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quote:First, you've conveniently taken out all statistics relating to total offensive production.
quote:Second, you cite defensive statistics without considering SOS.
quote:Third, you make no mention of the injuries to LSU's 3 most hyped players for 2007: Will Arnold, Early Doucet, and Flynn himself.
quote:Fourth, you act as if Flynn was just some lucky beneficiary of a better running game
quote:I mean, obviously, JJ in 2009 wasn't operating anywhere near Flynn's level in 2007.
quote:The failure of the run game had a lot more to do than a "QB operating" it.
quote:Yeah, but in 2009 it was pretty obvious that the mediocrity of the passing game hurt the running game much more than the mediocrity of the running game hurt the passing game. Just saying.
quote:I'm not sure I see the data to support this conclusion.
quote:Do you have any idea how different Flynn's contribution to the running game was than Jefferson's?
quote:How so? I'm not sure I see the data to support this conclusion.
quote:Do you have any idea how different Flynn's contribution to the running game was than Jefferson's? You're comparing apples to oranges here.
quote:He's not anywhere near as polished as Flynn was in 2007, and I think your attempts to show otherwise with this statistical analysis of yours is silly.
quote:you dont b/c you, like all the rest of the JJ apolgogists see what you want to see.
quote:You have much more of an agenda than I do.
quote:But there's really no way you can prove that.
quote:Spirit of Dunson
quote:I'm not trying to prove that. Why do you keep trying to get me to "prove" my opinions? That's not what this thread is about. I did spend a good bit of time supporting my arguments last year, but it's April, and I don't feel like doing right now. I just don't think that your statistical analysis shows much of anything. Can't we just leave it at that?
quote:Tearing down Flynn's accomplishments to build up JJ is a curious exercise
quote: not by some silly statistical analysis.
quote:omebody disagrees with you and they suddenly have an agenda.
quote:agendas about certian players...


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I understand that we have some former British citizens/residents here on the forum.
The gun ownership issue in the UK hits home for me because my Grandparents came from Scotland. And I truly wish my family's homeland would get its act together and allow its people to properly defend themselves.
And once I get both feet into my career, I would like to by a small summer home somewhere near Liddelsdale, Langholm or Hawick. The Armstrong clan (my family) still has some small castles and fortified Tower's there.
So what Im wondering, is there some sort of grass roots group trying to regain its gun rights?
Also, I know that Scotland is trying (and probably will) declare its independence from England and develope its own constitution. Is it at all possible that the right to bear arms will be on it?
I know that a UK citizen can own an AR15, but it has to be worked on so that its no longer a semi-auto. You basically have to pull the charging handle back for each shot.
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The Denver Zoo said it will be closed Tuesday due to inclement weather. The Molly Brown House Museum also said it will be closed today.
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2. | i. | ROBERT2 COURTHOSE, DUKE OF NORMANDY, b. 1052, Normandy, France; d. 10 Feb 1133/34, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales. | |
ii. | ABBESS OF CAEN CECILIA, b. 1056, Normandy, France; d. 30 Jul 1126, Caen, Calvados, France. | ||
iii. | PRINCE OF ENGLAND RICHARD, b. 1057, Normandy, France; d. 1081, New Forest, Hampshire, England. | ||
iv. | WILLIAMII, RUFUS, KING OF ENGLAND, b. 1060, Normandy, France; d. 2 Aug 1100, New Forest, Hampshire, England. |
Notes for WILLIAMII, RUFUS, KING OF ENGLAND: WILLIAM II, called Rufus (1060?-1100), King of England (1087-1100), who extended his power into Normandy and Scotland. He was the third son of William the Conqueror, King of England, who on his deathbed named him as his successor in England, leaving the duchy of Normandy to his eldest son, Robert (1054?-1134). William Rufus, as he was known because of his ruddy complexion, was crowned in Westminster Abbey in 1087. The following year William's uncle Odo, bishop of Bayeux (1036?-97), led a rebellion of Norman barons who sought to unseat him in favor of Robert. William's English subjects, believing his promises of less oppressive taxation and more liberal laws, helped him quell the revolt. The king, despite his promises, continued to pursue a domestic policy that was harsh and venal. William invaded Normandy in 1089, 1091, and 1094, winning some concessions from his brother Robert II, duke of Normandy, each time. He forced the Scottish king Malcolm III MacDuncan (1031?-93) to pay him homage and in 1092 seized the city of Carlisle and other areas claimed by Malcolm in Cumberland and Westmorland. In 1096 Robert mortgaged Normandy to William for funds to finance a Crusade. William then fought to recapture lands his brother had lost as duke of Normandy and returned the county of Maine to the rule of the duchy. After the death in 1089 of Lanfranc, the archbishop of Canterbury, William delayed naming a successor. He held open vacant bishoprics and enriched himself with church monies, incurring the displeasure of many ecclesiastics. In 1093 he selected Anselm, Abbot of Bec (see Anselm, Saint), as the new archbishop, but they quarreled over William's authority to control church appointments. William was killed on Aug. 2, 1100, while on a hunting trip in the New Forest in Hampshire. It is not known whether the slaying, which is traditionally ascribed to a Norman named Walter Tirel (d. after 1100), was accidental or intentional. William was buried at Winchester; he never married and had no children. His younger brother succeeded to the throne as King Henry I. Funk and Wagnall's Encyclopedia |
v. | PRINCESS OF ENGLAND CONSTANCE, b. 1061, Normandy, France; d. 13 Aug 1090, England; m. ALAN FERGANT, DUKE OF BRITTANY, 1086; b. Bef. 1062; d. Unknown. | ||
3. | vi. | PRINCESS OF ENGLAND ADELA, b. 1062, Normandy, France; d. 8 Mar 1134/35, Marsilly, France. | |
vii. | AGATHA MATILDA, PRINCESS OF ENGLAND, b. ABT 1064, Normandy, France; d. Bef. 1080, Calvados, France; m. EARL OF WESSEX HAROLD; b. Bef. 1064; d. Unknown. | ||
4. | viii. | HENRYI, BEAUCLERC, KING OF ENGLAND, b. Sep 1068, Selby, Yorkshire, England; d. 1 Dec 1135, Rouen, Normandy, France. | |
ix. | PRINCESS OF ENGLAND ADELIZA, b. ABT 1074; d. Unknown. |
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- The Bowdoin College Polar Bears will host Trinity College on Saturday afternoon in the 32nd meeting between the two squads, dating back to 1912. Last season, the Bantams took a 50-34 win in Hartford.
- The Polar Bears enter today?s game coming off a 28-14 victory at Hamilton last weekend. Bowdoin gained 365 yards of total offense, including 290 yards on the ground in the win. Rob Patchett gained 167 of those rushing yards and Matt Boyd scored two touchdowns for the Polar Bears, while Brian Durant changed the momentum of the game with a 50-yard punt return for a touchdown. Bowdoin (1-3) is currently in a tie for sixth place in the conference with Colby and Middlebury. Bowdoin is second in the conference, averaging 182.5 yards rushing per game.
- The Bantams are coming off a nail-biter, having beaten previously-undefeated Tufts 13-12 last Saturday. Although Trinity only managed 136 yards of total offense, the Bantams shined on special teams, blocking a punt for a touchdown and blocking a key extra point that proved to be the difference in the victory. Trinity is second in the conference defensively, allowing only 241.5 yards per game.
- Last season in Hartford the two teams hooked up in a shoot-out that saw the two teams combine for 985 yards of total offense in a 50-34 Bantam win. The Polar Bears got ahead early on a 74-yard touchdown run by Tony Small, but the Bantams rallied to score 34 points in the first half and hold off a Bowdoin offense that scored more points than it had since 1998. Justin Hardison had perhaps his best day in a Bowdoin uniform, completing 22 of 38 passes for 264 yards and three touchdowns in the loss.
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- The Polar Bears and Bantams have squared off 31 times entering today?s tussle, with Trinity holding a 23-6-2 advantage in the all-time series. Trinity has won the last three meetings, with Bowdoin?s last victory coming in 1998 (a 19-0 win).


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Well, I noticed this morning as I took my son to work that the recent cool nights have hearkened the colorful and obvious end of summer. The leaves here in Southwest Tennessee have begun changing colors and are dropping off the trees.
I love Fall. It is my favorite season by far. I love the cooling temperatures, the smell of fireplaces burning in homes, the smell of burning leaves, the changing color of the leaves, just everything. But, at the same time I am sad to see Summer go. I love to ride my bicycle for exercise and it is soon to be too cold to do that for me.
I am sure that those of you in the Northern reaches of the country are already deep into the grips of Fall, but here it is just starting.


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Homeowners may wish to consider investing in hardwood decking as opposed to a conservatory, as the latter may not always add value to their property.
Brian Berry, director of external affairs at the Federation of Master Builders, said that the idea that this feature automatically increases the value of a house is misguided, as there are a lot of things to bear in mind.
Among them is the price, as it is not always a foregone conclusion that it will offer a significant return on investment.
"Keep in mind that all roads have a ceiling price and spending £50,000 on a conservatory may not be a wise move if it won't add that sort of value to your home," Mr Berry added.
According to a recent article from the ARA news agency, there are some projects which will boost the chances of selling a property, one of which is adding hardwood decking.
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Fright Doctors
The hideous impacts of the vaccine-autism myth—and the reasons it has proven so difficult to debunk.
Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All By Paul A. Offit, M.D. • Basic Books • 2011 • 288 pages • $27.50
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear By Seth Mnookin • University of California Press • 2011 • 429 pages • $26.99
In February 1998, British physician Andrew Wakefield and 12 colleagues published a study of 12 autistic children in the prestigious medical journal Lancet. At a dramatic press conference, Wakefield declared that the combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine was the likely cause of autism in eight of the children. Noting intestinal abnormalities in the subjects, he suggested that the measles vaccine virus had traveled to the children's intestines and brought on infection and inflammation, allowing harmful proteins to enter the bloodstream and cross the blood-brain barrier, causing autism. Based on all this, Wakefield recommended that the different components of the MMR vaccine be administered separately. In practice, this meant that children wouldn't get vaccinated at all if their parents refused the combination dose.
His claims, linked to so prestigious a journal, caused an immediate sensation. The spirit of public reaction was captured by the 2003 British television drama Hear the Silence, which depicted Wakefield as a heroic figure helping a mother find the true cause of her son's autism. Unethical drug company executives and public-health officials were the film's villains. This fictive Wakefield faced harassment and intimidating phone calls. His files were stolen, but he persisted in his important work.
British parents paid attention. MMR immunization rates in England dropped from almost 90 percent to 70 percent following Wakefield's presentation, with markedly lower rates in specific areas. Local measles outbreaks soon followed. Wakefield also attracted a large following among parents of autistic children in America and around the world. In the year 2000, he testified in an odd House committee hearing chaired by Indiana Republican Dan Burton, who was apparently convinced that vaccines had caused his grandson's autism.
Today, no serious medical or scientific expert believes that vaccines cause autism. Yet many nervous parents continue to think otherwise. One of these is actress and model Jenny McCarthy. During a 2007 "Oprah" appearance, she said that not long after her son received his shot, "The soul was gone from his eyes." When Oprah asked what McCarthy knew about vaccine science, McCarthy responded, "My science is Evan, and he's at home. That's my science." Winfrey said, "Thank God for Google," to which McCarthy responded, "The University of Google is where I got my degree from."
As in England, increasing numbers of parents in the United States chose not to immunize their children—for measles, mumps, and rubella, and for other diseases, too. As in England, outbreaks of vaccinatable diseases have re-emerged as a public health problem. In 2005, an unvaccinated Indiana teen was exposed to measles on a church mission to Romania. She exposed 500 others at a church picnic, infecting 31 out of the 35 unvaccinated picnickers. Of the remaining 465 immunized people, only three were likewise infected. In California last year, the state recorded thousands of cases of pertussis (whooping cough) and nine related deaths, the most in decades. In 2009, Australia saw a record 13,000 cases. How is it that in 2011 we are faced with significant, sometimes lethal outbreaks of such readily prevented diseases?
That is the subject Paul Offit and Seth Mnookin investigate in their recent books. Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, chronicles several such outbreaks in Autism's False Prophets and Deadly Choices. Science reporter Mnookin, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, covers much of the same material in The Panic Virus.
These authors tell depressingly similar stories. Sloppy or fraudulent scientists combine with like-minded parent-activists to spread false rumors, leading hundreds of thousands of parents not to follow public-health recommendations. The combination of public complacency, general ignorance and gullibility, and widespread distrust of pharmaceutical companies and scientific medicine created massive opportunities for anti-vaccination activists to do great harm. How should the medical and public-health communities address this problem? How should progressives respond when their respect for parental autonomy collides with their pursuit of public health and respect for legitimate expertise?
Why do so many people buy into readily debunked vaccine-autism claims spread by people who regularly turn out to be charlatans or grossly wrong? In part, this troubling trend is an ironic consequence of vaccines' very success in protecting public health. Millions of older people remember terrified parents refusing to let their kids use the local swimming pool. They remember polio patients in iron lungs. Today we don't experience the palpable fear that polio and other diseases ostensibly vanquished by vaccines once evoked. Complacency is the predictable result.
Part of the answer has to do with the nature of autism. Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are a frightening, sometimes mysterious set of social, communication, and behavioral challenges. Signs of an ASD often emerge in toddlers who appear to have been developing appropriately, yet who for no apparent reason begin to seem more withdrawn, behave strangely, or become unresponsive to usual social cues. An ASD is sometimes first diagnosed or suspected around the time a child receives her first doses of the combined MMR or the diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT) vaccines, around one year of age. Many parents then draw the obvious, statistically erroneous conclusion. Given improved diagnostic methods, greater public awareness, and an expanding range of autism-labeled disorders, the annual rate of ASD diagnoses has also increased, reaching a level of as many as one in every 100 children. No reliable data exist to indicate whether this trend reflects a true increase in underlying disease prevalence or is entirely explained by increased detection and labeling. The fact that this trend coincides with a steadily expanding vaccination schedule reinforces public concerns.
Several biological pathways have been proposed between vaccines and autism, none supported in the epidemiological record. Perhaps the most explosive theories concern a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal, which was used to prevent bacterial contamination in some vaccines. Concerns about thimerosal emerged during the 1990s. Although there were no known epidemiological harms, respected pediatrician Neal Halsey became concerned about infants' cumulative exposure. He sounded the alarm within the elite world of pediatricians and public-health professionals concerned with vaccine safety. Seeking to be candid, proactive, and reassuring, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Public Health Service issued a 1999 statement, saying there was no evidence that thimerosal caused harm but recommending that it nonetheless be shelved. Unfortunately, this measured statement did more to frighten and confuse people than to assuage public doubts.
That 1999 statement also produced tragic unintended consequences. For example, it was safe to delay hepatitis B vaccines for infants, as long as their mothers were not infected. But as Offit relates in Autism's False Prophets, 10 percent of all hospitals, "frightened by the notion of giving a thimerosal-containing vaccine to newborns, ignored recommendations and simply suspended the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns." One infant in Michigan died. Halsey and public-health authorities, Offit writes, "set sail on a grand experiment, believing that the harm caused by thimerosal was greater than the harm caused by disrupting the hepatitis B immunization program."
Studies in several countries find no correlation between the introduction or removal of thimerosal and population autism rates. In 2003, it was shelved in the United States for infant vaccines. The next year, an Institute of Medicine (IOM) expert panel released a definitive report indicating no evidence of harm from thimerosal. Certainly since then, there has been no genuine scientific controversy regarding these concerns. However, many parents never accepted these findings, and indeed directed great anger and suspicion at the IOM itself. Committee members received hate mail and threats, some requiring police intervention.
Offit is no mere onlooker in this story. He is a long-time pediatrician who developed a rotavirus vaccine and his expertise shows, particularly in highlighting the epidemiological or biological implausibility of posited vaccine-related harm. He is also an angry writer, which is not surprising given the harassment he has endured from anti-vaccine activists because of his emphatic views, and perhaps because he holds a lucrative patent on that rotavirus vaccine. In the prologue of Autism's False Prophets, he recounts a phone call he received from a man who began by assuring Offit that both of them wanted what was best for their children—but then seemed to threaten Offit by listing his children's names and ages and where they went to school.
Offit's targets generally deserve the drubbing. Unethical or incompetent scientists, greedy lawyers, and ignorant activists roam his pages. By his account, a small but pernicious industry of expert witnesses and personal-injury lawyers did great damage to the American vaccine industry until the mid-1980s, when the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act took most vaccine litigation out of state courts into the jurisdiction of special federally appointed judges, who quickly compensated the parents of infants and children who report any condition on a list of known or suspected vaccine-related harms. The act imposed a lower standard of proof, lower legal expenses, and smaller dollar awards, and stabilized the vaccine industry.
Offit is drawn to libertarian proponents of tort reform such as the Cato Institute's Walter Olson. He chides Democrats for being too cozy with personal-injury lawyers. Autism's False Prophets devotes six pages to dubious silicon breast implant litigation that bankrupted Dow Corning. In Deadly Choices, Offit notes that "anti-vaccine organizations now work hand-in-glove with personal-injury lawyers, many of whom sit on their advisory boards and help them prepare pamphlets that warn of the dangers of vaccines and describe how to collect money." The genuine benefits of our tort system in improving vaccine safety and deterring wrongdoing receive markedly less attention in his pages.
Mnookin ranges over similar territory, relying on Offit as a primary source. His contribution is to embed the vaccine-autism controversy within a broader story of the anti-scientific tenor of American popular culture. Mnookin is pretty angry, too, as exemplified by some of his chapter titles: "Mark Geier, Witness for Hire," "A Conspiracy of Dunces," "Jenny McCarthy's Mommy Instinct," "Casualties of a War Built on Lies."
Mnookin's most depressing but useful chapter is "Cognitive Biases and Availability Cascades," in which he describes how people can come to believe things that are plainly untrue. Like an increasing number of policy writers, he draws on the work of cognitive psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky concerning heuristics and biases in human decision-making and perception. Human frailties—our tendency to overstate the likelihood of rare but emotionally salient events, the social amplification of frightening risks, and our proclivity to look for (and find) patterns where they don't exist—all come into play in the vaccine debate. Who isn't a bit unnerved at the thought of injecting a healthy infant with a complicated brew of viral proteins and preservatives? What in our experience makes this choice comfortable or obvious, especially when so few of us witness the ravages of whooping cough or measles? A doctor and some big pharmaceutical firm say that a vaccine is safe. Millions of Americans don't necessarily find this reassuring.
Like-minded ASD parent communities use the Internet to reinforce preexisting fears and biases. Many parents participate in listservs, conferences, and social events where they are bombarded with vivid, terrifying, seemingly believable accounts of alleged vaccine-related harms. The very fact that so many people are discussing the link between vaccines and autism makes it easier for any given individual to believe there is something to it.
These patterns combine with a second problem: "confirmation bias," whereby people prove adept in finding information that reinforces their own prior beliefs. We prove equally adept at ignoring information that challenges these same beliefs. Add to the mix appealing figures like Andrew Wakefield and Jenny McCarthy, and it's hardly surprising that herd thinking undermines herd immunity in many communities.
Mnookin notes that these information problems extend beyond vaccines and autism:
Twenty years ago, it took a fair amount of effort to create an information cocoon: In 1987, nearly three-quarters of Americans tuned into a nightly news broadcast from one of the three networks, creating a sort of national common denominator for information about the world. Now that figure has fallen below one-third… . An even more potent force in this regard is the Internet, where it's easier than not to fall into a wormhole of self-referential and mutually reinforcing links that make it feel like the entire world thinks the way you do. The anonymity and lack of friction inherent in the online world also mean that a small number of committed activists—or even an especially zealous individual—can create the impression that a fringe viewpoint has broad support.
Although the Internet is a big part of the story, Oprah Winfrey's repeated appearance in these books exemplifies the mainstream media's harmful role in propagating unfounded, alarmist accounts. A horrifying 1982 television documentary DPT: Vaccine Roulette posited links between vaccination and brain damage in children. Although these claims turned out to be unfounded, Vaccine Roulette helped fuel the modern anti-vaccine movement and promoted costly litigation that led some manufacturers to leave the market.
The media do a generally poor job of reporting supposed controversies in which there is scientific consensus on one side and a committed group of activists on the other. Reporters often pitch the opinions of parents against those of medical experts. This David vs. Goliath frame amplifies the visibility of parents in difficult circumstances who don't always know what they are talking about, but whose compelling human story commands sympathy and attention—and, incidentally, makes for good television. Mnookin and Offit perform a valuable service when they note that this is no way to educate the public about complex matters.
Still, I closed their books with a nagging sense that something was missing. The crudity of the anti-vaccine movement makes it easy to dismiss populist distrust of medical authorities as mere boobishness, even though it sometimes has legitimate roots. Offit dutifully acknowledges that:
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"There is no evidence that thimerosal causes harm". Harold, are you insane? Have you read the label on the bottle (along with the skull and crossbones)? There are 1,416 published, peer-reviewed papers which describe, in detail, the damages caused by thimerosal.
This article is a complete crock of you-know-what!
Joe, there is no evidence that the minute amounts of thimerosal once present in some scheduled pediatric vaccines cause autism is any other developmental disorder. Your "1416 studies" claim has no basis in fact.
Jun 19, 2011, 9:50 PMHere's my reasons for listening to the anti-vaccine crowd.
1) The FDA says they are safe. The FDA is full of ex- and soon-to-be and sometimes presently employed- industry people. Not civil servants.
2) The FDA/ CDC did not/ would not do it's own independent study, just used existing community data (so far as I know) and drug manufacturer supported ones. I mean, really?
3) Autism rates exploded at same time as thimerosal use did.
4) Injecting mercury into young children HAS to be bad or why don't we quit regulating it, period?
5) The people who talk about the controversy are very condescending about anyone who questions the FDA instead of answering or addressing at least the questions and concerns those people have.
6) I am unaware of anyone trying to determine the cause (s) of the rising rates of autism (when last I looked into this topic) which seems to say they 'already' know the cause because surely some group somewhere WOULD be concerned about it.
@LauraNo: that's the stupidest bunch of mularkey I've heard all week. I pray to God that you haven't denied your innocent child/ren the vaccines which will protect them from unnecessary illness. What you are unaware of could fill a library.
Aug 4, 2011, 12:16 AMLaura:
"I am unaware of anyone trying to determine the cause (s) of the rising rates of autism"
There are literally tens of thousands of journal studies dealing with the epidemiology of autism, tracking everything from environmental mercury levels to genetic factors to television viewing habits. It is simply incorrect to suggest that the medical and academic community has not been diligently researching this for years now.
"Autism rates exploded at same time as thimerosal use did."
The alleged thimerosal link has been effectively disproven by academic studies: see, e.g., Hviid et al. 2003, a retrospective study conducted across a cohort of 467,450 children that found no statistical link between autism diagnosis and vaccination with thimerosol-containing vaccine. Furthermore, autism rates have not declined and have in fact increased since the removal of thimerosol in 2001, despite the fact that, had thimerosol been a factor, rates should have declined starting in 2004 (Schechter and Grether 2008).
"The FDA is full of ex- and soon-to-be and sometimes presently employed- industry people. Not civil servants. ... The FDA/ CDC did not/ would not do it's own independent study, just used existing community data (so far as I know) and drug manufacturer supported ones."
Most of the journal studies are conducted by academics, European health organizations, and state-level health orgs.
The only authors who repeatedly cite a thimerosol-autism link are David and Mark Geier, whose work has repeatedly been attacked on scientific, medical, and statistical grounds. The Geiers own patents on using Lupron to treat autism and a chain of clinics to enact their protocol (at what I understand to be approximately $5,000 per month per child, with no set end date for treatments) and therefore have a financial interest in seeing their hypothesis accepted.
Lupron, or leuprorelin, is an androgen suppressant -- technically a GnRH agonist -- that not only disrupts hormonal activity but has also been linked with side effects such as heart attacks and suicidal ideation. Abbot Labs, the manufacturer of Lupron, actually stopped working with the Geiers, citing a lack of scientific validity to their theories; obviously, if Lupron were effective for the treatment of Autism, Abbot would stand to gain quite a bit. I'll submit that the risks and side effects of Lupron are considerably more significant than any risks from thimerosal or childhood vaccines.
More recently, Mark Geier's medical license was suspended in Maryland, Washington and Virginia as a result of repeated misdiagnoses and recommendations of Lupron treatment.
"Injecting mercury into young children HAS to be bad or why don't we quit regulating it, period?"
It should be noted that the neuro- and nephrotoxic effects of high-dose exposures to thimerosal haven't really been well-studied, so most of the assumptions about it came from studies of methylmercury, which is the bioaccumulative toxin we're used to hearing about in our aquatic food chain and which has been linked with a number of human disorders. However, thimerosal breaks down to ethylmercury, which doesn't appear to accumulate and is quickly excreted from the body; it has *acute* toxic effects in high doses, but doesn't hang around long enough to be an accumulative threat.
Furthermore, there is no evidence that low levels of thimerosal exposure are toxic in any way. In other words, just because two compounds happen to share a mercury atom, you can't make the assumption that they bioreact in even vaguely similar ways, any more than sodium chloride (table salt) can be compared to bertholite (a chlorine-based chemical weapon). And, of course, we don't treat chlorine and salt identically for regulatory purposes, either.
"The people who talk about the controversy are very condescending about anyone who questions the FDA instead of answering or addressing at least the questions and concerns those people have."
True. But you have to understand that the issues involved are so complex that biochemists and medical researchers have an incredibly detailed and nuanced argument, whereas the anti-vaccine crowd has a simple albeit totally incorrect message to advertise. In essence, it's as if astronomers and aerospace engineers, in debunking claims that the Apollo landing was a hoax, had to start with explaining the Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector, rather than just pointing to the moon and saying, "We put a flag on it!"
At heart, the scientific consensus looks something like this: Autism rates are rising (we think, though there are various issues regarding the data on diagnosis rates); although there are many *correlations* between environmental and genetic factors and autism, we have not yet identified any *causitive* factors; there is no plausible posited biological mechanism between vaccinations, with thimerosal or without, and autism; there is no statistical evidence that autism rates declined with the removal of thimerosal; there is no statistical evidence that autism is linked with reception or denial of the MMR vaccine (Taylor et al. 1999); however, the individual and herd immunity risks of a lack of vaccinations are severe and well-understood.
The anti-vaccine movement, on the other hand, plays on the same anti-knowledge strings ("The medical researchers are wrong! Big Pharma is lying to you!") that the Tea Party ("The economists are wrong! Big Government is lying to you!"), creationists ("The biologists are wrong! Big Evolution is lying to you!"), and global warming deniers ("The climate scientists are wrong! Big Ecology is lying to you!") also use.
So, yeah, perhaps the medical community could do a better job with their PR and how they interact with skeptics -- but the skeptics are so predisposed to ignore the medical community that there's no conversation possible. It's hard to effectively argue against those groups, because there are no mutual premises that the two sides can start from.
Hviid, A; Stellfeld, M; Wohlfahrt, J; et al. "Association Between Thimerosal-Containing Vaccine and Autism," JAMA 2003; 290(13):1763-1766.
Schechter, R; Grether JK. "Continuing increases in autism reported to California's developmental services system: mercury in retrograde," Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2008 Jan;65(1):19-24.
Taylor, B; Miller, E; Farrington, CP; Petropoulos, MC; Favot-Mayaud, I; Li, J; Waight, P. "Autism and measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine: no epidemiological evidence for a causal association." The Lancet June 1999; 353;2026-2029.
Aug 4, 2011, 10:08 AMPresumably you would agree that it all comes down to what the science says.
I don't know the final answer to this, but in this interview by Robert F Kennedy Jr with Dr Boyd Haley, retired Professor of Chemistry at the U of Kentucky...
...it appears the answer isn't clear yet. I.e. the claims here directly contradict yours.
Both Kennedy & Haley say that the key (Danish) study - which I acknowledge looks impressive when you read it - is not merely misleading but demonstrably fraudulent.
Look at the interview for details.
I don't know which side is correct, but the question for me is anything but resolved.
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Over the past few years, mainstream media coverage of the dangers of cigarette smoking has dramatically increased. But the tobacco industry is fighting back.
One of the industry's most visible counterattacks was a series of full-page ads from Philip Morris, which ran in 40 newspapers across the country, reprinting an article from Forbes MediaCritic (Summer/94) that questioned the idea that secondhand smoke causes cancer in non-smokers.
The Philip Morris ads presented Forbes MediaCritic's report--written by Jacob Sullum, then managing editor of Reason magazine, now at National Review--as an objective antidote to the media's biased reporting on secondhand smoke. Sullum's article argued that news accounts of the Environmental Protection Agency's 1993 report on secondhand smoke were "one-sided, credulous and superficial," and that journalists "missed an important story about the corruption of science by the political crusade against smoking."
In the report, the EPA looked at 30 epidemiological studies of non-smoking women who lived with smoking men. All but six of these studies showed increased lung cancer among these women; in nine the increase was "statistically significant," meaning that the result is highly unlikely to result by chance.
Where's the "corruption of science" that the press supposedly missed? Sullum made a variety of claims that depend on the reader not being too familiar with statistics. He says, for example, that the results of the studies were "weak, inconsistent and inconclusive," when the odds of getting 24 positive results out of 30 studies purely by chance are less than one in 1,000. The chance of getting nine significant results by chance is less than 1 in 10,000.
Sullum's argument hinges on the idea that the EPA lowered the level of confidence needed to declare a study significant. In fact, the EPA used an appropriate standard for testing a substance not believed to have a possible beneficial effect (Biostatistical Analysis, Jerrold Zar, pp. 101-103). Even Sullum, in an interview with Extra!, admitted that the "vast majority" of epidemiologists would find the standard that the EPA used "perfectly legitimate."
In his article, he argued that a technique the EPA used for combining the results of different studies, known as "meta-analysis," is a shady way of cooking the books, when actually it's a widely used tool of epidemiology (Epidemiologic Reviews, 1992). He ignores the strong correlation the EPA found in the studies between higher levels of exposure to second-hand smoke and increasing cancer rates (Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking, pp. 5.36-5.45).
Sullum never mentions the evidence presented by the EPA beyond the epidemiological studies, including animal tests and analysis of the known carcinogens in secondhand smoke. He also fails to point out that the surgeon general and the National Academy of Sciences both declared secondhand smoke to be a cancer risk in 1986.
"In any controversy, facts must matter," Philip Morris' ads exclaim. Facts do matter--which is perhaps why the ads do not mention the fact that the author of the reprinted article has financial ties to the tobacco industry. The Reason Foundation, which employed Sullum when he wrote the article, received at least $10,000 from Philip Morris in 1993 (AP, 6/24/94), and got further funding from Philip Morris subsidiary Kraft General Foods (L.A. Times, 7/18/94). Sullum himself has received $5,000 from R.J. Reynolds, another major cigarette company (Richmond Times Dispatch, 6/30/94)--to reprint another article he wrote about secondhand smoke.
In an interview with Extra!, Sullum defended not disclosing this funding, saying, "The money they paid me was a drop in the bucket compared to what they paid for the advertising."
One of Sullum's key sources, Gary Huber of the University of Texas Health Science Center, also has financial ties to the tobacco industry. His own description of his career notes that his research on secondhand smoke at Harvard was funded in part by a grant "from the major tobacco cigarette manufacturers in the United States." He left another job, heading the University of Kentucky's Tobacco and Health Research Institute, after evidence surfaced of further payments from R.J. Reynolds, Brown and Williamson, and the Tobacco Institute (UPI, 3/31/81). Yet Sullum never mentions Huber's industry links.
Sullum cites another EPA skeptic, Alvan Feinstein, without disclosing that he has received large amounts of tobacco industry funding. Between 1985 and 1990, according to confidential documents that leaked from Brown and Williamson, Feinstein received at least $700,000 for "basic epidemiological research" from the "special projects" fund of the industry's Center for Tobacco Research. But for Sullum, he's just "an epidemiologist at Yale University."
Ironically, Sullum repeatedly scolds the press for failing to "quote any critics of the [EPA] report who were not affiliated with the tobacco industry." Sullum himself appears to have found it difficult to find many such sources. He now says he was unaware of his sources' industry ties, but dismisses them as not "relevant." No worries here about possible "corruption of science."
Why would Forbes MediaCritic publish a one-sided article on second-hand smoke by a writer associated with the tobacco industry, who passes off cigarette company-funded researchers as objective scientists? As Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon pointed out in their syndicated column (Seattle Times, 7/26/94), Forbes launching a journal on media ethics is akin to Bob Packwood starting a publication on sexual etiquette.
Forbes has a history of publishing hatchet jobs on prominent corporate foes--like Ralph Nader, environmentalists or personal injury lawyers--and using the articles as a draw to sell ads to the advertisers who benefit (Extra!, 1-2/91, 1-2/92).
A recent issue of Forbes (7/4/94) included a bizarre article suggesting that smoking cigarettes might actually be good for you. It included the argument that smoking helps you lose weight, which might reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease that smoking is "supposed" to exacerbate. (Cocaine helps you lose weight, too--perhaps Forbes will run an article on the health benefits of crack.)
But Forbes is not the only media company that gives credence to dubious information on tobacco from sources who are close to the industry. CBS's America Tonight (7/6/94) provided a segment on Canadian cigarette taxes that couldn't have been more one-sided if it had been paid for by the Tobacco Institute: "Don't even consider it," is the segment's concluding advice to the U.S. on raising cigarette taxes.
Not a single source appeared who defended cigarette taxes or criticized the tobacco industry. Instead, the segment focused on the opinions of one Rod Stamler, identified as a "former top officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police." Stamler's research on cigarette smuggling is presented as unquestioned fact, and he serves as a guide to the smuggling region for America Tonight correspondent, Bob McKeown.
This unquestioning reliance on Stamler would have seemed peculiar if the former Mountie's more current affiliation had been disclosed: Stamler now works with the Canadian consulting firm of Lindquist Avey Macdonald Baskerville, researching the smuggling issue for the Canadian Tobacco Manufacturers Council (as well as Imperial Tobacco, a major Canadian producer). The integrity of his research has been strongly attacked by anti-smoking groups in Canada, who say it is slanted to support the industry's anti-tax campaign.
This was certainly true of the information presented by CBS's McKeown. "Did those high taxes convince Canadians to kick the habit?" he asked himself. "No. Last year, smoking in Canada actually increased for the first time in a decade." In fact, since 1982, when Canada began raising cigarette taxes, daily per capita cigarette consumption was 10.13--about what it had been since 1958. According to Canada's Non-Smokers' Rights Association (citing government and tobacco industry statistics), it has dropped every year since then, to 5.86 in 1993--a decline of more than 40 percent.
McKeown continued with more distortion: "The government's hopes for more tax revenue? Well, they went up in smoke, too. Because what high cigarette taxes in Canada did do was create a billion-dollar smuggling industry all along the Canada-U.S. border." In fact, even as cigarette consumption fell dramatically, tax revenues rose: According to the Non-Smokers Rights Association, Canada took in $2.26 billion (Canadian dollars) from cigarette taxes in 1982; in 1993, it was $6.34 billion, down from a peak of $7.2 billion in 1992.
How could America Tonight put out such a one-sided, deceptive piece promoting the perspective of the cigarette industry? One is reminded of the fact that the Loews corporation, which has a controlling stake in CBS, also owns Lorrilard tobacco.
The segment also calls to mind the time that America Tonight co-host Deborah Norville appeared at a 1989 Philip Morris convention in Hawaii, paid to be the co-host of a mock TV news program called P.M. in the A.M. "Norville tossed soft questions at Philip Morris executives and read promotional copy," the New York Times later reported (6/10/90), reading lines like, "We'll be taking a look at Marlboro's efforts to try to maximize its growth in market potential and check out what's happening with price-value brands."
Long before Norville's performance in Hawaii, she had pointed out the ethical dilemmas such conflicts pose (quoted in the Chicago Tribune, 11/21/89): "If, for personal financial reasons, a reporter finds it important to work an outside job, I think he or she should certainly refrain from reporting on subjects connected with the outside job."
The fake news show for which Norville was paid by Philip Morris could not have been more pro-tobacco than the real news show that she co-hosted for CBS. Like Forbes MediaCritic's defense of secondhand smoke, America Tonight leaves one wondering just who these journalists are working for.


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Into the Unknown: Learning to Trust
Blogger: Rachel Kent
I sold my house yesterday. As long as everything goes as planned, we are going to need to move out by the 31st, and we don't have a place to go yet. My husband and I are hoping that we'll find a place to buy in the next couple of weeks, and we're actively looking, but it could be that we have to wait awhile before we find the right one. This wasn't my plan, but now we've been dropped into the great "Unknown."
I couldn't help but notice the connection between my house search and what many of you are experiencing in the publishing world. You have a dream to get a book published, and you are trusting that something good will happen, but there's really no date in sight for the end of your waiting. Some of you have an agent out searching for a publishing home for you, like I have my Real Estate agent working for me. She's in my corner, but she can't force the right fit to come on the market immediately just like a literary agent can't force a book sale to happen for you. We all work hard toward a goal, but the endings are unknown.
I have a great support team behind me in my search for a house. My husband, parents, agent, and friends aren't going to let me handle the stress of this on my own. And you shouldn't forget that you have people in your corner as well. Your family, agent, friends, and critique partners play a huge role in your publishing journey. Keeping them by your side will help to keep you on the path to success.
I have a little card on my bulletin board in my office that has the quote, " I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future." For those of you who, like me, are in the "Unknown" right now, this is something we need to remember. God has a plan for us, and it's a plan to prosper us and to give us a hope and a future (Jer. 29:11). We all should wait patiently to see the wonderful works of God. (Often easier said than done!)
I'm praying for those of you who are waiting right now. I know how you feel! May you find peace in the knowledge that God has everything under control.
What Bible verses or quotes encourage you when life has you waiting?
Do you have a "waiting" story that you'd like to share?
The publishing journey is full of waiting. How do you cope? Via lit. agent @rachellkent Click to tweet.
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Waiting and trusting God applies to so many situations, doesn't it? I remember visiting a college as a high school senior. I wanted to major in deaf education, but the college dean advised me to register for a general special education program and wait to declare my area of specialty until I learned about all my options. That's just what I did, not realizing that he was only the acting dean (and HIS specialty was in a different area of special ed.) Several weeks into classes, I went to the office to declare "my area". Imagine my shock when I told that deaf ed. had a very limited enrollment. If I had applied as a high school senior there would have been no problem. My wait to get into the program? Two years. Oh. . . did I mention that my pastor had reminded me before I ever visited that my life plan was all about what God wanted me to do? I guess that well-intentioned young girl needed to learn that lesson through lots of prayer and soul searching! I made it into the program, BTW, and I am so thankful for the season of my life when I worked (a number of years) in that field before Jesus nudged me into writing.
I love Jeremiah 29:11, too, Rachel! I also would add Ephesians 3:20-21 to the list:
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.-
Deaf ed? Wow! My hubby's parents are both deaf, they helped found the Ontario Camp of the Deaf and their favourite show was Sue Thomas F.B.I.
Needless to say, the house is quiet, busy full of conversation. -
What a beautiful story, Carol. I love how God works out His plans in our lives in His perfect timing and, often in a way so much more satisfying that we could have imagined for ourselves.
I worked at California School for the Deaf for about 9 years and raised three Deaf foster sons with various special needs.
God has given me lots of practice in the fine art of waiting. Waiting to receive my first teaching job after college—it took about three years. Waiting for God to bring into my life the man He had for me to marry—We married when I was almost 29. Waiting for the gift of children and a years-long struggle with infertility, but then having the privilege of adopting two amazing boys. Waiting to hear where the military would move us next…..not to mention all the opportunities to wait on the writing journey.
I've learned that I can wait in misery, or I can wait actively, anticipating God's plan, but moving forward with living in the meantime. One of my favorite verses (since you already mentioned Jer. 29:11 is Psalm 37:4—Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart." When my hope is in Him, I can gain so much more than when I focus on what I want.
I've been in the waiting phase with home ownership. I'll be praying for you, Rachel.
You're an inspiration to me, Jeanne. Wish we lived closer.
Aww, thanks, Jill. I wish we lived closer too! Maybe we'll have to plan a mid-way reunion midway between our homes.
Love that, Jeanne. Thanks for the reminder, especially consider my one word for 2013 is rejoice! I can rejoice even in the wait.
I like that too, Lindsay. Rejoicing is one way to wait actively.
Congratulations, Rachel! I, sadly, have been in your shoes recently. Last year I worried we would be homeless! Every time we found a house we remotely liked it either sold or became unavailable for no apparent reason.
The days ticked down. Our closing date was set. And we couldn't find a house to buy or to rent. But God got us through and led us to a home we originally passed on but saw through new eyes. We remodeled most of the first floor and I love it!
Hang in there! God won't let you down!
In 1995, my husband's work was closed down and his job was transferred east. As in all the way from Ontario, where we had family, to New Brunswick, where we knew NO ONE.
All along, I loathed the idea of moving to an unknown town, with no friends, or any family. Even annoying family would have been fine.
But, here we are 18 years later, and I wouldn't leave unless it was to somewhere that had no snow (we're in one of the most snowy areas of Canada) and no temps under 65F.I love it here, but the wait to make friends was BRUTAL. If you've met me, or read even one post of mine, you know I love having friends around me. I went for months on end without talking to anyone I considered a close friend. Months and months and months.
The wait for a true friend was physically painful.
Years after we'd settled in, a good friend of mine said "When we first met, I thought you were sort of unstable, but after a few months of getting to know you, I realized how incredibly lonely and sad you were. I had no idea how hard it was for you to move here. Now that I know the real you, I'm amazed at how well you endured a dry season like that."
I don't need to fill my days with people, but being entirely without close friends or family for such a long stretch was one of those "wait on the Lord, He WILL see you through this. He will. He will…" times.
We waited, and now here we are. Home.
Jennifer, oh how I know what you're talking about! We've moved too many times. With each move, my support system is ripped away, and it gets harder each time to build a new one. I'm so glad you survived!
I've walked it too, Jennifer. I'm so glad that God brought you that friend. And many since then.
Congrats on the sale of your home, Rachel. I pray you find the perfect fit for you!!
I feel like I'm in a holding pattern of waiting lately…waiting to be published and waiting on other things in life. But instead of focusing on my circumstances, I'm trying desperately to keep my eyes focused on Him. A good friend of mine reminded me that when we draw near to him, we naturally become more content. So that's my plan. Focus on God, settle in, and remember that He's got a reason for the wait.
I love your plan, Lindsay. Focus on God, settle in, and remember He's got a reason for the wait. Great reminder!
Thanks, Jeanne!
Rachel, I wish you all His Peace in the waiting time. Finding the right home takes effort. I've had to ask God for patience when 'my foot is slipping'(aka crankiness)during the wait. Thank goodness He is merciful.
This fits so well with Mary's post from yesterday! The wait is hard. Thankfully, in the Christian writing community we have each other to lean on and a big God to trust!
I'll be praying about your house situation, Rachel. It must be unnerving not knowing where you'll be in a few weeks. I'm sure God has something AMAZING in store for you. I can't wait to hear about it!
Rachel, Congrats on the home. Will be praying for you.
I am a recovering control freak. Emphasis on the recovering. I know all the stories and know my wait has not been very long, but for some reason my toe keeps tapping and my email inbox mocks me with responses I have not received from editors. Pray for me :o). God's timing is the best. I KNOW with everything I have I will look back and say, "Oh, that's what He was doing!!!" But for some reason, I cannot convince the toes ;o). God Bless!!!
I'll be praying that the right house comes along very soon. We waited 10 months for our "new" home because it was a short sale. The banks (two of them) couldn't make up their minds whether or not the owner could make his house payments. They were arguing over how much they should each receive for the sale. Needless to say, we were on pins and needles for a long time. Thankfully, our buyers waited with us. I held tight to Proverbs 3:5-6, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight." I cling to this verse every day—in life and with my writing.
God bless you!
Just what I needed to hear to day Rachel. Thanks. And good luck too.
Rachel! I know what a stressful situation that can be. But you are absolutely right – God will see you through it. And I'll be praying for you in the meantime
Been there, Rachel. We ended finding the perfect house a couple of days before we closed on the one we'd sold. Perfect, except they didn't want to close for 90 days. We moved into an apartment with our three little kids. It was the most carefree summer of my adult lifetime. I could clean the whole place in 30 minutes, we saved a bunch of money ('cause we moved into a dump!), and I met a group of people I'd have never known otherwise. I got to share my faith and my life, and it was a great blessing. I pray you'll be blessed in your journey as well.
Moving, waiting, moving again. That has been my life. My father and husband were both career military. The only way to cope with the upheavals is to choose to hope and trust things will work out. That's a lot easier to do when you believe in a power higher than yourself.
My husband decided to put in for retirement when he got back from Iraq. It took us a year and four moves (between three states) before we finally settled. Patience is a virtue in most circumstances, but definitely when it comes moving– and publishing.
The opposite of waiting is 'forcing', and I've been guilty of that.
In 2007 I had an offer for a teaching job in New Mexico, and was waiting on the results of a decision at another college in Ohio.
Ohio would have been a better fit, but I was impatient, and we went to New Mexico. It was a disaster.
There have been compensations – a number of dogs who have come to us, with nowhere else to go. They have been a blessing, and when I think of what their fate would have been otherwise, I'm happy with the way things have gone. I lost my career, but saved some small and precious lives, and the trade was worthwhile.
I also started writing in New Mexico. Maybe I would have done the same in Ohio…maybe not.
What's done is done, and I've learned that when I short-circuit the wait that God asks, life will go on, and it deserves my best efforts.
Rachel, you and your family are in my prayers.
I love the quote. Thank you for sharing it. I am in "the Unknown" right now because I was laid off over two years ago and have yet to find full time employment. Because of this, I've had to move in with relatives (God bless them). Both they and I are eager for me to regain my financial independence. I never expected to be out of work (technically I'm under-employed since I have a part-time job) this long. It gets frightening. Sometimes I worry that I will never one. I do love the bible quote that you alluded to: "My plans for you are for well-being and not disaster." I try to keep it in mind and trust. At times, that's hard. Today, God spoke to me through you. Thank you for being a messenger of hope.
I hope you and your family find the perfect fit in the not-too-distant future.
Many blessings!
I know that's not an easy position to be in, Rachel. My husband & I searched for a month before finding the right car for our needs & bank account. It seemed impossible for awhile, then suddenly we had two or three options. We just bought one yesterday, and I can finally stop spending too much time looking.
It will probably be that way with your house, too. You'll know when God is providing the right one.
Keep us posted! -
In my old Christmas letters, I found this about waiting.
Our son, Joey John (Jr) (3 1/2 years old) is learning to wait his turn, to wait for help, and to wait for what he wants. His concept of time revolves around 'last night' for anything in the past, and 'when the sun comes up' for anything in the future, but wait is slowly being incorporated as well.
Josiah, our 18 month old, has not quite learned the meaning of wait—he taste-tests everything that is put into the cookie dough. He wants both shoes to be put on his feet at the same time, but doesn't want time wasted on putting on diapers, but his 18 month old experience is bringing him to a limited understanding of wait.
Just as their definition of wait is being developed, so also their mom's perception of wait is being refined. Maybe I'm most like Josiah, where wait is not in my vocabulary, but I'm learning like Joey John (Jr) that 'when the sun comes up' which seems like an eternity is only a few hours with God. I'm learning to enjoy the 'now' with contentment. Our days are fill with learning that reminds us of the God Who we serve.
When I thought of your waiting story—it reminds me of our last year–in a story found here http://bit.ly/161xyk4
As for sayings that help, I have this by my sink:
"God is too good to be unkind.
He is too wise to be confused.
If I cannot trace His Hand, I can always trust His Heart." –Charles SpurgeonWaiting is hard, but we learn to look up. Thank you for sharing.
Habakkuk taking a stand and watching for the answer the Lord will bring. When trials push hard, I dig my heels in and determine to wait until I see God at work. Thankfully, he wants to reveal himself to us and doesn't hide!


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Neil Pasricha's blog 1000 Awesome Things savors life's simple pleasures, from free refills to clean sheets. In this heartfelt talk from TEDxToronto, he reveals the 3 secrets (all starting with A) to leading a life that's truly awesome. (Recorded at TEDxToronto, September 2010 in Toronto, Canada. Duration: 17:33)
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Today while lunching with my co-workers we commented on how ironic it is that social networking seems to be creating a network of lonely people. Just a few weeks ago I re-initiated my Facebook profile mainly to connect with family (and a few friends), although I remain ambivalent about this decision. I do appreciate seeing others' posts, comments, pictures, too; at least most of them (wink).
Stephen Marche's article "Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?" featured in The Atlantic (see here for a good video exchange) opines that "loneliness and narcissism are intimately connected….Narcissism is the flip side of loneliness, and either condition is a fighting retreat from the messy reality of other people." Marche also states:
Curating the exhibition of the self has become a 24/7 occupation. Perhaps not surprisingly, then, the Australian study "Who Uses Facebook?" found a significant correlation between Facebook use and narcissism: "Facebook users have higher levels of total narcissism, exhibitionism, and leadership than Facebook nonusers," the study's authors wrote. "In fact, it could be argued that Facebook specifically gratifies the narcissistic individual's need to engage in self-promoting and superficial behavior."
Wowsers! Of course, Facebook is not the only tool used to promote one's self. Blogging is no small opportunity in the same direction (ugh!).
The first instance in Scripture about loneliness is God's declaration "It is not good for the man to be alone" (Gen 2:18). So God made another human to provide the interaction necessary to build a wholesome, relational life full of wonder, joy, mystery, and yes, the possibility of more humans!
Just as man needs woman, people need people. Discipleship that has a lasting effect must be done "in the flesh." Fellowship that is truly meaningful occurs with real people in real time and in real space without the hinderance of a monitor sitting in between. Granted I have had moving phone conversations and received countless encouragements by reading other blogs, but 1 John opens the way it does for a reason.
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. We write this to make our joy complete.
(1 Jn 1:1–4)
Perhaps this is why the Incarnation of God in Jesus is so profound. Christ is, after all, "Immanuel, God with us."
All of this speak about the relational fracturing and isolated lives that social networking seems to accommodate reminded me of an email my wife and I received the day before Mother's Day. It was from some dear neighbors who we quickly learned were also our beloved family in Christ. I would venture to say that no digital connection could ever forge the bond like what we have with our friends. Though we now share only a virtual relationship because they're living far away, we are thankful to God for the ministry we've had to and with them and the blessing they've been to us because of our face-to-face engagements.
Soli Deo gloria!