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Preachers telling blacks not to vote is sinful
Worse than a preacher telling his congregants how to vote is telling them not to vote at all.
That should be considered a sin.
I don't know that there are any widespread efforts by ministers discouraging voting in this year's election, but there have been reports -- including a recent story from The Associated Press -- suggesting that "some" African-American clergy don't see an acceptable option in President Barack Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
The inference in the story, although seemingly based on the comment of only one person with the title of "reverend," is that black church-goers were being encouraged not to vote for either candidate.
"Some black pastors telling congregations not to vote," read the front-page headline in this newspaper Monday morning.
For months now there has been speculation that black Christians, considered conservative on many social and cultural issues, would denounce the president because of his support of gay marriage -- and some have.
But criticizing a candidate for a particular view, such as endorsing same-sex marriage, does not necessarily translate into "don't vote" for him or her. That would be ridiculous.
Just as it would be ludicrous to reject Romney simply because of his Mormon religion, the reason some preachers give for being unable to support the Republican nominee. Many Baptists, as well as other Christians, have been taught that Mormonism is a cult. Some believe that about Catholicism and a list of other religions.
It's always been that one man's religion is another man's superstition and one woman's God is another's idol.
While one's faith should not play a role in the election of a president, religion has long been injected into politics in this country, just as have race, gender and many other factors that have nothing to do with qualifications to serve.
Politicians have always courted preachers, and during election time many include churches -- especially black ones -- on their Sunday morning schedules.
During the 1976 presidential campaign President Gerald Ford, an Episcopalian, went to Dallas' First Baptist Church to get the blessing of Pastor W. A. Criswell. The preacher praised the Republican nominee by saying he would not have given an interview to Playboy magazine like his opponent Jimmy Carter.
A lifelong Baptist, Carter attended a lot of churches during the campaign, including University Baptist in Fort Worth one Sunday.
Black ministers are often accused of telling their congregations how to vote, because they've allowed politicians not only in their churches but into their pulpits. The truth is preachers have never needed to tell black folks how to vote, but simply to vote.
Voter apathy among minority groups has been a disturbing problem for generations, even in times when people were dying for their right to have free access to the ballot box.
That's why it's upsetting that even one cleric would suggest that African Americans sit out an election.
The Associated Press article quoted a local black Southern Baptist pastor as saying he planned to "go fishing" on Election Day, clearly sending a signal to his congregants that it was all right not to vote this year.
The article failed to note that the minister is a Republican, or at least one who twice voted for George W. Bush for president.
When I noticed that the AP story was being picked up by several conservative websites and bloggers, it occurred to me that this just might play into the Republican strategy of discouraging black people from going to the polls.
You see, not voting at all would be like a vote against Obama without having to cast a vote for Romney.
I've said repeatedly that the right to vote is too precious to be toyed with, manipulated or denied.
Any preacher who participates in a scheme to keep people from the polls ought to be on his knees praying for forgiveness.
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Kristin began starving herself in eighth grade.
"I had low self-esteem," she said. "I was by no means fat, but my body developed before my other girlfriends'. I got it in my head that if I lost weight I'd like myself more and other people would like me more; I'd be more popular."
An avid reader of fashion and fitness magazines, she was dismayed by the differences between her body and those of the models she idolized. So first she began to choose health food over junk food, then she started reducing her overall intake, counting calories and weighing herself daily.
"Before I knew it, it became an obsession," the South Bay resident said. "I was terrified of gaining weight; I measured everything. The thought of not having that control was too scary."
In four months, she lost 15 pounds. After eight months, she had lost 40.
"It was beyond my control; my life was governed by this fear. It started as a control thing, and by the end I had no control. It was either the hospital or I was going to die."
The 'tween with the athletic body became drastically underweight and, at age 12, she was hospitalized in the Stanford ICU with a dangerously low heart rate. Kristin was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa and placed in the Comprehensive Eating Disorders Program at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford.
Now 23, Kristin recently celebrated the 10-year anniversary of her hospitalization. In recovery, with health restored, she's one of the thousands of former patients who've been treated for an eating disorder or participated in research studies at Stanford.
Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses involving abnormal, unhealthy eating behaviors, including anorexia nervosa (self-starvation), bulimia nervosa (binging and purging) and other, non-specified conditions. Stanford's program was started in the late 1970s and involves staff from the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital's Center for Adolescent Health and the Stanford University School of Medicine divisions of Adolescent Medicine and Child Psychiatry.
Though eating disorders affect relatively few people, the impact on those suffering from them is severe. Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness.
Treatment for eating disorders has changed since the '70s, with a shift toward family-based rather than individual therapy, care that is holistic and a majority of patients being treated as outpatients. Research, too, is evolving, with current Stanford researchers now exploring the tie between eating disorders and larger issues of cognition and thinking patterns.
Because eating disorders impact both mental and physical health, Stanford's joint approach is the key to its philosophy, Dr. Cynthia Kapphahn, medical director for the program, said.
Not only do adolescent patients work with therapists and physicians, but also nurses, nutritionists and others in a team-based, holistic approach to care.
"There's even a school teacher to help patients stay caught up. It's one of the few places in the country like that," she said.
The program offers a 15-bed inpatient unit (currently housed in rented space at Mountain View's El Camino Hospital) and an ongoing outpatient clinic, with offices in Palo Alto and Mountain View. Kapphahn said she hopes the inpatient clinic, which outgrew its original space, can eventually move back to Lucile Packard when the hospital undergoes its recently approved expansion.
Dr. James Lock, the psychiatric director for the program, said that on average 10 of the inpatient beds are filled at any given time, and that between 300 and 400 patients go through the outpatient clinic each year. New-patient evaluations are held three times a week, and around half of the patients come for treatment. About 10 times more girls are diagnosed with eating disorders than boys, Lock said, but that may partially be attributed to less awareness regarding eating disorders in the male population.
"The stereotype is the rich, white girl, but we see tons of boys, and lots of minorities," Kapphahn said. She said eating disorders seem to be increasingly common in Latino boys, for example, who've been overweight, then lose too much.
"We see eating disorders across all groups," she said. "But the unconventional people tend to get missed."
A misconception is that eating disorders in adolescents are the fault of controlling, pressuring parents or the fault of popular culture for emphasizing svelte body shapes and unrealistic beauty standards, Lock said.
"Mothers get blamed because we live in a culture in which lots of women worry about their weight, but in fact anorexia is very rare," Lock said.
"Everyone is exposed to the same media," he said, while relatively few develop an eating disorder. While media can be a trigger for unhealthy eating habits, it seems a person needs to have certain genetic and cognitive propensities to develop anorexia.
Kristin said she had problems with anxiety even prior to the onset of her eating disorder.
"I grew up experiencing a lot of anxiety, but it sort of went under the radar," she said. "I come from a family of 'Type A' personalities."
Lock said there may be similarities between those with eating disorders and those with other mental illnesses, such as anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Looking at the behaviors and personality of patients from before they were diagnosed with anorexia, as in Kristin's case, Lock said they "tend to be anxious, driven, perfectionistic people" -- the very type who also tend to be quite successful in school and at athletics.
Eating-disorder patients "very commonly have all those traits. If you want to get into Stanford you better have some of those qualities," Lock said. "I tell parents, 'If your child does not get straight As, they are very unlikely to have anorexia.'"
Kristin described herself as a regimented child who would "stress about anything," with even small mistakes such as missing the bus feeling like "the end of the world.
"I would make lists of things to do, and things had to be done a certain way," she added.
Might Palo Alto, with its culture of high academic standards and population of driven Silicon Valley go-getters see a higher rate of adolescents with eating disorders than other areas?
"It's a high-risk population," Kapphahn acknowledged. Lock added: "We don't have good data, but there is an association; the vulnerability is probably higher," since there are both genetic and environmental triggers. Plus, to be able to afford to raise a family in the area, local parents are often high-achieving, extra-driven personalities themselves. And family does play a role.
"Genetic data suggests that inheritability is very high," Lock said. But, he emphasized, as with media exposure, clearly not all straight-A students or teenagers unhappy with their weight develop an eating disorder.
"Particular people are more susceptible, ones with super-high expectations that spill into eating certain ways," Kapphahn said, of what happens when such a person turns all their drive and focus onto controlling their eating habits. "There's a disconnect between high expectations and low self-esteem," she said.
It's normal for adolescents to develop body-image concerns as they hit puberty, with girls generally experiencing more weight gain than boys, Lock said, but those who develop eating disorders take such concerns, along with their perfectionistic tendencies, to an extreme.
Kristin's perfectionism mixed with her low self-esteem created a "perfect combo for an eating disorder," she said.
There also seems to be a link between the sex hormones that control puberty, particularly estrogen, on brain development and risk for eating disorders. And by far the most cases of eating disorders are diagnosed by age 18, with onsets becoming rare after age 25, Lock said. Once the disease takes hold, "it's truly shocking how intractable it is, how absolutely compelling," he said.
"Even when I was at my lowest weight, I never thought I could have anorexia. I couldn't be thin enough. It was total denial. I was miserable, weak, felt awful, depressed," Kristin recalled.
Anorexia's mortality rate is about five to nine deaths per 100,000 sufferers, Lock said. Half of anorexia-related deaths are from cardiac arrests due to weakened, starved hearts, while the other half are suicides. In those cases, the patient "loses all perspective. They have nothing left, no energy for relationships. You just begin to feel like you don't want to live," Lock said. And with each passing year of having the disease, the risk of death goes up by 1 percent.
"People don't think they have a problem; they don't see it. They say, 'No, I'm fine,' even when they're on a heart monitor in the hospital because their heart rate dropped too low and they're a skeleton," he said.
For Kristin, "restricting was all I cared about. Counting calories and exercise was all I lived for. I thought about it 90 percent of the time," she said.
Bulimia is three to four times more common than anorexia, but comes with its own dangers and long-term health risks.
"It's equally worrying," Lock said of bulimia, "but with quite a different set of concerns," with bulimics struggling more often with appearance-related weight-loss attempts rather than the control issues common in anorexics. Patients with bulimia more often recognize they have a problem and want to stop, but they find themselves trapped in the binge-purge pattern, he said.
"One of the sad things is, eating disorders are still stigmatized," Lock said. "Families are blamed; patients are blamed; people think they're influenced by fashion or the media as opposed to having a psychological disorder."
Kapphahn concurred.
"People feel guilty, like it's seen as a volitional thing. If you had cancer you wouldn't be blaming yourself for having cancer. It really is a disease that needs to be treated," she said.
Though very dangerous, eating disorders are also highly treatable. Lock said in his experience it takes patients between nine months to a year to recover, with 80 to 90 percent able to say they no longer have the disorder.
In Kristin's case, her parents became concerned by her weight loss but for a while were at a loss as to how to deal with it. She saw a physician and a psychologist but kept losing weight.
"It was the elephant in the room, no one would talk to me about it," she said. Eventually, she recalled, her mother came up to her room to break the news that she'd need to go to the hospital.
"They want to take you by ambulance, but I'd like to take you myself," she remembered her mom saying. "I had to face the music."
Most of the patients who come to Stanford are, like Kristin, fairly local, from the Bay Area or Northern California, although some are referred from across the nation and even the world, Lock said. Traditionally, most eating-disorder patients were treated as inpatients, with months of hospitalization, "but in the last decade by far the largest number are treated as outpatients," Lock said. "It's a real movement forward."
When patients first arrive, medical stabilization is the first priority. Even outpatients are often hospitalized for the first nine to 12 days to make sure they're physically stable, Lock said.
Kapphahn and her medical team monitor patients' physical health, helping them recover from malnutrition and a host of side effects that can include low blood pressure, low heart rate or a racing pulse, seizures and more. Nutritionists advise on what meals are appropriate, while for inpatients nurses make sure patients are getting the nutrients they need.
"It's really hard for patients; they feel overwhelmed and fearful of eating. The nurses are supportive but firm," Kapphahn said, adding that rarely do Stanford nurses have to resort to the unpleasant nasal-gastric force feeding that sometimes characterized eating-disorder treatment in the past.
Kristin, thinking she'd only be in the hospital for a few days and packing accordingly, ended up staying there for a month and a half.
For a long time she wasn't even well enough to take solid food and was bedridden. Eventually she was able to use a modified wheelchair, then progress to walking and going to group therapy.
In the hospital, "I went in and out of acceptance. I was scared I was going to die. It was a really lonely time, although my family visited every day," she said. Finally, she gained 10 pounds and was able to be released.
While caring for the physical wellness of patients is crucial, Kapphahn said it's the psychological treatment that is essential for long-term success in treatment.
"Truly, recovery comes through the mental health side," she said.
For more than two decades, Stanford has been involved in eating-disorders treatment, with Lock as a proponent of what he called evidence-based, family-based therapy for anorexia nervosa, in which the parents and siblings of the patient undergo counseling with him or her and take an active role in the recovery process, including learning about nutrition, making sure the patient eats properly and trying to understand the complexities of the illnesses. Family-based therapy is counter to how anorexia used to be treated, Lock said.
In older days, "treatment left the family completely out," he said. The belief was that anorexics have parents who are over-controlling and that the disorder "is about defiance and autonomy," he said, so therapy focused solely on the patient.
"It seems completely crazy to me now," Lock said, adding that patients would do well at the hospital, but then continue losing weight once they were back home. Having family members involved in the treatment process is key, as the kids suffering from anorexia are initially too disturbed to handle the situation on their own, he said.
"Parents need help helping them. They need to know how to make sure the kid eats every meal, no cheating, no exercise on the side, and make sure their child gets the message, so it disrupts the behavior and it becomes less compelling," he said. Once well enough to return to school, "they need to be able to manage it in the peer environment, and the parents need to be able to pick up the pieces when it falls apart," he said.
Family-based therapy is now recognized as the treatment of choice, Lock said. According to a joint study by Stanford and the University of Chicago, published in the October issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, family-based therapy was found to be twice as effective as individual psychotherapy in producing full remission in anorexic teens.
Kapphahn said the medical side of the program was slower to embrace family-based treatments than the psychiatric side, but over the past eight years she's seen a paradigm shift.
"The hospital was stuck in an old-fashioned model, really contrary to the work Dr. Lock was doing. Now ... we really want the families to be there, our program has shifted," she said.
In Kristin's case, her parents tried the family therapy, but then dropped out, finding it too difficult.
"My family did everything they could to support me, but they never really tried to understand," she said. "But I would still recommend family therapy. I think it's really important; usually there is something there."
Cognitive remediation therapy (CRT), which focuses on patients' thinking patterns and styles rather on specific eating behaviors, is also now used in treating eating-disorder patients. The techniques of CRT are being used to study how the cognitive processes of eating-disorder patients may differ from healthy individuals.
CRT "is something patients tend to really like because it doesn't ask any questions about food or weight," Stanford School of Medicine Research Assistant Danielle Colborn said of the treatment, which has also been used in cases of head injury and schizophrenia. Tasks involving memory games, pattern matching and problem-solving quizzes are used to help patients improve brain flexibility.
"It still helps them work toward recovery but without those trigger issues," Colborn said.
"It's very new -- some as been done with adult women (with eating disorders) but very little has been done with adolescents. We're starting to change our way of looking at these illnesses, taking into account their cognitive functioning. Before our way of looking at them was specifically ideas about food and eating, but in addition we should look at addressing their thinking processes themselves," she said.
Colborn and Nandini Datta are two of several Stanford researchers currently conducting studies on the relationship between thinking processes and eating disorders. Though their studies are separate, both involve analyzing how a person's thinking may correlate to psychological illnesses such as anorexia.
Datta and her team are currently recruiting subjects for her study, titled, "Familial Aggregation Study of Anorexia and Cognition," specifically in females ages 14-19 with anorexia nervosa, and their family members. The study will focus on pairs of sisters close in age, in which one sister has anorexia and the other does not. She's also recruiting females from that age group with no history of anorexia to serve as controls in the study.
"We give them a neuropsychiatric assessment that shows their thinking processes with various tests," including IQ tests and games that test spatial and visual intelligence, Datta said. One such test is the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), during which participants have to match cards using shape, color or number, with the criteria for matching continually changing. This measures what is called "set-shifting ability" -- flexibility in thinking. Other tests include copying an image from memory, matching a simple image with a more complicated one, and other computer-game-like tasks. The tests focus on central coherence, which Datta described as "the ability to see the big picture rather than just details."
Anorexics, she said, may be more detail-oriented, making them more successful at some of the tasks and showing cognitive deficiencies in some areas, such as adaptability. Some participants also undergo functional MRI scans, which provide images of their brains so that the potential effect of an eating disorder on brain anatomy can be seen.
"There are not many studies like this done on anorexia yet," she said, and the hope is that finding predictable cognitive correlations could help identify people who may be at higher risk for developing eating disorders.
"We're taking a biological view. It's pretty cool and very new," she said. "We're hoping if we can understand these correlates then we can explain it on a biological level."
Datta's study is in the early stages, with two families participating so far. The goal is to recruit 40 subjects with anorexia and 40 controls over the course of the five-year study.
No matter what biological and neurological implications researchers such as Datta and Colborn may discover, for those struggling with eating disorders, "It's really important to maintain therapy and support," Kristin said.
Kristin, who continued seeing a therapist on and off in the years since her release from the hospital, went on to study psychology in college and is now a graduate student, working toward her master's degree in counseling.
"It's been a slow journey, and I have this awareness when it comes to my health," she said.
Her weight fluctuated throughout high school and college, and she continued to struggle with unhealthy habits, including a binging-and-purging phase. She said she's now developed an understanding of her tendencies toward unhealthy thinking patterns.
"I'm definitely aware of my weight, and of my figure, but I don't count calories, I don't weigh myself and I don't stress about food. Food is a source of nourishment. I'm absolutely able to enjoy food," she said.
She's found support from the Eating Disorder Resource Center, based in Campbell. Janice Bremis, who herself went through anorexia treatment at Stanford in the 1980s and '90s, founded the center in 2006.
"I was familiar with the research Stanford was doing. They had all this knowledge but the community didn't," Bremis said.
The center offers information on treatments, therapists, insurance help, support groups and more. Kristin has been involved as a volunteer and said she'd like to eventually work as a therapist specializing in eating disorders, anxiety disorders and depression, as well as continuing to teach group fitness classes and advocating for eating-disorder education and prevention.
"Ever since going through it I have wanted to work with people with eating disorders," she said. "Educating other people about eating disorders and health really heals me."
More information on Stanford's research studies is available at edresearch.stanford.edu. More information on the Eating Disorders Resource Center is available at www.edrcsv.org. ==I More information on the Comprehensive Eating Disorders Program at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is available at www.lpch.org.


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#GenerationScrewed: 10 Movies for the Aimless Post-Grad
It's that time of year again, that time when recent graduates are stricken with anxiety as they enter month three of an extremely difficult job search. Fittingly, the media is rife with terms to describe the unemployed 20-something: Boomerang Generation, No Collar, and now, thanks to a recent Newsweek article, #GenerationScrewed. The piece, which has created quite the online firestorm, blames earlier generations' fiscal irresponsibility for the unemployment epidemic among young people. So, who's an aimless, jobless former humanities major to look to as a role model? Thankfully, the idle and undirected graduate is no new character in movies. The older, slightly grittier sister of the high school coming-of-age film, the post-grad film perfectly encapsulates the period of aimlessness that sets in when graduates return to their childhood bedrooms and think, "So what's next?" To ease the pain (and boredom), we've gathered our favorite post-collegiate movies after the jump.
The Graduate (1967)
"Would you mind telling me then what those four years of college were for? What was the point of all that hard work?" — Mr. Braddock
The ultimate post-college movie, The Graduate follows über-accomplished Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), who returns home after graduation with no aim or plan for the future. Despite pressure from his parents to figure out some type of plan, Benjamin, in a quarter-life crisis fashion, spends his days by the pool and begins an affair with the much older wife of his father's business partner (Anne Bancroft). It's the timeless classic about searching for a different future in all the wrong places.


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Editor's note: Paul J. Zak is a professor at Claremont Graduate University in California and author of 'The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity.' The views expressed are his own.
I carried a lot of crosses as a Catholic altar boy. I also learned to mumble phrases in Latin and breathed in enough incense to choke an elephant. There is something serene about being behind a ritual. It lets you observe and reflect. And wonder why in the world people show up.
Roughly six percent of Americans report that they are atheists or agnostics according to a 2012 Pew Research Center poll. But, that means that over 90 percent believe in a God. Pew also reports that 80 percent profess a religious affiliation and half of those with a religious affiliation regularly attend church. So what motivates 120 million Americans to attend a church, synagogue or temple?
I began running experiments searching for a biochemical basis for moral behaviors in 2001 and found in a decade's worth of research that the molecule oxytocin motivated people to return kindness when they were shown kindness. Given my Catholic background and later skepticism that only Catholics would get into heaven (if such a thing exists), in my experiments I only asked college participants the most cursory questions about their religious beliefs. Guess what? Few college students are religious at all – and I found no difference in oxytocin functioning or prosocial behaviors between believers and nonbelievers.
Then the "weenie alert" went off in my scientist brain – I could learn so much more about the role of religion in moral behaviors if I got off campus. Free roaming humans are more religious than college students and I could study them in their natural habitat rather than in the sterile confines of my lab. Presuming, of course, religious people would let me study them.
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After several meetings to gain permission, I went to a Christian church and took blood from volunteers before and after a Sunday service. I also took blood at a folk dance because many ancient religious rituals (and some current ones) involve coordinated movements. Then, I trekked deep into the rainforest of Papua New Guinea and took blood samples from indigenous peoples decked out in leaves and feathers as they did a centuries-old tribal dance.
In all these rituals, a majority of participants released oxytocin. Those who released oxytocin reported that they felt closer to their communities and said they would volunteer to help other community members. We did not find that the change in oxytocin was associated with an increased sense of connection to God or some "ultimate reality." In fact, there was no discernible difference between nonreligious and religious rituals at stimulating oxytocin release. A rugby team I studied produced as much oxytocin during their warm-up as did evangelical Christians who worshipped and sang in my lab.
The effect of ritual even worked for this skeptical scientist. Due to several equipment failures, I was embedded in my village in Papua New Guinea for several days with nothing to do. Quite quickly the villagers brought me into their daily rituals and I felt like I had joined their community and formed attachments to its members. I still feel this way.
So why do people show up at church? Because people show up at church. Rituals build community by releasing oxytocin making rituals "sticky." An older woman in our folk dance sample told me she attended because dancing reduced her chronic pain. I asked her if this was due to the exercise or the people. After a pause, she said "both." Our data support her intuition.
Research from other scholars has shown that regular churchgoers are generally happier and healthier. Why? Oxytocin reduces stress responses and having more relationships make us happy. Churches also give attendants a chance to help others, another activity that increases one's satisfaction with life.
Sure, you don't need God, or church, to be happy or healthy. But the desire to park bottoms in pews has led churches in the U.S. to be effective community builders. Humans need community and even reminders to be a bit less selfish and help others by studying ancient texts. Perhaps the saying "God is love" has it backwards. When we love others, we embody Godliness.
The proportion of atheists and agnostics may keep on growing, but as long as churches use rituals to bring people together, God is unlikely to go away.
Most people are "practical atheists." No matter what they might say, they know they will never be called to account for their thefts and cheats by some "higher power." A Christian will never forgive, and they will tell any lie they please, and they will even put on masks and come to burn your house at night. Excuse me for not being impressed with their holy talk.
" But funny thing was, Buddha died. Mohammed died. Only Christ rose from the dead." Really? You saw it happen? How about when Mohamed rode a flying camel with a human head? Wasn't that as good as coming back from the dead? These are fairy tales. People don't come back to life.
It,s totally a personal thing.If religion makes You happy Good .And if not That,s Your business.Personally I don,t care.I,m more interested in how You actually live Your life .Not what You say You are.Theres a lot of Priests who stood in front of a lot of persons talking religion but whom in their personal lives let everyone down.Need I say more?
The religious figment of "God" will disappear in the far future, when intelligent self-consciousness becomes prevalent.
Knowledge and intellectual honesty will need Courage to bring worldwide Affection at least among all mammals.
Get rid of the "F" in that statement and you'll understand the truth.
Hey I can't tell you what to believe in, it's up to you!
We all seek god when a family member is in danger or we are about to die
For God so loved the world that He gave His Only Son, Jesus Christ, so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16. That is why He doesn't go away. He loves humans, and He wants to save us.
Nevertheless, mark it down, that if you believe there is no afterlife, you are deceiving yourself. God made us, and it is enough to look at the perfection of a beautiful spring flower or the majesty of the human body and to know that He exists. However, there will be a day when all of us will stand before the throne of God.
God is so good that he even gave this author the breath to live and the power to learn how to write, even though he is so disrespectful towards his own Creator.
Jesus Christ is coming back! This world will have an end to all the misery and disasters that humans have brough upon themselves anyway! Yet, in all this misery, Jesus came and died on a cross for me and you. Now, He is alive and ready to come back. Are you ready? He is not going away...He is coming again very soon!
Our answers about the existence of God is based on the environment and people we grew up around. But most atheist are making it sound like they traveled the galaxies and came back with an answer. Don't be so certain about an answer you have only heard arguments for and against. Since you can't go back in time and look at the Creator or talk to the people who brought the message to us, Compare book and find contradictions that is the only way to gain some certainty. If the only books you read are filled with contradictions from one chapter to another then of course God would sound like a Disney character. Remember that submission brings certainty. That is true for anything. Car, electronics etc etc.
Nowhere in Catholicism does it say that "only Catholics" will go to heaven. Catholicism says all those who believe in Jesus will go to heaven. You'd think a scientist, who apparently looks for evidence before stating something, would read the Catechism to find such a basic answer. How many more people use misinformation to leave their religion"?
Well,let's just say that the HOLY BIBLE is true and that JESUS is the son of GOD and that he did die for all of us,to pay for all of our sins,and that he talked more about HELL in the bible than he did Heaven,and that if you believe in him and accept him as your personal savior your soul will spend eternity with him in HEAVEN,well i'm just saying if it is true,there's going to be a lot of people in trouble,anyway I myself don't believe in atheist.
Interesting research. ha...no heaven! what is your definition of heaven ..... there lies the problem. So there is a need for Humans to perform rituals religion sports festivals ..... wonder what is in our DNA that needs/demands this stimulation.
While this piece has nothing to do with God, the author has a right to his opinion...
My definition of Heaven is spending eternity with CHRIST,where ever that may be, human life is spiritual,GOD is spirit,when a person or person's sincerely seek GOD with all their inner being and read the bible with a open heart,then GOD will reveal himself to a person's conscience, convicting them.only then can someone become BORN AGAIN, spiritually. At that moment the spirit of GOD will indwell that person,then their spiritual blinders are taken off of their eyes. GOD then becomes more real than anything else in the world, seen or unseen.The wind blows,you feel it,you can't see it,but you know it's real.No matter how many people make fun or hate GOD, it still does not stop the FACT that he love us all, who are we to think that we can become so educated that we think we know more than our CREATOR. I would hate to chance after death standing before a holy GOD without CHRIST as my savior and advocate. Just keep an open mind,after all GOD is the one who made us, and remember it's all about FAITH.
It's been well-known for many years that chemicals in the brain play a central role in how we feel. If you see a good movie and are happy about it, then these various "happy" chemicals are there. But it would be absurd to say that this means that the movie itself had no merit. In fact, despite the role of the chemicals, it is perfectly sensible to say that one's happy BECAUSE it was a good movie, BECAUSE of the great acting, drama, clever story and dialogue, etc. Yes, one could also say that one's happy because of the chemicals, but a real experience with actual merit triggered it.
But this story starts with the assumption that God obviously doesn't exist, and therefore if people believe in God, it must be because of the chemicals. Experiments showing that those chemicals are released are fairly useless because we already know they're there. The question is whether there's something of merit behind the release of those chemicals. Now, one can have an honest argument about God's existence, but the implied logic of this article...e.g., saying that the existence of "happy" brain chemicals in God-believing people proves that God is an illusion... just doesn't cut it.
My only issue with religion is this:
its all based on written texts.
Texts that were written mostly by primitive men who cannot see anything beyond their lifetime. What would they be writing had they been transported to 2013, I often wondered.
I wish the deities and gods would help us by at least giving evidences of their existence – or at least send their representatives from up high or down below – and say to us "Here we are, believe us we do exist". Because many innocent people are killed everyday, some blown to pieces by their jealous believers and it will never stop in the name of religion.
johnnyvistar, i'm not trying to sound arrogant when i say this, but GOD is not a religion, going to heaven has nothing to do with denomination period. It's a free gift, already paid in full, by the SON of GOD, please read my earlier post, i just ask you to search with a open mind and all your HEART, and see what you learn about GOD. I know i myself am a living example, you have a great day and be safe.
GOD is trinity, GOD the FATHER, GOD the SON and GOD the HOLY SPIRIT, this is silly but i'll use an egg for example, there's the shell, the yoak, and the white part, 3 part's all in one, that's the way GOD is, 3 in 1, as i stated earlier,when a person accept's by FAITH, JESUS CHRIST as their personal savior, the SPIRIT of GOD indwell's that person for ever, the SPIRIT then reveal's TRUTH about the SCRIPTURE and what is written, you see, the SPIRIT who indwells GOD'S children is the same SPIRIT who revealed to the ancient writers what to write.This is nothing against anyone, but if someone doesn't have the SPIRIT,then the TRUTH cannot be revealed to that person or person's. GOD could easily appear before you, but he wants you to sincerely seek him with all you heart, if anyone, i said anyone, will do that, you will be surprised at what you learn. Remember FAITH is what pleases GOD.
Professor Zak
I am sorry that your previous experience with the church as an altar boy was not inspiring at all, we all have our shares of such experiences but allow such event to affect our reasoning and judgment especially when we are in positions of influence.
Professor, "The Moral Molecule" hypothesis is a well-articulated doctrine and I want to thank you for your commendable research, however it fails the empirical test and its validity.
Your choice of research or sample choice error of input is quite significant.
A man is made up of the flesh, spirit and soul, your sample is predominantly flesh, and you have failed to test the validity of your hypothesis by testing "the spirit and soul"
Secondly, people don't show up to church just to show up, the come in agreement to attend church.
Professor, when people seek the face of God they, do so to have fellowship, with God and one another. (Appointment) not rituals.
Not to forget also professor, it is quite inappropriate to limit the roles of an altar boy as being limited carrying crosses, I think this children attend to great matters in the House of God.
"Why god doesn't go away"? god was never there in the first place.
A better question is how many nobel prize winning scientists believe in God. Or how many people with abnormally high IQs are religious. I'll give you a clue. Almost none in either category. As long as there are ignorant, frightened people, there will be religion, sadly.
GOD is not a religion, he's a personal relationship through his son JESUS CHRIST, people who have that relationship are not frightened of anything, we know the outcome when physical life ends, some of the smartest people on earth as you call these noble prize winning scientists, or people with high IQ's, would not have that knowledge without the GOD of the universe giving it to them, I could call you ignorant for not believing, but i'm not going too, you are just spiritually blinded, i know you don't care but (Psalms 14:1 says Only A FOOL WOULD SAY IN HIS HEART THERE IS NO GOD) (ROMANS 1:19 & 20 says .....FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD IS KNOWN TO YOU INSTINCTIVELY,GOD HAS PUT THIS KNOWLEDGE IN YOUR HEART,FROM THE TIME THE WORLD WAS CREATED ,PEOPLE HAVE SEEN THE EARTH AND SKY AND ALL THAT GOD HAS MADE,YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE HIS INVISIBLE QUALITIES....HIS EXTERNAL POWER AND DIVINE NATURE...SO YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE WHATSOEVER FOR NOT KNOWING GOD).....i didn't say that GOD did.... so when you or anyone else reads this,the spirit of GOD will speak to your conscience and convict you, please turn to him before it's to late.....a person clearly hasn't lived yet until they know they are ready to die, there's no such thing as an atheist.
hey dude, you are very wrong. why?
1) You were catholic
2) What you use to believe are religion not true relationship
3) You should get to know Jesus the only way, truth and life. No maria or saints.
4) How you exist anyway? Who creates oxygen? Don't tell some scientist. Earth form before scientist ok.
Do a research on Jesus in every little details. See what will happen to your life.
Hey DUDE, who's this last post aimed at? And give it to me in plain English... when CHRIST died on the cross for all mankind he did not say, Baptist are saved this way, catholics are saved this way, Methodists this way and so forth, ROMANS 10:13 says whoever calls on the LORD shall be saved, and that's just what it means, no one can forgive you of sin but CHRIST himself.........END OF STORY


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NASA's New Ocean-Observing Satellite Set to Chase the Wind
Built in record time in just 12 months, QuikScat, NASA's new ocean-observing satellite, will be launched on a Titan II rocket from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base at 7:15 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on June 18. This satellite will be NASA's next "El Nio watcher" and will be used to better understand global weather abnormalities.
The Quick Scatterometer, or QuikScat, will provide climatologists, meteorologists and oceanographers with daily, detailed snapshots of ocean winds as they swirl above the world's oceans. The mission will greatly improve weather forecasting.
Winds play a major role in every aspect of weather on Earth. They directly affect the turbulent exchanges of heat, moisture and greenhouse gases between Earth's atmosphere and the ocean. To better understand their impact on oceans and improve weather forecasting, the satellite carries a state-of-the-art radar instrument called a scatterometer for a two-year science mission.
"Knowledge about which way the wind blows and how hard is it blowing may seem simple, but this kind of information is actually a critical tool in improved weather forecasting, early storm detection and identifying subtle changes in global climate," said Dr. Ghassem Asrar, associate administrator of NASA's Office of Earth Science, Washington, DC.
The mission will help Earth scientists determine the location, structure and strength of severe marine storms - hurricanes in the Atlantic, typhoons near Asia and mid-latitude cyclones worldwide - which are among the most destructive of all natural phenomena. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a chief partner in the QuikScat mission, will use mission data for improved weather forecasting and storm warning, helping forecasters to more accurately determine the paths and intensities of tropical storms and hurricanes.
As NASA's next "El Nio watcher," QuikScat will be used to better understand global El Nio and La Nia weather abnormalities. Changes in the winds over the equatorial Pacific Ocean are a key component of the El Nio/La Nia phenomenon. QuikScat will be able to track changes in the trade winds along the equator.
Scatterometers operate by transmitting high-frequency microwave pulses to the ocean surface and measuring the "backscattered" or echoed radar pulses bounced back to the satellite. The instrument senses ripples caused by winds near the ocean's surface, from which scientists can compute the winds' speed and direction. The instruments can acquire hundreds of times more observations of surface wind velocity each day than can ships and buoys, and are the only remote-sensing systems able to provide continuous, accurate and high-resolution measurements of both wind speeds and direction regardless of weather conditions.
The satellite is the first obtained under NASA's Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity program for rapid delivery of satellite core systems. The procurement method provides NASA with a faster, better and cheaper method for the purchase of satellite systems through a "catalog," allowing for shorter turnaround time from mission conception to launch. Total mission cost for QuikScat is $93 million.
Fifteen times a day, the satellite will beam down collected science data to NASA ground stations, which will relay them to scientists and weather forecasters. SeaWinds will provide ocean wind coverage to an international team of climate specialists, oceanographers and meteorologists interested in discovering the secrets of climate patterns and improving the speed with which emergency preparedness agencies can respond to fast-moving weather fronts, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis and other natural disasters.
By combining QuikScat's wind data with information on ocean height from another ocean-observing satellite, the joint NASA- French TOPEX/Poseidon mission, scientists will be able to obtain a more complete, near-real-time look at wind patterns and their effects on ocean waves and currents, said Dr. Timothy Liu, QuikScat project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. He added that QuikScat will complement data being collected by other Earth-monitoring satellites such as NASA's currently orbiting Tropical Rain Measurement Mission (TRMM) and Terra, which will be launched later this year.
The 870-kilogram (1,910-pound) QuikScat satellite, provided by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, CO, with its 200-kilogram (450-pound) radar instrument, called SeaWinds, will be placed in a circular, near-polar orbit with a ground speed of 6.6 kilometers per second (14,750 miles per hour). The satellite will circle Earth every 101 minutes at an altitude of 800 kilometers (500 miles).
A press kit with detailed information on the QuikScat launch and mission is available on the Internet at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/files/misc/qslaunch.pdf .
QuikScat is managed for NASA's Office of Earth Science, Washington, DC, by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which also built the Seawinds radar instrument and will provide ground science processing systems. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, managed development of the satellite, designed and built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, CO. NASA's Earth Sciences Enterprise is a long-term research and technology program designed to examine Earth's land, oceans, atmosphere, ice and life as a total integrated system. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
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Kathryn �Kay� Wilson was a loyal member to Carolina Colours Golf Club in New Bern all the way up until her passing due to cancer last spring after a seven year battle.
Kathryn �Kay� Wilson was a loyal member to Carolina Colours Golf Club in New Bern all the way up until her passing due to cancer last spring after a seven year battle.
Since her death, on April 3, 2012, Mary Anne Ohsol and David Barnett of the club, have been working to organize a memorial golf tournament in her memory.
�Mary Anne (Ohsol) came up with the idea of having a tournament to honor Kay and to benefit Relay for Life and I thought it was a great idea and offered my assistance in any way,� Barnett said.
This year will be the first of what the club hopes to be an annual event. The format for the tournament is a four-person handicap scramble and is slated for a 1 p.m. shotgun start Friday at Carolina Colours.
�We have about 108 participants and are expecting to raise in excess of $15,000 for Relay for Life,� Barnett said.
Barnett said that he and Ohsol printed flyers and knocked on doors to help get participation in the tournament and raise funds.
�Many people in the community helped out a great deal with $500 donations and became sponsors if they weren�t going to be able to play in it,� Barnett said.
�William E. Simon, a company out of New York that Kay worked for in the past, gave a large donation and became our title sponsor.�
Mike Wilson, the widower, moved with his wife, Kay, from Morristown, N.J. six years ago. He has friends and family members from New Jersey are golfing in the tournament.
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ESAB Sets The Standard For Cutting Systems Safety Spearheads & Implements New ISO Standard
2014. Január 29.
ESAB Welding & Cutting Products, the world's leading manufacturer of fully integrated cutting systems, has effectively implemented the new European EN ISO standard 17916 for the safety of thermal cutting machines. ESAB spearheaded the initiative to establish the new EN ISO standard, which provides enhanced worker safety, and is the first and only cutting systems manufacturer to currently stand in full compliance. Going forward, all cutting systems manufactured at ESAB's Karben, Germany facility will meet the new EN ISO safety requirements, which are scheduled to go into effect industry-wide in late 2014.
The new EN ISO standard mandates that OEMs conduct their own evaluation and testing for the safety of their thermal cutting machines. The standard defines the potential risks to cutting systems operators and the measures to counter them.
ESAB continues to play an active role in the definition of safety-related standards and is one of the few companies in the industry to make safety a core cutting system design objective. ESAB's comprehensive package of safety measures – the most robust safety package of its kind – has been developed in close cooperation with cutting systems users throughout the global market.
In addition to compliance with the new EN ISO directive and all applicable industry standards, ESAB provides a variety of innovative and continually improved safety options to ensure optimum worker protection during machine operation. ESAB's automated cutting systems are designed to provide an optimal balance of precision cutting capability, high productivity, and ease of use for the highest price/performance value.
ISO (the international Organization for standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies (ISO member bodies) and the world's largest developer of voluntary International Standards. ESAB is the first company in the world to achieve all-inclusive external certification for the three key management standards – ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001. The Environmental, Health, and Safety Management System and certification covers all activities, people, and units in ESAB globally.
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What's the difference between "I am busy right now" and "I am busy at the moment"?
I mean, is there any shades in meaning that would be implied in one, but not not in the other phrase?
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What's the difference between "I am busy right now" and "I am busy at the moment"?
I mean, is there any shades in meaning that would be implied in one, but not not in the other phrase?
I don't perceive much of a difference in most uses.
Let me take the contrived example of someone saying "my shop is really busy at the moment / right now". Firstly, they might mean that there are hundreds of customers in their shop right this second, or simply that there have been unusually many customers recently: you're going to have to gather information from the context in which it's being said. If it's the evening of December 22nd and you're talking about this over a pint, it's likely that your correspondent means the latter (though it's possible that they just received a phone call from someone who told them the former), whereas if you phoned them up while they're at work it's likely that they mean the former (I think "right now" makes this feel slightly more likely than "at the moment"). All possible combinations of meanings and choice of phrase are in common usage, though, as far as I'm aware.
Secondly, one subtle difference: if they say "my shop is really busy at the moment", you can ask for clarification by saying "what, right now?" - you can't really do that the other way round.
The answers above are probably from Americans. I am British, and if I heard "right now" I would suspect an American talker. In Britain "at the moment" or "at present" is more likely.
While they mean the same thing, they are used in very different situations.
"Busy at the moment" is much more formal. Whether it's used by friend or a stranger, it means "I can't talk to you or help you, because I am doing something else." If you didn't have a good reason, to keep asking a person for help after they told you this would be pretty rude.
"I'm busy right now" should only be used by a friend or an informal situation. It's also not as strong as "busy at the moment"; someone who is busy right now would like it if you left them alone, but they might be able to talk to you or help you if you ask them again.
Between the two... someone busy "at the moment" is more likely to be ready to talk to you or help you in a few minutes, whereas someone busy "right now" might be busy for a long period of time.
I should really stress, however, the differences that matter:
To a friend, use "right now." To a stranger, use "at the moment."


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In an exclusive interview with Current TV's The Young Turks, BuzzFeed reporter Michael Hastings says he was covering President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign when Chicago's mayor Rahm Emanuel grabbed him by the arm.
The Young Turks played an audio recording of the alleged confrontation between the sometimes abrasive mayor and Hastings.
The argument started with a garbled comment Hastings made about Obama's re-election.
"What did you say to me?" Emanuel said to Hastings. In response, Hastings seemed to get a bit testy, calling Emanuel "buddy," and accusing Emanuel of insulting him.
Hastings says Emanuel then grabbed him.
"I've never experienced anything like this in my career from an American public official," Hastings said. "He grabbed me by the arm and wouldn't let go while his bodyguards approached me. And clearly trying to intimidate me with a threat of physical violence."
Hastings told The Young Turks he considered filing charges but ultimately decided against it.
Emanuel's office didn't immediately respond Friday to Business Insider's request for comment about Hastings' allegations.
The isn't the first time Hastings has generated headlines for going toe-to-toe with a prominent government official.
Hastings so angered State Department spokesman Philippe Reines with questions about Reines' attack on CNN for its Benghazi coverage that Reines ultimately cursed at Hastings and told him to "have a good life," BuzzFeed reported in September.
Watch Hastings' full interview, courtesy of Current TV:
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have confirmed the names of the seven close friends they have chosen to be Prince George's godparents, ahead of his christening this afternoon.
Prince William's cousin Zara Phillips, close family friend William van Cutsem and Kate's old schoolfriend Emilia Jardine-Paterson, who attended Marlborough College with the new mum, have all been asked to be godparents to three-month-old Prince George.
William and Kate have always been to close to Princess Anne's daughter Zara and William van Cutsem is a childhood friend to the Prince.
The new parents have also asked Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton to join the honoured list. Jamie has been an important figure in Prince William and Prince Harry's life since appointed Private Secretary to the pair in 2005.
Jamie has also helped the Duchess settle in to her new royal life and has often been seen supporting her on royal engagements across the country and abroad.
His son, William, 10, was also one of the two pageboys at their wedding
The other godparents to Prince George include university friend Oliver Baker, the Duke of Westminster's son Hugh Grosvenor and Julia Samuel, an old friend William's mother Diana, Princess of Wales.
Prince George's christening will take place at 3pm this afternoon in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace.


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The Silit shallow casserole pan is guaranteed to become a firm favourite in any kitchen. Especially since it is so practical and talented: fry your meat, pour in your sauce and cook slowly on the hob or in the oven – all in one go. Who needs a frying pan and a deep casserole pan when you can do everything in the one pan: tender, succulent stews and tasty beef casseroles have never been easier. Thanks to the raised rim, hardly any fat splashes over, and only a small amount of liquid is needed for stewing. At the same time, the rim is lower than on the deep casserole pans, allowing liquids to evaporate faster and meat to be turned easily. Since the shallow casserole pan is a kitchen classic, it is included in all 4-piece Silit pan sets.
Designer Peter Ramminger drew his inspiration for the colours of this Silit cookware series from nature: Ocean Green, Nature White and Nature Black give deep and shallow casserole pans their natural colours. The pans in the Silit Nature collection are topped off with a stainless steel control lid. This features a perforated vent that is easily opened and closed with the help of a slider – enabling the controlled release of steam and easy draining of liquid with the lid on. And to protect you from burning your fingers, the lid features an extra finger guard on both sides. The hollow handles stay cool when cooking and fit comfortably in the hand. The flared pouring rim enables easy pouring and draining of sauces and pasta. The functional ceramic Silargan is cut-resistant and non-abrasive, while the drawn steel core conducts heat quickly and retains it for a long time. The collection includes deep and shallow casserole pans (16 to 24 centimetres in diameter) with lid as well as a saucepan (16 centimetres in diameter) without lid. They are suitable for use on all types of hob, including induction, and can be cleaned in the dishwasher. The slider on the lid can easily be disassembled and cleaned. Silit gives a 30-year guarantee on the inner and outer ceramic Silargan surface if the product is used as intended**. ** The 30-year guarantee is for the inner and outer ceramic Silargan surface of the cookware. The guarantee only applies if the product is used as intended. More detailed information about the scope of the guarantee and proper use can be found in the instructions for use enclosed with the products.
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Chargers LB Ingram has knee surgery
San Diego, CA – San Diego Chargers outside linebacker Melvin Ingram underwent surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee on Tuesday.
Ingram himself confirmed the procedure, stating on his Twitter account, "Thanking God for a successful and safe surgery!!!"
In addition, the Times Union reported that the surgery was performed in Florida by Dr. James Andrews.
Recovery time is typically a minimum of six months, which means Ingram's 2013 season may not be in jeopardy.
Ingram tore the ACL one week ago during an offseason training activities session.
The 18th overall selection in last year's draft, Ingram compiled 41 tackles, one sack and five passes defensed while appearing in all 16 games and starting twice as a rookie. The 24-year-old was expected to hold down a regular role this season following the departure of veteran Shaun Phillips through free agency.
Ingram's injury prompted the Chargers to sign veteran pass rusher Dwight Freeney to a two-year contract on Saturday.


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Over the course of the past several months much is said and written about the computer numbers of prospects in the draft. You'll see several differences in these numbers from different sources. We try and be as accurate as possible and give these numbers based on the playing height, weight and speed during each players last collegiate season, not some pumped up artificial number.
There is forty speed and playing speed, playing weight and workout weight. The weeks and months leading to the draft is filled with prospects working hard to specifically add bulk, become stronger or get their forty time down. In reality many of these prospects cannot maintain this weight during the grind of a long season or do not play to the listed stopwatch speed; running backs don't run in a straight-line (which is how the forty yard dash is recorded), the bodies of both offensive and defensive linemen break down and cannot maintain the added bulk or, if they do, they will lose a good amount of quickness and speed.
Where pertinent in the players bio we spoke of either how they performed in recent individual or combine workouts to give you an idea of what direction they are headed.
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The Newton Rebels split a doubleheader against the Park City Rangers Friday night in Walter Johnson League play at Klein-Scott Field.
Newton won the first game 10-6 and lost the second game 7-0. The second game was a make-up of an earlier postponement and Park City was the home team in the game.
In the first game, Newton broke things open with a five-run third inning to lead 5-1. Newton added three runs in the fourth and put things away with two runs in the sixth inning.
Trent Brisboe and Evan Thomas each had two hits for Newton. Brisboe drove in three runs. Justin Harris, Cooper Langley and Nick Kolley each added an RBI.
Diamyn Hall had two hits for Park City. Hall, Jordan Hill, Tony Russell, Andrew Soliday and Justin Watts each drove in a run.
Newton's Laken Summer pitched five innings for the win. Nathan Briar finished the game. Each had two strikeouts. Austin Brodowski took the loss for Park City, striking out two.
In the second game, Park City pitcher Tyler Armfield went the distance, allowing six hits with two strikeouts. Connor Law took the loss for Newton, going 4 2-3 innings, striking out five.
Each team had six hits in the second game. Park City took command early, scoring a run in the first inning and three in the second. The Rangers put things away with three runs in the fifth inning.
Thomas had two hits for Newton. Regan Kaufman and Armfield each drove in two runs for Park City. Hill and Brian Soliday each added an RBI.
Newton is 17-16, 16-16 in WJL play. Newton plays at 7 p.m. today at Hutchinson and plays a doubleheader against the Kansas Cannons at 6 p.m. Sunday in Andover to end WJL play.
Newton has added non-league games against Hutchinson 7 p.m. Wednesday at home, 6 p.m. Friday at North Central, 7 p.m. Sunday at Derby and 7 p.m. July 15 at Hutchinson.
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Study abroad trip leads CSB student to project that brings light to rural area without electricity
June 11, 2012
By Diane Hageman
In America, we take electricity for granted. With the simple flip of a switch, our homes, offices and schools are brightly lit, at any time of the day or night.
Kelsey Torchia, a College of Saint Benedict environmental studies major, found out first-hand this is not the case in many rural areas of India.
Through an internship with the Association for Social and Environmental Development (ASED) in Kolkata, India, Torchia was a key person in helping to raise funds to purchase solar lights for children who live in the Sundarbans region of India.
Torchia, an incoming senior from Rochester, Minn., was one of 12 College of Saint Benedict students and three Saint John's University students who studied abroad in Kolkata, India, this past spring. It is experience she describes as "whirlwind." Looking for a challenging program with a service component and home-stay opportunity, Torchia landed on the India program.
"I call it my trifecta," she said. "I was able to go to school there, live with a host family and volunteer with a service organization. It allowed me the opportunity for complete immersion into a different culture."
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For her service-learning project, Torchia was a research intern with ASED, an organization that promotes nature conservation through public awareness, action research and people's participation.
It was through this experience that she learned about the plight of the rural families in India, particularly in the Sundarbans (which means "beautiful forest"), located roughly 60 miles south of Kolkata. "At a certain point past Kolkata, there is no electricity. The sun goes down at 6 p.m. and it obviously gets really dark," Torchia said. "People living here use kerosene for heating, cooking and light, which is costly and can be dangerous. It is really problematic."
Diti Mookherjee, the chief executive officer of ASED, had visited CSB and SJU earlier through the relationship the colleges have with St. Xavier's University in Kolkata. Mookherjee met with Torchia to discuss the internship.
Sundarbans solar lamp project
Mookherjee gave Torchia the opportunity to take charge of a project. Torchia chose the Sundarbans Solar Lamp Project, which has a goal to raise enough money to purchase solar lamps for 1,600 students at a cost of $25 each for children in the Sundarbans to use for homework and other activities after dark. The individual lamps which have a cobra-head shaped light with a flexible neck. They are also purchasing solar tubelights, at a cost of $115 each, which are being used in a reading space that accommodates 30 students.
The lamps have batteries and are connected to a solar panel. This panel is either set up on the roof of the house or kept out in the sun for charging. It takes about four to five hours to charge the lamp on a sunny day, according to Mookherjee.
Torchia, along with three other CSB students, (Rachel-Ann Aveda Garibsingh, Rachel Ziegler and Kelsey Kircher), developed plans to generate interest from the local community as well as individuals outside of Kolkata. The cornerstone of the project was an informational video they created.
In all, Torchia took four eight-hour trips to the Sundarbans area where she helped tutor students, filmed her video and participated in the presentation of 300 solar lamps to the children.
The third trip was dedicated to videotaping for the project. With the assistance of a translator, Torchia visited the rural households, capturing "before and after" photos of the students and families using kerosene and then with their solar lamps. On the fourth trip, she was able to give the children photos of themselves with their solar lamps as well as deliver more lamps. "We felt like celebrities," Torchia said. "The people are so giving. They treat guests like gods and were so excited to receive lamps."
ASED started the solar lamp project in 2011. Since then more than $12,000 has been raised and they hope to raise another $10,000 to be able to reach the goal.
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Torchia intends to link this project to her senior thesis and to expand upon it after graduation. She hopes to apply for a Fulbright scholarship and return to India to continue her work with ASED.
"I learned so much from this project. It's amazing what a difference one lamp can make," Torchia said. "Personally, I have left a large part of myself in the Sundarbans, but at the same time, I found a significant part of myself there as well. I lit a desire in my heart to return. I found purpose."


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At Tuesday night's meeting, the LaFollette City Council chose Billie Russell as the new full-time city administrator.
"This is history," council member Joe Bolinger said. "As far as I know, there's never been a woman city administrator before."
Russell has been the industrial economic and community development coordinator for the Campbell County Mayor's Office since 2009. Russell was an executive assistant for C3 International from 2008 to 2009 and a business development associate for Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1987 to 2008. Russell received a bachelor's degree in business and marketing from the University of Phoenix.
Mayor Mike Stanfield wished Russell the best luck.
"I think she can lead the city of LaFollette in a new direction," Stanfield said.
Russell said she will take the job seriously.
"I consider it an honor to work for the city—especially in this capacity," she said.
Russell was industrial economic and community development officer for the county mayor's office and thinks she can be more effective focusing her experience to serve one municipality. However, working for LaFollette is also personal for her.
"As a girl, I lived across the street (from city hall)," she said.
Russell hopes to bring her experience in industrial and community development to the table.
"I want to focus on economic development in the city of LaFollette," Russell said.
Russell is proud of LaFollette's industrial assets and hopes to see them grow. She also wants to attract lake tourists to downtown LaFollette, and believes it will help the city increase revenue without raising taxes.
Russell also looks forward to working with the city council and members of the community.
"My expectation is that I'm going to work with the city council to implement what they want implemented," Russell said. "I want to engage the residents of the city of LaFollette and the businesses."
Bolinger nominated Russell for the position. He and council member Stephanie Grimm voted yes. Council member Bob Fannon abstained and council member Hansford Hatmaker voted no. Stanfield broke the tie with a yes vote.
After the meeting, Fannon said he abstained for political reasons.
"I wanted to make sure the mayor was involved," Fannon said. "I wanted to make sure the mayor was behind this. If he had noted no, I would have gone back and changed my pass to a yes."
Hatmaker's reasons for voting against Russell weren't personal, he said after the meeting.
"It's not that I've got anything against (her)," he said. "She doesn't have any administration skills at all."
Hatmaker nominated his son, Tom Hatmaker, for the administrator position. Tom Hatmaker is a third district county commissioner. He has a business management degree with an accounting background from Lincoln Memorial University and owns LaFollette Tree Trimming.
"I just think with the degree and background, Tom's more qualified," Hatmaker said.
Hatmaker was the only member of the council to vote for Tom Hatmaker when the votes were cast.
The council had discussed paying the city administrator about $58,000 plus benefits. Russell will meet with officials to finalize her salary.
The city administrator position became vacant when Cade Sexton resigned in January. Jimmy Jeffries was appointed interim city administrator.
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A Pennsylvania mom named Amy is becoming a Facebook celebrity for denying her daughter tooth fairy money.
The single mom of five kids who writes the blog Non-Stop Mom left a note for her daughter Emily from the esteemed fairy, saying that the 11-year-old won't be getting any cash until she cleans up her disastrous bedroom.
Non-Stop Mom posted the letter on Facebook along with the message: "She doesn't necessarily believe anymore. But she'll do anything for money. It's worth a shot, and I'm grasping at straws."
The letter reads:
My dearest Emily,
I came by tonight to retrieve your tooth and leave your payment – however, because of the condition of your bedroom, I had a horrible time even getting to your bed safely. Once there, I was unable to locate the pillow, due to the amount of pillows, blankets, and bodies in your bed.
I will have to come by on a different night – perhaps you can take the time between now and then to properly clean and organize your room. I bet if you ask your mother NICELY she will even help you do it.
Much Love,
The Tooth Fairy
Amy got the idea for the letter when she was walking to slip money under the bed pillow and tripped over stuff scattered all over the bedroom Emily shares with her older sister. The mom couldn't even find the pillow because the bed was a mess and covered in stuffed animals and both Emily and her sister were sleeping in the same bunk.
Amy gave up, walked out of the bedroom and sat down at the computer. She typed up the letter in a matter of minutes, posted a copy of it on Facebook and then taped the letter to the mirror in the girls' bedroom.
"By the time I came back to the computer to shut it down for the night (at about 1 a.m.), it was already being shared like crazy," Amy says.
The letter now has over 2,000 likes and over 2,000 shares. Amy mainly received praise for her brave letter, but a few readers called her a horrible mother and accused her of scarring her daughter for life.
This certainly isn't a breaking news story but it's a fun tidbit that brings up the issue of whether it's fair for parents to threaten kids with fewer gifts from Santa or fewer chocolate eggs from the Easter Bunny if they don't behave—or stop teasing their brother.
We just finished up the Christmas season when many families use the infamous Elf on the Shelf, a stuffed doll that watches over kids and reports back to Santa on their behavior.
Honestly, I've never been a fan of telling my kids that they'll get a lump of coal if the Elf spots them being naughty because I think kids should behave without threats and bribes. They should put their napkins in their laps and make their beds because their parents expect them to, not because a toy Elf is going to snitch on them to a fictional man in a red suit.
Plus, how many parents actually give their kids those lumps of coal? Parents make these threats but never take action, even if their kids misbehave—because nobody wants to stick a piece of coal into a stocking. Can you imagine the horror on Christmas morning?
But there's something about this tooth fairy letter that I love because the mom takes action. Her letter is smart and creative and a much better way to motivate a tween than screaming or yelling. This 11-year-old girl knows that the letter is coming from mom, not the tooth fairy, so she's not buying into a a big lie, and it sounds like the mother's efforts were effective.
Amy reported back on her blog the next morning that Emily was a little annoyed but she and her sister tidied up the room.
"Yes, it worked to a point," Non-Stop Mom wrote in her blog. "The room is not clean by any stretch of the imagination, but they put in a good effort. So I may go ahead and allow the Tooth Fairy to come back tonight…However, considering that it's after 11:00 and I can still hear them, I may cancel it again tonight."
This mom is tough but I have a feeling that she's building lots of great character in her kids!


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Re: Boba Fett's Armor
Dessert or desert--I wouldn't mind either. I just miss Arizona this time of year I love the desert. Yeah, feels more like Hoth where I am too.
I think the Insider article you refer to, virtualbettie, was in issue #86 (the one with a Yoda drawing on the front anyway). VERY informative article--LOVED it!
I can agree with that line of reasoning too: just the sight is enough to create fear in enemies no matter what color it is. I can see that now--things in Jango's time were a bit shinier now that I think back to the PT.


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Games-Based Learning: Geocaching To Address Environmental Issues main content.
by Barry Joseph on
I started work at American Museum of Natural History last October as the new associate director for digital learning. I am really excited about all the programs we are developing within Youth Initiatives in the Education Department and thrilled to have this opportunity to share some highlights with you, now and again, on the Museum's site, amnh.org.
I'd like to start with a short series about recent efforts to bring game play and game design into Museum halls. The first entry is below.
Games-Based Learning, Part 1: Geocaching To Address Environmental Issues
Last fall the Museum's educational staff brought geocaching to YouthCaN, an international, youth-led organization that was founded at the Museum together with iEARN and uses technology to inspire, connect, and educate people worldwide about environmental issues. Geocaching is a 12-year-old global scavenger hunt that brings together real-world objects and GPS-devices to offer an experience in blended learning, user-generated content, mobile gaming, and more.
Could the YouthCaN youth go into Central Park and use geocaching to advance their interest in environmental issues? That is precisely what we aimed to find out.
Four youth set out on a three-hour expedition equipped with iPads, the official geocaching app, warm jackets, and little else. Their goal, in part, was to place a new "trackable." Trackables are objects that move from one geocache to any of the more than 1 million geocaches around the world. But each trackable has a mission—something its owner wants people to do with it when it's found.
YouthCaN named their trackable—a spider purchased in the Museum store—Take a Hike. Its mission: "Take me on a hike in a park and take pictures of interesting things you see in the environment around you as you go. Take me to parks outside of New York City and to amazing parks around the world."
When I asked the youth how the things they learned geocaching aligned with what they learned in YouthCaN, this is what they had to say:
Yanairy: I thought it was really interesting. It made me want to dig into the soil, even though I know I can't, as I know that is one of the rules. So I guess that teaches you not to destroy the environment.
Cindy: And we led it.
Kevin: That's right. It was youth-led. And YouthCaN stands for youth connected and networking.
Hema: And there is a lot of networking, by sharing information and little trinkets.
The Museum is known for its worldwide expeditions to advance scientific knowledge. This trackable, in its own way, set out on its own expedition, with a promise to send back updates along the way. And it has. In its first three months, it travelled 4,830 miles.
It has been to this snowy park in Ontario...
… a San Diego port...
and more:
When asked if they would do it again, the YouthCaN participants responded with an enthusiastic "yes" (and one youth added, with a smile, "In the summer…")


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Like many others, Henry County High School senior Keely Carroll waited quietly in the hallway of Henry County High School last week.
Waiting to present her senior project to a panel of community members, she was approached by another student. "Are ya nervous?"
The response was an unequivocal yes.
Carroll said she was nervous because so much was riding on the presentation. "It (determines) whether we graduate," she said. The worst part, she said, was not knowing what the panelists would ask.
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Cryptocurrencies, the most famous of all being Bitcoin, turned geeks and normal people with a bit of tech interest into virtual millionaires, overnight. In recent months they've hit the headlines for facilitating the sale of drugs and firearms by concealing the identities of those involved. They even accentuated the capital outflows from Cyprus during the country's financial collapse and subsequent EU bailout earlier this year.
In 2011, those buying into cryptocurrencies were laughed at by investors and economists. Now, BitCoin is regularly the feature of two page spreads in the Financial Times and is rumoured to be a serious headache for regulators of the traditional banking system. Since the high profile take-down of The Silk Road (a shady, Deep Web marketplace mainly used for drug sales), the FBI have backed off.
In a further vote of confidence, the Chinese government recently indicated that they have no real issues with cryptocurrencies and have allowed a Chinese exchange to grow into the world's largest, surpassing MtGox a few weeks ago. However, they've also eliminated the possibility of it ever becoming part of their official national finance framework.
In spite of its recent successes, BitCoin remains rouge. Personified, it's a surly teenager protesting against "the system". Big Business has given it nothing more than an amused smirk because BitCoin doesn't wear a suit to work nor have Terms & Conditions attached. Ripple's 'XRP', a new kid on the cryptocurrency block, does.


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