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Mammoth falls to Boron, 50-6
The Huskies knew it was going to be tough. But who knew that it would be tough to the tune of 50-6 on Friday night?
The Huskies could not handle the Boron Bobcats on either side of the ball, and for the second straight week dropped a seriously lopsided contest.
One week earlier, in Bishop, the Huskies fell to the Broncos, 59-6.
In this one, neither quarterback Tyler Wormhoudt nor Huskies running back Coco Galvan could match the Bobocats' running back Reggie Heard, who dashed for 78 yards, nor quarterback Josh Core, who passed for 88 yards.
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KingxLelouch Guru Anime Lovers 101 Academy Tuesday 18/09/2012, 02:17
Does it match based on ranks or levels or is it totally random?
UM_AaaBattery Moderator URBAN MADNESS Tuesday 18/09/2012, 17:29
"In ELO you only fight players whose ELO score is between -50 and +150 of your own score"
Apart from that its random.
Blue_Muffin Master Thursday 20/09/2012, 23:42
That right there seriously still confuses me. 50 below or 150 above.
I mean, Iet's say i'm at 1100. I can face anyone from 1050 to 1250. But, that person at 1250 can only face between 1200 and 1400. So I wouldn't be in his range while he would be in mine. Would we still be able to face eachother?
Tansur Hero The Trend Friday 21/09/2012, 06:26
If the rule of -50 or +150 applies to every player of UR, then technically you shouldn't be able to play someone greater than 50 points above yourself without violating the lower end of their range. Because you know....if I was 150 points above your score then you are 150 points below my score...which is 100 points beyond the lower end of my range, and I'm not supposed to fight that....So....the -50, +150 thing really makes no sense.
UM_AaaBattery Moderator URBAN MADNESS Friday 21/09/2012, 20:20
I think its that you can only challange players within those ranges so you can challange the 150 higher player but they can send the challange to you.
(Back befor quick challange when you had to manually challange players this made more sense).

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TUCSON, Ariz. – For the fourth time in four days, the Arizona men's swim team has been a part of a Pac-12 meet record and for the second straight night junior Kevin Cordes was the record setter as he won the 200 breast to close out the Pac-12 Championships on Saturday inside Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center.
Cordes actually set the meet record in the 200 breast on two occasions on Saturday. He broke the previous record this morning with a time of 1:52.37 in prelims. Cordes followed that up with an impressive 1:51.80 to run away in the finals, breaking his own record. Teammate Sam Rowan finished in third with a time of 1:55.30. In addition, Eric Solis and Andrew Sovero went 2-3 in the "B" final of the event.
Ty Fowler opened the night with an eighth-place finish in the 1650 free with a time of 15:13.81.
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Junior Brian Stevens also earned valuable points for the Wildcats by finishing seventh in the 100 free with a time of 43.52. Giles Smith advanced to the "B" final where he placed fourth in 43.76.
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Arizona finished fourth in the team competition with 596.5 points. Cal won the event with 786 points with Stanford (661) finishing second and USC (621) placing third. Utah (306) was fifth followed by Arizona State (287), UC Santa Barbara (178.5) and Cal Poly (157).
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another starter problem. Mine only likes pineapple water.
1st starter. So I've got a white flour starter (14 days old today) that I've been building for some time now. It smells good, with the occaional 'berry smell'. When I feed, I'll keep half old starter (stirred well) and half white flour, with spring water. Well, I will only see about 30 percent rise. But everytime I use pineapple juice instead of water to re-feed, it will double in volume at around the 7 hour mark. If I go back to plain spring water, it only raises 30%. Strangely enough, I don't get any 'houch' from this starter.
2nd starter is a spelt flour starter (7 days old), re-fed with a mixer of 3 parts spelt to 1 part white flour, and again, I remove half, and remix it to full again. Same dang thing happens as with 1st starter... only 30% rises, but I do get a top layer of houch on this one though. 1st 2 days, the smell was that of fecal matter, but has since gone to 'sour' smell, or 'gym socks' smell.
3rd starter is of whole wheat (7 days old). Same dang thing as first two (30% rise), but houch forms near the bottom of the jar.
In all starters; I use glass jars with a loose plastic cover. I use a chop-stick to stir (never any metal). I've tried spring water from ozarks, and also purified water (switched to spring water half-way through). I can ONLY get a double rise with pineapple juice (water thats been soaking in pinnaple pieces). Viscosity is probably around a little stiffer than pancake batter, but not much. Temperature in home goes between 85 to 77 degrees depending on time of day.
edit: I'm using HEB's name brand unbleached wheat and white, the spelt comes from oregon. I picked up some 'King Arthur organic wheat' the other day and am wondering if this wheat will be any different. Because, I assume there's yeast in all the starters due to the rising... not sure why KA's yeast would be any different/stronger. I guess I have no choice but to start a 4th starter.
Here are some thoughts;
1). Perhaps, I'm not pouring enough 'old' starter out? Meaning, I should perhaps only keep a small quantity of old starter and the majority should be new 'food'? I've seen mentioned half-n-half method alot of places. rarely do I see 'tablespoon' method.
2). A couple times, after I've seen the starter 'fall', I would pour out houch, and refeed, perhaps 12 hours between feedings. Not sure if this would hurt anything. But mostely I'll stick to 24 hour feeds.
I just can't understand. Things work great when I use the pineapple water. The spring water is kept sealed and at room temp.


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The discovery and excavation that has taken place at Fort Fisher was the topic of a program Saturday.
Nearly 150 years ago, in 1864, the Condor, a 222-foot sailing blockade runner with a draft of just seven feet, left port on its maiden voyage from England bound for Wilmington with a special passenger, famed Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow.
Greenhow, a Washington society woman who had been touring England to promote a book, decided to delay her departure for the States to buy passage aboard the vessel – which was thought to be "uncatchable" by Union warships – to carry her into the key Confederate port city that had been blockaded by order of President Abraham Lincoln since 1861.
Despite its speed and sophistication, the Condor, which was made entirely of iron, was grounded off Fort Fisher on Oct. 1, 1864.
Greenhow didn't fare any better.
The Richmond-born spy drowned in the surf when her lifeboat capsized – pulled down, the legend goes, by $2,000 in gold sovereigns sewn into the lining of her dress.
The Union secrets she carried with her also were lost.
Cargo from the Condor and other Civil-War era wrecks off the coast of North Carolina, however, became key in helping archaeologists and conservationists piece together the state's history.
"The Condor is all there and it's very well preserved," said Billy Ray Morris, a deputy state archeologist and director of the N.C. Underwater Archaeology Branch. "Underwater archaeology in North Carolina is possible because of Civil War wrecks."
Morris, who was hired to direct the archaeology branch facility at Fort Fisher in early 2012, presented a program at the Fort Fisher State Historic Site on the discovery and excavation that has taken place since the state's underwater archaeology program was founded more than 40 years ago.
"It all started with the Modern Greece in 1862," Morris told audience members. "It wasn't the most sophisticated ship that would come into play during the war – later on, ships like the Condor would be faster – but it was a trove of information."
The wrecks of 27 Civil-War era vessels and blockade runners lie in shallow waters off the coast in what is one of the few maritime National Register historic districts, he said.
The Modern Greece, a 210-foot-long, 520-ton steam freighter, ran aground in the surf off Fort Fisher before dawn on June 27, 1862, while trying to evade U.S. Navy vessels.
A preservation laboratory was set up at Fort Fisher to survey the site, which yielded more than 11,000 artifacts: hundreds and hundreds of Enfield rifles, bayonets, artillery ammunition, hoe heads and pick heads.
"No one had really done that before for wrecks like this," Morris said. "They started storing artifacts in anything that could that would keep them wet – toilet tanks, bath tubs, holes in the ground lined with plastic – they were making it up as they went along. Conservation has become more of a science today."
Morris' presentation was part of free "Second Saturday" educational event at Fort Fisher, which offered visitors a look at rifles, hand tools and pieces of cargo recovered from the Modern Greece and other blockade runners. Crowds also were invited to test underwater paper and viewed dive equipment demonstrations.
"Now, we're the custodians of any type of bottom work done in state waters," Morris said. "Because of the standards and review process, the state found three blockade runners. But it's just as important for us to know what's not there as well as what's there."
Now, the archaeology branch, which specializes in coastal waters up to three miles out and all navigable waters in the state, is preparing to revisit every wreck in the region with the latest in sonar, remote sensing and positioning equipment. The study is being funded by a grant from the National Parks Service.
Since most of the ships have been studied at different times and with varied equipment, the new surveys will help archaeologists determine what state the wrecks are in today, Morris said.
In turn, the data will give historians a better sense of the role the fort played in the war.
"When we finish re-examining everything, then we'll look it in light of the fort's influence on the wreck," he said. "We know if there had been no maritime commerce, there wouldn't have been a fort here, but if there hadn't of been a fort this strong, there would have been no commerce."
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Jared Matthew Lapo was a beloved firefighter at the Boiling Springs Fire Department.
The 23-year-old Mooresboro man was killed June 28 in a car crash between Shelby and Boiling Springs.
The community turned out on July 1 on the streets of Boiling Springs to show support for Lapo during his funeral procession. Now, his family and friends want to remember him in a more permanent way: through a scholarship in his name for prospective firemen and EMTs.
Brad Lapo, Jared�s dad, said they wanted to start the foundation to remember Jared and what he loved, as well as to financially help people who are going through firefighter or EMT training.
�Jared was just all about emergency services. He loved firefighting. That was his life. He also placed a huge importance on the quality of training that he had received,� said Lapo. �So with that in mind, that�s what we�re doing this foundation for, to help people who want to go through the firefighter academy or through EMT training.�
This Friday, Lindsey Wilkinson, a close friend of Lapo�s, is hosting a womanless beauty pageant to raise funds for the scholarship.
�Jared was like my best friend and I had talked to his mother Joyce and they said they wanted his name to live on and to do something to help people in remembrance of him,� she said. �So I came up with the idea to do a womanless beauty pageant to help raise money for the scholarship.�
Wilkinson said nine men have signed up for the pageant, including Cleveland County EMS workers, Boiling Springs firemen, a Boiling Springs police officer and a No. 3 station fireman.
All participants will receive gifts, including crowns, a bedazzled plunger and certificates for various categories.
The Blue Crew Motorcycle Club is also hosting a fundraiser for the scholarship: a poker run Saturday morning. Motorcyclists will start at the Boiling Springs Fire Department and get one card, and then get a different card at Shanghai Fire Department and other area fire departments. They will go back to the Boiling Springs Fire Department at the end of the run and the person with the winning hand will receive half of the proceeds. The other half will go to the scholarship foundation.
Wilkinson said everyone should come out Friday and Saturday to support both events.
�People should come because Jared was an amazing person and to help with his legacy to live on and help support kids who may not be able to afford going to fire school or EMT school,� she said. �It�s supporting something that Jared loved doing.�
Want to go to the Womanless Beauty Pageant?
-When: 7 p.m. Friday
-Where: Crest Middle School, 315 Beaver Dam Church Road, Shelby
-Donations accepted at the door
-All proceeds go to the Jared Lapo "Challenge Accepted" Scholarship Foundation to support prospective EMTs and firemen in the academy.
Want to participate in the Jared Lapo Memorial Poker Run?
-When: 10 a.m. registration Saturday
-Where: Boiling Springs Fire Department
-Cost: $10 for one hand; $15 for the second hand
-Hot dog lunch by donation only
-People can bring motorcycles, cars, trucks and firetrucks
-Presented by the Blue Crew motorcycle club
About the scholarship fund:
-The Jared Lapo Foundation is a newly established 501c3 non-profit memorial scholarship fund honoring the life of Boiling Springs Fire Dept. Captain Jared Lapo.
-The fund will provide educational scholarships to local students who are willing to "accept the challenge" of becoming emergency services first responders in their communities.
-The "Challenge Accepted" phrase is used because whenever Jared was challenged to accomplish a difficult task by someone, he would say "Challenge accepted!" Therefore, the foundation will focus on those willing to "accept the challenge" of becoming a first responder.


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Cards stunned by Halos after Wainwright's gem
ANAHEIM -- They were among the first words Edward Mujica heard upon his arrival to the organization last summer. In the midst of asking for scouting reports, the reliever who is now the Cardinals' closer was instead given a piece of advice: Follow Yadi.
Mujica had done so unwaveringly over the past 11 months, riding Yadier Molina's guidance en route to emerging as one of the league's most dominant closers this season. Not once, until Thursday, had he shaken the catcher off.View Full Game Coverage
ANAHEIM -- They were among the first words Edward Mujica heard upon his arrival to the organization last summer. In the midst of asking for scouting reports, the reliever who is now the Cardinals' closer was instead given a piece of advice: Follow Yadi.
Mujica had done so unwaveringly over the past 11 months, riding Yadier Molina's guidance en route to emerging as one of the league's most dominant closers this season. Not once, until Thursday, had he shaken the catcher off.View Full Game Coverage
But Mujica's decision to twice stray from Molina's suggestion Thursday left the closer to second-guess his self-direction afterward, as the game-tying and game-winning hits both came off changeups that Molina had called to be fastballs. It thwarted the Cardinals' efforts to escape with a .500 road trip, instead leaving the team sagging with a 6-5 loss in which the Angels scored three times in their final at-bat.
"Obviously, it didn't end well, and that's extremely frustrating when you have the lead like that," said Allen Craig, who had earlier put the Cards ahead with a three-run homer. "But we haven't experienced that too much this season, and it's bound to happen. Mujica has been pretty much perfect all year, and he's done a great job."
Starter Adam Wainwright, clutching a 5-3 lead, was given the first opportunity to secure what would have been a complete game and a series win. Though manager Mike Matheny had Mujica warming, he intended to stick with his ace unless the potential tying run came to the plate. Standing between Wainwright going the distance for the fifth time this season was the heart of the Angels' order, starting with Albert Pujols.
Held hitless in his first 10 at-bats of the series, Pujols took Wainwright's 2-2 curveball and poked it into center field for a single.
"My job right there wasn't to hit a home run," Pujols said. "It was to get on base somehow, hopefully give Josh [Hamilton] an opportunity to drive me in."
Pujols' single signaled the end of Wainwright's night. Wainwright, now with seven starts of at least eight innings this season, exited in line to become the second National League pitcher to accrue 12 wins.
"The leadoff hitter is so key right there," Wainwright said. "That just changes the tempo of the whole inning and gives them some real good life."
Mujica was called upon for his first save opportunity since June 19. Perfect in 21 chances, Mujica endured his first blown save two pitches into his night.
With a 1-0 count against Hamilton, Molina called for an inside fastball. Mujica shook it off, wanting to throw his signature split-changeup. Hamilton crushed it for a two-run homer.
Trouble only continued. Howie Kendrick and Mark Trumbo followed with singles to put runners on the corners, though Mujica stuck with his changeup to retire Alberto Callaspo and Hank Conger on flyouts that were too shallow to score Kendrick. Nine-hole hitter Erick Aybar worked the count to 2-1, at which point Molina, again, called fastball. Mujica instead went back to his changeup. Aybar dropped it into left to send the Cardinals to their second walk-off loss of the season.
"I didn't follow Yadi, and that's a mistake I can't make anymore," Mujica said. "From now on, I'm just going with Yadi. It was a big mistake."
The loss left the Cardinals with only three wins in this 11-game detour through the America League, but three opponents with a combined .391 winning percentage are on the docket next.
"This is one, you could tell the guys were really pushing hard for," Matheny said. "I think they knew if we came back from this trip .500 that it's a much different looking trip than how we actually played. We've just been trying to fight through it. We had everything that we could expect from Waino in a game like this and some good offense. We just couldn't finish it off."
The Angels bunched three singles together in the third to take an early 2-0 lead off the Cardinals' soon-to-be All-Star. An inning later, Craig trumped it with a three-run blast.
Carlos Beltran's single and a walk after an 11-pitch at-bat by Matt Holliday set up the inning for Craig, whose 10 homers have all come in the last 54 games. He now sits second in the NL with 66 RBIs and third with a .325 batting average. Craig finished the road trip with 13 hits.
The Angels answered back, tying the game on Trumbo's solo homer in the bottom half of the frame. St. Louis tacked on single runs off Joe Blanton in each of the next two innings to move back in front.
Daniel Descalso, making the first of what is expected to be several starts in place of shortstop Pete Kozma, was in the middle of the Cardinals' scoring in the fifth and sixth. He led off the fifth with a double before eventually scoring on Matt Carpenter's sacrifice fly. In the sixth, his RBI single helped the Cardinals capitalize on Trumbo's fielding error at first base.
Also overshadowed by the outcome was Matt Adams' night on defense. He made a pair of diving catches -- one to his right, the other to his left -- and picked a pair of low throws to first.
"It was good clean baseball," Matheny said. "We played hard. We had a lot of things going right. We just didn't finish."
The Cardinals, now 48-3 when leading after eight innings this season, have lost their last eight games decided by two runs or less.
"We gave ourselves a chance to win and just didn't get it done down the stretch," Wainwright said. "We played a good game today. Good defense, our hitters did great. We just didn't close it out."
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB.


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Obama wants Congress to help homeowners
RENO, Nev. – Refocusing on the economy, President Barack Obama on Friday pushed Republicans to back housing policies the White House says would help shore up struggling homeowners and prevent foreclosures.
Against the backdrop of a middle-class neighborhood in economically hard-hit Nevada, Obama touted steps his administration has already taken to help homeowners refinance their mortgages. But the president said he needed help from lawmakers in order to expand the refinancing efforts.
"There are things that we can do right now to help create jobs, to help restore some of the financial security that so many families have lost," Obama said. "But I have to say that there are a few too many Republicans in Congress who don't seem to be as optimistic as we are."
With Nevada voters up for grabs in the November election, Obama also drew a contrast with Republican Mitt Romney's plan for the nation's struggling housing market. While never mentioning Romney by name, the president criticized his rival and others in GOP for saying the government should allow the housing market to "hit bottom and hope for the best."
Seeking to put a real face on the nation's housing woes, Obama met earlier Friday with Reno homeowners Paul and Val Keller. Obama said the couple had benefited from executive action he took that made it easier to refinance a mortgage and is now saving $240 a month.
"That's real money," Obama said during a kitchen table chat at the Keller home.
Administration officials said refinancing applications have increased nationwide by 50 percent since Obama made it easier to refinance. In Nevada, which ranks second in the nation in foreclosed homes, officials said refinancing applications were up by about 230 percent.
But Obama said his administration is limited in the action it can take on its own.
Earlier this year, he proposed legislation that would lower lending rates for millions of borrowers who have not been able to get out from under burdensome mortgages. Obama would pay for the estimated $5 billion to $10 billion cost with a fee on large banks. The plan faces an uphill fight in Congress. The White House says it would not insist on the bank fees as a means to finance the plan.
Obama's shift back to the economy ended a week dominated by his public embrace of gay marriage. He followed up his historic, yet politically risky, announcement with a day of West Coast fundraising, including a gala event at the Los Angeles home of actor George Clooney on Thursday night that raised nearly $15 million.
Obama won Nevada in his 2008 presidential election. But the economy presents new challenges as well as an opportunity for rival Romney.
Four years ago, Nevada was reeling from the recession, and Obama and union allies seized on the anxiety to mobilize voters and win the state. Today, the Nevada is still in dire straits and the economy belongs to the president.
Nevada's unemployment rate was 12 percent in March, the worst in the nation. As of last month, Nevada's foreclosure rate trailed only Arizona among states. And the Nevadans most affected by the state's poor economy are the very voters who rallied behind Obama four years ago.


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Former Olympian Summer Sanders has lead a successful life in and out of the pool. Twenty years ago she brought home four medals from the games in Barcelona, two of them gold. Since then, she has gone on to become a sports broadcaster, TV host, Kellogg spokesperson and mother to six-year-old Skye Bella and four-year-old Robert Charles Spider. She took some time out to talk to us about how she's encouraging her own kids to be active, and what they think of her Olympic past.
Do your kids like to swim too, or do they have a favorite sport of their own?
My kids love all sports. My husband was an Olympic skier and I was an Olympic swimmer. Everyone thinks our kids are going to be Olympic skiers or swimmers too, but it's my job to introduce them to new sports. My son, who's four, loves ice hockey and my six-year-old daughter loves gymnastics, and they both love soccer.
How do you get your kids to be active?
My kids love to be active, but it's because my husband and I lead by example with our own fitness and nutrition. They know Mommy goes for a run or Daddy goes for a bike ride and they see us come back all sweaty. Now, my son will come back from riding his bike and say, "Look how sweaty I am!" He feels good and knows that getting exercise is important. I want to help them fall in love with that feeling of accomplishment.
What's important in how you feed your kids?
I always try to instill in my kids the importance of a healthy breakfast. You can't get to the glory of the finish line without a great start, which is why I chose to take part in Team Kellogg's and "From Great Starts Come Great Things" campaign. Athletes were able to share how they got their start, mine at age four, and what it took to get them to the top.
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How do you know when it's OK to let them quit a sport?
I make them finish out what they start. My kids are young so seasons are usually pretty short, usually only 8 weeks. Ultimately the decision to sign up for the sport again is their decision; I put that ball in their court. However, they can't give up on their team. I try to teach them that they are accountable to others.
What have you taken from the way your parents raised you? Are you raising future champions?
I had natural talent and my mom recognized that. When you see you have a kid who is competitive and gets it, it puts a lot of pressure on the parents to do what is right. With my own kids I look to make sure they are smiling and that they are the best teammates they could possibly be.
What do your Olympic medals mean to your kids? Do they just see you as Mommy or do they understand your accomplishments?
They don't get it! My daughter just started school and is beginning to realize the meaning, because her friends come over they ask to see my medals. However, my son has no clue. When he first saw our Olympic medals he had just started swimming and was receiving a lot of those little ribbons they typically give out. He put one around his neck and said. "What do I have to do to get one of these?" I told him how with a lot of hard work and dedication he could earn a medal like mine one day, but he only replied with, "What swim meet gives medals out like these?" He simply thought some meets give out ribbons and some medals!
What's life been like post-Olympics?
This year is my 20th anniversary of my Olympic gold medal wins. Since that time I have been given so many amazing opportunities, from interviewing one of my heroes, Michael Jordan, to hosting on Nickelodeon, and getting married and having my kids. I'm so grateful for everything and cherish every moment that I have with the people that make me happy.
Have your kids ever seen any clips or episodes from your Nickelodeon days on Figure it Out?
My time on Nickelodeon was a treasure and a treat, so when I ran into my old producer a few weeks ago I begged her for some copies to share with my kids. It was a big moment for me! When I walked in with the tapes they were watching SpongeBob. There was a bit of an uproar when I went to change their show, but eventually they gave in. I sat and watched them look at the screen and look at me, look at the screen and look at me. Finally, they came out with "That's you!" And then, "Why they'd do that to your hair?" (They had styled it very big the show). Then in a very nice grown-up attempt to not crush my spirit my daughter looked at me and asked, "Mom, any way we can put SpongeBob back on?"
Any Mother's Day plans this year?
I found growing up my mom was always slightly disappointed on Mother's Day, because she left it up to us and we didn't quite come through. Sorry, Mom! So I specifically ask for something. This year I told my husband I wanted a foot rub--my daughter gives amazing ones--and that I don't want to make a single meal or clean any dishes!


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Alleged Hit-And-Run In Lafayette Leads To Victim Running Car Into Home
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There is something, I suppose, that we all seek even if we can't recognise or acknowledge it. Call it empathy. Not the best word as it suggests we are looking for people to empathise with us, whereas it is more mutual, a spontaneous acceptance of equality and common destiny. A kind of falling in love without the desire to possess, or even having to get through the stage of idealised infatuation. I don't know the exact word – the easy 'simpatico' maybe, or even the untranslatable 'saudades'.
Ultimately this quest-object is God, the living God. Not the cold divinity of morality and power structures. But the light at the end of the tunnel that we know will never reject us or even pronounce a judgment other than revealing a compassionate truth. It is the God of the immediate and infinite embrace. The 'end of love-longing' as the Upanishads call it. The Father as Jesus understood it. But it is found also in this world and manifests in the rare relationships that are built on perfect humility where there is neither power nor competition. To help us understand 'humility', the Cloud of Unknowing distinguishes between imperfect humility in which religious piety specializes – a self- dramatization of all the interesting faults of our ego – and perfect humility in which we simply know ourselves, in God, with all our self-evident faults, exactly as God knows us. In this humility-which-is-wisdom we are blown away by realizing, sometimes by painfully slow gradations, that we are, actually, irrefutably loveable. It takes time and it's not as easy to get to as it sounds.
She seemed, if you excuse the caricature, an unexceptional little old lady. She did not hold eye contact for long. She waited till the end of the session to speak: this can sometimes denote a big ego wanting the last word or a weak ego taking the last chance to be heard. In her case, judging from her tone and poise, it was the decision of a balanced ego, a little on the self-deferential, shy side but no longer self-effacing. There is a rare kind of authority that emerges, as it must have done in Jesus, infuriatingly to his opponents. It arises effortlessly from a personality that has both known humiliation and experienced the state of resurrection.
She told her story. How, many years before, she had been drinking for years and was barely raising five children. One day, the worse for wear, she was driving aimlessly through town when she realised she was looking for a church, any church. She was not a religious person. When she found one she rang the bell and a priest opened the door. To this day she can't remember what he said as she unloaded her misery and shame on him. All she remembers as he changed her life was that she felt accepted and known. Perhaps he was the best of priests or the very worst of priests. At that moment in the downward spiral of her desperation he was just a priest to her. It was very disarming, seeing how that experience of finding acceptance and recognition was so redemptive; it changed her life and remained alive in her, decades later, as a moment of grace that saints might long for and never receive as directly as she did. Yet, fresh as that moment remained for her and although, like Julian of Norwich, she had mined that moment of revelation all her life for new deposits of meaning, she was not living in the past. She had known other joys and breakthroughs, like the discovery of meditation as the key to the eleventh step, which filled her with gratitude. Indeed she seemed intoxicated – what Gregory of Nyssa called the sober intoxication.
Being grateful, like knowing that you are accepted, is an immensely liberating state of mind. Anxieties and insecurities that have held you bound for ages can fall away instantly as you soar to new heights of the self and discover how the joys of giving exceed those of receiving – and why didn't you see so obvious a truth as this before? Like the others in the twelve step program she had never forgotten what it is like to hit rock bottom and rise again with the help of that totally unforeseen insight and immeasurable energy we call grace. It seemed for her, as for many who had each their own story to tell, that time telescoped. The past was redeemed and the future, still unknown, was assured. She was alive in the spirit of advent – the slow, instant coming of the future towards us and its eruption in the present. And all because one ordinary afternoon someone had opened the door to a stranger and been to them what God is to us and what we are meant to be to each other.
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The World Community for Christian Meditation, of which Laurence Freeman OSB is director, has recently opened a new outreach program – "Meditatio" (www.wccmmeditatio.org)


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text: Print OverviewAlzheimer's disease is a progressive disease that destroys memory and other important mental functions. At first, someone with Alzheimer's disease may notice mild confusion and difficulty remembering. Eventually, people with the disease may even forget important people in their lives and undergo dramatic personality changes. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia — a group of brain disorders that cause the loss of intellectual and social skills. In Alzheimer's disease, the brain cells degenerate and die, causing a steady decline in memory and mental function. Current Alzheimer's disease medications and management strategies may temporarily improve symptoms. This can sometimes help people with Alzheimer's disease maximize function and maintain independence for a little while longer. But because there's no cure for Alzheimer's disease, it's important to seek supportive services and tap into your support network as early as possible. SymptomsAt first, increasing forgetfulness or mild confusion may be the only symptoms of Alzheimer's disease that you notice. But over time, the disease robs you of more of your memory, especially recent memories. The rate at which symptoms worsen varies from person to person. If you have Alzheimer's, you may be the first to notice that you're having unusual difficulty remembering things and organizing your thoughts. Or you may not recognize that anything is wrong, even when changes are noticeable to your family members, close friends or co-workers. Brain changes associated with Alzheimer's disease lead to growing trouble with: MemoryEveryone has occasional memory lapses. It's normal to lose track of where you put your keys or forget the name of an acquaintance. But the memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease persists and worsens, affecting your ability to function at work and at home. People with Alzheimer's may: Repeat statements and questions over and over, not realizing that they've asked the question before Forget conversations, appointments or events, and not remember them later Routinely misplace possessions, often putting them in illogical locations Get lost in familiar places Eventually forget the names of family members and everyday objects Have trouble finding the right words to identify objects, express thoughts or take part in conversations Thinking and reasoningAlzheimer's disease causes difficulty concentrating and thinking, especially about abstract concepts like numbers. Multitasking is especially difficult, and it may be challenging to manage finances, balance checkbooks and pay bills on time. These difficulties may progress to inability to recognize and deal with numbers. Making judgments and decisionsResponding effectively to everyday problems, such as food burning on the stove or unexpected driving situations, becomes increasingly challenging. Planning and performing familiar tasksOnce-routine activities that require sequential steps, such as planning and cooking a meal or playing a favorite game, become a struggle as the disease progresses. Eventually, people with advanced Alzheimer's may forget how to perform basic tasks such as dressing and bathing. Changes in personality and behaviorBrain changes that occur in Alzheimer's disease can affect the way you act and how you feel. People with Alzheimer's may experience: Depression Apathy Social withdrawal Mood swings Distrust in others Irritability and aggressiveness Changes in sleeping habits Wandering Loss of inhibitions Delusions, such as believing something has been stolen Many important skills are not lost until very late in the disease. These include the ability to read, dance and sing, enjoy old music, engage in crafts and hobbies, tell stories, and reminisce. This is because information, skills and habits learned early in life are among the last abilities to be lost as the disease progresses; the part of the brain that stores this information tends to be affected later in the course of the disease. Capitalizing on these abilities can foster successes and maintain quality of life even into the moderate phase of the disease. Request an Appointment at Mayo Clinic CausesScientists believe that for most people, Alzheimer's disease is caused by a combination of genetic, lifestyle and environmental factors that affect the brain over time. Less than 5 percent of the time, Alzheimer's is caused by specific genetic changes that virtually guarantee a person will develop the disease. Although the causes of Alzheimer's aren't yet fully understood, its effect on the brain is clear. Alzheimer's disease damages and kills brain cells. A brain affected by Alzheimer's disease has many fewer cells and many fewer connections among surviving cells than does a healthy brain. As more and more brain cells die, Alzheimer's leads to significant brain shrinkage. When doctors examine Alzheimer's brain tissue under the microscope, they see two types of abnormalities that are considered hallmarks of the disease: Plaques. These clumps of a protein called beta-amyloid may damage and destroy brain cells in several ways, including interfering with cell-to-cell communication. Although the ultimate cause of brain-cell death in Alzheimer's isn't known, the collection of beta-amyloid on the outside of brain cells is a prime suspect. Tangles. Brain cells depend on an internal support and transport system to carry nutrients and other essential materials throughout their long extensions. This system requires the normal structure and functioning of a protein called tau. In Alzheimer's, threads of tau protein twist into abnormal tangles inside brain cells, leading to failure of the transport system. This failure is also strongly implicated in the decline and death of brain cells. Risk factorsAgeIncreasing age is the greatest known risk factor for Alzheimer's. Alzheimer's is not a part of normal aging, but your risk increases greatly after you reach age 65. The rate of dementia doubles every decade after age 60. People with rare genetic changes linked to early-onset Alzheimer's begin experiencing symptoms as early as their 30s. Family history and geneticsYour risk of developing Alzheimer's appears to be somewhat higher if a first-degree relative — your parent or sibling — has the disease. Scientists have identified rare changes (mutations) in three genes that virtually guarantee a person who inherits them will develop Alzheimer's. But these mutations account for less than 5 percent of Alzheimer's disease. Most genetic mechanisms of Alzheimer's among families remain largely unexplained. The strongest risk gene researchers have found so far is apolipoprotein e4 (APoE4), though not everyone with this gene goes on to develop Alzheimer's disease. Other risk genes have been identified but not conclusively confirmed. Down syndromeMany people with Down syndrome develop Alzheimer's disease. Signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's tend to appear 10 to 20 years earlier in people with Down syndrome than they do for the general population. A gene contained in the extra chromosome that causes Down syndrome significantly increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease. SexWomen seem to be more likely than are men to develop Alzheimer's disease, in part because they live longer. Mild cognitive impairmentPeople with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have memory problems or other symptoms of cognitive decline that are worse than might be expected for their age, but not severe enough to be diagnosed as dementia. Those with MCI have an increased risk — but not a certainty — of later developing dementia. Taking action to develop a healthy lifestyle and strategies to compensate for memory loss at this stage may help delay or prevent the progression to dementia. Past head traumaPeople who've had a severe head trauma seem to have a greater risk of Alzheimer's disease. Lifestyle and heart healthThere's no lifestyle factor that's been definitively shown to reduce your risk of Alzheimer's disease. However, some evidence suggests that the same factors that put you at risk of heart disease also may increase the chance that you'll develop Alzheimer's. Examples include: Lack of exercise Obesity Smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke High blood pressure High blood cholesterol Poorly controlled type 2 diabetes A diet lacking in fruits and vegetables These risk factors are also linked to vascular dementia, a type of dementia caused by damaged blood vessels in the brain. Working with your health care team on a plan to control these factors will help protect your heart — and may also help reduce your risk of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. Lifelong learning and social engagementStudies have found an association between lifelong involvement in mentally and socially stimulating activities and a reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease. Low education levels — less than a high school education — appear to be a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. ComplicationsMemory and language loss, impaired judgment, and other cognitive changes caused by Alzheimer's can complicate treatment for other health conditions. A person with Alzheimer's disease may not be able to: Communicate that he or she is experiencing pain — for example, from a dental problem Report symptoms of another illness Follow a prescribed treatment plan Notice or describe medication side effects As Alzheimer's disease progresses to its last stages, brain changes begin to affect physical functions, such as swallowing, balance, and bowel and bladder control. These effects can increase vulnerability to additional health problems such as: Inhaling food or liquid into the lungs (aspiration) Pneumonia and other infections Falls Fractures Bedsores Malnutrition or dehydration PreventionRight now, there's no proven way to prevent Alzheimer's disease. Research into prevention strategies is ongoing. The strongest evidence so far suggests that you may be able to lower your risk of Alzheimer's disease by reducing your risk of heart disease. Many of the same factors that increase your risk of heart disease can also increase your risk of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. Important factors that may be involved include high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, excess weight and diabetes. The Mediterranean diet — a way of eating that emphasizes fresh produce, healthy oils and foods low in saturated fat — can lower the risk of death from cardiovascular disease and stroke. This diet has also been associated with a reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease. Keeping active — physically, mentally and socially — may make your life more enjoyable and may also help reduce the risk of Alzheimer's. By Mayo Clinic Staff Alzheimer's disease care at Mayo Clinic Request an Appointment at Mayo Clinic Diagnosis & treatment Dec. 30, 2017 Print Share on: FacebookTwitter References Ferri FF. Alzheimer's disease. In: Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2016. Philadelphia, Pa.: Mosby Elsevier; 2016. https://www.clinicalkey.com. 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Encryption has always been a hot topic for government agencies, going back to the earliest days. And since we've put so much effort into it, of course we would get a few things right over the years.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued guidance on generating keys to be used with approved algorithms. Read more.
Did you hear about the skeletal carrier pigeon from World War II that was found inside a chimney in England, still clutching his final message? Because the daily cipher for that date is currently lost, we may never be able to decode the contents of the bird's note, though if it had landed safely at its destination on time, decoding the message would have been easy for authorized personnel.
The pigeon's message is an example of a one-time pad type of encryption, which, as unsuccessful efforts to crack it proved, is impossible to break. But it makes for a difficult way to communicate because both the person sending the message and the person receiving it need to have what is essentially time-based private keys. They can't securely communicate outside of the parameters they have previously set up without first going over the new schemes.
Modern computers allow for quicker and more robust encryption because of the use of public and private keys. One key is public. It's essentially a mathematical formula as to how the message will be decoded. The second key is private, known only to the sender and the receiver. The problem with that scheme is that really powerful computers can possibly crack the encryption within a reasonable amount of time, or might simply get lucky and do so very quickly. It's not a huge concern in most cases, but it does pose problems for the most secure government communications.
Toshiba and Cambridge University have come up with a way to allow for both parties in an encrypted communication to posess private keys without first meeting. So users would get the convenience of a public-key, anytime transaction, with the security the pigeon enjoyed with private-only keys. The challenge is that the only way to do this is to send the private key along with the message, which of course means the entire thing is vulnerable to interception, not something you want with your secret codes. However, scientists using quantum physics found a way to make it work, though only under certain circumstances.
The solution, according to a scientific paper published in the Physical Review X science journal, is that the private key is sent into the fibers of a fiber-optic cable along with the message and all the colored light the cable generates. By using sensors at different parts of the cable, the actual private key can be time-encoded and pulled from the rest of the pulses of light. However, this all happens extremely quickly, to the point that if someone tried to measure the light pulses to get the key, the act of doing do would slow down the light, messing up the transmission and providing clear evidence that the feed was being hacked.
In truth, there are few places even in government where this new unbreakable code architecture could be used now. The technology allows for only a 56-mile long channel, so even our old pigeon could fly farther. But for really super-secret data exchanges between relatively close government agencies — say, a network within the Pentagon itself, or two agencies involved in national security — this could provide a completely unbreakable code that doesn't need birdseed, won't get trapped inside chimneys and gives instant warning if anyone attempts to hack it.
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John Breeden II,
"There is no such thing as..."
That rather depends on your view point and how long you have and how much energy you have.
A one time pad is considered unbreakable under certain circumstances.
The key stream is generated Truley Randomly.
The Key stream is only ever used once.
No copies of the keystream exist outside those of the sender and the recipient, and they destroy them after use.
Thus much of the security is not in the sending of the message but in handeling the keystream or as it is more commonly known KeyMat (short for keying material).
Quantum Key Distribution depends on a couple of "theories" that are believed to be true from our basic understanding of the quantum world. In essence is the important one of a single photon being neither divisable or in some way predictable to an outside observer without it being detected by the recipient.
Now whilst I'm happy with both the theory and practical implementation of One Time Pads, the same cannot be said for my feelings about QKD.
In essence Quantum Theory is just that a "reaonable guess of how the universe works and a mathematical model that supports both the guess and all practical experiments so far carried out". Now the problem with a theory is that at some point in the future an experiment might show the mathmatical model is wrong. This happened with Newtons theories on matter and motion and it appear that Einstein's replacment is holding up so far. But quantum mechanics and relativity are both active areas of scientific investigation so who knows...
Now for most practical uses Newton's theories will get you around our solar system without undue issues and Einstein's theories are only needed if what we are trying to do is occuring at or above a sizable fraction of the speed of light (which means mobile phone networks and GPS systems bump into it from time to time).
But security is not about "normal practicalities" it's about ALL practicalities including the exceptional and arguably those that are currently unknown.
And QKD has to be looked at in that light and so far most practical implementations have been found 'wanting" for various reasons.
But most if not all the failings so far found are implementation not theory issues. So it should be possible if the theory holds up to actually make an unbreakable QKD system if the practical issues can be solved in a future proof way (which is an open debate currently).
Actually there are encryption methods that are "unbreakable." Look up "One Time Pad" for an example. It is true that there is no unbreakable encryption scheme that can be practically used to transmit sensitive data between parties that cannot exchange a the secure key through a different, protected method (i.e. mailing a usb stick with a one time pad saved on it). Also to be truly unbreakable the key must be at least as large as the message. So if you have a means to securely (cannot be intercepted by an attacker) share the key with a second party, you might as well just send them the plain text message, since it is the same size or smaller than the key you were going to send.
There is no such thing as unbreakable if it is connected to ANYTHING else.
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No Room for Dissent
The bookseller looks cautiously at the young man in front of him, sizing him up. He asks a few questions; most importantly trying to ascertain if the young university student is an informant for the police. Deciding he is not, there is a quick exchange and a book, covered in paper, is handed over. The young man delivers 20 ringgit and the transaction is complete.
Walking away, Mohamed quickly tucks the book into his bag, turning to give a short wave to the owner of the bookshop, who watches anxiously until the man turns a corner and disappears from view.
"This is the Irshad Manji book and it's banned right now," Mohamed said after arriving at a coffee shop in the popular China Town area of Kuala Lumpur, referring to Canadian author Irshad Manji's "Allah, Liberty and Love".
"The government doesn't want people to read the book because they are afraid it will make people turn gay." He laughs.
Shoring up the conservative base of the electorate
The bookshop has every right to fear a police crackdown. In late May, 36-year-old Borders bookstore manager Nik Raina Nik Aziz was charged in a Malaysian court of selling the banned book. If convicted, she could be fined up to $1,000 or jailed for two years.
For Mohamed and other young activists, the banning of the book over its message – one they say portrays Islam as a "tolerant and understanding faith" – is absurd, especially considering Malaysia's multi-ethnic make-up.
But with an election pending – the government must call for a general election by April next year – officials are seeking to shore up the conservative base of the electorate, and that means Manji's book has been barred from selling.
"They are doing this because she is a lesbian woman who is talking about an Islam that the conservatives don't want. They think she is dangerous and will have young people going crazy. Of course this is not really true, but it is why they ban it," added Mohamed, a political science student in the capital.
Officially, the home ministry banned the book after it was deemed offensive to Islam, arguing that it contained "elements that could mislead the public", and was "detrimental to public order".
According to Manji's website, the book "shows all of us how to reconcile faith and freedom in a world seething with repressive dogmas." Manji has been a longtime proponent of tolerance and understanding within Islam, and describes herself as a "practicing Muslim".
Government claims monopoly on Islam
Self-described religious blogger and women's rights advocate Ousmane Aziz argues that the banning of the book is about which form of Islam is being discussed in the country. She says that the government wants to be seen as the only promoter of liberal and tolerant Islam in order to "win votes".
"It's about sending a message," she begins, "and that message is that the government and its party own the rights to moderate Islam. They talk to the world about how open and tolerant Malaysian Islam is, but at the end of the day, censorship is running rampant in the country."
Aziz refers to popular cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Haque, or Zunar, who has faced the heavy hand of the state in recent years. "He is an inspiration to us young people against the government trying to end our freedom to speak out on issues we think are important." Zunar has been intensely watched by the Malaysian government and subject to draconian forms of censorship for close to 10 years.
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In 2010, he was arrested and detained and all the newspapers in the country were ordered to not publish his cartoons. Zunar fought back by publishing five volumes of his cartoons in a booklet format so that the Malaysian public could view them, aside the big newspaper market.
But the books were seized by the government and publishers, too, had been told to not publish Zunar's work. In addition, his office is constantly raided, dozens of his books have been confiscated by police, and vendors are told not to sell his books or they could face court charges. His movement is monitored and his phone is tapped.
In July 2011, Cartoonists Rights Network International (CRNI) presented its annual Award for Courage in Editorial Cartooning to Zunar. In his acceptance speech in Florida, he said his cartoons have covered "corrupt practice by the Prime Minister and his cabinet members, the murder of the Mongolian model by the name of Altantuya, the conspiracy against Anwar Ibrahim, the domination of the Prime Minister's wife, the Scorpene submarine scandal, and waste of public funds."
"Why pinch when you can punch!"
Zunar explained that the government controls all the newspapers and television and radio broadcasts, leaving no room for dissent. He said: "My aim is to use cartoons as a weapon to fight corruption and abuse of power by the Malaysian government. Through my cartoons, I highlight very important issues, which have not been reported in the government-controlled media."
He urged everyone to fight injustice. "My philosophy is clear: in order to make an impact, we must do it to the fullest. My method is to criticize the most powerful leaders in the hardest ways. Why pinch when you can punch!"
For young people like Mohamed and Aziz, the idea of fighting back is part of their struggle, which is why both of these youths have purchased, illegally, Manji's book and hope to keep the fight, for Islam and against government censorship, moving forward.
"We have to keep fighting or else Malaysia will not be a free country for all its people. Views we don't like or agree with deserve a place in the dialogue," says Aziz.
Joseph Mayton
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Editor: Lewis Gropp/Qantara.de
Comments for this article: No Room for Dissent
Mr.Mayton, do you know if an American judge is ever allowed to carry out judicial verdict in Germany or France, for that matter. Then, why is your hypocrisy about Islam, when it comes to Irshad Manji or Hirsi Ali etc.Moreover, would a similar book relating to Judaism will ever come out? The issue is not that Islam is anti-Tolerance but we Muslims have far greater understanding concerning critical evaluation of our Religion and our theology & literature is replete with it. Its time you shun your orientalist baggage, not just its out of date, more importantly, your product is rotting with a very foul smell. Kindly replace.Abu dropthemsg@...07.09.2012 | 14:07 Uhr
Nonsense! That is just the way the South African racist regime used to react towards any kinds of criticism: "Don't judge our apartheid policy, you don't live here so you don't know anything about this country and what's good for it." That is just another way of saying, shut up, your're stupid, but I'm knowledgable. It kills debate, and in a debate only arguments count, and not any old "Shut-up-you-don't-know-nuthin" slogans.Erin Ahnatoun07.09.2012 | 14:14 Uhr