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The celebration of potential before achievement. It's an unintended consequence of the constant search for the "next big thing" and universal throughout sports – professional surfing included. In point of fact, nowhere is this phenomenon more pervasive than in surfing where the next big thing has been the same man for the last three decades.
World Championship Tour event wildcards, for example, are often allocated to athletes long on talent but short on results because of that collective and insatiable appetite to champion something - or somebody - fresh and new.
Sometimes the hype holds up. Mostly it doesn't though, at least not right away.
"...the next big thing has been the same man for the past three decades."
Charging out of the gates, these surfing "danger†men and women usually find themselves significantly wanting against competition from steeled and determined world title contenders. Their untested potential flinching in the face of veteran achievement.
That's why when a ballyhooed but unproven "world-beater†talent actually produces results, it's met with collective disbelief. And it's also why one of the more captivating recent storylines in professional surfing was Owen Wright's initial assault on the world stage.
In 2009, a 19-year-old Wright received wildcards into the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach and the Rip Curl Pro Search Portugal.
At Bells, he dispatched Dane Reynolds and 11-time ASP World Champion Kelly Slater in the opening two rounds. In Portugal, he beat both Reynolds and Slater again.
It remains the only time a wildcard bested Slater twice in a single season.
Wright went on to take down Kekoa Bacalso and Damien Hobgood in the Portugal event, before a Semifinal matchup with Mick Fanning was derailed when Wright suffered a ruptured eardrum.
No matter. All the early predictions of Wright's greatness were – for once - starting to ring true.
Flash forward. It's 2011 and Wright makes history again with back-to-back-to-back Finals against Slater.
The two squared off in Tahiti, New York and Lower Trestles, with Wright coming out on top once, at the Quiksilver Pro New York - the richest surfing event in professional surfing history.
Wright would go on to finish 2011 season ranked No. 3 on the ASP WCT rankings.
Bells Beach - Sunday, March 31, 2013: competing in Round 2 against Dusty Payne in chunky six-to-eight foot surf, Wright suffered an awkward fall that compressed his back and ultimately forced him to withdraw.
Out of the event, Wright headed home for medical consultation and rehabilitation, while the surf world waited for word on his condition. What followed was 10 months of radio silence.
In an era of tireless self-promotion and social saturation, Wright's absence from the spotlight only fueled speculation. Misinformation swirled throughout the professional ranks.
There were rumors of imminent returns that conflicted with ones of a botched diagnosis. Those conflicted with whispers about burnout. Only one thing seemed clear – that Wright's future in professional surfing wasn't.
Previous episodes in the series:
Part I
Part II
Part III


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CMA CGM chairman and CEO Rodolphe Saadé has signed two strategic partnerships with Lei Fanpei, chairman of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), including an order of 10 containership newbuilds, as well as an agreement to jointly develop more efficient and environmentally-friendly vessels.The deals were signed Monday in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese President Xi Jinping, on the occasion of the latter's State visit to France.The 10 new Chinese-built 15,000-TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units) vessels will each measure 366 meters long.
First Condensate Cargo Shipped from Prelude
Royal Dutch Shell on Monday said it had shipped the first condensate cargo from its Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project off northwestern Australia over the weekend."We can confirm that the first shipment of condensate has sailed from the Shell-operated Prelude FLNG facility. This is another step towards steady state operations," a Shell spokeswoman said in emailed comments.Shell had hoped to start generating cash flow from Prelude in 2018, but has yet to start shipping LNG from the project, which was to have been the world's first floating LNG facility but was beaten by Malaysia's Petronas.The company declined to say when it expects the first Prelude LNG cargo.
Nearly 500 Airlifted from Stricken Cruise Ship
Rescue services had airlifted 479 people to safety from a luxury cruise liner with engine trouble off the coast of Norway by Sunday morning and began towing the vessel to a nearby port.The Viking Sky, with 1,373 passengers and crew on board, sent out a mayday signal on Saturday as it drifted towards land in the Norwegian Sea.The airlift of passengers, many of them elderly, from the Viking Cruises ship by helicopter was halted on Sunday morning as two tugboats started steering the vessel towards the nearest port.Founder and chairman of Viking Cruises, Norwegian billionaire Torstein Hagen, said he hoped the vessel would arrive at the port of Molde on Norway's west coast by Sunday afternoon.
USCG Commandant Delivers SOTCG Address
The Commandant of the United States Coast Guard delivered his first State of the Coast Guard address Thursday at Coast Guard Base Los Angeles-Long Beach in San Pedro.Speaking from the largest port in the nation, Adm. Karl Schultz highlighted Coast Guard security and marine safety operations, which facilitate $4.6 trillion in annual economic activity.Schultz also recognized the service and sacrifice of Coast Guard men and women deployed around the world ensuring global peace and prosperity, including servicemembers supporting U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and U.S. Central Command.
Report: FBI Falls Short On Port Threat Assessment
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is not taking appropriate steps to review and assess potential maritime terrorism risks facing U.S. sea ports, the Justice Department's internal watchdog has found.The audit, released on Thursday by Inspector General Michael Horowitz, found that while top FBI officials believe the country faces a low maritime terrorism threat, that view is actually based on "incomplete and potentially inaccurate information."Moreover, the audit found that the FBI had not conducted its own formal assessment of the matter.In a letter to Horowitz dated Aug.


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Jenise wrote:Mike Filigenzi wrote:Made this last night. Used diced Spanish chorizo instead of the ham and added milk. Unfortunately, I got sidetracked and overcooked it a bit. It was still pretty tasty. I'll make it again. It agree that it's not as good as using potatoes instead of chips but the reality for me is that I need a range of nutritious dishes that go together (start to finish) in less than an hour.
And hell, how often can you come home from work at 6 and have a Ferran Adria dish on the table by 7?
Another shortcut? Use frozen, or previously frozen, cubed potatoes.
Good point - I'll have to consider that.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - The Texas Rangers have purchased the contract of highly-touted prospect Mike Olt from Double-A Frisco.
To make room for Olt on the roster, the Rangers have optioned infielder Brandon Snyder to Triple-A Round Rock. The Rangers have also moved right-hander Colby Lewis, who will miss the rest of the season with a torn flexor tendon in his right elbow, to the 60-day disabled list.
The moves were announced after Wednesday's 11-10 victory over the Los Angeles Angels.
Olt, who has played four positions this season in Frisco, was hitting .287 with 27 home runs and 81 RBIs in the minors. Snyder hit .281 with three home runs and nine RBIs in 38 games.
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Because of recent federal and state energy legislation, energy-efficient lighting is now a major component in the effort to reduce the load and increase building energy savings. Since lighting accounts for more than 30% of electric energy use in offices, lighting controls are going mainstream. However those office lighting control systems should still be flexible enough to provide the proper illumination for different tasks and respond to changing conditions within the space.
Today's workplace is exceedingly dynamic, with employees shifting among a variety of tasks during a typical day. A high light level is needed for reading documents with small text or engineering drawings, a medium light level is more appropriate for collaborative meetings, and an even lower level is required for keyboard tasks at a computer. Additionally, each employee's personal light requirements may differ based on age, vision, or preference.
Thus, quality light — illumination that can be described as comfortable in all office facilities — is important because it brings tangible returns. And that may include giving the light users more control. According to many recent studies, employers who offer individual workstation control, particularly for lighting level and thermal comfort, have happier employees, improved work output, better employee attraction and retention, and financial success.
Getting a solid return on your investment. Believe it or not, job satisfaction and employee retention as they relate to comfortable office lighting can have a measurable effect on your bottom line. According to Harris Rothenberg, LLC, a New York City-based performance consulting firm, replacing an employee costs 1.2 to 2 times their annual salary due to organization inefficiency while the position is vacant and the processing costs related to the new hire. The same research indicated that a new employee reaches maximum efficiency and performance only after 13.5 months of employment.
More specifically, surveys conducted in office settings over the last few years indicate the value of having personal controls at the workstation. For example, a landmark productivity study published in 2003 by the Light Right Consortium linked the availability of workstation personal control to worker satisfaction and performance. Nine office workers in Albany, N.Y., were subjected to a variety of lighting scenarios and then asked for feedback. When the questionnaire results were evaluated at the end of the test period, the Light Right Consortium found that the availability of lighting control in the workplace directly affected the workers' motivation on the job.
Thus, some facility owners are willing to pay a premium for personal lighting control to achieve a gain in worker satisfaction. In these situations, the occupants are able to "tune" the lighting according to changing tasks, their mood, and the amount of daylight available. For these reasons, tailored lighting has the capacity to provide a significant return on investment.
Understanding workspace-specific lighting. In the past, fluorescent luminaires consisted of a light source (lamp), a reflector or lens, and a ballast to operate the lamps. However, a variety of new occupancy sensors, photocells, and infrared/RF controls are now being mounted in fluorescent fixture housings to allow "fine tuning" of the lighting in an office space. With motion detectors and daylight sensors that are either remote-mounted or integrated into a luminaire housing, lights will dim and/or switch off when not needed. Depending on the technology selected, sensors may be programmed using an IR remote controller or administration software.
At least two manufacturers offer a suspended linear fluorescent luminaire with the features described above. The three-lamp, direct/indirect luminaire integrates occupancy sensing, daylight sensing, and personal dimming, which can be accessed remotely using a network communications system. Two four-foot T8 lamps and a program-start dimming electronic ballast (64W active power) provide the direct/task lighting. A single T8 lamp operated by a program-start electronic ballast (31W active power) provides the indirect light component.
This type of fixture is called a workplace-specific luminaire, since a single unit can be installed over an employee's cubicle or private-office desk. While the workspace-specific fixture is more expensive than a standard T8 fluorescent luminaire, it allows a designer to achieve task-appropriate illumination with reduced energy use. For example, a typical 10-foot by 12-foot office may be illuminated with a pair of two-lamp or three-lamp fluorescent troffers. Assuming the use of T8 lamps and electronic ballasts, the power density will be about 1W to 1.5W per square foot. However, you'd only need to specify one three-lamp direct/indirect workspace-specific luminaire to achieve up to a 50% reduction in power density.
In an open-office area, workplace-specific lighting can also reduce the number of fixtures required, compared to a uniform spacing of the fixtures.
Workspace-specific, controllable luminaires allow a building manager or engineer to tailor the sensor response to follow a specific pattern. Consider, for example, a typical situation during the work day: if the integral occupancy sensor of the workspace-specific luminaire doesn't detect movement at the cubicle desk directly below, the downlighting will automatically dim to off. Only the uplighting component of the luminaire remains on. Outside of the regular office hours, an occupancy sensor in the luminaire (or elsewhere in the open office) can be set to control both the uplighting and downlighting component of the suspended luminaire.
The higher initial cost of a workspace-specific controllable luminaire is an important factor in a new or retrofit project. However, due to ease of installation and a reduction in the number of fixtures required, the luminaire can be price-competitive with a parabolic troffer system on an installed-cost basis and provide enhanced quality of illumination and appreciable energy savings over the system's life.
Lets look at some personal control products that operate separate from the workspace-specific luminaire.
One type of dimming system allows a worker to control the overhead fluorescent lighting fixtures using a handheld remote IR control. An IR receiver/sensor connected to the dimming ballast provides the control to change the lamp's lumen output.
Another lighting system features a manual override of automated fluorescent lighting settings through use of a wall-mounted control, an infrared handheld remote control device, or a PC workstation. The system can also factor in available natural daylight, a technique known as daylight harvesting. This strategy uses ceiling-mounted photocells to measure the changing contribution of daylight and then compares this light level to an established level of light in a room. The controller responds by dimming or brightening the fluorescent lighting to sustain the desired level. The controller is compatible only with specific manufacturer's electronic fluorescent dimming ballasts. Usually, as more are approved, they're added to a manufacturer's list.
Yet another system combines fixtures, user controls, and digital communications. Instead of controlling groups of fixtures by circuit, groups can be established by address and controlled with a group controller. Wall control options range from simple group dimmers or broadcast controls to programmable scene controllers.
Computer control software is also available that supports digital controllable ballasts in ceiling-mounted fixtures. System features include individual occupancy control of assigned fixtures, standard lighting control functions, logging of fixture operating levels (energy consumption calculation), and reporting of lamp and ballast failures.
Ballast manufacturers are also responding to the expanding role of fluorescent dimming systems by offering 100% to 5% dimming of T8 lamps. This type of ballast is compatible with standard 1-10VDC fluorescent controllers and compatible with two-wire power line fluorescent dimmers, making it ideal for individual office lighting or automated building applications.
The indoor office environment has changed considerably over the years. Flexible workspace designs, computer equipment, and an aging workforce have presented new challenges to lighting designers and installers. And further complicating the situation, studies have shown that lighting has a direct effect on employee morale and productivity. But for lighting professionals willing to get "personal" with their designs and offer light users individual control over brightness, modern office lighting is a little less intimidating.
Sidebar: Fluorescent Dimming in Triplicate
Fluorescent lamp dimming that uses electronic ballasts is done in three ways:
0-10VDC analog, phase control analog, or digital control.
0-10VDC — This analog control system is the most commonly used technology today. Groups of fixtures are connected to the control circuit to receive the same command signal, allowing the control to extend beyond a single power circuit layout.
Phase control technology — This is ideal for an architectural lighting scheme in a smaller space, such as a conference room or an individual office. Generally, a phase control dimming ballast uses the same pair of conductors for power and control, thus providing for a simple cost-effective retrofit where control from a single location is desired.
Digital control system — Rather than sending a variable analog control voltage to the ballast, this sends digitally encoded pulse signals that are free from noise or radio frequency interference, improving signal reliability and control flexibility. Many industry professionals envision the time when all building systems — lighting, HVAC, envelope systems, security and life safety — are integrated, from the smallest device and sensor all the way to the Internet, through digital communications protocols.


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If you met someone whose principle takeaway from "Lord of the Flies" was that "boys will be boys," you'd have to say that reader had missed the point. Shades of that blithe obliviousness can be seen in the way with which the French filmmakers behind "War of the Buttons" sometimes handle their story, the latest adaptation of a celebrated 1912 kids-in-conflict novel by Louis Pergaud.
Setting their movie apart from other adaptations of the book, director Christophe Barratier ("The Chorus") and writer-producer Thomas Langmann ("The Artist") shift the action to Nazi-occupied France. (Among the other versions: a 1962 French-made hit, a 1994 Irish adaptation, and a French production made alongside this one in a Hollywood-style development footrace — which could be either culturally reassuring or disheartening, depending on your feelings about foreign film.) But when there's such a lighthearted, boys-at-play manner about the story's established aspects, it creates an odd disconnect from the World War II tolerance lessons that the filmmakers seek to add. War and persecution are bad, kids — except when it's all in good fun.
To his credit, Barratier crafts an atmosphere of nostalgic sentiment as gauzy as Spielberg or "Stand by Me" with his look back at '40s France. Convincing newcomer Jean Texier plays Lebrac, ne'er-do-well leader of a junior gang involved in a bucolic-turf battle with boys from a neighboring village. Lebrac regularly gets riled up by his home life, shamed by his "coward" father's refusal to get involved with the Resistance. He's intermittently soothed by Violette (Ilona Bachelier), a new Jewish refugee, but then it's back to rumbling — and claiming the rival kids' trouser buttons as war trophies.
Indulgently regarding all this is the boys' noble teacher (Guillaume Canet, "Tell No One"), who seems not to sweat juvenile delinquency as long as the kids are learning a thing or two about, say, Carthaginian combat strategy. Besides, Teacher has other preoccupations: standing up to Nazi sympathizers bound to discover Violette's secret, and pining for Violette's attractive guardian (Laetitia Casta), with whom he's got some vague history.
The story does eventually reach a point where play fighting escalates as troublingly as the town's oppression, but the two threads aren't really woven together into the sort of tight, overarching theme that the film seems built to convey. You'd think the telegraphed moralizing would include something along the lines of "do unto others." Instead, we get some fragmented transmission about a rat being a rat, whether he's Vichy or the kid next door.Tom Russo can be reached at email@example.com.


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On weekdays at 8 a.m. Elmer S. Miller, age 6, set out with his older sister and cousin on his walk to Fairview School – one mile on dirt roads through the fields and farms of Elizabethtown, PA. Arriving at the one-room schoolhouse, he took his place in the front row with the other two first graders while the older students, grades two through eight, lined up in rows behind him ready to be educated by Miss Garber.
On a platform in front of the room each class recited while others, 35 to 38 in all, prepared their assignments. Since Elmer found his own assignments too easy, he cured his boredom by listening and learning from the upper grades. The process later resulted in his being first in mathematics in the annual county test for high school eligibility.
Looking back on these early school days, Miller, now an 81-year-old resident of Cathedral Village in upper Roxborough, remembers less about classroom academics than the lesson he got from his father in response to his pranks in school, i.e., "Some paddlings really hurt."
However, this was evidently ineffective long-run because Elmer's inclination for mischief continued through high school. Case in point: the snake he pointed at a girl sitting next to him, scaring her into a scream and earning for himself two weeks' dismissal from freshman biology class.
Miller's delightful memoir, "Growing up Mennonite in Rural Pennsylvania" (McGraw Hill, 2012), is full of paddle- and paddle-free learning occasions and boy-to-man conversations with his father, as well as the understanding of cows' characters and milk- producing foibles complete with recognition of their varied dung aromas and other examples of life on a farm.
Elmer was certainly not idle growing up. In his fifth year in school his family moved to a farm where he had seven cows to milk by hand morning and night along with other chores. When he was 16 (the required age for kids to remain in school) he was hired out full-time (with no school attendance) to work on a 35-acre potato farm, where the cow number grew to 36, as back-bending (and aching) potato "picking" filled the hours through post-dusk — 10 hours a day in summertime. However, he did get paid $100 ($40 to him and $60 to his parents), which sum was quickly increased.
After four years of farming, Elmer took the GED test and college entrance exams for Eastern Mennonite College in Harrisonburg, VA, where he was accepted and majored in religion and philosophy. Following graduation he attended Seminary on the same college campus, where the focus was on biblical studies, Greek and Hebrew languages and philosophy.
This study generated a significant challenge to many of his early Mennonite beliefs since "Greek and Hebrew language classes, plus the developing new theology by Tillich, Bultmann and others questioning the basic tenets of traditional Christian theology, generated agnostic tendencies in my thinking."
Upon graduation from Seminary in 1956, Miller traded campus life to a mission in northern Argentina where he and his wife Lois lived among Toba Indians, visiting families, speaking in their Pentecostal church services and helping construct an alphabet for their language.
In preparation for their new life, Elmer and Lois took classes in linguistics and anthropology at the Hartford (Conn.) School of Missions, linguistics at the University of Oklahoma and a year in Costa Rica to learn Spanish.
"My time in Argentina was the first serious awareness that my identity as a Mennonite and an American had become dislodged," Miller said last week. "It opened the door to anthropology and eventually a total deconstruction of my cultural identity. It was all VERY liberating."
In addition, the Ford Foundation sent the Millers to Brazil in 1975 to help them construct a Ph.D program? Elmer also taught a class in anthropology at the University of Brasilia. He explained, "Life in Costa Rica, Argentina and later Brazil and Italy transformed my thinking not only with regard to my rural Mennonite heritage but also my perspective on our nation. I continued to respect its strength but also became more aware of its foibles."
After five years in Argentina, Miller returned to his degree-oriented education in the U.S. and returned to the School of Missions, completing his master's degree in linguistics and anthropology. He then won a scholarship to the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a Ph.D in anthropology.
Miller then gained a professorship and eventually chairmanship for 11 years of the anthropology department at Temple University, where Miller remained for 32 years (1966-1998) supervising 33 doctoral students who all received Ph.D's. He also directed Temple Abroad in Rome from 1982 to 1985 and served as Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences from 1986 to 1989.
Having climbed the academic ladder from bottom to top, Elmer is now retired and lives with Lois at Cathedral Village. They have two daughters: Rosina, who is director of the Philadelphia Center's internship program, and Lisa, a professor of political science at Rutgers University.
In addition to his latest tome about growing up as a Mennonite, Dr. Miller has written seven other books about anthropology and his experiences living with Indians in Argentina. He has also contributed chapters to seven additional books and articles in a dozen or so journals.
"But the most important acts in my life," Miller insisted, "were returning to my roots to marry my childhood sweetheart, and after 12 years of no success at having children, our two daughters finally appeared. Each of them has a young boy and girl who give us much delight."
On the issue of our country's relationship to other nations, with which Miller has years of first-hand observations,he declared, "At the moment our country is at an imbalance with too many nations. Fortunately, our arrogance as a country has diminished in proportion to our loss of international prestige. I am optimistic
about the future, however, as there appears to be greater awareness of these issues among us than there was previously."
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Nothing hinders one act from having two effects, only one of which is intended, while the other is beside the intention. Now moral acts take their species according to what is intended, and not according to what is beside the intention, since this is accidental ... . Thomas Aquinas, (Summa Theologica, Secunda Secundae Partis, Q. 64)
The best way to start the day is with a little Aquinas! The misty realms of memory and a youth misspent in theological education brought this jingle to mind when I read an article in the Huffington Post that took a swipe at one of my colleagues at GetReligion. The article by Reuters correspondent Nicole Neroulias entitled "I was a Virgin on Birth Control" (catchy, no?) asserts that Mollie Ziegler Hemingway's (MZH) report entitled "No such thing as free contraception" fails the test of good journalism.
Is this a fair summary of the issues or a fair comment? Not really. Ms. Neroulias bases her argument on a faulty premise, while the story as a whole has not been thought through. Yet, the HuffPo story raises a valid point that the press has not done justice to the ethical as well as scientific issues at play in the controversy surrounding the government's bid to require all employers and institutions to provide contraceptive coverage in their health insurance packages. Ms. Neroulias writes that:
as a religion reporter weary of oversimplified culture wars, and personally, as someone who took birth control pills long before becoming sexually active, I feel disappointed by most of the reporting so far.
She recounts the furore surrounding the debate -- Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke, congressional hearings, Catholic bishops -- and then presents her thesis. Ms. Neroulias writes:
Yet, as [Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke]tried to explain in her opening statement, both frames miss the big picture: Women take the pill to address myriad health issues, from ovarian cancer, menstrual problems, hormone imbalances and fertility treatments to cystic acne, et al.
This is the angle I've been waiting in vain for religious and mainstream journalists to acknowledge and investigate. As a teenager, I had debilitating menstrual cycles, but the perceived stigma of going on the pill deterred me from getting the help I needed. I finally started taking it in college, as a virgin with no foreseeable pregnancy panic, buoyed by all other the young women around me who were taking it for a variety of reasons. ...
Since then, my mother and sister have also taken the pill on medical grounds, as have dozens of our relatives and friends. ...
So how about some coverage of where these outraged clergy and institutions stand on using contraception in all these medical cases? And even if they technically allow it, does that translate to allowing their health insurance policies to include it? Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, a conservative commentator who has slammed media "misrepresentation" of the HHS mandate at GetReligion, shrugged me off with "presumably" when I brought up this angle. Needless to say, "presumably" isn't good enough in journalism, especially when the story concerns fundamental questions about freedom and morality.
And logically, even when clergy approve of contraceptives for unrelated medical reasons, how would they have their institutions apply these directives? Should women who work at Catholic hospitals and schools get a doctor's note for their bosses before requesting insurance reimbursement for the birth control pill? Would ovarian cysts and infertility make the cut, but acne and bad cramps be more along the lines of God's will? And what if religious authorities and their hospitals disagree on these theories in practice, as they have in cases of abortion to save a woman's life?
These questions are founded upon a flawed assumption and propose a straw man argument -- an Aunt Sally -- based upon the premise that taking a birth control pill for medical reasons other than contraception is immoral in the eyes of "outraged clergy."
The 1968 encyclical Humanea Vitae which governs Catholic teaching on birth control contains a chapter which discusses this point. Paragraph 15, entitled "Lawful Therapeutic Means" states:
On the other hand, the Church does not consider at all illicit the use of those therapeutic means necessary to cure bodily diseases, even if a foreseeable impediment to procreation should result there from—provided such impediment is not directly intended for any motive whatsoever.
The encyclical cites two speeches by Pius XII for its authority on this point. It puts into words the long standing moral teaching expressed by Thomas Aquinas, among others, as the principle of double effect.
This moral teaching can be seen in the case of a woman who has a hysterectomy due to cancer. The principle intent is to excise the cancer. The secondary end, infertility, does not forbid the surgery as the intent is the cure of disease not birth control. A second example would be surgery to remove a fallopian tube because of an ectopic pregnancy. While an abortion is a medical procedure whose primary end is a dead child – and is thus considered illicit -- the death of the pre-natal child in a surgery to correct an ectopic pregnancy is an unavoidable side effect. The surgery is licit even though one of its ends is death.
Closer to home, and working in a Sandra Fluke angle, you can see the practical effect at work in the Georgetown University Student Handbook. The student health department is allowed to dispense the pill for non contraceptive medical ends.
Q. Are pre-existing conditions covered?
A. Pre-existing conditions are covered if the condition or treatment is not specifically excluded or limited per the Exclusions and Limitations in Description of Benefits Booklet.
(Note: Although birth control is not covered, medications used for birth control that are required to treat other medical conditions are covered. Your provider may submit requests for such coverage in the form of a "Prescription Override" by faxing the details of the diagnosis and treatment to ...)
Ms. Neroulias is quite right in saying the press has let down its readers by not developing this angle -- focusing the debate on those who shout the loudest, not upon the critical issues. This is a big country, and I am sure one can find "outraged clergy" somewhere who would make the argument that the use of birth control pills for acne treatment is a sin -- or we should let women die of ovarian cancer because a total hysterectomy causes a women to become infertile and is thus EVIL. Such people doubtless exist, but their voices do not represent the mainstream.
A little research by reporters would reveal that this issue was recently addressed in the press coverage of a Lancet article that urged nuns to take birth control pills as a prophylactic against the medical effects of nulliparity. In December I posted a story to GetReligion noting how ABC had addressed these issues, killing the canard that nuns were forbidden to take birth control pills for non-contraceptive medical reasons.
Did MZH (the reporter not the Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture & Food) make a journalistic error in not engaging with Ms. Neroulias questions? Not to my mind. GetReligion reports on the reporting -- not on the topics being reported. If I were in MZH's position I would not have engaged either for the aforesaid reason and because of the false assumptions being put forward about the ethical issues.
Am I too quick to defend, too quick to judge? Does the press understand the nuances of Catholic moral teachings or the Theology of the Body? What say you GetReligion readers?


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Ok we are a bit slow with updates currently, but I still wanted to share these cool Let's Play videos created for the Linux Game Award winner of last month Unvanquished:
This is actually the second part, and you can see the first part here (it is mainly about the new menu and playing a tutorial though).
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Let's play Unvanquished
Ok we are a bit slow with updates currently, but I still wanted to share these cool Let's Play videos created for the Linux Game Award winner of last month Unvanquished:
Sunday, August 10, 2014
FreeGameDev.net Outage (Fixed)
**Update 2014-08-12 22:17**
It seems all is back to normal! Thanks 123-reg for sorting out it quickly although nobody emailed me or updated the support ticket, but stellar support nonetheless.
If you want a domain name host, then I can happily recommend 123-reg after this experience.
**Update 2014-08-12 11:14**
I've been in touch with 123-reg and was told the following:
This domain has entered in a renewal phase at the registry, it will be completed on the 15-Aug-2014, during this phase you cannot make any DNS changes.
I asked if it would return to as-was once this is phase is completed and if they could do anything to speed it up, response:
Yes, they will return to the original ones, we have encountered these situations before and we can speed up the renewal process.
I will need to escalate this chat to a support ticket to have my colleagues assist you further, is that ok?
So it is being escalated. I'll keep this post updated.
**Original Post**
I'm not sure (as I've not heard from anybody, really) of the exact extent of the freegamedev.net outage (especially the forums which projects/people depend upon) but it is currently down for me and others if isup.me is to be believed.
I forgot to renew the domain. I would cite lots of excuses but I don't have any!
Don't panic! It is now renewed, but perhaps because I renewed it after it expired (on the 9th - I noticed the forums down this morning which is the 10th) it seems I don't have access to the admin tools and it hasn't recovered yet. They have taken my money though so I expect normal service to resume soon and my provider (123-reg) says the 16th at the latest.
To everybody that this impacts, I am sorry. It'll be back soon. Also, it should auto-renew next year.
- Charlie
Saturday, August 09, 2014
Stunt Rally now comes with spaceships and cool ancient cities!
Stunt Rally 2.4... talk about feature creep, but I am not complaining ;)
See more pictures of the release here, and don't forget to give some feedback on our forums.
Oh and you can now browse cars and tracks online.
Friday, August 01, 2014
First public release of Terminal Overload!
You might remember the crowd-sourcing campaign from the beginning of this year to make a fully FOSS remake of a rather unique game.
Well, a bit later than promised, but really awesome never the less:
Note that this is a really early alpha and most of the art still has placeholder quality. It is quite playable multiplayer game already though, and there is a Linux and a Windows version for download on their website.
Please don't forget to give feedback on our forums (also if you are interested in helping out).
This is by the way to my knowledge the first FOSS game utilizing the open-sourced version of the Torque3D engine and also the only one that uses the work in progress Linux port so far.


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March 2, 2007
PISCATAWAY, NJ - Yale's Jeffrey Lichtenstein and Pat Hayden representing the Yale diving team at the NCAA Zone A Regionals held at Rutgers' RU Aquatic Center, finished ninth and 24th respectively in the 1 meter dive Friday afternoon.
Lichtenstien sat in tenth place after the preliminary round of the 1 meter diving event with 277.15 points from his six dives. Ahead of him after the preliminary round were some familiar faces, including Dartmouth's Andrew Berry and Navy's Kevin Teague. In the finals, Lichtenstein managed to leapfrog Berry to finish in ninth place with 529.05 points from his two dives. Lichtenstein also finished ninth in the 1 meter dive at last year's NCAA Zone A regionals.
Hayden scored 228.60 in the first round of the 1 meter event. The score left him in 24th place overall after the preliminaries, with only the top 18 qualifying for the finals.
Competition at the Zone A Regionals will continue tomorrow at 12 pm at Rutgers' RU Aquatic Center. Complete results can be found at the Rutgers Athletics website.
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- Series Hub: Spurs-Heat
SAN ANTONIO — The two-day buildup — a wait Spurs coach Gregg Popovich says was "like death" — certainly seemed a slow, uncomfortable march toward an unexpected funeral. It was the sudden end of the road for beloved family member Manu Ginobili.
Turns out the vibe was all wrong.
Sunday night exploded into a big, fat Argentine wedding. There was dancing and singing and celebrating and chants of "Manu! Manu!" The AT&T Center roared with the atmosphere of a welcomed revival and the deliverance of sweet redemption for Ginobili, the San Antonio Spurs' Game 5 hero.
Just as LeBron James and especially Dwyane Wade had risen to claim Game 4, as if on cue or following this weird Finals script, Ginobili set the Game 5 tone in his first start in more than a year. And now it's the Spurs who are on the brink of a fourth title in 10 years and a fifth in 15 with the 114-104 victory for a 3-2 series lead.
And just about 72 hours after James and the Heat seemed to suck the life out of San Antonio in this wildly unpredictable series, may the never-ending referendum on James' legacy resume with he and the Heat on the ropes.
Just a day earlier, Ginobili had stood behind a podium and a microphone on the same arena floor. The word retirement spilled from his mouth. Even if it was only because of the gathering frustration within him, incapable of articulating, or even understanding, his own demise in this postseason. Maybe it was just dejection that he wasn't shouldering his load with this long-awaited opportunity at another, possibly the last, championship at stake.
"He did seem dejected," Tim Duncan said. "He's a competitor, an extreme competitor. And he wants to play well and he wants to help our team do well. Just like a lot of us, we lose games and we take the blame for it. He's just the same way and he wanted to play well really badly."
Popovich, either desperate to jumpstart his longstanding sixth man or countering the Miami Heat's revamped, smaller starting lineup — Pop claimed both — told the 6-foot-5 Ginobili on Saturday that he'd start. Just weeks from turning 36, he would be in the starting lineup for the first time since Pop shook things up in the elimination Game 6 of the West finals more than a year ago.
The Spurs' first possession was designed for Tony Parker, but Ginobili took the shot — banging in a 22-footer, a step-back jumper initially ruled a 3-pointer but knocked down to a 2 after a video review. Then came a pass to sizzling Danny Green for an easy layup, and on the next possession he dished to Duncan for a dunk. Then came the first two of his eight free-throw attempts. In the opening two minutes of crucial Game 5, Ginobili had already been as active and as impactful as at any point in the series.
He never stopped scorching Miami with the full Manu Platter: executing one-on-one dribble penetrations, well-timed kick-outs and classic Ginobili awkward finishes around the rim to bury the Heat with a killer double-double. He finished with a season-high 24 points on 8-for-14 shooting and 10 assists in 33 electric minutes. He had had 17 points and nine assists in the last three games combined.
With 2:21 left in the third quarter, and Ginobili on another mini-tear that broke open a 75-74 lead that had been whittled down from 17 in the first half, the chants of "Manu! Manu!" flooded the arena of 18,581. So many wearing his No. 20 jersey, unprepared and unwilling to say goodbye to Ginobili for the last time.
"I needed it," Ginobili said. "I was having a tough time scoring and I needed to feel like the game was coming to me and I was being able to attack the rim, get to the free-throw line and make a couple of shots. So it felt great when I heard that [the chant]. To feel that I really helped my team to get that 20-point lead, it was a much-needed moment in the series."
The Spurs never trailed, but the sold-out house seemed to hold its breath as the Heat continued to mount counter-attacks. When it got to be 75-74, it felt like the scales might tip. They did, back to San Antonio. Green, now the all-time leader for 3-pointers in Finals history, hit another big one to make it 78-74.
Ginobili followed with a fabulous baseline drive around Ray Allen for a three-point play, and on the next possession he blew by Norris Cole for a floater to make it 83-74. The next trip down he whipped a pass into the lane for Tiago Splitter, who not only managed to hold onto the pass but also finished with a layup and the run was 10-0.
It would balloon to 19-1 and the crowd roared and Ginobili felt fulfilled and the Spurs empowered to win one more and win it all. When the series shifts back to South Florida on Tuesday night, the Larry O'Brien Trophy will be in the house.
"I needed to feel more important, more of a threat attacking the rim," Ginobili said. "It was good to see it happen."
If he can do it again, Sunday's Game 5 party will have nothing on what's to come.


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Watch a Vintage Nine Inch Nails Video From 'Dance Party USA'
Sometimes a video comes along and reassures you that all is right with the world. Take this rare footage of a young Nine Inch Nails performing on the'80s cheesy dance show, 'Dance Party USA,' for instance. Enjoy the complete awesomeness of how awkward and ridiculous it gets.
Nine Inch Nails played 'Down In It,' from their 1989 debut album 'Pretty Hate Machine,' to a faux pumped crowd displaying their best Wonder Bread dance moves. The industrial pioneers manage to lip sync the song without breaking out into fits of laughter. Another highlight of the video is seeing a young and significantly leaner NIN mastermind Trent Reznor wearing a scrunchy.
The original VHS copy was bought by a user on the message board Echoing the Sound for $100. You can watch the amazingly bad visual treat below.
Reznor took to his Twitter page to explain the unlikely NIN appearance, basically saying in a series of strung-together tweets that the band was young and naive. The Oscar-winning musician tweeted:
Many years ago, a young and naive Nine Inch Nails were asked what TV shows they'd be interested in appearing on. As a joke (and likely drunk), they thought of the most absurd choice they could come up with at the time. They were then informed their bluff had been called and were actually booked on said show... They hopped in their Honda Civic touring vehicle (hatchback) and travelled many miles to (I think) NJ for the big show. They had a laugh making fun of the people, their fashion choices and hairstyles. Life was good. Years later, the internet is discovered... There's a moral in there somewhere. Come to think of it, Skrillex may indeed owe me some publishing on that hairdo...
Trent Reznor said earlier this year that he plans on writing songs specifically for Nine Inch Nails. "I plan on spending a good portion of this coming year writing with that in mind," Reznor explains. "And we'll see what happens with it."


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Thomas Williams Ashley (1894-1918), a 1916 graduate of Amherst College, was memorialized in this edition of "The Sabrinian," a publication from the college. The young Deerfield man was killed in action in 1918, the last year of World War I, when he was fighting with the allies in France at Chateau-Thierry. Tom Ashley was much loved by his classmates and was described as honest, straightforward, and dignified and yet "always ready for a rough-house." A letter from a fellow soldier is included.
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There are two professional organizations in Emergency Medicine, ACEP and AAEM. ACEP is bigger and older and better recognized. AAEM is something of the insurgent group, and a big advocate for equity in physician management practices and for democratic group structures.
So, can anybody tell me what AAEM actually does that is of value?
I'm not saying they do nothing, just that I am completely ignorant of their actual current activities. Fill me in in the comments.
BTW, I am not interested in a whole-bunch of anti-ACEP screeds, nor in an enumeration of why AAEM's principles are awesome. I'm fine with ACEP, and I'm aware of and generally sympathetic to AAEM's ideology. I want to know what they do that justifies their continued existence and/or the support of ER docs.
Thanks for enlightening me.


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Shawn Wildermuth talks about using KnockoutJS framework to develop a MVVM application:
KnockoutJS is a framework that allows me to use HTML-based data binding markup to describe my UI, CSS to describe what the design looks like and JavaScript to tie the data to the data binding. The is chiefly accomplished through the concept of observable objects. For example, I created a new JavaScript 'class' called gameModel in my view.js by creating members using the observable method on the knockout (e.g. ko) object:
$(document).ready(function () {
function gameModel() {
this.name = ko.observable();
this.id = ko.observable();
this.genre = ko.observable(); this.releaseDate = ko.observable();
this.price = ko.observable();
this.imageUrl = ko.observable();
// Define Main ViewModel var theViewModel = { games: ko.observableArray([]), ... };
The games property of the view models 'class' will hold the current list of games that are shown in the UI. The observableArray object is like the observable object but it notifies the data binding stack when a collection changes. The goal here is to have the view model load the games from the REST service and as the collection changes, the HTML should change to react to that. No more manually creating/destroying parts of the markup.
In order to make this work, we must use the data binding syntax in the HTML code:

For more: http://wildermuth.com/2011/11/20/Using_MVVM_on_the_Web_with_KnockoutJS


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Strip to Cube
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The minimal strip that can be folded
into a one-unit cube is one unit wide and seven units long (1x7) as
shown in the illustration.
The object is to show how it can be done. You may use the
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By BOUBACAR DIALLO and RUKMINI CALLIMACHI
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CONAKRY, Guinea December 13, 2012 (AP)
A military crackdown on protesters in a remote Guinean town this week left three people dead and dozens more wounded, while at least three women were raped by soldiers, witnesses alleged Thursday. A defense official denied soldiers shot civilians, but the incident still added to concerns about Guinea's
army, which already has been implicated in a massacre and systematic rape in a country struggling to transition to democracy.
The crackdown occurred in the town of Gueckedou, located 700 kilometers (430 miles) southeast of Guinea's capital, Conakry. Thousands of demonstrators there were calling for the resignation of a top regional official, and the army trucked in soldiers to disperse the protesters Tuesday.
Witnesses said the army opened fire first with tear gas, then with live rounds.
"I can confirm that three bodies were logged into the register at the prefecture's hospital in Gueckedou. The bodies have been buried. The wounded are still arriving. Some with stab wounds. Some with bullet wounds," said Sayon Teliano, a local health worker who was called to the hospital to help. Speaking Thursday, with soldiers still in the town, Teliano said the forensic report found that the three people who died were struck by bullets.
Retired army Col. Kamano Faro, who resides in Gueckedou, said the army used the protest as a pretext to brutalize the town. He said along with the three dead, at least 103 people were hurt, and dozens of boutiques and stores were pillaged.
"The army brought terror to our town," Faro said. "In the neighborhood of Nongo, I saw soldiers going into people's houses and breaking things. "I saw them grab the pots off of people's fires, and eat the rice and the sauce that was inside. I know a pork seller, who was robbed of all his money. They even took his pig, and slaughtered it (to eat)."
Guinea, a nation of 10.2 million, spent much of its post-independence history under various types of military rule, starting with a 1984 coup by an army colonel, Lansana Conte. He died in office in 2008; hours later an army captain seized power.
In 2009, when tens of thousands of demonstrators crowded into the national soccer stadium in Conakry to demand the army relinquish control, the captain's elite red beret-wearing guard sealed the gates to the stadium. They then opened fire with machine guns, mowing down the protesters — killing at least 157.
Women were also dragged onto the stadium turf, into the stands, under bleachers, and in neighboring structures and gang-raped by officers who stuffed their red berets into their mouths to silence them, a scene shocking even for this troubled region of Africa.
Rape was allegedly another tactic used by the armed forces during this week's crackdown.
Gueckedou resident Mariam Bayo said she was in the neighborhood of Kango at home when the soldiers arrived Tuesday. They began firing tear gas, and she ran as fast as she could to get away. She saw the soldiers grab one of her neighbors, a young woman around 20 years old.
"It happened in front of me. They started firing the tear gas. I ran. So did the girl. Later, I went to her house to see if she was OK. They had raped her. She's wounded, but we are too afraid to go out, so we are trying to treat her at home," Bayo said.
Sia Mama, another resident, described the rape of a female relative.
"She had gone outside to get water from the well. The soldiers were there and they saw her and forced her back into the house," Mama said. "They raped her right in front of her husband."
Karine Kamano, a local community activist, said in one neighborhood, soldiers chased after a teen age girl, catching her and pinning her down. Her injuries from the rape were severe enough that her family reached out to Kamano for help.
"I'm the one that arranged to take her to the hospital," she said.
Reached late Thursday, the minister in charge of defense, Abdoul Kabele Camara, denied that the military had shot civilians. "That's totally false. Not a single soldier fired a single shot at Gueckedou. The police and the gendarmes were in charge of maintaining order. Those three people who died there, they were killed by other protesters," he said.
A communique read on state radio Thursday said a government delegation traveled to Gueckedou and met with community leaders in an effort to calm the situation. The government has not released an official version of what happened.
Guinea held its first-ever democratic election in 2010, after the army finally ceded power to civilians following the intense international condemnation of the Sept. 28, 2009 stadium massacre. But progress has been slow to come. And despite having the world's largest supply of bauxite, the raw material used to make aluminum, as well as steel, diamonds, gold and timber, Guinea's people remain mired in poverty.
One of the fundamental problems is a lack of accountability for the army. All of the soldiers implicated in the 2009 massacre remain at-large. And a colonel named by Human Rights Watch and U.N. investigators as a principal aggressor in the rapes and killings has continued to hold an important government post, despite scores of victims who saw him at the stadium.


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Professional Guidelines established by
World Archaeological Congress (WAC)
First Code of Ethics (1990)
Organization's Web Site
Specific Guidelines
First Code of Ethics
Adopted by WAC Council in 1990 at WAC-2, Barquisimeto, Venezuela
Principles to Abide By:
Members agree that they have obligations to indigenous peoples and that they shall abide by the following principles:
1. To acknowledge the importance of indigenous cultural heritage, including sites, places, objects, artefacts, human remains, to the survival of indigenous cultures.
2. To acknowledge the importance of protecting indigenous cultural heritage to the well-being of indigenous peoples.
3. To acknowledge the special importance of indigenous ancestral human remains, and sites containing and/or associated with such remains, to indigenous peoples.
4. To acknowledge that the important relationship between indigenous peoples and their cultural heritage exists irrespective of legal ownership.
5. To acknowledge that the indigenous cultural heritage rightfully belongs to the indigenous descendants of that heritage.
6. To acknowledge and recognise indigenous methodologies for interpreting, curating, managing and protecting indigenous cultural heritage.
7. To establish equitable partnerships and relationships between Members and indigenous peoples whose cultural heritage is being investigated.
8. To seek, whenever possible, representation of indigenous peoples in agencies funding or authorising research to be certain their view is considered as critically important in setting research standards, questions, priorities and goals.
Rules to Adhere to:
Members agree that they will adhere to the following rules prior to, during and after their investigations:
1. Prior to conducting any investigation and/or examination, Members shall with rigorous endeavour seek to define the indigenous peoples whose cultural heritage is the subject of investigation.
2. Members shall negotiate with and obtain the informed consent of representatives authorized by the indigenous peoples whose cultural heritage is the subject of investigation.
3. Members shall ensure that the authorised representatives of the indigenous peoples whose culture is being investigated are kept informed during all stages of the investigation.
4. Members shall ensure that the results of their work are presented with deference and respect to the identified indigenous peoples.
5. Members shall not interfere with and/or remove human remains of indigenous peoples without the express consent of those concerned.
6. Members shall not interfere with and/or remove artefacts or objects of special cultural significance, as defined by associated indigenous peoples, without their express consent.
7. Members shall recognise their obligation to employ and/or train indigenous peoples in proper techniques as part of their projects, and utilise indigenous peoples to monitor the projects.
The new Code should not be taken in isolation; it was seen by Council as following on from WAC's adoption of the Vermillion Accord passed in 1989 at the South Dakota Inter-Congress.


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Gwyneth Paltrow is now the "World's Most Beautiful Woman" ... and while we might not agree with the pick -- okay, definitely don't -- we also think GP doesn't deserve all the blame for jacking the title.
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Re: Shift-Tab Doesn't Work?
Not sure if this is a bug, or something in the configuration, but using Shift-Tab while in Insert mode doesn't move back a tab. I think this worked in a previous version, but stopped in 2.0.37.
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text: Last night, after we posted the clip of silver medal-winning pole vaulter Jenn Stuczynski being chewed out by her coach, Rick Suhr, we got an email from Jezefriend and awesome writer Arianne Cohen, pointing out an interesting detail in the dynamic between Suhr and Stuczynski. "In this Times article, it talks about how she LIVES all alone with him, on the second floor of a house in the middle of nowhere. He once mortgaged his house to pay for her training. So now she 'wouldn't ever move unless Rick moved,'" Ari, who used to work in a domestic abuse clinic, wrote to us in an email. Here's more of her take: "When I first read it, I thought, 'omg,' and now with the added bonus of watching their dynamic, this has all the markings of domestic abuse. Highly productive domestic abuse, but still, domestic abuse." Fingers crossed that with the Olympics nearly over, Stuczynski will be looking for new lodgings. [Arianne Cohen, NY Times]


text: Monday, September 19, 2011 PTs Needed for Pain PLUS Study Researchers from McMaster University are seeking physical therapist participants for an 18-month study on Pain PLUS, a new free information service for evidence-based pain management. The purpose of this study is to compare 2 different methods of sharing pain research evidence, as well as the knowledge and decisions made by 4 different types of professionals—physicians, nurses, rehabilitation professionals, and psychologists—involved in pain management. One method of sharing will be sending e-mail alerts. The other method will be providing Web-based resources. All participants will have access to both services for 9 months each. For more information on Pain PLUS and how you can participate in this study, contact Margaret Lomotan at email@example.com or 905/525-9140, ext 27328, or visit http://plus.mcmaster.ca/PainPLUS/. APTA is not involved with this study and cannot provide additional information on its requirements. Comments I would like to be involved . Please inform me with the details . Thank you ! Posted by Vincent Burke on 9/20/2011 7:50 PM


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John Huffam had a happy early childhood with his mother, but he always sensed a secret being hidden in the shadows of their lives. Eventually he learns that since his birth his mother has been hiding him from people who wish him harm. John is an potential heir to an extremely wealthy estate, a lost will and a codicil officially name John the heir, and he embarks on a quest to gain his hereditary rights. As he wanders penniless through England, enemies a...
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After the incredibly rich and complicated achievement of _The Quincunx_, which "out-Dickensed Dickens," this short novel comes as a dash of ice water. The narration is cool, distant, and spare, and the protagonist, a young executive named David in a nameless European city that may be London or Edinburgh, decidedly unlikable. He meets and uses women right and left, never really clear about what he wants or is looking for. It would be nearly impossible to ...


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It's time for a new challenge at Wags 'n Whiskers and this time we want to see
Thank You/Thankful creations.
For my card I chose this adorable Beary Sweet image to work with! She's colored with Copics and the sentiment is from Hero Arts. The bg is embossed with the Sizzix dots folder and I paper pierced around the circle & oval nesties. The leaves were cut with a Sizzix die and I used a small daisy punch from Fiskars to create the flowers... added a few pearls to finish it up. I think this card will be perfect to add to my OWH box!
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Sprinters Shine on Day Two
PRINCETON, N.J. – The Yale men's track and field team was back in action today at the second day of the Sam Howell Invitational hosted by Princeton University. The unscored meet featured most Ivy League teams, along with a number of other regional schools and athletic clubs. In all, 963 athletes competed at the invitational, making it one of the larger meets the Bulldogs will see all year.
The 4x100-meter relay team of senior Matthew Bieszard, sophomore Dana Lindberg, sophomore Daniel Jones and freshman Dylan Hurley posted its second-best time of the season in a fourth-place effort (42.90).
Bieszard and Hurley also competed in the open 400-meter dash, along with freshman and 4x400-meter relay team member Mario Kranjac. Bieszard, the captain, won his heat in the event and logged his best time of the season (48.54), finishing sixth overall. Hurley was 13th (50.04) and Kranjac was 31st (51.57). The final member of Yale's 4x400-meter relay team, freshman William Rowe, ran the 400-meter intermediate hurdles for the second time, taking 18th place in 57.54.
Jones and freshman Andrew Goble represented the Elis in the shorter sprints, with Jones winning his heat in both the 100- and 200-meter dashes. He was 10th in the former (10.97) and 13th in the latter (22.44). Both times are personal records. Meanwhile, Goble was 32nd in the 100-meter dash (12.03) and 33rd in the 200-meter dash (23.85).
Junior Timothy Hillas was the first Bulldog across the line in the 800-meter run, placing 19th (1:54.23). Hillas won his heat and knocked 2.79 seconds off of his personal record. Junior Michael Pierce (1:54.69) and freshman John McGowan (1:55.23) also ran collegiate bests in the 800-meter run, finishing 27th and 31st, respectively. Senior Charlie Jaeger (46th – 1:57.03) and freshman Michael Grace (62nd – 2:02.63) also competed in the event.
The Bulldogs will be in Cambridge next weekend for the annual Harvard-Yale grudge match.
Report by Eian Katz '13, Yale Sports Publicity


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Aaron Blake at the Washington Post spots a phenom hiding in plain site. While reporters spent the GOP primary season tracking the ups and downs of the average Republican evangelical's psychologcial digestion of Mitt Romney's Mormonism, in the background the Catholics were coming, the Catholics were coming! ("everybody to get from street") He predicts that after decades of Protestant contenders, the GOP has emerged as the home of moderate-to-right Catholics who could become a force to the center for the GOP in the coming years.
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Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.) — four of the five most likely GOP VP choices . . . are all Catholic, not to mention other people thought to be contenders, like Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Sen. Pat Toomey (Pa.), New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval and Sen. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.) . . . But the 2012 veepstakes aside, the rising crop of Catholic politicians in the Republican Party signals a couple other shifts.
Most of these politicians will be considered top potential presidential candidates down the line, meaning it's quite possible the Republican Party will nominate its first-ever Catholic for president in the relatively near future.
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Man Admits Traveling From England To Kentucky To Sexually Exploit Minor
PIKEVILLE, KY - A resident of London, England traveled to Kentucky intending to engage in sex acts with a minor who lived in eastern Kentucky according to a plea agreement filed in federal court.
Solomon Blue Waters, 42, of London, England pleaded guilty Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward B. Atkins to using the internet to engage in sexual activity with a minor. The U.S. Attorney's Office and the defendant agreed to a proposed sentencing range of 135 to 168 months pending the judge's approval. Waters is scheduled to be sentenced on September 5 in Pikeville.
According to the plea agreement, Waters admitted he developed an online relationship with the minor in 2011 and persuaded her to send him sexually explicit images of herself. Waters also encouraged the victim to communicate with him in sexual conversations. Waters planned to visit the minor in eastern Kentucky and he specifically described the sexual acts he would perform on the minor when meeting her.
On August 27, 2012, Waters flew from London, England to Lexington's Blue Grass Airport and was immediately arrested by agents with Homeland Security Investigations and the Kentucky State Police.
Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Gary J. Hartwig, Special Agent in Charge, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Chicago, and Rodney Brewer, Kentucky State Police Commissioner, jointly announced the plea.
The investigation was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and KSP. The U.S. Attorney's Office was represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney David Marye.


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...It's not much of a trick to say that God will make sure I hear his message when I live in a Christian country, having been born in another Christian country, and spent all but a few weeks of my life in a Judeo-Christian culture. I had assumed you meant something deeper than that. Nonetheless, it troubles me that there are billions of people who, because of their society or culture, don't get to hear that message. Does that mean God doesn't want them to hear it?While Paul raises a very important question, it is way off-topic from my previous post. Again, the issue of my previous post had to do with Christians receiving extra-Biblical direction from God. However, since it is a very important question, I would like to briefly address it here on this post. There are, actually, several issues that such a question addresses. How does Christianity view the human condition? Who is God and what is His responsibility to us? What is justice? What is grace? How has God revealed Himself to all of humanity? What influence, if any, does culture have in one's decision to accept the God of the Bible? Has God chosen an elect group? With regards to a culture's influence on an individual's belief system, one must first understand that the primary issue is whether or not the belief system is correct, and not why someone believes it. In other words, even though it may be true that one believes in a particular religious system because of the culture he was raised in, that tells us nothing about whether or not the religious system he believes in is actually true. In the Christian Worldview, God is creator of all, and God is Holy. Mankind is separated from God by sin. God, being Holy, is also just. The just course of action for those who are guilty is condemnation. The Christian Worldview states that all mankind is guilty of sin against God and, as such, is due condemnation from God. It is only through grace, granted by God, that mankind can enter into communion with God. God is not obligated to issue such grace, or else it wouldn't be grace. So... what about those who haven't heard God's Gospel message in specific terms? The Christian Worldview understands that God is just and that God has revealed Himself to all mankind in a manner that leaves all mankind "without excuse." How does God do this? I don't know, and He isn't telling us. What He does tell us is that we are to be about making disciples into His name. Thus, to question the manner in which He reveals Himself to all of mankind potentially ignores at least the following points:
- Who God is.
- Because of who God is, what He is owed.
- What mankind's condition is.
- Because of mankind's condition, what mankind is owed.
- What mankind is not owed (e.g., God's grace).
- God is just.
- God has revealed Himself to all of mankind.


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I am currently working at a polling place for the election. A ultra-conservative fanatical baptist xtian had the nerve to get in my face and say the following:
Young lady, I hope you do not make the same mistake this time like you did last time when you voted for Obama.
I got back in his face and I said, excuse the f*ck out of you. First of all, let's get a few goddamn things straight.
Get your facts straight, you idiot.
He was shocked at my response and then he asked these three questions.
Here's my answers.
Then this fool, brought up Obama's socialist views. I told him that you have to burn your buybull and disavow your xtian teachings. He asked why and I said that the buybull is the bible that created socialism. After all, everyone is taught that we have to help everybody and nothing in the bible that says, that only G'd helps those who help themselves.
He looked at me and started to mumble something and I said out loud, I cannot hear you. I said, either you speak now or forever hold your peace.
He threw his political literature down and walked away. While walking away, he was shaking his fist and turned around and said, I am inviting you to my church. This fool was stupid enough to give me his name and the name of his church.
I yelled back, you bring the poker chips and I will bring the beer, Jack Daniels and the tequila.
I've decided to create a blog about my experience. I'm trying to create a name for my blog.
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How about "Round In The Chamber" ... because it's pretty clear you have one there, and a full clip behind it! Alternatively, "Not A Stereotype" or "Not What You Expected" or (if you want to be edgy) "Not Your Bitch".
BTW, I'm not a poker player, myself, but I'd be glad to front a fifth of Glenlivet for the party. Meantime, I'd say, "Kick ass and take tickets," but it's pretty clear you already are! Have a good one.
I have not started on the blog yet. I am recovering from two surgeries and school at the same time. Let's just say that I have been very busy hanging out with atheists.
How about "Black Atheist Chick?"
Round In The Chamber is an excellent idea.
Glad you like it. You'll be receiving my bill shortly! [grin!] Seriously, use it in good health.
Hilarious. Hell, if there was a church where you could bring Jack Daniels, I'd go, too!
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Mounting a bicycle with a large front wheel required finesse. Once one had mounted, a smooth roadway was important in order to stay aboard. This invention replaced "bone-shakers," or cycles with two equal sized wheels and no pedals. Introduced in the 1870s these early velocipedes were usually the province of men, simply because women's clothing was not suitable for riding astride. Then, too, exercise by women was still suspect in the early 20th century. Riding such a device was dangerous; the roads were bumpy and falls were common.
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I graduated from Purdue in 1992 with a B.S. in Forestry (Urban Option) and am currently the Northwest Ohio Regional Urban Forester for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry. I live in Findlay, Ohio with my husband Greg, two young sons Alex and Wyatt, and kitty cat BeBe. My job entails working one-on-one with communities in 19 counties providing technical and organizational assistance with their urban forest management. My clientele includes volunteer tree commissioners, mayors, community administrators/managers, and other government agencies. It is a constant learning experience keeping up with the newest technologies, plant health issues, and personalities. Working on the front lines of Emerald Ash Borer and Gypsy Moth has been an experience of a lifetime. This is the biggest opportunity since Dutch Elm Disease to bring urban forestry to the forefront of people's minds. It has brought an even greater since of responsibility to my job as I help communities cope with managing these pests.
Prior to transferring to the urban forestry position, I was a Service Forester for a 6 county area. It was invaluable experience allowing me to become familiar with the woodland management needs and challenges of NW Ohio.
For 5 years following graduation I worked for ACRT, Inc out of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio where I was a contract utility and urban forester. The urban forestry work was mostly inventory gathering for various cities. The days were long, but I got to see some great places and become familiar with the up and coming computerized inventory programs. Working as a utility forester was an excellent way to develop people skills and to learn the back roads. It was a difficult and stressful job, but I am grateful for the listening and negotiation techniques I developed during those years.
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The Course of Irish History
Theodore William Moody, Francis X. Martin
Radio Telefís Éireann by Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 2001 - History - 462 pages
Agreement and the withdrawal of British troops from regular patrols in Northern Ireland, this new edition of a perennial bestseller narrates and interprets Irish history as a whole. Designed and written to be popular and authoritative, critical and balanced, it has been the core text in both Irish and American universities for three decades. It has also proven to be an extremely popular book for casual readers with an interest in history and Irish affairs and is considered the definitive history among the Irish themselves. Chapters are grouped together by century or by general time period, ranging from prehistoric Ireland to the present, and each has been written by an English or Irish historian specializing in that area. This edition of the book has been revised and enlarged and is illustrated throughout with line drawings, black and white, and color photographs. It is an essential text for anyone interested in the history of Ireland.
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