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Youtube vence a Telecinco en el primer asalto

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pimg src="http://img.vayatele.com/2008/11/youtube.jpg" class="centro_sinmarco" alt="Youtube"/p pEl Juzgado de lo Mercantil número 7 de Madrid, en la la vista por la petición de medidas cautelares en el caso Telecinco contra YouTube, ha dado la parcialmente la razón al portal de vídeos online, incluso aceptando dichas cautelares. strongNo es tarea de Youtube ejercer de policía, /strongno tiene que eliminar todos los contenidos que tengan la mosca de la cadena simplemente porque lleven ese logo ni mucho menos debe retirar vídeos según una lista de palabras sugerida por el canal. strongEs la propia cadena la que tiene que buscar los contenidos infractores/strong, señalar la span class="caps"URL/span de cada uno de ellos y comunicárselo a Youtube./p pEs la primera derrota de Telecinco en su demanda contra Youtube. Seguramente habrá muchos otros pasos judiciales, pero strongde momento la cadena asegura que no la ve como tal, que no ha perdido nada./strong En un comunicado, “celebra este auto como un precedente de vital importancia en la lucha contra la piratería”./p p!--more--/p pstrongYoutube también ha remitido una nota, con “satisfacción” /strongpor la decisión judicial:/p blockquoteConfirma que no existe absolutamente ninguna necesidad de emprender acciones legales, puesto que YouTube ya ofrece a todos los propietarios de contenidos un sistema fácil de usar para denunciar vídeos que presuntamente atenten contra los derechos de autor, simplemente indicando la span class="caps"URL/span de los mismos. Este procedimiento aparece claramente explicado en la sección “Avisos de Copyright”, accesible desde la página de inicio de YouTube/blockquote pLa diferente interpretación del auto es la siguiente: Youtube sí deberá retirar los vídeos, pero será strongTelecinco quien deberá buscarlos, uno a uno, precisamente lo que la cadena de Paolo Vasile no quería/strong. ¿Lo hará ahora Telecinco? ¿Contratará a alguien dedicado en exclusiva al rastreo de vídeos infractores? ¿Victoria pírrica de Youtube o “span class="caps"EPIC/span WIN”, que dirían algunos? Más bien parece lo segundo. /p pVía | a href="http://www.enriquedans.com/2008/11/perdiste-vasile.html"Enrique Dans/abr En Â¡Vaya Tele! | a href="http://www.vayatele.com/2008/06/19-telecinco-demanda-a-youtube"Telecinco demanda a Youtube/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/ZWT3Tzq9xVsp8ouEnCmeYeV41fw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/ZWT3Tzq9xVsp8ouEnCmeYeV41fw/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.weblogssl.com/~f/vayatele2?a=a7i4D3mB"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/vayatele2?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.weblogssl.com/~f/vayatele2?a=6o05F3Va"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/vayatele2?d=151" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.weblogssl.com/~f/vayatele2?a=Gn9Wx5xV"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/vayatele2?d=181" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.weblogssl.com/~f/vayatele2?a=HWMrstsu"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/vayatele2?d=596" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.weblogssl.com/~f/vayatele2?a=5DFjha7a"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/vayatele2?d=153" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vayatele2/~4/RwzOph1QkOc" height="1" width="1"/

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Baby P review to be seen by opposition MPs

Guardian Unlimited

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/32024?ns=guardianpageName=Society%3A+Baby+P+review+to+be+seen+by+opposition+MPsch=Societyc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Baby+P%2CChild+protection+%28Society%29%2CUK+news%2CEd+Balls%2CChildren+%28Society%29%2CChildren%27s+ministry%2CPolitics%2CEducation%2CSocietyc5=Society+Weekly%2CUnclassified%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CEducation+Weekly+Education%2CSchools+Education%2CChildren+Societyc6=Matthew+Weaverc7=2008_11_21c8=1122064c9=articlec10=GUc11=Societyc12=Baby+Pc13=c14=h2=GU%2FSociety%2FBaby+P" width="1" height="1" //divpThe government has agreed to release a detailed review into the a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/baby-p"Baby P/a case to opposition MPs, a day after claiming it had been told to keep the document confidential./ppThe children's secretary, Ed Balls, a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/nov/20/baby-p-childrensministry"told the Commons yesterday/a that lawyers had advised him not to make the full serious case review available./ppHe cited a 2006 ruling by the Information Commissioner in a separate case and voiced concerns that identifying the professionals involved in the case could jeopardise future investigations./ppBut today Ball's department said five MPs would be allowed to study the full report./ppBaby P died in Haringey, north London, in August last year after suffering more than 50 injuries at the hands of his abusive mother, her boyfriend and a lodger - despite repeated visits by the authorities./ppA 15-page summary of the serious case review was published at the end of an Old Bailey trial last week./ppNow the full report will be made available to the Conservative and Liberal-Democrat children's spokesmen, Michael Gove and David Laws, the Children, Schools and Families select committee chairman, Barry Sheerman, and local MPs Lynne Featherstone and David Lammy./ppThe MPs will be allowed to read the document on "privy council terms", meaning they must keep its contents secret./ppThe case was the subject of angry exchanges between David Cameron and Gordon Brown at prime minister questions last week. Since then the government has been keen to establish cross-party consensus on how to tackle the failings highlighted by the tragedy./ppA spokeswoman for the Department for Children, Schools and Families said: "As Ed Balls said in the House of Commons yesterday and in his letter to the opposition children, schools and families spokesmen, he has been keen to find a way to enable them to study the serious case review report but remaining consistent with the principle that these documents remain unpublished and confidential./pp"In order to ensure that future serious case reviews are not undermined and achieve their purpose, it remains vital to keep the serious case review confidential."/ppThe shadow children's secretary, Michael Gove, welcomed the move./pp"It's important that bureaucracy doesn't get in the way of proper scrutiny," he said./ppThe three people convicted of involvement in the killing of Baby P are facing "substantial" terms in prison, a judge has warned.br /Baby's P's mother, 27, her boyfriend, 32, and their lodger, Jason Owen, 36, will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on December 15 for causing or allowing his death./ppYesterday there was confusion among officials about the bearing the Data Protection Act had on releasing the report./ppThe House of Commons was told the information commissioner had ruled that the full report could not be released to opposition MPs because of the risk of identifying professionals involved./ppBut the Information Commissioner's Office said later that it had not been consulted over the case./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/baby-p"Baby P/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/childprotection"Child protection/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/edballs"Ed Balls/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/children"Children/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/childrensministry"Children's ministry/a/li/ul/divdiv class="guRssAdvert"a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yessite=Societycountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227291257954112118260344580"img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yessite=Societycountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227291257954112118260344580" border="0" //a/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a

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CleaveLand: A pipeline for using degradome data to find cleaved small RNA targets.

Bioinformatics

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Publication Date: 2008 Nov 18 PMID: 19017659br/Authors: Addo-Quaye, C. - Miller, W. - Axtell, M. J.br/Journal: Bioinformaticsbr/br/SUMMARY: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are approximately 20-22nt long endogenous RNA sequences that play a critical role in the regulation of gene expression in eukaryotic genomes. Confident identification of miRNA targets is vital to understand their functions. Currently available computational algorithms for miRNA target prediction have diverse degrees of sensitivity and specificity and as a consequence each predicted target generally requires experimental confirmation. miRNAs and other small RNAs which direct endonucleolytic cleavage of target mRNAs produce diagnostic uncapped, polyadenylated mRNA fragments. Degradome sequencing (also known as PARE [parallel analysis of RNA ends] and GMUCT [genome-wide mapping of uncapped transcripts]) samples the 5' ends of uncapped mRNAs and can be used to discover in vivo miRNA targets independent of computational predictions. Here, we describe a generalizable computational pipeline, CleaveLand, for the detection of cleaved miRNA targets from degradome data. CleaveLand takes as input degradome sequences, small RNAs, and an mRNA database and outputs small RNA targets. CleaveLand can thus be applied to degradome data from any species provided a set of mRNA transcripts and a set of query miRNAs or other small RNAs are available. AVAILABILITY: The code and documentation for CleaveLand is freely available under a GNU license at http://www.bio.psu.edu/people/faculty/Axtell/AxtellLab/Software.html CONTACT: mja18@psu.edu.br/br/post to: a href = http://www.citeulike.org/posturl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Fcmd%3DRetrieve%26db%3DPubMed%26dopt%3DAbstract%26list_uids%3D19017659title=Entrez+PubmedCiteULike/a

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Bargains galore as Christmas comes early for shoppers

Guardian Unlimited

- 1 days and 19 hours ago

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/41393?ns=guardianpageName=Business%3A+Bargains+galore+as+Christmas+comes+early+for+shoppersch=Businessc3=The+Guardianc4=Retail+industry+%28Business%29%2CChristmas+%28Life+and+style%29%2CBusiness%2CCredit+crunch+%28Business%29c5=Unclassified%2CCredit+Crunch%2CBusiness+Marketsc6=Julia+Finch%2CMartin+Wainwright%2CPatrick+Barkhamc7=2008_11_21c8=1121628c9=articlec10=GUc11=Businessc12=Retail+industryc13=c14=h2=GU%2FBusiness%2FRetail+industry" width="1" height="1" //divpShoppers were lured back on to the high street yesterday as stores slashed prices in an attempt to kickstart the vital Christmas trading period and shift unsold stock./ppIn the annual game of chicken between consumers and stores, the retailers have blinked first. There may still be 34 shopping days until Christmas, but over the past three weeks sales have fallen off a cliff for many retailers. Faced with what some analysts have warned could be the worst Christmas for 30 years as a result of falling house prices, rising unemployment and rock-bottom confidence, retailers have already resorted to price cuts and promotions./ppIt was Marks Spencer's decision to hold a one-day 20% off "spectacular"- for the first time in four years - that prised many reluctant shoppers out of their homes and offices. /ppBut the shop windows in the West End of London were plastered with posters promising bargains. Debenhams was in the middle of a three-day 25% off sale and there were sale signs up in Jane Norman, Mexx, Clarks, H Samuel, and Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group chains, including Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Bhs./ppNew figures from the Office for National Statistics suggested retail sales were proving unexpectedly resilient. The ONS said sales dropped by just 0.1% in October, leaving them 1.9% higher than last year. This was way ahead of forecasts in the City, where analysts had been predicting a slump of 0.9%./ppBut in recent months economists and retailers have repeatedly questioned the accuracy of the ONS figures. Even the Bank of England has suggested the data should be treated with caution./ppDavid Tinsley, an economist with nabCapital, predicted the official figures would soon catch up with reality: "The figure will probably crash around November or December."/ppSurprise sales can anger shoppers who have bought items at full price and yesterday some MS customers were certainly planning revenge. One woman, who asked to remain nameless, said several of her friends were buying items at 20% off which they had already purchased and planned to return with their original items another day to get a full refund./ppNevertheless, MS boss Sir Stuart Rose insisted the discounts had given the UK's biggest clothing retailer a much-needed boost: "It seems to have touched the spot. It's a riot."/ppShopper Judith Limbert, who had travelled to Oxford Street from Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire for the MS sale, said consumers were waiting for bargains: "In the runup to Christmas I suspect people are going to hang on and hang on, waiting for sales." /ppLimbert had been planning to buy Christmas presents in MS but had been waiting to see if it would offer reductions. She said her family would definitely spend less this year and would look for bargains on the internet. "We've got less money in that our utility bills are higher and food bills are dearer."/ppA survey yesterday said that 80% of consumers plan to spend less this year and there was more gloom from credit rating agency Moodys, whose chief international economist, Ruth Stroppiana, warned: "Britain's retailing sector is expected to come under increasing pressure in coming quarters as the country's highly indebted households continue to rein in expenditure." /ppOver at the new Westfield shopping centre in west London, in the basement food hall of MS's vast store, trolleys were clattering through the tills./ppWith a recession around the corner, it was clearly time to stock up on champagne. A couple from Dorset were piloting a trolley laden with MS bubbly. They bought 36 bottles - and saved nearly pound;450 on the shelf price. /ppThe champagne was a triple bargain. On top of the 20% off was another 10% discount and a pound;5-a-bottle reduction for buying more than 12 bottles. The result was a pound;26 ticket price slashed to just pound;13 a bottle./ppIsabelle Marsh bought 36 bottles for just under pound;500, compared with the pound;936 full price./ppMarsh runs Bournemouth-based Viva Las Vegas, a fun casino business for private parties, and the champagne will be used as prizes. /ppAt the next till her friends Kay and Roger Brahams, from Surrey, who are also in the casino business, were doing exactly the same. They also had a collection of blue spotted bow ties and waistcoats for their croupiers - four waistcoats, four bow ties and two pairs of black trousers for pound;124, down from pound;155 for one day only. "It's for the business," said Roger Brahams. "It is too good to miss." /ppOn the clothing floor, however, there were many shoppers who had used the discount day to bring forward purchases they were planning to make anyway. Mark, a BBC employee, had popped in to buy an pound;80 coat he had his eye on. "My wife rang me this morning to tell me about the sale," he explained. He paid pound;64 and walked away very pleased. /ppIn Sheffield city centre, Carolyn Bowler had nipped out in her lunch break to buy a box of Christmas crackers, but by the time she had heaved her way out of MS she had three of them, plus a new dressing gown./pp"You've to shop carefully these days," she said, as three women marched past with purple Debenhams balloons and leaflets promising "25% off plus look inside for half-price bonus deals"./pp"These offers are bringing people out, no question," said another lunchtime shopper called Marion - "please don't print my surname in case my children read the paper and it spoils their Christmas surprise". The surprise is that Marion is making them clothes herself this year, instead of buying new ones./pp"You've got to cut back at times like these," she said. "We certainly have anyway, because my husband's not had a job since the summer. No one knows what the future holds any more."/ppIt was all music to the ears of Ian Fleming, who was supervising Debenhams balloon women. Enticing punters with the likes of a shimmer bow back dress reduced to pound;37.50 from pound;75, he said: "Shoppers will never get tired of good value and a bargain. This is working. It's even better out at the Meadowhall shopping centre."/ppThat, however, was impossible to check: reporters were barred from doing interviews in the sprawling complex beside the M1 because of the current spate of gloomy stories./ph2Key tactics for shoppers to cash in on stores' price war/h2pIt is the year of the tactical shopper, according to one retail expert, with yesterday's "flash" or "guerilla" sales at MS and Debenhams marking the start of what is likely to be a long and protracted war between high street stores. But for the savvy shopper hoping to secure the ultimate bargain, where and when is the time to strike? /ppIn order to secure the best bargain this Christmas, shoppers should look around and keep an eye out for promotional vouchers, said Lauretta Roberts, editor of Drapers magazine. /pp"My advice to shoppers is shop late. It's a buyers market out there and it is not going to be too difficult to find a bargain."/ppAnother way of saving money is to hit the shops before the official sale. "Even though they don't advertise the fact, many of the big department stores like Selfridges or Harvey Nichols discount their products from December 24. You get the best choice, unlike post-Christmas, when there often little left."/ppA further wave of price cuts can be expected from Boxing Day onwards, with January sales slashing 50% off many products immediately, she said. There are lots of other ways for shoppers to maximise their funds over the festive period. But it requires commitment and tactical thinking, said Martin Lewis, founder of moneysavingexpert.com. /pp"This is the year of the targeted and tactical shopper. As well as promotional sales we are seeing a rash of big discount shopping vouchers," he said. Vouchers currently featured on the website include 30% off at Gap, 40% off at Threshers and 20% off Shudoo, who sell Ugg boots, set to be a Christmas favourite. /ppAnother way of getting the best deal is to use price comparison websites, such as shopping.com, kelkoo.co.uk and pricerunner.co.uk, he said. For example, one Christmas must-have, a Wii Console + Sports Pack, costs pound;184.99 at Dixons, but on tdgstore.co.uk can be found for pound;179.99./pp"Different comparison websites are better for different products," said Lewis, who recommended find-dvd.co.uk for dvds and bookbrain.co.uk for books. /ppOnce the cheapest product has been identified, shoppers should try to buy it through a cash-back website, such as topcashback.co.uk, he added. "Cashback websites are paid 5% for sending you to a particular site, but instead of pocketing that cash they share the proceeds with their users by discounting products further."/ppHe also advises shoppers to use cash-back credit cards, such as American Express, which offers 5% back on purchases for three months. Using a credit card for expensive purchases also protects buyers, he added./ppIn 2007 the average British family spent pound;840 on Christmas. Choosing carefully this year, they could save 5% to 50%, said Lewis. /ppDoesn't all this calculating detract from the joy of the impulse buy? No way, he said. /pp"We are entering a recession, and there are two ways you can deal with it. Stop spending or make the money that you have got go further."br /strongAlexandra Topping/strong/ppstrongBargains/strong/ppstrongGap/strong/ppUltra-low rise jeans was pound;39.50 now pound;9.99br /Saving 75%/ppstrongDebenhams/strong/ppFour Royal Doulton crystal goblets was pound;80 now pound;32br /Saving 60%/ppstrongCurrysdigital/strong/ppLogik DAB digital radio was pound;139.99 now pound;59.99br /Saving 57%/ppstrongHouse of Fraser/strong/ppChristy Sorrento bath towel was pound;22 now pound;11br /Saving 50%/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/retail"Retail industry/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/christmas-xmas"Christmas/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/creditcrunch"Credit crunch/a/li/ul/divdiv class="guRssAdvert"a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yessite=Businesscountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227227727742112100421654622"img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yessite=Businesscountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227227727742112100421654622" border="0" //a/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a

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The Pitchfork 500: Orange Juice: "Blue Boy" [Stream]

Pitchfork: Today

- 1 days and 19 hours ago

pSo, we have a new book out, a href="http://thepitchfork500.com/"strongemThe Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present/em/strong/a, published by the Simon amp; Schuster imprint Fireside Books. It explores our 500 favorite songs from 1977-2006-- interspersed with sidebars on the most vital subgenres from electro to grime to riot grrrl-- to construct an alternate history of the past three decades of popular music. In the coming weeks we'll be posting streams of tracks from the book here in Forkcast and giving you a sneak peek at some of the entries.nbsp;/p pIf you're in Brooklyn, please come out for the strongema href="http://thepitchfork500.com/"strongemThe Pitchfork 500/em/strong/a/em/strong launch party on Wednesday, November 26. Dance and bowl (yes, bowl) to selections from the book at a href="http://www.thegutterbrooklyn.com/"strongThe Gutter Bar/strong/a, located at 200 N. 14th St. (between Wythe and Berry) in Williamsburg. We'll be there from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., there's no cover, and there will be books for sale. For a complete rundown of events, check a href="http://thepitchfork500.com/"strongwww.thepitchfork500.com/strong/a./p pemThe Pitchfork 500/em is available in your local bookstore right now (a href="http://www.quimbys.com/product_info.php?products_id=21880" target="_blank"strongQuimby/strong/a's is the shop in our Chicago neighborhood). Or you can order it via stronga href="http://www.amazon.com/Pitchfork-500-Guide-Greatest-Present/dp/1416562028/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8amp;s=booksamp;qid=1223394242amp;sr=8-1"Amazon/a/strong, stronga href="http://www.bn.com/pitchfork"Barnes amp; Noble/a/strong, stronga href="http://www.borders.com/online/store/SearchResults?keyword=pitchfork+500amp;type=0amp;simple=1"Borders/a/strong, strongspan style="color: #551a8b;"a href="http://www.insound.com/Pitchfork_The_Pitchfork_500%3A_Our_Guide_to_the_Greatest_Songs_from_Punk_to_the_Present__PRE-ORDER_Book/productmain/p/INS50216/" target="_blank" title="Insound"Insound/a/span/strong, stronga href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781416562023-0"Powells/a/strong, or stronga href="http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?tab=1amp;pid=628435amp;app=buy_now"Simon amp; Schuster/a/strong./p pAnd now, here'snbsp;Stephen Trousseacute; on Orange Juice's "Blue Boy", with a stream (good for one free play every 24 hours, via a href="http://www.lala.com/" target="_blank"strongLala/strong/a) below the text./p pimg src="/sites/default/files/blueboyblurb_0.jpg" border="0" / object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="300" height="254" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" param name="id" value="W48f4e8b6f7fe2a434924994847f5f8af" / param name="wmode" value="transparent" / param name="allowNetworking" value="all" / param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" / param name="src" value="http://widgets.clearspring.com/o/48f4e8b6f7fe2a43/4924994847f5f8af/48f4e8b6706ccf78/9852f4ab/-cpid/b0ee5e3d98481900" /embed id="W48f4e8b6f7fe2a434924994847f5f8af" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="300" height="254" src="http://widgets.clearspring.com/o/48f4e8b6f7fe2a43/4924994847f5f8af/48f4e8b6706ccf78/9852f4ab/-cpid/b0ee5e3d98481900" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" wmode="transparent"/embed /object /p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/K1KBm3xG6DO4IUZ-fStJVHb3HVE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/K1KBm3xG6DO4IUZ-fStJVHb3HVE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/NI8aEUkPEmE" height="1" width="1"/

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Darwin on the Right

Challies Dot Com

- 2 days and 5 hours ago

pThis Sunday I'll be preaching on the topic of Creation in an evening series at my church. Our Sunday evening format allows for only short sermons and I am trying to distill the broad topic of Creation down to the most fundamental points. I have no intention of defending Creation against evolution or of refuting the various views among Christians that conflict with the position of my church's leadership (though I am sure some of that will arise in the QA that follows the sermon). But as I was thinking about the subject of Creation, my mind was drawn to this article I read a couple of years ago. It argues that Christians can and should embrace evolution and lays out the reasons we can do so while remaining faithful to the Bible./p pemScientific American/em is a popular science magazine with a monthly circulation approaching 700,000. Including foreign language editions, the circulation increases to over 1,000,000. First published in 1845, it is the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. Quite needless to say, it is not a publication that is particularly friendly to creationism. In the October 2006 edition is a a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=darwin-on-the-right"column/a by Michael Shermer, publisher of emSkeptic/em, a magazine produced by The Skeptics Society, which #8220;engages in scientific investigation and journalistic research to investigate claims made by scientists, historians, and controversial figures on a wide range of subjects.#8221; His column is titled #8220;Darwin on the Right: Why Christians and conservatives should accept evolution.#8221; The column is a brief attempt to lay out six reasons that Christians should embrace evolution. I#8217;d like to take a brief look at each of Shermer#8217;s six points. He begins with statistics:/p blockquoteAccording to a 2005 Pew Research Center poll, 70 percent of evangelical Christians believe that living beings have always existed in their present form, compared with 32 percent of Protestants and 31 percent of Catholics. Politically, 60 percent of Republicans are creationists, whereas only 11 percent accept evolution, compared with 29 percent of Democrats who are creationists and 44 percent who accept evolution. A 2005 Harris Poll found that 63 percent of liberals but only 37 percent of conservatives believe that humans and apes have a common ancestry. What these figures confirm for us is that there are religious and political reasons for rejecting evolution. Can one be a conservative Christian and a Darwinian? Yes. Here#8217;s how./blockquote pOne immediate observation is that he makes a distinction between evangelicals Christians and Protestants, yet does not define these terms. In theory, every Protestant is evangelical and every evangelical is Protestant. So I am uncertain as to how we are to distinguish between these two. Regardless, we will press on./p blockquotestrong1. Evolution fits well with good theology./strong Christians believe in an omniscient and omnipotent God. What difference does it make when God created the universe#8212;10,000 years ago or 10,000,000,000 years ago? The glory of the creation commands reverence regardless of how many zeroes in the date. And what difference does it make how God created life#8212;spoken word or natural forces? The grandeur of life#8217;s complexity elicits awe regardless of what creative processes were employed. Christians (indeed, all faiths) should embrace modern science for what it has done to reveal the magnificence of the divine in a depth and detail unmatched by ancient texts./blockquote pI will be the first to affirm that the Bible is not a scientific text. Neither was it intended to be such. However, if we are to believe that the Bible is God#8217;s word and that what God has spoken is true, we must also believe that what God says about science must be true. When God says that the world was created by His command, we must believe it to be so. Shermer asks, #8220;what difference does it make how God created life#8212;spoken word or natural forces?#8221; The difference is that the Bible tells us God created the world by His spoken word. We are not able to believe in the Bible as God#8217;s word and reject Scripture#8217;s clear teaching that life was created from nothing and at God#8217;s command. I agree that #8220;Christians #8230; should embrace modern science for what it has done to reveal the magnificence of the divine in a depth and detail unmatched by ancient texts.#8221; But science has not proven evolution. It has not proven that the world was created in any way other than at God#8217;s command. I embrace modern science, but only so far as it is compatible with Scripture and plain reason. Evolution does not fit with good theology, for evolution and Scripture are wholly incompatible. If we are to embrace evolution, it will be at the expense of the Bible./p blockquotestrong2. Creationism is bad theology./strong The watchmaker God of intelligent-design creationism is delimited to being a garage tinkerer piecing together life out of available parts. This God is just a genetic engineer slightly more advanced than we are. An omniscient and omnipotent God must be above such humanlike constraints. As Protestant theologian Langdon Gilkey wrote, #8220;The Christian idea, far from merely representing a primitive anthropomorphic projection of human art upon the cosmos, systematically repudiates all direct analogy from human art.#8221; Calling God a watchmaker is belittling./blockquote pCalling God a watchmaker is clearly belittling, but I do not know of any Christians who believe that God fills this role. God is not a mere garage tinkerer who pieces life together from available parts. Rather, God is the one who not only created life as an idea, as a concept, but who created the available parts and who then assembled them in an orderly fashion. To suggest that God is only slightly more advanced than we are is to ignore the vast gaps that continue to exist in human knowledge. Humans may have been able to map the genome, but a great deal of work remains; an infinite amount of work. The more we conquer, the more we realize we still need to conquer. And one thing humans have never been able to do and will never be able to do is create life emex nihilo/em, from nothing. We may be able to arrange and rearrange the building blocks of life in some semblance of order, but we are not able to make something from nothing. That is the realm of God alone. Creationism is not bad theology, but is the theology of the Bible. It is not an optional doctrine, but something we must believe if we are to be men and women of the Bible./p blockquotestrong3. Evolution explains original sin and the Christian model of human nature./strong As a social primate, we evolved within-group amity and between-group enmity. By nature, then, we are cooperative and competitive, altruistic and selfish, greedy and generous, peaceful and bellicose; in short, good and evil. Moral codes and a society based on the rule of law are necessary to accentuate the positive and attenuate the negative sides of our evolved nature./blockquote pThis third point begins with a premise that is accepted only by evolutionists. As Christians we do not believe that humans evolved at all, but that we were deliberately placed on this earth and were made to rule it. To attempt to explain original sin through between-group enmity is to completely misrepresent original sin. Between-group enmity is unable to explain why it is that every human being, no matter his age, culture, race, or gender is sinful. It is unable to explain why we all do things that are wrong and why we all delight in doing wrong even to our within-group. It is unable to explain what is clearly spiritual. Evolution cannot explain original sin or the Christian model of human nature. It cannot explain the conscience, the soul, or sinful nature./p blockquotestrong4. Evolution explains family values./strong The following characteristics are the foundation of families and societies and are shared by humans and other social mammals: attachment and bonding, cooperation and reciprocity, sympathy and empathy, conflict resolution, community concern and reputation anxiety, and response to group social norms. As a social primate species, we evolved morality to enhance the survival of both family and community. Subsequently, religions designed moral codes based on our evolved moral natures./blockquote p#8220;Attachment and bonding, cooperation and reciprocity, sympathy and empathy, conflict resolution, community concern and reputation anxiety, and response to group social norms#8221; are all characteristics of families. However, all of these characteristics are as easily and even emmore/em easily explained by creation rather than evolution. Could God not have given us the desire to attach and bond? Could he not have made us sympathetic and make us desire to resolve conflicts amicably? Even a brief overview of the Bible will prove this to be true. To suggest that religions designed moral codes based upon moral natures is to put the cart before the horse, for is it not more likely that a moral code existed with God before creation was begun, and that our natures were created in a way consistent with this code? Is it not likely that God, whose moral nature included moral codes, designed us in His image and built that code into us? Is this not an explanation for the laws that seem so clearly to be written into the hearts of all humans? Evolution cannot explain family values and can certainly not explain more codes. A glance at the conflict over the right of homosexuals to marry will show the vast difference between an understanding of family as rooted in naturalistic evolution and of family rooted in God's creative design./p blockquotestrong5. Evolution accounts for specific Christian moral precepts./strong Much of Christian morality has to do with human relationships, most notably truth telling and marital fidelity, because the violation of these principles causes a severe breakdown in trust, which is the foundation of family and community. Evolution describes how we developed into pair-bonded primates and how adultery violates trust. Likewise, truth telling is vital for trust in our society, so lying is a sin./blockquote pChristian morality has to do primarily with imitating God who is true and who is faithful. The violation of these principles may case a severe breakdown in truth, but far worse, violation of these principles causes a growing rift between creature and Creator. Christian morality involves human relationships, but only secondarily to the relationship between God and man. Evolution may offer some description of how humans developed into pair-bonded primates and how adultery violates trust. But the Bible offers an answer that is far more clear and far more likely: God created marriage so that human beings could emulate the relationship of Jesus Christ to His people. Truth telling is vital for trust, but even more vital to maintain relationship between God and man. Lying is a sin because it makes a mockery of God who not only tells the truth, but is the very source of truth. Evolution absolutely cannot account for specific moral precepts in a way that is satisfying. And, ironically, evolution is the worldview that underlies the acceptance of non-traditional relationships such as homosexual marriage. Could it be that evolution can be used to explain anything?/p blockquotestrong6. Evolution explains conservative free-market economics./strong Charles Darwin#8217;s #8220;natural selection#8221; is precisely parallel to Adam Smith#8217;s #8220;invisible hand.#8221; Darwin showed how complex design and ecological balance were unintended consequences of competition among individual organisms. Smith showed how national wealth and social harmony were unintended consequences of competition among individual people. Nature#8217;s economy mirrors society#8217;s economy. Both are designed from the bottom up, not the top down./blockquote pThis sixth point does not seem to fit with the rest of the list. While the other five have dealt with principles that are distinctly Christian, this one turns to free-market economics. Shermer may as well have said #8220;Evolution explains the American obsession with team sports.#8221; I know little of economics, free market or otherwise, so will leave this point as-is, except to point out that simply because two theories parallel one another does not make either true./p pThe article concludes with an exhortation and a passage from Scripture. #8220;Because the theory of evolution provides a scientific foundation for the core values shared by most Christians and conservatives, it should be embraced. The senseless conflict between science and religion must end now, or else, as the Book of Proverbs (11:29) warned: #8216;He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind.#8217;#8221;/p pThere does not need to be a conflict between science and religion. In a perfect world, there would be no conflict, and, indeed, when the world is remade there emwill/em be no conflict. What we see in this debate is not a competition between science and religion, but a conflict between worldviews. These worldviews are wholly incompatible. Michael Ruse, a well-known evolutionist, speaks truthfully when he says #8220;evolution came into being as a kind of secular ideology, an explicit substitute for Christianity#8230;Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and is true of evolution still today.#8221; Evolution is not mere science, but is religion dressed as science. Evolution, and the naturalism that lies behind it, is a full-blown worldview, and in reality, is a religious system that stands in direct opposition to Christianity. The true conflict, the conflict between evolution and creationism, is a conflict of truth and error, a conflict of God and man. Creationism embraces God as the Creator and Sustainer of the world; evolutionism rejects God replaces Him with time, chance and opportunity. The debate between creationism and evolutionism is by no means senseless, for it is a defense of the truth and a defense of the One who is Truth./pa href="http://www.amazon.com/?tag=dietofbookwor-20"img src="http://www.adgrab.org/www/images/amazon-christmas.jpg" //adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=4bpdN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=4bpdN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=GkWtn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=GkWtn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=lPQwn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=lPQwn" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/challies/XhEt/~4/459612244" height="1" width="1"/

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NASA Adds Smell Detector To Space Station, Insert Fart Joke Here [Space]

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/iss-smell.jpg" width="640" height="350" style="display:block;float:none;" /Apart from a href="http://gizmodo.com/5081992/astronauts-getting-first-space-kitchen-fridge-ever-actually-wanted-a-kegerator"remodeling their home/a, astronauts on board the International Space Station are installing a new piece of equipment that may save their lives one day. Or embarrass them. It can go either way: Containing 32 sensors in a device the size of a shoebox, the ENoseâ€”or electronic noseâ€”will be able to detect even the most subtle inorganic and iorganic/i smells. Like Carl Walz, ISS astronaut and Director for NASA's Advanced Capabilities puts it, "having experienced an air-quality event during my Expedition 4 mission on the space station, I wish I had the information that this ENose will provide future crews." Yes Carl. Air-quality events are bad./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/178302main_ENose1.jpg" width="932" height="562" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pThis component is vital for the safety of astronauts in space. Humans can tolerate some smells without noticing until it's too late to react. As Margaret A. Ryan, the principal researcher of the ENose project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, puts it:/p blockquote pThe ENose is a 'first-responder' that will alert crew members of possible contaminants in the air and also analyze and quantify targeted changes in cabin environment./p /blockquote pThe ENose uses polymer films that react to different chemicals in the air by changing their electrical conductivity. It can analyze aerosols and vapors, as well as monitor chemical spills, and even send data to the JPL's ENose computer, which can do more complex analysis. It's extremely sensitive: Depending on the chemical, it can detect "fractional parts per million to 10,000 parts per million."/p pWhat is surprising is that the ENose is not yet a permanent part of the ISS. In fact, it's surprising that something like the ENose has never been a permanent part of any modern space mission except for the brief six-day demonstration that John Glenn did on STS-95, back in 1998. [a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-218"JPL/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=f8ec3d32de45797c99f2b1c324a90006p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=f8ec3d32de45797c99f2b1c324a90006p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=f8ec3d32de45797c99f2b1c324a90006" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=Rg0Svee3"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=qTLnGKPb"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=lZCgvY4P"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=lZCgvY4P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=iaFOPR0V"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=iaFOPR0V" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/HOAQ0hId5Vc" height="1" width="1"/

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Make Gmail Your Productive-Minded Web Gateway [How To]

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/gmail_clips.jpg" width="220" height="160" align="right" hspace="4" vspace="2" align="right"/Web PR worker Steve Rubel has a great post at his Micro Persuasion blog detailing how he adapted Gmail to serve as his ideal start page for nearly anything he needs to get done. Lots of stuff is built into Gmail by defaultmdash;like web or mail search and RSS web clipsmdash;but Rubel goes into detail on using Google Talk to update IM-friendly social services, Labs tools like Quick Links and the new gadgets to access his calendar, documents, and vital services, and start his writing in an auto-saving Gmail box, to be mailed to other writing apps. It's a neat primer for creating a manageable, inter-connected workflow in the webapp cloud, if you're down for that sort of thing. Got your own Gmail-centric system, or another app that's a smarter start page? Tell us in the comments. div class="related"a href="hhttp://www.micropersuasion.com/2008/11/making-gmail-yo.html"Making Gmail Your Gateway to the Web/a [Micro Persuasion]/div/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=c66b79fccdd57e34b989c3d0c1e772a4amp;p=1"img style="border:0;" src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=c66b79fccdd57e34b989c3d0c1e772a4amp;p=1" border="0" //adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=jmInvvkm"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=0kX0lktl"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=p97DVTlZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=p97DVTlZ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=9rGGT25v"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=9rGGT25v" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/o5CH7i1pt-M" height="1" width="1"/

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Make Gmail Your Productive-Minded Web Gateway [How To]

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/gmail_clips.jpg" width="220" height="160" align="right" hspace="4" vspace="2" align="right"/Web PR worker Steve Rubel has a great post at his Micro Persuasion blog detailing how he adapted Gmail to serve as his ideal start page for nearly anything he needs to get done. Lots of stuff is built into Gmail by defaultmdash;like web or mail search and RSS web clipsmdash;but Rubel goes into detail on using Google Talk to update IM-friendly social services, Labs tools like Quick Links and the new gadgets to access his calendar, documents, and vital services, and start his writing in an auto-saving Gmail box, to be mailed to other writing apps. It's a neat primer for creating a manageable, inter-connected workflow in the webapp cloud, if you're down for that sort of thing. Got your own Gmail-centric system, or another app that's a smarter start page? Tell us in the comments. div class="related"a href="http://www.micropersuasion.com/2008/11/making-gmail-yo.html"Making Gmail Your Gateway to the Web/a [Micro Persuasion]/div/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=c66b79fccdd57e34b989c3d0c1e772a4amp;p=1"img style="border:0;" src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=c66b79fccdd57e34b989c3d0c1e772a4amp;p=1" border="0" //adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com:80/~f/lifehacker/full?a=jmInvvkm"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com:80/~f/lifehacker/full?a=0kX0lktl"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com:80/~f/lifehacker/full?a=p97DVTlZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=p97DVTlZ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com:80/~f/lifehacker/full?a=9rGGT25v"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=9rGGT25v" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/o5CH7i1pt-M" height="1" width="1"/

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THE REAL ION DETOX CLEANSE FOOTBATH $35 IN TORONTO

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