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The Performance of Java's Lists
05/30/2001The SDK has several implementations of the ordered collection
interface java.util.List
. The three best known are
Vector, ArrayList, and LinkedList.
One question that frequently
reaches the Java
Performance Tuning site asks about the performance differences
between these List
classes. In this article I'll take a
look at the performance differences between the
implementation and the
To consider fully the performance ramifications of these classes, we need to know how they are implemented. So I'll start with brief descriptions of the most important implementation aspects from the point of view of performance.
The Vector and ArrayList implementations
and ArrayList
are both implemented
with an underlying Object[]
array that stores the
elements. Accessing elements by index is a simple matter of accessing
elements in the internal array by index:
public Object get(int index) {
//check the index is valid first .. code not shown here
return elementData[index];
The internal array can be bigger than the number of elements held
by the Vector
object: the
difference is kept as extra capacity for efficiently adding
elements. Adding elements is then very simply achieved by assigning
the element to the first empty location in the internal array, and
incrementing the index (size) for the new empty location:
public boolean add(Object o) {
ensureCapacity(size + 1); //explained soon
elementData[size++] = o;
return true; //List.add(Object) signature support
Inserting elements into the collection at any location other than the end is slightly more tricky: the array elements above the insertion point must all be moved up by one, then the assignment can occur:
public void add(int index, Object element) {
//check the index is valid first .. code not shown here
ensureCapacity(size+1); //explained soon
System.arraycopy(elementData, index, elementData, index + 1,
size - index);
elementData[index] = element;
When the spare capacity is used up, the
object must replace its
internal Object[]
array with a new larger array when more
elements need to be added, copying all the elements to the new
array. The new array is 50% to 100% bigger than the old one depending
on the SDK version (the code shown here makes it 100% bigger):
public void ensureCapacity(int minCapacity) {
int oldCapacity = elementData.length;
if (minCapacity > oldCapacity) {
Object oldData[] = elementData;
int newCapacity = Math.max(oldCapacity * 2, minCapacity);
elementData = new Object[newCapacity];
System.arraycopy(oldData, 0, elementData, 0, size);
Also in Java Design and Performance Optimization: Tuning JDBC: Measuring JDBC performance Faster List Iteration with RandomAccess Interface Catching OutOfMemoryErrors to Preserve Monitoring and Server Processes |
The main difference between the Vector
class and the
class is the use of synchronization. Apart from
two methods used only during serialization, none of the
methods are synchronized; in contrast most of
the Vector
methods are synchronized directly or
indirectly. Consequently Vector
is thread-safe, and
isn't. This makes ArrayList
faster than Vector
. For some of the latest JVMs the
difference in speed between the two classes is negligible: strictly
speaking, for these JVMs the difference in speed between the two
classes is less than the variation in times obtained from tests
comparing the performance of these classes.
The Vector
and ArrayList
have excellent performance for indexed access and update of elements,
since there is no overhead beyond range checking. Adding elements to,
or deleting elements from, the end of the list also gives excellent
performance except when the capacity is exhausted and the internal
array has to be expanded. Inserting and deleting elements always
require an array copy (two copies when the internal array must be
grown first). The number of elements to be copied is proportional to
, i.e. to the distance between the
insertion/deletion index and the last index in the collection. For
insertions, inserting to the front of the collection (index 0) gives
the worst performance, and inserting at the end of the collection
(after the last element) gives the best. The array copying overhead
grows significantly as the size of the collection increases because
the number of elements that need to be copied with each insertion


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After Emotional Final Plea From Rangel, Ethics Panel Deliberates (VIDEO)
"I do hope, no matter what you decide in the sanction, that you might see your way clear to say that this member, who's honored to serve with all, of you was not corrupt," he said. "And there's no excuse for my behavior, and [there] was no intent for me ever to go beyond what is given to me as a salary. I never attempted to enrich myself."
He also apologized "for any awkwardness I have caused" the committee members."
The committee's chief counsel and prosecutor, Blake Chisam, told the committee today that Rangel should be censured for his actions. He said Rangel's failure to report income on his financial disclosure statements and tax returns, especially since he was the chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, had an "effect on the public's trust."
After deliberations, the committee will make a recommendation to the House as to whether Rangel should be disciplined. If they decide he should, they will recommend a punishment: expulsion, censure or reprimand. They could also recommend a fine.
A subcommittee convicted Rangel of 11 violations earlier this week, after a brief hearing in which Rangel accused the committee of violating his due process rights and preventing him from getting a lawyer. He then left, leaving himself without a defense as the committee deliberated.
In making his recommendation, Chisam noted that precedent didn't offer a clear punishment in Rangel's case and suggested his actions fell somewhere between a reprimand and the more severe censure.
The last House members to be censured were so disciplined in 1983, for having sex with 17-year-old House pages.
During the hearing, Ranking Member Jo Bonner (R-TX) excoriated Rangel, calling him "arrogant" and saying he has "so little regard for the institution he has claimed to love and the people of his district that he has claimed to represent."
Other members, mostly Democrats, defended him and his record, while acknowledging that he had committed misconduct.
Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), who is not on the committee, spoke briefly on Rangel's behalf.
"He's always been a champion of those who have been left out and left behind," Lewis said, mentioning that Rangel had marched with him in Selma during the civil rights struggle. "Charlie Rangel is a good and decent man. I know this man."
Late update: Rangel continued his humble tone this evening, releasing a statement of apology.

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There's not much for me to say about myself. I absolutely dislike talking about myself, so instead, here's how I started watching anime:
I was sitting in my English class talking to a couple of my friends, and one of them had Chobits (the manga), and I asked if I could read it. He said sure, and soon enough I was hooked. After I finished the first 3 volumes, I knew it was meant to be.
I looked up Chobits, watched it, and bam! I've been watching anime ever since. I started somewhere around Feburary 2013 and more than a year later, I can say anime has been a good friend.
1,667 total episodes
btw, good to hear from you again!
I see you just watched Attack on Titan. Seems you merely thought it was OK. To me, I rated it higher, because something about it just stuck in my head. I kept thinking about it and scenes from it weeks after I'd finished it. It is this "memorability factor" that made me go back and bump up my rating after I'd initially finished it and rated it.
I see you are now watching Psycho-Pass, how are you liking it? The description reminds me of the world in Minority Report (Tom Cruise movie).
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It's almost to the point of a movie plot. A company that rose to be one of the most popular providers of online domain names suddenly goes evil and shuts down businesses around the net, sparking mass exodus protests and campaigns. Hollywood may not have the movie rights quite yet, but ask many techies or site admins what they think of GoDaddy, and the picture is usually not very pretty. But is this deserved? How can a company go so far to anger its customers so thoroughly that when anyone mentions that they own domain names on GoDaddy, the response many people have is: "You still have domains registered on GoDaddy? Why?"
We don't have to go far back to see their latest PR blunder. Just last week, the latest case was unfolding with JotForm, an online service that allows anyone to create forms to use for their businesses or websites. The company is a few years old, and hosts over 2 million user generated forms. So this isn't a case of a brand new site being registered. Like so many cases before it, the owner woke up to a non-working domain name. JotForm.com had been disabled by GoDaddy without notice, no warning, not a word. According to the founder of the service, the site had a fully established process to report bad forms, and they complied by removing any illegal user-generated content that they were made aware of. Yet, a single phone call from a U.S. federal agent was enough for the registrar to redirect their DNS to NS1.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM, the address that they use when they want to suspend a domain name. Not a pretty picture for the small business. All they were left with was a phone number to the agency, and then hope that they would be so kind as to reverse their decision. No due process, no hearing.
What happened in this case was fairly appalling, and there's no question that they should have had advance notice. For over two days their business was shut down for no good reason. Still, some could say that GoDaddy is in a difficult position when asked to do something by an actual law enforcement agency. But that isn't always the case. Last year, we saw another troubling story, very similar to this one, that was narrowly averted. Another business owner behind weebly.com, which hosts millions of websites for small businesses all around the world, got a phone call from a GoDaddy employee saying they were about to "turn off" their domain. The reason? One of the small businesses had a bad customer review, and they had received a complaint about it. The whole domain name was minutes away from being turned off because of one person complaining to GoDaddy. Again, no due process, and in this case, it wasn't even because of a government intervention.
But perhaps the most scary story was back in 2007, when the domain SecLists.org was suspended, with a simple voicemail left saying it had "been suspended for violation of the GoDaddy.com Abuse Policy." No reason why, nothing else. For those who don't follow online security news, this is a domain that hosts some of the most popular security mailing lists, things like NMAP development talk, Bugtraq, and vendor-specific disclosure lists. After many calls, they finally found out that the reason GoDaddy suspended the domain was because an employee of MySpace called them and asked for it, because one of the mailing lists linked to a recent disclosure of thousands of MySpace usernames and passwords. As a security site, that's exactly the type of news that goes around these lists, and what the white hat hackers rely on to find out about security news. But because of that one phone call, everything went dark, thanks to GoDaddy.
So here we are, after many PR mistakes and the SOPA deal fresh in mind — because GoDaddy supported the bill until a mass protest made them quickly change their minds. There's no doubt at all that thousands of domains have been transferred away from the registrar, if not more. But to get back to the original question, are you one of those who ask, when you learn someone has a domain name there, why? Are these isolated cases, or did you follow the Reddit protests and transfer your domain names away, assuming they were with GoDaddy in the first place? It's puzzling how a registrar, a company who clearly knows how important domain names are for businesses and organizations on the web, can be so careless in answering abuse complaints. Are they justified in acting first and asking questions later? Let us know what you think.
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Patrick Lambert has been working in the tech industry for over 15 years, both as an online freelancer and in companies around Montreal, Canada. A fan of Star Wars, gaming, technology, and art, he writes for several sites including the art news community TideArt. He's always at the forefront of the latest happening in the world of technology. You can find him online at http://dendory.net or on Twitter at @dendory.


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Significant reforms of how the state operates and a responsible budget that includes strategic investments, reductions and savings for the future highlighted Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam's second legislative session as the state's chief executive.
Haslam introduced his comprehensive 2012 agenda on January 10, the first day of this year's legislative session. His legislative priorities included a limited number of significant changes, which built upon his efforts in 2011 to reform teacher tenure and tort laws.
"This administration heard the Lt. Gov. and House Speaker's call for an efficient and effective legislative session this year, and I'm incredibly proud of what we've accomplished in working together," Haslam said. "Our focus continues to be on making Tennessee the No. 1 location in the Southeast for high-quality jobs, which goes hand in hand with an ongoing emphasis on improving education. I'm also committed to making sure state government does its job of providing services to Tennessee taxpayers at the lowest cost in the most customer-focused, efficient and effective way possible."
The governor's 2012 legislative agenda included:
Reform of the state's outdated employment system;
Decreases in the inheritance tax and the state's portion of the sales tax on food;
A complete rewrite of Tennessee's school accountability system after the state received a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law;
An expansion of the FastTrack grant program;
And bills to improve public safety, which include combating prescription drug abuse, mandatory sentencing for repeat domestic violence offenders, and tougher sentencing for certain gang-related crimes and gun possession by those with prior felonies.
The $31.5 billion approved state budget for Fiscal Year 2012-2013 includes:
$3.9 billion to fully fund the Basic Education Program;
$342.6 million for higher education capital improvements and maintenance;
$5 million for Tennessee career centers;
$29.6 million for Tennessee state parks;
$40 million in payments to local jails;
$50 million to rebuild the Rainy Day Fund to $356 million;
And a 2.5 percent pay increase for state employees.
The budget also restores more than $133 million of a total of $160 million in reductions to "core services" first identified as cuts in the FY 2010-2011 budget but delayed until this year through the use of one-time money.
Source: http://news.tennesseeanytime.org/node/8758


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But instead of clarifying the policy on drone attacks, it appears the administration is preparing to double down with its secretive use of another weapon of modern warfare - cyber attacks. The New York Times reported Monday that an internal White House legal review has concluded the president has broad power to order pre-emptive cyber strikes if national security networks detect evidence of a looming attack on the United States.
The implications of a unilateral decision by a president to launch a cyber attack are more daunting than ordering drone attacks.
Drones and the collateral damage they cause are known to have turned local populations against U.S. interests. But a cyber attack could result in unpredictable escalation, disrupting vital infrastructure systems and threatening financial markets.
According to sources quoted by the Times, the new policy recognizes the seriousness of the damage that can be caused by cyber warfare and the potential repercussions, which is why the president must give authorization. But the public has the right to know what the standards are and where the lines are drawn. And what congressional oversight will there be? The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war and that holds true no matter how war is waged.
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18.1 Groundwater outflow to outside region
Supporting Information
a. Groundwater models
The Department of Water use the Perth Regional Aquifer Modelling System (PRAMS) Version 3.4 and Peel–Harvey Regional Aquifer Modelling System (PHRAMS) to estimate the natural water movement to and from the groundwater store within the Perth region.
As shown in the following figure, PRAMS estimates groundwater movement for the area north of Mandurah. PHRAMS estimates groundwater movement for the Peel–Harvey area south of Mandurah. The volumes reported in this account refer to the natural water movement that occurs within each model area within the Perth region boundary.
Map of groundwater model areas relative to the Perth region boundary
b. Supporting Information
Lateral outflows from each groundwater store within the two model areas during the 2010–11 year are given in the following table.
Outflow volume (ML) |
Groundwater store |
Perth area |
Peel–Harvey area |
Water table aquifer |
17,254 |
2,053 |
Underlying aquifer – Leederville |
5,834 |
97 |
Underlying aquifer – Yarragadee |
6,364 |
0 |
Total outflow |
31,602 |
Quantification Approach
Data Source
Provided by
Both groundwater models derive the lateral flux within the Perth region by defining the appropriate water balance zones and calculating the volume of water flowing across each boundary on an annual basis.
Assumptions, Limitations, Caveats and Approximations
It is assumed that all groundwater flow to and from outside the region is via the north and south boundaries. There is no groundwater flow between the model areas and the Darling Range in the eastern part of the region due to the geology of that area.
Both models were initially developed for the purpose of estimating and assessing the impacts of changes in climatic conditions and varying extraction rates on the aquifers, not for the purposes of preparing water accounts. These models have since been modified to also provide data for water accounting.
Uncertainty Information
Comparative year
The following table presents substantive changes in the line item reported in this 2011 Account with the corresponding line item in the 2010 Account.
2011 Account line item |
2010 Account line item |
2011 Account volume for the 2009–10 year (ML) |
2010 Account volume for the 2009–10 year (ML) |
Change from the 2010 Account to the 2011 Account |
18.1 Groundwater outflow to outside region |
16.1.1 Regional groundwater outflow |
30,311 |
94,688 |
Methodology change: revised model output boundaries and updated groundwater model used Change in line item name and number |
The figure above shows that both groundwater model areas extend beyond the Perth region boundary. In the 2010 Account, line item volumes were derived for these entire model areas. Subsequent to the publication of the 2010 Account, the Department of Water improved the methodology in estimating the groundwater movement associated with the Perth region boundary, rather than the model boundaries.
In addition, an updated version of PRAMS was used in this 2011 Account. Major changes in this version of PRAMS compared to the previous version include (i) the incorporation of an updated conceptual model for the Leederville aquifer, (ii) the use of interpolated gridded climate data, and (iii) improved private extraction estimates.
This change in methodology resulted in a greater than 100% change in volume from that reported in the 2010 Account. Consequently, the comparative year value estimated by the groundwater models was restated in the water accounting statements.


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THE WORLD HAS BEEN INVADED BY ALIENS! It's up to a nerdy, lazy high school kid to save it!
3.83 / 5.00 7,330 ViewsI drew a crappy pic of baman and piderman, then animated it while I waited for League( LoL, when it was in SUPER duper maintenance) to be back up. Here's something for while YOU wait....if you're waiting.. or..bored...
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Garuhn ---> Garen? Haha yeah I waited too for the big patches for LoL. Also my account is in EU
I've been thinking of making an EU account at some point, but I'm sure I'd be laggy as fook.
I like to pronounce Garuhn as "GAH ROON", but I'm pretty sure the way it's spelled sounds more like Garen :3
better animation than most of what i see in the portal.
ty, I just wish the quality was up to par. However, I didn't really put effort in that dept
Nice, keep making more like this and maybe add a bit of color too.
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Logan Lynch pounded out 107 yards rushing to lead the Mules (3-5). Kaczorowski added 65 for Bedford, which totaled 231 yards on the ground.
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Bedford held the Indians to 104 total yards, 64 rushing and 40 passing.
Whiteford 62, B-D 6
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John Ritzenthaler caught 14 and 16-yard TD passes from Hughes, who completed 4 of 11 passes for 69 yards. Chuck Tabbert and Casey Myers also tackled B-D runners in the end zone for safeties.
Andrew Rhoades rushed nine times for 120 yards and kicked a 31-yard field goal for Whiteford (5-3, 4-1 TCC).
Anthony LaRocca added 114 yards and two touchdowns on 11 carries and Nate Seever pitched in 105 on seven totes, including a 59-yard score.
Darwyn Case threw a 23-yard touchdown pass for B-D (1-7, 0-5), which gained 116 yards on the ground and 69 through the air.
Erie Mason 26,
Hudson 20
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Kyle Gaynier rushed for 223 yards and three touchdowns for Erie Mason (3-5, 3-3).


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The common name for this plant comes from its height. Under ideal growing conditions, plants may exceed 15 feet in height.
Scott Sudkamp, Missouri Department of Conservation
Leaves are commonly three-lobed, occasionally five-lobed. Per unit weight, giant ragweed seeds contain more metabolizable energy than corn, making it a potentially important winter food for quail and other wildlife.
Female flowers and seeds occur at the leaf axils.
Seeds are large and cusped, with an elongated central point. The high oil content makes them energy rich.
Steve Hurst, USDA-NRCS Plants Database
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Along with common ragweed, giant ragweed is responsible for innumerable cases of hay fever each summer. But also like common ragweed, giant ragweed is among the most favored foods of bobwhites. At least one researcher has found giant ragweed to contain more metabolizable energy by weight than corn. Giant ragweed often occurs in dense stands along field edges, providing great brood cover and summer thermal refuge.


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Hotel direction: 2 miles NW
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Airport Phone: +1 703 572 2700
Hotel direction: 27 miles SE
This hotel does not provide shuttle service.
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Treats the symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS). Also treats prostate cancer and certain types of leukemia (such as acute nonlymphocytic leukemia or ANLL).
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MIAMI — A Crime Stoppers administrator was found in contempt of court after eating a piece of paper a Miami-Dade County circuit judge ordered turned over.
The Miami Herald reported that Judge Victoria R. Brennan ordered Richard Masten to turn over information gained from a tip, but Crime Stoppers policy guarantees anonymity. Masten, who oversees the nonprofit organization, refused and ate the paper in court, saying the identity of the tipster could be determined.
The information concerned a case in which a Hialeah woman named Lissette Alvarez, 45, was arrested on a cocaine possession charge. Alvarez's lawyer, Jean Michel D'Escoubet, said the information is important to the defense and they are not interested in the identity of the tipster.
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Mami Horie holds a special place in my heart. She was one of the first vocalists to work on the Atelier series. And while she hadn't done much work on the series in some time, it's not like she forgot, or that Gust forgot her. This whole album is a collection of vocal tracks from the Atelier series, redone in a lounge/jazz style, with Mami Horie singing (sometimes with entirely new lyrics, including new English lyrics!).
The album opens with the title track, Cadena, from the latest Atelier title (A13, Atelier Meruru). It's actually one of my least favorite tracks on the album, but it does set the tone for what to expect, genre-wise. Brush sticks on the trap set, lots of piano, a little bit of winds and brass to accompany, and Ms. Horie's beautiful voice (if a little "Engrish"-y). She does a great job with the next two tracks, however. Elle Gramnad (from Judie) never sounded better, and the oldschool track from Marie is fantastic. I love having the English lyrics. Paraphrased, it's basically: when you can't sleep at night, put the picture book under your pillow and when you sleep you'll have awesome dreams. The upbeat syncopated rhythm and the improvised piano make the track so much better than the bland original version from decades past.
"Pilgrimage" features vibrophones. So, right there, it's an instant winner. The vibes don't dominate, but they decorate and blend nicely with the rest of the band. Horie's part has her singing some Japanese and some English. She weaves in and out of the two languages with ease. Fans of the original song (from Totori) will enjoy this version too. It's a nice refreshing alternative.
Next up is "Little Crown," another track from Meruru. "Bossa Samba" is indeed the particular jazz style, and that nice straight beat and the elegant acoustic guitar just sounds great. There are little dips in the song where you can hear a phrygian modal scale (it's like a minor scale, but the second note in the scale is also flat). It adds that perfect Mediterranean touch to the piece.
This next one I wasn't expecting at all, nor was I expecting it to work when I found out it was included. The opening theme to Atelier Iris ~Eternal Mana~, "Midnight Illusion" is a chanty, ethnic, not-at-all-jazzy sort of piece. This album's style, not to mention Horie's voice, just seemed antithetical to the whole soundscape as I remembered it. But, somehow, this "European Jazz" version works very well. Maybe it's the jazz flute. Maybe it's because they kept the chants intact. I don't know... whatever it is, I'm pleased with the end result.
"Sail," on the other hand, I could live without. I wasn't a huge fan of it on Mana Khemia 2, and the jazz style the have for it, '80 R&B Taste, has got to be the most disgusting, schmaltzy, kitsch sound ever. I cannot bring myself to enjoy the R&B sound with a Japanese vocalist. There's no soul here. It's just goofy.
The next two tracks would have been impossible to screw up. "Lorelei" (from Iris 3) and "Dia" (from Totori) are beautiful songs with a soaring refrain and plenty of room for improvisation. As a result, Horie-san's jazz vocals do not at all detract from the music. I could've lived without these versions, sure, but I'm not at all offended by the sound of them either. Lorelei, especially, sounds good no matter how you slice it.
For the final 3 tracks, we get all Arland tracks: opening and ending tracks from Rorona, with a track from Meruru sandwiched between. "Falling, The Star Light" works in the same way "Midnight Illusion" does, mainly because Horie's layered chant vocals work so well. Again, I found this to be a surprise, but now that I know it works, I'm happy to see her apply it anywhere and everywhere. At the end, they add this great "la la" singing part with hand-claps and finger-snaps ... has a very Paul Simon "Graceland" feel to it. I'm into it.
Unfortunately, I'm not into the other two tracks. Metro just bores me, in all forms. As for Mysterious Recipe... well, they killed the song. The English lyrics come out absolutely Engrish-butchered, and the lyrics themselves are painfully cheesy. If they're an accurate translation of the Japanese song, then all I can say is that ignorance is bliss, and I wish I didn't know the words. Also, they totally cut out the "na na / la la" part from the original version of the song. Everything good about the original version is replaced by bad.
So ... from my completely subjective viewpoint, the album is a mixed bag. There is stuff I love about it, and also stuff I can't stand. But speaking more objectively, I think it's fair to say that there are so many other Atelier series albums worth owning before this one that this album becomes a hard sell. It doesn't help that Mami Horie's voice is something of an acquired taste for most listeners, with that deep, throaty jazz sound. It's not typical for Japanese singers, and while I'm not disparaging it per se or discouraging listeners from giving her work a listen, the fact remains that it's somewhat awkward with the Japanese language, and her lack of mastery with the English language doesn't help matters. I'll give the album a tepid endorsement, but I don't think anyone should rush out to buy it. I also don't have much hope for the upcoming volume, but we'll see.
Reviewed by: Patrick Gann
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It's pretty unusual for a 10-year-old to make the trials for a national under-18 sports team - but Kenny Mokaraka is a pretty unusual talent.
The Kaikohe 10-year-old was the youngest recipient of a Far North District Council sports award in a glitzy ceremony at Te Ahu last month, and this month he heads off to a training camp where he'll trial for the national under-18 lawn bowls team.
So, all going well, Kenny could be representing his country before he hits his 11th birthday.
The Year 6 pupil at Kaikohe East School lives with his grandparents Rose Timoko and Chester Ruawhare, and has been a full member of the Kaikohe Bowling Club since he was eight.
Kenny says he started playing at the age of five, when his grandfather would take him to the club and let him ''roll a few balls''.
It's not his only sport - he's also keen on rugby, touch and swimming - but the appeal of bowling is the combination of exercise, making new friends, fresh air and fun.
As the only youth player in Kaikohe he has to play against the grown-ups, many of whom have been taken by surprise after assuming a 10-year-old would be an easy beat.
Last year he won the club's tournament for first-year players, then went on to do the same in the Bowls Far North first-year champs - seeing off a rival 40 years his senior.
Proud grandmother Rose Timoko says Kenny is ''a natural'' who loves any sport. He got into bowls when a medical condition kept him off the rugby field for two years.
''He plays with all the adults, and everybody get on with him so well.''
Mrs Timoko hopes her moko will represent New Zealand and travel the world.
''But I'm very proud of all he's achieved already,'' she says.
Kaikohe Bowling Club president Dion Davis says Kenny isn't the only youngster to come along to the club and try the sport - but he is the only one so far to take it seriously.
''He actually watches and studies how the game is played. He gets the tactics, the strategy behind the game. A lot of us play with him because of that. We don't have to hold his hand, he plays at an adult level.''
The first adult member Kenny beat was Noel Bonner, a player of 26 years' experience. And you can bet Noel won't be the last.
''He's never been knocked out in the first round of any club champs he's played, which I certainly have. That's quite impressive,'' Mr Davis says.
Kenny is currently trialling for the national under-18s team and is the only Far North player heading to a Bowls New Zealand youth training camp in Auckland this month.
Mr Davis hopes he'll follow in the footsteps of Kaitaia's Monte Pawa Jnr, who plays in the New Zealand under-18s and already has an Australasian title under his belt.
The two players, however, are following different paths. Monte started in the youth division, but because Kenny is the only player his age in Kaikohe he has gone straight into the J5 open men's division.
''He's very mature, and robust in the way he handles what can be a stressful game. He copes well with it. He's as determined on his first bowl as he is on his last, which is the sign of a good player.''
The sport takes Kenny all over Northland in his grandparents' campervan - he often competes in the mixed doubles with his Nanna - and as far away as Rotorua. His awards so far include the Bowls Far North Youth Player of the Year 2012 and the Youth Achievement Award for Bowls in the 2012 Far North District Council Sports Awards.
Kenny's advice for anyone hoping to make it big in bowls is simple: ''Just be natural. Trust in yourself.''


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Many people read the Bible literally and feel very strongly that there's nothing more to it than that, and yet Jesus Himself says the whole Old Testament is about Him. How could that be?!? We ponder this through a bizarre story in which Caleb pleads with Joshua to be given a mountain inhabited by enemy giants in fortified cities (Joshua 14).
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Gen 35:27
Num 13,14,26,32
Josh 14, 15, 20, 21
Judg 1
1Sam 25
Luke 1, 24
The Spiritual Nature of Mountains
Psalm 72, 114
Isiah 34,54,55
Ezek 6
Hab 3
Zach 14
Spoiler: Swedenborg writes that mountain in the Word signifies Love of God or in its opposite sense, Love of self. Reading His Word from love....
80 minute video. Enjoy
I'm very up front about my beliefs. You haven't created a profile page to let me know where you are coming from. Look at the number of threads I have started since I joined - hardly spam.
...."New Church?".......
Any chance you're related to Joseph Smith?
Not that I am aware of.
The legal name for our branch is The General Church of The New Jerusalem
And as I have mentioned to you before, if you wish to have your threads unchallenged, they should be titled "Devotional" or "Caucus". Remember, when posting under those titles, challenging other beliefs, in the posted article, video or posts can cause the thread to become an "open" thread and open to challenge.
From the article:
"The New Church teaches that God came to earth as Jesus Christ. Christianity was established in response to the Savior's Coming. At the time of Jesus' birth, hell had gained such power over earth that the prevailing mindset was one of evil. Humanity was in great danger. Through His life and death on earth, Jesus restored the freedom to choose between good and evil, thus saving the human race. The church grew but, with time, it began to fall away from what it was originally intended to be. Once again, the people of earth were prey to spiritual darkness."
In order to bring the light of truth to the world, God came again. However, this time He did not appear in human form. He came as a new body of revelation given to us through the works of Emanuel Swedenborg, an eighteenth century scientist and theologian. A New Christianity was established in response to these truths, helping to spread God's teachings to people on earth. The New Church is one of many organizations dedicated to Swedenborg Theology.".
No, thanks.
Spoiler: Swedenborg claimed occultic communications with "god"
Reject Jesus as God
Swedenborg asserted, Jesus Christs Second Coming took place in the eighteenth century
One can allegorize the bible into saying whatever they want it to say.
they only accept a fraction of the books of the bible too boot.
I'm a Christian. You don't need a profile entry. Look at my posts.
I told you they would.
I told you they would.
Worry about the stuff inplain veiw, before EVER thinking about anything 'hidden'!
Read the replies.
AMPU hides NOTHING!
'Jesus' should have left well enough alone!
Any church that preaches this (or any person that believes this) is calling Jesus Christ a liar.
"I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
Of course people read the Bible literally. I'm sure they are holding an actual, physical book in their hands.
However, whether they interpret it literally, is another matter.
I don't know of anyone or any organization which demands a LITERAL interpretation of every word of Scripture. Most people who are literate are savvy enough to understand that parables are not meant to be taken literally, nor songs (Psalms), poetry, clear allegory or metaphor, visions seen by the prophets, etc.
The charge that Christians take every word of Scripture literally is only a smear tactic to be always used to disparage and discredit them and their message. It's an avoidance technique used by those who do not wish to be accountable to God on HIS terms but rather want to have God on THEIR terms.
It doesn't work.
So are we and it doesn't take a profile page to see that. Just read our posting histories.
Hebrews 9:22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
Jesus came to earth to die for our sins to pay for them so that He could give us eternal life as a free gift, without having to work for it.
Jesus Christ is the only one who saves. Following Swedenborg is going to result in you finding yourself damned for eternity when you die.
It's only by committing your life to Christ that you can and will find eternal life.
Turn to HIM, the founder and perfecter of our faith....
Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
You are exactly right. All of these "restoration churches" present a Christ who is not powerful enough to prevail against the evil one, one who basically lies...
You are exactly right. All of these "restoration churches" present a Christ who is not powerful enough to prevail against the evil one, one who basically lies...
I'm always curious as to why people join non-Christian cults.
Why did you join this one?
They THINK it does; as they walk past the graveyard; whistling...
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine.
Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
From Swedenborg's description of the meaning of Psalm 74:
PP 324. Psalm 74 title, 1-9 (H.B. 1-9) The church with all things appertaining to it has been utterly destroyed, and its holy things profaned, they saying in their heart that religion is not anything. 3 2, 10, 11 Prayer to the Lord to bring help. 11 12-15 Before this He has overthrown the hells, 8 16, 17 and before this, being protected, He has established a church; 11 18-21 let there therefore be compassion, that the church perish not 11 22, 23 through the uprising of evil. 3
And a recent inspirational reading:
More on the Dragon & Heavenly Doctrine
When the dragons
looked upon those who were in heavenly doctrine,
they fell into fearful agonies,
and were tortured and tormented; inasmuch
as they cannot endure Divine Truth.
Michael, in the Apocalypse,
(Revelation 12:7)
are those who are in heavenly doctrine:
the blood of the Lamb,
(Revelation 12:117)
by which they conquered,
is the Divine Truth of that doctrine.
Those who are in any doctrine,
although not entirely true,
and are nevertheless in the good of life,
are in heaven;
for falsity of doctrine is not falsity
when there is good in it.
All in heaven differ as to truths;
but those who are not in any doctrine
cannot be in heaven.
Folks who push this sludge are no different than the propagandists that have ruined Freedom in America by their constant "tweaking" of what the Constitution means and even making actual words in the dictionary verboten because they might be offensive to some mush mind. It's one of the reasons that so many sects of "Christianity" now allow/welcome female "priests/pastors/deacons, and why even open homosexuals achieve high positions such as what the Episcopal church has done.
Your post/ideas do not open new and wondrous doors - it tries to slam the door shut on the Truth of God's Word - God and those who wrote the Bible aren't/weren't Masons who put secret codes in everything - God WANTED the Word of the Gospel and the significance of Jesus' death to be known and understood - He would not allow it to be hidden "between the lines".
2 Corinthians 1:13-14
For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand. And I hope that, as you have understood us in part, you will come to understand fully that you can boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of the Lord Jesus.
It [is] impossible for any good to take root in man except in his freedom, for that which does not take root in freedom is dispelled at the first sign of evil and of temptation. - Arcana Coelestia 3854 Emanuel Swedenborg
Thank you for an actual passage to make the point - God Bless
How many stars does your branch claim?
Swedenborg rejected Ruth, Job, Chronicles, Nehemiah, Ezra, Esther, Proverbs, in the Old Testament, and all but the four Gospels and Revelation in the New. He did Martin Luther a few instances better. He also recommended following the ways of the flesh in rather vigourous fashion.
One may also enquire as to whether the branch of the New Church to be found in central Africa has actually been located.
However, simply on the act of promoting modalism, one may conclude rather simply that Swedenborg was a heretic and any followers of his theology are Christian heretics as well.
16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work freprobate.
Not sure what you mean. Do they use the longer, 73-book Bible used in the first 1,000 years of Christianity, or the more recent, shortened, 66-book Bible?
"The church grew but, with time, it began to fall away from what it was originally intended to be. Once again, the people of earth were prey to spiritual darkness."Now that's interesting. Most Christian churches (with the exception of the Catholic, Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Syriac, etc.) can't name a single congregation of their church from before the 2nd millennium. Protestants, Baptists, Evangelicals, Non-denoms -- they all believe that the Church fell away or apostatized sometime during the 1st millennium of Christianity. Some say as early as Constantine, some say even earlier that. Or so they've often told me.
Any church that preaches this (or any person that believes this) is calling Jesus Christ a liar.
This is the list of book that they consider to be 'scripture' in addition to the writings of Swedenborg -
The five books of Moses, the book of Joshua, the book of Judges, the two books of Samuel, the two books of Kings, the Psalms of David, the Prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi; and in the New Testament the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and the Revelation.
34 books in total - they reject the majority of the NT.
Defiling a bible study?????? For starters your 'church' rejects half of that same bible as scripture. Then you add the writings of an occultist as "scripture". That my FRiend is defilement.
Oh! Guess you could say they found Paul appalling!
Our Church accepts all 66 books of the Bible as the Word. These Bible Studies teach from all 66 books.
About half our members are located in Africa.
Not according to the 'borg Dave.
"The five books of Moses, the book of Joshua, the book of Judges, the two books of Samuel, the two books of Kings, the Psalms of David, the Prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi; and in the New Testament the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and the Revelation."
Borg rejected Paul's writings in that they " Emanuel Swedenborg, The Arcana Caelestia, vol. 12, trans. J. F. Potts, (New York: Swedenborg Foundation, 1978), para. 10325
you speak a falsehood according to your leader. Borg rejects Paul because his letters have "no conjunction with heaven by correspondences". (Swedenborg, Emanuel. The Spiritual Diary)
Don't call me a liar.
You misrepresent Borg's attitude towards Paul as not being really inspired like his own writings were. As such he lowered them from his view of True scripture. Were he to accept them as scripture - it would gut his 'theology'.
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An ornament thief has returned the Christmas deer he stole from outside a Fernie home, following a plea by the family in last week's Free Press to have it returned.
On the night of December 5, a 5' twinkling LED acrylic deer was stolen from John and Lynda Gawryluk's house.
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Exactly. People seem to forget about the billion+ Facebook users, of which I'm sure at least 100 million or so play FB games daily. The vast majority of those games only work on desktop OSes.
I have an Xbox that collects dust on the shelf because I've been a PC gamer from my late teens on up. I only have the Xbox because a friend gave it to me when the DVD drive stopped reading discs. Until I got the Mac mini, I was using the Xbox as a media player only. Now it isn't even plugged in.
I know I'm not the typical statistic, but I feel that a lot of my generation and the one that followed are more inclined towards PC and phone/tablet gaming than consoles. To look at it from another perspective, my dad occasionally still fires up the 35 year old Atari he played in his 20s, but he doesn't care for PC or mobile gaming at all. That said, a lot of my gaming nostalgia surrounds the NES, GameBoy and Sega systems of the 80s and 90s...but I can emulate all of that on any of my boxes including the Raspberry Pi.
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Why can't the children in Punta Arenas go outside in the spring?
Children in Punta Arenas, Chile, the world's most southern city, look forward to spring as much as anyone who lives through a frigid, dark winter. But unlike the children pictured above, some years, the children in Punta Arenas are instructed not to go outside because the ozone hole has moved north and the UV radiation is too high.
Ozone Depletion
At this point you might be asking yourself, "Is ozone bad or is ozone good?" There is no simple answer to that question: It depends on where the ozone is located (Figure below).
- In the troposphere, ozone is a pollutant.
- In the ozone layer in the stratosphere, ozone screens out high energy ultraviolet radiation and makes Earth habitable.
(1) Solar energy breaks apart oxygen molecules into two oxygen atoms. (2) Ozone forms when oxygen atoms bond together as O3. UV rays break apart the ozone molecules into one oxygen molecule (O2) and one oxygen atom (O). These processes convert UV radiation into heat, which is how the Sun heats the stratosphere. (3) Under natural circumstances, the amount of ozone created equals the amount destroyed. When O3 interacts with chlorine or some other gases the O3 breaks down into O2 and O and so the ozone layer loses its ability to filter out UV.
How Ozone is Destroyed
Human-made chemicals are breaking ozone molecules in the ozone layer. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are the most common, but there are others, including halons, methyl bromide, carbon tetrachloride, and methyl chloroform. CFCs were once widely used because they are cheap, nontoxic, nonflammable, and non-reactive. They were used as spray-can propellants, refrigerants, and in many other products.
Once they are released into the air, CFCs float up to the stratosphere. Air currents move them toward the poles. In the winter, they freeze onto nitric acid molecules in polar stratospheric clouds (PSC) (Figure below). In the spring, the Sun's warmth starts the air moving, and ultraviolet light breaks the CFCs apart. The chlorine atom floats away and attaches to one of the oxygen atoms on an ozone molecule. The chlorine pulls the oxygen atom away, leaving behind an O2 molecule, which provides no UV protection. The chlorine then releases the oxygen atom and moves on to destroy another ozone molecule. One CFC molecule can destroy as many as 100,000 ozone molecules.
PSCs form only where the stratosphere is coldest, and are most common above Antarctica in the wintertime. PSCs are needed for stratospheric ozone to be destroyed.
The Ozone Hole
Ozone destruction creates the ozone hole where the layer is dangerously thin (Figure below). As air circulates over Antarctica in the spring, the ozone hole expands northward over the southern continents, including Australia, New Zealand, southern South America, and southern Africa. UV levels may rise as much as 20% beneath the ozone hole. The hole was first measured in 1981 when it was 2 million square km (900,000 square miles). The 2006 hole was the largest ever observed at 28 million square km (11.4 million square miles). The size of the ozone hole each year depends on many factors, including whether conditions are right for the formation of PSCs.
The September 2006 ozone hole, the largest observed (through 2013). Blue and purple colors show particularly low levels of ozone.
Ozone Loss in the North
Ozone loss also occurs over the North Polar Region, but it is not enough for scientists to call it a hole. Why do you think there is less ozone loss over the North Pole area? The region of low ozone levels is small because the atmosphere is not as cold and PSCs do not form as readily. Still, springtime ozone levels are relatively low. This low moves south over some of the world's most populated areas in Europe, North America, and Asia. At 40oN, the latitude of New York City, UV-B has increased about 4% per decade since 1978. At 55oN, the approximate latitude of Moscow and Copenhagen, the increase has been 6.8% per decade since 1978.
Effects of Ozone Loss
Ozone losses on human health and environment include:
- Increases in sunburns, cataracts (clouding of the lens of the eye), and skin cancers. A loss of ozone of only 1% is estimated to increase skin cancer cases by 5% to 6%.
- Decreases in the human immune system's ability to fight off infectious diseases.
- Reduction in crop yields because many plants are sensitive to ultraviolet light.
- Decreases in phytoplankton productivity. A decrease of 6% to 12% has been measured around Antarctica, which may be at least partly related to the ozone hole. The effects of excess UV on other organisms is not known.
- Whales in the Gulf of California have been found to have sunburned cells in their lowest skin layers, indicating very severe sunburns. The problem is greatest with light colored species or species that spend more time near the sea surface.
When the problem with ozone depletion was recognized, world leaders took action. CFCs were banned in spray cans in some nations in 1978. The greatest production of CFCs was in 1986, but it has declined since then. This will be discussed more in the next concept.
- CFCs float up into the stratosphere where they break apart. The chlorine pulls an oxygen ion off of an ozone molecule and destroys it.
- The ozone hole is where there is less ozone than normal at that altitude. It forms in the spring.
- Ozone loss increases the amount of high-energy ultraviolet radiation that can strike Earth, causing ecological and health problems.
- How do CFCs destroy ozone?
- What is the ozone hole and where is it found? Is there an equivalent hole in the Northern Hemisphere?
- What are some of the consequences of ozone loss that have been identified?
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- What happens when the chlorine monoxide collides with a free oxygen atom.What happens next to the chlorine?
- What has altered the balance between ozone creation and ozone loss in the stratosphere?
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Lawmakers are bowing to special interest groups, attempting to forward the sale or transfer of public lands including wilderness areas, wildlife refuges and national forests to state and local governments.
The Bureau of Land Management is instituting a new Master Leasing Plan for an area outside Dinosaur National Monument. Large areas of wild lands in northwest Colorado will now be protected, but the new plan also opens up several sensitive areas to oil and gas drilling.
Their study, released earlier this year, looked at various methods such as capturing emissions from factories, extracting carbon directly from the air, a
The U.S. Senate is debating its fiscal year 2016 budget resolution, a process that will include amendments affecting important programs that support forests, parks and conservation priorities.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is mapping the windiest public lands as it searches for the best places for wind energy development.
Since its approval by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, the Antiquities Act has been used on a bipartisan basis by 16 presidents, serving as an important contingency plan for when Congress is unable to act swiftly to protect public lands.
A recent independent analysis uncovered a void in the nation's efforts to address global climate change: currently no plan exists to account for and manage greenhouse gas emissions created by energy development on public lands.
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The Tennessee Wilderness Act, sponsored by Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Bob Corker (R-TN), would create the 9,000-acre Upper Bald River Wilderness Area and expand five existing wilderness areas.
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Oxytocin is a hormone that promotes delivery and lactation. It plays a crucial role in enhancing social and emotional behavior. Previous studies that measured the levels of this hormone in the blood of patients showed that it was deficient in those with autism.
The team led by Angela Sirigu at the Centre de Neuroscience Cognitive in Lyon thus advanced the hypothesis that a deficit in this hormone might be implicated in the social problems experienced by autistic subjects. The team, working in collaboration with Dr Marion Leboyer at Hôpital Chenevier in Créteil, examined whether the administration of oxytocin could improve the social behavior of 13 individuals with high-functioning autism (HFA) or Asperger syndrome (AS). In both these forms of autism, patients retain normal intellectual and linguistic skills but are unable to engage spontaneously in social situations. Thus, during a conversation, these patients turn their heads and avoid eye contact with other people.
First of all, the researchers observed the social behavior of the patients while they were interacting with three other people during a ball tossing game. Three profiles were represented: a player who always returned the ball to the patient, a player who did not return the ball, and finally a player who indiscriminately returned the ball to the patient or to other players. Each time the patient received the ball, he or she won a sum of money. The game was restarted ten times in order to allow the patient to identify the different profiles of his/her partners and act accordingly. Under a placebo, the patients returned the ball indiscriminately to the three partners. However, patients treated with oxytocin were able to discriminate between the different profiles and returned the ball to the most cooperative partner.
The scientists also measured the patients' degree of attentiveness to social signals by asking them to look at series of photographs of faces. Under a placebo, the patients looked at the mouth or away from the photo. But after inhaling oxytocin, the patients displayed a higher level of attentiveness to facial stimuli: they looked at the faces, and indeed it was even possible to see an increase in the number of times they looked specifically at the eyes of the faces in the photographs.
During these tests, the scientists also verified these behavioral effects by measuring physiological plasma oxytocin levels before and after nasal inhalations. Prior to the inhalations, plasma oxytocin levels were very low, but they rose after an intake of the hormone.
The results of these tests thus showed that the administration of oxytocin allowed autistic patients to adjust to their social context by identifying the differing behaviors displayed by those around them and then acted accordingly, demonstrating more trust in the most socially cooperative individuals. Oxytocin also reduced their fear of others and promoted closer social relations.
This is one of the first studies to have demonstrated a potential therapeutic effect for oxytocin on social deficits in autism. Evidently, variations between individuals were observed in terms of their response to treatment, and the researchers acknowledged the importance and necessity to pursue this work. They will in particular be studying the long-term effects of oxytocin on improving the everyday living disorders of autistic patients, and its efficacy at an early stage of the disease.
E Andari, J-R Duhamel, T Zalla, E Herbecht, M Leboyer, A Sirigu (2010) Promoting social behavior with oxytocin in high-functioning autism spectrum disorders, PNAS, in press.
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BETHEL — Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is the recipient of a $14,500 grant from the TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable giving arm of TD Bank, to fund Bethel Woods in the Classroom, a new in-school program launching this year.
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How To Tell If Someone Is Lying To You… Really!
How do you tell or know if someone is lying? Very Carefully. All methods of lie-detecting, including polygraph machines, are regularly 'tricked' or used improperly, resulting in false assumptions or mistakes. There are a few good accurate ways to tell, but try to confirm the truth by other means as well, such as confession or a background investigation of the facts.
You should compare behavior in the person under suspicion to their "base" behavior, if possible. In other words, if they always have shifty eyes, then this trait can't be considered as an indication of lying. On the other hand, if they are normally very calm under pressure, but start shifting in their chair after certain questions, that may indicate lying. Because all techniques fail at times, you should use several indications before assuming the person has lied.
How To Tell If Someone Is Lying By Testing Responses
One way to test for lying, is to measure a persons desire to avoid a subject, which will sometimes indicate dishonesty or guilt. If you think the person is lying, change the subject quickly. A lying person will often go along easily, and may even visibly relax. An innocent person is more likely to be slightly confused by the change and want to finish their thoughts.
Another lie detecting technique is to suggest something that would make a guilty person feel uncomfortable and watch for a response. Suppose your wife Jane says she was at her mother's house, and you think she is lying. Rather than saying, "I'm calling your mother to verify this," you could use a subtle approach. You might say, "That reminds me, I'm going to stop by your mother's house today to fix that door for her."
If your wife was lying, the idea of you seeing her mother should make her nervous. She may give you reasons why you shouldn't go there. Of course, if your relationship has reached the point where you feel the necessity to resort to these techniques, a simple lie may not be the worst of your problems. Still, sometimes you need to know, so here are a few more ways to tell if someone is lying.
They are using your words. Using your exact words to respond can be an indication of lying. You say, for example, "Did you leave this here?" and they respond, "No, I did not leave this here."
They use un-contracted words. A lack of contractions is more common when lying. For example, instead of saying "I didn't sleep with her," a man might say," I did not have sexual relations with that woman." Again, compare to base behavior, though, as some people may not use contractions often anyhow.
Over-compensation. Often when people lie, they try too hard to be natural, and they give more detail than is necessary.
Forced smiles. A real smile involves more muscles, while a forced smile will use just the muscles around the mouth. The lie here may only be about their feelings, of course.
Let them talk. The more a person talks, the more likely you are to catch them in a lie (if they are being dishonest), especially when you learn the indications to watch for. These are just a few of the ways how to tell if someone is lying.


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