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Sons of Anarchy once again closed out Comic-Con on the television side yesterday, with Kurt Sutter and his large cast gathering in San Diego to give fans an idea of what they can expect in Season 6.
The panel discussion kicked off with our first clip from the September 10 premiere, with Jax saying in a voiceover that his life is "taking a turn."
We then see the SAMCRO President as a child before flashing forward to Clay and Tara both in jail... Jax advising his kids via a journal entry... Nero watching some dude get beat up... and Chibs punching Juice!
We also learn that Chibs has been promoted to Vice President, with Tommy Flanagan saying he may bring "some conscience" to his close friend and leader, while adding that Chibs "has a blind loyalty toward Jax in a lot of ways."
Among other highlights/Sons of Anarchy Season 6 spoilers:
- Yes, Kurt Sutter still plans to end the series after Season 7. Does he know how he wants to wrap the epic up? "I have a sense of what I want the last scene of the show to be," he told a passionate crowd.
- Season 6, meanwhile, will pick up a few days after the shocking events that concluded Season 5. "The [story] continues to be Jax's journey in terms of, can he be the leader of this outlaw organization and still be a loving father and a devoted husband? Can he take the club and lead them into a more legit line of work and still be an outlaw organization?" Sutter asked, while Charlie Hunnam added: "Can he have everything he wants and remain true to what he is?"
- Clay, of course, has been framed for murder and Ron Perlman acknowledges that time may be running out for his character: "Season six is [Clay] knowing there is no more leveraging, no more maneuvering and no more choices. There's just this bounty on his head and he has no control."
- Jax will still be feeling the effects of Opie's death, but Hunnam it will "inform him in a more positive way. "He'll try to let it inspire him to turn this club into what [his father] John Teller wanted it to be."
- According to the first Season 6 promo, fists are flying and tension appears at an all-time high within the club. So who might be able to save SAMCRO? "Bobby Munson knows everything and he seems to be the light at the end of the tunnel," said Mark Boone Junior.
- Tara will be forced to "man up" behind bars, a short-haired Maggie Siff teased, while Tig will be "back on the leash" under Jax, according to Kim Coates.
Sons of Anarchy Season 6 revs up on Tuesday, September 6 at 10/9 on FX.


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The Pirates affiliates have five teams that are either in first place or still close in their playoff race. The hottest team is the one looking for a wildcard spot, the DSL Pirates2, who have won eight straight games. For a look at the possible starters over the next few weeks, please check out our Probable Pitchers Chart. Check out the Recent Transactions section to the bottom of this page, for all Pirates minor league transactions. A full recap of yesterday's action can be found here. The latest Dominican Summer League recap can be found here.
AAA: Indianapolis (72-54) vs Columbus (59-66) 7:05pm
Probable starter: Stolmy Pimentel (2-4, 3.30)
Yesterday's Result: Indianapolis 3, Columbus 2
Stolmy Pimentel will make his 12th start for Indianapolis tonight. He made 13 starts for Altoona earlier in the year, going 4-3, 3.61 in 77.1 innings. With Indianapolis, Pimentel has thrown 71 innings, allowing 57 hits, six homers, 18 walks and he has 53 strikeouts, with a 1.28 GO/AO ratio and a .219 BAA. Since the All-Star break, he is 0-3, 3.94 in five starts.
AA: Altoona (55-64) vs Portland (57-63) 7:00pm
Probable starter: David Bromberg (5-9, 3.56)
Yesterday's Result: Altoona 6, Portland 5 in 12 innings
David Bromberg will make his 20th start of the season tonight, 18th for Altoona. He has also made two starts for Indianapolis and pitched five times in relief. For Altoona, he has thrown 111.1 innings, allowing 100 hits, five homers and 44 walks. Bromberg has 107 strikeouts, an 0.92 GO/AO ratio and a .244 BAA. In his last start, he went seven innings, allowing one run on three hits, two walks and he had seven strikeouts. At home, he is 2-3, 3.93 in 50.1 innings.
High-A: Bradenton (47-70 overall, 21-28 2nd half) vs Palm Beach (56-62) 6:30pm
Probable starter: Joely Rodriguez (3-3, 2.50)
Yesterday's Result: Bradenton 3, Palm Beach 1
Joely Rodriguez will make his tenth start for Bradenton tonight. He made 14 starts for West Virginia this season, going 5-5, 2.72 in 72.2 innings. On the season, he has thrown a total of 123 innings, allowing 129 hits, five homers and 32 walks. He has 88 strikeouts, a 2.19 GO/AO ratio and a .274 BAA. In his last start, he went five innings, allowing three runs on ten hits and no walks. At home he is 1-2, 1.93 in five starts.
Low-A: West Virginia (70-51 overall, 33-18 2nd half) vs Greensboro (55-63) 7:05pm
Probable starter: Jason Creasy (4-3, 3.06)
Yesterday's Result: West Virginia 10, Greensboro 1
Jason Creasy will get his 11th start of the season tonight. He has also pitched 18 times in relief. As a starter, he is 2-3, 2.83 in 47.2 innings. In his last start, Creasy went five innings, allowing one run on four hits and two walks. At home, he is 2-1, 2.82 in four starts and 11 relief outings. He has 76 strikeouts this season in 85.1 innings.
Short-Season A: Jamestown (33-20) @ Batavia (26-24) 7:05pm
Probable Starter: Chad Kuhl (2-3, 2.37)
Yesterday's Result: Jamestown 4, Batavia 2
Chad Kuhl will make his ninth start of the season tonight. He has thrown 30.1 innings, allowing 27 hits, no homers and five walks. He has 21 strikeouts, a 1.00 GO/AO ratio and a .229 BAA. In his last start, he went five shutout innings, allowing one hit and no walks. Kuhl faced Batavia on the road on 7/23, throwing five shutout innings. He has not allowed an earned run in five road starts.
Rookie: GCL Pirates (23-24) vs GCL Phillies (22-24) 12:00pm
Probable Starter: Wei-Chung Wang (0-3, 3.67)
Yesterday's Result: Pirates 5, Phillies 0
Wei-Chung Wang will make his tenth start of the season. He has pitched 34.1 innings, allowing 27 hits, two homers and three walks. Wang has 28 strikeouts, a 1.20 GO/AO ratio and a .208 BAA. In his last start, he allowed three runs on two hits and a walk over 3.2 innings. In six of his previous eight starts, he allowed one earned run or less. This will be his ninth official start on the road, though his one home start was actually a make-up game on the road in which the Pirates were listed as the home team.
DSL: Pirates1 (34-29) vs Marlins (21-40) 10:30am
Yesterday's Result: Pirates1 5, Marlins 4
DSL: Pirates2 (38-23) vs Mets1 (19-42) 10:30am
Yesterday's Result: Pirates2 12, Mets1 6
Recent Transactions
8/15 Ali Solis sent to Altoona from Indianapolis.
8/15 John Kuchno sent to Jamestown. Jimmy Rider added to West Virginia roster.
8/15 Tyler Waldron promoted to Altoona. Kirk Singer added to Bradenton roster
8/11 Francisco Aponte activated from Jamestown disabled list.
8/11 Kenn Kasparek activated from Altoona disabled list. Ethan Hollingsworth placed on disabled list.
8/8 Kurt Yacko placed on disabled list.
8/7 Zack Dodson returned to Bradenton roster.
8/6 Zack Dodson promoted to Altoona. Kenn Kasparek placed on disabled list.
8/5 Jameson Taillon promoted to Indianapolis. Ethan Hollingsworth sent to Altoona.
8/3 Vic Black sent to Indianapolis. David Bromberg sent to Altoona
8/3 Robert Andino added to Indianapolis roster. Jeff Larish released

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What's the Bottom Line?
If you want to break God's Word (the Bible) down to the ridiculously simple, it's that God said to the very first man and woman He created, "Adam, Eve...you two can do everything on the planet except eat from that one, single tree over there." Well, what did Adam and Eve do with a little encouragement from pride incarnate, Satan? They disobeyed God's ONLY rule.
It all went to hell in a hand-basket after that.
Since God is perfectly Holy, He cannot be in the presence of sin. Accordingly, "man" lost their direct relationship with Him (thanks Adam, thanks Eve). But, He set up a methodology (pre-Jesus) for humanity to say "Mea culpa...I'm sorry"...to receive forgiveness. The process had to do with offering animal sacrifices to God (basically, skinning an animal before eating it and praying to God while it cooked – the skinned animal became the "burnt offering").
This skinned animal that was sacrificed to become "our food" represented Jesus. This was how all the people who were born before Jesus were saved...by apologizing for their sins before every meal that was cooked. It was basically acknowledging "God, you are real and holy, we have sinned, and we desire your forgiveness."
To settle the separation problem once and for all for the entire lot of us, God the Father sent His only Son Jesus, also God, through the impregnation assistance of the Holy Spirit, also God, to become "fully man" and live a perfect sinless life "on our behalf" so that HE could be the Lamb of God ultimately sacrificed for all of mankind, including you, your children and their's. He lived a sinless life, was crucified, died, was buried (satisfying an eternal sacrifice for all of mankind) and the GOOD NEWS is, He was raised from the dead to prove He wasn't just another nut-job with a God complex. Those of us who believe this story are like those, pre-Jesus, who prayed to God during their grillouts apologizing to God for their sins – that "act of faith" counted, and counts, to God.
So when you think of the extent to which God the Son went to restore our original perfect relationship with God the Father, Himself and The Holy Spirit...taking on all the sins of every single human being that ever lived or ever will...JUST because He loved us so much, why would you not be grateful?
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. " John 3:16-18
Jesus is a magnet – the Gospel (Good News) is His polar force. His sheep have iron filings in their souls, and when they hear His Gospel, they are attracted by it and speed home.
"My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me." John 10:27
If you are not attracted to Jesus, it most likely it means that you have never truly listened to His Gospel. You may have heard it, but hearing is a far cry from listening to it. You know exactly what I mean, too – how many times have you talked to a friend who hears, but does not listen to what you are saying. Imagine the frustration Jesus must feel in trying to get YOU to actually LISTEN. Do I have your attention now? Would you like to listen with your eyes right now and determine if your soul carries in it iron filings?
The Lord Jesus is the Son of God who became man. He is fully God and fully man. He was crucified, He died and was buried, and He was raised from the dead on the third day according to the Scriptures. This same Lord Jesus Christ ascended into the heavens, is ruling and reigning even now, and will come again to judge the living and the dead.
"Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved," Paul told the Philippian jailer (Acts 16:31).
Jesus made a startling claim: that He was the Son of God, and that He had come to solve the "problem of sin". Believe that, you go to Heaven; don't, you go to Hell.
God permits your heart to be broken in two – 'my' will and 'Thy' will – and forces you to choose sides. On one side of the decision you find 'I AM', on the other, 'you ain't'. Your selection carries with it eternal consequeces.
Everyone in Heaven and Hell will have CHOSEN to use their free will ON EARTH to say "Yes" or "No" to Jesus (please, read John 3:16-18 again).
The difference between the believer and the unbeliever is that the unbeliever is willfully determined to go a certain direction. If you are bent on silencing the voice of God in your life, do you know what God will do? He will step aside, and second your motion, if that's what you really want, because He CANNOT violate your will and still call you free.
If you are a free being, God cannot overrule your freedom in the most ultimate sense, and still call you free. He can lure, He can woo, He can plead, He can beg, He can put the pressure on, He can even orchestrate a website like this one to engage you, but He cannot violate your will and still call you free. God GIVES your spirit this earthly life, and YOU make the choice. The whole purpose of this Universe is to eliminate the POSSIBILITY of evil once and for all. Once we ALL bow and confess Jesus as LORD, and once He honors the choice we ALL made during our short sprint of a life, then God will "lock in" our decisions, eternally.
How will you respond to this man Jesus and his claims? Your answer to the question, "Who is Jesus?" is the single most important one you will ever make. It's worth considerable thought. Will you bow down before Him and be saved forever? Or will you follow Satan's counsel and rest in your own self-sufficiency?
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"May God give you faith to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and particularly in the fact that God raised him from the dead. May you come to know that Jesus Christ is the only Savior and there is no other. May we all remember that Jesus is the Judge whom we will all face, because it is appointed to man once to die and then comes judgment. May God have mercy on us, that we will beg for mercy and pardon from him and be saved. Amen."
Todd Pitner
P.S. After fully considering all of the above, my last question to you (the unbeliever) is this, "Why would you NOT WANT Christianity to be true?" Please seriously think about this question. If you have a good answer to this, I would appreciate receiving it. You can contact me at todd(at)iLoveAtheists.com. Thank you.


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1. How did you get started in the User Experience Design field? And what would be your advice to new comers to the field?
12 years ago I was a designer and front end developer frustrated by the lack of planning that went into most Web products. I started reading books like "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web" and "The Art and Science of Web Design" and began experimenting with IA, usability testing and wireframing. It got to the point where I was doing so much UX work that I stopped doing design and dev altogether. That's when I realised that I'd become a UX designer.
My advice would be not to change your job title the moment you learn what a wireframe is, but to slowly transition from one discipline to another based on knowledge and experience. So if you're a designer or a developer in a large (or even small company) try to get to a situation where you're doing more and more UX related tasks until that becomes the bulk of your job. Then you can quit your job, change your job title and re-invent yourself as a UX Designer.
2. What's the one thing that always works in User Experience Design?
Thinking about the problem and sketching out possible solutions before jumping into Photoshop or your favourite code editor to start building.
3. What product, service, thing would you like to redesign and why?
There are far too many broken experiences on the Web to nominate a single product or service. However I think banks are a really good candidate. I use Internet banking on a daily basis and am amazed how out of date traditional banks are compared to Square or Simple. So I'd love somebody like Virgin Money to come along and genuinely want to do something interesting and innovative.
On the subject of money, I'd love to fix some of the old dinosaurs of online payment like World Pay or Sec Pay before companies like Stripe and Square completely eat their lunch.
4. Can design be a source for an important social change? How can we achieve that?
The goal of design is to make peoples lives easier and more joyful, so I see it as a nobel profession with a net positive effect. Some companies like IDEO and Frog will tout the World changing effects of design and there are definitely examples of this. For instance the single use syringe designed by Marc Koska to prevent the spread of HIV. However most design improvements are personal and incremental so I'm not a huge fan of the current trend to glorify design.
That being said I do think that companies like Square, Simple and Stripe are making millions of peoples lives marginally easier by improving online payments, while GDS in the UK and Code for America in the US are helping to improve civic engagement and the delivery of Government services. So there are a lot of people using their design skills to improve their immediate environments, rather than selling more units of fizzy water. So that's got to be a good thing.
5. What's your latest design inspiration?
I don't believe that design is a wholly creative pursuit that benefits from the classic concept of inspiration — so no strolling in the fields being inspired by the wonders of nature for me. Instead I see design and a process for solving problems, and am inspired by interesting challenges and the ability to experiment with novel solutions.
Andy Budd is the founder of UX London, one of the longest running (and best!) UX conferences in Europe. UX London is back on the 10th April 2014, so make sure you follow @uxlondon for more details.
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I have enjoyed getting to know each of you in class this year. I am so proud of all your hard work and the growth you have made both as students and as citizens at Peters. I will remember the experiences we shared this year -- our trip to Biztown, discussions about Tuck Everlasting, testing the catapults, and being stuck in the mud at Rogers County. Thank you for the many small moments that made each day fun.
I plan to continue to update this web site throughout the summer with fun and interesting activities. Check back frequently for updates on the Summer Activities page I have created. And don't forget that our class is enrolled in www.code.org, where you can continue to improve your computer programming skills.
I wish all of you the best of luck in 6th grade, and I hope you will stay in touch. I will miss each of you. Remember, all of us at Peters are here to help you whenever you need it.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Hurricane Isaac has gotten a little stronger as it closes in on the Gulf Coast.
Isaac's maximum sustained winds increased Tuesday afternoon to 80 mph.
The storm is expected to make landfall late Tuesday on the eve of the seventh anniversary of when Hurricane Katrina devastated the region.
While not as powerful as Katrina, Isaac threatens to flood the coasts of four states with storm surge and heavy rains on its way to New Orleans, where residents have been hunkering down behind levees fortified after Katrina struck.
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Today was the second round of TNRs for my client's feral cat colony. She was only able to trap one, this cute little baby boy. There are two left (that we know of) so we will be doing this again soon. I transported him to the clinic where he was altered … Continue reading
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I recently had an interesting conversation with a representative of the World Gold Council.
We were talking about the role of gold as a strategic asset – how holding gold can help you survive and thrive in the current spate of economic turbulence.
Most people don't understand the first thing about the gold market. They think of gold as something only "the rich" own in private banks or governments keep locked up in vaults as reserves.
But the reality couldn't be further from the truth.
There are about 166,600 tons of gold above ground. The rest is still deep under the Earth's surface in hard to reach ores.
Half of the world's entire above ground stock of gold – 84,200 tons of the stuff – is in the form of jewelry. Another roughly 18% is in private hands in the form of bars and coins. And governments and central banks own another roughly 17%.
So, gold jewelry owners hold one in two of every ounce of gold ever mined. And collectively they're twice as important in terms of demand for gold than either private investors or governments and central banks.
"Chindia" – Where Real Gold Demand Is Coming From
And when you dig a bit further you find that about half of gold jewelry demand comes from one of two places: China and India, two of the world's most powerful emerging markets.
According to World Gold Council figures, India accounted for about one-third of all gold jewelry demand last year. And China accounted for another quarter of demand.
In the case of India, that's about six times more demand than the next largest gold jewelry buying nation, the U.S. And in the case of China, it's about four times the demand of the U.S.
And jewelry buying in India and China is by no means the preserve of the wealthy. Gold jewelry is popular across all sections of society. (Although, wealthy Chinese and Indians can of course afford higher quality and quantities of gold jewelry).
This turns the received wisdom about gold on its head. Because it reveals the fundamental demand driver for gold is the exploding emerging market consumer class.
The fact is that as India and China get richer, their appetite for gold increases. And this is a big factor in the rise of the price of gold on the world's commodities markets.
Take India. Demand there for gold, as measured in rupees, went from Rs 300 billion in 1998 to Rs 1,800 billion last year. That's a 500% increase in just 12 years.
And in China, the world's largest gold producer, demand now far outstrips supply. Last year, there was a total supply shortfall – including jewelry, bars and coins – of about 90 tons.
And this direct demand is only part of the story. Another misconception about gold is that it has no real use. Again, people of got this plain wrong.
In the first quarter of this year alone almost 120 tons of gold were used up in electronics, dentistry and other industrial products.
And what do emerging middle class consumers spend their money on? For one, better dental care. And also fancy consumer gadgets.
Emerging Market Central Banks Play Catch-Up
Emerging market central banks are net buyers too.
The U.S. has 74.6% of its central bank's reserves in gold. Germany's central bank holds 70.8% of its reserves in gold. Even bankrupt Portugal's central bank has 81% of its reserves in gold.
But China has only 1.6% of its central bank reserves in gold. And India has only 8.2% of its reserves in gold.
The point being that emerging market central banks have a long way to go before they catch up with developed world's central bank gold holdings.
And as these emerging market central banks play catch-up, they will add another big demand driver to the gold market.
I have been recommending you hold gold since we first launched International Living Investor. And I continue to believe gold should be a core holding of any global investment portfolio.
Seen from a supply and demand standpoint, gold is a great way to play emerging market growth.
If you haven't already, consider buying shares in a gold ETF such as the SPDR Gold Trust (NYSE:GLD) or the ETFs Gold Trust (NYSE:SGOL).
GLD charges yearly fees of 0.40% and SGOL charges yearly fees of 0.39%. Both are relatively inexpensive ways of holding gold.


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WIMBLEDON, England—Mornin'. The women's final is almost upon us, and I'm probably one of the few people here in the press room who isn't prepared to hand Serena Williams the title and fast forward to the Andy Murray vs. Roger Federer men's final. There's no doubt that the planets seem aligned for a beatdown; something like Serena pounding out 32 aces in a 6-1, 6-0 rout. But when you live by the sword you die by the sword. And if Serena's serve deserts her, things could get interesting and even ugly.
I say "ugly" because one of the major factors in play here will be the fact that this is Agnieszka Radwanska's first Grand Slam final. And nobody knows how someone else is going to react to that loaded privilege. Some freeze up, others shed the pressure like ducks shed water. So put yourself in Radwanska's shoes in the best case scenario: She's on Centre Court and, contrary to all logic and punditry, in a position to beat Serena Williams. Will she have what it takes to get the job done? I keep thinking back to that narrow escape Serena had Jie Zheng in the third round, the one that ended 9-7 in the third. Serena has cleaned her game up since then, but each day is a new one.
Let's look at some of their tournament numbers; Serena has the edge in the italicized entries, Aga in the bold-faced ones:
Aces: Serena, 85 (four shy of the Wimbledon record she established in 2010); Aga, 14
First-serve points won: Serena, 80%; Aga, 68%
Second-serve points won: Serena, 62%; Aga, 52%
Service games won/lost: Serena, 66-6; Aga, 49-10
First serve conversion percentage: Aga, 74%; Serena, 65%
Fastest serve (first & second): Serena, 120 & 102 M.P.H.; Aga, 106 & 89 M.P.H.
Returns in: Aga 84%; Serena, 73%
Winners (including serve): Serena, 207; Aga, 109
Break points won: Aga, 29 of 56; Serena, 19 of 38
Unforced errors (forehand, backhand, total): Aga, 25-25-56; Serena, 38-36-81
Forced errors (F,B,T): Aga, 62-48-115; Serena, 80-92-175
Total net points won: Aga, 69 of 104; Serena, 60 of 69
Alright. Numbers can be deceptive, and match-ups matter. But you can see from these statistics that Serena dominates Aga most in serve-related categories. If it isn't a blowout, this one could be a lot closer than many people expect.


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Most authors dream of having their work snatched up by Hollywood and turned into a box-office hit. Yeah, chance would be a fine thing! Just imagine therefore how one author must be reflecting on earning the undisputed number one spot for the transfer of books to films, with no less than 22 full-length features to his name?
If you add in his short films, TV films and TV series the list grows to a staggering 83! I guess the rest of us have a long way to go!
The man under the spotlight is no less than Stephen King, the doyen of the horror genre, who dipped his toe into other literary waters with equally surprising results.
It all started for King with his first novel Carrie, penned in 1973 and made into a film in 1976. From that point onwards the credits simply kept rolling. They include some of Hollywood's best remembered titles:
Salem's Lot (1979)
The Shining (1980)
Children of the Corn (1984)
Silver Bullet (1985)
The Running Man (1987)
The Tommyknockers (1993)
The Green Mile (1999)
Dolan's Cadillac (2009).
Okay, you get the picture (sorry for the pun!). Tucked into King's long list of achievements is my own favourite, The Shawshank Redemption, surely one of the best films ever made, and easy to see why it's regularly voted by cinema-goers in their top two or three picks of all time.
Despite what you might be thinking, this is not a Stephen King fan blog. There's a general point to be made about how some stories are 'grabbed' by Holywood while others are strangely ignored. First, let's bring the works of other authors into the argument.
The closest author to King in terms of film conversions is Ian Fleming with 13 credits – 12 of them featuring James Bond, the other being Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (hands up if you didn't know!).
Nineteenth century author Henry James is next on the list with 12 titles, including The American and The Portrait of A Lady, which were mainly adapted for later television works.
Large-as-life author Michael Creighton – he of Jurassic Park, The Lost Park, The Andromeda Strain and The Great Train Robbery, comes next with 10 titles successfully converted to the big screen.
Mark Twain and Nicolas Sparks have each 8 titles in film, followed by James Cain and Phillip Dick, each with 7.
The list of authors on six includes John Grisham, J K Rowling and Jane Austen. In the latter case Austen deserves to go close to the top of the tree when you consider how many Holywood remakes there are of such classics as Pride and Prejudice, not to mention the umpteen television adaptions of her works.
It's at the lower end of the list that you find the most surprises. The modern grandfather of adventure novels, Clive Cussler, has only two films to his name – Raise the Titanic and the Sahara – neither of which rank among his best works!
Consider also that it has taken Holywood until now to recognise the appeal of Lee Child's Jack Reacher stories. Among his many books just one has been chosen for the tinseltown treatment. One Shot, starring Tom Cruise, will premiere in December 2012.
It can surely be only a matter of time before Stephen Leather and Matt Hilton convert to the silver screen, but where does that leave the rest of us?
The answer, I'm afraid, is buying a cinema ticket and enjoying the work of our peers!
But don't despair. Here's a simple recipe for Holywood success.
Make sure you have a good story.
Throw in some memorable characters.
Stir in good dashes of dialogue.
Add a touch of suspense.
Blend in a teaspoon or two of romance.
Let it simmer for a while but bring to the boil at the end.
And pray for a lotta, lotta luck.
In the meantime, do what you do best. Stay creative, get your stories out there, and continue to entertain the masses. Who needs Holywood anyway?


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China Tourism Year Launched in Almaty, Kazakhstan
On April 19, CNTA vice chairman Du Jiang joined Arystanbek Muhamediuly, Minister of Culture and Sports of Kazakhstan at the opening ceremony of the 17th Kazakhstan International Tourism Fair (KITF) hosted at Atakent Exhibition Center, Almaty. The China Tourism Year was launched at the opening ceremony.
In his address, Du said: The Silk Road has brought the Chinese and the Kazakh people close to each other. It's in Kazakhstan that Chinese president Xi Jinping proposed the initiative to build the Silk Road Economic Belt. Hosting the China Tourism Year in Kazakhstan is a joint decision made by state heads of the two countries to promote long-term bilateral friendship and marks a milestone in their bilateral tourism cooperation. I hope that tourism professionals in both countries would make full use of the tourism year campaign and harvest more fruits from bilateral tourism exchange and cooperation.
Muhamediuly thanked Du and the Chinese delegation for attending the opening ceremony. He noted: China and Kazakhstan are close to each other geographically and culturally. Both are proud of their splendid cultural heritage and beautiful scenery and enjoy broad prospects for tourism cooperation. I hope that we will strengthen communication through the tourism year campaign and take effective measures to drive continuous growth in bilateral tourism exchange.
The KITF is the biggest and the most influential tourism fair in Kazakhstan and Central Asia. Chinese exhibition booths at the event were designed and decorated in such a way to highlight the China Tourism Year. The CNTA office in Moscow organized tourism authorities, airlines and travel agencies from Hainan, Xinjiang and other Chinese provinces (regions) to exhibit at the show. The cross-border self-drive tour group organized by Xinjiang Commission for Tourism Development also showed up at the exhibition.
To celebrate the launch of China Tourism Year and showcase China's image as a tourist destination, on the night of April 19, "China Tourism Night" was staged at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Almaty. It was attended and addressed by Mr. Du, Mr. Muhamediuly, mayor of Almaty Bauyrzhan Baibek and Chinese consul-general Zhang Wei in Almaty. Representatives from Hainan Commission for Tourism Development, Xinjiang Commission for Tourism Development, China UnionPay as well as travel agencies, hotels and airline companies in both countries made presentations to promote their products and services. The event gathered a total of more than 200 guests including business insiders and journalists.


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Bega Valley Shire Council has commenced major works on a section of Monaro Street between Reid Street and Tantawanglo Street.
Work began on Monday, May 26 and will continue until Friday, May 30 between the hours of 6am and 6pm.
The roadway will be dug up, lime applied and mixed into the base, before being resealed. A spokesman for the contractors said this will strengthen the road.
Council said that a full street closure is necessary as part of the work although access to this street for local residents will be permitted.
The council extends its apologies for any inconvenience that this work may cause. For further information please contact James Downes on 0428 260 996.


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33-year old Gregory John Schaffer said he owned 4 stores at Newport Center Mall. He also said he name was John Archambeault. Police say he was lying about all of it, and that he used his made-up story to lure a 15-year old girl from Brooklyn to his office, where he raped her.
"There really are people out there who want to hurt our young people," online safety expert Parry Aftab said.
Aftab is an online safety expert who encourages parents to teach their children how to stay safe online. Police say in mid-March, the 15-year old girl from Brooklyn went on Craigslist and posted "Teen in need of an afterschool & weekend job (NYC)."
Schaffer, posing as John Archambeault, responded, "Looking for part time help in my store in Newport Mall in Jersey City. Can you send info and let me know if you are interested in it."
"Make sure you've checked out the person you're meeting. You need to find out who they are. Google them, call the police, see if they have a record," Aftab said.
The teen emailed her resume and a photo. Schaffer apparently emailed back that he had a job for her at Victoria's Secret at Newport Center Mall, which he falsely said he owned. The teen went to his Jersey City office with a friend for an interview, where she told police he asked her about her sex life and whether she had a boyfriend. Aftab says those inappropriate questions should have been a red flag.
"We've had trouble with people placing ads on Craigslist and forgetting about their common sense," Aftab explained.
The next day, investigators say the teen went back to Jersey City, alone, and met Schaffer to sign a 'contract.' Instead, police say he forced her to pose for photos in a skimpy bathing suit, and then raped her, telling her the contract she signed required it and that he would sue her family if she resisted. In Bayonne, where Schaffer used to live with his wife and son, one landlord said he'd been evicted for failing to pay his rent, and another former neighbor said he was disgusted by the charges.
Schaffer is in jail, being held without bail. Investigators say when they searched his office, they found other photos of young girls in bathing suits or lingerie. They suspect there are other victims.
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President Sirleaf's Inaugural Address Should Be About Jobs, Jobs and More Jobs
The one and only time I ever had a summer job was in 1975, when as a teenager, I was hired to work briefly with other students at the Ministry of Information in Monrovia.
I believe the late Edward B. Kesselly was Minister at the time, and we worked as a team retrieving and binding printed materials on the lower floor of the Ministry until it was time to go home, which was always a struggle.
It was my first job that prepared me for the twists and turns I would later encounter in life, and to work with other teenagers who shared similar goals of making money, hanging out, and preparing to go back to school after the break was an experience that prepared and exposed me to the joy of working to earn my own money.
The constant struggle for me was not the job or my colleagues picking on me, but finding a cab or bus in the morning to take me from my residence in New Kru Town to Camp Johnson Road; and getting home in the afternoon was even difficult than it was in the morning.
It was a task I dreaded but I had to get to work every morning, anyway, to earn that monthly $75.00 paycheck the Liberian government of President Tolbert promised to pay me/us but was actually disbursed the third month, which was the end of the vacation assignment.
I don't really know what the disbursement procedure is in Liberia today, how summer or vacation jobs are allotted, and I don't even know when and how students are being paid. One thing I know is that we got paid as promised, and never had a reason to take to the streets to destroy properties and national infrastructure to make a point that would later paint us as unrudely.
However, I was never told the reason or reasons for the delay in disbursing our paychecks, but it was customary for students working summer jobs not to receive their paychecks until it was time to go back to school.
After working that vacation job for three months, I finally got a lump sum of $275.00, which was a lot for me at the time.
The rushing, fighting and running all over the place to get to work weekdays was like a day's work. It was bruising and tiring, and it took a lot of patience and determination to hold on to a job I wasn't getting paid for until after a three-month period.
Even though I was able to brave Monrovia's hot temperatures to get to work and home daily, I have only my parents to thank for making my trips possible; because without their generous financial support, getting those daily bus and cab fares would have been impossible.
I was fortunate. Some of my vacation job colleagues were not as fortunate as I was, and perhaps experienced their own issues with transportation and fares, while others probably had their parents or other family members around that assisted them in their time of need.
In 1978, a year after I graduated high school, I was hired permanently in January as Cadet in the Press Bureau of the same Ministry of Information that introduced me to the dignity of working to earn a living, for which I am extremely grateful. I however, left the Ministry in November 1978 to pursue other goals elsewhere.
I just can't wait to share my story after reading about those young people who reportedly engaged in acts of violence all across Monrovia during the holiday season, when they did not receive their paychecks at the time specified by the Liberian government.
Those kids probably are like some of my former teenage colleagues who had problem getting to work because of the lack of bus or cabs fares, and were clueless about where their next meals would come from the next hour or day.
It is not unusual to read or hear stories about hungry school age kids, adults and struggling students who go to bed hungry. It is not unusual either to see or hear stories about poor and unemployed students dropping out of school or class because they cannot afford bus/cab fares, tuition, and instructor-inspired make-up fees.
This is happening because there are no jobs, no opportunities and social services in Liberia that helps and gives poor people and poor students the chance to study or work to move up in life.
The story resonates because it occurs too often in Liberia, a difficult and uninspiring place where the nation's imperial and corrupt presidents and well-to-do Liberians rather provide assistance only to their children, wives, girlfriends, cronies and extended family members than provide meaningful assistance to others (with no strings attached) in need.
This is happening in a country where any hint of political unfairness and inequality can be explosive.
However, with unemployment and poverty way too high, and young people often showing their collective frustration at a callous and corrupt post-war political system that just experienced an explosive electoral crisis can be explosive, especially for President Sirleaf, who is still struggling to gain legitimacy as a leader of all Liberians.
That is why it is imperative that President Sirleaf, who is once again staging a very costly January coronation in the midst of hunger and abject poverty include in her inaugural address an aggressive strategy for creating jobs, jobs and more jobs, and also announce a progressive plan that creates jobs and programs for young people to stay out of trouble and not think violence is the only way forward.
The Sirleaf administration cannot claim to be caught off guard by this crisis, because the jobs issue that ignited this latest riot is a Liberian crisis that occurred on the president's watch; and ignored by her predecessors once everything was under control and their despotic regimes were deemed safe – courtesy of the state's armed and brutal security forces.
The seasonal politicians and wannabe presidential candidates are to be blamed also, because some are only interested in running for president and not concerned or interested in the plight of those they claimed they want to lead.
The graphic and rhetorical images of violence and destruction, and the public relations nightmare that followed after the recent student riot are reasons to question the Executive Mansion's domestic policy agenda and public relations competence; because it seems the Sirleaf administration does not have a domestic policy agenda but reacts only when there is political fire burning somewhere in Liberia that threatens her regime.
This is not intended to glorify the terrible behavior of those students who obviously did not behave like students, when they took to the streets and destroyed everything in their paths. They acted child-like and played into the stereotype that often lumps Liberians and Liberian students into the categories of rebels and rogues waiting to kill or steal to own something that does not belong to them.
It is a well-known fact that Liberians are suffering and are also frustrated because of the lack of jobs to take care of their families and their basic needs. Poverty and unemployment cannot be eradicated, but can be controlled by sound fiscal/domestic policies.
It is believed President Sirleaf's looming inauguration will cost that impoverished nation (Liberia) and its poor people over $1million dollars, the same amount it costs during the president's first inauguration in 2006.
My phone has been ringing off the hook daily, and at times weekly because family members and friends are calling and crying for financial assistance to buy food, school supplies, or are begging for money to pay their kid's school fees.
This is the time to prioritize, and the Sirleaf administration cannot continue to be insensitive to the suffering of the Liberian people.
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When you receive rep from someone, you receive reputation points on your account. Once you receive 100 points, you go from 1 green dot Hidden Content under your name to two. Hidden Content Hidden Content The green dots continue to count up every 100 or so points until you get up to around 400-500 points, then the amount of green dots acquired slows down considerably. For instance to have 10 green dots is not 1000 rep points but actually closer to 5000. The max amount of green dots you can have is 11. Hidden Content Hidden Content Hidden Content Hidden Content Hidden Content Hidden Content Hidden Content Hidden Content Hidden Content Hidden Content Hidden Content
When you give somebody reputation, the amount of reputation they receive is based on your "Rep Power" Your rep power is determined by the following things:
1. Number of days registered on the forum.
2. Number of posts you have on the forum.
3. Number of reputation points you have received from others.
To give you the actual numbers so you can do the math:
For every 10 days registered on the forum, you receive 1 point of reputation power.
For every 25 posts you receive 1 point of reputation power.
For every 50 reputation points, you receive 1 point of reputation power.
So a member who has been registered for 10 days, has 25 posts, and 50 reputation points, will have a reputation power of 3. However, you must be registered for at least 10 days and have at least 10 posts before your reputation power takes effect. Before meeting both of these requirements, you will have no reputation power. You can still rep people, however they will receive a gray dot, worth zero points. Hidden Content
Negative reputation works the exact opposite of positive reputation. Negative reputation is displayed as a red dot. Hidden Content You take away as much reputation with negative rep as your rep power would give with positive rep. This means, if your rep power is 100, and you negative rep someone, they will lose 100 reputation points. Just like with positive rep, you must be registered for at least 10 days and have 10 posts before negative rep has any effect.
There is another option, that would make administrators and mods automatically have a larger amount of rep power based on their status, however to be fair to all, I have turned this off. This means all mods and admins, including me, gain reputation power at the same rate as everyone else.
There are also little messages that pop up when you hover the mouse over someones rep. These continue to change as the rep points go up and change alot more frequently then the amount of green dots does.
To check how many reputation points you have, and to see your 25 most recent rep comments, click on your User CP and it will be towards the bottom, underneath your subscribed threads.
There is a modification installed that allows you to see the latest 25 reputations you have given as well.
I have installed another modification that allows you to choose how many reputation points to give to someone when repping them. The least you can give is 1 and the most you can give is your current rep power level.
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|Especially if it's an AC-130 gunship
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|It's a book of evil *** magic. The subbed series is considered one of the best hen*** series ever. The dubbed series is considered one of the funniest ever.
|Oh...I thought they were referring to that Black Lagoon thing. Sorry. d*** Satanic writings. I need a grimoire...
|thanks SD. What a ****ty poster
|Check the first comment Canada.
|Black Lagoon. It's a decent show. I never really got into it, though.
|I still don't know wtf TSB is
|For the record, I think an anime bible would be awesome. We could replace Genesis with a giant robot fight and Jesus could be voiced by Dan Green.
|Nothing wrong with that!
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NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. – An illegal immigrant was rescued from an ice floe less than a mile upstream from Niagara Falls, authorities said.
Guards from Ontario Power Generation said they heard the man screaming for help at about 4:30 a.m. Saturday near the company's water intakes near Chippawa, Ont.
"If he hadn't been discovered," said Peter Larsen, a control dam operator at the intakes, "he would have gone through one of those gates and then very likely could have been swept over the falls."
Rescuers in boats plucked the shivering man from the ice floe and got him ashore.
Authorities said the unidentified 42-year-old man had an inflatable air mattress with him and was apparently trying to get to the United States. The ice chunk he was on apparently broke loose.
The man was treated for mild hypothermia before being charged by Canadian immigration authorities.


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Science graduates emerge into Ireland of little security
It is no surprise that there is a slow, steady stream of young but experienced research scientists who end up leaving for the UK and US, where the notion of maintaining a career is not off the menu
The release of Leaving results two weeks ago showed increased numbers of students sitting physics, biology, chemistry and higher maths
The message is getting through to students and their parents – it is a good idea to consider studying physics, biology, chemistry and higher maths at second level to facilitate a jump into third-level studies in the sciences. The release of Leaving results two weeks ago by the State Examinations Commission showed increased numbers of students sitting these subjects and the follow-through was also to be seen in the Central Applications Office first round offers. The points required for entry to the sciences and maths were up and are significantly higher than they were back in 2010 when you could get into the sciences at University College Dublin or Trinity College Dublin with a Leaving result in the mid-400s. Now the points demand is in the low 500s.
Education commentators including this paper's education correspondent, Joe Humphreys, put the steady rise down to the bonus points on offer for those students who sit and pass higher maths, even if they scrape through with a D grade. This extra 25 points is being used to leverage places in courses that are seeing growing demand, hence growing points requirements for science courses along with engineering and agricultural science. Clearly something is pushing this demand and the most likely cause is sustained encouragement from the Government telling people – parents in particular – that there are good, high-paying jobs available for those working in the sciences and maths.
It doesn't hurt this argument that Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton and Minister of State in the department Damien English (previously Seán Sherlock) make almost daily announcements of new jobs coming up in the technology sector. They also regularly talk about fresh investments in scientific research which opens the doors for PhD and postdoctoral researchers to take up opportunities using a combination of State, European Union and private- enterprise money in pursuit of some research goal.
But are the parents and their offspring being deceived? Is it really true that there are thousands of jobs going a-begging as we are told because there aren't enough specialists, particularly in the IT area, available to take up well-paid posts? There is a certain amount of exaggeration going on and things aren't really as straightforward as they might seem.
There have been about a dozen phone calls to this office in recent months from parents looking for advice on why their science grad daughter or son can't seem to find a job here. These clearly won't be a representative sample, and may not be a reflection of what is actually going on. The Higher Education Authority's reports on the first destinations for graduates usually show consistently high job or higher education placements for those holding science, technology and maths degrees. Those with degrees in these subjects also are trained to be good problem-solvers and so are ideal people to sign up as managers in any discipline. They generally have good numeracy, logical thinking and evidence-based decision-making skills that fit in any kind of business.
There is something very important missing in this rosy picture, however, and that relates to continuity and career prospects. Students are sold the idea that they can pursue a career in the sciences but given the way that research happens here the great majority of any research posts on offer are going to be in the universities and institutes. There is currently a ban on recruitment in this sector so jobs are really scarce.
Many PhDs and postdocs do manage to get picked up, however, on short-term contracts of two to five years, positions that are 100 per cent dependent on the availability of research funding. The job lasts as long as the research money holds out and when this goes the project – and the employment – come to an end.
The largest research funder, Science Foundation Ireland, keeps thousands of researchers in work through its grants, but its €150 million annual budget has remained static for several years, which means less to spend on short-term contracts.
Similar budgetary restrictions hold for other funders such as the Irish Research Council, Health Research Board and Teagasc. The foundation tries to spread its money farther by demanding that higher education and companies link up to do research, with the companies required to put up hard cash, but even with a contribution from other sources, such as the EU's Horizon 2020 money, funding can dry up.
This makes it more difficult for a researcher to hop from the end of one research gig to the beginning of another to enable a postdoc to keep a young family going. It is no surprise then that there is a slow, steady stream of young but experienced research scientists who end up leaving for the UK and United States to take up more reliable research posts abroad, ones where the notion of maintaining a career is not off the menu. One can only hope then that by the time the current crop of higher education first years gets through its science, engineering and maths degrees that we will have found a way around this career breaker and ensure we can keep these talented people productive and at home.


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Bids Start at $28,000 for Irish Properties as Creditors Head for the Exits
Irish homes may sell for as little as 21,000 euros ($28,000) today as owners dispose of foreclosed properties in the country's biggest residential auction.
Houses on sale by Dublin-based broker Space and the U.K.'s Allsop LLP include a four-bedroom log cabin on Lough Sillian, a lake northwest of Dublin, for a minimum price of 50,000 euros. A nursing home and a two-story property across from the U.S. Embassy in Dublin will also be put on the block.
"The Allsop auctions are really the only mechanism we have now for the revelation of prices, because transactions outside of them are so thin on the ground," said Constantin Gurdgiev, a lecturer in finance at Trinity College Dublin.
Of the 110 properties in the public auction, 81 are being sold by creditor-appointed receivers and about 45 have rent- paying tenants, according to Space. More than 6,000 people attended the three auctions held since April, purchasing 93 percent of the homes being offered, the broker said.
"Nobody is a mug, nobody is looking to pay too much and everybody wants to really feel they are getting a bargain," said Stephen McCarthy, managing director of Space. "Contrary to what people want to think, Irish people are still obsessed with owning property."
As of 1:55 p.m., 45 of the 51 properties put up for sale so far had been sold, according to Space, which is holding the event at Dublin's five-star Shelbourne Hotel.
Plummeting Prices
The average asking price for a home in Ireland was 195,000 euros in the third quarter, compared with 366,000 euros during the height of the property boom in mid-2007, according to Daft.ie, Ireland's largest property website. The central bank estimated in March that prices may fall as much as 60 percent from their peak. While properties in the city of Dublin may regain close to half their highest values, homes built in commuter towns in Ireland's midlands may fall as much as 90 percent, Gurdgiev said.
The least expensive house being auctioned is a three- bedroom duplex in Donegal County with tenants under contract for almost five years at a rent of 50 euros a week. The minimum bid is 21,000 euros. The highest reserve in for a residence is 420,000 euros for a 19th-century house in Dublin's Rathgar district arranged into eight self-contained residential units.
The average home price in Donegal county was 154,229 euros in the third quarter. In Cavan, where the log cabin is for sale, the average is 153,155 euros.
Burden for Banks
Irish banks hurt by the country's real-estate slump will see their assets become even less valuable because of rising mortgage arrears and falling property prices, Moody's Investors Service said Nov. 21. At the end of the third quarter, 8.1 percent of private residential mortgages were in arrears for more than 90 days, according to Ireland's central bank. That compared with 7.2 percent at the end of June.
The Dublin-based Economic & Social Research Institute cut its growth forecast today for Ireland's gross domestic product to 0.9 percent for next year from 2.3 percent, saying it expects further declines in house prices.
Ireland's National Asset Management Agency, set up to purge lenders of risky properties, hasn't taken part in the auctions, McCarthy said. Receivers appointed by Irish and foreign banks are taking part in the auction, according to Space.
"A lot of it is mattress money from Ireland," he said, referring to the buyers. "But it is being repatriated to the U.K., because there are U.K. and foreign banks selling."
The average price of the 179 houses and apartments sold in the past three auctions was 175,331 euros, McCarthy said.
The most expensive home auctioned so far was on Ailesbury Road in Dublin, one of Ireland's priciest streets. It was bought for 2.3 million euros, 60 percent above the minimum price.
After selling 214 properties for more than 40 million euros in three auctions since April, Allsop and Space plan five more next year.
"If you want to sell it quickly, if you want to sell it in a transparent way, and you want to get paid in 30 days, there is no other way," McCarthy said.
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On Gay Men in the Priesthood / Scapegoating gays won't end clergy sex abuse
Published 4:00 am, Wednesday, October 26, 2005
News reports this month have speculated that one of the first major initiatives from Pope Benedict XVI will restrict homosexuals from seminary training and thus ordination as Roman Catholic priests. The most recent accounts have claimed that homosexual men must be celibate for three years prior to entering the seminary. My immediate question is: Will this three-year celibacy rule also apply to heterosexual men? I sure hope that all applicants to the seminary, regardless of sexual orientation, will be treated equally and fairly.
Many of the recent press reports have argued that a more hard-line position on homosexuals in the priesthood is at least partially in response to the child sexual-abuse scandals that have plagued the church in recent years. Because 81 percent of clergy sex-abuse victims have been boys, and because two-thirds of these victims have been teenagers (according to the much quoted John Jay College report released in February 2004), it is reasoned that ridding the church of homosexual priests (or at least greatly restricting them) would minimize or eliminate any current or future clergy sexual abuse of minor children.
Sadly, homosexuals may get blamed for the clergy's sexual abuse of minors after all. There are several reasons why this makes no sense at all.
First, no quality scholarly research or clinical-practice data suggests that sexual orientation, by itself, is a risk factor for committing sexual crimes against minors. Those who choose to sexually violate children, whether priests or laypeople, are not doing so based on their sexual orientation alone. Research conducted by leading scholars at Johns Hopkins University, the University of New Hampshire and at some of the major treatment facilities, such at St. Luke's Institute, show that other more important factors come into play. These include significant psychiatric conditions such as pedophilia, various personality disorders, brain injury, major depressive disorders as well as issues related to their own previous sexual victimization, their inability to maintain and nurture mature adult intimate relationships, their inability to cope adaptively with stress, struggles with substance abuse and other psychosocial factors. Sexual orientation is not a risk factor for pedophilia or sex crimes against children.
Second, experts from the leading treatment facilities maintain that many of the priests who have sexually violated a male victim report that they are actually heterosexual in orientation and not homosexual. While it may seem odd that a heterosexual man would sexually violate a boy, it is a situation commonly reported by the leading treatment experts. Many of these clergy perpetrators report that they had ready access to males and that their victims were often victims of convenience. After all, many of these adolescent boys who became victims of clergy abuse were themselves underage teens in so-called minor seminaries, and played on church or parochial school sports teams coached by the abusing priest, or were in unsupervised yet socially acceptable contact with the abuser, such as a camping trip or other "guy" activities. Furthermore, potential pregnancy concerns as well as an inability to justify unsupervised contact with girls have prevented many heterosexual priests who are sex offenders from violating females.
In recent years, homosexuals have been blamed for the potential destruction of the institution of marriage because they endeavored to secure same-sex marriages and domestic-partner rights. Now, it appears that homosexuals are being blamed, at least in part, for the sexual abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church. Although blaming homosexuals for problems in society is nothing new, this current trend is highly disturbing. The church, as well as society at large, should know better.
If the Roman Catholic Church wants to restrict homosexuals from the priesthood in a way that is different from restricting heterosexual men on theological or other religious grounds, that is the church's call, even if many don't agree. If the church believes, however, that its clergy sexual-abuse crisis is primarily due to homosexual priests and that ridding seminaries of homosexuals is the key to preventing clergy sexual abuse of minors, then it is basing policy on bad science and an ignorant clinical understanding of sex offenders. Whatever policy the Vatican finally articulates, it must be one that does not demonize homosexuals who are already celibate priests nor those homosexual men who seek to fulfill a calling to the priesthood that is greater than their sexual orientation.


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Gakken Football (American) (19xx, VFD, 4 C batteries, Model# ?)
This is the latest discovery in this series of games (seen on Ebay in Nov 2002 for the first time). At least nine games were released with the same body style but in different colors: Defender (red), Puck Monster (yellow), Space Galaxy (blue), Space Invader (light blue), Super Cobra (green), and four sports games: Basketball (yellow), Football (American Football, red), Football (American Soccer, lime green) and Soccer (light yellow).
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Super Junior's Ryeowook revealed his past photos and discussed his chubbier past much to the surprise of the other guests and MCs on 'Come to Play'.
On May 28th episode, Ryewook confessed, "I was quite chubby when I was young. I weighed about 82 kb (~181 lbs)," much to everyone's surprise considering that he is one of the smaller framed members of Super Junior. "When our family would eat galbi (Korean BBQ) during traditional holidays, I would be told to stop eating."
When the photos were revealed on screen, Ryeowook made the studio laugh as he commented, "I guess I did eat a lot."
After viewing these photos, viewers commented, "Wow! He looks really different from now!", "He's unrecognizable", and "That's really Ryeowook?"
On the same episode, Ryeowook also lamented, "I get stressed out because of my short height... There is about 10 cm height difference between me and Siwon. Sometimes, during interviews, he'll sometimes put his arms around my shoulder, making me look even smaller, and making me despise him a bit."
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Read the original story in the Portland Tribune here.
Recent thawing of frozen parts of the planet may spell bad news for polar bears and penguins, but will help other species, according to a new study led by Portland State University geologist Andrew Fountain.
The study, published in the April 6 issue of BioScience, focused on longterm impacts of global climate change, particularly the cryosphere – areas where the Earth's surface is water in solid form for at least a month each year. The cryosphere has been shrinking in response to climate warming.
"With a shrinking cryosphere, populations of microbes, plants, and animals that depend on the snow and ice will decrease if they are unable to migrate," Fountain says. "On the other hand, life that finds the cryosphere too hostile should expand."
In shallower snow, white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk, and caribou expend less energy and can more easily escape predators, he says. "One species' loss can be another species' gain."