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The 7 Most Bizarre Natural Phenomena Caught on Camera
We humans are all too aware of the scary shit nature likes to pull on us. Whether it's destroying our towns with surging flood waters or setting our drug labs on fire with a well-placed lightning strike, we're constantly reminded that this is Mother Nature's world, and we're only squatting on it until she eventually comes home from vacation with a lingering tequila buzz and a shotgun. But perhaps that's unfair to nature: She's not all petty violence and viciousness ... sometimes she goes for more of a psychological approach to warfare. Here are a few natural phenomena that prove nature is probably just fucking with our heads ...
#7. Electric Blue Seas
This looks like a hot vacation spot in Tron World. It looks like a jellyfish rave. It looks like somebody ate the future and threw it up on a beach. This is actually a bioluminescent bloom, and it's the result of a mass of naturally glowing plankton washing up all at once on a single tide. There is zero trickery going on here. If you were standing there in person, this is exactly what it would look like. The motion of the ocean agitates the bioluminescent plankton as it brings them to shore, causing the waves to flare to sudden, brilliant life.
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That, or some crab chewed open a glow stick.
The best part is the effect is not harmful or forbidden to humans at all. If you're at a beach when this happens, just wade on in there and start playing with Mother Nature's version of Microsoft Surface, like so:
#6. Frost Flowers
It's like a scene out of an arctic-themed Disney movie: This would be the set piece when Princess Nanoo sings about the "frozen beauty of the north," right before the sinister Duke of Blubber steals her away.
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And the gallant Prince Icenuts must come to her rescue.
And it is absolutely real: These are Frost Flowers, and they're formed when tiny imperfections in surface ice kickstart a chain reaction of bizarre growth. Hollow tubes of ice form vertically from the imperfections, pulling moisture and debris into the structure. More ice grows over those imperfections, bringing in more moisture and debris, and so on and so forth until you have an entire floating field of icy romance.
#5. Snow Chimneys
Ah, the ancient slumbering giant whose frozen body forms Antarctica finally awakens, just as the prophecy foretold, and it seems he's uh ... he's got some steamy morning wood.
As if there's any other kind.
That's actually an ice fumarole. A normal fumarole is a vent that protrudes from the ground, allowing steam from volcanoes to escape out into the open. Of course, arctic volcanoes have fumaroles, too, but it's so cold that steam particles freeze upon contact with the outside air, building up and up until you eventually get massive, 60-foot-high "ice chimneys" inexplicably shooting hot air out into the arctic wasteland. It makes sense now that you know the explanation, but if you were an arctic explorer stumbling upon one of those things for the first time, you just know you'd assume "giant Eskimos cooking breakfast."
#4. Moonbows
Dale P. Cruikshank via NASA
Quiet, can you hear it? It's as if a thousand voices suddenly cried out at once! And they cried out "FAAAKE PIXLZZZ!!!"
That's either clearly Photoshopped, or we've finally discovered the gateway to Oz. The interior of the rainbow is daytime, the exterior is night. You expect us to believe this fantasy bullshit? Well, you should probably start: While it may look like the pseudo-surrealist pap you'd find hanging in some naturopath dentist's office, this is a real photo of a real phenomenon. There are such things as rainbows in the middle of the night. If it looks like the sun's coming up in the middle of that rainbow, it's not -- that's just the long exposure augmenting background light.
But the effect isn't just long-exposure trickery. If the conditions are just right, you can see Moonbows with the naked eye, if you're paying attention to the sky opposite the moon. For once, the explanation is simple: Moonbows work exactly like rainbows and appear whenever bright moonlight refracts just so off of moisture in the air.
Photo courtesy Calvin Bradshaw (calvinbradshaw.com)
And also whenever a fairy reaches second base.
And they happen fairly often, it's just that most are duller rainbows, or less sharp eyes only pick up on a faint white shimmering arc, while some lucky bastards can squint and see a rainbow in the dark. So it turns out Dio wasn't a poet, after all: Dude just had some keen peepers.


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I can never go back to (mid-scale department store) home department.
It's all my mother's fault.
I wanted to purchase a wedding gift for my brother Davey Crockett, who is marrying Glinda the Good Witch in Kentucky this week. I wanted something unusual enough they didn't already have six of, but useful enough they would need it regularly.
I thought it would be simple. I didn't count on Grandmama.
It was a fatal mistake. I thought it'd be OK if she browsed, but as the kids say, you just can't set a wild Grandmama loose without any oversight. Ever. Even with the best intentions.
A salesperson approached me. Would I like some help? Yes, I would. So she showed me some pots and pans, extolling their nonstick virtues.
Grandmama leapt out from behind a display of coffee pots.
"I found T-Fal," she announced.
The salesperson mentioned the pots we were looking at were nonstick and scratch resistant. I appreciate scratch resistance, living in a household where the Long Suffering Husband (bless his heart) regularly cooks, yet doesn't seem to understand you don't use metal utensils in nonstick cookware.
"I found T-Fal," Grandmama repeated.
She looked at the $200 price tag and her eyes promptly fell right out of her head.
"Not that," she said. "I found T-Fal."
The salesperson tried to get a word in edgewise.
"I found T-Fal," Grandmama said.
"But this stuff is scratch resistant," I said.
"Glinda knows better than to use metal utensils," Grandmama sniffed.
"What about Davey?" I asked.
"Glinda knows better."
The salesperson came to the conclusion we were looking at the T-Fal come hell or high water, because she began edging that way.
"She's trying to sell you the expensive stuff because she gets a commission," Grandmama said.
The salesperson was 3 feet away. Grandmama wasn't exactly quiet. I prayed for a hole to open up in the floor and swallow me - or better yet, my mother. I could have died. I didn't, unfortunately.
"I don't get - " the beleaguered salesperson attempted.
"I found T-Fal," Grandmama said.
So we looked at the T-Fal. I didn't like it. At that point, I probably wouldn't have liked it if was fully automated and cooked dinner all by itself.
I wandered, looking for a wedding gift with all the desperation of a dehydration victim looking for an oasis in a desert.
"This is nice," the salesperson tried.
It was a ceramic-coated cast iron Dutch oven. Grandmama poked it.
"Glinda made us bean soup the last time we visited and could have used something like this," she said. "I think she'd like this."
The heavens opened and an angelic choir began to sing.
The entire time we spent picking one out, I was plotting my swift escape to avoid any more potential Grandmama-induced embarrassment.
As we were leaving, I noticed the bottom of the box had come open.
"Where the (redacted) is my pot?" I asked.
Who was holding the door open for us - and probably hoping we'd leave her store as soon as possible - but the salesperson from earlier. Proving that no amount of craziness would keep her from doing her duty, she helped us with the box (cookware still safely within).
As we walked away, I asked, "did I just say (redacted)?"
"Loudly," said Grandmama.
So I can't go back.
And it's my mother's fault.
(Wallace-Minger, a Weirton resident, is The Weirton Daily Times community editor and can be contacted at email@example.com.)

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Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Ralph Korte Stadium & Sports Complex
This 3,000-seat venue is home of the SIUE track & field and soccer programs. The complex, which has hosted the NCAA Division II Championships on three occasions, is completely lighted and has a seperate throwing area for field events.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Vadalabene Center
The Vadalabene Center on the Division I campus at SIUE is a flexible venue with seating for 4,000. The main gym can be configured for several different court setups: three full-sized basketball, six volleyball or five badminton. The center is also home to the SIUE wrestling program.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Cougar Field and SimmonsCooper Baseball Complex
These newly constructed additions to the sports facilities at SIUE serve as the home of the softball and baseball teams, respectively.
Oak Leaf offers a nine-hole, par 32 course.
Timber Lakes features an 18-hole, par 72 course.
This well-established, hilly nine-hole, semi-private course has many mature oaks, small greens and one water hole. The club also offers a swimming pool, tennis court and snack bar.
Fox Creek features an 18-hole golf course.
One of the oldest colleges in Illinois, founded in 1837. Blackburn is also one of only seven colleges in the U.S. where students work in exchange for tuition credit, and the only one whose Work program is student-run. This keeps Blackburn's tuition among the lowest of all private colleges in the United States. Over the years, students have literally built Blackburn, brick by brick; the only college campus in the United States to be largely built by its students.
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20-year-old Tevin Geike was walking with two other white soldiers along Pacific Highway SW when a group of black men drove by and shouted a racial comment toward the soldiers, the Lakewood Police Department said.
"One of the soldiers yelled back something about the suspects treating combat soldiers with disrespect," Lt. Chris Lawler said.
The car turned around and the men confronted the soldiers, according to reports. As the verbal confrontation ensued, the driver of the vehicle realized the men were actually combat veterans and called his friends off. While the men headed back to their vehicle, one of the suspects appeared to have bumped into Geike, witnesses say.
The soldiers saw Geike fall to the ground as the car sped away. He was bleeding profusely from stab wounds and died at the scene.
"We came down here, and he was already dead in my brother's arms," said Glenn Zimmerman, a friend of Geike.
Friends say there was a party at the Biltmore Motel that evening, and Geike was gathering with family and friends after being discharged from the military. Zimmerman said Geike's contract was up, and he was celebrating serving his country.
"I don't understand how someone can do this - that man, he almost gave his life for people to enjoy the freedoms they have and he was just stabbed for no (expletive) reason," he continued.
The initial remark that started the encounter seemed derogatory in nature, said Lakewood police Lt. Chris Lawler. He said it was too early to say that race was the motivating factor, but investigators were exploring whether the killing should be classified as a hate crime.
"We are certainly considering it, for sure," Lawler said.
Police are searching for a midnight blue BMW-type sedan or VW Jetta-type car with four doors, tinted windows and stock rims, and low profile tires.
All five suspects are black men in their 20s, police say. The main suspect is believed to be in his early 20s, about 6'1", medium build, and was wearing a blue zip-up hoodie. The driver was described as having short cropped hair, and wearing a blue and white horizontal striped shirt.
Detectives were in the area Saturday looking for businesses or others who might have video from around the time of the stabbing. Lawler said the person who stabbed the soldier should come forward and show remorse now.
"He's going to get caught," Lawler said. "Nobody's going to give up until we catch up."
Geike, of Summerville, SC, entered the Army in October 2010 and reported to Fort Jackson, SC, for basic training. According to unit records, Spc. Geike was a member of the 7th Infantry Division, arrived at JBLM in April 2011, and had been in the Army 35 months.


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The companies said the Patoka hub can receive crude oil from both western Canada and North Dakota's Bakken play through a variety of existing pipelines as well as through Enbridge's Southern Access Extension pipeline, which is under development. The pipeline is expected to be in service by 2015.
By CAROLYN KING
Enbridge and the Energy Transfer entities on Friday
announced a joint venture that will give oil producers in
western Canada and North Dakota pipeline access to the eastern
Gulf Coast refinery market from the Patoka,
Ill. hub.
Calgary, Alberta-based Enbridge will own 50% of the 700-mile
project, with the remaining 50%
owned by Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners and Energy
Transfer Equity L.P. The cost of the project wasn't disclosed.
The companies said the Patoka hub can receive crude oil from
both western Canada and North Dakota's Bakken play through a
variety of existing pipelines as well as through Enbridge's
Southern Access Extension pipeline, which is under
The new pipeline will provide access to the "highly attractive"
-- but currently inaccessible -- eastern Gulf Coast market via
the crude-oil hub at St. James in Louisiana, they said.
As part of the project, certain segments of a
pipeline already in operation as part of the Trunkline Gas
system will be converted to crude-oil service from natural gas.
Trunkline is a subsidiary of Energy Transfer.
The converted 30-inch diameter crude-oil pipeline is
expected to be in service by 2015. Its capacity could reach up
to 420,000 to 660,000 bpd, the companies said.
"Connecting the Patoka hub to the St. James hub is an
important component of our broader plans to open up access to
the eastern Gulf Coast crude oil market and responds to
significant interest from both producers and refineries,"
Enbridge CEO Al Monaco said in a statement.
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Can anybody recommend me a free linux emulators for windows? VMware is good but it is not free
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Destiny public beta dated for July, exclusive to PlayStation for a limited timeWritten by: / / 32 Comments
The last we heard about the Destiny public beta was when the launch of the online taster was delayed to the 'Summer' of 2014 following a release date announcement for the full game.
More recently, Activision has announced that we'll be getting to grips with Destiny in July ahead of the game's launch in September.
The news was announced during a recent Activision investor call, where it was revealed that World of Warcraft subsciber numbers continued to tumble from 7.8 million to 7.2 million in the last financial quarter, despite the fact that there have already been one million pre-orders for the game's next expansion pack, Warlords of Draenor, due out in late 2014.
As far as Destiny is concerned, however, the game is on the verge of setting new pre-order numbers for Activision for a new intellectual property – an IP that the company is reportedly spending $500 million on in order to develop, market and distribute.
The Destiny public beta in July will remain exclusive to PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 for a limited time before opening up to Xbox 360 and Xbox One players who have pre-ordered the game.
Destiny launches across PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on September 9th. Are you ready for Bungie's new adventure?
Don't miss El33tonline's previous and continued Destiny coverage for more videos, details and a smattering of screenshots, as well as information on the three classes that will be available in the sci-fi first-person shared world shooter. You can find our latest Destiny preview over here, too.
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I don't understand our professor's explanation for the answer to this problem:
An LED is connected in series to a 150ohms pull up resistor and a MOSFET with drain-source resistance of 3ohms. The Pull up resistor is connected to a 5V source and the MOSFET is connected to ground (say MOSFET is turned on i.e. the gate). Now if there is a 2V drop across the LED, what is the current flowing through the LED.
I calculated the LED's resistance to be 102ohms giving the current through the LED to be 19.6 mA (which is correct).
But my professor says that the LED has no resistance at all and that my method of calculation is wrong (despite there being a voltage drop). And he said something about thevenin resistance which I did not understand.
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Desalination—removing dissolved minerals from seawater, brackish groundwater, or treated wastewater—appears at first glance to be the ideal answer to freshwater shortages. What could be more attractive than harnessing the planet's seemingly inexhaustible 1.34 quadrillion (that's 15 zeros) megaliters of seawater? Oceans are drought-proof. In theory, so is wastewater.
In the Persian Gulf, where seawater normally contains a lip-puckering 45 grams of salt per liter, thermal desalination is king. This method vaporizes water to purify it. Pretty much everywhere else, desalination is done by reverse osmosis, which purifies water by forcing it through membranes. Both methods cut down the salt to a drinkable 0.5 gram per liter.
But there's a price. As long as the cost of desalination continues to depend on the cost of energy, these technologies won't help much of the energy-starved developing world that needs them the most. And desalination isn't just energy intensive; there's also the problem of the toxic sludge it leaves behind. In this business, brine—the concentrated result of purifying water—might as well be a four-letter word. Throwing the brine back into the ocean can kill fish and smaller denizens of the food chain.
Several contenders might make history of these concerns. New methods in the pipeline reduce desalination's energy demands in innovative and intriguing ways. Further off are technologies that could turn desalination's Achilles' heel into a source of strength: In the future, desalination might just be powered by the very stuff it filters out.


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Survey: 1 in 5 Americans are religious progressives
A new survey categorizes about 1 in 5 Americans as "religious progressives." Catholics make up the largest proportion of that group in terms of religious affiliation, at 29 percent. (Mainline Protestants are next at 19 percent.) Religious progressive on average are younger (44) than the general population (47) and religious conservatives (53).
These numbers, and many more, are contained in the 2013 Economic Values Survey conducted by Public Religion Research Institute with the Brookings Institute. In the big picture, the survey identifies 19 percent of Americans as religious progressives, 38 percent as religious moderates, 28 percent as religious conservatives and 15 percent as nonreligious.
PRRI notes in its study that theologically conservative Americans have been studied far more than those who are theologically progressive. So it decided to look more closely at religious progressives, with the caveat that it is a difficult category to define across denominational lines. One of the findings was that religious people themselves differ greatly about what it means to be religious:
Nearly 8-in-10 (79%) religious progressives say being a religious person is mostly about doing the right thing, compared to 16% who say it is about holding the right beliefs. By contrast, a majority (54%) of religious conservatives say being a religious person is primarily about having the right beliefs, compared to less than 4-in-10 (38%) who say it is mostly about doing the right thing.
The poll seems to confirm analysis during the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns that religious progressives are gradually becoming more of a political force, even as they remain outnumbered by religious conservatives. Both sides face a difficult challenge in trying to attract supporters from outside their ranks, the survey says.
"The conservative coalition could fly apart if its emphasis moves too far from social issues and religion to economics," it says, based on evidence that concern about social issues such as abortion is what draws many religious conservatives to support conservative Republicans, rather than the GOP's approach to the economy.
That leaves religious progressives an opening to appeal to conservatives with religiously based economic arguments. But, the survey says, "The liberal coalition could fracture if liberals either ignore religion altogether or make strong appeals to religious voters that begin to offend the nonreligious in their ranks." It adds: "Yet to build majorities, each side needs to reach out to voters whose views might make parts of their coalition uncomfortable."
Chart: PRRI
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Paul Moses, a professor of journalism at Brooklyn College/CUNY, is the author of The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace (Doubleday, 2009) and An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians (NYU Press, 2015).
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"Nearly 8-in-10 (79%) religious progressives say being a religious person is mostly about doing the right thing, compared to 16% who say it is about holding the right beliefs. By contrast, a majority (54%) of religious conservatives say being a religious person is primarily about having the right beliefs, compared to less than 4-in-10 (38%) who say it is mostly about doing the right thing."
I think that scriptures have something to say about this: James 2: 14-26 ...
Faith and Works.*
14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?i
15 If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day,
16 and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well," but you do not give them the necessities of the body, what good is it?
17 So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
18 Indeed someone might say, "You have faith and I have works." Demonstrate your faith to me without works, and I will demonstrate my faith to you from my works.
19 You believe that God is one. You do well. Even the demons believe that and tremble.
20 Do you want proof, you ignoramus, that faith without works is useless?
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar?
22 You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by the works.
23 Thus the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness," and he was called "the friend of God."
24 See how a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
25 And in the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by a different route?
26 For just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
The authors offer this in explanation of their "Theological Orientation Scale":
In order to measure theological orientation, we created a composite theological orientation scale based on three measures: holding a personal vs. impersonal view of God, holding a literal vs. non-literal view of the Bible or sacred texts, and holding a preservationist vs. adaptive view of religious tradition. These three measures were highly correlated and produced a reliable scale that worked well across religious traditions. Those who scored low on this scale were defined as theological liberals, those who scored high were defined as theological conservatives, and those in the middle were defined as theological moderates.
Using this scale, approximately 4-in-10 (38%) Americans are theological conservatives, 28% are theological moderates, and 19% are theological liberals. An additional 15% of Americansare nonreligious, defined as those who identify as atheist or agnostic, or who say religion is not important in their lives.
I'm not sure I understand the three measures. Is it that a personal view of God, a literal view of the Bible, and having a preservationist view of religious tradition correlate highly? If so, isn't this rather odd? For myself I would like very much to preserve the Catholic religious tradition of a personal God, but I don't believe the Bible should be interpreted literalistically. Does this leave me the odd-man-out? I shouldn't think so. Why does believing in a personal God appear as a marker for theological conservatism? Or am I missing something?
If you look at the actual questions they asked people it becomes clear why their results seem so odd. For example, they try to classify people's degree of conservatism or progressiveness by asking whether they think the Bible is the Word of God or whether it was written by men. There's a stopper for you right there. Reminds me of those carelessly constructed and therefore impossible to answer true-false quizzes one of my philosophy teachers in college was fond of.handing out. No margins could have been wide enough to explain to him what was wrong with any of those questions.
1 in 5 Americans is 20%. 29% of those are Catholic. So 29% of 20% means (I think!) that about 6% of Catholics are progressives. Someone please check my math, but assuming the math is correct, the overwhelming majority of American Catholics are not progressives. Looks like the progressives don't have any leverege, to which I say, Thank God, but with no ill will toward our leftward brothers and sisters. Could be why commonweal has low readership levels.
Bob, if 20% of Americans are religious progressives, and 29% of that universe are Catholics, that means 6% of Americans (not Catholics) are Catholic progressives. I honestly don't know what percentage of Americans overall are Catholic, but if it were (say) 20%, then approximately 30% of them would be progressive politically according to this survey.
I try and stay away from those surveys. I took one on b\ Beliefnet years ago (Belief-O-Matic) and the results told me the only religion I might have less affinity with than my own was Hasidism. It suggested I might be most comfortable as a liberal Quaker (not just any Quaker, but a liberal one).
I was a little bummed out, because up until then I never consider my religion a "conservative" one, and I always thought I was a mainstream, garden-variety Catholic.
I think drilling down to the questions and the construction of the categories is really important here, because to some degree, the views determine the categories, and so when people are asked "right belief vs. right action," it's unsurprising that one gets a pretty stark difference. Having acknowledged that, Fr. Komochak's comment is right on. Catholicism, I think it is safe to say, requires a personal god, requires a non-literalist hermeneutic of scripture (Dei Verbum is clear on this), and requires a hermeneutic of both preservation and adaptation (reform with both continuity and discontinuity, as BXVI famously said). I find the dichotomies themselves problematic in most of the cases - for example, Catholicism clearly thinks people can be good without beliving in God in a certain (i.e. explicit) sense, but not in another (i.e. implicit) sense. Catholicism thinks right belief and right action ought to go together, and certainly should not be set against one another. So the survey itself is informative about how people construct religion in our society - and how much the construction is basically indebted to a long-standing conflict between liberal and fundamentalist Protestantism.
I am pretty sure that the percentages are being taken independently. Of the entire survey group 20% are Progressive (by their measures). When the subset identifying themselves as Catholics is measured, 29% are Progressive. Of the subset Protestants, the Progressives are 19%.
If one wants to understand any such survey-based work, it is essential to read and understand (if not necessarily agree with) the methodology, and to evaluate the specific form and wording of the questions. Study after study shows that the details of the questions are significant controls on responses. It's very hard work, designing good polls. But really, if one thinks it worthwhile to have statistical views , it is the only approach possible.
Yesterday I was in Washington at the Brookings Institution as a panelist discussing this study. The event was chaired by regular Commonweal (and syndicagted) columnist E.J.Dionne and frequent Commonweal contributor William Galston, who both offered their own analyses of it.
I hope to post an independent comment on the study at some point over the weekend.
David and Mark are quite right. If you want to take such surveys seriously, there's no way to avoid "getting into the weeds." I find this kind of study very helpful because it is the kind of essential check on the personal and anecdotal evidence that most of us otherwise must rely on.
I have sympathy with Susan's complaint. I am never entirely satisfied with the wording of questions. But constructing questions for a poll conducted over the phone with people possessing different degrees of sophistication and different vocabularies is very difficult, and good pollsters consider and often test out alternatives.
This study has some problems -- I spelled some out yesterday -- but also a lot of interesting findings, many in the sections that have nothing to do with constructing a category of "religious progressives" out of blended scales of theological, social, and economic liberalism and conservatism. There's a lot, for example, just using the standard categories of white evangelicals, white mainline Christians, African-American Protestants, Catholics, non-Christians, and unaffilliated/nonreligious. Catholics are interestingly divided into white and Hispanic. (The poll was also conducted in Spanish.)
More later.
But meantime I don't think Joe Komonchak really has a problem. The theological orientation scale simply meant that the more one held to a non-literal reading of Scripture, an impersonal concept of God, and an adaptive view of teaching and practice, the greater was one's liberal orientation. I'm not sure about the exact math or method used in weighing the responses, but there's nothing too strange about it. Those of us who have a non-literal approach to Scripture, understand God in personal terms, and have a somewhat adaptive but still perservationist view of teaching and practice simply turn out to fall someplace among the category of theological moderates. Yes, as David Cloutier suggests, these are finally statements about sociological patterns or trends, which in turn have some very real historical basis, not about intellectual or theological coherence. (Theological moderates should be understood as a group no more and no less coherent than theological conservatives or liberals.)
Does one's view of salvation put one in a particula camp? I personally believe that every human being, even the most truly awful among us, will go to heaven because God loves us all. Would that belief categorize one as a theological liberal? Or is it not really part of the calculus?
Peter: You wrote: "The theological orientation scale simply meant that the more one held to a non-literal reading of Scripture, an impersonal concept of God, and an adaptive view of teaching and practice, the greater was one's liberal orientation."
I suppose one can make "liberal" mean anything one wants and then say that this is what one means by the word. I would myself like to know why believing in an impersonal God would place one in that camp.
I was more struck by the claim that these three measures correlated highly, which, I take it, is an empirical claim. But was the linking of the three measures built into the design of the poll or something required in light of the empirical data?
- See more at: http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/survey-1-5-americans-are-religiou...
I always wonder the extent to which people answering these surveys are self-consciously "voting". If I were asked that question about whether the Bible is of divine or human origin by a fundamentalist friend or an atheist friend, my answers would be very different. If I were asked as part of a national survey, my answer would be a straightforward proxy for "do you want to be considered a progressive or a conservative for the purposes of this survey"?
Also, about progressives and an impersonal God -- I wonder if the correlation of answers the survey identifies as "progressive" might include a healthy dose of "spiritual but not religious."
I am never entirely satisfied with the wording of questions. - See more at: http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/survey-1-5-americans-are-religiou...
I am never entirely satisfied with the wording of questions. - See more at: http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/survey-1-5-americans-are-religiou...
I am never entirely satisfied with the wording of questions. - See more at: http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/survey-1-5-americans-are-religiou...
PS. I have no idea why there are three links on the bottom of my previous comment. I think it's the first time I've posted in the new-look Commonweal. I tried to copy and paste from a previous comment, and my browser displayed a dialogue box I've never seen before saying my browser's security settings wouldn't allow access to my clipboard. Those links aren't what I tried to copy, though. Very strange!
three measures: holding a personal vs. impersonal view of God, holding a literal vs. non-literal view of the Bible or sacred texts, and holding a preservationist vs. adaptive view of religious tradition. These three measures were highly correlated
The questionnaire asks: "Thinking about your religion, which of the following statements comes closest to your view? My church or denomination should - Preserve its traditional beliefs and practices - Adjust traditional beliefs and practices in light of new circumstances - Adopt modern beliefs and practices - Other "- The question is not just about tradition but also about beliefs. The wording throws me off, yet I think I know what they have in mind, so I can answer, not according to what's written (there is no good answer), but according to my guess of what they meant.
The questionaire also asks: "Which statement comes closest to your view of God: God is a person with whom people can have a relationship, God is an impersonal force, or I do not believe in God? " - it seems to me that any Catholic, and pretty much any Christian, who has ever paid attention to Scripture or to the words of liturgy, must answer that God is a person with whom people can have a relationship. Yet if I also try to guess what they meant, two images come to my mind: one, a person raising their hands to God, as if entranced, to feel filled by the power of the Holy Spirit. I think that's what they mean by "impersonal". Two, a person touching the foot of the statue of a saint, for good luck. Or telling you that if you do this bad thing then God will get angry and let that bad thing happen to you (Katrina in retaliation for New Orleans prostitution, say), making God into someone who acts and reacts just like a human, only, a human with superpowers. I think that's what they mean by "personal".
Maybe another question for Christians could have been: who do you pray to, the Father, the Son or the Holy Spirit? My guess is that Father = conservatives, Holy Spirit = progressives, Son = the rest of us.
What's the take away? Do our religious frames shape our political leanings? Or do our political frames shape our religious beliefs? Or is that also different among conservative/liberals or different types of beleivers?
What the authors call "religious orientation" is obtained by adding the scores for "theological orientation" (personal God? literal bible? beliefs adapt?), for "social orientation" (gay marriage? abortion?), and for "economic orientation". I am not sure what it means. The survey asks questions and collects answers, but I don't see any conclusion.
I have not visited the website of the Public Religion Research Institute to see whether it has any blog or Q and A options where some of the technical questions can be put directly to the researchers. But here are two responses to Claire's question about the "take away" and Joe Komonchak's question about correlating an impersonal concept of God with "liberal."
Claire, Tom Reese argues that the findings challenge a lot of existing caricatures about religion and politics and, in particular about Catholics and politics. Here is his "take away":
Some of what he says is debatable but certainly not implausible.
Joe, I think the use of the word "liberal" here and its association with concieving of God in impersonal terms is a dialectical construct but one based on a historical reality. "Liberal" is defined over against "conservative" almost as non-traditional is obviously defined against traditional.
Traditional views of God were not only personal but highly anthropomorphic: Michelangelo's Creator in the Sistine Chapel and of course all sorts of images from the Bible. "High" theology and spirituality always addressed this, but I don't think it is unfair to say that on the level of widespread belief, even among the literate, the rejection of this anthropomorphism is relatively modern and often took the form of imagining God in more impersonal terms, whether as a distant Creator (and perhaps Judge) with whom one no longer had daily dealings, or then again as a natural force like "energy" or "life."
Was this a logically necessary turn? I don't think so. Are there a lot of challenges in trying to retain the personal while questioning the anthropomorphic? Yes. Are there a lot of ways of responding to those challenges? Absolutely, although I think the problem posed for everyday spirituality is underdiscussed.
Still, I think the movement from personal/anthropomorphic to impersonal/natural force metaphor is clear enough historically to justify naming it a trajectory from conservative (traditional) to liberal (non-traditional). And I don't think the correlation of that development with reading Scripture non-literally or openness to adaptation in religion belief and practice is at all surprising.
But were these correlations, built into the study and the questions from the start or empirically based? To some extent I imagine that the researchers had a construct from the start based on a familiar (and in my opinion plausible) narrative about our religious history. But I also think the correlations had to be empirically verified.
Let me give a curious counter-example, which seems to have escaped the attention of the researchers. When I was poring over the detailed findings about Hispanic Catholics, I was surprised to see findings that they are (a) much more likely than white Catholics to take the Bible literally but (b) also more likely to see God as an impersonal force! When I read that, I immediately entertained a couple of possibilities. Perhaps it was simply a mistake in coding or recording the data. Or perhaps it was accurate for reasons that I don't know enough about Hispanic Catholicism to understand. (In our parish RCIA gatherings, I have been struck by the frequent instances in which participants with a traditional Hispanic Catholic upbringing use the language of impersonal or natural forces to describe their understanding of God, although I am not sure whether this is truly "impersonal" -- for example, the individual seeking Confirmation who very movingly described her image of God as simply "light.")
But, and here is my point regarding the poll, I believe that if the researchers had found a far greater number of the people polled responding the way that this large percentage of one subgroup did, then they would have had to rethink this personal/impersonal criterion as a part of the theological orientation scale. It wouldn't correlate.
Could this poll help show us where our points of intersection are? Where religious liberals and religious conservatives could come together? Or if we don't have anything in common, how we could be mutually supportive of each others' priorties?
It seems to me that "liberal" is a family resemblance term, or close to it. Yes, its various meanings do have at least a few notes in common -- all liberals are human beings with political views. But beyond that there doesn't seem to be any one characteristic or combination of characteristics to specify one clear meaning or one set of things. Alisdair MacIntyre in After Virtue shows that the people we call "conservatives" these days were originally called "liberals"! The term added and dropped meanings so that now it sometimes means the opposite of what it originally meant,
The same might be true of the word "personal". HIstorically it has many important meanings and, because all Westerners are Platonists whether we want to admit it or not, we assume that there must be one meaning that signifies what persons *really* are. But words don't generally work like that.
I think that is why the questions ask: which of the alternatives "most nearly" signify how you classify yourself. There is no way to answer those questions accurately because the terms are not defined.
All surveys have limitations and there are legitimate reasons to be skeptical of the questions and measures. However, the trends are most telling and seem to be representative of other surveys.
1. Younger Americans (genX and Milenian speliing?) tend to be "dramatically" less conservative than older Americans.
2. Younger Americans tend to be more "moderate" than older Americans.
3. Younger Americans tend to be more "progressive" than older Americans.
4. Younger Americans tend to be much more "non-religious" than older Americans.
I appreciate especially Peter's extensive comments - I too think that a move away from "extremely anthropomorphic" images is part of this. I often lead my students into discussing their images of God by starting with a cartoon "old-guy-in-the-sky" image. But I still worry that these trajectories are largely determined by the post-Reformation differences of various forms of Protestantism. Charles Taylor, for example, makes the "providential Deism" of the 17th and 18th century a stepping stone to "exclusive humanism" - but surely no Catholic theologian of those centuries was advocating anything like providential Deism. Brad Gregory argues that the sola scriptura problem - that is, once you had sola scriptura, what could you do if people couldn't agree on the text - is a product of the Reformation, and thus degenerates into the "literal-or-not" question. In other words, the choices themselves are shaped by debates within Protestantism. Now, I don't deny that (perhaps especially in the US) Catholics end up being deeply shaped by the dominant Protestant context - and start considering their faith in these terms. The survey is telling us something. But part of what it's telling us, I think, is that the categories "religious progressive" and "religious conservative" are not very fruitful categories in which to sort Catholics?
Thank you for the link to Fr. Reese's analysis as well. I think his claim that this study debunks a set of stereotypes is right on. The reliance on the categories, however, to talk about white Catholics vs. white evangelicals, white vs, hispanic Catholics, older vs. younger Catholics just seems very problematic. One, it seems to be exactly the problem that Matt Malone is trying to combat at America - separating Catholics into these labels just seems to perpetuate ongoing conflict about who has how many, etc. Two, more importantly, I've just taught too many millenial students who would not fit these categories at all. I've had students with what I view as painfully conservative and rigid pious practices wo nevertheless do tons of service work as an expression of their faith. I've had students who reject women priests, campaigned to end the death penalty, say tons of rosaries, and think differently from the church on same-sex couples. I've had students who think God is OK with everything and everybody, and is whoever we want God to be, and who are strongly pro-market economic conservatives (and pro-life). The list could go on. Maybe these students are just incoherent, because everyone is supposed to line up on one team or the other - but I think trying to sort them into these pre-ordained categories does their beliefs a disservice. If we think there are three kinds of Catholics, we will tend to go around trying to figure out into which category to sort a person. I just can't see how that's very helpful.
Then there's the Martha kind and the Mary kind. Which one fits which category?
Yes indeed! Progressive Christianity is on the rise! See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-roger-wolsey/progressive-christianity_b_892727.html
That said, it's important for us not to confuse progressive Christianity (a theological approach) with progressive politics. See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-roger-wolsey/progressive-christianity-isnt-progressive-politics_b_1897381.html
Rev. Wolsey --
Thanks for referring us to your articles. Your analyses of the meanings of "liberal", "progressive" and "emergent" Christianity are particularly interesting. Please tell us more about your distinction between "progressive" and "emergent" Christiantiy. We need some new terms in these discussions.
Do come back :-)


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East's boys and West's girls win regular-season finales
Published: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 10:43 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 10:55 p.m.
By Ron Wagner
Times-News Correspondent
Looking for West Henderson's number? Try 1-3-1.
In the regular-season finale for both teams Tuesday, East Henderson used a tenacious 1-3-1 zone and the inside dominance of Tyler Sexton to flummox West for four quarters and post its first road victory of the season, 53-39.
"I think this is the best game we've played all year," East coach Bruce Gilliam said. "Our defense was very good. Our pressure affected them, our traps worked and we were hustling and we were rebounding."
The Eagles also used a zone to defeat the Falcons 72-65 on Jan. 15, but Gilliam and his staff made a few adjustments this time around. West never figured them out.
The Falcons hit just 15 of 50 shots with 16 turnovers, losing the lead for good on a pair of Brandon Dorn free throws early in the second period that made it 12-10 East. Take away 5-of-9 shooting in the fourth, when the outcome was no longer in doubt, and West hit only 24.4 percent from the field.
In the girls game, Kalen Orr was the only player in double figures for West, but inside dominance and a balanced attack was enough to lift the Lady Falcons to a 53-43 victory.
On the boys side, Sexton and Dorn scored 18 apiece for East, but it was Sexton who set the tone. The 6-4 senior, who is headed to Western Carolina to play football, also had 15 rebounds and three blocks while never leaving the court.
"That was Tyler's best game," Gilliam said. "We've been needing for him to do that."
East carved up West's defense, hitting 18 of 35 shots after the first period.
Zach Bell and Josh Vanwinderden had 10 points apiece for West, which falls to 5-16 overall and 4-10 in the Western North Carolina 3-A/2-A conference. East improves to 5-17, 3-11.
Both teams will be on the road on Friday in the first round of the league tournament, with their opponents to be determined. East can only make the state playoffs if it wins the tourney, which would knock West out of the conference's third and final 3-A seed.
On the girls side, a shootout between high-scoring guards Nicole Miller of West and Stephanie Smith of East never materialized. Smith did her part with 26 points, but Miller, who came into the game averaging more than 18, hit only a single field goal – a 3-pointer in the first period – and finished with five points.
It didn't matter for the Lady Falcons, however, as they overcame an early deficit fueled by 11 first-quarter points from Smith to take the lead for good 22-20 on Haley Ward's layup at the 3:07 mark of the second period.
"We told them we should dominate inside, and after the first quarter for the rest of the game that's what we did," West coach Robbie Lowrance said.
The Lady Falcons move to 7-15 and 5-9, while East falls to 5-16 and 1-13. Their conference-tournament and playoff scenarios are identical to the boys teams.
East Henderson 53
West Henderson 39
EAST HENDERSON (53) – Brandon Dorn 18, Tyler Sexton 18, Smith 7, Minot 2, Plyler 2, Oberlies 2, Justus, Albany, Overstreet 4.
WEST HENDERSON (39) – Zach Bell 10, Morgan, Witte 4, Baker 8, Cole, Slaton, Worley, Perron, Barkdoll, Ours 7, Vanwingerden 10, Hill.
East Henderson: 8 15 16 14 - 53
West Henderson: 10 8 8 13 - 39
West Henderson 53
East Henderson 43
EAST HENDERSON (43) – Pitts 1, Yoder 2, Conner, Rose 9, McCrary 3, Stephanie Smith 26, Blatt, Corn, Miller 2, Lipe.
WEST HENDERSON (53) – Ke. Walker, Ward 7, Ka. Walker, Spake 9, Tweed, Kalen Orr 14, Miller 5, Osborne 3, Vaughn 4, Buchanan, Ward 9.
East Henderson: 13 7 8 15 - 43
West Henderson: 10 13 18 12 - 53
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I really like the sound of Soukous guitar playing, and would like to learn a bit of that. What would be good ways of doing this? I'm not great at picking at all, I'm a happy amateur chord strummer, so both newbie resources as well as advanced stuff for getting better later is appreciated. Online, books or DVD's are all OK.
For every genre, the method is the same. You listen to a lot of the music, and you try to play along. You transcribe your favorite bits and figure out the structure, the chords and the scales. There are some genres where a lot of those bits are well-established. Blues, for example, is the 12-bar, the minor pentatonic, bending, etc. etc. and I don't know the music of the Congo well enough to give you that head start, but if you're going to learn a genre, that's how you do it.


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I don't know if this is a record number of OG's in a match, but it's the most I've ever seen!
The best part was when Schut scored his OG, the other centre back sprinted over to the linesman to appeal for an offside!
I love when you're a national team manager and you're playing minnows such as Andorra you can give some real unsung heroes a game instead of the overly paid prima donna's from the Premiership.
Ye.... G.Antepspor were really close.........
Also this has been bugging me for years..... who the hell is 'I' ?
When you've started a new game and the wizard comes up to select you're team cancel it click on World and search out the England team and it will say Take control in the bottom left corner.
Or use the Wizard when it asks you which country you want to manage in select International/National and choose England.
Following up from this post; http://community.sigames.com/showpos...postcount=1088
It's occurred again but with my back up Goalkeeper this time, note the score. Does he really need to come up?
Both eccentricity ratings arent that high one with 4 or 5 and other GK with 8 I think. It's only happened twice in five seasons, but I can just imagine something like that happening in a game of importance.
In both games, my GK have had very little to do, I can understand boredom but rushing up for a corner to try and score just seems silly.
These two strikers never liked each other, but I didn't expect this!
Might need to sell one of these trouble makers after this season...
I always thought Sevilla to be a much classier team...
You're playing your first friendly match for your new club.. You get a chance to score your first goal (hopefully of many).. And this happens:
a tasty result i think..
Mmmmmmm.. cake!
I've seen a hattrick. I've seen a penalty. But has anyone ever seen a hattrick of penalties?
I apologise for my high resolution, if it forces anyone to scroll, by the way.
Didn't Ronaldo score a hattrick of penalties against Argentina one time?
How the F**K are Mali ahead of England, i know England suck and all but this is too far
This is in my Rushden save
I'm more impressed by Ghana at 6th and shocked at Argentina at 15
Most dramatic play-off win ever? Two goals in 5 minutes, one in extra time.
I was sacked by Rushden after 4 promotions in as many seasons they decided bottom of the league wasn't for them. 4 days later i'm at Stoke and now back in the big time.
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3 missed penalty kicks in 1 game? And against Lyon , playing away!
What will be really funny is, when you check back on him in December and notice he's only made 2 appearances...
Sounds like Gwendal wasn't too pleased with a practical joke Diego played!
"Hey Josh bro, wear eyeliner much?
Even funnier is that Liverpool fans referred to Fowler as God. So basically God hailed Jesus as a wonder-maker
Alessio "Granddad" Cerci signs off with a 20-yard goal and a perfectly-weighted assist through a cross winning me the Italian Cup. I wonder if this was scripted? Yeah, I always planned for him to finish the last game of the season, and of course I heard the imaginary standing ovation from both my fans and the Torino fans. Who says old players are no good?
Bolton are so not a dirty team.
Yeah but who has the pace?
Bit unfair to compare a centre-back and a winger/attacking midfielder, though.
13 years without learning basic English? Even more surprising considering that such a high percentage of Cypriots speak basic (or better) English IRL.
The resemblance to Basil Fawlty is uncanny...
Carles Puyol's favoured formation is a "cautious 4-2-4 with man-marking".
No wonder his tactical knowledge is only 8.
He looks like a great coach but a poor manager.
This is a report from my player/assistant manager that he him self is not training well, made me chuckle.
Also there is one moment where the computer is losing and in final minutes used a 2-4-4 formation against me, don't have the screenie though.
Probably the quickest two yellow cards a player can ever get, for two different offences.
Na quickest is booking for the foul etc, then double book for dissent (have done this to a player IRL, he wasn't happy)
What are the chances of a Ghana national player with the same name (and position) as an Italian Chelsea legend signing for their fierce rivals Arsenal. He does have Italian as a second nationality as well, and his PA's pretty high so he's potentially as good as he was, so I snapped him up the second I saw him.
Who would sign a player for £20K then 2 days later relaese him on a free transfer?
The Asian Player of the Year aint right....
Is it possible to become 1st and 3rd best player in Asia?
So good they gave him 1st AND 3rd.
I like it!
Longest player position description ever?
Diagnosis Murder or Mary Poppins?
"Today is gonna be the day
That they're gonna throw it back to you
By now you should've somehow
Realized what you gotta do
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now
Backbeat the word was on the street
That the fire in your heart is out
I'm sure you've heard it all before
But you never really had a doubt
I don't believe that anybody feels
The way I do about you now
And all the roads we have to walk along are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would
Like to say to you
I don't know how
Because maybe
You're gonna be the one who saves me ?
And after all
You're my..."
Read the players personality.
How many times have we seen that now?
No wonder why the youth of today are called lazy. This guy is retiring at 17 (18 when he finally decides to go)
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You, antonjw are a genius
Thats class . But your right realy
I wasn't sure about posting this, as it seemed a bit controversial.
Then there was more yet more controversy, as I slammed into my players for their pitiful attempts to win the game and move into the play-off positions, to which my captain responded that, actually, you're being a little bit harsh there, boss.
All in all then, it was quite a controversial occurrence.
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How do I get those funny personalities?
They are the names of SI staff put into the game. If you search for "faceinthegame" (without speech marks) in the search box, you'll get a list of players who potentially have funny descriptions (but not always). If you look at the SI staff that patrol the forum, they are most likely to have funny descriptions.
Yes, I actually have to go though every single one of these messages and consider the loans (most are loans, only 3-4 are transfers)...
4 penalties and 1 red card in one game. Great discipline there.
The bottom two...
Was Ibrahima Sonko playing for the swallows?
Ibrahima Sonko was still at Reading, he still is on that save in 2012.
I think SCIAG was referring to Sonko's famous bad challenges at the start of his Reading career.
It's either that, or a guy who swallows golden arrowsOriginally Posted by av3ry
(/me shoots himself..)
Be assured, this does not reflect the quality of our strikeforce in any way.
The board arent even happy when I get to a Cup Final.


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Here's the rule to remember about the medications you can buy over the counter (OTC): Just because these medications are readily available and safe for you to use, it does not mean they are safe for your baby. Some of the remedies we all take without a second thought need to be okayed by your doctor before you can take them during your pregnancy—aspirin, cold remedies, yeast infection medications, preparations for digestive problems, and sleep aids, for example. Your doctor or a good pharmacist can weigh the risks and benefits and decide what is best for both you and the baby.
If you pop a few pain pills every time you feel a tension headache coming on or feel the twinge of a stiff muscle, you might have to break this habit very quickly now that you're pregnant.
Full-strength aspirin is not good for pregnant women-especially in the last three months. It might increase bleeding tendencies in the mother and in the fetus (which is especially dangerous for babies born prematurely). When taken late in pregnancy, aspirin might delay the onset of labor, reduce the strength and frequency of contractions, and increase the length of labor. Aspirin can also increase the risk of hemorrhage at delivery and cause bleeding problems in the newborn. That's an awful lot of damage for such a "safe" medication.
In addition to aspirin, there is a long list of over-the-counter medications for the treatment of pain that you should avoid because they contain both aspirin and caffeine . Popular ones include:
Sometimes a doctor might okay the use of aspirin by a pregnant patient. If an expectant mother suffers from severe rheumatoid arthritis, for example, and can't bear the pain, the doctor might decide that the risk of taking aspirin is worth the benefits it gives the mother. This is the kind of call your doctor can help you make.
Before you open a bottle of pills, try a few other remedies first. A neck massage and a nap are sometimes good for headaches. Body aches often ease with a massage and a warm bath. The pain of varicose veins can be relieved by putting your feet up and by wearing support hose. And many body discomforts in general can be zapped with the relaxation exercises.
Another type of pain reliever to be avoided during pregnancy is the nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug (called NSAID). It includes ibuprofen (found in Motrin, Advil, Motrin IB, and Nuprin) and naproxen (found in Anaprox and Naprosyn). These drugs are relatively new on the pain-relief scene and not too much is known about their effect on pregnancy. It is thought that if used late in a pregnancy, NSAIDs can cause problems similar to the ones caused by aspirin. Unless your doctor says differently, it's best to avoid these pain relievers in the last three months of pregnancy.
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A bad head and chest cold, a seasonal allergy attack, or the flu during pregnancy can make you miserable—but be careful about taking over-the-counter remedies. Some cough syrups, antihistamines, and decongestants can be bad for the fetus (especially early in the pregnancy).
Many cold medicines contain alcohol. Alcohol is very bad for the developing baby. Some medications contain as much alcohol as a four-ounce glass of wine. They also might contain aspirin, which is bad for the baby, for the reasons explained earlier.
When you're so stuffed up you can't breathe, a good nasal spray is a gift from heaven. But when you're pregnant, even a nasal spray can be a problem. Many contain oxymetazoline. This compound clears the sinuses by tightening the small blood vessels of the nasal passages. Unfortunately, it also has the potential to tighten the arteries leading to the uterus. If this happens, the flow of blood and oxygen to the fetus is reduced. Although the risk is small, it is best to stay away from these remedies. Watch out for oxymetazoline in nasal sprays such as all Afrin products, Coricidin Decongestant Nasal Mist, Dristan Long Lasting Nasal Spray, Duration 12 Hour Nasal Spray, Neo-Synephrine 12 Hour Nasal Spray, and Vicks Sinex Long-Acting Decongestant.
Over-the-counter cold and allergy medications in the same class as oxymetazoline often contain other compounds that do not tighten arteries. All of these are considered safe during pregnancy, when used in the proper dose under a physician's supervision. They include Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold Medicine, Allerest Allergy Tablets and Sinus Pain Formula, A.R.M. Allergy Relief Medicine Caplets, Contac, Doricidin, Dimetapp, Robitussin-CF, Triaminic, Actifed, Sudafed, Benadryl Decongestant, Maximum Strength Dristan, Sinus Excedrin Analgesic, Sinutab, Tylenol Cold Medicine, Tylenol Allergy Sinus Medication, Vicks Formula 44D Decongestant, and Vicks NyQuil Nighttime Cold Medicine.
Some allergies are controlled by a series of injections of allergens (substances to which a person is allergic) to build up resistance. You should not start allergy shots during your pregnancy; there's no telling what kind of reaction you'll have initially. But if you have been getting allergy shots before your pregnancy, it is probably safe to continue them during the pregnancy under certain conditions:
As a bonus, some allergists believe that allergy injections during pregnancy can give the baby resistance to that particular allergen later in life. Talk to your prenatal doctor and your allergist about what is best for you.
Are you prone to the flu? Do you worry about getting the flu during your pregnancy? If so, ask your doctor about getting a flu vaccine (some do not advise it in the first trimester). The Centers for Disease Control recommends getting a flu shot if you'll be in your third trimester during the flu season (mid-November to mid-March). Because the vaccine can make you achy and feverish, however, you must talk to your doctor before getting the shot.
If you get the flu during your pregnancy, you'll feel miserable just like everybody else who gets the flu—maybe a little more so because it's still not a good idea to load yourself up with symptom-relief medications. Tylenol is good for fever and body aches, but stay away from all the other stuff sold specifically for flu symptoms. Many of them contain alcohol and other ingredients that are bad for the baby.
There are many natural remedies for cold, flu, and allergy symptoms that you can try before you reach for the medicine bottle. If you're all stuffed up and/or have a sore throat, use a humidifier to add moisture to the air. Sleep with two pillows so your head is slightly raised and the excess mucus can drain down your throat. Drink hot broth to help open clogged sinuses. Rest—the simplest solution might be the most effective. Eat well; your body needs all the energy it can get to fight off a cold naturally.
When you've grazed on bland snacks for weeks and have had it with sucking on lemons and pushing on acupressure points to stop your morning sickness, all with no relief, your doctor might suggest that you try medication to calm your stomach. This is definitely a case where allowing you to dehydrate from frequent vomiting is a great deal worse than the cure. Your doctor might suggest the following remedies:
If these medications still don't calm the vomiting of morning sickness, your physician might choose to use a stronger remedy. You must not ignore extreme morning sickness, because it causes complications such as weight loss and mineral and body fluid loss.
All pregnant women quickly find out that a tiny little fetus can cause an awful lot of upset in the digestive tract. Everything from heartburn to constipation can be blamed on the body changes of pregnancy. If these troubles persist, your doctor might approve the use of certain medications that will bring relief. But not all medications for digestive problems are safe for your baby, so be sure to ask before you buy.
Antacids: Heartburn and indigestion are badges of expectant motherhood; few can escape them during pregnancy. If you can live with the occasional discomfort, it's best to stay away from medications altogether. But if you're suffering week after week, talk to your doctor. He will recommend an antacid that's best for you—not all are safe.
Popular antacids such Maalox, Mylicon, Milk of Magnesia, Gelusil, Di-Gel, Tums, and Rolaids are all safe to take during pregnancy. (Some have the added bonus of containing compounds that will relieve excess gas.) Others, however, should be avoided: Alka-Seltzer, for example, is not recommended because it contains aspirin. Alka-Mint and Alka-Seltzer Advanced formula, however, are generally safe to use because they do not contain aspirin. Pepto-Bismol is on the "avoid" list; it contains an element closely related to aspirin and should not be used during pregnancy.
Newer antacids like Pepsid, Zantac, and Tagamet have not been thoroughly tested for safety during pregnancy, but there does not seem to be a problem with their use and there have been no reports of fetal harm. Ask your doctor before you use one of these antacids.
Constipation: If you're pregnant, you might be constipated also-for some women the two just go together. If you haven't had a bowel movement for days and you're in pain, ask your doctor about using a stool softener or laxative. These medications will soften your stools so they pass easily and relieve the pressure on your bowel. Using a stool softener or laxative is good in an emergency, but don't get into the laxative habit. If you're not careful you can "train" your bowels to need the laxative in order to work normally. After you get relief, keep your bowels in shape naturally—drink lots of water, eat high-fiber foods, such as fruits and vegetables, and exercise.
Diarrhea: When you have diarrhea, you want relief. Diarrhea ties you to your house; it tires you out, and it flushes fluids and nutrients out of your body. Relief is easily found in over-the-counter medications, such as Kaopectate or Imodium A-D. Both are safe to take when you're expecting.
In the first three months of pregnancy, a woman can sleep anywhere, anytime. How ironic that later in pregnancy, she sometimes can't sleep at all! When you're losing sleep because you are anxious about having a baby, or your legs ache, or the baby kicks and keeps you up, or because of 100 possible pregnancy-related reasons, you might be tempted to take a sleeping pill. You should think again and then talk to your doctor.
Most over-the-counter (OTC) sleeping pills contain antihistamines, which, in addition to clearing your sinuses, depress your central nervous system. This includes Excedrin P.M., Sominex, Sleep-Eze, and Unisom. Only Unisom contains a type of antihistamine that is considered relatively safe to use during pregnancy. When used infrequently and in the right dose, Unisom should not affect your baby.
Whether pregnant or not, sleeping pills should not be used more than a few nights in a row. A side effect of antihistamines is a mental slowdown that can make it difficult to concentrate, focus, or drive a car the morning after. These OTC drugs are usually effective for only mild, temporary forms of insomnia. Because they work quickly but don't last very long, these products work only to help you fall asleep. They can't help with frequent nighttime awakenings. If you are plagued by insomnia during your pregnancy, talk to your doctor before you try to medicate yourself to sleep.
Excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth © 2004 by Michele Isaac Gliksman, M.D. and Theresa Foy DiGeronimo. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Used by arrangement with Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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While you may be enjoying the nice summer-like weather we've been having, it might come with a little extra sting. That's because those mosquitoes are already starting to come out for the season, and the West Nile virus won't be far behind.
In 2003, the Center for Disease Control reported 9,800 cases of West Nile in humans, more than double from 2002. This year, they expect another bad year.
Mosquito control products are already hitting the shelves, and some say now is the time to start defending your house and lawn before it gets too late.
Some of the things on the market this year: Mosquito zappers (like bug zappers), foggers, lawn sprays, and treatments that can last anywhere from a few hours to a few days. Mosquito dunks promise to kill the larvae in pools of water to prevent large infestations.
And don't forget the first line of defense - yourself! When outdoors or in mosquito prone areas this summer, use a repellant that contains DEET. Make sure to read all directions though, and get a repellant that's safe to you on your children as well.
The Center for Disease Control reports that so far in 2004, only one case of West Nile has been reported in a human, and that case was in Ohio.
One Equine veterinarian we spoke with says he does not expect this will be a bad year for West Nile in horses though. He says the vaccines help, and horses are starting to build up immunity as well.


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Pregnancy and Weight Gain
Proper weight gain is vital to a healthy baby and a safe pregnancy. A baby's birth weight is directly related to the weight you gain throughout your pregnancy. A woman who is at a healthy weight at the onset of pregnancy should expect to gain anywhere from 25 to 35 pounds during the course of the pregnancy. Women who are underweight are advised to gain 28 to 40 pounds, and women who are overweight are advised to gain 15 to 25 pounds. If you are expecting twins, your doctor may advise a weight gain of 35 to 45 pounds.
Essential: Restricting weight gain can result in a baby with a lower birth weight. Babies who are born weighing less than 5½ pounds are at greater risk for developing difficulties and illnesses than babies who weigh more.
Not only is gaining a healthy amount of weight important, but the rate at which you gain is also notable. Woman should expect about a two- to four-pound weight gain during the first trimester and about a one-pound gain per week for the remainder of the pregnancy.
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|Body fat
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Pregnancy and Calorie Needs
Calorie needs increase during pregnancy to help support a woman's maternal body changes and the baby's proper growth and development. The RDA for energy intake during pregnancy is an additional 300 calories per day for the second and third trimester, in addition to maintenance needs. For example, if you require 2,000 calories per day to maintain your weight, you will need about 2,300 calories during pregnancy.
All the calories you consume during pregnancy should be healthy calories that contain plenty of protein, complex carbohydrates, fiber, vitamins, and minerals. Complex carbohydrates such as fruit, whole-grain starches, cereal, pasta, rice, potatoes, corn, and legumes should be the main source of energy.
ALERT! Dieting or skipping meals during pregnancy can have serious effects on the development of the baby. It takes more than 85,000 calories over the course of a nine-month pregnancy, in addition to the calories the mother needs for her own energy needs, to produce a healthy, well-developed baby.
Protein Power
Protein needs increase when you are pregnant, to help develop the body cells of the growing baby. Other changes that are taking place in your body during pregnancy also require protein, such as the building of the placenta. You need an extra 10 grams of protein above your extra daily calories, or about 70 grams of protein daily, compared with 60 grams for women who are not pregnant. Ten grams of protein is equivalent to a an ounce-and-a-half serving of lean meat, about 10 ounces of fat-free milk, or 1½ ounces of tuna canned in water.
Most women do not have a problem meeting their protein requirements. Consuming plenty of lean meats, fish, tuna, eggs, and legumes, as well as increasing your dairy servings, will ensure you meet your protein needs. If you are a vegetarian, consume a variety of legumes, grain products, eggs, low-fat or fat-free dairy products, vegetables, fruits, and soy foods to ensure proper protein intake.
Adjusting Your Eating Plan
Getting the extra calories your body needs for pregnancy just takes a small adjustment in a healthy eating plan. Adjust your eating plan using the following guidelines for the minimum number of servings in each food group:
ALERT! Raw foods can increase your risk for bacterial infection. Avoid anything raw, including sushi and other raw seafood, undercooked meat or poultry, beef tartar, raw or unpasteurized milk, soft-cooked or poached eggs, and raw eggs (possibly found in eggnog).
Vitamin and Mineral Needs
Vitamin and mineral needs also increase with pregnancy. Unlike calorie needs, your increased need for vitamins and minerals is immediate. Certain ones are especially important, such as folate, calcium, and iron.
Folate is especially important for women during the first three months of pregnancy. The body uses folate to manufacture new cells and genetic material. During pregnancy, folate helps develop the neural tube, which becomes the baby's spine. Because most women do not know immediately that they are pregnant, and because the neural tube and brain begin to form so soon after conception, taking enough folate on a regular basis is important if you are of childbearing age. Taking enough folate can help to greatly reduce the risk of neural tube birth defects like spina bifida and birth defects of the brain (anencephaly). The National Academy of Sciences recommends that women of childbearing age get 400 micrograms (mcg) of folate each day, especially one month prior to conception.
Fact: National surveys show that the average folic acid intake by women of childbearing age is about 230 micrograms daily. Folic acid intake should be kept below 1,000 micrograms per day to avoid excessive intake.
Most women get folic acid daily through fortified products and other foods. To get more folic acid in their diets, women anticipating pregnancy should eat more citrus fruits and juices, leafy dark-green vegetables, legumes, and fortified breakfast cereals. To ensure adequate intake, woman can take a multivitamin that contains folic acid, in addition to eating a healthy diet.
Not all vitamin supplements contain folic acid, so check the label to be sure. Also, not all multivitamin supplements are optimal before or during pregnancy. Pregnant women and those anticipating pregnancy should consult their doctor for advice about taking folic acid or any other vitamin or mineral supplement.
Vitamin A
Vitamin A is important for promoting the growth and health of cells and tissues throughout your body and the baby's. A healthy diet should provide enough vitamin A during pregnancy so there is no need for a supplement.
New research has shown that consuming too much vitamin A—in excess of 10,000 IU daily—may increase the risk of birth defects. This is twice the RDA. Eating foods such as fruits and vegetables that are high in beta-carotene is not a problem, because beta-carotene does not convert to vitamin A when blood levels of vitamin A are normal.
Other Vitamins
With your increase in calorie intake, your increased need for most of the B vitamins will be met through your dietary intake. Vitamin B12 is found in animal foods such as milk, eggs, meat, and cheese. Women who are vegetarian and don't consume any type of animal foods need to make sure they consume a reliable source of vitamin B12, such as fortified breakfast cereals and/or a B12 supplement. If you don't feel you are meeting your B12 needs, talk to your doctor before taking supplements.
Vitamin C needs increase slightly during pregnancy, but can be met easily with a glass of orange juice, an orange, or another citrus fruit. Vitamin C is important because it helps the body absorb iron from plant sources, and iron needs almost double during pregnancy.
Vitamin D is essential because it helps the body to absorb extra needed calcium. A glass of vitamin-D fortified milk will take care of your extra needs. For vegetarians who do not consume dairy products, your doctor may prescribe a supplement. Make sure your doctor knows your eating habits!
Pumping Up Calcium and Iron
Two minerals that deserve special attention are calcium and iron. If you don't consume enough of either of these minerals during your pregnancy, the baby will actually use the calcium in your bones and the iron in your blood.
Essential! The estimated calcium needs for pregnant girls under eighteen is 1,300 mg per day. For pregnant adult women aged nineteen to fifty, the recommended intake is 1,000 mg per day. There is also an Upper Tolerable Limit for pregnant women set at 2,500 mg per day.
Although it is important to get calcium throughout your life, it is especially important during pregnancy. Calcium helps ensure that your bone mass is preserved while the baby's skeleton develops normally. Consuming plenty of calcium before, during, and after pregnancy can also help reduce your risk for osteoporosis later in life. Good sources of calcium include dairy products and some green leafy vegetables. If you are vegetarian or lactose intolerant and do not consume dairy products, consume plenty of other good calcium sources, such as calcium-fortified orange juice or calcium-fortified soy milk, along with special lactose-reduced products.
The increase in the blood volume of a pregnant woman greatly increases her iron needs. A woman's need for iron increases to 30 mg per day. Several foods supply iron, including meat, poultry, fish, legumes, and whole-grain and enriched grain products. Iron needs during pregnancy can be more difficult to meet because iron isn't always absorbed well, and many women have low iron stores before they get pregnant. Most prenatal vitamins contain iron, and your doctor may also prescribe an iron supplement. Keep in mind, though, that supplements are just to help out; you still need to eat a diet rich in iron. Iron from plant sources is not as easily absorbed as that from animal sources. Eating a good source of vitamin C, such as citrus fruits or juices, broccoli, tomatoes, or kiwi with meals will help the body absorb the iron in the foods that you eat. The absorption of iron from supplements is best when the stomach is empty or when taken with juice containing vitamin C.
Handling the Discomforts of Pregnancy
Because of the many changes that are going on in your body during pregnancy, you may feel the occasional discomfort of morning sickness, constipation, heartburn, and swelling.
The first discomfort most pregnant women experience is morning sickness. For many women this is not just something that takes place in the morning. Many women feel sick all day long.
There is no exact known reason why some women get morning sickness so much worse than others, or why women get morning sickness at all. For some women, but not all, the feeling of nausea will gradually begin to improve at around twelve to fourteen weeks of pregnancy.
If you know for sure that your nausea is normal morning sickness, you can follow some of these tips to help ease your discomfort:
Constipation can be another discomfort that is very normal during pregnancy. Hormonal changes relax muscles to accommodate the expanded uterus, and this can cause a slowdown in the action of your intestine. This as well as iron supplements can be the culprits of aggravating constipation. To help ease this discomfort, try the following:
To help relieve these discomforts, try these tips:
To help relieve some of the discomforts of water retention, try these tips:
ALERT! Women who experience gestational diabetes are at an increased risk, as much as 60 percent, for developing Type 2 diabetes later. Women can decrease their risk by maintaining a healthy weight after their pregnancy.
The nutritional goals for women with gestational diabetes are to provide adequate calories, optimal nutrition, and normalized blood sugar levels. Monitoring blood sugar on a regular basis is essential to knowing if normal blood sugar levels are being achieved. Guidelines for treating this type of diabetes vary and are very individualized, but one constant recommendation is limiting carbohydrate intake at breakfast. Most women with gestational diabetes cannot tolerate large amounts of carbohydrates in the morning, but are generally able to tolerate them later in the day. Foods high in total amounts of carbohydrate are also limited. Eating small, frequent meals throughout the day, as well as getting regular exercise, can also help to normalize blood sugar levels during pregnancy.
If you are diagnosed with gestational diabetes, your doctor and/or a dietitian should work with you closely to help you develop a meal and lifestyle plan that will help you to control your blood sugar levels.
For Women Who Breastfeed
If you are breastfeeding, good nutrition after giving birth is as important as ever. The fuel supply that helps produce your breast milk comes from energy stored as body fat during your pregnancy and from extra energy from food choices. Your body uses about 100 to 150 additional calories per day to produce breast milk. While breastfeeding, a woman needs an additional 500 calories per day, beyond nonpregnancy maintenance needs. In other words, if you needed 2,000 calories to maintain your weight before pregnancy, you need 2,700 calories per day while you are breastfeeding. Trying to lose weight through a strict weight-loss regimen is not recommended while you are breastfeeding. If your caloric intake goes lower than 1,800 calories, you probably will not get enough of all the nutrients your body needs for proper breastfeeding.
As in pregnancy, the need for most nutrients increases while breastfeeding. It is important to pay extra close attention to your protein, calcium, magnesium, zinc, vitamin B12, vitamin D, folate, and vitamin B6 intake. If your nutrient intake is low, you can still produce breast milk sufficient enough to support your baby's health, but only at the expense of your own body's nutrient reserves. Also remember your fluid intake during this time: continue to get at least 8 to 12 cups of fluids daily, and more if you are thirsty.
Alcohol can pass into breast milk, so it is not advised during breastfeeding. It is also advised that you not smoke. Nicotine does pass into breast milk. It can reduce your milk supply and increase your baby's risk for developing colic or a sinus infection. If you do smoke, avoid smoking for two and a half hours before nursing, and never smoke around the baby. Some medications, both prescription and over-the-counter, can be passed through breast milk. It is advised to consult your physician before taking any type of medication when breastfeeding.
Copyright © 2002 by Kimberly A. Tessmer. Excerpted from The Everything Nutrition Book: Boost Energy, Prevent Illness, and Live Longer with permission of its publisher, Adams Media Corporation.
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HABA Clutching & Teething Toy - Colorwheel
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HABA Clutching & Teething Toy - Colorwheel is strung along durable, child-safe elastic bands. Brightly colored, this is a super fun manipulative toy to twist, turn, and pull. Safe and ideal for teething babies. Made of beech wood. Made in Germany. Child-safe and non-toxic.
Babies need multi sensory stimulation early in life. It helps them put "two and two" together. Grasping toys like HABA Clutching & Teething Toy - Colorwheel help them meet their basic needs. For example, babies need something hard and safe to bite on while they are teething. This helps soothe their tender gums. A pleasant rattle sound provides gentle and reassuring feedback. Various textures and sounds create association opportunities (this surface is smooth; this thing is hard; when I shake this, it makes sounds), which help them begin to organize information in their disorganized young brains.
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HABA Clutching Toy Colorwheel is made of beech wood and maple wood using child-safe, non-toxic, water-based paints under rigorous safety and quality controls. Meets or exceeds US federal and European safety standards. Expertly made in Germany.
Manufacturer / Safety Compliance
HABA is a family-owned and multi-award winning German company. It has been making high-quality, open-ended children's toys for over 70 years. HABA has DIN EN ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certifications. These certificates guarantee a high-quality environmental management system, as well as consistent product standards, the compliance of all prevailing safety requirements and the rigorous abidance of all environmental guidelines. HABA complies and often exceeds both the European (EN-71) and North American (ASTM) safety standards. Prior to market placement, materials are safety tested and documented by independent institutes.
The HABA Made in Germany line of toys are manufactured in Bad Rodach, Germany where HABA's worldwide headquarters are located. The wealth of experience, coupled with the latest technologies guarantee consistently high-quality products.
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This stainless steel trumpet horn look sharp and will be heard from a long distance. Available in single-trumpet and dual-trumpet models. 105 decibels. Corrosion-proof stainless steel construction. Both models feature adjustable sliding front mount.
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This Jan. 9, 2013 photo shows a subdivision of homes built on the 11.5 mile levee designed to protect Augusta, Ga. from the Savannah River. Inspectors with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers taking the first-ever inventory of flood control systems overseen by the federal government have found hundreds of structures at risk of failing and endangering people and property in 37 states. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
The Coast Guard says a normally bustling stretch of the Mississippi River remains closed to barge and ship traffic as cleanup crews with booms work to remove an oily sheen near Vicksburg after a barge with 80,000 gallons of oil hit a railroad bridge last weekend.
Coast Guard Lt. Ryan Gomez told The Associated Press on Monday that at least 21 other vessels such as towboats and barges are stalled by the river closing as crews with booms and a skimming device are removing hundreds of gallons of oily water from the river.
He says investigators are trying to determine why a tug pushing two tank barges collided with the bridge early Sunday. Another barge also was damaged.
He says cleanup crews are working to remove the leaking barge's remaining oil.


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I always feel hesitant about this particular problem of mine. Sometimes several ideas come to me, and I feel, I should start doing all of that once. But then I have a problem, I get lost in Where I started, and What destination i wished to go. (Forgetting original goal). Also, I easily get lost, in the work flow.
I personally prefer to work one by one.But the problem with this method is I feel severe impatience, such as thought like, "I am wasting time", "I can do better" ...etc.
That's why, I want to know, What do you think?
Is it good to achieve goal one by one, or start all of them and achieve all of them at the end (though this has problem) ? What method do you recommend?


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