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NEW YORK (AP) — Alice Walker, who turns 70 later this month, is thinking about her legacy.
& Schuster to publish excerpts from journals she has kept for decades. Walker also participated in the documentary "Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth," scheduled to air Friday night on PBS stations as part of the "American Masters" series.
"I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old," says Walker, who notes one ancestor lived to 125. "But I do feel it's helpful if you're thinking about the coming generations to leave your work in a form that people can relate to."
FILE - In this April 23, 2009 file photo, Alice Walker stands in front of a picture of herself from 1974 as she tours her archives at Emory University, in Atlanta. Walker, who turns 70 later this month, is thinking about her legacy. Over the past few years, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author has donated her papers to Emory University, permitted "The Color Purple" to be released as an e-book and reached a deal with Simon & Schuster to publish excerpts from journals she has kept for decades. Walker also participated in the documentary "Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth," scheduled to air Friday, Feb. 7, 2014 on PBS stations as part of the "American Masters" series. (AP Photo/John Amis)
Interviewed recently by telephone, Walker said one reason she agreed to appear in the film is because the director, Pratibha Parmar, is a friend. Parmar, also interviewed recently, said she was inspired to make the documentary a few years ago after viewing DVDs of other "American Masters" projects.
"It seemed crazy not to have a film on Alice, given the impact she's had with her life and her writing," said Parmar, who in the 1990s worked with Walker on the film and book "Warrior Marks," about female genital mutilation in Africa.
As "masters" go, Walker is hardly an austere, Olympian figure. A longtime feminist and political activist, she has been denounced for not allowing "The Color Purple" to be translated into Hebrew (in protest of Israel's treatment of Palestinians) and accused of demeaning black men in "The Color Purple," but celebrated for fighting racism and sexism and writing candidly about abortion, incest and domestic violence.
, when money was so scare her mother lined her own bedroom with paper bags; her years as a scholarship student at Spelman College; her brief marriage to the Jewish civil rights activist Melvyn Leventhal ("We were prepared to die," she says in the film); and her long and diverse career as an author.
Walker has written more than 20 books, including poetry, essays, short stories and the novels "The Third Life of Grange Copeland," inspired in part by the lives of her parents, and "Meridian," based on Walker's years in the civil rights movement. But she's best known for "The Color Purple," a 1982 novel for which she drew upon family stories to tell of a young girl in rural Georgia and her struggle for independence after being raped by her father and beaten by her husband. The book and film adaptation, which came out three years later, led to such harsh and prolonged protests about the portrayal of black men that Walker later wrote a book about it.
"It feels like ignorance and ignorance is our greatest adversary," she said of the criticisms. "I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe."
The film includes interviews with Sapphire, Gloria Steinem, "Color Purple" director Steven Spielberg and producer Quincy Jones, and her former husband.
Absent, but much discussed and seen in photographs, is Walker's estranged daughter, Rebecca Walker. The younger Walker has denounced her mother for neglecting her and for trying to convince her that "raising children and running a home were a form of slavery." The two have had little communication in recent years.
"I came very low down in her priorities," Rebecca wrote in 2008, "after work, political integrity, self-fulfillment, friendships, spiritual life, fame and travel."
In the documentary and during her interview, Alice Walker expressed hurt and bafflement over the rift, saying that she and her daughter had been close for much of their lives, a point of view supported by Steinem and Parmar. The author said she had been reluctant to discuss her daughter in public, but changed her mind.
"It was a way to clarify, as far as I was able, what my own position is in what really is a disaster," Walker said. "You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul. But, as (author) Tillie Olsen told me, 'You have your own children and do the best you can, until they are able to get out in the world. And then the world takes over.'"
Asked if she expected her daughter would see the film, Walker said, "I'm sure she will. I think she'd be very interested, at least on some level."
Rebecca Walker, herself an author and a feminist, did not respond to an email from The Associated Press.
In the documentary, Alice Walker is filmed everywhere from rural Georgia and her home in Northern California to Rwanda and a "Freedom Flotilla" in the Middle East. Through all the phases of her life and work, Walker said "the driving force was curiosity."
"My mother refused to let ugliness be the identification of her existence, and she chose beauty whenever she could. I can see that in my own interest in other people around the world," Walker said.
"When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them — lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.
"Of course, I had a great time," she added, laughing, "lots of vodka, lots of dancing."
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WHEAT: U.S. wheat exports for 2012/13 are projected 25 million bushels lower this month boosting projected ending stocks by the same amount. Continued strong competition, particularly from EU-27 and FSU-12, further reduce prospects for U.S. wheat shipments.
Projected exports for Hard Red Winter wheat are lowered 25 million bushels. Exports are also lowered 10 million bushels and 5 million bushels, respectively, for White and Hard Red Spring wheat, but raised 15 million bushels for Soft Red Winter wheat.
All-wheat imports are unchanged, but small adjustments are made among the classes. Trade changes largely reflect the pace of sales and shipments to date. The projected range for the season-average farm price for wheat is lowered 10 cents at the midpoint and narrowed to $7.65 to $7.95 per bushel.
Global wheat supplies for 2012/13 are raised 1.8 million tons with higher production. India production is increased 1.0 million tons based on the latest revisions by the government of India for the crop harvested nearly a year ago. EU-27 production is raised 0.5 million tons based on the latest production estimate released by the government of Lithuania.
Production is estimated 0.3 million tons higher for Nepal in line with historical revisions to the country's production series this month.
Global wheat trade is projected higher for 2012/13. Imports are raised 1.0 million tons for Iran, 0.5 million tons for South Korea, 0.3 million tons for Algeria, and 0.2 million tons each for China and Japan. Partly offsetting are reductions of 1.0 million tons for Egypt and 0.2 million tons for Kenya. Exports are raised 1.0 million tons for EU-27, 0.5 million tons for Brazil, and 0.3 million tons for Ukraine, more than offsetting this month's reduction for the United States.
World wheat feed use is increased 1.3 million tons with 0.5-million-ton increases for Australia, Canada, and South Korea, and a 0.1-million-ton increase for Japan outweighing a 0.3-million-ton decrease for Egypt. Lower expected food use in India, Egypt, and Kenya limit the increase in global wheat consumption. World wheat ending stocks for 2012/13 are projected 1.5 million tons higher with the largest increases for India, Iran, and the United States. The biggest reductions in ending stocks are for Australia, Egypt, EU-27, Brazil, Canada, and Ukraine.
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The U.S. Justice Department is holding up Verizon Wireless's $3.9 billion bid to buy wireless spectrum from a consortium of cable operators, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
The Federal Communications Commission, which also has to sign off on the deal, is ready to approve the deal, sources have said. Verizon announced in December that it planned to buy about 20 MHz of Advanced Wireless Services wireless spectrum from a group of cable companies that includes Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications and Bright House.
The deal is the largest spectrum transfer the FCC has ever considered outside of a merger. Verizon has worked closely with the FCC to address its concerns over controlling too much spectrum in certain markets. In April it agreed to sell some of its 700 MHz spectrum in the lower A and B blocks. And last month it announced a deal to sell T-Mobile USA some of its existing AWS spectrum. Verizon's promised spectrum divestitures are contingent on upon the completion of the license transfers from the cable operators.
Sources close to the FCC say that the agency has been pleased with Verizon's responsive and willingness to work with the agency to address concerns over concentrating too much spectrum under one carrier. Most experts are confident that the FCC will sign off on the deal with only a few other minor conditions, which would likely include data roaming requirements and a shorter time frame for building the network using this spectrum.
The deal will give Verizon additional spectrum that it can use to build its 4G LTE network. The company already has begun building this network with 700MHz wireless spectrum it bought in 2008. The cable companies' spectrum will allow it to add capacity in a higher frequency so that it can better cover large urban markets.
But the spectrum sale is only one piece of the overall deal, which was announced in December. In exchange for getting the spectrum, Verizon has also agreed to a co-marketing arrangement with the cable operators selling the spectrum. As part of this deal, Verizon Wireless can sell and market cable broadband and TV services to its customers, while cable operators can include Verizon Wireless service in its bundle of choices.
The problem with this deal for regulators is that Verizon Wireless's parent company Verizon Communications also sells broadband and TV services in markets where it competes with the cable operators. Regulators at the Justice Department fear that this deal means the cable operators and Verizon Communications have effectively agreed to not compete, according to the WSJ.
Neither the Justice Department nor the FCC would comment on these issues or state where the deal is in their regulatory approval processes.
Verizon Wireless has already begun marketing cable services from Comcast and Time Warner along with those of other cable partners in some markets where Verizon's Fios broadband and TV services do not compete. But the companies have said that eventually the cross marketing deal will be in effect throughout the country, including areas where cable operators compete with Fios services.
Mike Ritter, the chief marketing officer for Verizon Communications, said in a recent interview with CNET that Verizon will have to compete more aggressively with cable operators when the co-marketing deals go into effect in Fios territories.
"We are going to have to be better and more on our game to aggressively compete for customers," he said. "The way I look at it is that the cable companies will be in Verizon Wireless stores, and we'll be there too."
Ritter explained that today, Verizon's Fios service is only sold in about 100 Verizon Wireless stores. But he said that the deal with the cable companies will push the wireless side of the business to look at Fios and other video services more strategically. And he said this means that distribution for Verizon Fios services will also increase as it ramps up for the other cable companies too.
"We will be more aggressive than ever in selling our Fios services," he said. "And we'll have wider distribution than we've had previously."
The Wall Street Journal reports that officials at the Department of Justice don't seem to be buying this argument. They are particularly concerned with the joint marketing arrangement within Verizon's Fios territory. And they are also concerned with the language of the deal, which would extend the marketing pact for years.
It's still unclear whether objections to the joint marketing will unravel the spectrum deal as well. Verizon's chief technology officer Tony Melone said at a conference last month that the deals are separate. And that the approval of one has nothing to do with the other.
But Comcast's head of regulatory affairs, David Cohen, has already testified before Congress that if one aspect of the deal is changed too much, it could jeopardize the entire deal. In a conversation earlier this year with CNET, Cohen reiterated the importance of the marketing piece of the deal.
"There is no secret that our interest is not just in selling spectrum," he said. "This is a strategic asset to enable us to develop a complete wireless strategy. When our Plan A of building our own network didn't work out, we still planned to leverage this valuable asset to help us strategically. That's what the Verizon deal gives us."
The FCC was originally expected to issue a decision on the deal in July. But with the new agreement with T-Mobile to also consider, the earliest the agency could make a decision is late August. The Wall Street Journal reports that FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski plans to recommend the approval of the spectrum transfer to the rest of the FCC commissioners in late August.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Frank Ocean said he won't press charges against Chris Brown, who allegedly punched him during an argument outside a Los Angeles-area recording studio.
"No criminal charges. No civil lawsuit," Ocean said Saturday on his Tumblr page.
He's decided to forgive, instead, CNN reported.
"As a child, I thought if someone jumped me it would result in me murdering or mutilating a man," the post said.
"But as a man I am not a killer. I'm an artist and a modern person. I'll choose sanity."
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He pleaded guilty to assaulting and threatening his then-girlfriend Rihanna during a heated argument in a car in 2009. He was placed on five years probation and ordered to complete community service. He and Rihanna recently reconciled.
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Some Michigan lawmakers are looking to lift the 70 mph cap on highway speeds and making other changes to reduce speed traps.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) ? Some Michigan lawmakers are looking to lift the 70 mph cap on highway speeds and making other changes to reduce speed traps.
Grand Ledge Sen. Rick Jones is working on a bill with fellow Republican Tom Casperson from Escanaba that they hope to introduce this fall. One issues could be raising speed limits to 75 mph or 80 mph on some stretches of freeway.
The proposal would make all roadways follow the "85th percentile" rule commonly endorsed and employed by transportation officials. That means setting limits that correspond with speeds at which 85 percent of vehicles safely travel.
Jones, a former Eaton County sheriff, said some local governments deliberately set speeds low to trap drivers and generate money from traffic tickets. He'd like to close what he calls a "loophole" in a law enacted in 2006 that requires all road agencies to set speed limits based on speed studies.
"There's a lot of political pressure not to follow it," he told MLive.com. "Some cities are cashing in, and it needs to stop."
Spokesmen for the Michigan Department of Transportation told MLive and WXMI-TV in Grand Rapids that the safest conditions exist when most drivers are going the same speed. They say higher speed limits aren't necessarily more dangerous.
Michigan's current top highway speed of 70 mph is consistent with neighboring states including Illinois and Ohio. Some states, such as Arizona, Colorado, Maine and Texas, have limits as high as 75 mph or 80 mph.
If such legislation is passed, transportation officials would need to conduct speed studies before any changes could be made. Statewide freeway studies currently being conducted by the Michigan State Police are expected to be completed by the end of the year.


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ANGLER'S MAIL MAGAZINE is charting the progress of the filming of In The Footsteps of Mr Crabtree, a new TV series featuring our weekly columnist John Bailey.
The October 16, 2012 cover-dated issue of Angler's Mail magazine sees him fish with two lucky girls – barbel fishing on the River Wye. It brought a successful series of shoots to a fine conclusion.
We have some bonus pictures below, where you can see Scotttish lasses, Janie and Clara, had a great time . We hope to bring you a video taster soon too!
The account by John in our magazine makes for a great read – and you'll see what they caught.
The series filming has now been completed and it's shaping into a fine tribute to those classic famous Daily Mirror cartoons. Angler's Mail thanks Toast Entertainment Group for their help.
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Practice Parameter for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Bipolar Disorder
Information about Choices in Psychotherapy Treatment
Treatment for bipolar disorder comes in the form of medication and psychotherapy treatment. Both are important elements of a comprehensive treatment plan. For children and adolescents with bipolar disorder, getting enough sleep and developing skills to monitor moods is an essential part of effective treatment. There are several psychotherapies that are being studied for children and adolescents with bipolar disorder, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT).
To learn more about the types of psychotherapy that are available to help children and adolescents with mental illness, click here.
Information about Choices in Medication
Parents who have a child or adolescent with bipolar disorder, or any mental health condition, are often left facing difficult decisions regarding medication.
Learn more about how psychiatric medication is used to treat children and adolescents
Learn more about the types of psychiatric medication that are available to treat children and adolescents with mental health disorder
View up-to-date information about advances in psychopharmacological treatment for mood disorders
AACAP has produced medication guides to help patients, families, and physicians make informed decisions about obtaining and administering appropriate care for a child with ADHD, depression, or bipolar disorder.
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Rating Scales to Assist in Diagnosis
The Child Mania Rating Scale–Parent Version (CMRS-P) is an assessment tool that helps clinicians differentiate bipolar disorder from other childhood behavioral disorders, such as ADHD. This rating scale collects information from parents and can be completed in approximately 15 minutes. Child Mania Rating Scale Parent Version.
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Practice Parameters
AACAP's Practice Parameters for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Bipolar Disorder aids mental health professionals and physicians in their clinical decision making. The Practice Parameters show the best treatment options available to families living with childhood and adolescent mental illness. These parameters were published in 2007 but are the most updated version. Because they are more than five years old and have not yet been updated to reflect current knowledge and practice, in accordance with national standards, including those of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's National Guideline Clearinghouse, these parameters can no longer be assumed to be current.
Practice Parameters for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Bipolar Disorder
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Assessment of a Person-Level Risk Calculator to Predict New-Onset Bipolar Spectrum Disorder in Youth at Familial Risk
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Correlates of Overweight and Obesity Among Adolescents with Bipolar Disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A)
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Child- and Family-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Pediatric Bipolar Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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Brandon and the Bipolar Bear: A Story for Children with Bipolar Disorder
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Getting help is the most important thing that parents can do for children and adolescents with a mental health concern. Parents should try to find a mental health professional with advanced training and experience evaluating and treating children and adolescents with bipolar disorder. Also, it is important to find a comfortable match between your child, your family, and the mental health professional.
A child and adolescent psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders that affect children and adolescents. Child and adolescent psychiatrists have completed four years of medical school, and at least three years of residency training in medicine, neurology, or general psychiatry with adults, and two years of additional training in psychiatric work with children and adolescents.
Find a child and adolescent psychiatrist in your area.
To learn about accessing child and adolescent psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, please read Where to Find Help for Your Child.
Oftentimes, parents are unsure when to seek a referral to a child and adolescent psychiatrist. For more information on when to seek a referral, click here.
Related Websites
There are many organizations that provide support groups for families that have a family member or child with bipolar disorder. Two such organizations are the The Balanced Mind Foundation and the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance.
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Milpitas, Calif., April 7, 2010 -SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), the global leader in flash memory cards, today announced that it has appointed Sumit Sadana as Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development with immediate effect.
Sadana will be responsible for driving SanDisk's strategic planning across functions and organizations and will report to Chairman and CEO, Eli Harari. Sadana joins SanDisk from Sunrise Capital where as President he provided consulting services to technology and private equity companies. Previously, Sadana was the Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development at Freescale Semiconductor, and also served as its Chief Technology Officer. Before that, he held several technical, operations, strategic planning and general management roles over a 13-year career at IBM. "We are pleased to have someone of Sumit's impressive background join the SanDisk team," said Harari.
Sadana holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He is also on the board of directors for The Miracle Foundation.
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SanDisk Corporation is the global leader in flash memory cards, from research, manufacturing and product design to consumer branding and retail distribution. SanDisk's product portfolio includes flash memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders; digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for consumers and the enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices; and solid state drives for computers. SanDisk is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 company, with more than half its sales outside the United States.
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Turner Named to Jet Award Watch List
Lincoln -- University of Nebraska junior Jamal Turner was honored Monday, as he was chosen to the Jet Award watch list.
The Jet Award honors the best return specialist in college football. Drawing its name from former Heisman Trophy winner Johnny "The Jet" Rodgers, who was the 1972 Heisman winner and one of the top kick returners in NCAA history.
Turner was one of the Huskers' top all-purpose threats in 2012, accounting for 607 all-purpose yards as a sophomore. He averaged 22.1 yards per kickoff return, including a season-high 35 yards against Idaho State. He also helped in the Huskers' punt return game with six returns in 2012. In addition to his return abilities, Turner caught 32 passes for 417 yards and three scores, highlighted by a game-winning score against Michigan State.
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Well, if Tim Tebow had indeed moved near Eli Manning's condo in Hoboken, we'd finally find out whether Tebow can walk on water.
Eli's building flooded as a result of Hurricane Sandy, via NBCNewYork.com.
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Martina Brueckner obtained her BS and MD degrees from the University of Virginia, followed by a Pediatric Residency at the University of Pittsburgh and a Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine. Her clinical and research focus is genetics of congenital heart disease (CHD). The Brueckner laboratory focuses on the cause(s) of a type of congenital heart disease called heterotaxy.
Dr. Brueckner's clinical focus is on patients with genetic causes of congenital heart disease. It has become increasingly apparent that a large portion of cardiovascular disease in children and adolescents has as its underlying etiology a genetic defect. Frequently, patients with a genetically caused cardiovascular defect have involvement of other systems. These patients require care from multiple subspecialists. This multi-specialty care is sometimes difficult to coordinate, and attending many separate clinics can be time consuming for the patients and their families. The Children's Hospital at Yale-New Haven created a unique joint genetics-cardiology clinic that provides comprehensive diagnostic evaluation and follow-up care for patients with genetic-cardiovascular disease. Dr. Brueckner has been a staff cardiologist since completing her fellowship at Yale in 1990.
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NIH (2009 - Present) Reviewer
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This week starts with Kyle, who is increasingly becoming my least favorite Housewife.
Did Kyle's family get egged? As a result of her meddling, I hope. Mauricio pretends to believe it's some high school prank targeting Alexia. But aww, it's a new car reveal! They got Alexia a Lexus C250. A C class Lexus for a girl who can't begin to parallel park? A 16-year-old? My life sucks.
At least she seems sweet and grateful. Kyle knows her friends are going to resent this bit of showiness, but it's the fruit of Mauricio's new real estate company. Being able to shower his daughter with inappropriately expensive luxury cars is the consummation of a dream. I'll let them have it.
Brandi's meeting with her booking agent over sushi. She updates him about the drama at Ojai, mainly the women's cold reaction at the news of her book deal.
Basically, Brandi feels they should be happy for her, because they're already disgustingly rich, and she's not. Proof? She lives in a house without a single chandelier. Meaning, Brandi Gianville's probably eaten a struggle meal before. The rest of these women? Never. Except, maybe, Taylor because she's the one clinging to this zip code she "worked hard for." That implies struggle.
She's a little apprehensive about having her picture on the cover of her book, title, etc. I feel you, girl. Titles and cover letters are the hardest things to write, ever in life.
Oh, but Brandi's come up with a title. It's just profanity-laden, because this is Brandi we're dealing with. She wants to name her book, "It's a Break-Up, Not Cancer: How I Got the F--- Through It, and Got the F--- Out of It." Obvs, her agent's not pleased, but she insists the F-word is a major part of her life.
Yay, Lisa time! She's got a new menu for her lounge, and she's having a few peeps over in the garden, to sample a few appies.
Last night, one of her female servers, Stassi, or something, managed to get on the bad side of "one of the most powerful people in this town" who also happens to be one of Lisa's BFFs. She asks Jax, the bartender that's helping set up for the tasting, if he thinks that the server in question was drinking.
Of course, Jax denies that. It's hard to believe Lisa put him in that position. If he were the manager, it would be understandable. But she's discussing this with another employee, and she's the owner -- not cool. Maybe she's asking him because he runs the bar. Still, it feels a little informal for this convo.
(Side note: Jax is kinda hot. Must be one of those L.A. server/actors everyone's always snarking about.)
If any other reality TV star/restaurateur claimed their restaurant "constantly deal[s] with celebrities and important people" I would call their bluff. But when Lisa says it, it's beyond contestation. Maybe it's the accent.
Ken advises her to speak with Stassi before they start the tasting. Stassi admits that she was drinking "a little bit" last night, but she wants Lisa to hear her side of the story.
Lisa tells her she doesn't get a side, because he's an important client. She claims she was making a small joke, about the party sucking, and ended it up blowing up. She said he called her a spoiled brat and a stupid b----.
Lisa says it may be good reason, and since she doesn't have time for these shenanigans tonight, she tells Stassi to leave.
I would've fired her. I worked retail/customer service for years. People are awful. Unless a customer threatens your well being, suck it up and do your job.
And whom the heck is Lisa hiring, anyway? Before the tasting, Brandi calls to make sure Scheana, the girl who slept with her ex and one of Lisa's employees, wasn't working.
Kim, Brandi and Lisa discuss Ken's upcoming hip surgery, and of course, jokes about Ken's penis ensue. The rest of the guests show up and there is an excessive amount of bourgeois double-cheek kissing.
Lisa makes sure that the champagne isn't troubling Kim, and then asks her if she ever feels she may relapse. She admits that some people in her life almost drive her to drink. Some she's put in her past, but others she's forced to put up with -- ahem, Kyle -- and she has to just thug it out.
Brandi asks where Adrienne is, and Lisa tells her she was busy. Brandi snarks that she's probably working on her book, because Adrienne is Mr. Me Too. Ken jumps in, saying the book "probably won't be very long." See, Paul? That's how you pull of man-catty without seeming sad. Take note!
After the meal, Kyle's troublemaking behind asks Brandi why she and Adrienne are at odds. Brandi says these problems have been simmering under the surface for a while. She feels like Adrienne lies a lot plus, they had a phone argument about Lisa. Ruh roh!
Apparently, Adrienne and Paul (of course) wanted Brandi to take to Twitter, recanting past statements she'd made regarding the Maloof-Vanderpump War of 2012. It escalated, and Brandi refused to speak against Lisa. Kim, and the others seem to be uncomfortable. That's when Brandi imparts a bit of gossip about Adrienne that is so intense the audience doesn't even get to hear it.
Kyle is shocked. Shocked, I say! Kim says it's something so private and Brandi may not even realize the severity of what happened. She and Taylor discuss it afterward, and basically, they feel Adrienne wasn't there to defend herself.
Oh great, now we get to go over Adrienne's. The fam's having a BBQ, and it's sweet. Paul's supposed to be grilling, but he quickly delegates the task to their cook, to go swimming with the kids. Then, we got an awesome close-up of Paul's back hair.
Later, Mauricio and Kyle throw an event to celebrate his new real estate agency. Camille's there, so of course, we get a few more jokes about the size of Kelsey Grammer's manhood. I will not stand for this disrespect of the man who brought me "Girlfriends!"
It's also the day of Ken's hip surgery, and Lisa's really worried. He's 16 years older than Lisa, so his health is a major concern for her. Their kids show up to show support, and they're all perfect looking and British. Poor Lisa! He'll be ok!
Back to the partay! The Maloofs show up, and Brandi isn't the happiest. She's not worried, though, because she doesn't think the other girls will "tattle." Wrong! Adrienne's barely in the door when Kim pulls her to the side to fill her in about what Brandi said.
Paul claims he doesn't understand why Brandi would call Adrienne a liar, and then Kim drops the secret bombshell about their family. Call me cynical, but the fact that we can't hear it makes me question whether or not this fight is producer-manufactured. Paul wants to do something or leave. He also asks what Lisa, "the other troublemaker," had to say. Oh, come on.
Adrienne likens it to "character assassination" and wants to leave. That's when Paul decides to call Brandi outside of her name and confront her in front of the group. This is all getting a little uncomfortable. He can be mad, but all of this aggressive posturing has me nervous he'll put his hands on Brandi.
Kyle's pissed because Kim chose Mauricio's event to fill the Maloofs in about what Brandi said. They're throwing out words like "defamatory" and threatening lawsuits and making a scene. Hello? Mauricio's clients are here!
It finally ends, with the Maloofs fleeing the scene and Kyle and Mauricio fuming. Aww, you guys were all so chummy last week. Glad that's over!
'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' recap, Adrienne, Brandi and character assassination!
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Study highlights indigenous response to natural disaster
When a tsunami struck American Samoa in 2009, indigenous institutions on the islands provided effective disaster relief that could help federal emergency managers in similar communities nationwide, according to a study from the University of Colorado Denver and the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
The study found that following the tsunami, residents of the remote U.S. territory in the South Pacific relied on Fa'aSamoa or The Samoan Way, an umbrella term incorporating a variety of traditional institutions governing the lives of its citizens.
"We found that communities like this have strong traditions that may not fit into the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) model but they are still highly effective," said study author Andrew Rumbach, PhD, assistant professor of planning and design at CU Denver's College of Architecture and Planning. "We think these same kinds of traditions could play important roles in disaster preparation, response and recover in American Indian communities, Alaskan villages, and among other indigenous people."
The study was published Thursday in the journal Ecology and Society and available at http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/issues/article.php/6189
The 2009 tsunami resulted from three undersea earthquakes that sent a wall of water crashing into American Samoa, killing 34, injuring hundreds more and causing tens of millions of dollars in damage.
Immediately after, the leaders or matai began organizing the young men or aumaga to begin rescuing tsunami victims and clearing debris from roads and critical infrastructure, said Rumbach.
"The aumaga were crucially important for emergency response because with such widespread devastation across the island, they were the de facto first responders," he said. "Based in each village they are capable of responding to events locally and without having to be dispatched from larger population centers."
The association of village women, aualuma, provided first aid, food and water to the victims.
Another traditional institution, the pulenu'u or village mayors, helped mitigate the destruction by sounding alarms in each community to warn of the impending tsunami. That action is credited with saving Amanave, a community of 300 that was able to evacuate before water destroyed virtually the entire village.
All the while, extended families known as aigas offered shelter, food and other aid to vulnerable individuals.
"Supporting indigenous institutions through disaster management policies and programs leverages existing networks with high levels of social capital, while simultaneously strengthening those institutions and making them relevant to contemporary challenges," the study said. "It's a `win-win' scenario."
Rumbach said FEMA's recent turn toward more community-based disaster management efforts offers the chance to create more flexible response plans for diverse conditions, needs and priorities.
"In times of crisis these institutions played role of first responder all without specific training," said Rumbach. "That response could be improved by being trained in CPR, evacuation of the elderly and other skills. But we could incorporate these kinds of traditional responses into FEMA."
The lessons learned from American Samoa could be used in other island territories or traditional communities in the U.S.
"We often come in after disasters and set up whole new systems but in these places we could use institutions already in place," Rumbach said. "Traditional communities have a lot of capacity.
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Where could you retire and never have to worry about surviving another winter? Imaging a lifestyle that includes no more snow, ice, or cold weather.Even better, what if this place also has no stifling summers, excessive heat, or high humidity?
Key places around the world enjoy what are generally referred to as climates of "eternal spring." These are mountain cities with low humidity and cool temperatures by day and cooler, even chilly temperatures at night, 365 days a year.
Living in one of these places, not only would you never again have to shovel snow from your driveway or scrape ice your windshield, but you could also say goodbye to monthly heating and air conditioning bills, helping to stretch your retirement budget.
Five of the world's best places to retire to eternal spring are also interesting, appealing, and welcoming cities. You could enjoy a rich and full life on a budget, in some cases, of as little as $1,000 per month. Check out these places with year-round pleasant weather:
Eternal Spring Retirement Haven #1: Cuenca, Ecuador. Cuenca is a colonial city of parks, flowers, churches, and the world's fastest-growing community of foreign retirees.
In the last eight years, the number of foreign retirees enjoying year-round spring in this charming and walkable city has increased from less than 50 to several thousand. International-standard health care and one of the most affordable costs of living and of real estate in all of Latin America also contributes to making Cuenca a top choice if you're looking to retire to eternal spring, especially if your retirement budget is small.
Eternal Spring Retirement Haven #2: Medellin, Colombia. While Cuenca is quaint and charming, Medellin, another mountain town, is sophisticated and cosmopolitan. This is the ideal choice if you want to be able to enjoy the distractions and diversions of city life in retirement. The European undertones are strong in Medellin, from the parks and plazas to the museums and outdoor cafes.
The people are well-dressed, well-mannered, and helpful. However, Medellin is more of an emerging than an established retire overseas choice, meaning you'll need to speak at least a little Spanish to navigate life here. The cost of living is affordable, though not as low as in Cuenca. And, yes, despite what you may have heard or read otherwise, the city is safe. (Remember, Pablo Escobar is long dead.)
Eternal Spring Retirement Haven #3: Boquete, Panama. Boquete is one of the two most established communities of foreign retirees in Latin America (the other is in Ajijic, Mexico). While down at sea level this country is hot and steamy, the climate in this mountain valley town is cool, even chilly.
Some homes in this part of this country come with fireplaces. As Boquete has long been recognised as a top retire overseas choice, many private communities have been developed here specifically for the foreign retiree, meaning you have good turn-key options for enjoying a life that could well resemble the one you left behind "back home." You could easily retire here speaking not a word of Spanish, and Panama uses the U.S. dollar as its currency, meaning no currency exchange risk.
Eternal Spring Retirement Haven #4: Cafayate, Argentina. Cafayate is more remote and rugged than the other destinations on this list. On the other hand, it could be an ideal choice for anyone who has imagined life among the grape vines and all that can include. Situated in the Andes in northern Argentina, Cafayate is a quaint village, reminiscent of Santa Fe, N.M., with a dry temperate climate that has been attracting tourists and wine-lovers in growing numbers for the past decade.
This is both wine and horse country, and a vast and dramatically beautiful region. In Cafayate town there are great restaurants and lots of colonial atmosphere. In the surrounding countryside there are classic-style haciendas and miles and miles of vineyards. You'd need to speak some Spanish and be the independent sort to be happy here, but there's no denying the lifestyle appeal.
Eternal Spring Retirement Haven #5: Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. "It's got a terrific climate, natural beauty, ancient culture, affordable living, and a growing expat community." That's how Guatemala expat Mike Anderson describes Lake Atitlán and its surrounding villages. Indeed, Lake Atitlán, generally recognised as "the most beautiful lake on earth," has both an "eternal spring" climate and a cost of living that, as reported by resident expats, can be about 50 per cent less than in North America.
The international community here is a thriving, sociable, welcoming, and slightly unconventional. Perhaps that's because the expats and retirees in this part of Guatemala are more interested in retiring among the local community than in creating a private, gated one of their own.
If you are fit and healthy (healthcare is the Achilles heel of this region), enjoy an active outdoor life, can embrace a different culture, and are willing to learn some Spanish, this could be a very good choice.
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In order to be convicted of a drink driving related offence, the prosecution must show that the defendant was driving or in charge while exceeding the maximum legal prescribed limit in England.
Following Home Office guidelines, people will not be prosecuted for drink driving in England or Wales if their breath alcohol level is below 40 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
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April 12, 1924 - September 23, 2013
New Britain, CT
Margaret E. (Peggy) Straub, 89, a homemaker, of New Britain, CT died Monday, September 23, 2013 at Aurora Senior Living Center, New Britain, CT.
She was born April 12, 1924 in Bronx, NY to Francis McNulty and Margaret (Heppenheimer) McNulty.
She was the widow of Alexander Straub.
She was a member of Catholic Daughters, and TOPS.
Survivors include three daughters: Margaret A. Straub of New Britain, CT, Wanda (Mrs. Joseph) Riter of Suffolk, VA, Elizabeth (Mrs. Jeffery) Pulawski of Fort Wayne, IN; six grandchildren: Matthew Straub of New Britain, CT, Ryan (Serenity) Pulawski of Fort Wayne, IN, John Riter of Rutland, VT, Daniel Riter of Austin, TX, Kelly (David) Waterhouse of Rutland, VT, and Mary Pulawski of Kendallville, IN; three great-grandchildren: Isaac and Elijah Pulawski of Fort Wayne, IN, Chloe Waterhouse of Rutland, VT; one brother, F. Thomas McNulty of North Brunswick, NJ; several loving nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by two sisters: Catherine and Georgiana McNulty.
There will be no Visitation. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated Friday, September 27th at 10 a.m. at St. Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Church, Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY 12520. Burial will be at St. Thomas' Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to the St. Thomas of Canterbury Sanctuary Fund or a charity of the donor's choice.
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Gigabyte GTX780 Windforce Overview
Giving the GTX780 Windforce the RushKit once over.
Published: 23rd May 2013 | Source: Gigabyte |
Today we get to give a quick look at one of the most highly anticipated releases this year - the GTX780. The flavour of the hour? Gigabyte's Windforce edition, with a non-standard cooler, 91MHz increase to the base clock, and a 106MHz increase to the boost clock.
This card is set to unleash the GTX780 with its updated aesthetics, higher speeds, and beefier cooling. With all this being said, how much better can the Windforce cooler be over nVidia's stock solution, found both on the GTX780 and the Titan? I guess we'll have to find out.
Gigabyte have taken a break from their norm by releasing this card with a glorious black PCB, a far cry from the blue numbers that we're used to seeing from them. This change in form, though not unique to the GTX780 for Gigabyte, is a much welcome sight. The single blower-style intake of the stock cooler is gone, replaced with three large fans that are more typically seen on graphic cards, though a vapour chamber is still being employed to dissipate the GPU's heat over the normal heatsink designs.
Let's have a quick look at some tech specs before we get to the main video.
Technical Specifications
|GeForce GTX 780
|Memory Clock
|6008 MHz
|Core Clock
|Base/Boost clock: 954/1006 MHz
|Process Technology
|Memory Size
|Memory Bus
|384 bit
|Card Bus
|Memory Type
|PCB Form
|Digital Max Resolution
|2560 x 1600
|Analogue Max Resolution
|2048 x 1536
Dual-link DVI-I * 1
|Card Size
|L=292mm, W=129mm, H=43mm
|Power Requirement
Yes. Ooh yes. This card is, put simply, fantastic. The triple fan design of Gigabyte's Windforce cooler has been a little hit and miss in the past, but we're delighted to report that they've struck gold with this iteration. It looks fantastic, it's quiet, and its cooling capabilities are superior to the stock solution. As such, there's really not much more you could ever ask for from this card, other than the removal of the Windforce name tag that protrudes from the main body of the cooling chasis.
Gigabyte have used the reference GTX780 PCB for their card, which really is a blessing for the watercoolers among us. No custom PCB means no custom waterblock, and as nVidia have employed the near-as-damnit same PCB for the Titans and GTX780s, existing Titan waterblocks should have no problem with being fitted. With this being said, we would advise any of you who are thinking of getting this card wet to buy the standard non-Windforce version, as the aftermarket fans will be of little use after you've stripped them off.
The better the cooling solution on a graphics card the faster you'll be able to push the clocks whilst keeping things cool, and this definitely applies to this card. The Windforce cooler trumps the standard blower design, enabling the card to take the performance crown when overclocked and beating the Titan as the most powerful single-GPU video card on the planet. Oh, and it costs substantially less than the Titan, too.
Altogether and there really isn't much more to say about this card. It's a definite star in our eyes and we can see lots of positive feedback from future owners coming in later on. The stock GTX780 is an awesome card, but Gigabyte's Windforce cooler really does help set it free.
If you're after one of the most powerful single-GPU video cards on the planet, which looks fantastic, is quiet, and still manages to keep its cool, then you need look no further, but be aware that your case will need good airflow to keep everything in check.
Thankyou to Gigabyte for supplying us with this card today. Want to discuss this topic further? Be sure to visit the OC3D Forums!


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Polka is more than song and dance
Club sponsors dance, watermelon feed at lake
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Hopping or galloping as they circle the floor, some were compelled to let out an excited whoop or holler.
Polka is a way of life for many of who attended the Mid-Western Polka Club dance and watermelon feed Sunday at Marion County Lake hall
Joyce Buckley, vice president of the club, remembered when Pilsen had three dance halls devoted to polka.
"There were five polka bands just in Pilsen, and more would come in on the weekends," Buckley said. "There was even a bandstand between World War I and World War II."
Club president Roman Humlicek, said many polka bands, like the Czechlanders Polka Band that played Sunday, featured family members.
Polka can be more than music and dance. To Humlicek's wife, Alice, is a community that has helped support her in troubled times.
"Back in August of 2011 I was riding a float in Wilber, Nebraska and I fell off our float and hit my head," she said
She had to have surgery because of swelling in her brain.
"While I was recovering polka club members sent over 60 emails," she said.
All related how people were keeping her in their prayers.
Humlicek had to go through speech and physical therapy. Having the club's support was a great boon.
She made a full recovery, and on Sunday, she and Roman danced together.


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A THREE-year-old Abergavenny girl is on course to become an expert at horsing around.
Little Phoenix-Phiel Parry is just three years old, but already horse-rides like a pro - despite never having had a proper lesson.
The talented toddler is hoping to compete at a county level in the near future, and next year from January she will looking for sponsors who want a safe bet.
The Argus watched little Phoenix trot her way around the stables at Upper Triley farm at Llantilio Pertholey, just outside Abergavenny on her favourite pony, Ellie, 28, a Shetland.
"She's already doing well," said Beccy Fields, centre manager at the stables and partner in the business. "She is too little to do our classes yet - they start at four years old - but she's good. She's the youngest we have but she's really confident around the horses and she's keen. "She seems set on joining the pony club when she's four and then she will doing a bit of everything."
Proud mum Myscha Dene, 25, said: "We are so happy she's got a hobby she loves that's outdoors - there's nothing worse than a child stuck watching tv all the time.
"if she could she would be with her ponies 24/7. She says Ellie is her best buddy.
"She's already competed at a local level and won first and second place, so she has a growing collection of ribbons - even though she's never had a lesson.
"She is so competent and confident, it's great to see. She's competing against children who are up to nine years old, and in her first ever competition she came second.
"The judges always comment on how small and confident she is - she gets quite a lot of attention at shows."
Phoenix rode her own pony for the first time in October last year - when she was just two years old - but before that she first sat on a horse at around one, and has always been around horses.
She even rode little Ellie to the annual Boxing Day hunt in Abergavenny last year, and very much stole the show.
Although she is too young to have full riding lessons at the stables, she does have mountain and moorland lead reining classes and takes part in competitions at the centre.
Ms Dene, who started riding at around two years old as well, says she and Phoenix's dad will support Phoenix to go as far as she wants.
"As long as she's happy, that's the main thing," she said. "She absolutely loves it now, and hopefully she will in the future as well."


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RICHMOND, Va. -- Three things to watch for in today's Charlotte-Richmond game at sold-out Robins Center.
-- The Spiders average an Atlantic 10-low 11.1 turnovers, while Charlotte averages 8.8 steals, second most in the league. So a key matchup will be between Charlotte point guard Pierria Henry, who averages 2.8 steals, and Richmond's Cedrick Lindsay, who has a 1.7 assists-turnover ratio.
-- Charlotte's next four games are key as the 49ers (tied for 10th in the A-10) jockey for position for the conference tournament: Richmond and George Washington (at home Wednesday) are tied with Charlotte in the win column (four victories). The next two games, both at home against St. Bonaventure (next Saturday) and Duquesne (Feb. 29) are against teams just ahead of Charlotte, with six league victories.
-- Charlotte is 6-7 overall on the road (second-most road wins in the A-10 behind first-place Temple, which is 8-3). Center Chris Braswell is a big reason for that: He's averaging 20.5 points on the road, including 22.0 in the last three conference games).
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49ers-Richmond: What to watch for
RICHMOND, Va. -- Three things to watch for in today's Charlotte-Richmond game at sold-out Robins Center.
4 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Sold out game in Richmond due to effective marketing by their athletic deparment. Must be nice.
- Anonymous said...
I see a lot of empty seats for a sold out game. Poor start for the Niners. Glad I didn't make the drive.
- Anonymous said...
You think marketing is why the game is a sell out? It might have something to do with them being in the S16 last year!
If UNCC basketball wasnt complete garbage we could sell some tickets too!
- Anonymous said...
What to watch for:
Poor free throw shooting
ridiculous three point attempts
overall poor and undisciplined basketball


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So I had an interesting discussion with a few religious friends of mine the other day (anyone else get grilled about atheism on a regular basis?), and at one point we were talking about prayer and its utility. Of course, I argued that prayer is completely pointless. One of the more liberal Christians there agreed with me in the sense that God "doesn't always answer prayers" (which almost led to the whole 'omnipotent/omnibenevolent' debate), but that prayer is useful in other ways. Specifically, he said that when someone tells him they are 'praying for him', it makes him 'feel good'. At the time, I immediately thought 'Oh hey, this is bullshit', but I've been thinking about it and it seems that a lot of people feel the same way.
So here's my four-pronged question/topic of discussion:
1. Do you think most Christians realize that prayer is useless, but 'pray' anyway because it 'feels good'?
2. If/when someone says they are 'praying for you', do you feel better?
3. Is there something special about the word prayer? (What I mean by that is that when you tell someone that you 'hope' things get better for them, it doesn't seem to have the same effect as telling someone you're 'praying' for them.)
4. And now for the rhetorical question: Is 'prayer' bullshit? ;) hehehe
I've formulated my own answers to these, which I may post, but I wanted some outside feedback first ;)
Praying for you, atheists!
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Orthodox christians pray because they believe in miracles like olive oil comes out of the statue of the virgin Mary, olive oil comes out of a nun's hands ...
or visions of Mary.. they are always proud of these things they called miracles..
It's hard to convince them to Atheism.
From my viewpoint, I think that praying is just like talking to myself...
Millions of people pray this prayer,
Oh God of father Abraham, what is you your name is it Jehovah or Allah or.. what ?
he did'nt even answer them this silly question...
The Islamic prayer is reading what you have memoried just like a parrot.
Maybe your prayer well be accepted maybe not.
There is no ensure to go to heaven unless you blow yourself up in the name of Allah.
I've read a lot of these, and I agree with what most people are saying, namely:
1. Christians at some level know that prayer is useless, but they do it for several reasons anyway. It makes them feel like they're doing something without actually contributing; they find some kind of relief in prayer/meditation; or maybe they're just self-righteous assholes that get a kick out of telling people 'I'm praying for you.'
2. No, I don't feel better when they say they're praying for me. But I don't get annoyed either. I understand that this statement usually carries positive sentiments, and I appreciate it for that and nothing else. I wish they would be more honest with themselves and instead say "I know that there is nothing I can do for you right now and that things are out of my hands, but I wish you the best and am thinking of you." At least that statement carries no notions of invisible sky-people.
3. I'm still a little hazy on this one. For me (and judging by the other posts here, atheists in general), there is nothing special about the word 'prayer'. I have noticed, however, that among the religious, there is a special connotation that the word carries that other words may not be able to convey. But that's just dumb, because there is no god, which leads me to my last point...
4. Prayer is utter bullshit. :)
Thanks for your responses guys; it's nice to know there are people with the same beliefs out there.
I think it would be better to say there are people with the same 'facts' out there. :)
'Prayer is bullshit' seems like a fact to me.
Kyle, while that is true that most people are saying that, and I agree with your #2 too... my reply about my grandmother didn't say anything about whether or not my grandmother knows on any level that prayer is useless. ;)
So as for #1... I don't know. I'd say many know it might be useless, but many don't know.
I honestly don't know WHAT she believes. She's not a very talkative person, but she is Catholic, and goes to confession every Saturday, to confess, pardon the expression, "God knows what" lol... but seriously she is a very good person. Not getting me and my brother out of our mother's abuse sooner was a crime/sin of omission, perhaps, and she was neglectful as a guardian to me for the 1 year I lived there (my senior year of high school) in so much as I'd talk at dinner and she wouldn't even realize I'd spoken, and idk it was just really lonely there, and I got away with staying up all night with my vidding addiction:
and my schoolwork suffered for it. But I highly doubt that she considers those sins or even realizes that any of those things happened. She doesn't realize that letting her husband abuse and take advantage of her for essentially her whole life wasn't really the best thing to do for her nor for her 6 children. What she believes about God and religion is a mystery to me, because she never really talks much, and she didn't seem to care that on the FEW Sundays I was under her care, I chose not to go to church and sleep-in instead, and she didn't seem to want to bring up the subject of religion at all ever. She doesn't seem to care that one of her sons (David, the eldest of her 6 children) is gay, but she calls his life partner his "friend" lol so if she's in denial or not, I'm really not sure. I don't know if he ever came out to her or not, but he brings Don with him to every single family event - Christmas, his father's funeral, etc. and they're in their fifties and have been very close for years. I don't think they got married, even though they live in Washington D.C. where it's legal/possible, and I don't even know if they're living together lmao... I know very little about them, the most I know is that Don is more fun to talk to than my uncle even though my uncle is related to me, and on my uncle David's brand new facebook page he quotes something in French that he saw on the wall of a Persian gay bar (my uncle David has traveled the world for his bank-related job) and under religious views he put "no" lol... I highly doubt my grandmother knows that he has no religious beliefs anymore.
My grandmother is really lonely now that her husband has died... so she goes to church on weekdays now, not every single day but probably every day that there's a service. She does it just for the socialization though, and I'm sure she realizes that.
She might have always gone to confession every Saturday for the same reason - it's talking to another human being, a priest, and they are real people who might talk back and all... ;)
My grandmother is probably someone who on at least some level realizes that it doesn't really matter, and that her religion might not be the one and only truth. She doesn't bring up religion often enough for me to believe it's really that important to her.
For her, saying "I'll pray for you" COULD be a "I wish you well" euphemism and she's not actually going to pray, kind of like how atheists might accidentally say "thank god" or "oh my god" or "bless you" - it's the language of our culture and we're not always thinking about god when we say them. I am really only guilty of "oh my god" but others might be guilty of all 3...
Then again, I used to cross my fingers, and sometimes pray too. I never was very religious NOR very superstitious. I never offered to pray for someone, but when someone would ask me to cross my fingers for them, I understood they were "desperate" for something relatively trivial - never a matter of life and death but a good grade, that your mom won't get mad, etc - and I might do it, for a second. I think on twitter now when people say "oh no, my friend just got hit by a car, pray for her" many people see the tweet right then and there and DO pray, in an honest wish to help them. They might realize if they're not praying that would mean they're doubting the validity of it, so they pray in order to keep their own worldview from shattering, I don't know. I don't know why I crossed my fingers when I was little, but I did. I had the "it couldn't hurt" mentality and perhaps also the illusion of "feeling like I'm doing something when in actuality I'm doing nothing".
I would pray most often for cafeterias or my grandmother to be serving a type of food I'd be willing to eat, because I was a very picky eater, and I was really hungry, and I really really wanted the food to be under a very small specific subset of possibilities. I didn't think to pray for important things, but if I was bored and hungry, the idea of praying would come to my mind.
I myself never prayed very often though, and surprisingly the extreme psychological torture that my mother inflicted on me almost daily due to her borderline personality disorder VERY rarely if ever made me think about praying to make her stop. I never REALLY believed in God, not enough to think praying would help in that situation. In a situation like that, where I truly desperately needed a way to make her stop yelling (and sometimes cornering me and using her body to block me into a wall and sometimes knocking the glasses off of my head and/or pulling my hair and/or physically screaming at the top of her lungs into my ear to try to hurt my hearing) I thought very practically at all times. I figured out when I was very young that crying made her stop, so I started crying essentially on cue, the second she started yelling. Eventually that stopped working, and even when my tears were real she considered them fake/"crocodile" tears, and new methods were developed. Lots of lies, secrets, etc, etc, were involved in my life, all methods of tricking her. The best way to avoid being yelled at was to avoid her altogether so I'd usually hide from her, lock myself in my room, sneak watching TV and doing things I wanted to do when and where she couldn't notice me, etc. Never once did praying seem like an actually practical thing to do. I was never properly indoctrinated enough to believe that it would really do anything. When I went to forced Confession during Religious Education in my Catholic Church, I couldn't think of any sins I'd committed recently, so I lied and made up something, and then didn't do my assigned penance of prayer because it was tedious (like say the Our Father twice and the Hail Mary 3 times) and I couldn't quite remember all the words to my assigned prayers. I didn't think those prayers mattered at all, not in the slightest, nor did I think God cared about me lying in confession lol.
I was more convinced of Santa Claus's reality than of God's... so I can't judge what the true true Christians believe when they pray. I don't know but I feel that there must be a continuum, and if you're a Christian who believes very sincerely with all of your heart that God is real and does things probably do truly believe without a doubt that this God answers all of their prayers, and this belief is reinforced by confirmation bias and seeing all the hits and discounting all the misses. I bet there are all types of praying people, ranging from those who barely pray or who pretend to pray etc. to those who pray ALL the time, every day, about everything, and sincerely believe in its power.
@luvtheheaven - Thanks for sharing you perspective. I usually don't have the attention span to hang in there with a post that long but I found your's interesting. I'm sorry you had it so rough during that time of your life.
Lol yeah I considered deleting most of it before posting because I realized I'd rambled on for WAY too long... but then I just thought what the hell and continued to write MORE lol... ;)
1) Most Christians think it will actually DO something. I have been placed in prayer circles via my grandmother. Of course, since things worked out, it's thanks to God and the hundreds of people praying for me during my illness. Never mind the fact I was sick to begin with and had the life force sucked out of me by a year's worth of nasty medicine. I think it also helped her feel good, because, what else COULD she do in this situation? I told her it wasn't necessary, but to her it was. And yes, she knows I am atheist.
2) No, I do NOT feel better if someone says they are praying for me. Rather, I feel irritated, because I KNOW it is a waste of time and energy. I don't need to be prayed for, and if you know I don't believe, and insist on saying it anyway, you are just an ass.
3) There is nothing special about the word to me, except for it being a useless concept. Perhaps it is more comforting for a believer, but rather than PRAY for something to happen, people would have much higher success rates if they got off their knees and DID something.
4) Yes.
To answer your question: praying actually worsens situations. If someone prays for me, I will know for sure that person was never a friend or someone who cared. They just want you to be cursed
In any case, praying isn't free either. Someone is going to have to pay for a prayer to be fulfilled
The ONE thing prayer does do.............is show support from friends and family. It lets people know that others care what is happening to them..even when they can't really do anything about it.
Usually when I get a prayer request on facebook or somewhere else I will respond that I hope the outcome is favorable...... 'that my thoughts are with them' or that i'm thinking positive thoughts.
My wife is going to have a hysterectomy on the 24th and I'm not going to be asking for any prayers...but it doesn't hurt to know that family and friends are thinking about you and hoping for a positive outcome.
I think this is why prayer is popular and why people do it.
Very rightly said Wesley. It's a sign that something positive is wished for the one one is praying for. But the hidden agenda is, some people actually believe & rely on prayers expecting miracles to happen. And this hope for miracles often lead to fatality, self doubt, development of certain complex and emotional turmoil.
I sincerely wish that your wife will have a sucessful operation. Good luck.
Let me give my two cents worth here.
1) I think majority of Christians actually believe that prayer can lead to something good.
2) I don't feel better (or worse). I just think, every man to himself.
3) To religious people prayer is a sacred word that can do anything. On my part, I think it has been useless and totally meaningless.


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