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Re: Sword of Damocles -- comments & opinions ****SPOILERS***
I'm at the part near the beginning with Jaza in Stellar Cartography, feeling like he's floating amongst the stars (or that's how I remember it).
It's an okay read so far. I haven't gotten into it as much as I wanted, plus it's a bit more difficult for me to focus on this one. Still, it is very promising.
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State aid would have covered 80 percent of the cost, totaling $34.8 million. Out of the remaining funding, $2.5 million would have came out of the district's capital reserve fund and district taxpayers would have been left covering $6.1 million.
Cafarelli said he wasn't sure people understood the actual cost of the project, and without state aid, it will be difficult to complete. Currently it is unclear how much state aid would be available if there were another project vote in the future.
"If we have to pay the full shot for that, it is going to be really tough for taxpayers," he said. "It would have been a lot easier to have that state aid than not to have it."
He said the average home in the town is assessed at $150,000, which would have lead to a cost of $60 per household. He felt the price on residents, though some are currently burdened, wasn't an overwhelming amount to bear.
"It is a ridiculously low amount of money," said Cafarelli. "I really do understand, and I know there are a lot of people on a fixed income and they have had so many tax increases put on them."
All school projects in the past nine years have passed, he said, so he thought maybe people became complacent and decided not to come out and vote even though they supported the project.
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Leon said the voter turnout was on par with previous budget or bond votes over the past 10 years, which saw a range between 1,200 to 1,500 voters hitting the polls. Last year's budget vote had 1,323 in favor and 881 against it, she said.
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LAWRENCEVILLE -- Gwinnett Fire's medical director received a state honor, and 82 local firefighters and paramedics were recognized for exemplary service during a recent awards presentation.
During an event last month at Emory University Hospital, the Georgia Department of Emergency Services, Region Three, named Dr. Earl Grubbs as the 2012 Medical Director of the Year. Grubbs has been with the Gwinnett Fire Department since 2002, working to improve pre-hospital medical care, performance methods and service quality, a press release said.
"Dr. Grubbs' guidance is one of the reasons our staff won so many awards this year," Fire Chief Bill Myers said. "He has a wealth of knowledge and shares it readily with all our EMTS and paramedics. He's a true professional, and it's a great honor to work with him."
The county's firefighters and paramedics won individual CARES awards for saving 14 lives in 2011, the release said, adding that he acronym stands for Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival.
In a separate ceremony, firefighter/paramedic driver engineer Marne Richards was named the Gwinnett Rotary Club's 2012 Firefighter of the Year.
Richards, who has been with the department six years, currently works with new recruits at the fire academy.
"Marne is the perfect choice for this award," Fire Capt. Eric Eberly said. "On top of being an excellent firefighter, she is an outstanding person who approaches everything with a can-do attitude."
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Cash Money Millionaire Lil Wayne always has the dough, but in his new video for "Got Money," he's giving back to the community — just not with his own moolah.
Based loosely on Spike Lee's "Inside Man," Weezy is practically a modern-day Robin Hood as he plays one of the masterminds of a bank heist in which he and his team plan to give the loot to the citizens in his New Orleans hometown as compensation for what they lost because of Hurricane Katrina .
Toward the beginning of the clip, Weezy and his model-looking accomplices storm the bank and strong-arm the establishment. While the workers empty the vaults, Wayne makes it rain, letting his hostages get some of the greenbacks. During the performance scenes, Wayne's collaborator T-Pain joins in, wearing a T-shirt that says "He Sings … ," while Wayne's shirt reads "He Raps … ." And there are a bunch of other guests, such as Ray J, but we won't spoil the surprise.
We can give away that Wayne's artist Mack Mane (remember when Wayne says, "Mack, I'm going in," at the beginning of "A Milli" ?) raps the last verse, making the TV version a remix of sorts. The video debuts Monday on MTV, MTV2, mtvU, MTV Jams, MTV Hits and MTV.com, with airings all day starting at 6 a.m. ET.
The N.O. Fireman hasn't just been showing up on his own music-video sets. He recently completed clips with David Banner for "Shawty Say" and the Game for "My Life." The latter finds Wayne and his West Coast homey doing some soul-searching in a graveyard, among other places.


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Local singer/songwriter/performer, Jen Porter has been honored with a position among other esteemed female performers such as Odetta, The Chantels, Michelle Shocked and more by being asked to be a songleader for the Girl Scouts of America's 90th Anniversary Sing-Along on the Mall in Washington DC on June 8th, 2002. Jen will be leading a few songs from the official Girl Scout SongBook and performing a few of her own original songs to a crowd of over 100,000. "I can hardly wait!" exclaims Jen. "My mother actually wrote a song that's in the songbook - I'd love to lead that one," Jen said. When Jen was only a girl in scouts herself, she was leading songs with her mother, who was integral in the music leadership of Girl Scouts and was, at one time, President of the Dupage County chapter of the Girl Scouts of America. "Not only do I get to lead 100,000 plus Scouts and friends of Girl Scouting, I also get to perform some of my original work.
I'm really excited at the prospect of exposing an huge new audience to Jen Porter. My only experience close to that was singing the National Anthem for the Detroit Pistons and the Chicago Fire, both for crowds of around 40,000 people. This is like a scene right out of Forrest Gump...seriously!" The Sing Along is from 1:30p to 4:00p on Saturday. For more information, click here to visit the website. The Sing-Along is still waiting to find out if it will be broadcast in its entirety on CSPAN. Jen Porter currently plays at several venues around Chicago. Check out www.jenporter.com for up-to-date gig information and album releases from Jen.


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I was originally skeptical about how I would fare a little further south. This concern was short-lived when I actually started working here and found that amazing residents, med students and attendings have moved here from all over the country for the great medical center. The patients sometimes make fun of my "Northern accent" but other than that, there are not many cultural differences.
In the short time I've been here I've already had the opportunity to have many adventures in the Charlottesville area. Vineyards abound here and most of them have local musicians playing outdoors every couple of weeks throughout the summer. There are many good restaurants in town and on Friday nights I like walking from the free concerts of the Downtown Pavilion to one of the dozens of restaurants along the downtown mall. I am a music lover and am happy to be in a place that so embraces street musicians, live concerts and garage bands. Getting out of town just a short 30-minute drive are lots of hikes on the Blue Ridge Parkway and Skyline Drive. I was on a hike this weekend where I saw a black bear, ate wild berries and felt a million miles away from the hospital. Next up on my list are trips to D.C. and Virginia Beach, both within a few hours drive."


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Jon Richard tossed all eight innings for the Musketeers on Thursday afternoon.
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INDIANAPOLIS - Xavier's Jon Richard went the distance on the mound for Xavier, but the Musketeers couldn't find their offense in a 4-0 loss at Butler on Thursday afternoon. The loss drops Xavier to 28-24 overall and 14-8 in the A-10, while Butler improves to a 25-25 mark and 12-10 in the conference.
Mark Elwell led off the game with a double for XU and Tres Eberhardt followed with a walk. Xavier failed to score in the inning and the offense sputtered for the rest of the day. Following Elwell's lead-off double, Xavier received only more hit, a single from Patrick Paligraf in the second inning.
Xavier had only three base runners after the second inning on walks by Derek Hasenbeck in the fourth inning and Paligraf in the fifth, while Selby Chidemo was hit by a pitch in the sixth.
Richard (8-4) did his part on the mound allowing five hits and four runs, pitching all eight innings. Only two of the runs scored against Richard were earned, as the Musketeers committed two errors that were turned into runs by the Bulldogs.
Capitalizing on a miscue by Joe Forney on the Bulldog's first batter of the game, Butler went on to score the first run of the game on consecutive singles by Jimmy Risi and Michael Fries.
BU tacked on two more runs in the second. The first run resulted after RadleyHaddad was hit by a pitch, Lucas Calderon doubled and Marcos Calderon singled. The second run was scored after Hasenbeck's throw on a failed pick-off attempt at third went into left field.
Butler added an insurance run in the seventh to push the score to 4-0.
Eric Stout went the distance for the Bulldogs, giving up two hits and walking three in the complete game effort. Stout improved to 8-6 on the season.
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Snow? It's not a flaky idea
The week that started out with spring-like temperatures is likely to end up with a white coating.
Yes, just days after highs in the 70s, we're likely to get some snow tonight and into Friday morning.
"It's a little screwy, but there's a fairly good likelihood we're going to see a period of wet snow starting this evening," said Jonathan Blaes, a meteorologist with the Raleigh office of the National Weather Service.
But before you race out to the grocery store to empty the shelves of milk, water and bread, Blaes adds this:
"Right now, it looks like it's not going to have a big impact and there won't be much of an accumulation. You might see it on the tops of cars and on lawns and decks, but probably not on roadways."
Still, Blaes said, there is a chance it might be more than that — and to be sure, the weather service has issued a winter storm watch for this evening.
"The situation is still pretty fluid," he acknowledged. "The duration [of the snowfall] and how heavy it's going to be really remains unclear. A lot of things have to come together to have a big impact, and that's not out of the question. But it's really a small possibility."
What forecasters do know for certain is that today is going to be wet — a 100-percent chance of precipitation — as a developing storm system heads into the area from the west.
As that system shifts to the east, and colder air moves into the region later today, that's when we'll start seeing flakes. A band of heavier snow will be just to the north and west of the Triangle — "and it's not out of the realm of possibility that stronger band could move into the Triangle," Blaes said.
Whatever accumulation there is shouldn't be around for too long, with high temperatures for Friday getting up into the mid-40s. But Friday morning could prove — in Blaes' words — fairly screwy.
"At daybreak, we might see temperatures below freezing, and that might promote some roadway freezing for the morning commute," he said. "There's potential for it to be fairly screwy."
The state Highway Patrol is already offering advice on how to deal with slick wintry roads.
"You never know when to expect black ice, snow, icy roads or a mixture of road conditions," said First Sgt. Jeff Gordon, the public information officer.
The patrol recommends increasing the distance between vehicles, clearing all windows prior to travel, using extra caution on bridges and overpasses and avoiding using cruise control, among other suggestions.
And some local schools are preparing, just in case. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will make an announcement about 5 a.m. Friday in the unlikely event weather requires a schedule change. Durham Public Schools hasn't made a decision yet.
While your commute might be a mess Friday morning, the good news from all the precipitation is that it will help our water supply.
Although local reservoirs are full — and Durham currently has enough water for 362 days, even if there's no rain at all — the U.S. Drought Monitor still considers the region to be in "moderate drought."
"It's not the lakes that's the problem," Blaes said. "It's streams that flow into the lakes and groundwater, which are both below normal. We're still in a vulnerable spot and a good, heavy rain could help."


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Who cares, its not even a big advantage, just more of a "insult to injury" thing in the killcam. 9 times out of 10 you would have been seen anyway.
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After spending two weeks reviewing the edits on my upcoming cookbook (and what a week that was!), my husband and I headed to Maine for a week.
Do you know what culinary treat is all over Maine? (Beside lobsters and blueberries, of course.) Whoopie Pies! I LOVE whoopee pies and having to pass them up everyday ignited a desire in me that I've rarely experienced since going gluten-free.
While we'd rented a hotel with a kitchen and I cooked every day, I wasn't about to bake while on vacation. I mean, the beach called. Not the oven. But when I got home? Different story! It was time to bake!
Before making a batch of whoopie pies, I glanced at my "to bake" list. On the list? Chocolate zucchini bread! Hmm…Chocolate zucchini bread. Whoopie Pies. Inspiration hit: Chocolate Zucchini Whoopie Pies. I couldn't get into the kitchen fast enough.
To create the recipe, I kept the cinnamon-scented notes from chocolate zucchini bread and the dense, moist texture from whoopie pies. The resulting whoopie pies are some of the best I've ever eaten. And I've eaten a lot of whoopie pies.
Here's how to make them:
Begin by prepping the zucchini. I use my food processor to shred it. So, it needs to be cut in half to fit in the feed tube. And, while you don't have to do this if you are using a box grater, if find it's easier to grate smaller pieces of zucchini than unwieldy large pieces. But that's just me.
Into feed tube they go.
And in seconds, shredded zucchini! And I still have all the skin on my knuckles! (Why yes, box graters have "bitten" me in the past, why do you ask?)
Whenever something is grated in the food processor, two little coins are left behind. I call these "cook's treats!" (nom nom nom)
I pulled out the amount of zucchini I needed for the recipe and set the food processor aside. At this point, I was done with it.
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Cream together the brown sugar and butter until a thick paste forms.
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But loosens and fluffs up when the milk is added.
In goes the zucchini.
Blend until smooth.
Drop the dough on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Since they spread, you only want to bake about six at a time.
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.....I predict a long discussion/thread-derailment about lounge chair martial artists.
My problems with Tweek's post:
-Reading is good. Everyone should read. BUT:
-Martial arts books are crap. You shouldn't have to read them, but you shouldn't need to watch instructional videos either. You've just taken a lazy-ass way of learning martial arts and made it into an even lazier version where you don't even need to turn pages.
Videos<Books<ACTUAL INSTRUCTION.Rad ki was made up by adolescents. I do not know who created trad ki but it was not made by adolescents. your an ass dude, Im not being a little bitch you are, your past the level of a bitch. Your beyond Bitch! If im easting my time with ki and psi, then your wasting time to prove frauds, and all **** like that! -theoutsider
Kick boxing is ok, but don't expect do beat a man like Rickson Gracie with that. You need a real martial art. You need Xing Yi Quan. -Emptyflower
The splits, how ever, have a few martial uses. Doing the splits for me, can put my fists in testical strike range.
dont ignore the Art for the Martial or else your just kick boxing
Yes i am serious, there are kicks that can block punches. we have them in Moo duk kwan.
I want to learn how to use them in case my arm gets broken in a fight.
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Oh Thank God This Is Over
April 03, 2009 at 09:43am by Scott • 6 Comments »
When I was getting texted about the Jay Cutler trade last night, I was working up in my head how I was going to skewer Pat Bowlen for letting his quarterback complain his way out of town and how Bowlen's wife might as well consider herself a lesbian now.
But holy shit, did you see the package he got for Cutler? In exchange for Cutler and their own 2009 fifth rounder, Denver received Chicago's 2009 first rounder (#18 overall) and third rounders (#84 overall), their 2010 first rounder and Kyle Orton. That's a haul. Plus keep in mind that Denver gave St. Louis a third rounder in 2006 to move up four spaces to get Cutler in the first place. How many draft picks is this one diabetic worth?
There's a lot of speculation now about what Denver will do about their quarterback position. Not many people consider Orton or Chris Simms as true starting-caliber quarterbacks, so the popular theory is that Denver will package together their two first rounders to get Mark Sanchez (Southern Cal) because he won't make it to #12. And after seeing a lot of Sanchez's pro day, I have to admit I'm liking him more than I did a month ago. Matthew Stafford (Georgia) should have gotten some advice from Sanchez on how to conduct a pro day before he had his. After Sanchez completed his script, he actually took requests for throws from observing NFL coaches who wanted to see him throw under duress (into the wind, rolling in different directions, etc.) Sanchez made every single throw.
The only reason this affects the Buccaneers is that there is one more quarterback-needy team that has a pick before the Bucs now, so if anyone out there was hoping for Sanchez, forget it. His value just shot up because of this Cutler thing and even a team that doesn't need a quarterback could leverage their slot to scare someone like Denver or San Francisco into trading up to get him, maybe even as high as #2. That would put a premium on Josh Freeman (Kansas State) who is the only other quarterback to get a first round grade (which wouldn't be the case in any other year) and very likely put Freeman out of reach for the Bucs as well. That would be great news because then all this bullshit talk about drafting a first round quarterback could end and we could concentrate on getting the defensive lineman we so desperately need.
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Mark S (April 03, 2009 at 10:09am) :
That was quick on Cutler. I thought there would more drama.
Like you, I hope that now we can focus on the DL.
Ryvers (April 03, 2009 at 10:27am) :
Glad it's over. If McCown is a serviceable starter, we'll be glad we passed- especially with good drafts this year and next. On the other hand, if McCown crashes and burns, hindsight will make the deal not such a clear pass…
Mark S (April 03, 2009 at 10:41am) :
Chicago may be a graveyard for Cutler's talent. In my mind that would be just desserts.
Mark S (April 03, 2009 at 01:20pm) :
Have been sampling mock drafts and the news does not look so good for us who want a DL pick in the first round. After Stafford and Sanchez none of the mock drafts I saw have a QB being picked except for Tampa. Even worse, Freeman is not on any list I have seen of the top 25 prospects. So, not only is picking a QB this year strategically unsound but if we pick Freeman we are reaching.
Mark S (April 03, 2009 at 01:31pm) :
Here is a quote from Raheem Morris that brings a smile. "We've got obvious needs," Morris said. "We want some defensive tackles. We addressed a lot of our needs, obviously, in (free agency) on offense. We feel good about some of those positions. But in the draft, you're thinking D-tackles, you want to add corners, you want to add some players at those positions." As seen on the St. Pete Times Buc's Beat Blog, reported by Stephen Holder.
mr.smith (April 03, 2009 at 01:39pm) :
Please let the team's new regime just focus on the DL early in the draft. Everything points to this being a wise choice, but then again wisdom rarely wins in the NFL.
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In the face of questions regarding his tax status, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said that he has not paid less than 13 percent in income taxes over the past 10 years.
There have been allegations surrounding him—mainly from Democrats and President Barack Obama's re-election campaign—that he has not paid his taxes. Democrats have also criticized him for not releasing his tax information.
"I did go back and look at my taxes and over the past 10 years; I never paid less than 13 percent. I think the most recent year is 13.6 or something like that. So I paid taxes every single year," Romney said, according to a video of his response to reporters during a stop in South Carolina.
Romney's statement is the first direct response to address allegations over his finances. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) made claims earlier this month that the Republican candidate has not paid his taxes, but Sen. Reid did not elaborate on who gave him that information.
"Harry Reid's charge is totally false," Romney said, adding, "Every year I've paid at least 13 percent, and if you add in addition the amount that goes to charity, why the number gets well above 20 percent."
Democrats, including Obama's campaign, have alleged that Romney's policies on taxes, if he were elected, would favor wealthy Americans like him instead of the middle class and the poor.
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Wilburn Ray Combs, 71, died Monday, Nov. 5 at the Hazard ARH medical center.
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. Want a blanket? Check Amazon. Leaf blower? Check Amazon. Can of beans? Hey, let's check out what amazon has for deals. It's one stop shopping. If you see something in a store you're interested in, you ask the clerk and maybe you'll get a boatload of information from him, with which you'll use your new knowledge to go to Amazon and buy it for cheaper. This of course does nothing to keep that business around as a future source of info or service, but hey, at least you just saved yourself a few bucks. Don't get me wrong, I do the same things as everybody else here but at least I know that this behavior is damaging in the long term.
(and btw, I'd consider not having to pay for shipping from ebay and having to wait a couple of weeks for delivery from some sketchy stranger justification enough to frequent a local retailer if he has the same product at around the same price.)
I understand what you're saying to an extent, don't get me wrong, it's just naturally people are going to buy stuff at the lowest price they can at the greatest of convenience. I also agree with the ethics of not just going to a store and draining the guy of knowledge and buying stuff cheaper elsewhere, but that happens all the time even in normal stores. There's a place here where I buy my beer kits from that I would support over a lower price alternative because if they stop selling them, I can't get them locally and the people there are really nice. But in terms of a leaf blower or blanket, it's either Amazon or a retail store chain, so you're just picking the lesser of two evils. But who the lesser of those evils is remains tough to solve. Retail stores don't carry the movies I like - Amazon does. And it is my belief only by outlets like Amazon or Deep Discount do these niche products exist because the market just wouldn't be big enough for them town by town. If the independent store has a fair price compared to the alternatives and good people working there, I think they can thrive. The problem is that courtesy from years gone by simply isn't there anymore, so people don't have loyalty.
This particular used game store is a couple hours away, my town is too small to have something like that, but they seem to charge the higher end BIN prices on Ebay from the sellers who just let shit rot on there. When I went there, I didn't even care if I got steals just so I could get stuff that I needed without having to check Ebay daily, but shit. USPS shipping to Canada has gotten so high that it would make certain items at the store a bit better of a deal now. I'd venture to say me giving another video gamer money to buy new games for himself, or if he's in a rough patch, to put food on the table that it's just as good if not better than supporting a mom & pop store. Especially since that indie (or any) store would pay $2 to someone for the rare game they're selling for $100 in the blink of an eye. I'm not saying I wouldn't do it myself. But just knowing the ways of the world, it's tough to feel sorry for them.
I get what you mean, though, I'm not busting your balls and I'm tending to look at it from the perspective of niche products rather than everything. But even if you put everything into the equation, I don't see what the difference is between buying a leaf blower online or in a store. Just because you buy something at the 7-11 down the street doesn't mean the person who owns the place is local and the profit is staying within the community. And without internet retailers, I don't think you have companies like Shriek Show, Code Red, you certainly don't have musicians selling their own music to the degree they can now or indie filmmakers getting their movies out there. The internet gives the people of Mudlick, Kentucky the same connectivity with the world, shopping, everything as people in New York City or even fuckin' Paris or Hong Kong. To me, that's borderline magic, not destruction.
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Dawkins - Fool or Coward?
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Dawkins's Use of Discredited Research
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Why I Believe Again
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The Delusions of Richard Dawkins
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The Theory of Evolution
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Darwin's Rottweiler and the Public Understanding of Scientism
by Peter S. Williams This devastating article exposes 11 logical fallacies committed by Richard Dawkins in his books. Read
God vs. Science
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The God Delusion
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The Dawkins Delusion
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BeThinking Articles on Dawkins
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Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching
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Atheist with a Mission
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Richard Dawkins, the world's most famous atheist, makes his home in Oxford, England. It was in Oxford, back in 1978, while sitting in one of the biology labs of Magdalen College School, a School founded in 1481 and attended by the likes of Sir Thomas More, William Tyndale and Cardinal Wolsey, that I was first exposed to Richard Dawkins's favoured theory of human origins - Darwin's and Wallace's idea of 'evolution by natural selection' - a concept which Dawkins calls "arguably the most momentous idea ever to occur to a human mind."
With bicycles passing by behind me on Iffley Road, close to where Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile in 1954, unfolding on the white board before me were the evidences for 'evolution'. A certain Mr. Kettlewell's experiments with moths were discussed. Various shapes and sizes of horses were portrayed in a smooth and convincing sequence which, so I was told, mirrored exactly what palaeontologists had found in the fossil record. I don't remember much else, but I imagine that Archaeopteryx, Lucy the Australopithecine, homology and Darwin's finches were all rolled into the mix somewhere.
Richard Dawkins, today's leading advocate of Darwinian evolution, would have been about 37 years of age at the time. He would have just written his iconic book The Selfish Gene (1976). In time, through other books like The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Climbing Mount Improbable (1996) and A Devil's Chaplain (2003), Richard Dawkins would take on celebrity status in the world of atheistic Darwinism and beyond. While Professor Dawkins was churning out volume after volume promoting evolutionism, I was doing some research. I made some startling discoveries. Through reading Evolution a Theory in Crisis, Icons of Evolution, Darwin on Trial and Darwin's Black Box - among many other books on the subject, both for and against - I discovered that all the textbook 'evidences' for Darwin's theory of evolution were at best inconclusive and at worst, flawed (and in some cases completely fraudulent).
The average biology teacher, mine included, not being a specialist in the theory of evolution, simply teaches the standard textbook 'proofs'. But the Dawkinses of this world? They are the real culprits in this Darwinian deception. For a number of years I quietly contemplated doing something about Dawkins's writings but nothing materialized until September 2006 when I read his book The God Delusion. That finally galvanized me into setting up this website which points to numerous articles, books, DVDs, lectures and reviews (on other sites) that provide answers and alternatives to Dawkins's arguments on atheism and Darwinism, from a number of different perspectives. The publication in 2009 of his work on Darwinism, The Greatest Show On Earth, make this venture all the more worth while. Your comments are welcome. To get in touch with me, either click firstname.lastname@example.com or hit the contact button in the header of this page and fill in the form.
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P.S. Here is a fascinating excerpt from the 2008 book There Is A God - How The World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind by Anthony Flew (Harper Collins, New York, 2007, p. 78-80):
"In addition to my public debates, I have engaged in various polemical discussions in writing. One prominent instance of such discussions is the exchanges I have had with the scientist Richard Dawkins. Although I commended his atheist works, I have always been a critic of his selfish-gene school of thought.
"In my book Darwinian Evolution, I pointed out that natural selection does not positively produce anything. It only eliminates, or tends to eliminate, whatever is not competitive. A variation does not need to bestow any actual competitive advantage in order to avoid elimination; it is sufficient that it does not burden its owner with any competitive disadvantage. To choose a rather silly illustration, suppose I have useless wings tucked away under my suit coat, wings that are too weak to lift my frame off the ground. Useless as they are, these wings do not enable me to escape predators or gather food. But as long as they don't make me more vulnerable to predators, I will probably survive to reproduce and pass on my wings to my descendants. Darwin's mistake in drawing too positive an inference with his suggestion that natural selection produces something was perhaps due to his employment of the expressions 'natural selection' or 'survival of the fittest' rather than his own ultimately preferred alternative, 'natural preservation'.
"I went on to remark that Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene was a major exercise in popular mystification. As an atheist philosopher, I considered this work of popularization as destructive in its own ways as either The Naked Ape or The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris. In his works, Morris offers as the results of zoological illumination what amounts to a systematic denial of all that is most peculiar to our species contemplated as a biological phenomenon. He ignores or explains away obvious differences between human beings and other species.
"Dawkins, on the other hand, laboured to discount or depreciate the upshot of fifty or more years' work in genetics - the discovery that the observable traits of organisms are for the most part conditioned by the interaction of many genes, while most genes have manifold effects on many such traits. For Dawkins, the main means for producing human behavior is to attribute to genes characteristics that can significantly be attributed only to persons. Then, after insisting that we are all the choiceless creatures of our genes, he infers that we cannot help but share the unlovely personal characteristics of those all-controlling monads.
"Genes, of course, can be neither selfish nor unselfish any more than they or any other nonconscious entities can engage in competition or make selection. (Natural selection is, notoriously, not selection; and it is a somewhat less familiar logical fact that, below the human level, the struggle for existence is not 'competitive' in the true sense of the word.) But this did not stop Dawkins from proclaiming that his book "is not science fiction; it is science…We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes." Although he later issued occasional disavowals, Dawkins gave no warning in his book against taking him literally. He added, sensationally, that "the argument of this book is that we, and all others animals, are machines created by our genes."
"If any of this were true, it would be no use to go on, as Dawkins does, to preach: "Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish." No eloquence can move programmed robots. But in fact none of it is true - or even faintly sensible. Genes, as we have seen, do not and cannot necessitate our conduct. Nor are they capable of the calculation and understanding required to plot a course of either ruthless selfishness or sacrificial compassion."
The Greatest Hoax on Earth
Dealing With Dawkins
The Darwin Myth
Who Made God?
The God Reality
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Evolution - The Grand Experiment DVD (Part 1)
Can Atheism Save Europe? DVD Debate
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The county commission funded a couple of items it has already approved Monday during its regular meeting.
The commission had already agreed to pay $4.5 million for new technology for county schools, and to pay $7.5 million for the new industrial park.
Monday, the group took action to make payments on both fronts.
Commissioners agreed to issue $4.5 million in bonds to pay for the new computers and other items, which will be used as the county gets ready to take part in the Common Core curriculum.
The state has agreed to take part in the program, which is designed to develop higher standards nationwide for teaching math, English and other skills. The program calls for students to take standardized tests online, and the county needed hundreds of new computers and other technology to prepare for it.
The commission agreed earlier this year to pay former commissioner Kenneth Whaley about $7.5 million for a 115-acre tract of property near Interstate 40.
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Adieu, 109th Congress: You won't be missed
Even by the low standards of recent years, this ill-starred session plumbed new depths of demagoguery and cynicism.
Sometime before Christmas, the 109th session of Congress mercifully will call it quits - sine die - the end of session. However the session concludes, it has already written a dismal chapter on the basis of its fierce partisanship, its ethical tawdriness, its failure to pass immigration reform, and its stunningly wasteful "earmarks."
The harmful partisanship of the 109th can be traced to the White House's "base" strategy. The strategy was to take the hardest line possible to keep the party's base happy. This pushed Republicans to the right, weakened efforts to achieve consensus, and helped create a very divisive political atmosphere.
On ethics, one columnist compared the 109th to the 1919 Chicago Black Sox. This session, like the Black Sox, became a symbol of corruption, starting with the lobbying scandal of Jack Abramoff and "Duke" Cunningham and ending with the sex scandal of Mark Foley. It brought an institution already low in public esteem to an even lower standing. And yet, ethics reform measures passed in both houses would do almost nothing to limit the unhealthy influence of special interests over members of Congress.
There were no positives to counteract that image. It was one of the least productive sessions in the history of Congress. The biggest failure was on immigration reform. What the 109th did pass - the border fence-building measure - can't be put on the positive side of the ledger. The need for broad immigration reform, which should have been enacted by the 109th, will have to be taken up by the 110th.
There were other flaws. The 109th took a troubling budget deficit and made it worse. According to the Heritage Foundation, federal spending in 2006 is set to rise 9 percent, the largest increase since 1990, with much of it attributed to pork-barrel "earmarks." To cite one example, a USA Today investigation found that lawmakers are siphoning off $500 million from NASA's budget to fund "emergency" pork projects across the country, projects such as museum renovation and planetarium construction.
Each congressional session lasts two years. The new session, under the control of Democrats Nancy Pelosi in the House and Harry Reid in the Senate, will take over in January after the holidays. The returning and newly elected members of Congress should be rested and ready to tackle the work left undone by the 109th, including ethics reform, immigration reform, and reining in wasteful earmark spending.
Whatever they manage to accomplish before sine die in 2008, it's all but impossible to imageine that they can do any worse than the disastrous 109th.
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Vegan Blogger Stops Being Vegan Due to Health Issues
Tasha was a vegan for three and a half years when she was in her mid-20's. During that time she started writing a blog about the vegan diet and her general beliefs surrounding that lifestyle called The Voracious Vegan. Eventually the blog became quite popular in the vegan community, and she became one of the more well-known voices in that movement. But then she hit her Saturn return, and she started having health issues.
Despite her sincere commitment to the vegan lifestyle, Tasha slowly came to the conclusion that it was the source of her health problems, and that she would have to quit because it was starting to take a serious toll on her life.
She explained her story in a post on her blog where she "came out" to the vegan community, explaining why she could no longer be a vegan:
I'm still not sure why I accepted for so long that fatigue, exhaustion, and growing depression were a normal part of life that was to be expected as one grew older. After all, I am only 28 and I've never in my life suffered from ill-health. But the fact is: I wanted veganism to work. I wanted desperately for it to be right, for my ethics to outweigh my physiology.
She received a lot of support after she came out, but she also received a lot of criticism, accusations and even death threats towards her and her family from irate vegans and vegetarians who felt that she had betrayed them. This controversy created some additional difficulties during what was already a tough period for her, in which she had to let go of something that she fervently believed in.
Eventually she addressed some of the criticisms in a followup post on her blog, where she talked a bit about the change in her perspective that had taken place over the course of the past year:
There were some of you who decided I had simply traded one black and white view of the world for another – veganism to locavorism. Again, not true. As a vegan I will be the first to admit that I was dogmatic and extremely rigid in my beliefs. But this journey has cracked my shell and I simply cannot see the world that way anymore. Do I wish we could transform the food system and have everyone eat as locally and humanely as possible? Sure. But I will no longer think anyone is a bad person or a failure if food justice isn't at the forefront of their agenda. People make the world a better place in a million different ways, eating is just one small part of that. There are people out there who are changing the world for the better so much more than I could ever dream of, and they might be living on McDonald's. It's not a choice I want to make, but I'm no longer going to see a person's food choices as being a central factor in who they are as a person. I proved to myself that some people just cannot choose what they need to eat, for many different reasons. You can't force ethics onto biology.
Ultimately she decided reorient her blog so that it would be about food in general rather than veganism in particular, since she is still very passionate about food, but she can no longer maintain the vegan lifestyle.
I came across this story last November because it was getting a lot of press due to the outrage from some of the vegans who were upset with her. I thought that it was interesting because of the way that she described some of the health issues she was having, and how she was forced to give up something that she was passionate about, and then was ostracized from the community that she had been a part of previously as a result. It is a good example of the complex web of themes that can sometimes develop during the course of one's Saturn return.
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i'm (NOT) surprised that people who ride the high horse of a black & white world would turn so viscously on one of "their own". I feel for Tasha, huge shifts /changes to cope with, but ostracism? death threats?? Perhaps some of the Peace,Love and Mungbeans set need a look at themselves?!
Interesting. I had read this blog post about a year ago while doing some nutritional research, but never connected it to her Saturn return.
Her experience with vegetarianism loosely resonates with my own, although I was never vegan and didn't attempt it for quite as long.
I was a vegetarian (ovo-lacto) for 7 years which I just discovered was exactly during my sade-sati (7½), which is kinda the Vedic equivalent of our Saturn return, but is defined as the 7½ years that Saturn transits the the signs surrounding your Moon. My Saturn & Moon just happen to be conjunct (12° Meena/Pisces) smack dab in the middle of the sade-sati. So for me they coincide exactly. I now think of that time of my life as some sort of penance, because I craved meat the entire time.
During my lengthy, still ongoing, Saturn return (Saturn's still in Libra), I did go from being vegetarian for the previous 14 years to becoming pescetarian. It's a diet that feels much better to me and is more aligned with my particular outlook on things. I was pressured into veganism for two years by a partner who was really active in the vegetarian community about 10 years ago. I actually didn't feel quite as healthy as a vegan, mainly because I wasn't cooking a lot, and my digestive system is sensitive, particularly to soy. A vegan diet is great if it works for you, but yes, the food politics things can get so overblown and dogmatic. I like the eventual outlook that she came to at the end of this ordeal. The worst period of my life probably came during Saturn's transit through Virgo, and was unrelated to the Saturn return. Overall, Saturn's return has treated me well, but I'm a day birth, with Saturn conjunct Jupiter, and trine and ruling my Ascendant. It has certainly made me a more critical thinker when it comes to astrology.
I had a similar saturn-vegan story. I am close to scorpio saturn return, with saturn currently past ascendant conjuct natal venus. I used to be vegan, lived on wonderful Italian vegatables and organic food, however after moving in with my boyfriend to his country in awful nothern europe, where good organic food availability and choices were limited. we have had plenty of fight over food and meals we should have together. Finally, I dropped beign vegan just to gain some peace from him.
After I started eating meat I have gained some kilos, and got bad skin, but psychologically became more assertive and stronger. The whole vegan philosophy concept of living spiritually and karma free didn't comply with late-20 necessity for self-assertion, action in the world, getting a career and taking care of personal finances. Well, I would certaily preffer to live as vegan somewhere on my own in southern europe countryside.
But now I have that saturn-scorpio return to deal with.
I had this issue happen but not in Saturn Return as I've not had mine yet. Maybe something else with Saturn was happening?
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United States Vice-President Joe Biden was on Meet the Press today and he answered some questions and shared his views on same-sex marriage. Below is the transcribed excerpt.
GREGORY: The President has said that his views on gay marriage, on same-sex
marriage have evolved, but he's opposed to it. You're opposed to it.
Have your views evolved?
BIDEN: Look, I just think that the good news is that as more and more
Americans come to understand what this is all about is a simple
proposition. Who do you love? Who do you love? And will you be
loyal to the person you love? And that's what people are finding out.
Is what — what all marriages at their root are about whether they're
marriages of lesbians or gay men or heterosexuals.
GREGORY: Is that what you believe now?
BIDEN: That's what I believe.
GREGORY: And you're comfortable with same-sex marriage now?
BIDEN: I — I am — look, I am Vice President of the United
States of America. The President sets the policy. I am absolutely
comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women
and heterosexual men and women are entitled to the same exact rights,
all the civil rights, all the civil liberties.
BIDEN: And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction
beyond that.
GREGORY: In his second term would this administration come out
behind same-sex marriage, the institution of marriage?
BIDEN: Well, I — I — I can't speak to that. I — I — don't
know the answer to that. But I can tell you —
GREGORY: It sounds like you'd like to see it happen if that's
what the President will get —
BIDEN: Well, the President continues to fight, whether it's
"don't ask don't tell" or whether it is making sure across the board
that you cannot discriminate. Look at the executive orders he's put
in place. Any hospital that gets federal funding, which is almost all
of them. They can't deny a partner from being able to have access to
their — their — their partners or making a call on whether or not
they, you know — it's just — this is evolving.
And by the way, my measure, David, and I take a look at when
things really began to change is when the social culture changes. I
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The industry's widest high-speed ultrawide zoom for DSLRs, this digital-only lens ($570, street) is one of Tokina's AT-X series of pro-quality optics. A 16.5-24mm equivalent, its design is based on Tokina's 12-24mm f/4. ... [Read more]
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Tokina's AT-X 107 DX AF 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5 fish-eye zoom lens is the most fun I've had with a lens in a long while. It features an incredibly wide 180-degree field of view, and with its zoom, something unique for fish-eye... [Read more]
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Step 2: Mounting the Skull
After the epoxy has dried mix your bondo. Just follow the directions on the product. You should have a nice light pink color when it is mixed properly. Make sure you tape off the hold on the top and bottom of the case. It will be a pain to get the bondo out of the holes. After you have applied the bondo you can remove the tape. Make sure to remove it before it dries though.
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The issue of affirmative action coming back before the U.S. Supreme Court seems like déjà vu for Julian R. Williams, Monmouth University's director of affirmative action and human relations.
As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan in 2003, Williams was among those who rallied on campus for the policy to remain intact.
"It's an issue that is very important to me," Williams said. "We were a small but vocal faction of the student body who were protesting the rhetoric that minority students had stolen a spot from a more qualified person.
"And here it is happening again," said Williams, a lawyer by trade. "It's interesting for me because I'm at a different place in my life. I've had the chance to see both sides (as a student and as a faculty member)."
But this time around, Williams said he fears the court will take an about-face stance.
"What we have now is a change in the makeup of the Supreme Court," Williams said. "With the makeup of the court the way it is, the decision may fall in favor of the plaintiff. I'd love to be wrong on that but I don't think I will be."


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Now that it's March, we can start counting the weeks before the first blush of rhubarb hits our markets. It's a time of great anticipation, but also of intense longing and impatience with Mother Nature's scarce offering. Above all, it presents us with the need to get creative with baking ideas. For example, a few weeks ago, I shared a pie made with frozen berries in an attempt to break up the doldrums a bit. Today, I'm jazzed to be sharing another one that thinks outside the seasonal box by marrying apples with tangy and sweet dried fruits. More
This variation on apple pie lends some variety in texture and flavor. You can (and should) customize the sweetness, based on the levels of tartness of the apples and dried fruits that you choose. More
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Either Kellogg's now manufactures Pop-Tarts using a reformulated recipe or the tastebuds I possessed as a child had not developed enough to distinguish between crap and yum. As a kid, I thought Pop-Tarts represented the absolute pinnacle of deliciousness. I remember each nibble bringing supreme, no, divine pleasure. My adult palate, however, finds every bite a new adventure in disappointment. More
When is a PB&J not a PB&J? When you substitute pistachio butter for peanut butter and dried fruit for jam—exactly what is required to make an Italian-approved "PB&J." More
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Before the chillier temps set in and we all start (at long last) on pie, tart and crumble baking, here's how I'll be satisfying my fruit fetish: airy, delicate slices, crisp and almost candied, tinged with just the slightest bit of oven-brown on the edges. Let's make apple chips! More
Sometimes, you just have to eat a granola bar. Maybe you want a rib-eye steak, but you're stuck on a wildernessy trail or just at your cubicle, and the rectangular snack is all you got. There was a day when the Quaker Chewys were the leader of the pack. But the granola bar aisle has come a long way, expanding into bars with flax seed, exotic dried fruits (exotic as in, beyond just raisins), and pumpkin seeds (when it's not even October!). We tried about 20 snack bars, in search of the most satisfying ones that didn't just taste like candy. No offense, candy, but this isn't your taste test. Find out which bars were our favorites. More
In honor of St. Joseph's Day, a feast day for the patron saint of cabinetmakers, engineers, Canada, and confectioners (which is where the sweets come in), try this recipe for St. Joseph's fig cookies. They're like a better, homemade version of Fig Newtons. The figginess is much less cloying and sticky and gets combined with a nice mix of sherry, orange, lemon, raisins, and walnuts. More
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There is no single business establishment, which made it to the top without using any additional working costs. Yes, it is a fact that every institution has to use some extra source of funds at some point of time. There are corporate giants boasting of annual turnovers in billions, but even they have to seek timely help of either working loans or some cash advance for business. The below mentioned aspects will give you a better picture regarding the overall subject.
Benefits of working capital loans
The most important advantage of taking a working capital loan is that they balance the present line of credit for the company. In addition to that, they will supply surplus cash flow to boost and maintain the overall business growth. If you are a business entrepreneur, you will find it very useful to pay off your bills. You can also think about short-term investment strategies within the business itself using working capital loans. Contrasting to the conventional long-term business loans, a operational capital loan reaches maturity over the period of a year.
Previously, the main method of obtaining such loans was to provide collaterals for the subsequent amount of money, and the money lending institution and the borrower will come to a mutual agreement. Both the parties have to acknowledge to the terms of the capital loan and the collateral.
Recently most of the money lending intuitions and financial bodies are looking into other aspects rather than getting collateral. Nowadays, many of the working loan providers prefer to obtain a decent and consistent credit history from companies.
Unsecured business cash advance
Another alternative to meet the business needs are known as unsecured business cash advance. Here the case is quite different when compared to a working capital loan. The borrowers are not accountable to pay any unsecured business advance. In turn, the payments will be settled against the borrower's monthly credit and bills of payment.
Most importantly, business cash advances are not in fact a cash loan. On the contrary, the amount we get from the lender is in fact a projection of the future sales itself. Potential companies and businesses will get such funds if their growth prospects are very good. Therefore, in a way you are selling out a portion of your expected future profit in return for cash. This is exactly what an unsecured business advance is. This money will be later on deducted from your business profits.
Thus, with the above-mentioned aspects you will be able to get a brief idea regarding the differences between working capital loans and business cash advances. Pick the best one applicable for you, and make your stand on the business ground strong.


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Stonewall's latest social media poll, which ran on its Facebook and Twitter pages this week, has found that Britain is ready for an openly lesbian, gay or bisexual Prime Minister.
In the poll, which had 1073 responses, 59 per cent voted 'yes, Britain is ready for an openly lesbian, gay or bisexual Prime Minister' and 41 per cent voted 'no.'
Ben Summerskill, Stonewall's Chief Executive, said: 'Although most people feel Britain is ready for an openly gay Prime Minister, sadly we're still no closer to getting one. Parliament still chronically under-represents lesbian, gay and bisexual people. For example, there was just one openly lesbian MP in the last parliament. Stonewall recently worked with the Speaker's Conference to address this and we'll continue to work with parties to ensure the House of Commons more accurately reflects the people it serves.'
Observations from the social media poll (these are independent views from the online debate and not endorsed by Stonewall):
Zoe Austin - 'We've not moved away from white straight (mainly posh) males yet. But there's always hope. One day... *sigh*'
Sarah James - 'I voted NO as although I would LOVE for that to be the case, I don't think that other people would deal with it very well!'
Graham G. Hughes - 'Openly gay with his partner and their adopted child, living in Number 10? No, I don't think Britain, overall, would go for that. However, we had Hillary and Barack battling against each other for Presidential candidacy in the US, so I think with the UK being that little bit more socially progressive -- in my opinion -- we're maybe not far away from an LGBT PM being possible.'
Rosie Jackson - 'I think Britain is more open minded than people think, I'd say, hell yes!'
Mary Louise Greener - 'Well the Americans thought they would never have a black president so why can't we have a gay, lesbian or bisexual Prime Minister…'
Thomas M Lange - 'I hope to live to see that happen, maybe I should get into politics after all?!'
Fiona Anderson - 'Sexuality and gender are not irrelevant. The fact that the leaders of all three main parties are white, middle class, heterosexual married men demonstrates that a bit of positive discrimination is sorely needed.'
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From a life expectancy standpoint of such a relationship, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (DPIDR), in Rostock, Germany, studied two million Danish couples.
They found that women have the longest life expectancy when they marry a man of their exact same age (plus or minus one or two years). An older husband shortens her life expectancy, and a younger husband shortens her life expectancy even more.
The German study, lead by Swedish sociologist Sven Drefahl, who is also associated with the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University, stated that there is an approximate 20% decrease in life expectancy when a woman marries a man 7 to 9 years younger than her, and almost the same percentage decrease in life expectancy when she marries a man 7 to 17 years older than her.
Is this bad news for women marrying older or younger men also poignant for men?
The May 13, 2010 Forbes article 'The Cougar Backlash,' states, 'As if that isn't bad enough, the study also concludes that this early death syndrome affects only women who marry outside their immediate age range. Not so for men who have years added to their lives when they marry younger women.'
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