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Salaam and peace, all –
There's a story and quote so famous from the life of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), that it's become a proverb.
Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) once asked a bedouin why he hadn't tied his camel*. The man said that he trusted in God (to keep it from running away). To that, the prophet told him: "Tie your camel and put your trust in God."
Common sense, right?
One would think so…
In Islam, one of the six points of Iman (faith) is the concept of both Qadar and Qadhaa', which are hard to translate but most easily explained as God's Divine knowledge, Absolute Ability and predestination of all things. Belief in the characteristics of God (as He has described Himself) is key. You see, Muslims believe in God as a Creator and Sustainer (among other attributes, all of them perfect and higher forms than those humans possess), All-Knowing and All-Powerful. By definition, He knows full well what will occur in the future, since He's the All-Knowing, All-Capable Creator (He's designed the galaxies, much less the Earth, much less human beings. Every thing of creation is destined for something. For example, that carrot I just ate was destined to nourish me. I was destined to write about that carrot, and so on). At the same time, He has given human beings free will, and ordered for all future happenings to be written. Belief in this written account of all that is preordained, as well as destiny, are parts of a Muslim's faith.
So does that mean that I can just sit around all day thinking, "Hey, if God has already ordained for me my provisions, why do I have to work for it"? Or "Why should I pray or believe, if I'm destined for heaven or hell already?" No. Someone in that predicament may be destined to be a loser or something. It's pretty deep, if one really thinks about it, but luckily, we aren't meant to think about it too deeply. Why? We'll never reach the end of the knowledge of God, and our knowledge is limited. And it hurts my brain.
You can imagine how annoying conversations like this are for atheists, right? 🙂
Anyhow, back to trust in God. There are levels of trust or Tawakkul, from knowing His attributes, to trusting Him above all else with yaqeen (certainty). The benefits of this trust include noticing everyday miracles, and a feeling of tranquility and peace, the likes of which many yearn for. It's like the saying, try your best and God will take care of the rest. It's a lot less pressure than feeling everything has to turn out a certain way. Sometimes, we realize later why things were meant to turn out a certain (initially unexpected) way. Like that mall fire in Qatar that killed a set of triplet toddlers (amongst many others). Awful, right? Hours later, it triggered procedures and protocols being written up across the country to keep the people safer. Slow start, but sometimes, it takes a tragedy. And now that I've mentioned death, it's one of the things all of us has in common. One day, we're all going to die. We don't know how or where or when, but it's written (remember that line from "Slumdog Millionaire"?). Some of us will make it to old age, and some of us won't.
Anyhow, just yesterday, I heard someone say: those who rely on/trust in God before people are dignified and tranquil. Those who trust people more than God are eventually humiliated or disappointed. I'm sure we've all been disappointed by someone we put too much trust in. Now, don't get me wrong – Islam doesn't advocate for being paranoid or not trusting anyone. A baby has to trust his/her mother to feed him/her. My husband trusts me with his income. What I'm talking about is the level of trust that allows one to put their full faith into God. And like I mentioned above, that trust can't come without work/action. If I want success/good to come, I have to work for it. If I'm deathly ill and there is life-saving medication I can take, I have to take it, *and* put my trust in God.
I know trust isn't a unique concept in Islam, but I wanted to share some verses from the Qur'aan that man with the camel was probably thinking about:
- "…when you have taken a decision, put your trust in God. For God loves those who put their trust (in Him)" [Qur'aan 3:159]
- "If God helps you, none can overcome you: If He forsakes you, who is there after that, that can help you? In God then, let the believers put their trust." [3: 160]
"And He will provide him from (sources) he could never imagine. And whoever puts their trust in God, then He will suffice him. Verily, God will accomplish His purpose. Indeed, God has set a measure for all things." [65:3]*Side note #1: My husband just asked me if he should go ahead and book a ticket. The response in most parts of the Arab world would be: "TawakkulAllah"/(Yes and) put your trust in God." It's *that* ingrained in the culture and language, this concept of trust in God.
**Side note #2: the camel is thought to be a commonly found animal across the Muslim world. Some of us have had the joy of being called a "camel jockey." Actually, no. Camels are mostly found in desert areas. I'm from New York and admittedly seen more camels here (ok, in zoos and farms; even rode one at Catskills Game Farm back in the day) than my husband, who grew up in the Middle East (Lebanon). Just sayin'.

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This morning I went to brunch with a close friend to catch up on all things life. We haven't seen each other in a while, so in the spirit of doing things 'the old way', we decided to have brunch at Salvage. I love the decor at Salvage - it's a small, mostly outdoor, space with wooden tables and school chairs, and vintage-looking cups that made my friend go, "I think they need to buy new cups." They were awarded Two Cups from the SMH Good Cafe Awards earlier this year, and the only business to have been successfully opened in that shop location for as long as I've known! Can't wait to go back and savour the rest of their constantly changing menu.
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Row n contains 2n + 2 entries.
Sum of entries in row n = 3^n + 2^{2n+1} = A213659(n).
Table of n, a(n) for n=1..61.
S. Alikhani and E. Deutsch, Graphs with domination roots in the right half-plane, arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.3734 [math.CO], 2013-2014.
S. Alikhani and Y. H. Peng, Introduction to domination polynomial of a graph, arXiv:0905.2251 [math.CO], 2009.
T. Kotek, J. Preen, F. Simon, P. Tittmann, and M. Trinks, Recurrence relations and splitting formulas for the domination polynomial, arXiv:1206.5926 [math.CO], 2012.
Generating polynomial of row n is x^(n+1)*(2+x)^n + x*(1+x)^(2*n+1); this is the domination polynomial of the graph G(n).
T(n,k) = 2^(2*n+1-k)*binom(n,k-n-1) + binom(2*n+1,k-1) (n>=1; 1<=k<=2*n+2).
Row 1 is 1,5,4,1 because the graph G(1) is abcd with edges ab, bc, bd, and cd; there is 1 dominating subset of size 1 ({b}),; all binom(4,2)=6 subsets of size 2 of {a,b,c,d} with the exception of {c,d} are dominating; all binom(4,3)=4 subsets of size 3 of {a,b,c,d} are dominating; obviously, {a,b,c,d} is dominating.
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T := proc (n, k) options operator, arrow: 2^(2*n+1-k)*binomial(n, k-n-1)+binomial(2*n+1, k-1) end proc: for n to 8 do seq(T(n, k), k = 1 .. 2*n+2) end do; # yields sequence in triangular form
row[n_] := CoefficientList[x^(n + 1)*(2 + x)^n + x*(1 + x)^(2*n + 1), x] // Rest;
Table[row[n], {n, 1, 7}] // Flatten (* Jean-François Alcover, Dec 02 2017 *)
Cf. A213659.
Sequence in context: A115637 A124602 A132707 * A046575 A154739 A136564
Adjacent sequences: A213655 A213656 A213657 * A213659 A213660 A213661
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A divided Nevada Supreme Court sided with bankers on Wednesday when deciding how much borrowers could owe if they lose their houses or commercial developments through foreclosure.
In doing so, the court attempted to clear up some of the legal turmoil that has followed the 2011 passage of Assembly Bill 273, which sought to protect homeowners from big deficiency claims — the gap between what is owed on a mortgage and the property's value at foreclosure — pursued by lenders that buy distressed loans at deep discounts. The five-justice majority acknowledged the "considerable confusion" the bill has caused, with trial judges going in different directions.
Assemblyman Marcus Conklin, D-Las Vegas, authored AB 273 against a growing tide of complaints about so-called vulture investors buying defaulted loans for pennies on the dollar and then trying to collect deficiencies for the face amount. For example, buying a $200,000 loan for $30,000 would entitle the note owner to collect the full $200,000, even in the severely depressed real estate market that followed the 2008 crash.
Any trustee's sale or foreclosure that took place prior to June 10, 2011, when the law went into effect, would not be saddled with a deficiency limit of what the lender paid for the loan. A bank that originated the loan and held on to it is not affected.
By contrast, attorneys for small-scale commercial developer Stacy Yahraus-Lewis, who faces a $3 million claim on a commercial loan she guaranteed, argued unsuccessfully that the law covered any deficiency verdicts starting on June 10. This analysis, backed by an opinion by the Legislative Counsel Bureau, would have extended the law's protection to a larger pool of borrowers than the court's ruling.
It is unclear, however, how many people are affected. Frank Flansberg III, Yahraus-Lewis' attorney, said more of the cases than not he sees are covered by deficiency cap.
"But there are certainly a fair amount" where the foreclosure took place before the law's starting date, potentially exposing them to more financial liability.
William Uffelman, CEO of the Nevada Bankers Association, said the law mainly affects commercial developments. This has been the most active market for selling loans in default, he said.
Nevertheless, Justice Michael Cherry wrote in his dissent, "In essence, the majority's decision serves to produce a windfall for collection agencies and other third-party purchasers of distressed loans … ." Yahraus-Lewis was just one of "innumerable similarly situated borrowers and guarantors" who would lose out even though AB 273 was supposed to protect them, he wrote.
The dissent also was signed by Justice Ron Parraguirre.
The majority placed a priority on not approving an interpretation that would allow retroactive changes to the rules governing deficiencies and potentially devaluing a loan after the fact. In doing so, the court upheld the ruling by Clark County District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez two years ago.
Branch Banking &Trust Co. said in court papers that it held more than $300 million in Nevada mortgages that could be affected by a ruling against lenders. Another entity, RADC/CADC Venture 2010-2 LLC, a joint venture of private investors and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., said it had $1.1 billion in mortgages at stake.
Yahraus-Lewis fell into a different category. She almost had finished building the 48-unit Sandpointe apartments near Boulder Station when the bank that had given her a $5.1 million loan failed. Her efforts to find alternate financing to finish the project did not bear fruit.
Her loan was part of a $2.3 billion portfolio that was sold to a joint venture between the FDIC and Rialto Capital Advisors, owned by giant homebuilder Lennar. Flansberg calculates that Rialto paid 39 cents on the dollar for its stake.
The Lennar-related entity then finished the project and filed a deficiency claim against Yahraus-Lewis.
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text: I've been having problems logging into my unstable debian box, and on a most recent problem I saw this message on the console after I was able to initiate a reboot: kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped I looked in /var/log/ksymoops and see logs for the day it happened, but how I determine what module is causing this problem? I see net-pf-10 listed in the 20031118.log a log, but I haven't been able to figure out what module that is let alone what has caused this issue recently. Any help would be appreciated. Rob -- | L I NN N U U X X O firstname.lastname@example.com 2002-03 | L I N NN U U X Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LLL I N N UUU X X O | Those who can, do. |


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This time there was no defending the indefensible. Not even Wolves's Mick McCarthy, the most loyal of managers, could pardon the scything challenge that led to his captain Karl Henry seeing red before some lunchtime stragglers had taken their seats at the DW Stadium.
Henry has attracted a reputation as a ruthless hard man in an uncompromising side: Newcastle's Joey Barton was roughed up in August and Bobby Zamora was sidelined with a broken leg by an ultimately fair tackle three weeks ago. Unfortunately, the 27-year-old played up to his image with the crude lunge that pancake-flipped Jordi Gómez to the turf in the 11th minute.
The referee Lee Mason's decision to dismiss Henry cost Wolves dear against a side whose low esteem in advanced positions had borne just two previous Premier League goals. Gómez provided ultimate revenge with a delicious 65th-minute free-kick and Hugo Rodallega doubled the Lancashire club's season tally with a fortuitous toe-poke late on.
However, there is concern in the Wolves camp that further damage may be inflicted because of a burgeoning notoriety for physicality. The statistics are damning: Wolves's 21 cautions and two sendings-off confirm them as the top-flight's top sinners. Yet, as their striker Kevin Doyle pointed out, the same team were mid-table in last season's disciplinary rankings and the cleanest tacklers to boot.
"If you were to look at it on paper you'd think we were a dirty team," Doyle said. "But if you look back to last year we were one of the fairest sides in the league and I'm sure we will be again this season. The only thing I hope it doesn't do is influence referees in situations where they think Wolves put in a few dirty tackles so…"
McCarthy refused to disclose whether Henry would be fined but could not defend the tackle. "He's a very good Premier League player. It was an error of judgment, so I'm not going to try to defend that, but as an individual, and a guy around the place, his contribution to my team over the last four years has been immense," he said. Wolves will count the cost of losing their leader, however, with the three-match ban coming on the back of a fourth defeat in a row, equalling the club's worst-ever sequence and leaving them level with West Ham at the bottom.
Despite their numerical advantage, Wigan initially struggled to break down stubborn opposition. Sunderland escaped with a point last month despite playing for 68 minutes with 10 men and, with Marcus Hahnemann not tested before the break, a repeat appeared a distinct possibility. But Gómez struck a free-kick over the wall and off the underside of the bar to punish Dave Edwards's gentle grapple of Charles N'Zogbia's shirt and Rodallega inadvertently sealed things when he diverted in Christophe Berra's attempted clearance.
"You could see the anxiety in the crowd after they were reduced to 10 men," said Wigan's manager Roberto Martínez following the club's 100th home contest in the top tier. "They expected us to win but that doesn't always happen, so I'm pleased."
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The proposed research seeks to understand the neural circuits by which we perceive our self-motion through space and by which we judge the motion of objects relative to ourselves. The visual system processes large- scale patterns of retinal image motion (optic flow) to estimate the direction of self-motion (or heading). However, optic flow is contaminated by our own eye and head movements, as well as motion of objects in the world. As a result, the visual system likely cannot solve these problems on its own. We seek to understand how neural circuits in extrastriate cortex of macaques combine visual motion with vestibular signals and other sources of non-visual input (e.g., efference copy of eye movements) to solve the complex intertwined problems of estimating self-motion and object motion. We approach this through a combination of electrophysiological and computational studies in trained animals.
In Aim 1, we propose a general computational framework (multisensory normalization) that accounts for diverse observations regarding integration of multiple sensory inputs by single neurons. We devise and test a critical prediction of the model to establish whether multisensory normalization takes place in area MSTd, which is involved in visual-vestibular integration for self- motion perception.
In Aim 2, we examine how eye and head rotations alter the tuning of MSTd neurons for heading as defined by optic flow and vestibular inputs. We use a population decoding approach to quantify the relative contributions of extra-retinal signals and visual depth information to stabilizing the heading tuning of neurons during eye/head rotation.
In Aim 3, we examine the interactions between object motion and self- motion and explore the contributions of vestibular inputs to dissociating self-motion and object motion in two subdivisions of area MST. In broad terms, this research addresses the general problem of how critical variables of interest (e.g., heading) are extracted from neural activity that is influenced by confounding internal and external variables, and thus has broad application to many problems in systems neuroscience. The proposed research is directly relevant to the research priorities of the Strabismus, Amplyopia, and Visual Processing program at the National Eye Institute
Understanding the neural basis of self-motion perception may promote new strategies for treating spatial disorientation in patients with neurodegeneration such as Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease is widely known as a memory disorder, but is also accompanied by severe perceptual deficits including impaired ability to judge heading. A deeper understanding of these functions in a primate model will help in targeting new therapies to relevant brain areas and in developing training-based recovery programs.
|Sunkara, Adhira; DeAngelis, Gregory C; Angelaki, Dora E (2016) Joint representation of translational and rotational components of optic flow in parietal cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 113:5077-82
|Kim, HyungGoo R; Pitkow, Xaq; Angelaki, Dora E et al. (2016) A simple approach to ignoring irrelevant variables by population decoding based on multisensory neurons. J Neurophysiol 116:1449-67
|Gu, Yong; Cheng, Zhixian; Yang, Lihua et al. (2016) Multisensory Convergence of Visual and Vestibular Heading Cues in the Pursuit Area of the Frontal Eye Field. Cereb Cortex 26:3785-801
|Chen, Aihua; Gu, Yong; Liu, Sheng et al. (2016) Evidence for a Causal Contribution of Macaque Vestibular, But Not Intraparietal, Cortex to Heading Perception. J Neurosci 36:3789-98
|Dokka, Kalpana; DeAngelis, Gregory C; Angelaki, Dora E (2015) Multisensory Integration of Visual and Vestibular Signals Improves Heading Discrimination in the Presence of a Moving Object. J Neurosci 35:13599-607
|Yu, Xiong-jie; Dickman, J David; DeAngelis, Gregory C et al. (2015) Neuronal thresholds and choice-related activity of otolith afferent fibers during heading perception. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 112:6467-72
|Fan, Reuben H; Liu, Sheng; DeAngelis, Gregory C et al. (2015) Heading Tuning in Macaque Area V6. J Neurosci 35:16303-14
|Sunkara, Adhira; DeAngelis, Gregory C; Angelaki, Dora E (2015) Role of visual and non-visual cues in constructing a rotation-invariant representation of heading in parietal cortex. Elife 4:
|Drugowitsch, Jan; DeAngelis, Gregory C; Angelaki, Dora E et al. (2015) Tuning the speed-accuracy trade-off to maximize reward rate in multisensory decision-making. Elife 4:e06678
|Yau, Jeffrey M; DeAngelis, Gregory C; Angelaki, Dora E (2015) Dissecting neural circuits for multisensory integration and crossmodal processing. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 370:20140203
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Dead Space 3's attempt at bringing in more players by tweaking the horror/action balance seems to have failed. And if the rumors are true, that failure holds direct consequences for the series' future.
Videogamer.com, citing an anonymous source, is reporting that EA has canceled the unannounced Dead Space 4. The game was in the preproduction phase at Visceral's California offices, with help from a small team at Visceral Montreal. EA closed the latter studio a few weeks ago.
Dead Space 3 was yet another polarizing game, with players both praising and criticizing the series' turn away from survival horror toward action. Players had strong reactions to the game's use of microtransactions, as well. Whatever the reason, the rumor says that the title did not pull in numbers that EA felt like bragging about. Official sales numbers have not been released.
"While we have not announced sales data for Dead Space 3, we are proud of the game and it remains important IP for EA," a spokesperson for EA told us.
And just to update, I still was never into able to really get into this game because of the pain in the ass the weapon system is. It was pretty well reviewed, but I've spoken to more than one person that really hated it. And I personally was pretty offended by the purchase options, where I could buy things I need, like ammo or health, or weapons, with real life money. It just feels gross, and I'm not one to complain about DLC, but this was rediculous, because I was never sure if I had missed an element in the game (like they have these leverage bars to get into doors that are usually just extra supplies) or if they're set up in a way to bait me into buying the thing.
I actually think I'm going to put this down and move on to Tomb Raider tonight.
In related news, my gaming was stalled for a few weeks when my 46" Sony XBR8 of 6 years crapped out on me over the past month. The last few weeks it's been horrible, unusable really, and so this past weekend I just picked up a new 55" Samsung 8000 series LED Smart TV. I've always been a Sony guy, but this experience was frustrating enough for me to move on. Plus Sony's Smart TV was more expensive by a thousand bucks, and it's browser is much clumsier.
I'm still not all hooked up, but it's coming along pretty well. The internet connection on the Samsung isn't as simple as I'd hoped it'd be, but I'm getting there.
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AN EMPTY tea factory in North Tyneside is to be given a new lease of life – along with a massive jobs boost for the area.
Bournemouth-based Keith Spicers Ltd (Spicers), has bought the North Shields based Twining factory which closed last year – and the site on Earl Grey Way is now being prepared to meet the company's demands with new machinery and equipment.
The firm, which is part of the larger international Harris Group and produces a range of speciality teas and own brand products for some of the largest retailers, has announced the move will create 75 jobs at the plant, with the hope of it rising to 150 at a later date.
North Tyneside Mayor Linda Arkley said: "This is great news for North Tyneside and the wider north east.
"I am delighted that such a prestigious company as Spicers have chosen North Tyneside to expand their production base in the UK.
"We have a very talented workforce here in North Tyneside and I am confident that Spicers will thrive in our borough and be a real driver to the economy of the north east."
During a meeting with the company representatives at the site yesterday Mrs Arkley heard of the company's plans from Spicer's chief operating officer, Andy Pepper.
"We're very excited to bring tea production back to Earl Grey Way," he said.
"We are very much looking forward to establishing our second manufacturing site in the UK, here in North Shields."
Mr Pepper added that staff numbers would be small at first but will increase as production ramps up to a three shift operation at the purpose built factory site.
Recruitment for key positions at the site has begun, with the aim of beginning prooduction before the end of the year.
North Tyneside Council is supporting the company in its recruitment and training needs in advance of the start on site.
It is also helping Spicers to explore alternative sources of energy for the site and to establish links with local suppliers to further boost the local economy.
An estimated 263 people from the North Shields factory were left seeking alternative employment when production was moved to Poland and China.
North Tyneside MP Mary Glindon said: "It is a good news story for North Tyneside.
"It is a shame that nothing happened when the people were still working in the factory, but it is absolutely great that the former factory is being reopened and reinvigorated.
"The fact that it is going to be open again is great news, because it was always an important place for employment in the local area and it is taking something that is not in use and putting it back in use.
"Hopefully anyone who was not able to find employment after the factory shut can do so now. I am really pleased that we can get another 150 jobs in North Tyneside and give people who aren't working an opportunity.
"I will support the company in any way I can to make this new venture a success."
Mrs Glindon will meet in Westminster next week for a full briefing on the situation.


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Detective Mike Tyson will solve wacky mysteries
Detective Mike Tyson and his trusty pigeon sidekick are coming to a television set near you to solve some wacky mysteries.
"Mike Tyson Mysteries" is one of six new programs that will appear on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim sometime in the next year.
The former heavyweight champion of the world, who has become a pop icon of sorts in recent years, will "take the fight from the boxing ring to the streets, Variety magazine reports.
Tyson will voice the lead character as well as make live-action appearances.
Along with a foul-mouth pigeon, detective Tyson will "gear up for weekly adventures as they put unsolved mysteries -- like how to defeat a super computer at chess or why a famous author/werewolf can't finish his novel -- down for the count," Variety reports.
The network did not say when the show will debut, only indicating that it would be sometime next season.
Tyson has expanded his popularity from boxing to various entertainment arenas in recent years, including a 10-week run on Broadway with his one-man show "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth -- Live On Stage."
He also has appeared in The Hangover series and Scary Movie 5.


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Grade 11
I think this question depends on a lot of things. Where you live, who's teaching you, etc, etc, etc.
Lots of people find that they're getting different education from different places.
I personally found sexual education to be somewhat helpful. Our teacher was pretty good with it. He brought in contraceptives, and videos and everything. But, they only focused on penis-vagina sex. I think this leads people to believe that as long as you're having oral or manual sex, you're safe. If i could choose only one improvment in this course, it would be talk about all kinds of sex and all kinds sexual orientation.
------------------"If you had soup like I had soup you'd never leave the house either!"-Hawksley Workman
I have learned everything i could ever need to know about safe sex, and sex here. Truly, this is a great site for those who are under educated in these area's. In other forums i've seen so many questions which i find utterly ridiculous now.(can "pre-cum" get you pregnant, breast size, condoms, etc)I'm really glad places like this exist.
So i guess it really depends on where you're sexual education is coming from.
I'm a Senior, right now (133 days until I graduate !)
I definatly agree with Celtic:
quote:I think this question depends on a lot of things. Where you live, who's teaching you, etc, etc, etc.
Personally, I think that the in-school version of sexual-education is very limited, and needs change. Mind you, of course, that this is just from my personal experience, but from what I have read, the type of sexual education I've been exposed to is the normal:
- Vaginal Intercourse only.- Hetrosexual sex is all that's covered.- Condoms and birth crontrol exist, but you generally can't see them.- Wait until marriage. (I'm not suggusting that there's something wrong with abstience, quite to the contrary in fact, I'm just suggusting that most schools push this far more than any other form of sexual practice, and there is something wrong with that.)
Forms of sexual education like Scarleteen and Teenwire are fantastic, but only a limited percentage of people are exposded, whereas a much larger portion of the population are exposed to public school sexual education. That's why a change to the programs (how about national standards?) need to be made so that an understanding of the full sexuality is offered to all.
Those are my thoughts, anyway. (Where's ookuotoe on this topic? )
------------------TimST Advocate
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As previously mentioned, Tim and I go to the same school, thus we suffered through the same sex-ed (or lack thereof) program. Don't get me wrong - what Tim mentioned is absolutely accurate and got me headed in the right direction but it was too little too late.
I had sex long before I was able to take health in high school - which is the only arena a decent sex ed course is offered. We did touch on it a bit in middle school but it was more of abstinence education than sex education. Needless to say I didn't abstain.
My first sexual experiences (at fourteen) involved barrier protection only for penis-in-vagina sex and even then we didn't use it early enough to be safe enough. As far as any other risky activities (oral and manual sex) no protection was used. Birth control beyond a condom was never used. Now it seems a small miracle that I didn't become pregnant or get a disease or infection.
Why was I so careless? Because I didn't know any better. I thought that what I was doing was perfectly safe. It never occurred to me that I could get pregnant from pre-ejaculate or an STD/STI from oral sex. No one had ever bothered to tell me these things.
Sex ed in high school was much better than that in middle school. However, to become as aware as I am now I had to use resources like Scarleteen. (Thank you Heather!)
A little background on what schools go through to get sex ed approved (at least in Michigan):They are required to have an advisory board consisting of members of the communitee. There are requirements for that committee but I can't recall them off the top of my head. I do know that some parents, clergy, the class teacher, and the principal must be on the committee. This committee must be made aware of everything that is to be taught in the class and approve it. The condom on a banana bit was forbidden at our school because the committee didn't approve.
As for the abstinence thing, much federal funding hinges on abstinence. No abstinence pushing often equals no funding. In Michigan, if contraception is taught abstinence must be taught as well.
Okay, I've been pretty long-winded tonight. Good topic though.
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I had sex ed in elementary school (second or third grade then again in 5th or 6th) and again in junior high. In elementary school, all we were allowed to talk about was how and when girls get their periods. The girls were not allowed to learn about the "boys" stuff, and the boys were not allowed to learn about the "girls" stuff. We learned that things happen in this order:
1. You get pimples.2. You get your period.3. You have a baby.
Needless to say, when I got a pimple in 5th grade, I freaked out. The second round of elementary-school sex ed, I had moved to an entirely different part of the state (Iowa) and we learned about ovaries and what they produce, and testicles and what they produce. We learned that -- and this is a direct quote -- "People just don't have sex then get up and do something else. Sex is a dirty, nasty, messy thing." They gave us samples of Always pads and Pamprin, and sent us on our ways. We still didn't get to learn in a group of boys and girls.
By the time I was in junior high, I had moved to Missouri. I took a semester of Health in 9th grade -- it was still junior high in Columbia, where I was in the time -- and part of that semester was devoted to sex education. This time the class was full of boys and girls, and we watched a video of 4 different births -- 2 vaginal deliveries, one with an epidural and one without; 1 cesarian delivery; and 1 forceps delivery. (That video and I crossed paths again about 4 years later in childbirth class, actually.) We were told that abstinence is the ONLY way to handle yourself, that you CANNOT get pregnant from anything but vaginal intercourse, that you WILL get AIDS if you have multiple partners. We talked for a day about contraceptives, but NOT how to use them. We were told that intercourse is extremely messy.
That type of sex education did not help me one bit. I used condoms when I started being sexually active just because I was afraid of it being messy.
Then a few years later, in the middle of my unplanned-but-not-exactly-unwanted pregnancy at age 19, I found Scarleteen. I read all the articles within a week, and went back and re-read most of them by the end of the month. I found the boards in July of that year, and registered.
I've learned so very much from here since then. I've stopped using spermicide (And here I thought I had a latex allergy!!) I've continued using the condoms and the birth control and the gloves and all that good stuff.
The best thing I've learned here though, the most important, is that it's okay to be open about your sexuality. It's jokay to have sex before you're married, or to not even WANT to be married. Since learning this, all the guilt I used to feel about having sex has gone away. I don't feel like a "slut" anymore, and I'm glad other people think it's OK to slip the subject of oh, say, birth control into casual conversation. Being here has taught me to be comfortable in my skin, so to speak.
So. IMHO, abstinence-only sex education does not work, but the pretty-much-everything-you-do-as-long-as-it's-not-a-felony-or-harmful-to-yourself-or-others-is-okay-and-we-accept-you-for-who-you-are approach to sex education works miracles.
This was our sex-ed. It was in the Grade 8 religion textbook.
"Once upon a time there was a bear. His name was Brown Bear. Brown Bear lived in the forest with his family, and they loved each other very much. When Brown Bear was born, his father carved for him a small box, and carved Brown Bear's *special name* inside of it. As Brown Bear grew older, him and his father would collect different things to represent Brown Bea's personality. A feather from a blue jay taht Brown Bear had rescued to show his compassion, a picture of the fish he had caught when he was 5 to show his independence.When Brown Bear got older, he began to notice another very pretty bear in his village, Golden Bear. He liked her very much. After spending much time together, Golden Bear asked Brown Bear to show her his special box. Brown Bear wasn't sure about that, but aafter Golden Bear encouraged him, he went and fetched his special box and showed her what was inside it.Later that day, Brown Bear's father asked him to come on an expedition to find food for the family. Golden Bear wanted Brown Bear to stay. After much deliberation, Brown Bear decided to go fetch food with his family.However, when Brown Bear got back, the other bears were staring at him, and some even called him by his special name! When he saw Golden Bear, she ignored him.Very upset, Brown Bear went to his father and told him what had happened. His father was very sad, but told Brown Bear that together they would build a new box, with a new name, and put the first box inside it so that he could remember this experince."
If you don't believe me, find a copy of the Ontario old Curriculum Grade 8 religion textbook.
That's all the sex ed we got.That why this site is a literal life saver.
We had "Health" in 7th grade at my very small private school, which means that the teachers are incredibly terrified of pissing off the parents. We covered drugs for about a week("Kids, in order to smoke pot you must make a cigarrete out of it. This is how. Now NEVER do it!"). Then we went on to "dating and relationships," or in other words, the most useless junk I've ever heard in my life. There was some fake talk show we did, and all the girls had to go up because of our small number(6 altogether in the entire grade), and we had to say who we thought should ask the other out, who should pay for the date... Hetero-centric worthless jabbering. So I sat their for 15 minutes staring at the floor until a teacher took me out of the room and asked me what was wrong. I told her some junk about not believing in love and she let me go and sit in the back of the room with my buddies. There, you see? I, too, have had pointless supposedly-sex education.
------------------"I never said I was a boy." - Tenoh Haruka, episode 92, Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon
We started sex ed in grade 6. At least our school did ... My class didn't b/c we were a co-ed gym class and the teacher didn't want to teach us about sex w/ guys in the room. So then it was grade 7 health, which wasn't too bad. Basically just that babies come out of the vagina and that the spermies come from the penis and have to swim up there to get a woman pregnant. Grade 8 was just a repeat of grade 7 health. Maybe they told us twice so we didn't forget ... I dunno.
High school health was a bit better. We got to actually see pads and tampons and learn how to use them ... Thinking back, it came a little late, considering the fact that I (and most of my friends too) got my period 2 years prior. I did, however, get to see what a speculum looked like and got to put a condom on a wooden penis (twice, b/c i didn't leave room in the top the first time... oops)
Then i found scarleteen. Even tho the sex ed i received in school wasn't exactly great, my mom always explained everything to me and was always there when i had questions. I did actually learn a lot from ST too tho ... Mainly that sex is what you make of it. Intercourse is more than just the act itself and that no relationship is going to work unless it's based on a strong foundation (communication, people!). I also learned to be responsible for myself (annual checkups, condoms, lube ... stuff).
So yeah ... Sex ed does work, but i really don't think it can be left up to just the school, or just the parents. At one point or another, a teen is going to make their own choices. As long as they're informed, there's really nothing else anyone can do.
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[edit]Oh, and I'm 18 now and in university, if you want to know.
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But i really think that it just depends on the school you go to, and how open the school is about sex and drugs, and weather that school is willing to notice that if they don't talk about it, and they don't condone it at all, and they choose to ignore it it will still happen.
Be yourself, because then no one can ever tell you that you are doing it wrong
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I really like the fact that my parents have been advocating to me since i was little what sex was and what the female and male anatomy is... i'm still a little freaked out about the male anatomy in person, but i knew from a young age what it all did, and why. It was never: "your brother was delivered by mail." and i really respect my parents for that, or more so my mom.
Be yourself, because then no one can ever tell you that you are doing it wrong
I knew where babies came from in extensive detail from a very early age, which lead to a need to have the "Okay, Small Erin, you can't tell strangers in the supermarket about that" discussion.
I didn't, however, learn about safer sex, birth control, and the whole lot until after I was out of my teens -- I had some health education, but I never saw that as pertaining to me simply because I thought I'd never ever have sex.
So, when all of a sudden I was in situations where I could be seuxally active, I realized I had to rectify my ignorance right quick.
Way back in 5th grade, they separated us by sex and showed drawings of the anatomy of both sexes, explained what happens during puberty, and let us ask one question anonymously.
I think we did something in 6th grade, too, but I can't remember learning anything from it.
A couple of times in middle school (6-8th grades), there was an abstinence-only message placed in a feel-good presentation. I still don't get what they thought they were saying by mentioning that condom failure rate is over 20%. A logical conclusion: it doesn't work, so don't use it. *sigh*
In 9th grade, I took Health. (I had an odd schedule, so it fit in early; most of the people in the class were 11th and 12th graders.) That was my first "real" education. They covered two things in great detail. Contraception: all the methods, failure rates alone and in combination with other methods, how to buy condoms, where to get everything. And STDs: names, symptoms (sometimes none!), how they spread (including noting that oral and anal are often less safe in this respect), where to get tested. On the last day, one anonymous question from each person was answered. No mention of anything but mainstream sex: nothing on BDSM, homo/bisexuality, relationships (communication!), or gender.
In 10th grade biology, we covered strictly anatomy, nothing more.
One day when I was in community college, I was getting the Irish Rovers cassette down from the Bookshelf of Stuff Mom Doesn't Look At Anymore, and noticed a couple of books. So later, when I was home alone, I read them. They said masturbation was okay, but didn't cover disease very well.
In September of 2001, I was 20 years old, and had just transferred to UB for my third year of college. I have absolutely no idea where I'd heard of it, but I came to Scarleteen. I spent a couple of evenings looking through everything on the site. My only regret is not finding it Before.
------------------Sapphire CatThe world needs me, to know not everyone is the same.Artist, poet, programmer, dreamer, and crossdressing bondage kitty
------------------"I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of South East Asia. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture and, kill them." -Joker (Full Metal Jacket)
Ultimately it is the responsibility of each individual to seek out the facts for themself. Knowledge is something that must be pursued, not something you should expect to be spoon fed with. If someone isn't being taught the facts in school then it is their own fault if they haven't sought out the information on their own. Go to the library, go online (preaching to the choir now aren't I?), ask questions. Don't just sit there and play dumb and wait for someone to come along and enlighten you.
------------------'An Anarchist is a Liberal with a bomb' Trotsky
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I'm in 8th grade, and i have had sex ed this year...
5th grade was when they first talked about erections and periods, 6th grade mostly focused on sexual harassment. in 7th grade we watched video's on contraceptives, and our teacher stressed masturbation was ok.
before 5th grade all they talked about was sexual abuse.
and before i discovered scarleteen, i was incredibly clueless...heh i didnt know what masturbation was, even though i had been doing it for at least 2 years, goodnight
------------------When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities. -Matt Groening, Life In Hell
"Pope John Paul today confirmed his opposition to gay marriages. Said that they are unnatiral. Gay marriages are unnatural. Then he put on a pointy hat, his dress, and returned to never having sex at all." -- Bill Maher, Politically Incorrect
The teachers are sooo touchy about things like gay sex and BDSM...Tana: What's bondage?Some smart-ass: Poofs tying each other up.Teacher: We will NOT discuss that sort of 'perversion' here! That made me an Angry Badger I suppose we should be grateful that we even get sex ed at all, after reading some other posts , but I wish we got the whole picture, not just the things the government wants us to know.*Badger*
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The only thing they taught us in school sex-ed was...
1) Wait until you're married.2) How scary STDs are (they showed pictures and everything).
With my STD knowledge from ST on top of the inability to be "grossed out", I was pretty okay when they showed the pictures.
I remember trying to decide whether sex before marriage was okay or if it was right to wait. But now, I definitely say you canhave sex before marriage, but sex doesn't equal love.
I also used to think "abortion is wrong!" and all that stuff, but now I realize that just because of one mistake you shouldn't have to suffer with something you don't want for the rest of your life, plus the fact that this world already had enough unwanted children.
Anyway, ST really, really helps me. It pushes misguided people in a whole different direction (if they're willing to accept that safer-sex is the way to go).
As far as keeping us informed about the diseases and infections and consequences that can sometimes come out of having sex, I think school sex-ed is okay. But telling kids that they should wait until marriage isn't. It's their choice.
I'm a Christian, and God says that you should "save yourself until marriage." But being Christian doesn't mean that you have to follow everything God says, and I don't.
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i like sex ed class only cuz its really funny hearing teachers say those type of things.....but besides that, it really is a wasted class!
I knew of someone in my school who got her period in 8th grade... and didn't know what it was. She was found crying in the bathroom because she thought she was dying.
I got my first taste of it in High School. I go to a religious private high school... so, use your imagination. You probably know that we didn't really talk about anything.
my teacher did this thing where everyone got an index card, and they wrote down any question they wondered at all. she collected them all, than went through the questions and answered all of them.
it worked pretty well, except for the total immature guys in my class... which wise cracks and full of laughs.
i think sex ed works if the class is mature about it, and the teacher is well informed. my teacher was informed, but not as well as one may have hoped.
but i did actually learn sum stuff about sex, diseases, etc. =)
Why are there 12 year old girls pregnant?!
How come there is an almost equal amount of teens giving birth as there are adults?!
Why is there such concern for STD awareness if if this supposed education is working?!
But all in all I think the sex ed needs to be taught first and foremost at HOME! Schools bring it into classrooms and have it as a course but seriously ... parents should be doing their jobs and telling their children ;
Sex is for responsible couples in a situation to handle the possibility of a baby
Sex is something that is shared between a couple NOT a community (Promiscuous activity)
There is no danger in keeping your pants on
These are things that parents need to say to their children as young as 10 yrs old these days seeing as there is such an alarming rate of pregnancy and std`s among young teens and KIDS...(12, 13, 14)....
Sex ed should be as common a discussion in the home as discussing what the family wants for dinner...plain and simple. Keep your kids informed and UP TO DATE and maybe JUST maybe, in the precious young years to come the kids will be kids rather than parents themselves.
Thank You.
quote:Originally posted by HockeyGrl:How come there is an almost equal amount of teens giving birth as there are adults?!...seeing as there is such an alarming rate of pregnancy and std`s among young teens and KIDS...(12, 13, 14)....
...seeing as there is such an alarming rate of pregnancy and std`s among young teens and KIDS...(12, 13, 14)....
And where are you getting your information? Are you aware that teenage pregnancy is currently at its lowest level in modern memory, 20% lower than it was at its peak in 1990? (US Centers for Disease Control Teenage Pregnancy Report, June 2001)
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But. A CDC report shows that only a minority of teens (less than 20%) have had multiple partners in the last decade. Most reliable stats also show that most teens STILL are not practicing safer sex from the onset with even one or their first partner, and that several STDs and STIs show HIGH prevalance and devlopment in peopple with just ONE lifetime partner, like a longitudinal study done in the UK which, in studying 262 women with just one lifetime partner, found that 46% became positive for HPV within three years after first intercourse. The median time from first intercourse to first detection of HPV was only three months.
And Dan has a very good point, since every statistic from any reliable group over the last twenty years has shown a steep DECLINE in teen pregnancies, not an increase, and I have never seen a researched and validated stat that showed teens under the age of majority having as many pregnancies as those above that age since the 60's. Ever.
I'm inclined to say that in terms of judging whether sex ed works or not, even small things like this make clear that if the information being given during sex ed is fallacious or partial or based more in personal values than facts (i.e. religiously-based abstinence movements without ANY information on sexuality save "Don't"), we handicap it from the onset. And in a lot of places -- including the US -- that is a big problem a whole lot of the time. So, to say sex ed isn't working because of some effects seen (I'm not talking about some folks assume are so, I'm talking about validated effects), isn't accurate, since it seems to assume that highly informational, factual and comprehensive sex education is widely available, which it evry much is not.
Even looking at the limited responses in this post, that should be pretty darned obvious, and mind you, this is coming from users in countries and locales with the resources to have Internet Access, and thus, a group MOST likely to get comprehensive sex ed -- and even that group often does not.
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My mother delievers as many babies from teens than she does from adults...and for one I never said that my opinions were based on polls or recent surverys so let`s just clear that up....I don`t need a survey or stat to prove my point when I see/hear this crap everyday! My opinions and statements were based on the experiences I have been through and what my mother sees for herself at work. When you`re a 19 yr old who has seen first hand probably about...80% of my friends either a) have a pregnancy scare b) have an STD or c) have a child...I think I have a right to say that there is obviously a problem out there whether or not the national surveys and CDC information is up to date or not. If the statistic`s are saying that oh yeah great the pregnancy rate is dropping...maybe people need to look at how high the abortion rate is then because from what I see on the streets and in school (young girls pregnant) I wonder...if they aren`t giving birth then...where do the babies go..hmm?!
DANBRUIN did I give a SPECIFIC Stat when I commented on how alarming it is that seeing as there is such an alarming rate of pregnancy and std`s among young teens and KIDS...(12, 13, 14)....? I did not...I`m clearing saying that I`m floored at the fact that whether or not there is a specific percentage of young teens with stds...there is still a percentage. And why?! Well maybe we need to go the parents of the infected, impregnated or teen mothers and ask them if they took the necessary steps in trying to prevent their kids from becoming a statistic.
No matter how many stats and polls and whatever else people throw my way I will not change the outlook I have on this situation. I think a parent should use whatever approach is necessary to wake their kids up even if it "accurate" or not...if it`s going to make a kid think twice...use it! Why does everyone think you have to be pin point accurate in order to teach your kids something? If I had to I`d tell my kids that if they got pregnant they`d grow a second head I would! Necessary action is what I believe works...accurate or not!


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Nothing Could Be Finer
It should be noted that, with a population of about 308,000 Cumberland County is really not small. It is, in fact, the fifth most populous county in North Carolina. However, for perspective's sake, place that same county in, say, New York and it ranks 13th; put it in California and it's only 22nd. The point is that, in 1989, according to Bobby Howard, Cumberland County Solid Waste Director, the county was facing growing volumes of green waste and wood waste, and it decided to take action.
"Our reasons for implementing a green waste recycling program at that time were actually twofold," he says. "First, we needed to divert material from our area landfill. Like most counties around the country, we realized that our landfill space — for us, the Ann St. Landfill — would not last forever. Steps needed to be taken to make use of material that was, up until then, just being buried in the ground. However, we also felt that starting a program like this would be a great opportunity to give something back to the residents of the county: in this case, a mulch product for their use."
Cumberland County includes the city of Fayetteville, the towns of Falcon, Godwin, Hope Mills, Lindon, Spring Lake, Stedman and Wade, as well a host of smaller municipalities, Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base. Howard says the program's startup was small by today's standards.
"During the first year we had the program in place, I believe we took in about 6,000 tons of green waste all of which was contracted out to a local grinding company. As the county's population grew and more people began to realize what the program was about, that number just kept on increasing to where we felt justified in purchasing a grinder of our own to eliminate the contract grinding costs. So, in 1995 we purchased a Morbark Model 1400 tub grinder and it has helped take us to where we are today: handling annual volumes of roughly 27,000 tons of tree limbs, brush trimmings, leaves, stumps and pallets through our Wilkes Road Yard Waste Facility."
For Convenience Sake
Material from Cumberland County makes its way to Wilkes Road's 40-acre site in one of two ways: it is either dropped off directly by area residents or collected as part of the county's green waste recovery program. According to Howard, every effort is made to encourage residents to help recover the material.
"We have 16 collection sites or convenience centers located throughout the county," he says. "Material can be dropped off at any of these sites where it is stockpiled and then periodically loaded up and moved to Wilkes Road. Here all the yard waste, trimmings, stumps and pallets are run through one of two Morbark Model 1400 tub grinders fitted with 3 X 5 screens and reduced to a rough-cut mulch."
At that point, he adds, a portion of the material coming off the grinder's conveyor is set aside and made available — free of charge — to county residents. The remainder is screened in a PowerScreen trommel which, in itself, creates two additional products.
"We have ongoing contracts with several plants — both locally and outside the area — which use our product for biofuel. So the larger material out of the trommel, essentially anything larger than 3/4-inch, goes for that use while the smaller 3/4-inch minus screened material is made available for sale as fine-grind mulch to area residents in both bagged and bulk form."
Weathering a Storm
While Wilkes Road's annual volumes have been steadily rising over the past decade, the upturn has been gradual, and weekly volumes have remained manageable. However, when a weather-related event such as a hurricane or a major ice storm occurs, that manageability is seriously taxed. Howard says the impact of such an event is felt for a long time.
"Obviously, North Carolina's location makes it a target for hurricanes and, despite our being about 80 miles inland, we can still be hit hard, as we were by Hurricane Fran in September of 1996. When something like that happens, volumes of debris coming through this site easily triple and can stay at that level for as long as a year. After Fran we were taking material in to each of our satellite sites, stockpiling it and then taking the grinder from site to site to process the material. The Morbark grinder really performed well for us, despite the long, long hours to which it was subjected for months on end. And a good part of that reliability stems from the support we got from the company — and which we continue to get. They are quick to respond and always manage to be there when we need them."
Cumberland County purchased a second Morbark Model 1400 this past year, ostensibly to replace their existing unit which had been in use almost continuously since 1995. They decided instead to keep both units.
"We now have a backup grinder to use when one machine is down for general maintenance," says Howard. "And, in those situations when we are confronted with storm debris, we will now be better equipped to reduce the huge volumes"
Looking Ahead
Howard says they foresee continued increases in annual volumes as the area population continues to grow and they are looking at other additional features to enhance their program.
"The increase in volume is pretty much a given. In fact, the City of Fayetteville just recently added 42,000 homes to its collection area, so that green waste will find its way here. However, we are also looking into ways to make the products we generate more attractive. For example, we recently purchased a colorizing system — also from Morbark — that we hope to put online sometime next year. We have been looking into the feasibility of taking the pallets we receive, grinding them, then coloring the material for a nice-grade colored mulch product. We feel that offering colored mulch to our residents will increase the value of the product we generate and, at the same time, will be just one more way for them to see the value in the program we are offering here."