more than 4,400 tons combined.
Also destroyed in the demolition shots were weapons, other sensitive items, expired drugs, etc. Munitions disposed of included artillery projectiles, land mines, grenades, rockets, small arms ammunition, some bombs, detonation cord, etc.
"The majority of the munitions and other items disposed of were sent to us by the U.S. Army," Sargent said. "We also destroyed some explosive items for the U.S. Air Force. When the British Army pulled out of Iraq, their excess ammunition also was sent to FOB Hammer where it was destroyed."
The munitions disposal mission started in July 2003 as the captured enemy ammunition (CEA) disposal program. The focus of the CEA mission was securing six major captured Iraqi ammunition depots and disposing of ammunition not retained for the future Iraqi Army. The CEA mission evolved into both CMC and the depot operations program in February 2006.
CMC was tasked with the subsurface clearance of previously destroyed ammunition sites in Iraq, with a focus on denying improvised explosive device (IED) capable materiel to a rising insurgency. The depot operations program was tasked with initially standing up and operating two ammunition depots for the newly-formed Iraqi Army. One depot was later closed by the Iraqi Army, and the other became Bayji National Depot.
Under the CMC program, mobile contractor teams moved from site to site, clearing collapsed bunkers and uncovering buried munitions. When the ammunition sites that were a concern under CMC had been cleared and the depot turned over to the Iraqi Army for their own control and operation, the mission changed from a mobile operation to the CMD effort with a centralized collection point for unserviceable U.S. munitions disposal.
During the five years of the CMC program, more than 346,000 tons of explosive remnants of war were destroyed at 51 clearance sites, denying the enemy these hazardous materials for IED that would have caused untold loss of life and property, said Col. Rock Donahue, former director, Multi-National Corps-Iraq, Engineers (C7), at the change of mission ceremony.
At the height of the program, 18 mobile teams were operating in Iraq to support the CMC mission, and local national labor and subcontractors were hired at each of the 51 clearance sites.
"The toll on these honorable men and women performing this inherently dangerous mission was high," Donahue said. "Forty-three contractor personnel and an untold number of local nationals lost their lives denying the enemy ammunition, ordnance and cache sites."