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B.A., Columbia University, New York, NY (1989)
Ph.D, Kent State University, Kent, OH (1994)
Aquatic Biology, Environmental Science, Evolution, Ichthyology and Science Education
Chris began teaching at Thomas More College in 1994. Since then, he has taught a variety of classes including Aquatic Biology, Genetics and Evolution, among others. In addition to these courses, he travels to Australia with students for two-week study-abroad experiences in the natural history of the rain forests and coral reefs there. In 1999, he received the award for the Outstanding Full-Time Teacher of the Year and recently participated in the Northern Kentucky Teacher Leadership Program. He currently serves as the advisor to Delta Epsilon Sigma, the College's national scholastic honor society, the advisor to the Outdoor Adventures Club and serves on the Institutional Planning and Effectiveness Committee. He has been awarded several teaching grants focusing on the improvement of middle school science education in the State. Through these projects he has developed a new science course for pre-service teachers at Thomas More and has collaborating with Northern Kentucky University on a similar course for graduate students. In addition, he has developed workshops for middle school science teachers and science camps for K-12 students. Most recently, Chris has developed and directs the Environmental Science program for the Biology Department. Along side his teaching, he serves as the Director of the Center for Ohio River Research and Education at the College's Biology Field Station. Through the Center, he has been awarded several research grants involving aquatic biology and collaborations with the University of Louisville to study the primary productivity of the Ohio River and the effects on fish growth rates and another collaboration with the USEPA in the development of a biomonitoring program for the Ohio River. In addition, he has been working with the Husbandry Department at the Newport Aquarium in the collection and care of the local freshwater specimens and volunteering as adjunct curator of fishes at the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History. He has served as president of the local chapter of Sigma Xi, a national scientific research society, and is an active member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetology and the American Fisheries Society. Most recently, Dr. Lorentz has been appointed by the Ohio EPA to serve on the Hamilton County Environmental Action Commission and also serves as the science advisor for the Licking River Watershed Watch and the Science Education Committee for the Kentucky Academy of Sciences. In the community, Chris has been active with Big Brother/Big Sisters of Greater Cincinnati for over ten years and was Co-Chair of the VISION 2015 Educational Excellence Planning Committee, a regional initiative dedicated to the smart growth and development of Northern Kentucky. He currently serves on the Boards of the Ohio River Way, the Ohio River Basin Consortium for Research and Education and the WAVE Foundation of Newport Aquarium.
Courses Taught: Aquatic Biology, Evolution, General Biology, Inquiry into Science Education, The History of the Ohio River and The Natural History of Australia
Research Interests: The bioassessment of aquatic ecosystems using fish and macroinvertebrate communities. These biological data, along with physical and chemical parameters, can be used to assess water quality and the ecological health of the aquatic systems in which the communities live.
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District Information Events with Delegates - South Central
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at 6:30 PM Eastern Standard Time
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Delegates from the Kentucky Annual Conference invite you to an informational meeting where we will share with you the latest information regarding our church. This will be a time of sharing the logistics of how General Conference works, the major legislation pieces proposed, how the outcome(s) could impact the Kentucky Annual Conference and your local church. We will also share helpful resources around how to stay informed and how to be prayer for our church. The dates and times (times listed are local times) for these events are:
- Pennyrile Sunday, February 16
St. John 3:00 pm
- Owensboro Tuesday, February 18
Settle Memorial 6:30 pm
- Lexington Tuesday, February 25
Trinity Hill 6:30 pm
- Heartland Thursday, February 27
Mount Washington 6:30 pm
- Northern KY Sunday, March 1
Immanuel 4:00 pm
- Kentucky East Tuesday, March 3
Louisa UMC 6:30 pm
- South Central Tuesday, March 3
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- South East Monday, March 9
Science Hill UMC 6:30 pm
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Jeremy, a patriarch of a young family with teenage children, loses his job and decides to move to the backwoods of Georgia to help his crazy grandfather. Grandpa Vinny has foolishly purchased a terribly run-down home for the elderly and he is in way over his head, but comedy ensues as Mr. Brown and Cora show up at the right time as needy investors.
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NEW ORLEANS – Roddy White and the Atlanta Falcons came up just short in their bid to stay unbeaten.
Not that White was about to give the rival Saints too much credit after New Orleans pulled out a dramatic 31-27 upset of previously unbeaten Atlanta on Sunday.
"It's not like they came out here and won a game," White said. "I think we kind of gave it to them. ... We play them in three weeks and we'll be ready."
White's comments weren't the only potential bulletin board material for the rematch on Nov. 29 in Atlanta.
Saints linebacker Curtis Lofton, who left the Falcons after last season in free agency, dismissed the notion that New Orleans and Atlanta had a genuine "rivalry" because the Saints have won 11 of the past 13 meetings.
"The team out on the field today was the reason why I came to the Saints," said Lofton, who joined New Orleans only to see his former team get off to its best start in franchise history. "We're finally starting to come together."
While the Saints (4-5) were celebrating their fourth victory in five games after a 0-4 start, the Falcons (8-1) walked out of the Superdome ruing their failure to get the 1 yard they needed to take a lead inside the last 2 minutes.
"It's very frustrating," said Falcons coach Mike Smith, who is 2-7 against the Saints and 49-15 against the rest of the NFL in his four-plus regular seasons as Atlanta coach.
"We were close. ... This will be something we will learn from."
The Falcons struggled to cover dynamic young tight end Jimmy Graham, who caught seven passes for a career-best 146 yards and two touchdowns.
Then veteran New Orleans cornerback Jabari Greer, who had been beaten deep twice earlier in the game, came through with a diving, touchdown-saving pass breakup on a late fourth-down pass intended for White.
"I was kind of depressed before that play," Greer said. "I saw my name on the waiver wire. ... Being able to go out there and make a play for our team and be able to celebrate after everything that happened and just to win that way, it's a gift."
Matt Ryan was 34 of 52 for a career-best 411 yards and three touchdowns with one interception. The game was there for him to win when his 9-yard pass to Harry Douglas gave Atlanta a second-and-goal at the 1.
But Ryan could not connect on a second-down pass for tight end Tony Gonzalez, the Saints stuffed Michael Turner for a 1-yard loss on third down, and then came Greer's play.
"I could have put that ball in a better spot — a little higher and more in front of him to give him a chance to catch it," Ryan said. "We've always played them tough and haven't had the outcomes we wanted."
Both Graham and the veteran Gonzalez were superb. Their performances marked the first time in NFL history that two tight ends had at least 120 yards receiving and two TD catches in the same game.
"Tony, he kind of paved the way for me," said Graham, who like Gonzalez had a college basketball background. "It seemed like every drive I'm kind of going up against the things that he did the last drive."
Gonzalez finished with 11 catches for 122 yards and two scores for Atlanta, becoming the first tight end to catch 100 touchdown passes.
Drew Brees threw for 298 yards and three TDs as the Saints won for the fourth time in five games, keeping alive hope of getting back into the wild-card race after a 0-4 start. The Saints can even their record with a win at Oakland next weekend.
"That's something we feel like we're capable of and we envisioned being able to do that, because we know the type of team we have," Brees said. "We knew we dug ourselves a hole. We knew we had a mountain to climb, but we also knew we have the right type of people."
"No one is going to go around crying or panicking or anything like that," Gonzalez said. "We're a good team. Our confidence hasn't changed."
Although the Saints came in allowing a league-worst 176.5 yards rushing per game, they held Atlanta to 46 yards on the ground.
New Orleans rushed for 148 yards, highlighted by Chris Ivory's career-long 56-yard scoring run that gave the Saints a spark after Atlanta had a 10-0 lead.
The Saints' largest lead was 28-17 on Brees' scoring strike to Marques Colston, the 55th TD of Colston's career, tying Deuce McAllister for first in Saints history. The touchdown capped an 81-yard drive which started with rookie Corey White's interception.
The Falcons pulled to 28-27 on Gonzalez's second TD and Matt Bryant's field goal, but Graham' 46-yard grab set up Garrett Hartley's field goal that gave the Saints a late four-point lead and set the stage for a tense last few minutes.
Notes: Ivory's 56-yard run was the longest from scrimmage by a Saint since Oct. 8, 2006, when McAllister ran 57 yards vs. Tampa Bay. ... Brees has passed for touchdowns in 52 straight games, extending an NFL record he set earlier this season. ... Julio Jones missed much of the first half after an undisclosed leg injury, but returned in the second half. ... Gonzalez has 101 career TDs, one of only eight players with 100 or more.
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Well, the existence of a new cops-vs-robbers Battlefield game got leaked yesterday. Today, an in-depth trailer showing gameplay, plot and multiplayer details for Battlefield: Hardline has surfaced.
EA later confirmed the existence of Hardline by unveiling an official website late yesterday but this trailer—first spotted on NeoGAF —looks like it runs down many of the game's core features way ahead of the June 9th reveal. [Update: the first YouTube video has been pulled. We've replaced it with another upload below.]
The name of at least one multiplayer mode that showed up in yesterday's reports also shows up in this teaser, along with the revelation that Hardline's single-player will be structured episodically like a TV show. The characters and action are a bit reminiscent of The Shield television series.
Also confirmed is a lead development role by EA's Visceral studio and not the DICE division that's traditionally handled Battlefield games. Revamped AI and a multipath structure for single-player episodes get touted in the trailer, perhaps as a sign that EA's trying to address player criticism of previous BF games in Hardline.
Previous reports had pegged Ghost Games—the DICE spin-off studio that made last year's Need for Speed Rivals—as helping with Hardline's development. The driving sequences shown here look like they might be the studio's handiwork.
The game will take place in American cities and showcase multiple Leveloution events in the various backdrops, a decision that iterates on the popular environmental destruction feature from Battlefield 4.
Along with a suite of real-world and made-up weapons, Hardline will also have players using gadgets like a police scanner. Similar to, say, the Detective Vision mode in recent Batman games, the police scanner reveals clues and plot points in the game's single-player.
Ziplines and grappling hooks will be able to be used throughout the multiplayer maps at any time, which should open up strategic possibilities in the game's vertical spaces.
The Hardline video also teases a wide variety of vehicles, including combat trucks, boats and muscle cars. Overall, Hardline looks like a big departure from Battlefield's soldier-centric formula. Judging by the 7-minute video that's slid out onto the internet, the next game in EA's main FPS franchise is looking to ramp up its storytelling ambitions, expand player mobility and deepen the combat experience.


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German Chocolate Cake III
Recipe by:Dean
"A spectacular German Chocolate cake made from scratch, using cake flour.
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1/2 cup water
4 (1 ounce) squares German sweet chocolate
1 cup butter, softened 2 cups white sugar
4 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup buttermilk
2 1/2 cups cake flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 egg whites
1 cup white sugar
1 cup evaporated milk
1/2 cup butter
3 egg yolks, beaten
1 1/3 cups flaked coconut
1 cup chopped pecans
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon shortening
1 (1 ounce) square semisweet chocolate
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Prep 30 m
Cook 30 m
Ready In 1 h
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour 3 - 9 inch round pans. Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside. In a small saucepan, heat water and 4 ounces chocolate until melted. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
In a large bowl, cream 1 cup butter and 2 cups sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in 4 egg yolks one at a time. Blend in the melted chocolate mixture and vanilla. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk, mixing just until incorporated.
In a large glass or metal mixing bowl, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold 1/3 of the whites into the batter, then quickly fold in remaining whites until no streaks remain.
Pour into 3 - 9 inch pans Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool for 10 minutes in the pan, then turn out onto wire rack.
To make the Filling: In a saucepan combine 1 cup sugar, evaporated milk, 1/2 cup butter, and 3 egg yolks. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly until thickened. Remove from heat. Stir in coconut, pecans and vanilla. Cool until thick enough to spread.
Spread filling between layers and on top of cake. In a small saucepan, melt shortening and 1 ounce of chocolate. Stir until smooth and drizzle down the sides of the cake.


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Welcome to Aurora Art Studios!
Aurora Art Studios is a combination gallery and artist studio space located in the heart of San Rafael California, on the path of the monthly San Rafael Art Walk.
Sep 9, 2011
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Relationship problems. Everybody has them. And sometimes you have them over and over and over.
Most of the people giving advice don't know the research. So where are the real answers?
I decided to call an expert: Dr. John Gottman.
You might remember him as the researcher in Malcolm Gladwell's Blink who, after just a few minutes, could predict whether a couple would end up divorced.
John is a professor emeritus at the University of Washington and co-founder of the Gottman Institute. He's published over 190 papers and authored more than 40 books, including:
He's also a really cool guy. John's gained powerful insights from studying couples that thrive (who he calls "Masters") and couples that don't (who he calls "Disasters.")
So what are you going to learn here?
Want to be a Master and not a Disaster? Let's get to it.
John has studied thousands of couples over his 40-year career. Four things came up again and again that indicated a relationship was headed for trouble. The Disasters did them a lot and the Masters avoided them:
#1: Criticism
This is when someone points to their partner and says their personality or character is the problem. Here's John:
Criticism is staging the problem in a relationship as a character flaw in a partner. The Masters did the opposite: they point a finger at themselves and they really have a very gentle way of starting up the discussion, minimizing the problem and talking about what they feel and what they need.
Ladies, are you listening? Because criticism is something women do a lot more than men. (Don't worry, we'll get to how the guys screw up soon enough.)
#2: Defensiveness
This is responding to relationship issues by counterattacking or whining. Here's John:
The second horseman was defensiveness which is a natural reaction to being criticized. It takes two forms: counterattacking or acting like an innocent victim and whining. Again, the Masters were very different even when their partner was critical. They accepted the criticism, or even took responsibility for part of the problem. They said, "Talk to me, I want to hear how you feel about this."
#3: Contempt
It's the #1 predictor of breakups. Contempt is acting like you're a better person than they are. Here's John:
Contempt is talking down to their partner. Being insulting or acting superior. Not only did it predict relationship breakup, but it predicted the number of infectious illnesses that the recipient of contempt would have in the next four years when we measured health.
#4: Stonewalling
It's shutting down or tuning out. It passively tells your partner, "I don't care." And 85% of the time it's guys who do this.
(Want to know a shortcut to creating a deeper bond with a romantic partner? Click here.)
Okay, that's what kills a relationship. Naturally, you want to know what stops those things from occurring, right?
From looking at the Masters, John saw what prevented the downward spiral of the 4 Horsemen:
#1: Know Thy Partner
John calls this building "love maps." It's really knowing your partner inside and out. It was one of the Masters' most powerful secrets. Here's John:
A love map is like a road map you make of your partner's internal psychological world. The Masters were always asking questions about their partner and disclosing personal details about themselves.
Why is this so rare? It takes time. And the disasters didn't spend that time. In fact, most couples don't spend that much time.
John cited a study showing couples with kids talk to each other about 35 minutes per week. Yeah, 35 minutes.
And even most of that was just logistics — "When will you be there?" "Don't forget to pick up milk." — not deep personal stuff like the Masters.
#2: Responding positively to "bids"
No, this has nothing to do with eBay. We all frequently make little bids for our partner's attention.
You say something and you want them to respond. To engage. It can be as simple as saying, "Nice day, isn't it?"
It's almost like a video game: when the person responds positively ("turning towards a bid") your relationship gets a point.
When they don't respond, or respond negatively, the relationship loses a point… or five. Here's John:
The couples who divorced six years later had turned toward bids only 33% of the time. The couples stayed married had turned toward bids 86% of the time. Huge difference.
Couples with high scores build relationship equity. They're able to repair problems. They're able to laugh and smile even when arguing. And that makes a big difference. Here's John:
If you turn toward bids at a high rate, you get a sense of humor during conflict. Humor is very powerful because it reduces physiological arousal during arguments and that's been replicated in several studies.
#3: Show admiration
Ever listen to someone madly in love talk about their partner? They sound downright delusional. They act like the other person is a superhero. A saint.
And research shows that is perfect. Masters see their partner as better than they really are. Disasters see their partners as worse than they really are.
(For more on the science of sexy, click here.)
Admiration is about the story you tell yourself about your partner. And that leads us to how to predict whether your relationship is working…
You can do this yourself: have someone ask you about the history of your relationship. What kind of story do you tell?
When your partner describes your relationship to others, what kind of story do they tell?
Does the story minimize the negatives and celebrate the positives? Did it make the other person sound great?
Or did it dwell on what's wrong? Did it talk about what that idiot did this week that's utterly wrong?
This simple "story of us" predicts which relationships succeed and which fail. Here's John:
Our best prediction of the future of a relationship came from a couple's "story of us." It's an ever-changing final appraisal of the relationship and your partner's character. Some people were really developing a "story of us" that was very negative in which they really described all the problems in the relationship. They really emphasize what was missing. Masters did just the opposite: they minimized the negative qualities that all of us have and they cherish their partner's positive qualities. They nurture gratitude instead of resentment.
(For more on what research says makes love last, click here.)
Is there a part of a relationship conversation that's critical? Actually, there is.
It's the beginning. 96% of the time John can predict the outcome of a conversation within the first three minutes. Here's John:
Negativity feeds on itself and makes the conversation stay negative. We also did seven years of research on how Masters repair that negativity. One of the most powerful things is to say "Hey, this isn't all your fault, I know that part of this is me. Let's talk about what's me and what's you." Accepting responsibility is huge for repair.
How you start those serious relationship discussions doesn't just predict how the conversation goes — it also predicts divorce after 6 years of marriage.
Via Principia Amoris: The New Science of Love:
…it went on to predict with high accuracy their fate over a 6-year period of time. The predictions we made about couples' futures held across seven separate studies, they held for heterosexual as well as same-sex couples, and they held throughout the life course.
So you're talking and you're starting off positive and calm. Great. Now you should stop talking. Why?
When I asked John what the best thing to do to improve a relationship he said, "Learn how to be a good listener."
The Masters know how to listen. When their partners have a problem, they drop everything and listen non-defensively with empathy. Here's John:
In really bad relationships people are communicating, "Baby when you're in pain, when you're unhappy, when you hurt, I'm not going to be there for you. You deal with it on your own, find somebody else to talk to because I don't like your negativity. I'm busy, I'm really involved with the kids, I'm really involved with my job." Whereas the Masters have the model of, "When you're unhappy, even if it's with me, the world stops and I listen."
And sometimes the best thing to do at the beginning of a relationship argument is to end it immediately. Why?
69% of a couple's problems are perpetual. They won't be resolved.
Beating a dead horse, asking someone to fundamentally change who they are isn't going to work — but it will make them angry. Here's John:
In the studies that Bob Levenson and I did, we brought couples back into the lab every couple of years to find out what they are arguing about. And people resolved only about 31% of their disagreements. You can edit these videotapes together and it looked like the same conversation over and over for 22 years. Masters learn to accept what will not change and focus on the positive. They seem to say, "There's a lot of good stuff here and I can ignore the annoying things."
(For more on how to listen like an expert, click here.)
Okay, that's a lot of great stuff. Let's round it up and finish with the thing John said that impressed me the most.
So here's what John had to say:
One last thing that really blew me away: what makes for happy relationships sounds a lot like what makes for happiness in general.
Research shows, happy people seek out the positive and are grateful for it. Unhappy people find the negative in everything.
There's a very similar dynamic in relationships: Masters scan their relationship for good things, disasters are always noting the bad.
And not only that — the Masters' way of looking at the world is actually more accurate. Here's John:
People who have this negative habit of mind miss 50% of the positivity that outside objective observers see. So the positive habit of mind is actually more accurate. If you have a negative habit of mind, you actually distort toward the negative and you don't see the positive. People with the positive habit of mind, it's not that they don't see the negative — they do, they see it — but they really emphasize the positive in terms of the impact on them. That's the difference.
Choose to see the positive. It can cause a cascade:
Some of the same things that make you happy can improve your relationships — and vice versa. What's better than that?
John and I talked for over an hour, so there's a lot more to this.
I'll be sending out a PDF with more of his relationship tips in my weekly email (including the two words that can help make arguments dissolve.) So to get that, sign up for my weekly email here.
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The Secret Beyond Matter
What generally comes to mind when leadership is mentioned are footballers who turn losing matches around with their personal skills by firing up their colleagues or managers who make large profits for their firms by establishing a good team spirit and increasing productivity.
Although leadership has been known since very early times, it has become the most discussed subject in the last ten years in particular, and is even taught at universities.
Leaders are distinguished from managers by several attributes. While managers apply the rules and principles put before them, leaders create a broader perspective for the rules to be applied. Leaders are open to communication, ideas and change; for them, what they do is not a hobby, but more akin to a cause. They have colleagues and teams in order to realize these causes. They lead their colleagues' efforts toward their goals by constantly bringing up their spirits and enthusiasm. Leaders are pleasant to those around them; they are respectful, serious and dignified. A leader will often possess lofty moral values and virtues. He or she will be both just and compassionate. He will be able to influence those around with his charismatic personality but still have no hesitation in exchanging ideas with people. He will be of sound character and determined. He will be assertive, and obstacles will not wear him down. He will be a positive thinker. He will encourage constant change and development. He will not be caught up by obstacles, but will create solutions. He will have a broad vision, see things differently from those around him and make accurate analyses.
Nations need leaders in the same way as football teams or companies. Yet there has been no proper leader in the Arab and Islamic world for some 100 years. Most heads of state in the Islamic world are only prominent in a ceremonial capacity, rather than being possessed of true leadership abilities. Those who are slightly better make politics, run the civil service and try to deal with crises as best they can, yet it is next to impossible to say that any Arab ruler is truly successful in that.
The Islamic world is currently striving against civil wars, poverty and backwardness. Artists and scientists are not produced in Muslim countries and national economies are not well managed. Corruption, bribery and exploitation are everywhere. States have become vehicles of conflict and war, rather than peace and well-being. There are endless fights between brothers, and divisions and enmities are not only deep, but often multi-generational. Muslims are unable to unite together.
A similar situation prevailed on the entire Arabian Peninsula 1,400 years ago. A highly virtuous character combining all the attributes of leadership liberated people, not only on the Arabian Peninsula, but over a much broader swathe of land. That was, of course, our beloved Prophet Muhammed (pbuh). Just like the other prophets, he resolved all the social problems of his time from a Qur'anic perspective by exhibiting model leadership through the will and help of Allah.
Muslims today must learn the moral values of our Prophet (saas) and how he behaved under which circumstances. They must strive to be like him and take him as a role model in piety, sincerity, purity, humility, cleanliness and faith. Most people today adopt many figures as role models such as celebrities or professional athletes or entertainers, and try to behave and speak like them; and while some of the aforementioned may well possess good characteristics, it is the prophets that people should seek to imitate.
Allah notes in the verses of Qur'an the importance of faith in Him and His messenger, and of supporting and following His Prophet, and says that these people will attain salvation. So that you might all have faith in Allah and His Messenger and honor Him and respect Him and glorify Him in the morning and the evening. (Surat al-Fath, 9)
…Those who have faith in him and honor him and help him, and follow the Light that has been sent down with him, they are the ones who are successful. (Surat al-A'raf, 157)
Ever since the Age of Felicity, believers have prayed to Allah in all sincerity to end the troubles facing Muslims, in the hope that systems of thought based on denial, unfair and unjust practices and that the wars and conflicts in the world will come to an end. Allah certainly accepts the prayers of those who pray to Him: He will again accept Muslims' prayers, rescue them from their difficulties and send the leader of the End Times foretold by our Prophet (saas), insha'Allah.
Adnan Oktar's piece on National Yemen & News Rescue:
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Alexis Wright — Crush of the Day
Putting the 'zoom' in Zumba, Alexis Wright is a 29-year-old Maine fitness instructor who is facing charges of running a prostitution operation out of her studio in southern Maine. How bout that? All our gym offers up is an occasional energy bar and disposable shower caps. Let's honor this fit, pretty brunette entrepreneur by making her our 'Crush of the Day.' News of the case even made the 'Today' show (which is on in the morning, slacker):
Wright pleaded not guilty to 106 counts of prostitution and other charges, but the investigation alleges that Wright accepted money for sex and secretly videotaped the action. Townsfolk in the sleepy New England town of Kennebunk are eager to find out the names of Wright's alleged clients, which the police will begin releasing this week.
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Entertaining Montana and MY 103.5 proudly present the MY 103.5 Butterfly Ball! This is a chance for girls to spend some time with dads, Grandpas, older brothers – whomever they want - at this magical ball during fathers day weekend!
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Girls – grab your favorite princess butterfly ball gown and dad, grandad or big brother for a night of fun! There will be appearances from Rapunzel, Prince Charming, Snow White, Cinderella, and more. There will also be a Magic Show, makeup and nail polish studio, food, dancing, a photo booth, prizes – and a fashion show featuring you! It's the MY 103.5 Butterfly Ball – brought to you by Entertaining Montana and LillyLu!
You can get your tickets online here. If tickets remain, you can buy tickets the night of the ball at the doors but buying them online early will guarantee your spot at the ball.
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Eurodad Annual Conference 2007
Limiting the roles of the World Bank and IMF: towards alternative institutions for channelling finance
Project at a glance
Dates and Place28 - 30 October 2007, Oslo, Norway
Project details
The European Network on Debt & Development (Eurodad) is holding it's annual congress in Oslo this year. Eurodad is a network of European development NGOs working to change economic policies and ensure that poorer people have their say in decisions that affect their lives.
The theme of this year's meeting: "Limiting the roles of the World Bank and IMF: towards alternative institutions for channelling finance". There is again much discussion of the roles of multilateral organizations such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. They are criticised for being dominated by Northern governments, for imposing harmful economic policy conditions, for environmental devastation and for failing to respect local peoples' rights.
Proposals for alternative institutional arrangements have been advanced by civil society organisations, by thinktanks and by governments. These range from cutting or dramatically changing the roles of the International Financial Institutions to withdrawing from them and building up new ones such as the Banco del Sur (Bank of the South).
The International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have been weakened. Several Southern governments have recently pre-paid, withdrawn from or turned down lending from the institutions. They can do this partly because alternative sources of finance are now available to them. But other governments, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, do not have this option open to them at the moment. The Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative, agreed in 2005, also means that IDA's resources will be depleted and the future of the fund dependent on the willingness of donors to replenish it and to compensate the World Bank for lost debt service payments.
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On Saturday, November 5, both the high school boys and girls cross country teams boarded a chartered bus and headed off to MIS Speedway for the State Cross Country Finals. After both teams won regionals the previous weekend the teams were ready to take on the competition.
Last year, the girls team placed their highest finish of 6th place. The girls were looking forward to improving on that performance. They did just that, finishing as the Division 2 state runner-ups to East Grand Rapids. In a race that featured 245 girls, the Cedar Springs girls rose to the occasion to claim the best finish once again by any Cedar girls cross country team! Leading the way for the Red Hawks was Kenzie Weiler, who ran to a second place finish, with a time of 17:35, and was the top freshman in the state; junior Katie Weiler (Kenzie's sister) who finished 6th; Michaela Burnett (85th), Maddie Pekrul (86th),
Sommer Vandyke, Christina Dean and Kendahl Oberdorfer. MacKenzie and Katie received All State honors for their finishes. This is the third straight year that Katie received that honor.
Ranked pretty high going into the state meet, the boys were ready to race their competition. The boys team ran exceptionally well to finish 4th place overall. This is one of the best finishes the boys team has had in school history. In a race also featuring 245 runners, the Red Hawks were led by Connor Mora, who placed 3rd overall; Aaron Brooks (36th), Austin Sargent (52nd), Justin Harthorn, (79th), Alex Bray, Ethan Menefee and Dan Zinn. Connor Mora received All State Honors for his 3rd place finish (his third year in a row). What a great way to top off a great season!
Congratulations to both teams and their coaches Ted Sabinas and Jen Kahler on their amazing seasons!


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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sometimes finds out that a drug it has approved for the market has dire and unanticipated side effects. A report released today by the Institute of Medicine suggests steps to help the agency catch such problems earlier in the process.
A key point is for the FDA to use more vigorously its authority to order additional studies after a drug is on the market. "Right now many studies are commissioned mainly when there's a fire," said Stanford Professor Steven Goodman, MD, PhD, a co-chairman of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee that produced the report, in an interview with me last week. "We think it's better to initiate them when there's just smoke." Goodman is the medical school's associate dean for clinical and translational research and a professor of medicine and of health research and policy.
The report comes as Congress is considering legislation reauthorizing the user fees that help to fund the FDA and is weighing ways to improve the agency's drug-approval and tracking systems. Recent situations with the antidiabetes drug Avandia, the pain-reliever Vioxx and the cholesterol-reducing drug Crestor underscore the need to adopt new safety measures. The report proposes some factors that could indicate the need for a post-approval study. According to a release from the IOM:
[The report] identified some circumstances in which a product's benefits or risks are particularly uncertain, including "first in class" drugs that have been approved based on surrogate endpoints used previously for other drug classes, and drugs for which several endpoints provide conflicting evidence about risk, such as an anti-hypertensive drug that lowers blood pressure but increases weight. In such cases, the committee recommended that FDA require safety research after approval or provide a public rationale for why it is not necessary. Early initiation of such studies could limit the harm done by drugs with risks that are later found to be unacceptable and avoid crises in which the agency is faced with few good options, the committee said.


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Cliven Bundy leaves GOP for 'Independent American Party'
Cliven Bundy filled out paperwork for his new party registration at an event in Las Vegas that honored Cliven Bundy for what organizers called 'his courage in standing up for state sovereignty.'
A Nevada rancher whose dispute with the US Bureau of Land Management drew national attention is no longer a Republican.
Cliven Bundy has switched his affiliation to the Independent American Party.
Bundy and his supporters, some of them armed militia members, thwarted a BLM roundup of his cattle near Bunkerville in April.
The BLM says he owes more than $1 million in grazing fees and penalties for trespassing without a permit over 20 years, but he refuses to acknowledge federal authority on public lands.
He and his wife, Carol, signed registration forms to the cheers of supporters at an Independent American Party gathering in Las Vegas on Friday night.
The event was held to honor Bundy for what organizers called "his courage in standing up for state sovereignty."