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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder. It causes obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors that can interfere with everyday activities. OCD can vary in intensity and habits from person to person. Some compulsive habits, called rituals, may include checking locks, counting, over-organizing, or washing hands. The condition can develop at any age but is common in late adolescence and early adulthood. Treatment options include antidepressant medicine or behavioral/cognitive therapy.
A Cochrane review combined the results of several studies on the benefits of therapy. This large review found that behavioral/cognitive therapy alone appears to be an effective treatment for adolescents and children.
About the Study
The systematic review examined eight randomized trials that had evaluated treatments for OCD in children under 18 years old. These studies included 343 participants. Behavioral therapy or cognitive therapy were compared to a placebo pill, medicine, attention control, or wait list. In trials that compared behavioral therapy or cognitive therapy to placebo or wait-list, therapy patients had:
- Lower severity of OCD after treatment
- Significant reduction in risk of OCD continuing
In trials that only compared therapy vs. medicine, there were no significant differences in effectiveness of treatment comparing therapy and medicine in three trials.
In two trials comparing therapy plus medicine vs. medicine alone, the combination of therapy with medicine was better than medicine alone.
How Does This Affect You?
This systematic review highlights which treatments may be most effective in treating OCD for adolescents and children. The cognitive/behavioral therapy sessions appear to be as effective in reducing OCD symptoms as medicine and more effective than no treatment. Keep in mind that medicine used to treat OCD (most commonly antidepressants) may have serious side effects. Side effects can range from headaches and sleep problems to suicidal thoughts and depression. In therapy sessions, counselors will help you identify negative patterns and develop healthier habits. Therapy session may be done as individual or group therapy, and the length of treatment will depend on your specific case.
The degree and and management of OCD can vary greatly from one person to the next. It may take time to develop an effective program. Work with your doctor and therapists to find the treatment method that works best for you.
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Although some say money cannot buy you happiness, it can put you on a path to U.S. citizenship for a price tag of $500,000.
Through the EB-5 visa program foreigners can earn a green card granting them permanent residency – and a path to citizenship – in return for investing at least $500,000 in an American business that creates at least 10 jobs.
The Federal program began in 1990 but has been growing in recent years. NBC News reports that since 2008, the number of applications for EB-5 visas has risen dramatically. In 2007 776 foreign investors applied for visas, and that number rose to 6,040 last year. This year could be the first time the 10,000 visa cap is reached.
The requirements of the investor program mean the new business must create or preserve at least 10 full-time jobs for qualifying U.S. workers within two years.
"My American friends, they don't realize that the simple fact they were born here is worth $500,000," says Svetlana Anikeeva, a Russian immigrant who invested $500,000 in the construction of a Seattle office and retail space with her husband.
"It was most of everything we had at the moment," Anikeeva said of the money.
After spending her junior year of high school in Savannah, Georgia, she knew she wanted to return to America to live one day. She and her husband helped run the family's luxury automobile export business in Japan. But after the birth of their daughter, they began considering her future prospects and the advantages that an American education could offer.
In 2009, Anikeeva sent her application to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. After it was approved the couple invested in an office and retail space in downtown Seattle. Now she is waiting on her permanent green card to arrive in the mail at the family home in Redmond, Washington.
If all goes well from there, she plans to begin the process of becoming a U.S. citizen.
"I think the wedding day is supposed to be the happiest day of one's life? I think the day of my citizenship will be the happiest day of my life," she said.

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Westerly Creek Weekly Trail Walk (Mile High Ramblers)
August 6, 2018 @ 8:30 am - 9:30 am
An event every week that begins at 8:30 am on Monday, repeating indefinitely
TYPE: STSP Weekly | PACE: Conversational | TERRAIN: paved sidewalk | DISTANCE: Approximately 3.0 miles | DURATION: 60 minutes | COST: Free
Do you like to walk? Are you interested in connecting with new people? Then join us and like minded people for a walk along the Westerly Creek Trail. The Westerly Creek Trail is located in south Stapleton east of Central Park Blvd. and south of Martin Luther King Blvd.
StapletonWalks hosts a weekly 60 minute walk along the Westerly Creek Trail. The walk is free and everyone is invited. We really hope you will join us. It will be a great opportunity to get some exercise and connect with new people. The Westerly Creek Trail is very stroller and wheelchair friendly.
This is an approximately 3.0 mile walk out and back on the Westerly Creek Trail on wide, paved paths. We walk at a brisk but conversational pace, only stopping to cross the street when indicated. You can exit the walk at any time if needed. Just inform me that you will be leaving the group. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at [email protected].
Parking & Meeting Spot: There is plenty of free street parking. Please plan to meet us at the Central Park Recreation Center. The Central Park Recreation Center is located east of Central Park Blvd. on Martin Luther King Blvd. and Beeler Street. We'll do a quick warm-up and complete Welcome Waivers, if needed (see below). We will start walking no later than 8:30 a.m. We will travel south on the Westerly Creek Trail and walk back to our starting point. We should easily complete the walk by 9:30 a.m.
Welcome Waiver: If you have not completed a Welcome Waiver this year for this walk, please fill out the online Welcome Waiver at http://walk2connect.com/welcomewaiver/ or download, print, sign, and bring the waiver with you to the walk. You only need to complete one Welcome Waiver per year for this walk.
Dogs: Only well behaved dogs on short leashes.
Restrooms: There are restrooms at the Central Park Recreation Center.
Dress: Wear comfortable walking shoes with non-cotton socks and dress appropriately for the weather. Try to dress in layers so as to be prepared for any anticipated/unanticipated changes in temperature. Of course, during the warm weather months, sunglasses, sun screen, and a sun hat are a given.
Water: Please bring a bottle of water. Denver is a high plains desert (high altitude, low humidity) so staying hydrated is priority one.
RSVP to [email protected] so I can notify you in the event the walk is cancelled. However, please note, we will walk unless the weather is threatening (e.g., severe weather conditions exist) or the sidewalks are icy.
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It has been 10 years since the castaways of Flight 815 first crashed on the mysterious island from ABC's cult hit, "Lost."
While the show was popular for its mysteries (the smoke monster, that four-toed statue), creators Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse told Esquire the introduction of social media really helped the show take off.
As Cuse told the magazine:
"One thing we never predicted was that as the show was launching there was also the advent of social media. We were making a show that was intentionally ambiguous and was a mystery. All of a sudden there was this vehicle by which people could communicate with each other over the Internet. The show and social media just happened to come along at the same time, and it was the perfect thing for people to talk about over social media. We benefitted from this natural confluence of events. It was just sort of alchemy."
Social media also became a place where fans could discuss popular theories about what the island — and pretty much the entire show — meant.
Fan sites like "Lostpedia" allowed viewers to dig deeper into the show to not just discuss theories, but come up with some of their own.
Lindelof said his favorite crazy online theory ended up involving Vincent, a dog seen throughout the series.
"There was a theory that it was all taking place in the dog's head," Lindelof said.
Some other online theories ranged from the whole show being set in purgatory to the island actually being a spaceship. Cuse joked the latter theory may be fun to revisit.
"We should just go back to like episode 30 and re-break from there and just make it a spaceship," Cuse said. "That would be the unexpected reboot of 'Lost.'"


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Every industry has its gold stars, its crowns for the crowning achievements. We at Workforce like to think the top prize for excellence in human resources is the Workforce Magazine Optimas Award. It's more than acknowledgment of a job well done, more than recognition of something very special. It's really a celebration of the gains made by HR—and in HR—since the Optimas' conception in 1991.
It's true that we may feel a little proprietary about our Optimas Award winners. They're just so good. They are the reminders of the importance of HR, the need for HR. They are examples of the heights HR can scale when released from the binds of administrivia and allowed to be forward-thinking, challenging and creative.
Back in the early Optimas years, we heralded such exciting ideas as cutting-edge child-care programs, cost-snipping health-care initiatives and work-task skills training. Big deal, you say? All good HR departments do that now. Exactly-now. But back six or seven years ago, these HR professionals were blazing new trails, forging the image of HR we're so fond of today: A business-minded, outside-the-box-thinking partner-in-success for the new millennium.
Our past winners have been an impressive group: Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., Hallmark, Saturn Corp., UPS, Levi Strauss & Co., McDonald's Corp. and Federal Express to name a few. (Go to Workforce Online at www.workforceonline.com for a full list.) All are companies recognized nationwide for their top-drawer people.
This year's winners are no exception. Some are big-name organizations, such as Texas Instruments (General Excellence), Royal Dutch/Shell Group (Global Outlook), and Polaroid (Vision). Others, such as Trident Precision Manufacturing Inc. (Financial Impact) and Remedy Corp. (Competitive Advantage) are smaller and less well-known, but just as innovative and worthy of attention.
Several on our list this year are from the public sector. Some of these, such as the City of Phoenix (Quality of Life) and the Office of Personnel Management—the HR arm of the U.S. Federal Government—(Managing Change), are notable for adapting processes proven successful in Corporate America but not ordinarily applied in their industries. Others, such as the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Partnership), have developed initiatives from which Corporate America can draw.
All of this year's winners demonstrate HR's move away from a paper-pushing support function to a more holistic function. (Many of this year's winners, in fact, don't even have HR titles.) They show that no longer is HR the department known for a few specialties. Now HR is the partner companies need to address their No. 1 asset: people.
Indeed, Texas Instruments (TI), the only organization to have won two Optimas Awards, even advocates (and leads the way) for HR to move further on the spectrum to be more than a partner-to be an organizational leader.
Read about TI's and the other winning organizations' HR functions on the following pages. They are, as optimas means in Latin, "among the best." You'll see that these HR departments and the professionals who lead them are solving problems and making gains for their organizations. They can offer you inspiration and ideas for your own organization.
The Optimas Award winners are worthy of networking with, and Workforce provides you ample opportunity to do so. On our site you'll find links to this year's winning organizations' Web sites—many of which provide an opportunity to e-mail HR directly. You'll also find a Q&A area where you can ask questions of Chuck Nielson, vice president of HR at Texas Instruments. We'll post his responses on the site on Feb. 19.
Of course, nothing is quite as valuable as networking face-to-face, so Workforce invites you to meet the Optimas winners at our awards reception in Los Angeles on March 6—where the winners will receive their Optimas Awards, custom designed by Tiffany & Co., a founding sponsor of the awards program. You'll find details and a registration form on Workforce Online. Or, if you'd prefer, just give Kelly Dunn a call at 714/751-1883 ext. 246 for additional information.
Hopefully, you can join Workforce, Tiffany & Co., and our 1998 Optimas sponsors Kelly Services and Spectrum Human Resource Systems Corp., in congratulating the 1998 winners.


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Sweet the moments, rich in blessing,
Which before the cross I spend,
Life, and health, and peace possessing
From the sinner's dying friend.
Here I rest, in wonder viewing
All my sins on Jesus laid,
Here I see redemption flowing
From the sacrifice he made.
Here I find the dawn of heaven,
While upon the cross I gaze
See my trespasses forgiven,
And my songs of triumph raise.
O that, near the cross abiding,
I may to the Saviour cleave,
Nought with him my heart dividing,
All for him content to leave.
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Washington Redskins tight end Jordan Reed initially suffered the injury in the Redskins' Week 12 game against the Dallas Cowboys two weeks ago.That pain carried over into last week's practices in preparation for the Arizona Cardinals, as he didn't practice at all and could only catches passes with right hand. However, he returned to practice this week with almost full range of motion back in his injured shoulder. Redskins head coach Jay Gruden said that Reed has looked good over the last two days, but a determination for his playing status on Sunday will ultimately depend on how he is feeling closer to kickoff. If Reed does return to the field, he'll be facing an Eagles team but he appeared optimistically about playing vs. Eagles. Reed said every game makes him excited, against the Eagles is a huge game so that Redskins need all their guys available and he want to be available.


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Inspired by conversations on the Food52 Hotline, we're sharing tips and tricks that make navigating all of our kitchens easier and more fun.
Today: Think you don't like tofu? Think again.
Let's take a minute to talk about why you're not eating tofu.
You've tried it, poorly prepared, unpleasantly chewy, and punishingly bland. Or you're not sure what to do with it, so it just sits in your fridge after a particularly adventurous grocery store run, jiggling sadly inside its sterile little tub. Or -- for shame! -- you've written it off as something only enjoyed by vegetarians, whose palates are so skewed by a lack of meat that they find really weird and gross things tasty.
But here's what you're ignoring: tofu, when given a chance, can take on a variety of flavors and textures. It's cheap, it's got a long shelf life, and it boasts a lot of protein. And it doesn't have to be reserved for vegetarian dishes; it serves as a nice complement to other proteins, too, like in this chicken stir-fry.
Extra-firm pressed, fresh, and silken tofu.
Tofu is made by adding a coagulant -- such as salt or acid -- to heated soy milk, which causes the proteins to bind together and form a solid. You'll generally find it in three main varieties:
Silken tofu, at its simplest, is the (mostly unprocessed) curd that results when those proteins coagulate. It is silky, and a bit wobbly, and it blends and purées easily. This makes it ideal for thick, creamy dishes like Heidi Swanson's vegan chocolate mousse, but it also takes well to simple savory preparations.
Pressed tofu is what likely popped into your head when we mentioned the word. Sold in dense blocks, it's the result of pressing silken tofu to extract water. You'll find it in varying degrees of firmness, "extra-firm" being the most resilient version -- this kind stands up well to heat, even to the grates of a grill, when pressed even further.
Fresh tofu is freshly pressed -- you'll often find it at health food stores or Asian markets. If you live near a good Chinatown, you can find it easily, and it's cheap; we scored about two pounds for a dollar downtown.
The last, oft-forgotten cousin of the tofu family? Tofu skins. When we posted a photo of them last week, the majority of you guessed they were tagliatelle or other noodles. Wrong! When soy milk is heated, it forms a layer of skin, just as dairy milk does. When removed and drained, this skin (also called yuba) takes on an eggy texture; when cooked, it sucks up flavor as easily as a chameleon adopts color. You'll often find them dried, and can reconstitute them in water before cooking. They also come neatly folded, like a present ready for you to unwrap.
Prepping and cooking pressed tofu:
Pressed tofu will absorb flavor and stand up to heat best after it's been pressed again, at home. All it takes is something heavy: place your tofu on a towel-lined board, and top it with more towels. Weigh it down with some heavy books or a cast-iron skillet, and forget about it for 30 minutes. You'll have ultra-firm tofu to use however you'd like -- here are some suggestions:
Freeze it. Yes, put it in the freezer. Freezing tofu gives it a spongy texture once it defrosts -- it's reminiscent of the delightfully chewy tofu you'll find in Thai curries. Be sure to defrost it before cooking.
Broil it. Possibly the easiest way to prep tofu? Slice it into thin rectangles, brush it with olive oil, and sprinkle with salt, herbs, and spices of your choosing. Then broil for a few minutes on each side, until browned. The result is crispy and flavorful and fantastic on salads and sandwiches.
Bake it. Cut your tofu into cubes or planks, marinate it, and then bake it at high heat for 30 to 45 minutes, flipping once. Soy sauce-based marinades are an obvious choice, but feel free to experiment -- or forgo the marinade altogether for olive oil and salt, and slather everything in a flavorful sauce afterwards -- barbecue sauce will never let you down.
Fry it. We're fans of this Japanese-Style Fried Tofu, which yields a beautiful, crisp exterior.
Really though, you can do pretty much anything to your tofu: grill it, poach it, scramble it, braise it, simmer it in a curry, make it into burgers, or add it to a stir-fry. Mark Bittman's How To Cook Everything Vegetarian is a fantastic resource for the tofu-curious; for those ready to dive in, head-first, to the world of bean curd, Andrea Nguyen's Asian Tofu is your reference of choice.
Only after you've tried all of these techniques can you tell us that you don't like tofu. In that case, well, all the more for us.
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We're pleased to share the this blog post from special AN reporter D Archie Frink (Middle Tennessee University). He shares his observations from the second day of the 2011 AAA meeting.
In the morning of the second day of the AAA conference — and the first for many — the activity is buzzing: novice students display poster research and intermingle with those passing by amid established anthropologists who have come to share ideas.
This morning I attend the first panel of the day, Beyond the Social Life of Things: Natural Resources and Emergent Personhoods, organized by Sabrina A Peric with discussant Sylvia J Yanagisako. Inside there is an air of attentive nervousness and patient intellect among those presenting their papers and the audience dispersed throughout the room. The papers follow a trajectory of ethnographic practice among mining industries, crossing continents through each paper. This morning we have our tentative focus on individuals and community through our shared field experience. Smiles cross the room as we gain insights from one another.
For many attendees this is likely the first panel of the conference at Pales des Congrès this year in Montréal. On a personal note, this is my initiatory meeting with the American Anthropological Association, and with the commotion among attendees this morning it is refreshing to know that at present we are in the best of company –– our colleagues at Pales des Congrès.
Anticipation of what will come throughout the week in the brisk city stirs through the winding halls and expositions, as we invoke conversations with fellow scholars to discuss our ideas of ethnography over coffee.


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Facebook status updates and Twitter posts are being intercepted by the UK Government because they are regarded as external communications from countries based overseas, it has been revealed.
A legal battle with campaign group Privacy International over the level of surveillance by intelligence agencies has led to the disclosure of the legal loophole by Charles Farr, director general of the Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism.
The continuing legal battle was brought by a collection of civil liberties groups as a result of the Edward Snowden revelations last year.
The former National Security Agency (NSA) employee exposed a wide-ranging network of surveillance by government agencies.
In leaked documents, Mr Snowden revealed extensive snooping was being carried out by the US-based NSA, and GCHQ in the UK, including the interception of email and other communications.
The Government's interpretation means intercepting data can be carried out without a warrant under British law, which identifies an "external communication" as "those communications which are both sent and received outside the British Islands, whether or not they pass through the British Islands in the course of their transit."
In a statement, Mr Farr used the example of someone in the UK carrying out a Google search to demonstrate what would constitute an "external communication".
- Mass surveillance of UK citizens on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google is legal, says government's top anti-terror chief Charles Farr
"Google's data centres, containing its servers, are located around the world, but its largest centres are in the United States.
"So a Google search by an individual in the UK may well involve a communication from the searcher's computer to a Google web server, which is received outside the British Islands, and a communication from Google to the searcher's computer, which is sent outside the British Islands. In such a case, the search would correspondingly involve two 'external communications'."
Privacy International says the interpretation "patronises the British people".
Eric King, deputy director of Privacy International, said: "Intelligence agencies cannot be considered accountable to Parliament and to the public they serve when their actions are obfuscated through secret interpretations of byzantine laws."
Earlier this year, the founder of the world wide web Sir Tim Berners-Lee called for a "bill of rights" to protect web users.
The British physicist also criticised the NSA and GCHQ for the level of surveillance.
In a statement, GCHQ said its work is "carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework which ensures that our activities are authorised, necessary and proportionate".
Mr Berners-Lee set up the World Wide Web Foundation to help protect internet users. Foundation chief executive Anne Jellema said: "Based upon the documents published today, it seems the UK's spy agencies are using flimsy legal justification to sidestep the need for individual warrants and feel able to indiscriminately collect and monitor the private social media and web communications of anyone.
"The toxic cocktail of an opaque system and antiquated laws means that we have no idea how many times this has been done, how many people it has affected, or whether the technology companies involved are aware.
"Intelligence agencies need powers to keep people safe, but these powers must be subject to tough checks and balances or they will erode the very fabric of democracy. Bulk data collection by default, with laws made and enforced in secret, can never be acceptable."
The news follows confirmation from mobile network provider Vodafone that secret wires exist within their network that allow for surveillance by the state. The Heartbleed Bug as well as viruses GoZeus and CryptoLocker have also recently made headlines because of their threat to online privacy.
Emma Carr, acting director of privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch, said: "There has clearly been significant damage done to people's expectations that their communications will remain private from the gaze of companies, the Government or law enforcement agencies.
"There is little wonder that people are increasingly worried about their privacy, which will only have been made worse by the Government's unwillingness to have a proper debate about its surveillance capabilities.
"Our surveillance law needs reviewing, oversight needs to be much stronger and greater transparency about how powers are being used would all improve accountability and trust.
"Addressing this would not require legislation and should be addressed by the Home Secretary without delay."
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College basketball's free agency era
While sitting on the bench during a demoralizing first-round NCAA tournament loss to Iowa State, UConn's Alex Oriakhi made a decision in March that triggered the most frenzied four-week period of his life.
Right there, Oriakhi decided he would transfer. In the locker room immediately after the game, Oriakhi sent a text message to Missouri guard Phil Pressey, a close friend and former summer-league teammate, saying he might play with him. It was a message that launched a high-profile national recruitment of a 21-year-old.
Once Oriakhi received his release from his UConn scholarship, well more than 30 college coaches — including Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and North Carolina's Roy Williams — bombarded Oriakhi with phone calls. He could not maintain a conversation with one, he said, without call-waiting beeping with inquiries from others. He finally turned his cell phone off for two days.
Players have long transferred for myriad reasons — coaching changes, homesickness, playing time — but many coaches are increasingly troubled both by the sheer number of transfers and the waivers given so that some transfers don't have to sit out a season.
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Think keeping track of conference realignment is dizzying? Try following player movement: Oriakhi was among the most talented of more than 440 players who transferred in the past year, fueling debate over whether the complex issue hurts the sport and if anything can or should be done to curb the movement.
Not including graduate student transfers, almost exactly 10 percent of the 4,433 scholarships available from NCAA Division 1 men's basketball teams are changing hands via transfers. Although that percentage has held steady for nearly a decade, it is more than double the percentage of college football and more than triple that of college baseball, according to NCAA records. Records also show the transfer rate in men's basketball is 36 percent grater than the rate of the overall student-athlete population.
Think summer is the most important recruiting time? Coaches now often are forced to re-recruit some of their most talented players during the season to keep them, At the same time, coaches stand to greatly benefit if they land a transfer like Oriakhi, who is able to play this season without sitting out because the NCAA upheld UConn's postseason ban. Missouri coach Frank Haith still grins at the memory of landing the big man, calling the mid-April commitment an "early Christmas gift."
Aspects of the transfer trend have gained attention as high-profile athletes have jumped between teams and some of the game's most prominent coaches have spoken out against it. The outcries have even prompted changes by the NCAA. In response to specific concerns among schools about the application of some transfer waivers, the NCAA on Friday announced it is modifying the guidelines used when the association determines which transferring players receive waivers to play right away.
Some coaches, including Krzyzewski, endorse what amounts to player free agency — all transfers allowed to play right away. "From a player's perspective, I think a player should be allowed to move like a coach," Krzyzewski said. "If there was a player's union, players could move, transfers could travel. They would be traveling because they'd be playing. A lot of things are not done in the best interest in the players."
Other coaches, such as UTEP's Tim Floyd, call the rising transfer numbers an "epidemic," reflective of some players seeking instant gratification. And some players, including Oriakhi, call coaches who criticize transfers "hypocritical," saying it's time for players to exercise more power at a time when coaches draw little backlash despite breaking contracts to change jobs.
"Why not us?" Oriakhi told USA TODAY Sports of players nationwide. "Why would a coach want someone there who doesn't want to be there? If a player doesn't feel comfortable or happy with the situation, he has every right in the world to go where he wants to go, especially if he knows it will better him. A coach can go where he wants for more money. They'll be the first to leave when they get a better contract. Why can't a player go somewhere for pure happiness?"
Many coaches don't see it as players solely seeking happiness. Often times, they see highly touted teenage stars who want more playing time — players who expect minutes without necessarily earning them.
"There is just no patience," Marshall coach Tom Herrion said. "Kids are less apt to wait their turn, and some guys who play a lot, they are not happy because they want to play at a proverbial higher level, wherever it may be."
Perhaps causes lie with more than just the players themselves. Some recruiting analysts rank players as young as the fourth grade, and shoe company-sponsored summer-league teams fly pre-adolescents around the country for tournaments, providing a warped sense of reality. Kids as young as seventh-grade have begun receiving college scholarship offers and national media attention.
"We set a lot of these young men up for failure by how elevated they are, how lifted up they are, how good they're told they are — because that's not how it works," said Virginia coach Tony Bennett, whose roster slipped to nine scholarship players in Dec. 2011 with the transfers of K.T. Harrell and James Johnson. "It doesn't. It's so hard for them to deal with (not being the best). A lot of them can handle that, but some can't."
Players routinely switch AAU teams if they don't think they're getting enough shots – or free shoes. Many top recruits transfer high schools at least once, including the No. 1 recruit of the class of 2012, Nerlens Noel, who now plays at Kentucky. More famously, former Kansas State one-and-done forward Michael Beasley attended six different high schools. Beasley was drafted second overall in the 2008 NBA draft.
"Look at how many kids change high schools," Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan said. "It's a culture that's been established now and into college. For a lot of reasons, transferring is very, very good. It's helped people. In other cases, it might be someone tampering. It might be a third party influencing a player. There are a lot of different reasons, but I think it starts long before they get to college."
Ryan, who attracted a great deal of criticism for attempting to block redshirt freshman forward Jarrod Uthoff from transferring to certain schools this offseason, said he's not sure how to stop some of the root causes of transferring.
Michigan coach John Beilein said understands the reasons why a coach would block a player. "I don't see anything wrong for, when a young man wants to transfer, you to say, 'Listen, there's 325 schools, but we aren't crazy about you taking our playbook to the next school.' " he said. "If there's an appeal and a compelling reason, that's OK, too."
Michigan forward Jordan Morgan, who saw three teammates transfer in the offseason, offered a general explanation for the transfer phenomenon by saying, "I think sometimes ... it's not a good fit and people need to go. Sometimes, it's people who aren't willing to just work or just earn what they want. They think that it should be given to them.
"There are a lot of different reasons. For some people, it's not about college. It's just about basketball, not about the school."
First-year SMU coach Larry Brown – who last coached in college during a vastly different climate in 1988 --- pointed to the increased number of third-party influences who gravitate toward prospects nowadays, saying "a lot of people who tell kids where to go maybe are the ones who are unhappy" and push for the player to transfer.
The revolving door keeps spinning. And because so many players transfer, it has become more culturally acceptable for more players to transfer. Ohio State forward Deshaun Thomas said players talk about transfers on a daily basis, and it's not in a negative light. He said when his teammates Jordan Sibert and J.D. Weatherspoon chose to transfer, he didn't try to recruit them to stay. Do what's best for you, he told them, before wishing them well.
It hasn't always been that way.
"It was a bad sign [to transfer] when I was in college, like you were a bad guy," said former Michigan State point guard Eric Snow, who played for the Spartans from 1991-95. "That's how it came off. A lot of guys probably wanted to transfer but didn't because of the stigma of how it looked … Now I don't think that's the case."
When coaches realized this spike in transfers was the norm, not an aberration, they began to adjust. Considering the array of talent available during the offseason, it's wise for some to keep open spots on their rosters.
"I will say this — we will save a scholarship every year," said Maryland coach Mark Turgeon, whose roster currently has five transfers, including ex-Xavier swingman Dez Wells. "At this rate, you've always got a chance to get a really good player."
Which means it's important to make sure you keep what's on your roster. Fears of tampering run rampant. An opposing coach tells a star player he had a nice game. A former AAU coach gets a tip that his player had a bad practice. Should coaches be worried that their players are going to get poached? It's a slippery slope.
"I think coaches genuinely try to keep kids," Baylor coach Scott Drew said, "and it's hard to do."
Beilein said, "You have to make sure you're building a relationship so they never get to that point. It's human nature that you want to be a player right away and you want to be a star for four years. But it's not reality. If you build the relationship and you try to address that — the ones that stay, I don't think they regret it."
Beilein said he believes that all transfers should be required to sit out one year, no matter the reason for the move. Most coaches who spoke to USA TODAY Sports on the subject said they worry about programs exploiting waivers that allow players to play immediately.
The NCAA told USA TODAY Sports 15 such waivers were granted for eligibility for the 2011-12 season and 17 were denied. Over the past five years through April 2012, 47 waivers were approved, 47 were denied. But with a 50% success rate, it's made applying for waivers a popular decision.
That may change. The NCAA announced Friday afternoon that it will use altered guidelines when determining which players will receive waivers to play immediately after transferring. The changes affect those athletes attempting to use the waiver to play at a school closer to home because of the injury or illness of an immediate family member.
Among the stricter guidelines are requiring medical documentation of the immediate family member's debilitating injury or illness and dictating the school to which the player is transferring be within a 100-mile radius of the immediate family member.
"We're always looking for some type of extenuating circumstances that document the necessity to transfer as opposed to, 'This is just a decision of comfort or a decision of a better fit,' " said Kelly Brooks, the NCAA's Director of Membership and Academic Affairs who oversees the legislative relief waiver process.
The NCAA said the changes came in response to current waiver trends and a belief among its membership that there was inconsistency from one waiver decision to another. Members of the Division I legislative council's subcommittee for legislative relief, formed at the urging of NCAA President Mark Emmert, made the changes.
The subcommittee also will address a variety of other issues related to transfers as they review the current system and make recommendations.
Vanderbilt's Kevin Stallings is among those who were critical of the recent waiver trends. "You hear the things, 'My such and such is sick.' Well, then you should have gone to the hometown school to begin with, as far as I'm concerned," Stallings said last month. "Things are being manipulated and taken advantage of. As soon as you allow that, then Pandora's box opens and people are trying to, again, 'My second cousin's aunt's uncle is sick, and I want to play right away.' "
Oriakhi, who told USA TODAY Sports he was intent on transferring even if he had to sit out a season, said Stallings' comments sounded like those of a sore loser. "The coach from Vanderbilt said that?" Oriakhi said. "I'm pretty sure if I wanted to come to his school, he would not have had a problem with it. If it's going to benefit the coach, I'm pretty sure he's not going to complain about it at all. When someone goes to another school (in league), then there's a problem."
Oriakhi said the transfer debate is strewn with hypocrisy. For instance, he said, coaches can move freely from job to job with no penalty, but players cannot. In Krzyzewski, players have a prominent ally in this battle. Purdue's Matt Painter and Memphis' Josh Pastner are among other coaches who, in most instances, defend players' ability to transfer.
"Everybody here has probably changed their job at one time," Painter said. "Why'd you change your job? Got more money, wanted to go back to a certain area. … I try to talk very few people out of transferring."
Coaches point to the return of April's evaluation period — when coaches can watch high school prospects — and the NCAA rule change that allows for more access with their current players in the summer as ways to better get to know players, which in turn could lead to better fits between players and schools. But beyond that?
"How are you going to legislate morality?" Indiana coach Tom Crean said. "There are always going to be issues."
Few teams this season will benefit from transfers as much as Missouri. Despite returning just 29.7 percent of their scoring, the Tigers are poised to challenge the upper echelon of the SEC because of new faces who, unlike freshmen, for the most part arrive with a proven track record of having succeeded academically, socially and athletically at a college.
Haith said that when he was hired in spring 2011, he did not rely on signing uncommitted high school seniors because he could not find those talented enough. But some established college players on the move were potential difference makers, and as Haith said, "we got lucky."
Earnest Ross, a former double-figure scorer at Auburn, left because of a coaching change. Keion Bell yearned to play at a higher level after scoring 1,365 points at Pepperdine. And Oregon transfer Jabari Brown, a former five-star recruit, will be eligible to play second semester.
Then there is Oriakhi, a former McDonald's All-American who started 96 games at UConn and helped to Huskies win the 2011 national championship. Having initially committed to UConn as a 16-year-old, this past spring served as his first true high-intensity recruitment. And even some coaches who criticize the transfer trend could not resist making a sales pitch to Oriakhi.
In the end, Oriakhi said, much like coaches, he and other players are looking out for themselves first.
"You have to put yourself in the best position to get to the NBA, if that's what you want to do," Oriakhi said. "If transferring is what it takes, that is what it takes. Are coaches leaving to coach somewhere else bad for basketball? It's exactly the same thing."


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I'm running Win 7 and use the PODFarm 1 plugin in Reaper and also have the stand alone for both Gearbox 3.72 and PODFarm 1 installed and working fine.
just don't try to have them open at the same time.
My understanding of the restore function is that it resets the registry (along with other things) to whatever it was when that restore point was made.strat581 wrote:When I rolled back - none of my line 6 products would even launch. No Toneport, No DI silver.
If it was made before you installed the Line 6 software, then you will need to re-install the software to get it working.
I never use the restore function. I always have a spare drive that I have cloned a clean installation to or a drive with an 'image' of a clean installation along with an image of freshly working setup (all needed apps installed and everything tweaked).
Re-installing XP isn't scary, just time consuming. you can easily spend a day installing & updating XP, followed by whatever time is needed to install and setup or tweak whatever apps you need.
If you go that route you should prep before you start:
- make sure you have a valid XP license with a valid key code and working install disc. If you have PC from a majo Mfg. (Dell, etc.) you should have an XP Disc to re-install with. Use it and you probably won't have to bother with 'activating' XP.
- download XP SP2 & SP3 (Service Packs) from Microsoft
- download all latest XP drivers for your for Video card, Network adapter and sound card (Toneport & the PC's sound card). Then burn them to a disc or copy them to a thumb drive.
- download the latest versions of your apps and burn them to a disc or copy them to a thumb drive.
- if your hard dive is 3-5 years old, you should consider just getting a new one and put the new installation on it. The benefits are that your old drive is near or past the Mfg.'s estimated failure date. I've seen drives last 10 years in a machine that was on 24/7 and drives that barely made it past the est. failure date in a machine that was shut down every night and not used on some days.
However, the latter situation is more likely than the former.
The second benefit is that if you have issues with the new install you can always use the old drive with the old installation to get back up and running quickly to find a fix for whatever is causing the new install to fail.


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|Frosted Cranberry Orange Cookies
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon of cinnamon (I used more since we love it!)
1 teaspoon grated orange zest
2 tablespoons orange juice
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups chopped cranberries
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
Drizzle Glaze
1/2 teaspoon grated orange zest
3 tablespoons orange juice
1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees
In a large bowl, cream together the butter, white sugar and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg until well blended. Mix in 1 teaspoon orange zest and 2 tablespoons orange juice. Combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; stir into the orange mixture. Mix in cranberries, walnuts . Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Cookies should be spaced at least 2 inches apart.
Bake for 12 to 14 minutes in the preheated oven, until the edges are golden. Cool. cookies on a wire rack.
In a small bowl, mix together 1/2 teaspoon orange zest, 3 tablespoons orange juice and confectioners' sugar until smooth. Spread over the tops of cooled cookies. Let stand until set.


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President V Zatlers of Latvia will attend church services and following St. Michael's bazaar at Yonkers on Sept. 26.
After church services at 10:00 am, President zatlers will address the participants
Church service followed by St. Michael's Day bazaar at the Yonkers Church Sept. 26
Will follow 10:00 am church services. Please come, you will enjoy this event!
The Second week of Īksķīšī"
This summer starting July 11, 32 Latvian children from ages 2-7, got together at the Īkšķīšu nometne camp. With them came parents, grandparents, au pairs, and their even younger brothers and sisters. Every day the parents actively and creatively involved their children in interesting and exciting activities which the children enjoyed from early morning to late in the evening.
Video from the first camp Nometne period
Here is a video from the Girls' ensemble concert at the "Melnais Lācīs" event on July 17 and from closing concert of this camp period.
3x3 (Trīs reiz trīs) seminar camp at Nometne Aug. 15. - 22
A camp for all ages and all interests.
Viewing of a video of the concert by Ave Sol "Dievs, Tava zeme deg" ("God, Your land is burning")
Sunday Aug. 1 at 10:30 - Church services followed by viewing of a video of the concert by Ave Sol "Dievs, Tava zeme deg" ("God, Your land is burning") at the Long Island Church. All are invited. Subtitles in English.
Apply for or renew your Latvian passport here in New York!
For 3 days in July you will be able to apply for or renew your Latvian passport right here in the New York area, so you can vote in the parliamentary elections in October! In New York the mobile passport workstations will operate at the following times and locations:
Tuesday July 27 from 09:00 to 13:00 and from 14:00 to 18:00 - at the Long Island Church Parsonage (next to the church at 35 Beaumont Drive);
Wednesday July 28 from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 15:00 to 19:00 - at the Yonkers Church;
Thursday July 29 from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 15:00 to19:00 - at the Brooklyn parsonage.
Saturday, Jul. 17 at 18:00 - "Melnais Lācis" ("The Black Bear") Social afternoon
Hors d'oeuvres and refreshments starting at 18:00, Dinner at 19:30, The campers and counselors ensemble will entertain participants with their presentations. Please support the Latvian church camp "Nometne"! Proceeds benefit the upkeep of the Latvian church camp "Nometne" property. All are welcome!
See the latest pictures from this summer!
The mission of the Latvian Ev. Luth Church of New York is (translation coming soon) - Veidot kristīgu un latvisku ģimeni, kuŗā augam un audzinām ticībā, cerībā un mīlestībā!
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week ago Stanczyk wrote about Cholera and its 5th Pandemic. This week I was searching for 'Status Animarum' (Latin for 'State of the Souls'). That is a type of church census. Often these censuses include three generations. I stopped in a list of Google results. I stopped for Cleveland's St. Stanislaus' 1918 Status Animarum.
Now Stanczyk has a branch of the family in Cleveland and at the St Stanislaus parish. 1918 was the tail end of World War I. It was also the main year of the last epidemic, … the flu, sometime called the Spanish Flu. More people died from the flu than from the war. Pestilence won again. I am sure war had something to do with the pestilence and people weakened immune systems.
World War I was different then almost all other wars in US history. We had citizens training and fighting in two armies against a common enemy. You had Polish-Americans serving in the US Army and you had Polish Americans serving in the French colors (Blue Army), Polish-led (General Haller), Canadian-trained, with men from the USA who were Polish ethnically. So a world war and pestilence both ran amok.
This Status Animarum was not the kind like in European parishes that listed two-three family generations and their home, census-like. This was a Status Animarum Report — summarized at the parish level …
Blessedly, with about one thousand men serving in the military (3/4 USA, 1/4 Polish) and the Flu Pandemic, only 18 men had died!
Statistically, Cleveland's St. Stanislaus had lucked out. The other statistic, 25% of the men served in Haller's Army (aka the Blue Army). This device allowed the US men to have a presence in the World War, before the USA was ready … emotionally to end its isolationism and enter the war itself. I wonder if this percentage held true in all Polish parishes in the USA?
What desperate times were those? And yet, is today not like a hundred years ago? We shall see. It has been nearly a century since the last pandemic. Will the Chinese bird-flu be the next pandemic? Time will tell. Certainly, there is plenty of warfare about the globe and plenty of sabre rattling.


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By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
NEW DELHI — New Delhi on Friday said Chinese soldiers have advanced nearly 12 miles (20 kilometers) into Indian-claimed territory after intruding across the disputed border earlier this month, a report said.
Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma and other military officials presented a report on the incursion to a parliamentary watchdog, the Press Trust of India reported, marking a renewal of tensions between the Asian neighbours.
Sharma also told MPs attending the meeting that India has deployed troops in the contested region to "keep a close watch on the border," it quoted unnamed sources as saying.
India and China have an unresolved boundary dispute, and relations are often prickly and marked by mutual suspicion — a legacy of a brief border war in 1962.
A senior defence ministry official confirmed the meeting took place and that Sharma briefed MPs on the alleged Chinese advance but he did not elaborate.
"The officials told the committee that Indian army patrols reported on April 16 the presence of Chinese People's Liberation Army pitching tents 19 kilometers inside the LAC [Line of Actual Control]," PTI quoted a source as saying.
The LAC is the de facto border that runs across the Himalayas.
The meeting came a day after Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid announced he would head for China on May 8, saying both countries had a mutual interest in not allowing the dispute to "destroy" long-term progress in ties.
A foreign ministry official also confirmed reports that the new Chinese Premier Li Keqiang would travel to New Delhi India late next month, without giving an exact date.
Lower-level talks have so far failed to break the impasse in the dispute in the western part of India-administered Kashmir's Ladakh region.
According to officials in New Delhi, a platoon of Chinese troops set up a camp inside Indian territory on April 15.
India has since called on the Chinese soldiers to withdraw, but several meetings between local army commanders and diplomats from both sides have failed to resolve the stand-off.
China has denied any wrongdoing.
In 1962, China gave India a bloody nose in the war fought in the Himalayan regions of Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh.
Small incursions are not uncommon across the LAC but it is rare for either country to set up camps in disputed territory.
In recent years, the countries have increased their military presence on each side of the border and hold frequent meetings to diffuse tensions.
Despite the border tensions, trade between the Asian giants has soared in recent years.


text: High voltage electrics plus risk of sparky, smoky death plus humorous engineer equals excellent warning sign. I'd keep well away, after reading that. Though I do remember an old girlfriend's dad once pinned a freakishly similar note (substituting the odd "I will" into the text) to his daughter's bedroom door, and pointedly drew my attention to it. [Voltagecreative via Neatorama]


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This has been the year of two living popes.
It's been a year of new mass shootings, government shutdowns, spies turned whistleblowers and the revelation that our government is doing everything but looking up our skirts and down the fronts of our blouses in its efforts to spy on and criminalize the entire American populace. I'm not ruling the skirts and and blouses part out, but we have no confirmation of that.
It's been the year when the Supreme Court drop-kicked DOMA and took gay marriage off the leash, the year when we the people actually got our fill of senseless war and stopped the bombing in Syria. It was the year when the economy rotated in place and a big piece of my part of the world was blown to smithereens.
There's been the flop of the Obamacare start up; the push for gun control and a nervy stand-off in Texas over a commonsense pro life bill that would simply require abortion clinics to provide the same levels of safety to their patients as any other free-standing surgery clinic.
My brother-in-law died, leaving my sister as one of the walking wounded. My mother has been in and out of the hospital.
And me, I've just kept on passing bills and writing blog posts. I still haven't lost weight and I still can't make my hair do one single thing that it doesn't want to do. I have taken up piano lessons, and I am the proud possessor of a new camera.
Life, as they say, goes on.
One surprise to me has been how hard it is to blog about matters of faith and still keep my religion. I've spent years dealing with that very thing as a legislator. The process of getting whammed around because of my beliefs has toughened my faith and made it stronger. But I've also found, as I've started writing about it, that it has made me more than a little impatient with people who aren't as willing to go out there on the ice for Jesus as I am.
I've forgotten how I was before the pro abortion people made me the target of an orchestrated campaign of character assassination. They forced me to choose over and over between them and Jesus, between the Democratic Party and Jesus, between having friends at work and Jesus, between anybody even speaking to me on the job and Jesus. I've forgotten what it was like back in the days when I hadn't been called every ugly name I can think of.
Who was I back then?
I honestly can't remember.
All I know is that talking about these things with you good people here at Public Catholic and witnessing your attempts to work through them yourself has acquainted me with the simple fact that I'm different now than I was before these things happened to me. I see the world differently than I did before I chose Christ in an active way during adversarial politics.
One of the purposes of this blog is to provide a forum where we can work through the process of finding our voice in the face of the often daunting ugliness of attacks on the faith in this post-Christian society of ours. It's ironic how often the blog and I get targeted by people who make it their business to attack Christians and Christianity. That can be disruptive to what I'm trying to accomplish here, but it is, in its own backhanded way, a great privilege.
Whenever anyone targets me for personal attacks and vendettas because of my stand for Jesus, I am blessed.
But this blessing leads me to the faith challenge that has troubled me most of this past year. It is easy to get caught up in these attacks and start feeling besieged. Instead of drawing me closer to Christ, that kind of thinking can build a barrier between me and Him.
It's easy to fall into the trap of regarding these things as being about me. It's also easy to fall into the parallel trap of trying to deal with them on my own.
One of the surprising pitfalls of blogging about faith is that I can spend too much time talking about Jesus and cheat myself of time spent talking to Him. It seems some days that the more I talk about Jesus the less I talk to Him.
This tendency to talk about Christ without talking to Christ is a dangerous road to take. I think it would lead me inevitably down the path of becoming my own little g god. I could eventually come to a point where I lose my relationship with Jesus and begin to lecture and hector about Him without any guidance or input from Him. These attacks from the Christian-bashing peanut gallery — and my own temper — push me hard down that path.
The only way I know to avoid this is by retreating. I don't mean by not writing this blog. I mean by not making the writing of this blog into what passes for my relationship with Christ. The life of a Public Catholic should be mostly Catholic and only a little bit public.
What I mean is that any public statements or actions about my faith should be the outflow of a fruitful walk with Christ that is mostly hidden and that is nurtured, sustained and informed by the quiet times of simply being with Him. If most of my faith is what people see, then it is an anemic and ultimately destructive excuse for real faith. The way to achieve this kind of fruitful walk with Christ is not by pushing on, but by making regular, nourishing retreats away from the public part of life.
This is similar to the lesson that I learned in how to live a real life while in public office. I had to withdraw and go home to my real life. You have a real life by living one. By the same token, you have a real relationship with Jesus Christ by spending time with Him.
I am not talking about going to mass, although going to mass and partaking of the Body and Blood of Our Lord is essential. I am talking about spending time in prayer, and by that I mean mostly just being with God. I certainly don't mean dumping out a laundry list of wants and needs and then going back to your busy-busy life. Prayer is, or it should be, mostly companionship. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is a wonderful way to get some alone time with God. But it's not necessary, if it's not do-able.
I experienced the profound conversion that changed my life while I was driving my car on the way to Enid Oklahoma to make a speech. God is with you, always. You only have to start talking to Him.
I'm still learning the blogging ropes. At the same time, I'm also trying to learn how to live my first vocation, which is simply and always to love Jesus and let Him love me. The challenge to my faith in 2013 has been the surprising reality that I need to learn how to speak about Jesus in a public forum and then just go home to Him the rest of the time.
I think talking about this on this blog is highly appropriate. It is, after all, called Public Catholic and is dedicated to helping all of us, you and me both, learn to live our faith in the public side of our lives. We live in a society where the public debate, the media and most educational institutions are dominated by an anti-Christian viewpoint that is not the least bit ashamed to engage in Christian bashing that rises to a discriminatory level. We have reached the point where at least in some quarters verbal abuse and hazing directed at Christians is considered a form of righteousness.
Every one who stands for Jesus is going to pay a price.
The only way this blog can help to empower Christians to find their voice for Christ in the face of that overt and ugly resistance is if we talk honestly to one another. We need, all of us, to base our efforts to speak for Jesus on a real faith that is nourished and sustained in the private side of our lives.
Nobody told me this rock was out there under the blogging water when I began doing this. I did not realize that I would learn that I had to repent of my self-sufficiency. I had to hit the rock of spiritual dryness and feel the unpleasant thunk all on my own.
For all I know, the other Christian bloggers here at Patheos have never come up against this. I tried a few months ago to talk to a priest about it because I thought that, of all people, a priest who has to go out there and wear his faith on his collar all the time would understand. He just stared at me like I was speaking Klingonese.
I decided then that I was on my own with this, or, rather, I was on my own with Jesus. But that's how I became a Christian in the first place; just me and Jesus.
What that means for me is making time for the simple things: Pray the Rosary, read the Bible, go to mass. I can leave the heavy lifting to the Holy Spirit. I don't have to sustain my relationship with Christ by my actions. All I need to do is stop ignoring Him in my zeal to defend Him and simply talk to Him. I am a child of God, and like all true parents, He will always answer when I call.


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He's become an online star, by sharing stunning photos and videos of the Earth from space during his five-month stay on the International Space Station.
But after handing over command of the station to Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov ahead of his return to Earth on Monday, the Canadian astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield had one more treat for his fans down below: a cover version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity."
In the clip, believed to be the first music video filmed in space, Hadfield floats around the space station singing the 1969 track (with modified lyrics such as, "Ground control to Major Tom, lock your Soyuz hatch and put your helmet on," referencing how his spacecraft will land him in Kazakhstan) and playing an acoustic guitar while gazing at the Earth 230 miles below.
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With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here's Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World. youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9d…—
Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) May 12, 2013
The video, which has already been viewed over half a million times, has even moved Bowie himself to show his appreciation, tweeting: CHRIS HADFIELD SINGS SPACE ODDITY IN SPACE! "Hallo Spaceboy…"
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Thank you, Harford County, for joining Oak Grove Baptist Church in our third annual Women's Conference held on April 13. With nearly 150 in attendance, we enjoyed the lavish account by DeeDee Jonrowe of her life on the Iditarod Trail over the past 31 years as a musher in Alaska.
DeeDee is the foremost female dog musher competing in the world today and a breast cancer survivor. Her accounts of the life lessons learned on the Iditarod Trail have bolstered her desire to honor God in her racing and daily life. She is an encouragement to young and old alike to follow their dreams and to never give up.
If you are interested in more about DeeDee Jonrowe, we have recently learned that her trademark pink kuspuk (coat) and other Iditarod Trail items and trophies will be on display in the Smithsonian in 2014!
And, now, a thanks to our sponsors for all the wonderful door prizes. We especially want to thank the following local businesses in Bel Air that provided gift donations for door prizes: Anytime Fitness-Agora Drive, Bruce Bitner's Café & Grille, Cold Stone Creamery, Flagship Cinema, Flowers by Dene, Great Clips Amyclae, Mane Connection, Mary Kay-Joyce Waller, Panera Bread, Sweet Frog-Bel Air, The Open Door Café, The Arena Club, and WaWa.
Additionally, these businesses from around Harford and neighboring counties provided gift donations for door prizes: Bring Back the Beauty In Your Carpets - Bruce Dreyer, Churchville Golf & Baseball, Norwex Products-Dawn Raiber, Rolling Hills Ranch/Freedom Hills Therapeutic Riding Program-Port Deposit, Klein's Shop Rite-Forest Hill, Lifeway Christian Store, Sandy Cove Ministries and Sunshine Grill-Fork.
Danielle Nicole provided a Sydney Shopper tote. This gift was a delight to receive since Danielle Nicole is originally from Ellicott City and nearly all her brand handbags are currently available at Macy's, Nordstrom and Lord & Taylor.
A special thank you goes to Kingsville Station and owner, Henry Jones, for the very delicious lunches in individual boxes.
All these businesses added to the enjoyment of a wonderful day.
We look forward to sharing with Harford and all surrounding counties at our fourth Women's Conference on Saturday, March 22, 2014 at Oak Grove Baptist Church, 2106 Churchville Road, Bel Air. Please watch for conference information at .
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Immigration-rights protesters close down Wilshire Boulevard
Immigration-rights protesters blocked Wilshire Boulevard in a protest over Arizona's controversial immigration law.
About 200 demonstrators laid down on Wilshire at Highland Avenue at about 10 a.m., blocking traffic on both major streets.
The Los Angeles Police Department was on scene, but it was unclear whether officers were going to arrest the demonstrators.
The protest is the latest in L.A. to criticize Arizona's immigration law. Last month, demonstrators blocked traffic in downtown L.A. and in Westwood.
Organizers from Todos Somos Arizona released a photo showing the Wilshire Boulevard protest.
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Photo: Protesters with the group We Are All Arizona lay in the street blocking traffic at the intersection of Highland Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. Credit: Al Seib / Los Angeles Times
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