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WADA, The International agency that oversees drug testing in sports, has done a solid job of cleaning up some rotten games. But a growing number of critics contend that it's become overzealous and arrogant, sometimes trampling the civil liberties of athletes in the process. As the case of Winter Olympian Zach Lund illustrates, they have a point.
SINCE I ALREADY know Zach Lund's life story, I can't help it: The first thing I do when we meet is stare at his shiny bald head. He looks good bald, though he also looks more like an ordinary guy who works out than an Olympic athlete. He's fit, compact, and so unassuming that, as we stand around in his hotel room at the Hilton Universal City, gazing at the Hollywood Hills, he seems a little amazed to be here in the heart of showbiz.
Lund has spent the past ten hours smiling, talking, and emoting for NBC, which has been shooting profiles of athletes expected to make the U.S. Winter Olympic team in Vancouver. The day was fun but a struggle, too. Lund has overcome a lot to succeed, but he's mainly known for getting kicked out of the 2006 Winter Games in Turin, Italy, thanks to a drug-related suspension that he and many others believe was unfair. Inevitably, Turin is what everybody asks about, so, later that night when we sit down to dinner, he wants to make sure I understand his full story.
Lund, 30, makes his living in "a crazy-ass sport" that most Americans watch for a few minutes every four years. He races on a glorified cafeteria tray called a skeleton sled, down twisty ice tracks at speeds of up to 90 miles per hour. Back in 1992, he was a 13-year-old kid living in a Utah mountain town when the USA Luge people came through and held scouting tryouts. Lund's showing earned him an invitation to Lake Placid, New York, to be part of the development squad. He was thrilled. He'd wanted to be in the Olympics since he was nine and watched Carl Lewis compete in Seoul. He was so taken with the pomp and spirit of the Games that he ran into his backyard and started doing wind sprints.
Unfortunately, soon after Lund was picked, his mother was diagnosed with melanoma, and he stayed home to be with her. After her death that year, Lund's dad worked two jobs to help support his son's Olympic dream. Lund worked, too—Home Depot, airline baggage handler—and took a few college classes, but skeleton was his life. With Salt Lake City hosting the Winter Olympics in 2002, he hoped to make the team, but injuries from a car accident kept him from doing well at the trials. Finally, in 2006, he flew to Turin as the favorite.
A shadow loomed, though. The previous November, at a competition in Calgary, Lund had tested positive for a drug called finasteride, an anti-baldness medication that had been banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the Montreal-based outfit that sets drug-testing and enforcement policies for every Olympic and many non-Olympic sports. Lund started battling premature hair loss in 1997, so when WADA was formed two years later and then developed its first list of banned substances in 2004, he checked it carefully. He checked again when his doctor switched his medication brand. Finasteride wasn't mentioned. Even so, Lund always told doping-control officials he was using it.
In 2005, WADA added finasteride to its list, saying the drug could mask the use of steroids. That year, Lund didn't check the list. That may seem dumb, but Lund wasn't doing anything different than he'd been doing for years, and he simply forgot. He kept telling doping officials he was using the anti-baldness drug, and nobody said a word. He'd even been tested after finasteride was banned and declared to be clean.
WADA presides over a worldwide network of national satellite organizations that, ultimately, answer to WADA. In the United States, the affiliated group is the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), a mostly taxpayer-supported organization based in Colorado Springs. As Lund's home-country doping agency, USADA had first crack at disciplining him, and the agency, along with Lund and his lawyer, L.A.-based Howard Jacobs, arrived at a deal in January 2006. Though USADA recognized that Lund hadn't gained any performance advantage from the anti-baldness drug—and that there was no evidence he'd ever used steroids—Lund agreed to have his results from Calgary nullified and to accept a public reprimand for failing a drug test. In return, USADA would not press to ban him from future competition.
WADA, then headed by Dick Pound, a former Olympic swimmer from Canada and a member of the Canadian Olympic Committee, didn't like the deal. WADA regulations specified tougher sanctions for a failed test, so it appealed to a panel of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the Lausanne, Switzerland–based outfit that acts as judge and jury in these situations. At a hearing in Turin just before the Games started, Jacobs argued that Lund had made an honest mistake. He insisted that finasteride shouldn't be on the banned list in the first place, because it didn't mask steroids. But CAS, at WADA's urging, refused to hear him out.
CAS ruled against Lund, and on the day of the opening ceremonies in Turin, it suspended him for a year. He was immediately expelled from the athletes' village. A sponsor, Speedo, dropped him. Pound publicly ridiculed him, suggesting that Lund cared more about his hair than being an Olympian. Lund went home broken. Two Canadians won gold and silver in skeleton.
After his suspension, Lund rebounded to win the 2007 Skeleton World Cup title. Then, at the beginning of the 2008 season, WADA announced it was removing finasteride from its list. Instead of acknowledging the possibility that finasteride shouldn't have been banned to begin with, it issued a statement claiming that WADA-affiliated labs had created new techniques that rendered it ineffective as a masking agent. The details of those tests were not divulged.
WADA said no to Lund's subsequent request that his record be cleared. This means that if Lund should fall afoul of WADA's rules again, he could be banned from the sport for life, even prevented from coaching.
Lund remains bitter about it all."That was a kick in the gut," he says during our dinner. WADA, he says, "has no one to answer to, and they're taking down honest people. And the government doesn't care..."
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When and why did you start training for fighting? Always felt a need to be the best all-round martial artist of the world and try different disciplines. I started training in Sambo from 6 years old.
What ranks and titles do you hold? Hand-to-Hand Champion of Russia, 1st Place of Absolute Fighting Championship, 1st Place of Mixed Fighting.
Do you have any heroes? Oleg Taktarov and Fedor Emelianenko. Both are sambists and both have similar styles of fighting.
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A slide flashed on a screen in the community room at Blue Ridge Community Health Services. The words had no meaning to most of the people in the room. They were in Russian.
One by one, however, several Russian speakers approached the podium Wednesday and, with the help of a translator, expressed a passion and desire to learn more about autism. A delegation of Russians traveled to Hendersonville this past week as part of Open World, a U.S. exchange program set up by Congress and run by the Open World Leadership Center.
The health care system in Russia is just beginning to recognize and learn more about autism, they said. According to the delegation, there's not enough information to make the diagnosis or enough specialists to treat it. The program, Autism is Curable, has been set up to examine the disorder in Russia. It serves as an umbrella organization for various groups represented in the Russian delegation.
Representatives included those from the Sail of Hope Rehabilitation Center for Children and Adolescents, Inclusive Preschool and Kindergarten 167, and the Way Out Foundation for Autism. All of these groups are fairly new. Russia, like the United States in the 1990s, is just beginning to delve into the world of autism.
The delegation was hosted by Friendship Force, and the visitors received a heavy dose of information.
Bill and Judy Wilkes were their hosts. The Hendersonville residents set up an itinerary that was beneficial, Anastasiya Korniyenko said. Korniyenko, the Library of Congress Russian Projects coordinator, was the facilitator of the event.
"It's such a wonderful feeling," she said of the group's first trip to America. "They tailored the program specifically to their needs."
The weeklong trip included tours of Hendersonville Elementary School, Blue Ridge Community Health Services, TEACCH, which is an autism program through UNC Chapel Hill in Asheville, and St. Gerard's House, a school for special needs children in Hendersonville.
The group was surprised by the inclusion of special needs children in the public school system when they visited Hendersonville Elementary.
At St. Gerard's House, the delegation soaked in as much information as possible, Caroline Long said. Long, who started and runs St. Gerard's House, showed them the ins and outs of the school's technique of applied behavior analysis.
"They spent a lot of time and asked a lot of questions," she said.
The contingent returned home on Saturday, Wilkes said. As a member of Friendship Force, Wilkes and other volunteers were responsible for the delegation for the entire week.
"They stay in our homes," he said.
Hendersonville residents Bernie and Sandy Fox hosted members of the delegation in their home. They said they like the inclusiveness that Friendship Force represents.
"We're all one," Sandy Fox said. "There's no difference between us."
For the Russian contingent, it was a trip well spent, Korniyenko said.
"They already picked up a lot of things they'd like to use back home," she said.
For more information on Open World, visit www.openworld.gov. For more on Friendship Force, visit www.ffwnc.org.
Exchange program: Russian visitors study autism
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Major players in the rotorcraft market are teaming—some as odd bedfellows—as defense customers in the U.S. and Europe eye purchases.
In Europe, industry is posturing for a potential Franco-German heavy-lift helicopter program despite a lack of clarity from customers on what the requirements for such a project will be.
Stateside, the U.S. Air Force is expected to make yet another attempt at buying a replacement for its HH-60G Pave Hawk, which is used to rescue downed pilots behind enemy lines. The U.S. Marine Corps is expected to kick off a competition next year for its presidential helicopter replacement program. Both projects were botched by their respective services, sending both back to the drawing board for years to revalidate requirements.
These potential programs, on both sides of the Atlantic, are a welcome change of pace for the industry heavy-hitters who have been working mostly on existing production and upgrade projects after a relative drought of R&D dollars.
Now, the industry teams are shaping up to allow the major players to potentially share risk and—if they win the work—the rewards. Boeing and EADS, bitter global rivals in the civil aircraft market, have formalized a relationship to jointly explore rotorcraft opportunities globally. The companies signed a memorandum of understanding to this effect in 2009 with a renewal last October. It was later followed with a more specific agreement to examine options for the potential heavy-lift rotorcraft program in Europe, which will be the first practical application of the collaboration.
Boeing Military Aircraft President Chris Chadwick says he is open to unconventional partnerships to explore risk-sharing and, potentially, penetrate new markets. The team, while codified through the agreement, is far from firm, as questions linger about the heavy-lift project's viability.
At issue is just how much European customers are willing to pay for requirements above what industry can provide today with aircraft such as Boeing's CH-47 and Sikorsky's CH-53K.
German and French officials are keen on transporting large pieces of equipment internally instead of relying on external slings. And the size of some of this equipment is driving a need for a larger cabin, raising the question of whether Europe is willing to go to a new design rather than off-the-shelf models.
Germany's head of army aviation, Brig. Gen. Reinhard Wolski, says this requirement was derived from lessons learned in Afghanistan. "Low flying at night, at high speed, is some kind of life insurance," he told a heavy-lift helicopter transport panel at the ILA Berlin Air Show. "That puts quite an effort on [industry for] building the airframe as well as our cargo compartment." Additionally, military customers are eager to purchase a helicopter that can still conduct missions with only one engine, another design stresser.
While such a large lifter—the notional target is an aircraft capable of carrying 32 metric tons of cargo—is desirable, it could be financially unattainable.
"Clearly, we could go build it," says one industry official. "The question is: Does it make sense?" The Pentagon has also funded research to support a notional heavy-lift helicopter program, but a firm timeline and funding have been lacking.
Adding to the ambiguity about European requirements is an upcoming shift in the German military project management. The Luftwaffe is poised to assume oversight of the heavy-lift effort from the army on Jan. 1, 2013.
To keep their options on the table, Boeing and Eurocopter intend to continue work on their large tandem rotor-lifter concept, on view at the Berlin show as a beefed-up Chinook.
Boeing would bring its tandem-rotor technology to the project, while Eurocopter has extensive contacts in the French and German militaries, and could handle some parts and composites work.
Sikorsky also has design options that would include a platform larger than its CH-53K, which is now being developed by the Marine Corps.
However, both U.S.-based companies—Boeing and Sikorsky—also see an opportunity in offering off-the-shelf options that could reduce the cost for Europe to procure a system and, potentially, operate it.
Boeing, with EADS as a partner, could offer the CH-47F, which is now in production for the U.S. Army at the company's Philadelphia plant.
Sikorsky's option, the CH-53K—which is being designed to roughly double the load of today's CH-53E while maintaining the same aircraft footprint for shipboard use—is less mature than Boeing's concept, but the Marine Corps appears satisfied with the program's progress. The first CH-53K ground-test vehicle is slated for delivery in early October, says Col. Robert Pridgeon, the Marines' program manager. Two of three engines are already installed on the aircraft.
A bare-head light-off without attached rotor blades is planned for the second quarter of 2013; a powered test with blades should follow within another eight months. Sikorsky is on contract to build four flight-test articles, and a low-rate, initial production decision is slated for 2015.
Because Sikorsky is not yet through testing, Boeing may see an opportunity to push Europe for the Chinook in hopes of whetting the customer's appetite before Sikorsky can demonstrate its off-the-shelf candidate.
In the meantime, another industry pairing has emerged with Northrop Grumman as prime and AgustaWestland (owned by the Italian Finmeccanica conglomerate). They would offer the AW101 platform for the U.S. Air Force Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) project and the Marine Corps presidential helo replacement.
Though Boeing's CH-47 previously won the U.S. Air Force Pave Hawk replacement effort, the selection was dashed after procurement irregularities surfaced. The AW101 won the Marines' last attempt at buying a presidential helicopter under the prime control of Lockheed Martin, but that project was terminated owing to poor management and requirements creep.
Northrop Grumman is not known for its rotorcraft work, aside from integrating mission systems into the Fire Scout product line. However, the company is approaching the partnership with AgustaWestland as an opportunity to feature its expertise as in integrator coupled with an off-the-shelf 101, says Scott Winship, Northrop Grumman's lead for rotorcraft projects. "We don't want to learn everything that needs to be learned about rotorcraft," he says; as prime, Northrop plans to defer that expertise and work to AgustaWestland, he adds. But the Italian company clearly needed a U.S. partner to manage its bids, and "we saw a pattern of failure that we can turn around" from the previous Marine One program, he says. "It appears we cam do better, so we jumped in."
Gaining a foothold in this market would be a success for Northrop Grumman during a tough time for the company. It is fighting to keep its Global Hawk line with the Air Force alive, and the service has passed on its efforts to pour more money into its E-8C ground surveillance program. Northrop appears to be filling a void left by the dissolved relationship between Lockheed Martin and AgustaWestland.
Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky, meanwhile, remain teamed to pursue the CRH and Marine One projects, a partnership in place for about two years.


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While the 2012-13 flu season has been an intense one so far, it is by no means the worst in the lengthy history of the MGH. One season that stands out in the hospital's historical records was the Spanish flu of 1918. The pandemic, which came on the heels of World War I, infected more than 500 million people globally. Boston was hit particularly hard by the virulent strain, which was thought to have come into the local port with military shipments.
During this epidemic, the MGH treated thousands of flu patients, but in many cases there was very little caregivers could do to fight the virus. In a compilation of house pupil recollections gathered by James H. Means, MD, MGH chief of Medicine from 1923 to 1951, Thomas D. Cunningham, MD, recalled his experiences treating the overwhelming numbers of patients when he was an intern at the MGH in 1918.
"The Surgical wards were turned over to Medical cases. Each Medical interne was put in charge of a ward, and the two senior Medical internes took alternate turns in the Emergency Ward, never leaving, as the cases poured in so fast. ... During the first week of the epidemic, 57 percent of the admissions died. The morgue was completely filled, and the undertakers could not begin to keep up with the number of dead. Many patients were brought to the emergency ward dead in the ambulance. Others would die an hour after admission. It was not unusual to pass two or three of your patients being carried out the back door as you were going up to make your midnight visit."
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Michael Campbell leads after two rounds of the European golf Tour's Hong Kong Open after firing a six under par 64 to move to nine under for the tournament.
He's a shot clear of the chasing pack. It's been seven years since Campbell won on the European tour but he says he's regained his mojo.
"Biggest thing is that I'm enjoying my play and enjoying my golf. That's one thing that's been missing a lot I'd say over the last seven years."
Fellow Kiwi Michael Hendry is two shots off the lead after two rounds of the Australian Masters in Melbourne.
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A new bakery in Waynesville will bring a taste of California to the Roubidoux Plaza.
A new bakery in Waynesville will bring a taste of California to the Roubidoux Plaza.
Owner Angela Wood recently moved to the area from Barstow, Calif. to open the Sugar Shack in downtown Waynesville. She has family here and thought the Roubidoux Plaza was the perfect location.
"I'm really excited," Wood said. "I really love the area."
Wood opened the Sugar Shack on Oct. 3.
Wood has been in the baking business for more than 15 years and owned a bakery in California for three years.
The Sugar Shack offers cupcakes, cakes, cake-pops, cheesecakes, pastries, cookies, fruit baskets and much more. Wood said she enjoys doing special and customized orders of all sorts and for all occasions.
All items are made on-site by Wood.
The Sugar Shack is located in the Roubidoux Plaza, 115 North Benton Street , is open 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday- Thursday, Friday from 7 a.m.- 5 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. This Saturday Angela will be open for the day because of Route 66 Fest on the Square.


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Also kicking it off Friday night, the Blountstown Tigers who are looking to improve upon a 3-7 season. Coach Greg Jordan did lose 11 seniors from that squad, but this time around has 10 senior players. He's also quick to point out the Tigers won 3 of their last five last season, so they got a taste of winning. He also feels like he has some talent on the offensive side of the ball.
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"I would say our strength right now is our skill players. We've got a lot of kids back, our quarterback is back, running backs and receivers are back from last year, you know our skill right now is the strength of our football team."
The Tigers open upFriday at home against another 1A progam, Sneads.
"....You gotta stop their speed, stop their skill kids. Limit their yards after contact, and try to keep the football and limit their possessions and touches.
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When Tom Brady lines up for the first 11-on-11 drill of training camp Thursday and begins to survey the defense, he'll more than likely see Darrelle Revis and Brandon Browner at cornerback and Devin McCourty and Duron Harmon at the safety spots.
Three of the four have at least one Pro Bowl under their belt, and combined with reserves Logan Ryan, Kyle Arrington, Alfonzo Dennard, Patrick Chung, and Tavon Wilson, this could arguably be New England's best secondary in years.
It's a welcome change after several seasons of revolving-door roster switches, with the turnover making cohesion difficult — not to mention the lack of talent that led to many of the changes.
"I am as excited for them defensively as I have ever been," said Solomon Wilcots, the former safety who now works as an NFL Network analyst. "I work with Willie [McGinest], I talked with Ty Law recently about the kind of defenses they had when they won Super Bowls and where they're at now, and we always go back to the secondary.
"Getting a guy like Revis — you look at the last two AFC title games, Aqib Talib was dominant, and then he got hurt [and the Patriots suffered]. It tells you how close they are."
When they drafted McCourty in the first round in 2010, New England had a young and inexperienced group. James Sanders was the veteran of the bunch, and Chung and Brandon Meriweather were also at safety. McCourty and Arrington started at corner, with 2009 second-rounder Darius Butler also seeing reps.
That group didn't stay together long.
Over the last four seasons the Patriots have started 21 players in the secondary, from McCourty, who has played all but three games in that time, to Sergio Brown and Josh Barrett. In 2011, the Patriots started a whopping 10 players at defensive back.
The signing of Revis has been hailed by not just Patriots fans, but also his teammates and NFL observers, all of whom believe adding the three-time All-Pro, was a masterstroke by Bill Belichick.
"It allows them now to scheme other receivers," Wilcots said. "With Revis matched up on an opponent's best receiver, now you can take away a top guy, second guy, even the third guy. You single up on one [with Revis] and double the other two guys — what teams do you know that have a fourth receiver that can beat you? Doesn't exist. Good teams will always have a third guy that can beat you, but the Patriots can take that guy away. Just go single coverage on the best receiver and bracket coverage on the others."
Wilcots joked that it must really burn Jets coach Rex Ryan that Revis is a Patriot. When the corner played in New York, Ryan would tell anyone Revis was the best in the game. Now he plays for the archrival.
As the Patriots secondary has struggled in recent seasons, the front seven has had problems getting pressure on quarterbacks, though that was less of a problem with a healthy Talib playing.
Now that the back end is stronger, that could lead to more exotic looks in an effort to pressure quarterbacks.
"There's no doubt they can scheme a lot more — we always say pressure leads to picks, not sacks lead to picks," Wilcots said. "Pressure will create mistakes, leads to turnovers, and can force [quarterbacks] into doing something bad with the ball.
"Sometimes you expect the D-line to get pressure and the secondary to come up with the ball, but sometimes the D-line needs the secondary to hold up . . . If the quarterback takes a five-step drop and he doesn't have to hold it because the coverage isn't good, the D-line is going to say, 'What can we do?' They need more time.
"You can't become a great defense if you're just trying to rely on pressure and have no coverage on the back end. It really does come together in a way, one area of the defense is covering for the other."
Revis has impressed his teammates with how quickly he's been able to pick up everything that's been thrown at him. On the field, he's so smooth and such a technician, understanding how routes are run and at what depth, etc., at times it looks like he's not giving much effort.
But that fluidity and ease come from years of honing his talents.
Wilcots said Revis is fearless.
"He's a great player. He's not just a great cover guy, he can tackle, he can do everything that Ty did, and things like that are lost in a lot of corners today," Wilcots said. "Revis has no fear because he has supreme technique and confidence in his ability.''
Wilcots also spoke highly of McCourty, and believes Browner, who will miss the first four games because of a league suspension, brings the physical presence New England needs.
"Devin won't get you beat," Wilcots said. "Sometimes you just need guys that are smart and get you lined up, but he can make plays, too. It takes about 4-5 years to be able to match wits with opposing quarterbacks — I'm not talking about just any quarterback, I'm talking about second- season, elite quarterbacks.
"Quarterbacking the defense, you have to be smart and very heady. [McCourty's] already a smart player and now the experience is there."
Perhaps the only question is Harmon. It's assumed he will win the other safety spot, but Wilson, who basically didn't play on defense last year but has been diligently working to improve, could put up a good fight.
A third-round pick last year, Harmon started three late-season games and acquitted himself well. With Revis and Browner at the corners, Wilcots theorized the Patriots could move McCourty around more to exploit matchups and give quarterbacks more to think about, and just tell Harmon to roam center field, which is the safest play for him.
Brady was frustrated during spring practices, trying to work the offense against the new-look secondary. He won't get much relief during training camp, but come September, the Patriots hope they'll be frustrating opposing quarterbacks far more frequently than they have in recent years.Shalise Manza Young can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @shalisemyoung.


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Age 74, died Thursday, October 17, 2013 at the Regency at Whitmore Lake. Funeral service will be held 1 PM Monday, October 21, 2013 at the Swartz Funeral Home, 1225 West Hill Road, Flint, with a military service under the auspices of V.F.W. Post #4088 Honor Guard. Reverend Mary E. Biedron officiating. Burial in White Chapel Cemetery, Troy, MI. Contributions may be made to North Congregational Church, 36520 W. Twelve Mile Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48331. Visitation 6-9 PM Sunday, October 20, at the funeral home. William was born in Detroit on May 26, 1939, the son of the late William H. and Lilian E. (Jackson) Dalrymple. Bill graduated from Albion College and was a member of North Congregational Church in Farmington Hills, FAAR (Flint Area Association of Realtors), First Presbyterian Singles and the Burton Rotary Club. Bill owned and operated Realty World-Dalrymple and Associates. He was employed with AAA McNamara Properties Inc. and also did wedding photography. Bill proudly served as an officer in the United States Air Force from 1962-67. Surviving are son, Billy (Wendy) and daughter, Leslie (Kevin) Altepeter both of Minnesota; step-children, Cheryl (Karl) Wellman of Wisconsin, Craig (Leanne) Culinski of Swartz Creek and Christina Culinski of California; nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; many nieces and nephews; sisters, Iris (Ross) Button of CA, Daphne Dalrymple, Judy (Jim) Campbell and Sylvia Glant. Your condolences may be shared with the family at swartzfuneralhomeinc.com.
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Karen Spears Zacharias said [that] writing Mother of Rain was the most frightening thing she has done as an author.
It is her first novel.
The Columbus High graduate, who teaches journalism at Central Washington University, said she felt as if she was trying to jump over the Grand Canyon as she took her "haunting tale of hardship and war" from one point to the next.
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NEWTOWN -- Howard Lasher and his wife, Jeanette, have offered the site of the American Flag Memorial on Route 302 for those who wish to find solace from the horror that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School this past Friday.
Howard Lasher said "the memorial is open to all within the community who would like to leave photos, poems, cards and flowers, or who just want to say a solemn prayer in honor of the shooting victims."
The memorial, where a stand of trees is painted with the American flag, can be seen from the street near their home at 68 Dodgingtown Road, off Shelley Road. Lasher has hosted a memorial there every year since Sept. 11, 2001, to honor victims of that tragedy. The painting was done by artist David Merrill.


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James and Oliver Phelps for Swedish Premiere of Half-Blood Prince
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Premieres for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince continue around the globe. James and Oliver Phelps (Fred and George) are in Sweden for that premiere, with a new interview of the brothers airing here on Swedish TV. UPDATE: The video can now also be found here in our galleries. Now here in our galleries, you can also see screencaps of the interview here, which included two quick clips of previously release scenes from the attack on the Burrow and at Weasley Wheezes.
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Oakland-based chef and activist Bryant Terry released his latest cookbook The Inspired Vegan earlier this year. In the book, he creates soulful playlists for each of his elaborate vegan menus. For Tell Me More's occasional series, "In Your Ear," Terry talks about the music that inspires him — in and out of the kitchen.
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Perception tends to become reality. Lack of communication in human interactions speeds up that process exponentially. Most people only work on the realm of their own reality and forget to include the rest of the world when evaluating situations. Walking a mile in someone else's shoes is an old proverb that seems to have been forgotten altogether.
Defining reality should not be a question for a movie to answer. I loved the movie The Matrix, but the notion of my reality being controlled by a computer is simply too far fetched. Spend enough time dealing with people and you will know that there is no machine powerful enough to handle the input from people's skewed view of life. Including my own.
I have always liked religion because it has always created more questions for me rather than given me all the answers. I think its mostly due to free will and faith. I love both concepts and I think they are part of what defines reality for me. I have faith on a higher power while knowing that I have the free will to make choices. Destiny and butterfly effect are also very cool concepts to ponder upon when it comes to defining what our reality is.
To me reality is the collision of actions. Words collide and they cause feelings on people. You cannot see the feelings, but you can see the reactions. Reading people's facial expressions is amazing. The genuine smile after someone tells a joke, the contortion of the face when a liar tries to bluff, The closing of an eyelid which releases sadness of a tear rolling down someone's face.
When you are interacting with others, please try to take their reality into consideration. It might seem like the saddest or craziest reality, but if you don't take their rules of play under consideration; communication will not be accomplished. I am amazed by how many only want to live in their little world. Opening up to others and visiting is half the fun this life has to offer.


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I've mentioned several times in the past what a druid is good at, tanking wise, and what they're not. In TBC druids absolutely have a niche as the best tank for certain fights, and the worst in others. This is as it should be, I believe; every tank should be able to tank anything, but be best for tanking certain things and worst for tanking others. Druids aren't there in TBC (stupid lack of shield) but they're pretty close.
And their primary niche is to be able to take more physical damage than anyone. Especially from slow, hard-hitting mobs like Gruul. This ended up not being the case as we moved into T6, mostly because druids were armor-capped so early - but they still were great at it.
Which...is being given to the warriors:
We still would like all 4 tanks to have their own niche, and unless we change something down the road, the design is still for the warrior to be the best tank for single bosses that hit hard for physical damage (which to be honest, has tended to be most of them so far).
Well, that's okay. Sure, warriors have been the best overall tanks for a while, right? More oh-shit buttons, better ability to deal with magic, fears, great threat, etc. But with DKs, they can't do the spellcasting thing as well, so they have to have something else. That's fair. But don't worry, the Blizzard devs know what they're going to be doing with druids, right?
I think the druid still needs a niche. I think "best tank when the boss can't crushing blow" and "best tank that can also dps" aren't great niches now, and perhaps weren't even before LK.
Great. So...paladins are the kings of AoE. DKs are the best at dealing with magic using mobs. Warriors are going to be the best at dealing with physical mobs. DKs are also going to be the best or close to the best at doing DPS while not tanking. What does that leave a druid? Offtanking is a possibility, but being the best at taking hurtful strikes is not a particularly fun job as a tank. Phase shifting is a possibility, but the amount of fights that have multiple phases that will also benefit from a druid tanking and then dpsing is going to be fairly low. Off-healing? Meh. Threat? Very unlikely given a bear's mechanics and itemization, especially since only one stat (agility) helps both threat and mitigation compared to strength and BV for the other classes. Avoidance is similarly being nerfed and the other tanks have similar amounts anyway.
What does that leave for druids? I don't actually mind losing the best physical mitigation crown to a warrior, but having something else would be good. What I think I'd like to see is a druid take the old warrior niche. Warriors were the best tank in general, able to do anything okay. They could deal with multiple mobs decently. They could deal with magic users well. They could deal with physical mobs well. They could deal with fear effects well. Some other classes did things better some of the time, but a warrior was good all-around with a real specialty towards magic users. Druids being able to do everything okay goes well with the theme of the class and the versatility that druids love. And it could help with progression in general, especially if you have multiple tank requirements of a certain flavor. Need two tanks that can deal with physical damage well? A warrior and a druid will work. Need two tanks that can deal with adds? A paladin and a druid could be great. Need a couple that can deal with magic users? Send in the DK and druid.
Now, all of this would require quite a bit of retooling. Druids would need magic mitigation. They'd need some kind of spell reflect or spell avoidance. More ohshit buttons that can work to stop fear effects. Less focus on threat. But it could be done.
On the flip side, it means that some guilds wouldn't want the generalist tank, because they could optimize and take the best choices all the time. It's a possibility, and it's one I don't really like. But it could happen. It's a better possibility than a druid not having any niche at all, though, and at least it's a direction to go.


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"Windows Blue
*Thanks to Andrew Dice Clay
{Windows Blue]... screen?
I hear it more as Microsoft's epitaph:
Here lies Microsoft (1975-20??).
Windows blew.
Windows Blue.
It still does.
Let me guess... they've gone further on their way to declare desktop applications as deprecated? With Windows 8, Microsoft has made it clear that it thinks that desktop applications are on their way out, and the only way to go is to make programs for Metro.
Oh, and I'll put this out there: won't run unsigned programs by default, though I suspect that this will be like OS X 10.8 and allow being turned off.
All part of boiling the frog.
You're probably right
I wonder if the catastrophic failure of the Metro-Only Windows RT will be enough to serve as a heads-up...
This sounds about right, it'll be interesting to see how quickly consumers take this up. I haven't met anyone yet who actually wants to use the 'Metro' interface, much less buy thier software throuh the Microsoft store. Of course I've read plenty of 'I use Win 8 and I don't see what the fuss is about' posts in various tech forums, but even from those people I've never heard anyone extolling the virtues of a 'killer' Metro app. Until such things exist, where is the compelling reason to make the switch? I fear the only answer is that we will be steadily 'forced' to use the new interface with subsequent versions of Windows.
I currently use Windows for productivity and gaming, this Metro crap I can see being the reason I move to Linux for my productivity stuff, and if Steam for Linux takes off with enough publishers, possibly my gaming as well.
I've never loved Windows, but I've never really hated it either (well maybe sometimes), it's always been 'good enough' to do what I want it to do, as soon as it starts to tell me how I should interact with my desktop, and where I should buy my software, well thats the point at which it ceases to be useful for me, and probably a great many others.
I don't really care if MS gets a share of what I pay for applications either,
I find it disturbing people are soo willing to let this kind of power be aggregated in the hands of the few. The cavalier willingness to take such a short sighted view is depressing.
Surely Apple has never abused their position by locking out competing apps or enforcing their values upon the rest of us have they? What could go wrong with a monopoly on execution..surely no company with a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to make money would ever dare leverage their monoploy status.
The fuss is that IE9-metro-edition sucks about 10 times more than IE9-desktop-edition, and that half of the reason I went to Win7 in the first place was all the GUI improvements to multi-tasking with docking etc. Now im told that thats out the window, as is any mouse-oriented GUI? Yea, no thanks.
Anyway, these will be the future common machines. Huge touchscreen and otherwise state-of-the-art. And your ma and pa will snap them up without thinking.
I would too if it was $1,200.
Touch, & Win8, make a lot more sense on a massive moni
what about Steam? Origin? GOG? GamersGate? and others that are big with home users??
They went back to a monolithic windows to getaway from the compatibility issues. This approach will just add to market fragmentation and destroy the one thing MS still has left on the PC. I think you are going to start seeing real push-back. In a mature market, products shouldn't go obsolete in two years. Hardware should go 3-4 years (power users), and an OS should double that. There just isn't business logic to need to update things that often. Same goes for home; most people's needs just don't chang
> How can microsoft make good business from consumers,
> without risking their revenue stream from business?
A better question: How can Microsoft come to terms with the fact that it should just be a fantastic product for business and quit worrying about the consumer market? Just like the kid who has to accept that he'll be an accountant, not a pop star, MS should just focus on business and accept the fact that it'll never be cool like Apple. Just be like plain old boring profitable IBM.
Step 1: quit doin
I really hope that's not true.
I had to use a computer today with XP and the "classic" windows theme. Sure, the operating system has come a very long way but the UI is definitely going backwards.
WIMP is a sound UI paradigm and "classic" theme makes it very clear and intuitive. A few modern gradients, higher DPI and a new set of high resolution icons would have made it a sheer delight.
With the touch-optimized, flat, giant controls, modal paradigm you can't really do anything other than the most basic things
also enterprise use of windows is way to high to go that way.
What about all the other windows app / games stores?
The boiling the frog thing generally refers to slowly raising the water temp, so the frog doesnt notice. I think everyone noticed the metro thing, and theres a reason I havent heard businesses getting thrilled about it.
For the record, Office still is non-metro. Hmm, I wonder why.
It might sound neat, but no one really wants it.
Why is it that sometimes code names are better than the name of the final product? "Windows Blue" is a better name than simply "Windows 9". Similarly, "Xenon" was a better name than "Xbox 360".
Nintendo's fond of that, too. "Nitro" versus "DS", "Dolphin" versus "GameCube", "Revolution" versus "Wii".
They seem better because years of exposure haven't ruined them by familiarity. "Xbox" seemed like a daringly direct name for a box that ran Direct X, for about six months.
No, Xbox was retarded when it came out, as was Wii. Metro vs. "7"? Etc. The code names are almost always better.
I think the main reason is you're talking about international products. The Wii, specifically, I remember Nintendo going with the name because it worked in any language. Asians would have a hard time with "Revolution," or they'd have to translate it and it would lack international consistency like 'Wii.' Not to mention that you can't sell a product called "Revolution" in China.
Likewise, a number is easier than branding the product Blue, Bleu, Azul, Blu, etc.
They also don't have to worry about trademarks and
Hopefully they don't use names like "Blue" for their products. If they do, we might start to see recyclable advertising campaigns like:
Switch to Microsoft Yellow - because Yellow is the new Blue.
If they don't then IMHO, this is a dead duck. They have a wonderful opportunity to stop the patch/reboot/patch/reboot cycle here
or the Patches on top of patches shell game.
If they don't grasp this then they are merely fiddling while the City of Redmond burns to the ground.
If they don't then IMHO, this is a dead duck. They have a wonderful opportunity to stop the patch/reboot/patch/reboot cycle here
Please... While this is a problem for some, I'm willing to bet the amount of revenue they've lost because of it is incredibly low.
Microsoft are in serious danger of scaring off their massive army of third party developers, exactly the people who have guaranteed them success over nearly 20 years. THIS is their major problem. Metro and the Microsoft App store is a massive "fuck you" to us. This is especially true if you're invested in OpenGL. The amount of work required to bring a professional OpenGL based en
It is only a big deal for the people who have an ego in uptime. The issue in the real world is availability, not some uptime number and you get that through redundancy. I don't care if a Windows DC reboots. Why? Because I have like 5 more. You want to have multiple systems that are redundant so that when (not if, but when) you have a hardware failure service isn't interrupted.
Reboots are just not a big deal in the server world. If they are, then you've designed your service wrong and you need to re-think it
As with North Korea's nuclear program, details are scarce,
Has anyone detected Xenon-133 that can be traced to Seattle yet, or did MS manage to contain it pretty well underground?
That name sounds a bit like IBM's 'Deep Blue', the chess computer. But I think it is too reminiscent of the BSOD - can I suggest they change the name to something like 'Deep Brown'? It somehow feel more right, all things considered.
Steve Ballmer is flying the plane now. Tower is on the horn telling him he needs to gain altitude, but Ballmer thinks they said Attitude; whilst headed for the ground in a sweaty dance.
All the boys and girls from Neowin are on on that plane, living it up and having a damn good time. Unaware Ballmer is piloting the plane "This is your Captain speaking, we need more Attitude!" as cheers erupt. Bill Gates was unavailable for comments, as he thinks 'Blue' airlines is headed in the wrong direction.
So what, it's more akin to your girlfriend going to the bathroom to douche before sex than it's like a new girlfriend coming over for a romantic dinner?
Code Blue?
Totally hilarious reference to North Korea - but c'mon - Microsoft is run like an open source software project compared with Apple. What's interesting is that consumers seem to greet Apple's secrecy and paranoia with an almost Willy Wonka like fascination.
I'd like to take this opportunity to say that I really like Windows 7.
But you can have my unsigned desktop apps when you wrest them from my cold, dead hands.
the program, which is attempting to replace the multiyear product drops for the Windows-branded desktop, server, phone, and network services products with a more agile release cycle
I have a hard time believing an entity the size of Microsoft is really going to be capable of 'agile'.
It has to be an absolutely vast code base, with a huge number of things to test -- and undoing that long of corporate culture takes a lot of work.
I'll be curious to see how they fare, but changing from big giant releases and vers
Interesting question. When
Since then, Microsoft has seemed actively anti-business. They switch programming language platforms willy-nilly, with virtually no discernable advantage from any perspective except their own (e.g. WPF, the latest pointless iteration of ASP, and the "de-emphasis" of Sil
They're just chasing the new money and the new paradigms having milked all they could from the old ones.
MS Management sees all the 20-something whiz kids writing mobile apps and figures everything to do with that is the future, and it's certainly where all the double-digit growth and money is.
"The existing developer base" isn't even seen as a constituency -- they're not doing anything lucrative and growth-oriented, and they're likely to be replaced with slave labor from India anyway, eliminating their invol
Microsoft's goal appears to be to make the new version sufficiently different and incompatible with extant versions, formats, UI, etc., so that users will recognize that it is 'new.' Shouldn't the goal be, though, to have the new version have some major new capability that did not exist in previous versions and gives users a new ability to do something important?
"She reports that the program, which is attempting to replace the multiyear product drops for the Windows-branded desktop, server, phone, and network services products with a more agile release cycle, with better continuity across the suite"
This is just plain retarded. Why have "agile releases" of corporate software? We can barely afford to upgrade server OS and applications every 5-10 years including all of the time/labor for the upgrades! Now they are going to release Server OS, Exchange, etc every 12-18 months? I call bullshit.
Hell, Microsoft can't even have their flagship Exchange 2010 product run on Server 2012 yet....and that is 6+ months after Server 2012 was released. Now I'm supposed to believe that Microsoft will have interoperability between 5-10 server releases with 5-10 different flavors of Exchange, SQL, etc?
I can't even imagine trying to manage that mess - it's difficult enough now.
System checkpoint complete.


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A sea of people--thousands marching to the capitol to protest right-to-work legislation. Despite cold temperatures and even snow, they would not be stopped.
"Right-to-work has got to go," chanted the protesters.
Some protesters came from out of state, leaving as early as 4 a.m. to be part of the massive protests.
"We got to put a stop to it," said David Raikes a protester from Marseilles, Illinois. "The only way you can do that is to fight back in unity. Working people have to get together in solidarity and come out in numbers--record numbers,"
Supporters of the bill say it's about worker choice and freedom.
"We are union. We are union," the protester shouted. "We are the 99 percent."
But opponents argue if it was so good for workers, then police and firefighters would not be exempt.
"All it is, is to tie the hands of the unions and take a voice away and take the strength away from the working class of people so that they don't have a voice in their workplace," said Raikes. "That's all this is."
Supporters hope Governor Rick Snyder hears their pleas and vetoes the bill. But late Tuesday afternoon he did not; instead, he signed the bill.
"He hasn't heard us," said John Heidelberg from Howell. "We don't want this to be a right-to-work state because it would be the right to work for less if it's a right-to-work state."
"Kill the bill. Kill the bill," shouted the protesters outside of the capitol for hours.
Union workers say it's only fair those who pay union dues benefit from representation.
"If I got to pay it, anybody else that wants the same benefits that I do, get the same thing. You know, I'm not paying for them. They are not going to use my money for their benefit," said Jennie Bos, from Grand Rapids.


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USC Book Club: Scripture and the Authority of God
February 2013:
Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible
By N.T. Wright
Anglican Bishop N. T. Wright, one of today's most respected scripture scholars, provides an invaluable guide to reading scripture "with cultural and intellectual alertness and integrity." This book steers a middle course through the contemporary "mess and muddle" that Wright says has been created both by the fundamentalist eagerness for certainty on one end and by cultural, political, and philosophical pressures and the "agonized deconstructions" of postmodernity on the other.
It is through serious scripture reading, Wright argues, that Christians become energized to work for God's kingdom. He urges a reading that is "totally contextual, liturgically grounded, privately studied, refreshed by appropriate scholarship, and taught by the church's accredited leaders."
—Meinrad Scherer-Emunds, Executive Editor, U.S. Catholic
HarperOne says: Bishop and Bible scholar N. T. Wright delivers a new model for how to understand the place of scripture and God's authority in the midst of religious confusion.
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Questions for Discussion
1. In the preface, N. T. Wright says that Jesus does not say, "All authority in heaven and on earth is given to the books you are all going to write," but instead says, "All authority in heaven and on earth is given to me" (p. xi). What is your experience with authority in your life, in your church life, and in how you view the Bible?
2. All post-Reformation traditions officially accord scripture a central place in their faith and liturgy. How does your faith community treat scripture? How were you raised to treat it? Were you encouraged to read, study, pray, or ignore scripture?
3. Wright discusses the notion of truth (p. 5). What is the difference between "Did it happen?" and "Is it true?" How has your experience of scripture been affected by different understandings of truth? Do you understand why Nietzsche would declare that all claims to truth collapse into claims to power (p. 6)?
4. "Integrity consists not of having no presuppositions but of being aware of what one's presuppositions are and of the obligation to listen to and interact with those who have different ones" (p. 13). Are you aware of your own presuppositions? How might you interact with those who see differently than you? To what extent does Wright appear to be aware of his own presuppositions?
5. Wright asks three underlying questions he attempts to answer in this book (p. 16). What would have been your initial response to these questions before reading the book? How do you answer them now?
6. Wright describes scripture as a story and asks, "How can a story be authoritative?" (p. 24). Is there an authoritative story in your life apart from scripture? Do you live your life according to a narrative that guides your actions? How might scripture be a part of that narrative?
7. "The biblical writers live with the tension of believing both that in one sense God has always been sovereign over the world and that in another sense this sovereignty, this saving rule, is something which must break afresh into the world of corruption, decay, and death, and the human rebellion, idolatry, and sin which are so closely linked with it" (p. 27). How is this apparent contradiction possible? How do you perceive this tension in your life? In your community? In your church?
8. Wright says that the biblical picture of God is "a present, albeit transcendent, God, celebrating with the rich dynamic life of his creation and grieving over its shame and pain" (p. 29). How does this picture of God correspond with your view of God? With the popular notion of God? With your church's view of God?
9. Scripture does not merely reflect Israel's experience, culture, and awareness of God; scripture was also a prophetic voice to Israel, "breaking into Israel's own world of muddle and mistakes" (p. 35). How does scripture balance reflection and revelation? How do you discern the difference?
10. The early church viewed some parts of scripture as belonging to earlier parts of the story that, in Wright's framework, have reached their climax and are now no longer necessary, in much the same way that a ship is no longer needed after reaching shore or a map no longer necessary once the destination is reached (pp. 57, 125). Are there parts of scripture that you believe belong to the earlier story and are no longer a part of the continuing story we find ourselves in now?
11. Wright talks about how "scripture came to be regarded as a 'court of appeal,' the source-book or rule-book from which doctrine and ethics might be deduced and against which innovations were to be judged" (p. 66). Do you see versions of this view of scripture today? Have you used scripture this way or seen it used this way in your church? To what extent is this way of using scripture sometimes necessary?
12. Wright contrasts literalness as the Reformers intended it ("the sense that the first writers intended") with how it is often used today, meaning plain or without context or interpretation (p. 74). How do you separate these understandings of the literality of scripture? How have you experienced the misunderstanding of literal readings of scripture in your life? In your church?
13. Wright says that many people have said, in effect, "a plague on all your scholarship; we just believe the Bible" (p. 91). How have you encountered that view in your life, your study of scripture, and your church? Did you ever approach scripture this way? What, if anything, changed?
14. "There is a great gulf fixed between those who want to prove the historicity of everything reported in the Bible in order to demonstrate that the Bible is 'true' after all and those who, committed to living under the authority of scripture, remain open to what scripture itself actually teaches and emphasizes" (p. 95). How do you think you might be able to bridge that gulf in your community or church? Is it possible? Is it worthwhile?
15. Wright uses the metaphor of a garden to discuss how an over-authoritarian church paves over the flowers and vegetables in an effort to prevent weeds, and the over-experiential church allows anything and everything to grow (p. 104). Have you found examples of both kinds of churches? How does one avoid using the idea of grace to "validate what is in fact an idolatrous and distorted form of humanness" (p. 105)? Compare this to the metaphor Jesus uses in Matthew 13:24–30.
16. Wright mentions the struggle that scripture has had with slavery (p. 108). How does one deal with the tension between Exodus and Philemon, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the verses encouraging slaves to be obedient to their masters?
17. "Paying attention to tradition means listening carefully (humbly but not uncritically) to how the church has read and lived scripture in the past" (p. 118). How can you benefit from the tradition of scriptural interpretation, both ancient and modern? How can you become better informed about the Christian tradition?
18. Wright tackles the role reason plays in our study of scripture (p. 120). How do you understand reason and its place in interpreting scripture? How can you work with your community, small group, or church in being attentive to tradition and reason and their proper roles in interpreting scripture?
19. "It is equally important that we understand and appreciate our own [context], and the way it predisposes us to highlight some things in the Bible and quietly ignore others" (p. 129). Talk about your own context for reading scripture and the values that you bring to your reading and study. What do you instinctively highlight or ignore when reading the Bible? What do you think causes you to do that?
20. Wright says that the primary purpose of public scripture readings is to be "an act of worship, celebrating God's story, power, and wisdom" (p. 131). Is this a part of your current church worship experience? Having interacted with Wright's view of its authority, how might you better appreciate the corporate reading of scripture?
21. Authority is to be "a matter of proclaiming the word in the power of the Spirit," according to Wright (p. 140). How has church leadership abused authority either in your experience or in the experience of others you know? How has church authority been explained to you in the past? How can church leaders exercise appropriate authority? How will you respond to church authority in the future?
22. Wright examines a biblical view of the Sabbath using the principles of authority discussed in this book (chap. 9). His conclusion is that since we live in the time when "heaven and earth have come together in Jesus Christ" (p. 167), we actually live in a perpetual Sabbath, a continual jubilee. What does that look like for you, practically speaking? How does it enhance your understanding of the Sabbath?
23. Wright then discusses monogamy (chap. 10). How does this discussion change or inform your views on sexuality as it is presented in scripture?
24. Wright looks at the current and often provocative topics of Sabbath and monogamy. Pick a third, more controversial topic, and try to apply the aspects of faithful scripture reading to it. What happens? Do you discover something new? Something old? Does it lead you to further study or more impassioned worship? Did you find that Scripture and the Authority of God provided a useful blueprint for going forward with scripture as a part of your Christian faith?


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A short video from Haiti with the World Food Programme's Stephanie Tremblay reporting from a school that was devasted by the earthquake last year, where children are benefiting from daily meals of rice.
Stephanie explains why the rice being donated by Freericers is still needed in Haiti, and sends her thanks!
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|2004-03-23, 12:36
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One Piece Discussion [Spoilers]
I welcome one and welcome all to the One Piece discussion thread, which I've seemed to hijack from wnkryo. Indefinitely. Sorry bud.
This is solely an anime discussion thread. Starting from Episode 87 and currently ending at Episode 120.
To discuss what's new, check the last page.
Have fun and leave your manga spoilers out of here.
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|2004-03-23, 17:00
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great eps indeed like always. good to see we are being treated with multiple servings of OP. hopes that outpour by KF continues. One can only hope that do what AO did with Prince of Tennis a week or two ago or maybe even better than that.
as for the eps, they were great. the unleashing of Chopper's Rumble Ball transformation are a delight. you gotta give props to Luffy with that intense attitude towards the flag. awesomely done. and its always a joy to see Chopper's bashful criticism. only thing i don't care for all that much was the reused materials of Chopper's past with Hililuk again. maybe it was necessary to bring out the emotion of the moment. still, reused flashbacks are not my fav.
great outing by KF, looking forward to the next ep soon. but i wonder what and when Chopper's 8th transformation will appear. you know its inevitable. everyone tends to learn new moves as the show and manga progresses.
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Thanks K-F for releasing two episodes! From the looks of it luffy doesn't need to get serious at all to beat Wapol, hes just gonna beat him down. The funniest part between the two episodes has to be in episode 88 when Ussop is pushed away by Zoro after Zoro took Dalton over his shoulder. I also love Sanjis line in episode 87 when he blocks the afro from hitting Doctorine.
|2004-03-24, 01:16
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Something I really enjoyed was the scene where Dalton is about to go up the mountain, and then all of a sudden Usopp is in front of him. The whole scene stops while you try to figure out what he's going to do.
His character doesn't get alot of cool scenes like that.
|2004-03-24, 04:03
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Hmmm I didn't enjoy 87 too much ... the Chopper flash backs dragged on again. I think 87 and 88 should have been compressed into 1 episode or 1.5. Chopper is cute and all ... but I'm really not liking this Drum Kingdom miniarc. None of the enemies are even remotely cool and the story is going waaay toooo slooow.
|2004-03-24, 11:40
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These episodes were really cool.
Wapol is very funny lol He just gets his ass kicked Lol, Luffy astonished when Chessmarimo appeared was really funny too (Sanji just goes: "HE'S JUST STANDING ON HIS SHOULDER! THAT AIN'T COOL!").
Can't wait for next episode, maybe just 2 more eps to the end of the Drum Empire arc...? I want to see Mr.2 already
|2004-03-24, 14:19
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The Drum Arc is the best. What u talking about Lex-san. This arc introduce... erm..that guy who has narcolepsy. Anyway, I got to agree with Lex-san about the villians in this arc being quite uninteresting. Wapol's power is really stupid to me.
|2004-03-24, 15:15
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Finally got around to watching these two.
Chopper is so damned cute His little moment at the end of ep 88 when Luffy calls him his nakama was real sweet. Some quality moments from Sanji/Luffy too, and Nami too ('My coat is cooler!').
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Arf... way too long
Nothing happens in ep 87, and there's barely action in 88
No wonder the serie is 150 long, so much useless scenes (damn f***ing flashbacks)
Reminds me dbz episodes, when the fighters were staring at each other during the whole 20 minutes without doing anything
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Just finished seeing the new subed episodes. We finnaly get to see some action! But you know, the fight with wapol would of ended in 2 minutes if the whole straw hat pirate crew was there. Zoro could of handled every single last one of them by him self >.>
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The flashbacks are starting to seem redundant. They are stretching them out just a little too long and showing nothing. But I see the reason for it all. They had to have Chopper's fight seperate from everyone else, because he would have overshadowed within 1 maybe 2 moves done by any of our main characters. Now that it is over, I am hoping Zoro gets there and someone who is actually strong shows up. I would rather have Luffy fight Capt. Kuro again than watch him slap a hungry guy wrapped in steel. In all things considered, I think Capt. Kuro might be able to take Zoro, and Sanji.
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KINGSTON, N.J., July 29, 2013 – Research produced by The Parkinson Alliance will be presented at the annual American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's national conference in Chicago on November 14. Dr. Jeffrey Wertheimer will be presenting a seminar pertaining to "Speech Characteristics in Individuals With Parkinson's Disease With & Without Deep Brain Stimulation." It is the premier annual professional education event for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists. This convention brings together more than 12,000 attendees.
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... and how is this different from any true geek's keyboard?Great! Now all my keys are sticky and have fingerprints on them and my fingers are covered with gunk
Oh, how innocent your mind appears to be
What we need now is a Slashdot story on somebody's ultimate DIY keyboard mod, complete with about 28 high-quality close-up PNG's showing every step of unplugging the keyboard from the PC, masking the keyboard, spraying the primer, watching the primer dry, digging out the primer that got between the keys, and hooking the keyboard back up. Oh, and about 5 more "action" shots of the keyboard in use, some with the lights off (so you can see the cool green Num Lock LED).
Then in another week we'll see another
BUY PRIMER -- take off cap -- spray.
Be careful to take the caps off, spray them, and replace them one by one. If you do them all at once, you won't be able to see the printing any more, and you won't be able put the right cap back on the right key.
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Also, check this [dansdata.com] review for another unusual keyboard.
I can't believe nobody has posted the above info yet. Slashdot has really gone downhill as of late.
All you folks with worn keys are now under arrest.
I like the looks of this keyboard. But, for those looking and drawing any conclusions (I've been burned by this before), read the specs! The web site clearly represents pictorially the keyboard as wireless (I consider this deceptive -- even the "click to zoom" pictures fail to show a cable!). It is not wireless! This may not concern some, but for my uses these days I consider only wireless keyboards... not a commentary on what technology and keyboards should be, just my personal preference.
So, look before you buy.
On a related note, if you're looking for an excuse to improve your typing speed this keyboard may give you that (albeit a bit pricey). I finally was shamed into learning touch-typing when a frustrated on-looker (a friend) wrested my keyboard from my hands to finish typing something he was dictating. That incident prompted me to spend the next week refusing to look at the keyboard to type instead learning the keys by touch. Everyone around me went crazy for a week since my immediate result was essentially less than 10 words/minute with about zero percent accuracy. Within only one week I was typing 30 words/minute with about 80 percent accuracy. Today I easily go 60 wpm... that one incident/response dramatically changed my life professionally and personally.
benefits from learning the keyboard:
Every so often I marvel at the adaptivity of the human nervous system, the way that I can just think a word and it appears on the screen without my having to pay attention to where my individual fingers go. It's the next best thing to mental telepathy.
I absolutely agree here! It is almost nothing short of amazing. Wonder if you've ever had the experience where you are typing something, you think one word, and another perfectly spelled "other" word appears on the screen/paper? That one totally freaks me out. It's pretty clear that the adaptation by the body has just created another channel of language.... While I've never learned sign, I'm guessing it's a similar deal.
(By the way, it'd be nice if typing classes came back... I never took any classes because at the time, it was only for "secretarial" training, and computers as we know them today didn't exist.... like I stated before it was only because of a crisis in tension I even addressed the issue of learning the keyboard. Are there typing classes anymore?)
Every now and boobs but it usually happens when my mind hasn't quiet finish another thought.
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In a word: no, it's not worth the price. If looking at the keyboard is what keeps you from being able to type faster than you currently do, then you can achieve the same effect by just (for example) putting stickers on your current keyboard; but most likely, it isn't, anyway, at least not if you really are an übergeek. Switch to a Dvorak layout if you really want to be able to type faster.
(Incidentally, that might be the one thing that this kind of keyboard is good for: you can easily switch betwe
I wonder if I can accomplish the same effect by blocking my view of the keyboard; some kind of cardboard shelf suspended between my monitor and keyboard so I can't see the keys. Hmm
I think it may be a consequence of one-handed typing, actually....
For $799.99 you can have the ultimate in distraction free typing. after a few weeks you will intuitively know where on the screen the cursor is and your speed will increase at least 100%. Plus, without those distracting Graphics, you will be able to focus on kicking ass when gaming.
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See the link for the Keytronic E03600 [keytronic.com], notice the pictures, key placement/arrangement, are exactly the same.
They didn't even bother to update the layout image for the different key weights (they simply resized it and put a note that "...the letters are visible on this diagram for information purposes only." See Keytronic's version [keytronic.com] and Das Keyboard's Version [daskeyboard.com]. Though for some reason, Das Keyboard's image is better.
And you can buy Keytronic's for $21.50 directly from the manufacturer, or even less elsewhere. It's currently out of stock from Keytronic; maybe these people bought them all thinking they had a gold mine at 400% profit!
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I think Prudie got the theology right. For Episcopalians and Catholics, once you are baptized, that's it. You aren't baptized into the specific religion, you are baptized to become a Christian. Converts to Catholicism who have been baptized in any Christian faith cannot be baptized again. Instead, they are confirmed into the Catholic Church. This is somewhat different from the way some other faiths view baptism. But I'd see the grandmother's behavior as a huge, huge red flag that she won't respect other parental boundaries and I would deal cautiously with her, until she can prove that she will respect the parents' wishes about how they want their children to be brought up. And if she can't prove that, she'd never be left alone with the kids--not because of the threat of baptism, but because of what other boundaries she might cross. As for emergency baptisms--in WWI, my grandfather performed a battlefield baptism. He and his buddy had been shot and were lying in the mud, waiting for rescue. His buddy was very badly injured. They had had many talks about Grandpa's Catholic faith. So Grandpa knew that his buddy had an interest in becoming Catholic. Grandpa asked him if he would want to be baptized and his buddy said yes. Grandpa used the last of the water in his canteen to baptize him. He died shortly afterwards. That's an emergency baptism. When my nephew was born and the doctors thought he wouldn't survive more than 24 hours, one of the nurses in the delivery room, a friend of my SIL's who attended their church, baptized him right away. Then they were able to get a priest to come and baptize him a few hours later. Fortunately, Nephew defied the doctors' and survived. But again, that's an emergency baptism. Holding an already baptized baby under a faucet does nothing but get the baby wet.
This is actually the joke in my family. I am Jewish. Raised Jewish. My father converted from Catholicism to Judaism before my parents got married. My mother always said that my aunt (his sister) secretly baptized me while she was baby-sitting. I don't know if it made my mom mad or not, but she always said at least all the bases were covered, so at least she had a sense of humor about this. Should someone baptize another person's child? No, of course not. It's rude. But, if it's the only "out there" thing that the person pulls and the person doesn't put down the chosen religion or talk about how one religion is "better" than the other (whatever the religion -- not stating a preference here), probably not worth a cut off.
Didn't Archie Bunker do this on All in the Family 30 plus years ago?
My concern wouldn't actually be that she would batize my kid "the right way". it would be that she would feed/medicate/whatever my kid "the right way" in secret. I can see other family members taking this as an indicator that she feels grandma's have the authority to overrule parents on major issue. I do think I might encourage her minister/priest/pastor to talk to her baout the baptism thing but even if they correct her on that I don't see that fixing her perception that she has the right to make decisions to take matters into her own hands if she deems it for the best.
Redneck Gravy wrote:"Pod. so she's a nut about baptism if that is her only flaw I would let it go."Her "only flaw" is being untrustworthy. She continues covering up her misdeed to this day, which shows that she feels no remorse about trampling the boundary and no compunction about being deceitful to protect her own interests. That's what makes me say not to trust her with any other boundary.Virg
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Questionhouse and 10 acres being purchased by one of the part owners. the site is owned half by deceased fathers trust and the other half by his three adult children who were given an undivided 1/3 interest in the living mothers half share. One of the 1/3 owners is going to purchase the site. What if any are the capital gains tax and personal tax problems. This sale and gift are recent both within the past year. The sale price is about half the assessed tax value and less than the fair market value.
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Wide receiver Mike Wallace's first season with the Dolphins hasn't been an overwhelming success.
We've heard more about why Wallace isn't putting up big numbers than anyone expected when the Dolphins signed him to a big deal as a free agent and Wallace hasn't shied away from expressing his frustration with his role at various points this season. There was none of that on Sunday, though, as Wallace had seven catches for 82 yards and a touchdown to help beat the Jets.
"This is the time when you've got to be the best you can be," Wallace said, via the Miami Herald. "It's December. I've had enough time to get adjusted. It's the time for me to be the player I know I am, no matter [what]. Just block out everything and play football. I'm a great player, I know that. It's all that really matters. … Let's call a spade a spade."
Wallace had a strong game in the loss to the Panthers in Week 12 as well and has picked up more than a quarter of his receiving yards on the season over the last two weeks. More production like that in the final four games would give a serious boost to the Dolphins' chances of snatching a Wild Card spot.


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