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Introduction

First year students soon learn that the law must deal with uncertainty--imperfect knowledge about the past, present, or future. ?What level of precaution is required by the duty of reasonable care when engaging in behavior that might or might not cause a harm? ?How should regulators deal with a new technology (e.g., genetically modified organisms when they were first introduced) when the possible harms (and benefits) are speculative? ?What should a jury do when conflicting evidence makes it uncertain whether a defendant is innocent or guilty? ?What should a judge do when crucial evidence has been destroyed and we cannot know which side it would have (decisively) favored?

Questions like these can be made more tractable with tools developed by decision theorists, economists, policy scientists, and philosophers. ?In this entry in the?Legal Theory Lexicon, we will explore three ideas, "uncertainty," "risk," and "ignorance"--and some related notions, "expected utility," "maximin," and "maximax." ?As always, the?Lexicon?is aimed at law students--especially first year law students--with an interest in legal theory.

Vocabulary

Unforunately, the central ideas that we will investigate are not described by a standard vocabulary. ?So the first thing we need to do is define some terms. ?After that, we can discussalternative vocabularies?used to describe the same underlying ideas.

Here are the definitions:

  • Certainty: The term "certainty" will be used to designate indisputable or indubitable knowledge about a state of affairs. ?Thus, an event is certain to occur if it is 100% likely that it will come about. ?An historical fact is certaintly true if there is no basis for doubting or disputing its truth.
  • Uncertainty:?The term "uncertainty" will be used to designate any belief that falls short of certain knowledge. ?Thus, the occurrence of an event is not certain if there is a chance that it will not come about. ?Our knowledge about the occurrence an event in the past is uncertain, if there are (all things considered) reasons to dispute or doubt that the event occurred.
  • Risk: Risk is quantifiable uncertainty. ?For example, if I toss a balanced coin, the chance of its coming up heads if 0.5 (or 50%).
  • Ignorance: ?Ignorance is uncertainty that cannot be quantified. ?Examples are tricky here. ?Suppose that someone has put 100 balls in an urn. ?You do know the balls are either white or black, but you do not know whether there are 100 black balls and 0 white balls, or 99 black balls and 1 white ball, or 98 black balls, and 2 white balls, or any other combination (the sequence ends with 0 black balls and 100) white balls. ?What are the chances that a randomly selected ball from the urn will be black? ?We lack sufficient information to assign a probablity. ?It could be 100% or 0% or any other whole number percentage in between. ?(Notice, however, that we know with certainty that the chances are not 3.14159265%.)

So there are two different kinds of uncertainty, risk and ignorance. ?"Risk" is "quantifiable uncertainty," and "ignorance" is "unquantifiable uncertainty."

Unfortunately, this vocabularly is not used by everyone who writes about uncertainty. ?In particular, many economists use the word "uncertainty" to mean both a lack of certainty and "ignorance" (as I have defined it). ?This terminological carelessness can be traced back to an important paper by Frank Knight:

Uncertainty must be taken in a sense radically distinct from the familiar notion of Risk, from which it has never been properly separated. The term "risk," as loosely used in everyday speech and in economic discussion, really covers two things which, functionally at least, in their causal relations to the phenomena of economic organization, are categorically different. ... The essential fact is that "risk" means in some cases a quantity susceptible of measurement, while at other times it is something distinctly not of this character; and there are far-reaching and crucial differences in the bearings of the phenomenon depending on which of the two is really present and operating. ... It will appear that a measurable uncertainty, or "risk" proper, as we shall use the term, is so far different from an unmeasurable one that it is not in effect an uncertainty at all. We ... accordingly restrict the term "uncertainty" to cases of the non-quantitive type. (Knight, 1921, p. 19)

Knight uses the word "risk" to name measuable uncertainty and "uncertainty" to name unmeasurable uncertainty. ?As long as you are careful to distinguish the two different senses of the word uncertainty, you can avoid confusion, but the best way to avoid terminological confusion is to avoid ambiguity altogether. ?For the remainder of the?Lexicon, I will use "uncertainty," "risk," and "ignorance" as defined above.

Varities of Risk and Ignorance

I've defined risk and ignorance as if they were mutually exclusive, but that is a bit too simple. ?For example, we might have some knowledge about probabilties. ?For example, we might know that the probability of event is within a range. ?Consider our urn of red and black balls. ?Suppose that you know that there are at least ten white balls, but nothing more than that. ?There could be 100 white balls or 99 or 98 or any other value that is no greater than 100 but no less than 10. ?In these circumstances, you know that there is at least a 10% chance of drawing a white ball and no more than a 90% chance of drawing a black ball. ?That means there are some bets that you should take. ?If someone offers you 100 to 1 odds on bet that a white ball will be drawn, you should jump on it. ?But what if someone offered you 1 to 1 odds on a bet that a black ball will be drawn? ?It doesn't seem like you have enough information to calculate the odds.

Likewise, we can imagine having second-order information about probabilities. ?You might know the probabilities for certain. ?Or you might know that there is a 0.5 chance that our hypothetical urn contains 100 white balls and a 0.5 chance that it contains 10 white balls. ?The second-order information would permit you to calculate the likelihood of drawing a white ball. ?It is (0.5 * 1.0) + (0.5 * 1) = .55 or 55%. ?In that case, we would still have a condition of risk. ?But we can also imagine scenarios in which we have incomplete second-order information about probabilities--and hence a combination of risk and ignorance.

For the remainder of the?Lexicon?entry, I will assume that risk and ignorance are mutually exclusive and I will ignore the complexities introduced by second-order information about risk and ignorance.

Risk and Expected Utilities

Decision theory is the discipline that studies rational choice using formal (e.g., mathematical) tools. ?If we put aside the possibility of risk aversion (a desire to avoid risk), then rational choice under conditions of risk requires that we maximize the expected utilities of our actions.

Take a simple example. ?Suppose I have a choice. ?I can bet $1.00 on a coin toss. ?There is a 0.5 chance that the coin will come up heads and 0.5 chance it will come up tails. ?The expected value of a bet that the coin will come up heads is $0.50. ?So if I am offered odds that are better than 50/50 (say 2 for 1), I should take the bet. ?There is a 0.5 chance of heads with a payoff of $2.00 (and 0.5 * $2.00 = $1.00), and there is a 0.5 chance of tails with a loss of $1.00 (and 0.5 * -$1.00 = -$0.50). ?That means that the expected value of the bet is $0.50, the sum of $1.00 and negative $0.50. ?If I decline the bet, the expected value is $0.00, so if I want to maximize my expected utility, then I should take the bet. ?(I am assuming that I derive utility from the opportunities created by having the additional $2.00 as compared to the alternative of no gain.)

The expected utility of a decision is the payoff associated with each possible outcome of the decision discounted by the probability of the outcomes occurrence. ?Maximizing expected utilities is simply making the choice that will produce the largest expected utility.

Decision Making under Conditions of Ignorance

Suppose we have to make a decision under conditions of ignorance. ?We now lack the information to maximize our expected utilitiy. ?So how might we decide when we lack information about the probabilities of of possible outcomes?

For example, suppose it were the case that the introduction of a genetically modified organism (GMO) into argriculture would produce one of two outcomes. ?The first outcome is an increase in the production of a valuable foodstuff with no negative side effects. ?The second outcome is an environmental catastrophe that causes the deaths of millions of persons. ?We don't have enough information to know how likely the second outcome is, but we do know that it is possible. ?What is the rational choice in this situation?

Decision theorists have suggested a number of possibilites. ?Here are some:

  • Assume that each possible outcome is equally likely. ?That assumption permits us to calculate expected utilities. ?We would weigh the benefits of the GMO discounted by 50% against the costs of the environmental catastrophe (also discounted by 50%).
  • Assume the worst case scenario. ?Decision theorists sometimes call this second strategy the maximin principle. ?We?maximize the?minimum?payoff. ?Some versions of the "precautionary principle" are versions of the?maximin?strategy. ?In our GMO hypothetical, this means we would assume that ecological catastrophe will occur--and presumably the rational decision would be to prevent introduction of the GMO.
  • Assume the best case scenario. ?This strategy requires us to?maximize the?maximum payoff--hence it can be called the?maximax?strategy. ?This strategy means that in the GMO case, we would assume that the GMO will produce all the benefits and none of the costs--and hence the rational strategy would be to deploy the new genetically modified crop.

We can imagine more complex strategies. ?For example, we choose the outcome with the highest value of the average of the maximum payoff and the minimum payoff.

Each of these strategies has problems. ?For example, the maximin principle requires us to decide soley on the basis for the worst case scenario. ?That might require us to forgo large benefits to avoid dangers to which we could not assign probabilties--even though we might later gain knowledge that would show that the likelihood of catastrophe was vanishingly small. ?Once we had this knowledge, we might regret having adopted the maximin principle.

Another problem with some of these methods is that they are sensitive to variations in the way that outcomes are described and categorized. ?Consider the choice strategy that assumes that each outcome is equally probable. ?That means that adding new categories of possible outcomes will affect the probabilities, and (as you can easily demonstrate for yourself) different ways of slicing and dicing the outcomes pie will result in different decisions becoming the rational choice. ?Sometimes, the set of outcomes is defined naturally (heads or tails), but sometimes the outcomes are shorthand for alternatives that are complex and can be described in many different ways, each of which is correct. ?And even in the coin toss case, it may turn out that there are neglected possibile outcomes (e.g., the coin ends up perfectly balanced on its side or is snatched in midair by a magpie).

I haven't even begun to scratch the surface. ?It is not clear that there is any general strategy for decisionmaking under conditions of uncertainty that can be justified as the rational strategy--but that is a topic for a whole discipline and not a?Lexicon?entry.

Conclusion

Of course, we have barerly scratched the surface. ?Remember, the point of this?Lexicon?entry is to give you a rough understanding of uncertainty, risk, and ignorance. ?The difference between risk and ignorance is fundamental--and every legal theorists needs to understand its significance.

Related Lexicon Entries

References

  • Daniel A. Farber,?Uncertainty, 99 Georgetown Law Journal 901 (2011).
  • Frank Hyneman Knight,?Risk, Uncertainty and Profit?(Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921) (Google Books page).
  • Stephen Senn,?Dicing with Death: Chance, Risk and Health?(Cambridge University Press, 2003).
  • Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives?(Gabriele Bammer, Michael Smithson eds., Earthscan 2008).

Resources on the Internet

  • Sven Ove Hansson,?Risk, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Understanding Uncertainty?(webside produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge).

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Documenting family history and other important occasions and events is a way of preserving the legacy. This is the main purpose of scrapbooking. With a scrapbook around, it will be easy for you to tell stories to your children, grandchildren and the next kin in line. Imagine the bridging of generations. Without a scrapbook, your fallible memory will just fail you. Chances are, you will forget most of your precious memories if not recollect them with so many discrepancies. As they say, pictures paint a thousand words. Hence, to cherish pictures and preserve them in a manner that will not make them deteriorate will also preserve the stories behind them.

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In choosing for a customized album, be sure that the album is archival. It must be made with acid free materials. The paper used must also be lignin free. Use the most appropriate colors you can find, your limit is your imagination.

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Sunday, May 29, 2011

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The guarantor loans market place is increasing in size day by day and at the same time the economy is slowing getting it?s way out of the recession period to brighter times ahead (hopefully). Guarantor loan products or ?loans with a guarantor? are frequently aimed at those that have a poor or bad credit history, and those that do not own a property of their own to secure finance against. A common question posed to people in this industry is why do I need a guarantor to get a loan?

The answer is very straight forward; there are thousands of people that have had no credit in the past, a poor or bad credit rating or may not own their own home. The people who are in these situations may be attempting to obtain finance, while at the exact same time the high street lending companies, banks and building societies are proving ever more reluctant to lend to anyone who has a less than ideal credit history or background. The alteration in market attitudes has lead to many people struggling to get the finance that they desperately need for one reason or another.

In the past, obtaining credit was quite straight forward and easy for everyone; however this was a few years ago when the financial world looked completely different to what it is today.

At the end of the day, this has to mean that the options for people that don?t fall into the perfect credit category by the lending companies are looking somewhat limited. However, luckily someone always comes up with a good idea when it is most needed, and this is exactly what has happened with the guarantor loans products.

By just adding a homeowner onto your loan application in order to effectively guarantee the repayment of the loan, the lender is able to be more flexible, and responsive with their lending. Lenders slacken their criteria for guarantor products and they usually also offer lower rates of interest to balance out the increase in security they offer.

It is important to get over the stigma of having someone ?assisting? you when taking out finance. You have to be realistic and face the fact that, maybe through absolutely no fault or negligence of your own, you may not be able to get a loan without help from a third part or without extortionate interest rates. Remember, your guarantor will be doing it for your benefit, not theirs.

If you find yourself a guarantor, then hopefully one of the guarantor loan lenders will make you an offer you can?t refuse.

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Business Consulting ? The Great Importance Of An MLM Event

After you arrive at an MLM function, you need a working strategy. What do you want to discover? Who do you need to meet? Who desires to meet you? How will you produce a memorable impression? The record goes on and on. In the event you don?t get there using a strategy, as with anything else, you will never have the ability to notify for those who reached your intention. In truth, you could possibly have just invested a great deal of time and money.

With regards to activities, it???s typical to listen to ? or perhaps arrive up with ? all sorts of excuses as to why you or a person you know can???t go to a particular MLM occasion ??? ???not sufficient time,??? ???not plenty of cash,??? and ???I???m just not all that interested.??? :-) Wait, haven???t we heard these objections just before? You bet! Individuals are the most regular objections in revenue that we, from the multi level marketing sector, tackle day in and day out? The irony! You, by now, ought to know all about addressing these objections so I wont devote considerably time on it here.

The fact is nobody can and/or be expected to exhibit up by any means activities that exist within their sector. It???s essential to contemplate every individual MLM event based upon perceived appeal and measure that in opposition to one???s ability to tackle their personalized responsibilities. Absolutely everyone appreciates the scary ???personal responsibilities??? piece however the most usually disregarded component here the assessment of ???perceived value???. In most cases, consider your perceived value and multiply it by ten. If you???re even looking at heading to an event ??? and spending the time to assess ??? it???s probable to get much more worthwhile to suit your needs to attend than to not attend. It???s as basic as that. Just do it!

From time to time, on the other hand, if you???re a really analytical variety of particular person you might have to evaluate further the perceived value of an MLM event. In some cases it???s tough to understand no matter if you may truly get value through the event ? certainly this is a new event, certainly it???s a little event, or maybe the price is incredibly substantial.

Previous to I move forward, it???s wise to create your personal selections determined by many of the data and features offered to you that may perhaps not be factored in to the subsequent. With that in thoughts, hopefully it will enable:

1) Brand new occasion: In the event the celebration is brand name new, you will want to assess the people that are hosting the function along with the event presenters in order to obtain a great concept for the worth it?s possible you?ll obtain. It???s attainable that the celebration will go off flawlessly. Most likely not. It all depends within the individuals ???behind the curtain???. Do your homework.

2) Modest event: When the function is community ? only a quick journey ? go. All you have to get rid of is time along with the prospective to find out some thing or meet an individual that will have a profound effects within this pleasant setting is major. If you can find far more journey involved ? particularly air travel ? you may skip this a single.

3) Large charge function: You don???t get a thing for nothing at all, because they say. From the scenario of high charge occasions, they can be usually architected by doing this to maintain out tire kickers. Given that, you are likely to get unbelievable value, meet market place leaders, and discover extremely elite and inside details at this sort of MLM celebration. Whilst it could seem to be that this is the most complicated style of function to show up at, it truly is possibly by far the most priceless. Do anything at all you?ll be able to to show up at this kind of occasion.

Okay, if you???re not nonetheless completely self-confident in the value of an MLM occasion, attraction promoting Godfather and market place guru, Mike Dillard, during a exchange in between he and I at a modern MLM occasion, explained that attending an MLM occasion tends to make almost everything and all of us a lot a lot more actual. Right after attending an MLM celebration and investing per day or more with really good and forward pondering folks, you may go back again residence with a new point of view of leadership in the marketplace, a fresh stage of vitality, and also a renewed stage of dedication.

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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Special Massage in Brisbane Are Suited to Meet Your Specific ...

The best massage center Brisbane offers a variety of packages each one having a specific purpose and intent. The hot stone massage is among the most popular massage which is administered using heated volcanic stones in more than one way. The stones are first placed into the muscle tissues to soften any stiffness. Simultaneously, other heated stones are used by the therapists to massage the affected areas of the body.

An expert therapist can work wonders on the skin soft tissues and muscles by using the right temperature and exerting the precise amount of pressure. The effect of a well administered hot stone therapy can be truly invigorating and exhilarating for the mind and the body.

Massage center Brisbane also offers essential massage therapy where basic or advanced remedial therapy are provided by trained experts.

The massage in its various forms can be used to provide express de-stress treatment which focuses on a particular area such as foot, neck or shoulders. You can ask the therapist to concentrate on a particular area that troubles you the most. There will be a perceptible difference in the areas where you have undergone the massage.

If you have specialized massage requirements that calls for service from a therapist who has special qualifications then such massage facilities are also available at the best massage center Brisbane. You can consult with the experts and make the right choice of massage therapy that will meet your requirements precisely.

Your unique health issues are addressed in a set period of time and can cover problems such as injury management and holistic treatment for a specific cause.

Specialty massage therapy is also available at the best massage place Brisbane. Pressures of varying levels are applied on the affected areas to release stiffness and allow free flow of energy through the skin tissues and cells.

Specialty massage also involves using botanical essences or special essential oils to help achieve relief from a specific condition. Long standing muscles and fiber issues can be resolved dramatically using specialty treatment in some cases.

Special massage therapy also includes some truly invasive techniques that require deep levels of endurance. The pressure and the pounding using wrists, palms and even elbows can be painful but just so. You can of course let your therapist know the discomfort you are experiencing if things are not exactly to your liking. But all the same, the therapy provides relief that is an experience of a lifetime.

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Amy Winehouse Checks Into Rehab Again

Amy Winehouse has checked into rehab again, her rep confirms.

The singer "has embarked on a treatment program at the Priory Clinic," her rep tells People.com in a statement. "She wants to be ready for performances in Europe this summer and decided to seek an assessment. She will remain at the Priory on doctors' advice."

She was convinced to check into the Priory clinic on Wednesday by her father, Mitch.

"Her dad sat her down and said 'I think you're drinking too much again.' So she agreed to go an assessment to stop it becoming a bigger problem," an unnamed friend told the site.

The same friend says she downed a miniature bottle of Smirnoff vodka on her way to the clinic "in typical Amy style." This report is repeated across multiple sites.

She kicks off a concert series in Europe on June 18, and the source says she will be out of rehab in time.

"She's determined, and this is all off her own back," said the friend. "It's just a lapse. There are ups and downs on the road, and there have been mostly ups recently. But this is a down and she's done the right thing and gone to rehab."

Winehouse has been to rehab at least four times.

She won five Grammys for her Back in Black album in 2008, which includes her hit song, "Rehab."

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esmaldacknights - EverymanTri.com: And the Top 50 healthiest ...

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What are the nation's healthiest, fittest metropolitan areas and why?

Every year since 2007 the American College of Sports Medicine has produced the American Fitness Index, an evidence and science based measurement of the state of health and fitness at the community level throughout the US.

This year?s winner is Minneapolis-St Paul which edged out last year?s winner Washington DC thanks to the Twin Cities reduction in smokers and improvements in healthy behavior measures.???

Cities ranked near the top are considered to have strong community fitness (which corresponds to individuals being fit) and many factors which support this lifestyle whilst having few that hinder.

The report includes health indicators such as the percentage of people who exercise regularly, maintain a healthy weight, eat the recommended daily servings of fruits and vegetables, have access to health care, have health insurance, and don't smoke.

Environmental factors included the availability of parks, walking/bike trails, and public transportation.

The latest AFI? takes the 50 most populated metropolitan areas and ranks them based on data and scientific methodologies to compile a list that is aimed at helping communities and organizations help improve health and fitness in line with their Guiding Principles for Healthy Communities according top the American Fitness Index:

"- Overall health improvements in U.S. cities must focus on the prevention of behavior-linked diseases by effectively addressing the underlying risk and community factors.

- ?The rise in chronic diseases attributable to physical inactivity and unhealthy diets are a "clear and present danger" to our health and healthcare systems, our cities, our nation, and our future."

- All cities in the U.S., irrespective of size or current health status, can make powerful advances in improving the health of their people through simple, affordable, effective steps.
There is a need for even more synergy and collaboration to assist U.S. cities in actively making the move toward better health."

Check out how your city did below?.

A full copy of the 2011 AFI data report is available HERE.

1????? Minneapolis, MN
2????? Washington, DC
3????? Boston, MA
4????? Portland, OR
5????? Denver, CO
6????? San Francisco, CA
7????? Hartford, CT
8????? Seattle, WA
9????? Virginia Beach, VA
10??? Sacramento, CA
11??? San Jose, CA
12??? Richmond, VA
13??? San Diego, CA
14??? Cincinnati, OH
15??? Salt Lake City, UT
16??? Austin-Round Rock, TX
17??? Pittsburgh, PA
18??? Atlanta, GA
19??? Providence, RI
20??? Baltimore, MD
21??? Milwaukee, WI
22??? Kansas City, MO
23??? Buffalo, NY
24??? Raleigh, NC
25??? Cleveland, OH
26??? Saint Louis, MO
27??? Philadelphia, PA
28??? Chicago, IL
29??? Orlando, FL
30??? New York, NY
31??? Jacksonville, FL
32??? Phoenix, AZ
33??? San Antonio, TX
34??? New Orleans, LA
35??? Miami, FL
36??? Charlotte, NC
37??? Nashville, TN
38??? Columbus, OH
39??? Dallas, TX
40?? Tampa, FL
41?? Los Angeles, CA
42?? Houston, TX
43?? Las Vegas, NV
44?? Riverside, CA
45?? Indianapolis, IN
46?? Detroit, MI
47?? Birmingham, AL
48?? Memphis, TN
49?? Louisville, KY
50?? Oklahoma City, OK

This story was written? our Danny Ward, our British Bureau Chief and Twitter correspondent.

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Do You Suffer From One of These Cheap Scrapbooking Problems? (Part ...

The second part of this discussion will be taking a look at the harder parts of cheap scrapbooking. It?s not always going to be exciting times and success, which is why its important to cover this part. Last article covered cheap scrapbooking supplies, so now we?re moving on to success and failure.

So brace yourself:

Fear of Failure

The biggest problem facing folks new to cheap scrapbooking is the phobia of failure. Nobody likes to fail, myself included. However , if it was not for failing, I wouldn?t be the scrapper I?m today ? some of my largest learning experiences came from failure.

To overcome this, begin by making an album that you think to fail. If it develops into anything better than a failure, you?re going to be in for a happy surprise!

The hardest part of this advice is to acknowledge that once in a while you will fail and it may hurt, but at the end of the day, it all leads to learning the things which do and do not work in the cheap scrapbooking process.

Getting Results

Leading in from failure is getting results. Now there?s a good slogan I use when talking about cheap scrapbooking which I learned from second hand car dealers, and that is: ?mileage may vary?.

If you give a few people the exact same materials and the same quantity of time to make a scrapbook one is inevitably going to turn out better than the other ? its just the way things happen.

While everybody has our good days and bad, the real difference is determined by experience. With all materials being even, the person with more experience with cheap scrapbooking is more likely to turn out a better album more frequently.

Its these experiences that brings results, learning the way to do more with less and how creativity can overcome a substantial number of problems.

I know this info might come across as a bit of a downer, but with each accomplishment comes trial and error. Even great artists had to go through their own personal battles to get where they are now ? so take heart!

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UFC 130 Weigh-in Results

LAS VEGAS ? The near-lovefest that has become UFC 130 came to a partial stop Friday at the official event weigh-ins at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

Main event fighters Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Matt Hamill each weighed in at 205 pounds for their bout, then engaged in the afternoon's most intense staredown. It was a stark contrast to Wednesday's press conference, where the two shared a couple light moments on stage even before their staredown photo op.

When the fight was booked, Jackson was vocal about not having much interest in the fight. But after Hamill said he planned to break the former light heavyweight champion's will, Jackson took a new level of motivation. And Wednesday's cordiality went out the window Friday in favor of a forehead-to-forehead showcase, Hamill's hands up and Jackson's at his sides.

Hamill told emcee Joe Rogan that the fight against Jackson will be the most important fight of his career.

"This is the biggest opportunity for me to help my career," Hamill said. "I know from Day One he didn't want to fight me, but I promise you one thing ? it's going to be a good fight."

Jackson, who doesn't have a knockout win since his UFC 92 victory over Wanderlei Silva, promised fans he's looking for a finish against Hamill, and that Hamill's comments about breaking his will got him amped up.

"It motivated me to train extra hard," Jackson said. "I was already training hard 'cause it's been a while since I knocked anyone out. But I'm ready to put on a show for you guys and get a knockout."

Co-main event heavyweights Frank Mir and Roy Nelson, though, continued to be almost playful about their fight. The two Las Vegas residents, who share many mutual friends and sometimes train together, each weighed in at 260 pounds, and fought back smiles as they squared off.




Making his return to the UFC after an absence of four and a half years, Jorge Santiago, who most recently was Sengoku's middleweight champion, weighed in at 185 on the nose for his middleweight fight with military hero Brian Stann. Stann was 186 on a Memorial Day weekend card that he has said will be emotional for him as a veteran. That bout opens Saturday's pay-per-view.

And despite trouble making weight in the past, Thiago Alves weighed in at 170 pounds for his welterweight bout against Rick Story, who was also 170 and brings a five-fight winning streak into the event.

UFC 130 airs live on pay-per-view at 9 p.m. Eastern on Saturday and is preceded by a pair of fights on Spike TV at 8 p.m. In addition, three preliminary card fights will air on Facebook at 6:20 p.m.

The official weigh-in results are below:

Main Card
Quinton Jackson (205) vs. Matt Hamill (205)
Frank Mir (260) vs. Roy Nelson (260)
Stefan Struve (255) vs. Travis Browne (247)
Thiago Alves (170) vs. Rick Story (170)
Brian Stann (186) vs. Jorge Santiago (185)
Spike TV Prelims
Miguel Torres (135.5) vs. Demetrious Johnson (135.5)
Kendall Grove (185) vs. Tim Boetsch (186)
Facebook Prelims
Gleison Tibau (155) vs. Rafaello Oliveira (155)
Michael McDonald (136) vs. Chris Cariaso (135)
Renan Bar?o (135) vs. Cole Escovedo (135)

Source: http://mmafighting.com/2011/05/27/ufc-130-weigh-in-results/

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Microbes Hitchhiking On Hailstones

Snow and ice usually form around a nucleus of dust, which helps the ice crystals aggregate?but pollen, spores and bacteria can serve as the nuclei of precipitation too. Montana State University Ph.D. student Alex Michaud discusses his search for microbes in hailstones.

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IRA FLATOW, host:

This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I am Ira Flatow.

This spring, thunderstorms, tornadoes brought not only deadly winds and rain but intense hailstorms. I actually got caught up in one, myself, this week. And, you know, as you watch these giant chunks of ice pelt everything in sight, you can't help but marvel at how all of this ice gets formed in the sky.

And you know what? It's a lot more complex and fascinating than what we all learn in earth science class, as my next guest will tell you. He's been collecting hailstones, literally picking them up off the ground. He stashes them in his freezer and then dissects them in his laboratory, piercing together and piecing together the journey that they've made through clouds by looking at their layers of ice.

And he's poking into their cores, too, and looking for the essence of their beginnings, and apart from the usual dust grains in the nucleus of the hail, he's found lots of other stuff, like pollen and spores and even living bacteria nestled inside the idea.

Yes, bacteria, lots and lots of bacteria in ice from all over the world, even in ice in Antarctica. What do bacteria have to do with hail and ice? That's what we're going to be talking about first. Our number, 1-800-989-8255, 1-800-989-TALK. You can also tweet us @scifri, @-S-C-I-F-R-I, or you can go to our website at sciencefriday.com and leave a note there.

Let me introduce my guest. Alex Michaud is the Ph.D. student, ecology and environmental science at Montana State University in Bozeman. Alex joins us by phone. Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY.

Mr. ALEX MICHAUD (Ph.D. Student, Montana State University): Glad to be here.

FLATOW: Hi. How did you decide - give me - to go around picking up hailstones?

Mr. MICHAUD: Well, it was kind of a sample of opportunity, a chance occurrence. There was a very large hailstorm that fell on Bozeman in June of last summer, and watching them hit the ground with some significant force was very interesting.

And so I went out after the storm was - right after the storm was over and decided to pick some up and put them in the freezer and see if I couldn't look at them in some more depth.

FLATOW: And how do you dissect a hailstone, and what do you find inside?

Mr. MICHAUD: Usually, you - the method that I used was to cross-section them. So cut a thin slice through them, and that allows you to reveal the layers, and then from there just dissecting with a razorblade, you can cut the different layers out and then analyze from there.

FLATOW: And you found bacteria in the center of the hailstones that you can culture?

Mr. MICHAUD: Yes, so that means that they are live or in some sort of state that allows them to persist through that ice.

FLATOW: And then what's fascinating is that in reading of your work, is how it appears - how common bacteria is at the center of hailstones.

Mr. MICHAUD: It is. There seems to be a fair amount of them, you know, on the order of - ones that are alive and can be cultured, about 1,000 per milliliter of sample water that you get from the middle of the hailstone.

FLATOW: And so what's the advantage to - if I'm a bacterium, what's the advantage to me of hanging out in the inside of a hailstone?

Mr. MICHAUD: Well, they need a way to get back down to the surface. It's a pretty harsh environment up there in the clouds, lots of UV, cold, dry, not the best place for a living thing to be, and so it's good to be brought back down to where you have protection in the soil or on a plant surface, much more suitable habitats.

And so whether they come down in hail or rain, it's a good thing to get back down to the surface.

FLATOW: Interesting, and there are certain bacteria that really have an affinity for really creating these ice. We know that ice sometimes needs a little drop of something to form around, needs a nucleus, right?

Mr. MICHAUD: Exactly. You need something to initiate the freezing of water. Everybody thinks, you know, water hits zero degrees Celsius or 32 degrees Fahrenheit, and it freezes, but it needs something to freeze onto.

And so normally water has to cool well below that, if it's pure water, in order to freeze. And bacteria actually do it really well at warm temperatures or more so than bacteria, but also biological particles really help to start that ice crystal formation at warm temperatures, say minus-two degrees Celsius to minus-eight degrees Celsius.

FLATOW: So when these bacteria get to the ground, if they can form ice at a warmer temperature than, let's say left alone, other particles of soot or whatever in the atmosphere, and they land on leaves, aren't they going to start getting ice into the plants themselves?

Mr. MICHAUD: Yeah, that's what's been studied for the last 40 years is these bacteria, as plant pathogens, because they don't allow the water in the plants to super-cool and cool down to the point of not freezing, so these bacteria cause frost injury in plants, and if you disrupt a plant cell, it's going to leak out a bunch of good nutrients and food for you to eat.

FLATOW: So this is a way of getting inside the plant and then freezing at a higher temperature and, sort of like water in pavement breaks open the pavement, water in the leaf breaks open the leaf structure so that the bacteria now have some lunch inside there.

Mr. MICHAUD: Exactly, exactly, and that's a very common - or it's a common strategy for a select few of bacteria.

FLATOW: And if there's a lot of these bacteria floating up in the atmosphere and making it easier for it to rain or for it to hail, would that not affect the weather? Would they not, you know, have some sort of influence in the weather?

Mr. MICHAUD: Yeah, the - some past studies have shown that there are about 40 percent of the nuclei or the initiators of drops of precipitation are biological in origin.

Now, that's not saying just bacteria but other types of biological particles do help begin the process of precipitation. And so yeah, it - biology does play a role in this precipitation process.

FLATOW: Do you think that perhaps certain bacteria evolve to be able to form ice crystals around them?

Mr. MICHAUD: Yes, that's a debate right now in the literature, you know, whether or not bacteria are - were evolved to cause frost injury in plants, or is this a mechanism for getting back down to the ground once they've been swept up into the air by strong winds?

So yeah, it's one of the big questions that we're asking right now.

FLATOW: Here's a tweet that came in from Noah Cort(ph), who says: Does regular, unfrozen precipitation have bacteria, too?

Mr. MICHAUD: In the form of rain?

FLATOW: Yeah.

Mr. MICHAUD: Yes, that's what Brent Christner and others have been studying. You do have live bacteria that do have unfrozen precipitation, such as rain.

FLATOW: So what do you now? Now that you've got all these hailstones, what's your next line of inquiry here?

Mr. MICHAUD: Well, because - hail is really good because it's a kind of record of the storm. And so continuing to analyze those embryos, or the cores, very middle of the hailstone, to show that there are these efficient ice nucleation active bacteria at the core, this allows us to link a function with a bacteria to show that they were present at the site of nucleation.

FLATOW: Well, good luck to you, Alex.

Mr. MICHAUD: Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

FLATOW: You're welcome. Thanks for taking time to be with us today.

Mr. MICHAUD: No problem.

FLATOW: Alex Michaud is a Ph.D. student in ecology and environmental science at Montana State University in Bozeman.

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Track Lighting ? For Beautiful Ambiance

Track lighting adds to your mood and lighting influence of the place. Set up is straightforward and may be a do-it-yourself challenge. There are a few unique forms of track lights which change contingent on set up, length and charge. Regardless of whether you are setting up lights to showcase your new kitchen curtains, or are just on the lookout for additional visibility, track lighting may be the solution to go. Tracks can be found in diverse lengths plus they will not need to be directly; you could obtain strips which have t-junctions for appropriate angels. Right here is an overview on the distinctive sorts of track lights and how to install them.

Very first it?s essential to choose in which you need them. The simplest spot for set up purposes can be an area that presently contains a ceiling light because there exists definitely an energy provide and junction box. In case you do not prefer to replace your existing ceiling light or you want your track lighting in a location with no a strength provide then you can certainly invest in a self contained kit. This type of lighting unit isn?t as aesthetically appealing because it has an electrical cord working from it that ought to be plugged in to the wall.

Installing a track lighting unit by means of a junction box is usually a bit trickier but still does not demand a simply call towards the electrician. You will need some common supplies like screw motorists, electrical tape, needle nose pliers, wire strippers and wire nuts (occasionally provided with a kit).

Identify the precise area of your respective new track lighting and where you need the light to shine. Measure the unit and mark the ceiling in which the front and back again with the unit must be screwed in. In case you do not, your track can very easily end up crooked. Now figure out the place the mounting holes will likely be and mark them.

As with any electrical challenge make sure the power is off on the breaker box. Then take away the existing fixture and disconnect the wires. Strip about ? inch of set up from your wires. Matching the wires, protected the dwell wires towards the track lighting?s wires with wire nuts. Make use of the electrical tape to insulate any uncovered wiring. Ensure the bare residence ground wire is connected to the grounding screw.

Drill pilot holes exactly where you formerly made marks for the mounting holes. Spot the wires inside the junction box and attach the plate (if there exists one particular). Mount the track working with the hardware included while using the kit. You are going to require a helper when the track is as well big or hefty. When the major track is hooked up it is simple to install more tracks to provide you with a more time strip.

Insert your light fixtures into your tracks and cover the ends together with the products offered with the kit. Turn the electric power back on and if you did it appropriately your track light must be lighting up the place. If not, then flip off the electric power and double look at your get the job done.

For those who are thinking of adding track lighting or other property improvement selections for your property then feel totally free to study extra of my articles more than at Kitchen Track Lighting

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The Condo Market Of Mississauga | My Everyday Blog

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Despite the economic woes that have brought about the real estate market to plunge in many places, the Mississauga condominium market is staying strong and has.

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A Computer Error Released 450 Prisoners with "a High Risk of Violence" [Wtf]

Computer system errors accidentally released more than 450 inmates with "a high risk of violence" from California prisons. What might be even worse is that no attempt has been made to return any of them back to prison. More »


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Friday, May 27, 2011

Why You Must Distribute Free Articles to Article Directories ...

Article submission sites are getting to be some of the more recognized sorts of online services in the united states. A straightforward option to study the global popularity and authority of a website is almost always to search out Alexa or some other sort of indexing program regarding targeted visitors data and page rank. Quite often, you will notice that article banks out perform highly well-known internet websites and well known brands. Just how can this be? Why is it extremely important to submit content articles to these web directories?

During this posting we shall chat about the benefits of article advertising and then precisely why it is so crucial to send articles to article directories. To begin with, allow us to point out what an article directory is actually and just what it can do for your business. Bring to mind these web directories as great warehouses where thousands and thousands of paper articles are stored on the shelves. This is exactly what online article listings are ? only in digital form. It may perhaps come as a surprise that these ?library? sort of websites may show up so high in the search engine rankings, however, it all is because of the sheer volume of top quality content material that they can generate. Search engines like Google, Yahoo! and Msn delights in superb content, which is the reason why article directories do so nicely in position. It is also the reason it is recommended to enter free content articles to these internet directories.

Among the initial mistakes numerous online marketers will make is to skip out on the sometimes monotonous work of longterm advertising planning. Of course it could be more gratifying and much more exciting to promote your service in the short-term by way of bidding for search phrases, or by ordering immediate traffic. Although this short-term approach probably will supply your business a temporary rise in website traffic and product sales, it will not enable your internet business to get sticky within the search engine rankings. Since you most likely know already, any internet business interested to prevail and be successful, will over time need the force of genuine, organic traffic through search engines like google in order to grow even more.

Should you understand the value of why you should post articles to article directories, then you definately also hold the golden step to article marketing. Having said that, it does not stop there, and yet again, a large number of network marketers will exercise article promotion with a way too short perspective. A number of prospective article writers will distribute an article or two, sit back, and wait for wonderful things to appear. Well, it just can not work like that.

When an article is posted and finally published in one of the notable article directories, it requires to get indexed. This implies that search engines preferably should pick it up as well as exhibit it in their search results. Even though this process may feel like something that you have no control over at all, it really is something that is virtually bound to happen if the piece of writing is published at one of the larger directories.

The second major part of article marketing is syndication. Syndication simply means that your article is distributed to more locations on the internet aside from the single publication within the article directory and the one search result. There are particular ways in which distribution could occur. To begin with, your content may perhaps be republished by a visitor of the article listing in question. This may be a good way to distribute your posts! In cases where an article is on an intriguing subject, or is remarkably well-written, well, then chances are that a lot of people will redistribute the article by inserting it on their blogs or websites leading to much greater publicity for your work.

Secondly, search engine results are in fact organic. What I mean by this is that a search engine record may grow and syndicate all by itself. Regular visitors may locate your article while browsing for a particular key phrase, different search engines may perhaps pick up exactly the same listing, and other online sites may in fact come across and hyperlink to your post. Perhaps you have realized, there is a lot of potential for one sole article submission. By repeating the process, and by publishing more articles to numerous article directories, you are well on your way towards a nice article marketing strategy.

On a last note, and also to prevent any confusion, it must be said that the complete process detailed above could take a great deal of time, up to several months at least. This really is the true reason for why quite a few internet entrepreneurs opt out from article marketing ahead of time ? they simply lack the persistence to wait around for the results.

For anyone who sees the real value of processing free articles to directories, however, may possibly have a glowing future before them as profitable business entrepreneurs.

Are you looking to hand in free articles? Visit Everarticle Article Directory.

Source: http://articlesandwriters.com/?p=14489

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