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Graziano Marcheschi is executive director of university ministry for St. Xavier University in Chicago.
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It seems that almost as soon as the words "habemus papam!" ("We have a pope!") echoed from that Vatican window in March, the world fell in love with the man who had just assumed the 2,000-year-old mantle of the Roman Papacy.
He was a Jesuit, and there had never been one. He chose the name Francis, which none ever had chosen. He refused the trappings of his office, declined to move into the papal apartment, washed a Muslim woman's feet on Holy Thursday and carried his bag onto an airplane.
The world never has seen a pope like this, and for the first time in recent memory, the word "pope" does more than just rhyme with "hope." His love for the poor, his simplicity and humility, his candor and energy and charisma have captured the world's imagination.
People like this pope. He's making them think that Catholicism can be revitalized and relevant again. The Catholic Church's dirty laundry has hung out in the open air for far too long, and the hope is that Pope Francis can eradicate the church of the grime that soiled it in the first place.
But this pope is a bit confusing. He speaks of the concrete and immediate needs of the poor and then, with equal facility, adverts to matters of the spirit, even those that many consider out of fashion. Both the political left and right can claim him, though at this point it seems the left is more comfortable with this Italian-Argentine who appears unresponsive to the demands of his staff that he act more like a pope.
No question that Pope Francis' style is different, but what puzzles many is whether there is substance beneath the style. When the novelty wears off, will the world see a different Catholic Church with women priests and gay couples exchanging vows in its churches? That answer lies at the heart of what the church is and who the pope is.
Unlike American democracy, the church does not operate according to opinion polls. Updating doesn't mean changing dogma but finding new and clearer ways of expressing what the church has always believed.
The pope cannot be swayed by popular opinion. It's often his job to tell people what they don't want to hear — whether that's about taking the life of the unborn, oppressing the poor, neglecting the needs and rights of immigrants or any of the sexual and lifestyle issues that so often dominate public discussion.
The pope is the chief teacher and shepherd of the church. His responsibility is to pass on the faith of the Apostles intact, according to the will of Christ. That faith has been taught consistently for 2,000 years, and no pope can change it. But does that mean that those who have pinned their hopes on Pope Francis will turn against him? Maybe. But maybe not.
The continued popularity of President Obama is not based on his delivery of every campaign promise he made. People like him and realize he has to work within the limits of his office — an office that requires compromise and is privy to information that may lead to conclusions that one would not have reached before entering the White House.
Popes who teach the faith of the church are still unique individuals, and each leaves a mark according to his distinct character. John Paul II and Benedict XVI were very different men, and though each was thoroughly orthodox, their legacies are different.
Pope Francis' style can't be dismissed as a show. In many ways, style also is substance. His simple lifestyle already is persuading some of the "princes" of the church, the cardinals who govern the major dioceses of the world, to examine their lifestyles.
His emphasis on the poor will, no doubt, translate into action by those inspired by his eloquence. Some may enter the priesthood who might otherwise not have considered it. And people may listen to this pope and hear the ancient truths of which he speaks as if they were newly minted.
Graziano Marcheschi is executive director of university ministry for St. Xavier University in Chicago.


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It had not occurred to me before actually meeting Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd just how long I'd known them. Both have been in the public eye seemingly forever—and in more or less the exact same manifestation (which is to say they both look astonishingly the same as they did two decades ago). So seeing them in physical space is eerily like spotting an acquaintance at an airport. Except, of course, that in a real-life airport, Aniston's face would be plastered across an array of tabloid covers trumpeting the rumor du jour—most recently that she was pregnant with twins by and/or had eloped with Justin Theroux, Aniston and Rudd's co-star in the new comedyWanderlust. (For religious followers of the epic Jen Cycle, this latest coupling with Theroux, seemingly smart, multitalented, and very funny, has been hailed as a high point.)
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Direct and Indirect Costs Of Patient Noncompliance
The No-Nonsense Summary
Noncompliance Costs
1. Characterizing the financial, physiological, and social costs patient noncompliance as catastrophic is neither hyperbole or hysteria, just fact.
2. Because the cascading effects of ongoing noncompliance can geometrically accelerate the costs of and number of people affected by a given case, prevention or, failing that, early recognition and intervention are vital.
Direct Consequences and Costs of Noncompliance
Inadequate implementation of treatment has devastating consequences, such as causing
- 10-25% of hospital & nursing home admissions, resulting in 340 deaths per day
- 20% of unintentional pregnancies in the US at a cost of $2.6 billion
- 3 times as many doctor visits & $2000 per year in additional costs compared to patients who follow their treatment plan
- 33-69% of all medication-related hospital admissions in the US at a cost of $100 billion
It is especially revealing that estimates of the total annual healthcare costs in the US resulting from patient noncompliance vary from $100 billion to $170 billion to $300 billion. First, this range (even after adjusting for the 11 year difference between the oldest and newest figures) points to the potential risk of false precision, the dramatic influence of assumptions and methodologies in such approximations, and the difficulty of computing cost-benefit ratios of efforts to enhance compliance. Second, even the most conservative figures delineate the tremendous fiscal impact of noncompliance, fully justifying The American Heart Association's summation that "the cost of noncompliance in terms of human life and money is shocking."
Complex, Cascading, Cumulative Costs
Even calculations that take into account only such basics as the likelihood that noncompliance will result in treatment failure, the pervasiveness of noncompliance, and the expense of healthcare produce terrifying results. The total damage caused by patient noncompliance, however, is too complex, multivariate, intertwined, subjective, and extensive to quantify with a straightforward algebraic formula.
My contention, in fact, is that the central tragedy of patient noncompliance results from the fact that the effects of noncompliance rarely manifest in a straightforward If-A-Then-B algorithm; rather, they tend to cascade. A hypothetical case may be helpful in explaining this concept and its fundamental significance
A Case Of Routine & Tragic Patient Noncompliance
A patient with an respiratory infection does not complete the full course of the antibiotic prescribed by his physician. When symptoms persist, the patient returns to his doctor but fails to report the noncompliance. The physician consequently believes that the original medication was somehow inadequate (e.g., the pathogen was resistant to the medication or not covered within the therapeutic range of the medication) and prescribes a different agent, one that is more costly and more prone to side-effects.
Already in this scenario, noncompliance has resulted in
- At least one unnecessary clinic visit
- Two medications in a situation in which one might have sufficed
- A potentially erroneous shift in ongoing treatment
- An increased risk of adverse medication effects, both because the second drug causes more side-effects than the first and because the patient is exposed to two medications instead of one
- A deviation, based on misinformation, from the initial treatment plan which, by design, should provide the optimal combination of safety, affordability, and effectiveness for that patient. At best, the new treatment plan will be similar to but somehow less advantageous than the original therapy. At worst, the noncompliance-caused treatment failure will cause the clinician to mistakenly alter the diagnosis and treatment such that the actual problem is not addressed.
This example is, admittedly, oversimplified. Some disorders improve despite noncompliance with treatment. Some clinicians might have suspected noncompliance when the patient did not improve. Some patients do confess their failure to follow the treatment plan. Nonetheless, a plethora of evidence demonstrates that noncompliance clearly increases the risk of treatment failure, that clinicians rarely recognize or even suspect noncompliance, and that patients even more rarely reveal nonadherence to treatment. This example is, in fact, statistically condensed but conceptually accurate, and countless analogous cases occur every day throughout the healthcare system.
Little imagination is required to conjure up catastrophic conclusions and mournful denouements for our noncompliance story line:
- The patient has an autoimmune reaction to the second, unneeded medication and, despite emergency interventions, dies.
- The patient experiences a number of side-effects from the second medication, resulting in his unilateral decision to discontinue treatment with that agent. The respiratory symptoms worsen, necessitating invasive testing, an eight day hospitalization, IV drugs, and treatment for a secondary fungal infection before he recovers.
- Two weeks after starting (but not completing) the first drug regimen, the patient's disorder persists, and he unknowingly infects a friend who is taking immunosuppressive agents. The patient's friend succumbs to sepsis. The patient himself returns to normal after taking the second medication.
Of course, terminal autoimmune reactions and other such dire events take place infrequently, but they are statistical realities. One can consider an episode of patient noncompliance as a ticket for a lottery that offers pain, suffering, expense, and death as the prizes. No one ticket is likely to win, but the Law Of Large Numbers is implacable, i.e., the probability of any possible event (even an unlikely one) occurring at least once in a series increases with the number of events in the series. As the lottery ads put it, "The more you play, the more you win." (Also, "Hey, You never know.")
Perhaps a more ominous potential conclusion to this case, precisely because it invokes no rare disorders or coincidental events and therefore cannot be dismissed as an improbable long shot, depends only on a persistence of both the patient's noncompliance and his pathogen's toxicity:
The patient's symptoms cycle, exacerbating and subsiding in rough concordance with his adherence to treatment. Over the next several months, he requires many more outpatient visits, occasional trips to the emergency department, brief hospitalizations, and repeated laboratory tests, radiological exams, and invasive diagnostic procedures. His medication schedules evolve into complex, exotic, and expensive regimens. Several doctors now consult on his case, and his original doctor is becoming increasingly concerned, puzzled, and frustrated.
His disorder and its treatment has had a deleterious effect on his work, his marriage, and his finances. His health insurer has become more and more restrictive and intrusive. After six months, the symptoms gradually subside and finally appear to dissipate totally. His treatment team never reaches a definitive diagnosis and because of their concern about a recurrence, they insist on multiple follow-up visits and tests as well as prophylactic treatment with a broad spectrum antibiotic. His final out of pocket medical bill is just over $16,000 with his company-provided insurance covering the rest.
During a business downturn, he is laid off; he suspects, accurately, that he was targeted because of the huge health insurance premium increase suffered by the small firm where he had worked because of his claims. His former company also cuts healthcare benefits for its remaining workers to protect against another such disaster.
Because of the complexity and interdependent nature of the contemporary healthcare system, the impact of patient noncompliance is rarely limited to wasting one medical treatment that would have been successful if implemented. Instead, any treatment failure caused by noncompliance is subject to an array of multipliers, some obvious and some invisible, that can easily increase the potential fiscal, physiological, and social cost exponentially and connections, both direct and indirect, that distribute a similar range of losses to others. Moreover, the extraordinarily high value western culture places on both the individual and health heightens the stakes and further drives the process.
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"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers." - Richard Feynman, physicist, Nobel laureate (1918-1988)
Who Am I?
I am passionate about the use of field experiments in economics and the social sciences, and I have spent my career promoting their use. Before my dissertation at MIT in 1996, field experiments were quite rare in economics. Now there are dozens of people regularly performing field experiments to learn about economic and social behavior. Most people still consider economics to be an observational rather than an experimental science, but that has been changing significantly.
I have developed a course on field experiments for the master's program in data science at the UC Berkeley School of Information, with the course offered for the first time in Fall 2014.
I am a research scientist at Google. Before that, I spent five years at Yahoo! Research, where I worked primarily on experiments to measure the effects of online advertising. Previously, I was also a professor of economics at the University of Arizona. I have also taught in the department of Economics at Vanderbilt University, and in the department of Management and Strategy at Northwestern University.
In 2010, I settled in Berkeley, California, with my wife Jill Sazama. I am finally feeling a bit settled in the Bay Area, after
several years of transition between my former home in Tucson and my new
home in California. I enjoy being able to take the GBus to work
(from Berkeley to Mountain View), using onboard WiFi rather than
driving. I've also started biking around the Google campus and
the Palo Alto area; previously I hadn't used a bike in nearly thirty
I am also proud to serve as the president of the PGSS Alumni Association.
Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences was one of the best
of my life, but the school died in 2009 in state budget cuts. I have
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- Serving as President of the PGSS campaign, working with other alumni to bring back the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences.
- Spending time with my wife Jill Sazama.
- Traveling: I've been fortunate to have been able to visit some very interesting locations for work travel: from Ithaca and Austin to Amsterdam, Zurich, London, Kiev, Melbourne, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur.
- Practicing yoga at Yoga Kula and at Google
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Had to share the news with my friends at Combat Carry!
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I've applied for and am still waiting on CT and UT to bring the count to 35, and with some encouragement from some on this site and other friends, I'm going to apply for MA and RI soon. Add a vacation to Washoe County, NV and that would bring the total to 38!
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1 How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! | 1 How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty! |
2 My soul longs, indeed it faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God. | 2 My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. |
3 Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. | 3 Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young-- a place near your altar, O LORD Almighty, my King and my God. |
4 Happy are those who live in your house, ever singing your praise. (Selah) | 4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you. "Selah" |
5 Happy are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion. | 5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage. |
6 As they go through the valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools. | 6 As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools. |
7 They go from strength to strength; the God of gods will be seen in Zion. | 7 They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion. |
8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob! (Selah) | 8 Hear my prayer, O LORD God Almighty; listen to me, O God of Jacob. "Selah" |
9 Behold our shield, O God; look on the face of your anointed. | 9 Look upon our shield, O God; look with favor on your anointed one. |
10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wickedness. | 10 Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked. |
11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor. No good thing does the Lord withhold from those who walk uprightly. | 11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless. |
12 O Lord of hosts, happy is everyone who trusts in you. | 12 O LORD Almighty, blessed is the man who trusts in you. |
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I would like to extend a special thank-you to the National Organization for Marriage. No, I'm not lying. Thank you NOM, you've helped us win greater support for inclusion of gays and lesbians in marriage.
If you missed it, NOM spent the summer rallying six or seven people across the nation to defend marriage against the extension of marriage to loving people who've wanted it since the beginning of time. They've spewed hatred all over the country and made speeches all about traditions and morals. What ended up happening at these rallies was not quite what they intended:
A final way in which this turning point has been apparent this summer is the response to the National Organization for Marriage's ''Summer for Marriage'' tour. Far from energizing communities to oppose ''gay marriage,'' the near-universal result, in city after city, was a far more engaged and motivated pro-marriage equality counter-action that often drew more people.
That response, then, impacted the message in media reports from Minneapolis – ''Dueling rallies with little hitch,'' headlined the Star Tribune – to Atlanta, where The Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted that NOM had ''20 or so protesters'' compared to ''more than 150 counter-protesters.''
Well, I guess that backfired. . . .
The Prop. 8 Trial Tracker, linked above, became the NOM Tour Tracker for the summer and every post noted that the counter-protest numbers were higher than the people coming out to support opposite marriage. It makes sense though: why would they come out to a "protest" event which supports something they already have? The NOM Tour was flawed from the beginning. Their whole strategy was to paint proponents of opposite marriage as victims. The tour was about "defending" marriage or taking it back from the gays or whatever else. But straight people can already get married and if gays can marry too, it won't affect that. Straight people realize they aren't "victims" of anything. Nobody came out to support the victimization of privileged heterosexuals because that's stupid on its face.
And if you want to know how much of a beating marriage has taken lately, if you want to know how much danger the institution of marriage is in, well, it's just so, so bad:
In the states for which data were available, there were 3.4 divorces per 1,000 people in 2009, following rates of 3.5 divorces per 1,000 people in 2008 and 3.6 divorces per 1,000 people in 2007.
Less divorces? I don't know if we as a country can handle that. I would have thought that with more states allowing gay marriage, more people would leave their wives for the gay. And the article says there were less marriages last year, so that means tons and tons and tons of evil out-of-wedlock births by impure heathens, right?
No, there were actually:
13.5 births per 1,000 people last year, compared to a rate of 13.9 births per 1,000 people in 2008.
There were less births and less divorces? Assuming that the anti-gay argument that out-of-wedlock-births, divorces, and the erosion of marriages actually has a rational relationship to gay people in the first place then where's the evidence they even have for that silly assumption that's unrelated to gay people at all? There seems to be no proof, just innuendo, and nobody's buying it anymore.
And apparently, a lot less of these staunchly pro-tradition marriage are getting, you know, married. Do they just not care enough about marriage to get one themselves? How can you defend marriage from gay people if you don't even want one yourself?
And then there's this: opposite marriage defenders are losing the GOP:
A solid majority of adults younger than 30 – about six in 10 – support the right of gay and lesbian couples to legally wed, according to a Washington Post poll in February.
But even many older Americans and self-identified social conservatives have changed their view on an issue that just six years ago galvanized voters in support of President George W. Bush's reelection.
Nobody cares anymore. People care about jobs and money. That's why nobody's listening to these affluent conservatives ranting about marriage. They can worry about silly little things like that because they'll never face homelessness or hunger. Their job won't get shipped overseas. The GOP is telling Americans that Democrats are killing their jobs and then charging them high taxes – either that or their jobs are going to undocumented people. And in a country with 10% unemployment, you're not going to convince anyone that anything other than jobs is important. People who are married are fine. In fact, people who are married are considerably more wealthy and stress-free.
Even social conservatives are done with this:
Some surveys show that support for same-sex marriage is growing even among young evangelical Christians. According to a 2008 study by the liberal-leaning group Faith in Public Life, young white evangelicals are more than twice as likely as older evangelicals to say that gay couples should be allowed to marry.
The anti-equality fight is losing churches, the Tea Party, older voters, younger voters, Republicans (conservatives and party leaders) and just about every group they would need to stay relevant. And more importantly – a lot more importantly – the side with something to lose has become the more vocal and galvanized side. Equality forces all over the country have come to NOM counter protests to voice their support for marriage. Conservatives are joining our fight (whether we like them or not) and abandoning these bigots in droves.
Even science and facts, which have never been on conservatives' sides in the first place, are showing again a fierce opposition to anti-gay ideology.
I think this is a tipping point.


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what is squirt really
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Makes me feel redundant watching pussies being satisfied without a human cock
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Personally I think the girl on the right deserves a prize for how much she came.
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What's the name of the chick that squirts a lot? Damn she likes it big.
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Build Shop: Warrior 31/27/3 for Season 4 {WoW}
Jun 25th 2008 1:18PM I'm thinking about dusting off my warrior and jumping into pvp until Wrath hits. What's a good spec to get started in bg's?
Drysc weighs in on questing {WoW}
Feb 8th 2008 10:17AM I think Bliz did a great job with quest rewards in BC. My main (70 warrior) is running Kara still wearing some quest blues (and maybe even a green) that are good, solid pieces of equipment that I'm going to have to work at replacing.
Breakfast Topic: When did you get hooked? {WoW}
Jan 22nd 2008 12:57PM I played Dungeons and Dragons a lot in high school and college (late 70's, early 80's)....in those days looking for group meant calling your friends on the phone and setting up a game the next Friday night.
My son bought WoW on release and when I saw that you could play a game very similar to D&D without all the hassles, I was hooked. I had my own account in days. I remember somehow (unknowingly) un-equipping my sword as a lvl 1 warrior and going to lvl 5 beating everything to death with my bare hands...such a noob!
Blizzard and unintended consequences {WoW}
Jan 15th 2008 3:07PM There you go...address the "fun factor". What's fun about running the same BG 10 times in a row? I'd like to see a BG called "Azeroth at War". It would be a campaign mode pvp setting and players could go to wherever the battle was or go find new battles on their own. The fight would go 24/7 and territories and cities won would stay in control of that faction until taken back. Sort of like a pvp server only with events and quests geared towards world pvp.
The benefits?
1. It would be fun.
2. AFK'ers would be a non issue
3. It would give players a reason to win. What horde player doesn't want to sack Stormwind??
I know there are a lot of problems too. Server lag/crash is the first that comes to mind...but hey...I can dream right??
You'll always remember your first {WoW}
Jan 9th 2008 1:11PM My first was a human warrior I started on my son's account about a week after the initial release. I played him as much as I could but at about lvl 30 I started my own account. I rolled a Nelf hunter (no appologies, Night Elf hunters are great!) and played him until Bliz came out with paid character transfers and I could get both toons on the same account. Both are 70 now and I love the two different play styles but I would have to say that my original warrior is still my main.
It's funny, I never really intended to start playing WoW, I just started that warrior to check the game out. Being an old Dungeons and Dragons player (paper and pencil version) I thought it was pretty cool. I remember running from Northshire Abbey to Goldshire for the first time. It was at night and I expected to get attacked at every tree and being relieved that I made it to the inn safely!
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Dec 27th 2007 11:31AM That's right Mort, now I remember. DK's could really mess up your week. They should enable dk's for areas away from cities and pvp objectives
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Dec 27th 2007 11:10AM People who gank lowbies on a pvp server should be given dishonorable kills. I forget how the system worked before but it seemed like it messed up your rep with friendly factions if you had too many dhk's.
Breakfast Topic: If you could change one thing... {WoW}
Dec 27th 2007 11:01AM I have 2 70's, let me start a new alt at a higher level!
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One Direction fans don't like sharing their favorite boys — and they've gone so far as to threaten their girlfriends' lives!
One Direction's Zayn Malik can't even go on a date without his fans getting super jealous. Fans of the boy band expressed their rage for Zayn's girlfriend Perrie Edwards, member of the band Little Mix, on Twitter — forcing her to quit the social networking site.
Zayn, 19, and Perrie, 18, ended their relationship in December 2011 after the couple met on the UK's X-Factor in November. The couple were recently seen rekindling their relationship on May 15 as cameras caught Zayn sneaking out of her apartment early that morning.
The couple also caught The Avengers on April 26, tweeting about their date later that night.
"Just went to see avengers assemble and it was #boring . Good night though! x @zaynmalik," Perri tweeted.
"@PerrieLittleMix yeah tonight was fun lets do it again sometime ;) x x," Zayn tweeted April 26.
One Direction fans didn't take too kindly to seeing Zayn with another girl, and let Perrie know their discontent. Fans apparently sent horrible messages to her Twitter, causing her to delete her account, The Mirror reports.
And this isn't the first time girls linked to a One Direction member has been harrassed on Twitter. A few girls linked to Harry Styles, 18, have also fallen victim to Twitter hate from those "dedicated" One Direction fans.
But One Direction fans are singing a different tune, claiming they expressed no hate toward Perri and she left Twitter on her own.
"Perrie didn't leave Twitter because of hate. Her and the rest of Little Mix deleted so no member had more followers than the other," One Direction fan @1DBromances tweeted.
Do YOU think One Direction fans forced Perrie off Twitter? Or did she choose to delete her account with her other Little Mix bandmates?
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Posted at 1:14 AM on May 25, 2012
Posted at 1:12 AM on May 25, 2012
Instant Boyfriends
Posted at 1:07 AM on May 25, 2012
Posted at 6:24 PM on May 24, 2012
Seriously no disrespect but she looks like something out of my nightmares. I like Louis and liam's gf's but I really don't like Perrie. Not because she's dating Zayn, but because she looks 42 and seems quite fake. But that's my opinion, if u guys just want to make Zayn happy by posting comments about her so be it but I just think that Zayn could of chosen a girl with more of a natural pretty look, not that.
Posted at 4:01 AM on June 9, 2012
Cutie A +z
Posted at 5:07 PM on May 24, 2012
Cutie A+z
Posted at 5:05 PM on May 24, 2012
If Perrie and zany are happy then that is good leave them alone what if someone harrasing you you would not like it either so just let them be happy let them have a happy ending and if zayn or Perrie see this message then I say zayn don't listen to anyone just stick up for yourself fans are getting in your personal life it's not fair to u or Perrie and by the way see u next year at the Hershey concert!!!<3
Posted at 11:45 PM on May 22, 2012
I think what some directinars did to perrie was really mean she is really pretty honestly u don't see it but he does he loves her and it is none of our business he can love who he wants btw honestly u guys keep ur dreams to ur self because u guys hurt perrie .
Perrie and Zayn =Zerrie <3<3
Posted at 11:41 PM on May 22, 2012
Posted at 9:57 PM on May 22, 2012
They broke up before and now they are dating again? She said she had no time for a boyfriend. I only respect Liam and Louis' girlfriends because they are true to Liam and Louis. Plus Perrie is ugly.. Just saying… Sorry. But Zayn has to pick more nicer and better girls that don't dump him. Enough Said.
Posted at 6:20 PM on May 22, 2012
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Posted at 4:48 PM on May 22, 2012
Amanda Malik ;)
Posted at 2:52 PM on May 20, 2012
i think that the Directioners are going a little overboard with the i am going to marry Zayn or any of the members of 1D their just happy with who they are with and yessss…. i do say i am going to "marry zayn" but i dont hate their girlfriends… yeahh i am SOOOO jealous of their girlfriends because they are sooooooooooooooooo amazing and beautiful and amazingly talented. i<3ZaynMalik
Posted at 10:35 PM on May 19, 2012
Posted at 5:10 PM on May 19, 2012
ACTUALLY, you've got your information there wrong, Hollywoodlife. Every member of Little Mix, Jesy, Jade,Leigh-Anne and Perrie all deleted their personal Twitters. They now run a group one together. Do your research before you write an un-true article please, because this is bull.
Posted at 2:31 PM on May 19, 2012
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Posted at 5:57 AM on May 19, 2012
I may love zayn with all my heart but i think that he deseves to go on a date without ppl freakin getting so jealous that they harrased Perri Edwards. But what I dont get whn "The Project" had an interview with 1D Liam said that the like his girlfriend, that they where at the hotel when she was in a country. So why would they do this to Perri Edwards, I am confused. Still Zayn has the right to date its not up to any of us.
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Posted at 12:03 AM on May 19, 2012
Wow, these fans are just really crazy! Leave Zayn and Perrie alone. If they are happy together then let them be happy! If Zayn's happy I'm happy! Perrie's beautiful and she seems so nice and sweet! I feel bad when the girlfriends of One Direction has to delete their Twitter accounts. It makes no sence. Yes, I do get jealous when I see them with their girlfriends but I don't send out horrible things to them! Death threats? Really? That's a horrible thing to do!
Posted at 8:24 PM on May 18, 2012
This information is FALSE. Perrie did not delete her twitter due to hate from One Direction fans! If anybody in the media industry bothered to do any research they would know that ALL members of Little Mix deleted their personal twitter accounts so they could focus on the Little Mix accounts.
They now all tweet from the official Little Mix twitter and interact with fans together there.
Posted at 8:19 PM on May 18, 2012
These fans are crazy, they act like they're gonna be with zayn- but hate to brake it to you guys, you're most likely not going to be with him. People date, leave Perrie alone she seems like a nice person. And how in the world is he suppose to have a love life with all you jealous fans threatening the girls he likes. Gosh you guys need to calm the hell down!!!
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The Americans with Disabilities Act explicitly forbids discrimination against those who are actually disabled or "regarded as" disabled. As a NJ court once recognized, "Distinguishing between actual handicaps and perceived handicaps makes no sense." Indeed, "prejudice in the sense of a judgment or opinion formed before the facts are known is the fountainhead of discrimination engulfing medical disabilities which prove on examination to be . . . non-existent."
Does the same maxim apply to workplace discrimination -- a barrage of anti-semitic comments -- directed at employee whom the harassers believe is Jewish, but really isn't?
Is that unlawful?
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Joe Palazzolo, writing at the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog, highlighted Wednesday's decision in Cowher v. Carson & Roberts from the NJ Superior Court, Appellate Division. He succinctly summarized the facts and procedural history:
The plaintiff, truck driver Myron Cowher, sued his former employer Carson & Roberts Site Construction & Engineering Inc. and his former supervisors under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination. A state trial judge threw the case out, even though two of his supervisors at the company admitted to the slurs.
The trial court held that being a perceived membership in a protected group -- other than disabled persons -- wasn't a basis to file a lawsuit under the state's anti-discrimination law. The court also found that Cowher didn't produce any evidence to show that his supervisors, Jay Unangst and Nick Gingerelli, actually believed he was a Jew.
The Appellate Division, in a published opinion, reversed.
Drawing from its prior decision in Heitzman v. Monmouth County, a case in which a person of Jewish ancestry who was not a practicing Jew, claimed that a series of anti-Semitic comments directed at him created a hostile work environment, the Appellate Division recognized that a perceived characteristic that, if genuine, would qualify a person for discrimination protections need not be limited to a disability.
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Native Americans of all ages and from several tribes dressed in brightly colored regalia, danced in a circle to the beat of the drums and song Friday evening as they celebrated the kickoff to the 45th annual Montana State University Billings powwow.
Dr. Jeff Sanders, a professor of Native American studies at the university, said the powwow integrates Native American heritage with higher education.
"This powwow is a blending of tradition and academics," Sanders said. "It's a way to honor our Native community within our university."
The powwow began with the grand entry, consisting of an invocation and dancing. Various drum groups circled the main Alterowitz Gym floor, which featured a large open area for dancing.
Tiger Scalpcane, 40, of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, led his drum circle made up of his two young sons and several nephews. They call their group Wolf Voice, named after Scalpcane's great-grandfather, Grover Wolf Voice.
"We sing loud and proud," Scalpcane said. "We sing for our family, for our people and for healing."
Scalpcane said drum circles are the unifying feature of powwows.
"It's like the rock thrown into a pond, which sends circular ripples out," he said.
Circles are a symbolic part of Native American culture, 26-year-old Northern Cheyenne drummer and singer Abelaza Horse said.
"Everything in our tribal communities happens in a circular way, so that is why powwows are structured that way, too," Horse said
Each song tells a story, he said, which is passed on through the generations. Some tell stories of hunts, others of battle. The group creates new songs as well, incorporating contemporary songs with traditional ones.
Like song, dancing also tells a story, said Reno Charette, director of American Indian Outreach. A member of the Crow Tribe, Charette has been dancing most of her life.
"Dancing is a way to unify hundreds of tribes, and the young and elders, through movements, drums and singing," Charette said. "It's a way to gather through storytelling, sharing and healing."
While the dances are similar, all fitting into categories, each person has his or her own style that reflects the region and the tribe, said Kalen Sunroads, of the Arapaho tribe from the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.
The shirts, skirts, dresses, head pieces and leggings are usually made by both the dancer and family members. Adorning them are gifts from friends or strangers.
Sunroads was dressed in bright oranges, yellows and reds with bright feathers. He has been dancing the prairie chicken dance since he could walk, he said. The colors represent the morning sunrise, the time of day when the chickens are known to dance.
The dance mimics the movements of an actual male prairie chicken when he's trying to attract a female. Dancers' stand straight, chests and elbows out and shoulders back in a strutting posture.
"It's a courtship dance, celebrating spring and the renewal of life," Sunroads said.
The powwow's head female dancer, Heather Takes Horse, a member of the Crow Tribe and a junior at MSUB, led the group dancers in traditional dance. She said it is one of the oldest forms of dance for Native women.
The dance lightly bounces in rhythm to the drum, and dancers gently step toe to heel, standing tall. The women are dressed in a fringed shawl folded over their arm, a purse and a feather fan.
"When I was asked to be the head woman dancer, I was very honored," Takes Horse said. "This makes me want, even more now than before, to be a strong role model for my younger family members."
MSUB chancellor Dr. Rolf Groseth said the event is something he looks forward to every year. He and his wife, Jaynee Drange Groseth, participated in the grand entry.
"We live in Indian Country, so it's very important that we honor the customs of the Native people who live here," Groseth said. "It's an honor to be a part of this part of their heritage."
The student-led powwow is free and continues Saturday with dancing, contests and vendors. Proceeds from merchandise sales help fund projects and scholarships through the American Indian Outreach and Diversity Center.


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This weekend was huge for Kickboxing. Firstly, It's Showtime promoted It's Showtime 57&58, featuring some very important fights and putting on an incredibly entertaining card. That wasn't it, though, was it? On top of that, Glory Sports International announced -- from that show -- that they had purchased It's Showtime and will absorb It's Showtime's staff and fighters into the Glory team, shaking the Kickboxing world up like never before. Rian Scalia (@rianscalia) and myself (@dvewlsh / @liverkickdotcom) talk you through what was a historic weekend for Kickboxing.
without further ado, go ahead and take a listen.
When it rains it pours, and right now it will pour for FEG. Amid reports of FEG's financial woes and possible bankruptcy and morbid fate, Bob Sapp decided to speak out about FEG after the Dynamite!! 2010 disaster where his fight with Wakakirin never happened. Tanikawa told fans and the press that Bob Sapp attempted to renegotiate before the fight and that his "fighting spirit" was low. Seeing as though Bob Sapp made himself a millionaire in Japan, he couldn't let that sit. He spoke with MMAJunkie and some of what he said was known, some was rather shocking, like FEG not even having its own office anymore. Sapp was contracted to fight for $30,000.
Instead, he claims FEG executive Sadaharu Tanikawa offered him $15,000 shortly after he arrived in the country the week prior to the event. He refused and made a counter-offer of $25,000, a sum which he claims is half of what the promotion owed him for previous services. |
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Sapp claims he has a contract with FEG that verifies the rate of pay he was expected to receive for the Dec. 31 fight, as well as other fights, though he said the promotion has yet to honor the terms of that deal. During the promotion's heyday in the mid-2000s, he said he was routinely paid between $350,000 and $400,000 to fight. |
Sapp went on to explain that K-1 and DREAM are "extremely broke" and that he has no expectations for them. Could this be the last we see of Bob Sapp in K-1 or DREAM? [source]
We are very pleased to announce that on May 26th LiverKick.com will be partnering with Glory Sports International to bring you the live stream of the big Glory event in Stockholm, Sweden. On May 26th Glory will kickoff their World Series of Kickboxing tournaments with the First 16 for the 70kg division while also hosting a slew of super fights, including Gokhan Saki vs. Carter Williams and Semmy Schilt vs. Errol Zimmerman.
Head over to Glory's newly-redesigned site to get a glimpse of the rest of the card.
As mentioned, we will be partnering with Glory to host the PPV right here on LiverKick, so you do not need to leave your favorite source for Kickboxing news and coverage on fight day. The event costs $15 and will begin at 12:30pm Eastern time/9:30am Pacific time/18:30 GMT +2. Go ahead and bookmark this page, as this will be where you go to order the event on fight day. All you have to do is click the "play" arrow on the video and then click the "Buy Access to this Event" button and it should be pretty straightforward from there. If you just want to watch the event, make sure to click "Single Video Access" when you're in the process of buying it.
To many fans, Zack Mwekassa's brutal knockout on Pat Barry was a surprise, including the thousands in attendance on Saturday night. Mwekassa had made a name for himself for the fans who were watching, but he also proved a point; Kickboxing is a very different sport than MMA. Pat Barry voluntarily left the UFC after two brutal knockout losses to lesser opponents, Shawn Jordan and Soa Paleli. The big story, though, was that Pat Barry had chosen to fight for GLORY over fighting for the UFC.
You know, with all of the hype going into the Strikeforce Heavyweight GP, you'd think an interview with Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion from ESPN wouldn't slip through the cracks, but it did. To me, that speaks volumes for just how tired of hearing about K-1's financial problems people are, as well as how few people pay attention to ESPN's MMA Live. No offense intended for MMA Live, but the close affiliation to UFC and the complete lack of coverage of the rest of the world of MMA (it serves as an afterthought, usually) has made the show less-than a must-see for most fans.
Well, regardless of how worthwhile it is to watch MMA Live, over the weekend they spoke with Alistair Overeem, and most MMA websites picked up the interview for purposes of predictions and to gaze into Overeem's dreamy eyebrows, but what struck me was that Alistair Overeem claims that K-1 has yet to pay him and that he would actually prefer not to fight in Japan this year, he would rather just fight in America.
This just serves as a gentle reminder of how business matters in Japan have effected the sport of kickboxing as a whole. If everything is in order for K-1, it looks like Alistair Overeem has no plans on fighting for them this year and will continue to fight in the United States for Strikeforce instead. Watch the below video at about the 4:30 mark as Anik asks if K-1 has paid him and Overeem jovially says they didn't. Ouch.
There aren't many kickboxers in the world that are as decorated as Andy Souwer is. Andy Souwer is a three time Shootboxing champion and a two time K-1 World MAX Champion, which in the world of Middleweight kickboxing is tremendous. Souwer is one of the few dominant fighters of the division, with his name forever etched in stone alongside the likes of Buakaw Por. Pramuk, Masato and most recently Giorgio Petrosyan. LiverKick caught up with Andy Souwer to discuss his relationship with K-1, what his future plans are in kickboxing and if he has his sights set on the world of MMA at all.
A big thanks to Team Souwer's manager Eddy Coutinho for setting up the interview as well as helping with the translations.
LiverKick.com: Have you ever had issues being paid by K-1?
Andy Souwer: K1 has paid everything they owed me. There are rumours about K1 not paying me, but that is not true. There was some delay in payment, but it happened.
LK: Were you surprised not to be invited to the MAX GP this year and how do you feel about K-1's future?
AS: I was very surprised not to be invited by K1. I won it twice and fought 4 finals. Very strange.
LK: What are your thoughts on his recent Pajonsuk fight?
AS: The fight was not exciting for the spectators. I was not totally recovered from my back injury and I had the feeling Panjunsuk did not really want to fight.
LK: How do you feel about facing Aussie Ouzgni?
AS: Aussie is the darkhorse in this fight, but he is very, very dangerous. He is very tall and has good knees and kicks. Aussie is not my favourite opponent, but to be the best you have to beat every opponent.
LK: How has your putting on mass in the past 3-4 years affected the way you train and prepare for fights? In particular, is it a large weight cut?
AS: Normally I walk around at 75 kg., so I only have to drop 5 kilo's. I am used to losing weight without losing strength, so it is no problem for me. I have a good team who helps me with training and advice.
After the break Souwer discusses his roots and future...
We just passed the halfway point of March, which means that the return of Badr Hari is just under two months away. He is preparing vigorously for the challenge of French Muay Thai fighter Tony Gregory (yes, this is correct, it is how It's Showtime, K-1 and his website list him). It isn't that anyone is giving Gregory a lot of a chance as much as we all have high hopes for Badr Hari's first fight in a year.
Mike's Gym on Facebook just posted an album of photos of the Bad Boy himself training with newer Mike's Gym recruit, Sergei Laschenko. [source]
We are all-but-done writing about FEG's financial woes. At this point what needs to be said has been said, and there is a lot of information on this topic that will never be released to the public. Until FEG makes their move, it is a dead horse that I'm sick of beating. So I've seen some articles and questions floating around that pertain to the future of DREAM and K-1, which of course revolves around television and ownership.
What many people tend to forget is way back to the death of PRIDE, the one-off event known as "Yarennoka" and the formation of DREAM. DREAM is not simple a FEG production. There is a company called "Real Entertainment" that was formed by what was left of DSE, and all of those great video packages on those DREAM events, Lenne Hardt screaming out fighters' names and even lots of the fighters themselves participating in DREAM? Thank Real Entertainment. DREAM is a co-production between RE and FEG, which is why you'll never see DREAM on Fuji TV.
So now, to fully understand how this impacts FEG, I'll hand this over to Mike Hackler of MMA-Japan.com, who did some digging and found out exactly what Real Entertainment's services mean to FEG.
FEG is in debt to Real Entertainment around $7 million USD. Real Entertainment's involvement is a large reason why there are problems getting a TV deal done, due to the fact they still have management from DSE. FUJI has no interest in a television deal, solely for this reason. Real Entertainment is also responsible for paying the fighters (as to what extent, I do not know). Many fighters contracts are with Real Entertainment and not FEG. FEG is stuck. Ishii owns the rights and the brand names with FEG. This makes reorganizing the company extremely difficult, if not impossible. That said, it has been confirmed that PUJI has backed out of this altogether. As any private equity does, FEG is reluctant to allow for managerial changes to take place. This creates a brick wall for outside investors to get involved. |
This beautifully articulates how FEG is stuck in a tough position, and some of the power struggles that are going on during this downtime for K-1 and DREAM. Many people I've spoken to have talked about (off the record, as always) Tanikawa wanting to form a new company and leave Ishii out of the business entirely, but as long as Ishii owns the name "K-1" it will be impossible to break away from his influence. [source]
When Steven Seagal first was shown with Anderson Silva at UFC 117, we all kind of chuckled and said, "hey that is pretty cool." When he walked out with Anderson at UFC 126, it was kind of funny again, but at this point it began to appear odd. Steven Seagal is an Akido instructor and former martial arts action star who now has his own dubious television series about him being a "lawman."
I grew up on Martial Arts and action films, as I feel like most men my age did. Guys like Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme were the reason to get involved in martial arts; to be as bad ass as they were. Of course, years pass, and as they do, the stark reality set upon me that JCVD had serious substance problems and that Steven Seagal was a terrible fraud. Both men fell off the radar a bit, but Seagal's career seemed to hold strong (still sparse, but it didn't fall off completely) while Van Damme's seemed to all-but disappear. Seagal had long been the butt of the joke when it comes to Hollywood circles, but still got work due to his popularity and how ridiculous of a persona he carried around with him.
Enter the modern day, where JCVD is re-building his career his way and even looks to re-enter the world of fighting, while Steven Seagal is on a reality television series and apparently trying to weasel his way into the fighting world as well. This past weekend, Anderson Silva defeated Vitor Belfort with a front high kick, a staple in just about every form of martial art that involves kicking. So, much to my surprise, Anderson Silva claimed that Steven Seagal taught him the kick. It was funny, worth a chuckle. Then, much to my disdain, this interview with Ariel Helwani came out.
Seagal claims to have taught Anderson Silva one of the most basic kicking techniques, a first week kick in Tae Kwan Do, which incidentally, was Anderson Silva's first martial art that he took when he was fourteen. Now, as anyone who has studied striking will note, there are minute differences between techniques in different forms of martial arts, but generally speaking, one form of kick does not differ too greatly from another. This is a very basic technique that Anderson Silva used almost out of context in a MMA fight, and caught everyone by surprise. For Steven Seagal to claim there is some sort of mystical "death" technique, or that he knew some secret to making the kick work better is, well, par for the course with his history.
In that interview, he discusses with Helwani how MMA is both good and bad for traditional martial arts; first it makes the public more aware, and second, it shows behind the curtain into a "secret world" that you weren't meant to see. I think my eyes nearly rolled back in my head. If anything, Mixed Martial Arts has shown the general public that there is a man behind the curtain, that there is no Oz. There are men like Seagal everywhere, who have conned people into believing that with intense, personal training from masters such as himself, you can learn some crazy secret that will help you transcend reality.
The gall he had to claim he taught Anderson Silva a technique that your average six year old can do (of course not with the force or application) was pure Seagal grandstanding. Seagal showed cracks in his story when Helwani asked him how he met Anderson Silva, he was caught on the spot and said that he didn't remember, then you could almost see the gears turning in his head as Helwani is preparing another question and he corrects himself and claims that Anderson Silva sent him a "memo" that he wanted to learn Steven's secret death techniques.
Anderson Silva and his training partners are not fools, nor are they children, if you believe for one second that this happened, you probably need to review some of the history of Steven Seagal. Seagal has lied about nearly everything in the book, from his place of birth, to adultery, to how many wives he has had, to education, work history, the list goes on and on. There have been an endless stream of interviews, op-eds and exposes on him since he became popular, with Spy Magazine discussing how his "CIA background" is a complete sham, and how he actually had mafia ties and attempted to hire hit men to take care of members of the media who "wronged him." If you search Google for "Steven Seagal Fraud" you get endless results. Check this out for some documented history.
Just because certain people claim to have more knowledge does not mean that they are correct. Understand that basic kinetics dictates that every technique in martial arts is done a certain way, and has been over years, because it is effective. If there was a way to enhance that technique, it would be canonical. Steven Seagal is an aging, overweight actor and stunt man who has nothing real to teach to accomplished martial artists. My question for you is are you buying or selling, and my question for Seagal and Anderson's camp is how much is Seagal paying you? Seriously, he has to be paying them something, right? Because if I were an accomplished martial artist and world champion, I know the last thing I'd need is an over-the-hill actor to tell me how I should fight, especially when said actor has no history fighting himself, unless I was doing so as a big joke or he was paying me to be his friend.


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Ask a sophisticated Barcelona native where he'll be this weekend, and the answer is often the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB). Since it opened in 1994 inside a gorgeously rehabilitated 18th-century hospice in the Raval neighborhood, the CCCB has become a cultural guidepost fro the city, hosting prominent festivals and multimedia exhibitions each year. (The fact that the CCCB shares a plaza with the Museu d'Art Contemporani doesn't hurt its high profile either).
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Need a very powerful database app in Linux
I also will be keeping picture files and other kinds of files as well.
Any Linux apps that will do this?
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I would suggest mysql for simple use.
but in terms of robustness, postgres is the way to go !
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Either mysql or postgres.
They run on many platforms, and they can easily interact with virtually any programming language around.
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I'm supposed to recommend MySQL because I am supposed to be working at Sun Microsystems, but I don't start work there for a few more months yet so I say go with PostgreSQL.
I'm not an expert, but as I understand it, PostgreSQL is highly configurable. Becoming and expert in PostgreSQL will essentially allow you to design databases of any size for virtually any application.
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You could also so use Oracle, which is not opensource, but available for free download at their site.


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