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How did you become an atheist?
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This question is for atheists who at some point were Christians. Was there a set point when you stopped believing, or was it a gradual process?
I recall as early as 8 years old I was forced to attend Sunday school. At that young age I already was a skeptic. The things they were teaching to me seemed utterly ridiculous. I pictured the old Testament God as a horrible tyrant who wasn't worthy of being worshiped and found the supernatural claims to be utter non sense. I hated going and eventually my mother finally gave up trying to force me. After that I never really thought about the issue. I was too busy watching Nickelodeon and playing video games.
Fast forward about 8 or 9 years. I still had a basic belief in God despite my skepticism. One of my good friends attended church regularly and I asked him if I could go with him. The real reason was it was a good way to meet new people and socialize.
At this point in my life after going to church for awhile I started to truly investigate my beliefs and put a great deal of thought into them. One Wednesday night youth service the minister was having a Q&A session. I eventually asked this question. "How do we know that the bible is true and every other religion is false?"
This was a turning point to me. I was already extremely skeptical but I think this instance is what really made me stop believing.
He talked in circles for about 5 minutes but to sum it up his answer was. "The bible is true because I believe the bible and the bible says it is true". His logic was absolutely terrible. Harry Potter books could claim to be non-fiction, but that doesn't make them true.
Another guy there added that the bible never contradicts itself. It does, but even if it didn't that doesn't make it true. Once again Harry Potter books don't contradict themselves either. This same guy added that Christianity is more appealing because you get to go to heaven when you die. If you believe of course. Once again, just because something sounds more appealing doesn't make it true.
The utter failure to answer my simple question led me to never attend church ever again. Realizing the only reason I even attended was to socialize I wasn't going to put on some guise just so I could have a few more friends.
I'm so disappointed I can't share my stories here since I wasn't a christian.
Mine was a gradual process. Was raised Irish catholic, brought to Sunday school and mass... believed fiercely until I was about in high school, when I finally started thinking for myself. Over time, the empty promises from the faithful, the lack of evidence... it all piled up over time until I finally had to admit that while I can't prove there isn't a god, there is absolutely no evidence that there is one.
I went to a catholic school and most of the priests seemed like cunts to me, never got molested though. I resented being forced to pray every morning and saw it as indoctrination from the start. Now I do believe in a god, but am an atheist in that its not a christain god and I see all the evils that religions have perpetrated.
I was about 10 years old when I really started questioning the whole god thing. I was raised in a fairly small, extremely conservative sect of Lutheranism, The Old Apostolic Lutherans, also known as The Firstborns in Finland[1] where it is originally from. My dads entire family, which was pretty much the only side of my family I had contact with, belongs to that sect so it was a large part of my early life, and had a considerable hand in shaping the beliefs of a young GrimTuesday. What really set me off on my path towards Atheism was when I did a project on the Crusades. I found them so horrible and disturbing that I couldn't help but question why anyone would do what the Christians and to a lesser extent the Muslims did in the name of their god. Then there was the period of anti-theism and being an ass, but like most people, I outgrew that phase and eventually arrived at the point I am at now.
[1] Thanks a lot Finland.
I questioned why I was a Christian and could come up with no good reason. Certainly never seen a Christian give a good reason to believe.
And I picked up no other religion because, similarly, I could see no good reason to do so.
I was born an atheist. Jay, inb4 that. ^_^
Well, after that of course got something from a Christian primary school and my parents, but through some people there who also went to that school and whose kids were my friends, I got into the reformist church, which was the biggest religious group is that village.
Now if you don't know reformism, they're extremely conservative. Women are inferior to men. Abortion must be banned by law. Homosexuals are teh evilz. Excorcism if you did something wrong. Television is a device of sin, that sort of thing.
But when you get in, you also see what happens inside don't you? Starting to grow up and seeing that sort of coincided with me. Seeing and hearing among other kids how they just pretended and acted all crazy in the meantime looked pretty bad. School there was worse even, there were people there who acted like they were braindead when it came to matters of thinking, and their upbringing was the cause of that. Also since my parents weren't in the same church, I faced a lot of bullying. So I switched schools, and ended up 'that boy who cycles here every day from the retarded village' there and it started like before, but the friends I had there showed how different it could be. They had few restrictions but lived better, behaved better. Felt much better to hang out with too.
About the same time I uncovered two rather heinous cases of sexual abuse of children in about 1,5 years worth of time, and their response to that did it. The victim was to blame, and the perp surely would never do such a thing. Neither case ever made it to court as a result. That really pissed me off. An elder from another village who came over regularly once talked to my father (who'd gotten mildly involved in the whole church thing because I'd asked him, even though he has nothing with churches) and he was enraged after that. I wondered why untill he (the elder) approached me and heard what he'd told. He thought he'd go explaining to me why they did that to the victims, and how he had 'resolved' a gang rape by banishing the victim from the village in exchange for informing the police. I foreswore him on the spot to his great surprise. Probably should've thrown him out the nearest window, not like he didn't deserve that, but hey.
By that time I already thought the church was a lot of rubbish and the faith might be too, but you keep going because of social expectations. It can be really oppressive. Plus I'd met this girl who'd later end up my wife through there, although she was from the next village. In the end I decided to stop going and took a lot of shit over that. Told them no, my parents supported me very well and told those who insisted no a little louder than I could. But you can't date heretics, so... That ended for one.
Graduated the next year, found a room in the city where I studied some eight months after. Freakish coincidence: My ex had picked the same study as I had. She really really needed a room, so I offered her one, since my appartment was scheduled to be torn down, free rooms didn't need filling and we had two free. The landlord agreed and so we lived together.
I read the bible.
That discriminatory bundle of delusions will not fly.
Determinism and deities' omniscience didn't fit together too well. I chose determinism.
Aside from the local vicar who occasionally came in to do a sermon at school, the odd school trip to a church or temple and school prayer which I just thought of as a thing we had to suffer through bored rather than anything innately religious; I didn't meet someone that I recognised as religious until I was about 14.
I'd come to regard religious people as manticores, mermaids or wookies. Some mythical beast that might perhaps live in some far off land, but which was of little concern to me and which I would probably never meet. When a maths teacher at school mentioned she was Christian, I stared at her boggle eyed like she'd just admitted she was an avid practitioner of trepanning because I couldn't believe an educated adult would believe in a deity.
Really, religion never had a chance with me.
I wasn't ever a committed Catholic. When my brother and I asked why we had to go to Sunday school our parents were honest and said it was to appease grandma, not because they had any particularly strong religious convictions. I think by the time I got my communion (age 10/11) I had gone from considering church a waste of time, and the stories in the Bible made up to thinking that and also God probably didn't exist at all.
well when life doesn't get better after begging with all your heart and supposed soul for it to get better kinda stepped it for me and from then on I migrated to atheism and am now an atheist. best decision ever. However with your question about the bible being "true" they try to say that because certain places and remains of people have been found such as Jericho and certain tombs. and let us not forget the dead sea scrolls.
My mother was Catholic, I was baptised, made my communion and confirmation. As a child I believed, but we never went to mass, my mother wasn't hugely religious, a believer sure (not so much any more), but not religious. It just never factored hugely in my life and my belief faded. There was no eureka moment, they're was no process, my belief just got weaker and weaker until I realised I didn't believe. My communion and confirmation didn't really mean anything to me, it was just something you did. I was kinda the odd one, the only one in my class to joke that I was making my confirmation for the money.
My mom's side of the family is Presbyterian, and pretty hardcore about it, though my mom has become less so in recent years. My dad is an atheist, and his parents are non-practicing Catholics from Germany. My mom's side of the family tried to raise me Christian--like hardcore creationist--but after my dad got custody of me after the divorce, I stopped going to church. I'd never really enjoyed church; it was an hour of boredom and singing and stories I didn't much care about. I was young and all I wanted to do was play with my toys or read my books or run around outside.
Anyhow. I still self-identified as Christian for a while, since that was really all I knew. I'd see my mom a few months out of the year, we'd go to church sometimes. But eventually it dawned on me that I didn't really believe any of it. I was effectively an atheist. And as that self-awareness grew, and as I sought more information about my beliefs, about those I thought I'd held before, it just became more clear to me that there really wasn't anything believable in religion.
It never really penetrated. I was sent to mass, Sunday school, the works. It never really sunk in at all. I always looked at religion as a child with the same distrustful demeanour I reserved for weird strangers or attempted pranks. As a child, I learnt very quickly never to trust adults, and as such I never really fell for the lure of religion. I admit I did fake interest for a while, in one of my many misguided attempts to please my parents.
No one I know has every been strongly religious. Where I live, if you hear about someone's religion it's usually because you overheard a candid conversation or just outright asked. My only real experiences with being on the inside of a church were either entirely nonreligious or bat-crap enough that I didn't take to it at all in the one or two times I went at a young age. First, when I was really young we made crafts and then around ten, going with a friends family we were stuffed under a table that represented hell, waiting for a kid that was LARPing Jesus to come give us a hand. So yeah, I just completely avoided it without any real intention to do so.
Guess I don't qualify. I was raised without religious belief and from the point I encountered it onwards, it just never convinced me.
One day I realized that if there is no God there is no Hell to go to for not believing in him, so I for the first time thought about if there was a rational basis for belief and found there wasn't. I was about thirteen.
I was an agnostic for a few years because I couldn't prove there wasn't a God but then one day I felt silly about that because I realized that I can't prove George Washington was not a space alien to 100% certainty either.
Then I became an atheist.
I don't harbor any ill will towards believers, so I am not anti-theist. However, there is not a doubt in my mind that they are wrong, and if people bring up religion as a major topic of discussion I'll let them know that. For this reason some people mistake me as an anti-theist. I just sort of look at it as a Santa Claus that its socially acceptable for adults to believe in and that's fine for them I suppose because I can't deny believing in Santa was fun.
My parents weren't very religious, but my uncles and aunts were. I stopped believing in God at around the same time as Santa and the Tooth Fairy, for the same reasons. I attended Sunday school once with my cousins around or after this time, and what little I remember of it was that I thought of it in similar terms to one of the fairy tales trying to teach morals to us. I asked God to give me some sign that he existed, and nothing happened. So, I figured that God and Jesus were stories told to children to make them behave, and nothing more.
At the time, it did not at all seem like as big a deal as it's made out to be; it just seemed to be the right choice. It seemed so reasonable in fact that I didn't even realize that most people in the US are Christians until I was in my mid teens, and I was absolutely shocked to find out that so many people believe in God. I did not come to understand how controversial atheism is until my 20s. I thought that there must be something wrong or inflicted upon people, like brainwashing, for them to continue to believe in God all the way to adulthood. It seemed exactly to me like an adult believing in Santa. The alternative explanations made so much more sense, and relied so much less upon magic, that it was just inconceivable to me that this was common.
I suppose that, at some level, I still have the same attitude towards religion, but I now understand how common it is, the motivations for people to believe in it, and that religiosity is not going to go away any time soon. I also understand that a measure of tolerance and patience for religion is required in order to deal effectively with other people, since my beliefs are in the minority.
That doesn't stop the prevalence of religious belief from seeming strange to me though.
I was raised agnostic, though nominally Catholic. I was baptised, had my communion and confirmation, but we were never religious at home (or at school for that matter even though it was a Catholic school). We only ever went to church at Christmas (or for weddings/funerals and the like), and even that stopped after I started attending "highschool" (Dutch Hightschool at age 12).
I became Antitheistic for a while during my mid-teens, but reverted to agnostic-atheist/apatheist as I matured and decided it's just not something I want to have to deal with one way or the other.
At risk of sounding arrogant, when I stopped believing was right exactly around the time anybody made me think about any of the shit the Bible actually said and read some of it.
Until then I was 'Christian' in the sense that we didn't have a specific church or sect, but we believed in God and in my household it was all about God, not about Jesus, really. Jesus was there, but our family's weird self-preserved sect of Christianity held God to be absolutely number one. Salvation was about doing good + believing in God, not so much about worshiping Jesus.
I just accepted all this shit without really thinking about it and floated through any church services we did attend without much of a care about it.
I do remember one distinct time taking off a watch I had so I could play some sort of roughhousing game on a small hill, so I wouldn't break it. When time came for it to get dark, I tried to find my watch, so I wouldn't get in trouble for losing said item (we didn't have a lot of money so losing something expensive was pretty much easy street for a grounding at least). I couldn't, and prayed to God to find the thing, but it didn't work out before I had to go home, and I got in trouble. I remember talking about it and being told that God doesn't answer petty prayers like that, and at the time I didn't think much of it, but some of the people who told me this horseshit are the sort who praise God whenever they themselves accomplish something trivial. So apparently God doesn't answer prayers about my watch, but he will personally intervene when some stupid broad gets good letters in Scrabble. Obviously, I didn't think of the connection right away to that, but once I was asked to start thinking of things critically on my own, that was an instant thing that came up.
I got a lot of the same excuses as you, such as that the Bible doesn't contradict itself, but no hard-core scholar of Christian lore fucking thinks that because a cursory glance reveals it does. That leads me to one of my least liked sort of Christian, the sort that has fuck all idea what his book says, doesn't follow a goddamn word of it, but endlessly moans and bitches about how the world doesn't follow their book. This is the sort that is a woman that speaks her mind, eats crabs (motherfuckers in Maryland love their fucking crab), puts cheese on cheeseburgers, works and shops both on Sunday, misses church on a nearly weekly basis, drinks to drunkenness on occasion and wears eyeglasses in church, all things you're not supposed to do, but then complains that shops are open on Sunday or on holidays, complains about the commercialization of the world and brags about how their religion helps the poor while voting Republican and buying new cars and shit as Christmas presents on a nearly yearly basis and never once donating to charity, and denounces gays for not following old Jewish law despite the fact that when it applies to them it 'doesn't count' anymore, etc. That's the worst.
I think any time that I might even remotely consider becoming religious, I run into 30 examples of said person above and I'm quickly disabused of the idea.
I was raised as a Protestant Christian (Church of Scotland). As a child I believed without question what my mother and the church taught me to be true. But that's what kids do. If I had constantly bombarded my children with the idea that the world was made by a magic space unicorn that lived on the moon, they would believe it at least until such time they were old enough to think for themselves. Even then, if the conditioning is effective enough they could conceivably carry on for the rest of their lives believing this while happily refusing to consider any evidence to the contrary...
Aaaaanyway, just before my 7th birthday in 1986 the US Space Shuttle program hit the headlines world wide when Space Shuttle Mission STS-51-L ended tragically 73 seconds after lift off. This was my first real exposure to the space programme, and sparked my interest in all things space. Around the same time, I stopped thinking of dinosaurs as plastic toy monsters and began to read any and everything I could lay my hands on regarding these fucking amazing creatures that had ruled the earth for so long.
Between the large amounts of newly acquired amounts of information about our planets natural history, and about the greater universe beyond this blue planet of ours, a lot of the claims made in the Bible suddenly didn't stack up.
How could God have divided the day into light and dark as his first creation, but didn't bother with the Sun and Moon until the fourth? Why did he tell the ancient Hebrews that the stars, the Sun and the Moon were set into the firmament between the water on the land and the water in the sky? Why, in Hebrews does it claim that God's repeated promises to Abraham that his people "would be as numerous as the stars" have been fulfilled? There were 6,000,000,000 people on Earth in the late 20th century, and 200-400,000,000,000 stars in our Galaxy alone. Why all the utter nonsensical claims?
That's the tip of the iceberg though, but are just a few of the things that by the age of 9 or 10 were really starting to make the whole idea of God and Heaven start to unravel at the edges. Noah's Ark gave me some real problems to make sense of as my knowledge of both human and natural history grew. If the whole world had been flooded, why were the Chinese, Egyptians and countless others still thriving throughout the time of the Great Flood? How did he get the penguins and polar bears, the grizzlies and the buffalo, the kangaroos and koalas? And how on earth did he fit 2 of the millions of species, along with adequate food supplies onto a boat that couldn't have been more than 300 feet long (300 feet is about the longest you can build a ship out of wood, after that you hit insurmountable structural issues)?
And that doesn't even touch on the absurd idea of 40 days and 40 nights of constant rain submerging all the land. It would need to fall at the rate of 6 inches per minute to submerge all the land on Earth incidentally. A Cat 5 Hurricane dumps about 6 inches per hour. It's not hard to see where the myth starts to unravel.
Also, I'm sure it's pure coincidence that the story of Noah is almost an exact copy of the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh which was supposed to have happened (and was written about) before Noah. 1000 years or so in fact.
My mother, to her credit, never discouraged my free thinking or questioning, although she did and still does choose to ignore the overwhelming weight of evidence that suggests to the average free thinking atheist that the whole lot might have been made up to explain what primitive desert nomads couldn't figure out thousands of years ago.
On the other hand, the Sunday School teachers quickly refused to even listen to any questions - usually because they couldn't come up with answers that made sense, and didn't like being made to look foolish by a 10 year old. I was also considered a bad influence on the other children I think. Our Minister was a nice enough old duffer, but the best he ever came up with was to suggest that some parts of the Bible were not to be taken literally, but he couldn't accept that this by default made it anything but perfect. If it wasn't meant to be taken literally, then surely God would have made sure to tell someone to put that in, even as a footnote somewhere?
By the time I was about 12, I had made my mind up that while science doesn't have all the answers, it's doing a more honest job of trying to find them, and the answers it has provided about Life, The Universe and Everything make a lot more sense than "Magic Man In Sky".
I also realised as my teens went on that the whole concept was used mainly as a means to control and subdue an illiterate and uneducated population by fear. And to be honest when you stop and think about it, God pretty much spends the entire Old Testament pretty pissed off and constantly smiting and demanding sacrifices (the smell of which pleased him, apparently). It boils down to "Worship Me, or I'll fuck your shit up". So there's the "fear" part.
Then there's a complete about-face in the New Testament, but then it was the comparatively benign New Testament that was the selling point when the whole thing was sold to the Romans in the 3rd Century.
Saint Paul was a bit of a genius when you read his letters to the Romans. He basically pitched it to the Romans as "Civilisation crumbling? Need something to unite the Empire? Adopt our religion, scare the bejeezus out of superstitious, uneducated masses but let them know that if they embrace Jesus (who could be back at any minute by the way!) as their saviour and do what they're told, then they get immortality in heaven."
"Immortality? Forgiveness for everything as long as we accept this Jesus chap as our saviour? Where do we sign up?" And so the Roman Catholic Church was founded on the "Stick and Carrot" principle and all scientific progress in Europe came to a crashing halt for the next 12 centuries.
By the time I was in my mid teens I had firmly given up on organised religion as superstitious nonsense, harmful to the progress and development of mankind. Haven't attended a church service for over 20 years now, with the exception of attending the odd wedding, christening or funeral and I don't feel that I'm missing out on much.
So yeah...sorry for the wall of text, but you did ask how it happened!
Very simple. I started reading the bible objectively. Not to worship, but to scrutinize it.
I envy you. Was held back and denied certain educations because my family's faith said Jesus was going to come back any
That's really sad. I hope that, now that you're out, you've found another career that fulfills you.
I would agree with you and say that I probably had it much better, yes. Although I do sometimes wonder what it would be like to believe or have believed in something like that. You obviously resent the repression that came with it, but did you believe during your early life?
All the way up to I was around 11 or 12. Then some bell in my head kept tingling, telling me something did not add up. But I stopped praying long before that. Was only lip service.
But I really did not get rid of all that religious baggage before my early 20'ts. Upon reflection I would say that the intensive bible studies they put us through backfired on them. My guess is that they did not expect one of the kids to actually pay attention. And more importantly, read the parts of the bible that was not on the agenda.
I grew up with a stack of encyclopedias at home that I soaked up like a sponge. Evolution just made more sense to me, especially when every other rock here carries a fossil of some sort, whether plant or animal, and church felt like a punishment for something I haven't done. My family was baptist and in church were constantly scrutinized and looked down on for whatever reason, I don't even know why. So when I was given the choice, I simply stopped going. They eventually found another church with nicer people that have a Thanksgiving-style dinner every couple weeks and aren't complete snobs. Yet they still believed the end was coming last year. I just shake my head and block out the religious background noise with ear-covering noise-canceling earphones. I hold nothing against them for their beliefs but will object if they try to use those beliefs against me somehow. Hasn't happened yet thankfully.
This part is very relevant to me.
I went a very Christian school (had the word in its name -.-)
But by the time I entered highschool, I knew where I stood, just didn't know the word :P . Within days of having an internet connection I found the words, so I was an agnostic atheist and could now put a label to it. That pretty much resolved the issue for me.
I bought into the hard stuff: Creationism. I can hardly even stand to remember the shit I used to say. I ended up joining the military. This got me out of the bubble of my upbringing. Man, it was like learning to read all over again.
I realized that the rest of it was a pile of crap, too, after that.
I was always trying to find out how stuff works, and back when I was a child, the way I figured a lock worked was of course full of imagination.
But, in their defense, they were only human, and had no scientific backgrounds.
"grass is green because God made it so."
I was, at this point very impressed with this god fellow, and wanted to know more about him.
This went on until my first year at highschool.
Slowly all my questions were answered with more detail than God did it, and god faded to the background.
And now I'm still a curious man, who keeps asking questions. Who still (sometimes) has the imagination of a kid.
Pretty much just gradually happened, nothing in particular was a eureka moment or anything. Yeah, sorry it was boring :(
There was this religious retreat where some guy said I was possessed by the devil, so yeah, that cemented what I already knew. Plus the freaky shit the people were doing, falling over into a seizure like state because their "sins were being absolved". Insanity
I was Christian for awhile, mostly through indoctrination now that I think about it. When I was about 10 I was leaning towards being agnostic but upholding Christian values. As time went on I realised that compulsion to be good via threats of damnation is no way to actually encourage proper behavior.
I was full agnostic by the time I was 14. I had developed a rather Socratic method of inquiry and my parents were hardly what one would call theist anyway. My mother was a traditionalist but not an actual believer. My father's mother was an Irish Catholic and he never saw eye to eye with her in his later years. Religion was simply not a topic of discussion in my household.
Then when I was 16 9/11 happened and something just snapped into place. I had been studying other cultures, histories and empires of other continents - not just Europe and America. I asked "What makes Christianity more valid than the Norse and Greek gods? Every religion essentially claims the others do not exist. Only one of them can possibly be right and every other of them would be wrong. How could I possibly select the correct one? By virtue of being born in New Zealand I would follow the Christian god but there are folks in the jungle who haven't heard of him." and so my line of thought went on.
I realised that people are killing each other over things written down a book near 2000 years ago. Things that could not have possibly happened or we have seen no evidence of being replicated since. Elaboration is hidden behind "It just is" or "It is to test your faith".
Eventually it all became too much for me. Either whatever diety out there allows terrible things in the world to happen to good people or they simply do not care. I don't believe they're worth my consideration.
I started considering the need to create religion - to explain things that the people at the time could not properly fathom. The very idea of infinity was beyond people or its actual scope was not fully realised. I imagined our planet, then I imagined our solar system, our sector, our galaxy and all the other galaxies beyond ours. Then I thought about what lies beyond or does it loop back on itself somehow? Realising quickly, it wouldn't have to. This universe can go on forever, beyond the billion galaxies there can be a billion billion more. It will not loop back on itself, it will just continue and there will always be more galaxies. I was able to completely grasp the concept of infinity.
Upon realising that I became a complete atheist. It is not belief. It is certainty. I am certain there is not a god in the same way I am certain there is no tooth fairy or Santa Claus. Just because people have been convinced of something does not make it true.
I became fully atheist. It isn't belief. I am as certain there isn't a god as I am certain there isn't a tooth fairy.
I was bitten by a radioactive Dawkins.
I'm not sure if I ever believed in the first place, the first school I went to when I was about 5-10 years old was a Christian school and they tried to pump all that nonsense into me. I honestly can't tell if I ever believed it at the start and then somewhere along the line just stopped or if I never believed it all along. I've never really been a strong atheist though, I always just happily played along with the church ceremonies, prayers, mass etc even though I didn't actually believe in any of it.
I'm more of an agnostic than an atheist. I guess you could say that I just don't care about religion. When I was a kid I was very religious, but I went to a catholic high school and it really pounded the religion out of me. Most of the priests who taught me were really bitter, cynical bastards. It seemed liked the whole organization worshiped hierarchy and pretense at the expense of every decent value.
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Discussion in 'Current Events' started by Waluigi, Jan 6, 2004.
Yeah apparently Microsoft wants to attack Google Too...
I think that Google is simple enough to work.
Google has it's prominent place in Safari. It is the one and only Searcch engine that I use, have it as a bookmark in my IE on OS 9.
Yeah I used Yahoo
Back in the day in '95, but now I wouldn't go back.
Yahoo bugs me, their free email provides much of the Spam I get at work (although at home I never see because of the Junk filter in Mail), their website is ugly and I've never been satisfied with their results.
And Microsoftoh sweet! Yet another thing they can do half-assed, and thanks again for having such an original thought. MSN's search results are always flawed and are way too dependent on advertisers, I don't trust the results. Slashdot has pointed out many times that MSN searches for Linux yield bizarre and contradictory results.
I'll say with Google, it works in Safari at home and under Mozilla at work.
google is cool!!! besides yahoo cant do the image return
I still use Yahoo! for simple searches. I tend to go toward Google more when I have something more obscure to find, or for the image search.
I'm damned interested in this stock offering from Google though. I just emailed my broker to find out if it's worth jumping on.
Google results fluctuate an awful lot - in November they introduced a filter which removes sites which are over optimized in their eyes. eg. www.keyword1-keyword2-keyword3.com.
It's got rid of a lot of the bad sites in really popular searches for hotels, travel, holidays flights etc, but it has also removed fully legitimate sites and put them out of business.
I like AlltheWeb.com, similar to Google but much more customizable.


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Analysis of the goal conceded against Wolves
Alan Hutton, what an unlikely hero! I am not his biggest fan – primarily because I think he's a poor defender – but he did well yesterday after replacing the equally impressive Kaboul. It was his driving run which drew the penalty, and then he also got the fortuitous third goal with another determined piece of play. On the whole, I felt Spurs dominated, and will be disappointed not to have kept a clean sheet -the goal we conceded was yet another sloppy one.
Steven Fletcher's goal (and the others too).
David Jones comes off the touchline, tracked by Assou-Ekotto. At the bottom of the picture is Gareth Bale, who should be responsible for following the right-back, Foley, who is already well clear of him, and about the make a break to the by-line.
Jones tempts the challenge from Assou-Ekotto, and then slides in the full-back, who is in acres of space (Huddlestone has had to take up a more central position to stop the shot), with a nice reverse pass.
Gallas tries to step up and play offside – he has not only got that wrong, but has no idea of what is going on behind him. As a result, Foley is played on by both Gallas and Kaboul.
Foley gets his head up, and he has Fletcher making a dart from far to near post. He is goal-side of Kaboul, but is surely Gallas' responsibility, with King near post. Having tried to play offside, Gallas is in no-man's land.
It's a good ball in but, and I say this yet again, I would fancy Gomes to deal with it – his anticipation and reach would have seen him palm this one out in my opinion. Cudicini makes a move for it but doesn't get there and, with Fletcher unmarked, leaves a tap in.
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Kaboul was in the process of being taken off when they scored…probable leg injury after watching him limp/walk off – you would hope to think if he was 100% this would would never of happened through better tracking
gallas did everything right … kaboul was injured and cost the goal. nuff said.
I think Gomes would have got a hand to that cross, and Gallas with trying to get the offside had too much ground to make up in getting back to the 6 yard line.
Looks like a bit of work to be done, the back line to move up as one, Bale to follow his full back, and have Sandro in there, as he would have covered the full backs run.
It was a good goal for wolves a well worked one & it succeeded due to a myriad of mistakes: bale not tracking his FB; AE being fooled; Thudd being static in case the ball came back in; King not realising that Gallas & Kaboul werer making Foley onside; Gallas not moving up(obviously not coached by Adams) & Kaboul being injured & slow to move and Cudicini not covering quickly enough
Culpability: Bale & Gallas & perhaps Cudicini as Kaboul was injured
Pretty general cock up here and partly the result of Kaboul being injured and switching off whilst waiting to be subbed.
Also the result of yet another back four formation who are uncertain of the movements of their colleagues.
Kaboul very impressive, strong and bold. Hutton who I concede is not a top class defender was very good going forward as he usually is.
Corluka will have trouble getting back in.
Gallas was ball watching, his decision making was all wrong.
This is a 'deja vu' story. Spurs concede stupid goals much too often. It happened against Bremen and it happened again yesterday. Something wrong with the defense…


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The Nature Bomb
Have you ever heard the phrase, "The Bomb"? As in, when you are the bomb you are "All that!"
Well I saw a wonderfully passionate speaker Tuesday night at the No Child Left Inside symposium at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens who was "All That." The speaker, Jane Kirkland, is a powerful speaker for childrens' environmental awareness and likes to be considered "The Bomb!" Not because she has been a passionate environmentalist all her life, because she wasn't, but because she underwent a life-changing experience. Jane's life was changed by a bird. A bald eagle. She noticed a bald eagle flying over her local grocery store and, because she happened to "look up" instead of at her car keys, her cell phone, her shoes, or her groceries, she saw a beautiful bald eagle flying above her and, astounded that she had seen "an endangered species," she grabbed everyone she could find in the parking lot to show them. They had never seen a bald eagle either. Thinking that she had made a major environmental discovery, she rushed to a park rangers office nearby and told him. The ranger informed her that well, to the park service, a bald eagle in her county of Pennsylvania was just not a big deal. They had been roosting in her "neighborhood" for 20 years.
...She paused...
Twenty years, and she had never seen one because she had never paid enough attention to the natural world around her to see one.
After that day she made a resolution to spend 20 seconds a day just being in nature, where ever she happened to be, and it changed her life. In fact, it literally went to the birds for a while. Through many years of misadventures with the winged wonders of her native Pennsylvania, she grew to passionately love nature. She actually became convinced, because she had such a connection with her feathered friends, that she was "the bird whisperer" and eventually "THE actual BOMB."
Now, Jane sees the world around her the way that young children do, with wonder. Her new perspective has helped her to create a series of educational books for children and teachers titled, "Take a Walk" in which Jane explores the many wonderful variances of the natural world. Included in her series are, Take a Cloud Walk, Take a Back Yard Bird Walk, and Take a City Nature Walk. Her books have been featured on Animal Planet and PBS. She has accomplished other great things since that time but the most important step, and the one that anyone can take to connect with nature is to "Take a Minute to be In It. " Which means take just 60 seconds a day to be present in nature and appreciate its wonder. I will be doing this every day with my students from now on and I hope it sticks with them for the rest of their life.


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389 - Surgical resection of locally advanced primary tumor in patients with distant metastatic breast cancer at diagnosis: results of a retrospective comp...
|28 September 2012
|ESMO Congress 2012
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| Surgical oncology
Breast Cancer
Radiation oncology
|Samia Arifi
S. Arifi1, R. Najib2, Z. Benbrahim3, Y. Akasbi4, S. Elfakir5, N. Mellas2, A. Melhouf6, A. Banani6, O. El Mesbahi2
Women with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) with intact locally advanced primary tumors (LAT) present aggressive local symptoms that may warrant palliative surgery to the breast. However, it is unclear if such surgery otherwise improves clinical outcome. The aim of this study is to demonstrate if surgery of the breast may avoid uncontrolled chest wall disease and may improve survival.Methods
We reviewed the records of all MBC patients presented with intact LAT, treated at our institution between 2007 and 2011.We compared two groups of patients: surgical group versus nonsurgical group. Clinical outcome was assessed in the two groups. Prognostic factors affecting loco regional relapse, were evaluated.Results
75 patients were identified. The mean patient age was 49 ± 12.15 years. 52% were pre menopausal women. 87.1 % of tumors were hormone receptors positive. Her2 was assessed in 59 cases and was positive in 33.9%. Inflammatory breast cancer presented 16 %. Clinical lymph node involvement was noted in 58.7% cases. 69.6% had visceral metastasis and 5.3 % had brain metastasis. 89.3% have good Performans Status ≤ 1. All women received systemic therapy. First-line therapy consisted of anthracycline-based regimen (95.6%) and Taxane (39.7%). Among patients with HER2 positive 36.4% received Trastuzumab. Only 14% of patients with bone metastasis received bisphosphonate. 49.3% underwent mastectomy while 50.7% had intact LAT. The two groups were well balanced regarding demographics, clinicals, and tumors, characteristics. Among women who underwent mastectomy 48.5% had axillary lymph node dissection, and excision margins were positive in 25% cases. Loco regional radiotherapy (LRRT) was given to 8 women. pCR occurred in 7 patients among those who were operated. Local recurrence (LR) occurred in 9 patients (28.1%). Median time to local relapse was 3 months (2-19). LR was related to excision margin (p = 0.0001) and LRRT (p = 0.04). Median PFS was 10 months in nonsurgical group patients versus 16.5 months in surgical group.Conclusions
MBC patients with locally advanced breast cancer who underwent mastectomy had improvement in local symptoms when the excision margin was in sano. However, the impact of this surgery in survival is not clear.Disclosure
All authors have declared no conflicts of interest.


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- AnaA
- 5 years ago
- Wedding: May 2014
Got inspired watching a telenovela LOL!
Lady meaning a grown woman, who is crazy at you (physically or verbally).
Share your slappin' stories!
Got inspired watching a telenovela LOL!
Lady meaning a grown woman, who is crazy at you (physically or verbally).
Share your slappin' stories!
Haha. Maybe in an extreme circumstance, but it would have to be really extreme…
No, I'm not the violent type.
But don't test me, hehe.
No. I think it's trashy.
@kittyface: Second the trashy comment.
However, day dreaming about doing it is completely ok.
It really depends. If she was just verbally attacking me, I would either walk away if I didn't know her [she isn't worth my time], but if I knew her i'd definitly say something back.
If she laid her hands on me [slap, punch, whatever the case may be], I would hit her back.
@kittyface: +1 Trashy. I would never do this.
@kittyface: +1
It's different if someone slapped me then I guess I would respond but that's never happened.
I am not the violent type… and like @kittyface: I think such behavior "cheapens" women… I have found classier ways to convey my wrath on occasioin when it is needed… Be it with stone faced silence… the raise of an eyebrow… the sideways glance… or the "Go Fuck Yourself" look.
I didn't slap her but I shoved a stranger once. She was flipping right the eff out. I shoved her. She backed down. Not saying it was classy, but she was totally out of control and was getting ready to swing at me. Keeping in mind she randomly started punching and kicking my moms car. Not sure how to reason with nut bars like that.
Only if I felt I needed to defend myself.
I'd never be the first to lay hands on someone, nor would I do it just because someone is being verbally abusive. However, if you lay a finger on me, game over.
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Some different alcohol rehab centers include the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, Caron and COPAC. Each of these providers offers both inpatient and outpatient alcohol rehabilitation.
As of October 2015, Hazelden Betty Ford has inpatient rehab facilities in California, Minnesota, Florida and Oregon. Hazelden Betty Ford also offers outpatient programs in these states, as well as in New York and Illinois. Caron has locations in Pennsylvania and Florida. COPAC is located in Mississippi.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration offers a substance abuse treatment facility locator on its website. The locator features over 11,500 different alcohol and drug rehab centers across the United States, including outpatient, residential and hospitalization programs.


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Tracy Morgan's Daughter Does His Makeup for 'GQ' Feature
Tracy Morgan gets his makeup done by his adorable daughter Maven in this cute new photo for GQ magazine's December 2015 issue, on newsstands now.
Here is what the 47-year-old actor had to share with the mag:
On his return to comedy: "I think it will be deeper, I think it is going to be funnier… I'm going to take my sense of humor to the next level, my life. But right now, that's all I look forward to: that first laughter… Break the ice, then buckle up, and let's enjoy the f–king ride. Buckle up, kids, it's about to get wild and woolly! I faced death and all that sh–. It's my responsibility to come back and come back strong. It's going to take more than a Walmart truck to take that gift away. I can't wait to make you all laugh."
On his settlement with Walmart: "Let's just say Walmart stepped up, for me and for Jimmy's kids, and I'm very happy."
On his marriage to Megan Wollover: "I've got a dime. Oh yeah, she's a dime, my wife is gorgeous, f–king dime piece. A million women in the world can't f–k with that�"�"she ain't five pennies and a nickel, she ain't ten pennies. She's a f–king dime! And I know it. I've got a fetish for my wife. When I leave here, I'll go on and get her pregnant. You know me: I'm old-school. I don't use no rubbers, and I don't pull out… Now my daughter's here. Life is good, God is great. Can't turn that funny off, it is what it is."
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Crude Oil Course examines sampling, testing, and evaluation.
Press Release Summary:
Sponsored by ASTM International, "Crude Oil: Sampling, Testing, and Evaluation" will benefit laboratory technicians and chemists responsible for crude oil analysis as well as field personnel responsible for collecting samples. Focuses include obtaining samples using automatic/manual methods; tests available for obtaining data for determining quantity for custody transfer and quality conformance; as well as accelerated evaluation to assess handling and processing characteristics.
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ASTM International Training Course Samples Crude Oil
W. CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., November 12, 2009-The increased price of crude oil emphasizes the importance of its accurate and efficient sampling. "Crude Oil: Sampling, Testing, and Evaluation," a technical and professional training course sponsored by ASTM International, focuses on obtaining representative samples using automatic and manual methods; the tests available for obtaining data for determining quantity for custody transfer purposes and conformance to expected quality; and making a rapid evaluation of the commodity to assess handling and processing characteristics.
Laboratory technicians and chemists responsible for crude oil analysis and field personnel responsible for collecting samples will benefit from the course. A minimum of two years of college with an emphasis on chemistry or environmental science or relevant laboratory work experience is recommended.
Course instructors are Harry N. Giles, retired senior petroleum industrial specialist for the U.S. Department of Energy, and Clifford Mills, a laboratory consultant with an emphasis on crude analysis. Giles and Mills also serve as technical advisors to ASTM International for the Crude Oil Interlaboratory Crosscheck Program (ILCP).
The course will be held twice in 2010: Feb. 8-10 in New Orleans, La., and Oct. 25-27 in Houston, Texas.
The class attendance fee is $1095 USD and includes course notes, 32 ASTM International standards referenced in the course and refreshment breaks. Students also receive 1.4 continuing education units. For a free brochure that includes registration and hotel information, contact Eileen Finn, ASTM International, West Conshohocken, Pa. (phone: 610-832-9686; firstname.lastname@example.com); or visit the ASTM Web site at www.astm.org.
This course can be tailored to your company's needs and can be brought by ASTM International to your site. Contact Scott Murphy, ASTM International (phone: 610-832-9685; firstname.lastname@example.com) for details.
ASTM International is one of the largest international standards development and delivery systems in the world. ASTM International meets the World Trade Organization (WTO) principles for the development of international standards: coherence, consensus, development dimension, effectiveness, impartiality, openness, relevance and transparency. ASTM standards are accepted and used in research and development, product testing, quality systems and commercial transactions.
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Payroll Service, Changing Service providers Chapter One. Reasons to change Companies.
Why would you desire to change payroll provider?
- Service Stinks
- Expense too High
- Too many Errors
- No assist with IRS
- Lost in the Shuffle
Service Stinks. Payroll service is all about service. If you do not view that your service receives excellent service then you most likely aren't getting good service. Payroll company know that their level of service needs to be incredibly high. Are you getting exactly what you were assured? To0 frequently salespeople guarantee what production cannot deliver. Are your problems addressed, and more notably solved, instantly. If your account has actually been overdrafted and you don't get your cash back in two organisation days or less you are not getting excellent service.
Expense too expensive. Are you paying more than you should? How do you tell? Get some quotes. There are a variety of totally free quote services on line. Google "Payroll prices quote" and go from there. Often times your payroll business will negotiate with you if you feel the rate is expensive, but not always. Keep in mind also that the significant payroll business have a revenue maximization procedure. They will estimate you a rate to obtain your company. There utilized to be right on the Paychex contract a line called WIT for the sales representative to fill out. WIT represented "Whatever it Takes". The sales representative would provide any concession to get the payroll business. Then the local office would stealthily increase the rate every payroll or every couple of payrolls up until it reached the optimum level the local office believed it might sustain.
The other thing a lot of payroll companies do is quote you prices but don't tell you exactly what is not consisted of in that rate. Things like a cost for: each hire, each termination, each report, each brand-new report, each non basic report, each W2, each W2 reprint, tax service, phone entry, year end reports, unnecessary CDs, gain access to charges, monthly fees and so on. Also if they offer you a "discount" to get your service it can easily vanish.
Be careful of quotes to make sure whatever is in them and your cost is ensured for a duration of time. Then examine it every pay duration to make sure it is what you anticipate.
Too lots of mistakes. Errors are unavoidable when people deal with the payroll. If your service is making too lots of then you might decide to leave exactly what ever the expense. Mistakes cost you in time and morale if not in real dollars. Does your payroll provider aim to fix blame for an error or do they just repair it. They need to simply repair it! If it truly is your mistake and you admit it, expect a fee. If you think it is their issue and state so, they should take responsibility no matter what they think. Does your payroll supplier call you if they see something odd or do they just do it their method? If they do it their method you know they are not concerned enough about you to make a call or send out an email.
Every employee of every client looks at payroll and needs for it to be perfect. It will not be, but it requires to be as close as possible
No help with the Internal Revenue Service. Does your payroll service when provided with a letter from the Internal Revenue Service inform you to call your CPA? Pity on them. The Internal Revenue Service will send you letters. The Internal Revenue Service makes errors. The Internal Revenue Service will not repair their errors unless and until you can prove to them they are wrong. Sometimes even if you made the mistake a great arbitrator can get the IRS to get rid of the charges and in some cases the interest. I cannot inform you how numerous penalties in the last fifteen years I have actually had eased off simply by contacting the IRS in an expert way and understanding what to state and ways to say it. Your payroll service company ought to be a specialist in getting penalties abated. Your Certified Public Accountant will most likely not be a payroll tax professional. Your payroll company ought to have CPAs on staff, that you can talk with to solve IRS and State tax issues.
Lost in the shuffle. Do you speak to a different person every time you call your payroll company? Do you get passed from extension to extension to extension up until you wind up with voice mail that is not returned? When you call for help do you get a voice mail system and not a person? When you call for help do you reach India? If you cannot talk with live individuals, who can solve your problems and do it in English, then you are lost in the shuffle. Enough said!
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Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch (R) has apparently told his close allies that he is planning to retire at the end of his term in 2018, The Atlantic reports, setting up former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to run for the 83-year-old senator's seat.
Rumors of Hatch's possible retirement and Romney's potential run have been swirling for months, with Hatch's spokesperson telling The Atlantic after this most recent report that "nothing has changed since The Atlantic published a carbon copy of this same story in April, likely with the same anonymous sources who were no more informed on the senator's thinking than they seem to be now."
Still, five people familiar with Hatch's thinking confirmed to The Atlantic that the senator is talking about retirement. Utah's World Trade Center CEO Derek Miller, who was considering a run himself, said that Romney's plan has been "reported to me as a 'done deal.'" And in September, UtahPolicy.com wrote that Romney "has the financial resources to mount a campaign no matter when Hatch decides."
In an October poll, The Salt Lake Tribune found that 75 percent of voters said Hatch should not run for an eighth term, while a plurality favored Romney as his replacement. Jeva Lange
President Trump tweeted Tuesday night that the United States has sent a message to several Central American countries regarding immigration.
"We have today informed Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador that if they allow their citizens, or others, to journey through their borders and up to the United States, with the intention of entering our country illegally, all payments made to them will STOP (END)!" He didn't STOP (END) there, adding in a follow-up tweet, "Anybody entering the United States illegally will be arrested and detained, prior to being sent back to their country!"
There is a caravan of about 2,000 migrants headed to the United States from Honduras, and earlier in the day, Trump tweeted that if those people do not turn around and go back, "no more money or aid will be given to Honduras, effective immediately!" During the 2016 fiscal year, the U.S. gave Honduras $127.4 million in aid, the United States Agency for International Development says. Many people who migrate from Honduras are fleeing drug and gang violence and poverty, which would all likely grow exponentially if aid is cut off. Catherine Garcia
Using facial recognition software, public records, social media accounts, various databases, leaked documents, and more, The New York Times was able to confirm that at least nine suspects in the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi work for Saudi Arabia's security services, government ministries, or military.
Khashoggi vanished on Oct. 2, after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Turkey has said 15 Saudi agents flew into Istanbul that day on private jets, murdered Khashoggi inside the consulate within two hours of his arrival, then left the country.
The Times reports that one of the suspects is Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb. In 2007, the diplomat was assigned to Saudi Arabia's embassy in London, and he's been seen getting off airplanes with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Paris and Madrid and spotted in several photos taken of the crown prince during a recent visit to the United States. It's possible he was serving as a bodyguard. Other suspects include two members of the royal guard, a member of the security team who travels with the crown prince, and autopsy expert Dr. Salah al-Tubaigny, the Times reports.
The doctor holds a senior position in the Saudi Interior Ministry, and could only be directed to do something by a high-ranking Saudi authority, the Times notes. This strikes a blow to the suggestion that rogue agents murdered Khashoggi unbeknownst to the crown prince. Both the crown prince and his father, King Salman, have denied knowing where Khashoggi is, and said he left the consulate on his own. None of the suspects could be reached for comment. Catherine Garcia
If the Republicans lose the House during November's midterms, it's not President Trump's fault, Trump said Tuesday.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Trump said he will "handle it very well" if Democrats take over the House and launch new investigations or pursue impeachment. Trump has been hitting the campaign trail hard, he said, and doesn't believe "anybody has ever had this kind of impact." Democrats are polling well ahead of the midterms, and Trump said he did not agree that he's in a similar boat as former President Barack Obama, who in 2010 said it was his fault his party got "shellacked."
Trump also spoke about Michael Cohen, his former personal lawyer and fixer, accusing him of being a liar and "PR person who did small legal work," and defended calling adult film star Stormy Daniels "Horseface." AP asked him if he thought it was appropriate to comment on a woman's appearance, and Trump responded, "You can take it any way you want." He revealed that he should name U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley's replacement within the next two weeks, and blasted Attorney General Jeff Sessions, still unhappy that his recusal from the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election led to the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. "I can fire him whenever I want to fire him," he said. Catherine Garcia
President Trump defended Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, telling The Associated Press it wasn't fair to condemn the country over the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Khashoggi was last seen at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2. Turkey has said he was killed by Saudi agents inside the consulate, and on Tuesday, a senior Turkish official told AP "certain evidence" was found that proved Khashoggi was murdered there.
Trump tweeted earlier in the day that he spoke with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who "totally denied any knowledge" of what happened to Khashoggi, and he told AP, "I think we have to find out what happened first. Here we go again with, you know, you're guilty until proven innocent. I don't like that. We just went through that with Justice Kavanaugh and he was innocent all the way as far as I'm concerned." Kavanaugh was accused of sexual assault by multiple women, and narrowly won confirmation to the Supreme Court. Catherine Garcia
Less than a week after becoming the interim president and chief executive of USA Gymnastics, Mary Bono is stepping down from the role, following criticism from Olympians Simone Biles and Aly Raisman.
Bono is a former Republican congresswoman from Southern California. She recently tweeted a photo showing her covering up the Nike logo on her golf shoes, in response to Colin Kaepernick's Nike advertisement. "Don't worry, it's not like we needed a smarter usa gymnastics president or any sponsors or anything," Biles tweeted.
Bono came under fire from Raisman due to her work with a law firm that many believe helped USA Gymnastics cover-up the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal. The former USA Gymnastics national team doctor was accused of molesting hundreds of gymnasts, and earlier this year, was found guilty of sexual assault of minors. In the wake of the scandal, the entire USA Gymnastics board resigned in January, and a new president, Kerry Perry, was hired, although she resigned nine months later.
After sending in her resignation letter Tuesday, Bono released a defiant statement, saying she had to step down because of "personal attacks." She defended covering the Nike logo on her shoes, saying it was free speech, and said it wasn't fair that the tweet "has now been made the litmus test of my reputation over almost two decades of public service." She did not address Raisman's concerns. Catherine Garcia
Brothel owner turned Nevada Assembly candidate Dennis Hof has died, just a day after his 72nd birthday, Nye County police confirmed Tuesday.
Hof was often described as "Nevada's most famous pimp," and starred in the HBO documentary series Cathouse. The bombastic Hof also authored The Art of the Pimp, which foreshadowed his foray into politics earlier this year. Branding himself as the "Trump of Pahrump," Hof unseated a three-term incumbent to win the Republican primary for Nevada's state Assembly in June.
His curious blend of vice and politics led to quite the unique birthday party the night before his death. Hof was celebrating with porn star Ron Jeremy, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and tax opponent Grover Norquist, The Nevada Independent reported. The party doubled as a campaign rally at the Love Ranch, one of his several brothels.
A Nye County spokesman said Hof apparently went to sleep on Monday night, and was found unresponsive the next morning. His death looks "normal" on its face, Nye County Sheriff Sharon Wehrly told the Independent, but there will still be an autopsy.
Hof's campaign manager, Chuck Muth, first tweeted about his death on Tuesday, and later told the Las Vegas Review-Journal he was "confused and stunned" by the news. Hof's Democratic opponent Lesia Romanov sent her condolences to "those who care about him." Nevada state law mandates Hof's name stay on the ballot this fall, but polling places will post that he has died. If Hof wins the election, county commissioners will appoint another Republican to take his place. Kathryn Krawczyk
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp's (D-N.D.) crumbling path to re-election just took another wrong turn.
Heitkamp's campaign published an open letter attacking her opponent Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) for his disparaging comments about the "#MeToo" movement, running it as an ad in several North Dakota newspapers on Monday. Now, she's apologizing after finding out the letter outed some of its signers as abuse survivors, The Associated Press reports.
Heitkamp's re-election chances have evaporated over the past few months; the newest Fox News poll shows Cramer ahead by 12 points. She's tried to win over voters with a focus on fighting sexual assault, notably opposing Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation despite the possibility of damaging her chances in the midterms. Cramer, meanwhile, called #MeToo a "movement toward victimization" an in interview with The New York Times last week.
The controversial Heitkamp letter decried Cramer's comments, and was signed by over 125 people. But some signers soon criticized the ad's publication, saying they "either hadn't authorized it or are not survivors of abuse," AP reports. Cramer quickly slammed the mistake as "revictimization of victims" when talking with AP, and one survivor whose name was unwittingly published said she would no longer vote for Heitkamp.
Heitkamp issued a statement saying she's "in the process of issuing a retraction" of the ad and "personally apologizing to each of the people impacted by this." AP reports that a "clearly emotional" Heitkamp also said she would investigate how her campaign got these names. Heitkamp said she didn't see the ad before its publication, but still took responsibility for the "very flagrant error." Kathryn Krawczyk


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Once you have recognized the need for rehab, you still have an array of options in front of you. Deciding which rehab center in Utah is the most appropriate for your needs involves evaluating a few different factors.
One of the prohibitive factors when it comes to Utah facilities is the cost. Finding out the overall cost of the program, based upon your duration of stay, is important, but you also need to speak with your insurance company. By doing so, you can discover that a tremendous amount of your costs are already covered. You may not even need to pay for anything out of pocket at all.
In your journey to find the right rehab center, you will find that both outpatient and inpatient programs exist in Utah. Deciding which type of program is the right fit involves evaluating factors such as the severity of your addiction, your current job and its status if you leave it for awhile, whether or not you have children and so forth. Of course, placing your ability to recover as the highest priority is imperative.
Going through rehabilitation is not always going to be easy, but you should feel as comfortable as you can in the facility. This level of comfort can help ease you into different treatment options and encourage you to open your mind to the possibilities. Visiting different rehab centers in Utah can help you to gain a sense of whether or not you and the center are the right fit for one another.
Choosing the correct rehab center in Utah is so important because this place acts as the starting point for the rest of your life. You want to make sure that you are comfortable and that you have access to the correct resources.


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Blackjacks have waited a long time for this day - after an internal delay and then another minor setback, 2NE1's "I Am The Best" music video has finally hit the internet with full force! The quartet heated up the airwaves with the full track release earlier this week, immediately achieving an all-kill on music charts, with "#2NE1isthebest" trending on Twitter worldwide. Directed by Seo Hyun Seung (the creative force behind "Fire", "Try to Follow Me", "Clap Your Hands" & "Can't Nobody"), the MV features glammed up film sets to match the energy of the track. Considering how "I Am The Best" features heavy-hitting beats and a party vibe that would get anyone up and moving, the MV compliments the track with eye-popping film sets and wardrobe choices that will have fans and critics talking for days. Without further ado, here's "I Am The Best"! === === So what do you think of the "I Am The Best" music video? Tell us in the comments section below!
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Calcutta: Some may say it's too early to predict, but Cameroon's Pierre Boya, in just his second appearance for McDowell Mohun Bagan, proved himself to be a quality foreign recruit, an area where the city giants have faltered time and again in the recent past.
Displaying intelligent skills, Boya scored his first goal in Bagan colours as Subhas Bhowmick's men registered an easy 2-0 win over Kalighat MS in Wednesday's CFL Championship Round clash, here, at the Salt Lake Stadium.
Balwant Singh was the other scorer for Bagan, who for the first time after two years recorded three successive victories in the CFL.
Bagan held the upper hand from the onset with Boya putting them ahead in the 24th minute. Katsumi Yusa, looking even better and sharper this season, unleashed a swerving free-kick as Boya came up with a smart header to beat the rival goalkeeper all ends up.
Within a couple of minutes, Bagan doubled their lead when Balwant converted off Jeje Lalpekhlua's long ball. As expected, the Kalighat MS defence was in complete disarray. The stopper-backs seemed to be having an early evening nap, allowing the unmarked Balwant with a free header.
Bagan could have scored at least two more, but attempts from Boya and Jeje were just wide of the target. The spark in Bagan's attacks was lost somewhat post the breather, but Bhowmick wasn't too worried about it, more so, as his team could bank on the class of someone like Boya.
Apart from being a constant threat in the 18-yard circle, Boya has the quality of moving back to the midfield and trying to take control of it. Twice in the game, in each halves, Boya sent in two wonderful through balls for Balwant and Katsumi, which could well have resulted in goals on another day.
"It's always satisfying to score your first goal for your new team. But the important thing is, we're improving with every game," Boya said after the match.
Mohun Bagan: Shilton Paul; Satish Singh, Kinshuk Debnath, Dhanachandra Singh, Souvik Chakrabarti; Shehnaj Singh, Shouvik Ghosh, Katsumi Yusa; Jeje Lalpekhlua (Sabeeth Sathyan, 46), Pierre Boya, Balwant Singh (Ram Malik, 78)
Kalighat MS: Suvam Sen; Kaushik Biswas, Sukanta Mondal (Mohammed Shah Alam Gazi, 88), Rana Gharami; Arijit Bagui (Saumava Das, 90), Pradip Roy, Bhim Oraon, Sukanta Banerjee; Saurav Mallick, A. Waheed
MoM: Shehnaj Singh
Referee: Ranjit Bakshi