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This blog is for anyone interested in family history, especially those who are served by the Grove Creek Multi-Stake LDS Family History Center.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Riverton FamilySearch Library
If this library doesn't doesn't look familiar to you, listen up! This is the new library that was created when the FHC in the south Salt Lake area were consolidated. If you missed my post about it, go back a couple of months for a viral tour of this library. This library also holds classes of all sorts! Go to this list and you will find the perfect class for your needs!
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Afraid of Making Mistakes?
Are you afraid of making mistakes in new FamilySearch because you don't feel that you know what you are doing? Then training.familysearch.org is for you. There are practice exercises that you can work through so that the basics of the new FamilySearch program are reinforced in your brain! The nice thing is that you aren't working in the actual database so you CAN'T mess anything up!
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
BYU Family History Classes on October 10, 2010
BYU has fabulous classes that they offer on the second and fourth Sundays of the month. Here is the latest schedule! We have so much right in our own backyard! Let's use it!
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
Did You Know?
Did you know that there are 81 lessons available online at familysearch.org? Who says you have to go places and spend money to strengthen your genealogy skills? These classes are FREE and there for the taking! Grab hold and take off!
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Expand Your Mind!
Genealogy is a lifelong pursuit. It can't and won't be done in a day! It's always useful to learn a little each day. Try to do one genealogy activity each day. Maybe read that article that you cut out of a magazine months ago, file five papers into your filing system, or spend one hour labeling your pictures. Once you get in the habit of doing something each day, you will find that you are making progress! Progress is good, even by baby steps!
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Friday, September 10, 2010
Major Update for FamilySearch Beta
Have you been on beta.familysearch.org lately. A major update has just been released. Go see the changes for yourself! In addition, check out the information under the headings at the top. I particularly like the How To and the Blog sections. There is always something new to learn!
In addition, the Ancestry Insider blog (http://ancestryinsider.blogspot.com) has a couple of recent posts that are very insightful about new FamilySearch and the direction it is heading. Happy Reading!
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If Charles Dickens were a soda connoisseur, he would say that today is the worst of times for the once beloved, currently embattled soft drink industry. Across the board, researchers and experts are suggesting that both sugary and non-sweetened soft drinks can riddle you with a murderer's row of maladies, including, but not limited to, heart attacks, cancer, poor dental health, and to REALLY make you feel self-conscious, a bulging waistline.
If that isn't enough, soda brands you probably never drank are disappearing and hundreds of Mountain Dews are spilling onto the streets of Seattle, and that's not even meant to honor a fallen homie, homie.
All of this, of course, plays a supporting role in New York City Mayor (some say babysitter) Michael Bloomberg's fizzled fatwa, his holy war against soda. He just announced his intentions to ban XL-sized soft drinks and it turns out he's not alone in his crusade to rid the continental 50 of its sugary scourge.
This week the American Medical Association is set to consider a proposal that supports soda taxes as one way to fight obesity and says that if taxes are levied, they should be used to fund anit-obesity programs. The Los Angeles Times reports. AMA council reports note that sugary drinks make up 46 percent of the added sugar American's consume instead of nutrient-rich foods.
They also estimate that a penny-per-ounce tax on sweetened drinks would lead to a 5 percent decrease in the amount of critically overweight Americans and save the country $17 billion in health care costs over the next ten years.
They do warn, however, that the levies must be earmarked for the right efforts in order to be effective. If the excise taxes go towards anti-obesity campaigns, AMA studies indicate that their positive effects could be greatly enhanced.
Today, a soda excise is assigned in 35 U.S. states, at an average rate of 5.2 percent, though these duties, the AMA says, are not meant to affect consumption or promote good health. AMA researchers also say that wholesalers soften the blow by buying in bulk and purchasing cheaper brands.
Weigh in below in the comments section so we can hear what you think about the government taxing sodas. And please, pour out a Mountain Dew for the brave cans we lost in Seattle.

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United States: ICRC president completes visit to Washington
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Geneva/Washington D.C. (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, has completed a four-day official visit to Washington.
Mr Maurer met at the White House with President Barack Obama and other senior officials. In addition, the ICRC president met with Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan, Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, and Deputy Attorney General James Cole. Mr Maurer also met with senior members of the U.S. Congress and the leadership of the American Red Cross.
A focus of Mr Maurer's visit was detention-related matters. "The United States, including its Congress, must urgently find a way to resolve all pending humanitarian, legal and policy issues relating to the detention of persons held at Guantanamo Bay, including those deemed to no longer represent a threat that justifies their continued detention there," said Mr Maurer.
"We enjoy a robust and multi-faceted dialogue with the United States, and my visit was an opportunity to discuss issues and contexts of mutual concern such as Syria and Afghanistan," said Mr Maurer. "The United States values the mandate, positions and input of the ICRC and I am confident that this interaction will continue to bring concrete results, notably in terms of implementation of and respect for international humanitarian law in current and future battlefields."
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Karenmg wrote:Dr will, I'm 61 had twitches in my legs since my 20s. In February I developed a persistent twitch in my left tricep , bicep and forearm. It's a fast jolt like twitch. Some days better than others. No weakness. Normal EMG. Feel good except for the fear I have thinking its Parkinson's. ms in my family. Neuro says I'm fine but this new persistent twitch in the same place everyday has me spooked. Ive been on 1mg xanax for 4 years for tinnitus. Common?
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Dr. Will wrote:Dear BFS Website,
My name is Dr. Anthony Will and I am a dual Board Certified Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine & Family Medicine physician in Glendale, Arizona.
I am not an ALS specialist. My NMM practice is focused primarily on various pain syndromes such as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, Fibromyalgia, and Sports related injuries. I have been involved in diagnosing three ALS cases in my 10-year career.
I have been very impressed with the great encouragement and support that this website offers for many individuals that are effected by fasciculation's of unknown origin. These certainly can be a very scary experience.
I would like to share some very encouraging information based on my own experience with fasciculation's and seeking consultation by two Neuromusculoskeletal Disease Neurologists. Physician one at The Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale Arizona and physician two in private practice in Phoenix Arizona who operates an ALS Clinic and has cared for one of my past dear patients with ALS.
About 10 months ago, I like many others, had experienced an increase in stress in my life with the sudden onset of muscle twitches in the left foot and soon all over. Of course I knew that I was not experiencing any weakness, but like many I started to second-guess myself and I began my own obsession with daily strength tests. I even would ask my fellow partners and medical students to check my reflexes to ensure that they were not hyperactive. Finally it was time to see a specialist and obtain an objective non-biased evaluation. I had the MRI, EMG, and several detailed neurological exams. After two NMD specialists assured me that the fasciculation's were "benign" I finally let go of the worry and fear and now I barely notice them.
Here is some sage information shared by experts in the field of ALS with regards to fasciculations:
1. Everybody experiences fasciculation's.
2. They are more common with exercise, dehydration, caffeine use, increased anxiety and stress.
3. They are not an area of medicine that receives much research funding or medical education attention due to their non-life threatening status.
4. If fasciculation's are present without weakness or obvious muscle atrophy then it is NOT ALS.
5. Fasciculation do not precede weakness and thus will not turn into ALS later in life.
6. People with ALS present with unexplained weakness first, not just fasciculation's.
7. If a patient has a normal neurological exam and EMG they do not have ALS.
8. Treat underlying anxiety.
9. See a well-qualified physician and put your ALS Fear to Bed.
10. Breathe easy and laugh at them. They kind of tickle.
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262 Kan. 426
(939 P2d 874)
No. 75,698
SHER BENNETT, FRANK CARTMELL, MARK CUTSINGER, WILLIAM OCKERT, and STEVE LEDGERWOOD, Appellants, v. VAN DOREN INDUSTRIES, INC., a Kansas Corporation, DAVID VAN DOREN, WALTON CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC., a Kansas Corporation, and UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY, a Maryland Corporation, Appellees.
1. Under K.S.A. 60-212(b)(6), the legal sufficiency of a claim is to be determined from the well-pled facts in the petition.
2. Rules of statutory construction are stated and applied.
3. Pursuant to L. 1989, ch. 31, § 9, appropriations for capital improvement projects are conditioned on compliance with the prevailing wage requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act.
4. In a wage dispute arising out of the construction of the El Dorado Correctional Facility, the record is examined, and it is held that the district court did not err in granting defendants' motion to dismiss because the prevailing wage requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act, and thus L. 1989, ch. 31, § 9, do not apply to the plaintiffs as off-site workers.
Appeal from Butler district court; JOHN E. SANDERS, judge. Opinion filed May 30, 1997. Affirmed.
Robert T. Cornwell, of Law Offices of Robert T. Cornwell, of Wichita, argued the cause, and Carl W. Shewmaker, of Eureka, was with him on the briefs for appellants.
Richard W. Miller, of Miller Law Firm, P.C., of Kansas City, Missouri, argued the cause, and Weston A. Sechtem and Frederick J. Ernst, of the same firm, were with him on the brief for appellees.
James L. Wisler, of Schroer, Rice, P.A., of Topeka, was on the brief for appellee Kansas Public Employees Retirement Systems.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
ALLEGRUCCI, J.: This appeal involves a wage dispute arising out of the construction of the El Dorado Correctional Facility. The five named plaintiffs (Employees) and 199 proposed class members were wage and hour employees of Van Doren Industries, Inc., (Van Doren) a subcontractor on construction of the El Dorado Correctional Facility for the State of Kansas. Walton Construction Company, Inc., (Walton) was the prime contractor. Employees allege that they are third-party beneficiaries of both the contract between Walton and the State and the contract between Walton and Van Doren. Both contracts allegedly contain Davis-Bacon Act (40 U.S.C. 276a [1994]) prevailing wage provisions, which were required by the legislature's appropriation for construction. L. 1989, ch. 31, 9. Employees' petition in the district court sought to have a class certified, the difference between the required wage and the amount actually paid determined for each class member, and judgment for the amount of the indebtedness entered against Van Doren, Van Doren's principal, Walton, and United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company (USF&G), which issued Walton's performance bond. The district court dismissed the action, and Employees appealed. This appeal was transferred from the Court of Appeals pursuant to K.S.A. 20-3018(c).
Employees base their wage claims on the contract between Walton and the State and the contract between Walton and Van Doren. Employees "contend their claims are independent of any statute." They cast themselves as third-party beneficiaries of the contracts.
Employees concede that "the contracts that are the basis of this lawsuit are not yet in evidence" but "contend that the contracts they intend to introduce into evidence after discovery will be unambiguous and not subject to judicial interpretation." (Emphasis added.)
The district court's decision to dismiss the case was based on its conclusion "that the aforementioned Session Laws incorporate and implement the Davis-Bacon Act in its entirety and that the Davis-Bacon Act and [therefore] said Session Law apply to only those people that were actually working at the physical construction site."
Almost no factual record has been developed in this case. In the journal entry dismissing Employees' action, the district court made one finding of fact--none of the named plaintiffs worked at the site of construction of the El Dorado Correctional Facility. With regard to that finding, the district court stated that "plaintiffs' counsel acknowledges that none of the named plaintiffs fit within this description," the description being of "those people that were actually working at the physical construction site"; thus, the court held that as a matter of law, Employees were covered by neither the federal nor the state law.
On appeal, Employees do not take issue with the district court's finding. Neither do they expressly confirm or deny that none worked on site. They come closer to confirming than denying the fact in the following paragraph of their statement of facts: "Van Doren Industries, Inc., again, with the approval of Walton Construction Company, Inc., the prime contractor, sub-contracted the positioning of the panels on site to yet another sub-contractor." The page referenced by Employees is in the document entitled "Walton Construction Company, Inc.'s Objection to Plaintiffs' Request to Certify Class." Examination of the page referenced by Employees does not reveal support for their statement. Another page from the same document, however, contains the following assertions:
"Van Doren was a manufacturer/supplier of precast wall and floor systems used in many types of building construction. Precasting is customarily not performed at a jobsite because of the desirability of climate control, which is available only when manufacturing is undertaken inside a manufacturing facility. Van Doren's primary manufacturing facility was located in Hays, Kansas. To meet its schedule with respect to the El Dorado project, Van Doren established a facility as an extension of its Hays plant. Van Doren leased a pre-existing building near El Dorado, Kansas located over five miles from the construction site.
"Van Doren entered into an agreement with Walton which called for Van Doren to provide labor, material and equipment necessary to manufacture the precast concrete work according to the prime contract documents. Van Doren, in turn, and after discussion with Walton and Allied Steel Construction Co., contracted the actual erection and related work on the precast units to Allied.
"Employees of Van Doren did not erect any of the units on the jobsite. This work was performed by Allied. If any work was performed by Van Doren personnel at the site, then it was solely touch-up and corrective work which would be a very minor percentage of the total precast work. Any Van Doren employees working at the construction site were paid Davis-Bacon wages."
The Davis-Bacon Act, 40 U.S.C. 276a et seq., since 1931 has required contractors to pay local prevailing wage rates to laborers employed on building projects financed in whole or in part with federal money. Allegations in Employees' petition in the district court link the federal statutory requirement to construction of the El Dorado Correctional Facility:
"7. That prior to commencing construction of the El Dorado Correctional Facility in 1990, Walton Construction Company, Inc. entered into a contract with the State of Kansas, that by its terms, provided that the employees of its subcontractors be paid in accordance with prevailing wages determined in accordance with job classifications and wage rates prescribed under the federal Davis-Bacon act which would apply to a federally funded project at the location of any such state correctional facility.
"8. That Van Doren Industries, Inc. on July 20, 1990, entered into a subcontract with Walton Construction Company, Inc. providing that Van Doren Industries, Inc. would pay its employees the minimum wages prescribed by the contract of Walton Construction Company, Inc.
"9. That said contracts were entered into in accordance with Chapter 31 of the 1989 Session Laws of the State of Kansas, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated herein by reference as fully as if set out at length herein, which mandated the inclusion of 'Davis-Bacon' provisions in the contracts of contractors and subcontractors in the construction of correctional facilities.
"10. That the United States Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, pursuant to a request of the Department of Administration, Division of Architectural Services, of the State of Kansas made a project based wage determination for the construction of the El Dorado Correctional Facility, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit B and incorporated herein by reference as fully as if set out at length herein."
Chapter 31 of the 1989 session laws authorized capital improvement projects, including the correctional facility at El Dorado, and made appropriations for the projects for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1989, and June 30, 1990. L. 1989, ch. 31. Section 9 of Chapter 31 conditioned appropriations on
"the construction contracts . . . [being] based on bid specifications prescribing that employees of any such contractor or any subcontractor shall be paid in accordance with prevailing wages determined in accordance with job classifications and wage rates prescribed under the federal Davis-Bacon act which would apply to a federally funded project at the location of any such state correctional facility . . . ."
Employees argue it was error for the district court to construe contracts that were not before it. Employees seem to argue that the district court failed to accept the allegations of their petition as true, as is required on a motion to dismiss. As a consequence of the district court's failure, the argument continues, the district court mistakenly dismissed the action on the ground that Employees were not covered by the Davis-Bacon Act.
Employees contend that a decision based on their petition would have been founded on the twin premises that their wage claims are based solely on the contracts and are independent of any statute. This contention, however, runs immediately afoul of the allegations in Employees' petition. The substantive portion of paragraph 7 of the petition is drawn verbatim from the state appropriations bill. Paragraph 8 refers to the statutory language in paragraph 7. Paragraph 9 incorporates the state appropriations bill, § 9, into the petition "as fully as if set out at length." Thus, Employees fail to include in their pleading any provision of the contracts requiring the payment of additional wages independent of the state appropriations bill.
Although not required, it would have been a simple matter to attach copies of the contracts to the petition. K.S.A. 60-209(h) also allows the reasonable identification of a contract and "stating the substance thereof or it may be recited at length in the pleading." It is the responsibility of a plaintiff whose recovery depends on a contract provision, including a third-party beneficiary, to conform to K.S.A. 60-209(h). Here, in lieu of attaching copies of the contracts to the pleadings, Employees chose to set out relevant provisions of the contracts in the petition. As stated above, we do not find support for Employees' claim in those provisions set out in the petition.
Pursuant to K.S.A. 60-212(b)(6), the legal sufficiency of Employees' claim is to be determined on the well-pled facts of their petition. Thus, if the district court accepted as true the allegations of Employees' petition, the court's decision whether to dismiss the action would have been based on construction of the state appropriations bill. That appears to be how the district court reached its decision. It was not necessary for the contracts to be before the district court for it to interpret the pertinent portion of the state appropriations bill. Its text was available in the session laws. In these circumstances, dismissal before the contracts had been produced was not premature. The controlling issue, therefore, is the interpretation of the state appropriations bill.
The pertinent text of L. 1989, ch. 31, 9, states:
"No moneys appropriated for fiscal year 1990 by this act or any other appropriations act of the 1989 session of the legislature for the department of corrections for construction of any new state correctional facility . . . unless the construction contracts to be entered into for any such state correctional facility . . . are based on bid specifications prescribing that employees of any such contractor or any subcontractor shall be paid in accordance with prevailing wages prescribed under the federal Davis-Bacon act which would apply to a federally funded project at the location of any such state correctional facility . . . ."
There seems to be a verb missing so that a first reading of this long sentence is not very enlightening. No one questions that the purpose of § 9 is to condition appropriations or distribution of appropriated funds on certain wage requirements. The condition is what is at issue here.
The legislature required that the contractor and subcontractors on the El Dorado Correctional Facility pay their employees "in accordance with prevailing wages . . . prescribed under the federal Davis-Bacon act which would apply to a federally funded project" at that location. As Employees contend, the correctional facility is not a federally funded project. The legislature required, though, that wages be computed as if it were a federally funded project.
The Davis-Bacon Act requires that the advertised specifications for federal contracts shall include the following statement:
"[T]he minimum wages to be paid various classes of laborers and mechanics . . . shall be based upon the wages that will be determined by the Secretary of Labor to be prevailing for the corresponding classes of laborers and mechanics employed on projects of a character similar to the contract work in the city, town, village, or other civil subdivision of the State in which the work is to be performed." 40 U.S.C. 276a(a).
The same subsection limits the wage requirement to persons "employed directly upon the site of the work." 40 U.S.C. 276a(a).
Employees' position is that "Davis-Bacon does not apply because no federal funds were involved in the project." In other words, on the ground that federal money is not being used, they argue for enforcement of the wage computation provisions of the Davis-Bacon Act without application of its limitation on wage requirements. They do not examine § 9 of the state appropriations bill to see whether federal funds are a deciding factor.
Employees do not explain how they read the previously quoted portion of § 9 of the appropriations bill. It must be inferred, however, that they would make the phrase "which would apply to a federally funded project" modify the Davis-Bacon Act. The sensible reading of the pertinent portion of § 9 is that the "which" phrase modifies "wages." "Wages" also would be modified (or described) by "prevailing" and "prescribed under the federal Davis-Bacon act." If the "which" phrase modifies "wages," the resulting meaning is contrary to what Employees advocate. In that construction, contractors and subcontractors would be required to pay the wages that would be paid on a federal project. Employees concede that wage earners who do not work directly on the construction site of a federal project do not get the benefit of the Davis-Bacon Act prevailing wage requirements. Thus, contractors and subcontractors would not be required to pay the prevailing wages, which are prescribed under the Davis-Bacon Act, to wage earners who do not work directly on the construction site. In Employees' construction, on the other hand, § 9 would require contractors and subcontractors to pay their employees in accordance with prevailing wages prescribed under the Davis-Bacon Act, but not be limited by the on-site requirement. In Employees' construction, the "which" clause would serve to explain that the Davis-Bacon Act would be applied only in the hypothetical situation of federal funds being involved. There is nothing in the appropriations bill that would indicate anticipation of any federal funds for construction of the correctional facility at El Dorado. L. 1989, ch. 31. Employees suggest no reason why the legislature would bother to explain application of a federal statute when its application was not foreseen. Nor do they explain why they would be entitled to the benefit of the Davis-Bacon Act if it were applicable only where federal funds were involved.
The well-known principles that govern interpretation of a statute include the following: "When a statute is plain and unambiguous, the appellate courts will not speculate as to the legislative intent behind it and will not read such a statute so as to add something not readily found in the statute." State v. Alires, 21 Kan. App. 2d 139, Syl. 2, 895 P.2d 1267 (1995). "'There is a presumption that the legislature does not intend to enact useless or meaningless legislation.'" Todd v. Kelly, 251 Kan. 512, 515, 837 P.2d 381 (1992) (quoting City of Olathe v. Board of Zoning Appeals, 10 Kan. App. 2d 218, 221, 696 P.2d 409 [1985]). "[T]he legislature is presumed to intend that a statute be given a reasonable construction, so as to avoid unreasonable or absurd results." Todd, 251 Kan. at 520.
Although § 9 of the appropriations bill is overlong and "under-verbed," the intent of § 9 seems plain enough. The legislature conditioned appropriations on construction workers being paid according to certain requirements. It would serve no discernible purpose to interpret the conditions portion of § 9 as if it were formulated to explain that the Davis-Bacon Act applies to federally funded projects. Instead, the "which" clause we have been focusing on logically and reasonably modifies wages. Whether § 9 is viewed as unambiguous or whether the rules regarding legislative intent are applied in construing it, the sensible conclusion is that it requires contractors and subcontractors to pay the wages that would be paid on a federal project. The wages that would be paid on a federal construction project are those required by the Davis-Bacon Act. The Davis-Bacon Act does not require the payment of the prevailing wage to off-site workers. Thus, the trial court did not err in dismissing the action because Employees did not work on the site where the El Dorado facility was being constructed.
In light of this holding, we do not need to consider the denial of the motion to certify the class of wage earners. The decision of the district court is affirmed.


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I want to view mplayer's normal terminal output, and also write it to a log.
That works fine when I run mplayer from the commandline, eg:
mplayer "$HOME/gdr01.wav" 2>&1 |tee $HOME/junk.log
However, I want to launch mplayer in it's own gnome-terminal window. Neither of the following commands write to the log, althought the terminal display works.
(gnome-terminal -e "mplayer $HOME/gdr01.wav 2>&1 |tee $HOME/junk.log" &)
gnome-terminal -e "mplayer $HOME/gdr01.wav 2>&1 |tee $HOME/junk.log" &
What is at play here, and what is the trick to get it to work?
EDIT: The problem is that I get the terminal's mesages being written to the log (eg. an
ibus warning). However, although mplayer generates thousands of lines, none are written to the log.


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Intruder, Homeowner Call Police On Each Other
KSCB News - March 21, 2011 8:33 am
Oregon police say both an intruder and a Portland homeowner phoned 911 to report the same thing: a strange man in a home.
Lt. Kelli Sheffer says the intruder told police he had just broken into a home Monday evening when the owner arrived — and the caller was worried the homeowner might have a gun.
Accompanied by his two German Shepherds, the homeowner found the intruder and asked what he was doing in the house. That's when the stranger locked himself in a bathroom and phoned police.
The homeowner called police with his account.
Sheffer says 24-year-old Timothy James Chapek, of Portland, was booked into jail for investigation of first-degree criminal trespass.


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Visit Waimakariri promotes the great reasons to visit the Waimakariri District; only 15minutes drive north of Christchurch & the gateway to North Canterbury.
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Visit Waimakariri is the tourism organisation for the Waimakariri district, which represents the best of both worlds; as an urban/rural paradise only 15minutes' drive from Christchurch, it has miles of unspoiled landscape punctuated by thriving town centres.
The district's town centres nestled in the heart of Rangiora, Kaiapoi, Oxford, Woodend and Pegasus have personality plus with cultural and recreational offerings, boutique shopping, unique cafes, and breath-taking art galleries
The coastal beaches, tracks for walker and biking are people magnets all year round. The lake at Pegasus is also a great playground for sailing and kayaking and of course houses the international golf course.
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Visit Waimakariri, 143 Williams St, Kaiapoi, Christchurch - Canterbury, New Zealand.


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London: Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has admitted it is painful to see his former player Robin Van Persie's goals helping Manchester United on their quest for yet another Premier League title, but the Frenchman added he was already expecting this to happen. Wenger said it also hurts to see United so much ahead of them in the title race, mainly due to Van Persie's goals, the Sun reports.
The Gunners take on current champions Manchester City on Sunday and could be an incredible 21 points behind leaders United, who signed Van Persie for 22 million pounds, by kick-off. Wenger added when a club sells a player of Van Persie's caliber to their rivals than it is obvious they would suffer, adding that the Dutch international is one of the best strikers in the world and a guaranteed goal-scorer.
Van Persie, who has 20 goals overall for United, snubbed a move to City, who are seven points behind their Manchester neighbours, and when asked whether his former striker would have had the same effect at the Etihad, Wenger said he would have certainly scored same number of goals with the current champions too since he is at the peak of his career.


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Lumos 2006: "A Potter Playground for Adults"
Jul 27, 2006
Lumos 2006 is officially underway in Las Vegas, and The Toronto Star reports that the event is being called "a Harry Potter playground for adults." In particular, this article discusses teachers' attendance at Lumos, and their use of Harry Potter novels as a way to stimulate reading and impart lessons of virtue to their students. Quotage:
"'In Harry we see the virtues of courage and strength. He's had to overcome so many difficulties and challenges in life. That's a great lesson for children to get nowadays.'"
The article also highlights some of the activities going on at Lumos:
Between dozens of teacher-geared sessions such as 'The Hogwarts Model: Educational Theory and Practice in the Harry Potter Novels,' there will be water quidditch at the hotel pool and live chess in the evenings . . . Evenings at Lumos will feature Hogwarts night classes and feasting. Muggles — humans to those who haven't read Harry Potter — and wizards will dine on padfoot stew, Aunt Petunia's violet pudding and cornish pasties.
The hotel pubs will be pouring Butterbeer, Morsmordre [sic] margaritas and Pansy Parkinson's frilly pink martini."
Lumos continues through July 30.
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Photo Friday: HeavyPosted in Kansas_Sunflowers, photo friday on 06/11/2010 06:55 am by Queenkv
It's so big.
And it's in Kansas.
My entry for Photo Friday's challenge: Heavy.
Four years ago, Cawker City's ball of twine weighed 17,866 pounds. I suspect it's bigger now since the city defends its title of "World's Biggest Ball of Twine" with an annual festival that has folks adding twine to the ball.


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CONGRATULATIONS TO SCOTT STONE, winner of the free drawing for First Off the Tee: Presidential Hackers, Duffers and Cheaters from Taft to Bush, a bestselling book on America's golfing presidents by Don Van Natta Jr. Scott will receive an autographed copy of First Off the Tee (in hardcover), along with a personal note from the author.
(Note: Don's next book, Wonder Girl, is a biography of Babe Didrikson Zaharias, a 20th-century phenom in three sports: golf, basketball and track and field.)
Meet the Winner
Scott is the CFO of a software company. He started a golf blog, Bushwood Country Club, last fall.
"I've been playing golf for about 15 years," Scott wrote in an email.
"I started playing as a result of a mandatory corporate outing. My first tee shot went over the roof of a condo building and missed a lady walking her poodle by about three feet. I was immediately hooked on the game, and have played steadily since then. For most of the year, I get to play one to two times per week and am a 10 handicapper."
Favorite golf memories: Attending the 1999 Masters and 2008 Ryder Cup
Favorite golf courses: Shoal Creek Country Club (just down the street from my house) and the Lake Course at the Olympic Club
Favorite pro golfers: Hunter Mahan and Paula Creamer
Thanks to all who entered. There will be more free drawings in the near future, so keep coming back.
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Birmingham (Ala.) Golfer Wins 'First Off the Tee' Drawing
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I am guessing you mean Birmingham in the USA and not Birmingham in Great Britain? As i havent heard of any Birmingham golfers from the UK ever winning anything lol (i'm one of them)
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Good point, Andy. I apologize for not thinking about the confusion this would cause UK readers. I've clarified it.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – It will be a busy in the Zesiger Center pool on the MIT campus this weekend as the Institute hosts the 2012 New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference Swimming and Diving Championships. The No. 4 ranked men's team and the No. 6 women's team will both be defending championships won in 2011, with the men's squad gunning for its fourth straight title.
Preliminary heats will start on Friday morning at 10 a.m., with consolation and championship heats taking place in the evening beginning at 6:30 p.m. The same format will hold for Saturday and Sunday as well. Finals in diving competition will be held during Friday and Sunday evening's sessions. Tickets for the Championships will be sold at the door; an all-session pass is $15 for adults and $8 for seniors. Day passes are $6 for adults and $3 for seniors, while a single-session pass is $4 for adults and $2 for seniors.
Live scoring is available at the following web address: http://www.wix.com/aquamit/newmac. A link for mobile phone users is available at: http://m.wix.com/aquamit/newmac. Evening championship sessions will also be webcast free of charge at: http://www.b2livetv.com/partner_members.asp?id=246.


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This article first appeared in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report.
U.S. Air Force Space Command should adopt a policy of greater transparency and encourage wider participation in the development of the algorithms and computer systems it relies on to track the growing amount of orbital debris and the threat it poses to functioning satellites, according to the National Research Council.
USAF, through U.S. Strategic Command and the Joint Space Operations Center, is primarily responsible for the tracking and warning apparatus.
"The modelers and algorithm developers who support the JSpOC (Joint Space Operations Center) mission have developed an internal community that lacks sufficient two-way interaction with the larger research and user community," says the 82-page report, which was compiled by a 14-member NRC study panel. "Their limited contact with the broader astrodynamics research community has resulted in a lack of knowledge of new algorithms whose implementation could potentially provide significant improvement to the current system."
The study, released Sept. 6 and initiated at the request of the Air Force Space Command in early 2011, recommends wider participation by NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Air Force Materiel Command, as well as experts from the aerospace industry and academia in the development and review of tracking algorithms and essential computer systems.
The Air Force Research Laboratory would coordinate the security-sensitive process, which also would make greater use of peer-reviewed publications to disseminate the work, according to the panel.
The study was prompted by the February 2009 collision between the Iridium 33 and Russian Cosmos 2251 commercial and military communications satellites as well as China's January 2007 anti-satellite weapons test. These two incidents greatly increased the debris collision threat to functioning satellites on which developing and developed nations rely for national security, communications, commerce and Earth observations.
The NRC panel's eight recommendations point to two primary limitations on the U.S.'s ability to track a debris population that is forecast to grow to 100,000 from 20,000 objects as already planned U.S. tracking assets come on line. The limitations involve the quantity and quality of sensor-tracking data as well as an understanding of the effects of the Earth's atmosphere on debris and the ability to model the complex influences.
The recommendations stress the need for a greater use of automation in meeting the workload posed by the tracking needs of the U.S. and more than 100 other nations. Personnel recruiting and retention practices should be assessed as well, the panel says.
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Race tech: Wheel and tire choices at Paris-Roubaix 2011
Ambrosio Nemesis rims and FMB boutique rubber most prevalent
If there's ever a day for sponsors to look away, it's Paris-Roubaix. The race is like no other in terms of the abuse it doles out to both rider and machine, and it requires special measures to give the racers some semblance of control and comfort.
"If you specifically talk about Roubaix, the frame is important, but it's not the most important thing I – believe it's the wheels and the tires," said Bjarne Riis, Saxo Bank team owner. Out of the 25 teams that started the race, we visited a dozen to check out tires and talk the tricks of keeping air in them during the brutal 258km event.
Boutique rubber & custom hoops
Of the top three finishers, two — first and second — rode tires from FMB, Francois Marie Boyaux, the last French tire artisan, who makes a tire named and specifically constructed for Paris-Roubaix in a small shop in northern France. Boyaux had two more finishers in the top 10, while rivals Dugast appeared to have at least two. The other teams used tires bearing the name of regular sponsors, although most were custom models not available for sale.
The whole of Saxo Bank started on FMB's 27mm Paris Roubaix tubular glued to Zipp's 303
"I go for 100 percent security, so I'll be on 28mm tires no matter if it's wet or dry," said HTC-Highroad's Bernard Eisel, who used a pro-only model from Continental with latex tubes. "I'd use normal aluminum rims if there were a lot of headwind or really bad weather, because the braking is better, but with weather like this, I'll try it again with carbon wheels."
The majority of the top 10 started and finished on carbon wheels. Garmin-Cervélo's Johan Van Summeren rode Mavic's new wheel, dubbed M40 for its 40mm rim height, to victory, while runner-up Fabian Cancellara used Bontrager's Race XXX Lite climbing wheels, which according to Trek team liaison Ben Coates were stock and not changed in any way to deal with the cobbles.
Garmin-Cervelo used Mavic's new M40 wheel with 27mm FMB Paris Roubaix tubular
"We have one special set that's designed for bigger tires," said Lars Teutenberg, HTC-Highroad's technical development manager. "That's the only carbon wheel we'll use [here]." While carbon wheels were more prevalent than ever at the 109th edition of the Hell of the North, Ambrosio's aluminum Nemesis could be found in just about every team's armoury — if not as a starting wheel, racked on the cars for the inevitable carnage the cobbles wreak upon wheels and tires.
Dealing with pressure
One interesting practice that's prevalent in the peloton but not widely reported, and especially important for a race like Paris-Roubaix, is the extra attention paid to tire pressures. "I think I'll start with about 7 bar ( 100psi)," said Eisel prior to the race. "The tire loses a little bit while racing but that's a good thing, so you have more comfort when you hit the Arenberg." Most of the other HTC-Highroad riders start with 5-6 bar ( 70-90psi). "It depends on the weight of the rider," said Teutenberg. "There's quite a difference between Mark Cavendish and some of the others."
HTC-Highroad run between 5 and 7 bar (70-100psi) in their tires, depending on rider weight and personal preference
Many teams measure the leakage of air from their race tires air over time and track it, so as to know when they'll have the optimal pressure during the race. It's generally agreed that it's most important to have the ideal pressure on the last quarter of the course. "It's a tribal knowledge that's figured out over time," said Coates.
He added that just filling the tires up and leaving them in the sun and checking them later is no way to figure out how quickly or slowly a tire leaks air. Instead, the Leopard Trek mechanics are constantly checking pressures and taking notes both after the riders do specific training, like that for Roubaix, and after races. Coates said Leopard also used sealant for Roubaix. He wasn't sure of the brand but said it "looked like Stan's [NoTubes.com]".
The cobbles of Roubaix take an incredible toll on bike and rider so finding the optimum tire pressure is vital
"We're still working on it because every tire is a little different," said Eisel of estimating leak-down and starting pressures for the race, which starts with close to 60km of rolling terrain on regular roads with 5,000ft of climbing. "We pump it up and measure what we lose in one hour, two hours, so we know. In the end, if it feels fast… you really aren't thinking about pressure."
This technique is tough for regular riders to apply to their own riding and racing. However, testing different pressures and finding what's optimal for different road conditions and riding styles is important for every cyclist. And while many of the 'pro' series tires aren't available, both FMB and Dugast offer the same tires they sell to the teams racing Paris-Roubaix to regular riders as well.


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Here is a Lenovo A319 Stock ROM Firmware which can be used to load and flash stock firmware on any Lenovo A319 of this exact variant. Any MTK Flash tools can download and flash this Lenovo A319 flash file on your A319 so long as that MTK Flash Tool supports MTK Scatter File.
Since most major software malfunctions on any MTK Android devices can only be corrected by flashing, this A319 flash file, if Miniperly used, can unbrick (debrick) your A319 and also corrects any software issues your Lenovo A319 may currently have. Also, keep in mind that when you load stock firmware on your Lenovo A319 using any MTK flash tool, your Lenovo A319 will be reset to factory defaults settings and by that, definitely, your UserData will be lost including contacts, messages and others.
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Yesterday, a federal judge dismissed the Freedom From Religion Foundation's challenge to a Pennsylvania legislative resolution calling for 2012 to be "The Year of the Bible." However, in dismissing the challenge, Judge Conner made it clear he was not endorsing the resolution. He stated
"At worst, (the Bible resolution) is premeditated pandering designed to provide a re-election sound-bite for use by members of the General Assembly." Conner wrote.
He called the resolution's language "proselytizing and exclusionary" and said the measure "pushes the envelope" of the separation of church and state mandate of the U.S. Constitution.
"At a time when the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania faces massive public policy challenges, these (government) resources would be far better utilized in meaningful legislative efforts for the benefit of all of the citizens of the commonwealth, regardless of their religious beliefs.
Notwithstanding the foregoing comments, Judge Conner did rule that the legislature has absolute immunity in passing such a non-binding resolution.
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It's part of our great national hypocrisy. Nobody actually cares much about what you believe in your heart of hearts, but they are very concerned about what you say you believe. Expressions of great devotion to God or absolute indifference are both considered rude. It is always in good taste to make an obscure reference to a "higher power" even if you really mean Warren Buffett.
You are so right, Dr. Clark. I would like to know just how many people especially politicians claim to be very religious when they are totally indifferent. I understand church attendance is down so maybe that answers that, in part.
@politicians that cant even draw the map of the united states/or do world geography worth a damn...
The FFR do great work in taking on breaches of the constitution this is just another example of taxpayers funding a religious political agenda just for votes.
Totally disgusting in 21st century America.
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Looking for an alternative to the price-gouging done by chain hotels during Packer game day weekends? Look no further than the $40 a night Economy Inn of Green Bay. Who knows what kind of exciting people you'll meet during your stay? Drug dealers, women of the night, criminals and generally seedy characters of all kinds lurk and loom in the dimly lit hallways, traveling in and out of their rooms like drunken worker bees at all hours of the night.
The rooms have an interesting design scheme with lime green painted cinder-block walls, mismatched bedspreads, and shadeless lamps. The smell of stale cigarettes, sweat, and and cheap booze permeates the room (and your clothes when you leave). The bathroom, while not dirty, wasn't exactly clean, but according to Robert, it was spacious and offered plenty of room to kneel and even lay down!
For those time-crunched and celebration weary travelers, checking in and out is a breeze. Sure you may have to scribble a signature when you arrive, but at the Economy Inn, identification is not required. In the morning, simply hand off two Andrew Jacksons on your way to your car (provided it's still there) without any questions asked, despite whatever loud, ominous screams that may or may not have been reverberating the hallways the night before.
Other $40 motels just cannot match the total hospitality package that includes a key, gravel parking lot, fecal smell and general feeling of being robbed at knifepoint at any time. Oh, and if you have anything you may not want anymore, a camera, CDs, a half empty case of beer, just leave it in your car, it's sure to be gone in the morning.Hope this review helps when you are weighing your lodging options in Green Bay. We're not convinced it will, as most of our readers seem to have a slightly more advanced level of common sense then we do, but oh well. Go Pack!


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It is good to see that stories like yours have a happy ending .... cheers
Hi Rachel,
I just joined Atheists Nexus, partly because I felt so moved to reply to this discussion. I just found Atheist Nexus by coincidence (or was it?), ha, ha. I had, I thought, pretty much comfortably broken away from religion until recently. Till I was 9, I lived in a Spiritualist community and my father's mother was a Spiritualist minister and medium. We grew up going to seances and getting messages from the "spirit world." Years later I went to the Spiritualist church in San Francisco and had trouble breaking away for awhile. I think I am pretty much recovered from that religion now though. It is the Christianity from the much bigger surrounding culture that I have not broken completely away from.
I recently got on Facebook and found a bunch of old friends. For some reason, most of them are conservative both religiously and politically. I honestly fear that if they look too closely at my profile they'll think I'm some kind of freak. I found out one good old friend's daughter has a spot on her lung. They are still waiting for the biopsy results. My friend asked people to pray for her so I said I would to make her feel better. Then, I felt I had to keep my word, even though she wouldn't really know if I did or not. I have actually gotten down on my knees a few times to pray recently, for the first time in a long time. Then another old friend whom I talked to for the first time in 40 years said she is now a "Prayer Warrior" and is going to pray for me whether I want her to or not. Then I mentioned I had prayed recently and she said, "Good for you." I felt resentful, because it seemed to imply that people who don't pray are bad. But then I wondered why I had even told her that I had prayed in the first place. Was it because I secretly wanted her to think I was "good"? I have been being hypocritical, not true to myself, which may be why I have felt a little confused and "out of it" the past couple of days.
But reading this discussion has made me realize why. After finding these childhood friends again, I of course want to be accepted by them. I think wanting to be accepted and not ostracized, or even attacked, is one big reason people are religious. Wanting to be "good" is another, especially if, as in my case, being "bad" as a child meant, among other things, being beaten and punched in the face. Also, as one other person commented, God can be like an imaginary friend, one who, by the way, always listens without interrupting, criticizing you, or disagreeing with you. How many flesh-and-blood friends will do that?
Also, I once went to a mental health clinic where the director became a Spiritualist and believed in the "spirit" world. No wonder I wasn't helped by going to his clinic. Also, ironically, if I'd told my therapist there that I heard spirit voices, I could have been labeled as schizophrenic and locked up. Yet, if you belong to a religion that supports belief in spirits, angels, whatever, you are protected. Another example of religious discrimination in the mental health field is the fact that if you can prove you're a member of a religion that doesn't believe in medication, such as Christian Scientists, you can legally refuse medication. But if you refuse medication just because you personally don't want it, you can't.
I'm sorry to have rambled on so much, but I think, for me, just knowing some of the reasons I haven't been able to completely let go of religion, and recommitting to being upfront about my secular humanist beliefs, regardless of others' disapproval, will help me do so.
Liz :-)
Hello Providence,
Yes, as far as reading the scriptures, I would advise you to do so but with a skeptic's mind. Start from the very beginning. It is strange how different the same stories I read as a child, appear now that I don't have faith. I started making fun of the different stories on my website, not out of any anger toward Christians but to help cure me of my background. Laughing at something does take away its power.
Even if god was real, would you want to worship him? Seriously, he advocated horrible things. He wants people to admit that they are worthless and spend an eternity just praising him. What a douche', the god of the bible is. LOL I ask myself all the time, could he be real but then I think, the ethical thing to do-if god was real-would be to refuse to worship him and go to hell. Thinking that usually destroys that moment of 'what if' for me.
Rachel, your post has helped me. It is hard for me to stop praying. It was something that I did most of my life. Hearing that other people have this issue really helps me feel less weird, if that makes sense. Logically, I know that there is no god but emotionally, it takes time. I haven't read Dawkins yet but I really get why religion woudl be compared to a virus.
I'm late to the conversation, but I thought I'd put in my 2 cents...
My journey to atheism took about 18 years of searching for god after I left the church. Many things you describe remind me of the things I went through as I deconstructed and reconstructed my beliefs multiple times over the years. There were periods where I was one step away from needing to be institutionalized. Perhaps I should have been. I wish I hadn't been indoctrinated to distrust psychiatry/psychology, but that's key to the indoctrination. A few years of therapy would have probably helped me get where I am a lot sooner but what is done is done. What's important is we are here.
I'm sorry, this response took on a life of it's own LOL,I got into a short version of my life story after this, if I haven't bored you thus far & you want to skip it it ends at the*
I have the experience of being indoctrinated from being a tiny toddler until I was about 13. I started questioning Christianity and by the time I was 14 1/2 I had left it never looking back. I developed a hatred of Christian doctrine and recently (over the past several months) was puzzled as to why I returned to the worship of Yahweh in my early 20s.
My parents were just liberal enough to teach me that people that follow blindly often meet nasty ends. And my father instilled a love of science in me. They came right up to the edge of free thought and backed away for whatever reasons, I'm assuming it was their indoctrination. It wasn't until I was in Jr High that I was first exposed to rational/free thought. I have to thank my Science teacher for his patience while I was bombarding him with Creationist fallacies. Asking his help to make sense of the conflict between the sciences that I loved (cosmology, geology, biology etc.) and "creation science" But after that period I fell into the pseudo-science clap trap. Spending several years trying to escape that. As frustrating and at times terrifying as it was I think I have made it.*
I no longer pray, I stopped that a couple months before I realized I was an atheist and hadn't even noticed. I still catch my self saying "Oh god" and "Only the lord knows" Some habits are hard to break. I know they are empty words and are no more then expressions acquired by the language I had inherited. I have been trying to curb it though.
A thought I came to, while inspired by the books I have recently read (God Delusion, The God Virus) a few lectures and such on the subject, was not only the first 13 years my of life's indoctrination had a major influence but our society's reverence for religion and "spirituality" is just as much a part of it. I've known people who grew up in non religious homes that became fundies in their 20s. They never bothered looking at religion and it's effects so it makes sense that they fell for it when they were finally exposed to a strong strain. Religion and "spirituality" is everywhere you turn, and we are expected to make special concessions for it. How can we not be infected unless their is a influence in our lives teaching us how to be free thinkers?
My indoctrination rears it's ugly head at times trying to make me fearful but I have found that rational thought easily defeats it. The first attack, within minutes of it dawning on me that I was an atheist, was what if we become a theocracy and you are persecuted for not believing. And my thought/response was Nothing is worth believing if it's not true. I'd rather be dead then to live my life as a lie.
It sounds as if you became an atheist while still in the church or shortly (meaning a couple years) after it. (If I made an ass of myself by assuming I apologize.) Without help and the neccesary tools it took me 18 years of struggle, drug abuse, and at times near insanity to fight the grip that my indoctrination had on me. Don't give in and get help if you need to. Feel free to drop a line anytime. I go through periods where I don't check in very often but I will respond if I receive a email alert to a PM.
I think sometimes, it is easier to deal with what we have known, and are used to. We were taught certain things when we were young, and letting go of them can be hard. There is a comfort level, and a familiarity, even if we know what we were taught isn't what we believe now.
Also, there is the difficulty many of us have when we start talking to people about what we know now doesn't help. For instance, if I told my mother I don't believe in God, that I don't believe what I was raised with, and that I don't believe in heaven and hell, she would start preaching at me, and start trying to reconvert me.
I think it is hard to let it go because most societies all over the world teach some belief in a higher being and this has been going on for all recorded history. A belief in a higher being has always been part of the fabric of every society I know of (if anyone knows of an atheist society anywhere in history please let me know).
It is part of most of our up-bringing and is still very pervasive in most countries. To just throw it away is very hard. I still wonder at times about a 'divine' being, but when I look at my own specific religion (an off-shoot of Christian protestantism), I see a lot of logic problems that just don't go away. I think for me this is the predominant thing that keeps me away from religion; that it doesn't make sense when you compare what the bible's various writers have said. When you also look historically at how the bible was put together (all the debates among the early Catholic church at what books should be in and what shouldn't), it just can't help make you stop and wonder, if you at all are sceptical.
I think that what it comes down to is that whatever your individual society conditions you to believe, you will accept. And when a circumstance arises that makes you question that belief it will still be hard to let it go because there is always some kind of logic in it that makes you think, "you know, there is a certain amount of sense to it."although when you play it out in the big picture, like I tried to explain in the above paragraph, it doesn't hold up. It is mostly conditioning.
Just look at the huge number of different beliefs; and not just religion; political systems, family structure, values, etc. All believed in very strongly by each group. We can believe anything. Our brain has developed to sense a need for structure of some kind in many different facets of our life and religion is a structure that is very hard to let go of until we have something to replace it with.
Sorry for my rambling; I'm getting these thoughts out as an on-going part of my personal healing, de-programming; whatever you want to call it.
Rachel, I don't know if this is still relevant to you but if not it is maybe helpful for someone else.
I am currently reading a really good book which is called "Leaving the fold" written by Marlene Winell. It is a guide for former fundamentalists and others leaving their religion. It deals with the recovery process (5 Phases), manipulation techniques that are used in fundamentalist churches, why it is so hard to let go and helps to create an own life and personality after this was highly suppressed before. I am half through it and I highly recommend to read it. I just left my fundamental christian church 3 month ago and that is really tough when you are the first in the extended family and you are bombarded by emails, calls and letters telling you how much they pray for you and how much they love you :/
I even recommend therapy sessions if it doesn't get better and you got stuck somewhere in the recovery process.
I think Rachael's beef is with her own negative experience with religion, as well as other's she has known who share a negative experience. It's unavoidable to point a negative finger at a belief system you have had a negative experience with, especially one that claims complete authority over everything, which most religions do.
The Judeo-Christian god claims complete dominance over the whole universe and everything inhabiting it; including the right to tell us how to live our lives and what to think. That is what the bible proclaims. This isn't just a matter of, 'oh well, this belief didn't work for me' and move on happily to something else. Leaving the belief that there is an omnipotent being can really rupture your mental state (unless you never deeply believed there was such a being).
Most 'believers' give lip service (as far as my own experience goes); if some doctrine or religious principle comes up that comes into conflict with how they want to live their life they put on blinders to it, and really never consider the impact of what those doctrines and principles really mean.
The bible is about mind control. Pure and simple. If you take it seriously, as I did, it has enormous impact on you. And a life you could have lived without it won't happen, since you are trying to live according to the bible; remember the passages in the bible where we are supposed to let His will and not ours be done?
It sounds as if Rachael took her belief very seriously and now is having difficulty putting it away, as I am. To many religion is just associating with a church that you enjoy going to that makes you feel good and has nice people to associate with and doesn't condemn you or what you like to do. If you don't like it you look for one that suits you.
For others, it's about searching out the Truth of God and obeying it because it is all real. You change your life to suit God, not the other way around. This perspective is the one that can really damage you because 'all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.' This is where the guilt and self-doubt come in.
You mention where the bible says 'the truth shall set you free'; for many who had believed, it WAS true. When you find out it isn't and you know that it has disrupted your life and others you know, you WILL say that it is a negative thing. It sounds to me as if you were'nt deeply wound up with it as Rachael, or myself. I used to speak at my denominations' churches up and down the East Coast for years before finally admitting my doubts to myself that it all didn't make sense. To me, and others, religion is either true or not. There is a god or there isn't. If there isn't, shed the guilt and drop the ceremonies; why practice something that isn't true?
There are churches who merely function as vehicles for socialization and comfort, but mine and others like it stated that you needed to accept the bible as literal and obey it or you were damned. Nothing comfy or cozy about that.
Anyways, I've gone on too long. I'll just say that if what you believe makes you feel good, helps you make positive, healthy choices and it doesn't condemn others, fine. If it automatically puts you in a position of condemnation (original sin), and encourages you to condemn other's beliefs, than that is negative. Unless those beliefs bring about negative actions, ie terrorism.
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Poor Tim Pawlenty Can't Even Make a Lame Ad Without Legal Trouble
It's fun to watch Tim "Two Percent" Pawlenty hatch a new lame scheme each week to try to get anyone interested in his tries-too-hard presidential campaign.
Take his latest big-buy Iowa ad, "The American Comeback." This is the most Tim Pawlenty ad that Tim Pawlenty could ever make — so far. He uses footage from the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" Olympic Hockey game between the United States and the Soviet Union as a metaphor for What America Needs Now blah blah zzzzzzzzz. Christ, what a bland ad that means nothing. We get that you played hockey back in the day, Tee Paw! Got anything else?
And now, an ABC official tells the Des Moines Register that the company may issue a cease-and-desist letter to Pawlenty for using copyrighted footage of the 1980 game. That's pretty over the top by ABC, no? It's just a few seconds of footage, from the most well-known game of any sport in modern U.S. history. Live a little, assholes! As if the world needs more lawsuits, amirite?
Still, it would be funny if ABC sued Tim Pawlenty.


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Usain Bolt earned another first in the 200 meters, Brazilian officials said Ryan Lochte and the other American swimmers lied about being held up, and America's Ashton Eaton retained the title of best athlete in the world by winning the decathlon. Here are some memorable moments of Day 13 at the Rio Games, in case you missed them.
Bolt Wins 200 Meter Gold, for the Third Time
Usain Bolt won his third straight 200 meter gold Thursday night — the only athlete to accomplish that feat. Bolt finished in 19.78 seconds, defeating Andre De Grasse of Canada, who took silver at 20.02 seconds. France's Christophe Lemaitre won bronze in 20.12.
Earlier in the Rio Games, Bolt set the same record in the 100 meters. He crossed the finish line in 9.81 seconds, beating rival Justin Gatlin by .08 seconds.
"World's Greatest Athlete"
Ashton Eaton earned the title of the "world's greatest athlete" Thursday night by winning the decathlon for the second straight Olympic Games.
In the final event, the 1,500 meters, Eaton held off France's Kevin Mayer to finish with 8,893 points. Mayer had 8,834 points, and in third was Canada's Damian Warner with 8,666 points.
Eaton, 28, competed in 10 track and field events over two days to defend his Olympic title. The events: 100 and 400 meters, 110 meters hurdles, long jump, shot put, javelin throw, discus throw, high jump, pole vault and finally the 1,00 meters.
Eaton became the third man to defend an Olympic decathlon title.
Police: Lochte, Other U.S. Swimmers Lied About Robbery
Ryan Lochte and the other U.S. Olympic swimmers who claimed to have been robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro had actually vandalized a gas station restroom before being confronted by security guards, one of whom pointed a gun at the men to scare them, the city's police chief said at a news conference Thursday.
The swimmers -- Lochte, Jack Conger, Gunnar Bentz and Jimmy Feigen -- were not robbed, nor were they victims of violence of any sort, and they owe the people of Rio an apology, said the chief, Fernando Veloso.
"The only truth they told was that they were drunk," Veloso said.
Lochte initially had said their taxi was pulled over early Sunday by men posing as police officers when they returned to the Olympic Village from a party at the Casa Franca, an Olympic hospitality house. One of the men pressed a cocked gun to his forehead before taking his money, Lochte said. He later changed his story to say the cab had stopped at the gas station so they could use the bathroom.
But Brazilian authorities said they could find no evidence that the men's story was true, and on Wednesday a judge ordered Lochte and Feigen to remain in Brazil and their passports seized while police continued to investigate. But by then Lochte had returned to the United States.
Conger and Bentz were later taken off their flight to the United States at the Rio airport.
Police say the men stopped at the Shell gas station shortly before 6 a.m. and when they used the bathroom, it was vandalized, the police chief said. They eventually paid R$100 in Brazilian reals and $20 for the damage.
Conger and Bentz left Brazil Thursday night, according to a statement from U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun. Feigen provided authorities with a revised statement Thursday night in the hope that his passport would be released as soon as possible, the statement said.
Weightlifter Stripped of Medal Over Doping
A male weightlifter from Kyrgyzstan became the first athlete to be stripped of a medal at the Rio Games after a doping test. Izzat Artykov tested positive for strychnine after winning the bronze medal in the 69-kilogram division, according to the The Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Later in the day, a Chinese swimmer and a Brazilian road cyclist were disqualified from Olympic competition, also after positive drug tests. Final verdicts were issued in the cases of swimmer Chen Xinyi and cyclist Kleber Ramos.
The 18-year-old Chen, who finished fourth in the 100-meter butterfly, had previously accepted a "provisional suspension" after testing positive for a diuretic. She pulled out of her final event, the 50-meter freestyle. On Thursday, after a hearing, the court said she had been formally disqualified and her fourth-place result annulled.
Ramos tested positive for the blood-booster EPO in a pre-games test on July 31. He had accepted a provisional suspension "on a voluntary basis" and did not request a hearing. The court said he has been disqualified.
Two other athletes were expelled last week.
Boxing Fallout Continues
The association running the Olympic boxing tournament removed its executive director from the Games on Thursday, a day after some judges were sent home for questionable calls in the matches.
The International Boxing Association reassigned Karim Bouzidi but did not say why. The tournament instead will be operated by the president of the European Boxing Confederation.
An unspecified number of referees and judges were dismissed from the Olympics on Wednesday after the governing body determined that officiating at "less than a handful" of Olympic bouts had been incompetent. The association declined to name the judges or specify which bouts had been problematic.
Among the controversial decisions:
Russia's Evgeny Tishchenko won the heavyweight gold medal with a decision over Kazakhstan's Vassiliy Levit, who was more aggressive. The crowd booed Tishchenko as he received his gold medal.
Ireland bantamweight world champion Michael Conlan lost a quarterfinal decision to Russia's Vladimir Nikitin. Conlon made obscene gestures at the judges and accused the International Boxing Association and Russia of conspiring together. Nikitin clinched the bronze but was medically disqualified Thursday from a semifinal bout.
Relay Team Races the Clock
In a rare rerun, the U.S. 4x100 relay team raced by themselves, against the clock, in the Olympic Stadium to qualify for the finals after one of the team was jostled by a Brazilian sprinter during an earlier heat.
American Allyson Felix dropped the baton as she prepared to pass it to teammate English Gardner during the morning's qualifying heat and it looked as if the U.S. team had been eliminated. But then officials ruled that the Brazilian runner had obstructed the Americans.
In the rerun, the U.S. team qualified with the fastest time, 41.77 seconds. China had finished eighth but was eliminated from the final.
American Wins Wrestling Gold
Helen Maroulis became the first American woman to take home a gold medal for wrestling, edging out Japan's Saori Yoshida, a three time reigning Olympic champion and a 13-time world champion.
Before losing to Maroulis, Yoshida had only lost two matches in the past 14 years and had hoped to become the second wrestler to ever win four gold medals.
Golfing With the Wildlife Hazard
It took five people running around the bushes of the Rio Olympic golf course to catch a snake on Thursday.
There are 263 species of animals that call the newly constructed golf course their home.
While the giant capybaras, the world's largest rodent, have made headlines roaming around the course, Rio staff members found themselves dealing with a different critter Thursday.


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HOUSTON - Middle school students in the Cy-Fair Independent School District will soon be learning about sex in school from cartoons.
"We already have data on the program to show that it does reach middle school students," Cy-Fair ISD Coordinator of Secondary Science Debra Hill said. "We have no evidence at all that our old program was working. If you want students to change their behavior, then you need to present information in a way that's appealing to them."
The 12-lesson program, set to begin in October with seventh graders, was recommended by a group comprised of students, parents and educators. It was approved for implementation by the school board earlier this year. Cy-Fair ISD officials decided to update a generation-old set of videos after discovering a disturbing trend.
"If we look at pregnancy rates in this school district, they're increasing," Hill said. "If we look at the number of middle schoolers getting pregnant, it's increasing. If our old program was highly effective, we would not be seeing an increase in pregnancy rates."
The new evidence-based curriculum, designed by the UT Public Health Center, features cartoons teaching kids about abstinence. For students who admit they're planning on becoming sexually active, the animated characters explain safe sex options.
"I can see why kids should know that," middle school parent Swanney Lee said. "But then again, when I jump back into my 'daddy skin,' it does still make me uncomfortable. I just wish my little girl would still just play with Barbies, but I understand this isn't the world we're living in."
Cy Fair ISD officials said that any parents who might be uncomfortable exposing their children to the new curriculum will be able to select exactly what their student sees.
"We provide parents with the opportunity to adjust how the students receive the information or don't receive the information," Hill said.
Since the new program doesn't start until late October, the district said that parents can preview the curriculum at www.itsyourgame.org. There, parents can decide for themselves exactly what they want or don't want their kids exposed to.
"They will have lots of time to go in and really review and make an informed decision for their student," Hill said.
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HBD Bob
Same lies and BS,i didn't run off ANYONE,looking for someone to blame then blame yourselves.
I'm not the one attacking other members here on EVERY SINGLE POST,that's ALL some of you do.
Because no matter how hard you try you can't defend the mental case now in the WH.
When he introduced the political forum he had no idea times like these were ever coming. Its been pretty ugly since the election.
Perhaps it's just a 'time out' ?
We gave them a good run.
..seems there is plenty of blame to spread around tho.....you boy's post have been antagonistic in nature too...it's become nothing but a piss'n ground...
All he had to do was ban ghonks ass, problem solved. Who knows?
I just seen that.
Looks like Barnett may have gotten rid of political forum?
ghonk sucks He ran off a lot of good folks .I want to bust his balls.When ever your ready i will back you up. bob
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