glenster
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I MAY VERY WELL MEET RINGO STARR!
by Band on the Run innewflash in the ongoing addiction and mania that started at age twelve when the national broadcast news showed pictures of these english boys with very, very long hair.
i stopped by a local grocery store b/c i was not certain that a challis scarf was wool or rayon b/c the fabric content is in arabic.
thank allah for arabic numerals.
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Sir Laurence Gardner
by leeza inhas anyone ever heard of sir laurence gardner?
i have read about his lecture at www.karenlyster.com/body_bookish.html and i find it intriguing.
it is a rather long read; but, i find it neccessary to explain his credentials etc.
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From Noah to Jerusalem: What is: Abstain from Blood?
by Terry inat a certain point in time, in the 1st century c.e., the two groups of humanity stood face to face: the covenant jews and the noahide gentiles.. they were about to join hands for the first time by being grafted together under a belief in jesus as the redeemer of both groups.. .
this raised a conflict which needed to be settled.. .
the conflict was this:.
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glenster
If I had to put it as simply as possible, I respect that the basic God concept
is possible, and you could have faith understood as such, for a possible God be-
yond the known things (Liberal/Progressive/Reform). But public acceptance for
hurting or killing (as by letting a child die at a hospital) for perceived in-
tegrity of an old interpretation of an old text (Orthodox/Conservative) requires
proof of God, and proof he wants the hurting and killing done, for all or it's
arbitrary hurting and killing--sadism and murder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEllHMWkXEUAnything less than certainty about meanings of old texts only adds to the
arbitrariness of the hurting and killing. The GB policies are at best arbitrary
and at worst self-contradictory and in contradiction to scriptures and history.
That's why I cover even uncertainties of the GB policies to the degree I do.Problems with tying the idea of 7 Noachine rules to the GB policies for
Acts 15
http://gtw6437.tripod.com/id30.htmlHistory of interpretations of the Council of Jerusalem
http://gtw6437.tripod.com/id27.html
http://gtw6437.tripod.com/id28.htmlDegree of blood removal by slaughter
http://gtw6437.tripod.com/id26.htmlBlood removal isn't really specified until Mosaic law, then degree of blood
removal (as much as possible, koshering--Jewish/generalization, more than half--
GB) isn't really clear, although the Jewish view has the better case, until Je-
sus' time, when the Jews believed in koshering.
http://gtw6437.tripod.com/id30.htmlMost people at this message board probably don't need me to explain the case,
but the stronger case is that the Christians didn't have to worry about kosher-
ing but didn't want to alienate Jewish law followers, who were particularly con-
cerned that the Gentiles did the four things of the rules of Acts 15 (Paul's
writings about food, Acts 15,16,21).
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EX JW's Retro
by Victor_E inthis is a test to see how retro you are.. do you remember?.
doc bob.
watchtower observer.
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glenster
I remember Doc Bob articles on the Internet years ago.
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CURIOSITY HAS TOUCHED DOWN ON MARS!!!
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glenster
Oh, and did you realize your PC, your smart phone, your tv and your appliances are all ancillary results of the space program?
No space program, no Vice City. This would be unthinkable.
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Scientific Careers and Race
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Does NIH Have a Bias against African-Americans?
The NIH may be biased in ways that harm not only African-American researchers
but any whose ideas fall outside the mainstreamBy David Kaplan February 9, 2012
Biomedical research scientists send proposals to the National Institutes of
Health in the hopes of being funded. A recent study of this process, published
in Science by the University of Kansas’s Donna Ginther and her colleagues, re-
vealed that proposals from black applicants are significantly less likely to be
funded than proposals from white applicants. This disparity was apparent even
when controlling for the applicant’s educational background, training, publica-
tion record, previous research awards and employer characteristics.The authors conclude that racial bias is not a likely explanation for these
findings because the race of the applicants is not provided to the reviewers.
In an accompanying article in Science, several prominent black biomedical scien-
tists also express doubts about racial bias, concluding that the NIH peer review
grades only the science. But what, aside from bias, can explain the racial dis-
crepancy? The study’s lead author admits she has no idea. Understanding what
causes bias is essential for developing a program to address it.One possible explanation is that NIH peer review is structured to promote bias
not so much against a racial group as against the unfamiliar and unconventional.
Expert reviewers are asked to provide detailed assessments of long, highly com-
plex, extraordinarily technical documents, and they are given little time to do
it. The reviewers are usually conversant with the specific area of research that
the proposal addresses, which means that they come to the application with pre-
conceived notions. Short deadlines encourage them to rely on established know-
ledge and sensibilities. In this scenario, reviewers are more comfortable with
proposals from scientists they are familiar with—scientists they either know or
know of.Black researchers, at least in the biomedical sciences, are often unfamiliar
to reviewers, and their ideas may tend to be unconventional. This situation is
in part because of their typical background. For instance, blacks and whites
have different prevalence rates for some illnesses, such as end-stage kidney
disease and malignant melanoma. Therefore, blacks may propose studies involving
a different set of diseases than whites do.Breaking into the ranks of funded investigators supported by the NIH is in-
creasingly difficult, the data show. The average age of recipients of a first
major grant from the NIH had climbed to 43 years in 2007, from 35 years in 1970.
Black scientists also tend to make up smaller and smaller minorities in higher
branches of science. In the period Ginther and her colleagues studied, blacks
submitted 1.4 percent of total proposals compared with 69.9 percent for whites.This statistic conforms with data collected by the National Science Foundation
that indicate only 2.6 percent of doctoral-level biological scientists in the
U.S. in 2006 were black. My sense is that the underrepresentation of blacks in
biomedical research is even more definitive at the upper echelons: department
chairs, research award winners, editorial board members, study section reviewers
and members of the National Academy of Sciences. Because blacks have not shared
proportionally in the power structure, it stands to reason that funding has been
uneven, too.NIH directors have recognized their failure to fund unusual proposals and have
initiated awards, such as the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award and Pioneer
Award Program, in response. These steps, though, have not gone far enough. One
solution might be for the NIH to establish multiple, distinct mechanisms for
making funding decisions. A lottery, for instance, would not result in racial
disparity in grant awards. Neither would having rigorous sampling procedures for
reviewers or peer review by crowdsourcing. Supplementing traditional peer review
with new ways of screening grant applications may be the only way to eliminate
the racial gap once and for all.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=science-and-prejudicePresident Barack Obama has named a University of Illinois alumnus and nation-
ally known college administrator to chair the President's Advisory Commission on
Educational Excellence for African Americans.
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/education/2012-08-06/obama-names-ui-grad-chair-commission-education.html
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Gore Vidal passed away today
by glenster inrip gore vidal october 3, 1925--july 31, 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gore_vidal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woraiqaxpzm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8m9vdre8fw.
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glenster
They both lost it in the heat of temper. I didn't agree with everything said or written by either of them otherwise, either. Still, they were very bright people it could be fun to listen to. When Gore described reading books for his blind grandfather, I thought I would have liked hearing him tell stories or read his favorite books for audibooks.
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Gore Vidal passed away today
by glenster inrip gore vidal october 3, 1925--july 31, 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gore_vidal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woraiqaxpzm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8m9vdre8fw.
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glenster
RIP Gore Vidal October 3, 1925--July 31, 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_Vidal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOrAIqaXPzM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8m9vDRe8fw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgUyXAM2mow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L54H8HUNZZs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NySeweAms0w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKilMhR-X48
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Do You Like or Dislike Algebra? Why and Why not?
by Scott77 injuly 28, 2012is algebra necessary?by andrew hacker .
a typical american school day finds some six million high school students and two million college freshmen struggling with algebra.
in both high school and college, all too many students are expected to fail.
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I like it. I got good grades at college in algebra, trigonometry, and calculus.
My algebra teacher even complimented me after class once for pointing out a
mistake in our text book (!). I can't say it's come up a lot since then,
though.