There are 10 reviews of Casamorati 1888 Mefisto.
This fragrance is a homage to Creed's Silver Mountain Water. It smells similar to Silver Mountain Water but is more green and floral, and lacks the ink and tea notes of Silver Mountain Water. In the opening I smell a mix of citrus fruits including grapefruit, bergamot, and lemon, along with some green note in the background. As it dries down it gets sweeter and I can somewhat detect the lavender, rose, sandalwood, and musk notes blended together. They are blended together so well though that I can't pick out individual notes but just a general herbal sort of sweetness. Projection for this fragrance is subtle for a Xerjoff (projects moderately; better in hot weather), while has fairly good longevity, projecting well for 4 hours, and then remaining as a skin scent. Overall, it's a nice niche fresh fragrance. However I can't help feeling performance could be better, and also that my $25 Frank Olivier Sun Java White smells and performs similar to this (though less natural smelling and more metallic), which is why I haven't granted it a perfect score.
Xerjoff Mefisto has a strong reputation and in trying it today, I can understand why. Its blend and note breakdown are excellently arranged to create a balanced, enjoyable freshie.
First, the opening of mixed citrus (lemon, bergamot, grapefruit) is great, and grapefruit and bergamot in particular vary from one another enough to create a sort of general citrus vibe that's enjoyable while not being overwhelming.
Next, the heart of mixed florals, perhaps the three greatest floral notes, in rose, iris, and lavender. It too is fresh, but also sharp and deep and nuanced.
Finally, the base of amber, sandalwood, cedar, and musk, is soft, warm bed for the fragrance to rest on after drying down, the amber and musk adding some sweetness to contrast the citrus and floral opening and heart, respectively.
This is a near-perfect formula for a winning fresh fragrance: variant citrus and floral notes with just enough woodsy and whim while still being on-target and not too quirky to be universally enjoyable. Still, somehow, though, it feels sophisticated and not so commonplace to be regarded as boring or generic.
Mefisto's main pitfall, at least on my skin, is its performance, which seems to be moderate (at best) in terms of both projection and longevity. Apparently the consensus is somewhat more favorable.
Only with respect to performance, then, is Mefisto a tough sell. Even its discounted pricing ($238 for 100ml on FragranceX) is a tough sell, let alone the retail ($290 for 100ml on Luckyscent), but surely there are deals and decants to be had.
In conclusion, it's a superlative freshie, held back only by its performance on my skin, but hopefully it does better on yours.
Yup, I agree with so many reviewers here at basenotes and elsewhere that Casamorati 1888 Mefisto does bear a strong resemblance to Creed's Silver Mountain Water, yet it retains its own identity so as not to be an unwitting total clone to SMW.
No harsh metallic note in Mefisto (a near-deal breaker for me with SMW, which I otherwise enjoy UNTIL that note rears its ugly scent). Casamorati's bespoke scent prjoects very nicely, has a quality-made feel to the ingredients used plus the mixing process, and it's an aromatic citrus woody scent that is suitable for near middle-aged to older wearers.
Beholding my bottle of Xerjoff, I know I am holding a scent of great craftmanship and uncompromised standards. It is a lesser-known uber-niche brand, but it's just as credible a brand to explore as Creed, Clive Christian, and others.
Probably one of the best Fresh scents out there. Amazing juice. I can see the comparison to SMW but in my opinion there are a few noticeable differences The rose/floral notes take it in a slightly different direction than SMW. Longevity and projection are pretty awesome. I get 12 hours with 6 hours of excellent projection. Very classy and upmarket.
A scent that compliments your own elegant sense of style.Mefisto is harmonious with urban edge and immediate charm.reminds me of creed SMW but less friendly and more wearable.it lacks the metallic sweetness.a really nice blend of citrus,lavender and iris that is very positive and clear.young but the basis is a little heavy for teens.simply beautiful and mysterious at the same time.in other words: Unisex, Woody,Charismatic,Enjoyable,Elegant,Refined, Smooth,Aromatic and Refreshing.
The fragrance is a fresh and positive composition with incisive,citrusy top notes of lemon,grapefruit and bergamot.the heart unfolds with elegant iris and aromatic lavender while the base notes has been consistent light balance between woody(sandalwood and cedar)and musk provides a unisex signature.the scent is masculine but definitely unisex.the opening note smelled synthetic to me.perfect for warm spring and hot summer days.a good choice for a date or if you wanna feel pretty and innocent.great for niche beginners.
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In October 1969, a rumour began circling that Paul McCartney, one of The Beatles, died in a car crash in late 1966 and was replaced by a lookalike. Proponents of the theory, which is commonly referred to as the Paul is dead hoax, cite "clues" in the form of peculiar album covers, possible symbolism in strange lyrics, and backmasking.
Please post your comments and thoughts regarding Paul McCartney Died in a Car Crash Conspiracy Theories.
he has got a point there is no way there is a lookalike that sounds just like paul beacause auto tuners didnt exist then!!
it dosent make any sense.
i have read everything on this subject, both sides seem to have a good argument, i admit i am still on the fence.
let me tell you my problems with this….
1. if macca and the girl hitchiker were all alone in the car, and both were killed, how could anyone have known about what happened inside the car…how would they had known that the girl tried to hug him in her excitement causing macca to lose control.
2. you can not bribe the police, nor newspapers…if anything a bribe story like this surounding such a tragic accident to happen to such an iconic person of the time, would make even bigger news.
especially coming from the beatles management…that would have been all over the media.
3. the ambulance staff would have had to make a report for attending, plus the fire fighters…couldn't bribe them.
you defanately couldn't bribe a cononer…who would possibly risk imprisonment by taking such a bribe?.
4…cars!!!…some say it was a austin healy…others say it is was an aston martin….which one is it?.
5. if accident never happened, then where is this car now?
if it is not true and the real macca lived…he probably would have sold it, and it would now be worth a fourtune, especially if it was once owned by macca..it would now be part of someones valuable collection…so, again….where is it now?
THE ANSWER TO THIS WOULD BE DEFINING, AND WOULD EITHER PROVE OR DISPELL THIS MACCA BEING DEAD CONSPIRACY…plus a burnt out wrekage would have initially ended up in a scap yard…surely some scrap merchant would have remembered that.
6. why would the beatle's management allow the 3 remaining members to purposely leave clues all over the place, when it was suposed to be a big secret.
7. the vw in the background on the abbey road album, with the reg 28IF….if this is just a coincidence, then someone must have owned this car.(wouldn't you be thrilled that our car was pictured on this brilliant iconic album?)..it would be on record, at the DVLA office. who would forget owning that car?. somewhere…so why hasn't the owner come forward…this car would be pretty famous to, even now 46 years later…dont you think this car would also end up in someones famous car collection to, especially because of the beatles, along with this conspiracy surrounding it.
8. if the conspiracy is true, then william shears campbell has made a good living being macca for the past 46 years since.
dont you think he would have written a book about it by now, and owned up. think of the money he would make from this revelation alone?
9. jane asher pauls girlfreind….she would have known, and if it was true, then she would be complicite.
i dont know about anyone else, but i have never met any woman, who could possibly keep a secret for this long, especially one such as this…if it is true, anyone holding such a secret, must be still having their insides torn apart…just think of the money they could make also.
not being an expert, i cant explain the suden change in maccas eye colour, or his apparent gain of 3 inches within a 9 month period.
can bone structure change in such a short space of time?. is this possible?.
there is a lot of things that just dont make any sense, especially if you look at it from the viewpoint of the conspiracy theorists.
they are not dumb, or crazy…they are like me, they want answers.
they want assurances that it was the real maccas albums that they'd been buying, the girls want to know if it was really thier idol macca that they had been swooning over, especially if she was called linda….yes, i think it is time to come clean paul, or faul.
going back to the clues left in the music albums etc.
why would they go to so much trouble..etc?.
album sales might have been falling…so they needed a gimmick.
ie…somehow someone would break a story, hinting at such an outragious story, about macca being killed, also hinting that any clues would be in their forth coming albums etc, the only way for people to check this out for themselves, would be to buy them!!.
if so….why paul?…why not Ringo!, George!, John!
if it is a conspiracy, now is the time for faul to own up, and put us all out of our misery.
like i said, i am on the fence…………i think.
All these conspiracy theorists have to do is get DNA samples from Paul & Paul (Who they now refer to as Faul, since the conspiracy theory started) That will settle things once and for all. There's also fingerprints, which cannot be changed. The conspiracy theory folks never actually try to get to the bottom of this scientifically, because there is no actual evidence of Paul dying. There is only fabricated theories based on what someone is trying to get you to believe. They point at things like album covers and words in Beatles songs, and when that's not enough they litteraly play the songs backwords and try to say that they hear hidden messages. LMAO! With the number of songs the Beatles wrote and the individuals wrote after breaking up, you could take selected words from them and make up any conspiracy you want. How you interpret album cover art can also promote your new conspiracy. Play the albums backwords and you can say something sounds like it's confirming your new conspiracy. This theory is just so much BS, made up by someone who's either on drugs or, more likely, trying to get rich off the backs of the Beatles.
The Beatles were first pretty much at everything. From backwards messages to recording live , just about everything. Why doesn't Faul just get a DNA test done or try to prove the conspiracy isn't true? Because he along with his fellow bandmates are the ones that started it. Sort of their way of leaving a little mystery about their band which will keep them alive long after they are gone. If you want to keep a secret you don't put forward clues on album covers that are so obvious, you only do that if you want them to be found. People are so quick to believe everything is a conspiracy. If this whole McCartney thing was really a hoax , you wouldn't know about it and the beatles certainly wouldn't have gotten away with the album covers hinting towards Paul dying. This is a hoax alright and it comes from the Beatles themselves. Why? The answer to that question is… why not?


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Percent and Proportions Students will solve problems of the form "One number is some percent of another number."
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Gasoline For $5 a Gallon? The possibility is quite plausible.
Gas prices increased 13¢ per gallon in the past week, and increased 29 cents in the last month. That means gas prices are rising 1- 2¢ per day.
The national average retail price for a gallon of regular gas is averaging $4.32 in California and $3.73 a gallon nationally on Wednesday, according to the AAA Fuel Gauge Report.
Gas prices keep going higher and higher, how high they are going to go is just about anyone's guess.
Tom Kloza, a conservative analyst with the Oil Price Information Service, said, "You may indeed have to pay $5 (per gallon) if you buy your summer gasoline in places like Martha's Vineyard, or one of the tonier suburbs of New York, San Francisco, or Los Angeles," Kloza wrote last week on his blog.
With no clear end to tensions with Iran and Syria and rising demand from countries like China, gas prices are already at record highs for the winter months.
As summer approaches, demand for gasoline rises, typically pushing prices up around 20 cents a gallon.
The NY Times reported gas prices could rise another 50 cents a gallon or more, analysts say, if the diplomatic and economic standoff over Iran's nuclear ambitions escalates into military conflict or there is some other major supply disruption.
Today's record-high gas prices are having a real impact on millions of families and businesses who rely heavily on their cars.
Average gas prices already top $4 a gallon in three states (Alaska, California, Hawaii), and in Washington, D.C., and four other states (Oregon, Washington, New York, Connecticut), the average price for a gallon of regular is now at least $3.95.
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The "CDC whistleblower saga": Updates, backlash, and (I hope) a wrap-up
David Gorski on September 1, 2014
Given that this is a holiday weekend here in the US and that I'm having a bit of a staycation right now, I had thought of simply not posting today or of rerunning a "classic" (if you want to call it that) blast from the past. But the topic I wrote about last week has only festered and grown bigger since Monday; so at the very least I felt obligated to do a post updating you, our readers, on the twists and turns that have occurred in the saga of the so-called "CDC whistleblower." For those of you familiar with the story (not to mention following my not-so-secret other blog), much of this will be familiar, but, given that this is SBM, I felt that this material should be on record here for your edification and (hopefully) education. I'll take (more or less) a chronological approach since last Monday and then finish up by trying to put this whole mess into perspective. This is going to be longer than even my usual posts, but I want to be authoritative. So, if you're very familiar with what's happened, you might want to skim everything before the "backlash" and "conclusion" sections to fill in what you might have missed. If you're less than completely steeped in what happened, read every scintillating word!
But first, for those who might be entering this saga right now, let me recap a moment. I'm referring to a conspiracy theory, which has been flogged to death by the antivaccine movement for nearly two weeks now, that there is a CDC whistleblower who has made "devastating" reports that the CDC hid data that showed a 3.4-fold increased risk of autism in African American males, based on an incompetent "reanalysis" of a 10 year old CDC study that found no evidence that children with autism were more likely to have received their first MMR vaccine earlier than neurotypical controls. As I (and others) have discussed, Hooker used howlingly bad statistical methodology (for instance, analyzing case control data as a cohort study and using risibly bad statistical analyses) to torture the data until they confess that vaccines cause autism. As I said at the time, when it comes to data, call Hooker the Spanish Inquisition. Such was the weakness of what he found that, even after forcing the data to sit in the comfy chair for extended periods of time, the most damning "confession" he could get from them was a correlation between age at MMR vaccination and autism diagnoses in one small subgroup: African American males.
Based on this utterly incompetent data torture and Hooker's apparent budding relationship with a "CDC whistleblower," Wakefield first made a video in which this "whistleblower's" voice was electronically altered (not to mention edited into such selective snippets that it was impossible to glean any context from his seemingly-damning statements. This video, released through Andrew Wakefield's and Tommy Polley's Autism Media Channel, despicably likened this CDC "cover-up" to the Tuskegee syphilis study, and finished with a flourish of Godwin-y nonsense that included Adolf Hitler (of course!), Pol Pot, and Josef Stalin, implying that the CDC's "crimes" with respect to this alleged cover-up were just as bad. It was a breathtaking demonstration of pure stupid hyperbole. Then, a few days later, Wakefield replaced the video with the alterations in the "whistleblower's" voice with his real voice and revealed his real name: William W. Thompson, PhD, a psychologist and senior scientist at the CDC, as well as a co-author of the study being "reanalyzed," DeStefano et al. Now, on to the update!
The CDC reponds
Remember how last week I wondered why the CDC hadn't responded yet? Well, on the afternoon of August 26, after having let this mess fester over the weekend plus Monday, the CDC finally did respond with a statement:
CDC shares with parents and others great concern about the number of children with autism spectrum disorder.
CDC is committed to continuing to provide essential data on autism, search for factors that put children at risk for autism and look for possible causes. While doing so, we work to develop resources that help identify children with autism as early as possible so they can benefit from intervention services.
CDC's study about age at first Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccination and autism, published in Pediatrics in 2004, included boys and girls from different ethnic groups, including black children. The manuscript presented the results on two sets of children:
All children who were initially recruited for the study, and
the subset of children who had a Georgia birth certificate.
Access to the information on the birth certificates allowed researchers to assess more complete information on race as well as other important characteristics, including possible risk factors for autism such as the child's birth weight, mother's age, and education. This information was not available for the children without birth certificates; hence CDC study did not present data by race on black, white, or other race children from the whole study sample. It presented the results on black and white/other race children from the group with birth certificates.
The study looked at different age groups: children vaccinated by 18 months, 24 months, and 36 months. The findings revealed that vaccination between 24 and 36 months was slightly more common among children with autism, and that association was strongest among children 3-5 years of age. The authors reported this finding was most likely a result of immunization requirements for preschool special education program attendance in children with autism.
The data CDC collected for this study continue to be available for analysis by others. CDC welcomes analysis by others that can be submitted for peer-review and publication. For more information on how to access this public-use dataset please go to the this [sic] webpage.
Additional studies and a more recent rigorous review by the Institute of Medicine have found that MMR vaccine does not increase the risk of autism.
Vaccines protect the health of children in the United States so well that most parents today have never seen first-hand the devastating consequences of diseases now stopped by vaccines.
However, our 2014 measles count is the highest number since measles was declared eliminated in 2000. We do not want to lose any opportunity to protect all of our children when we have the means to do so.
I was actually rather torn by this statement. When I first saw it, it annoyed me. It was so milquetoast, so vague. It didn't address the heart of the attempt at a manufactroversy, namely what on earth is going on with CDC senior scientist William Thompson, who was represented by Andrew Wakefield and Brian Hooker as having "confessed" to grave malfeasance and fraud with respect to this study using cherry-picked sound bites with no context claimed to be by Thompson himself intermingled with Hooker making all sorts of claims of suppression of the "real" results. On the other hand, this antivaccine manufactroversy hadn't hit the mainstream press much yet, having at the time been confined to the antivaccine and quack crankosphere. So maybe it wasn't such a horrible idea not to mention Thompson, Hooker, or Wakefield. Certainly Hooker and Wakefield don't deserve to be considered on the same level as someone like Thompson, even if he did somehow make the huge mistake of speaking with Hooker. Stick to the science. However, if this is all that the CDC was going to come out with, it boggles the mind that this statement wasn't released on Friday, when the social media storm first really erupted. In any case, it struck me as too little, too late, but for what it is it does have some positives, particularly the statement that the data continue to be available for analysis and that the CDC welcomes such analyses by others that can be submitted for peer reviewed studies. That hardly suggests a "cover-up."
On the other hand, I really wish that Frank DeStefano, the lead author of DeStefano et al., hadn't agreed to be interviewed by antivaccine crank reporter Sharyl Attkisson (remember her?), where he doesn't come across that impressively. In this case, the CDC is losing the PR war.
Mike Adams and antivaccinationists try the "drip, drip, drip" technique
Meanwhile, Mike Adams, thinking himself some sort of "investigative journalist," decided that he'd try to get the press' interest by releasing e-mails and letters in dribs and drabs. First up in Adams' "leak parade," most likely fed to him by either Brian Hooker or Andrew Wakefield was a letter from William Thompson to the then-head of the CDC, Julie Gerberding, dated February 2, 2004:
Going along with this letter was this interview with Adams:
First off, can't antivaccinationists understand that a 3.4-fold increased risk is NOT a 340% increased risk? It's a 240% increased risk. These people are numerically illiterate. The rest of it is nothing new, nothing that I haven't discussed before. The only difference is more race-baiting despicableness added to Andrew Wakefield's and Brian Hooker's race-baiting despicableness. Oh, and libeling Julie Gerberding. Adams charges that she definitely had been offered a quid pro quo for allegedly having quashed the finding that the MMR vaccine causes autism in African-American children. Oh, and totally misinterpreting Thompson's letter.
Second, do you see a hint of a conspiracy or desire to cover up data in Thompson's letter? I don't. Indeed, as I read this, all I could think of was: Is this the best Wakefield and Hooker have got? What I see in this letter is a scientist begging his boss to respond to an antivaccine legislator's rabble rousing. In fact, these letters from Rep. David Weldon, MD, to Julie Gerberding can be found online on various antivaccine websites. For instance, here is Weldon's letter dated October 31, 2003. Here is the second letter, dated January 21, 2004.
If you read Weldon's letters, you'll note that they have nothing to do with Destefano et al. They're both about the Verstraeten study, which is the study at the heart of what has been referred to as the central conspiracy theory of the antivaccine movement (at least in the US) and has been deconstructed in detail. Basically, Weldon, even though he's a physician, fell for the Simpsonwood conference conspiracy theory, promoted a year and a half later by antivaccine crank Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., hook, line, and sinker. The first letter basically regurgitates the "concerns" being promoted by the antivaccine movement at the time. The second letter turned up the heat, trying to persuade Gerberding to postpone the Institute of Medicine conference until the "concern" about the Verstraeten study had been addressed. As we all know, the IOM conference did go on and the IOM report strongly stated that there was no correlation between the MMR vaccine and autism.
I can understand why Thompson, if this first letter is genuine, was concerned. David Weldon was making hay with the antivaccine underground, which back in 2003 and 2004 hadn't yet been completely revealed to be the total cranks they are, such that they could be safely ignored. Thompson sounds as though he were concerned that he was being thrown to the wolves without adequate backup, a not unreasonable concern at the time. He sounds as though he were pleading for the CDC to come out more strongly on the science of vaccine safety, disagreeing that letting the science showing vaccines to be safe speak for itself is enough. He was right. Science and medicine communicators are needed, because the antivaccine movement will do everything in its power to make sure that the science doesn't speak for itself.
The next day, Mike Adams published what he described as "Bombshell email from CDC whistleblower reveals criminality of vaccine cover-up as far back as 2002":
Taken out of context, it's rather hard to know what to make of this e-mail. Apparently in 2002, there was a Department of Justice request for documents relating to the MMR vaccine, thimerosal (which, I note, is not in the MMR and never has been), and autism. Asking around, what I gather is that at this time the discovery phase of the Autism Omnibus proceeding was under way, and requests for CDC documents were coming hot and heavy. Whatever was going on, what I see here is not evidence of a cover-up. Quite the contrary! If you read the letter, you'll see Thompson relating that he had expressed concerns about some of the "sensitive legal issues" regarding what documents he should provide to the DOJ and was told that he should "apply a very broad definition" to the documents to be provided to the DOJ. In other words, it would appear that Thompson went to the CDC expressing concern about these requests and was told to give the DOJ everything. So that's what he does, spelling out exactly what he means by that: All his agendas, analysis plans, Excel spreadsheets, SAS programs, draft manuscripts, edited manuscripts, and sensitive results from the MADDSP/MMR Autism study (the study that was ultimately published as Destefano et al. and "reanalyzed" incompetently by Brian Hooker). He also said he would be providing any other documents he had related to autism/MMR studies. In other words, he seemed to be saying to the CDC, if you tell me to apply a "broad definition," I'm going to give the DOJ everything I have. As far as we know, the CDC did not object. If it had and Mike Adams had the "smoking gun" e-mail, you can bet he'd have used it by now, given that this e-mail was "revealed" several days ago.
Most of the issue here appears to be requests for documents from the DOJ, which clearly spooked Thompson, if this letter is any indication. I can understand. If I were an investigator at the CDC and the DOJ were requesting documents from me, I'd be nervous too, particularly after seeing my collaborator raked over the coals in front of the committee of the grandaddy of antivaccine congressional representatives, Dan Burton, as Thompson did Coleen Boyle in 2002. As an investigator in vaccine safety, you don't expect to be the target of investigations of politically minded antivaccine loons. You expect to do good science and let the science speak for itself. Unfortunately, given the antivaccine movement, anyone who works for the CDC in vaccine safety is a target, something that's been true for 15 years now.
Mike Adams (and the antivaccine contingent lapping up his stuff) wants you to think Thompson was expressing fear that he and his collaborators had done something wrong. To Adams, it's always the "cover-up," whether there is any cover-up or not. I just don't see that, though. To me, it looks as though it's probably panic at having the DOJ breathing down his neck and demanding documents. What I see is a plea for help, an attitude of, "WTF? I didn't sign on for this legal stuff when I became a scientist. Take my name off the manuscript if I'm going to have to put up with this to be part of it." He then took the step of hiring a personal attorney to protect himself, which is also not an entirely unreasonable step to take. After all, institutional lawyers exist to protect the institution, not the individual. Physicians inherently know this, which is why we don't generally use hospital attorneys to defend ourselves in malpractice cases. We hire our own. In this case, it looks as though Thompson was simply informing the CDC brass that he was covering his own posterior. In other words, this e-mail is very much of a piece with his previous e-mail. Thompson was freaked out at dealing with the DOJ and didn't want to take any chances. Barring more information, that's what it looks like to me.
In other words, the "document dump," such as it was, orchestrated by Mike Adams with (presumably) Brian Hooker and Andrew Wakefield, was utterly unimpressive. What amazes me today, as it did last week, is just how…mundane…these "bombshell" e-mails are. There's no real indication of a cover-up. In fact, it sounds as though the CDC ordered its investigators to be maximally open with the DOJ after Thompson asked for guidance. If this is the best Adams, Wakefield, and Hooker can come up with, it's thin gruel indeed. Meanwhile, antivaccine activists tried to get the attention of the mainstream media through a Twitter party orchestrated by the cringe-inducingly named Thinking Moms' Revolution that failed.
Two real "bombshells"
Wednesday was an eventful day in that there were two developments. First, in the morning, Hooker's paper was taken down pending further investigation, with the following notice:
This article has been removed from the public domain because of serious concerns about the validity of its conclusions. The journal and publisher believe that its continued availability may not be in the public interest. Definitive editorial action will be pending further investigation.
As of last night, the same message is there. When I first heard of this, I was conflicted. On the one hand, my position had hardened since I had first analyzed Hooker's sorry excuse for a reanalysis. Then, I wasn't completely sure that the paper was as bad as all that. Oh, I knew it was bad, but just how bad had to be further pounded into my head through further thought, further reading, and further analysis over the next few days. So I really thought this paper deserved retraction. On the other hand, I knew that retracting this paper would simply feed the conspiracy theorists of the antivaccine movement in a way that almost nothing else could, and if this removal does end up being the first step towards retraction it will drive the antivaccine conspiracy contingent into even greater heights of frenzy. But then I thought about it. Everything feeds into the conspiracy theories of antivaccinationists. We don't care about changing their minds, because their minds can't be changed. What we do care about is persuading the general public, particularly the fence sitters, and a retraction of a scientific paper sends a powerful message to the public about a study.
A great example is Andy Wakefield himself. His reputation was never quite the same after he was struck off as a physician in the UK and then his Lancet paper was retracted. Before that, mainstream news outlets used to routinely interview him about vaccines and autism. Afterward, he was toxic. True, he should have been just as toxic all along, at least as far back as the late 1990s, but for some reason he wasn't. After his retractions, suddenly he was. Indeed, one can't help but wonder whether Wakefield's involvement in this story completely undermined Hooker by guaranteeing that the mainstream media wouldn't touch this story with the proverbial ten foot cattle prod. Without Wakefield, maybe Hooker would have gotten some traction with major mainstream media outlets over his "reanalysis" and his whistleblower. With Wakefield on board, he got nothing. Indeed, this is one of the uncommon times when the mainstream media should be congratulated for not covering Andrew Wakefield, with only very minor exceptions (and, no, CNN iReports do not count as mainstream news reporting, the efforts of antivaccinationists to claim otherwise notwithstanding).
That changed somewhat after the next major development, but not, in general, to the antivaccine movement's liking. This next development, was the issuance of a press release by William Thompson through his lawyer, Rick Morgan.
The first thing you have to remember is that this statement was vetted through his lawyer. Consequently, it is relatively content-free, at least as far as some of the more pressing questions. There also appears to be an effort there to straddle the fence a bit, hence Thompson's saying that he agrees with Hooker that CDC decision-making and analyses should be "transparent." That's a statement so generic as to be in essence meaningless. No one—the CDC included—would disagree with that statement. The devil, of course, is in the details. What, exactly, does "transparent" mean?
The next thing that came to mind is this: Thompson very likely destroyed his scientific career, and it's not because he revealed any scientific fraud. There doesn't appear to have been any fraud, just a scientific disagreement. Yet, over this disagreement, Thompson has, in essence, apologized (expressed "regret") not just for himself (which he has every right to do if he thinks he's done something wrong) but has in essence also apologized for his co-authors too. One wonders whether his co-authors think they've done anything that requires such an expression of "regret." My guess is that the answer to that question is no. So Thompson has turned a scientific disagreement into an insinuation of unethical behavior, based on a dubious accusation, given that I don't see, even now, how "relevant data" were withheld, given that Destefano et al. analyzed data for all subjects, as I described.
Sure, the CDC won't fire Thompson or discipline him, but no one is going to want to collaborate with him any more—and understandably so. Certainly, if I were one of his collaborators, I'd drop him like the proverbial hot potato immediately and refuse to work with him further, if only for the reason that I could no longer trust him not to turn an honest scientific disagreement into a major kerfuffle. Make no mistake, his attempt to recast his behavior as a result of a scientific disagreement by saying that "Reasonable scientists can and do differ in their interpretation of information" will fall on deaf ears in the scientific community. After all, he just accused his coauthors, indirectly, of at the very minimum sloppy science in not following the study protocol. Worse, they can't say anything publicly to counter it, given Thompson's having lawyered up to assert whistleblower status.
That being said, the antivaccine movement should take no comfort in Thompson's statement, either. I've seen them all over Twitter and Facebook already zeroing in on Thompson's insinuations, to the exclusion of the rest of the press release. It was enough to have our old buddy J.B. Handley (remember J.B. Handley?) start up a Twitter account:
#CDCWhistleblower scrubbed by lawyers and still ugly, biggest shit-bomb CDC has ever seen http://t.co/pefeWFphzc
— JB Handley (@JBHandleyjr) August 28, 2014
Meanwhile, the commenters are going wild over at the antivaccine crank blog Age of Autism.
Antivaccinationists, however, are quite mistaken in declaring Thompson's statement to be "vindication." It is not. For one thing, all we have is Thompson's word that anything untoward occurred. For another thing, it hasn't been actually proven that there was any sort of malfeasance or scientific fraud at all, and even Thompson's statement, although it insinuates less-than-rigorous scientific behavior, does not support an accusation of fraud. Even if it did, accusations are not convictions. Here's the problem. Antivaccinationists, as is usual, are being very selective in what they believe out of this press release. They trumpet Thompson's statement about the Destefano et al as "proof" that the "CDC lied." Yet, they're completely ignoring the biggest part of the statement: How massively enormous (or enormously massive) a slimeball Thompson just revealed Hooker to be—Wakefield, too. In the statement, Thompson accused Hooker of having recorded him without informing him, a massive violation of the trust Hooker had nurtured between them.
In light of this new information, what do I now think happened? I think I can make a reasonably educated guess now. Both Hooker and Thompson agree that they had many phone conversations over that period of time. Likely, Hooker reeled Thompson in by offering a sympathetic ear and enthusiasm to reanalyze the data, as well as by playing to his ego and view of himself as a wronged warrior for the truth. It didn't matter much that Hooker, if his "reanalysis" is to be believed, has the statistical and epidemiological skills of a paper cup. The two men obviously hit it off, and Thompson confided more and more with him, while Hooker taped it all without Thompson's knowledge. Meanwhile, anyone paying attention to the rumblings of the antivaccine underground knew that Hooker had been claiming he had a "whistleblower" on the inside for quite some time now. Ultimately, somehow Wakefield found out and proposed making that video, promising not to reveal Thompson's identity, a promise he broke. Betrayals within betrayals. Hooker played Thompson by recording him, and apparently Wakefield played Hooker by tricking him into doing that video with a promise not to reveal Hooker's identity. Either way, Thompson was played, big time.
The backlash
There's no doubt about it. The antivaccine crankosphere is fired up about this. They've been pounding a hashtag they invented, #CDCwhistleblower, for almost a week now. Antivaccine activists are so fired up about this that they've lost their usual sense of caution with respect to commenting on pro-science blogs like this one and my not-so-super-secret other blog. As I write this, the number of comments after my first post is fast approaching 1,000, largely because of an unprecedented influx of antivaccine posters. Meanwhile, I haven't been at the receiving end of such an intense series of attacks by antivaccinationists since four years ago, when Jake Crosby accused me of a nonexistent conflict of interest, resulting in an influx of e-mails and calls to my university's board of governors, my cancer center director, and my medical school dean trying to get me fired. They failed.
These days, the attacks are coming in the form of a potentially libelous CNN iReport regurgitating Crosby's charges, and, of course, Twitter attacks galore:
@gorskon @brian_sthecobra @DrChrisNorthrup @RobSchneider We're holding all complicit accountable & heads will roll. The ax is coming down!
— Marsha McClelland (@Mofmars333) August 31, 2014
@JBHandleyjr @gorskon @snopes Gorski & others been working years for pHARMa to hold children in harms way #CDCwhistleblower @RobSchneider
@gorskon @brian_sthecobra @DrChrisNorthrup @RobSchneider They're lies? You & others to be named were warned to stop. Time to pay the piper!
@gorskon @JBHandleyjr your words and actions will come back to haunt you on your deathbed #CDCwhistleblower
— Blaze (@autismeradicato) August 31, 2014
@gorskon @JBHandleyjr #CDCwhistleblower Many hold rage in our hearts due to this Dr. Gorski.& his several partners in crime @RobSchneider
This all sounds rather…threatening. One wonders if Ms. McClelland thinks it's wise to post such Tweets.
And, of course, J.B. Handley is at it as well:
My take on Dr David Gorski aka Orac #CDCwhistleblower http://t.co/217iIpfMVc — JB Handley (@JBHandleyjr) August 31, 2014
@JBHandleyjr @gorskon @snopes did you see the TV coverage !! Kreipske made audito, finds fraud gets fired http://t.co/Nq7muYbo8y
— Eben Plettner (@EbenPlettner) August 31, 2014
I must be oblivious to what's going on at my medical school, because I hadn't heard about this. So I did a little Googling and found the University's response:
Having now reviewed a copy of the complaint provided to us by the Free Press, our preliminary conclusion is that there is no substance to the suit. For example, five of the six grants discussed by the plaintiff were simply grant applications that the plaintiff himself helped prepare. The applications were never funded, making it impossible for fraudulent spending to have occurred. For the one grant that was actually funded, federal auditors performed an audit and there were no findings or recommendations; the audit was completely clean.
In addition to Wayne State's own scientific misconduct investigation, this former Wayne State employee was also investigated by the Federal Office of Research Oversight, which imposed a 10-year ban on further grant funding to him by the Veterans Administration. He has challenged his termination from Wayne State three times and the findings of research misconduct by federal agencies multiple times. Each of these challenges has been unsuccessful. During that time, he never once brought these latest allegations of fraud to the attention of anyone in Wayne State's administration.
In other words, this whole lawsuit sounds quite dubious.
I can say is (1) this is an accusation and has not been proven in a court of law (and really doesn't look as though it will be) and (2) even in the unlikely event WSU lost this lawsuit, it's nothing more than the logical fallacy of guilt by association, a type of ad hominem fallacy. If that's the best J.B. Handley has, he's pathetic indeed. However, I now expect that I'll be seeing that story thrown at me a lot, along with Jake's old discredited post. Others who have spoken out against them have received the same treatment to a degree not seen in a while about anything.
There was a time when such vilification would have bothered me, but I'm used to it now. Indeed, I wear it as a badge of honor. They don't have anything else, and the intensity of the vitriol directed at me is proportional to my effectiveness in dismantling antivaccine claims.
A reality check: So what was Thompson thinking, anyway?
The biggest unknown in this entire misbegotten saga is William W. Thompson, the "CDC whistleblower." Over the last week and a half, I've wanted to ask him time and time again, "What on earth were you thinking?" Thompson now writes in his statement that he is willing to collaborate with "unbiased and objective scientists" to reanalyze vaccine safety datasets. That's great. But, if that's the case, why on earth did he ever contact Brian Hooker? Brian Hooker? Just a cursory Google search of Hooker's name and the word "vaccine" would have easily revealed to him that Hooker was anything but "unbiased" and "objective" about vaccines. Such a search would have quickly revealed obviously that Hooker is an antivaccine activist working to "prove" that mercury in vaccines causes autism.
Thompson thus failed miserably in even the most cursory due diligence. And now he's surprised that Hooker betrayed him? Now he thinks that true "unbiased and objective" scientists might want to collaborate with him on vaccine safety issues? Real "unbiased and objective" scientists are going to avoid Thompson like the plague. I don't know what personal guilt or issues drove Thompson to think that confiding in Hooker was ever a good idea. I'd say he deserved what he is getting, were it not for the fact that the children of the U.S. and possibly the world could well suffer as a result of his ill-advised pseudointellectual dalliance with Brian Hooker. There are mothers out there who will not vaccinate their children with MMR, thanks to Thompson's ill-advised dalliance with the antivaccine movement. I guarantee it.
Oddly enough, there are some Tweets that ask the key questions about Thompson's motivations that echoed my own questions:
@gorskon Im gathering opinions from both sides. Im not an expert. Why would a seemingly respectable Dr tank his name&career on a study done
— marcos magaña (@mm3813) August 31, 2014
@gorskon 10 yrs ago? Why would he chose of all people Hooker to tell this to? (When its obvious hooker is not respected in the scientific
Excellent questions. At first, I thought we were left with two potential explanations. One was that Thompson had gone antivaccine. I don't think he has, but some selected quotes publicized in which he criticized recommending the thimerosal-containing version of the flu vaccine for pregnant women, stating that it causes tics in children and tics are "autism-like" sure do sound antivaccine. So, although I don't think he's gone antivaccine (yet), he's clearly imbibed at least some of that world view from Hooker. The other possibility was that Thompson had an unresolved scientific disagreement with his co-authors, a "beef," if you will, that he is now resolving. But if that were the case, then surely there must have been better ways to resolve that than cozying up to an antivaccinationist who has been trying to get first Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and then Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL) to hold hearings looking into a vaccine-autism link.
Friday, I was made aware of a possible third reason.
Based on some of my previous posts over at the not-so-secret other blog, I was unexpectedly contacted by Rick Morgan, William Thompson's lawyer, who wanted to speak with me. So I gave him my number, and he called me on Friday. It was a brief, but very strange conversation. Morgan didn't tell me much, but I didn't expect him to, although he stated that he understood that I thought Thompson either had a beef with his co-investigators or had gone off the deep end. However, he wanted to "plant a seed" that maybe—just maybe—there might be another explanation, that this had been torturing Thompson all these years and he just had to do something because he couldn't take it anymore.
And maybe that is true. I have no way of knowing. I do know that, whatever his motivation, Thompson had done horrible damage and almost certainly endangered African American children to suffer from measles who might not have contracted it otherwise.
Assuming that what Mr. Morgan told me in that brief, cryptic conversation is true, it just goes to show how a guilty conscience, whether justified or not, can drive a man to do some really stupid things. Make no mistake, there is no doubt that what Thompson did was incredibly naive and/or stupid. Maybe his conscience was torturing him for a decade. Again, who knows?
That thought led me to another thought, though. The central conspiracy theory of the antivaccine movement states that scientists and bureaucrats at the CDC are involved in a massive cover-up of The Truth, undeniable scientific evidence that vaccines cause autism, all done in the service of big pharma. Now think about Thompson again. If what Morgan says is true, then Thompson's conscience has been torturing him over a relatively minor scientific disagreement in which he didn't really believe, based on the data presented in DeStefano et al., that there was a true correlation between MMR vaccination and autism, but he did believe that further studies should be done. Now his conscience has led him to ruin his scientific career and reputation over just that.
Now imagine if there had been a real conspiracy to suppress compelling evidence indicating that vaccines cause autism. In that case, there wouldn't just be a single man torturing himself over decisions made, as Thompson, if we believe Morgan, apparently has. It would be men and women at every level of the CDC. If the CDC couldn't "keep Thompson quiet" over this, if Thompson was willing to risk destroying his career over a small subgroup analysis with almost certainly spurious results that weren't followed-up on when he thought they should be, imagine what would happen if real data demonstrating a strong link between vaccines and autism had been covered up. There would be Bill Thompsons crawling out of the woodwork everywhere, beginning not long after the cover-up began.
And that, my friends, is why the entire CDC whistleblower conspiracy theory is so incredibly implausible. Indeed, it reads like a bad movie script.
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Camp conveniently beside the Rain Forest just 5 km from the base of Arenal Volcano and 2.5 km from the Lake. 10 minutes walking distance from Mistico Hanging Bridges Park. A real and safe nature camping experience.
The place can be reached by car by a pave road. Public transportaron do not get close. 2.5 km a way from the nearest bus stop.


In order to keep the research funding, we already know the result that will be achieved.
The story explains whu the program is important by taking to people who understand what the program does. If you're prone to thinking everyone who has concluded global warming is a serious threat is lying just to get grant money, it's easy to throw up your hands and say who know?
It's the basic approach of the Trumpies. We don't want to know. And we don't want ro fund research that gives us an answer we don't want. Meanwhile we'll keep pocketing millions from the oil and coal industries. Tools.
D. Messier wrote: "And we don't want ro fund research that gives us an answer we don't want.
The article also makes assumptions for the reason for the cancellation, contradicting the stated reasons. I got the impression that only one reason would satisfy the reporter, so he stated it despite — or because of — the explanation that he didn't want.
But what troubles me most is how people who pretend to be so concerned about carbon emissions are willing to allow Brazil to burn down its rain forest without complaint and to allow China (the world's leading emitter of CO2) to build scores of coal fired power plants, also without complaint. All this article talked about was Trump, not the leading problem makers or solvers.
Less troubling, but troubling nonetheless, is the part where the reporter failed to mention that Trump has stated that NOAA, not NASA, is the appropriate agency for climate research. Since NOAA has fudged historic data sets, that point is one of the many on which I disagree with him.
Do I understand this correctly? Not only do I have to pay more for my pharmaceuticals so that the rest of the world can pay a lower price for all the drugs developed in the US (are there any developed elsewhere anymore?), and not only do I have to pay more for virtually all the new technologies that come out so that the bugs can be worked out and better efficiencies developed here in the US so that I get stuck with the less efficient heritage systems while the rest of the world gets the less expensive, more efficient versions of these technologies, but now I am supposed to pay more in taxes because 75% of the world's economy is too cheep to spend a little of its own money on its own priorities?
Meanwhile, the US met its Kyoto goals without any appreciation from other countries and only complaints that we didn't sign on. Then they expected us to happily sign onto the Paris accord? It seems to me that the priority of everywhere else is not climate mitigation and carbon monitoring but to rag on the US for doing as well as the other countries aspire to do.
It's the basic approach of the Trumpies. We don't want to know. And we don't want ro fund research that gives us an answer we don't want.
Believers in AGW apocalypse often produce bad science but believers refuse to question their own beliefs because any admission of being wrong gives support to their perceived enemies. This leads to people who consider themselves to be rational not telling the truth because the truth damages their narratives.
That many of the AGW apocalypse believers are communists and funded by Russia and Saudi Arabia also goes without examination by the devotees.
$10 million is a drop in the bucket for the money generated by AGW apocalypse followers to spend on political campaigns, terrorism, and extreme left militant activist groups. Perhaps if the issue is so important, they can steer money away from violent groups and causes and political campaigns in order to invest some money doing science?
Robert Zimmerman, thank you for your blog post.Really thank you! Awesome.


The size of the Great Wall of China makes it one of the most impressive structures ever built. The total length is 8,851.8 km (5,500.3 mi). But the actual length of the wall is 6,259.6 km (3,889.5 mi) while the trenches are 359.7 km (223.5 mi). The entire length of the natural barriers is 2,232.5 km (1,387.2 mi).
The original walls were built to prevent Mongol nomads from getting into the country. The oldest walls were built during the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BCE) using stones, wood frames and earth. The next thousand years saw additions and fortifications being made. But it was during the Ming Dynasty (1388-1644 CE) that the contemporary walls were built.
The Ming walls were created in other places away from the Qin walls. The walls were 15 to 30 feet (4.6 to 9.1 meters) wide at the bottom and 9 to 12 feet (2.7 to 3.7 meters) wide at the top. They reached a height of 25 feet (7.6 meters) high. The dimensions of these walls were chosen to accommodate wagons and soldiers. Towers and guard stations were added later.
Despite the size of the Great Wall of China, it was only during the 17th century that Westerners began hearing about it. The site would eventually attract tourists. Sensing its tourism potential, the government began renovating the site.
By 1987 the wall was recognized as a World Heritage Site. The most popular portion is 50 miles (80 km) from Beijing. This portion of the structure gets thousands of visitors every day.
The North Pass, also known as Badaling, used to have several guards whose purpose was to protect Beijing. This area of the Wall is 5 meters (16 ft) wide and 7.8 meters (26 ft) high. The Jiayuguan West Pass is the Wall's western edge.
One of the most striking areas is the steep slopes of the Ming Wall. It is 5 to 8 meters (16–26 ft) high and 1 kilometer (6.8 mi) long. Across the bottom it is 6 meters (20 ft) across. Along the top it narrows down to 5 meters (16 ft) across. There is also the Wangjinglou watchtower, rising 980 meters (3,220 ft) over the sea.
The size of the Great Wall of China is such that it can be seen while at low orbit of the planet. Despite what the legends say however, the wall cannot be seen from the Moon.


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Sly Fox?
Does it bother you that Fox Broadcasting is now financially supporting NPR's Morning Edition?
Mind you, Fox B-casting is not Fox News. The two are separate entities under the worldwide umbrella that is Rupert Murdoch's media empire. Whereas Fox News typically airs topical news "debate" shows wherein, like professional wrestling, there are clear-cut villains and heroes, and its news updates generally steer blame for all the evils in the world, up to and including irritable bowel syndrome, toward Barack Obama and his liberal minions, Fox Broadcasting presents such darlings of the cognoscenti as The Simpsons, The Family Guy, and Glee.
Hell, F-Broad even will begin showing Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey this coming Sunday. To refresh, the original Cosmos was the brainchild of Carl Sagan. The presenter of this iteration will be Neil de Grasse Tyson. Both the late Sagan and and the still-very-alive NdGT would be ridiculed to high heaven were they to appear on a Fox News segment on climate change or evolution.
The Devil No Matter What?
Still, the TV entertainment arm of the Murdoch octopus is run by, well, Murdoch. That's gotta be enough to scare the bejesus out of us crunchy, bleeding-heart types who listen to Morning Edition.
Fun With Books
Would you read a book entitled Everything I Know About Women I Learned from My Tractor?
How about A Passion for Donkeys or Does God Ever Speak through Cats? And then there's that classic, What's Your Poo Telling You?
IDK about you, but I'd read 'em! Not only that, I'd proudly display these tomes in my living room library. BTW: You can, indeed, tell the book, What's Your Poo Telling You?, by its cover. It's about paying close attention to your porcelain princess deuces; its tagline is "Loads of facts about your health." And, yes, it's illustrated.
Other, more genteel folks, might be turned off by these titles and more. That's why Bored Panda offers The 40 Worst Book Covers and Titles Ever. Here are a few more, for your pleasure:
[h/t to Tanisha Caravello.]
I, Libtard
Just a reminder that I am the world's biggest liberal, even in these days when liberals have lost their spark and are routinely portrayed as Nazi/commie terrorists who force their daughters to have sex with black men and then have their resultant fetuses aborted.
How did a nice guy like me get hung with that kind of rep?
Anyway, here's a Noam Chomsky quote that I particularly dig:
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on — because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.
Now, Students, Remember: Never Rock The Boat.
Tell it, brother.
Barbarians All
And, finally, here's Italian TV dude Adriano Celentano doing a parody video showing what American English sounds like to them goofy furriners. Sort of a counterpart to Andy Kaufman doing Latka Gravas, as you'll see.
Weird thing is, when I watched this vid last night, I though the music was very, very cool. Then, when I watched it again this morning, it sounded, well, unlistenable. Further proof that we have to trust our second thoughts .
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"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important." — Eugene McCarthy
SMALL TOWN HEARTS
One more observation from the sad tale of Diane Singleton, who was found dead near a creek Monday evening after wandering away from home earlier in the day.
More than 100 people volunteered to search for her Monday. The volunteers included friends, family, her fellow church-goers, her husband's co-workers and students, and many others. Once again, Bloomington-folk have proven themselves to be caring and willing to go out of their way for their brothers and sisters.
Searching (photo by Jeremy Hogan/Herald Times)
Which is in stark contrast to the likely reaction of people in my old hometown Chicago. Sure, the word would have gotten around and people would have shaken their heads and clucked their tongues upon learning of the woman's disappearance. "That's a horrible shame," a typical Chicagoan would have said. "I wish I could do something to help. Say, let's get over to the Purple Pig for dinner — I'm dying to taste those prosciutto escarole bread balls."
WON'T THEY EVER LISTEN?
A lesser human than I am would become frustrated.
Once again, the world is refusing to listen to me. I mean, I've got all the answers, which I gladly share with the Earth's seven billion residents on a daily basis here.
See, I've harped on this too many times to count already. Still, people continue to waste their time and effort doing things that…, that…, well, that are stupid.
To wit: someone named Felicity Aston has become the first woman to ski solo across the Antarctic. I remind you that the Antarctic is more than a thousand miles wide. It is the world's largest desert. Mean temperatures during the summer (it's the equivalent of late July there right now) range from -5 to -31F.
Locations in Antarctica experience a phenomenon known as whiteout. Here's a description from an Antarctica travel site (go figure): ""Whiteouts are another peculiar Antarctica condition, in which there are no shadows or contrasts between objects. A uniformly gray or white sky over a snow-covered surface can yield these whiteouts, which cause a loss of depth perception — for both humans and wildlife."
Early explorers learned to keep an eye on their fellow travelers, looking for signs of disorientation due to hypothermia. People can literally go mad in the frigid air and the howling winds.
Bet you're itching to click on that site so you can plan next January's vacation, no?
It's in this frozen hell that Felicity Aston decided to ski, alone, for 59 days, in order to get from one end of the continent to the other.
A continent, by the way, that's fairly well mapped, considering there's nothing there.
So Felicity Aston isn't doing the world a favor by pushing into an unknown land, striving to discover new flora and fauna, hoping to learn something about the biome that might benefit civilization.
No. She skied 1,084 miles, dragging her supplies on a couple of sleds behind her because…, well, because.
NPR Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep interviewed her this morning as she waited for the last flight out of Antarctica before the weather turns bad (turns bad?) for the year. She spoke of days when she was unable even to see her feet because of the driving snow. She could only keep her head down and watch her compass as she schussed across the ice shelf on those days.
Inskeep asked her if she was happy to get back to base camp and interact with people again after nearly three months of solitude. She replied, unsurprisingly, no. She did say, though, that she had to remind herself not to pee wherever she felt like it, as she did during her journey.
Nice of her.
At the conclusion of the interview, Inskeep told her, "Congratulations."
Lucky I wasn't the interviewer. I would have told her, "So what?"
FAVORITE SON
Mitch Daniels gave the Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address to Congress last night.
When it comes time for the GOP to select a vice presidential candidate in August, the party could do a hell of a lot worse than Daniels. They probably will.
WE TREASURE DAVID BAKER — BUT NOT AS MUCH AS…
Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the last few weeks, you know that David Baker celebrated his 80th birthday on December 21st.
The Indiana University and Bloomington communities have been toasting him since November. The Jacobs School of Music threw a gala birthday bash for him Saturday night at the Musical Arts Center. Speeches were made, Michael McRobbie presented Baker with the President's Medal of Excellence, students and fellow faculty members serenaded him, a proclamation by Mayor Kruzan was read declaring January 21st David Baker Day in Bloomington, and the Jacobs School announced the establishment of the David Baker Jazz Scholarship.
Baker, natch, is a legend and one of the top people in his field in the world.
So, troublemaker that I am, I decided to check the Herald Times database of public employee salaries, just — you know — for kicks.
Baker, as near as I can determine, made nearly $147,000 as a professor in the jazz department at the Jacobs school last year.
Good. I'm glad he gets paid handsomely for his contributions to that peculiarly American art form. I hope that the residents of the planet Kepler 22b, when they finally translate our radio transmissions, hear some of Baker's music. They'll get a good first impression of our crazy, mixed up world.
And how crazy and mixed up is it?
IU football coach Kevin Wilson made half a mill last year for the singular accomplishment of leading the Hoosiers to a 1-11 record. Tom Crean, the basketball boss, made 600 Gs. Of course, Crean's guys are a tad more adept than the gridders.
Miles Davis plays George Gershwin's tune from the opera, "Porgy and Bess."
That's all I need to say.
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"… Tammy Faye calls me and Ron Jeremy calls me. Erik Estrada sends me a Christmas card every year." — reality show mannequin Trishelle Cannatella, testifying that even celebrity zombies enjoy Christmas.
A GIFTMAS CAROL
Hah! The Herald Times put my mug shot up. Must be a slow news day.
ANIMAL MECHANICS
Some pretty smart cookies live and work at the Indy Zoo. And I'm not just talking about the keepers and the animal researchers there.
Rob Shumaker is one of the alpha males at the zoo. He's the boss of the Life Sciences department and is a world renowned expert on orangutans. He and two other critter scientists have written a book that dispels many of the notions we have about animals using tools. I'm not revealing too much by saying it isn't just monkeys, apes, Republicans, and humans who use tools.
Shumaker
The book, "Animal Tool Behavior," co-written with Kristina R. Walkup and Benjamin B. Beck, asserts that brain size and general smarts don't determine which creatures use tools, as has been considered gospel until now. Wasps, spiders, dolphins, polar bears, and a host of other species could just as easily as Tim Allen been the star of "Home Improvement." Maybe easier.
Guess: One Of These Two Is An Animal, The Other Is A TV Star
Wasps use rocks to smooth out soil. Some spiders throw sticky balls at flying insects and reel them in for supper.
The more we Homo Sapiens sapiens learn, the more we realize we (and Republicans) ain't so special after all.
YES, BUT DO THEY USE TOOLS?
So, Nike has introduced a new pair of ugly sneakers, the Air Jordan 11 Retros. And — wouldn't you know it? — some of Indianapolis' finest citizens rioted at a couple of locations when they went on sale yesterday.
Just Looking At These Makes Me Want To Go Out And Break Windows
WE DO FACEBOOK SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO
A no-spamily, no-brattle zone.
◗ Bloomington author Julia Karr scored big with her teen dystopia novel "XVI." Now, she's back with the sequel, "Truth."
Don't take chances; buy both.
◗ Don't these guys ever learn? The business-suited baboons at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange are discontinuing their charitable giving for 2012. This despite the fact that the mob of them made a pretty penny — $826 million, to be more precise — last year. Oh, and the cartel also has some $750 million just laying around — cash reserves, they call it. But, sorry kids, there ain't enough to spare for your schools.
◗ Hundreds of football ironheads from Penn State University have signed a fawning letter of support for their embattled former coach, Joe Paterno. Sports yapper Dan Bernstein of CBS-owned 670 The Score dismantles the letter point by point. Paterno, you may recall, heard about his pal Jerry Sandusky being seen sodomizing a little boy in the Penn State shower room. He grudgingly told his putative superiors (in truth, no one at PSU was superior to Joe Pa) and promptly forgot the whole thing. Meanwhile, Sandusky allegedly continued to have his way with young kids.
This is a tough thing for me to say in Bloomington, Indiana, but the more I learn about big-time college sports, the more it turns my stomach.


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Yuriy Mykolayovych Vernydub (; nacido el 22 de enero de 1966) es un entrenador de fútbol y exfutbolista profesional ucraniano y exjugador del Sheriff Tiraspol.

En 2022, dejó apartada su faceta de entrenador del Sheriff Tiraspol y se alistó a las fuerzas ucranianas para defender a su país de la invasión rusa.

Carrera
Hizo su debut profesional en la Segunda Liga soviética en 1983 con el FC Spartak Zhytomyr .

Desde junio de 2009, fue entrenador asistente del FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia . Después de un período como entrenador asistente en el FC Zorya Luhansk , fue nombrado entrenador en jefe interino en noviembre de 2011 después de que la dirección de Zorya despidiera al entrenador en jefe Anatoly Chantsev .  Permaneció en Zorya hasta el 31 de mayo de 2019. Después de dejar Zorya, entrenó al club bielorruso Shakhtyor Soligorsk . Fue nombrado director técnico del Sheriff Tiraspol del club de la División Nacional de Moldavia el 18 de diciembre de 2020.  Ganó la División Nacional de Moldavia 2020-21 en su primera temporada en el club.  En 2021, llevó al equipo a la Fase de grupos de la UEFA Champions League 2021-22 : la primera vez que un club moldavo logra tal hazaña.

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