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Kelvin Akpaloo is a youth worker, creative practitioner, spoken word artist and is about bringing local-global connections into young people's everyday experiences. He co-facilitates the Young People's Committee for Youth 2030.
Kelvin Akpaloo is a youth worker, creative practitioner, spoken word artist and is about bringing local-global connections into young people's everyday experiences. He co-facilitates the Young People's Committee for Youth 2030.
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I have been involved with the voluntary and youth services sector for many years, first as a participant coming up through my local youth services, then as a volunteer and finally I took on a finance position over 25 years ago with Catholic Youth Care. Over the last 25 years I have seen much change and gained much experience within the sector.
I am a qualified member of Certified Public Accountants of Ireland. I am the Head of Finance of Youth Work Ireland National Office. Youth Work Ireland is part of a Federation with 20 Member Youth Services, that I have the pleasure of working alongside. Being part of a Federation, I also engage in looking at nationwide issues around financial, compliance and governance that may arise alongside my National Office & Federation colleagues. Given my current role, along with my years of financial experience within the Youth Sector, I believe I have the necessary skills to bring to the role of Treasurer of NYCI.
Youth work has played a significant role in my life, and its importance cannot be overstated. I consider myself lucky to be part of such a sector.
Carmel Walsh is the Youth Work Services Manager at Belong To, responsible for strategic planning and delivery of LGBTQ+ Youth Work in Dublin, as well as overseeing the Family Support Service and the National Network of LGBTQ+ youth groups in Ireland. With a strong background in youth work and European funding, Carmel brings extensive expertise in strategic implementation, research initiatives, and cooperation projects to enhance the quality of youth work for LGBTQ+ young people.
Michael Power is CEO of Involve Youth and Community Service, having worked within the organisation since 2008 where he held a senior role in the organisations national publication, Travellers' Voice Magazine. In Michael's time as Manager of the Travellers' Voice CSP, he has brought to fruition various campaigns which highlighted Travellers in education and various employment settings in order to dispel the often negative stereotypes associated with the community. His most recent education campaign, "Degrees Ahead", highlighted Travellers in third level education and the various paths to continued and adult education. He has also ensured the publication has become a platform for lesser heard voices within the community, highlighting individual's achieving above and beyond the expectations imposed on them.
In Michael's time as CEO he has been responsible for the development of Involves latest strategic plan which aims to improve the work of the organisation in the areas of Youth Mental Health and Employment, as well as putting in place structures to improve the collaborative work of the organisation to highlight and challenge educational disadvantages for the Traveller community.
Michael is a member of the Traveller community, and brings first-hand experience of the benefits of youth work in influencing future development. Throughout his career with Involve, Michael has developed extensive experience in the youth sector which brings together his love of working with young people and his passion for the rights of his community and marginalised people.
Dear [constituency] TDs,
We are constituents from [Constituency] who are calling on you to support young people in Budget 2024 by investing €9.4 million in young people and youth work.
It is a hard time for young people. COVID-19 impacted their mental health and social connections, and now, the cost-of-living crisis means many are struggling financially.
Youth work organisations say that deprivation among young people they work with is on the rise, and the need for youth services is growing dramatically as young people and their communities feel the effects of the cost-of-living crisis.
Youth workers are often a lifeline for young people, particularly for those who have the least. The wide range of activities provided by youth organisations support young people in their personal and social development, positive mental health, physical wellbeing, job skills and much more.
The rising cost of living is also placing a huge strain on youth work organisations themselves. A recent survey by the National Youth Council of Ireland revealed that nearly 3 in 5 organisations struggle to deliver vital youth work services because of inflation.
The Government must provide the necessary resources for these organisations to meet the growing needs of young people in [Constituency], and to provide an Ireland where young people can live, grow, and flourish.
That is why we are supporting the National Youth Council of Ireland in calling on the Government to invest an additional €9.4m in youth work services in Budget 2024, to provide more supports and activities for young people and meet the needs of our growing youth population. The NYCI and its members across the country believe this increase is needed to help ensure the sustainability of the sector, and deal with current challenges facing many services.
We request that you act on this call and use whatever avenues available to you to ensure that we see a Budget 2024 that invests in our young people.
Your constituents,
[Your names]
I have over 30 years experience in the voluntary Youth Work and Youth Sector in Ireland.
I am currently the Volunteer Development Manager with Forόige. In this role I am responsible for key tasks such as managing, developing and supporting the involvement of thousands of Forόige volunteers in all aspects of the organisation. I also lead on the design, dissemination and implementation of best practice standards in volunteer recruitment, management and retention policies and procedures. I am a member of Foróige's child safeguarding and protection internal working group. I also was a member of the Ministerial advisory group for development of the National Volunteering Strategy, launched in late 2020, and I am currently on the communications working group for the role out of the strategy.
I believe that youth work's essential role in young people's lives has been made all the more obvious as a result of the pandemic. The restrictions caused by the need to protect vulnerable people in particular from COVID 19, were imposed on young people without them having any say in the matter. They became takes of others rules and priorities, without input or choice. This, while necessary at the time, is the exact opposite of what we want for young people. We want them to be heard, to be helped to develop their own views and values (not just absorb ours). We want them to be involved in decisions that impact on them and to feel they have an influence, with which comes connection to society and hope for the future. The National Youth Council of Ireland plays a huge role in representing the shared interests of the organisations who are its members. These organisations, large and small, bring a range of youth work approaches arising from various traditions and a focus on particular youth needs. The diversity of organisations provides choice and opportunity for young people to pursue their own interests.
This diversity presents a challenge too, in identifying and agreeing their shared interests on which NYCI can represent, advocate and influence. This calls for a president who will listen support, facilitate. It calls for an NYCI which is effective, well governed and compliant with all relevant governance and financial, management requirements.
I believe I have the necessary skills for this role from my role in Foróige and my previous experience on the board of NYCI, including a term as its vice president. I am aware of the need to represent negotiate, assert firmly but respectfully, to act together in seeking to influence government departments and politicians. I understand the need for a strong working relationship between president and CEO.
Nicola has been involved in Girl Guiding for over 44 years and has been employed in the CGI National Office in Dublin since 2013. Nicola has also been a volunteer leader with CGI in Wexford for the last 19 years.
In her role as National Office Coordinator, Nicola works closely with the NYCI and members of other youth organisations, through the Specialist Organisations Network and represents CGI at numerous meetings. Nicola also attends meetings with the Department of Children and Youth Affairs representing the uniformed bodies of the Youth Work Electoral College.
Nicola has held voluntary positions within CGI of National Secretary and National Commissioner for Ranger Guides and was a member of the National Executive Board. Nicola continues to attend CGI Board meetings in her current role.
Before moving to Ireland, Nicola worked for the UK Government and the Environment Agency in the nuclear industry regulation division and was also a youth member and then volunteer with the Guide Association UK.
I am currently a Senior Manager with Crosscare Youth Services with over 20 years' experience having started my youth work career in CYC in January 2000, and was part of the merger with Crosscare in 2013. I line-manage our 6 Dublin West and East Wicklow youth projects, and also have responsibility for Youth Information and Outdoor Learning in Crosscare.
I have a Bachelor of Arts in Applied Social Studies from Maynooth University, and last year I completed a masters qualification, gaining a (MSc) Master of Science in Innovation & Strategy in the Maynooth Business School. I feel there is a need to be innovative and strategic in future plans for the sector, as we seek to be sustainable and receive full cost recovery for the delivery of quality youth services.
I am currently a member of the Board of Adamstown Youth and Community Centre. This is in an area with broad cultural diversity and we are trying to develop some youth provision in this under-resourced area. We were recently approved for a new part-time youth worker and a dedicated Youth Diversion Project for Adamstown, to increase the Lucan Boundary. Greg has been a NYCI Board member for the last 3 years.
Eve is an active leader in her locality currently working with girls between the ages of 5 and 7, and previously worked with Irish Girl Guides' older branch for 10- to 14-year-olds. Eve has previously represented Irish Girl Guides at the Erasmus+; Get Active! Human rights education among young people workshop.
In addition, Eve sat on the Membership, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion committee for Irish Girl Guides. Eve is a primary school teacher and focused her college dissertation on the impact of period poverty in schools. Eve has been a NYCI Board member since 2021.
Claire Anderson has been working with Scouting Ireland since October 2020 in the role of Communications Officer. She is an experienced journalist, marketing manager and communications expert. Claire graduated with an MA in Journalism and New Media in 2015. She is based in Cork and has worked with several high-profile businesses including the Irish Examiner. Working in marketing communications from 2017, Claire has created and implemented advertising and communications strategy for company expansion into eight new markets. She has worked closely with colleagues to build effective communication practices and systems. She has managed all content production from production to publishing and most recently developed a new central website for Scouting Ireland. Claire has over seven years of experience leading content production and successful marketing campaigns. She completed a Diploma in User Experience and User Interface Design this year. She also runs her own marketing business. Claire has been involved in dance since she was a child and is a keen supporter of the arts. She has volunteered with Cork Feminista and Husky Rescue Ireland, however, she is not actively volunteering at present. Claire lives in the countryside with her partner, dog, cats and hens. She enjoys sea swimming and hiking in her spare time as well as training for her first 10k race.
Mick Ferron is currently the Regional Youth Services Manager with Sphere 17 Regional Youth Service.
BA Social Science from UCD
Higher Diploma in Youth and Community work from NUI Maynooth.
Sphere 17 is a community-based regional youth service covering Dublin 17 and the Kilbarrack area of North Dublin. The service operates from four different youth centres in the catchment area providing a range of different programmes, activities and support for young people 10-24 years.
Sphere 17 believes all young people can achieve great things. Their mission is to support young people to be the best that they can be, and they do this in different ways for different young people, as they need it, through the varied services provided.
In addition to the UBU funded youth service activity, Sphere 17, in collaboration with local partners, also provides a youth counselling service – The Listen Project, manages the Woodale Youth Justice Project, and is the lead organisation behind Creative Places Darndale.
Prior to his 16 years in management with Sphere 17, Mick has worked in community-based youth service provision in Ballyfermot and in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. He has also worked in the homeless sector, and in a drugs education project in Cork.
Originally from Canada, David Backhouse has been an active youth worker in Ireland since 2008. Chiefly through the YMCA, his involvement in many youth and community initiatives has brought him into partnership with Léargas, Cork City and County Councils, Irish Aid, CDYS, Youth Information, SpunOut, Comhairle ná nÓg, Foróige, Hub ná nÓg, Youth Work Ireland, CYPSC and many other local arts and community associations.
In 2016 David took up the role of Cork Regional Director for YMCA and in November 2019, began his current role as Deputy National Secretary, responsible for YMCA Ireland operations in the Republic of Ireland as well as providing support to all YMCA agencies north and south. He is passionate about Youth Participation, Creative Methodologies and the provision of high quality, well supported professional youth services to those in Ireland most in need.
Rose Marie Maughan Is the National Traveller Youth Programme Coordinator with the Irish Traveller Movement. She has been working in the Irish Traveller Movement since 2004 on a local, regional, national and international level in different capacities such as Board member, National Accommodation Officer, Membership Officer, Education Officer, Project coordinator.
She has both a lived experience of being a young Traveller in Ireland and issues facing young Traveller youth today alongside an in-depth analysis of youth work and issues facing the sector. She strongly believes in youth's right to self-determination and meaningful participiation in finding solutions to issues affecting their lives.
In her current role as National Traveller Programme Coordinator, she is overseeing the implementation of the Irish Traveller Movement's Traveller Youth 5yr strategy working towards giving Traveller Youth a voice in all sectors of society.
Garry McHugh is National Director of Young Irish Film Makers, Ireland's national youth film organisation. Responsible for strategic planning, fund raising, artistic and programme development. Managing partnerships with national funding bodies such as the Arts Council, Dept. of Children & Youth Affairs, Screen Ireland and the Education & Training Board.
Since taking over the National Development of the organisation in 2014, Garry has worked with the team at YIFM to grow the capacity of YIFM programmes to work with double the number of young people over the past five years, delivering five times the number of contact hours with participants. Young Irish Film Makers now work with over 1500 young people annually across Ireland through the youth arts practice of film and animation. Demand is continuing to grow as YIFM film making and animation workshops are recognised for their ability to deliver high quality outcomes for young people from all backgrounds.
Garry is heavily involved in the programme design and delivery of informal education workshops delivering quality personal, social and creative outcomes for young people across Ireland. With a focus on film and animation workshops for secondary schools, youth development agencies and youth workers nationwide.
Before he became involved in youth development and youth arts work, Garry was a professional filmmaker, musician and enjoyed treading the boards as an actor. He believes this grounding in the creative industries led him to where he works now, with young people through youth film programmes. He has twenty five years of experience in film production, broadcast radio and informal education & training. His CV ranges from corporate communications and music video production to training and informal education programmes in film, animation and digital media production.
My experience comes from my many years within the Irish Second-Level Students Union, chiefly as president during 2020-21 where I represented student's throughout the covid-19 pandemic, working with the Department of Education and education stakeholders as part of the State exams Advisory group to do what was best for our young people through an extremely challenging time.
My other experience across other organisations such at Spuntout.ie national action panel or partnering with other organisations here such as ICTU on young workers rights gives me the necessary experience to bring a new perspective to the governance of the NYCI.
I have been a representative of young people for the last 5 years at a local, regional national and international level – with my particular focus on youth representing and how that can be best achieved – I hope you can put your confidence in me to work as a member of the NYCI board to deliver this for you and continue the outstanding work of the NYCI.
Niamh Quinn is a Manager with Foróige. Niamh has extensive direct youth work and management experience within the youth work and non formal education sector. With Forόige since 2004, Niamh's previous roles include Outreach Youth Officer working with young people aged 14 – 18 years most at risk; Senior Youth Officer and Acting Area Manager.
Niamh's current role is supporting the development, roll out and delivery of CPD training and processes for the national School Completion Programme.
Niamh is the current Vice President of NYCI. Niamh is also the current Chair of the NYCI HR & Governance Sub Committee.
Niamh is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin.


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Sunday, December 19, 2010
Today's Show: Deconstructing a Miracle
Out of curiosity though, I ask how you can scientifically prove how this happened:
A young girl, between the ages of 3 & 4 drowns and dies. A man who has failed every CPR test in his life, brings her back to life. Later on, she tells her mother that she has a little sister named Emily. Emily does not exist. The little girl says she does. When asked who told her this, she said a lady in white did in a white room. Keep in mind the hospital had no white rooms where she was at and the nurses were not wearing white. Later on the mother is pregnant, the little girl says this is not Emily. It is not. It is a boy. Later on the mother is pregnant again, same thing happens, another boy. The family decides they are not going to have anymore children, but then the mother gets pregnant one more time. The little girl says this is Emily. A girl is born.
For the record, this is a true story, with many witnesses. How is it that this little girl saw this lady in white in a white room while she was dead and then predicted the birth of her sister?
This is why I am not atheist because I believe something or someone does exist and there is some kind of place after death besides six feet under or ashes.
Not to give too much away, but to skip to the end of the discussion, after making a few requests for clarification from the claimant, this miracle is exactly as impressive as saying "Yesterday I flipped a coin, and before it landed, a little child shouted 'tails!'—and it did land on tails. How do you explain this?!"
Hope you'll be there for the live feed!
41 comments:
Even if that is completely true, I demand to know why the girl was not immediately burned at the stake: predicting the future is clearly Witchcraft. As Exodus says, thou shalt not suffer a Witch to live. Seriously, she is essentially talking to 'spirits' if this can be taken to be 100% true. (Assuming Christianity)
Besides, how does she/he pick a religion from one 'afterlife' experience?
Loads of holes even if this is true.It is trivial to "scientifically prove how this happened"
That. Only that. Nothing else.
Dear crazy claimant: I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THIS STORY HAPPENED.
1) Documentation of the little girl 'dying'. Hospitals keep impeccable medical
records, and, at least here in Canada, are required to keep records, for children,
up to seven years after they pass the age of majority.
2) Failure records. If a man has failed "every CPR test in his life", which
insinuates he's taken more than one, someone will be able to provide such
3) I'd like to hear the mother tell me her daughter told her this. I'd like to
hear the mother directly. If this happened long enough ago that the mother
is dead, sorry. You can stop right now
4) Hospital with no white rooms? PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.
5) Hospital where there is not one nurse who wore white? PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN
6) "With many witnesses". Ok. Name one. Full name. Give me contact details,
so I can get this story from his/her own mouth.
Of course, this is completely disregarding the fact that it is trivial to predict that
one child in three will be a female.Warning - Long Rant
Obviously one mildly weird event like this isn't good evidence (not least because: what religion predicts that stuff like this would happen?).
But some things that make me want to call bullshit:
1) Saying "For the record, this is a true story, with many witnesses." and not immediately providing a link or citation. This sentence actually makes the story less likely, because a) "[this happened] with many witnesses" is a more detailed claim than the original claim, b) you wouldn't have to baldly assert that you had evidence if you actually just showed the evidence, and c) this sentence is in every urban legend, chain letter, and fireside horror story, but you never find it connected to reliable claims. Without access to some original source, you can't tell if the story is mostly true, mostly exaggerated hearsay, or completely invented.
2) If a man repeatedly fails CPR tests, that means he's taken a lot of CPR classes. How often does someone take a ton of CPR classes, never ever get better, keep taking them, and then happen to be in an emergency where they are the only person who can attempt CPR? (And honestly, is it really that hard? CPR isn't rocket surgery.)
3) This isn't so much a reason why this story didn't happen, as an outright deception regarding what supposedly happened. "A young girl, between the ages of 3 & 4 drowns and dies." Recovered with CPR? No, she didn't. You aren't dead until you're brain dead, you aren't dead until you're warm and dead, and you aren't dead until you've been dead for some time. Recovery from "clinical death" happens all the time now, because we now recognize that, even though it used to be a fatal condition, it doesn't have to be with appropriate medical treatment. It's a misnomer to call this "death" in the colloquial sense if the person recovers minutes later; it's not any more of a "death" than a concussion would be.
If the little girl had been buried a few days like in the legend of Jesus, we might have more to talk about.
4) "When asked who told her this" Either this is totally made up or we are missing almost all of the dialogue here. If your little girl recovers from a near-drowning and starts insisting that she has a little sister (with a specific name!), your first thought is not to ask "Oh, who told you that?" Your first thought is that she has had a traumatic experience, one which possibly had the potential to cause brain damage or PTSD, and maybe your kid needs to go see a psychiatrist.5) "she said a lady in white did in a white room." Is there any major religion that says that when little girls die, they go to a white room where white-clad women teach them about unborn family members? The story has a certain feel-good "Touched by an Angel" vibe, but it isn't evidence for any religion whatsoever, because no religion predicts that this would happen. Charitably one might consider this evidence for an afterlife, except that, as described in this story, the little girl never actually died.
6) "Later on the mother is pregnant, the little girl says this is not Emily. It is not[...] The little girl says this is Emily. A girl is born." So this thing happens when the girl is 3 or 4, and then for years and years they keep talking about it. By that point what the girl remembers is almost certainly a false memory, as is, for all we know, the entire family's recollection of events. That's what happens when something notable happens to you, and you tell the story over and over repeating how miraculous and amazing it is. You convince yourself the story really is that amazing. This is one reason why eyewitness testimony is not always reliable, especially when the witness is emotionally invested in the events, especially well after the events happened, and especially when the witness has told the story dozens of times. By the end of the story, if they don't have records, the whole family may be remembering predictions as postdictions (e.g. the girl didn't actually predict the sex of a boy but just took note of it afterwards). They may recall a nervous and uncertain guy as a guy who "failed all his CPR tests". If they didn't write down what happened right then at the time, who knows?
7) Besides all this, predicting the sex of three children is a 1/8 chance, which is not that low (in fact, incredibly high compared to my prior probability for God). But they'd probably still be telling this story if they'd had any female children at all, so it's really more like a 7/8 chance (the only way someone wouldn't have spun a story like this, is if every later child was male, and not named Emily).
For me to believe in God, I'd have to have evidence to overcome everything that I know that says that the God hypothesis doesn't fit our world, and it would have to be evidence that I know had virtually no chance of happening if there was no God, and that would be vastly more likely if there was a God (this is a primitive Bayesian calculation). Otherwise we're looking at a case of "Oh, I think the probability of God existing is 10^-100" vs. "Oh, I think the probability of God existing is 1.000000000001 times 10^-100."8) Backtracking for a second: "Out of curiosity though, I ask how you can scientifically prove how this happened" Burden of proof problem here. If I want to stay a naturalist after reading this story, all I have to do is state that it is possible that this story came into existence without God being involved (not that it happened; I need proof that it happened first). I can be perfectly comfortable saying "I don't know enough to say what this story means, so it has no impact on what I think." Until I have a method of obtaining more knowledge, I actually don't have any other intellectually honest options. I have to say "I can speculate, but I can't draw any conclusions from that."
If someone else wants to claim that this is evidence for some specific conclusion (God exists), they are the ones who have to prove that God did it. And by prove, I mean provide rigorous evidence that shows how God is the most compelling, straightforward, probable, and complete explanation (obviously this is not a mathematical derivation). This is the problem with Intelligent Design; it's not enough to say "Look, stuff that happened and it was God." It has to be "Look, we can show precisely how this could have come directly from a particular kind of God, and how Intelligent Design actually predicts a ton of known features of living organisms, comparable to the millions of features predicted and explained by evolution, and using a similar or smaller number of starting assumptions."
9) "I believe something or someone does exist and there is some kind of place after death" Again, ignoring the fact that the little girl never died, what does this have to do with God? Plenty of religions have spirits and afterlives without gods. In fact, I personally don't believe in an afterlife, but I find it far more plausible than the "perfect God" most monotheists believe in (maybe the afterlife is just getting unplugged from The Matrix, I dunno).
Rant OffI find it aggravating that the number of people who claim to have experiences with aliens, chupacabra, bigfoot, and ghosts are just as frequent as people who claim miracles and angels, and the news stations still give consideration to the "angel" stories, as if they are valid. It seems most of the miracle stories covered by the media are always associated with a young child. When I was around the age of six, I woke up on Christmas Eve night, and I swore I heard reindeer on the roof, and I ran and woke my parents up because I was positive Santa was on the roof about to deliver presents. My imagination convinced myself that I heard deer on the roof, and I don't mean a few noises, I thought I heard stomping and rumbling (very loud and vivid sounds). If I lived the rest of my life believing that Santa was real, I would be under the impression that I did indeed hear him on the roof. This is why most child experiences can be dismissed. I obviously didn't really hear flying deer on my roof, but I believed I did for a few years after that. I don't remember, but I imagine I probably went to my 1st grade class and told all the other kids about my experience, and I would guess that the kids believed my story. I was sincere with my claims, but I was wrong. The child brain is great at morphing fantasy into reality.
ReplyDeleteI agree with a points others have pointed out. I sort of agreed with Sean's point #3 that it was inaccurate to say she died. My reasoning is a little different though.
My understanding is that medical professionals can pronounce a patient dead after clinical death. I dont think its necessary to prove biological death before we can correctly say that the girl was dead and I would accept this as being a technically correct label.
However, the flaw I see regarding her "death" is that she couldn't have been pronounced dead by a qualified professional.
It doesn't give a lot of specifics, but one possibility is that she received medical care by a medical professional, which had no effect and was then pronounced dead. The CPR failure then figures he could practice his technique for his next big test and has nothing to lose since she's dead anyway and revives her. IF that's what was meant, then I'm surprised that was left out of the story: Trained medical professional fails to revive girl, guy who failed CPR test multiple times suceeds! (I bet the newspaper article would start "He couldn't pass a CPR course test to save his life, but he passed the test that saved hers...")
The other posibility is that someone who didnt know anything about the difference between unconscious and dead (Maybe CPR guy even) gave their non-expert opinion that since she wasn't awake and responding, she must have been dead.There is this belief that siblings can tell the sex of a baby before it's born. I'm not that mad on it, but I do know that my kids didn't do a bad job of predicting their successors.
Personally I think a 50/50 guess combined with a confirmation bias is most likely here, but if it were actually true though, it is possible that there are indicators that could reasonably explain it. Maybe a certain pheromone or the way the baby responds to physical stimulus.
You still don't need supernatural explanations - unless you desperately want them.@ Sean
Thanks for mentioning the 1 in 8 thing. I was thinking it myself, but then I realized that, had one of the previous two siblings been a girl, it should have made just as much sense to say "she isn't Emily".
After all, why is it ok to accept that Emily had two younger brothers who were destined to come before her, but no younger sisters? So the probability should still be 1 in 2.
Then there is the question of whether the girl was consistent in her pronouncements. Apparently with each child, the subject "Is this Emily" would come up. Did it come up exactly once per child? If it came up more than once, then did this girl give the same answer each time?
This all sounds apocryphal, and considering kait82's observation that there were no medical professionals to pronounce her dead, other than CPR guy, then I would doubt any of this ever happened.
That is brilliant. I wish I had caught that.i wonder what all your thoughts are on post-death experiences (that is, clinically pronounced dead, and the brain is likewise very much dead) that are well-documented globally.
Here's a fairly balanced article.
tracieh seems to imply that 50% is not an impressive odd. i wonder if 90% would suffice. or 95%? 100%? Who defines these probabilities to be accurate standards of truth verification?- Anonymous12/20/2010 10:54 AM
Right, 50/50 odds are not impressive. And no probability would be impressive, since "improbable" will never = impossible. However, odds that anyone can demonstrate they can quite naturally _easily_ achieve are even more ridiculous to assert as amazing or requiring supernatural intervention. If you watched the feed, then you know I achieved a run of 3 in the first test. That is, I asked a person to guess "heads or tails"--and they guessed correctly the first three tries. Would you suggest I witnessed something miraculous or supernatural?
To say that a single instance is a miracle would be to assert I witnessed three separate miraculous events during my coin toss experiment. And according to this then, anyone can demonstrate miraculous results--all they need is a coin. Guess long enough, and you'll see a miracle. I guarantee it.
Meanwhile, where is the evidence of supernature in NDE? Articles are nice, but peer reviewed articles, appearing in respected scientific journals, demonstrating supernature (with support--rather than mass criticism from the peers following the publishing) would be better.
The fact is, even if we had 10,000 people per day confirmed brain dead who were springing back to life telling tall tales, until we can _demonstrate_ a cause, we have to say it's an event we haven't yet explained. But the more it happens, the more inclined I am to discount it as supernature and say that it seems rather quite natural. After all, every cause of every phenomenon ever successfully verified has been natural. When we find one confirmed supernatural cause, then we'll have some reason to accept supernature can reasonably be put forward as a cause. But until supernature is even demonstrated to _exist_, the fact is only things that exist CAN be the cause of other things, and so the assumption of cause will be "natural" (since nature is existent), rather than "supernatural" (as supernature is not demonstrated to exist).
Anyone who then wishes to posit supernature as the cause of any event had first better meet their obligation to demonstrate supernature is even existent. Until we have that, we can only presume things that are known to exist as causes--since only things that exist can cause other things. @Sungyak
tracieh seems to imply that 50% is not an impressive odd. i wonder if 90% would suffice. or 95%? 100%? Who defines these probabilities to be accurate standards of truth verification?
The point is that the success rate is not beyond statistical noise. That is to say, given the information about the story, this girl's capacity to predict has the same success rate as someone randomly guessing.
There's nothing impressive about that.
If there were 10 genders, she'd have to consistently beat 10% accuracy. At some point, you'd have to set up some control groups, because it may simply be that the father can't create seed any males, and the girl is picking up on a 100% natural pattern, due to biological circumstances.Why is a personal experience of Gods presence the proof of her existence?
I have met God a few times. He was reoccuring in my nightmares as a boy. It happend when a was between 5 and 9 since I remembered where I woke up. God was really scary and very real in the dreams.
But I conquered him, I got rid of the nightmare and I am an atheist.@Sungyak
It is not a "fairly balanced article". I mean, almost immediately I came across this sentence: "Most psychic occurrences are spontaneous and therefore hard to test under laboratory conditions." How could the author possibly know this? I mean, we can all agree that there are psychics who are fakes, and others who are simply deluded. The point of controlled testing is to try to distinguish those from any real psychic events that might happen. If you throw controlled testing out the window, you can't know anything about "most psychic occurrences", only about "most claims to psychic occurrences". If we translate that sentence to describe what the author might actually know, instead of what he pretends to know, then the sentence should actually say "When people claim they have psychic experiences, it usually happens to be in a situation where we can't easily check and see if that's what really happened." Doesn't that seem suspicious? Like a magician who can only make things vanish when he's wearing loose clothing?
Then there was this howler: "If one doesn't believe we have a soul, then you are stuck trying to explain why we have an area of our brain which allows us to experience an NDE. Some will say it is there from an evolutionary standpoint to ease a person through the dying process." First off, let me just say that I would be absolutely blown away if anyone who actually understands evolution ever said this. Evolution really doesn't give a damn about making people comfortable or happy. So by listing this claim as "some will say", the author is pretending to give the skeptical, scientific side of things, but actually setting up a straw man; he listed something ridiculous as if it was what scientists actually say.
But there's a worse problem with that part I quoted. He says "we have an area of our brain which allows us to experience an NDE". But that's not what was shown at all! What they found was that when people were experiencing NDEs, that happened to be the part of the brain lighting up. But that does not mean that the purpose of that part of the brain is to produce NDEs. To give an analogy, when people see the "auras" that proceed migraines (not paranormal auras, but fuzzy dancing patches in their field of vision), there's often an excess of unusual activity in the visual processing centers of their brains. But the purpose of the visual processing centers is not to see those auras, but to see things that are real; the auras are what happen when this normal processing is broken. Similarly, seeing that the temporal lobe lights up during certain strange experiences, does not mean that those parts of the temporal lobe are designed to produce those experiences; it could also mean that those experiences are hallucinations that occur when that part of the brain is temporarily screwed up (which seems to be what NDEs are).Also, the article just doesn't cite anything at all. So it's hard to tell how hard the author actually tried to verify any of this. I don't think he's lying, but I also don't trust most people to spend as much energy on fact-checking as they should.
For example: "After accounting for the length or extent of the NDE, if the NDE were simply a hallucination or concoction of the brain, would we not have varying degrees of vividness and memory of the NDE, unlike the 'all or nothing' that is reported?" Am I supposed to take his word for it that no one ever has a fuzzy or vague NDE? How do we know that people don't have fuzzy NDE's, but when the NDE is fuzzy they are more likely to call it a "dream" than an NDE? In fact, later he says: "Though the weakest NDE with OBE cases, which do not have the clarity or the narrative quality about them and are paranoid in nature, are likely just hallucinations and thus probably not NDEs." Which is it? Is NDE "all or nothing", or are there some which are fuzzy and some which are vivid, just like different forms of hallucination?
And this: "But what explains the brilliant light and emotions filled with such bliss after the darkness? Hardly what you would expect a dying brain to produce." What kind of argument is that? Is this guy a neurologist? How does he know better than anyone else what dying brains do? Besides which, we know that conscious and awake people sometimes experience feelings of spirituality and bliss (see Jill Bolte Taylor's extremely strange TED talk). I think the talk is mostly nonsense woo, but notice that Taylor has many of the same sensations as are described as being typically NDE, but they are associated, not with clinical death, but with parts of her brain shutting down or becoming damaged (especially in the left temporal lobe) even while the rest of her mind continues to function fairly lucidly.
The whole article just gets more and more ridiculous. At some points he suggests "science can't explain why the experiences are all the same", and at others he suggests "science can't explain why the experiences are not all the same". True, science can't yet explain every facet of unusual mental states. So, what, that means that really bizarre things that people only see when they have oxygen-deprived brains are real?- Anonymous12/20/2010 3:54 PM
Since Matt brought it up in this episode I will post my comment here since there was no post here about the NonProphets episode.
Matt here says he believes his co-hosts argument was terrible (I forget her name), but I think it was Matt that was wrong and even contradictory based on his past comments.
He said that he should have waited until "Jesus" was mentioned in the prayer at the government meeting before protesting. His reasons for this were that since atheists have a reputation for being moody, or that it would have won more supporters from the other side.
Hmm.. I think that if an atheist is seen objecting ONLY when their favorite savior is mentioned, if anything that would help turn them against the protest when in fact the main concern is prayer in general.
And changing the nature of the protest to satisfy potential allies on the theist side? This sounds awfully like the stuff you'd hear from Chris Mooney and other accomodationalists. I know Matt doesn't agree with their position at all so it struck me as odd that Matt was suddenly caring about the public opinion of atheist views.
I guess the reason I object to Matts comments is that he was so boistrous in his disagreement with the co-host when she simply stated that she wouldn't compromise in any way with this sort of violation and I agree with her. @Sungyak
The question I would ask you about post death experiences is a very simple one.
What actually is it that survives death?
The soul? the spirit? some other incorporable component of a human being.
When dead, the human ceases to function as human and the atoms that made up the human are redistributed elsewhere.
The time to attempt to answer what happens after death is when we know that there actually is something that can survive.
Basically I am saying "Show me your soul", until then the question is moot.@Kenny
I think that I may agree with you but for a slightly different reason.
I think Matt was being unreasonable towards Lynnea in one aspect.
I doubt that the people protesting would have foreknowlege of the exact wording to be used in the prayer. There was no guarantee that JC was gonna get a mention. So to object at beginning was on a point of principle.
The fact that another objection was raised at the mention of JC was good timing and alertness by the protesters wife. I don't think that aspect of it could have necessarily been planned ahead of time."Hmm.. I think that if an atheist is seen objecting ONLY when their favorite savior is mentioned, if anything that would help turn them against the protest when in fact the main concern is prayer in general."
To add onto this comment. The solution by the council may be simply to abstain from mentioning Jesus in the prayer if that is timing of your objection. After all, why didn't you object earlier if you had a problem with prayer, it must have been the mention of Jesus that you found offensive, right? By objecting at the get go, it is made clear that the objection is against prayer itself and not the specific form it was in that day. Its much more clear than waiting 2/3s of the way in before objecting.About the idea that older siblings are able to tell the sex of a fetus, that reminds me of something that happened to a friend.
This couple already had two kids, an older girl and a younger boy, then the woman got pregnant again. They asked the older girl (who was about 4 IIRC) what she thought the baby would be, and she said she thought it was a girl. Why? "Because we already have a boy!"Previous commenters have already voiced many of the objections I had when listening to the show--and some that hadn't occurred to me. (Loved the 'did they burn her as a witch?')
So I'll settle for this minor quibble: she was "between 3 and 4 years old". That doesn't work.
Well, I guess if it followed her 3rd birthday but preceded her 4th, she was "between" the numbers. But we still calll that 3. Oh, sure, the first 2 years or so are measured out in months (ie 'he was walking at 18 months old'). But that provides more precision rather than less.
Sure, it translates to 3 OR 4.
I realize it may just be semantic, but it's yet another detail suspicious for its absence.
How could details like no white rooms or white-clad nurses be trusted when even the age of the (hmm) nameless heroine of the tale is hazy.
I'd think that, if true, the date would have been noted by the family. Indeed, mightn't all other family events be dated relative to such a miracle? ie "When did grandpa die? Oh yes, it was the winter after Suzy fell in the pool. So it must have been around December of '97."Failed a CPR test? There's no CPR test. You take a course and get certified. If you don't demonstrate something correctly during the course, they show you right there. Even if he did do everything wrong, he still would have done enough. That's how easy CPR is. You can watch it on TV, get it wrong, and still have the same chance of saving someone's life. I know this is a small, unimportant detail, but being certified myself for four years now, it really irks me when people get stuff like this wrong to validate their stupid stories.
ReplyDeleteBruce, I don't have a problem with the age thing. I believe this story is being told by an older sibling. I dont know if I could reliably tell you when major events happened in my childhood. Besides, the major part of the "miracle" didn't happen until at least 3 years later with Emily's birth so they may not have taken note since it was, at the time, significant, but not miraculous. Plus, I bet if the sibling who submitted this story thought about it enough, or asked older family members with potentially more reliable memories, they might be able to give a more reliable age. I can understand where its not really a major point of the story. Would it make the story any more likely or change the significance if the kid was 3 or if the kid was 6?
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A weaker than expected jobs report is a setback for President Obama as the election nears. The president says that while private employers have added some four million jobs over the last two years, economic security remains elusive. The president spoke yesterday at a White House conference on women in the economy, and as NPR's Scott Horsley reports, voters who are women may be the key to the president's political future.
SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE: President Obama says it's perfectly natural that politicians are paying special attention to women these days, but he was quick to add, women are not a monolithic voting block, or just another interest group.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Women are over half this country and its workforce, not to mention 80 percent of my household if you count my mother-in-law, and I always count my mother-in-law.
HORSLEY: The White House issued a report highlighting its efforts to promote women's economic security, but Mr. Obama says even now women earn just 77 cents for every dollar that men make.
OBAMA: When more women are bringing home the bacon, but bringing home less of it than men who are doing the same work, that weakens families, it weakens communities, it's tough on our kids, it weakens our entire economy.
HORSLEY: Yesterday's conference came as the president's re-election team has been aggressively courting women voters and accusing Republicans of waging a war on women. Dianne Bystrom who heads the Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State University says the effort appears to be working. A recent USA Today Gallop Poll of a dozen swing states found Mr. Obama enjoys an 18 point lead over Mitt Romney with women voters.
DIANNE BYSTROM: All of this discourse going on right now has brought a very sharp focus to an emerging gender gap which is certainly something that could play out in the general election in President Obama's favor.
HORSLEY: Bystrom says women have leaned Democratic for decades, but not by this much. Another poll by the Pew Research Center found a similar advantage for Mr. Obama with women nationwide, while men voters split pretty much down the middle. Bystrom suspects the recent controversies over birth control and Planned Parenthood have hurt Republicans with women voters. Romney's tried to downplay these issues while focusing attention elsewhere, including on his wife Ann.
MITT ROMNEY: My wife has the occasion, as you know, to campaign on her own and also with me, and she reports to me regularly that the issue women care about most is the economy and getting good jobs for their kids and for themselves.
HORSLEY: But Bystrom even when women and men have similar concerns, they don't always favor the same solutions. The Pew Poll, for example, found women more supportive of an active role for the government.
BYSTROM: As wife, mother, sisters, you know, especially the sandwich generation that takes not only care of their children, but their elderly parents, women more than men thought the government should take an activist role in helping elderly people, children and poor people.
HORSLEY: Bystrom also says women seem less concerned about the deficit and less hawkish about Iran than men, differences which could make them more supportive of the president. Four years ago, Bystrom says candidate Obama was less aggressive about making a specialized pitch to women, perhaps mindful many had backed his primary opponent, Hillary Clinton. This year she says Mr. Obama can't afford such restraint and can't take any potential supporters for granted.
BYSTROM: Democratic candidates need women to turn out and turn out in large numbers and vote predominantly for them to win elections, and so I actually think we're going to see more targeting of women voters by President Obama in this election than we did in 2008.
HORSLEY: Even without that targeting four years ago, almost ten million more women than men showed up to vote. Neither party could afford to ignore that kind of outsized influence. Scott Horsley, NPR News, the White House. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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PROVO, Utah — A 58-year-old U.S. woman is set to give birth in a few weeks — to her first grandchild.
Julia Navarro is serving as a gestational surrogate for her daughter and son-in-law after the couple struggled with fertility problems.
Navarro's daughter Lorena McKinnon said she began trying to have a baby with her husband, Micah McKinnon, three years ago.
The 32-year-old, from Provo, Utah, said she's had about a dozen miscarriages, with the longest pregnancy lasting 10 weeks.
After several tries, the couple began looking for a surrogate. McKinnon said a friend and sister both considered carrying her baby, but ultimately decided against it.
That's when her mother offered to step in.
"As a family, we have to help each other," Navarro told The Salt Lake Tribune.
Navarro had to undergo hormone shots for three months before an embryo fertilized by her daughter and son-in-law could be implanted. Because of her age, doctors had warned there was only a 45 percent chance the implantation would be successful.
But the procedure was a success, and Navarro said she's had a smooth pregnancy carrying a developing baby girl.
As with other surrogacy arrangements, the couple and Navarro needed three months of counseling.
"The psychologists wanted to make sure we knew what we were getting into — that we were mentally prepared," McKinnon said. "Mostly, surrogacy contracts are with people you don't know. It was weird to have a contract with my mom."
It's unclear how rare it is for a woman to carry her own grandchild, but recent news reports have detailed similar relationships.
Last year, a 53-year-old Iowa woman gave birth to her twin granddaughters. And in 2012, a 49-year-old woman in Maine gave birth to her grandson.
McKinnon said she was grateful and overwhelmed by her mother's offer, which eases some of the obstacles and financial burdens for parents using a gestational surrogate.
According to Utah law, surrogates must be 21 or older, financially stable and must have already given birth once.
Couples must be married and are allowed to offer a reasonable payment to a surrogate.
On average, a couple can spend about $60,000 on procedures and paying the surrogate, but McKinnon said her mother's offer to help is saving the couple about half of that.
Both she and her daughter said they've bonded over the experience.
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I have said it before, but let me repeat: I have no problem with charter schools. I did have a big problem with the ham-handed way last November's charter-school referendum was rammed through by proponents.
Of course it passed. With all the money that was put behind it and the intimidation of those deigning to oppose it, I could have passed a referendum requiring pigs to wear lavender lipstick.
But here comes the good news: Gov. Nathan Deal appointed Dr. Charles B. Knapp, former president of the University of Georgia, to head up the seven-member State Charter Schools Commission that will oversee the authorization and oversight of state charter schools. Knapp is a man of integrity and someone for whom I have the utmost respect.
If the charter-school concept in Georgia is to be managed fairly, impartially and free of political interference, there could be no better choice.
I dropped by to see Knapp and Bonnie Holliday, the commission's executive director, recently at their offices in Atlanta. Knapp told me one of his first priorities is to deal with the bad blood that resulted from the referendum debate. (He was too kind to say that I was responsible for much of that bad blood being spilled.)
"On both sides of the issue," he said, "the debate was about money, power and control. Nobody talked about the children."
As for charter schools' role in Georgia's education system, Knapp said, "If they are not providing a better education for our children, then they shouldn't be a charter school. That is the only reason, in my mind, why we should be doing this."
Holliday added, "Charter schools are a win-win, because if state charters don't perform well, they close," unlike regular public schools.
As a matter of fact, in the first take on of the progress of state charter schools in metro Atlanta as measured against traditional public schools, the results were a mixed bag — some scored better, some scored worse. Knapp warns that in future measurements, charter schools that don't show academic progress may not be around long.
What many people don't seem to understand is that charter schools are public schools. Some charter-school advocates think they can establish their own standards for performance. They cannot. While they will have flexibility — if approved to become a state charter school — in their curriculum and governance, they will have to meet the same performance standards in Georgia as do all public schools. No exceptions.
Knapp sees charter schools as an opportunity to help turn around the lagging education performance in the United States.
"The definition of insanity," he said, "is doing the same things over and over and expecting different results." Charter schools, he believes, can be a different way of doing things.
Holliday assured me that the commission won't get into micromanaging as seems to happen in too many public-school systems these days, but she and a five-member staff will keep a close eye on things to make sure charter schools stay in compliance.
My hot button is the potential role of education-management companies in the operation of state charter schools in Georgia. The track record of some of these for-profit management companies in Florida and elsewhere has been less than stellar, thanks to acquiescent legislators. How will the commission deal with those companies? Knapp said there is a fine line he intends to draw on their involvement.
The commission chair said there are a number of technical issues where educational-management companies can be of assistance as charter schools begin their operations — accounting, legal and personnel, to name a few — but his hope is that over time, the management company's involvement can be scaled back or phased out as a charter school becomes more proficient in its own governance. He cited Drew Charter School in Atlanta — a well-performing school in one of the city's low-income areas — that has done just that.
Knowing the deep pockets of these companies and the influence their campaign contributions can have on our intrepid public servants in the Legislature, I still worry that the charter-school system is ripe for political mischief by people who will put money, power and control ahead of our children. Fortunately, I don't think Dr. Charles Knapp will play that game.
That gives me hope that something that was passed with all the finesse of a backstreet mugging might have landed in very good hands.
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If you've just purchased a home, putting all your "stuff" away is something you're most likely not looking forward to. Unpacking boxes and then finding a place for everything can take a while.
The good news is that if you make a vow to get organized now, instead of promising to do it later, it will make the unpacking a lot easier.
Home organization isn't just for new homeowners, however. In fact, the longer you've lived in a home, the more you most likely need a little help in getting things sorted.
It wasn't easy choosing "the best" home organization bloggers but we found two criteria that helped us whittle down the list: the blog must be primarily about organizing (recipes and decorating tips tolerated, but not if they dominate the blog) and the blogger must actually BLOG at least once a week.
With a little input from friends and clients, we give you our list of 3 of the best home organization blogs on the internet.
It apparently takes a village to produce the Unclutterer blog and, judging by the volume of posts every week, we get it.
Canadian Jacki Hollywood Brown is the woman in charge and writes from Winnipeg, Manitoba. The site also has an editor at large, Erin Rooney Doland, in the D.C. area and a staff of writers.
You'll find advice here from how to organize just about everything in the home, from prescription medication bottles to books, computer data, closets and more.
We love this post, with brilliant advice on speed decluttering (breaking the task down into five, 10 or 15 minute sessions).
Visit Unclutterer online at Unclutterer.com or connect with them on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
Canadian Laura Wittman is a self-professed "organizing junkie," while many of us can be described as "clutter junkies." If the latter describes you, this is your new favorite blog.
Laura and staff not only offer up brilliant solutions for decluttering but helps us dig deep into why we hang on to so much stuff and why we're so disorganized.
You know those nights (at our house it's almost every night!) when you can't figure out what to make for dinner and when you finally hit on something, you'll need to head out to the market for missing ingredients?
Laura fixes that for you by not only advising that you create a weekly menu, but posts sample menus for you as well. It doesn't get any more no-brainer than that!
Find Laura and her amazing tips online at orgjunkie.com or connect with her on Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube
While we're north of the border, take a look at Laurence MacSween's storage solutions blog, Storage|Glee. Once you get on the organization bandwagon, you'll need these solutions and MacSween has plenty of them.
While she doesn't offer how-to advice, you'll find no shortage of inspiration. Take a look at the right sidebar to get started. You'll find storage solutions for everything from salsa to vodka and from utensil to photos.
Prefer room-specific suggestions? You'll find those as well.
Visit Storage|Glee online at storageandglee.blogspot.com.
Honorable Mentions:
Clutter Bug
If you can stomach the huge push to buy products, you'll find that Clutterbug offers brilliant organizing tips.
They're a bit challenging to find, nestled in among the products for sale, but if you scroll down the home page, just under the book for sale you'll find her tips, organized by room.
A lot of what's on the site is in video form (who has time for that?). Your mileage may vary. Visit them online at Clutterbug.me
A Slob Comes Clean
Again, lots of podcasts, videos and "please buy my stuff" to wade through, but we love her decluttering and organizing tips. Find them online at ASlobComesClean.com.