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Syria is America's Problem
The semester at Liberty University was barely over when I decided to fly half way around the world to see for myself what was happening among the world's most war torn people -- the Syrians.
As Liberty University's Vice President responsible for our Center for Global Engagement, it's part of my job to further our mission to inspire and empower our students to make this world a better place. This year our students have provided medical care for impoverished people in Africa, taught English to young leaders in Asia, and have produced a thousand smiles on the faces of a thousand children around the world. From Rwanda to Bosnia, and in dozens of nations in between, our students they have helped people, and the students have been beating down my door for more than a year asking what more we can do for Syria.
So, I decided to find out for myself.
With the help of World Help -- an organization founded by Liberty University's first graduate, Vernon Brewer -- I went into the heart of the Zaatari camp on Jordan's border with Syria to investigate opportunities to serve.
I'll never forget what I saw there. Almost everyone I met had bullet wounds and scars.
Perhaps it's what I should have expected being in a place like that … in a time like this.
The white, wind swept tents went as far as I could see, and then there were the children -- thousands of them – running aimlessly, everywhere. Almost all of the white tents had faded to a shade of brown as dark as the sand they were pitched upon, like the faded hopes of the families whose lives had been destroyed by a war they didn't choose. These rudimentary conditions provided the only available shelter for the nearly 200,000 Syrian refugees living there, and I could taste their despair. Pain was atmospheric, even omnipresent. Everyone had lost someone, most of them had lost everything, and no one had any hope of having any hope to speak of.
It all seemed unreal to me until a Syrian man came to our fortified pick-up truck and started banging wildly on the window.
For a moment, I had no idea what was happening, and my heart started throbbing in my chest. The animated man was screaming something in Arabic.
The tension was palpable in the camp, and I had already been warned repeatedly to stay in the truck just in case some troublemakers started throwing rocks. "In fact," they told me, "we picked this truck because it's stronger, in case you're stoned."
That was nice to know -- just in case.
Our translator calmed our fears as he told us the man was asking us to "take a video of this place and show the world how bad it is here."
So, we stopped the truck, got out, and began to meet wonderful, heartbroken people.
One man my father's age lifted his shirt to show me the faded red lacerations that criss-crossed his back, and a man my age showed me the disfigured part of his leg where one of Assad's bullets had entered and then blasted out.
Another man, whom I'll call Abdul, even invited us into his tent. We sat there for almost an hour getting to know one another.
Abdul wasn't poor when he lived in Syria. He had a fantastic job in a big city, and he and his wife and children lived in a beautiful four-bedroom home. They had hope and a future, and life was moving along grandly.
Then the war began, and that's when the life they knew ended.
Assad's army temporarily imprisoned Abdul because they suspected his son was fighting in the opposition. They had hoped they could get to the son by the father. This was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. In the cover of night, Abdul and his family left all they had behind for a terrifying journey to this camp of refugees. Now, they lived barely one tier above the beggars.
I asked Abdul if he would like me to send a message to America on his behalf. He replied without hesitation. He said, "Please tell them we're people too, just like them. We're not animals."
The Syrian situation is enormously complex, and its complexities multiply by the day, but a few things are clear. First, these are real and regular people (just like you and me). And, secondly, Syria's megalomaniacal leader was responsible for most of the misery I saw there, and it was abundantly clear to those people that he would have killed every one of them had he had the chance, including their children.
I'm not sure we'll ever know why President Obama -- despite the advice of his Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and CIA director -- chose to leave Syria's children groaning in despair, or why the President decided to redefine the meaning of "red line" as soon as evidence of chemical weapons use emerged. Of course, I understand there are sensitivities with Russia and a fragmenting opposition increasingly influenced by Islamic extremists, but I also am not sure I know how Obama would answer the question one refugee asked me to ask him about equally volatile Arab states: "Why does Obama care about the Libyans, the Tunisians, the Egyptians, and the Yemeni, yet he lets Syrians die?"
These questions are important, but they are bigger than most of us.
Politics and complexities aside, the Syrian crisis is the most dire of our time, and I do know at least one thing. We can all do a little to help those who didn't ask for all of this. A twist of fate and any of us could have been any of them.
And that's a lesson I want our students to learn. I want them to take personally the pain of the world they're living in, and to not let the ambivalence of the powerful steal their passion to do a little bit of good. We're going to do exactly that, whether or not politics stands in the way of what could be done.
We did take that video, by the way, and I promised that man I would tell the world what I had seen.
Now, I have.


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Rochester sweeps past Herd
TO SUM IT UP: The Herd combined to score just one run on nine hits in the twinbill, dropping both games to their closest rivals… Rochester scored a 3-1 victory in Tuesday's first game before shutting out the Bisons, 2-0, in the second contest… The Bisons' lone run on the day came courtesy of their first batter on the afternoon. Jason Pridie homered on a 1-1 pitch from Rochester starter Anthony Swarzak, from that point on, the Herd was shutout on just eight singles over the next 14 innings.
GAME 1: Mejia settles down after rocky start
GAME 2: Bisons blanked in night-cap
FAST FACTS: Kirk Nieuwenhuis singled in each game to extend his hit streak to nine games… The outfielder has reached base safely in all 13 Bisons games this season…The three runs allowed by Jenrry Mejia in game one were the first runs he's allowed this season. The righty had begun the year with 12.2 innings of shutout baseball…The Bisons have his six home runs this year with Jason Pridie having half of them.
WHAT'S NEXT: The Bisons host the Red Wings on Wednesday at 1:05 p.m. Casey Fossum faces Twins top prospect Kyle Gibson.


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Last summer, a survey found that women are more prone to road rage than men, and that 30% of commuters send text messages on their way to work.
Now, AT&T has released results from a similar survey, and although it doesn't draw any conclusions about road rage, it does reveal some staggering statistics about texting and driving.
The good news is that commuters understand that texting and driving is an awful habit. A whopping 95% of those surveyed said that reading an incoming text message behind the wheel is a bad idea. And 98% thought the same of sending a text.
Given those stats, you'd think that few adults engaged in the habit of texting and driving. But you'd be wrong: 49% said they've done so. That's higher than figures for teen drivers.
But wait, there's more: three years ago, when AT&T conducted the same survey, the figure was just 43%.
In other words, the problem is getting worse.
Frustratingly, neither AT&T nor its survey partner, ResearchNow, reveal the methodology behind those numbers. As a result, we don't know if they're based on 20 respondents or 20,000. Given the stature of AT&T, we assume that the company knows how to conduct a significantly sized survey, but without figures, we can't promise anything.
The one thing we do know is that texting and driving remains a terrible habit. Watch AT&T's video embedded above, then jump over to ItCanWait.com. There, you'll learn much, much more about the dangers of distracted driving, and you'll be able to take a pledge to change any bad texting and driving habits of your own.
This article originally appeared at The Car Connection.


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Patriot groups continue to rise, poverty center says
In its latest annual count of extremist groups in the United States, the Southern Poverty Law Center reports that the number of anti-government and militia groups has continued to rise dramatically while the number of hate groups has held steady.
In 2012, the nonprofit civil rights organization based in Montgomery, Ala., listed 1,360 "Patriot" groups, who generally believe that "the federal government is conspiring to take Americans' guns and destroy their liberties as it paves the way for a global 'one-world government.' "
That number represented a more than eight-fold increase from 149 such groups in 2008, according to the center's report issued Tuesday.
"Frankly, we've never seen that kind of growth in the entire time we've been covering these groups," said Mark Potok, the report's author who spoke to reporters in a conference call.
In Texas, the jump in Patriot groups has been even steeper than at the national level, spurting from 6 in 2008 to 52 in 2009 and 79 in 2012, an increase of more than 12 times.
Founded in 1971, the law center since 1990 has been tracking extremist groups. The Patriot movement includes militia groups, Potok said.
Both nationally and in Texas, the number of Patriot groups initially peaked in the 1990s and then dipped back to single digits. In the Lone Star State, however, the dip took longer to show up, with 44 groups registering activity in 2003.
"Texas has been a real hotbed of this movement. It was in the '90s and is becoming so again," Potok said.
The number of hate groups in the United States listed by the law center decreased last year by 11, from 1,018 in 2011 to 1,007 in 2012.
According to the law center's website, hate groups "have beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people."
While the law center has drawn criticism for labeling such organizations as the Family Research Council and the American Family Association as hate groups, Potok said the center lists the two organizations among anti-gay groups due to their "demonizing" propaganda about lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people.
Potok said the two organizations have "propagated known falsehoods," such as repeatedly asserting that gay men are more likely than straight men to assault children.
Bryan Fischer, director of issue analysis for the American Family Association, said the Journal of Sex Research has reported that about 30 percent of child sexual abuse is committed by homosexual or bisexual men although they represent less than 3 percent of the population.
"It's good, solid research," Fischer said. "It's just the truth. We're not a hate group. We're a truth group."


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ATLANTA — There will be a bowl game for Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets may even play for the ACC championship.
Those are unlikely developments for a team that entered November with a losing record.
Tevin Washington passed for three touchdowns and ran for another score to lead Georgia Tech to a 42-24 win over Duke on Saturday, preserving the Yellow Jackets' hopes of playing in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game.
Georgia Tech (6-5, 5-3 ACC) has won three straight games to become bowl-eligible for the 16th consecutive season. The Yellow Jackets moved one-half game ahead of Miami in the Coastal Division. Miami ends its conference schedule next week against Duke.
Miami, 4-3 in the ACC, would win a tie-breaker with Georgia Tech, thanks to its 42-36 overtime win over the Yellow Jackets on Sept. 22, if each team finishes 5-3 in the league.
Miami, under NCAA investigation, could self-impose its second-straight bowl ban. That decision would send Georgia Tech to the Dec. 1 ACC championship game against Florida State.
"All I know is that the worst we can do is tie for first in the Coastal Division," said Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson, who said "I have no idea" what Miami will decide.
"After the way the season started and everybody kind of wrote it off, I'm proud of these guys for hanging in there and fighting," he said.
Duke (6-5, 3-4) already clinched its first bowl berth since 1994.
Washington threw two scoring passes to Robert Godhigh and one to Zach Laskey.
Duke receiver Conner Vernon became the ACC's all-time leader in yards receiving, passing former Florida State star Peter Warrick's record of 3,517 yards. Vernon, who began the game 35 yards behind Warrick's mark, had five catches for 38 yards.
On the first play of the game, Vernon caught a 2-yard pass from Sean Renfree, giving him receptions in 46 consecutive games, setting another ACC record. North Carolina's Corey Holliday had the old record of 45 games.
Washington, a senior, completed 6 of 10 passes for 102 yards and had 19 carries for 62 yards in his final home game. He matched his career high with the three touchdown passes. He also threw three scoring passes against Western Carolina on Sept. 1, 2011.
"I wanted to make sure we came out with a lot of energy and focus as a senior class," Washington said.
Georgia Tech ran the ball on 72 of its 80 plays in its spread-option attack and had 330 yards rushing with no turnovers. Godhigh had 18 carries for 72 yards, David Sims had 70 yards rushing with a touchdown and Orwin Smith added 67 yards.
"Generally, when you play a team that runs this offense, they're going to make a mistake," said Duke coach David Cutcliffe. "They're going to fumble a snap, they're going to fumble the exchange, they're going to pitch one on the ground. They did not. … You're not going to shut them down."
Even a rare loose ball worked in Georgia Tech's favor. A third-quarter pass from Washington bounced off receiver Chris Jackson's hands – and into the hands of left tackle Ray Beno, who rambled 9 yards for a first down.
An extra week of practice didn't seem to help Duke's defense. Georgia Tech was successful on 13 of 20 third-down plays and each of its four fourth-down conversions.
"We definitely felt prepared," said Duke defensive end Kenny Anunike, who said the Blue Devils' scout defense couldn't imitate "the speed that Georgia Tech is gonna run it."
Renfree completed 24 of 36 passes for 198 yards with two touchdowns and an interception as Duke took its third straight loss.
The Blue Devils' offense could only watch as Georgia Tech held the ball more than 38 minutes with time-consuming scoring drives of 13, 10, 16, 13, 18 and six plays. Duke was left with less than 22 minutes.
"We had five possessions in the first half," said Duke receiver Desmond Scott. "That's unbelievable. I remember one series they had the ball for at least seven minutes. Sitting on the sideline, you're thinking to yourself we've got to get the ball and score quick."
Washington was again the most prominent quarterback after he played only two possessions in last week's 68-50 win over North Carolina.
Washington set a school and ACC record for career rushing touchdowns by a quarterback when he capped a 13-play drive with his 1-yard scoring run on Georgia Tech's first drive. The rushing touchdown was his 36th. Joshua Nesbitt had the old record of 35 for the Yellow Jackets from 2007-10.
Vad Lee, who played most of last week's game behind Washington, had four carries for 13 yards, including a 2-yard touchdown run. He completed 2 of 4 passes for 17 yards.
"Tevin played a great game," Johnson said. "Tevin was more of the hot hand, so we left him in."
Georgia Tech led 28-24 when Washington led an 18-play touchdown drive that lasted 8 minutes, 31 seconds. It was the Yellow Jackets' longest drive by number of plays and time of possession this season.
The only pass of the drive was Washington's 8-yard touchdown toss to Godhigh with about 10 minutes remaining.
On Duke's next possession, linebacker Jeremiah Attaochu's third-down sack of Renfree forced only the Blue Devils' second punt of the game.
Attaochu delivered another key stop on a fake punt by Duke's Will Monday with about 5 minutes remaining.
Renfree, who had a 9-yard scoring run, had touchdown passes of 24 yards to Desmond Scott in the first quarter and 1 yard to Juwan Thompson in the third quarter.
Duke's Lee Butler had four kickoff returns for 98 yards before leaving with a knee injury. Cutcliffe said Butler likely will need surgery.


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Ron-com Stuck Between Stations stars Josh Hartnett, Michael Imperioli, Zoe Lister-Jones, and Sam Rosen and tells of two people who reconnect after a 15-year absence. Lionsgate release the Tribeca premiere in the US.
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KOKO – My nightmares made flesh
Those images are apparently not Photoshops, but (supposedly) actual photographs of some Chinese girl who calls herself KOKO and uses makeup to make herself look like a shoujo manga character. As a lifelong skeptic, I would have naturally doubted the pictures' authenticity were it not for a couple videos that you can view at some site called RocketNews24, which seem to confirm that yes, she looks like a total freak in motion too.
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If you do not bring a valid ID, you can still vote a provisional ballot. As long as you are eligible and voted in the proper precinct, your provisional ballot will count provided the signature on your provisional ballot matches the signature in your registration record.
Overseas and Military Voters
You are a Military or Overseas voter if you are in uniformed services, living overseas OR a spouse or dependent of a uniformed services voter. To get registered and vote, you can utilize Overseas Vote Foundation.
If you have additional questions about elections and voting overseas you can use our state specific elections official directory or contact the Overseas Vote Foundation.
Poll Worker Information
Visit www.workelections.com to find localized information for becoming a poll worker in your area.
In order to be a poll worker in the state of Florida:
- You must be registered to vote in Florida
- You must be at least 18 years of age or 17 and pre-registered
- You must be a resident of the county
- You must be able to read and write in English
- You will be entitled to compensation
- You must complete required training
To sign up, contact your local board of elections.
Polling Place Hours
The polling place hours will be from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm.
Polling Place Locator
You can find your polling place by utilizing your state resource. If you have further questions on your polling place location, please contact your county clerk.
Provisional Voting
You may vote a provisional ballot if you meet specific conditions. Provisional ballots are counted by noon, 4 days after a General Election and 3 days after a Primary Election.
Voters receive a provisional ballot if:
- their registration cannot be verified at the polls
- an absentee ballot has been issued but the voter fails to bring it to the polls
- voter fails to provide proper ID
- the polling hours are extended (these provisional ballots are segregated from all other provisional ballots).
Voters must cast their provisional ballot in the correct polling place in order for it to be counted.
If you are eligible to vote, and voted in the proper precinct, your provisional ballot will count as long as your signature on the provisional ballot matches the signature in your registration record.
Provisions for Voters with Disabilities
If you are unable to read or write or, because of a disability, needs assistance in voting, you may designate someone, other than an employer or an officer or agent of your union, to provide such assistance. Election officials may also provide assistance.
For more information, you can utilize the American Association of People With Disabilities (AAPD) resource.
Registration Deadline
You can apply to register to vote at any time. However, to vote in an election, you must be registered in the state by the book closing date, which is 29 days before each election. You may pre-register to vote if you are 17 years old or have received a valid Florida driver's license, whichever occurs earlier.
- Note: To vote in a Florida election you must be registered for at least 29 days prior to the election date. If you prefer to vote during the time designated for early voting, you must be registered for 29 days by this time or you will not be able to vote at that time.
Updating your registration to change your name, address, signature are NOT limited by the 29 day deadline.
Time Off To Vote
Time off to vote is subject to the employer, there is no requirement for employers to grant time off to vote for employees.
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Voting Machines
The voting systems used in Florida are optical scan and DRE.
Optical Scan: With this system, you will receive a card or sheet of paper, which you take over to a private table or booth. The card has the names of the various candidates and ballot measures printed on it. With a pen or pencil you fill in a little box or circle or the space between two arrows. When you are finished filling out all the cards, you may bring the cards over to a ballot box, where poll workers will show you how to put the cards in the box. Or in some places, you may feed the completed cards or papers into a computer device that checks your card or paper right there at the polling place to make sure you have voted the way you want to and counts the votes.
Direct Recording Electronic (DRE): This is the newest kind of system in use in the U.S. All the information about who and what you are voting for is on an electronic screen like a TV or computer screen.
There are many variations of DREs because lots of companies are inventing new ones, and many cities, counties and states are trying them out. Usually, after you have signed in, the poll workers will give you a card that you slide into a device to start your voting session.
Some of these devices will show all of the candidates and ballot choices on one big screen. Often, with these big screen devices you push a button next to the name of the candidate you want to vote for (or yes or no on a ballot measure). On other DREs, the screen is set up to show pages. On each screen or page, there will probably be one thing to vote on. For example, on one screen or page, you might vote for president. Then you might move to the next page to vote for senator. Often these small-screen devices have a pages. where you touch the screen next to the name of the person you want to vote for. Other devices have a key pad. Some have a keyboard, so you can write in the name of someone you want to vote for.
You let the system know you are finished voting by pushing a button, touching the screen or entering something on a keypad.
You can learn more about voting systems by checking out the Elections Assistance Commission's (EAC) or through Verified Voting.
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End of Life Issues
- Palliative Care
- Hospice Care
- Do Not Resuscitate order (DNR)
- How to talk to your child about death
- How to meet your child's needs
- How to find support for yourself, your spouse, and the child's siblings
Palliative care
Hospice care
Do Not Resuscitate order (DNR)
How to talk with your child about death
- Knowing that they will not be alone. It is very important for children to know that their loved ones will stay with them and support and love them
- Understanding the family's religious or spiritual beliefs related to what happens after death
- Knowing that family, friends, teachers, and other special people will always remember them
- Reassurance that pain and suffering goes away after death and never comes back
- Understanding that they have "permission" to die. Children may feel guilty about leaving their parents and loved ones and worry about them.
Meeting the needs of the child
- Offer opportunities to engage in developmentally appropriate activities and play.
- Encourage attending school as long as possible, even if only part-time. Ask the teacher if they can have the class write letters or make videos to cheer them up when they have to stay out of school for medical reasons.
- Encourage the child to keep in touch with friends and loved ones.
- Help them continue to set goals and do things they enjoy. Short-term goals, such as reading a book or taking a trip somewhere special, can help a child gain a sense of achievement and meaning in their life.
- Continue treating them like a regular kid. Children need limits on behavior and, without normal parenting and limits, may feel out of control and overwhelmed.
- Advocate for the child or teach them self-advocacy to ensure that pain and other symptoms are addressed promptly. Make sure caregivers and medical staff are aware of the child's ongoing needs, especially the need for pain management.
- Talk about the changes the child may experience as their condition progresses but avoid scaring him/her. Remind him that the doctors will help make him feel as good as possible. Knowing what to expect can ease fear. Allow the child as much privacy and independence as they want for as long as possible.
- Encourage the child to think about end-of-life wishes. These may include writing letters to friends, or going on a special adventure. Learn about organizations that help children fulfill their wishes (Wish Foundations (see RI providers [19])).
- Give your child time to say good-bye to family, friends, teachers, and other special people. This can be done by letter, phone or in person.
How to find support for yourself
- Take advantage of offers from family or friends to help with tasks you can delegate. Letting go of some simple responsibilities can ease your physical and emotional exhaustion.
- Make sure advance directives and other such documents are in place before the need arises.
- Talk with family members and friends about your feelings and fears. It is very normal to experience anger, guilt, frustration, and extreme sadness.
- Seek support from a parent support group for children with terminal illness or a grief counselor.
- Consider making funeral arrangements ahead of time. Making these decisions and arrangements ahead of time lets parents spend more relaxed, quality time with their child and avoid having to do them in a time of crisis.
- Request a consultation with the physician or a qualified staff member to explain what will happen when the child is close to death, such as physical and respiratory changes. Knowing what to expect helps some families feel more prepared.
- Spend as much time as possible with the child, tell them how much they are loved. Many families find it very helpful and special to look at pictures and videos of good times and share memories from the past.
Taking care of yourself and your family
Information & Support
For Parents and Patients
Hospice Vs. Palliative Care (National Caregivers Library)
Explanation between the differences in hospice and palliative care including payment and treatment.
What Is Pediatric Palliative Care? (Get Palliative Care)
Definition of palliative care for children with stories and more.
Brochures for Families (NHPCO)
Brochures from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
Services for Patients & Families in Rhode Island (RI)
|Service Categories
|# of providers* in:
|Other states (5) (show)
|Bereavement Counseling
|Hospice & Palliative Care
|Wish Foundations
For services not listed above, browse our Services categories or search our database.
* number of provider listings may vary by how states categorize services, whether providers are listed by organization or individual, how services are organized in the state, and other factors; Nationwide (NW) providers are generally limited to web-based services, provider locator services, and organizations that serve children from across the nation.


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The historic snowfall in D.C. has shut down the federal government and hope seems to be withering that a significant climate change bill can be passed this year.
In addition to paralyzing the nation's capitol, the blizzard has breathed new wind into the argument that the globe is not getting any warmer. Environmentalists are now pushing the counterintuitive notion that the heavy snow is further proof that global warming exists. Conservatives, meanwhile, are chilling -- confident that a northeast coated in white is the right indication that climate change is junk science.
Here's a look at the debate raging over those pretty little snowflakes:
- The New Republic's Bradford Plumer writes that the worst part of the storm is having "to suffer through a flurry of Al Gore jokes and Republicans snorting about how this proves global warming is all fake." He points to the "thoughtful" comment by meteorologist Jeff Masters who asserts that "massive snowstorms in the Northeast are, in fact, quite consistent with a steadily warming world" because warming creates higher levels of moisture in the air.
- Blogger Matthew Yglesias notes that there have been concerns over the lack of snow leading up to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver -- to make the point that the current snowfall trends bolster the climate change thesis. "If you turn your moron filter off, though, you'll see that unusual weather events all around the world are exactly what you would expect from systemic shifts in the global climate," he writes. "The Winter Olympics are in Vancouver and not DC. Just swapping weather patterns around is incredibly destructive."
- Writing in the New American, Charles Scaliger rails against global warming thesis. "If this is global warming, I'd hate to see what global cooling might entail!" he quips while putting climate change on par with ancient Norse mythology. "The attribution of such forces of nature to divine wrath, while not scientific, at least has an internal logic that the doctrine of global warming — driven more by ideology than by level-headed science — lacks absolutely."
- The editors at the National Review Online declared "the global-warming thrill ride looks to be coming to an end, undone by the same politically motivated serial exaggeration and moral preening that discredited previous apocalypses." "This is probably the beginning of a wholesale revision of the conventional wisdom on climate change."


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Create Group or Club Challenges
I would love to be able to set up challenges within groups for the folks that I ride with. Complete with the features that are on the normal Strava challenges such as leaderboards, ranking.
Ability to set up the challenge measurement such as mileage, time, suffer score etc.
I feel like this would really help drive people to ride even harder, especially those that might feel a little overwhelmed by some of the site wide challenges.


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Activists Try to Save Old Warsaw Ghetto Building : NPR
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — It was the place where Jewish women did their ritual bathing. It was a tuberculosis clinic. It survived the German onslaught and became a gathering point for Holocaust survivors.
Now "the white building," the headquarters of the Jewish community and one of the few surviving remnants of the infamous Warsaw Ghetto, could be torn down to make way for a multistory tower that would fit seamlessly into a modern city skyline.
The building's fate will soon be determined by the Culture Ministry, which has been asked by advocates of historic preservation to declare it a historical monument, a classification that would ban its destruction. It's not yet clear how officials will decide, though previous rulings by other state offices had declared the building not worth saving. Now those for and against destroying the old building are anxiously awaiting a verdict.
What is perhaps unexpected in this case is who is fighting for what: Warsaw's Jewish community, which owns the dilapidated three-story building, is making the case for its destruction. The community leaders argue that a bigger building is needed to accommodate a Jewish community that is re-emerging in the young Polish democracy after the Holocaust and decades of communist repression.
The white building, in the heart of the city's business district, is the place where the Jewish community gathers for lectures, Shabbat dinners, holidays, even sports. Jewish leaders argue that it is too cramped, bleak and fungus-infested to continue serving the needs of a community that has roughly tripled in number in the past decade.
Today, it can no longer accommodate all those who want to join Shabbat dinners after Friday evening prayers. There is no room for festive celebrations on the holiday of Purim. And a new Reform congregation, which embraces a modern style of worship different from the Orthodox services held in the Nozyk synagogue, must meet across town in rented rooms.
More: Activists Try to Save Old Warsaw Ghetto Building : NPR


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