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To carry a foetus to term with the intent of giving it up. INTENT.
You do realise the number of parentless children scattered about the planet.
I'll also compare it to getting a dog from a kennel or from the Humane society. Getting dogs from a kennel encourages overpopulation. Let's adopt those already in the world, instead of creating more of them.
You don't know everyone's story, ok? There are circumstances that could cause you to make the adoption decision in the third trimester of your pregnancy when it is far too late to decide to have an abortion. I know this because it happened to me. I suddenly found myself in an entirely different situation when my husband walked out on me and his unborn child, and I did not want to put another underpriveleged child into our world. Adoption was my ONE AND ONLY CHOICE. I am sure I can't be the only person that this has happened to. I am sure ther are other circumstance that would cause you choose adoption after abortion is no longer a choice.
If you want people to adopt all the 'parentless children scattered about the planet', then take it up with the people waiting to adopt and the adoption agencies. The sad fact is that most people want a newborn who is unscarred by our harsh world. Foster children are very hard to place in permanent homes because they already have problems that most of us don't want to deal with. Sad, but true.
I did not choose adoption becaus I am ignorant, it was not irresponsible of me, and it certainly wasn't something I was planning from the onset of my prergnancy.
I maintain that your black and white picture of the world is very naive. The world is full of grey areas. I am glad for you that you have your own healthy children that you were able to breast feed for two years each, and that you never had any unexpected circumstances pop up in your life that change your situation. (At least I am assuming that you have children because you have so many opinions on how other people should handle pregnancies and how they should go about feeding their babies). That's awesome for you. But life is not like that for everyone. You can't just say we're all ignorant, sorry.
Ok. Done now. I think that you are wrong.
So you recognised your 'oopsy' moment in the third trimester... fine. But do realise that I was not pointing any finger at you specifically. As I stated many many times and you chose to ignore... at the time of making an abortion decision, one must assess one's ability to be a parent. You thought you could, but you based your decision upon outside considerations instead of your own ability in the matter.
That is very wrong IMO. An 'irresponsible' person who does not know that they are irresponsible is merely ignorant. A person who is irresponsible and KNOWS that they are, is the true irresponsible person.
Really! Do you also disagree with the original proverb? (it may be Chinese in origin, not French, but I'm not certain)
The point is to be aware of our defects leads to better decisions than to not be aware of our defects. Self-awareness is an important component of mature decision making me thinks.
Personally, when choosing my friends, I'd prefer someone who is self-aware rather than someone who isn't, no matter which defect we're discussing.
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By Klaus Kinski
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
I do agree with the proverb. Foolishness and irresponsibility are not interchangeable though. At least not in the context of the proverb.
Which do you think is worse?
Someone who commits an action unaware of the potentially serious consequences, or someone who is aware of the serious consequences but commits the action anyways?
We're talking abortion here, to be self aware that one should not birth allows one to decide to not birth... the rational solution. While an ignoramus goes around popping them out and giving them away. Within a given cultural context, ignorance is not a valid excuse.
No one here is disagreeing with abortion in the case where there is a medical justification, so we are talking about abortion of 'unwanted pregnancies'. To cut right to it we are talking about sex. Someone could be ignorant of the consequences of sex if they never got a decent sex education.
Almost without exception, one who knows how to copulate knows it can procreate.
The total published risk for contraceptives is not only due to the mechanical/chemical failure, it is also behavioural failure.
Neither of these two items are what's at stake here. What is at stake is that once one realises the problem, knowing oneself, knowledge, allows one to make an informed decision. NOT knowing oneself, not knowing one's own capacities, only allows for a dumb decision.
So keep prevention out of it for second, address the consequence.
There is a very important difference between stupid and ignorant. One is about intelligence, the other about knowledge. An ignorant person who makes the wrong choice is not stupid.
Oh! I see, okay, sorry. Some people consider "merciful" as what I described, sorry for generalizing your statement in such a way. Well, what you consider merciful is probably the same exceptions that I would make for abortion as-well. The only difference is that you may identify as pro-choice while I identify as pro-life. Does that make sense?
@ Zach - Yes, I think I understand. I assume you disagree that a woman should have the legal right to terminate her pregnancy during the first two trimesters if the reason is, she feels she is too young to be tied done with a baby. Is that correct?
I assume you feel it should be legal for a woman to have an abortion during the first two trimesters if she was raped (although I do recall reading somewhere on this thread that you had some sort of confusion with that). Am I correct on this point, or are you undecided?
I assume you feel it should be legal for a woman to have an abortion during the first two trimesters if the baby has a high risk for a horrible diesease? Am I correct?
You are correct. I believe it is her responsibility to deal with the risk that she took and not put it on the child via killing it. I am sort of undecided on rape though. I do not want her to have to live with the knowledge that her child is in an orphanage, or have that child live with her as a constant reminder of the rape, but the baby can not control who or how it was conceived and it is unfair to kill it on those grounds. So yes, I am very torn on that.
@ Zach - I am going to put my reply to your post on the very bottom of this thread, which as of now, would be page 44. It is a long post and I don't want to do it as a reply to your reply because it would take up too much room.


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(News-Register staff) Cancer survivors will kick off the 2013 Relay for Life with a celebratory lap around the Patton Middle School track at 6 p.m. Friday.
The June 21-22 Relay, a celebration of the lives of cancer victims and a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, will continue for the next 18 hours. More than 38 teams will have walkers on the track throughout.
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Teams raise funds by collecting donations. Last weekend, Mid-Valley Rehabilitation staff members and clients held one last fundraising blitz for their 13-member team at the Staples parking lot.
Willamette Valley Medical Center, a group of community members who have survived heart attacks or want to reduce their heart attack risk have been raising money for the event while they exercise.
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Omniscience is the ability to know everything there is to know.
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This, however, raises the question in many people's minds as to why God would allow evil things, knowing that they would arise. The problem with this question is that it assumes that God would not have had some purpose in allowing evil to arise.
Some other arguments against omniscience
Philosopher Patrick Grim of SUNY Stoney Brook has argued that modern set theory disproves omniscience because there can be no single set of all truths.[1] One way to answer this argument is by saying that God's nature transcends logic and math and therefore, as difficult as it may be to comprehend for our human minds, God is still omniscient and mathematical and logical laws do not apply to God. This somewhat similar to the defense which William of Ockham gave for the Christian doctrine of the Trinity.
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POCATELLO — Sixth Judicial District Judge Robert Naftz sentenced Jason Lee Rollene, age 37, of Blackfoot Monday on two counts of video voyeurism. In November, Rollene changed his plea to guilty.
"To protect society and to deter you and others from this felony, I am sentencing you to three years fixed and two years indeterminate," Naftz said.
The judge then retained jurisdiction for 365 days. Rollene will be turned over to the Department of Correction.
Judge Naftz told Rollene he must complete a sex offender treatment program before he (the judge) would consider placing Rollene on probation.
Rollene was charged with three counts of video voyeurism on June 1, 2012. The third count was dismissed on recommendation of the prosecutor on Dec. 11, 2012.
There were two victims in this crime. One of the victims had been photographed twice.
In the month-long investigation, investigators at the Bannock County sheriff's office were able to pull three suspicious videos from Rollene's iPhone.
One of the victims was in court Monday.
She had written a letter to the judge stating that her world had been turned "upside down."
"It has changed how I view things and how I trust people," she wrote.
Defense attorney Ron Bird said, "Jason is very upset for what he did. He has been humble and contrite.
"He did not know how to make it right with himself, the victims or his family," said Bird. "Jason is ready, willing and wants to pay any restitution.
Bird pointed out this had no victims and was a non-contact crime.
"This is not me; it is not what I'm about," said Rollene. "I want to teach my kids to be leaders of the community; to be strong for them and the community.
"Give me a shot to be better than this; to prove myself to my kids," he said.
Judge Naftz asked Rollene, "What kind of planning did it take? [Pictures were taken] initially from the ceiling and then from behind a Kleenex box.
"It took some planning," the judge said. "One day you decided this is what you were going to do?"
"Yes," said Rollene.
"You were your victims' immediate supervisor," Naftz said. "There was no provocation.
(Rollene was a former manager at Jensen Jewelers in Pocatello.)
"Why did you do this? For sexual arousal?"
"I did videotape them," Rollene said. "For sexual pleasure? I don't know."
"This is a concern," said Judge Naftz. "You have never really told me now or anyone why you did it.
"You have a complete lack of empathy for the victims," he said. "You have tears how it impacted you wife and your family but no tears for the victims.
"Your sexual deviant nature did cause harm," Naftz said. "You failed to consider your conduct and it did cause harm.
In addition to his sentence, Rollene was ordered to reimburse the court fund for $1,100 for a polygraph test. He was also fined $3,000.
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The usual medical view is that most autism is due to a genetic disorder, and with good reason. The existence of so many families where autism and related spectral disorders appear again and again is compelling evidence.
However, this is probably not the whole story. Even the strongest proponents of genetic research are now beginning to talk in terms of 'genetic fragility' or 'genetic predisposition'.
Genetic susceptibility is not a black or white, yes or no, issue. Taking the population as a whole, the genetic susceptibility to any form of illness is more likely to be in the shape of a
normal distribution curve. A few people will be immensely susceptible, the vast majority will be moderately susceptible and some will be immune whatever the size of the burden.
Incidence skyrocketing
Increasing reported levels of autism have been noted from many parts of the world, but this may reflect no more than an increasing awareness of the disorder and changing diagnostic criteria (Br J Psychiatr, 1998; 158: 403-9; BMJ, 1996; 312: 327-8).
However, two recent reports on autism and vaccination would suggest otherwise. One paper, by Taylor et al, showed a whopping 1700 per cent increase of reported incidence between 1979 and 1992 (Lancet, 1999; 353: 2026-9).
Another 1999 study report showed a 273 per cent increase in autism for the state of California over a similar period. Studies from the past 12 months indicate a continuing rise in the reported incidence (Changes in the Population of Persons With Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders in California's Developmental Services System: 1987 Through 1998, report to the State Legislature from the California Health and Human Services Agency, March 1, 1999).
Informal and unpublished data from many parts of the UK (Thrower D, Evidence presented to HM Government, 1999) and other parts of the world are showing similar increases. Although not supported by official publications, parallel, staggering increases in incidence apparently are occurring in similar and related disorders such as dyslexia and attention deficit disorder (ADD), which may be combined with hyperactivity (ADHD). Indeed, reports from the US and Australia suggest that 10 per cent of school age children are currently taking Ritalin to ameliorate the symptoms of ADHD.
In other circumstances, such increases would be regarded as an epidemic and worthy of concern and considerable research. So far, environmental factors have been completely and utterly ignored by government funded agencies within the UK and throughout the world. If these increases are indeed genuine, then there must be factors, additional to the purely genetic, which trigger the problem.
Although there may be genetic elements or 'fragilities' involved in all of these situations, the fact that the increases have been so dramatic point to environmental factors.
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Numerous environmental factors have changed over the past 20 years in the UK. The use of lead paint has decreased dramatically, as has the use of mercury in pesticides and dental fillings. Asbestos has been largely removed from the environment, but there are increasing levels of aluminium in water and potentially toxic fumes and radiation from TV sets and computers.


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Looking around at different ways of promoting our web comic, Joan Conrad, (Current story starts here if you haven't seen it
), I found Top Web Comics. Huzzah!, we're ranked at No. 2020 in their list- Victory, fame at last, tea and buns for all, trumpets blare, drums roll and the Princess hangs one of those Star Wars medal/medallion/blingy things around our necks!
Anyway, in an attempt to increase our popularity still further from our current position we've had a go at their July contest. The rules are..
* 1 entry per webcomic
* Maximum of 2 characters of the webcomic to be included. Minimum of 1 character in the entry.
* Entry must contain One Tiny Deserted Island, covered in sand.
* 1 Christmas Tree
* 1 Heavy Armored Dwarf
* No text is allowed in the entry.
Entered far too late to win but its a bit of fun. Recommend that you all have a look next time, any PR being good PR.
Our entry is Joan on Christmas-comes-early-island with "Chop yer knees off" Bob. No idea how or why she got there, but there must be a story in it. If you want to see what its all about, the link to the competition is
, obviously if you like our entry please vote Joan!
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I'm in that contest too. I'm not a big fan of these voting sites from using them in the past on other websites I've had, but I decided to take a crack at the contest since a friend talks about it a lot. I've been really disappointed with how the admins run the site, but I'll save that rant for some other time.
I'd actually seen the contest before this one and was considering entering until I saw "chibi Hitler" as one of the picture's requirements. I'm not sure if I'm comfortable drawing Hitler in any fashion (I think some of the entrants were unintentionally making light of genocide), but I also have a big problem with being set to a style that doesn't fit my comic.
Wasn't going to enter this one because "Dwarf on Vacation" has nothing to do with anything. Though if you look at the rules, you don't actually have to draw a dwarf on vacation, just have those elements. So I decided to do an entry in an attempt to bend the rules, but before I could finish they went and posted a
saying what I was doing was pretty much what they were hoping to get. (Though they never made that clear on the contest page, since most of the entries stick to the dwarf on an island theme.)
That said, I think your entry is one of the better ones, and I've already voted for it.
Maybe the next contest will work better in your favor. It helps to get in before voting opens.
Though I'd like to mention the spot you've put your vote link on your website isn't very noticable at all. It's clear down at the bottom of the site, below the expected bottom-navigation links, and people are going to look right over that. The red text on black background is also kind of hard to read. I'd really recommend putting something toward the top of your page - preferably an image - that'll get their attention.
I put a small picture in between the
top comic navigation
on my page. It's still not a terribly eye-catching image, but my regular readers should hopefully notice that it isn't normally there. It's also "above the fold" (before you scroll down the page), so people who come to read the comic but skip the comment section will see it too.
As far as the TWC listing goes, if you really want to make it work, be sure to vote for yourself. That helps seperate you from the corpse pile of dead comics (and it's allowed). Though honestly, my guess is that unless you're in the top 200 or so, people probably aren't going to find you in the list. Maybe if the "New to the List" didn't cover a
there would be more of a chance for smaller and newer comics, but the site on a whole is organized terribly, so whatever.
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Hiya, thanks for your support- funnily enough I'd voted for yours as I thought it was the most interesting and I'll be gobsmacked if you don't win. Thanks also for the advice on placing the link, I'll make sure of that next time.
Bonkers in the way that the voting system works, but it helped to get us get looked at by people who hadn't seen the strip and maybe some of them will come back. Don't really expect too much from the current TWC listing down in the sewers, and I agree entirely that any strip will need to be at the top of the pile to get any great benefit- but hey any PR eh?
Again, hope that you win and that the free ads draw in new and regular readers for you.
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Thanks. Looks like I won - I don't really know what I was expecting but I'm surprised at how well my entry did.
I don't think I ever fell out of first place, or really even came close, I was concerned for a bit that one of the other entries wasn't playing fairly. I won't say who it was or what they did since I don't really want to speak badly about people, but it seemed after a friend and I sent an email to the site's staff, that the issue was resolved. But it was enough to keep me a bit nervous through the whole thing, haha.
At any rate, now I can see if the ad space on this site is worth it. And I'll be getting some bonus promotion for a week or so.
I'm up late working on homework and noticed the TWC listing reset for the month a few minutes ago. I have 2 votes right now which is enough to get me on the home page for a few fleeting minutes, lol. Too bad no one's awake for that to do me any good.
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Last year, Kathy Noyes began to notice that her 12-year-old son, Jonathan, was eating more than usual. She caught him eating late at night. She found empty peanut butter jars and chip and cookie bags stashed around the house.
She didn't know what to make of it. Her friends said, "Well, my boys eat a lot too. They're growing boys. Just wait till you get your grocery bill when they're 16."
But Jonathan soon started to be sent home from school frequently because he was sick.
"He started vomiting a lot," recalls Noyes. "And then afterward he'd be fine. He wasn't feverish, he wasn't pale. So I'd send him back to school and he'd be sick again."
That's when she realized something was seriously wrong. She took Jonathan to a doctor who diagnosed him with the eating disorder bulimia nervosa.
Eating disorders are commonly thought to be a problem for girls and women, but an estimated 10 million American men have an eating disorder at some point in their lives, according to the National Eating Disorders Association. Psychologists and psychiatrists who treat eating disorders say those numbers are on the rise. The condition can be life-threatening.
"Over the last five, six years, I've been seeing younger and younger boys who are struggling with these problems," says Roberto Olivardia, a clinical psychologist affiliated with Harvard Medical School, who has been working with boys and men with eating disorders for nearly two decades.
Like girls with eating disorders, the boys tend to be perfectionists and may have mental health problems, including obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety or depression. Eating disorders tend to kick in during especially difficult life changes.
Jonathan Noyes began binge eating three years ago, when he was 10. He and his family had returned from a vacation when his whole life seemed to fall apart. His father lost his job, which added stress to his parents' relationship. His grandmother got diagnosed with cancer and moved in with his family. And his cat died.
The first food he binged on was peanut butter.
"At first I thought I could stop doing it whenever I want; it's not a big deal," Jonathan says. "You know, it's just a thing I do." But soon he realized "I can't stop this. I'm helpless. I need peanut butter."
That need brought with it an overwhelming sense of guilt, he says. So he started purging. Every time he felt he had overeaten, he says he would lock himself in the bathroom and stick his fingers in his throat until he threw up.
"I felt the relief, but there was still the guilt and pain there," Jonathan says.
He has always been a little chubby and has been bullied at school for it. "I'm the butt of jokes," he says. "I'm the guy that everyone makes fun of."
Increased social pressure for boys and men to be lean and muscular is at least partly responsible for the rise in males with eating disorders, Olivardia says. "In the early '80s, there was this real significant increase of advertising showing shirtless men, where the body became more of a commodity."
Even comic-book superheroes and GI Joe toys have become more muscular in recent years, Olivardia says.
And though eating disorders in boys share many similarities with those in girls, treatment programs tailored to girls may not feel like the right fit.
Jonathan was the only male patient at an eating disorder program at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut. "A lot of the stuff didn't really apply to me," he says. "Like the stuff about body image, and how you feel, and what's going on in your head and stuff."
"I don't know what it is, but something about having an eating disorder as a boy and having an eating disorder as a girl makes it very different."
Still, the program helped. Jonathan feels better about his own body. He no longer purges, and for the most part doesn't binge.
The lack of eating disorders treatment tailored for boys and men is all too familiar to psychiatrist Theodore Weltzin, the director of the nation's only residential program for boys and men, at Rogers Memorial Hospital, a nonprofit psychiatric hospital in Oconomowoc, Wis.
"One of the biggest concerns for men is they feel a little bit like a fish out of water when they go and seek treatment for an eating disorder," says Weltzin.
Collin Schuster entered the program at Rogers Memorial Hospital after six years of bingeing. When he first walked into a room full of boys and men, he felt a weight lift off his shoulders.
"I didn't realize that there were other guys out there who were struggling with similar issues," says Schuster, 18. "That was the start of, OK, maybe this is something that's more common or more manageable than I thought."
Earlier this year, Schuster returned home from the program to Old Saybrook, Conn. When he learned that another boy in his hometown was also struggling with an eating disorder, Schuster reached out to him; he called Jonathan Noyes.
The two now meet regularly. Over video games they talk about their struggles with eating disorders. Schuster has become a friend and a mentor to Noyes, now 13.
Jonathan says that friendship has made him much more confident that he will recover. "It's been difficult, but I'll make it through. I know I will."
It's MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.
And I'm Steve Inskeep, good morning. Today in Your Health, we'll talk about eating disorders. That term generally brings to mind images of painfully skinny girls and women suffering from anorexia or bulimia. But boys and men are increasingly being diagnosed with these disorders, too. And the age of those being affected is getting younger and younger.
NPR's Rhitu Chatterjee reports.
RHITU CHATTERJEE, BYLINE: Thirteen-year-old Jonathan Noyes started binging three years ago.
JONATHAN NOYES: I remember the first food I binged on a lot was peanut butter.
CHATTERJEE: He says he and his family had just returned home to Old Saybrook, Conn., from a vacation when his whole life seemed to fall apart. His father lost his job. His parents began arguing. His grandmother was diagnosed with cancer, and his cat died. He says that's when he started overeating.
JONATHAN: At first I thought, well, I can stop doing this whenever I want; it's not a big deal. You know, it's just a thing I do. But after a while and after eating for a long time, I realized that I can't stop this; I'm helpless. I need peanut butter.
CHATTERJEE: He says that need brought with it a overwhelming sense of guilt. You see, he'd always been a little bit chubby and was bullied at school for it. And the overeating made him feel worse about his body and himself. He began to purge, sticking his fingers into his throat till he threw up.
JONATHAN: I felt the relief, but there was still guilt and pain there.
CHATTERJEE: And so the cycle of binging and purging continued. His experience is very similar to that of girls going through the same thing. But neither he nor his family knew that boys could develop an eating disorder. For two years, he managed to hide it, eating behind closed doors or late at night. But last year, when he was 12, his mother, Kathy Noyes, began to notice all the empty peanut butter jars, bags of chips and cookies.
Now, if her teenage daughter had been doing the same thing, Kathy says she might have suspected something. But with Jonathan, she says, the thought never occurred to her.
KATHY NOYES: Because boys that age are growing so much that a lot of times, it's easier to camouflage. Even friends said to me, well, my kids eat a lot too. This - you know, they're growing boys. Just wait till you get your grocery bill when they're 16.
CHATTERJEE: It was only when Jonathan started to be sent home from school sick quite frequently, that she realized there was a problem.
NOYES: And it almost became - I don't want to say a joke; not funny but almost like come on, how many times am I going come here and get you when you're sick? And I would come home and get him ginger ale and pillows. And I would get everything squared away for him when he didn't have a bug.
CHATTERJEE: She took him to the doctor, who diagnosed him with bulimia nervosa. According to the National Eating Disorders Association, this makes him one of the estimated 10 million American men who have an eating disorder at some point in their lives.
Roberto Olivardia is a clinical psychologist affiliated with Harvard Medical School. He's been working with boys and men with eating disorders for nearly two decades. He says it's becoming increasingly common to see boys as young as 9 and 10 getting diagnosed.
ROBERTO OLIVARDIA: Over the last, I would say five to six years, I've been seeing younger and younger boys who have been struggling with these problems.
CHATTERJEE: He flips through his book of referrals.
OLIVARDIA: You know, as you can see, Children's Hospital referral for an 11-year-old boy with severe bulimia nervosa, who had been binging and purging up to 10 times a day. Here's an individual, 9 years old, he's talking a little bit too much about body fat and trying to cut out carbs.
CHATTERJEE: He says as with girls, the disorder often kicks in when life gets particularly difficult. And patients also tend to be perfectionists and may have other mental health problems, like obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, depression. But there are differences. Olivardia says most girls with eating disorders tend to be thin to begin with. But boys and men usually have a history of being chubby.
OLIVARDIA: A lot of these men reported being teased, being taunted when they were very young, and developed a real consciousness about their body as a result of that.
CHATTERJEE: And boys don't want to be skinny. They want to be lean and muscular. Olivardia says media pressure to have a ripped body is at least partly responsible for the rise in males with eating disorders. He says it's no coincidence that the numbers started rising about 30 years ago.
OLIVARDIA: In the early '80s, there was this real significant increase of advertising showing shirtless men, where the body became more of a commodity. I mean, if we look at even movie stars in the '80s, the biggest ones - Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean Claude Van Damme - their body was very much a part of their persona.
CHATTERJEE: He's found that even comic book superheroes and GI Joe toys have become more muscular in recent years. That means even toddlers or 5- and 6-year-olds are growing up with a certain image of what men should look like. This really worries Benjamin O'Keefe. He's 18, lives in New York City, and used to suffer from anorexia. He's trying to draw attention to how all these images connecting success with a perfect body affects kids.
BENJAMIN O'KEEFE: Let's Google, you know, Abercrombie and Fitch advertisement. You know, look - the first thing that comes up is a naked man. No face in the picture, just the abs. And we see these people who are wearing Abercrombie, or wearing these - clothing; and they're happy, and they're smiling, with their shirts off. And that's what young people are going to aspire to be.
CHATTERJEE: O'Keefe is drawing on his own struggle with anorexia, to raise awareness about the plight of boys and men with eating disorders. He says boys and men feel alone and stigmatized because most of the information and treatments are aimed for girls and women.
Thirteen-year-old Jonathan Noyes, who you met earlier, went to an eating disorder program at Hartford Hospital.
JONATHAN: It was kind of awkward being there as the only guy.
CHATTERJEE: The program helped him. He feels better about his body. He no longer purges and for the most part, doesn't binge. But, he says, the process felt weird.
JONATHAN: A lot of the stuff didn't really apply to me - like, the stuff about body image; like, how you feel, and what's going on in your head and stuff. I mean, I don't know what it is but something about having an eating disorder as a guy, and having an eating disorder as a girl - like, makes it very different.
CHATTERJEE: This is all very familiar to psychiatrist Theodore Weltzin. He directs the only residential program for boys and men at Rogers Memorial Hospital, a nonprofit psychiatric hospital in Wisconsin.
DR. THEODORE WELTZIN: One of the biggest concerns for men over the years, seeking treatment, is just feeling a little bit like a fish out of water when they go and try to seek help for an eating disorder.
CHATTERJEE: He says it's time health professionals realized that information about these disorders shouldn't just be directed at girls - because there's a growing need for information and treatment programs for boys and men as well.
WELTZIN: Men will really feel much more comfortable getting treatment in a setting where they're around other men who, particularly, have the same problem.
CHATTERJEE: This was certainly the case for 18-year-old Collin Schuster. He entered Weltzin's program after six years of binging and restricting on food. He says when he first walked into a room full of boys and men, it was a huge weight lifted off his shoulders.
COLLIN SCHUSTER: I didn't realize that there were other guys out there who were struggling with similar issues that I had. That was the start of, OK, maybe this is more common - or at least more manageable - than I thought it could be.
CHATTERJEE: Earlier this year, Schuster returned home from the program to Old Saybrook, Conn., the same town where 13-year-old Jonathan Noyes lives. He decided to reach out to Jonathan, knowing how isolated he must feel.
CHATTERJEE: They meet regularly, mostly to play video games.
JONATHAN: Come on, I don't want to stay here. There are monsters.
SCHUSTER: I've got your back.
CHATTERJEE: But they do talk about what they're struggling with.
SCHUSTER: They make a big deal out of every single meal now, ever since I've been diagnosed.
JONATHAN: I know the feeling. Believe me, I do.
CHATTERJEE: Schuster has now become a close friend, and a mentor, to Noyes.
SCHUSTER: And if you need absolutely anything, you have my number. You can send an owl or a pigeon or a smoke signal. I respond to any form of communication. (Laughter)
JONATHAN: Yeah. Definitely.
CHATTERJEE: Jonathan says being able to share his experiences with Collin has made him much more confident about his recovery.
JONATHAN: It's been difficult, but I'll make it through. I know I will.
CHATTERJEE: Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR News.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in Congress will not negotiate with Republicans demanding concessions in exchange for raising the U.S. debt ceiling, the Democratic chairwoman of the Senate Budget Committee said on Friday.
"We will not negotiate over whether or not the United States of America should pay its bills," Senator Patty Murray said in a letter to colleagues. "And once again, before they get any further down this damaging path, we call on our Republican colleagues to not play politics with our economic recovery."
The United States is expected to reach the debt ceiling in late February and debt-limit fights have proven costly in the past, helping cost the United States its top-tier credit rating from Standard and Poor's in 2011.
House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said his fellow Republicans will not pass a debt increase without some concessions from Democrats.
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Obama has vowed not to negotiate over raising the debt limit, arguing that it is Congress' responsibility to ensure that its spending obligations can be paid.
House Republicans likely will formulate their conditions for an increase in U.S. borrowing authority next week at a retreat in Maryland.
"We hope that coming out of this meeting, they will agree to build on the bipartisan budget work done so far, join Democrats in passing a clean debt ceiling bill, and focus on the real long and short-term challenges facing the families and communities we serve," Murray said.
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The third qualifying round is where Europe's top club competition gets an influx of big names courtesy of the league route – with the likes of Panathinaikos FC, Fenerbahçe SK, Feyenoord and FC Dynamo Kyiv all joining the road to Wembley.
While London in May is the ultimate goal, for now the target is the play-offs in August. Seventeen teams progressed from the second qualifying round, which concluded on Wednesday, and their numbers are boosted by 11 clubs who will get their first taste of UEFA Champions League action this season.
After hosting the UEFA EURO 2012 final at the beginning of July, Kyiv is back in the spotlight on the last day of the month when Dynamo welcome former European champions Feyenoord in what is probably the pick of the ties in the round. The league route draw produced three other contests, including Fenerbahçe versus SC Vaslui and FC København against Club Brugge KV.
The other tie on that side of the draw features Panathinaikos – who lost the 1971 final at Wembley – and Motherwell FC, making their first European Cup appearance. Motherwell director Andrew Wilson said: "Panathinaikos obviously have got a great European pedigree. We share a patron saint and we look forward to welcoming that great club to Motherwell. Hopefully we'll give them a great welcome off the park and a tough test on it."
Another Scottish team and a club to have lifted the famous trophy, Celtic FC, also enter the fray at this stage, but as domestic title holders take part in the champions route. They will meet HJK Helsinki, impressive winners against KR Reykjavík in the last round, while another side with a great history in continental competition, RSC Anderlecht, play Lithuanian champions FK Ekranas.
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RAFAEL BEJARANO, WARREN'S JITTERBUG, Winner: "She broke well and was moving really well. I tried to save a little ground to the turn. When we got to the stretch I tried to break clear with her and she did. I thought I was going to win easier than I did, but when she was in front by herself, she felt like she was waiting on the other horses. That's why I had to hit her a little bit inside the sixteenth pole. As soon as she felt the other horse (Going for a Spin) getting close my horse kept running and was pulling away again at the end."
DAVID FLORES, GOING FOR A SPIN, Second: "The winner got the jump on us on the turn. She was about a length in front of us the whole way. I could never get it going until real late. I guess positioning means a lot sometimes."
JORGE GUTIERREZ, WARREN'S JITTERBUG, Winner: "She runs great after layoffs. I thought she'd be a lot farther behind, but even though they were doing a lot of work up there, she was only six or seven lengths. This will set her up perfectly for the rest of the summer. If everything goes well and she comes out of this good, we'll have fun with her. We'll go for two-turns on grass next. I loved her today. I talked to Bejarano's agent (Joe Ferrer) and I told him I'd wait for him just in case he didn't have a mount. He told me he'd ride her and asked if she was ready and I told him I thought she had a big chance. It worked out perfect."
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When ex-Marine Curtis Long served in Fallujah, Iraq, he was on the "bomb squad."
His job was to disarm the improvised explosive devices, also known as roadside bombs. One day, a bomb blew up, leaving everyone in Long's vehicle alive but temporarily unconscious and indefinitely scarred.
When ex-Marine Curtis Long served in Fallujah, Iraq, he was on the "bomb squad."
His job was to disarm the improvised explosive devices, also known as roadside bombs. One day, a bomb blew up, leaving everyone in Long's vehicle alive but temporarily unconscious and indefinitely scarred.
Long, who was 22 at the time, suffered nerve damage that resulted in a facial tic that makes him look like he has Tourette syndrome. And like many veterans, he continues to suffer from the psychological trauma of the experience.
"My wife sent me to the store, and I about lost my mind. There were so many choices, I didn't know what to do," said Long, who lives in Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Today, at 28, Long is a stay-at-home dad to two daughters, ages 7 and 4.
"I don't do too well in the job atmosphere," he said.
But through a process called biofeedback — which is the basis of a soon-to-be Gainesville-based institute — Long is learning how to go out in public more and to be around people in crowded stores without having panic attacks.
Biofeedback, which shows people how their bodies react to stress and teaches them how to lower that stress, is one of two components of the Warrior Institute, a nonprofit that combines biofeedback with outdoor activities that appeal to vets and in July will make its home in a warehouse space in northwest Gainesville.
"There's a huge need in the veterans' community for people with brain injuries, physical issues and problems with community integration," said co-founder Tonia Zyburt, a recreational therapist.
She added that Gainesville has a large number of vets but few community-based programs for them outside the Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
The institute offers one-on-one training for vets as well as different types of therapy focused on improving veterans' emotional, psychological, cognitive and physical symptoms. It also offers retreats in the outdoors — with one recent retreat, co-sponsored by Outward Bound, taking veterans and their wives to the Florida Everglades for a week.
Long and his wife participated in that trip.
"A lot of guys with PTSD and and TBI (traumatic brain injury) don't like being around people they don't know, let alone working with people they don't know," Long said, describing himself as a "loner."
"By the end of the trip, everyone was very talkative with each other," Long said.
Each day, the vets and their spouses had a different task, from preparing breakfast to navigating through the waters to setting up the tents at the end of the day. The six-day trip covered 33 miles.
"All you have is a map and a compass — no GPS," Long said. "It's back to the old school way of navigating."
Spouse participation is an important component of the outings, since it's well known that vets' marriages often suffer as a result of PTSD.
"Me and my wife got put in a canoe together," Long said. "Whether or not you have good communication with your spouse, you will by the end of the week."
Long added that his wife's participation was also beneficial because it simulated a more real-world experience, compared with other PTSD therapy groups that create a stress-free scenario, only to afterward place you "back to the wife and kids and stressful environment."
On the outing, the vets do biofeedback training at morning and night. This involves wearing an earpiece that's connected to a netbook that measures heart rate variability and other signs of stress. People can see the variation, and they are taught, mostly through breathing techniques that emphasize using the diaphragm, how to get their body back to healthy physiological levels.
Zyburt added that doing biofeedback in a natural, peaceful setting "teaches them how to keep their physiology in that setting."
"Being able to do it out in the wild is really astonishing," said Long, who had done biofeedback in clinical settings, namely hospitals. "I love the outdoors. It brought two good things together."
Zyburt compares biofeedback to going to the gym to strengthen muscles.
"You're strengthening your central nervous system to get more relaxed," she said, adding that it gives people the tools to recognize how their anxiety or anger levels might change in real-world settings and do something about it. Long now has a biofeedback app on his iPhone to do it on his own.
Dr. Carmen Russoniello is a professor of psychophysiology and director of biofeedback at East Carolina University. "The military really sees this as a mechanism to bring about quite a bit of change in folks that do it," he said.
Russoniello has conducted several studies on biofeedback and is working on one now sponsored by the Department of Defense. Zyburt added that an advantage of biofeedback over other PTSD treatments is that results are quantifiable.
Vets also appear to be more compliant with it, at least compared with taking medications.
"If you think of (vets) more like athletes, they don't want crap in their body," Russoniello said. "They start with that kind of mentality: I'm not taking anything, and now you want me to take mental health drugs?
"When they do this, they're playing a video game, and they're winning and getting more points."
Biofeedback also trumps group therapy because people can visualize their progress as opposed to just airing their trauma, Long added.
Russoniello, who is a Vietnam vet and has been working with biofeedback for two decades, said the therapy ultimately aims to rewire the body after a traumatic experience.
"You've been put in a crazy situation that whacked out your nervous system — that's why you drink so you don't feel any of it. We try to reset it to the way it was before you left."
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Michael P. Branch is Professor of Literature and Environment at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has published five books and more than 200 essays, articles, and reviews, and his creative nonfiction has appeared in magazines including Utne Reader, Orion, Ecotone, Hawk and Handsaw, and Whole Terrain. He has had pieces recognized as Notable Essays in The Best American Essays, The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. His essay series, Rants from the Hill, appears monthly at hcn.org. A confirmed desert rat, Mike lives with his wife and two daughters at 6,000 feet in the remote western Nevada desert, where the Great Basin and Sierra Nevada meet. For more, visit Mike's website.
All good Rants must come to an end and this marks the final missive from the Ranting Hill.
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Eagles keep pace in NHC
COLUMBIA CITY — Last week the Indiana high school basketball schedule took nearly a week off due to heavy amounts of snow fall.
Monday, Columbia City boys' basketball had no trouble keeping pace with the top teams in the Northeast Hoosier Conference.
Entering the night, the Eagles remained in a two-way tie for second-place with non-other than the opponent coming to town, Norwell.
A game honoring seniors Ben Murphy and Tyler Mosher turned into a sophomore's game for Columbia City.
With a lead dwindling in the fourth quarter, the Eagles had sophomore Drew Benedict put in 12 of his game-high 25 points from long range. Combined with 13 points from sophomore Derek Hinen, the Eagle duo helped Columbia City beat Norwell 61-51 and take second-place alone in the NHC.
"It was a big game for us," Columbia City head coach Chris Benedict said. "This win keeps us in the thick of what's going on. Anything can happen in the conference and we can sneak out a share if we take care of business Thursday.
With a loss to Homestead in January, Columbia City (11-3, 5-1 NHC) is forced to win out to remain in the race for a conference title. The only conference match left for the Eagles is at Carroll Thursday.
One game ahead of City, Homestead (11-4, 5-0 NHC) traveled to New Haven.
The Eagles held control of the lead for most of the night.
Columbia City's lead got to as big as 10 points in the first half.
Norwell (11-3, 4-2 NHC) found a way to cut the lead down to as much as two points in the second half with the help of its leading scorer Josh Vanmeter — who had 16 points.
The Knights length inside caught up to a smaller Eagles squad heading into the fourth quarter with center Kyle Fillman 10 of his 14 points in the second half.
Not to be out done, Columbia City shot 7-of-14 (50 percent) in the second half — 53 percent, 17-for-32 for the game — and went on a run of its own.
Norwell opened the fourth quarter on a 5-0 run, cutting the lead to 43-41, while the Columbia City offense opened with three consecutive turnovers.
A game-high 25 points by Benedict was topped off with 12 points in the fourth quarter.
After banking in a three-pointer before the first quarter buzzer, Benedict followed knocking down three more in the game including two in the fourth.
Columbia City attempted six shots in the fourth quarter. The Eagles connected on five of those shots with four coming from Benedict.
Drew Benedict, 8-for-17 (47 percent) from the field, scored City's first field of the fourth quarter with five minutes left.
The Knights continued to knock on the door down 49-45 with four minutes left. Sophomore Daniel Woll rolled off a screen to the basket for two of his 10 points.
"We're an efficient team if we're patient and moving the basketball," coach Benedict noted. "We've got shooters that can make it happen for us.
"I thought we did a nice job moving without the basketball."
Norwell struggled from the field in the second half going 5-for-18 (28 percent) from the field.
Derek Hinen found the hot hand for Columbia City in the first half going 2-for-3 from three-point range and scoring 11 of his 13 points in the first half.


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Point to Main Idea/Point of View in Literature
Lesson 5 of 13
Objective: SWBAT read the main idea and supporting ideas of parts of a story with a voice demonstrating the characters' point of view
- Corduroy Don Freeman
- Lesson vocabulary words from the Reading/Writing word wall: key details, summarize, point of view, main idea
- Text Feature Headers for Literature
- Set up whiteboard with organizer from worksheet
- Kids need markers and a glue stick
- 'Main idea' student worksheet
- Teddy bear to show the kids
- teddy bear template
I chose this book because it is a classic and I am a true believer that classic tales should be common knowledge for students. The themes are retold in other stories and formats and I want my students to have a strong background knowledge of classic literature. The reading level of this book is slightly above the 2nd grade level, so I'll be reading the text aloud, but the students will need to analyze the wording and text in small parts.
I taught a lesson called 'Points of Literature - Main Idea and Details' about main idea in literature that you can look at if you want to see how the full organizer was used.
Let's Get Excited
Underlined words below are lesson vocabulary words that are emphasized and written on sentence strips for my Reading & Writing word wall. I pull off the words off the wall for each lesson, helping students understand this key 'reading and writing' vocabulary can be generalized across texts and topics. The focus on acquiring and using these words is part of a shift in the Common Core Standards towards building students' academic vocabulary. My words are color coded 'pink' for literature/'blue' for reading strategies/'orange' for informational text/'yellow' for writing/'green' for all other words)
Peaking the kids' interest in the lesson
- "Today I brought in a special animal that lots of kids like to sleep with. Does anyone else sleep with a special animal?" See if the kids will 'fess up' or not – mine were happy to share their special bedtime friends.
Introduce book and character and bringing them all to the same schema….
- "This bear is like the bear in a story we'll read today. This piece of literature is about a bear that's looking for a home. "
- Show the book "Has anyone read this book?" Take ideas and discuss for a few moments. Several of my kids were familiar with this book.
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Resources (1)
Teacher's Turn
Introduce organizer and ideas of point of view/main idea
- "Let's look at this bear's 'point of view' as he goes on some adventures. We are also going to think about the main idea and details of each adventure." Here's my whiteboard example
- "We talked before about the concept of main idea. That's the big idea that the part of the story is about. The bear goes to several different places. The place he goes is the main idea and his thoughts about the adventures are the details that support the main idea."
- "Here's the organizer that we used before for main idea. The line with an arrow shows us the different ideas in the book. Each arrow is a main idea. Under the arrow, we write the key ideas that support that idea."
Read the book and demonstrate strategy
- "Let's read some of the book and I'll show you how to determine the main idea when Corduroy starts his adventures."
- Read 1-11 and stop ""Now here is his first adventure. Let me read pages 12-13 and tell me what the main idea is."
- Read and discuss… talk about the main idea as Corduroy rode up and the details as 'escalator' and 'looking for a button' or 'he thought it was a mountain.' Add those to the whiteboard.
- "Great now that we have a main idea, let's write a sentence to summarize this section." 'Corduroy rode up the escalator to look for a button.
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Resources (1)
Students Take A Turn
Explain task
- "Now its your turn to determine the main idea and share the details that support the main idea. Choose one idea to write about."
- Pass out the worksheet.
- "I'll read the rest of the book and you can listen for which adventure you want to pick."
Read the rest of the book. Emphasize some of the adventures as your read
- "Pick an adventure that I read and write the main idea of what happened on the 2 pages."
- As students work, ask them to explain their choices of main idea and supporting details. Here's an example of what it looks like as my student fills out worksheet.
- I've included the discussion with the students as they explain their thoughts. Here is a video of student explaining his thoughts and another student explaining her thoughts
- When they're done, check their worksheets. Are they retelling or is it a real 'main idea'? I did have several students who tended to retell the events. I talk about this in my reflection.
- See an example of my student's completed worksheet.
I am asking the students to think about what is happening to the character in this story - the main idea and the details of an adventure. This little bear has to respond to challenges throughout the story and the students are describing that response (RL.2.3) on this worksheet. The goal of this lesson is for students to describe how a character is faced with obstacles (main idea) and how those are perceived (details). By breaking down the story into smaller events that Corduroy faces, I'm allowing the kids to cite evidence from the text to support their perception of the challenges and describe them.
Apply What You've Learned!
There is a shift in the Common Core ELA Standards toward the encouraging students to read and evaluate literature in relation to character development and character's point of view. (RL.2.6) This point of view shapes the content and students should be able to evaluate the change in the story.
Discuss idea of 'point of view'
- "Now let's think about point of view. The bear in the story has a different point of view in each adventure."
- "I brought a little Corduroy. The places he went were very big and he was really small. Since he was tiny and not very smart, he had a special 'point of view'. I'm going to flip over my worksheet."
Explain activity
- "I summarized his adventure when he went up the escalator. I'll draw a simple scene of that and I'll glue the bear onto the scene." Here's the teacher's picture
- I'll use a 'Corduroy' voice to read my sentence." Here's a video of the teacher demonstration of project.
Students begin activity
- "Start your scene on the back and I'll pass out the Corduroys."
- "Who would like to come up and share your picture and read your sentence? See one of my students explaining her picture.
Scaffolding and Special Education: This lesson could be easily scaffolded up or down, depending on student ability.
Since the students don't have to read the book individually, students with academic challenges should be able to participate more fully. They may need prompting on a desk slate or to work with a friend to determine the main idea and details. There is an example of whiteboard prompts for challenged students.
Students with more academic ability should be able to use higher level vocabulary and more developed sentences. For example, they could write a simile such as the button on the mattress was like the button on a shirt.


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Sometimes you just gotta wear your heart on your sleeve...or your head...or your neck. You get the point.
Karen Walker & Huf
Mixed messages
Labels: accessories, fall 2011, hats, top, wish list
4 comments:
- Linda Lu said...
I've been looking for shirts that have witty remarks... or phrases that are just in your face.
- August 22, 2011 at 12:15 AM
- Magnet said...
I don't really like what the necklace says but I like the idea.
- August 23, 2011 at 6:04 AM
Keep The Faith is a Northern Soul idiom. It's definitely been inspired by the Northern Soul scene because the top on the right has stylised Northern Soul patches sewn on.
- November 29, 2011 at 5:46 AM
- Amanda said...
thanks for clarifying that stephy. i think people see words like "faith" and automatically associate it with religion when that is not the meaning
- November 29, 2011 at 10:57 AM
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By Thorp Wilson on October 16 2017 04:50:05
A lip edge or tray top on a coffee table is always a smart choice if you have a tendency to spill your coffee or have kids that will be using the coffee table for snacks and drinks. They're also good if you entertain often and don't want to worry about red wine getting spilled on your carpet. Coffee tables should be the same height as the surrounding seating, with 18 inches being a good average (although it will depend on your furniture). If you select a coffee table with a lip, make sure the lip isn't higher than the adjacent seating, or you'll end up hitting your drink against the lip when you try to set it down. The idea is to put your drink down, not up.
A coffee table does a lot of work. It needs to hold books, magazines, drinks, food — even games on game night. You might want to put your feet up on it, or the kids might need a place for coloring. Plus it's usually smack dab in the middle of the room, where you can't miss it — so make sure it's a good one.
Sculptural wood coffee tables tell their own story and can add a natural element and warmth to a room with multiple upholstered pieces. Sealers and, of course, coasters can help protect the surface from water damage. Sometimes a coffee table that isn't the standard height or width is exactly what a room needs. In this instance a very low coffee table creates a crisp horizontal plane in the foreground, offsetting the long horizontal line of the credenza in the background. A higher table would have blocked the view of the credenza and competed with it; the varying heights add interest.
First think about what you need your coffee table to do for you, or what your room is missing, then pick a table that provides the solution. Before buying a table, mark the footprint with painter's tape so you can see the scale of the piece in the room and how that affects the surrounding furniture. If you have a very large room and a large coffee table, you can break up the scale of the table by flanking it with pairs of ottomans or benches, as in this example. When there's a party, they can be moved out of the way for better circulation, but for everyday use these extra seats help connect the sofa at one end and the pair of chairs at the other end. Be sure to use a pair of ottomans — not just a single one. When you have two sofas or any larger seating arrangement, a big coffee table might seem like the obvious solution. But also consider a pair of matching coffee tables. They will keep the focus off one large piece of furniture and let your eye move around the room more easily. One classic coffee table size is 48 by 24 inches, so you can plan on that when thinking about your furniture arrangement. A large coffee table is often double that: 48 inches square.
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